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1 A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM
2
3 Now , fair Hippolyta , our nuptial hour
4 Draws on apace : four happy days bring in
5 Another moon ; but O ! methinks how slow
6 This old moon wanes ; she lingers my desires ,
7 Like to a step dame , or a dowager
8 Long withering out a young man's revenue .
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10 Four days will quickly steep themselves in night ;
11 Four nights will quickly dream away the time ;
12 And then the moon , like to a silver bow
13 New-bent in heaven , shall behold the night
14 Of our solemnities .
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16 Go , Philostrate ,
17 Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments ;
18 Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth ;
19 Turn melancholy forth to funerals ;
20 The pale companion is not for our pomp .
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22 Hippolyta , I woo'd thee with my sword ,
23 And won thy love doing thee injuries ;
24 But I will wed thee in another key ,
25 With pomp , with triumph , and with revelling .
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28 Happy be Theseus , our renowned duke !
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30 Thanks , good Egeus : what's the news with thee ?
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32 Full of vexation come I , with complaint
33 Against my child , my daughter Hermia .
34 Stand forth , Demetrius . My noble lord ,
35 This man hath my consent to marry her .
36 Stand forth , Lysander : and , my gracious duke ,
37 This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child :
38 Thou , thou , Lysander , thou hast given her rimes ,
39 And interchang'd love-tokens with my child ;
40 Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung ,
41 With feigning voice , verses of feigning love ;
42 And stol'n the impression of her fantasy
43 With bracelets of thy hair , rings , gawds , conceits ,
44 Knacks , trifles , nosegays , sweetmeats , messengers
45 Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth ;
46 With cunning hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart ;
47 Turn'd her obedience , which is due to me ,
48 To stubborn harshness . And , my gracious duke ,
49 Be it so she will not here before your Grace
50 Consent to marry with Demetrius ,
51 I beg the ancient privilege of Athens ,
52 As she is mine , I may dispose of her ;
53 Which shall be either to this gentleman ,
54 Or to her death , according to our law
55 Immediately provided in that case .
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57 What say you , Hermia ? be advis'd , fair maid .
58 To you , your father should be as a god ;
59 One that compos'd your beauties , yea , and one
60 To whom you are but as a form in wax
61 By him imprinted , and within his power
62 To leave the figure or disfigure it .
63 Demetrius is a worthy gentleman .
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65 So is Lysander .
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67 In himself he is ;
68 But , in this kind , wanting your father's voice ,
69 The other must be held the worthier .
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71 I would my father look'd but with my eyes .
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73 Rather your eyes must with his judgment look .
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75 I do entreat your Grace to pardon me .
76 I know not by what power I am made bold ,
77 Nor how it may concern my modesty
78 In such a presence here to plead my thoughts ;
79 But I beseech your Grace , that I may know
80 The worst that may befall me in this case ,
81 If I refuse to wed Demetrius .
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83 Either to die the death , or to abjure
84 For ever the society of men .
85 Therefore , fair Hermia , question your desires ;
86 Know of your youth , examine well your blood ,
87 Whe'r , if you yield not to your father's choice ,
88 You can endure the livery of a nun ,
89 For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd ,
90 To live a barren sister all your life ,
91 Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon .
92 Thrice blessed they that master so their blood ,
93 To undergo such maiden pilgrimage ;
94 But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd ,
95 Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
96 Grows , lives , and dies , in single blessedness .
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98 So will I grow , so live , so die , my lord ,
99 Ere I will yield my virgin patent up
100 Unto his lordship , whose unwished yoke
101 My soul consents not to give sovereignty .
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103 Take time to pause ; and , by the next new moon ,
104 The sealing-day betwixt my love and me
105 For everlasting bond of fellowship ,
106 Upon that day either prepare to die
107 For disobedience to your father's will ,
108 Or else to wed Demetrius , as he would ;
109 Or on Diana's altar to protest
110 For aye austerity and single life .
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112 Relent , sweet Hermia ; and , Lysander , yield
113 Thy crazed title to my certain right .
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115 You have her father's love , Demetrius ;
116 Let me have Hermia's : do you marry him .
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118 Scornful Lysander ! true , he hath my love ,
119 And what is mine my love shall render him ;
120 And she is mine , and all my right of her
121 I do estate unto Demetrius .
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123 I am , my lord , as well deriv'd as he ,
124 As well possess'd ; my love is more than his ;
125 My fortunes every way as fairly rank'd
126 If not with vantage , as Demetrius' ;
127 And , which is more than all these boasts can be ,
128 I am belov'd of beauteous Hermia .
129 Why should not I then prosecute my right ?
130 Demetrius , I'll avouch it to his head ,
131 Made love to Nedar's daughter , Helena ,
132 And won her soul ; and she , sweet lady , dotes ,
133 Devoutly dotes , dotes in idolatry ,
134 Upon this spotted and inconstant man .
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136 I must confess that I have heard so much ,
137 And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof ;
138 But , being over-full of self-affairs ,
139 My mind did lose it . But , Demetrius , come ;
140 And come , Egeus ; you shall go with me ,
141 I have some private schooling for you both .
142 For you , fair Hermia , look you arm yourself
143 To fit your fancies to your father's will ,
144 Or else the law of Athens yields you up ,
145 Which by no means we may extenuate ,
146 To death , or to a vow of single life .
147 Come , my Hippolyta : what cheer , my love ?
148 Demetrius and Egeus , go along :
149 I must employ you in some business
150 Against our nuptial , and confer with you
151 Of something nearly that concerns yourselves .
152
153 With duty and desire we follow you .
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155
156 How now , my love ! Why is your cheek so pale ?
157 How chance the roses there do fade so fast ?
158
159 Belike for want of rain , which I could well
160 Beteem them from the tempest of mine eyes .
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162 Ay me ! for aught that ever I could read ,
163 Could ever hear by tale or history ,
164 The course of true love never did run smooth ;
165 But , either it was different in blood ,
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167 O cross ! too high to be enthrall'd to low .
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169 Or else misgraffed in respect of years ,
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171 O spite ! too old to be engag'd to young .
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173 Or else it stood upon the choice of friends ,
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175 O hell ! to choose love by another's eye .
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177 Or , if there were a sympathy in choice ,
178 War , death , or sickness did lay siege to it ,
179 Making it momentany as a sound ,
180 Swift as a shadow , short as any dream ,
181 Brief as the lightning in the collied night ,
182 That , in a spleen , unfolds both heaven and earth ,
183 And ere a man hath power to say , 'Behold !'
184 The jaws of darkness do devour it up :
185 So quick bright things come to confusion .
186
187 If then true lovers have been ever cross'd ,
188 It stands as an edict in destiny :
189 Then let us teach our trial patience ,
190 Because it is a customary cross ,
191 As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs ,
192 Wishes and tears , poor fancy's followers .
193
194 A good persuasion : therefore , hear me , Hermia .
195 I have a widow aunt , a dowager
196 Of great revenue , and she hath no child :
197 From Athens is her house remote seven leagues ;
198 And she respects me as her only son .
199 There , gentle Hermia , may I marry thee ,
200 And to that place the sharp Athenian law
201 Cannot pursue us . If thou lov'st me then ,
202 Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night ,
203 And in the wood , a league without the town ,
204 Where I did meet thee once with Helena ,
205 To do observance to a morn of May ,
206 There will I stay for thee .
207
208 My good Lysander !
209 I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow ,
210 By his best arrow with the golden head ,
211 By the simplicity of Venus' doves ,
212 By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves ,
213 And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen ,
214 When the false Troyan under sail was seen ,
215 By all the vows that ever men have broke ,
216 In number more than ever women spoke ,
217 In that same place thou hast appointed me ,
218 To-morrow truly will I meet with thee .
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220 Keep promise , love . Look , here comes Helena .
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223 God speed fair Helena ! Whither away ?
224
225 Call you me fair ? that fair again unsay .
226 Demetrius loves your fair : O happy fair !
227 Your eyes are lode-stars ! and your tongue's sweet air
228 More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear ,
229 When wheat is green , when hawthorn buds appear .
230 Sickness is catching : O ! were favour so ,
231 Yours would I catch , fair Hermia , ere I go ;
232 My ear should catch your voice , my eye your eye ,
233 My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody .
234 Were the world mine , Demetrius being bated ,
235 The rest I'd give to be to you translated .
236 O ! teach me how you look , and with what art
237 You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart .
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239 I frown upon him , yet he loves me still .
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241 O ! that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill .
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243 I give him curses , yet he gives me love .
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245 O ! that my prayers could such affection move .
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247 The more I hate , the more he follows me .
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249 The more I love , the more he hateth me .
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251 His folly , Helena , is no fault of mine .
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253 None , but your beauty : would that fault were mine !
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255 Take comfort : he no more shall see my face ;
256 Lysander and myself will fly this place .
257 Before the time I did Lysander see ,
258 Seem'd Athens as a paradise to me :
259 O ! then , what graces in my love do dwell ,
260 That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell .
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262 Helen , to you our minds we will unfold .
263 To-morrow night , when Ph be doth behold
264 Her silver visage in the wat'ry glass ,
265 Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass ,
266 A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal ,
267 Through Athens' gates have we devis'd to steal .
268
269 And in the wood , where often you and I
270 Upon faint primrose-beds were wont to lie ,
271 Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet ,
272 There my Lysander and myself shall meet ;
273 And thence from Athens turn away our eyes ,
274 To seek new friends and stranger companies .
275 Farewell , sweet playfellow : pray thou for us ;
276 And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius !
277 Keep word , Lysander : we must starve our sight
278 From lovers' food till morrow deep midnight .
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280 I will , my Hermia .
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282 Helena , adieu :
283 As you on him , Demetrius dote on you !
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286 How happy some o'er other some can be !
287 Through Athens I am thought as fair as she ;
288 But what of that ? Demetrius thinks not so ;
289 He will not know what all but he do know ;
290 And as he errs , doting on Hermia's eyes ,
291 So I , admiring of his qualities .
292 Things base and vile , holding no quantity ,
293 Love can transpose to form and dignity .
294 Love looks not with the eyes , but with the mind ,
295 And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind .
296 Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste ;
297 Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste :
298 And therefore is Love said to be a child ,
299 Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd .
300 As waggish boys in game themselves forswear ,
301 So the boy Love is perjur'd every where ;
302 For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne ,
303 He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine ;
304 And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt ,
305 So he dissolv'd , and showers of oaths did melt .
306 I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight :
307 Then to the wood will he to-morrow night
308 Pursue her ; and for this intelligence
309 If I have thanks , it is a dear expense :
310 But herein mean I to enrich my pain ,
311 To have his sight thither and back again .
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313
314 Is all our company here ?
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316 You were best to call them generally , man by man , according to the scrip .
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318 Here is the scroll of every man's name , which is thought fit , through all Athens , to play in our interlude before the duke and the duchess on his wedding-day at night .
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320 First , good Peter Quince , say what the play treats on ; then read the names of the actors , and so grow to a point .
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322 Marry , our play is , The most lamentable comedy , and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby .
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324 A very good piece of work , I assure you , and a merry . Now , good Peter Quince , call forth your actors by the scroll . Masters , spread yourselves .
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326 Answer as I call you . Nick Bottom , the weaver .
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328 Ready . Name what part I am for , and proceed .
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330 You , Nick Bottom , are set down for Pyramus .
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332 What is Pyramus ? a lover , or a tyrant ?
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334 A lover , that kills himself most gallantly for love .
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336 That will ask some tears in the true performing of it : if I do it , let the audience look to their eyes ; I will move storms , I will condole in some measure . To the rest : yet my chief humour is for a tyrant . I could play Ercles rarely , or a part to tear a cat in , to make all split .
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338 The raging rocks
339 And shivering shocks
340 Shall break the locks
341 Of prison gates :
342 And Phibbus' car
343 Shall shine from far
344 And make and mar
345 The foolish Fates .
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347 This was lofty ! Now name the rest of the players . This is Ercles' vein , a tyrant's vein ; a lover is more condoling .
348
349 Francis Flute , the bellows-mender .
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351 Here , Peter Quince .
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353 You must take Thisby on you .
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355 What is Thisby ? a wandering knight ?
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357 It is the lady that Pyramus must love .
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359 Nay , faith , let not me play a woman ; I have a beard coming .
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361 That's all one : you shall play it in a mask , and you may speak as small as you will .
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363 An I may hide my face , let me play Thisby too . I'll speak in a monstrous little voice , 'Thisne , Thisne !' 'Ah , Pyramus , my lover dear ; thy Thisby dear , and lady dear !'
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365 No , no ; you must play Pyramus ; and Flute , you Thisby .
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367 Well , proceed .
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369 Robin Starveling , the tailor .
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371 Here , Peter Quince .
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373 Robin Starveling , you must play Thisby's mother . Tom Snout , the tinker .
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375 Here , Peter Quince .
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377 You , Pyramus's father ; myself , Thisby's father ; Snug , the joiner , you the lion's part : and , I hope , here is a play fitted .
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379 Have you the lion's part written ? pray you , if it be , give it me , for I am slow of study .
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381 You may do it extempore , for it is nothing but roaring .
382
383 Let me play the lion too . I will roar , that I will do any man's heart good to hear me ; I will roar , that I will make the duke say , 'Let him roar again , let him roar again .'
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385 An you should do it too terribly , you would fright the duchess and the ladies , that they would shriek ; and that were enough to hang us all .
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387 That would hang us , every mother's son .
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389 I grant you , friends , if that you should fright the ladies out of their wits , they would have no more discretion but to hang us ; but I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove ; I will roar you as 'twere any nightingale .
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391 You can play no part but Pyramus ; for Pyramus is a sweet-faced man ; a proper man , as one shall see in a summer's day ; a most lovely , gentleman-like man ; therefore , you must needs play Pyramus .
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393 Well , I will undertake it . What beard were I best to play it in ?
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395 Why , what you will .
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397 I will discharge it in either your straw-colour beard , your orange-tawny beard , your purple-in-grain beard , or your French-crown colour beard , your perfect yellow .
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399 Some of your French crowns have no hair at all , and then you will play bare-faced . But masters , here are your parts ; and I am to entreat you , request you , and desire you , to con them by to-morrow night , and meet me in the palace wood , a mile without the town , by moonlight : there will we rehearse ; for if we meet in the city , we shall be dogged with company , and our devices known . In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties , such as our play wants . I pray you , fail me not .
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401 We will meet ; and there we may rehearse more obscenely and courageously . Take pains ; be perfect ; adieu .
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403 At the duke's oak we meet .
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405 Enough ; hold , or cut bow-strings .
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407 How now , spirit ! whither wander you ?
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410 Over hill , over dale ,
411 Thorough bush , thorough brier ,
412 Over park , over pale ,
413 Thorough flood , thorough fire ,
414 I do wander every where ,
415 Swifter than the moone's sphere ;
416 And I serve the fairy queen ,
417 To dew her orbs upon the green :
418 The cowslips tall her pensioners be ;
419 In their gold coats spots you see ;
420 Those be rubies , fairy favours ,
421 In their freckles live their savours :
422
423 I must go seek some dew-drops here ,
424 And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear .
425 Farewell , thou lob of spirits : I'll be gone ;
426 Our queen and all her elves come here anon .
427
428 The king doth keep his revels here to-night .
429 Take heed the queen come not within his sight ;
430 For Oberon is passing fell and wrath ,
431 Because that she as her attendant hath
432 A lovely boy , stol'n from an Indian king ;
433 She never had so sweet a changeling ;
434 And jealous Oberon would have the child
435 Knight of his train , to trace the forests wild ;
436 But she , perforce , withholds the loved boy ,
437 Crowns him with flowers , and makes him all her joy .
438 And now they never meet in grove , or green ,
439 By fountain clear , or spangled starlight sheen ,
440 But they do square ; that all their elves , for fear ,
441 Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there .
442
443 Either I mistake your shape and making quite ,
444 Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite
445 Call'd Robin Goodfellow : are you not he
446 That frights the maidens of the villagery ;
447 Skim milk , and sometimes labour in the quern ,
448 And bootless make the breathless housewife churn ;
449 And sometime make the drink to bear no barm ;
450 Mislead night-wanderers , laughing at their harm ?
451 Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck ,
452 You do their work , and they shall have good luck :
453 Are you not he ?
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455 Fairy , thou speak'st aright ;
456 I am that merry wanderer of the night .
457 I jest to Oberon , and make him smile
458 When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile ,
459 Neighing in likeness of a filly foal :
460 And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl ,
461 In very likeness of a roasted crab ;
462 And , when she drinks , against her lips I bob
463 And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale .
464 The wisest aunt , telling the saddest tale ,
465 Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me ;
466 Then slip I from her bum , down topples she ,
467 And 'tailor' cries , and falls into a cough ;
468 And then the whole quire hold their hips and loff ;
469 And waxen in their mirth , and neeze , and swear
470 A merrier hour was never wasted there .
471 But , room , fairy ! here comes Oberon .
472
473 And here my mistress . Would that he were gone !
474
475
476 Ill met by moonlight , proud Titania .
477
478 What ! jealous Oberon . Fairies , skip hence :
479 I have forsworn his bed and company .
480
481 Tarry , rash wanton ! am not I thy lord ?
482
483 Then , I must be thy lady ; but I know
484 When thou hast stol'n away from fairy land ,
485 And in the shape of Corin sat all day ,
486 Playing on pipes of corn , and versing love
487 To amorous Phillida . Why art thou here ,
488 Come from the furthest steppe of India ?
489 But that , forsooth , the bouncing Amazon ,
490 Your buskin'd mistress and your warrior love ,
491 To Theseus must be wedded , and you come
492 To give their bed joy and prosperity .
493
494 How canst thou thus for shame , Titania ,
495 Glance at my credit with Hippolyta ,
496 Knowing I know thy love to Theseus ?
497 Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night
498 From Perigouna , whom he ravished ?
499 And make him with fair gle break his faith ,
500 With Ariadne , and Antiopa ?
501
502 These are the forgeries of jealousy :
503 And never , since the middle summer's spring ,
504 Met we on hill , in dale , forest , or mead ,
505 By paved fountain , or by rushy brook ,
506 Or in the beached margent of the sea ,
507 To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind ,
508 But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport .
509 Therefore the winds , piping to us in vain ,
510 As in revenge , have suck'd up from the sea
511 Contagious fogs ; which , falling in the land ,
512 Have every pelting river made so proud
513 That they have overborne their continents :
514 The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain ,
515 The ploughman lost his sweat , and the green corn
516 Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard :
517 The fold stands empty in the drowned field ,
518 And crows are fatted with the murrion flock ;
519 The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud ,
520 And the quaint mazes in the wanton green
521 For lack of tread are undistinguishable :
522 The human mortals want their winter here :
523 No night is now with hymn or carol blest :
524 Therefore the moon , the governess of floods ,
525 Pale in her anger , washes all the air ,
526 That rheumatic diseases do abound :
527 And thorough this distemperature we see
528 The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts
529 Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose ,
530 And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
531 An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
532 Is , as in mockery , set . The spring , the summer ,
533 The childing autumn , angry winter , change
534 Their wonted liveries , and the mazed world ,
535 By their increase , now knows not which is which .
536 And this same progeny of evil comes
537 From our debate , from our dissension :
538 We are their parents and original .
539
540 Do you amend it then ; it lies in you .
541 Why should Titania cross her Oberon ?
542 I do but beg a little changeling boy ,
543 To be my henchman .
544
545 Set your heart at rest ;
546 The fairy land buys not the child of me .
547 His mother was a votaress of my order :
548 And , in the spiced Indian air , by night ,
549 Full often hath she gossip'd by my side ,
550 And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands ,
551 Marking the embarked traders on the flood ;
552 When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive
553 And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind ;
554 Which she , with pretty and with swimming gait
555 Following ,her womb then rich with my young squire ,
556 Would imitate , and sail upon the land ,
557 To fetch me trifles , and return again ,
558 As from a voyage , rich with merchandise .
559 But she , being mortal , of that boy did die ;
560 And for her sake I do rear up her boy ,
561 And for her sake I will not part with him .
562
563 How long within this wood intend you stay ?
564
565 Perchance , till after Theseus' weddingday .
566 If you will patiently dance in our round ,
567 And see our moonlight revels , go with us ;
568 If not , shun me , and I will spare your haunts .
569
570 Give me that boy , and I will go with thee .
571
572 Not for thy fairy kingdom . Fairies , away !
573 We shall chide downright , if I longer stay .
574
575
576 Well , go thy way : thou shalt not from this grove
577 Till I torment thee for this injury .
578 My gentle Puck , come hither . Thou remember'st
579 Since once I sat upon a promontory ,
580 And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
581 Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath ,
582 That the rude sea grew civil at her song ,
583 And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
584 To hear the sea-maid's music .
585
586 I remember .
587
588 That very time I saw , but thou couldst not ,
589 Flying between the cold moon and the earth ,
590 Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took
591 At a fair vestal throned by the west ,
592 And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow ,
593 As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ;
594 But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft
595 Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon ,
596 And the imperial votaress passed on ,
597 In maiden meditation , fancy-free .
598 Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell :
599 It fell upon a little western flower ,
600 Before milk-white , now purple with love's wound ,
601 And maidens call it , Love-in-idleness .
602 Fetch me that flower ; the herb I show'd thee once :
603 The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
604 Will make or man or woman madly dote
605 Upon the next live creature that it sees .
606 Fetch me this herb ; and be thou here again
607 Ere the leviathan can swim a league .
608
609 I'll put a girdle round about the earth
610 In forty minutes .
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612
613 Having once this juice
614 I'll watch Titania when she is asleep ,
615 And drop the liquor of it in her eyes :
616 The next thing then she waking looks upon ,
617 Be it on lion , bear , or wolf , or bull ,
618 On meddling monkey , or on busy ape ,
619 She shall pursue it with the soul of love :
620 And ere I take this charm off from her sight ,
621 As I can take it with another herb ,
622 I'll make her render up her page to me .
623 But who comes here ? I am invisible ,
624 And I will overhear their conference .
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626
627 I love thee not , therefore pursue me not .
628 Where is Lysander and fair Hermia ?
629 The one I'll slay , the other slayeth me .
630 Thou told'st me they were stol'n into this wood ;
631 And here am I , and wood within this wood ,
632 Because I cannot meet my Hermia .
633 Hence ! get thee gone , and follow me no more .
634
635 You draw me , you hard-hearted adamant :
636 But yet you draw not iron , for my heart
637 Is true as steel : leave you your power to draw ,
638 And I shall have no power to follow you .
639
640 Do I entice you ? Do I speak you fair ?
641 Or , rather , do I not in plainest truth
642 Tell you I do not nor I cannot love you ?
643
644 And even for that do I love you the more .
645 I am your spaniel ; and , Demetrius ,
646 The more you beat me , I will fawn on you :
647 Use me but as your spaniel , spurn me , strike me ,
648 Neglect me , lose me ; only give me leave ,
649 Unworthy as I am , to follow you .
650 What worser place can I beg in your love ,
651 And yet a place of high respect with me ,
652 Than to be used as you use your dog ?
653
654 Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit ,
655 For I am sick when I do look on you .
656
657 And I am sick when I look not on you .
658
659 You do impeach your modesty too much ,
660 To leave the city , and commit yourself
661 Into the hands of one that loves you not ;
662 To trust the opportunity of night
663 And the ill counsel of a desert place
664 With the rich worth of your virginity .
665
666 Your virtue is my privilege : for that
667 It is not night when I do see your face ,
668 Therefore I think I am not in the night ;
669 Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company ,
670 For you in my respect are all the world :
671 Then how can it be said I am alone ,
672 When all the world is here to look on me ?
673
674 I'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes ,
675 And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts .
676
677 The wildest hath not such a heart as you .
678 Run when you will , the story shall be chang'd ;
679 Apollo flies , and Daphne holds the chase ;
680 The dove pursues the griffin ; the mild hind
681 Makes speed to catch the tiger : bootless speed ,
682 When cowardice pursues and valour flies .
683
684 I will not stay thy questions : let me go ;
685 Or , if thou follow me , do not believe
686 But I shall do thee mischief in the wood .
687
688 Ay , in the temple , in the town , the field ,
689 You do me mischief . Fie , Demetrius !
690 Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex .
691 We cannot fight for love , as men may do ;
692 We should be woo'd and were not made to woo .
693
694 I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell ,
695 To die upon the hand I love so well .
696
697
698 Fare thee well , nymph : ere he do leave this grove ,
699 Thou shalt fly him , and he shall seek thy love .
700
701 Hast thou the flower there ? Welcome , wanderer .
702
703 Ay , there it is .
704
705 I pray thee , give it me .
706 I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows ,
707 Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
708 Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine ,
709 With sweet musk-roses , and with eglantine :
710 There sleeps Titania some time of the night ,
711 Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight ;
712 And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin ,
713 Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in :
714 And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes ,
715 And make her full of hateful fantasies .
716 Take thou some of it , and seek through this grove :
717 A sweet Athenian lady is in love
718 With a disdainful youth : anoint his eyes ;
719 But do it when the next thing he espies
720 May be the lady . Thou shalt know the man
721 By the Athenian garments he hath on .
722 Effect it with some care , that he may prove
723 More fond on her than she upon her love .
724 And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow .
725
726 Fear not , my lord , your servant shall do so .
727
728
729 Come , now a roundel and a fairy song ;
730 Then , for the third of a minute , hence ;
731 Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds ,
732 Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings ,
733 To make my small elves coats , and some keep back
734 The clamorous owl , that nightly hoots , and wonders
735 At our quaint spirits . Sing me now asleep ;
736 Then to your offices , and let me rest .
737
738 The Fairies sing .
739
740
741 I .
742
743 You spotted snakes with double tongue ,
744 Thorny hedge-hogs , be not seen ;
745 Newts , and blind-worms , do no wrong ;
746 Come not near our fairy queen .
747 Philomel , with melody ,
748 Sing in our sweet lullaby :
749 Lulla , lulla , lullaby ; lulla , lulla , lullaby :
750 Never harm ,
751 Nor spell , nor charm ,
752 Come our lovely lady nigh ;
753 So , good night , with lullaby .
754
755 II .
756
757 Weaving spiders come not here ;
758 Hence , you long-legg'd spinners , hence !
759 Beetles black , approach not near ;
760 Worm nor snail , do no offence .
761 Philomel , with melody , &c .
762
763
764 Hence , away ! now all is well .
765 One aloof stand sentinel .
766
767 What thou seest when thou dost wake ,
768 Do it for thy true-love take ;
769 Love and languish for his sake :
770 Be it ounce , or cat , or bear ,
771 Pard , or boar with bristled hair ,
772 In thy eye that shall appear
773 When thou wak'st , it is thy dear .
774 Wake when some vile thing is near .
775
776 Fair love , you faint with wandering in the wood ;
777 And to speak troth , I have forgot our way :
778 We'll rest us , Hermia , if you think it good ,
779 And tarry for the comfort of the day .
780
781 Be it so , Lysander : find you out a bed ,
782 For I upon this bank will rest my head .
783
784 One turf shall serve as pillow for us both ;
785 One heart , one bed , two bosoms , and one troth .
786
787 Nay , good Lysander ; for my sake , my dear ,
788 Lie further off yet , do not lie so near .
789
790 O ! take the sense , sweet , of my innocence ,
791 Love takes the meaning in love's conference .
792 I mean that my heart unto yours is knit ,
793 So that but one heart we can make of it ;
794 Two bosoms interchained with an oath ;
795 So then two bosoms and a single troth .
796 Then by your side no bed-room me deny ,
797 For , lying so , Hermia , I do not lie .
798
799 Lysander riddles very prettily :
800 Now much beshrew my manners and my pride ,
801 If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied .
802 But , gentle friend , for love and courtesy
803 Lie further off ; in human modesty ,
804 Such separation as may well be said
805 Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid ,
806 So far be distant ; and , good night , sweet friend .
807 Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end !
808
809 Amen , amen , to that fair prayer , say I ;
810 And then end life when I end loyalty !
811
812 Here is my bed : sleep give thee all his rest !
813
814 With half that wish the wisher's eyes be press'd !
815
816
817 Through the forest have I gone ,
818 But Athenian found I none ,
819 On whose eyes I might approve
820 This flower's force in stirring love .
821 Night and silence ! who is here ?
822 Weeds of Athens he doth wear :
823 This is he , my master said ,
824 Despised the Athenian maid ;
825 And here the maiden , sleeping sound ,
826 On the dank and dirty ground .
827 Pretty soul ! she durst not lie
828 Near this lack-love , this kill-courtesy .
829
830 Churl , upon thy eyes I throw
831 All the power this charm doth owe .
832 When thou wak'st , let love forbid
833 Sleep his seat on thy eyelid :
834 So awake when I am gone ;
835 For I must now to Oberon .
836
837
838 Stay , though thou kill me , sweet Demetrius .
839
840 I charge thee , hence , and do not haunt me thus .
841
842 O ! wilt thou darkling leave me ? do not so .
843
844 Stay , on thy peril : I alone will go .
845
846
847 O ! I am out of breath in this fond chase .
848 The more my prayer , the lesser is my grace .
849 Happy is Hermia , wheresoe'er she lies ;
850 For she hath blessed and attractive eyes .
851 How came her eyes so bright ? Not with salt tears :
852 If so , my eyes are oftener wash'd than hers .
853 No , no , I am as ugly as a bear ;
854 For beasts that meet me run away for fear ;
855 Therefore no marvel though Demetrius
856 Do , as a monster , fly my presence thus .
857 What wicked and dissembling glass of mine
858 Made me compare with Hermia's sphery eyne ?
859 But who is here ? Lysander ! on the ground !
860 Dead ? or asleep ? I see no blood , no wound .
861 Lysander , if you live , good sir , awake .
862
863 And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake .
864 Transparent Helena ! Nature shows art ,
865 That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart .
866 Where is Demetrius ? O ! how fit a word
867 Is that vile name to perish on my sword .
868
869 Do not say so , Lysander ; say not so .
870 What though he love your Hermia ? Lord ! what though ?
871 Yet Hermia still loves you : then be content .
872
873 Content with Hermia ! No : I do repent
874 The tedious minutes I with her have spent .
875 Not Hermia , but Helena I love :
876 Who will not change a raven for a dove ?
877 The will of man is by his reason sway'd ,
878 And reason says you are the worthier maid .
879 Things growing are not ripe until their season ;
880 So I , being young , till now ripe not to reason ;
881 And touching now the point of human skill ,
882 Reason becomes the marshal to my will ,
883 And leads me to your eyes ; where I o'erlook
884 Love's stories written in love's richest book .
885
886 Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born ?
887 When at your hands did I deserve this scorn ?
888 Is't not enough , is't not enough , young man ,
889 That I did never , no , nor never can ,
890 Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye ,
891 But you must flout my insufficiency ?
892 Good troth , you do me wrong , good sooth , you do ,
893 In such disdainful manner me to woo .
894 But fare you well : perforce I must confess
895 I thought you lord of more true gentleness .
896 O ! that a lady of one man refus'd ,
897 Should of another therefore be abus'd .
898
899
900 She sees not Hermia . Hermia , sleep thou there ;
901 And never mayst thou come Lysander near .
902 For , as a surfeit of the sweetest things
903 The deepest loathing to the stomach brings ;
904 Or , as the heresies that men do leave
905 Are hated most of those they did deceive :
906 So thou , my surfeit and my heresy ,
907 Of all be hated , but the most of me !
908 And , all my powers , address your love and might
909 To honour Helen , and to be her knight .
910
911
912 Help me , Lysander , help me ! do thy best
913 To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast .
914 Ay me , for pity ! what a dream was here !
915 Lysander , look how I do quake with fear :
916 Methought a serpent eat my heart away ,
917 And you sat smiling at his cruel prey .
918 Lysander ! what ! remov'd ?Lysander ! lord !
919 What ! out of hearing ? gone ? no sound , no word ?
920 Alack ! where are you ? speak , an if you hear ;
921 Speak , of all loves ! I swound almost with fear .
922 No ! then I well perceive you are not nigh :
923 Either death or you I'll find immediately .
924
925 Are we all met ?
926
927 Pat , pat ; and here's a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal . This green plot shall be our stage , this hawthorn-brake our tiring-house ; and we will do it in action as we will do it before the duke .
928
929 Peter Quince ,
930
931 What sayst thou , bully Bottom ?
932
933 There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisby that will never please . First , Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself , which the ladies cannot abide . How answer you that ?
934
935 By'r lakin , a parlous fear .
936
937 I believe we must leave the killing out , when all is done .
938
939 Not a whit : I have a device to make all well . Write me a prologue ; and let the prologue seem to say , we will do no harm with our swords , and that Pyramus is not killed indeed ; and , for the more better assurance , tell them that I , Pyramus , am not Pyramus , but Bottom the weaver : this will put them out of fear .
940
941 Well , we will have such a prologue , and it shall be written in eight and six .
942
943 No , make it two more : let it be written in eight and eight .
944
945 Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion ?
946
947 I fear it , I promise you .
948
949 Masters , you ought to consider with yourselves : to bring in ,God shield us !a lion among ladies , is a most dreadful thing ; for there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living , and we ought to look to it .
950
951 Therefore , another prologue must tell he is not a lion .
952
953 Nay , you must name his name , and half his face must be seen through the lion's neck ; and he himself must speak through , saying thus , or to the same defect , 'Ladies ,' or , 'Fair ladies ,' 'I would wish you ,' or , 'I would request you ,' or , 'I would entreat you , not to fear , not to tremble : my life for yours . If you think I come hither as a lion , it were pity of my life : no , I am no such thing : I am a man as other men are ;' and there indeed let him name his name , and tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner .
954
955 Well , it shall be so . But there is two hard things , that is , to bring the moonlight into a chamber ; for , you know , Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight .
956
957 Doth the moon shine that night we play our play ?
958
959 A calendar , a calendar ! look in the almanack ; find out moonshine , find out moonshine .
960
961 Yes , it doth shine that night .
962
963 Why , then may you leave a casement of the great chamber-window , where we play , open ; and the moon may shine in at the casement .
964
965 Ay ; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns and a lanthorn , and say he comes to disfigure , or to present , the person of Moonshine . Then , there is another thing : we must have a wall in the great chamber ; for Pyramus and Thisby , says the story , did talk through the chink of a wall .
966
967 You can never bring in a wall . What say you , Bottom ?
968
969 Some man or other must present Wall ; and let him have some plaster , or some loam , or some rough-cast about him , to signify wall ; and let him hold his fingers thus , and through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisby whisper .
970
971 If that may be , than all is well . Come , sit down , every mother's son , and rehearse your parts . Pyramus , you begin : when you have spoken your speech , enter into that brake ; and so every one according to his cue .
972
973
974 What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here ,
975 So near the cradle of the fairy queen ?
976 What ! a play toward ; I'll be an auditor ;
977 An actor too perhaps , if I see cause .
978
979 Speak , Pyramus .Thisby , stand forth .
980
981 Thisby , the flowers have odious savours sweet ,
982
983 Odorous , odorous .
984
985 odours savours sweet :
986 So hath thy breath , my dearest Thisby dear . But hark , a voice ! stay thou but here awhile ,
987 And by and by I will to thee appear .
988
989
990 A stranger Pyramus than e'er play'd here !
991
992
993 Must I speak now ?
994
995 Ay , marry , must you ; for you must understand , he goes but to see a noise that he heard , and is to come again .
996
997 Most radiant Pyramus , most lily-white of hue ,
998 Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier ,
999 Most brisky juvenal , and eke most lovely Jew ,
1000 As true as truest horse that yet would never tire ,
1001 I'll meet thee , Pyramus , at Ninny's tomb .
1002
1003 'Ninus' tomb ,' man . Why , you must not speak that yet ; that you answer to Pyramus : you speak all your part at once , cues and all . Pyramus , enter : your cue is past ; it is 'never tire .'
1004
1005 O !As true as truest horse , that yet would never tire .
1006
1007
1008 If I were , fair Thisby , I were only thine .
1009
1010 O monstrous ! O strange ! we are haunted .
1011 Pray , masters ! fly , masters !Help !
1012
1013
1014 I'll follow you , I'll lead you about a round ,
1015 Through bog , through bush , through brake , through brier :
1016 Sometime a horse I'll be , sometime a hound ,
1017 A hog , a headless bear , sometime a fire ;
1018 And neigh , and bark , and grunt , and roar , and burn ,
1019 Like horse , hound , hog , bear , fire , at every turn .
1020
1021
1022 Why do they run away ? this is a knavery of them to make me afeard .
1023
1024
1025 O Bottom , thou art changed ! what do I see on thee ?
1026
1027 What do you see ? you see an ass-head of your own , do you ?
1028
1029 Bless thee , Bottom ! bless thee ! thou art translated .
1030
1031
1032 I see their knavery : this is to make an ass of me ; to fright me , if they could . But I will not stir from this place , do what they can : I will walk up and down here , and I will sing , that they shall hear I am not afraid .
1033
1034 The ousel-cock , so black of hue ,
1035 With orange-tawny bill ,
1036 The throstle with his note so true ,
1037 The wren with little quill .
1038
1039
1040 What angel wakes me from my flowery bed ?
1041
1042
1043 The finch , the sparrow , and the lark ,
1044 The plain-song cuckoo gray ,
1045 Whose note full many a man doth mark ,
1046 And dares not answer , nay ;
1047
1048 for indeed , who would set his wit to so foolish a bird ? who would give a bird the lie , though he cry 'cuckoo' never so ?
1049
1050 I pray thee , gentle mortal , sing again :
1051 Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note ;
1052 So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape ;
1053 And thy fair virtue's force , perforce , doth move me ,
1054 On the first view , to say , to swear , I love thee .
1055
1056 Methinks , mistress , you should have little reason for that : and yet , to say the truth , reason and love keep little company together now-a-days . The more the pity , that some honest neighbours will not make them friends . Nay , I can gleek upon occasion .
1057
1058 Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful .
1059
1060 Not so , neither ; but if I had wit enough to get out of this wood , I have enough to serve mine own turn .
1061
1062 Out of this wood do not desire to go :
1063 Thou shalt remain here , whe'r thou wilt or no .
1064 I am a spirit of no common rate ;
1065 The summer still doth tend upon my state ;
1066 And I do love thee : therefore , go with me ;
1067 I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee ,
1068 And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep ,
1069 And sing , while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep :
1070 And I will purge thy mortal grossness so
1071 That thou shalt like an airy spirit go .
1072 Pease-blossom ! Cobweb ! Moth ! and Mustardseed !
1073
1074
1075 Ready .
1076
1077 And I .
1078
1079 And I .
1080
1081 And I .
1082
1083 Where shall we go ?
1084
1085 Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ;
1086 Hop in his walks , and gambol in his eyes ;
1087 Feed him with apricocks and dewberries ,
1088 With purple grapes , green figs , and mulberries .
1089 The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees ,
1090 And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs ,
1091 And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes ,
1092 To have my love to bed , and to arise ;
1093 And pluck the wings from painted butterflies
1094 To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes :
1095 Nod to him , elves , and do him courtesies .
1096
1097 Hail , mortal !
1098
1099 Hail !
1100
1101 Hail !
1102
1103 Hail !
1104
1105 I cry your worships mercy , heartily : I beseech your worship's name .
1106
1107 Cobweb .
1108
1109 I shall desire you of more acquaintance , good Master Cobweb : if I out my finger , I shall make bold with you . Your name , honest gentleman ?
1110
1111 Pease-blossom .
1112
1113 I pray you , commend me to Mistress Squash , your mother , and to Master Peascod , your father . Good Master Pease-blossom , I shall desire you of more acquaintance too . Your name , I beseech you , sir ?
1114
1115 Mustard-seed .
1116
1117 Good Master Mustard-seed , I know your patience well : that same cowardly , giant-like ox-beef hath devoured many a gentleman of your house . I promise you , your kindred hath made my eyes water ere now . I desire you of more acquaintance , good Master Mustard-seed .
1118
1119 Come , wait upon him ; lead him to my bower .
1120 The moon methinks , looks with a watery eye ;
1121 And when she weeps , weeps every little flower ,
1122 Lamenting some enforced chastity .
1123 Tie up my love's tongue , bring him silently .
1124
1125
1126 I wonder if Titania be awak'd ;
1127 Then , what it was that next came in her eye ,
1128 Which she must dote on in extremity .
1129 Here comes my messenger .
1130
1131
1132 How now , mad spirit !
1133
1134 What night-rule now about this haunted grove ?
1135
1136 My mistress with a monster is in love .
1137 Near to her close and consecrated bower ,
1138 While she was in her dull and sleeping hour ,
1139 A crew of patches , rude mechanicals ,
1140 That work for bread upon Athenian stalls ,
1141 Were met together to rehearse a play
1142 Intended for great Theseus' nuptial day .
1143 The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort ,
1144 Who Pyramus presented in their sport
1145 Forsook his scene , and enter'd in a brake ,
1146 When I did him at this advantage take ;
1147 An ass's nowl I fixed on his head :
1148 Anon his Thisbe must be answered ,
1149 And forth my mimick comes . When they him spy ,
1150 As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye ,
1151 Or russet-pated choughs , many in sort ,
1152 Rising and cawing at the gun's report ,
1153 Sever themselves , and madly sweep the sky ;
1154 So , at his sight , away his fellows fly ,
1155 And , at our stamp , here o'er and o'er one falls ;
1156 He murder cries , and help from Athens calls .
1157 Their sense thus weak , lost with their fears thus strong ,
1158 Made senseless things begin to do them wrong ;
1159 For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch ;
1160 Some sleeves , some hats , from yielders all things catch .
1161 I led them on in this distracted fear ,
1162 And left sweet Pyramus translated there ;
1163 When in that moment , so it came to pass ,
1164 Titania wak'd and straightway lov'd an ass .
1165
1166 This falls out better than I could devise .
1167 But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes
1168 With the love-juice , as I did bid thee do ?
1169
1170 I took him sleeping ,that is finish'd too ,
1171 And the Athenian woman by his side ;
1172 That , when he wak'd , of force she must be ey'd .
1173
1174
1175 Stand close : this is the same Athenian .
1176
1177 This is the woman ; but not this the man .
1178
1179 O ! why rebuke you him that loves you so ?
1180 Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe .
1181
1182 Now I but chide ; but I should use thee worse ,
1183 For thou , I fear , hast given me cause to curse .
1184 If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep ,
1185 Being o'er shoes in blood , plunge in knee deep ,
1186 And kill me too .
1187 The sun was not so true unto the day
1188 As he to me . Would he have stol'n away
1189 From sleeping Hermia ? I'll believe as soon
1190 This whole earth may be bor'd , and that the moon
1191 May through the centre creep , and so displease
1192 Her brother's noontide with the Antipodes .
1193 It cannot be but thou hast murder'd him ;
1194 So should a murderer look , so dead , so grim .
1195
1196 So should the murder'd look , and so should I ,
1197 Pierc'd through the heart with your stern cruelty ;
1198 Yet you , the murderer , look as bright , as clear ,
1199 As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere .
1200
1201 What's this to my Lysander ? where is he ?
1202 Ah ! good Demetrius , wilt thou give him me ?
1203
1204 I had rather give his carcass to my hounds .
1205
1206 Out , dog ! out , cur ! thou driv'st me past the bounds
1207 Of maiden's patience . Hast thou slain him then ?
1208 Henceforth be never number'd among men !
1209 O ! once tell true , tell true , e'en for my sake ;
1210 Durst thou have look'd upon him being awake ,
1211 And hast thou kill'd him sleeping ? O brave touch !
1212 Could not a worm , an adder , do so much ?
1213 An adder did it ; for with doubler tongue
1214 Than thine , thou serpent , never adder stung .
1215
1216 You spend your passion on a mispris'd mood :
1217 I am not guilty of Lysander's blood ,
1218 Nor is he dead , for aught that I can tell .
1219
1220 I pray thee , tell me then that he is well .
1221
1222 An if I could , what should I get therefore ?
1223
1224 A privilege never to see me more .
1225 And from thy hated presence part I so ;
1226 See me no more , whe'r he be dead or no .
1227
1228
1229 There is no following her in this fierce vein :
1230 Here therefore for awhile I will remain .
1231 So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow
1232 For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe ;
1233 Which now in some slight measure it will pay ,
1234 If for his tender here I make some stay .
1235
1236
1237 What hast thou done ? thou hast mistaken quite ,
1238 And laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight :
1239 Of thy misprision must perforce ensue
1240 Some true-love turn'd , and not a false turn'd true .
1241
1242 Then fate o'er-rules , that , one man holding troth ,
1243 A million fail , confounding oath on oath .
1244
1245 About the wood go swifter than the wind ,
1246 And Helena of Athens look thou find :
1247 All fancy-sick she is , and pale of cheer
1248 With sighs of love , that cost the fresh blood dear .
1249 By some illusion see thou bring her here :
1250 I'll charm his eyes against she do appear .
1251
1252 I go , I go ; look how I go ;
1253 Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow .
1254
1255 Flower of this purple dye ,
1256 Hit with Cupid's archery ,
1257 Sink in apple of his eye .
1258 When his love he doth espy ,
1259 Let her shine as gloriously
1260 As the Venus of the sky .
1261 When thou wak'st , if she be by ,
1262 Beg of her for remedy .
1263
1264
1265 Captain of our fairy band ,
1266 Helena is here at hand ,
1267 And the youth , mistook by me ,
1268 Pleading for a lover's fee .
1269 Shall we their fond pageant see ?
1270 Lord , what fools these mortals be !
1271
1272 Stand aside : the noise they make
1273 Will cause Demetrius to awake .
1274
1275 Then will two at once woo one ;
1276 That must needs be sport alone ;
1277 And those things do best please me
1278 That befall preposterously .
1279
1280 Why should you think that I should woo in scorn ?
1281 Scorn and derision never come in tears :
1282 Look , when I vow , I weep ; and vows so born ,
1283 In their nativity all truth appears .
1284 How can these things in me seem scorn to you ,
1285 Bearing the badge of faith to prove them true ?
1286
1287 You do advance your cunning more and more .
1288 When truth kills truth , O devilish-holy fray !
1289 These vows are Hermia's : will you give her o'er ?
1290 Weigh oath with oath , and you will nothing weigh :
1291 Your vows , to her and me , put in two scales ,
1292 Will even weigh , and both as light as tales .
1293
1294 I had no judgment when to her I swore .
1295
1296 Nor none , in my mind , now you give her o'er .
1297
1298 Demetrius loves her , and he loves not you .
1299
1300 O Helen ! goddess , nymph , perfect , divine !
1301 To what , my love , shall I compare thine eyne ?
1302 Crystal is muddy . O ! how ripe in show
1303 Thy lips , those kissing cherries , tempting grow ,
1304 This pure congealed white , high Taurus' snow ,
1305 Fann'd with the eastern wind , turns to a crow
1306 When thou hold'st up thy hand . O ! let me kiss
1307 That princess of pure white , this seal of bliss .
1308
1309 O spite ! O hell ! I see you all are bent
1310 To set against me for your merriment :
1311 If you were civil and knew courtesy ,
1312 You would not do me thus much injury .
1313 Can you not hate me , as I know you do ,
1314 But you must join in souls to mock me too ?
1315 If you were men , as men you are in show ,
1316 You would not use a gentle lady so ;
1317 To vow , and swear , and superpraise my parts ,
1318 When I am sure you hate me with your hearts .
1319 You both are rivals , and love Hermia ,
1320 And now both rivals , to mock Helena :
1321 A trim exploit , a manly enterprise ,
1322 To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes
1323 With your derision ! none of noble sort
1324 Would so offend a virgin , and extort
1325 A poor soul's patience , all to make you sport .
1326
1327 You are unkind , Demetrius ; be not so ;
1328 For you love Hermia ; this you know I know :
1329 And here , with all good will , with all my heart ,
1330 In Hermia's love I yield you up my part ;
1331 And yours of Helena to me bequeath ,
1332 Whom I do love , and will do to my death .
1333
1334 Never did mockers waste more idle breath .
1335
1336 Lysander , keep thy Hermia ; I will none :
1337 If e'er I lov'd her , all that love is gone .
1338 My heart with her but as guest wise sojourn'd ,
1339 And now to Helen it is home return'd ,
1340 There to remain .
1341
1342 Helen , it is not so .
1343
1344 Disparage not the faith thou dost not know ,
1345 Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear .
1346 Look ! where thy love comes : yonder is thy dear .
1347
1348
1349 Dark night , that from the eye his function takes ,
1350 The ear more quick of apprehension makes ;
1351 Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense ,
1352 It pays the hearing double recompense .
1353 Thou art not by mine eye , Lysander , found ;
1354 Mine ear , I thank it , brought me to thy sound .
1355 But why unkindly didst thou leave me so ?
1356
1357 Why should he stay , whom love doth press to go ?
1358
1359 What love could press Lysander from my side ?
1360
1361 Lysander's love , that would not let him bide ,
1362 Fair Helena , who more engilds the night
1363 Than all yon fiery oes and eyes of light .
1364 Why seek'st thou me ? could not this make thee know ,
1365 The hate I bear thee made me leave thee so ?
1366
1367 You speak not as you think : it cannot be .
1368
1369 Lo ! she is one of this confederacy .
1370 Now I perceive they have conjoin'd all three
1371 To fashion this false sport in spite of me .
1372 Injurious Hermia ! most ungrateful maid !
1373 Have you conspir'd , have you with these contriv'd
1374 To bait me with this foul derision ?
1375 Is all the counsel that we two have shar'd ,
1376 The sister-vows , the hours that we have spent ,
1377 When we have chid the hasty-footed time
1378 For parting us , O ! is it all forgot ?
1379 All school-days' friendship , childhood innocence ?
1380 We , Hermia , like two artificial gods ,
1381 Have with our neelds created both one flower ,
1382 Both on one sampler , sitting on one cushion ,
1383 Both warbling of one song , both in one key ,
1384 As if our hands , our sides , voices , and minds ,
1385 Had been incorporate . So we grew together ,
1386 Like to a double cherry , seeming parted ,
1387 But yet an union in partition ;
1388 Two lovely berries moulded on one stem ;
1389 So , with two seeming bodies , but one heart ;
1390 Two of the first , like coats in heraldry ,
1391 Due but to one , and crowned with one crest .
1392 And will you rent our ancient love asunder ,
1393 To join with men in scorning your poor friend ?
1394 It is not friendly , 'tis not maidenly :
1395 Our sex , as well as I , may chide you for it ,
1396 Though I alone do feel the injury .
1397
1398 I am amazed at your passionate words .
1399 I scorn you not : it seems that you scorn me .
1400
1401 Have you not set Lysander , as in scorn ,
1402 To follow me and praise my eyes and face ,
1403 And made your other love , Demetrius ,
1404 Who even but now did spurn me with his foot ,
1405 To call me goddess , nymph , divine and rare ,
1406 Precious , celestial ? Wherefore speaks he this
1407 To her he hates ? and wherefore doth Lysander
1408 Deny your love , so rich within his soul ,
1409 And tender me , forsooth , affection ,
1410 But by your setting on , by your consent ?
1411 What though I be not so in grace as you ,
1412 So hung upon with love , so fortunate ,
1413 But miserable most to love unlov'd ?
1414 This you should pity rather than despise .
1415
1416 I understand not what you mean by this .
1417
1418 Ay , do , persever , counterfeit sad looks ,
1419 Make mouths upon me when I turn my back ;
1420 Wink each at other ; hold the sweet jest up :
1421 This sport , well carried , shall be chronicled .
1422 If you have any pity , grace , or manners ,
1423 You would not make me such an argument .
1424 But , fare ye well : 'tis partly mine own fault ,
1425 Which death or absence soon shall remedy .
1426
1427 Stay , gentle Helena ! hear my excuse :
1428 My love , my life , my soul , fair Helena !
1429
1430 O excellent !
1431
1432 Sweet , do not scorn her so .
1433
1434 If she cannot entreat , I can compel .
1435
1436 Thou canst compel no more than she entreat :
1437 Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers .
1438 Helen , I love thee ; by my life , I do :
1439 I swear by that which I will lose for thee ,
1440 To prove him false that says I love thee not .
1441
1442 I say I love thee more than he can do .
1443
1444 If thou say so , withdraw , and prove it too .
1445
1446 Quick , come !
1447
1448 Lysander , whereto tends all this ?
1449
1450 Away , you Ethiop !
1451
1452 No , no , he'll . . .
1453 Seem to break loose ; take on , as you would follow ,
1454 But yet come not : you are a tame man , go !
1455
1456 Hang off , thou cat , thou burr ! vile thing , let loose ,
1457 Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent .
1458
1459 Why are you grown so rude ? what change is this ,
1460 Sweet love ,
1461
1462 Thy love ! out , tawny Tartar , out !
1463 Out , loathed medicine ! hated poison , hence !
1464
1465 Do you not jest ?
1466
1467 Yes , sooth ; and so do you .
1468
1469 Demetrius , I will keep my word with thee .
1470
1471 I would I had your bond , for I perceive
1472 A weak bond holds you : I'll not trust your word .
1473
1474 What ! should I hurt her , strike her , kill her dead ?
1475 Although I hate her , I'll not harm her so .
1476
1477 What ! can you do me greater harm than hate ?
1478 Hate me ! wherefore ? O me ! what news , my love ?
1479 Am not I Hermia ? Are not you Lysander ?
1480 I am as fair now as I was erewhile .
1481 Since night you lov'd me ; yet , since night you left me :
1482 Why , then you left me ,O , the gods forbid !
1483 In earnest , shall I say ?
1484
1485 Ay , by my life ;
1486 And never did desire to see thee more .
1487 Therefore be out of hope , of question , doubt ;
1488 Be certain , nothing truer : 'tis no jest ,
1489 That I do hate thee and love Helena .
1490
1491 O me ! you juggler ! you canker-blossom !
1492 You thief of love ! what ! have you come by night
1493 And stol'n my love's heart from him ?
1494
1495 Fine , i' faith !
1496 Have you no modesty , no maiden shame ,
1497 No touch of bashfulness ? What ! will you tear
1498 Impatient answers from my gentle tongue ?
1499 Fie , fie ! you counterfeit , you puppet you !
1500
1501 Puppet ! why , so : ay , that way goes the game .
1502 Now I perceive that she hath made compare
1503 Between our statures : she hath urg'd her height ;
1504 And with her personage , her tall personage ,
1505 Her height , forsooth , she hath prevail'd with him .
1506 And are you grown so high in his esteem ,
1507 Because I am so dwarfish and so low ?
1508 How low am I , thou painted maypole ? speak ;
1509 How low am I ? I am not yet so low
1510 But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes .
1511
1512 I pray you , though you mock me , gentlemen ,
1513 Let her not hurt me : I was never curst ;
1514 I have no gift at all in shrewishness ;
1515 I am a right maid for my cowardice :
1516 Let her not strike me . You perhaps may think ,
1517 Because she is something lower than myself ,
1518 That I can match her .
1519
1520 Lower ! hark , again .
1521
1522 Good Hermia , do not be so bitter with me .
1523 I evermore did love you , Hermia ,
1524 Did ever keep your counsels , never wrong'd you ;
1525 Save that , in love unto Demetrius ,
1526 I told him of your stealth unto this wood .
1527 He follow'd you ; for love I follow'd him ;
1528 But he hath chid me hence , and threaten'd me
1529 To strike me , spurn me , nay , to kill me too :
1530 And now , so you will let me quiet go ,
1531 To Athens will I bear my folly back ,
1532 And follow you no further : let me go :
1533 You see how simple and how fond I am .
1534
1535 Why , get you gone . Who is't that hinders you ?
1536
1537 A foolish heart , that I leave here behind .
1538
1539 What ! with Lysander ?
1540
1541 With Demetrius .
1542
1543 Be not afraid : she shall not harm thee , Helena .
1544
1545 No , sir ; she shall not , though you take her part .
1546
1547 O ! when she's angry , she is keen and shrewd .
1548 She was a vixen when she went to school :
1549 And though she be but little , she is fierce .
1550
1551 'Little' again ! nothing but 'low' and 'little !'
1552 Why will you suffer her to flout me thus ?
1553 Let me come to her .
1554
1555 Get you gone , you dwarf ;
1556 You minimus , of hindering knot-grass made ;
1557 You bead , you acorn !
1558
1559 You are too officious
1560 In her behalf that scorns your services .
1561 Let her alone ; speak not of Helena ;
1562 Take not her part , for , if thou dost intend
1563 Never so little show of love to her ,
1564 Thou shalt aby it .
1565
1566 Now she holds me not ;
1567 Now follow , if thou dar'st , to try whose right ,
1568 Or thine or mine , is most in Helena .
1569
1570 Follow ! nay , I'll go with thee , cheek by jole .
1571
1572
1573 You , mistress , all this coil is 'long of you :
1574 Nay , go not back .
1575
1576 I will not trust you , I ,
1577 Nor longer stay in your curst company .
1578 Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray ,
1579 My legs are longer though , to run away .
1580
1581
1582 I am amaz'd , and know not what to say .
1583
1584
1585 This is thy negligence : still thou mistak'st ,
1586 Or else commit'st thy knaveries wilfully .
1587
1588 Believe me , king of shadows , I mistook .
1589 Did not you tell me I should know the man
1590 By the Athenian garments he had on ?
1591 And so far blameless proves my enterprise ,
1592 That I have 'nointed an Athenian's eyes ;
1593 And so far am I glad it so did sort ,
1594 As this their jangling I esteem a sport .
1595
1596 Thou see'st these lovers seek a place to fight :
1597 Hie therefore , Robin , overcast the night ;
1598 The starry welking cover thou anon
1599 With drooping fog as black as Acheron ;
1600 And lead these testy rivals so astray ,
1601 As one come not within another's way .
1602 Like to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue ,
1603 Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong ;
1604 And sometime rail thou like Demetrius ;
1605 And from each other look thou lead them thus ,
1606 Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep
1607 With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep :
1608 Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye ;
1609 Whose liquor hath this virtuous property ,
1610 To take from thence all error with his might ,
1611 And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight .
1612 When they next wake , all this derision
1613 Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision ;
1614 And back to Athens shall the lovers wend ,
1615 With league whose date till death shall never end .
1616 Whiles I in this affair do thee employ ,
1617 I'll to my queen and beg her Indian boy ;
1618 And then I will her charmed eye release
1619 From monster's view , and all things shall be peace .
1620
1621 My fairy lord , this must be done with haste ,
1622 For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast ,
1623 And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger ;
1624 At whose approach , ghosts , wandering here and there ,
1625 Troop home to churchyards : damned spirits all ,
1626 That in cross-ways and floods have burial ,
1627 Already to their wormy beds are gone ;
1628 For fear lest day should look their shames upon ,
1629 They wilfully themselves exile from light ,
1630 And must for aye consort with black-brow'd night .
1631
1632 But we are spirits of another sort .
1633 I with the morning's love have oft made sport ;
1634 And , like a forester , the groves may tread ,
1635 Even till the eastern gate , all fiery-red ,
1636 Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams ,
1637 Turns into yellow gold his salt green-streams .
1638 But , notwithstanding , haste ; make no delay :
1639 We may effect this business yet ere day .
1640
1641 Up and down , up and down ;
1642 I will lead them up and down :
1643 I am fear'd in field and town ;
1644 Goblin , lead them up and down .
1645
1646 Here comes one .
1647
1648
1649 Where art thou , proud Demetrius ? speak thou now .
1650
1651 Here , villain ! drawn and ready . Where art thou ?
1652
1653 I will be with thee straight .
1654
1655 Follow me , then ,
1656 To plainer ground .
1657
1658 Lysander ! speak again .
1659 Thou runaway , thou coward , art thou fled ?
1660 Speak ! In some bush ? Where dost thou hide thy head ?
1661
1662 Thou coward ! art thou bragging to the stars ,
1663 Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars ,
1664 And wilt not come ? Come , recreant ; come , thou child ;
1665 I'll whip thee with a rod : he is defil'd
1666 That draws a sword on thee .
1667
1668 Yea , art thou there ?
1669
1670 Follow my voice : we'll try no manhood here .
1671
1672 He goes before me and still dares me on :
1673 When I come where he calls , then he is gone .
1674 The villain is much lighter-heel'd than I :
1675 I follow'd fast , but faster he did fly ;
1676 That fallen am I in dark uneven way ,
1677 And here will rest me .
1678
1679 Come , thou gentle day !
1680 For if but once thou show me thy grey light ,
1681 I'll find Demetrius and revenge this spite .
1682
1683 Ho ! ho ! ho ! Coward , why com'st thou not ?
1684
1685 Abide me , if thou dar'st ; for well I wot
1686 Thou runn'st before me , shifting every place ,
1687 And dar'st not stand , nor look me in the face .
1688 Where art thou now ?
1689
1690 Come hither : I am here .
1691
1692 Nay then , thou mock'st me . Thou shalt buy this dear ,
1693 If ever I thy face by daylight see :
1694 Now , go thy way . Faintness constraineth me
1695 To measure out my length on this cold bed :
1696 By day's approach look to be visited .
1697
1698 O weary night ! O long and tedious night ,
1699 Abate thy hours ! shine , comforts , from the east !
1700 That I may back to Athens by daylight ,
1701 From these that my poor company detest :
1702 And sleep , that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye ,
1703 Steal me awhile from mine own company .
1704
1705 Yet but three ? Come one more ;
1706 Two of both kinds make up four .
1707 Here she comes , curst and sad :
1708 Cupid is a knavish lad ,
1709 Thus to make poor females mad .
1710
1711 Never so weary , never so in woe ,
1712 Bedabbled with the dew and torn with briers ,
1713 I can no further crawl , no further go ;
1714 My legs can keep no pace with my desires .
1715 Here will I rest me till the break of day .
1716 Heavens shield Lysander , if they mean a fray !
1717
1718 On the ground
1719 Sleep sound :
1720 I'll apply
1721 To your eye ,
1722 Gentle lover , remedy
1723
1724 When thou wak'st ,
1725 Thou tak'st
1726 True delight
1727 In the sight
1728 Of thy former lady's eye :
1729 And the country proverb known ,
1730 That every man should take his own ,
1731 In your waking shall be shown :
1732 Jack shall have Jill ;
1733 Nought shall go ill ;
1734 The man shall have his mare again ,
1735 And all shall be well .
1736
1737
1738 Come , sit thee down upon this flowery bed ,
1739 While I thy amiable cheeks do coy ,
1740 And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head ,
1741 And kiss thy fair large ears , my gentle joy .
1742
1743 Where's Pease-blossom ?
1744
1745 Ready .
1746
1747 Scratch my head , Pease-blossom . Where's Mounsieur Cobweb ?
1748
1749 Ready .
1750
1751 Mounsieur Cobweb , good mounsieur , get your weapons in your hand , and kill me a red-hipped humble-bee on the top of a thistle ; and , good mounsieur , bring me the honey-bag . Do not fret yourself too much in the action , mounsieur ; and , good mounsieur , have a care the honey-bag break not ; I would be loath to have you overflown with a honey-bag , signior . Where's Mounsieur Mustard-seed ?
1752
1753 Ready .
1754
1755 Give me your neaf , Mounsieur Mustard-seed . Pray you , leave your curtsy , good mounsieur .
1756
1757 What's your will ?
1758
1759 Nothing , good mounsieur , but to help Cavalery Cobweb to scratch . I must to the barber's , mounsieur , for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face ; and I am such a tender ass , if my hair do but tickle me , I must scratch .
1760
1761 What , wilt thou hear some music , my sweet love ?
1762
1763 I have a reasonable good ear in music : let us have the tongs and the bones .
1764
1765 Or say , sweet love , what thou desir'st to eat .
1766
1767 Truly , a peck of provender : I could munch your good dry oats . Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay : good hay , sweet hay , hath no fellow .
1768
1769 I have a venturous fairy that shall seek
1770 The squirrel's hoard , and fetch thee thence new nuts .
1771
1772 I had rather have a handful or two of dried pease . But , I pray you , let none of your people stir me : I have an exposition of sleep come upon me .
1773
1774 Sleep thou , and I will wind thee in my arms .
1775 Fairies , be gone , and be all ways away .
1776
1777 So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle
1778 Gently entwist ; the female ivy so
1779 Enrings the barky fingers of the elm .
1780 O ! how I love thee ; how I dote on thee !
1781
1782 Welcome , good Robin . See'st thou this sweet sight ?
1783 Her dotage now I do begin to pity :
1784 For , meeting her of late behind the wood ,
1785 Seeking sweet favours for this hateful fool ,
1786 I did upbraid her and fall out with her ;
1787 For she his hairy temples then had rounded
1788 With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers ;
1789 And that same dew , which sometime on the buds
1790 Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls ,
1791 Stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes
1792 Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail .
1793 When I had at my pleasure taunted her ,
1794 And she in mild terms begg'd my patience ,
1795 I then did ask of her her changeling child ;
1796 Which straight she gave me , and her fairy sent
1797 To bear him to my bower in fairy land .
1798 And now I have the boy , I will undo
1799 This hateful imperfection of her eyes :
1800 And , gentle Puck , take this transformed scalp
1801 From off the head of this Athenian swain ,
1802 That he , awaking when the other do ,
1803 May all to Athens back again repair ,
1804 And think no more of this night's accidents
1805 But as the fierce vexation of a dream .
1806 But first I will release the fairy queen .
1807
1808
1809 Be as thou wast wont to be ;
1810 See as thou wast wont to see :
1811 Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower
1812 Hath such force and blessed power .
1813
1814 Now , my Titania ; wake you , my sweet queen .
1815
1816 My Oberon ! what visions have I seen !
1817 Methought I was enamour'd of an ass .
1818
1819 There lies your love .
1820
1821 How came these things to pass ?
1822 O ! how mine eyes do loathe his visage now .
1823
1824 Silence , awhile . Robin , take off this head .
1825 Titania , music call ; and strike more dead
1826 Than common sleep of all these five the sense .
1827
1828 Music , ho ! music ! such as charmeth sleep .
1829
1830
1831 When thou wak'st , with thine own fool's eyes peep .
1832
1833 Sound , music !
1834
1835 Come , my queen , take hands with me ,
1836 And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be .
1837 Now thou and I are new in amity ,
1838 And will to-morrow midnight solemnly
1839 Dance in Duke Theseus' house triumphantly ,
1840 And bless it to all fair prosperity .
1841 There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be
1842 Wedded , with Theseus , all in jollity .
1843
1844
1845 Fairy king , attend , and mark :
1846 I do hear the morning lark .
1847
1848 Then , my queen , in silence sad ,
1849 Trip we after the night's shade ;
1850 We the globe can compass soon ,
1851 Swifter than the wandering moon .
1852
1853 Come , my lord ; and in our flight
1854 Tell me how it came this night
1855 That I sleeping here was found
1856 With these mortals on the ground .
1857
1858
1859 Go , one of you , find out the forester ;
1860 For now our observation is perform'd ;
1861 And since we have the vaward of the day ,
1862 My love shall hear the music of my hounds .
1863 Uncouple in the western valley ; let them go :
1864 Dispatch , I say , and find the forester .
1865 We will , fair queen , up to the mountain's top ,
1866 And mark the musical confusion
1867 Of hounds and echo in conjunction .
1868
1869 I was with Hercules and Cadmus once ,
1870 When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear
1871 With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear
1872 Such gallant chiding ; for , besides the groves ,
1873 The skies , the fountains , every region near
1874 Seem'd all one mutual cry . I never heard
1875 So musical a discord , such sweet thunder .
1876
1877 My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind ,
1878 So flew'd , so sanded ; and their heads are hung
1879 With ears that sweep away the morning dew ;
1880 Crook-knee'd , and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ;
1881 Slow in pursuit , but match'd in mouth like bells ,
1882 Each under each . A cry more tuneable
1883 Was never holla'd to , nor cheer'd with horn ,
1884 In Crete , in Sparta , nor in Thessaly :
1885 Judge , when you hear . But , soft ! what nymphs are these ?
1886
1887 My lord , this is my daughter here asleep ;
1888 And this , Lysander ; this Demetrius is ;
1889 This Helena , old Nedar's Helena :
1890 I wonder of their being here together .
1891
1892 No doubt they rose up early to observe
1893 The rite of May , and , hearing our intent ,
1894 Came here in grace of our solemnity .
1895 But speak , Egeus , is not this the day
1896 That Hermia should give answer of her choice ?
1897
1898 It is , my lord .
1899
1900 Go , bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns .
1901
1902
1903 Good morrow , friends . Saint Valentine is past :
1904
1905 Begin these wood-birds but to couple now ?
1906
1907 Pardon , my lord .
1908
1909
1910 I pray you all , stand up .
1911 I know you two are rival enemies :
1912 How comes this gentle concord in the world ,
1913 That hatred is so far from jealousy ,
1914 To sleep by hate , and fear no enmity ?
1915
1916 My lord , I shall reply amazedly ,
1917 Half sleep , half waking : but as yet , I swear ,
1918 I cannot truly say how I came here ;
1919 But , as I think ,for truly would I speak ,
1920 And now I do bethink me , so it is ,
1921 I came with Hermia hither : our intent
1922 Was to be gone from Athens , where we might ,
1923 Without the peril of the Athenian law
1924
1925 Enough , enough , my lord ; you have enough :
1926 I beg the law , the law , upon his head .
1927 They would have stol'n away ; they would , Demetrius ,
1928 Thereby to have defeated you and me ;
1929 You of your wife , and me of my consent ,
1930 Of my consent that she should be your wife .
1931
1932 My lord , fair Helen told me of their stealth ,
1933 Of this their purpose hither , to this wood ;
1934 And I in fury hither follow'd them ,
1935 Fair Helena in fancy following me .
1936 But , my good lord , I wot not by what power ,
1937 But by some power it is ,my love to Hermia ,
1938 Melted as doth the snow , seems to me now
1939 As the remembrance of an idle gaud
1940 Which in my childhood I did dote upon ;
1941 And all the faith , the virtue of my heart ,
1942 The object and the pleasure of mine eye ,
1943 Is only Helena . To her , my lord ,
1944 Was I betroth'd ere I saw Hermia :
1945 But , like in sickness , did I loathe this food ;
1946 But , as in health , come to my natural taste ,
1947 Now do I wish it , love it , long for it ,
1948 And will for evermore be true to it .
1949
1950 Fair lovers , you are fortunately met :
1951 Of this discourse we more will hear anon .
1952 Egeus , I will overbear your will ,
1953 For in the temple , by and by , with us ,
1954 These couples shall eternally be knit :
1955 And , for the morning now is something worn ,
1956 Our purpos'd hunting shall be set aside .
1957 Away with us , to Athens : three and three ,
1958 We'll hold a feast in great solemnity .
1959 Come , Hippolyta .
1960
1961
1962 These things seem small and undistinguishable ,
1963 Like far-off mountains turned into clouds .
1964
1965 Methinks I see these things with parted eye ,
1966 When everything seems double .
1967
1968 So methinks :
1969 And I have found Demetrius , like a jewel ,
1970 Mine own , and not mine own .
1971
1972 Are you sure
1973 That we are awake ? It seems to me
1974 That yet we sleep , we dream . Do you not think
1975 The duke was here , and bid us follow him ?
1976
1977 Yea ; and my father .
1978
1979 And Hippolyta .
1980
1981 And he did bid us follow to the temple .
1982
1983 Why then , we are awake . Let's follow him ;
1984 And by the way let us recount our dreams .
1985
1986
1987 When my cue comes , call me , and I will answer : my next is , 'Most fair Pyramus .' Heigh-ho ! Peter Quince ! Flute , the bellows-mender ! Snout , the tinker ! Starveling ! God's my life ! stolen hence , and left me asleep ! I have had a most rare vision . I have had a dream , past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass , if he go about to expound this dream . Methought I was there is no man can tell what . Methought I was ,and methought I had ,but man is but a patched fool , if he will offer to say what methought I had . The eye of man hath not heard , the ear of man hath not seen , man's hand is not able to taste , his tongue to conceive , nor his heart to report , what my dream was . I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream : it shall be called Bottom's Dream , because it hath no bottom ; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play , before the duke : peradventure , to make it the more gracious , I shall sing it at her death .
1988
1989
1990 Have you sent to Bottom's house ? is he come home yet ?
1991
1992 He cannot be heard of . Out of doubt he is transported .
1993
1994 If he come not , then the play is marred : it goes not forward , doth it ?
1995
1996 It is not possible : you have not a man in all Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he .
1997
1998 No ; he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft man in Athens .
1999
2000 Yea , and the best person too ; and he is a very paramour for a sweet voice .
2001
2002 You must say , 'paragon :' a paramour is , God bless us ! a thing of naught .
2003
2004
2005 Masters , the duke is coming from the temple , and there is two or three lords and ladies more married : if our sport had gone forward , we had all been made men .
2006
2007 O sweet bully Bottom ! Thus hath he lost sixpence a day during his life ; he could not have 'scaped sixpence a day : an the duke had not given him sixpence a day for playing Pyramus , I'll be hanged ; he would have deserved it : sixpence a day in Pyramus , or nothing .
2008
2009
2010 Where are these lads ? where are these hearts ?
2011
2012 Bottom ! O most courageous day ! O most happy hour !
2013
2014 Masters , I am to discourse wonders : but ask me not what ; for if I tell you , I am no true Athenian . I will tell you everything , right as it fell out .
2015
2016 Let us hear , sweet Bottom .
2017
2018 Not a word of me . All that I will tell you is , that the duke hath dined . Get your apparel together , good strings to your beards , new ribbons to your pumps ; meet presently at the palace ; every man look o'er his part ; for the short and the long is , our play is preferred . In any case , let Thisby have clean linen ; and let not him that plays the lion pare his nails , for they shall hang out for the lion's claws . And , most dear actors , eat no onions nor garlic , for we are to utter sweet breath , and I do not doubt but to hear them say , it is a sweet comedy . No more words : away ! go ; away .
2019
2020 'Tis strange , my Theseus , that these lovers speak of .
2021
2022 More strange than true . I never may believe
2023 These antique fables , nor these fairy toys .
2024 Lovers and madmen have such seething brains ,
2025 Such shaping fantasies , that apprehend
2026 More than cool reason ever comprehends .
2027 The lunatic , the lover , and the poet ,
2028 Are of imagination all compact :
2029 One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ,
2030 That is , the madman ; the lover , all as frantic ,
2031 Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt :
2032 The poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling ,
2033 Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ;
2034 And , as imagination bodies forth
2035 The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen
2036 Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing
2037 A local habitation and a name .
2038 Such tricks hath strong imagination ,
2039 That , if it would but apprehend some joy ,
2040 It comprehends some bringer of that joy ;
2041 Or in the night , imagining some fear ,
2042 How easy is a bush suppos'd a bear !
2043
2044 But all the story of the night told over ,
2045 And all their minds transfigur'd so together ,
2046 More witnesseth than fancy's images ,
2047 And grows to something of great constancy ,
2048 But , howsoever , strange and admirable .
2049
2050 Here come the lovers , full of joy and mirth .
2051
2052
2053 Joy , gentle friends ! joy , and fresh days of love
2054
2055 Accompany your hearts !
2056
2057 More than to us
2058 Wait in your royal walks , your board , your bed !
2059
2060 Come now ; what masques , what dances shall we have ,
2061 To wear away this long age of three hours
2062 Between our after-supper and bed-time ?
2063 Where is our usual manager of mirth ?
2064 What revels are in hand ? Is there no play ,
2065 To ease the anguish of a torturing hour ?
2066 Call Philostrate .
2067
2068 Here , mighty Theseus .
2069
2070 Say , what abridgment have you for this evening ?
2071 What masque ? what music ? How shall we beguile
2072 The lazy time , if not with some delight ?
2073
2074 There is a brief how many sports are ripe ;
2075 Make choice of which your highness will see first .
2076
2077
2078 The battle with the Centaurs , to be sung
2079 By an Athenian eunuch to the harp .
2080 We'll none of that : that have I told my love ,
2081 In glory of my kinsman Hercules .
2082 The riot of the tipsy Bacchanals ,
2083 Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage .
2084 That is an old device ; and it was play'd
2085 When I from Thebes came last a conqueror .
2086 The thrice three Muses mourning for the death
2087 Of Learning , late deceas'd in beggary .
2088 That is some satire keen and critical ,
2089 Not sorting with a nuptial ceremony .
2090 A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus
2091 And his love Thisbe ; very tragical mirth .
2092 Merry and tragical ! tedious and brief !
2093 That is , hot ice and wonderous strange snow .
2094 How shall we find the concord of this discord ?
2095
2096 A play there is , my lord , some ten words long ,
2097 Which is as brief as I have known a play ;
2098 But by ten words , my lord , it is too long ,
2099 Which makes it tedious ; for in all the play
2100 There is not one word apt , one player fitted .
2101 And tragical , my noble lord , it is ;
2102 For Pyramus therein doth kill himself .
2103 Which when I saw rehears'd , I must confess ,
2104 Made mine eyes water ; but more merry tears
2105 The passion of loud laughter never shed .
2106
2107 What are they that do play it ?
2108
2109 Hard-handed men , that work in Athens here ,
2110 Which never labour'd in their minds till now ,
2111 And now have toil'd their unbreath'd memories
2112 With this same play , against your nuptial .
2113
2114 And we will hear it .
2115
2116 No , my noble lord ;
2117 It is not for you : I have heard it over ,
2118 And it is nothing , nothing in the world ;
2119 Unless you can find sport in their intents ,
2120 Extremely stretch'd and conn'd with cruel pain ,
2121 To do you service .
2122
2123 I will hear that play ;
2124 For never anything can be amiss ,
2125 When simpleness and duty tender it .
2126 Go , bring them in : and take your places , ladies .
2127
2128
2129 I love not to see wretchedness o'ercharg'd ,
2130 And duty in his service perishing .
2131
2132 Why , gentle sweet , you shall see no such thing .
2133
2134 He says they can do nothing in this kind .
2135
2136 The kinder we , to give them thanks for nothing .
2137 Our sport shall be to take what they mistake :
2138 And what poor duty cannot do , noble respect
2139 Takes it in might , not merit .
2140 Where I have come , great clerks have purposed
2141 To greet me with premeditated welcomes ;
2142 Where I have seen them shiver and look pale ,
2143 Make periods in the midst of sentences ,
2144 Throttle their practis'd accent in their fears ,
2145 And , in conclusion , dumbly have broke off ,
2146 Not paying me a welcome . Trust me , sweet ,
2147 Out of this silence yet I pick'd a welcome ;
2148 And in the modesty of fearful duty
2149 I read as much as from the rattling tongue
2150 Of saucy and audacious eloquence .
2151 Love , therefore , and tongue-tied simplicity
2152 In least speak most , to my capacity .
2153
2154
2155 So please your Grace , the Prologue is address'd .
2156
2157 Let him approach .
2158
2159
2160 If we offend , it is with our good will .
2161 That you should think , we come not to offend ,
2162 But with good will . To show our simple skill ,
2163 That is the true beginning of our end .
2164 Consider then we come but in despite .
2165 We do not come as minding to content you ,
2166 Our true intent is . All for your delight ,
2167 We are not here . That you should here repent you ,
2168 The actors are at hand ; and , by their show ,
2169 You shall know all that you are like to know .
2170
2171
2172 This fellow doth not stand upon points .
2173
2174 He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt ; he knows not the stop . A good moral , my lord : it is not enough to speak , but to speak true .
2175
2176 Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child on a recorder ; a sound , but not in government .
2177
2178 His speech was like a tangled chain ; nothing impaired , but all disordered . Who is next ?
2179
2180
2181 Gentles , perchance you wonder at this show ;
2182 But wonder on , till truth make all things plain .
2183 This man is Pyramus , if you would know ;
2184 This beauteous lady Thisby is , certain .
2185 This man , with lime and rough-cast , doth present
2186 Wall , that vile Wall which did these lovers sunder ;
2187 And through Wall's chink , poor souls , they are content
2188 To whisper , at the which let no man wonder .
2189 This man , with lanthorn , dog , and bush of thorn ,
2190 Presenteth Moonshine ; for , if you will know ,
2191 By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn
2192 To meet at Ninus' tomb , there , there to woo .
2193 This grisly beast , which Lion hight by name ,
2194 The trusty Thisby , coming first by night ,
2195 Did scare away , or rather did affright ;
2196 And , as she fied , her mantle she did fall ,
2197 Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain .
2198 Anon comes Pyramus , sweet youth and tall ,
2199 And finds his trusty Thisby's mantle slain :
2200 Whereat , with blade , with bloody blameful blade ,
2201 He bravely broach'd his boiling bloody breast ;
2202 And Thisby , tarrying in mulberry shade ,
2203 His dagger drew , and died . For all the rest ,
2204 Let Lion , Moonshine , Wall , and lovers twain ,
2205 At large discourse , while here they do remain .
2206
2207
2208 I wonder , if the lion be to speak .
2209
2210 No wonder , my lord : one lion may , when many asses do .
2211 Wall . In this same interlude it doth befall
2212 That I , one Snout by name , present a wall ;
2213 And such a wall , as I would have you think ,
2214 That had in it a crannied hole or chink ,
2215 Through which the lovers , Pyramus and Thisby ,
2216 Did whisper often very secretly .
2217 This loam , this rough-cast , and this stone doth show
2218 That I am that same wall ; the truth is so ;
2219 And this the cranny is , right and sinister ,
2220 Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper .
2221
2222 Would you desire lime and hair to speak better ?
2223
2224 It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard discourse , my lord .
2225
2226 Pyramus draws near the wall : silence !
2227
2228
2229 O grim-look'd night ! O night with hue so black !
2230 O night , which ever art when day is not !
2231 O night ! O night ! alack , alack , alack !
2232 I fear my Thisby's promise is forgot .
2233 And thou , O wall ! O sweet , O lovely wall !
2234 That stand'st between her father's ground and mine ;
2235 Thou wall , O wall ! O sweet , and lovely wall !
2236 Show me thy chink to blink through with mine eyne .
2237
2238 Thanks , courteous wall : Jove shield thee well for this !
2239 But what see I ? No Thisby do I see .
2240 O wicked wall ! through whom I see no bliss ;
2241 Curs'd be thy stones for thus deceiving me !
2242
2243 The wall , methinks , being sensible , should curse again .
2244
2245 No , in truth , sir , he should not . 'Deceiving me ,' is Thisby's cue : she is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . You shall see , it will fall pat as I told you . Yonder she comes .
2246
2247
2248 O wall ! full often hast thou heard my moans ,
2249 For parting my fair Pyramus and me :
2250 My cherry lips have often kiss'd thy stones ,
2251 Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee .
2252
2253 I see a voice : now will I to the chink ,
2254 To spy an I can hear my Thisby's face .
2255 Thisby .
2256
2257 My love ! thou art my love , I think .
2258
2259 Think what thou wilt , I am thy lover's grace ;
2260 And , like Limander , am I trusty still .
2261
2262 And I like Helen , till the Fates me kill .
2263
2264 Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true .
2265
2266 As Shafalus to Procrus , I to you .
2267
2268 O ! kiss me through the hole of this vile wall .
2269
2270 I kiss the wall's hole , not your lips at all
2271
2272 Wilt thou at Ninny's tomb meet me straightway ?
2273
2274 'Tide life , 'tide death , I come without delay .
2275
2276
2277 Thus have I , Wall , my part discharged so ;
2278 And , being done , thus Wall away doth go .
2279
2280
2281 Now is the mural down between the two neighbours .
2282
2283 No remedy , my lord , when walls are so wilful to hear without warning .
2284
2285 This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard .
2286
2287 The best in this kind are but shadows , and the worst are no worse , if imagination amend them .
2288
2289 It must be your imagination then , and not theirs .
2290
2291 If we imagine no worse of them than they of themselves , they may pass for excellent men . Here come two noble beasts in , a man and a lion .
2292
2293
2294 You , ladies , you , whose gentle hearts do fear
2295 The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor ,
2296 May now perchance both quake and tremble here ,
2297 When lion rough in wildest rage doth roar .
2298 Then know that I , one Snug the joiner , am
2299 A lion-fell , nor else no lion's dam :
2300 For , if I should as lion come in strife
2301 Into this place , 'twere pity on my life .
2302
2303 A very gentle beast , and of a good conscience .
2304
2305 The very best at a beast , my lord , that e'er I saw .
2306
2307 This lion is a very fox for his valour .
2308
2309 True ; and a goose for his discretion .
2310
2311 Not so , my lord ; for his valour cannot carry his discretion , and the fox carries the goose .
2312
2313 His discretion , I am sure , cannot carry his valour , for the goose carries not the fox . It is well : leave it to his discretion , and let us listen to the moon .
2314
2315 This lanthorn doth the horned moon present ;
2316
2317 He should have worn the horns on his head .
2318
2319 He is no crescent , and his horns are invisible within the circumference .
2320
2321 This lanthorn doth the horned moon present ;
2322 Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be .
2323
2324 This is the greatest error of all the rest .
2325 The man should be put into the lanthorn : how is it else the man i' the moon ?
2326
2327 He dares not come there for the candle ; for , you see , it is already in snuff .
2328
2329 I am aweary of this moon : would he would change !
2330
2331 It appears , by his small light of discretion , that he is in the wane ; but yet , in courtesy , in all reason , we must stay the time .
2332
2333 Proceed , Moon .
2334
2335 All that I have to say , is , to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon ; I , the man in the moon ; this thorn-bush , my thorn-bush ; and this dog , my dog .
2336
2337 Why , all these should be in the lanthorn ; for all these are in the moon . But , silence ! here comes Thisbe .
2338
2339
2340 This is old Ninny's tomb . Where is my love ?
2341
2342 Oh .
2343
2344
2345 Well roared , Lion .
2346
2347 Well run , Thisbe .
2348
2349 Well shone , Moon . Truly , the moon shines with a good grace .
2350
2351
2352 Well moused , Lion .
2353
2354 And then came Pyramus .
2355
2356 And so the lion vanished .
2357
2358
2359 Sweet moon , I thank thee for thy sunny beams ;
2360 I thank thee , moon , for shining now so bright ,
2361 For , by thy gracious , golden , glittering streams ,
2362 I trust to taste of truest Thisby's sight .
2363
2364 But stay , O spite !
2365 But mark , poor knight ,
2366 What dreadful dole is here !
2367 Eyes , do you see ?
2368 How can it be ?
2369 O dainty duck ! O dear !
2370 Thy mantle good ,
2371 What ! stain'd with blood !
2372 Approach , ye Furies fell !
2373 O Fates , come , come ,
2374 Cut thread and thrum ;
2375 Quail , crush , conclude , and quell !
2376
2377
2378 This passion , and the death of a dear friend , would go near to make a man look sad .
2379
2380 Beshrew my heart , but I pity the man .
2381
2382 O ! wherefore , Nature , didst thou lions frame ?
2383 Since lion vile hath here deflower'd my dear ?
2384 Which is no , no which was the fairest dame
2385 That liv'd , that lov'd , that lik'd , that look'd with cheer .
2386
2387
2388 Come tears , confound ;
2389 Out , sword , and wound
2390 The pap of Pyramus :
2391 Ay , that left pap ,
2392 Where heart doth hop :
2393 Thus die I , thus , thus , thus .
2394
2395 Now am I dead ,
2396 Now am I fled ;
2397 My soul is in the sky :
2398 Tongue , lose thy light !
2399 Moon , take thy flight !
2400
2401 Now die , die , die , die , die .
2402
2403 No die , but an ace , for him ; for he is but one .
2404
2405 Less than an ace , man , for he is dead ; he is nothing .
2406
2407 With the help of a surgeon , he might yet recover , and prove an ass .
2408
2409 How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisbe comes back and finds her lover ?
2410
2411 She will find him by starlight . Here she comes ; and her passion ends the play .
2412
2413
2414 Methinks she should not use a long one for such a Pyramus : I hope she will be brief .
2415
2416 A mote will turn the balance , which Pyramus , which Thisbe , is the better : he for a man , God warrant us ; she for a woman , God bless us .
2417
2418 She hath spied him already with those sweet eyes .
2419
2420 And thus she moans , videlicet :
2421
2422
2423 Asleep , my love ?
2424 What , dead , my dove ?
2425 O Pyramus , arise !
2426 Speak , speak ! Quite dumb ?
2427 Dead , dead ! A tomb
2428 Must cover thy sweet eyes .
2429 These lily lips ,
2430 This cherry nose ,
2431 These yellow cowslip cheeks ,
2432 Are gone , are gone :
2433 Lovers , make moan !
2434 His eyes were green as leeks .
2435 O , Sisters Three ,
2436 Come , come to me ,
2437 With hands as pale as milk ;
2438 Lay them in gore ,
2439 Since you have shore
2440 With shears his thread of silk .
2441 Tongue , not a word :
2442 Come , trusty sword :
2443 Come , blade , my breast imbrue :
2444
2445 And farewell , friends ;
2446 Thus Thisby ends :
2447 Adieu , adieu , adieu .
2448
2449 Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead .
2450
2451 Ay , and Wall too .
2452
2453 No , I assure you ; the wall is down that parted their fathers . Will it please you to see the epilogue , or to hear a Bergomask dance between two of our company ?
2454
2455 No epilogue , I pray you ; for your play needs no excuse . Never excuse ; for when the players are all dead , there need none to be blamed . Marry , if he that writ it had played Pyramus , and hanged himself in Thisbe's garter , it would have been a fine tragedy : and so it is , truly , and very notably discharged . But come , your Bergomask : let your epilogue alone .
2456
2457 The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve ;
2458 Lovers , to bed ; 'tis almost fairy time .
2459 I fear we shall out-sleep the coming morn ,
2460 As much as we this night have overwatch'd .
2461 This palpable-gross play hath well beguil'd
2462 The heavy gait of night . Sweet friends , to bed .
2463 A fortnight hold we this solemnity ,
2464 In nightly revels , and new jollity .
2465
2466 Now the hungry lion roars ,
2467 And the wolf behowls the moon ;
2468 Whilst the heavy ploughman snores ,
2469 All with weary task fordone .
2470 Now the wasted brands do glow ,
2471 Whilst the screech-owl , screeching loud ,
2472 Puts the wretch that lies in woe
2473 In remembrance of a shroud .
2474 Now it is the time of night
2475 That the graves , all gaping wide ,
2476 Every one lets forth his sprite ,
2477 In the church-way paths to glide :
2478 And we fairies , that do run
2479 By the triple Hecate's team ,
2480 From the presence of the sun ,
2481 Following darkness like a dream ,
2482 Now are frolic ; not a mouse
2483 Shall disturb this hallow'd house :
2484 I am sent with broom before ,
2485 To sweep the dust behind the door .
2486
2487
2488 Through the house give glimmering light
2489 By the dead and drowsy fire ;
2490 Every elf and fairy sprite
2491 Hop as light as bird from brier ;
2492 And this ditty after me
2493 Sing and dance it trippingly .
2494
2495 First , rehearse your song by rote ,
2496 To each word a warbling note :
2497 Hand in hand , with fairy grace ,
2498 Will we sing , and bless this place .
2499
2500
2501 Now , until the break of day ,
2502 Through this house each fairy stray .
2503 To the best bride-bed will we ,
2504 Which by us shall blessed be ;
2505 And the issue there create
2506 Ever shall be fortunate .
2507 So shall all the couples three
2508 Ever true in loving be ;
2509 And the blots of Nature's hand
2510 Shall not in their issue stand :
2511 Never mole , hare-lip , nor scar ,
2512 Nor mark prodigious , such as are
2513 Despised in nativity ,
2514 Shall upon their children be .
2515 With this field-dew consecrate ,
2516 Every fairy take his gait ,
2517 And each several chamber bless ,
2518 Through this palace , with sweet peace ;
2519 Ever shall in safety rest ,
2520 And the owner of it blest .
2521 Trip away ;
2522 Make no stay ;
2523 Meet me all by break of day .
2524
2525
2526 If we shadows have offended ,
2527 Think but this , and all is mended ,
2528 That you have but slumber'd here
2529 While these visions did appear .
2530 And this weak and idle theme ,
2531 No more yielding but a dream ,
2532 Gentles , do not reprehend :
2533 If you pardon , we will mend .
2534 And , as I'm an honest Puck ,
2535 If we have unearned luck
2536 Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue ,
2537 We will make amends ere long ;
2538 Else the Puck a liar call :
2539 So , good night unto you all .
2540 Give me your hands , if we be friends ,
2541 And Robin shall restore amends .
2542
2543 ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL
2544
2545 In delivering my son from me , I bury a second husband .
2546
2547 And I , in going , madam , weep o'er my father's death anew ; but I must attend his majesty's command , to whom I am now in ward , evermore in subjection .
2548
2549 You shall find of the king a husband , madam ; you , sir , a father . He that so generally is at all times good , must of necessity hold his virtue to you , whose worthiness would stir it up where it wanted rather than lack it where there is such abundance .
2550
2551 What hope is there of his majesty's amendment ?
2552
2553 He hath abandoned his physicians , madam ; under whose practices he hath persecuted time with hope , and finds no other advantage in the process but only the losing of hope by time .
2554
2555 This young gentlewoman had a father ,O , that 'had !' how sad a passage 'tis !whose skill was almost as great as his honesty ; had it stretched so far , would have made nature immortal , and death should have play for lack of work . Would , for the king's sake , he were living ! I think it would be the death of the king's disease .
2556
2557 How called you the man you speak of , madam ?
2558
2559 He was famous , sir , in his profession , and it was his great right to be so : Gerard de Narbon .
2560
2561 He was excellent indeed , madam : the king very lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly . He was skilful enough to have lived still , if knowledge could be set up against mortality .
2562
2563 What is it , my good lord , the king languishes of ?
2564
2565 A fistula , my lord .
2566
2567 I heard not of it before .
2568
2569 I would it were not notorious . Was this gentlewoman the daughter of Gerard de Narbon ?
2570
2571 His sole child , my lord ; and bequeathed to my overlooking . I have those hopes of her good that her education promises : her dispositions she inherits , which makes fair gifts fairer ; for where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities , there commendations go with pity ; they are virtues and traitors too : in her they are the better for their simpleness ; she derives her honesty and achieves her goodness .
2572
2573 Your commendations , madam , get from her tears .
2574
2575 'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise in . The remembrance of her father never approaches her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all livelihood from her cheek . No more of this , Helena , go to , no more ; lest it be rather thought you affect a sorrow , than have it .
2576
2577 I do affect a sorrow indeed , but I have it too .
2578
2579 Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead , excessive grief the enemy to the living .
2580
2581 If the living be enemy to the grief , the excess makes it soon mortal .
2582
2583 Madam , I desire your holy wishes .
2584
2585 How understand we that ?
2586
2587 Be thou blest , Bertram ; and succeed thy father
2588 In manners , as in shape ! thy blood and virtue
2589 Contend for empire in thee ; and thy goodness
2590 Share with thy birthright ! Love all , trust a few ,
2591 Do wrong to none : be able for thine enemy
2592 Rather in power than use , and keep thy friend
2593 Under thy own life's key : be check'd for silence ,
2594 But never tax'd for speech . What heaven more will
2595 That thee may furnish , and my prayers pluck down ,
2596 Fall on thy head ! Farewell , my lord ;
2597 'Tis an unseason'd courtier ; good my lord ,
2598 Advise him .
2599
2600 He cannot want the best
2601 That shall attend his love .
2602
2603 Heaven bless him ! Farewell , Bertram .
2604
2605
2606 The best wishes that can be forged in your thoughts be servants to you ! Be comfortable to my mother , your mistress , and make much of her .
2607
2608 Farewell , pretty lady : you must hold the credit of your father .
2609
2610
2611 O ! were that all . I think not on my father ;
2612 And these great tears grace his remembrance more
2613 Than those I shed for him . What was he like ?
2614 I have forgot him : my imagination
2615 Carries no favour in't but Bertram's .
2616 I am undone : there is no living , none ,
2617 If Bertram be away . It were all one
2618 That I should love a bright particular star
2619 And think to wed it , he is so above me :
2620 In his bright radiance and collateral light
2621 Must I be comforted , not in his sphere .
2622 The ambition in my love thus plagues itself :
2623 The hind that would be mated by the lion
2624 Must die for love . 'Twas pretty , though a plague ,
2625 To see him every hour ; to sit and draw
2626 His arched brows , his hawking eye , his curls ,
2627 In our heart's table ; heart too capable
2628 Of every line and trick of his sweet favour :
2629 But now he's gone , and my idolatrous fancy
2630 Must sanctify his reliques . Who comes here ?
2631 One that goes with him : I love him for his sake ;
2632 And yet I know him a notorious liar ,
2633 Think him a great way fool , solely a coward ;
2634 Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him ,
2635 That they take place , when virtue's steely bones
2636 Look bleak in the cold wind : withal , full oft we see
2637 Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly .
2638
2639
2640 Save you , fair queen !
2641
2642 And you , monarch !
2643
2644 No .
2645
2646 And no .
2647
2648 Are you meditating on virginity ?
2649
2650 Ay . You have some stain of soldier in you ; let me ask you a question . Man is enemy to virginity ; how may we barricado it against him ?
2651
2652 Keep him out .
2653
2654 But he assails ; and our virginity , though valiant in the defence , yet is weak . Unfold to us some war-like resistance .
2655
2656 There is none : man , sitting down before you , will undermine you and blow you up .
2657
2658 Bless our poor virginity from underminers and blowers up ! Is there no military policy , how virgins might blow up men ?
2659
2660 Virginity being blown down , man will quicklier be blown up : marry in blowing him down again , with the breach yourselves made , you lose your city . It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity . Loss of virginity is rational increase , and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost . That you were made of is metal to make virgins . Virginity , by being once lost , may be ten times found : by being ever kept , it is ever lost .'Tis too cold a companion : away with't !
2661
2662 I will stand for't a little , though therefore I die a virgin .
2663
2664 There's little can be said in't ; 'tis against the rule of nature . To speak on the part of virginity is to accuse your mothers , which is most infallible disobedience . He that hangs himself is a virgin : virginity murders itself , and should be buried in highways , out of all sanctified limit , as a desperate offendress against nature . Virginity breeds mites , much like a cheese , consumes itself to the very paring , and so dies with feeding his own stomach . Besides , virginity is peevish , proud , idle , made of self-love , which is the most inhibited sin in the canon . Keep it not ; you cannot choose but lose by't ! Out with't ! within the year it will make itself two , which is a goodly increase , and the principal itself not much the worse . Away with't !
2665
2666 How might one do , sir , to lose it to her own liking ?
2667
2668 Let me see : marry , ill , to like him that ne'er it likes . 'Tis a commodity that will lose the gloss with lying ; the longer kept , the less worth : off with't , while 'tis vendible ; answer the time of request . Virginity , like an old courtier , wears her cap out of fashion ; richly suited , but unsuitable : just like the brooch and the toothpick , which wear not now . Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek : and your virginity , your old virginity , is like one of our French withered pears ; it looks ill , it eats drily ; marry , 'tis a withered pear ; it was formerly better ; marry , yet 'tis a withered pear . Will you anything with it ?
2669
2670 Not my virginity yet .
2671 There shall your master have a thousand loves ,
2672 A mother , and a mistress , and a friend ,
2673 A ph nix , captain , and an enemy ,
2674 A guide , a goddess , and a sovereign ,
2675 A counsellor , a traitress , and a dear ;
2676 His humble ambition , proud humility ,
2677 His jarring concord , and his discord dulcet ,
2678 His faith , his sweet disaster ; with a world
2679 Of pretty , fond , adoptious christendoms ,
2680 That blinking Cupid gossips . Now shall he
2681 I know not what he shall . God send him well !
2682 The court's a learning-place , and he is one
2683
2684 What one , i' faith ?
2685
2686 That I wish well . 'Tis pity
2687
2688 What's pity ?
2689
2690 That wishing well had not a body in't ,
2691 Which might be felt ; that we , the poorer born ,
2692 Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes ,
2693 Might with effects of them follow our friends ,
2694 And show what we alone must think , which never
2695 Returns us thanks .
2696
2697
2698 Monsieur Parolles , my lord calls for you .
2699
2700
2701 Little Helen , farewell : if I can remember thee , I will think of thee at court .
2702
2703 Monsieur Parolles , you were born under a charitable star .
2704
2705 Under Mars , I .
2706
2707 I especially think , under Mars .
2708
2709 Why under Mars ?
2710
2711 The wars have so kept you under that you must needs be born under Mars .
2712
2713 When he was predominant .
2714
2715 When he was retrograde , I think rather .
2716
2717 Why think you so ?
2718
2719 You go so much backward when you fight .
2720
2721 That's for advantage .
2722
2723 So is running away , when fear proposes the safety : but the composition that your valour and fear makes in you is a virtue of a good wing , and I like the wear well .
2724
2725 I am so full of businesses I cannot answer thee acutely . I will return perfect courtier ; in the which , my instruction shall serve to naturalize thee , so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's counsel , and understand what advice shall thrust upon thee ; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness , and thine ignorance makes thee away : farewell . When thou hast leisure , say thy prayers ; when thou hast none , remember thy friends . Get thee a good husband , and use him as he uses thee : so , farewell .
2726
2727
2728 Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
2729 Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky
2730 Gives us free scope ; only doth backward pull
2731 Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull .
2732 What power is it which mounts my love so high ;
2733 That makes me see , and cannot feed mine eye ?
2734 The mightiest space in fortune nature brings
2735 To join like likes , and kiss like native things .
2736 Impossible be strange attempts to those
2737 That weigh their pains in sense , and do suppose
2738 What hath been cannot be : who ever strove
2739 To show her merit , that did miss her love ?
2740 The king's disease ,my project may deceive me ,
2741 But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me .
2742
2743
2744 The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears ;
2745 Have fought with equal fortune , and continue
2746 A braving war .
2747
2748 So 'tis reported , sir .
2749
2750 Nay , 'tis most credible : we here receive it
2751 A certainty , vouch'd from our cousin Austria ,
2752 With caution that the Florentine will move us
2753 For speedy aid ; wherein our dearest friend
2754 Prejudicates the business , and would seem
2755 To have us make denial .
2756
2757 His love and wisdom ,
2758 Approv'd so to your majesty , may plead
2759 For amplest credence .
2760
2761 He hath arm'd our answer ,
2762 And Florence is denied before he comes :
2763 Yet , for our gentlemen that mean to see
2764 The Tuscan service , freely have they leave
2765 To stand on either part .
2766
2767 It well may serve
2768 A nursery to our gentry , who are sick
2769 For breathing and exploit .
2770
2771 What's he comes here ?
2772
2773
2774 It is the Count Rousillon , my good lord ,
2775 Young Betram .
2776
2777 Youth , thou bear'st thy father's face ;
2778 Frank nature , rather curious than in haste ,
2779 Hath well compos'd thee . Thy father's moral parts
2780 Mayst thou inherit too ! Welcome to Paris .
2781
2782 My thanks and duty are your majesty's .
2783
2784 I would I had that corporal soundness now ,
2785 As when thy father and myself in friendship
2786 First tried our soldiership ! He did look far
2787 Into the service of the time and was
2788 Discipled of the bravest : he lasted long ;
2789 But on us both did haggish age steal on ,
2790 And wore us out of act . It much repairs me
2791 To talk of your good father . In his youth
2792 He had the wit which I can well observe
2793 To-day in our young lords ; but they may jest
2794 Till their own scorn return to them unnoted
2795 Ere they can hide their levity in honour .
2796 So like a courtier , contempt nor bitterness
2797 Were in his pride or sharpness ; if they were ,
2798 His equal had awak'd them ; and his honour ,
2799 Clock to itself , knew the true minute when
2800 Exception bid him speak , and at this time
2801 His tongue obey'd his hand : who were below him
2802 He us'd as creatures of another place ,
2803 And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks ,
2804 Making them proud of his humility ,
2805 In their poor praise he humbled . Such a man
2806 Might be a copy to these younger times ,
2807 Which , follow'd well , would demonstrate them now
2808 But goers backward .
2809
2810 His good remembrance , sir ,
2811 Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb ;
2812 So in approof lives not his epitaph
2813 As in your royal speech .
2814
2815 Would I were with him ! He would always say ,
2816 Methinks I hear him now : his plausive words
2817 He scatter'd not in ears , but grafted them ,
2818 To grow there and to bear . 'Let me not live ,'
2819 Thus his good melancholy oft began ,
2820 On the catastrophe and heel of pastime ,
2821 When it was out ,'Let me not live ,' quoth he ,
2822 'After my flame lacks oil , to be the snuff
2823 Of younger spirits , whose apprehensive senses
2824 All but new things disdain ; whose judgments are
2825 Mere fathers of their garments ; whose constancies
2826 Expire before their fashions .' This he wish'd :
2827 I , after him , do after him wish too ,
2828 Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home ,
2829 I quickly were dissolved from my hive ,
2830 To give some labourers room .
2831
2832 You are lov'd , sir ;
2833 They that least lend it you shall lack you first .
2834
2835 I fill a place , I know't . How long is't , count ,
2836 Since the physician at your father's died ?
2837 He was much fam'd .
2838
2839 Some six months since , my lord .
2840
2841 If he were living , I would try him yet :
2842 Lend me an arm : the rest have worn me out
2843 With several applications : nature and sickness
2844 Debate it at their leisure . Welcome , count ;
2845 My son's no dearer .
2846
2847 Thank your majesty .
2848
2849
2850 I will now hear : what say you of this gentlewoman ?
2851
2852 Madam , the care I have had to even your content , I wish might be found in the calendar of my past endeavours ; for then we wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings , when of ourselves we publish them .
2853
2854 What does this knave here ? Get you gone , sirrah : the complaints I have heard of you I do not all believe : 'tis my slowness that I do not ; for I know you lack not folly to commit them , and have ability enough to make such knaveries yours .
2855
2856 'Tis not unknown to you , madam , I am a poor fellow .
2857
2858 Well , sir .
2859
2860 No , madam , 'tis not so well that I am poor , though many of the rich are damned . But , if I may have your ladyship's good will to go to the world , Isbel the woman and I will do as we may .
2861
2862 Wilt thou needs be a beggar ?
2863
2864 I do beg your good will in this case .
2865
2866 In what case ?
2867
2868 In Isbel's case and mine own . Service is no heritage ; and I think I shall never have the blessing of God till I have issue o' my body , for they say barnes are blessings .
2869
2870 Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry .
2871
2872 My poor body , madam , requires it : I am driven on by the flesh ; and he must needs go that the devil drives .
2873
2874 Is this all your worship's reason ?
2875
2876 Faith , madam , I have other holy reasons , such as they are .
2877
2878 May the world know them ?
2879
2880 I have been , madam , a wicked creature , as you and all flesh and blood are ; and , indeed , I do marry that I may repent .
2881
2882 Thy marriage , sooner than thy wickedness .
2883
2884 I am out o' friends , madam ; and I hope to have friends for my wife's sake .
2885
2886 Such friends are thine enemies , knave .
2887
2888 You're shallow , madam , in great friends ; for the knaves come to do that for me which I am aweary of . He that ears my land spares my team , and gives me leave to in the crop : if I be his cuckold , he's my drudge . He that comforts my wife is the cherisher of my flesh and blood ; he that cherishes my flesh and blood loves my flesh and blood ; he that loves my flesh and blood is my friend : ergo , he that kisses my wife is my friend . If men could be contented to be what they are , there were no fear in marriage ; for young Charbon the puritan , and old Poysam the papist , howsome'er their hearts are severed in religion , their heads are both one ; they may joul horns together like any deer i' the herd .
2889
2890 Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed and calumnious knave ?
2891
2892 A prophet I , madam ; and I speak the truth the next way :
2893
2894 For I the ballad will repeat ,
2895 Which men full true shall find ;
2896 Your marriage comes by destiny ,
2897 Your cuckoo sings by kind .
2898
2899
2900 Get you gone , sir : I'll talk with you more anon .
2901
2902 May it please you , madam , that he bid Helen come to you : of her I am to speak .
2903
2904 Sirrah , tell my gentlewoman I would speak with her ; Helen I mean .
2905
2906
2907 Was this fair face the cause , quoth she ,
2908 Why the Grecians sacked Troy ?
2909 Fond done , done fond ,
2910 Was this King Priam's joy ?
2911 With that she sighed as she stood ,
2912 With that she sighed as she stood ,
2913 And gave this sentence then ;
2914 Among nine bad if one be good ,
2915 Among nine bad if one be good ,
2916 There's yet one good in ten .
2917
2918
2919 What ! one good in ten ? you corrupt the song , sirrah .
2920
2921 One good woman in ten , madam ; which is a purifying o' the song . Would God would serve the world so all the year ! we'd find no fault with the tithe-woman if I were the parson . One in ten , quoth a' ! An we might have a good woman born but for every blazing star , or at an earthquake ,'twould mend the lottery well : a man may draw his heart out ere a' pluck one .
2922
2923 You'll be gone , sir knave , and do as I command you !
2924
2925 That man should be at woman's command , and yet no hurt done ! Though honesty be no puritan , yet it will do no hurt ; it will wear the surplice of humility over the black gown of a big heart . I am going , forsooth : the business is for Helen to come hither .
2926
2927
2928 Well , now .
2929
2930 I know , madam , you love your gentlewoman entirely .
2931
2932 Faith , I do : her father bequeathed her to me ; and she herself , without other advantage , may lawfully make title to as much love as she finds : there is more owing her than is paid , and more shall be paid her than she'll demand .
2933
2934 Madam , I was very late more near her than I think she wished me : alone she was , and did communicate to herself her own words to her own ears ; she thought , I dare vow for her , they touched not any stranger sense . Her matter was , she loved your son : Fortune , she said , was no goddess , that had put such difference betwixt their two estates ; Love no god , that would not extend his might , only where qualities were level ; Dian no queen of virgins , that would suffer her poor knight surprised , without rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward . This she delivered in the most bitter touch of sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in ; which I held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal , sithence in the loss that may happen , it concerns you something to know it .
2935
2936 You have discharged this honestly : keep it to yourself . Many likelihoods informed me of this before , which hung so tottering in the balance that I could neither believe nor misdoubt . Pray you , leave me : stall this in your bosom ; and I thank you for your honest care . I will speak with you further anon .
2937
2938 Even so it was with me when I was young :
2939 If ever we are nature's , these are ours ; this thorn
2940 Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong ;
2941 Our blood to us , this to our blood is born :
2942 It is the show and seal of nature's truth ,
2943 Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth :
2944 By our remembrances of days foregone ,
2945 Such were our faults ; or then we thought them none .
2946
2947 Her eye is sick on't : I observe her now .
2948
2949 What is your pleasure , madam ?
2950
2951 You know , Helen ,
2952 I am a mother to you .
2953
2954 Mine honourable mistress .
2955
2956 Nay , a mother :
2957 Why not a mother ? When I said , 'a mother ,'
2958 Methought you saw a serpent : what's in 'mother'
2959 That you start at it ? I say , I am your mother ;
2960 And put you in the catalogue of those
2961 That were enwombed mine : 'tis often seen
2962 Adoption strives with nature , and choice breeds
2963 A native slip to us from foreign seeds ;
2964 You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan ,
2965 Yet I express to you a mother's care .
2966 God's mercy , maiden ! does it curd thy blood
2967 To say I am thy mother ? What's the matter ,
2968 That this distemper'd messenger of wet ,
2969 The many-colour'd Iris , rounds thine eye ?
2970 Why ? that you are my daughter ?
2971
2972 That I am not .
2973
2974 I say , I am your mother .
2975
2976 Pardon , madam ;
2977 The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother :
2978 I am from humble , he from honour'd name ;
2979 No note upon my parents , his all noble :
2980 My master , my dear lord he is ; and I
2981 His servant live , and will his vassal die .
2982 He must not be my brother .
2983
2984 Nor I your mother ?
2985
2986 You are my mother , madam : would you were ,
2987 So that my lord your son were not my brother ,
2988 Indeed my mother ! or were you both our mothers ,
2989 I care no more for than I do for heaven ,
2990 So I were not his sister . Can't no other ,
2991 But , I your daughter , he must be my brother ?
2992
2993 Yes , Helen , you might be my daughter-in-law :
2994 God shield you mean it not ! daughter and mother
2995 So strive upon your pulse . What , pale again ?
2996 My fear hath catch'd your fondness : now I see
2997 The mystery of your loneliness , and find
2998 Your salt tears' head : now to all sense 'tis gross
2999 You love my son : invention is asham'd ,
3000 Against the proclamation of thy passion ,
3001 To say thou dost not : therefore tell me true ;
3002 But tell me then , 'tis so ; for , look , thy cheeks
3003 Confess it , th' one to th' other ; and thine eyes
3004 See it so grossly shown in thy behaviours
3005 That in their kind they speak it : only sin
3006 And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue ,
3007 That truth should be suspected . Speak , is't so ?
3008 If it be so , you have wound a goodly clew ;
3009 If it be not , forswear't : howe'er , I charge thee ,
3010 As heaven shall work in me for thine avail ,
3011 To tell me truly .
3012
3013 Good madam , pardon me !
3014
3015 Do you love my son ?
3016
3017 Your pardon , noble mistress !
3018
3019 Love you my son ?
3020
3021 Do not you love him , madam ?
3022
3023 Go not about ; my love hath in't a bond
3024 Whereof the world takes note : come , come , disclose
3025 The state of your affection , for your passions
3026 Have to the full appeach'd .
3027
3028 Then , I confess ,
3029 Here on my knee , before high heaven and you
3030 That before you , and next unto high heaven ,
3031 I love your son .
3032 My friends were poor , but honest ; so's my love :
3033 Be not offended , for it hurts not him
3034 That he is lov'd of me : I follow him not
3035 By any token of presumptuous suit ;
3036 Nor would I have him till I do deserve him ;
3037 Yet never know how that desert should be .
3038 I know I love in vain , strive against hope ;
3039 Yet , in this captious and intenible sieve
3040 I still pour in the waters of my love ,
3041 And lack not to lose still . Thus , Indian-like ,
3042 Religious in mine error , I adore
3043 The sun , that looks upon his worshipper ,
3044 But knows of him no more . My dearest madam ,
3045 Let not your hate encounter with my love
3046 For loving where you do : but , if yourself ,
3047 Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth ,
3048 Did ever in so true a flame of liking
3049 Wish chastely and love dearly , that your Dian
3050 Was both herself and Love ; O ! then , give pity
3051 To her , whose state is such that cannot choose
3052 But lend and give where she is sure to lose ;
3053 That seeks not to find that her search implies ,
3054 But , riddle-like , lives sweetly where she dies .
3055
3056 Had you not lately an intent , speak truly ,
3057 To go to Paris ?
3058
3059 Madam , I had .
3060
3061 Wherefore ? tell true .
3062
3063 I will tell truth ; by grace itself I swear .
3064 You know my father left me some prescriptions
3065 Of rare and prov'd effects , such as his reading
3066 And manifest experience had collected
3067 For general sovereignty ; and that he will'd me
3068 In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them ,
3069 As notes whose faculties inclusive were
3070 More than they were in note . Amongst the rest ,
3071 There is a remedy , approv'd , set down
3072 To cure the desperate languishings whereof
3073 The king is render'd lost .
3074
3075 This was your motive
3076 For Paris , was it ? speak .
3077
3078 My lord your son made me to think of this ;
3079 Else Paris , and the medicine , and the king ,
3080 Had from the conversation of my thoughts
3081 Haply been absent then .
3082
3083 But think you , Helen ,
3084 If you should tender your supposed aid ,
3085 He would receive it ? He and his physicians
3086 Are of a mind ; he , that they cannot help him ,
3087 They , that they cannot help . How shall they credit
3088 A poor unlearned virgin , when the schools ,
3089 Embowell'd of their doctrine , have left off
3090 The danger to itself ?
3091
3092 There's something in't ,
3093 More than my father's skill , which was the great'st
3094 Of his profession , that his good receipt
3095 Shall for my legacy be sanctified
3096 By the luckiest stars in heaven : and , would your honour
3097 But give me leave to try success , I'd venture
3098 The well-lost life of mine on his Grace's cure ,
3099 By such a day , and hour .
3100
3101 Dost thou believe't ?
3102
3103 Ay , madam , knowingly .
3104
3105 Why , Helen , thou shalt have my leave and love ,
3106 Means , and attendants , and my loving greetings
3107 To those of mine in court . I'll stay at home
3108 And pray God's blessing into thy attempt .
3109 Be gone to-morrow ; and be sure of this ,
3110 What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss .
3111
3112
3113 Farewell , young lords : these war-like principles
3114 Do not throw from you : and you , my lords , farewell :
3115 Share the advice betwixt you ; if both gain , all
3116 The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd ,
3117 And is enough for both .
3118
3119 'Tis our hope , sir ,
3120 After well enter'd soldiers , to return
3121 And find your Grace in health .
3122
3123 No , no , it cannot be ; and yet my heart
3124 Will not confess he owes the malady
3125 That doth my life besiege . Farewell , young lords ;
3126 Whether I live or die , be you the sons
3127 Of worthy Frenchmen : let higher Italy
3128 Those bated that inherit but the fall
3129 Of the last monarchy see that you come
3130 Not to woo honour , but to wed it ; when
3131 The bravest questant shrinks , find what you seek
3132 That fame may cry you loud : I say , farewell .
3133
3134 Health , at your bidding , serve your majesty !
3135
3136 Those girls of Italy , take heed of them :
3137 They say , our French lack language to deny
3138 If they demand : beware of being captives ,
3139 Before you serve .
3140
3141 Our hearts receive your warnings .
3142
3143 Farewell . Come hither to me .
3144
3145
3146 O my sweet lord , that you will stay behind us !
3147
3148 'Tis not his fault , the spark .
3149
3150 O ! 'tis brave wars .
3151
3152 Most admirable : I have seen those wars .
3153
3154 I am commanded here , and kept a coil with
3155 'Too young ,' and 'the next year ,' and ''tis too early .'
3156
3157 An thy mind stand to't , boy , steal away bravely .
3158
3159 I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock ,
3160 Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry ,
3161 Till honour be bought up and no sword worn
3162 But one to dance with ! By heaven ! I'll steal away .
3163
3164 There's honour in the theft .
3165
3166 Commit it , count .
3167
3168 I am your accessary ; and so farewell .
3169
3170 I grow to you , and our parting is a tortured body .
3171
3172 Farewell , captain .
3173
3174 Sweet Monsieur Parolles !
3175
3176 Noble heroes , my sword and yours are kin . Good sparks and lustrous , a word , good metals : you shall find in the regiment of the Spinii , one Captain Spurio , with his cicatrice , an emblem of war , here on his sinister cheek : it was this very sword entrenched it : say to him , I live , and observe his reports for me
3177
3178 We shall , noble captain .
3179
3180
3181 Mars dote on you for his novices ! What will ye do ?
3182
3183 Stay ; the king .
3184
3185
3186 Use a more spacious ceremony to the noble lords ; you have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu : be more expressive to them ; for they wear themselves in the cap of the time , there do muster true gait , eat , speak , and move under the influence of the most received star ; and though the devil lead the measure , such are to be followed . After them , and take a more dilated farewell .
3187
3188 And I will do so .
3189
3190 Worthy fellows ; and like to prove most sinewy swordmen .
3191
3192 Pardon , my lord , for me and for my tidings .
3193
3194 I'll fee thee to stand up .
3195
3196 Then here's a man stands that has brought his pardon .
3197 I would you had kneel'd , my lord , to ask me mercy ,
3198 And that at my bidding you could so stand up .
3199
3200 I would I had ; so I had broke thy pate ,
3201 And ask'd thee mercy for't .
3202
3203 Good faith , across : but , my good lord , 'tis thus ;
3204 Will you be cur'd of your infirmity ?
3205
3206 No .
3207
3208 O ! will you eat no grapes , my royal fox ?
3209 Yes , but you will my noble grapes an if
3210 My royal fox could reach them . I have seen a medicine
3211 That's able to breathe life into a stone ,
3212 Quicken a rock , and make you dance canary
3213 With spritely fire and motion ; whose simple touch
3214 Is powerful to araise King Pepin , nay ,
3215 To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand
3216 And write to her a love-line .
3217
3218 What 'her' is this ?
3219
3220 Why , Doctor She . My lord , there's one arriv'd
3221 If you will see her : now , by my faith and honour ,
3222 If seriously I may convey my thoughts
3223 In this my light deliverance , I have spoke
3224 With one , that in her sex , her years , profession ,
3225 Wisdom , and constancy , hath amaz'd me more
3226 Than I dare blame my weakness . Will you see her ,
3227 For that is her demand , and know her business ?
3228 That done , laugh well at me .
3229
3230 Now , good Lafeu ,
3231 Bring in the admiration , that we with thee
3232 May spend our wonder too , or take off thine
3233 By wond'ring how thou took'st it .
3234
3235 Nay , I'll fit you ,
3236 And not be all day neither .
3237
3238
3239 Thus he his special nothing ever prologues .
3240
3241
3242 Nay , come your ways .
3243
3244 This haste hath wings indeed .
3245
3246 Nay , come your ways ;
3247 This is his majesty , say your mind to him :
3248 A traitor you do look like ; but such traitors
3249 His majesty seldom fears : I am Cressid's uncle ,
3250 That dare leave two together . Fare you well .
3251
3252
3253 Now , fair one , does your business follow us ?
3254
3255 Ay , my good lord .
3256 Gerard de Narbon was my father ;
3257 In what he did profess well found .
3258
3259 I knew him .
3260
3261 The rather will I spare my praises towards him ;
3262 Knowing him is enough . On's bed of death
3263 Many receipts he gave me ; chiefly one ,
3264 Which , as the dearest issue of his practice ,
3265 And of his old experience the only darling ,
3266 He bade me store up as a triple eye ,
3267 Safer than mine own two , more dear . I have so ;
3268 And , hearing your high majesty is touch'd
3269 With that malignant cause wherein the honour
3270 Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power ,
3271 I come to tender it and my appliance ,
3272 With all bound humbleness .
3273
3274 We thank you , maiden ;
3275 But may not be so credulous of cure ,
3276 When our most learned doctors leave us , and
3277 The congregated college have concluded
3278 That labouring art can never ransom nature
3279 From her inaidable estate ; I say we must not
3280 So stain our judgment , or corrupt our hope ,
3281 To prostitute our past-cure malady
3282 To empirics , or to dissever so
3283 Our great self and our credit , to esteem
3284 A senseless help when help past sense we deem .
3285
3286 My duty then , shall pay me for my pains :
3287 I will no more enforce mine office on you ;
3288 Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts
3289 A modest one , to bear me back again .
3290
3291 I cannot give thee less , to be call'd grateful .
3292 Thou thought'st to help me , and such thanks I give
3293 As one near death to those that wish him live ;
3294 But what at full I know , thou know'st no part ,
3295 I knowing all my peril , thou no art .
3296
3297 What I can do can do no hurt to try ,
3298 Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy .
3299 He that of greatest works is finisher
3300 Oft does them by the weakest minister :
3301 So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown ,
3302 When judges have been babes ; great floods have flown
3303 From simple sources ; and great seas have dried
3304 When miracles have by the greatest been denied .
3305 Oft expectation fails , and most oft there
3306 Where most it promises ; and oft it hits
3307 Where hope is coldest and despair most fits .
3308
3309 I must not hear thee : fare thee well , kind maid .
3310 Thy pains , not us'd , must by thyself be paid :
3311 Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward .
3312
3313 Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd .
3314 It is not so with Him that all things knows ,
3315 As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows ;
3316 But most it is presumption in us when
3317 The help of heaven we count the act of men .
3318 Dear sir , to my endeavours give consent ;
3319 Of heaven , not me , make an experiment .
3320 I am not an impostor that proclaim
3321 Myself against the level of mine aim ;
3322 But know I think , and think I know most sure ,
3323 My art is not past power nor you past cure .
3324
3325 Art thou so confident ? Within what space
3326 Hop'st thou my cure ?
3327
3328 The great'st grace lending grace ,
3329 Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring
3330 Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring ,
3331 Ere twice in murk and occidental damp
3332 Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp ,
3333 Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass
3334 Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass ,
3335 What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly ,
3336 Health shall live free , and sickness freely die .
3337
3338 Upon thy certainty and confidence
3339 What dar'st thou venture ?
3340
3341 Tax of impudence ,
3342 A strumpet's boldness , a divulged shame ,
3343 Traduc'd by odious ballads : my maiden's name
3344 Sear'd otherwise ; nay worse if worse extended
3345 With vilest torture let my life be ended .
3346
3347 Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak ,
3348 His powerful sound within an organ weak ;
3349 And what impossibility would slay
3350 In common sense , sense saves another way .
3351 Thy life is dear ; for all that life can rate
3352 Worth name of life in thee hath estimate ;
3353 Youth , beauty , wisdom , courage , virtue , all
3354 That happiness and prime can happy call :
3355 Thou this to hazard needs must intimate
3356 Skill infinite or monstrous desperate .
3357 Sweet practiser , thy physic I will try ,
3358 That ministers thine own death if I die .
3359
3360 If I break time , or flinch in property
3361 Of what I spoke , unpitied let me die ,
3362 And well deserv'd . Not helping , death's my fee ;
3363 But , if I help , what do you promise me ?
3364
3365 Make thy demand .
3366
3367 But will you make it even ?
3368
3369 Ay , by my sceptre , and my hopes of heaven .
3370
3371 Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand
3372 What husband in thy power I will command :
3373 Exempted be from me the arrogance
3374 To choose from forth the royal blood of France ,
3375 My low and humble name to propagate
3376 With any branch or image of thy state ;
3377 But such a one , thy vassal , whom I know
3378 Is free for me to ask , thee to bestow .
3379
3380 Here is my hand ; the premises observ'd ,
3381 Thy will by my performance shall be serv'd :
3382 So make the choice of thy own time , for I ,
3383 Thy resolv'd patient , on thee still rely .
3384 More should I question thee , and more I must ,
3385 Though more to know could not be more to trust ,
3386 From whence thou cam'st , how tended on ; but rest
3387 Unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest .
3388 Give me some help here , ho ! If thou proceed
3389 As high as word , my deed shall match thy deed .
3390
3391
3392 Come on , sir ; I shall now put you to the height of your breeding .
3393
3394 I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught . I know my business is but to the court .
3395
3396 To the court ! why what place make you special , when you put off that with such contempt ? 'But to the court !'
3397
3398 Truly , madam , if God have lent a man any manners , he may easily put it off at court : he that cannot make a leg , put off's cap , kiss his hand , and say nothing , has neither leg , hands , lip , nor cap ; and indeed such a fellow , to say precisely , were not for the court . But , for me , I have an answer will serve all men .
3399
3400 Marry , that's a bountiful answer that fits all questions .
3401
3402 It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks ; the pin-buttock , the quatch-buttock , the brawn-buttock , or any buttock .
3403
3404 Will your answer serve fit to all questions ?
3405
3406 As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney , as your French crown for your taffeta punk , as Tib's rush for Tom's forefinger , as a pancake for Shrove-Tuesday , a morris for Mayday , as the nail to his hole , the cuckold to his horn , as a scolding quean to a wrangling knave , as the nun's lip to the friar's mouth ; nay , as the pudding to his skin .
3407
3408 Have you , I say , an answer of such fitness for all questions ?
3409
3410 From below your duke to beneath your constable , it will fit any question .
3411
3412 It must be an answer of most monstrous size that must fit all demands .
3413
3414 But a trifle neither , in good faith , if the learned should speak truth of it . Here it is , and all that belongs to't : ask me if I am a courtier ; it shall do you no harm to learn .
3415
3416 To be young again , if we could . I will be a fool in question , hoping to be the wiser by your answer . I pray you , sir , are you a courtier ?
3417
3418 O Lord , sir ! there's a simple putting off . More , more , a hundred of them .
3419
3420 Sir , I am a poor friend of yours , that loves you .
3421
3422 O Lord , sir ! Thick , thick , spare not me .
3423
3424 I think , sir , you can eat none of this homely meat .
3425
3426 O Lord , sir ! Nay , put me to't , I warrant you .
3427
3428 You were lately whipped , sir , as I think .
3429
3430 O Lord , sir ! Spare not me .
3431
3432 Do you cry , 'O Lord , sir !' at your whipping , and 'Spare not me ?' Indeed your 'O Lord , sir !' is very sequent to your whipping : you would answer very well to a whipping , if you were but bound to't .
3433
3434 I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my 'O Lord , sir !' I see things may serve long , but not serve ever .
3435
3436 I play the noble housewife with the time ,
3437 To entertain't so merrily with a fool .
3438
3439 O Lord , sir ! why , there't serves well again .
3440
3441 An end , sir : to your business . Give Helen this ,
3442 And urge her to a present answer back :
3443 Commend me to my kinsmen and my son .
3444 This is not much .
3445
3446 Not much commendation to them .
3447
3448 Not much employment for you : you understand me ?
3449
3450 Most fruitfully : I am there before my legs .
3451
3452 Haste you again .
3453
3454
3455 They say miracles are past ; and we have our philosophical persons , to make modern and familiar , things supernatural and causeless . Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors , ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge , when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear .
3456
3457 Why , 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath shot out in our latter times .
3458
3459 And so 'tis .
3460
3461 To be relinquished of the artists ,
3462
3463 So I say .
3464
3465 Both of Galen and Paracelsus .
3466
3467 So I say .
3468
3469 Of all the learned and authentic fellows ,
3470
3471 Right ; so I say .
3472
3473 That gave him out incurable ,
3474
3475 Why , there 'tis ; so say I too .
3476
3477 Not to be helped ,
3478
3479 Right ; as 'twere , a man assured of a
3480
3481 Uncertain life , and sure death .
3482
3483 Just , you say well : so would I have said .
3484
3485 I may truly say it is a novelty to the world .
3486
3487 It is , indeed : if you will have it in showing , you shall read it in what do you call there
3488
3489 A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor .
3490
3491 That's it I would have said ; the very same .
3492
3493 Why , your dolphin is not lustier : 'fore me , I speak in respect
3494
3495 Nay , 'tis strange , 'tis very strange , that is the brief and the tedious of it ; and he is of a most facinorous spirit , that will not acknowledge it to be the
3496
3497 Very hand of heaven
3498
3499 Ay , so I say .
3500
3501 In a most weak and debile minister , great power , great transcendence : which should , indeed , give us a further use to be made than alone the recovery of the king , as to be generally thankful .
3502
3503 I would have said it ; you say well . Here comes the king .
3504
3505
3506 Lustig , as the Dutchman says : I'll like a maid the better , whilst I have a tooth in my head . Why , he's able to lead her a coranto .
3507
3508 Mort du vinaigre ! Is not this Helen ?
3509
3510 'Fore God , I think so .
3511
3512 Go , call before me all the lords in court .
3513
3514 Sit , my preserver , by thy patient's side :
3515 And with this healthful hand , whose banish'd sense
3516 Thou hast repeal'd , a second time receive
3517 The confirmation of my promised gift ,
3518 Which but attends thy naming .
3519
3520
3521 Fair maid , send forth thine eye : this youthful parcel
3522 Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing ,
3523 O'er whom both sov'reign power and father's voice
3524 I have to use : thy frank election make ;
3525
3526 Thou hast power to choose , and they none to forsake .
3527
3528 To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress
3529 Fall , when Love please ! marry , to each , but one .
3530
3531 I'd give bay Curtal , and his furniture ,
3532 My mouth no more were broken than these boys'
3533 And writ as little beard .
3534
3535 Peruse them well :
3536 Not one of those but had a noble father .
3537
3538 Gentlemen ,
3539 Heaven hath through me restor'd the king to health .
3540
3541 We understand it , and thank heaven for you .
3542
3543 I am a simple maid ; and therein wealthiest
3544 That I protest I simply am a maid .
3545 Please it your majesty , I have done already :
3546 The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me ,
3547 'We blush , that thou shouldst choose ; but , be refus'd ,
3548 Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever ;
3549 We'll ne'er come there again .'
3550
3551 Make choice ; and see ,
3552 Who shuns thy love , shuns all his love in me .
3553
3554 Now , Dian , from thy altar do I fly ,
3555 And to imperial Love , that god most high ,
3556 Do my sighs stream . Sir , will you hear my suit ?
3557
3558 And grant it .
3559
3560 Thanks , sir ; all the rest is mute .
3561
3562 I had rather be in this choice than throw ames-ace for my life .
3563
3564 The honour , sir , that flames in your fair eyes ,
3565 Before I speak , too threateningly replies :
3566 Love make your fortunes twenty times above
3567 Her that so wishes , and her humble love !
3568
3569 No better , if you please .
3570
3571 My wish receive ,
3572 Which great Love grant ! and so I take my leave .
3573
3574 Do all they deny her ? An they were sons of mine , I'd have them whipp'd or I would send them to the Turk to make eunuchs of .
3575
3576 Be not afraid that I your hand should take ;
3577 I'll never do you wrong for your own sake :
3578 Blessing upon your vows ! and in your bed
3579 Find fairer fortune , if you ever wed !
3580
3581 These boys are boys of ice , they'll none have her : sure , they are bastards to the English ; the French ne'er got 'em .
3582
3583 You are too young , too happy , and too good ,
3584 To make yourself a son out of my blood .
3585
3586 Fair one , I think not so .
3587
3588 There's one grape yet . I am sure thy father drunk wine . But if thou be'st not an ass , I am a youth of fourteen : I have known thee already .
3589
3590 I dare not say I take you ; but I give
3591 Me and my service , ever whilst I live ,
3592 Into your guiding power . This is the man .
3593
3594 Why then , young Bertram , take her ; she's thy wife .
3595
3596 My wife , my liege ! I shall beseech your highness
3597 In such a business give me leave to use
3598 The help of mine own eyes .
3599
3600 Know'st thou not , Bertram ,
3601 What she has done for me ?
3602
3603 Yes , my good lord ;
3604 But never hope to know why I should marry her .
3605
3606 Thou know'st she has rais'd me from my sickly bed .
3607
3608 But follows it , my lord , to bring me down
3609 Must answer for your raising ? I know her well :
3610 She had her breeding at my father's charge .
3611 A poor physician's daughter my wife ! Disdain
3612 Rather corrupt me ever !
3613
3614 'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her , the which
3615 I can build up . Strange is it that our bloods ,
3616 Of colour , weight , and heat , pour'd all together ,
3617 Would quite confound distinction , yet stand off
3618 In differences so mighty . If she be
3619 All that is virtuous , save what thou dislik'st ,
3620 A poor physician's daughter , thou dislik'st
3621 Of virtue for the name ; but do not so :
3622 From lowest place when virtuous things proceed ,
3623 The place is dignified by the doer's deed :
3624 Where great additions swell's , and virtue none ,
3625 It is a dropsied honour . Good alone
3626 Is good without a name : vileness is so :
3627 The property by what it is should go ,
3628 Not by the title . She is young , wise , fair ;
3629 In these to nature she's immediate heir ,
3630 And these breed honour : that is honour's scorn
3631 Which challenges itself as honour's born ,
3632 And is not like the sire : honours thrive
3633 When rather from our acts we them derive
3634 Than our foregoers . The mere word's a slave ,
3635 Debosh'd on every tomb , on every grave
3636 A lying trophy , and as oft is dumb
3637 Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb
3638 Of honour'd bones indeed . What should be said ?
3639 If thou canst like this creature as a maid ,
3640 I can create the rest : virtue and she
3641 Is her own dower ; honour and wealth from me .
3642
3643 I cannot love her , nor will strive to do't .
3644
3645 Thou wrong'st thyself if thou shouldst strive to choose .
3646
3647 That you are well restor'd , my lord , I'm glad :
3648 Let the rest go .
3649
3650 My honour's at the stake , which to defeat
3651 I must produce my power . Here , take her hand ,
3652 Proud scornful boy , unworthy this good gift ,
3653 That dost in vile misprision shackle up
3654 My love and her desert ; thou canst not dream
3655 We , poising us in her defective scale ,
3656 Shall weigh thee to the beam ; that wilt not know ,
3657 It is in us to plant thine honour where
3658 We please to have it grow . Check thy contempt :
3659 Obey our will , which travails in thy good :
3660 Believe not thy disdain , but presently
3661 Do thine own fortunes that obedient right
3662 Which both thy duty owes and our power claims ;
3663 Or I will throw thee from my care for ever
3664 Into the staggers and the careless lapse
3665 Of youth and ignorance ; both my revenge and hate
3666 Loosing upon thee , in the name of justice ,
3667 Without all terms of pity . Speak ; thine answer .
3668
3669 Pardon , my gracious lord ; for I submit
3670 My fancy to your eyes . When I consider
3671 What great creation and what dole of honour
3672 Flies where you bid it , I find that she , which late
3673 Was in my nobler thoughts most base , is now
3674 The praised of the king ; who , so ennobled ,
3675 Is , as 'twere , born so .
3676
3677 Take her by the hand ,
3678 And tell her she is thine : to whom I promise
3679 A counterpoise , if not to thy estate
3680 A balance more replete .
3681
3682 I take her hand .
3683
3684 Good fortune and the favour of the king
3685 Smile upon this contract ; whose ceremony
3686 Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief ,
3687 And be perform'd to-night : the solemn feast
3688 Shall more attend upon the coming space ,
3689 Expecting absent friends . As thou lov'st her ,
3690 Thy love's to me religious ; else , does err .
3691
3692
3693 Do you hear , monsieur ? a word with you .
3694
3695 Your pleasure , sir ?
3696
3697 Your lord and master did well to make his recantation .
3698
3699 Recantation ! My lord ! my master !
3700
3701 Ay ; is it not a language I speak ?
3702
3703 A most harsh one , and not to be understood without bloody succeeding . My master !
3704
3705 Are you companion to the Count Rousillon ?
3706
3707 To any count ; to all counts ; to what is man .
3708
3709 To what is count's man : count's master is of another style .
3710
3711 You are too old , sir ; let it satisfy you , you are too old .
3712
3713 I must tell thee , sirrah , I write man ; to which title age cannot bring thee .
3714
3715 What I dare too well do , I dare not do .
3716
3717 I did think thee , for two ordinaries , to be a pretty wise fellow : thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel ; it might pass : yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burden . I have now found thee ; when I lose thee again , I care not ; yet art thou good for nothing but taking up , and that thou'rt scarce worth .
3718
3719 Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee ,
3720
3721 Do not plunge thyself too far in anger , lest thou hasten thy trial ; which if Lord have mercy on thee for a hen ! So , my good window of lattice , fare thee well : thy casement I need not open , for I look through thee . Give me thy hand .
3722
3723 My lord , you give me most egregious indignity .
3724
3725 Ay , with all my heart ; and thou art worthy of it .
3726
3727 I have not , my lord , deserved it .
3728
3729 Yes , good faith , every dram of it ; and I will not bate thee a scruple .
3730
3731 Well , I shall be wiser .
3732
3733 E'en as soon as thou canst , for thou hast to pull at a smack o' the contrary . If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten , thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage . I have a desire to hold my acquaintance with thee , or rather my knowledge , that I may say in the default , he is a man I know .
3734
3735 My lord , you do me most insupportable vexation .
3736
3737 I would it were hell-pains for thy sake , and my poor doing eternal : for doing I am past ; as I will by thee , in what motion age will give me leave .
3738
3739
3740 Well , thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me ; scurvy , old , filthy , scurvy lord ! Well , I must be patient ; there is no fettering of authority . I'll beat him , by my life , if I can meet him with any convenience , an he were double and double a lord . I'll have no more pity of his age than I would have of I'll beat him , an if I could but meet him again !
3741
3742
3743 Sirrah , your lord and master's married ; there's news for you : you have a new mistress .
3744
3745 I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make some reservation of your wrongs : he is my good lord : whom I serve above is my master .
3746
3747 Who ? God ?
3748
3749 Ay , sir .
3750
3751 The devil it is that's thy master . Why dost thou garter up thy arms o' this fashion ? dost make hose of thy sleeves ? do other servants so ? Thou wert best set thy lower part where thy nose stands . By mine honour , if I were but two hours younger , I'd beat thee : methinks thou art a general offence , and every man should beat thee : I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee .
3752
3753 This is hard and undeserved measure , my lord .
3754
3755 Go to , sir ; you were beaten in Italy for picking a kernel out of a pomegranate ; you are a vagabond and no true traveller : you are more saucy with lords and honourable personages than the heraldry of your birth and virtue gives you commission . You are not worth another word , else I'd call you knave . I leave you .
3756
3757
3758 Good , very good ; it is so then : good , very good . Let it be concealed awhile .
3759
3760
3761 Undone , and forfeited to cares for ever !
3762
3763 What is the matter , sweet heart ?
3764
3765 Although before the solemn priest I have sworn ,
3766 I will not bed her .
3767
3768 What , what , sweet heart ?
3769
3770 O my Parolles , they have married me !
3771 I'll to the Tuscan wars , and never bed her .
3772
3773 France is a dog-hole , and it no more merits
3774 The tread of a man's foot . To the wars !
3775
3776 There's letters from my mother : what the import is
3777 I know not yet .
3778
3779 Ay , that would be known . To the wars , my boy ! to the wars !
3780 He wears his honour in a box , unseen ,
3781 That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home ,
3782 Spending his manly marrow in her arms ,
3783 Which should sustain the bound and high curvet
3784 Of Mars's fiery steed . To other regions !
3785 France is a stable ; we that dwell in't jades ;
3786 Therefore , to the war !
3787
3788 It shall be so : I'll send her to my house ,
3789 Acquaint my mother with my hate to her ,
3790 And wherefore I am fled ; write to the king
3791 That which I durst not speak : his present gift
3792 Shall furnish me to those Italian fields ,
3793 Where noble fellows strike . War is no strife
3794 To the dark house and the detested wife .
3795
3796 Will this capriccio hold in thee ? art sure ?
3797
3798 Go with me to my chamber , and advise me .
3799 I'll send her straight away : to-morrow
3800 I'll to the wars , she to her single sorrow .
3801
3802 Why , these balls bound ; there's noise in it . 'Tis hard :
3803 A young man married is a man that's marr'd :
3804 Therefore away , and leave her bravely ; go :
3805 The king has done you wrong : but , hush ! 'tis so .
3806
3807
3808 My mother greets me kindly : is she well ?
3809
3810 She is not well ; but yet she has her health ; she's very merry ; but yet she is not well : but thanks be given , she's very well , and wants nothing i' the world ; but yet she is not well .
3811
3812 If she be very well , what does she ail that she's not very well ?
3813
3814 Truly , she's very well indeed , but for two things .
3815
3816 What two things ?
3817
3818 One , that she's not in heaven , whither
3819 God send her quickly ! the other , that she's in earth , from whence God send her quickly !
3820
3821
3822 Bless you , my fortunate lady !
3823
3824 I hope , sir , I have your good will to have mine own good fortunes .
3825
3826 You had my prayers to lead them on ; and to keep them on , have them still . O ! my knave , how does my old lady ?
3827
3828 So that you had her wrinkles , and I her money , I would she did as you say .
3829
3830 Why , I say nothing .
3831
3832 Marry , you are the wiser man ; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing . To say nothing , to do nothing , to know nothing , and to have nothing , is to be a great part of your title ; which is within a very little of nothing .
3833
3834 Away ! thou'rt a knave .
3835
3836 You should have said , sir , before a knave thou'rt a knave ; that is , before me thou'rt a knave : this had been truth , sir .
3837
3838 Go to , thou art a witty fool ; I have found thee .
3839
3840 Did you find me in yourself , sir ? or were you taught to find me ? The search , sir , was profitable ; and much fool may you find in you , even to the world's pleasure and the increase of laughter .
3841
3842 A good knave , i' faith , and well fed .
3843 Madam , my lord will go away to-night ;
3844 A very serious business calls on him .
3845 The great prerogative and rite of love ,
3846 Which , as your due , time claims , he does acknowledge ,
3847 But puts it off to a compell'd restraint ;
3848 Whose want , and whose delay , is strew'd with sweets ,
3849 Which they distil now in the curbed time ,
3850 To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy ,
3851 And pleasure drown the brim .
3852
3853 What's his will else ?
3854
3855 That you will take your instant leave o' the king ,
3856 And make this haste as your own good proceeding ,
3857 Strengthen'd with what apology you think
3858 May make it probable need .
3859
3860 What more commands he ?
3861
3862 That , having this obtain'd , you presently
3863 Attend his further pleasure .
3864
3865 In everything I wait upon his will .
3866
3867 I shall report it so .
3868
3869 I pray you . Come , sirrah .
3870
3871
3872 But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier .
3873
3874 Yes , my lord , and of very valiant approof .
3875
3876 You have it from his own deliverance .
3877
3878 And by other warranted testimony .
3879
3880 Then my dial goes not true : I took this lark for a bunting .
3881
3882 I do assure you , my lord , he is very great in knowledge , and accordingly valiant .
3883
3884 I have then sinned against his experience and transgressed against his valour ; and my state that way is dangerous , since I cannot yet find in my heart to repent . Here he comes ; I pray you , make us friends ; I will pursue the amity .
3885
3886
3887 These things shall be done , sir .
3888
3889 Pray you , sir , who's his tailor ?
3890
3891 Sir ?
3892
3893 O ! I know him well . Ay , sir ; he , sir , is a good workman , a very good tailor .
3894
3895 Is she gone to the king ?
3896
3897 She is .
3898
3899 Will she away to-night ?
3900
3901 As you'll have her .
3902
3903 I have writ my letters , casketed my treasure ,
3904 Given orders for our horses ; and to-night ,
3905 When I should take possession of the bride ,
3906 End ere I do begin .
3907
3908 A good traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner ; but one that lies three thirds , and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with , should be once heard and thrice beaten . God save you , captain .
3909
3910 Is there any unkindness between my lord and you , monsieur ?
3911
3912 I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord's displeasure .
3913
3914 You have made shift to run into't , boots and spurs and all , like him that leaped into the custard ; and out of it you'll run again , rather than suffer question for your residence .
3915
3916 It may be you have mistaken him , my lord .
3917
3918 And shall do so ever , though I took him at his prayers . Fare you well , my lord ; and believe this of me , there can be no kernel in this light nut ; the soul of this man is his clothes . Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence ; I have kept of them tame , and know their natures . Farewell , monsieur : I have spoken better of you than you have or will to deserve at my hand ; but we must do good against evil .
3919
3920
3921 An idle lord , I swear .
3922
3923 I think not so .
3924
3925 Why , do you not know him ?
3926
3927 Yes , I do know him well ; and common speech
3928 Gives him a worthy pass . Here comes my clog .
3929
3930
3931 I have , sir , as I was commanded from you ,
3932 Spoke with the king , and have procur'd his leave
3933 For present parting ; only , he desires
3934 Some private speech with you .
3935
3936 I shall obey his will .
3937 You must not marvel , Helen , at my course ,
3938 Which holds not colour with the time , nor does
3939 The ministration and required office
3940 On my particular : prepar'd I was not
3941 For such a business ; therefore am I found
3942 So much unsettled . This drives me to entreat you
3943 That presently you take your way for home ;
3944 And rather muse than ask why I entreat you ;
3945 For my respects are better than they seem ,
3946 And my appointments have in them a need
3947 Greater than shows itself at the first view
3948 To you that know them not . This to my mother .
3949
3950 'Twill be two days ere I shall see you , so
3951 I leave you to your wisdom .
3952
3953 Sir , I can nothing say ,
3954 But that I am your most obedient servant .
3955
3956 Come , come , no more of that .
3957
3958 And ever shall
3959 With true observance seek to eke out that
3960 Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail'd
3961 To equal my great fortune .
3962
3963 Let that go :
3964 My haste is very great . Farewell : hie home .
3965
3966 Pray sir , your pardon .
3967
3968 Well , what would you say ?
3969
3970 I am not worthy of the wealth I owe ,
3971 Nor dare I say 'tis mine , and yet it is ;
3972 But , like a timorous thief , most fain would steal
3973 What law does vouch mine own .
3974
3975 What would you have ?
3976
3977 Something , and scarce so much : nothing , indeed .
3978 I would not tell you what I would , my lord :
3979 Faith , yes ;
3980 Strangers and foes do sunder , and not kiss .
3981
3982 I pray you , stay not , but in haste to horse .
3983
3984 I shall not break your bidding , good my lord .
3985
3986 Farewell .
3987
3988 Go thou toward home ; where I will never come
3989 Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum .
3990 Away ! and for our flight .
3991
3992 Bravely , coragio !
3993
3994 So that from point to point now have you heard
3995 The fundamental reasons of this war ,
3996 Whose great decision hath much blood let forth ,
3997 And more thirsts after .
3998
3999 Holy seems the quarrel
4000 Upon your Grace's part ; black and fearful
4001 On the opposer .
4002
4003 Therefore we marvel much our cousin France
4004 Would in so just a business shut his bosom
4005 Against our borrowing prayers .
4006
4007 Good my lord ,
4008 The reasons of our state I cannot yield ,
4009 But like a common and an outward man ,
4010 That the great figure of a council frames
4011 By self-unable motion : therefore dare not
4012 Say what I think of it , since I have found
4013 Myself in my incertain grounds to fail
4014 As often as I guess'd .
4015
4016 Be it his pleasure .
4017
4018 But I am sure the younger of our nature ,
4019 That surfeit on their ease , will day by day
4020 Come here for physic .
4021
4022 Welcome shall they be ,
4023 And all the honours that can fly from us
4024 Shall on them settle . You know your places well ;
4025 When better fall , for your avails they fell .
4026 To-morrow to the field .
4027
4028
4029 It hath happened all as I would have had it , save that he comes not along with her .
4030
4031 By my troth , I take my young lord to be a very melancholy man .
4032
4033 By what observance , I pray you ?
4034
4035 Why , he will look upon his boot and sing ; mend the ruff and sing ; ask questions and sing ; pick his teeth and sing . I know a man that had this trick of melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song .
4036
4037 Let me see what he writes , and when he means to come .
4038
4039 I have no mind to Isbel since I was at court . Our old ling and our Isbels o' the country are nothing like your old ling and your Isbels o' the court : the brains of my Cupid's knocked out , and I begin to love , as an old man loves money , with no stomach .
4040
4041 What have we here ?
4042
4043 E'en that you have there .
4044
4045
4046 I have sent you a daughter-in-law : she hath recovered the king , and undone me . I have wedded her , not bedded her ; and sworn to make the 'not' eternal . You shall hear I am ran away : know it before the report come . If there be breadth enough in the world , I will hold a long distance . My duty to you .
4047 Your unfortunate son ,
4048 This is not well : rash and unbridled boy ,
4049 To fly the favours of so good a king !
4050 To pluck his indignation on thy head
4051 By the misprising of a maid too virtuous
4052 For the contempt of empire !
4053
4054
4055 O madam ! yonder is heavy news within between two soldiers and my young lady .
4056
4057 What is the matter ?
4058
4059 Nay , there is some comfort in the news , some comfort ; your son will not be killed so soon as I thought he would .
4060
4061 Why should he be killed ?
4062
4063 So say I , madam , if he run away , as I hear he does : the danger is in standing to't ; that's the loss of men , though it be the getting of children . Here they come will tell you more ; for my part , I only hear your son was run away .
4064
4065 Save you , good madam .
4066
4067 Madam , my lord is gone , for ever gone .
4068
4069 Do not say so .
4070
4071 Think upon patience . Pray you , gentlemen ,
4072 I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief ,
4073 That the first face of neither , on the start ,
4074 Can woman me unto 't : where is my son , I pray you ?
4075
4076 Madam , he's gone to serve the Duke of Florence :
4077 We met him thitherward ; for thence we came ,
4078 And , after some dispatch in hand at court ,
4079 Thither we bend again .
4080
4081 Look on his letter , madam ; here's my passport .
4082 When thou canst get the ring upon my finger , which never shall come off , and show me a child begotten of thy body that I am father to , then call me husband : but in such a 'then' I write a 'never .'
4083 This is a dreadful sentence .
4084
4085 Brought you this letter , gentlemen ?
4086
4087 Ay , madam ;
4088 And for the contents' sake are sorry for our pains .
4089
4090 I prithee , lady , have a better cheer ;
4091 If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine ,
4092 Thou robb'st me of a moiety : he was my son ,
4093 But I do wash his name out of my blood ,
4094 And thou art all my child . Towards Florence is he ?
4095
4096 Ay , madam .
4097
4098 And to be a soldier ?
4099
4100 Such is his noble purpose ; and , believe't ,
4101 The duke will lay upon him all the honour
4102 That good convenience claims .
4103
4104 Return you thither ?
4105
4106 Ay , madam , with the swiftest wing of speed .
4107
4108 Till I have no wife , I have nothing in France .
4109 'Tis bitter .
4110
4111 Find you that there ?
4112
4113 Ay , madam .
4114
4115 'Tis but the boldness of his hand , haply , which his heart was not consenting to .
4116
4117 Nothing in France until he have no wife !
4118 There's nothing here that is too good for him
4119 But only she ; and she deserves a lord
4120 That twenty such rude boys might tend upon ,
4121 And call her hourly mistress . Who was with him ?
4122
4123 A servant only , and a gentleman
4124 Which I have some time known .
4125
4126 Parolles , was it not ?
4127
4128 Ay , my good lady , he .
4129
4130 A very tainted fellow , and full of wickedness .
4131 My son corrupts a well-derived nature
4132 With his inducement .
4133
4134 Indeed , good lady ,
4135 The fellow has a deal of that too much ,
4136 Which holds him much to have .
4137
4138 Y'are welcome , gentlemen .
4139 I will entreat you , when you see my son ,
4140 To tell him that his sword can never win
4141 The honour that he loses : more I'll entreat you
4142 Written to bear along .
4143
4144 We serve you , madam ,
4145 In that and all your worthiest affairs .
4146
4147 Not so , but as we change our courtesies .
4148 Will you draw near ?
4149
4150
4151 'Till I have no wife , I have nothing in France .'
4152 Nothing in France until he has no wife !
4153 Thou shalt have none , Rousillon , none in France ;
4154 Then hast thou all again . Poor lord ! is't I
4155 That chase thee from thy country , and expose
4156 Those tender limbs of thine to the event
4157 Of the non-sparing war ? and is it I
4158 That drive thee from the sportive court , where thou
4159 Wast shot at with fair eyes , to be the mark
4160 Of smoky muskets ? O you leaden messengers ,
4161 That ride upon the violent speed of fire ,
4162 Fly with false aim ; move the still-piecing air ,
4163 That sings with piercing ; do not touch my lord !
4164 Whoever shoots at him , I set him there ;
4165 Whoever charges on his forward breast ,
4166 I am the caitiff that do hold him to't ;
4167 And , though I kill him not , I am the cause
4168 His death was so effected : better 'twere
4169 I met the ravin lion when he roar'd
4170 With sharp constraint of hunger ; better 'twere
4171 That all the miseries which nature owes
4172 Were mine at once . No , come thou home , Rousillon ,
4173 Whence honour but of danger wins a scar ,
4174 As oft it loses all : I will be gone ;
4175 My being here it is that holds thee hence :
4176 Shall I stay here to do't ? no , no , although
4177 The air of paradise did fan the house ,
4178 And angels offic'd all : I will be gone ,
4179 That pitiful rumour may report my flight ,
4180 To consolate thine ear . Come , night ; end , day !
4181 For with the dark , poor thief , I'll steal away .
4182
4183
4184 The general of our horse thou art ; and we ,
4185 Great in our hope , lay our best love and credence
4186 Upon thy promising fortune .
4187
4188 Sir , it is
4189 A charge too heavy for my strength , but yet
4190 We'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake
4191 To the extreme edge of hazard .
4192
4193 Then go thou forth ,
4194 And fortune play upon thy prosp'rous helm
4195 As thy auspicious mistress !
4196
4197 This very day ,
4198 Great Mars , I put myself into thy file :
4199 Make me but like my thoughts , and I shall prove
4200 A lover of thy drum , hater of love .
4201
4202
4203 Alas ! and would you take the letter of her ?
4204 Might you not know she would do as she has done ,
4205 By sending me a letter ? Read it again .
4206
4207 I am Saint Jaques' pilgrim , thither gone :
4208
4209 Ambitious love hath so in me offended
4210 That bare-foot plod I the cold ground upon
4211 With sainted vow my faults to have amended .
4212 Write , write , that from the bloody course of war ,
4213 My dearest master , your dear son , may hie :
4214 Bless him at home in peace , whilst I from far
4215 His name with zealous fervour sanctify :
4216 His taken labours bid him me forgive ;
4217 I , his despiteful Juno , sent him forth
4218 From courtly friends , with camping foes to live ,
4219 Where death and danger dog the heels of worth :
4220 He is too good and fair for Death and me ;
4221 Whom I myself embrace , to set him free .
4222
4223
4224 Ah , what sharp stings are in her mildest words !
4225 Rinaldo , you did never lack advice so much ,
4226 As letting her pass so : had I spoke with her ,
4227 I could have well diverted her intents ,
4228 Which thus she hath prevented .
4229
4230 Pardon me , madam :
4231 If I had given you this at over-night
4232 She might have been o'erta'en ; and yet she writes ,
4233 Pursuit would be but vain .
4234
4235 What angel shall
4236 Bless this unworthy husband ? he cannot thrive ,
4237 Unless her prayers , whom heaven delights to hear ,
4238 And loves to grant , reprieve him from the wrath
4239 Of greatest justice . Write , write , Rinaldo ,
4240 To this unworthy husband of his wife ;
4241 Let every word weigh heavy of her worth
4242 That he does weigh too light : my greatest grief ,
4243 Though little he do feel it , set down sharply .
4244 Dispatch the most convenient messenger :
4245 When haply he shall hear that she is gone ,
4246 He will return ; and hope I may that she ,
4247 Hearing so much , will speed her foot again ,
4248 Led hither by pure love . Which of them both
4249 Is dearest to me I have no skill in sense
4250 To make distinction . Provide this messenger .
4251 My heart is heavy and mine age is weak ;
4252 Grief would have tears , and sorrow bids me speak .
4253
4254
4255 Nay , come ; for if they do approach the city we shall lose all the sight .
4256
4257 They say the French Count has done most honourable service .
4258
4259 It is reported that he has taken their greatest commander , and that with his own hand he slew the duke's brother . We have lost our labour ; they are gone a contrary way : hark ! you may know by their trumpets .
4260
4261 Come ; let's return again , and suffice ourselves with the report of it . Well , Diana , take heed of this French earl : the honour of a maid is her name , and no legacy is so rich as honesty .
4262
4263 I have told my neighbour how you have been solicited by a gentleman his companion .
4264
4265 I know that knave ; hang him ! one Parolles : a filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the young earl . Beware of them , Diana ; their promises , enticements , oaths , tokens , and all these engines of lust , are not the things they go under : many a maid hath been seduced by them ; and the misery is , example , that so terrible shows in the wrack of maidenhood , cannot for all that dissuade succession , but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten them . I hope I need not to advise you further ; but I hope your own grace will keep you where you are , though there were no further danger known but the modesty which is so lost .
4266
4267 You shall not need to fear me .
4268
4269 I hope so . Look , here comes a pilgrim :
4270 I know she will lie at my house ; thither they send one another . I'll question her .
4271
4272 God save you , pilgrim ! whither are you bound ?
4273
4274 To Saint Jaques le Grand .
4275 Where do the palmers lodge , I do beseech you ?
4276
4277 At the Saint Francis , here beside the port .
4278
4279 Is this the way ?
4280
4281 Ay , marry , is't . Hark you !
4282
4283 They come this way . If you will tarry , holy pilgrim ,
4284 But till the troops come by ,
4285 I will conduct you where you shall be lodg'd :
4286 The rather , for I think I know your hostess
4287 As ample as myself .
4288
4289 Is it yourself ?
4290
4291 If you shall please so , pilgrim .
4292
4293 I thank you , and will stay upon your leisure .
4294
4295 You came , I think , from France ?
4296
4297 I did so .
4298
4299 Here you shall see a countryman of yours
4300 That has done worthy service .
4301
4302 His name , I pray you .
4303
4304 The Count Rousillon : know you such a one ?
4305
4306 But by the ear , that hears most nobly of him ;
4307 His face I know not .
4308
4309 Whatsoe'er he is ,
4310 He's bravely taken here . He stole from France ,
4311 As 'tis reported , for the king had married him
4312 Against his liking . Think you it is so ?
4313
4314 Ay , surely , mere the truth : I know his lady .
4315
4316 There is a gentleman that serves the count
4317 Reports but coarsely of her .
4318
4319 What's his name ?
4320
4321 Monsieur Parolles .
4322
4323 O ! I believe with him ,
4324 In argument of praise , or to the worth
4325 Of the great count himself , she is too mean
4326 To have her name repeated : all her deserving
4327 Is a reserved honesty , and that
4328 I have not heard examin'd .
4329
4330 Alas , poor lady !
4331 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife
4332 Of a detesting lord .
4333
4334 Ay , right ; good creature , wheresoe'er she is ,
4335 Her heart weighs sadly . This young maid might do her
4336 A shrewd turn if she pleas'd .
4337
4338 How do you mean ?
4339 May be the amorous count solicits her
4340 In the unlawful purpose .
4341
4342 He does , indeed ;
4343 And brokes with all that can in such a suit
4344 Corrupt the tender honour of a maid :
4345 But she is arm'd for him and keeps her guard
4346 In honestest defence .
4347
4348 The gods forbid else !
4349
4350
4351 So , now they come .
4352 That is Antonio , the duke's eldest son ;
4353 That , Escalus .
4354
4355 Which is the Frenchman ?
4356
4357 He ;
4358 That with the plume : 'tis a most gallant fellow ;
4359 I would he lov'd his wife . If he were honester ,
4360 He were much goodlier ; is't not a handsome gentleman ?
4361
4362 I like him well .
4363
4364 'Tis pity he is not honest . Yond's that same knave
4365 That leads him to these places : were I his lady
4366 I would poison that vile rascal .
4367
4368 Which is he ?
4369
4370 That jack-an-apes with scarfs . Why is he melancholy ?
4371
4372 Perchance he's hurt i' the battle .
4373
4374 Lose our drum ! well .
4375
4376 He's shrewdly vexed at something .
4377 Look , he has spied us .
4378
4379 Marry , hang you !
4380
4381 And your courtesy , for a ring-carrier !
4382
4383
4384 The troop is past . Come , pilgrim , I will bring you
4385 Where you shall host : of enjoin'd penitents
4386 There's four or five , to great Saint Jaques bound ,
4387 Already at my house .
4388
4389 I humbly thank you .
4390 Please it this matron and this gentle maid
4391 To eat with us to-night , the charge and thanking
4392 Shall be for me ; and , to requite you further ,
4393 I will bestow some precepts of this virgin
4394 Worthy the note .
4395
4396 We'll take your offer kindly .
4397
4398
4399 Nay , good my lord , put him to't : let him have his way .
4400
4401 If your lordship find him not a hilding , hold me no more in your respect .
4402
4403 On my life , my lord , a bubble .
4404
4405 Do you think I am so far deceived in him ?
4406
4407 Believe it , my lord , in mine own direct knowledge , without any malice , but to speak of him as my kinsman , he's a most notable coward , an infinite and endless liar , an hourly promise-breaker , the owner of no one good quality worthy your lordship's entertainment .
4408
4409 It were fit you knew him ; lest , reposing too far in his virtue , which he hath not , he might at some great and trusty business in a main danger fail you .
4410
4411 I would I knew in what particular action to try him .
4412
4413 None better than to let him fetch off his drum , which you hear him so confidently undertake to do .
4414
4415 I , with a troop of Florentines , will suddenly surprise him : such I will have whom I am sure he knows not from the enemy . We will bind and hood wink him so , that he shall suppose no other but that he is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries , when we bring him to our own tents . Be but your lordship present at his examination : if he do not , for the promise of his life and in the highest compulsion of base fear , offer to betray you and deliver all the intelligence in his power against you , and that with the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath , never trust my judgment in anything .
4416
4417 O ! for the love of laughter , let him fetch his drum : he says he has a stratagem for't . When your lordship sees the bottom of his success in't , and to what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be melted , if you give him not John Drum's entertainment , your inclining cannot be removed . Here he comes .
4418
4419 O ! for the love of laughter , hinder not the honour of his design : let him fetch off his drum in any hand .
4420
4421
4422 How now , monsieur ! this drum sticks sorely in your disposition .
4423
4424 A pox on't ! let it go : 'tis but a drum .
4425
4426 'But a drum !' Is't 'but a drum ?' A drum so lost ! There was excellent command , to charge in with our horse upon our own wings , and to rend our own soldiers !
4427
4428 That was not to be blamed in the command of the service : it was a disaster of war that C sar himself could not have prevented if he had been there to command .
4429
4430 Well , we cannot greatly condemn our success : some dishonour we had in the loss of that drum ; but it is not to be recovered .
4431
4432 It might have been recovered .
4433
4434 It might ; but it is not now .
4435
4436 It is to be recovered . But that the merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer , I would have that drum or another , or hic jacet .
4437
4438 Why , if you have a stomach to't , monsieur , if you think your mystery in stratagem can bring this instrument of honour again into its native quarter , be magnanimous in the enterprise and go on ; I will grace the attempt for a worthy exploit : if you speed well in it , the duke shall both speak of it , and extend to you what further becomes his greatness , even to the utmost syllable of your worthiness .
4439
4440 By the hand of a soldier , I will undertake it .
4441
4442 But you must not now slumber in it .
4443
4444 I'll about it this evening : and I will presently pen down my dilemmas , encourage myself in my certainty , put myself into my mortal preparation , and by midnight look to hear further from me .
4445
4446 May I be bold to acquaint his Grace you are gone about it ?
4447
4448 I know not what the success will be , my lord ; but the attempt I vow .
4449
4450 I know thou'rt valiant ; and , to the possibility of thy soldiership , will subscribe for thee . Farewell .
4451
4452 I love not many words .
4453
4454
4455 No more than a fish loves water . Is not this a strange fellow , my lord , that so confidently seems to undertake this business , which he knows is not to be done ; damns himself to do , and dares better be damned than to do't ?
4456
4457 You do not know him , my lord , as we do : certain it is , that he will steal himself into a man's favour , and for a week escape a great deal of discoveries ; but when you find him out you have him ever after .
4458
4459 Why , do you think he will make no deed at all of this that so seriously he does address himself unto ?
4460
4461 None in the world ; but return with an invention and clap upon you two or three probable lies . But we have almost embossed him , you shall see his fall to-night ; for , indeed , he is not for your lordship's respect .
4462
4463 We'll make you some sport with the fox ere we case him . He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu : when his disguise and he is parted , tell me what a sprat you shall find him ; which you shall see this very night .
4464
4465 I must go look my twigs : he shall be caught .
4466
4467 Your brother he shall go along with me .
4468
4469 As't please your lordship : I'll leave you .
4470
4471
4472 Now will I lead you to the house , and show you
4473 The lass I spoke of .
4474
4475 But you say she's honest .
4476
4477 That's all the fault . I spoke with her but once ,
4478 And found her wondrous cold ; but I sent to her ,
4479 By this same coxcomb that we have i' the wind ,
4480 Tokens and letters which she did re-send ;
4481 And this is all I have done . She's a fair creature ;
4482 Will you go see her ?
4483
4484 With all my heart , my lord .
4485
4486
4487 If you misdoubt me that I am not she ,
4488 I know not how I shall assure you further ,
4489 But I shall lose the grounds I work upon .
4490
4491 Though my estate be fall'n , I was well born ,
4492 Nothing acquainted with these businesses ;
4493 And would not put my reputation now
4494 In any staining act .
4495
4496 Nor would I wish you .
4497 First , give me trust , the county is my husband ,
4498 And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken
4499 Is so from word to word ; and then you cannot ,
4500 By the good aid that I of you shall borrow ,
4501 Err in bestowing it .
4502
4503 I should believe you :
4504 For you have show'd me that which well approves
4505 You're great in fortune .
4506
4507 Take this purse of gold ,
4508 And let me buy your friendly help thus far ,
4509 Which I will over-pay and pay again
4510 When I have found it . The county woos your daughter ,
4511 Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty ,
4512 Resolv'd to carry her : let her in fine consent ,
4513 As we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it .
4514 Now , his important blood will nought deny
4515 That she'll demand : a ring the county wears ,
4516 That down ward hath succeeded in his house
4517 From son to son , some four or five descents
4518 Since the first father wore it : this ring he holds
4519 In most rich choice ; yet , in his idle fire ,
4520 To buy his will , it would not seem too dear ,
4521 Howe'er repented after .
4522
4523 Now I see
4524 The bottom of your purpose .
4525
4526 You see it lawful then . It is no more ,
4527 But that your daughter , ere she seems as won ,
4528 Desires this ring , appoints him an encounter ,
4529 In fine , delivers me to fill the time ,
4530 Herself most chastely absent . After this ,
4531 To marry her , I'll add three thousand crowns
4532 To what is past already .
4533
4534 I have yielded .
4535 Instruct my daughter how she shall persever ,
4536 That time and place with this deceit so lawful
4537 May prove coherent . Every night he comes
4538 With musics of all sorts and songs compos'd
4539 To her unworthiness : it nothing steads us
4540 To chide him from our eaves , for he persists
4541 As if his life lay on't .
4542
4543 Why then to-night
4544 Let us assay our plot ; which , if it speed ,
4545 Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed ,
4546 And lawful meaning in a lawful act ,
4547 Where both not sin , and yet a sinful fact .
4548 But let's about it .
4549
4550 He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner . When you sally upon him , speak what terrible language you will : though you understand it not yourselves , no matter ; for we must not seem to understand him , unless some one among us , whom we must produce for an interpreter .
4551
4552 Good captain , let me be the interpreter .
4553
4554 Art not acquainted with him ? knows he not thy voice ?
4555
4556 No , sir , I warrant you .
4557
4558 But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again ?
4559
4560 Even such as you speak to me .
4561
4562 He must think us some band of strangers i' the adversary's entertainment . Now , he hath a smack of all neighbouring languages ; therefore we must every one be a man of his own fancy , not to know what we speak one to another ; so we seem to know , is to know straight our purpose : chough's language , gabble enough , and good enough . As for you , interpreter , you must seem very politic . But couch , ho ! here he comes , to beguile two hours in a sleep , and then to return and swear the lies he forges .
4563
4564
4565 Ten o'clock : within these three hours 'twill be time enough to go home . What shall I say I have done ? It must be a very plausive invention that carries it . They begin to smoke me , and disgraces have of late knocked too often at my door . I find my tongue is too foolhardy ; but my heart hath the fear of Mars before it and of his creatures , not daring the reports of my tongue .
4566
4567 This is the first truth that e'er thine own tongue was guilty of .
4568
4569 What the devil should move me to undertake the recovery of this drum , being not ignorant of the impossibility , and knowing I had no such purpose ? I must give myself some hurts and say I got them in exploit . Yet slight ones will not carry it : they will say , 'Came you off with so little ?' and great ones I dare not give . Wherefore , what's the instance ? Tongue , I must put you into a butter-woman's mouth , and buy myself another of Bajazet's mute , if you prattle me into these perils .
4570
4571 Is it possible he should know what he is , and be that he is ?
4572
4573 I would the cutting of my garments would serve the turn or the breaking of my Spanish sword .
4574
4575 We cannot afford you so .
4576
4577 Or the baring of my beard , and to say it was in stratagem .
4578
4579 'Twould not do .
4580
4581 Or to drown my clothes , and say I was stripped .
4582
4583 Hardly serve .
4584
4585 Though I swore I leaped from the window of the citadel
4586
4587 How deep ?
4588
4589 Thirty fathom .
4590
4591 Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed .
4592
4593 I would I had any drum of the enemy's :
4594 I would swear I recovered it .
4595
4596 Thou shalt hear one anon .
4597
4598 A drum now of the enemy's !
4599
4600
4601 Throca movousus , cargo , cargo , cargo .
4602
4603 Cargo , cargo , villianda par corbo , cargo .
4604
4605
4606 O ! ransom , ransom ! Do not hide mine eyes .
4607
4608 Boskos thromuldo boskos .
4609
4610 I know you are the Muskos' regiment ;
4611 And I shall lose my life for want of language .
4612 If there be here German , or Dane , low Dutch ,
4613 Italian , or French , let him speak to me :
4614 I will discover that which shall undo
4615 The Florentine .
4616
4617 Boskos vauvado :
4618 I understand thee , and can speak thy tongue :
4619 Kerelybonto : Sir ,
4620 Betake thee to thy faith , for seventeen poniards
4621 Are at thy bosom .
4622
4623 O !
4624
4625 O ! pray , pray , pray .
4626 Manka revania dulche .
4627
4628 Oscorbidulchos volivorco .
4629
4630 The general is content to spare thee yet ;
4631 And , hoodwink'd as thou art , will lead thee on
4632 To gather from thee : haply thou may'st inform
4633 Something to save thy life .
4634
4635 O ! let me live ,
4636 And all the secrets of our camp I'll show ,
4637 Their force , their purposes ; nay , I'll speak that
4638 Which you will wonder at .
4639
4640 But wilt thou faithfully ?
4641
4642 If I do not , damn me .
4643
4644 Acordo linta .
4645 Come on ; thou art granted space .
4646
4647
4648 Go , tell the Count Rousillon , and my brother ,
4649 We have caught the woodcock , and will keep him muffled
4650 Till we do hear from them .
4651
4652 Captain , I will .
4653
4654 A' will betray us all unto ourselves :
4655 Inform on that .
4656
4657 So I will , sir .
4658
4659 Till then , I'll keep him dark and safely lock'd .
4660
4661
4662 They told me that your name was Fontibell .
4663
4664 No , my good lord , Diana .
4665
4666 Titled goddess ;
4667 And worth it , with addition ! But , fair soul ,
4668 In your fine frame hath love no quality ?
4669 If the quick fire of youth light not your mind ,
4670 You are no maiden , but a monument :
4671 When you are dead , you should be such a one
4672 As you are now , for you are cold and stern ;
4673 And now you should be as your mother was
4674 When your sweet self was got .
4675
4676 She then was honest .
4677
4678 So should you be .
4679
4680 No :
4681 My mother did but duty ; such , my lord ,
4682 As you owe to your wife .
4683
4684 No more o' that !
4685 I prithee do not strive against my vows .
4686 I was compell'd to her ; but I love thee
4687 By love's own sweet constraint , and will for ever
4688 Do thee all rights of service .
4689
4690 Ay , so you serve us
4691 Till we serve you ; but when you have our roses ,
4692 You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves
4693 And mock us with our bareness .
4694
4695 How have I sworn !
4696
4697 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth ,
4698 But the plain single vow that is vow'd true .
4699 What is not holy , that we swear not by ,
4700 But take the Highest to witness : then , pray you , tell me ,
4701 If I should swear by God's great attributes
4702 I lov'd you dearly , would you believe my oaths ,
4703 When I did love you ill ? this has no holding ,
4704 To swear by him whom I protest to love ,
4705 That I will work against him : therefore your oaths
4706 Are words and poor conditions , but unseal'd ;
4707 At least in my opinion .
4708
4709 Change it , change it .
4710 Be not so holy-cruel : love is holy ;
4711 And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts
4712 That you do charge men with . Stand no more off ,
4713 But give thyself unto my sick desires ,
4714 Who then recover : say thou art mine , and ever
4715 My love as it begins shall so persever .
4716
4717 I see that men make ropes in such a scarr
4718 That we'll forsake ourselves . Give me that ring .
4719
4720 I'll lend it thee , my dear ; but have no power
4721 To give it from me .
4722
4723 Will you not , my lord ?
4724
4725 It is an honour 'longing to our house ,
4726 Bequeathed down from many ancestors ,
4727 Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world
4728 In me to lose .
4729
4730 Mine honour's such a ring :
4731 My chastity's the jewel of our house ,
4732 Bequeathed down from many ancestors ,
4733 Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world
4734 In me to lose . Thus your own proper wisdom
4735 Brings in the champion honour on my part
4736 Against your vain assault .
4737
4738 Here , take my ring :
4739 My house , mine honour , yea , my life , be thine ,
4740 And I'll be bid by thee .
4741
4742 When midnight comes , knock at my chamber-window :
4743 I'll order take my mother shall not hear .
4744 Now will I charge you in the band of truth ,
4745 When you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed ,
4746 Remain there but an hour , nor speak to me .
4747 My reasons are most strong ; and you shall know them
4748 When back again this ring shall be deliver'd :
4749 And on your finger in the night I'll put
4750 Another ring , that what in time proceeds
4751 May token to the future our past deeds .
4752 Adieu , till then ; then , fail not . You have won
4753 A wife of me , though there my hope be done .
4754
4755 A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee .
4756
4757
4758 For which live long to thank both heaven and me !
4759 You may so in the end .
4760 My mother told me just how he would woo
4761 As if she sat in 's heart ; she says all men
4762 Have the like oaths : he had sworn to marry me
4763 When his wife's dead ; therefore I'll lie with him
4764 When I am buried . Since Frenchmen are so braid ,
4765 Marry that will , I live and die a maid :
4766 Only in this disguise I think't no sin
4767 To cozen him that would unjustly win .
4768
4769
4770 You have not given him his mother's letter ?
4771
4772 I have delivered it an hour since : there is something in't that stings his nature , for on the reading it he changed almost into another man .
4773
4774 He has much worthy blame laid upon him for shaking off so good a wife and so sweet a lady .
4775
4776 Especially he hath incurred the everlasting displeasure of the king , who had even tuned his bounty to sing happiness to him . I will tell you a thing , but you shall let it dwell darkly with you .
4777
4778 When you have spoken it , 'tis dead , and I am the grave of it .
4779
4780 He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in Florence , of a most chaste renown ; and this night he fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour : he hath given her his monumental ring , and thinks himself made in the unchaste composition .
4781
4782 Now , God delay our rebellion ! as we are ourselves , what things are we !
4783
4784 Merely our own traitors : and as in the common course of all treasons , we still see them reveal themselves , till they attain to their abhorred ends , so he that in this action contrives against his own nobility , in his proper stream o'erflows himself .
4785
4786 Is it not most damnable in us , to be trumpeters of our unlawful intents ? We shall not then have his company to-night ?
4787
4788 Not till after midnight , for he is dieted to his hour .
4789
4790 That approaches apace : I would gladly have him see his company anatomized , that he might take a measure of his own judgments , wherein so curiously he had set this counterfeit .
4791
4792 We will not meddle with him till he come , for his presence must be the whip of the other .
4793
4794 In the meantime what near you of these wars ?
4795
4796 I hear there is an overture of peace .
4797
4798 Nay , I assure you , a peace concluded .
4799
4800 What will Count Rousillon do then ? will he travel higher , or return again into France ?
4801
4802 I perceive by this demand , you are not altogether of his council .
4803
4804 Let it be forbid , sir ; so should I be a great deal of his act .
4805
4806 Sir , his wife some two months since fled from his house : her pretence is a pilgrimage to Saint Jaques le Grand ; which holy undertaking with most austere sanctimony she accomplished ; and , there residing , the tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her grief ; in fine , made a groan of her last breath , and now she sings in heaven .
4807
4808 How is this justified ?
4809
4810 The stronger part of it by her own letters , which make her story true , even to the point of her death : her death itself , which could not be her office to say is come , was faithfully confirmed by the rector of the place .
4811
4812 Hath the count all this intelligence ?
4813
4814 Ay , and the particular confirmations , point from point , to the full arming of the verity .
4815
4816 I am heartily sorry that he'll be glad of this .
4817
4818 How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses !
4819
4820 And how mightily some other times we drown our gain in tears ! The great dignity that his valour hath here acquired for him shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample .
4821
4822 The web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues .
4823
4824 How now ! where's your master ?
4825
4826 He met the duke in the street , sir , of whom he hath taken a solemn leave : his lordship will next morning for France . The duke hath offered him letters of commendations to the king .
4827
4828 They shall be no more than needful there , if they were more than they can commend .
4829
4830 They cannot be too sweet for the king's tartness . Here's his lordship now .
4831
4832 How now , my lord ! is't not after midnight ?
4833
4834 I have to-night dispatched sixteen businesses , a month's length a-piece , by an abstract of success : I have conge'd with the duke , done my adieu with his nearest , buried a wife , mourned for her , writ to my lady mother I am returning , entertained my convoy ; and between these main parcels of dispatch effected many nicer needs : the last was the greatest , but that I have not ended yet .
4835
4836 If the business be of any difficulty , and this morning your departure hence , it requires haste of your lordship .
4837
4838 I mean , the business is not ended , as fearing to hear of it hereafter . But shall we have this dialogue between the fool and the soldier ? Come , bring forth this counterfeit model : he has deceived me , like a double-meaning prophesier .
4839
4840 Bring him forth .
4841
4842 Has sat i' the stocks all night , poor gallant knave .
4843
4844 No matter ; his heels have deserved it , in usurping his spurs so long . How does he carry himself ?
4845
4846 I have told your lordship already , the stocks carry him . But to answer you as you would be understood ; he weeps like a wench that had shed her milk : he hath confessed himself to Morgan ,whom he supposes to be a friar ,from the time of his remembrance to this very instant disaster of his setting i' the stocks : and what think you he hath confessed ?
4847
4848 Nothing of me , has a' ?
4849
4850 His confession is taken , and it shall be read to his face : if your lordship be in't , as I believe you are , you must have the patience to hear it .
4851
4852
4853 A plague upon him ! muffled ! he can say nothing of me : hush ! hush !
4854
4855 Hoodman comes ! Porto tartarossa .
4856
4857 He calls for the tortures : what will you say without 'em ?
4858
4859 I will confess what I know without constraint : if ye pinch me like a pasty , I can say no more .
4860
4861 Bosko chimurcho .
4862
4863 Boblibindo chicurmurco .
4864
4865 You are a merciful general . Our general bids you answer to what I shall ask you out of a note .
4866
4867 And truly , as I hope to live .
4868
4869 First , demand of him how many horse the duke is strong . What say you to that ?
4870
4871 Five or six thousand ; but very weak and unserviceable : the troops are all scattered , and the commanders very poor rogues , upon my reputation and credit , and as I hope to live .
4872
4873 Shall I set down your answer so ?
4874
4875 Do : I'll take the sacrament on't , how and which way you will .
4876
4877 All's one to him . What a past-saving slave is this !
4878
4879 You are deceived , my lord : this is Monsieur Parolles , the gallant militarist ,that was his own phrase ,that had the whole theorick of war in the knot of his scarf , and the practice in the chape of his dagger .
4880
4881 I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword clean ; nor believe he can have everything in him by wearing his apparel neatly .
4882
4883 Well , that's set down .
4884
4885 Five or six thousand horse , I said ,I will say true ,or thereabouts , set down , for I'll speak truth .
4886
4887 He's very near the truth in this .
4888
4889 But I con him no thanks for't , in the nature he delivers it .
4890
4891 Poor rogues , I pray you , say .
4892
4893 Well , that's set down .
4894
4895 I humbly thank you , sir . A truth's a truth ; the rogues are marvellous poor .
4896
4897 Demand of him , of what strength they are a-foot . What say you to that ?
4898
4899 By my troth , sir , if I were to live this present hour , I will tell true . Let me see : Spurio , a hundred and fifty ; Sebastian , so many ; Corambus , so many ; Jaques , so many ; Guiltian , Cosmo , Lodowick , and Gratii , two hundred fifty each ; mine own company , Chitopher , Vaumond , Bentii , two hundred fifty each : so that the muster-file , rotten and sound , upon my life , amounts not to fifteen thousand poll ; half of the which dare not shake the snow from off their cassocks , lest they shake themselves to pieces .
4900
4901 What shall be done to him ?
4902
4903 Nothing , but let him have thanks . Demand of him my condition , and what credit I have with the duke .
4904
4905 Well , that's set down . You shall demand of him , whether one Captain Dumain be i' the camp , a Frenchman ; what his reputation is with the duke ; what his valour , honesty , and expertness in wars ; or whether he thinks it were not possible , with well-weighing sums of gold , to corrupt him to a revolt . What say you to this ? what do you know of it ?
4906
4907 I beseech you , let me answer to the particular of the inter'gatories : demand them singly .
4908
4909 Do you know this Captain Dumain ?
4910
4911 I know him : a' was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris , from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's fool with child ; a dumb innocent , that could not say him nay .
4912
4913
4914 Nay , by your leave , hold your hands ; though I know his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls .
4915
4916 Well , is this captain in the Duke of Florence's camp ?
4917
4918 Upon my knowledge he is , and lousy .
4919
4920 Nay , look not so upon me ; we shall hear of your lordship anon .
4921
4922 What is his reputation with the duke ?
4923
4924 The duke knows him for no other but a poor officer of mine , and writ to me this other day to turn him out o' the band : I think I have his letter in my pocket .
4925
4926 Marry , we'll search .
4927
4928 In good sadness , I do not know : either it is there , or it is upon a file with the duke's other letters in my tent .
4929
4930 Here 'tis ; here's a paper ; shall I read it to you ?
4931
4932 I do not know if it be it or no .
4933
4934 Our interpreter does it well .
4935
4936 Excellently .
4937
4938 Dian , the count's a fool , and full of gold
4939
4940 That is not the duke's letter , sir ; that is an advertisement to a proper maid in Florence , one Diana , to take heed of the allurement of one Count Rousillon , a foolish idle boy , but for all that very ruttish . I pray you , sir , put it up again .
4941
4942 Nay , I'll read it first , by your favour .
4943
4944 My meaning in't , I protest , was very honest in the behalf of the maid ; for I knew the young count to be a dangerous and lascivious boy , who is a whale to virginity , and devours up all the fry it finds .
4945
4946 Damnable both-sides rogue !
4947
4948 When he swears oaths , bid him drop gold , and take it ;
4949 After he scores , he never pays the score :
4950 Half won is match well made ; match , and well make it ;
4951 He ne'er pays after-debts ; take it before ,
4952 And say a soldier , Dian , told thee this ,
4953 Men are to mell with , boys are not to kiss ;
4954 For count of this , the count's a fool , I know it ,
4955 Who pays before , but not when he does owe it .
4956
4957 Thine , as he vow'd to thee in thine ear ,
4958
4959 He shall be whipped through the army with this rime in's forehead .
4960
4961 This is your devoted friend , sir ; the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier .
4962
4963 I could endure anything before but a cat , and now he's a cat to me .
4964
4965 I perceive , sir , by our general's looks , we shall be fain to hang you .
4966
4967 My life , sir , in any case ! not that I am afraid to die ; but that , my offences being many , I would repent out the remainder of nature . Let me live , sir , in a dungeon , i' the stocks , or anywhere , so I may live .
4968
4969 We'll see what may be done , so you confess freely : therefore , once more to this Captain Dumain . You have answered to his reputation with the duke and to his valour : what is his honesty ?
4970
4971 He will steal , sir , an egg out of a cloister ; for rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus ; he professes not keeping of oaths ; in breaking 'em he is stronger than Hercules ; he will lie , sir , with such volubility , that you would think truth were a fool ; drunkenness is his best virtue , for he will be swine-drunk , and in his sleep he does little harm , save to his bed-clothes about him ; but they know his conditions , and lay him in straw . I have but little more to say , sir , of his honesty : he has everything that an honest man should not have ; what an honest man should have , he has nothing .
4972
4973 I begin to love him for this .
4974
4975 For this description of thine honesty ? A pox upon him for me ! he is more and more a cat .
4976
4977 What say you to his expertness in war ?
4978
4979 Faith , sir , he has led the drum before the English tragedians ,to belie him I will not ,and more of his soldiership I know not ; except , in that country , he had the honour to be the officer at a place there called Mile-end , to instruct for the doubling of files : I would do the man what honour I can , but of this I am not certain .
4980
4981 He hath out-villained villany so far , that the rarity redeems him .
4982
4983 A pox on him ! he's a cat still .
4984
4985 His qualities being at this poor price , I need not ask you , if gold will corrupt him to revolt .
4986
4987 Sir , for a cardecu he will sell the fee-simple of his salvation , the inheritance of it ; and cut the entail from all remainders , and a perpetual succession for it perpetually .
4988
4989 What's his brother , the other Captain Dumain ?
4990
4991 Why does he ask him or me ?
4992
4993 What's he ?
4994
4995 E'en a crow o' the same nest ; not altogether so great as the first in goodness , but greater a great deal in evil . He excels his brother for a coward , yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is . In a retreat he out-runs any lackey ; marry , in coming on he has the cramp .
4996
4997 If your life be saved , will you undertake to betray the Florentine ?
4998
4999 Ay , and the captain of his horse , Count Rousillon .
5000
5001 I'll whisper with the general , and know his pleasure .
5002
5003 I'll no more drumming ; a plague of all drums ! Only to seem to deserve well , and to beguile the supposition of that lascivious young boy the count , have I run into this danger . Yet who would have suspected an ambush where I was taken ?
5004
5005 There is no remedy , sir , but you must die . The general says , you , that have so traitorously discovered the secrets of your army , and made such pestiferous reports of men very nobly held , can serve the world for no honest use ; therefore you must die . Come , headsman , off with his head .
5006
5007 O Lord , sir , let me live , or let me see my death !
5008
5009 That shall you , and take your leave of all your friends .
5010
5011 So , look about you : know you any here ?
5012
5013 Good morrow , noble captain .
5014
5015 God bless you , Captain Parolles .
5016
5017 God save you , noble captain .
5018
5019 Captain , what greeting will you to my Lord Lafeu ? I am for France .
5020
5021 Good captain , will you give me a copy of the sonnet you writ to Diana in behalf of the Count Rousillon ? an I were not a very coward I'd compel it of you ; but fare you well .
5022
5023
5024 You are undone , captain ; all but your scarf ; that has a knot on't yet .
5025
5026 Who cannot be crushed with a plot ?
5027
5028 If you could find out a country where but women were that had received so much shame , you might begin an impudent nation . Fare ye well , sir ; I am for France too : we shall speak of you there .
5029
5030
5031 Yet am I thankful : if my heart were great
5032 'Twould burst at this . Captain I'll be no more ;
5033 But I will eat and drink , and sleep as soft
5034 As captain shall : simply the thing I am
5035 Shall make me live . Who knows himself a braggart ,
5036 Let him fear this ; for it will come to pass
5037 That every braggart shall be found an ass .
5038 Rust , sword ! cool , blushes ! and Parolles , live
5039 Safest in shame ! being fool'd , by foolery thrive !
5040 There's place and means for every man alive .
5041 I'll after them .
5042
5043
5044 That you may well perceive I have not wrong'd you ,
5045 One of the greatest in the Christian world
5046 Shall be my surety ; 'fore whose throne 'tis needful ,
5047 Ere I can perfect mine intents , to kneel .
5048 Time was I did him a desired office ,
5049 Dear almost as his life ; which gratitude
5050 Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth ,
5051 And answer , thanks . I duly am inform'd
5052 His Grace is at Marseilles ; to which place
5053 We have convenient convoy . You must know ,
5054 I am supposed dead : the army breaking ,
5055 My husband hies him home ; where , heaven aiding ,
5056 And by the leave of my good lord the king ,
5057 We'll be before our welcome .
5058
5059 Gentle madam ,
5060 You never had a servant to whose trust
5061 Your business was more welcome .
5062
5063 Nor you , mistress ,
5064 Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour
5065 To recompense your love . Doubt not but heaven
5066 Hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower ,
5067 As it hath fated her to be my motive
5068 And helper to a husband . But , O strange men !
5069 That can such sweet use make of what they hate ,
5070 When saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts
5071 Defiles the pitchy night : so lust doth play
5072 With what it loathes for that which is away .
5073 But more of this hereafter . You , Diana ,
5074 Under my poor instructions yet must suffer
5075 Something in my behalf .
5076
5077 Let death and honesty
5078 Go with your impositions , I am yours
5079 Upon your will to suffer .
5080
5081 Yet , I pray you :
5082 But with the word the time will bring on summer ,
5083 When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns ,
5084 And be as sweet as sharp . We must away ;
5085 Our waggon is prepar'd , and time revives us :
5086 All's well that ends well : still the fine's the crown ;
5087 Whate'er the course , the end is the renown .
5088
5089
5090 No , no , no ; your son was misled with a snipt-taffeta fellow there , whose villanous saffron would have made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in his colour : your daughter-in-law had been alive at this hour , and your son here at home , more advanced by the king than by that red-tailed humble-bee I speak of .
5091
5092 I would I had not known him ; it was the death of the most virtuous gentlewoman that ever nature had praise for creating . If she had partaken of my flesh , and cost me the dearest groans of a mother , I could not have owed her a more rooted love .
5093
5094 'Twas a good lady , 'twas a good lady : we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb .
5095
5096 Indeed , sir , she was the sweet-marjoram of the salad , or , rather the herb of grace .
5097
5098 They are not salad-herbs , you knave ; they are nose-herbs .
5099
5100 I am no great Nebuchadnezzar , sir ; I have not much skill in grass .
5101
5102 Whether dost thou profess thyself , a knave , or a fool ?
5103
5104 A fool , sir , at a woman's service , and a knave at a man's .
5105
5106 Your distinction ?
5107
5108 I would cozen the man of his wife , and do his service .
5109
5110 So you were a knave at his service , indeed .
5111
5112 And I would give his wife my bauble , sir , to do her service .
5113
5114 I will subscribe for thee , thou art both knave and fool .
5115
5116 At your service .
5117
5118 No , no , no .
5119
5120 Why , sir , if I cannot serve you , I can serve as great a prince as you are .
5121
5122 Who's that ? a Frenchman ?
5123
5124 Faith , sir , a' has an English name ; but his phisnomy is more hotter in France than there .
5125
5126 What prince is that ?
5127
5128 The black prince , sir ; alias , the prince of darkness ; alias , the devil .
5129
5130 Hold thee , there's my purse . I give thee not this to suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of : serve him still .
5131
5132 I am a woodland fellow , sir , that always loved a great fire ; and the master I speak of , ever keeps a good fire . But , sure , he is the prince of the world ; let his nobility remain in's court . I am for the house with the narrow gate , which I take to be too little for pomp to enter : some that humble themselves may ; but the many will be too chill and tender , and they'll be for the flowery way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire .
5133
5134 Go thy ways , I begin to be aweary of thee ; and I tell thee so before , because I would not fall out with thee . Go thy ways : let my horses be well looked to , without any tricks .
5135
5136 If I put any tricks upon 'em , sir , they shall be jade's tricks , which are their own right by the law of nature .
5137
5138
5139 A shrewd knave and an unhappy .
5140
5141 So he is . My lord that's gone made himself much sport out of him : by his authority he remains here , which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness ; and , indeed , he has no pace , but runs where he will .
5142
5143 I like him well ; 'tis not amiss . And I was about to tell you , since I heard of the good lady's death , and that my lord your son was upon his return home , I moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of my daughter ; which , in the minority of them both , his majesty , out of a self-gracious remembrance , did first propose . His highness hath promised me to do it ; and to stop up the displeasure he hath conceived against your son , there is no fitter matter . How does your ladyship like it ?
5144
5145 With very much content , my lord ; and I wish it happily effected .
5146
5147 His highness comes post from Marseilles , of as able body as when he numbered thirty : he will be here to-morrow , or I am deceived by him that in such intelligence hath seldom failed .
5148
5149 It rejoices me that I hope I shall see him ere I die . I have letters that my son will be here to-night : I shall beseech your lordship to remain with me till they meet together .
5150
5151 Madam , I was thinking with what manners I might safely be admitted .
5152
5153 You need but plead your honourable privilege .
5154
5155 Lady , of that I have made a bold charter ; but I thank my God it holds yet .
5156
5157
5158 O madam ! yonder's my lord your son with a patch of velvet on's face : whether there be a scar under it or no , the velvet knows ; but 'tis a goodly patch of velvet . His left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a half , but his right cheek is worn bare .
5159
5160 A scar nobly got , or a noble scar , is a good livery of honour ; so belike is that .
5161
5162 But it is your carbonadoed face .
5163
5164 Let us go see your son , I pray you : I long to talk with the young noble soldier .
5165
5166 Faith , there's a dozen of 'em , with delicate fine hats and most courteous feathers , which bow the head and nod at every man .
5167
5168 But this exceeding posting , day and night ,
5169 Must wear your spirits low ; we cannot help it :
5170 But since you have made the days and nights as one ,
5171 To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs ,
5172 Be bold you do so grow in my requital
5173 As nothing can unroot you . In happy time ;
5174
5175
5176 This man may help me to his majesty's ear ,
5177
5178 If he would spend his power . God save you , sir .
5179
5180 And you .
5181
5182 Sir , I have seen you in the court of France .
5183
5184 I have been sometimes there .
5185
5186 I do presume , sir , that you are not fallen
5187 From the report that goes upon your goodness ;
5188 And therefore , goaded with most sharp occasions ,
5189 Which lay nice manners by , I put you to
5190 The use of your own virtues , for the which
5191 I shall continue thankful .
5192
5193 What's your will ?
5194
5195 That it will please you
5196 To give this poor petition to the king ,
5197 And aid me with that store of power you have
5198 To come into his presence .
5199
5200 The king's not here .
5201
5202 Not here , sir !
5203
5204 Not , indeed :
5205 He hence remov'd last night , and with more haste
5206 Than is his use .
5207
5208 Lord , how we lose our pains !
5209
5210 All's well that ends well yet ,
5211 Though time seems so adverse and means unfit .
5212 I do beseech you , whither is he gone ?
5213
5214 Marry , as I take it , to Rousillon ;
5215 Whither I am going .
5216
5217 I do beseech you , sir ,
5218 Since you are like to see the king before me ,
5219 Commend the paper to his gracious hand ;
5220 Which I presume shall render you no blame
5221 But rather make you thank your pains for it .
5222 I will come after you with what good speed
5223 Our means will make us means .
5224
5225 This I'll do for you .
5226
5227 And you shall find yourself to be well thank'd ,
5228 Whate'er falls more . We must to horse again :
5229 Go , go , provide .
5230
5231
5232 Good Monsieur Lavache , give my Lord Lafeu this letter . I have ere now , sir , been better known to you , when I have held familiarity with fresher clothes ; but I am now , sir , muddied in Fortune's mood , and smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure .
5233
5234 Truly , Fortune's displeasure is but sluttish if it smell so strongly as thou speakest of : I will henceforth eat no fish of Fortune's buttering . Prithee , allow the wind .
5235
5236 Nay , you need not to stop your nose , sir : I spake but by a metaphor .
5237
5238 Indeed , sir , if your metaphor stink , I will stop my nose ; or against any man's metaphor . Prithee , get thee further .
5239
5240 Pray you , sir , deliver me this paper .
5241
5242 Foh ! prithee , stand away : a paper from Fortune's close-stool to give to a nobleman ! Look , here he comes himself .
5243
5244
5245 Here is a purr of Fortune's , sir , or of Fortune's cat but not a musk-cat that has fallen into the unclean fishpond of her displeasure , and , as he says , is muddied withal . Pray you , sir , use the carp as you may , for he looks like a poor , decayed , ingenious , foolish , rascally knave . I do pity his distress in my similes of comfort , and leave him to your lordship .
5246
5247 My lord , I am a man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratched .
5248
5249 And what would you have me to do ? 'tis too late to pare her nails now . Wherein have you played the knave with Fortune that she should scratch you , who of herself is a good lady , and would not have knaves thrive long under her ? There's a cardecu for you . Let the justices make you and Fortune friends ; I am for other business .
5250
5251 I beseech your honour to hear me one single word .
5252
5253 You beg a single penny more : come , you shall ha't ; save your word .
5254
5255 My name , my good lord , is Parolles .
5256
5257 You beg more than one word then . Cox my passion ! give me your hand . How does your drum ?
5258
5259 O , my good lord ! you were the first that found me .
5260
5261 Was I , in sooth ? and I was the first that lost thee .
5262
5263 It lies in you , my lord , to bring me in some grace , for you did bring me out .
5264
5265 Out upon thee , knave ! dost thou put upon me at once both the office of God and the devil ? one brings thee in grace and the other brings thee out .
5266
5267 The king's coming ; I know by his trumpets . Sirrah , inquire further after me ; I had talk of you last night : though you are a fool and a knave , you shall eat : go to , follow .
5268
5269 I praise God for you .
5270
5271
5272 We lost a jewel of her , and our esteem
5273 Was made much poorer by it : but your son ,
5274 As mad in folly , lack'd the sense to know
5275 Her estimation home .
5276
5277 'Tis past , my liege ;
5278 And I beseech your majesty to make it
5279 Natural rebellion , done i' the blaze of youth ;
5280 When oil and fire , too strong for reason's force ,
5281 O'erbears it and burns on .
5282
5283 My honour'd lady ,
5284 I have forgiven and forgotten all ,
5285 Though my revenges were high bent upon him ,
5286 And watch'd the time to shoot .
5287
5288 This I must say ,
5289 But first I beg my pardon ,the young lord
5290 Did to his majesty , his mother , and his lady ,
5291 Offence of mighty note , but to himself
5292 The greatest wrong of all : he lost a wife
5293 Whose beauty did astonish the survey
5294 Of richest eyes , whose words all ears took captive ,
5295 Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn'd to serve
5296 Humbly call'd mistress .
5297
5298 Praising what is lost
5299 Makes the remembrance dear . Well , call him hither ;
5300 We are reconcil'd , and the first view shall kill
5301 All repetition . Let him not ask our pardon :
5302 The nature of his great offence is dead ,
5303 And deeper than oblivion we do bury
5304 The incensing relics of it : let him approach ,
5305 A stranger , no offender ; and inform him
5306 So 'tis our will he should .
5307
5308 I shall , my liege .
5309
5310
5311 What says he to your daughter ? have you spoke ?
5312
5313 All that he is hath reference to your highness .
5314
5315 Then shall we have a match . I have letters sent me ,
5316 That set him high in fame .
5317
5318
5319 He looks well on't .
5320
5321 I am not a day of season ,
5322 For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail
5323 In me at once ; but to the brightest beams
5324 Distracted clouds give way : so stand thou forth ;
5325 The time is fair again .
5326
5327 My high-repented blames ,
5328 Dear sovereign , pardon to me .
5329
5330 All is whole ;
5331 Not one word more of the consumed time .
5332 Let's take the instant by the forward top ,
5333 For we are old , and on our quick'st decrees
5334 The inaudible and noiseless foot of time
5335 Steals ere we can effect them . You remember
5336 The daughter of this lord ?
5337
5338 Admiringly , my liege :
5339 At first I stuck my choice upon her , ere my heart
5340 Durst make too bold a herald of my tongue ,
5341 Where the impression of mine eye infixing ,
5342 Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me ,
5343 Which warp'd the line of every other favour ;
5344 Scorn'd a fair colour , or express'd it stolen ;
5345 Extended or contracted all proportions
5346 To a most hideous object : thence it came
5347 That she , whom all men prais'd , and whom myself ,
5348 Since I have lost , have lov'd , was in mine eye
5349 The dust that did offend it .
5350
5351 Well excus'd :
5352 That thou didst love her , strikes some scores away
5353 From the great compt . But love that comes too late ,
5354 Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried ,
5355 To the great sender turns a sour offence ,
5356 Crying , 'That's good that's gone .' Our rasher faults
5357 Make trivial price of serious things we have ,
5358 Not knowing them until we know their grave :
5359 Oft our displeasures , to ourselves unjust ,
5360 Destroy our friends and after weep their dust :
5361 Our own love waking cries to see what's done ,
5362 While shameful hate sleeps out the afternoon .
5363 Be this sweet Helen's knell , and now forget her .
5364 Send forth your amorous token for fair Maudlin :
5365 The main consents are had ; and here we'll stay
5366 To see our widower's second marriage-day .
5367
5368 Which better than the first , O dear heaven , bless !
5369 Or , ere they meet , in me , O nature , cesse !
5370
5371 Come on , my son , in whom my house's name
5372 Must be digested , give a favour from you
5373 To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter ,
5374 That she may quickly come .
5375
5376 And every hair that's on't , Helen , that's dead ,
5377 Was a sweet creature ; such a ring as this ,
5378 The last that e'er I took her leave at court ,
5379 I saw upon her finger .
5380
5381 Hers it was not .
5382
5383 Now , pray you , let me see it ; for mine eye ,
5384 While I was speaking , oft was fasten'd to't .
5385 This ring was mine ; and , when I gave it Helen ,
5386 I bade her , if her fortunes ever stood
5387 Necessitied to help , that by this token
5388 I would relieve her . Had you that craft to reave her
5389 Of what should stead her most ?
5390
5391 My gracious sovereign ,
5392 Howe'er it pleases you to take it so ,
5393 The ring was never hers .
5394
5395 Son , on my life ,
5396 I have seen her wear it ; and she reckon'd it
5397 At her life's rate .
5398
5399 I am sure I saw her wear it .
5400
5401 You are deceiv'd , my lord , she never saw it :
5402 In Florence was it from a casement thrown me ,
5403 Wrapp'd in a paper , which contain'd the name
5404 Of her that threw it . Noble she was , and thought
5405 I stood engag'd : but when I had subscrib'd
5406 To mine own fortune , and inform'd her fully
5407 I could not answer in that course of honour
5408 As she had made the overture , she ceas'd ,
5409 In heavy satisfaction , and would never
5410 Receive the ring again .
5411
5412 Plutus himself ,
5413 That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine ,
5414 Hath not in nature's mystery more science
5415 Than I have in this ring : 'twas mine , 'twas Helen's ,
5416 Whoever gave it you . Then , if you know
5417 That you are well acquainted with yourself ,
5418 Confess 'twas hers , and by what rough enforcement
5419 You got it from her . She call'd the saints to surety ,
5420 That she would never put it from her finger
5421 Unless she gave it to yourself in bed ,
5422 Where you have never come , or sent it us
5423 Upon her great disaster .
5424
5425 She never saw it .
5426
5427 Thou speak'st it falsely , as I love mine honour ;
5428 And mak'st conjectural fears to come into me
5429 Which I would fain shut out . If it should prove
5430 That thou art so inhuman ,'twill not prove so ;
5431 And yet I know not : thou didst hate her deadly ,
5432 And she is dead ; which nothing , but to close
5433 Her eyes myself , could win me to believe ,
5434 More than to see this ring . Take him away .
5435
5436 My fore-past proofs , howe'er the matter fall ,
5437 Shall tax my fears of little vanity ,
5438 Having vainly fear'd too little . Away with him !
5439 We'll sift this matter further .
5440
5441 If you shall prove
5442 This ring was ever hers , you shall as easy
5443 Prove that I husbanded her bed in Florence ,
5444 Where yet she never was .
5445
5446
5447 I am wrapp'd in dismal thinkings .
5448
5449
5450 Gracious sovereign ,
5451 Whether I have been to blame or no , I know not :
5452 Here's a petition from a Florentine ,
5453 Who hath , for four or five removes come short
5454 To tender it herself . I undertook it ,
5455 Vanquish'd thereto by the fair grace and speech
5456 Of the poor suppliant , who by this I know
5457 Is here attending : her business looks in her
5458 With an importing visage , and she told me ,
5459 In a sweet verbal brief , it did concern
5460 Your highness with herself .
5461
5462 "Upon his many protestations to marry me when his wife was dead , I blush to say it , he won me . Now is the Count Rousillon a widower : his vows are forfeited to me , and my honour's paid to him . He stole from Florence , taking no leave , and I follow him to his country for justice . Grant it me , O king ! in you it best lies ; otherwise a seducer flourishes , and a poor maid is undone . DIANA CAPILET ."
5463
5464 I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair , and toll for this : I'll none of him .
5465
5466 The heavens have thought well on thee , Lafeu ,
5467 To bring forth this discovery . Seek these suitors :
5468 Go speedily and bring again the count .
5469
5470 I am afeard the life of Helen , lady ,
5471 Was foully snatch'd .
5472
5473 Now , justice on the doers !
5474
5475
5476 I wonder , sir , sith wives are monsters to you ,
5477 And that you fly them as you swear them lordship ,
5478 Yet you desire to marry .
5479
5480 What woman's that ?
5481
5482 I am , my lord , a wretched Florentine ,
5483 Derived from the ancient Capilet :
5484 My suit , as I do understand , you know ,
5485 And therefore know how far I may be pitied .
5486
5487 I am her mother , sir , whose age and honour
5488 Both suffer under this complaint we bring ,
5489 And both shall cease , without your remedy .
5490
5491 Come hither , county ; do you know these women ?
5492
5493 My lord , I neither can nor will deny
5494 But that I know them : do they charge me further ?
5495
5496 Why do you look so strange upon your wife ?
5497
5498 She's none of mine , my lord .
5499
5500 If you shall marry ,
5501 You give away this hand , and that is mine ;
5502 You give away heaven's vows , and those are mine ;
5503 You give away myself , which is known mine ;
5504 For I by vow am so embodied yours
5505 That she which marries you must marry me ;
5506 Either both or none .
5507
5508 Your reputation comes too short for my daughter : you are no husband for her .
5509
5510 My lord , this is a fond and desperate creature ,
5511 Whom sometime I have laugh'd with : let your highness
5512 Lay a more noble thought upon mine honour
5513 Than for to think that I would sink it here .
5514
5515 Sir , for my thoughts , you have them ill to friend ,
5516 Till your deeds gain them : fairer prove your honour ,
5517 Than in my thought it lies .
5518
5519 Good my lord ,
5520 Ask him upon his oath , if he does think
5521 He had not my virginity .
5522
5523 What sayst thou to her ?
5524
5525 She's impudent , my lord ;
5526 And was a common gamester to the camp .
5527
5528 He does me wrong , my lord ; if I were so ,
5529 He might have bought me at a common price :
5530 Do not believe him . O ! behold this ring ,
5531 Whose high respect and rich validity
5532 Did lack a parallel ; yet for all that
5533 He gave it to a commoner o' the camp ,
5534 If I be one .
5535
5536 He blushes , and 'tis it :
5537 Of six preceding ancestors , that gem
5538 Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue ,
5539 Hath it been ow'd and worn . This is his wife :
5540 That ring's a thousand proofs .
5541
5542 Methought you said
5543 You saw one here in court could witness it .
5544
5545 I did , my lord , but loath am to produce
5546 So bad an instrument : his name's Parolles .
5547
5548 I saw the man to-day , if man he be .
5549
5550 Find him , and bring him hither .
5551
5552
5553 What of him ?
5554 He's quoted for a most perfidious slave ,
5555 With all the spots of the world tax'd and debosh'd ,
5556 Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth .
5557 Am I or that or this for what he'll utter ,
5558 That will speak anything ?
5559
5560 She hath that ring of yours .
5561
5562 I think she has : certain it is I lik'd her ,
5563 And boarded her i' the wanton way of youth .
5564 She knew her distance and did angle for me ,
5565 Madding my eagerness with her restraint ,
5566 As all impediments in fancy's course
5567 Are motives of more fancy ; and , in fine ,
5568 Her infinite cunning , with her modern grace ,
5569 Subdued me to her rate ; she got the ring ,
5570 And I had that which any inferior might
5571 At market-price have bought .
5572
5573 I must be patient ;
5574 You , that have turn'd off a first so noble wife ,
5575 May justly diet me . I pray you yet ,
5576 Since you lack virtue I will lose a husband ,
5577 Send for your ring ; I will return it home ,
5578 And give me mine again .
5579
5580 I have it not .
5581
5582 What ring was yours , I pray you ?
5583
5584 Sir , much like
5585 The same upon your finger .
5586
5587 Know you this ring ? this ring was his of late .
5588
5589 And this was it I gave him , being a-bed .
5590
5591 The story then goes false you threw it him
5592 Out of a casement .
5593
5594 I have spoke the truth .
5595
5596
5597 My lord , I do confess the ring was hers .
5598
5599 You boggle shrewdly , every feather starts you .
5600 Is this the man you speak of ?
5601
5602 Ay , my lord .
5603
5604 Tell me , sirrah , but tell me true , I charge you ,
5605 Not fearing the displeasure of your master ,
5606 Which , on your just proceeding I'll keep off ,
5607 By him and by this woman here what know you ?
5608
5609 So please your majesty , my master hath been an honourable gentleman : tricks he hath had in him , which gentlemen have .
5610
5611 Come , come , to the purpose : did he love this woman ?
5612
5613 Faith , sir , he did love her ; but how ?
5614
5615 How , I pray you ?
5616
5617 He did love her , sir , as a gentleman loves a woman .
5618
5619 How is that ?
5620
5621 He loved her , sir , and loved her not .
5622
5623 As thou art a knave , and no knave .
5624 What an equivocal companion is this !
5625
5626 I am a poor man , and at your majesty's command .
5627
5628 He is a good drum , my lord , but a naughty orator .
5629
5630 Do you know he promised me marriage ?
5631
5632 Faith , I know more than I'll speak .
5633
5634 But wilt thou not speak all thou knowest ?
5635
5636 Yes , so please your majesty . I did go between them , as I said ; but more than that , he loved her , for , indeed , he was mad for her , and talked of Satan , and of limbo , and of Furies , and I know not what : yet I was in that credit with them at that time , that I knew of their going to bed , and of other motions , as promising her marriage , and things which would derive me ill will to speak of : therefore I will not speak what I know .
5637
5638 Thou hast spoken all already , unless thou canst say they are married : but thou art too fine in thy evidence ; therefore stand aside . This ring , you say , was yours ?
5639
5640 Ay , my good lord .
5641
5642 Where did you buy it ? or who gave it you ?
5643
5644 It was not given me , nor I did not buy it .
5645
5646 Who lent it you ?
5647
5648 It was not lent me neither .
5649
5650 Where did you find it , then ?
5651
5652 I found it not .
5653
5654 If it were yours by none of all these ways ,
5655 How could you give it him ?
5656
5657 I never gave it him .
5658
5659 This woman's an easy glove , my lord : she goes off and on at pleasure .
5660
5661 This ring was mine : I gave it his first wife .
5662
5663 It might be yours or hers , for aught I know .
5664
5665 Take her away ; I do not like her now .
5666 To prison with her ; and away with him .
5667 Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring
5668 Thou diest within this hour .
5669
5670 I'll never tell you .
5671
5672 Take her away .
5673
5674 I'll put in bail , my liege .
5675
5676 I think thee now some common customer .
5677
5678 By Jove , if ever I knew man , 'twas you .
5679
5680 Wherefore hast thou accus'd him all this while ?
5681
5682 Because he's guilty , and he is not guilty .
5683 He knows I am no maid , and he'll swear to't ;
5684 I'll swear I am a maid , and he knows not .
5685 Great king , I am no strumpet , by my life ;
5686 I am either maid , or else this old man's wife .
5687
5688
5689 She does abuse our ears : to prison with her !
5690
5691 Good mother , fetch my bail .
5692
5693 Stay , royal sir ;
5694 The jeweller that owes the ring is sent for ,
5695 And he shall surety me . But for this lord ,
5696 Who hath abus'd me , as he knows himself ,
5697 Though yet he never harm'd me , here I quit him :
5698 He knows himself my bed he hath defil'd ,
5699 And at that time he got his wife with child :
5700 Dead though she be , she feels her young one kick :
5701 So there's my riddle : one that's dead is quick ;
5702 And now behold the meaning .
5703
5704
5705 Is there no exorcist
5706 Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes ?
5707 Is't real that I see ?
5708
5709 No , my good lord ;
5710 'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see ;
5711 The name and not the thing .
5712
5713 Both , both . O ! pardon .
5714
5715 O my good lord ! when I was like this maid ,
5716 I found you wondrous kind . There is your ring ;
5717 And , look you , here's your letter ; this it says :
5718 When from my finger you can get this ring ,
5719 And are by me with child , &c . This is done :
5720 Will you be mine , now you are doubly won ?
5721
5722 If she , my liege , can make me know this clearly ,
5723 I'll love her dearly , ever , ever dearly .
5724
5725 If it appear not plain , and prove untrue ,
5726 Deadly divorce step between me and you !
5727 O ! my dear mother ; do I see you living ?
5728
5729 Mine eyes smell onions ; I shall weep anon .
5730
5731 Good Tom Drum , lend me a handkercher : so , I thank thee . Wait on me home , I'll make sport with thee : let thy curtsies alone , they are scurvy ones .
5732
5733 Let us from point to point this story know ,
5734 To make the even truth in pleasure flow .
5735
5736
5737 If thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped flower ,
5738 Choose thou thy husband , and I'll pay thy dower ;
5739 For I can guess that by thy honest aid
5740 Thou keptst a wife herself , thyself a maid .
5741 Of that , and all the progress , more and less ,
5742 Resolvedly more leisure shall express :
5743 All yet seems well ; and if it end so meet ,
5744 The bitter past , more welcome is the sweet .
5745
5746 Spoken by the The king's a beggar , now the play is done :
5747 All is well ended if this suit be won
5748 That you express content ; which we will pay ,
5749 With strife to please you , day exceeding day :
5750 Ours be your patience then , and yours our parts ;
5751 Your gentle hands lend us , and take our hearts .
5752
5753 AS YOU LIKE IT
5754
5755 As I remember , Adam , it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns , and , as thou sayest , charged my brother on his blessing , to breed me well : and there begins my sadness . My brother Jaques he keeps at school , and report speaks goldenly of his profit : for my part , he keeps me rustically at home , or , to speak more properly , stays me here at home unkept ; for call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth , that differs not from the stalling of an ox ? His horses are bred better ; for , besides that they are fair with their feeding , they are taught their manage , and to that end riders dearly hired : but I , his brother , gain nothing under him but growth , for the which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him as I . Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me , the something that nature gave me , his countenance seems to take from me : he lets me feed with his hinds , bars me the place of a brother , and , as much as in him lies , mines my gentility with my education . This is it , Adam , that grieves me ; and the spirit of my father , which I think is within me , begins to mutiny against this servitude . I will no longer endure it , though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it .
5756
5757 Yonder comes my master , your brother .
5758
5759 Go apart , Adam , and thou shalt hear how he will shake me up .
5760
5761
5762 Now , sir ! what make you here ?
5763
5764 Nothing : I am not taught to make anything .
5765
5766 What mar you then , sir ?
5767
5768 Marry , sir , I am helping you to mar that which God made , a poor unworthy brother of yours , with idleness .
5769
5770 Marry , sir , be better employed , and be naught awhile .
5771
5772 Shall I keep your hogs , and eat husks with them ? What prodigal portion have I spent , that I should come to such penury ?
5773
5774 Know you where you are , sir ?
5775
5776 O ! sir , very well : here in your orchard .
5777
5778 Know you before whom , sir ?
5779
5780 Ay , better than he I am before knows me . I know you are my eldest brother ; and , in the gentle condition of blood , you should so know me . The courtesy of nations allows you my better , in that you are the first-born ; but the same tradition takes not away my blood , were there twenty brothers betwixt us . I have as much of my father in me as you ; albeit , I confess , your coming before me is nearer to his reverence .
5781
5782 What , boy !
5783
5784 Come , come , elder brother , you are too young in this .
5785
5786 Wilt thou lay hands on me , villain ?
5787
5788 I am no villain ; I am the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys ; he was my father , and he is thrice a villain that says such a father begot villains . Wert thou not my brother , I would not take this hand from thy throat till this other had pulled out thy tongue for saying so : thou hast railed on thyself .
5789
5790 Sweet masters , be patient : for your father's remembrance , be at accord .
5791
5792 Let me go , I say .
5793
5794 I will not , till I please : you shall hear me . My father charged you in his will to give me good education : you have trained me like a peasant , obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities . The spirit of my father grows strong in me , and I will no longer endure it ; therefore allow me such exercises as may become a gentleman , or give me the poor allottery my father left me by testament ; with that I will go buy my fortunes .
5795
5796 And what wilt thou do ? beg , when that is spent ? Well , sir , get you in : I will not long be troubled with you ; you shall have some part of your will : I pray you , leave me .
5797
5798 I will no further offend you than becomes me for my good .
5799
5800 Get you with him , you old dog .
5801
5802 Is 'old dog' my reward ? Most true , I have lost my teeth in your service . God be with my old master ! he would not have spoke such a word .
5803
5804
5805 Is it even so ? begin you to grow upon me ? I will physic your rankness , and yet give no thousand crowns neither . Holla , Dennis !
5806
5807
5808 Calls your worship ?
5809
5810 Was not Charles the duke's wrestler here to speak with me ?
5811
5812 So please you , he is here at the door , and importunes access to you .
5813
5814 Call him in .
5815
5816 'Twill be a good way ; and to-morrow the wrestling is .
5817
5818
5819 Good morrow to your worship .
5820
5821 Good Monsieur Charles , what's the new news at the new court ?
5822
5823 There's no news at the court , sir , but the old news : that is , the old duke is banished by his younger brother the new duke ; and three or four loving lords have put themselves into voluntary exile with him , whose lands and revenues enrich the new duke ; therefore he gives them good leave to wander .
5824
5825 Can you tell if Rosalind , the duke's daughter , be banished with her father ?
5826
5827 O , no ; for the duke's daughter , her cousin , so loves her ,being ever from their cradles bred together ,that she would have followed her exile , or have died to stay behind her . She is at the court , and no less beloved of her uncle than his own daughter ; and never two ladies loved as they do .
5828
5829 Where will the old duke live ?
5830
5831 They say he is already in the forest of Arden , and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England . They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day , and fleet the time carelessly , as they did in the golden world .
5832
5833 What , you wrestle to-morrow before the new duke ?
5834
5835 Marry , do I , sir ; and I came to acquaint you with a matter . I am given , sir , secretly to understand that your younger brother Orlando hath a disposition to come in disguised against me to try a fall . To-morrow , sir , I wrestle for my credit , and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well . Your brother is but young and tender ; and , for your love , I would be loath to foil him as I must , for my own honour , if he come in : therefore , out of my love to you , I came hither to acquaint you withal , that either you might stay him from his intendment , or brook such disgrace well as he shall run into , in that it is a thing of his own search and altogether against my will .
5836
5837 Charles , I thank thee for thy love to me , which thou shalt find I will most kindly requite . I had myself notice of my brother's purpose herein , and have by underhand means laboured to dissuade him from it , but he is resolute . I'll tell thee , Charles , it is the stubbornest young fellow of France ; full of ambition , an envious emulator of every man's good parts , a secret and villanous contriver against me his natural brother : therefore use thy discretion . I had as lief thou didst break his neck as his finger . And thou wert best look to't ; for if thou dost him any slight disgrace , or if he do not mightily grace himself on thee , he will practise against thee by poison , entrap thee by some treacherous device , and never leave thee till he hath ta'en thy life by some indirect means or other ; for , I assure thee ,and almost with tears I speak it ,there is not one so young and so villanous this day living . I speak but brotherly of him ; but should I anatomize him to thee as he is , I must blush and weep , and thou must look pale and wonder .
5838
5839 I am heartily glad I came hither to you . If he come to-morrow , I'll give him his payment : if ever he go alone again , I'll never wrestle for prize more ; and so God keep your worship !
5840
5841
5842 Farewell , good Charles . Now will I stir this gamester . I hope I shall see an end of him ; for my soul , yet I know not why , hates nothing more than he . Yet he's gentle , never schooled and yet learned , full of noble device , of all sorts enchantingly beloved , and , indeed so much in the heart of the world , and especially of my own people , who best know him , that I am altogether misprised . But it shall not be so long ; this wrestler shall clear all : nothing remains but that I kindle the boy thither , which now I'll go about .
5843
5844 I pray thee , Rosalind , sweet my coz , be merry .
5845
5846 Dear Celia , I show more mirth than I am mistress of , and would you yet I were merrier ? Unless you could teach me to forget a banished father , you must not learn me how to remember any extraordinary pleasure .
5847
5848 Herein I see thou lovest me not with the full weight that I love thee . If my uncle , thy banished father , had banished thy uncle , the duke my father , so thou hadst been still with me , I could have taught my love to take thy father for mine : so wouldst thou , if the truth of thy love to me were so righteously tempered as mine is to thee .
5849
5850 Well , I will forget the condition of my estate , to rejoice in yours .
5851
5852 You know my father hath no child but I , nor none is like to have ; and , truly , when he dies , thou shalt be his heir : for what he hath taken away from thy father perforce , I will render thee again in affection ; by mine honour , I will ; and when I break that oath , let me turn monster . Therefore , my sweet Rose , my dear Rose , be merry .
5853
5854 From henceforth I will , coz , and devise sports . Let me see ; what think you of falling in love ?
5855
5856 Marry , I prithee , do , to make sport withal : but love no man in good earnest ; nor no further in sport neither , than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst in honour come off again .
5857
5858 What shall be our sport then ?
5859
5860 Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel , that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally .
5861
5862 I would we could do so , for her benefits are mightily misplaced , and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women .
5863
5864 'Tis true ; for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest , and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly .
5865
5866 Nay , now thou goest from Fortune's office to Nature's : Fortune reigns in gifts of the world , not in the lineaments of Nature .
5867
5868
5869 No ? when Nature hath made a fair creature , may she not by Fortune fall into the fire ? Though Nature hath given us wit to flout at Fortune , hath not Fortune sent in this fool to cut off the argument ?
5870
5871 Indeed , there is Fortune too hard for Nature , when Fortune makes Nature's natural the cutter-off of Nature's wit .
5872
5873 Peradventure this is not Fortune's work neither , but Nature's ; who , perceiving our natural wits too dull to reason of such goddesses , hath sent this natural for our whetstone : for always the dulness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits . How now , wit ! whither wander you ?
5874
5875 Mistress , you must come away to your father .
5876
5877 Were you made the messenger ?
5878
5879 No , by mine honour ; but I was bid to come for you .
5880
5881 Where learned you that oath , fool ?
5882
5883 Of a certain knight that swore by his honour they were good pancakes , and swore by his honour the mustard was naught : now , I'll stand to it , the pancakes were naught and the mustard was good , and yet was not the knight forsworn .
5884
5885 How prove you that , in the great heap of your knowledge ?
5886
5887 Ay , marry : now unmuzzle your wisdom .
5888
5889 Stand you both forth now : stroke your chins , and swear by your beards that I am a knave .
5890
5891 By our beards , if we had them , thou art .
5892
5893 By my knavery , if I had it , then I were ; but if you swear by that that is not , you are not forsworn : no more was this knight , swearing by his honour , for he never had any ; or if he had , he had sworn it away before ever he saw those pancakes or that mustard .
5894
5895 Prithee , who is't that thou meanest ?
5896
5897 One that old Frederick , your father , loves .
5898
5899 My father's love is enough to honour him . Enough ! speak no more of him ; you'll be whipped for taxation one of these days .
5900
5901 The more pity , that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly .
5902
5903 By my troth , thou sayest true ; for since the little wit that fools have was silenced , the little foolery that wise men have makes a great show . Here comes Monsieur Le Beau .
5904
5905 With his mouth full of news .
5906
5907 Which he will put on us , as pigeons feed their young .
5908
5909 Then we shall be news-cramm'd .
5910
5911 All the better ; we shall be more marketable .
5912
5913 Bon jour , Monsieur Le Beau : what's the news ?
5914
5915 Fair princess , you have lost much good sport .
5916
5917 Sport ! Of what colour ?
5918
5919 What colour , madam ! How shall
5920 I answer you ?
5921
5922 As wit and fortune will .
5923
5924 Or as the Destinies decree .
5925
5926 Well said : that was laid on with a trowel .
5927
5928 Nay , if I keep not my rank ,
5929
5930 Thou losest thy old smell .
5931
5932 You amaze me , ladies : I would have told you of good wrestling , which you have lost the sight of .
5933
5934 Yet tell us the manner of the wrestling .
5935
5936 I will tell you the beginning ; and , if it please your ladyships , you may see the end , for the best is yet to do ; and here , where you are , they are coming to perform it .
5937
5938 Well , the beginning , that is dead and buried .
5939
5940 There comes an old man and his three sons ,
5941
5942 I could match this beginning with an old tale .
5943
5944 Three proper young men , of excellent growth and presence ;
5945
5946 With bills on their necks , 'Be it known unto all men by these presents .'
5947
5948 The eldest of the three wrestled with Charles , the duke's wrestler ; which Charles in a moment threw him and broke three of his ribs , that there is little hope of life in him : so he served the second , and so the third . Yonder they lie ; the poor old man , their father , making such pitiful dole over them that all the beholders take his part with weeping .
5949
5950 Alas !
5951
5952 But what is the sport , monsieur , that the ladies have lost ?
5953
5954 Why , this that I speak of .
5955
5956 Thus men may grow wiser every day : it is the first time that ever I heard breaking of ribs was sport for ladies .
5957
5958 Or I , I promise thee .
5959
5960 But is there any else longs to feel this broken music in his sides ? is there yet another dotes upon rib-breaking ? Shall we see this wrestling , cousin ?
5961
5962 You must , if you stay here ; for here is the place appointed for the wrestling , and they are ready to perform it .
5963
5964 Yonder , sure , they are coming : let us now stay and see it .
5965
5966
5967 Come on : since the youth will not be entreated , his own peril on his forwardness .
5968
5969 Is yonder the man ?
5970
5971 Even he , madam .
5972
5973 Alas ! he is too young : yet he looks successfully .
5974
5975 How now , daughter and cousin ! are you crept hither to see the wrestling ?
5976
5977 Ay , my liege , so please you give us leave .
5978
5979 You will take little delight in it , I can tell you , there is such odds in the man : in pity of the challenger's youth I would fam dissuade him , but he will not be entreated . Speak to him , ladies ; see if you can move him .
5980
5981 Call him hither , good Monsieur le Beau .
5982
5983 Do so : I'll not be by .
5984
5985
5986 Monsieur the challenger , the princes call for you .
5987
5988 I attend them with all respect and duty .
5989
5990 Young man , have you challenged Charles the wrestler ?
5991
5992 No , fair princess ; he is the general challenger : I come but in , as others do , to try with him the strength of my youth .
5993
5994 Young gentleman , your spirits are too bold for your years . You have seen cruel proof of this man's strength : if you saw yourself with your eyes or knew yourself with your judgment , the fear of your adventure would counsel you to a more equal enterprise . We pray you , for your own sake , to embrace your own safety and give over this attempt .
5995
5996 Do , young sir : your reputation shall not therefore be misprised . We will make it our suit to the duke that the wrestling might not go forward .
5997
5998 I beseech you , punish me not with your hard thoughts , wherein I confess me much guilty , to deny so fair and excellent ladies anything . But let your fair eyes and gentle wishes go with me to my trial : wherein if I be foiled , there is but one shamed that was never gracious ; if killed , but one dead that is willing to be so . I shall do my friends no wrong , for I have none to lament me ; the world no injury , for in it I have nothing ; only in the world I fill up a place , which may be better supplied when I have made it empty .
5999
6000 The little strength that I have , I would it were with you .
6001
6002 And mine , to eke out hers .
6003
6004 Fare you well . Pray heaven I be deceived in you !
6005
6006 Your heart's desires be with you !
6007
6008 Come , where is this young gallant that is so desirous to lie with his mother earth ?
6009
6010 Ready , sir ; but his will hath in it a more modest working .
6011
6012 You shall try but one fall .
6013
6014 No , I warrant your Grace , you shall not entreat him to a second , that have so mightily persuaded him from a first .
6015
6016 You mean to mock me after ; you should not have mocked me before : but come your ways .
6017
6018 Now Hercules be thy speed , young man !
6019
6020 I would I were invisible , to catch the strong fellow by the leg .
6021
6022
6023 O excellent young man !
6024
6025 If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye , I can tell who should down .
6026
6027
6028 No more , no more .
6029
6030 Yes , I beseech your Grace : I am not yet well breathed .
6031
6032 How dost thou , Charles ?
6033
6034 He cannot speak , my lord .
6035
6036 Bear him away . What is thy name , young man ?
6037
6038
6039 Orlando , my liege ; the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys .
6040
6041 I would thou hadst been son to some man else :
6042 The world esteem'd thy father honourable ,
6043 But I did find him still mine enemy :
6044 Thou shouldst have better pleas'd me with this deed ,
6045 Hadst thou descended from another house .
6046 But fare thee well ; thou art a gallant youth :
6047 I would thou hadst told me of another father .
6048
6049
6050 Were I my father , coz , would I do this ?
6051
6052 I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son ,
6053 His youngest son ; and would not change that calling ,
6054 To be adopted heir to Frederick .
6055
6056 My father lov'd Sir Rowland as his soul ,
6057 And all the world was of my father's mind :
6058 Had I before known this young man his son ,
6059 I should have given him tears unto entreaties ,
6060 Ere he should thus have ventur'd .
6061
6062 Gentle cousin ,
6063 Let us go thank him and encourage him :
6064 My father's rough and envious disposition
6065 Sticks me at heart . Sir , you have well deserv'd :
6066 If you do keep your promises in love
6067 But justly , as you have exceeded all promise ,
6068 Your mistress shall be happy .
6069
6070 Gentleman ,
6071
6072 Wear this for me , one out of suits with fortune ,
6073 That could give more , but that her hand lacks means .
6074 Shall we go , coz ?
6075
6076 Ay . Fare you well , fair gentleman .
6077
6078 Can I not say , I thank you ? My better parts
6079 Are all thrown down , and that which here stands up
6080 Is but a quintain , a mere lifeless block .
6081
6082 He calls us back : my pride fell with my fortunes ;
6083 I'll ask him what he would . Did you call , sir ?
6084 Sir , you have wrestled well , and overthrown
6085 More than your enemies .
6086
6087 Will you go , coz ?
6088
6089 Have with you . Fare you well .
6090
6091
6092 What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue ?
6093 I cannot speak to her , yet she urg'd conference .
6094 O poor Orlando , thou art overthrown !
6095 Or Charles or something weaker masters thee .
6096
6097
6098 Good sir , I do in friendship counsel you
6099 To leave this place . Albeit you have deserv'd
6100 High commendation , true applause and love ,
6101 Yet such is now the duke's condition
6102 That he misconstrues all that you have done .
6103 The duke is humorous : what he is indeed ,
6104 More suits you to conceive than I to speak of .
6105
6106 I thank you , sir ; and pray you , tell me this ;
6107 Which of the two was daughter of the duke ,
6108 That here was at the wrestling ?
6109
6110 Neither his daughter , if we judge by manners :
6111 But yet , indeed the smaller is his daughter :
6112 The other is daughter to the banish'd duke ,
6113 And here detain'd by her usurping uncle ,
6114 To keep his daughter company ; whose loves
6115 Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters .
6116 But I can tell you that of late this duke
6117 Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece ,
6118 Grounded upon no other argument
6119 But that the people praise her for her virtues ,
6120 And pity her for her good father's sake ;
6121 And , on my life , his malice 'gainst the lady
6122 Will suddenly break forth . Sir , fare you well :
6123 Hereafter , in a better world than this ,
6124 I shall desire more love and knowledge of you .
6125
6126 I rest much bounden to you : fare you well .
6127
6128 Thus must I from the smoke into the smother ;
6129 From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother .
6130 But heavenly Rosalind !
6131
6132
6133 Why , cousin ! why , Rosalind ! Cupid have mercy ! Not a word ?
6134
6135 Not one to throw at a dog .
6136
6137 No , thy words are too precious to be cast away upon curs ; throw some of them at me ; come , lame me with reasons .
6138
6139 Then there were two cousins laid up ; when the one should be lamed with reasons and the other mad without any .
6140
6141 But is all this for your father ?
6142
6143 No , some of it is for my child's father :
6144 O , how full of briers is this working-day world !
6145
6146 They are but burrs , cousin , thrown upon thee in holiday foolery : if we walk not in the trodden paths , our very petticoats will catch them .
6147
6148 I could shake them off my coat : these burrs are in my heart .
6149
6150 Hem them away .
6151
6152 I would try , if I could cry 'hem ,' and have him .
6153
6154 Come , come ; wrestle with thy affections .
6155
6156 O ! they take the part of a better wrestler than myself !
6157
6158 O , a good wish upon you ! you will try in time , in despite of a fall . But , turning these jests out of service , let us talk in good earnest : is it possible , on such a sudden , you should fall into so strong a liking with old Sir Rowland's youngest son ?
6159
6160 The duke my father loved his father dearly .
6161
6162 Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son dearly ? By this kind of chase , I should hate him , for my father hated his father dearly ; yet I hate not Orlando .
6163
6164 No , faith , hate him not , for my sake .
6165
6166 Why should I not ? doth he not deserve well ?
6167
6168 Let me love him for that ; and do you love him , because I do . Look , here comes the duke .
6169
6170 With his eyes full of anger .
6171
6172
6173 Mistress , dispatch you with your safest haste ,
6174 And get you from our court .
6175
6176 Me , uncle ?
6177
6178 You , cousin :
6179 Within these ten days if that thou be'st found
6180 So near our public court as twenty miles ,
6181 Thou diest for it .
6182
6183 I do beseech your Grace ,
6184 Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me .
6185 If with myself I hold intelligence ,
6186 Or have acquaintance with mine own desires ,
6187 If that I do not dream or be not frantic ,
6188 As I do trust I am not ,then , dear uncle ,
6189 Never so much as in a thought unborn
6190 Did I offend your highness .
6191
6192 Thus do all traitors :
6193 If their purgation did consist in words ,
6194 They are as innocent as grace itself :
6195 Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not .
6196
6197 Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor :
6198 Tell me whereon the likelihood depends .
6199
6200 Thou art thy father's daughter ; there's enough .
6201
6202 So was I when your highness took his dukedom ;
6203 So was I when your highness banish'd him .
6204 Treason is not inherited , my lord ;
6205 Or , if we did derive it from our friends ,
6206 What's that to me ? my father was no traitor :
6207 Then , good my liege , mistake me not so much
6208 To think my poverty is treacherous .
6209
6210 Dear sovereign , hear me speak .
6211
6212 Ay , Celia ; we stay'd her for your sake ;
6213 Else had she with her father rang'd along .
6214
6215 I did not then entreat to have her stay :
6216 It was your pleasure and your own remorse .
6217 I was too young that time to value her ;
6218 But now I know her : if she be a traitor ,
6219 Why so am I ; we still have slept together ,
6220 Rose at an instant , learn'd , play'd , eat together ;
6221 And wheresoe'er we went , like Juno's swans ,
6222 Still we went coupled and inseparable .
6223
6224 She is too subtle for thee ; and her smoothness ,
6225 Her very silence and her patience ,
6226 Speak to the people , and they pity her .
6227 Thou art a fool : she robs thee of thy name ;
6228 And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous
6229 When she is gone . Then open not thy lips :
6230 Firm and irrevocable is my doom
6231 Which I have pass'd upon her ; she is banish'd .
6232
6233 Pronounce that sentence then , on me , my liege :
6234 I cannot live out of her company .
6235
6236 You are a fool . You , niece , provide yourself :
6237 If you outstay the time , upon mine honour ,
6238 And in the greatness of my word , you die .
6239
6240
6241 O my poor Rosalind ! whither wilt thou go ?
6242 Wilt thou change fathers ? I will give thee mine .
6243 I charge thee , be not thou more griev'd than I am .
6244
6245 I have more cause .
6246
6247 Thou hast not , cousin ;
6248 Prithee , be cheerful ; know'st thou not , the duke
6249 Hath banish'd me , his daughter ?
6250
6251 That he hath not .
6252
6253 No , hath not ? Rosalind lacks then the love
6254 Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one :
6255 Shall we be sunder'd ? shall we part , sweet girl ?
6256 No : let my father seek another heir .
6257 Therefore devise with me how we may fly ,
6258 Whither to go , and what to bear with us :
6259 And do not seek to take your change upon you ,
6260 To bear your griefs yourself and leave me out ;
6261 For , by this heaven , now at our sorrows pale ,
6262 Say what thou canst , I'll go along with thee .
6263
6264 Why , whither shall we go ?
6265
6266 To seek my uncle in the forest of Arden .
6267
6268 Alas , what danger will it be to us ,
6269 Maids as we are , to travel forth so far !
6270 Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold .
6271
6272 I'll put myself in poor and mean attire ,
6273 And with a kind of umber smirch my face ;
6274 The like do you : so shall we pass along
6275 And never stir assailants .
6276
6277 Were it not better ,
6278 Because that I am more than common tall ,
6279 That I did suit me all points like a man ?
6280 A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh ,
6281 A boar-spear in my hand ; and ,in my heart
6282 Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will ,
6283 We'll have a swashing and a martial outside ,
6284 As many other mannish cowards have
6285 That do outface it with their semblances .
6286
6287 What shall I call thee when thou art a man ?
6288
6289 I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page ,
6290 And therefore look you call me Ganymede .
6291 But what will you be call'd ?
6292
6293 Something that hath a reference to my state :
6294 No longer Celia , but Aliena .
6295
6296 But , cousin , what if we assay'd to steal
6297 The clownish fool out of your father's court ?
6298 Would he not be a comfort to our travel ?
6299
6300 He'll go along o'er the wide world with me ;
6301 Leave me alone to woo him . Let's away ,
6302 And get our jewels and our wealth together ,
6303 Devise the fittest time and safest way
6304 To hide us from pursuit that will be made
6305 After my flight . Now go we in content
6306 To liberty and not to banishment .
6307
6308 Now , my co-mates and brothers in exile ,
6309 Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
6310 Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods
6311 More free from peril than the envious court ?
6312 Here feel we but the penalty of Adam ,
6313 The seasons' difference ; as , the icy fang
6314 And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ,
6315 Which , when it bites and blows upon my body ,
6316 Even till I shrink with cold , I smile and say
6317 'This is no flattery : these are counsellors
6318 That feelingly persuade me what I am .'
6319 Sweet are the uses of adversity ,
6320 Which like the toad , ugly and venomous ,
6321 Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ;
6322 And this our life exempt from public haunt ,
6323 Finds tongues in trees , books in the running brooks ,
6324 Sermons in stones , and good in every thing .
6325 I would not change it .
6326
6327 Happy is your Grace ,
6328 That can translate the stubbornness of fortune
6329 Into so quiet and so sweet a style .
6330
6331 Come , shall we go and kill us venison ?
6332 And yet it irks me , the poor dappled fools ,
6333 Being native burghers of this desert city ,
6334 Should in their own confines with forked heads
6335 Have their round haunches gor'd .
6336
6337 Indeed , my lord ,
6338 The melancholy Jaques grieves at that ;
6339 And , in that kind , swears you do more usurp
6340 Than doth your brother that hath banish'd you .
6341 To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself
6342 Did steal behind him as he lay along
6343 Under an oak whose antique root peeps out
6344 Upon the brook that brawls along this wood ;
6345 To the which place a poor sequester'd stag ,
6346 That from the hunters' aim had ta'en a hurt ,
6347 Did come to languish ; and , indeed , my lord ,
6348 The wretched animal heav'd forth such groans
6349 That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat
6350 Almost to bursting , and the big round tears
6351 Cours'd one another down his innocent nose
6352 In piteous chase ; and thus the hairy fool ,
6353 Much marked of the melancholy Jaques ,
6354 Stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook ,
6355 Augmenting it with tears .
6356
6357 But what said Jaques ?
6358 Did he not moralize this spectacle ?
6359
6360 O , yes , into a thousand similes .
6361 First , for his weeping into the needless stream ;
6362 'Poor deer ,' quoth he , 'thou mak'st a testament
6363 As worldlings do , giving thy sum of more
6364 To that which had too much :' then , being there alone ,
6365 Left and abandon'd of his velvet friends ;
6366 ''Tis right ,' quoth he ; 'thus misery doth part
6367 The flux of company :' anon , a careless herd ,
6368 Full of the pasture , jumps along by him
6369 And never stays to greet him ; 'Ay ,' quoth Jaques ,
6370 'Sweep on , you fat and greasy citizens ;
6371 'Tis just the fashion ; wherefore do you look
6372 Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there ?'
6373 Thus most invectively he pierceth through
6374 The body of the country , city , court ,
6375 Yea , and of this our life ; swearing that we
6376 Are mere usurpers , tyrants , and what's worse ,
6377 To fright the animals and to kill them up
6378 In their assign'd and native dwelling-place .
6379
6380 And did you leave him in this contemplation ?
6381
6382 We did , my lord , weeping and commenting
6383 Upon the sobbing deer .
6384
6385 Show me the place .
6386 I love to cope him in these sullen fits ,
6387 For then he's full of matter .
6388
6389 I'll bring you to him straight .
6390
6391
6392 Can it be possible that no man saw them ?
6393 It cannot be : some villains of my court
6394 Are of consent and sufferance in this .
6395
6396 I cannot hear of any that did see her .
6397 The ladies , her attendants of her chamber ,
6398 Saw her a-bed ; and , in the morning early
6399 They found the bed untreasur'd of their mistress .
6400
6401 My lord , the roynish clown , at whom so oft
6402 Your Grace was wont to laugh , is also missing .
6403 Hisperia , the princess' gentlewoman ,
6404 Confesses that she secretly o'erheard
6405 Your daughter and her cousin much commend
6406 The parts and graces of the wrestler
6407 That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles ;
6408 And she believes , wherever they are gone ,
6409 That youth is surely in their company .
6410
6411 Send to his brother ; fetch that gallant hither ;
6412 If he be absent , bring his brother to me ;
6413 I'll make him find him . Do this suddenly ,
6414 And let not search and inquisition quail
6415 To bring again these foolish runaways .
6416
6417
6418 Who's there ?
6419
6420 What ! my young master ? O my gentle master !
6421 O my sweet master ! O you memory
6422 Of old Sir Rowland ! why , what make you here ?
6423 Why are you virtuous ? Why do people love you ?
6424 And wherefore are you gentle , strong , and valiant ?
6425 Why would you be so fond to overcome
6426 The bony priser of the humorous duke ?
6427 Your praise is come too swiftly home before you .
6428 Know you not , master , to some kind of men
6429 Their graces serve them but as enemies ?
6430 No more do yours : your virtues , gentle master ,
6431 Are sanctified and holy traitors to you .
6432 O , what a world is this , when what is comely
6433 Envenoms him that bears it !
6434
6435 Why , what's the matter ?
6436
6437 O unhappy youth !
6438 Come not within these doors ; within this roof
6439 The enemy of all your graces lives .
6440 Your brother ,no , no brother ; yet the son ,
6441 Yet not the son , I will not call him son
6442 Of him I was about to call his father ,
6443 Hath heard your praises , and this night he means
6444 To burn the lodging where you use to lie ,
6445 And you within it : if he fail of that ,
6446 He will have other means to cut you off .
6447 I overheard him and his practices .
6448 This is no place ; this house is but a butchery :
6449 Abhor it , fear it , do not enter it .
6450
6451 Why , whither , Adam , wouldst thou have me go ?
6452
6453 No matter whither , so you come not here .
6454
6455 What ! wouldst thou have me go and beg my food ?
6456 Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce
6457 A thievish living on the common road ?
6458 This I must do , or know not what to do :
6459 Yet this I will not do , do how I can ;
6460 I rather will subject me to the malice
6461 Of a diverted blood and bloody brother .
6462
6463 But do not so . I have five hundred crowns ,
6464 The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father ,
6465 Which I did store to be my foster-nurse
6466 When service should in my old limbs lie lame ,
6467 And unregarded age in corners thrown .
6468 Take that ; and He that doth the ravens feed ,
6469 Yea , providently caters for the sparrow ,
6470 Be comfort to my age ! Here is the gold ;
6471 All this I give you . Let me be your servant :
6472 Though I look old , yet I am strong and lusty ;
6473 For in my youth I never did apply
6474 Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood ,
6475 Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
6476 The means of weakness and debility ;
6477 Therefore my age is as a lusty winter ,
6478 Frosty , but kindly . Let me go with you ;
6479 I'll do the service of a younger man
6480 In all your business and necessities .
6481
6482 O good old man ! how well in thee appears
6483 The constant service of the antique world ,
6484 When service sweat for duty , not for meed !
6485 Thou art not for the fashion of these times ,
6486 Where none will sweat but for promotion ,
6487 And having that , do choke their service up
6488 Even with the having : it is not so with thee .
6489 But , poor old man , thou prun'st a rotten tree ,
6490 That cannot so much as a blossom yield ,
6491 In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry .
6492 But come thy ways , we'll go along together ,
6493 And ere we have thy youthful wages spent ,
6494 We'll light upon some settled low content .
6495
6496 Master , go on , and I will follow thee
6497 To the last gasp with truth and loyalty .
6498 From seventeen years till now almost fourscore
6499 Here lived I , but now live here no more .
6500 At seventeen years many their fortunes seek ;
6501 But at fourscore it is too late a week :
6502 Yet fortune cannot recompense me better
6503 Than to die well and not my master's debtor .
6504
6505
6506 O Jupiter ! how weary are my spirits .
6507
6508 I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary .
6509
6510 I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman ; but I must comfort the weaker vessel , as doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat : therefore , courage , good Aliena .
6511
6512 I pray you , bear with me : I cannot go no further .
6513
6514 For my part , I had rather bear with you than bear you ; yet I should bear no cross if I did bear you , for I think you have no money in your purse .
6515
6516 Well , this is the forest of Arden .
6517
6518 Ay , now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home , I was in a better place : but travellers must be content .
6519
6520 Ay , be so , good Touchstone . Look you , who comes here ; a young man and an old in solemn talk .
6521
6522
6523 That is the way to make her scorn you still .
6524
6525 O Corin , that thou knew'st how I do love her !
6526
6527 I partly guess , for I have lov'd ere now .
6528
6529 No , Corin ; being old , thou canst not guess ,
6530 Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover
6531 As ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow :
6532 But if thy love were ever like to mine ,
6533 As sure I think did never man love so ,
6534 How many actions most ridiculous
6535 Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy ?
6536
6537 Into a thousand that I have forgotten .
6538
6539 O ! thou didst then ne'er love so heartily .
6540 If thou remember'st not the slightest folly
6541 That ever love did make thee run into ,
6542 Thou hast not lov'd :
6543 Or if thou hast not sat as I do now ,
6544 Wearing thy hearer with thy mistress' praise ,
6545 Thou hast not lov'd :
6546 Or if thou hast not broke from company
6547 Abruptly , as my passion now makes me ,
6548 Thou hast not lov'd . O Phebe , Phebe , Phebe !
6549
6550
6551 Alas , poor shepherd ! searching of thy wound ,
6552 I have by hard adventure found mine own .
6553
6554 And I mine . I remember , when I was in love I broke my sword upon a stone , and bid him take that for coming a-night to Jane Smile ; and I remember the kissing of her batler , and the cow's dugs that her pretty chopped hands had milked ; and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her , from whom I took two cods , and giving her them again , said with weeping tears , 'Wear these for my sake .' We that are true lovers run into strange capers ; but as all is mortal in nature , so is all nature in love mortal in folly .
6555
6556 Thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of .
6557
6558 Nay , I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I break my shins against it .
6559
6560 Jove , Jove ! this shepherd's passion
6561 Is much upon my fashion .
6562
6563 And mine ; but it grows something stale with me .
6564
6565 I pray you , one of you question yond man ,
6566 If he for gold will give us any food :
6567 I faint almost to death .
6568
6569 Holla , you clown !
6570
6571 Peace , fool : he's not thy kinsman .
6572
6573 Who calls ?
6574
6575 Your betters , sir .
6576
6577 Else are they very wretched .
6578
6579 Peace , I say . Good even to you , friend .
6580
6581 And to you , gentle sir , and to you all .
6582
6583 I prithee , shepherd , if that love or gold
6584 Can in this desert place buy entertainment ,
6585 Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed .
6586 Here's a young maid with travel much oppress'd ,
6587 And faints for succour .
6588
6589 Fair sir , I pity her ,
6590 And wish , for her sake more than for mine own ,
6591 My fortunes were more able to relieve her ;
6592 But I am shepherd to another man ,
6593 And do not shear the fleeces that I graze :
6594 My master is of churlish disposition
6595 And little recks to find the way to heaven
6596 By doing deeds of hospitality .
6597 Besides , his cote , his flocks , and bounds of feed
6598 Are now on sale ; and at our sheepcote now ,
6599 By reason of his absence , there is nothing
6600 That you will feed on ; but what is , come see ,
6601 And in my voice most welcome shall you be .
6602
6603 What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture ?
6604
6605 That young swain that you saw here but erewhile ,
6606 That little cares for buying anything .
6607
6608 I pray thee , if it stand with honesty ,
6609 Buy thou the cottage , pasture , and the flock ,
6610 And thou shalt have to pay for it of us .
6611
6612 And we will mend thy wages . I like this place ,
6613 And willingly could waste my time in it .
6614
6615 Assuredly the thing is to be sold :
6616 Go with me : if you like upon report
6617 The soil , the profit , and this kind of life ,
6618 I will your very faithful feeder be ,
6619 And buy it with your gold right suddenly .
6620
6621
6622 Under the greenwood tree
6623 Who loves to lie with me ,
6624 And turn his merry note
6625 Unto the sweet bird's throat ,
6626 Come hither , come hither , come hither :
6627 Here shall he see
6628 No enemy
6629 But winter and rough weather .
6630
6631 More , more , I prithee , more .
6632
6633 It will make you melancholy , Monsieur Jaques .
6634
6635 I thank it . More ! I prithee , more . I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs . More ! I prithee , more .
6636
6637 My voice is ragged ; I know I cannot please you .
6638
6639 I do not desire you to please me ; I do desire you to sing . Come , more ; another stanzo : call you them stanzos ?
6640
6641 What you will , Monsieur Jaques .
6642
6643 Nay , I care not for their names ; they owe me nothing . Will you sing ?
6644
6645 More at your request than to please myself .
6646
6647 Well then , if ever I thank any man , I'll thank you : but that they call compliment is like the encounter of two dog-apes , and when a man thanks me heartily , methinks I have given him a penny and he renders me the beggarly thanks . Come , sing ; and you that will not , hold your tongues .
6648
6649 Well , I'll end the song . Sirs , cover the while ; the duke will drink under this tree . He hath been all this day to look you .
6650
6651 And I have been all this day to avoid him . He is too disputable for my company : I think of as many matters as he , but I give heaven thanks , and make no boast of them . Come , warble ; come .
6652
6653 Who doth ambition shun ,
6654
6655 And loves to live i' the sun ,
6656 Secking the food he eats ,
6657 And pleas'd with what he gets .
6658 Come hither , come hither , come hither :
6659 Here shall he see
6660 No enemy
6661 But winter and rough weather .
6662
6663 I'll give you a verse to this note , that I made yesterday in despite of my invention .
6664
6665 And I'll sing it .
6666
6667 Thus it goes :
6668
6669 If it do come to pass
6670 That any man turn ass ,
6671 Leaving his wealth and ease ,
6672 A stubborn will to please ,
6673 Ducdame , ducdame , ducdame :
6674 Here shall he see
6675 Gross fools as he ,
6676 An if he will come to me .
6677
6678
6679 What's that 'ducdame ?'
6680
6681 'Tis a Greek invocation to call fools into a circle . I'll go sleep if I can ; if I cannot , I'll rail against all the first-born of Egypt .
6682
6683 And I'll go seek the duke : his banquet is prepared .
6684
6685
6686 Dear master , I can go no further : O ! I die for food . Here lie I down , and measure out my grave . Farewell , kind master .
6687
6688 Why , how now , Adam ! no greater heart in thee ? Live a little ; comfort a little ; cheer thyself a little . If this uncouth forest yield anything savage , I will either be food for it , or bring it for food to thee . Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers . For my sake be comfortable , hold death awhile at the arm's end , I will here be with thee presently , and if I bring thee not something to eat , I will give thee leave to die ; but if thou diest before I come , thou art a mocker of my labour . Well said ! thou lookest cheerly , and I'll be with thee quickly . Yet thou liest in the bleak air : come I will bear thee to some shelter , and thou shalt not die for lack of a dinner , if there live anything in this desert . Cheerly , good Adam .
6689
6690
6691 I think he be transform'd into a beast ,
6692 For I can nowhere find him like a man .
6693
6694 My lord , he is but even now gone hence :
6695 Here was he merry , hearing of a song .
6696
6697 If he , compact of jars , grow musical ,
6698 We shall have shortly discord in the spheres .
6699 Go , seek him : tell him I would speak with him .
6700
6701 He saves my labour by his own approach .
6702
6703
6704 Why , how now , monsieur ! what a life is this ,
6705 That your poor friends must woo your company ?
6706 What , you look merrily !
6707
6708 A fool , a fool ! I met a fool i' the forest ,
6709 A motley fool ; a miserable world !
6710 As I do live by food , I met a fool ;
6711 Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun ,
6712 And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms ,
6713 In good set terms , and yet a motley fool .
6714 'Good morrow , fool ,' quoth I . 'No , sir ,' quoth he ,
6715 'Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune .'
6716 And then he drew a dial from his poke ,
6717 And , looking on it with lack-lustre eye ,
6718 Says very wisely , 'It is ten o'clock ;
6719 Thus may we see ,' quoth he , 'how the world wags :
6720 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine ,
6721 And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ;
6722 And so , from hour to hour we ripe and ripe ,
6723 And then from hour to hour we rot and rot ,
6724 And thereby hangs a tale .' When I did hear
6725 The motley fool thus moral on the time ,
6726 My lungs began to crow like chanticleer ,
6727 That fools should be so deep-contemplative ,
6728 And I did laugh sans intermission
6729 An hour by his dial . O noble fool !
6730 A worthy fool ! Motley's the only wear .
6731
6732 What fool is this ?
6733
6734 O worthy fool ! One that hath been a courtier ,
6735 And says , if ladies be but young and fair ,
6736 They have the gift to know it ; and in his brain ,
6737 Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
6738 After a voyage ,he hath strange places cramm'd
6739 With observation , the which he vents
6740 In mangled forms . O that I were a fool !
6741 I am ambitious for a motley coat .
6742
6743 Thou shalt have one .
6744
6745 It is my only suit ;
6746 Provided that you weed your better judgments
6747 Of all opinion that grows rank in them
6748 That I am wise . I must have liberty
6749 Withal , as large a charter as the wind ,
6750 To blow on whom I please ; for so fools have :
6751 And they that are most galled with my folly ,
6752 They most must laugh . And why , sir , must they so ?
6753 The 'why' is plain as way to parish church :
6754 He that a fool doth very wisely hit
6755 Doth very foolishly , although he smart ,
6756 Not to seem senseless of the bob ; if not ,
6757 The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
6758 Even by the squandering glances of the fool .
6759 Invest me in my motley ; give me leave
6760 To speak my mind , and I will through and through
6761 Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world ,
6762 If they will patiently receive my medicine .
6763
6764 Fie on thee ! I can tell what thou wouldst do .
6765
6766 What , for a counter , would I do , but good ?
6767
6768 Most mischievous foul sin , in chiding sin :
6769 For thou thyself hast been a libertine ,
6770 As sensual as the brutish sting itself ;
6771 And all the embossed sores and headed evils ,
6772 That thou with licence of free foot hast caught ,
6773 Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world .
6774
6775 Why , who cries out on pride ,
6776 That can therein tax any private party ?
6777 Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea ,
6778 Till that the weary very means do ebb ?
6779 What woman in the city do I name ,
6780 When that I say the city-woman bears
6781 The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders ?
6782 Who can come in and say that I mean her ,
6783 When such a one as she such is her neighbour ?
6784 Or what is he of basest function ,
6785 That says his bravery is not on my cost ,
6786 Thinking that I mean him ,but therein suits
6787 His folly to the mettle of my speech ?
6788 There then ; how then ? what then ? Let me see wherein
6789 My tongue hath wrong'd him : if it do him right ,
6790 Then he hath wrong'd himself ; if he be free ,
6791 Why then , my taxing like a wild goose flies ,
6792 Unclaim'd of any man . But who comes here ?
6793
6794
6795 Forbear , and eat no more .
6796
6797 Why , I have eat none yet .
6798
6799 Nor shalt not , till necessity be serv'd .
6800
6801 Of what kind should this cock come of ?
6802
6803 Art thou thus bolden'd , man , by thy distress ,
6804 Or else a rude despiser of good manners ,
6805 That in civility thou seem'st so empty ?
6806
6807 You touch'd my vein at first : the thorny point
6808 Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
6809 Of smooth civility ; yet I am inland bred
6810 And know some nurture . But forbear , I say :
6811 He dies that touches any of this fruit
6812 Till I and my affairs are answered .
6813
6814 An you will not be answered with reason ,
6815 I must die .
6816
6817 What would you have ? Your gentleness shall force
6818 More than your force move us to gentleness .
6819
6820 I almost die for food ; and let me have it .
6821
6822 Sit down and feed , and welcome to our table .
6823
6824 Speak you so gently ? Pardon me , I pray you :
6825 I thought that all things had been savage here ,
6826 And therefore put I on the countenance
6827 Of stern commandment . But whate'er you are
6828 That in this desert inaccessible ,
6829 Under the shade of melancholy boughs ,
6830 Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ;
6831 If ever you have look'd on better days ,
6832 If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church ,
6833 If ever sat at any good man's feast ,
6834 If ever from your eyelids wip'd a tear ,
6835 And know what 'tis to pity , and be pitied ,
6836 Let gentleness my strong enforcement be :
6837 In the which hope I blush , and hide my sword .
6838
6839 True is it that we have seen better days ,
6840 And have with holy bell been knoll'd to church ,
6841 And sat at good men's feasts , and wip'd our eyes
6842 Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd ;
6843 And therefore sit you down in gentleness
6844 And take upon command what help we have
6845 That to your wanting may be minister'd .
6846
6847 Then but forbear your food a little while ,
6848 Whiles , like a doe , I go to find my fawn
6849 And give it food . There is an old poor man ,
6850 Who after me hath many a weary step
6851 Limp'd in pure love : till he be first suffic'd ,
6852 Oppress'd with two weak evils , age and hunger ,
6853 I will not touch a bit .
6854
6855 Go find him out ,
6856 And we will nothing waste till you return .
6857
6858 I thank ye ; and be bless'd for your good comfort !
6859
6860
6861 Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy :
6862 This wide and universal theatre
6863 Presents more woful pageants than the scene
6864 Wherein we play in .
6865
6866 All the world's a stage ,
6867 And all the men and women merely players :
6868 They have their exits and their entrances ;
6869 And one man in his time plays many parts ,
6870 His acts being seven ages . At first the infant ,
6871 Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms .
6872 And then the whining school-boy , with his satchel ,
6873 And shining morning face , creeping like snail
6874 Unwillingly to school . And then the lover ,
6875 Sighing like furnace , with a woful ballad
6876 Made to his mistress' eyebrow . Then a soldier ,
6877 Full of strange oaths , and bearded like the pard ,
6878 Jealous in honour , sudden and quick in quarrel ,
6879 Seeking the bubble reputation
6880 Even in the cannon's mouth . And then the justice ,
6881 In fair round belly with good capon lin'd ,
6882 With eyes severe , and beard of formal cut ,
6883 Full of wise saws and modern instances ;
6884 And so he plays his part . The sixth age shifts
6885 Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon ,
6886 With spectacles on nose and pouch on side ,
6887 His youthful hose well sav'd , a world too wide
6888 For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice ,
6889 Turning again toward childish treble , pipes
6890 And whistles in his sound . Last scene of all ,
6891 That ends this strange eventful history ,
6892 Is second childishness and mere oblivion ,
6893 Sans teeth , sans eyes , sans taste , sans everything .
6894
6895
6896 Welcome . Set down your venerable burden ,
6897 And let him feed .
6898
6899 I thank you most for him .
6900
6901 So had you need :
6902 I scarce can speak to thank you for myself .
6903
6904 Welcome ; fall to : I will not trouble you
6905 As yet , to question you about your fortunes .
6906 Give us some music ; and , good cousin , sing .
6907
6908 Blow , blow , thou winter wind ,
6909 Thou art not so unkind
6910 As man's ingratitude ;
6911 Thy tooth is not so keen ,
6912 Because thou art not seen ,
6913 Although thy breath be rude .
6914 Heigh-ho ! sing , heigh-ho ! unto the green holly :
6915 Most friendship is feigning , most loving mere folly .
6916 Then heigh-ho ! the holly !
6917 This life is most jolly .
6918 Freeze , freeze , thou bitter sky ,
6919 That dost not bite so nigh
6920 As benefits forgot :
6921 Though thou the waters warp ,
6922 Thy sting is not so sharp
6923 As friend remember'd not .
6924 Heigh-ho ! sing , heigh-ho ! unto the green holly :
6925 Most friendship is feigning , most loving mere folly .
6926 Then heigh-ho ! the holly !
6927 This life is most jolly .
6928
6929 If that you were the good Sir Rowland's son ,
6930 As you have whisper'd faithfully you were ,
6931 And as mine eye doth his effigies witness
6932 Most truly limn'd and living in your face ,
6933 Be truly welcome hither : I am the duke
6934 That lov'd your father : the residue of your fortune ,
6935 Go to my cave and tell me . Good old man ,
6936 Thou art right welcome as thy master is .
6937 Support him by the arm . Give me your hand ,
6938 And let me all your fortunes understand .
6939
6940 Not seen him since ! Sir , sir , that cannot be :
6941 But were I not the better part made mercy ,
6942 I should not seek an absent argument
6943 Of my revenge , thou present . But look to it :
6944 Find out thy brother , wheresoe'er he is ;
6945 Seek him with candle ; bring him , dead or living ,
6946 Within this twelvemonth , or turn thou no more
6947 To seek a living in our territory .
6948 Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine
6949 Worth seizure , do we seize into our hands ,
6950 Till thou canst quit thee by thy brother's mouth
6951 Of what we think against thee .
6952
6953 O that your highness knew my heart in this !
6954 I never lov'd my brother in my life .
6955
6956 More villain thou . Well , push him out of doors ;
6957 And let my officers of such a nature
6958 Make an extent upon his house and lands .
6959 Do this expediently and turn him going .
6960
6961
6962 Hang there , my verse , in witness of my love :
6963 And thou , thrice-crowned queen of night , survey
6964 With thy chaste eye , from thy pale sphere above ,
6965 Thy huntress' name , that my full life doth sway .
6966 O Rosalind ! these trees shall be my books ,
6967 And in their barks my thoughts I'll character ,
6968 That every eye , which in this forest looks ,
6969 Shall see thy virtue witness'd everywhere .
6970 Run , run , Orlando : carve on every tree
6971 The fair , the chaste , and unexpressive she .
6972
6973 And how like you this shepherd's life , Master Touchstone ?
6974
6975 Truly , shepherd , in respect of itself , it is a good life ; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life , it is naught . In respect that it is solitary , I like it very well ; but in respect that it is private , it is a very vile life . Now , in respect it is in the fields , it pleaseth me well ; but in respect it is not in the court , it is tedious . As it is a spare life , look you , it fits my humour well ; but as there is no more plenty in it , it goes much against my stomach . Hast any philosophy in thee , shepherd ?
6976
6977 No more but that I know the more one sickens the worse at ease he is ; and that he that wants money , means , and content , is without three good friends ; that the property of rain is to wet , and fire to burn ; that good pasture makes fat sheep , and that a great cause of the night is lack of the sun ; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding , or comes of a very dull kindred .
6978
6979 Such a one is a natural philosopher . Wast ever in court , shepherd ?
6980
6981 No , truly .
6982
6983 Then thou art damned .
6984
6985 Nay , I hope .
6986
6987 Truly , thou art damned like an ill-roasted egg , all on one side .
6988
6989 For not being at court ? Your reason .
6990
6991 Why , if thou never wast at court , thou never sawest good manners ; if thou never sawest good manners , then thy manners must be wicked ; and wickedness is sin , and sin is damnation . Thou art in a parlous state , shepherd .
6992
6993 Not a whit , Touchstone : those that are good manners at the court , are as ridiculous in the country as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at the court . You told me you salute not at the court , but you kiss your hands ; that courtesy would be uncleanly if courtiers were shepherds .
6994
6995 Instance , briefly ; come , instance .
6996
6997 Why , we are still handling our ewes , and their fells , you know , are greasy .
6998
6999 Why , do not your courtier's hands sweat ? and is not the grease of a mutton as wholesome as the sweat of a man ? Shallow , shallow . A better instance , I say ; come .
7000
7001 Besides , our hands are hard .
7002
7003 Your lips will feel them the sooner : shallow again . A more sounder instance ; come .
7004
7005 And they are often tarred over with the surgery of our sheep ; and would you have us kiss tar ? The courtier's hands are perfumed with civet .
7006
7007 Most shallow man ! Thou worms-meat , in respect of a good piece of flesh , indeed ! Learn of the wise , and perpend : civet is of a baser birth than tar , the very uncleanly flux of a cat . Mend the instance , shepherd .
7008
7009 You have too courtly a wit for me : I'll rest .
7010
7011 Wilt thou rest damned ? God help thee , shallow man ! God make incision in thee ! thou art raw .
7012
7013 Sir , I am a true labourer : I earn that I eat , get that I wear , owe no man hate , envy no man's happiness , glad of other men's good , content with my harm ; and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck .
7014
7015 That is another simple sin in you , to bring the ewes and the rams together , and to offer to get your living by the copulation of cattle ; to be bawd to a bell-wether , and to betray a she-lamb of a twelvemonth to a crooked-pated , old , cuckoldy ram , out of all reasonable match . If thou be'st not damned for this , the devil himself will have no shepherds : I cannot see else how thou shouldst 'scape .
7016
7017 Here comes young Master Ganymede , my new mistress's brother .
7018
7019 From the east to western Ind ,
7020 No jewel is like Rosalind
7021 Her worth , being mounted on the wind ,
7022 Through all the world bears Rosalind .
7023 All the pictures fairest lin'd
7024 Are but black to Rosalind .
7025 Let no face be kept in mind ,
7026 But the fair of Rosalind .
7027
7028
7029 I'll rime you so , eight years together , dinners and suppers and sleeping hours excepted : it is the right butter-women's rank to market .
7030
7031 Out , fool !
7032
7033 For a taste :
7034
7035 If a hart do lack a hind ,
7036 Let him seek out Rosalind .
7037 If the cat will after kind ,
7038 So be sure will Rosalind .
7039 Winter-garments must be lin'd ,
7040 So must slender Rosalind .
7041 They that reap must sheaf and bind ,
7042 Then to cart with Rosalind .
7043 Sweetest nut hath sourest rind ,
7044 Such a nut is Rosalind .
7045 He that sweetest rose will find
7046 Must find love's prick and Rosalind .
7047
7048 This is the very false gallop of verses : why do you infect yourself with them ?
7049
7050 Peace ! you dull fool : I found them on a tree .
7051
7052 Truly , the tree yields bad fruit .
7053
7054 I'll graff it with you , and then I shall graff it with a medlar : then it will be the earliest fruit i' the country ; for you'll be rotten ere you be half ripe , and that's the right virtue of the medlar .
7055
7056 You have said ; but whether wisely or no , let the forest judge .
7057
7058
7059 Peace !
7060 Here comes my sister , reading : stand aside .
7061
7062
7063 Why should this a desert be ?
7064 For it is unpeopled ? No ;
7065 Tongues I'll hang on every tree ,
7066 That shall civil sayings show .
7067 Some , how brief the life of man
7068 Runs his erring pilgrimage ,
7069 That the stretching of a span
7070 Buckles in his sum of age ;
7071 Some , of violated vows
7072 'Twixt the souls of friend and friend :
7073 But upon the fairest boughs ,
7074 Or at every sentence' end ,
7075 Will I Rosalinda write ;
7076 Teaching all that read to know
7077 The quintessence of every sprite
7078 Heaven would in little show .
7079 Therefore Heaven Nature charg'd
7080 That one body should be fill'd
7081 With all graces wide enlarg'd :
7082 Nature presently distill'd
7083 Helen's cheek , but not her heart ,
7084 Cleopatra's majesty ,
7085 Atalanta's better part ,
7086 Sad Lucretia's modesty .
7087 Thus Rosalind of many parts
7088 By heavenly synod was devis'd
7089 Of many faces , eyes , and hearts ,
7090 To have the touches dearest priz'd .
7091 Heaven would that she these gifts should have ,
7092 And I to live and die her slave .
7093
7094
7095 O most gentle pulpiter ! what tedious homily of love have you wearied your parishioners withal , and never cried , 'Have patience , good people !'
7096
7097 How now ! back , friends ! Shepherd , go off a little : go with him , sirrah .
7098
7099 Come , shepherd , let us make an honourable retreat ; though not with bag and baggage , yet with scrip and scrippage .
7100
7101
7102 Didst thou hear these verses ?
7103
7104 O , yes , I heard them all , and more too ; for some of them had in them more feet than the verses would bear .
7105
7106 That's no matter : the feet might bear the verses .
7107
7108 Ay , but the feet were lame , and could not bear themselves without the verse , and therefore stood lamely in the verse .
7109
7110 But didst thou hear without wondering , how thy name should be hanged and carved upon these trees ?
7111
7112 I was seven of the nine days out of the wonder before you came ; for look here what I found on a palm-tree : I was never so be-rimed since Pythagoras' time , that I was an Irish rat , which I can hardly remember .
7113
7114 Trow you who hath done this ?
7115
7116 Is it a man ?
7117
7118 And a chain , that you once wore , about his neck . Change you colour ?
7119
7120 I prithee , who ?
7121
7122 O Lord , Lord ! it is a hard matter for friends to meet ; but mountains may be removed with earthquakes , and so encounter .
7123
7124 Nay , but who is it ?
7125
7126 Is it possible ?
7127
7128 Nay , I prithee now , with most petitionary vehemence , tell me who it is .
7129
7130 O wonderful , wonderful , and most wonderful wonderful ! and yet again wonderful ! and after that , out of all whooping !
7131
7132 Good my complexion ! dost thou think , though I am caparison'd like a man , I have a doublet and hose in my disposition ? One inch of delay more is a South-sea of discovery ; I prithee , tell me who is it quickly , and speak apace . I would thou couldst stammer , that thou mightst pour this concealed man out of thy mouth , as wine comes out of a narrow-mouth'd bottle ; either too much at once , or none at all . I prithee , take the cork out of thy mouth , that I may drink thy tidings .
7133
7134 So you may put a man in your belly .
7135
7136 Is he of God's making ? What manner of man ? Is his head worth a hat , or his chin worth a beard ?
7137
7138 Nay , he hath but a little beard .
7139
7140 Why , God will send more , if the man will be thankful . Let me stay the growth of his beard , if thou delay me not the knowledge of his chin .
7141
7142 It is young Orlando , that tripped up the wrestler's heels and your heart both , in an instant .
7143
7144 Nay , but the devil take mocking : speak , sad brow and true maid .
7145
7146 I' faith , coz , 'tis he .
7147
7148 Orlando ?
7149
7150 Orlando .
7151
7152 Alas the day ! what shall I do with my doublet and hose ? What did he when thou sawest him ? What said he ? How looked he ? Wherein went he ? What makes he here ? Did he ask for me ? Where remains he ? How parted he with thee , and when shalt thou see him again ? Answer me in one word .
7153
7154 You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first : 'tis a word too great for any mouth of this age's size . To say ay and no to these particulars is more than to answer in a catechism .
7155
7156 But doth he know that I am in this forest and in man's apparel ? Looks he as freshly as he did the day he wrestled ?
7157
7158 It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover ; but take a taste of my finding him , and relish it with good observance . I found him under a tree , like a dropped acorn .
7159
7160 It may well be called Jove's tree , when it drops forth such fruit .
7161
7162 Give me audience , good madam .
7163
7164 Proceed .
7165
7166 There lay he , stretch'd along like a wounded knight .
7167
7168 Though it be pity to see such a sight , it well becomes the ground .
7169
7170 Cry 'holla !' to thy tongue , I prithee ; it curvets unseasonably . He was furnish'd like a hunter .
7171
7172 O , ominous ! he comes to kill my heart .
7173
7174 I would sing my song without a burthen : thou bringest me out of tune .
7175
7176 Do you not know I am a woman ? when I think , I must speak . Sweet , say on .
7177
7178 You bring me out . Soft ! comes he not here ?
7179
7180 'Tis he : slink by , and note him .
7181
7182
7183 I thank you for your company ; but , good faith , I had as lief have been myself alone .
7184
7185 And so had I ; but yet , for fashion' sake , I thank you too for your society .
7186
7187 God be wi' you : let's meet as little as we can .
7188
7189 I do desire we may be better strangers .
7190
7191 I pray you , mar no more trees with writing love-songs in their barks .
7192
7193 I pray you mar no more of my verses with reading them ill-favouredly .
7194
7195 Rosalind is your love's name ?
7196
7197 Yes , just .
7198
7199 I do not like her name .
7200
7201 There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened .
7202
7203 What stature is she of ?
7204
7205 Just as high as my heart .
7206
7207 You are full of pretty answers . Have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths' wives , and conn'd them out of rings ?
7208
7209 Not so ; but I answer you right painted cloth , from whence you have studied your questions .
7210
7211 You have a nimble wit : I think 'twas made of Atalanta's heels . Will you sit down with me ? and we two will rail against our mistress the world , and all our misery .
7212
7213 I will chide no breather in the world but myself , against whom I know most faults .
7214
7215 The worst fault you have is to be in love .
7216
7217 'Tis a fault I will not change for your best virtue . I am weary of you .
7218
7219 By my troth , I was seeking for a fool when I found you .
7220
7221 He is drowned in the brook : look but in , and you shall see him .
7222
7223 There I shall see mine own figure .
7224
7225 Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher .
7226
7227 I'll tarry no longer with you . Farewell , good Signior Love .
7228
7229 I am glad of your departure . Adieu , good Monsieur Melancholy .
7230
7231
7232 I will speak to him like a saucy lackey , and under that habit play the knave with him . Do you hear , forester ?
7233
7234 Very well : what would you ?
7235
7236 I pray you , what is't o'clock ?
7237
7238 You should ask me , what time o' day ; there's no clock in the forest .
7239
7240 Then there is no true lover in the forest ; else sighing every minute and groaning every hour would detect the lazy foot of Time as well as a clock .
7241
7242 And why not the swift foot of Time ? had not that been as proper ?
7243
7244 By no means , sir . Time travels in divers paces with divers persons . I'll tell you who Time ambles withal , who Time trots withal , who Time gallops withal , and who he stands still withal .
7245
7246 I prithee , who doth he trot withal ?
7247
7248 Marry , he trots hard with a young maid between the contract of her marriage and the day it is solemnized ; if the interim be but a se'nnight , Time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven year .
7249
7250 Who ambles Time withal ?
7251
7252 With a priest that lacks Latin , and a rich man that hath not the gout ; for the one sleeps easily because he cannot study , and the other lives merrily because he feels no pain ; the one lacking the burden of lean and wasteful learning , the other knowing no burden of heavy tedious penury . These Time ambles withal .
7253
7254 Who doth he gallop withal ?
7255
7256 With a thief to the gallows ; for though he go as softly as foot can fall he thinks himself too soon there .
7257
7258 Who stays it still withal ?
7259
7260 With lawyers in the vacation ; for they sleep between term and term , and then they perceive not how Time moves .
7261
7262 Where dwell you , pretty youth ?
7263
7264 With this shepherdess , my sister ; here in the skirts of the forest , like fringe upon a petticoat .
7265
7266 Are you native of this place ?
7267
7268 As the cony , that you see dwell where she is kindled .
7269
7270 Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling .
7271
7272 I have been told so of many : but indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak , who was in his youth an inland man ; one that knew courtship too well , for there he fell in love . I have heard him read many lectures against it ; and I thank God , I am not a woman , to be touched with so many giddy offences as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal .
7273
7274 Can you remember any of the principal evils that he laid to the charge of women ?
7275
7276 There were none principal ; they were all like one another as half-pence are ; every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it .
7277
7278 I prithee , recount some of them .
7279
7280 No , I will not cast away my physic , but on those that are sick . There is a man haunts the forest , that abuses our young plants with carving 'Rosalind' on their barks ; hangs odes upon hawthorns , and elegies on brambles ; all , forsooth , deifying the name of Rosalind : if I could meet that fancy-monger , I would give him some good counsel , for he seems to have the quotidian of love upon him .
7281
7282 I am he that is so love-shaked . I pray you , tell me your remedy .
7283
7284 There is none of my uncle's marks upon you : he taught me how to know a man in love ; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner .
7285
7286 What were his marks ?
7287
7288 A lean cheek , which you have not ; a blue eye and sunken , which you have not ; an unquestionable spirit , which you have not ; a beard neglected , which you have not : but I pardon you for that , for , simply , your having in beard is a younger brother's revenue . Then , your hose should be ungartered , your bonnet unbanded , your sleeve unbuttoned , your shoe untied , and everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation . But you are no such man : you are rather point-device in your accoutrements ; as loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other .
7289
7290 Fair youth , I would I could make thee believe I love .
7291
7292 Me believe it ! you may as soon make her that you love believe it ; which , I warrant , she is apter to do than to confess she does ; that is one of the points in the which women still give the lie to their consciences . But , in good sooth , are you he that hangs the verses on the trees , wherein Rosalind is so admired ?
7293
7294 I swear to thee , youth , by the white hand of Rosalind , I am that he , that unfortunate he .
7295
7296 But are you so much in love as your rimes speak ?
7297
7298 Neither rime nor reason can express how much .
7299
7300 Love is merely a madness , and , I tell you , deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do ; and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is , that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too . Yet I profess curing it by counsel .
7301
7302 Did you ever cure any so ?
7303
7304 Yes , one ; and in this manner . He was to imagine me his love , his mistress ; and I set him every day to woo me : at which time would I , being but a moonish youth , grieve , be effeminate , changeable , longing and liking ; proud , fantastical , apish , shallow , inconstant , full of tears , full of smiles , for every passion something , and for no passion truly anything , as boys and women are , for the most part , cattle of this colour ; would now like him , now loathe him ; then entertain him , then forswear him ; now weep for him , then spit at him ; that I drave my suitor from his mad humour of love to a living humour of madness , which was , to forswear the full stream of the world , and to live in a nook merely monastic . And thus I cured him ; and this way will I take upon me to wash your liver as clean as a sound sheep's heart , that there shall not be one spot of love in't .
7305
7306 I would not be cured , youth .
7307
7308 I would cure you , if you would but call me Rosalind , and come every day to my cote and woo me .
7309
7310 Now , by the faith of my love , I will : tell me where it is .
7311
7312 Go with me to it and I'll show it you ; and by the way you shall tell me where in the forest you live . Will you go ?
7313
7314 With all my heart , good youth .
7315
7316 Nay , you must call me Rosalind . Come , sister , will you go ?
7317
7318
7319 Come apace , good Audrey : I will fetch up your goats , Audrey . And how , Audrey ? am I the man yet ? doth my simple feature content you ?
7320
7321 Your features ! Lord warrant us ! what features ?
7322
7323 I am here with thee and thy goats , as the most capricious poet , honest Ovid , was among the Goths .
7324
7325 O knowledge ill-inhabited , worse than Jove in a thatch'd house !
7326
7327 When a man's verses cannot be understood , nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child Understanding , it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room . Truly , I would the gods had made thee poetical .
7328
7329 I do not know what 'poetical' is . Is it honest in deed and word ? Is it a true thing ?
7330
7331 No , truly , for the truest poetry is the most feigning ; and lovers are given to poetry , and what they swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do feign .
7332
7333 Do you wish then that the gods had made me poetical ?
7334
7335 I do , truly ; for thou swearest to me thou art honest : now , if thou wert a poet , I might have some hope thou didst feign .
7336
7337 Would you not have me honest ?
7338
7339 No , truly , unless thou wert hard-favour'd ; for honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar .
7340
7341 A material fool .
7342
7343 Well , I am not fair , and therefore I pray the gods make me honest .
7344
7345 Truly , and to cast away honesty upon a foul slut were to put good meat into an unclean dish .
7346
7347 I am not a slut , though I thank the gods I am foul .
7348
7349 Well , praised be the gods for thy foulness ! sluttishness may come hereafter . But be it as it may be , I will marry thee ; and to that end I have been with Sir Oliver Martext , the vicar of the next village , who hath promised to meet me in this place of the forest , and to couple us .
7350
7351 I would fain see this meeting .
7352
7353 Well , the gods give us joy !
7354
7355 Amen . A man may , if he were of a fearful heart , stagger in this attempt ; for here we have no temple but the wood , no assembly but horn-beasts . But what though ? Courage ! As horns are odious , they are necessary . It is said , 'many a man knows no end of his goods :' right ; many a man has good horns , and knows no end of them . Well , that is the dowry of his wife ; 'tis none of his own getting . Horns ? Even so . Poor men alone ? No , no ; the noblest deer hath them as huge as the rascal . Is the single man therefore blessed ? No : as a walled town is more worthier than a village , so is the forehead of a married man more honourable than the bare brow of a bachelor ; and by how much defence is better than no skill , by so much is a horn more precious than to want . Here comes Sir Oliver .
7356
7357 Sir Oliver Martext , you are well met : will you dispatch us here under this tree , or shall we go with you to your chapel ?
7358
7359 Is there none here to give the woman ?
7360
7361 I will not take her on gift of any man .
7362
7363 Truly , she must be given , or the marriage is not lawful .
7364
7365 Proceed , proceed : I'll give her .
7366
7367 Good even , good Master What-ye-call't . how do you , sir ? You are very well met : God 'ild you for your last company : I am very glad to see you : even a toy in hand here , sir : nay , pray be covered .
7368
7369 Will you be married , motley ?
7370
7371 As the ox hath his bow , sir , the horse his curb , and the falcon her bells , so man hath his desires ; and as pigeons bill , so wedlock would be nibbling .
7372
7373 And will you , being a man of your breeding , be married under a bush , like a beggar ? Get you to church , and have a good priest that can tell you what marriage is : this fellow will but join you together as they join wainscot ; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel , and like green timber , warp , warp .
7374
7375 I am not in the mind but I were better to be married of him than of another : for he is not like to marry me well , and not being well married , it will be a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my wife .
7376
7377 Go thou with me , and let me counsel thee .
7378
7379 Come , sweet Audrey :
7380 We must be married , or we must live in bawdry .
7381 Farewell , good Master Oliver : not
7382
7383 O sweet Oliver !
7384 O brave Oliver !
7385 Leave me not behind thee :
7386
7387 but ,
7388
7389 Wind away ,
7390 Begone , I say ,
7391 I will not to wedding with thee .
7392
7393 'Tis no matter : ne'er a fantastical knave of them all shall flout me out of my calling .
7394
7395
7396 Never talk to me : I will weep .
7397
7398 Do , I prithee ; but yet have the grace to consider that tears do not become a man .
7399
7400 But have I not cause to weep ?
7401
7402 As good cause as one would desire ; therefore weep .
7403
7404 His very hair is of the dissembling colour .
7405
7406 Something browner than Judas's ; marry , his kisses are Judas's own children .
7407
7408 I' faith , his hair is of a good colour .
7409
7410 An excellent colour : your chesnut was ever the only colour .
7411
7412 And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread .
7413
7414 He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana : a nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously ; the very ice of chastity is in them .
7415
7416 But why did he swear he would come this morning , and comes not ?
7417
7418 Nay , certainly , there is no truth in him .
7419
7420 Do you think so ?
7421
7422 Yes : I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer ; but for his verity in love , I do think him as concave as a covered goblet or a worm-eaten nut .
7423
7424 Not true in love ?
7425
7426 Yes , when he is in ; but I think he is not in .
7427
7428 You have heard him swear downright he was .
7429
7430 'Was' is not 'is :' besides , the oath of a lover is no stronger than the word of a tapster ; they are both the confirmers of false reckonings . He attends here in the forest on the duke your father .
7431
7432 I met the duke yesterday and had much question with him . He asked me of what parentage I was ; I told him , of as good as he ; so he laughed , and let me go . But what talk we of fathers , when there is such a man as Orlando ?
7433
7434 O , that's a brave man ! he writes brave verses , speaks brave words , swears brave oaths , and breaks them bravely , quite traverse , athwart the heart of his lover ; as a puisny tilter , that spurs his horse but on one side , breaks his staff like a noble goose . But all's brave that youth mounts and folly guides . Who comes here ?
7435
7436
7437 Mistress and master , you have oft inquir'd
7438 After the shepherd that complain'd of love ,
7439 Who you saw sitting by me on the turf ,
7440 Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess
7441 That was his mistress .
7442
7443 Well , and what of him ?
7444
7445 If you will see a pageant truly play'd ,
7446 Between the pale complexion of true love
7447 And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain ,
7448 Go hence a little , and I shall conduct you ,
7449 If you will mark it .
7450
7451 O ! come , let us remove :
7452 The sight of lovers feedeth those in love .
7453 Bring us to this sight , and you shall say
7454 I'll prove a busy actor in their play .
7455
7456
7457 Sweet Phebe , do not scorn me ; do not , Phebe :
7458 Say that you love me not , but say not so
7459 In bitterness . The common executioner ,
7460 Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard ,
7461 Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck
7462 But first begs pardon : will you sterner be
7463 Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops ?
7464
7465
7466 I would not be thy executioner :
7467 I fly thee , for I would not injure thee .
7468 Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye :
7469 'Tis pretty , sure , and very probable ,
7470 That eyes , that are the frail'st and softest things ,
7471 Who shut their coward gates on atomies ,
7472 Should be call'd tyrants , butchers , murderers !
7473 Now I do frown on thee with all my heart ;
7474 And , if mine eyes can wound , now let them kill thee ;
7475 Now counterfeit to swound ; why now fall down ;
7476 Or , if thou canst not , O ! for shame , for shame ,
7477 Lie not , to say mine eyes are murderers .
7478 Now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee ;
7479 Scratch thee but with a pin , and there remains
7480 Some scar of it ; lean but upon a rush ,
7481 The cicatrice and capable impressure
7482 Thy palm some moment keeps ; but now mine eyes ,
7483 Which I have darted at thee , hurt thee not ,
7484 Nor , I am sure , there is no force in eyes
7485 That can do hurt .
7486
7487 O dear Phebe ,
7488 If ever ,as that ever may be near ,
7489 You meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy ,
7490 Then shall you know the wounds invisible
7491 That love's keen arrows make .
7492
7493 But , till that time
7494 Come not thou near me ; and , when that time comes ,
7495 Afflict me with thy mocks , pity me not ;
7496 As , till that time I shall not pity thee .
7497
7498 And why , I pray you ? Who might be your mother ,
7499 That you insult , exult , and all at once ,
7500 Over the wretched ? What though you have no beauty ,
7501 As by my faith , I see no more in you
7502 Than without candle may go dark to bed ,
7503 Must you be therefore proud and pitiless ?
7504 Why , what means this ? Why do you look on me ?
7505 I see no more in you than in the ordinary
7506 Of nature's sale-work . Od's my little life !
7507 I think she means to tangle my eyes too .
7508 No , faith , proud mistress , hope not after it :
7509 'Tis not your inky brows , your black silk hair ,
7510 Your bugle eyeballs , nor your cheek of cream ,
7511 That can entame my spirits to your worship .
7512 You foolish shepherd , wherefore do you follow her ,
7513 Like foggy south puffing with wind and rain ?
7514 You are a thousand times a properer man
7515 Than she a woman : 'tis such fools as you
7516 That make the world full of ill-favour'd children :
7517 'Tis not her glass , but you , that flatters her ;
7518 And out of you she sees herself more proper
7519 Than any of her lineaments can show her .
7520 But , mistress , know yourself : down on your knees ,
7521 And thank heaven , fasting , for a good man's love :
7522 For I must tell you friendly in your ear ,
7523 Sell when you can ; you are not for all markets .
7524 Cry the man mercy ; love him ; take his offer :
7525 Foul is most foul , being foul to be a scoffer .
7526 So take her to thee , shepherd . Fare you well .
7527
7528 Sweet youth , I pray you , chide a year together :
7529 I had rather hear you chide than this man woo .
7530
7531 He's fallen in love with her foulness , and she'll fall in love with my anger . If it be so , as fast as she answers thee with frowning looks , I'll sauce her with bitter words . Why look you so upon me ?
7532
7533 For no ill will I bear you .
7534
7535 I pray you , do not fall in love with me ,
7536 For I am falser than vows made in wine :
7537 Besides , I like you not . If you will know my house ,
7538 'Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by .
7539 Will you go , sister ? Shepherd , ply her hard .
7540 Come , sister . Shepherdess , look on him better ,
7541 And be not proud : though all the world could see ,
7542 None could be so abus'd in sight as he .
7543 Come , to our flock .
7544
7545
7546 Dead shepherd , now I find thy saw of might :
7547 'Who ever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight ?'
7548
7549 Sweet Phebe ,
7550
7551 Ha ! what sayst thou , Silvius ?
7552
7553 Sweet Phebe , pity me .
7554
7555 Why , I am sorry for thee , gentle Silvius .
7556
7557 Wherever sorrow is , relief would be :
7558 If you do sorrow at my grief in love ,
7559 By giving love your sorrow and my grief
7560 Were both extermin'd .
7561
7562 Thou hast my love : is not that neighbourly ?
7563
7564 I would have you .
7565
7566 Why , that were covetousness .
7567 Silvius , the time was that I hated thee ;
7568 And yet it is not that I bear thee love :
7569 But since that thou canst talk of love so well ,
7570 Thy company , which erst was irksome to me ,
7571 I will endure , and I'll employ thee too ;
7572 But do not look for further recompense
7573 Than thine own gladness that thou art employ'd .
7574
7575 So holy and so perfect is my love ,
7576 And I in such a poverty of grace ,
7577 That I shall think it a most plenteous crop
7578 To glean the broken ears after the man
7579 That the main harvest reaps : loose now and then
7580 A scatter'd smile , and that I'll live upon .
7581
7582 Know'st thou the youth that spoke to me erewhile ?
7583
7584 Not very well , but I have met him oft ;
7585 And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds
7586 That the old carlot once was master of .
7587
7588 Think not I love him , though I ask for him .
7589 'Tis but a peevish boy ; yet he talks well ;
7590 But what care I for words ? yet words do well ,
7591 When he that speaks them pleases those that hear .
7592 It is a pretty youth : not very pretty :
7593 But , sure , he's proud ; and yet his pride becomes him :
7594 He'll make a proper man : the best thing in him
7595 Is his complexion ; and faster than his tongue
7596 Did make offence his eye did heal it up .
7597 He is not very tall ; yet for his years he's tall :
7598 His leg is but so so ; and yet 'tis well :
7599 There was a pretty redness in his lip ,
7600 A little riper and more lusty red
7601 Than that mix'd in his cheek ; 'twas just the difference
7602 Betwixt the constant red and mingled damask .
7603 There be some women , Silvius , had they mark'd him
7604 In parcels as I did , would have gone near
7605 To fall in love with him ; but , for my part ,
7606 I love him not nor hate him not ; and yet
7607 Have more cause to hate him than to love him :
7608 For what had he to do to chide at me ?
7609 He said mine eyes were black and my hair black ;
7610 And , now I am remember'd , scorn'd at me .
7611 I marvel why I answer'd not again :
7612 But that's all one ; omittance is no quittance .
7613 I'll write to him a very taunting letter ,
7614 And thou shalt bear it : wilt thou , Silvius ?
7615
7616 Phebe , with all my heart .
7617
7618 I'll write it straight ;
7619 The matter's in my head and in my heart :
7620 I will be bitter with him and passing short .
7621 Go with me , Silvius .
7622
7623 I prithee , pretty youth , let me be better acquainted with thee .
7624
7625 They say you are a melancholy fellow .
7626
7627 I am so ; I do love it better than laughing .
7628
7629 Those that are in extremity of either are abominable fellows , and betray themselves to every modern censure worse than drunkards .
7630
7631 Why , 'tis good to be sad and say nothing .
7632
7633 Why , then , 'tis good to be a post .
7634
7635 I have neither the scholar's melancholy , which is emulation ; nor the musician's , which is fantastical ; nor the courtier's , which is proud ; nor the soldier's , which is ambitious ; nor the lawyer's , which is politic ; nor the lady's , which is nice ; nor the lover's , which is all these : but it is a melancholy of mine own , compounded of many simples , extracted from many objects , and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels , which , by often rumination , wraps me in a most humorous sadness .
7636
7637 A traveller ! By my faith , you have great reason to be sad . I fear you have sold your own lands to see other men's ; then , to have seen much and to have nothing , is to have rich eyes and poor hands .
7638
7639 Yes , I have gained my experience .
7640
7641 And your experience makes you sad : I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad : and to travel for it too !
7642
7643
7644 Good day , and happiness , dear Rosalind !
7645
7646 Nay then , God be wi' you , an you talk in blank verse .
7647
7648
7649 Farewell , Monsieur Traveller : look you lisp , and wear strange suits , disable all the benefits of your own country , be out of love with your nativity , and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are ; or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola . Why , how now , Orlando ! where have you been all this while ? You a lover ! An you serve me such another trick , never come in my sight more .
7650
7651 My fair Rosalind , I come within an hour of my promise .
7652
7653 Break an hour's promise in love ! He that will divide a minute into a thousand parts , and break but a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the affairs of love , it may be said of him that Cupid hath clapped him o' the shoulder , but I'll warrant him heart-whole .
7654
7655 Pardon me , dear Rosalind .
7656
7657 Nay , an you be so tardy , come no more in my sight : I had as lief be wooed of a snail .
7658
7659 Of a snail !
7660
7661 Ay , of a snail ; for though he comes slowly , he carries his house on his head ; a better jointure , I think , than you make a woman : besides , he brings his destiny with him .
7662
7663 What's that ?
7664
7665 Why , horns ; that such as you are fain to be beholding to your wives for : but he comes armed in his fortune and prevents the slander of his wife .
7666
7667 Virtue is no horn-maker ; and my Rosalind is virtuous .
7668
7669 And I am your Rosalind ?
7670
7671 It pleases him to call you so ; but he hath a Rosalind of a better leer than you .
7672
7673 Come , woo me , woo me ; for now I am in a holiday humour , and like enough to consent . What would you say to me now , an I were your very very Rosalind ?
7674
7675 I would kiss before I spoke .
7676
7677 Nay , you were better speak first , and when you were gravelled for lack of matter , you might take occasion to kiss . Very good orators , when they are out , they will spit ; and for lovers lacking ,God warn us !matter , the cleanliest shift is to kiss .
7678
7679 How if the kiss be denied ?
7680
7681 Then she puts you to entreaty , and there begins new matter .
7682
7683 Who could be out , being before his beloved mistress ?
7684
7685 Marry , that should you , if I were your mistress ; or I should think my honesty ranker than my wit .
7686
7687 What , of my suit ?
7688
7689 Not out of your apparel , and yet out of your suit . Am not I your Rosalind ?
7690
7691 I take some joy to say you are , because I would be talking of her .
7692
7693 Well , in her person I say I will not have you .
7694
7695 Then in mine own person I die .
7696
7697 No , faith , die by attorney . The poor world is almost six thousand years old , and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person , videlicet , in a love-cause . Troilus had his brains dashed out with a Grecian club ; yet he did what he could to die before , and he is one of the patterns of love . Leander , he would have lived many a fair year , though Hero had turned nun , if it had not been for a hot mid-summer night ; for , good youth , he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont , and being taken with the cramp was drowned ; and the foolish coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos .' But these are all lies : men have died from time to time , and worms have eaten them , but not for love .
7698
7699 I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind ; for , I protest , her frown might kill me .
7700
7701 By this hand , it will not kill a fly . But come , now I will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on disposition ; and ask me what you will , I will grant it .
7702
7703 Then love me , Rosalind .
7704
7705 Yes , faith will I , Fridays and Saturdays and all .
7706
7707 And wilt thou have me ?
7708
7709 Ay , and twenty such .
7710
7711 What sayest thou ?
7712
7713 Are you not good ?
7714
7715 I hope so .
7716
7717 Why then , can one desire too much of a good thing ?Come , sister , you shall be the priest and marry us .Give me your hand , Orlando . What do you say , sister ?
7718
7719 Pray thee , marry us .
7720
7721 I cannot say the words .
7722
7723 You must begin ,'Will you , Orlando ,'
7724
7725 Go to .Will you , Orlando , have to wife this Rosalind ?
7726
7727 I will .
7728
7729 Ay , but when ?
7730
7731 Why now ; as fast as she can marry us .
7732
7733 Then you must say , 'I take thee , Rosalind , for wife .'
7734
7735 I take thee , Rosalind , for wife .
7736
7737 I might ask you for your commission ; but , I do take thee , Orlando , for my husband : there's a girl goes before the priest ; and , certainly , a woman's thought runs before her actions .
7738
7739 So do all thoughts ; they are winged .
7740
7741 Now tell me how long you would have her after you have possessed her ?
7742
7743 For ever and a day .
7744
7745 Say 'a day ,' without the 'ever .' No , no , Orlando ; men are April when they woo , December when they wed : maids are May when they are maids , but the sky changes when they are wives . I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen ; more clamorous than a parrot against rain ; more new-fangled than an ape ; more giddy in my desires than a monkey : I will weep for nothing , like Diana in the fountain , and I will do that when you are disposed to be merry ; I will laugh like a hyen , and that when thou art inclined to sleep .
7746
7747 But will my Rosalind do so ?
7748
7749 By my life , she will do as I do .
7750
7751 O ! but she is wise .
7752
7753 Or else she could not have the wit to do this : the wiser , the waywarder : make the doors upon a woman's wit , and it will out at the casement ; shut that , and 'twill out at the key-hole ; stop that , 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney .
7754
7755 A man that hath a wife with such a wit , he might say , 'Wit , whither wilt ?'
7756
7757 Nay , you might keep that check for it till you met your wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed .
7758
7759 And what wit could wit have to excuse that ?
7760
7761 Marry , to say she came to seek you there . You shall never take her without her answer , unless you take her without her tongue . O ! that woman that cannot make her fault her husband's occasion , let her never nurse her child herself , for she will breed it like a fool .
7762
7763 For these two hours , Rosalind , I will leave thee .
7764
7765 Alas ! dear love , I cannot lack thee two hours .
7766
7767 I must attend the duke at dinner : by two o'clock I will be with thee again .
7768
7769 Ay , go your ways , go your ways ; I knew what you would prove , my friends told me as much , and I thought no less : that flattering tongue of yours won me : 'tis but one cast away , and so , come , death ! Two o'clock is your hour ?
7770
7771 Ay , sweet Rosalind .
7772
7773 By my troth , and in good earnest , and so God mend me , and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous , if you break one jot of your promise or come one minute behind your hour , I will think you the most pathetical break-promise , and the most hollow lover , and the most unworthy of her you call Rosalind , that may be chosen out of the gross band of the unfaithful . Therefore , beware my censure , and keep your promise .
7774
7775 With no less religion than if thou wert indeed my Rosalind : so , adieu .
7776
7777 Well , Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders , and let Time try . Adieu .
7778
7779
7780 You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate : we must have your doublot and hose plucked over your head , and show the world what the bird hath done to her own nest .
7781
7782 O coz , coz , coz , my pretty little coz , that thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in love ! But it cannot be sounded : my affection hath an unknown bottom , like the bay of Portugal .
7783
7784 Or rather , bottomless ; that as fast as you pour affection in , it runs out .
7785
7786 No ; that same wicked bastard of Venus , that was begot of thought , conceived of spleen , and born of madness , that blind rascally boy that abuses every one's eyes because his own are out , let him be judge how deep I am in love . I'll tell thee , Aliena , I cannot be out of the sight of Orlando : I'll go find a shadow and sigh till he come .
7787
7788 And I'll sleep .
7789
7790
7791 Which is he that killed the deer ?
7792
7793 Sir , it was I .
7794
7795 Let's present him to the duke , like a
7796 Roman conqueror ; and it would do well to set the deer's horns upon his head for a branch of victory . Have you no song , forester , for this purpose ?
7797
7798 Yes , sir .
7799
7800 Sing it : 'tis no matter how it be in tune so it make noise enough .
7801
7802 What shall he have that kill'd the deer ?
7803 His leather skin and horns to wear .
7804 Then sing him home
7805
7806 Take thou no scorn to wear the horn ;
7807 It was a crest ere thou wast born :
7808 Thy father's father wore it ,
7809 And thy father bore it :
7810 The horn , the horn , the lusty horn
7811 Is not a thing to laugh to scorn
7812
7813
7814 How say you now ? Is it not past two o'clock ? And here much Orlando !
7815
7816 I warrant you , with pure love and a troubled brain , he hath ta'en his bow and arrows , and is gone forth to sleep . Look , who comes here .
7817
7818
7819 My errand is to you , fair youth .
7820 My gentle Phebe did bid me give you this :
7821
7822 I know not the contents ; but , as I guess
7823 By the stern brow and waspish action
7824 Which she did use as she was writing of it ,
7825 It bears an angry tenour : pardon me ;
7826 I am but as a guiltless messenger .
7827
7828 Patience herself would startle at this letter ,
7829 And play the swaggerer : bear this , bear all :
7830 She says I am not fair ; that I lack manners ;
7831 She calls me proud , and that she could not love me
7832 Were man as rare as ph nix . 'Od's my will !
7833 Her love is not the hare that I do hunt :
7834 Why writes she so to me ? Well , shepherd , well ,
7835 This is a letter of your own device .
7836
7837 No , I protest , I know not the contents :
7838 Phebe did write it .
7839
7840 Come , come , you are a fool ,
7841 And turn'd into the extremity of love .
7842 I saw her hand : she has a leathern hand ,
7843 A freestone-colour'd hand ; I verily did think
7844 That her old gloves were on , but 'twas her hands :
7845 She has a housewife's hand ; but that's no matter :
7846 I say she never did invent this letter ;
7847 This is a man's invention , and his hand .
7848
7849 Sure , it is hers .
7850
7851 Why , 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style ,
7852 A style for challengers ; why , she defies me ,
7853 Like Turk to Christian : woman's gentle brain
7854 Could not drop forth such giant-rude invention ,
7855 Such Ethiop words , blacker in their effect
7856 Than in their countenance . Will you hear the letter ?
7857
7858 So please you , for I never heard it yet ;
7859 Yet heard too much of Phebe's cruelty .
7860
7861 She Phebes me . Mark how the tyrant writes .
7862
7863 Art thou god to shepherd turn'd ,
7864 That a maiden's heart hath burn'd ?
7865
7866 Can a woman rail thus ?
7867
7868 Call you this railing ?
7869
7870 Why , thy godhead laid apart ,
7871 Warr'st thou with a woman's heart ?
7872
7873 Did you ever hear such railing ?
7874
7875 Whiles the eye of man did woo me ,
7876 That could do no vengeance to me .
7877
7878 Meaning me a beast .
7879
7880 If the scorn of your bright eyne
7881 Have power to raise such love in mine ,
7882 Alack ! in me what strange effect
7883 Would they work in mild aspect .
7884 Whiles you chid me , I did love ,
7885 How then might your prayers move !
7886 He that brings this love to thee
7887 Little knows this love in me ;
7888 And by him seal up thy mind ;
7889 Whether that thy youth and kind
7890 Will the faithful offer take
7891 Of me and all that I can make ;
7892 Or else by him my love deny ,
7893 And then I'll study how to die .
7894
7895
7896 Call you this chiding ?
7897
7898 Alas , poor shepherd !
7899
7900 Do you pity him ? no , he deserves no pity . Wilt thou love such a woman ? What , to make thee an instrument and play false strains upon thee ! not to be endured ! Well , go your way to her , for I see love hath made thee a tame snake , and say this to her : that if she love me , I charge her to love thee : if she will not , I will never have her , unless thou entreat for her . If you be a true lover , hence , and not a word , for here comes more company .
7901
7902 Good morrow , fair ones . Pray you if you know ,
7903 Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
7904 A sheepcote fenc'd about with olive-trees ?
7905
7906 West of this place , down in the neighbour bottom :
7907 The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream
7908 Left on your right hand brings you to the place .
7909 But at this hour the house doth keep itself ;
7910 There's none within .
7911
7912 If that an eye may profit by a tongue ,
7913 Then should I know you by description ;
7914 Such garments , and such years : 'The boy is fair ,
7915 Of female favour , and bestows himself
7916 Like a ripe sister : but the woman low ,
7917 And browner than her brother .' Are not you
7918 The owner of the house I did inquire for ?
7919
7920 It is no boast , being ask'd , to say , we are .
7921
7922 Orlando doth commend him to you both ,
7923 And to that youth he calls his Rosalind
7924 He sends this bloody napkin . Are you he ?
7925
7926 I am : what must we understand by this ?
7927
7928 Some of my shame ; if you will know of me
7929 What man I am , and how , and why , and where
7930 This handkercher was stain'd .
7931
7932 I pray you , tell it .
7933
7934 When last the young Orlando parted from you
7935 He left a promise to return again
7936 Within an hour ; and , pacing through the forest ,
7937 Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy ,
7938 Lo , what befell ! he threw his eye aside ,
7939 And mark what object did present itself :
7940 Under an oak , whose boughs were moss'd with age ,
7941 And high top bald with dry antiquity ,
7942 A wretched ragged man , o'ergrown with hair ,
7943 Lay sleeping on his back : about his neck
7944 A green and gilded snake had wreath'd itself ,
7945 Who with her head nimble in threats approach'd
7946 The opening of his mouth ; but suddenly ,
7947 Seeing Orlando , it unlink'd itself ,
7948 And with indented glides did slip away
7949 Into a bush ; under which bush's shade
7950 A lioness , with udders all drawn dry ,
7951 Lay couching , head on ground , with catlike watch ,
7952 When that the sleeping man should stir ; for 'tis
7953 The royal disposition of that beast
7954 To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead :
7955 This seen , Orlando did approach the man ,
7956 And found it was his brother , his elder brother .
7957
7958 O ! I have heard him speak of that same brother ;
7959 And he did render him the most unnatural
7960 That liv'd 'mongst men .
7961
7962 And well he might so do ,
7963 For well I know he was unnatural .
7964
7965 But , to Orlando : did he leave him there ,
7966 Food to the suck'd and hungry lioness ?
7967
7968 Twice did he turn his back and purpos'd so ;
7969 But kindness , nobler ever than revenge ,
7970 And nature , stronger than his just occasion ,
7971 Made him give battle to the lioness ,
7972 Who quickly fell before him : in which hurtling
7973 From miserable slumber I awak'd .
7974
7975 Are you his brother ?
7976
7977 Was it you he rescu'd ?
7978
7979 Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him ?
7980
7981 'Twas I ; but 'tis not I . I do not shame
7982 To tell you what I was , since my conversion
7983 So sweetly tastes , being the thing I am .
7984
7985 But , for the bloody napkin ?
7986
7987 By and by .
7988 When from the first to last , betwixt us two ,
7989 Tears our recountments had most kindly bath'd ,
7990 As how I came into that desert place :
7991 In brief , he led me to the gentle duke ,
7992 Who gave me fresh array and entertainment ,
7993 Committing me unto my brother's love ;
7994 Who led me instantly unto his cave ,
7995 There stripp'd himself ; and here , upon his arm
7996 The lioness had torn some flesh away ,
7997 Which all this while had bled ; and now he fainted ,
7998 And cried , in fainting , upon Rosalind .
7999 Brief , I recover'd him , bound up his wound ;
8000 And , after some small space , being strong at heart ,
8001 He sent me hither , stranger as I am ,
8002 To tell this story , that you might excuse
8003 His broken promise ; and to give this napkin ,
8004 Dy'd in his blood , unto the shepherd youth
8005 That he in sport doth call his Rosalind .
8006
8007 Why , how now , Ganymede ! sweet Ganymede !
8008
8009 Many will swoon when they do look on blood .
8010
8011 There is more in it . Cousin ! Ganymede !
8012
8013 Look , he recovers .
8014
8015 I would I were at home .
8016
8017 We'll lead you thither . I pray you , will you take him by the arm ?
8018
8019 Be of good cheer , youth . You a man ! You lack a man's heart .
8020
8021 I do so , I confess it . Ah , sirrah ! a body would think this was well counterfeited . I pray you , tell your brother how well I counterfeited . Heigh-ho !
8022
8023 This was not counterfeit : there is too great testimony in your complexion that it was a passion of earnest .
8024
8025 Counterfeit , I assure you .
8026
8027 Well then , take a good heart and counterfeit to be a man .
8028
8029 So I do ; but , i' faith , I should have been a woman by right .
8030
8031 Come ; you look paler and paler : pray you , draw homewards . Good sir , go with us .
8032
8033 That will I , for I must bear answer back How you excuse my brother , Rosalind .
8034
8035 I shall devise something . But , I pray you , commend my counterfeiting to him . Will you go ?
8036
8037 We shall find a time , Audrey : patience , gentle Audrey .
8038
8039 Faith , the priest was good enough , for all the old gentleman's saying .
8040
8041 A most wicked Sir Oliver , Audrey ; a most vile Martext . But , Audrey , there is a youth here in the forest lays claim to you .
8042
8043 Ay , I know who 'tis : he hath no interest in me in the world . Here comes the man you mean .
8044
8045
8046 It is meat and drink to me to see a clown . By my troth , we that have good wits have much to answer for : we shall be flouting ; we cannot hold .
8047
8048 Good even , Audrey .
8049
8050 God ye good even , William .
8051
8052 And good even to you , sir .
8053
8054 Good even , gentle friend . Cover thy head , cover thy head ; nay , prithee , be covered . How old are you , friend ?
8055
8056 Five-and-twenty , sir .
8057
8058 A ripe age . Is thy name William ?
8059
8060 William , sir .
8061
8062 A fair name . Wast born i' the forest here ?
8063
8064 Ay , sir , I thank God .
8065
8066 'Thank God ;' a good answer . Art rich ?
8067
8068 Faith , sir , so so .
8069
8070 'So so ,' is good , very good , very excellent good : and yet it is not ; it is but so so . Art thou wise ?
8071
8072 Ay , sir , I have a pretty wit .
8073
8074 Why , thou sayest well . I do now remember a saying , 'The fool doth think he is wise , but the wise man knows himself to be a fool .' The heathen philosopher , when he had a desire to eat a grape , would open his lips when he put it into his mouth ; meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and lips to open . You do love this maid ?
8075
8076 I do , sir .
8077
8078 Give me your hand . Art thou learned ?
8079
8080 No , sir .
8081
8082 Then learn this of me : to have , is to have ; for it is a figure in rhetoric , that drink , being poured out of a cup into a glass , by filling the one doth empty the other ; for all your writers do consent that ipse is he : now , you are not ipse , for I am he .
8083
8084 Which he , sir ?
8085
8086 He , sir , that must marry this woman . Therefore , you clown , abandon ,which is in the vulgar , leave ,the society ,which in the boorish is , company ,of this female ,which in the common is , woman ; which together is , abandon the society of this female , or , clown , thou perishest ; or , to thy better understanding , diest ; or , to wit , I kill thee , make thee away , translate thy life into death , thy liberty into bondage . I will deal in poison with thee , or in bastinado , or in steel ; I will bandy with thee in faction ; I will o'errun thee with policy ; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways : therefore tremble , and depart .
8087
8088 Do , good William .
8089
8090 God rest you merry , sir .
8091
8092 Our master and mistress seek you : come , away , away !
8093
8094 Trip , Audrey ! trip , Audrey ! I attend , I attend .
8095
8096
8097 Is't possible that on so little acquaintance you should like her ? that , but seeing , you should love her ? and , loving , woo ? and , wooing , she should grant ? and will you persever to enjoy her ?
8098
8099 Neither call the giddiness of it in question , the poverty of her , the small acquaintance , my sudden wooing , nor her sudden consenting ; but say with me , I love Aliena ; say with her , that she loves me ; consent with both , that we may enjoy each other : it shall be to your good ; for my father's house and all the revenue that was old Sir Rowland's will I estate upon you , and here live and die a shepherd .
8100
8101 You have my consent . Let your wedding be to-morrow : thither will I invite the duke and all's contented followers . Go you and prepare Aliena ; for , look you , here comes my Rosalind .
8102
8103
8104 God save you , brother .
8105
8106 And you , fair sister .
8107
8108
8109 O ! my dear Orlando , how it grieves me to see thee wear thy heart in a scarf .
8110
8111 It is my arm .
8112
8113 I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion .
8114
8115 Wounded it is , but with the eyes of a lady .
8116
8117 Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to swound when he showed me your handkercher ?
8118
8119 Ay , and greater wonders than that .
8120
8121 O ! I know where you are . Nay , 'tis true : there was never anything so sudden but the fight of two rams , and C sar's thrasonical brag of 'I came , saw , and overcame :' for your brother and my sister no sooner met , but they looked ; no sooner looked but they loved ; no sooner loved but they sighed ; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason ; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy : and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage which they will climb incontinent , or else be incontinent before marriage . They are in the very wrath of love , and they will together : clubs cannot part them .
8122
8123 They shall be married to-morrow , and I will bid the duke to the nuptial . But , O ! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes . By so much the more shall I to-morrow be at the height of heart-heaviness , by how much I shall think my brother happy in having what he wishes for .
8124
8125 Why then , to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind ?
8126
8127 I can live no longer by thinking .
8128
8129 I will weary you then no longer with idle talking . Know of me then ,for now I speak to some purpose ,that I know you are a gentleman of good conceit . I speak not this that you should bear a good opinion of my knowledge , insomuch I say I know you are ; neither do I labour for a greater esteem than may in some little measure draw a belief from you , to do yourself good , and not to grace me . Believe then , if you please , that I can do strange things . I have , since I was three years old , conversed with a magician , most profound in his art and yet not damnable . If you do love Rosalind so near the heart as your gesture cries it out , when your brother marries Aliena , shall you marry her . I know into what straits of fortune she is driven ; and it is not impossible to me , if it appear not inconvenient to you , to set her before your eyes to-morrow , human as she is , and without any danger .
8130
8131 Speakest thou in sober meanings ?
8132
8133 By my life , I do ; which I tender dearly , though I say I am a magician . Therefore , put you in your best array ; bid your friends ; for if you will be married to-morrow , you shall ; and to Rosalind , if you will . Look , here comes a lover of mine , and a lover of hers .
8134
8135
8136 Youth , you have done me much ungentleness ,
8137 To show the letter that I writ to you .
8138
8139 I care not if I have : it is my study
8140 To seem despiteful and ungentle to you .
8141 You are there follow'd by a faithful shepherd :
8142 Look upon him , love him ; he worships you .
8143
8144 Good shepherd , tell this youth what 'tis to love .
8145
8146 It is to be all made of sighs and tears ;
8147 And so am I for Phebe .
8148
8149 And I for Ganymede .
8150
8151 And I for Rosalind .
8152
8153 And I for no woman .
8154
8155 It is to be all made of faith and service ;
8156 And so am I for Phebe .
8157
8158 And I for Ganymede .
8159
8160 And I for Rosalind .
8161
8162 And I for no woman .
8163
8164 It is to be all made of fantasy ,
8165 All made of passion , and all made of wishes ;
8166 All adoration , duty , and observance ;
8167 All humbleness , all patience , and impatience ;
8168 All purity , all trial , all obeisance ;
8169 And so am I for Phebe .
8170
8171 And so am I for Ganymede .
8172
8173 And so am I for Rosalind .
8174
8175 And so am I for no woman .
8176
8177 If this be so , why blame you me to love you ?
8178
8179 If this be so , why blame you me to love you ?
8180
8181 If this be so , why blame you me to love you ?
8182
8183 Who do you speak to , 'Why blame you me to love you ?'
8184
8185 To her that is not here , nor doth not hear .
8186
8187 Pray you , no more of this : 'tis like the howling of Irish wolves against the moon .
8188
8189
8190 As you love Phebe , meet : and as I love no woman , I'll meet . So , fare you well : I have left you commands .
8191
8192 I'll not fail , if I live .
8193
8194 Nor I .
8195
8196 Nor I .
8197
8198
8199 To-morrow is the joyful day , Audrey ; to-morrow will we be married .
8200
8201 I do desire it with all my heart , and I hope it is no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the world . Here come two of the banished duke's pages .
8202
8203
8204 Well met , honest gentleman .
8205
8206 By my troth , well met . Come , sit , sit , and a song .
8207
8208 We are for you : sit i' the middle .
8209
8210 Shall we clap into't roundly , without hawking or spitting , or saying we are hoarse , which are the only prologues to a bad voice ?
8211
8212 I'faith , i'faith ; and both in a tune , like two gipsies on a horse .
8213
8214 It was a lover and his lass ,
8215 With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonino ,
8216 That o'er the green corn-field did pass ,
8217 In the spring time , the only pretty ring time ,
8218 When birds do sing , hey ding a ding , ding ;
8219 Sweet lovers love the spring .
8220 Between the acres of the rye ,
8221 With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonino ,
8222 These pretty country folks would lie ,
8223 In the spring time , &c .
8224 This carol they began that hour ,
8225 With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonino ,
8226 How that a life was but a flower
8227 In the spring time , &c .
8228 And therefore take the present time ,
8229 With a hey , and a ho , and a hey nonino ;
8230 For love is crowned with the prime
8231 In the spring time , &c .
8232
8233 Truly , young gentlemen , though there was no great matter in the ditty , yet the note was very untuneable .
8234
8235 You are deceived , sir : we kept time ; we lost not our time .
8236
8237 By my troth , yes ; I count it but time lost to hear such a foolish song . God be wi' you ; and God mend your voices ! Come , Audrey .
8238
8239
8240 Dost thou believe , Orlando , that the boy
8241 Can do all this that he hath promised ?
8242
8243 I sometimes do believe , and sometimes do not ;
8244 As those that fear they hope , and know they fear .
8245
8246
8247 Patience once more , whiles our compact is urg'd .
8248
8249
8250 You say , if I bring in your Rosalind ,
8251 You will bestow her on Orlando here ?
8252
8253 That would I , had I kingdoms to give with her .
8254
8255 And you say , you will have her when I bring her ?
8256
8257 That would I , were I of all kingdoms king .
8258
8259 You say , that you'll marry me , if I be willing ?
8260
8261 That will I , should I die the hour after .
8262
8263 But if you do refuse to marry me ,
8264 You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd ?
8265
8266 So is the bargain .
8267
8268 You say , that you'll have Phebe , if she will ?
8269
8270 Though to have her and death were both one thing .
8271
8272 I have promis'd to make all this matter even .
8273 Keep you your word , O duke , to give your daughter ;
8274 You yours , Orlando , to receive his daughter ;
8275 Keep your word , Phebe , that you'll marry me ,
8276 Or else , refusing me , to wed this shepherd ;
8277 Keep your word , Silvius , that you'll marry her ,
8278 If she refuse me : and from hence I go ,
8279 To make these doubts all even .
8280
8281
8282 I do remember in this shepherd boy
8283 Some lively touches of my daughter's favour .
8284
8285 My lord , the first time that I ever saw him ,
8286 Methought he was a brother to your daughter ;
8287 But , my good lord , this boy is forest-born ,
8288 And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments
8289 Of many desperate studies by his uncle ,
8290 Whom he reports to be a great magician ,
8291 Obscured in the circle of this forest .
8292
8293
8294 There is , sure , another flood toward , and these couples are coming to the ark . Here comes a pair of very strange beasts , which in all tongues are called fools .
8295
8296 Salutation and greeting to you all !
8297
8298 Good my lord , bid him welcome . This is the motley-minded gentleman that I have so often met in the forest : he hath been a courtier , he swears .
8299
8300 If any man doubt that , let him put me to my purgation . I have trod a measure ; I have flattered a lady ; I have been politic with my friend , smooth with mine enemy ; I have undone three tailors ; I have had four quarrels , and like to have fought one .
8301
8302 And how was that ta'en up ?
8303
8304 Faith , we met , and found the quarrel was upon the seventh cause .
8305
8306 How seventh cause ? Good my lord , like this fellow .
8307
8308 I like him very well .
8309
8310 God 'ild you , sir ; I desire you of the like . I press in here , sir , amongst the rest of the country copulatives , to swear , and to forswear , according as marriage binds and blood breaks . A poor virgin , sir , an ill-favoured thing , sir , but mine own : a poor humour of mine , sir , to take that that no man else will . Rich honesty dwells like a miser , sir , in a poor house , as your pearl in your foul oyster .
8311
8312 By my faith , he is very swift and sententious .
8313
8314 According to the fool's bolt , sir , and such dulcet diseases .
8315
8316 But , for the seventh cause ; how did you find the quarrel on the seventh cause ?
8317
8318 Upon a lie seven times removed :bear your body more seeming , Audrey :as thus , sir . I did dislike the cut of a certain courtier's beard : he sent me word , if I said his beard was not cut well , he was in the mind it was : this is called 'the retort courteous .' If I sent him word again , it was not well cut , he would send me word , he cut it to please himself : this is called the 'quip modest .' If again , it was not well cut , he disabled my judgment : this is called the 'reply churlish .' If again , it was not well cut , he would answer , I spake not true : this is called the 'reproof valiant :' if again , it was not well cut , he would say , I lie : this is called the 'countercheck quarrelsome' : and so to the 'lie circumstantial ,' and the 'lie direct .'
8319
8320 And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut ?
8321
8322 I durst go no further than the 'lie circumstantial ,' nor he durst not give me the 'lie direct ;' and so we measured swords and parted .
8323
8324 Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie ?
8325
8326 O sir , we quarrel in print ; by the book , as you have books for good manners : I will name you the degrees . The first , the 'retort courteous ;' the second , the 'quip modest ;' the third , the 'reply churlish ;' the fourth , the 'reproof valiant ;' the fifth , the 'countercheck quarrelsome ;' the sixth , the 'lie with circumstance ;' the seventh , the 'lie direct .' All these you may avoid but the lie direct ; and you may avoid that too , with an 'if .' I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel ; but when the parties were met themselves , one of them thought but of an 'if ,' as 'If you said so , then I said so ;' and they shook hands and swore brothers . Your 'if' is the only peace-maker ; much virtue in 'if .'
8327
8328 Is not this a rare fellow , my lord ? he's as good at any thing , and yet a fool .
8329
8330 He uses his folly like a stalking-horse , and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit .
8331
8332
8333 Then is there mirth in heaven ,
8334 When earthly things made even
8335 Atone together .
8336 Good duke , receive thy daughter ;
8337 Hymen from heaven brought her ;
8338 Yea , brought her hither ,
8339 That thou mightst join her hand with his ,
8340 Whose heart within her bosom is .
8341
8342 To you I give myself , for I am yours .
8343
8344
8345 To you I give myself , for I am yours .
8346
8347 If there be truth in sight , you are my daughter .
8348
8349 If there be truth in sight , you are my Rosalind .
8350
8351 If sight and shape be true ,
8352 Why then , my love adieu !
8353
8354 I'll have no father , if you be not he .
8355
8356
8357 I'll have no husband , if you be not he :
8358
8359
8360 Nor ne'er wed woman , if you be not she .
8361
8362
8363 Peace , ho ! I bar confusion :
8364 'Tis I must make conclusion
8365 Of these most strange events :
8366 Here's eight that must take hands
8367 To join in Hymen's bands ,
8368 If truth holds true contents .
8369
8370
8371 You and you no cross shall part :
8372
8373
8374 You and you are heart in heart :
8375
8376
8377 You to his love must accord ,
8378 Or have a woman to your lord :
8379
8380
8381 You and you are sure together ,
8382 As the winter to foul weather .
8383 Whiles a wedlock hymn we sing ,
8384 Feed yourselves with questioning ,
8385 That reason wonder may diminish ,
8386 How thus we met , and these things finish .
8387
8388
8389 Wedding is great Juno's crown :
8390 O blessed bond of board and bed !
8391 'Tis Hymen peoples every town ;
8392 High wedlock then be honoured .
8393 Honour , high honour , and renown ,
8394 To Hymen , god of every town !
8395
8396 O my dear niece ! welcome thou art to me :
8397 Even daughter , welcome in no less degree .
8398
8399 I will not eat my word , now thou art mine ;
8400 Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine .
8401
8402
8403 Let me have audience for a word or two :
8404 I am the second son of old Sir Rowland ,
8405 That bring these tidings to this fair assembly .
8406 Duke Frederick , hearing how that every day
8407 Men of great worth resorted to this forest ,
8408 Address'd a mighty power , which were on foot
8409 In his own conduct , purposely to take
8410 His brother here and put him to the sword :
8411 And to the skirts of this wild wood he came ,
8412 Where , meeting with an old religious man ,
8413 After some question with him , was converted
8414 Both from his enterprise and from the world ;
8415 His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother ,
8416 And all their lands restor'd to them again
8417 That were with him exil'd . This to be true ,
8418 I do engage my life .
8419
8420 Welcome , young man ;
8421 Thou offer'st fairly to thy brothers' wedding :
8422 To one , his lands withheld ; and to the other
8423 A land itself at large , a potent dukedom .
8424 First , in this forest , let us do those ends
8425 That here were well begun and well begot ;
8426 And after , every of this happy number
8427 That have endur'd shrewd days and nights with us ,
8428 Shall share the good of our returned fortune ,
8429 According to the measure of their states .
8430 Meantime , forget this new-fall'n dignity ,
8431 And fall into our rustic revelry .
8432 Play , music ! and you , brides and bridegrooms all ,
8433 With measure heap'd in joy , to the measures fall .
8434
8435 Sir , by your patience . If I heard you rightly ,
8436 The duke hath put on a religious life ,
8437 And thrown into neglect the pompous court ?
8438
8439 He hath .
8440
8441 To him will I : out of these convertites
8442 There is much matter to be heard and learn'd .
8443
8444
8445 You to your former honour I bequeath ;
8446 Your patience and your virtue well deserve it :
8447
8448
8449 You to a love that your true faith doth merit :
8450
8451
8452 You to your land , and love , and great allies :
8453
8454
8455 You to a long and well-deserved bed :
8456
8457
8458 And you to wrangling ; for thy loving voyage
8459 Is but for two months victual'd . So , to your pleasures :
8460 I am for other than for dancing measures .
8461
8462 Stay , Jaques , stay .
8463
8464 To see no pastime , I : what you would have
8465 I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave .
8466
8467
8468 Proceed , proceed : we will begin these rites ,
8469 As we do trust they'll end , in true delights .
8470
8471 It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue ; but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue . If it be true that good wine needs no bush , 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue ; yet to good wine they do use good bushes , and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues . What a case am I in then , that am neither a good epilogue , nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play ! I am not furnished like a beggar , therefore to beg will not become me : my way is , to conjure you ; and I'll begin with the women . I charge you , O women ! for the love you bear to men , to like as much of this play as please you : and I charge you , O men ! for the love you bear to women ,as I perceive by your simpering none of you hate them ,that between you and the women , the play may please . If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me , complexions that liked me , and breaths that I defied not ; and , I am sure , as many as have good beards , or good faces , or sweet breaths , will , for my kind offer , when I make curtsy , bid me farewell .
8472
8473 CYMBELINE
8474
8475 You do not meet a man but frowns ; our bloods
8476 No more obey the heavens than our courtiers
8477 Still seem as does the king .
8478
8479 But what's the matter ?
8480
8481 His daughter , and the heir of 's kingdom , whom
8482 He purpos'd to his wife's sole son ,a widow
8483 That late he married ,hath referr'd herself
8484 Unto a poor but worthy gentleman . She's wedded ;
8485 Her husband banish'd , she imprison'd : all
8486 Is outward sorrow , though I think the king
8487 Be touch'd at very heart .
8488
8489 None but the king ?
8490
8491 He that hath lost her too ; so is the queen ,
8492 That most desir'd the match ; but not a courtier ,
8493 Although they wear their faces to the bent
8494 Of the king's looks , hath a heart that is not
8495 Glad at the thing they scowl at .
8496
8497 And why so ?
8498
8499 He that hath miss'd the princess is a thing
8500 Too bad for bad report ; and he that hath her ,
8501 I mean that married her , alack ! good man !
8502 And therefore banish'd is a creature such
8503 As , to seek through the regions of the earth
8504 For one his like , there would be something failing
8505 In him that should compare . I do not think
8506 So fair an outward and such stuff within
8507 Endows a man but he .
8508
8509 You speak him far .
8510
8511 I do extend him , sir , within himself ,
8512 Crush him together rather than unfold
8513 His measure duly .
8514
8515 What's his name and birth ?
8516
8517 I cannot delve him to the root : his father
8518 Was called Sicilius , who did join his honour
8519 Against the Romans with Cassibelan ,
8520 But had his titles by Tenantius whom
8521 He serv'd with glory and admir'd success ,
8522 So gain'd the sur-addition Leonatus ;
8523 And had , besides this gentleman in question ,
8524 Two other sons , who in the wars o' the time
8525 Died with their swords in hand ; for which their father
8526 Then old and fond of issue took such sorrow
8527 That he quit being , and his gentle lady ,
8528 Big of this gentleman , our theme , deceas'd
8529 As he was born . The king , he takes the babe
8530 To his protection ; calls him Posthumus Leonatus ;
8531 Breeds him and makes him of his bedchamber ,
8532 Puts to him all the learnings that his time
8533 Could make him the receiver of ; which he took ,
8534 As we do air , fast as 'twas minister'd ,
8535 And in's spring became a harvest ; liv'd in court ,
8536 Which rare it is to do most prais'd , most lov'd ;
8537 A sample to the youngest , to the more mature
8538 A glass that feated them , and to the graver
8539 A child that guided dotards ; to his mistress ,
8540 For whom he now is banish'd , her own price
8541 Proclaims how she esteem'd him and his virtue ;
8542 By her election may be truly read
8543 What kind of man he is .
8544
8545 I honour him ,
8546 Even out of your report . But pray you , tell me ,
8547 Is she sole child to the king ?
8548
8549 His only child .
8550 He had twosons ,if this be worth your hearing ,
8551 Mark it ,the eldest of them at three years old ,
8552 I' the swathing clothes the other , from their nursery
8553 Were stol'n ; and to this hour no guess in knowledge
8554 Which way they went .
8555
8556 How long is this ago ?
8557
8558 Some twenty years .
8559
8560 That a king's children should be so convey'd ,
8561 So slackly guarded , and the search so slow ,
8562 That could not trace them !
8563
8564 Howsoe'er 'tis strange ,
8565 Or that the negligence may well be laugh'd at ,
8566 Yet is it true , sir .
8567
8568 I do well believe you .
8569
8570 We must forbear . Here comes the gentleman ,
8571 The queen , and princess .
8572
8573 No , be assur'd you shall not find me , daughter ,
8574 After the slander of most step-mothers ,
8575 Evil-ey'd unto you ; you're my prisoner , but
8576 Your gaoler shall deliver you the keys
8577 That lock up your restraint . For you , Posthumus ,
8578 So soon as I can win the offended king ,
8579 I will be known your advocate ; marry , yet
8580 The fire of rage is in him , and 'twere good
8581 You lean'd unto his sentence with what patience
8582 Your wisdom may inform you .
8583
8584 Please your highness ,
8585 I will from hence to-day .
8586
8587 You know the peril :
8588 I'll fetch a turn about the garden , pitying
8589 The pangs of barr'd affections , though the king
8590 Hath charg'd you should not speak together .
8591
8592
8593 O !
8594 Dissembling courtesy . How fine this tyrant
8595 Can tickle where she wounds ! My dearest husband ,
8596 I something fear my father's wrath ; but nothing ,
8597 Always reserv'd my holy duty ,what
8598 His rage can do on me . You must be gone ;
8599 And I shall here abide the hourly shot
8600 Of angry eyes , not comforted to live ,
8601 But that there is this jewel in the world
8602 That I may see again .
8603
8604 My queen ! my mistress !
8605 O lady , weep no more , lest I give cause
8606 To be suspected of more tenderness
8607 Than doth become a man . I will remain
8608 The loyal'st husband that did e'er plight troth .
8609 My residence in Rome at one Philario's ,
8610 Who to my father was a friend , to me
8611 Known but by letter ; thither write , my queen ,
8612 And with mine eyes I'll drink the words you send ,
8613 Though ink be made of gall .
8614
8615
8616 Be brief , I pray you ;
8617 If the king come , I shall incur I know not
8618 How much of his displeasure .
8619
8620 Yet I'll move him
8621 To walk this way . I never do him wrong ,
8622 But he does buy my injuries to be friends ,
8623 Pays dear for my offences .
8624
8625
8626 Should we be taking leave
8627 As long a term as yet we have to live ,
8628 The loathness to depart would grow . Adieu !
8629
8630 Nay , stay a little :
8631 Were you but riding forth to air yourself
8632 Such parting were too petty . Look here , love ;
8633 This diamond was my mother's ; take it , heart ;
8634 But keep it till you woo another wife ,
8635 When Imogen is dead .
8636
8637 How ! how ! another ?
8638 You gentle gods , give me but this I have ,
8639 And sear up my embracements from a next
8640 With bonds of death !Remain , remain thou here
8641
8642 While sense can keep it on ! And , sweetest , fairest ,
8643 As I my poor self did exchange for you ,
8644 To your so infinite loss , so in our trifles
8645 I still win of you ; for my sake wear this ;
8646 It is a manacle of love ; I'll place it
8647 Upon this fairest prisoner .
8648
8649
8650 O the gods !
8651 When shall we see again ?
8652
8653
8654 Alack ! the king !
8655
8656 Thou basest thing , avoid ! hence , from my sight !
8657 If after this command thou fraught the court
8658 With thy unworthiness , thou diest . Away !
8659 Thou'rt poison to my blood .
8660
8661 The gods protect you
8662 And bless the good remainders of the court !
8663 I am gone .
8664
8665
8666 There cannot be a pinch in death
8667 More sharp than this is .
8668
8669 O disloyal thing ,
8670 That shouldst repair my youth , thou heap'st instead
8671 A year's age on me .
8672
8673 I beseech you , sir ,
8674 Harm not yourself with your vexation ;
8675 I am senseless of your wrath ; a touch more rare
8676 Subdues all pangs , all fears .
8677
8678 Past grace ? obedience ?
8679
8680 Past hope , and in despair ; that way , past grace .
8681
8682 That mightst have had the sole son of my queen !
8683
8684 O bless'd , that I might not ! I chose an eagle
8685 And did avoid a puttock .
8686
8687 Thou took'st a beggar ; wouldst have made my throne
8688 A seat for baseness .
8689
8690 No ; I rather added
8691 A lustre to it .
8692
8693 O thou vile one !
8694
8695 Sir ,
8696 It is your fault that I have lov'd Posthumus ;
8697 You bred him as my playfellow , and he is
8698 A man worth any woman , overbuys me
8699 Almost the sum he pays .
8700
8701 What ! art thou mad ?
8702
8703 Almost , sir ; heaven restore me ! Would I were
8704 A neat-herd's daughter , and my Leonatus
8705 Our neighbour shepherd's son !
8706
8707 Thou foolish thing !
8708
8709
8710 They were again together ; you have done
8711 Not after our command . Away with her ,
8712
8713 And pen her up .
8714
8715 Beseech your patience . Peace !
8716 Dear lady daughter , peace ! Sweet sovereign ,
8717 Leave us to ourselves , and make yourself some comfort
8718 Out of your best advice .
8719
8720 Nay , let her languish
8721 A drop of blood a day ; and , being aged ,
8722 Die of this folly !
8723
8724
8725 Fie ! you must give way :
8726
8727 Here is your servant . How now , sir ! What news ?
8728
8729 My lord your son drew on my master .
8730
8731 Ha !
8732 No harm , I trust , is done ?
8733
8734 There might have been ,
8735 But that my master rather play'd than fought ,
8736 And had no help of anger ; they were parted
8737 By gentlemen at hand .
8738
8739 I am very glad on 't .
8740
8741 Your son's my father's friend ; he takes his part .
8742 To draw upon an exile ! O brave sir !
8743 I would they were in Afric both together ,
8744 Myself by with a needle , that I might prick
8745 The goer-back . Why came you from your master ?
8746
8747 On his command : he would not suffer me
8748 To bring him to the haven ; left these notes
8749 Of what commands I should be subject to ,
8750 When 't pleas'd you to employ me .
8751
8752 This hath been
8753 Your faithful servant ; I dare lay mine honour
8754 He will remain so .
8755
8756 I humbly thank your highness .
8757
8758 Pray , walk awhile .
8759
8760 About some half-hour hence ,
8761 I pray you , speak with me . You shall at least
8762 Go see my lord aboard ; for this time leave me .
8763
8764
8765 Sir , I would advise you to shift a shirt ; the violence of action hath made you reek as a sacrifice . Where air comes out , air comes in ; there's none abroad so wholesome as that you vent .
8766
8767 If my shirt were bloody , them to shift it . Have I hurt him ?
8768
8769 No faith ; not so much as his patience .
8770
8771 Hurt him ! his body's a passable carcass if he be not hurt ; it is a throughfare for steel if it be not hurt .
8772
8773 His steel was in debt ; it went o' the backside the town .
8774
8775 The villain would not stand me .
8776
8777 No ; but he fled forward still , toward your face .
8778
8779 Stand you ! You have land enough of your own ; but he added to your having , gave you some ground .
8780
8781 As many inches as you have oceans . Puppies !
8782
8783 I would they had not come between us .
8784
8785 So would I till you had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground .
8786
8787 And that she should love this fellow and refuse me !
8788
8789 If it be a sin to make a true election , she is damned .
8790
8791 Sir , as I told you always , her beauty and her brain go not together ; she's a good sign , but I have seen small reflection of her wit .
8792
8793 She shines not upon fools , lest the reflection should hurt her .
8794
8795 Come , I'll to my chamber . Would there had been some hurt done !
8796
8797 I wish not so ; unless it had been the fall of an ass , which is no great hurt .
8798
8799 You'll go with us ?
8800
8801 I'll attend your lordship .
8802
8803 Nay , come , let's go together .
8804
8805 Well , my lord .
8806
8807
8808 I would thou grew'st unto the shores of the haven ,
8809 And question'dst every sail : if he should write ,
8810 And I not have it , 'twere a paper lost ,
8811 As offer'd mercy is . What was the last
8812 That he spake to thee ?
8813
8814 It was his queen , his queen !
8815
8816 Then wav'd his handkerchief ?
8817
8818 And kiss'd it , madam .
8819
8820 Senseless linen , happier therein than I !
8821 And that was all ?
8822
8823 No , madam ; for so long
8824 As he could make me with this eye or ear
8825 Distinguish him from others , he did keep
8826 The deck , with glove , or hat , or handkerchief ,
8827 Still waving , as the fits and stirs of 's mind
8828 Could best express how slow his soul sail'd on ,
8829 How swift his ship .
8830
8831 Thou shouldst have made him
8832 As little as a crow , or less , ere left
8833 To after-eye him .
8834
8835 Madam , so I did .
8836
8837 I would have broke mine eye-strings , crack'd them , but
8838 To look upon him , till the diminution
8839 Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle ,
8840 Nay , follow'd him , till he had melted from
8841 The smallness of a gnat to air , and then
8842 Have turn'd mine eye , and wept . But , good Pisanio ,
8843 When shall we hear from him ?
8844
8845 Be assur'd , madam ,
8846 With his next vantage .
8847
8848 I did not take my leave of him , but had
8849 Most pretty things to say ; ere I could tell him
8850 How I would think on him at certain hours
8851 Such thoughts and such , or I could make him swear
8852 The shes of Italy should not betray
8853 Mine interest and his honour , or have charg'd him ,
8854 At the sixth hour of morn , at noon , at mid-night ,
8855 To encounter me with orisons , for then
8856 I am in heaven for him ; or ere I could
8857 Give him that parting kiss which I had set
8858 Betwixt two charming words , comes in my father ,
8859 And like the tyrannous breathing of the north
8860 Shakes all our buds from growing .
8861
8862
8863 The queen , madam ,
8864 Desires your highness' company .
8865
8866 Those things I bid you do , get them dispatch'd .
8867 I will attend the queen .
8868
8869 Madam , I shall .
8870
8871
8872 Believe it , sir , I have seen him in Britain ; he was then of a crescent note , expected to prove so worthy as since he hath been allowed the name of ; but I could then have looked on him without the help of admiration , though the catalogue of his endowments had been tabled by his side and I to peruse him by items .
8873
8874 You speak of him when he was less furnished than now he is with that which makes him both without and within .
8875
8876 I have seen him in France : we had very many there could behold the sun with as firm eyes as he .
8877
8878 This matter of marrying his king's daughter ,wherein he must be weighed rather by her value than his own ,words him , I doubt not , a great deal from the matter .
8879
8880 And then , his banishment .
8881
8882 Ay , and the approbation of those that weep this lamentable divorce under her colours are wonderfully to extend him ; be it but to fortify her judgment , which else an easy battery might lay flat , for taking a beggar without less quality . But how comes it , he is to sojourn with you ? How creeps acquaintance ?
8883
8884 His father and I were soldiers together ; to whom I have been often bound for no less than my life . Here comes the Briton : let him be so entertained amongst you as suits , with gentlemen of your knowing , to a stranger of his quality .
8885
8886 I beseech you all , be better known to this gentleman , whom I commend to you , as a noble friend of mine ; how worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter , rather than story him in his own hearing .
8887
8888 Sir , we have known together in Orleans .
8889
8890 Since when I have been debtor to you for courtesies , which I will be ever to pay and yet pay still .
8891
8892 Sir , you o'er-rate my poor kindness . I was glad I did atone my countryman and you ; it had been pity you should have been put together with so mortal a purpose as then each bore , upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature .
8893
8894 By your pardon , sir , I was then a young traveller ; rather shunned to go even with what I heard than in my every action to be guided by others' experiences ; but , upon my mended judgment ,if I offend not to say it is mended ,my quarrel was not altogether slight .
8895
8896 Faith , yes , to be put to the arbitrement of swords , and by such two that would by all likelihood have confounded one the other , or have fallen both .
8897
8898 Can we , with manners , ask what was the difference ?
8899
8900 Safely , I think . 'Twas a contention in public , which may , without contradiction , suffer the report . It was much like an argument that fell out last night , where each of us fell in praise of our country mistresses ; this gentleman at that time vouching and upon warrant of bloody affirmation his to be more fair , virtuous , wise , chaste , constant , qualified , and less attemptable , than any the rarest of our ladies in France .
8901
8902 That lady is not now living , or this gentleman's opinion by this worn out .
8903
8904 She holds her virtue still and I my mind .
8905
8906 You must not so far prefer her 'fore ours of Italy .
8907
8908 Being so far provoked as I was in France , I would abate her nothing , though I profess myself her adorer , not her friend .
8909
8910 As fair and as good a kind of hand-in-hand comparison had been something too fair and too good for any lady in Britain . If she went before others I have seen , as that diamond of yours outlustres many I have beheld , I could not but believe she excelled many ; but I have not seen the most precious diamond that is , nor you the lady .
8911
8912 I praised her as I rated her ; so do I my stone .
8913
8914 What do you esteem it at ?
8915
8916 More than the world enjoys .
8917
8918 Either your unparagoned mistress is dead , or she's outprized by a trifle .
8919
8920 You are mistaken ; the one may be sold , or given ; or if there were wealth enough for the purchase , or merit for the gift ; the other is not a thing for sale , and only the gift of the gods .
8921
8922 Which the gods have given you ?
8923
8924 Which , by their graces , I will keep .
8925
8926 You may wear her in little yours , but , you know , strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds . Your ring may be stolen , too ; so your brace of unprizeable estimations , the one is but frail and the other causal ; a cunning thief , or a that way accomplished courtier , would hazard the winning both of first and last .
8927
8928 Your Italy contains none so accomplished a courtier to convince the honour of my mistress , if , in the holding or loss of that , you term her frail . I do nothing doubt you have store of thieves ; notwithstanding I fear not my ring .
8929
8930 Let us leave here , gentlemen .
8931
8932 Sir , with all my heart . This worthy signior , I thank him , makes no stranger of me ; we are familiar at first .
8933
8934 With five times so much conversation I should get ground of your fair mistress , make her go back , even to the yielding , had I admittance and opportunity to friend .
8935
8936 No , no .
8937
8938 I dare thereupon pawn the moiety of my estate to your ring , which , in my opinion , o'ervalues it something ; but I make my wager rather against your confidence than her reputation ; and , to bar your offence herein too , I durst attempt it against any lady in the world .
8939
8940 You are a great deal abused in too bold a persuasion ; and I doubt not you sustain what you're worthy of by your attempt .
8941
8942 What's that ?
8943
8944 A repulse ; though your attempt , as you call it , deserves more ,a punishment too .
8945
8946 Gentlemen , enough of this ; it came in too suddenly ; let it die as it was born , and , I pray you , be better acquainted .
8947
8948 Would I had put my estate and my neighbour's on the approbation of what I have spoke !
8949
8950 What lady would you choose to assail ?
8951
8952 Yours ; whom in constancy you think stands so safe . I will lay you ten thousand ducats to your ring , that , commend me to the court where your lady is , with no more advantage than the opportunity of a second conference , and I will bring from thence that honour of hers which you imagine so reserved .
8953
8954 I will wage against your gold , gold to it : my ring I hold dear as my finger ; 'tis part of it .
8955
8956 You are afraid , and therein the wiser . If you buy ladies' flesh at a million a dram , you cannot preserve it from tainting . But I see you have some religion in you , that you fear .
8957
8958 This is but a custom in your tongue ; you bear a graver purpose , I hope .
8959
8960 I am the master of my speeches , and would undergo what's spoken , I swear .
8961
8962 Will you ? I shall but lend my diamond till your return . Let there be covenants drawn between 's : my mistress exceeds in goodness the hugeness of your unworthy thinking ; I dare you to this match . Here's my ring .
8963
8964 I will have it no lay .
8965
8966 By the gods , it is one . If I bring you no sufficient testimony that I have enjoyed the dearest bodily part of your mistress , my ten thousand ducats are yours ; so is your diamond too : if I come off , and leave her in such honour as you have trust in , she your jewel , this your jewel , and my gold are yours ; provided I have your commendation for my more free entertainment .
8967
8968 I embrace these conditions ; let us have articles betwixt us . Only , thus far you shall answer : if you make your voyage upon her and give me directly to understand that you have prevailed , I am no further your enemy ; she is not worth our debate : if she remain unseduced ,you not making it appear otherwise ,for your ill opinion , and the assault you have made to her chastity , you shall answer me with your sword .
8969
8970 Your hand ; a covenant . We will have these things set down by lawful counsel , and straight away for Britain , lest the bargain should catch cold and starve . I will fetch my gold and have our two wagers recorded .
8971
8972 Agreed .
8973
8974
8975 Will this hold , think you ?
8976
8977 Signior Iachimo will not from it . Pray , let us follow 'em .
8978
8979
8980 Whiles yet the dew 's on ground , gather those flowers :
8981 Make haste ; who has the note of them ?
8982
8983 I , madam .
8984
8985 Dispatch .
8986
8987 Now , Master doctor , have you brought those drugs ?
8988
8989 Pleaseth your highness , ay ; here they are , madam :
8990
8991 But I beseech your Grace , without offence ,
8992 My conscience bids me ask ,wherefore you have
8993 Commanded of me these most poisonous compounds ,
8994 Which are the movers of a languishing death ,
8995 But though slow , deadly ?
8996
8997 I wonder , doctor ,
8998 Thou ask'st me such a question : have I not been
8999 Thy pupil long ? Hast thou not learn'd me how
9000 To make perfumes ? distil ? preserve ? yea , so
9001 That our great king himself doth woo me oft
9002 For my confections ? Having thus far proceeded ,
9003 Unless thou think'st me devilish ,is 't not meet
9004 That I did amplify my judgment in
9005 Other conclusions ? I will try the forces
9006 Of these thy compounds on such creatures as
9007 We count not worth the hanging ,but none human ,
9008 To try the vigour of them and apply
9009 Allayments to their act , and by them gather
9010 Their several virtues and effects .
9011
9012 Your highness
9013 Shall from this practice but make hard your heart ;
9014 Besides , the seeing these effects will be
9015 Both noisome and infectious .
9016
9017 O ! content thee .
9018
9019
9020 Here comes a flattering rascal ; upon him
9021 Will I first work : he's for his master ,
9022 And enemy to my son . How now , Pisanio :
9023 Doctor , your service for this time is ended ;
9024
9025 Take your own way .
9026
9027 I do suspect you , madam ;
9028 But you shall do no harm .
9029
9030 Hark thee , a word .
9031
9032 I do not like her . She doth think she has
9033 Strange lingering poisons ; I do know her spirit ,
9034 And will not trust one of her malice with
9035 A drug of such damn'd nature . Those she has
9036 Will stupify and dull the sense awhile ;
9037 Which first , perchance , she'll prove on cats and dogs ,
9038 Then afterward up higher ; but there is
9039 No danger in what show of death it makes ,
9040 More than the locking-up the spirits a time ,
9041 To be more fresh , reviving . She is fool'd
9042 With a most false effect ; and I the truer ,
9043 So to be false with her .
9044
9045 No further service , doctor ,
9046 Until I send for thee .
9047
9048 I humbly take my leave .
9049
9050
9051 Weeps she still , sayst thou ? Dost thou think in time
9052 She will not quench , and let instructions enter
9053 Where folly now possesses ? Do thou work :
9054 When thou shalt bring me word she loves my son ,
9055 I'll tell thee on the instant thou art then
9056 As great as is thy master ; greater , for
9057 His fortunes all lie speechless , and his name
9058 Is at last gasp ; return he cannot , nor
9059 Continue where he is ; to shift his being
9060 Is to exchange one misery with another ,
9061 And every day that comes comes to decay
9062 A day's work in him . What shalt thou expect ,
9063 To be depender on a thing that leans ,
9064 Who cannot be new built , nor has no friends ,
9065 So much as but to prop him ?
9066
9067 Thou tak'st up
9068 Thou know'st not what ; but take it for thy labour :
9069 It is a thing I made , which hath the king
9070 Five times redeem'd from death ; I do not know
9071 What is more cordial : nay , I prithee , take it ;
9072 It is an earnest of a further good
9073 That I mean to thee . Tell thy mistress how
9074 The case stands with her ; do 't as from thyself .
9075 Think what a chance thou changest on , but think
9076 Thou hast thy mistress still , to boot , my son ,
9077 Who shall take notice of thee . I'll move the king
9078 To any shape of thy preferment such
9079 As thou'lt desire ; and then myself , I chiefly ,
9080 That set thee on to this desert , am bound
9081 To load thy merit richly . Call my women ;
9082 Think on my words .
9083
9084 A sly and constant knave ,
9085 Not to be shak'd ; the agent for his master ,
9086 And the remembrancer of her to hold
9087 The hand-fast to her lord . I have given him that
9088 Which , if he take , shall quite unpeople her
9089 Of leigers for her sweet , and which she after ,
9090 Except she bend her humour , shall be assur'd
9091 To taste of too .
9092
9093
9094 So , so ;well done , well done .
9095 The violets , cowslips , and the prime-roses
9096 Bear to my closet . Fare thee well , Pisanio :
9097 Think on my words .
9098
9099 And shall do :
9100 But when to my good lord I prove untrue ,
9101 I'll choke myself ; there's all I'll do for you .
9102
9103
9104 A father cruel , and a step-dame false ;
9105 A foolish suitor to a wedded lady ,
9106 That hath her husband banish'd : O ! that husband ,
9107 My supreme crown of grief ! and those repeated
9108 Vexations of it ! Had I been thief-stol'n ,
9109 As my two brothers , happy ! but most miserable
9110 Is the desire that's glorious : bless'd be those ,
9111 How mean so'er , that have their honest wills ,
9112 Which seasons comfort . Who may this be ? Fie !
9113
9114
9115 Madam , a noble gentleman of Rome ,
9116 Comes from my lord with letters .
9117
9118 Change you , madam ?
9119 The worthy Leonatus is in safety ,
9120 And greets your highness dearly .
9121
9122
9123 Thanks , good sir :
9124 You are kindly welcome .
9125
9126 All of her that is out of door most rich !
9127 If she be furnish'd with a mind so rare ,
9128 She is alone the Arabian bird , and I
9129 Have lost the wager . Boldness be my friend !
9130 Arm me , audacity , from head to foot !
9131 Or , like the Parthian , I shall flying fight ;
9132 Rather , directly fly .
9133
9134 He is one of the noblest note , to whose kindnesses I am most infinitely tied . Reflect upon him accordingly , as you value your truest
9135 So far I read aloud ;
9136 But even the very middle of my heart
9137 Is warm'd by the rest , and takes it thankfully .
9138 You are as welcome , worthy sir , as I
9139 Have words to bid you ; and shall find it so
9140 In all that I can do .
9141
9142 Thanks , fairest lady .
9143 What ! are men mad ? Hath nature given them eyes
9144 To see this vaulted arch , and the rich crop
9145 Of sea and land , which can distinguish 'twixt
9146 The fiery orbs above and the twinn'd stones
9147 Upon the number'd beach ? and can we not
9148 Partition make with spectacles so precious
9149 'Twixt fair and foul ?
9150
9151 What makes your admiration ?
9152
9153 It cannot be i' the eye ; for apes and monkeys
9154 'Twixt two such shes would chatter this way and
9155 Contemn with mows the other ; nor i' the judgment ,
9156 For idiots in this case of favour would
9157 Be wisely definite ; nor i' the appetite ;
9158 Sluttery to such neat excellence oppos'd
9159 Should make desire vomit emptiness ,
9160 Not so allur'd to feed .
9161
9162 What is the matter , trow ?
9163
9164 The cloyed will ,
9165 That satiate yet unsatisfied desire , that tub
9166 Both fill'd and running ,ravening first the lamb ,
9167 Longs after for the garbage .
9168
9169 What , dear sir ,
9170 Thus raps you ? are you well ?
9171
9172 Thanks , madam , well .
9173
9174
9175 Beseech you , sir ,
9176 Desire my man's abode where I did leave him ;
9177 He's strange and peevish .
9178
9179 I was going , sir ,
9180 To give him welcome .
9181
9182
9183 Continues well my lord his health , beseech you ?
9184
9185 Well , madam .
9186
9187 Is he dispos'd to mirth ? I hope he is .
9188
9189 Exceeding pleasant ; none a stranger there
9190 So merry and so gamesome : he is call'd
9191 The Briton reveller .
9192
9193 When he was here
9194 He did incline to sadness , and oft-times
9195 Not knowing why .
9196
9197 I never saw him sad .
9198 There is a Frenchman his companion , one ,
9199 An eminent monsieur , that , it seems , much loves
9200 A Gallian girl at home ; he furnaces
9201 The thick sighs from him , whiles the jolly Briton
9202 Your lord , I mean laughs from 's free lungs , cries , 'O !
9203 Can my sides hold , to think that man , who knows
9204 By history , report , or his own proof ,
9205 What woman is , yea , what she cannot choose
9206 But must be , will his free hours languish for
9207 Assured bondage ?'
9208
9209 Will my lord say so ?
9210
9211 Ay , madam , with his eyes in flood with laughter :
9212 It is a recreation to be by
9213 And hear him mock the Frenchman ; but , heavens know ,
9214 Some men are much to blame .
9215
9216 Not he , I hope .
9217
9218 Not he ; but yet heaven's bounty towards him might
9219 Be us'd more thankfully . In himself , 'tis much ;
9220 In you ,which I account his beyond all talents ,
9221 Whilst I am bound to wonder , I am bound
9222 To pity too .
9223
9224 What do you pity , sir ?
9225
9226 Two creatures , heartily .
9227
9228 Am I one , sir ?
9229 You look on me : what wrack discern you in me
9230 Deserves your pity ?
9231
9232 Lamentable ! What !
9233 To hide me from the radiant sun and solace
9234 I' the dungeon by a snuff !
9235
9236 I pray you , sir ,
9237 Deliver with more openness your answers
9238 To my demands . Why do you pity me ?
9239
9240 That others do ,
9241 I was about to say , enjoy your But
9242 It is an office of the gods to venge it ,
9243 Not mine to speak on 't .
9244
9245 You do seem to know
9246 Something of me , or what concerns me ; pray you ,
9247 Since doubting things go ill often hurts more
9248 Than to be sure they do ; for certainties
9249 Either are past remedies , or , timely knowing ,
9250 The remedy then born ,discover to me
9251 What both you spur and stop .
9252
9253 Had I this cheek
9254 To bathe my lips upon ; this hand , whose touch ,
9255 Whose every touch , would force the feeler's soul
9256 To the oath of loyalty ; this object , which
9257 Takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye ,
9258 Firing it only here ; should I damn'd then
9259 Slaver with lips as common as the stairs
9260 That mount the Capitol ; join gripes with hands
9261 Made hard with hourly falsehood ,falsehood , as
9262 With labour ;then by-peeping in an eye ,
9263 Base and illustrous as the smoky light
9264 That's fed with stinking tallow ; it were fit
9265 That all the plagues of hell should at one time
9266 Encounter such revolt .
9267
9268 My lord , I fear ,
9269 Has forgot Britain .
9270
9271 And himself . Not I ,
9272 Inclin'd to this intelligence , pronounce
9273 The beggary of his change ; but 'tis your graces
9274 That from my mutest conscience to my tongue
9275 Charms this report out .
9276
9277 Let me hear no more .
9278
9279 O dearest soul ! your cause doth strike my heart
9280 With pity , that doth make me sick . A lady
9281 So fair ,and fasten'd to an empery
9282 Would make the great'st king double ,to be partner'd
9283 With tom-boys hir'd with that self-exhibition
9284 Which your own coffers yield ! with diseas'd ventures
9285 That play with all infirmities for gold
9286 Which rottenness can lend nature ! such boil'd stuff
9287 As well might poison poison ! Be reveng'd ;
9288 Or she that bore you was no queen , and you
9289 Recoil from your great stock .
9290
9291 Reveng'd !
9292 How should I be reveng'd ? If this be true ,
9293 As I have such a heart , that both mine ears
9294 Must not in haste abuse ,if it be true ,
9295 How should I be reveng'd ?
9296
9297 Should be make me
9298 Live like Diana's priest , betwixt cold sheets ,
9299 Whiles he is vaulting variable ramps ,
9300 In your despite , upon your purse ? Revenge it .
9301 I dedicate myself to your sweet pleasure ,
9302 More noble than that runagate to your bed ,
9303 And will continue fast to your affection ,
9304 Still close as sure .
9305
9306 What ho , Pisanio !
9307
9308 Let me my service tender on your lips .
9309
9310 Away ! I do condemn mine ears that have
9311 So long attended thee . If thou wert honourable ,
9312 Thou wouldst have told this tale for virtue , not
9313 For such an end thou seek'st ; as base as strange .
9314 Thou wrong'st a gentleman , who is as far
9315 From thy report as thou from honour , and
9316 Solicit'st here a lady that disdains
9317 Thee and the devil alike . What ho , Pisanio !
9318 The king my father shall be made acquainted
9319 Of thy assault ; if he shall think it fit ,
9320 A saucy stranger in his court to mart
9321 As in a Romish stew and to expound
9322 His beastly mind to us , he hath a court
9323 He little cares for and a daughter who
9324 He not respects at all . What ho , Pisanio !
9325
9326 O happy Leonatus ! I may say :
9327 The credit that thy lady hath of thee
9328 Deserves thy trust , and thy most perfect goodness
9329 Her assur'd credit . Blessed live you long !
9330 A lady to the worthiest sir that ever
9331 Country call'd his ; and you his mistress , only
9332 For the most worthiest fit . Give me your pardon .
9333 I have spoken this , to know if your affiance
9334 Were deeply rooted , and shall make your lord
9335 That which he is , new o'er ; and he is one
9336 The truest manner'd ; such a holy witch
9337 That he enchants societies into him ;
9338 Half all men's hearts are his .
9339
9340 You make amends .
9341
9342 He sits 'mongst men like a descended god :
9343 He hath a kind of honour sets him off ,
9344 More than a mortal seeming . Be not angry ,
9345 Most mighty princess , that I have adventur'd
9346 To try your taking of a false report ; which hath
9347 Honour'd with confirmation your great judgment
9348 In the election of a sir so rare ,
9349 Which you know cannot err . The love I bear him
9350 Made me to fan you thus ; but the gods made you ,
9351 Unlike all others , chaffless . Pray , your pardon .
9352
9353 All's well , sir . Take my power i' the court for yours .
9354
9355 My humble thanks . I had almost forget
9356 To entreat your Grace but in a small request ,
9357 And yet of moment too , for it concerns
9358 Your lord , myself , and other noble friends ,
9359 Are partners in the business .
9360
9361 Pray , what is 't ?
9362
9363 Some dozen Romans of us and your lord ,
9364 The best feather of our wing , have mingled sums
9365 To buy a present for the emperor ;
9366 Which I , the factor for the rest , have done
9367 In France ; 'tis plate of rare device , and jewels
9368 Of rich and exquisite form ; their values great ;
9369 And I am something curious , being strange ,
9370 To have them in safe stowage . May it please you
9371 To take them in protection ?
9372
9373 Willingly ;
9374 And pawn mine honour for their safety : since
9375 My lord hath interest in them , I will keep them
9376 In my bedchamber .
9377
9378 They are in a trunk ,
9379 Attended by my men ; I will make bold
9380 To send them to you , only for this night ;
9381 I must aboard to-morrow .
9382
9383 O ! no , no .
9384
9385 Yes , I beseech , or I shall short my word
9386 By lengthening my return . From Gallia
9387 I cross'd the seas on purpose and on promise
9388 To see your Grace .
9389
9390 I thank you for your pains ;
9391 But not away to-morrow !
9392
9393 O ! I must , madam :
9394 Therefore I shall beseech you , if you please
9395 To greet your lord with writing , do 't to-night :
9396 I have outstood my time , which is material
9397 To the tender of our present .
9398
9399 I will write .
9400 Send your trunk to me ; it shall safe be kept ,
9401 And truly yielded you . You're very welcome .
9402
9403 Was there ever man had such luck ! when I kissed the jack , upon an up-cast to be hit away ! I had a hundred pound on 't ; and then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing , as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure .
9404
9405 What got he by that ? You have broke his pate with your bowl .
9406
9407 If his wit had been like him that broke it , it would have run all out .
9408
9409 When a gentleman is disposed to swear , it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths , ha ?
9410
9411 No , my lord ;
9412
9413 nor crop the ears of them .
9414
9415 Whoreson dog ! I give him satisfaction !
9416 Would he had been one of my rank !
9417
9418 To have smelt like a fool .
9419
9420 I am not vexed more at any thing in the earth . A pox on 't ! I had rather not be so noble as I am . They dare not fight with me because of the queen my mother . Every Jack-slave hath his bellyful of fighting , and I must go up and down like a cock that nobody can match .
9421
9422 You are cock and capon too ; and you crow , cock , with your comb on .
9423
9424 Sayest thou ?
9425
9426 It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to .
9427
9428 No , I know that ; but it is fit I should commit offence to my inferiors .
9429
9430 Ay , it is fit for your lordship only .
9431
9432 Why , so I say .
9433
9434 Did you hear of a stranger that's come to court to-night ?
9435
9436 A stranger , and I not know on 't !
9437
9438 He's a strange fellow himself , and knows it not .
9439
9440 There's an Italian come ; and 'tis thought , one of Leonatus' friends .
9441
9442 Leonatus ! a banished rascal ; and he's another , whatsoever he be . Who told you of this stranger ?
9443
9444 One of your lordship's pages .
9445
9446 Is it fit I went to look upon him ? Is there no derogation in 't ?
9447
9448 You cannot derogate , my lord .
9449
9450 Not easily , I think .
9451
9452 You are a fool , granted ; therefore your issues , being foolish , do not derogate .
9453
9454 Come , I'll go see this Italian . What I have lost to-day at bowls I'll win to-night of him . Come , go .
9455
9456 I'll attend your lordship .
9457
9458 That such a crafty devil as is his mother
9459 Should yield the world this ass ! a woman that
9460 Bears all down with her brain , and this her son
9461 Cannot take two from twenty for his heart
9462 And leave eighteen . Alas ! poor princess ,
9463 Thou divine Imogen , what thou endur'st
9464 Betwixt a father by thy step-dame govern'd ,
9465 A mother hourly coining plots , a wooer
9466 More hateful than the foul expulsion is
9467 Of thy dear husband , than that horrid act
9468 Of the divorce he'd make . The heavens hold firm
9469 The walls of thy dear honour ; keep unshak'd
9470 That temple , thy fair mind ; that thou mayst stand ,
9471 To enjoy thy banish'd lord and this great land !
9472
9473
9474 Who's there ? my woman Helen ?
9475
9476 Please you , madam .
9477
9478 What hour is it ?
9479
9480 Almost midnight , madam .
9481
9482 I have read three hours then ; mine eyes are weak ;
9483 Fold down the leaf where I have left ; to bed :
9484 Take not away the taper , leave it burning ,
9485 And if thou canst awake by four o' the clock ,
9486 I prithee , call me . Sleep has seized me wholly .
9487
9488 To your protection I commend me , gods !
9489 From fairies and the tempters of the night
9490 Guard me , beseech ye !
9491
9492
9493 The crickets sing , and man's o'erlabour'd sense
9494 Repairs itself by rest . Our Tarquin thus
9495 Did softly press the rushes ere he waken'd
9496 The chastity he wounded . Cytherea ,
9497 How bravely thou becom'st thy bed ! freshlily ,
9498 And whiter than the sheets ! That I might touch !
9499 But kiss : one kiss ! Rubies unparagon'd ,
9500 How dearly they do 't ! 'Tis her breathing that
9501 Perfumes the chamber thus ; the flame of the taper
9502 Bows toward her , and would under-peep her lids ,
9503 To see the enclosed lights , now canopied
9504 Under these windows , white and azure lac'd
9505 With blue of heaven's own tinct . But my design ,
9506 To note the chamber : I will write all down :
9507 Such and such pictures ; there the window ; such
9508 Th' adornment of her bed ; the arras , figures ,
9509 Why , such and such ; and the contents o' the story .
9510 Ah ! but some natural notes about her body ,
9511 Above ten thousand meaner moveables
9512 Would testify , to enrich mine inventory .
9513 O sleep ! thou ape of death , lie dull upon her ;
9514 And be her senses but as a monument
9515 Thus in a chapel lying . Come off , come off ;
9516
9517 As slippery as the Gordian knot was hard !
9518 'Tis mine ; and this will witness outwardly ,
9519 As strongly as the conscience does within ,
9520 To the madding of her lord . On her left breast
9521 A mole cinque-spotted , like the crimson drops
9522 I' the bottom of a cowslip : here's a voucher ;
9523 Stronger than ever law could make : this secret
9524 Will force him think I have pick'd the lock and ta'en
9525 The treasure of her honour . No more . To what end ?
9526 Why should I write this down , that's riveted ,
9527 Screw'd to my memory ? She hath been reading late
9528 The tale of Tereus ; here the leaf's turn'd down
9529 Where Philomel gave up . I have enough :
9530 To the trunk again , and shut the spring of it .
9531 Swift , swift , you dragons of the night , that dawning
9532 May bare the raven's eye ! I lodge in fear ;
9533 Though this a heavenly angel , hell is here .
9534
9535 One , two , three : time , time !
9536
9537
9538 Your lordship is the most patient man in loss , the most coldest that ever turned up ace .
9539
9540 It would make any man cold to lose .
9541
9542 But not every man patient after the noble temper of your lordship . You are most hot and furious when you win .
9543
9544 Winning will put any man into courage .
9545 If I could get this foolish Imogen , I should have gold enough . It's almost morning , is 't not ?
9546
9547 Day , my lord .
9548
9549 I would this music would come . I am advised to give her music o' mornings ; they say it will penetrate .
9550
9551
9552 Come on ; tune . If you can penetrate her with your fingering , so ; we'll try with tongue too : if none will do , let her remain ; but I'll never give o'er . First , a very excellent good-conceited thing ; after , a wonderful sweet air , with admirable rich words to it : and then let her consider .
9553
9554
9555 Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings ,
9556 And Ph bus 'gins arise ,
9557 His steeds to water at those springs
9558 On chalic'd flowers that lies ,
9559 And winking Mary-buds begin
9560 To ope their golden eyes :
9561 With every thing that pretty is ,
9562 My lady sweet , arise .
9563 Arise , arise !
9564
9565
9566 So , get you gone . If this penetrate , I will consider your music the better ; if it do not , it is a vice in her ears , which horse-hairs and calves'-guts , nor the voice of unpaved eunuch to boot , can never amend .
9567
9568 Here comes the king .
9569
9570 I am glad I was up so late , for that's the reason I was up so early ; he cannot choose but take this service I have done fatherly .
9571
9572 Good morrow to your majesty and to my gracious mother .
9573
9574 Attend you here the door of our stern daughter ?
9575 Will she not forth ?
9576
9577 I have assail'd her with musics , but she vouchsafes no notice .
9578
9579 The exile of her minion is too new ,
9580 She hath not yet forgot him ; some more time
9581 Must wear the print of his remembrance out ,
9582 And then she's yours .
9583
9584 You are most bound to the king ,
9585 Who lets go by no vantages that may
9586 Prefer you to his daughter . Frame yourself
9587 To orderly soliciting , and be friended
9588 With aptness of the season ; make denials
9589 Increase your services ; so seem as if
9590 You were inspir'd to do those duties which
9591 You tender to her ; that you in all obey her
9592 Save when command to your dismission tends ,
9593 And therein you are senseless .
9594
9595 Senseless ! not so .
9596
9597
9598 So like you , sir , ambassadors from Rome ;
9599 The one is Caius Lucius .
9600
9601 A worthy fellow ,
9602 Albeit he comes on angry purpose now ;
9603 But that's no fault of his : we must receive him
9604 According to the honour of his sender ;
9605 And towards himself , his goodness forespent on us ,
9606 We must extend our notice . Our dear son ,
9607 When you have given good morning to your mistress ,
9608 Attend the queen and us ; we shall have need
9609 To employ you towards this Roman . Come , our queen .
9610
9611
9612 If she be up , I'll speak with her ; if not ,
9613 Let her lie still , and dream . By your leave , ho !
9614
9615 I know her women are about her . What
9616 If I do line one of their hands ? 'Tis gold
9617 Which buys admittance ; oft it doth ; yea , and makes
9618 Diana's rangers false themselves , yield up
9619 Their deer to the stand o' the stealer ; and 'tis gold
9620 Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief ;
9621 Nay , sometime hangs both thief and true man . What
9622 Can it not do and undo ? I will make
9623 One of her women lawyer to me , for
9624 I yet not understand the case myself .
9625 By your leave .
9626
9627 Who's there , that knocks ?
9628
9629 A gentleman .
9630
9631 No more ?
9632
9633 Yes , and a gentlewoman's son .
9634
9635 That's more
9636 Than some whose tailors are as dear as yours
9637 Can justly boast of . What's your lordship's pleasure ?
9638
9639 Your lady's person : is she ready ?
9640
9641 Ay ,
9642 To keep her chamber .
9643
9644 There's gold for you ; sell me your good report .
9645
9646 How ! my good name ? or to report of you
9647 What I shall think is good ?The princess !
9648
9649
9650 Good morrow , fairest ; sister , your sweet hand .
9651
9652
9653 Good morrow , sir . You lay out too much pains
9654 For purchasing but trouble ; the thanks I give
9655 Is telling you that I am poor of thanks
9656 And scarce can spare them .
9657
9658 Still , I swear I love you .
9659
9660 If you but said so , 'twere as deep with me :
9661 If you swear still , your recompense is still
9662 That I regard it not .
9663
9664 This is no answer .
9665
9666 But that you shall not say I yield being silent
9667 I would not speak . I pray you , spare me : faith ,
9668 I shall unfold equal discourtesy
9669 To your best kindness . One of your great knowing
9670 Should learn , being taught , forbearance .
9671
9672 To leave you in your madness , 'twere my sin :
9673 I will not .
9674
9675 Fools cure not mad folks .
9676
9677 Do you call me fool ?
9678
9679 As I am mad , I do :
9680 If you'll be patient , I'll no more be mad ;
9681 That cures us both . I am much sorry , sir ,
9682 You put me to forget a lady's manners ,
9683 By being so verbal ; and learn now , for all ,
9684 That I , which know my heart , do here pronounce
9685 By the very truth of it , I care not for you ;
9686 And am so near the lack of charity ,
9687 To accuse myself ,I hate you ; which I had rather
9688 You felt than make 't my boast .
9689
9690 You sin against
9691 Obedience , which you owe your father . For
9692 The contract you pretend with that base wretch ,
9693 One bred of alms and foster'd with cold dishes ,
9694 With scraps o' the court , it is no contract , none ;
9695 And though it be allow'd in meaner parties
9696 Yet who than he more mean ?to knit their souls
9697 On whom there is no more dependancy
9698 But brats and beggary in self-figur'd knot ;
9699 Yet you are curb'd from that enlargement by
9700 The consequence o' the crown , and must not soil
9701 The precious note of it with a base slave ,
9702 A hilding for a livery , a squire's cloth ,
9703 A pantler , not so eminent .
9704
9705 Profane fellow !
9706 Wert thou the son of Jupiter , and no more
9707 But what thou art besides , thou wert too base
9708 To be his groom ; thou wert dignified enough ,
9709 Even to the point of envy , if 'twere made
9710 Comparative for your virtues , to be styl'd
9711 The under-hangman of his kingdom , and hated
9712 For being preferr'd so well .
9713
9714 The south-fog rot him !
9715
9716 He never can meet more mischance than come
9717 To be but nam'd of thee . His meanest garment
9718 That ever hath but clipp'd his body , is dearer
9719 In my respect than all the hairs above thee ,
9720 Were they all made such men . How now , Pisanio !
9721
9722
9723 'His garment !' Now , the devil
9724
9725 To Dorothy my woman hie thee presently ,
9726
9727 'His garment !'
9728
9729 I am sprighted with a fool ,
9730 Frighted , and anger'd worse . Go , bid my woman
9731 Search for a jewel that too casually
9732 Hath left mine arm ; it was thy master's , 'shrew me
9733 If I would lose it for a revenue
9734 Of any king's in Europe . I do think
9735 I saw 't this morning ; confident I am
9736 Last night 'twas on mine arm , I kiss'd it ;
9737 I hope it be not gone to tell my lord
9738 That I kiss aught but he .
9739
9740 'Twill not be lost .
9741
9742 I hope so ; go , and search .
9743
9744
9745 You have abus'd me :
9746 'His meanest garment !'
9747
9748 Ay , I said so , sir :
9749 If you will make 't an action , call witness to 't .
9750
9751 I will inform your father .
9752
9753 Your mother too :
9754 She's my good lady , and will conceive , I hope ,
9755 But the worst of me . So I leave you , sir ,
9756 To the worst of discontent .
9757
9758
9759 I'll be reveng'd .
9760 'His meanest garment !' Well .
9761
9762
9763 Fear it not , sir ; I would I were so sure
9764 To win the king as I am bold her honour
9765 Will remain hers .
9766
9767 What means do you make to him ?
9768
9769 Not any , but abide the change of time ,
9770 Quake in the present winter's state and wish
9771 That warmer days would come ; in these sear'd hopes ,
9772 I barely gratify your love ; they failing ,
9773 I must die much your debtor .
9774
9775 Your very goodness and your company
9776 O'erpays all I can do . By this , your king
9777 Hath heard of great Augustus ; Caius Lucius
9778 Will do 's commission throughly , and I think
9779 He'll grant the tribute , send the arrearages ,
9780 Or look upon our Romans , whose remembrance
9781 Is yet fresh in their grief .
9782
9783 I do believe
9784 Statist though I am none , nor like to be
9785 That this will prove a war ; and you shall hear
9786 The legions now in Gallia sooner landed
9787 In our not-fearing Britain , than have tidings
9788 Of any penny tribute paid . Our countrymen
9789 Are men more order'd than when Julius C sar
9790 Smil'd at their lack of skill , but found their courage
9791 Worthy his frowning at : their discipline ,
9792 Now winged ,with their courage will make known
9793 To their approvers they are people such
9794 That mend upon the world .
9795
9796 See ! Iachimo !
9797
9798
9799 The swiftest harts have posted you by land ,
9800 And winds of all the corners kiss'd your sails ,
9801 To make your vessel nimble .
9802
9803 Welcome , sir .
9804
9805 I hope the briefness of your answer made
9806 The speediness of your return .
9807
9808 Your lady
9809 Is one of the fairest that I have look'd upon .
9810
9811 And therewithal the best ; or let her beauty
9812 Look through a casement to allure false hearts
9813 And be false with them .
9814
9815 Here are letters for you .
9816
9817 Their tenour good , I trust .
9818
9819 'Tis very like .
9820
9821 Was Caius Lucius in the Britain court
9822 When you were there ?
9823
9824 He was expected then ,
9825 But not approach'd .
9826
9827 All is well yet .
9828 Sparkles this stone as it was wont ? or is't not
9829 Too dull for your good wearing ?
9830
9831 If I have lost it ,
9832 I should have lost the worth of it in gold .
9833 I'll make a journey twice as far to enjoy
9834 A second night of such sweet shortness which
9835 Was mine in Britain ; for the ring is won .
9836
9837 The stone's too hard to come by .
9838
9839 Not a whit ,
9840 Your lady being so easy .
9841
9842 Make not , sir ,
9843 Your loss your sport : I hope you know that we
9844 Must not continue friends .
9845
9846 Good sir , we must ,
9847 If you keep covenant . Had I not brought
9848 The knowledge of your mistress home , I grant
9849 We were to question further , but I now
9850 Profess myself the winner of her honour ,
9851 Together with your ring ; and not the wronger
9852 Of her or you , having proceeded but
9853 By both your wills .
9854
9855 If you can make 't apparent
9856 That you have tasted her in bed , my hand
9857 And ring is yours ; if not , the foul opinion
9858 You had of her pure honour gains or loses
9859 Your sword or mine or masterless leaves both
9860 To who shall find them .
9861
9862 Sir , my circumstances
9863 Being so near the truth as I will make them ,
9864 Must first induce you to believe : whose strength
9865 I will confirm with oath ; which , I doubt not ,
9866 You'll give me leave to spare , when you shall find
9867 You need it not .
9868
9869 Proceed .
9870
9871 First , her bedchamber ,
9872 Where I confess I slept not , but profess
9873 Had that was well worth watching ,it was hang'd
9874 With tapestry of silk and silver ; the story
9875 Proud Cleopatra , when she met her Roman ,
9876 And Cydnus swell'd above the banks , or for
9877 The press of boats or pride ; a piece of work
9878 So bravely done , so rich , that it did strive
9879 In workmanship and value ; which I wonder'd
9880 Could be rarely and exactly wrought ,
9881 Since the true life on 't was
9882
9883 This is true ;
9884 And this you might have heard of here , by me ,
9885 Or by some other .
9886
9887 More particulars
9888 Must justify my knowledge .
9889
9890 So they must ,
9891 Or do your honour injury .
9892
9893 The chimney
9894 Is south the chamber , and the chimney-piece
9895 Chaste Dian bathing ; never saw I figures
9896 So likely to report themselves ; the cutter
9897 Was as another nature , dumb ; outwent her ,
9898 Motion and breath left out .
9899
9900 This is a thing
9901 Which you might from relation likewise reap ,
9902 Being , as it is , much spoke of .
9903
9904 The roof o' the chamber
9905 With golden cherubins is fretted ; her andirons
9906 I had forgot them were two winking Cupids
9907 Of silver , each on one foot standing , nicely
9908 Depending on their brands .
9909
9910 This is her honour !
9911 Let it be granted you have seen all this ,and praise
9912 Be given to your remembrance ,the description
9913 Of what is in her chamber nothing saves
9914 The wager you have laid .
9915
9916 Then , if you can ,
9917 Be pale : I beg but leave to air this jewel ; see !
9918
9919 And now 'tis up again ; it must be married
9920 To that your diamond ; I'll keep them .
9921
9922 Jove !
9923 Once more let me behold it . Is it that
9924 Which I left with her ?
9925
9926 Sir ,I thank her ,that :
9927 She stripp'd it from her arm ; I see her yet ;
9928 Her pretty action did outsell her gift ,
9929 And yet enrich'd it too . She gave it me , and said
9930 She priz'd it once .
9931
9932 May be she pluck'd it off
9933 To send it me .
9934
9935 She writes so to you , doth she ?
9936
9937 O ! no , no , no , 'tis true . Here , take this too ;
9938
9939 It is a basilisk unto mine eye ,
9940 Kills me to look on 't . Let there be no honour
9941 Where there is beauty ; truth where semblance ; love
9942 Where there's another man ; the vows of women
9943 Of no more bondage be to where they are made
9944 Than they are to their virtues , which is nothing .
9945 O ! above measure false .
9946
9947 Have patience , sir ,
9948 And take your ring again ; 'tis not yet won :
9949 It may be probable she lost it ; or
9950 Who knows if one of her women , being corrupted ,
9951 Hath stol'n it from her ?
9952
9953 Very true ;
9954 And so I hope he came by 't . Back my ring .
9955 Render to me some corporal sign about her ,
9956 More evident than this ; for this was stol'n .
9957
9958 By Jupiter , I had it from her arm .
9959
9960 Hark you , he swears ; by Jupiter he swears .
9961 'Tis true ; nay , keep the ring ; 'tis true : I am sure
9962 She would not lose it ; her attendants are
9963 All sworn and honourable ; they induc'd to steal it !
9964 And by a stranger ! No , he hath enjoy'd her ;
9965 The cognizance of her incontinency
9966 Is this ; she hath bought the name of whore thus dearly .
9967 There , take thy hire ; and all the fiends of hell
9968 Divide themselves between you !
9969
9970 Sir , be patient :
9971 This is not strong enough to be believ'd
9972 Of one persuaded well of
9973
9974 Never talk on 't ;
9975 She hath been colted by him .
9976
9977 If you seek
9978 For further satisfying , under her breast ,
9979 Worthy the pressing , lies a mole , right proud
9980 Of that most delicate lodging : by my life ,
9981 I kiss'd it , and it gave me present hunger
9982 To feed again , though full . You do remember
9983 This stain upon her ?
9984
9985 Ay , and it doth confirm
9986 Another stain , as big as hell can hold ,
9987 Were there no more but it .
9988
9989 Will you hear more ?
9990
9991 Spare your arithmetic ; never count the turns ;
9992 Once , and a million !
9993
9994 I'll be sworn ,
9995
9996 No swearing .
9997 If you will swear you have not done 't , you lie ;
9998 And I will kill thee if thou dost deny
9999 Thou'st made me cuckold .
10000
10001 I'll deny nothing .
10002
10003 O ! that I had her here , to tear her limb-meal .
10004 I will go there and do 't , i' the court , before
10005 Her father . I'll do something
10006
10007
10008 Quite besides
10009 The government of patience ! You have won :
10010 Let's follow him , and pervert the present wrath
10011 He hath against himself .
10012
10013 With all my heart .
10014
10015
10016 Is there no way for men to be , but women
10017 Must be half-workers ? We are all bastards ; all ,
10018 And that most venerable man which I
10019 Did call my father was I know not where
10020 When I was stamp'd ; some coiner with his tools
10021 Made me a counterfeit ; yet my mother seem'd
10022 The Dian of that time ; so doth my wife
10023 The nonpareil of this . O ! vengeance , vengeance ;
10024 Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain'd
10025 And pray'd me oft forbearance ; did it with
10026 A pudency so rosy the sweet view on 't
10027 Might well have warm'd old Saturn ; that I thought her
10028 As chaste as unsunn'd snow . O ! all the devils !
10029 This yellow Iachimo , in an hour ,was 't not ?
10030 Or less at first ?perchance he spoke not , but
10031 Like a full-acorn'd boar , a German one ,
10032 Cried 'O !' and mounted ; found no opposition
10033 But what he look'd for should oppose and she
10034 Should from encounter guard . Could I find out
10035 The woman's part in me ! For there's no motion
10036 That tends to vice in man but I affirm
10037 It is the woman's part ; be it lying , note it ,
10038 The woman's ; flattering , hers ; deceiving , hers ;
10039 Lust and rank thoughts , hers , hers ; revenges , hers ;
10040 Ambitions , covetings , change of prides , disdain ,
10041 Nice longing , slanders , mutability ,
10042 All faults that man may name , nay , that hell knows ,
10043 Why , hers , in part , or all ; but rather , all ;
10044 For even to vice
10045 They are not constant , but are changing still
10046 One vice but of a minute old for one
10047 Not half so old as that . I'll write against them ,
10048 Detest them , curse them . Yet 'tis greater skill
10049 In a true hate to pray they have their will :
10050 The very devils cannot plague them better .
10051
10052 Now say what would Augustus C sar with us ?
10053
10054 When Julius C sar whose remembrance yet
10055 Lives in men's eyes , and will to ears and tongues
10056 Be theme and hearing ever was in this Britain ,
10057 And conquer'd it , Cassibelan , thine uncle ,
10058 Famous in C sar's praises , no whit less
10059 Than in his feats deserving it ,for him
10060 And his succession , granted Rome a tribute ,
10061 Yearly three thousand pounds , which by thee lately
10062 Is left untender'd .
10063
10064 And , to kill the marvel ,
10065 Shall be so ever .
10066
10067 There be many C sars
10068 Ere such another Julius . Britain is
10069 A world by itself , and we will nothing pay
10070 For wearing our own noses .
10071
10072 That opportunity ,
10073 Which then they had to take from 's , to resume ,
10074 We have again . Remember , sir , my liege ,
10075 The kings your ancestors , together with
10076 The natural bravery of your isle , which stands
10077 As Neptune's park , ribbed and paled in
10078 With rocks unscaleable and roaring waters ,
10079 With sands , that will not bear your enemies' boats ,
10080 But suck them up to the topmast . A kind of conquest
10081 C sar made here , but made not here his brag
10082 Of 'came , and saw , and overcame :' with shame
10083 The first that ever touch'd him he was carried
10084 From off our coast , twice beaten ; and his shipping
10085 Poor ignorant baubles !on our terrible seas ,
10086 Like egg-shells mov'd upon their surges , crack'd
10087 As easily 'gainst our rocks : for joy whereof
10088 The fam'd Cassibelan , who was once at point
10089 O giglot fortune !to master C sar's sword ,
10090 Made Lud's town with rejoicing-fires bright ,
10091 And Britons stiut with courage .
10092
10093 Come , there's no more tribute to be paid . Our kingdom is stronger than it was at that time ; and , as I said , there is no moe such C sars ; other of them may have crooked noses , but to owe such straight arms , none .
10094
10095 Son , let your mother end .
10096
10097 We have yet many among us can gripe as hard as Cassibelan ; I do not say I am one , but I have a hand . Why tribute ? why should we pay tribute ? If C sar can hide the sun from us with a blanket , or put the moon in his pocket , we will pay him tribute for light ; else , sir , no more tribute , pray you now .
10098
10099 You must know ,
10100 Till the injurious Romans did extort
10101 This tribute from us , we were free ; C sar's ambition
10102 Which swell'd so much that it did almost stretch
10103 The sides o' the world against all colour here
10104 Did put the yoke upon 's ; which to shake off
10105 Becomes a war-like people , whom we reckon
10106 Ourselves to be . We do say then to C sar
10107 Our ancestor was that Mulmutius which
10108 Ordain'd our laws , whose use the sword of C sar
10109 Hath too much mangled ; whose repair and franchise
10110 Shall , by the power we hold , be our good deed ,
10111 Though Rome be therefore angry . Mulmutius made our laws ,
10112 Who was the first of Britain which did put
10113 His brows within a golden crown , and call'd
10114 Himself a king .
10115
10116 I am sorry , Cymbeline ,
10117 That I am to pronounce Augustus C sar
10118 C sar , that hath more kings his servants than
10119 Thyself domestic officers thine enemy .
10120 Receive it from me , then : war and confusion
10121 In C sar's name pronounce I 'gainst thee : look
10122 For fury not to be resisted . Thus defied ,
10123 I thank thee for myself .
10124
10125 Thou art welcome , Caius .
10126 Thy C sar knighted me ; my youth I spent
10127 Much under him ; of him I gather'd honour ;
10128 Which he , to seek of me again , perforce ,
10129 Behoves me keep at utterance . I am perfect
10130 That the Pannonians and Dalmatians for
10131 Their liberties are now in arms ; a precedent
10132 Which not to read would show the Britons cold :
10133 So C sar shall not find them .
10134
10135 Let proof speak .
10136
10137 His majesty bids you welcome . Make pastime with us a day or two , or longer ; if you seek us afterwards in other terms , you shall find us in our salt-water girdle ; if you beat us out of it , it is yours ; if you fall in the adventure , our crows shall fare the better for you ; and there's an end .
10138
10139 So , sir .
10140
10141 I know your master's pleasure and he mine :
10142 All the remain is 'Welcome !'
10143
10144
10145 How ! of adultery ! Wherefore write you not
10146 What monster's her accuser ? Leonatus !
10147 O master ! what a strange infection
10148 Is fall'n into thy ear ! What false Italian
10149 As poisonous-tongu'd as handed hath prevail'd
10150 On thy too ready hearing ? Disloyal ! No :
10151 She's punish'd for her truth , and undergoes ,
10152 More goddess-like than wife-like , such assaults
10153 As would take in some virtue . O my master !
10154 Thy mind to her is now as low as were
10155 Thy fortunes . How ! that I should murder her ?
10156 Upon the love and truth and vows which I
10157 Have made to thy command ? I , her ? her blood ?
10158 If it be so to do good service , never
10159 Let me be counted serviceable . How look I ,
10160 That I should seem to lack humanity
10161 So much as this fact comes to ?Do't : the letter
10162 That I have sent her by her own command
10163 Shall give thee opportunity :O damn'd paper !
10164 Black as the ink that's on thee . Senseless bauble ,
10165 Art thou a feodary for this act , and look'st
10166 So virgin-like without ? Lo ! here she comes .
10167 I am ignorant in what I am commanded .
10168
10169
10170 How now , Pisanio !
10171
10172 Madam , here is a letter from my lord .
10173
10174 Who ? thy lord ? that is my lord , Leonatus .
10175 O ! learn'd indeed were that astronomer
10176 That knew the stars as I his characters ;
10177 He'd lay the future open . You good gods ,
10178 Let what is here contain'd relish of love ,
10179 Of my lord's health , of his content , yet not
10180 That we two are asunder ; let that grieve him ,
10181 Some griefs are med'cinable ; that is one of them ,
10182 For it doth physic love ,of his content ,
10183 All but in that ! Good wax , thy leave . Bless'd be
10184 You bees that make these locks of counsel ! Lovers
10185 And men in dangerous bonds pray not alike ;
10186 Though forfeiters you cast in prison , yet
10187 You clasp young Cupid's tables . Good news , gods !
10188 Justice , and your father's wrath , should he take me in his dominion , could not be so cruel to me , as you , O the dearest of creatures , would not even renew me with your eyes . Take notice that I am in Cambria , at Milford-Haven ; what your own love will out of this advise you , follow . So , he wishes you all happiness , that remains loyal to his vow , and your , increasing in love ,
10189 O ! for a horse with wings ! Hear'st thou , Pisanio ?
10190 He is at Milford-Haven ; read , and tell me
10191 How far 'tis thither . If one of mean affairs
10192 May plod it in a week , why may not I
10193 Glide thither in a day ? Then , true Pisanio ,
10194 Who long'st , like me , to see thy lord ; who long'st ,
10195 O ! let me 'bate ,but not like me ; yet long'st ,
10196 But in a fainter kind :O ! not like me ,
10197 For mine's beyond beyond ; say , and speak thick ;
10198 Love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing ,
10199 To the smothering of the sense ,how far it is
10200 To this same blessed Milford ; and , by the way ,
10201 Tell me how Wales was made so happy as
10202 T' inherit such a haven ; but , first of all ,
10203 How we may steal from hence , and , for the gap
10204 That we shall make in time , from our hencegoing
10205 And our return , to excuse ; but first , how get hence .
10206 Why should excuse be born or ere begot ?
10207 We'll talk of that hereafter . Prithee , speak ,
10208 How many score of miles may we well ride
10209 'Twixt hour and hour ?
10210
10211 One score 'twixt sun and sun ,
10212 Madam , 's enough for you , and too much too .
10213
10214 Why , one that rode to 's execution , man ,
10215 Could never go so slow : I have heard of riding wagers ,
10216 Where horses have been nimbler than the sands
10217 That run i' the clock's behalf . But this is foolery ;
10218 Go bid my woman feign a sickness ; say
10219 She'll home to her father ; and provide me presently
10220 A riding-suit , no costlier than would fit
10221 A franklin's housewife .
10222
10223 Madam , you're best consider .
10224
10225 I see before me , man ; nor here , nor here ,
10226 Nor what ensues , but have a fog in them ,
10227 That I cannot look through . Away , I prithee ;
10228 Do as I bid thee . There's no more to say ;
10229 Accessible is none but Milford way .
10230
10231
10232 A goodly day not to keep house , with such
10233 Whose roof's as low as ours ! Stoop , boys ; this gate
10234 Instructs you how to adore the heavens , and bows you
10235 To a morning's holy office ; the gates of monarchs
10236 Are arch'd so high that giants may jet through
10237 And keep their impious turbans on , without
10238 Good morrow to the sun . Hail , thou fair heaven !
10239 We house i' the rock , yet use thee not so hardly
10240 As prouder livers do .
10241
10242 Hail , heaven !
10243
10244 Hail , heaven !
10245
10246 Now for our mountain sport . Up to yond hill ;
10247 Your legs are young ; I'll tread these flats . Consider ,
10248 When you above perceive me like a crow ,
10249 That it is place which lessens and sets off ;
10250 And you may then revolve what tales I have told you
10251 Of courts , of princes , of the tricks in war ;
10252 This service is not service , so being done ,
10253 But being so allow'd ; to apprehend thus
10254 Draws us a profit from all things we see ,
10255 And often , to our comfort , shall we find
10256 The sharded beetle in a safer hold
10257 Than is the full wing'd eagle . O ! this life
10258 Is nobler than attending for a check ,
10259 Richer than doing nothing for a bribe ,
10260 Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk ;
10261 Such gain the cap of him that makes 'em fine ,
10262 Yet keeps his book uncross'd ; no life to ours .
10263
10264 Out of your proof you speak ; we , poor unfledg'd ,
10265 Have never wing'd from view o' the nest , nor know not
10266 What air's from home . Haply this life is best ,
10267 If quiet life be best ; sweeter to you
10268 That have a sharper known , well corresponding
10269 With your stiff age ; but unto us it is
10270 A cell of ignorance , travelling a-bed ,
10271 A prison for a debtor , that not dares
10272 To stride a limit .
10273
10274 What should we speak of
10275 When we are old as you ? when we shall hear
10276 The rain and wind beat dark December , how
10277 In this our pinching cave shall we discourse
10278 The freezing hours away ? We have seen nothing ;
10279 We are beastly , subtle as the fox for prey ,
10280 Like war-like as the wolf for what we eat ;
10281 Our valour is to chase what flies ; our cage
10282 We make a quire , as doth the prison'd bird ,
10283 And sing our bondage freely .
10284
10285 How you speak !
10286 Did you but know the city's usuries
10287 And felt them knowingly ; the art o' the court ,
10288 As hard to leave as keep , whose top to climb
10289 Is certain falling , or so slippery that
10290 The fear's as bad as falling ; the toil of the war ,
10291 A pain that only seems to seek out danger
10292 I' the name of fame and honour ; which dies i' the search ,
10293 And hath as oft a slanderous epitaph
10294 As record of fair act ; nay , many times ,
10295 Doth ill deserve by doing well ; what's worse ,
10296 Must curtsy at the censure : O boys ! this story
10297 The world may read in me ; my body's mark'd
10298 With Roman swords , and my report was once
10299 First with the best of note ; Cymbeline lov'd me ,
10300 And when a soldier was the theme , my name
10301 Was not far off ; then was I as a tree
10302 Whose boughs did bend with fruit , but , in one night ,
10303 A storm or robbery , call it what you will ,
10304 Shook down my mellow hangings , nay , my leaves ,
10305 And left me bare to weather .
10306
10307 Uncertain favour !
10308
10309 My fault being nothing ,as I have told you oft ,
10310 But that two villains , whose false oaths prevail'd
10311 Before my perfect honour , swore to Cymbeline
10312 I was confederate with the Romans ; so
10313 Follow'd my banishment , and this twenty years
10314 This rock and these demesnes have been my world ,
10315 Where I have liv'd at honest freedom , paid
10316 More pious debts to heaven than in all
10317 The fore-end of my time . But , up to the mountains !
10318 This is not hunter's language . He that strikes
10319 The venison first shall be the lord o' the feast ;
10320 To him the other two shall minister ;
10321 And we will fear no poison which attends
10322 In place of greater state . I'll meet you in the valleys .
10323
10324 How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature !
10325 These boys know little they are sons to the king ;
10326 Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive .
10327 They think they are mine ; and , though train'd up thus meanly
10328 I' the cave wherein they bow , their thoughts do hit
10329 The roofs of palaces , and nature prompts them
10330 In simple and low things to prince it much
10331 Beyond the trick of others . This Polydore ,
10332 The heir of Cymbeline and Britain , who
10333 The king his father call'd Guiderius ,Jove !
10334 When on my three-foot stool I sit and tell
10335 The war-like feats I have done , his spirits fly out
10336 Into my story : say , 'Thus mine enemy fell ,
10337 And thus I set my foot on 's neck ;' even then
10338 The princely blood flows in his cheek , he sweats ,
10339 Strains his young nerves , and puts himself in posture
10340 That acts my words . The younger brother , Cadwal ,
10341 Once Arviragus ,in as like a figure ,
10342 Strikes life into my speech and shows much more
10343 His own conceiving . Hark ! the game is rous'd .
10344 O Cymbeline ! heaven and my conscience knows
10345 Thou didst unjustly banish me ; whereon ,
10346 At three and two years old , I stole these babes ,
10347 Thinking to bar thee of succession , as
10348 Thou reft'st me of my lands . Euriphile ,
10349 Thou wast their nurse ; they took thee for their mother ,
10350 And every day do honour to her grave :
10351 Myself , Belarius , that am Morgan call'd ,
10352 They take for natural father . The game is up .
10353
10354
10355 Thou told'st me , when we came from horse , the place
10356 Was near at hand : ne'er long'd my mother so
10357 To see me first , as I have now . Pisanio ! man !
10358 Where is Posthumus ? What is in thy mind ,
10359 That makes thee stare thus ? Wherefore breaks that sigh
10360 From the inward of thee ? One , but painted thus ,
10361 Would be interpreted a thing perplex'd
10362 Beyond self-explication ; put thyself
10363 Into a haviour of less fear , ere wildness
10364 Vanquish my staider senses . What's the matter ?
10365 Why tender'st thou that paper to me with
10366 A look untender ? If 't be summer news ,
10367 Smile to 't before ; if winterly , thou need'st
10368 But keep that count'nance still . My husband's hand !
10369 That drug-damn'd Italy hath out-craftied him ,
10370 And he's at some hard point . Speak , man ; thy tongue
10371 May take off some extremity , which to read
10372 Would be even mortal to me .
10373
10374 Please you , read ;
10375 And you shall find me , wretched man , a thing
10376 The most disdain'd of fortune .
10377
10378 Thy mistress , Pisanio , hath played the strumpet in my bed ; the testimonies whereof lie bleeding in me . I speak not out of weak surmises , but from proof as strong as my grief and as certain as I expect my revenge . That part thou , Pisanio , must act for me , if thy faith be not tainted with the breach of hers . Let thine own hands take away her life ; I shall give thee opportunity at Milford-Haven ; she hath my letter for the purpose ; where , if thou fear to strike , and to make me certain it is done , thou art the pandar to her dishonour and equally to me disloyal .
10379
10380 What shall I need to draw my sword ? the paper
10381 Hath cut her throat already . No , 'tis slander ,
10382 Whose edge is sharper than the sword , whose tongue
10383 Outvenoms all the worms of Nile , whose breath
10384 Rides on the posting winds and doth belie
10385 All corners of the world ; kings , queens , and states ,
10386 Maids , matrons , nay , the secrets of the grave
10387 This viperous slander enters . What cheer , madam ?
10388
10389 False to his bed ! What is it to be false ?
10390 To lie in watch there and to think on him ?
10391 To weep 'twixt clock and clock ? if sleep charge nature ,
10392 To break it with a fearful dream of him ,
10393 And cry myself awake ? that's false to 's bed , is it ?
10394
10395 Alas ! good lady .
10396
10397 I false ! Thy conscience witness ! Iachimo ,
10398 Thou didst accuse him of incontinency ;
10399 Thou then look'dst like a villain ; now methinks
10400 Thy favour's good enough . Some jay of Italy ,
10401 Whose mother was her painting , hath betray'd him :
10402 Poor I am stale , a garment out of fashion ,
10403 And , for I am richer than to hang by the walls ,
10404 I must be ripp'd ; to pieces with me ! O !
10405 Men's vows are women's traitors ! All good seeming ,
10406 By thy revolt , O husband ! shall be thought
10407 Put on for villany ; not born where 't grows ,
10408 But worn a bait for ladies .
10409
10410 Good madam , hear me .
10411
10412 True honest men being heard , like false neas ,
10413 Were in his time thought false , and Sinon's weeping
10414 Did scandal many a holy tear , took pity
10415 From most true wretchedness ; so thou , Posthumus ,
10416 Wilt lay the leaven on all proper men ;
10417 Goodly and gallant shall be false and perjur'd
10418 From thy great fail . Come , fellow , be thou honest ;
10419 Do thou thy master's bidding . When thou seest him ,
10420 A little witness my obedience ; look !
10421 I draw the sword myself ; take it , and hit
10422 The innocent mansion of my love , my heart .
10423 Fear not , 'tis empty of all things but grief ;
10424 Thy master is not there , who was indeed
10425 The riches of it : do his bidding ; strike .
10426 Thou mayst be valiant in a better cause ,
10427 But now thou seem'st a coward .
10428
10429 Hence , vile instrument !
10430 Thou shalt not damn my hand .
10431
10432 Why , I must die ;
10433 And if I do not by thy hand , thou art
10434 No servant of thy master's . Against self-slaughter
10435 There is a prohibition so divine
10436 That cravens my weak hand . Come , here's my heart .
10437 Something's afore 't ; soft , soft ! we'll no defence ;
10438 Obedient as the scabbard . What is here ?
10439 The scriptures of the loyal Leonatus
10440 All turn'd to heresy ! Away , away !
10441 Corrupters of my faith ; you shall no more
10442 Be stomachers to my heart . Thus may poor fools
10443 Believe false teachers ; though those that are betray'd
10444 Do feel the treason sharply , yet the traitor
10445 Stands in worse case of woe .
10446 And thou , Posthumus , thou that didst set up
10447 My disobedience 'gainst the king my father ,
10448 And make me put into contempt the suits
10449 Of princely fellows , shalt hereafter find
10450 It is no act of common passage , but
10451 A strain of rareness ; and I grieve myself
10452 To think , when thou shalt be disedg'd by her
10453 That now thou tir'st on , how thy memory
10454 Will then be pang'd by me . Prithee , dispatch ;
10455 The lamb entreats the butcher ; where's thy knife ?
10456 Thou art too slow to do thy master's bidding ,
10457 When I desire it too .
10458
10459 O , gracious lady !
10460 Since I receiv'd command to do this business
10461 I have not slept one wink .
10462
10463 Do 't , and to bed then .
10464
10465 I'll wake mine eyeballs blind first .
10466
10467 Wherefore then
10468 Didst undertake it ? Why hast thou abus'd
10469 So many miles with a pretence ? this place ?
10470 Mine action and thine own ? our horses' labour ?
10471 The time inviting thee ? the perturb'd court ,
10472 For my being absent ?whereunto I never
10473 Purpose return .Why hast thou gone so far ,
10474 To be unbent when thou hast ta'en thy stand ,
10475 The elected deer before thee ?
10476
10477 But to win time
10478 To lose so bad employment , in the which
10479 I have consider'd of a course . Good lady ,
10480 Hear me with patience .
10481
10482 Talk thy tongue weary ; speak :
10483 I have heard I am a strumpet , and mine ear ,
10484 Therein false struck , can take no greater wound ,
10485 Nor tent to bottom that . But speak .
10486
10487 Then , madam ,
10488 I thought you would not back again .
10489
10490 Most like ,
10491 Bringing me here to kill me .
10492
10493 Not so , neither ;
10494 But if I were as wise as honest , then
10495 My purpose would prove well . It cannot be
10496 But that my master is abus'd ; some villain ,
10497 Some villain , ay , and singular in his art ,
10498 Hath done you both this cursed injury .
10499
10500 Some Roman courtezan .
10501
10502 No , on my life .
10503 I'll give but notice you are dead and send him
10504 Some bloody sign of it ; for 'tis commanded
10505 I should do so : you shall be miss'd at court ,
10506 And that will well confirm it .
10507
10508 Why , good fellow ,
10509 What shall I do the while ? where bide ? how live ?
10510 Or in my life what comfort , when I am
10511 Dead to my husband ?
10512
10513 If you'll back to the court ,
10514
10515 No court , no father ; nor no more ado
10516 With that harsh , noble , simple nothing Cloten !
10517 That Cloten , whose love-suit hath been to me
10518 As fearful as a siege .
10519
10520 If not at court ,
10521 Then not in Britain must you bide .
10522
10523 Where then ?
10524 Hath Britain all the sun that shines ? Day , night ,
10525 Are they not but in Britain ? I' the world's volume
10526 Our Britain seems as of it , but not in 't ;
10527 In a great pool a swan's nest : prithee , think
10528 There's livers out of Britain .
10529
10530 I am most glad
10531 You think of other place . The ambassador ,
10532 Lucius the Roman , comes to Milford-Haven
10533 To-morrow ; now , if you could wear a mind
10534 Dark as your fortune is , and but disguise
10535 That which , t' appear itself , must not yet be
10536 But by self-danger , you should tread a course
10537 Pretty , and full of view ; yea , haply , near
10538 The residence of Posthumus ; so nigh at least
10539 That though his actions were not visible , yet
10540 Report should render him hourly to your ear
10541 As truly as he moves .
10542
10543 O ! for such means :
10544 Though peril to my modesty , not death on 't ,
10545 I would adventure .
10546
10547 Well , then , here's the point :
10548 You must forget to be a woman ; change
10549 Command into obedience ; fear and niceness
10550 The handmaids of all women , or more truly
10551 Woman it pretty self into a waggish courage ;
10552 Ready in gibes , quick-answer'd , saucy , and
10553 As quarrelous as the weasel ; nay , you must
10554 Forget that rarest treasure of your cheek ,
10555 Exposing it but , O ! the harder heart ,
10556 Alack ! no remedy to the greedy touch
10557 Of common-kissing Titan , and forget
10558 Your laboursome and dainty trims , wherein
10559 You made great Juno angry .
10560
10561 Nay , be brief :
10562 I see into thy end , and am almost
10563 A man already .
10564
10565 First , make yourself but like one .
10566 Forethinking this , I have already fit
10567 'Tis in my cloak-bag doublet , hat , hose , all
10568 That answer to them ; would you in their serving ,
10569 And with what imitation you can borrow
10570 From youth of such a season , 'fore noble Lucius
10571 Present yourself , desire his service , tell him
10572 Wherein you are happy ,which you'll make him know ,
10573 If that his head have ear in music ,doubtless
10574 With joy he will embrace you , for he's honourable ,
10575 And , doubling that , most holy . Your means abroad ,
10576 You have me , rich ; and I will never fail
10577 Beginning nor supplyment .
10578
10579 Thou art all the comfort
10580 The gods will diet me with . Prithee , away ;
10581 There's more to be consider'd , but we'll even
10582 All that good time will give us ; this attempt
10583 I'm soldier to , and will abide it with
10584 A prince's courage . Away , I prithee .
10585
10586 Well , madam , we must take a short farewell ,
10587 Lest , being miss'd , I be suspected of
10588 Your carriage from the court . My noble mistress ,
10589 Here is a box , I had it from the queen ,
10590 What's in 't is precious ; if you are sick at sea ,
10591 Or stomach-qualm'd at land , a dram of this
10592 Will drive away distemper . To some shade ,
10593 And fit you to your manhood . May the gods
10594 Direct you to the best !
10595
10596 Amen . I thank thee
10597
10598
10599 Thus far ; and so farewell .
10600
10601 Thanks , royal sir .
10602 My emperor hath wrote , I must from hence ;
10603 And am right sorry that I must report ye
10604 My master's enemy .
10605
10606 Our subjects , sir ,
10607 Will not endure his yoke ; and for ourself
10608 To show less sovereignty than they , must needs
10609 Appear unking-like .
10610
10611 So , sir : I desire of you
10612 A conduct over land to Milford-Haven .
10613 Madam , all joy befall your Grace .
10614
10615 And you !
10616
10617 My lords , you are appointed for that office ;
10618 The due of honour in no point omit .
10619 So , farewell , noble Lucius .
10620
10621 Your hand , my lord .
10622
10623 Receive it friendly ; but from this time forth
10624 I wear it as your enemy .
10625
10626 Sir , the event
10627 Is yet to name the winner . Fare you well .
10628
10629 Leave not the worthy Lucius , good my lords ,
10630 Till he have cross'd the Severn . Happiness !
10631
10632
10633 He goes hence frowning ; but it honours us
10634 That we have given him cause .
10635
10636 'Tis all the better ;
10637 Your valiant Britons have their wishes in it .
10638
10639 Lucius hath wrote already to the emperor
10640 How it goes here . It fits us therefore ripely
10641 Our chariots and horsemen be in readiness ;
10642 The powers that he already hath in Gallia
10643 Will soon be drawn to head , from whence he moves
10644 His war for Britain .
10645
10646 'Tis not sleepy business ;
10647 But must be look'd to speedily and strongly .
10648
10649 Our expectation that it would be thus
10650 Hath made us forward . But , my gentle queen ,
10651 Where is our daughter ? She hath not appear'd
10652 Before the Roman , nor to us hath tender'd
10653 The duty of the day ; she looks us like
10654 A thing more made of malice than of duty :
10655 We have noted it . Call her before us , for
10656 We have been too slight in sufferance .
10657
10658
10659 Royal sir .
10660 Since the exile of Posthumus , most retir'd
10661 Hath her life been ; the cure whereof , my lord ,
10662 'Tis time must do . Beseech your majesty ,
10663 Forbear sharp speeches to her ; she's a lady
10664 So tender of rebukes that words are strokes ,
10665 And strokes death to her .
10666
10667
10668 Where is she , sir ? How
10669 Can her contempt be answer'd ?
10670
10671 Please you , sir ,
10672 Her chambers are all lock'd , and there's no answer
10673 That will be given to the loudest noise we make .
10674
10675 My lord , when last I went to visit her ,
10676 She pray'd me to excuse her keeping close ,
10677 Whereto constrain'd by her infirmity ,
10678 She should that duty leave unpaid to you ,
10679 Which daily she was bound to proffer ; this
10680 She wish'd me to make known , but our great court
10681 Made me to blame in memory .
10682
10683 Her doors lock'd !
10684 Not seen of late ! Grant , heavens , that which I fear
10685 Prove false !
10686
10687
10688 Son , I say , follow the king .
10689
10690 That man of hers , Pisanio , her old servant ,
10691 I have not seen these two days .
10692
10693 Go , look after .
10694
10695 Pisanio , thou that stand'st so for Posthumus !
10696 He hath a drug of mine ; I pray his absence
10697 Proceed by swallowing that , for he believes
10698 It is a thing most precious . But for her ,
10699 Where is she gone ? Haply , despair hath sciz'd her ,
10700 Or , wing'd with fervour of her love , she's flown
10701 To her desir'd Posthumus . Gone she is
10702 To death or to dishonour , and my end
10703 Can make good use of either ; she being down ,
10704 I have the placing of the British crown .
10705
10706 How now , my son !
10707
10708 'Tis certain she is fled .
10709 Go in and cheer the king ; he rages , none
10710 Dare come about him .
10711
10712 All the better ; may
10713 This night forestall him of the coming day !
10714
10715
10716 I love and hate her ; for she's fair and royal ,
10717 And that she hath all courtly parts more exquisite
10718 Than lady , ladies , woman ; from every one
10719 The best she hath , and she , of all compounded ,
10720 Outsells them all . I love her therefore ; but
10721 Disdaining me and throwing favours on
10722 The low Posthumus slanders so her judgment
10723 That what's else rare is chok'd , and in that point
10724 I will conclude to hate her , nay , indeed ,
10725 To be reveng'd upon her . For , when fools
10726 Shall
10727
10728
10729 Who is here ? What ! are you packing , sirrah ?
10730 Come hither . Ah ! you precious pandar . Villain ,
10731 Where is thy lady ? In a word ; or else
10732
10733 Thou art straightway with the fiends .
10734
10735 O ! good my lord .
10736
10737 Where is thy lady ? or , by Jupiter
10738 I will not ask again . Close villain ,
10739 I'll have this secret from thy heart , or rip
10740 Thy heart to find it . Is she with Posthumus ?
10741 From whose so many weights of baseness cannot
10742 A dram of worth be drawn .
10743
10744 Alas ! my lord ,
10745 How can she be with him ? When was she miss'd ?
10746 He is in Rome .
10747
10748 Where is she , sir ? Come nearer ,
10749 No further halting ; satisfy me home
10750 What is become of her ?
10751
10752 O ! my all-worthy lord .
10753
10754 All-worthy villain !
10755 Discover where thy mistress is at once .
10756 At the next word ; no more of 'worthy lord !'
10757 Speak , or thy silence on the instant is
10758 Thy condemnation and thy death .
10759
10760 Then , sir ,
10761 This paper is the history of my knowledge
10762 Touching her flight .
10763
10764
10765 Let's see 't . I will pursue her
10766 Even to Augustus' throne .
10767
10768 Or this , or perish .
10769 She's far enough ; and what he learns by this
10770 May prove his travel , not her danger .
10771
10772 Hum !
10773
10774 I'll write to my lord she's dead . O Imogen !
10775 Safe mayst thou wander , safe return agen !
10776
10777 Sirrah , is this letter true ?
10778
10779 Sir , as I think .
10780
10781 It is Posthumus' hand ; I know 't . Sirrah , if thou wouldst not be a villain , but do me true service , undergo those employments wherein I should have cause to use thee with a serious industry , that is , what villany soe'er I bid thee do , to perform it directly and truly , I would think thee an honest man ; thou shouldst neither want my means for thy relief nor my voice for thy preferment .
10782
10783 Well , my good lord .
10784
10785 Wilt thou serve me ? For since patiently and constantly thou hast stuck to the bare fortune of that beggar Posthumus , thou canst not , in the course of gratitude , but be a diligent follower of mine . Wilt thou serve me ?
10786
10787 Sir , I will .
10788
10789 Give me thy hand ; here's my purse . Hast any of thy late master's garments in thy possession ?
10790
10791 I have , my lord , at my lodging , the same suit he wore when he took leave of my lady and mistress .
10792
10793 The first service thou dost me , fetch that suit hither : let it be thy first service ; go .
10794
10795 I shall , my lord .
10796
10797
10798 Meet thee at Milford-Haven !I forgot to ask him one thing ; I'll remember 't anon ,even there , thou villain Posthumus , will I kill thee . I would these garments were come . She said upon a time ,the bitterness of it I now belch from my heart ,that she held the very garment of Posthumus in more respect than my noble and natural person , together with the adornment of my qualities . With that suit upon my back will I ravish her : first kill him , and in her eyes ; there shall she see my valour , which will then be a torment to her contempt . He on the ground , my speech of insultment ended on his dead body , and when my lust hath dined ,which , as I say , to vex her , I will execute in the clothes that she so praised ,to the court I'll knock her back , foot her home again . She hath despised me rejoicingly , and I'll be merry in my revenge .
10799
10800 Be those the garments ?
10801
10802 Ay , my noble lord .
10803
10804 How long is 't since she went to Milford-Haven ?
10805
10806 She can scarce be there yet .
10807
10808 Bring this apparel to my chamber ; that is the second thing that I have commanded thee : the third is , that thou wilt be a voluntary mute to my design . Be but duteous , and true preferment shall tender itself to thee . My revenge is now at Milford ; would I had wings to follow it !
10809 Come , and be true .
10810
10811
10812 Thou bidd'st me to my loss ; for true to thee
10813 Were to prove false , which I will never be ,
10814 To him that is most true . To Milford go ,
10815 And find not her whom thou pursu'st . Flow , flow ,
10816 You heavenly blessings , on her ! This fool's speed
10817 Be cross'd with slowness ; labour be his meed !
10818
10819
10820 I see a man's life is a tedious one ;
10821 I have tir'd myself , and for two nights together
10822 Have made the ground my bed ; I should be sick
10823 But that my resolution helps me . Milford ,
10824 When from the mountain-top Pisanio show'd thee ,
10825 Thou wast within a ken . O Jove ! I think
10826 Foundations fly the wretched ; such , I mean ,
10827 Where they should be reliev'd . Two beggars told me
10828 I could not miss my way ; will poor folks lie ,
10829 That have afflictions on them , knowing 'tis
10830 A punishment or trial ? Yes ; no wonder ,
10831 When rich ones scarce tell true . To lapse in fulness
10832 Is sorer than to lie for need , and falsehood
10833 Is worse in kings than beggars . My dear lord !
10834 Thou art one o' the false ones . Now I think on thee ,
10835 My hunger's gone , but even before I was
10836 At point to sink for food . But what is this ?
10837 Here is a path to 't ; 'tis some savage hold ;
10838 I were best not call , I dare not call , yet famine ,
10839 Ere clean it o'erthrow nature , makes it valiant .
10840 Plenty and peace breeds cowards , hardness ever
10841 Of hardiness is mother . Ho ! Who's here ?
10842 If any thing that's civil , speak ; if savage ,
10843 Take or lend . Ho ! No answer ? Then I'll enter .
10844 Best draw my sword ; and if mine enemy
10845 But fear the sword like me , he'll scarcely look on 't .
10846 Such a foe , good heavens !
10847
10848 You , Polydore , have prov'd best woodman , and
10849 Are master of the feast ; Cadwal and I
10850 Will play the cook and servant , 'tis our match ;
10851 The sweat of industry would dry and die
10852 But for the end it works to . Come ; our stomachs
10853 Will make what's homely savoury ; weariness
10854 Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
10855 Finds the down pillow hard . Now , peace be here ,
10856 Poor house , that keep'st thyself !
10857
10858 I am throughly weary .
10859
10860 I am weak with toil , yet strong in appetite .
10861
10862 There is cold meat i' the cave ; we'll browse on that ,
10863 Whilst what we have kill'd be cook'd .
10864
10865 Stay ; come not in ;
10866 But that it eats our victuals , I should think
10867 Here were a fairy .
10868
10869 What's the matter , sir ?
10870
10871 By Jupiter , an angel ! or , if not ,
10872 An earthly paragon ! Behold divineness
10873 No elder than a boy !
10874
10875
10876 Good masters , harm me not :
10877 Before I enter'd here , I call'd ; and thought
10878 To have begg'd or bought what I have took . Good troth ,
10879 I have stol'n nought , nor would not , though I had found
10880 Gold strew'd i' the floor . Here's money for my meat ;
10881 I would have left it on the board so soon
10882 As I had made my meal , and parted
10883 With prayers for the provider .
10884
10885 Money , youth ?
10886
10887 All gold and silver rather turn to dirt !
10888 As 'tis no better reckon'd but of those
10889 Who worship dirty gods .
10890
10891 I see you're angry .
10892 Know , if you kill me for my fault , I should
10893 Have died had I not made it .
10894
10895 Whither bound ?
10896
10897 To Milford-Haven .
10898
10899 What's your name ?
10900
10901 Fidele , sir . I have a kinsman who
10902 Is bound for Italy ; he embark'd at Milford :
10903 To whom being going , almost spent with hunger ,
10904 I am fall'n in this offence .
10905
10906 Prithee , fair youth ,
10907 Think us no churis , nor measure our good minds
10908 By this rude place we live in . Well encounter'd !
10909 'Tis almost night ; you shall have better cheer
10910 Ere you depart , and thanks to stay and eat it .
10911 Boys , bid him welcome .
10912
10913 Were you a woman , youth ,
10914 I should woo hard but be your groom . In honesty ,
10915 I bid for you , as I do buy .
10916
10917 I'll make 't my comfort
10918 He is a man ; I'll love him as my brother ;
10919 And such a welcome as I'd give to him
10920 After a long absence , such is yours : most welcome !
10921 Be sprightly , for you fall 'mongst friends .
10922
10923 'Mongst friends ,
10924 If brothers .
10925
10926 Would it had been so , that they
10927 Had been my father's sons ; then had my prize
10928 Been less , and so more equal ballasting
10929 To thee , Posthumus .
10930
10931 He wrings at some distress .
10932
10933 Would I could free 't !
10934
10935 Or I , whate'er it be ,
10936 What pain it cost , what danger . Gods !
10937
10938 Hark , boys
10939
10940
10941 Great men ,
10942 That had a court no bigger than this cave ,
10943 That did attend themselves and had the virtue
10944 Which their own conscience seal'd them ,laying by
10945 That nothing-gift of differing multitudes ,
10946 Could not out-peer these twain . Pardon me , gods !
10947 I'd change my sex to be companion with them ,
10948 Since Leonatus' false .
10949
10950 It shall be so .
10951 Boys , we'll go dress our hunt . Fair youth , come in :
10952 Discourse is heavy , fasting ; when we have supp'd ,
10953 We'll mannerly demand thee of thy story ,
10954 So far as thou wilt speak it .
10955
10956 Pray , draw near .
10957
10958 The night to the owl and morn to the lark less welcome .
10959
10960 Thanks , sir .
10961
10962 I pray , draw near .
10963
10964
10965 This is the tenour of the emperor's writ :
10966 That since the common men are now in action
10967 'Gainst the Pannonians and Dalmatians ,
10968 And that the legions now in Gallia are
10969 Full weak to undertake our wars against
10970 The fall'n-off Britons , that we do incite
10971 The gentry to this business . He creates
10972 Lucius pro-consul ; and to you the tribunes ,
10973 For this immediate levy , he commends
10974 His absolute commission . Long live C sar !
10975
10976 Is Lucius general of the forces ?
10977
10978 Ay .
10979
10980 Remaining now in Gallia ?
10981
10982 With those legions
10983 Which I have spoke of , whereunto your levy
10984 Must be supplyant ; the words of your commission
10985 Will tie you to the numbers and the time
10986 Of their dispatch .
10987
10988 We will discharge our duty .
10989
10990 I am near to the place where they should meet , if Pisanio have mapped it truly . How fit his garments serve me ! Why should his mistress , who was made by him that made the tailor , not be fit too ? the rather ,saving reverence of the word ,for 'tis said a woman's fitness comes by fits . Therein I must play the workman . I dare speak it to myself ,for it is not vain-glory , for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber ,I mean , the lines of my body are as well drawn as his ; no less young , more strong , not beneath him in fortunes , beyond him in the advantage of the time , above him in birth , alike conversant in general services , and more remarkable in single oppositions ; yet this imperceiverant thing loves him in my despite . What mortality is ! Posthumus , thy head , which now is growing upon thy shoulders , shall within this hour be off , thy mistress enforced , thy garments cut to pieces before thy face ; and all this done , spurn her home to her father , who may haply be a little angry for my so rough usage , but my mother , having power of his testiness , shall turn all into my commendations . My horse is tied up safe ; out , sword , and to a sore purpose ! Fortune , put them into my hand ! This is the very description of their meeting-place ; and the fellow dares not deceive me .
10991
10992
10993 You are not well ; remain here in the cave ;
10994 We'll come to you after hunting .
10995
10996 Brother , stay here ;
10997 Are we not brothers ?
10998
10999 So man and man should be ,
11000 But clay and clay differs in dignity ,
11001 Whose dust is both alike . I am very sick .
11002
11003 Go you to hunting ; I'll abide with him .
11004
11005 So sick I am not , yet I am not well ;
11006 But not so citizen a wanton as
11007 To seem to die ere sick . So please you , leave me ;
11008 Stick to your journal course ; the breach of custom
11009 Is breach of all . I am ill ; but your being by me
11010 Cannot amend me ; society is no comfort
11011 To one not sociable . I am not very sick ,
11012 Since I can reason of it ; pray you , trust me here ,
11013 I'll rob none but myself , and let me die ,
11014 Stealing so poorly .
11015
11016 I love thee ; I have spoke it ;
11017 How much the quantity , the weight as much ,
11018 As I do love my father .
11019
11020 What ! how ! how !
11021
11022 If it be sin to say so , sir , I yoke me
11023 In my good brother's fault : I know not why
11024 I love this youth ; and I have heard you say ,
11025 Love's reason's without reason : the bier at door ,
11026 And a demand who is 't shall die , I'd say
11027 'My father , not this youth .'
11028
11029 O noble strain !
11030 O worthiness of nature ! breed of greatness !
11031 Cowards father cowards , and base things sire base :
11032 Nature hath meal and bran , contempt and grace .
11033 I'm not their father ; yet who this should be ,
11034 Doth miracle itself , lov'd before me .
11035 'Tis the ninth hour o' the morn .
11036
11037 Brother , farewell .
11038
11039 I wish ye sport .
11040
11041 You health . So please you , sir .
11042
11043 These are kind creatures . Gods , what lies I have heard !
11044 Our courtiers say all's savage but at court :
11045 Experience , O ! thou disprov'st report .
11046 The imperious seas breed monsters , for the dish
11047 Poor tributary rivers as sweet fish .
11048 I am sick still , heart-sick . Pisanio ,
11049 I'll now taste of thy drug .
11050
11051
11052 I could not stir him ;
11053 He said he was gentle , but unfortunate ;
11054 Dishonestly afflicted , but yet honest .
11055
11056 Thus did he answer me ; yet said hereafter
11057 I might know more .
11058
11059 To the field , to the field !
11060
11061
11062 We'll leave you for this time ; go in and rest .
11063
11064 We'll not be long away .
11065
11066 Pray , be not sick ,
11067 For you must be our housewife .
11068
11069 Well or ill ,
11070 I am bound to you .
11071
11072 And shalt be ever .
11073
11074 This youth , howe'er distress'd , appears he hath had
11075 Good ancestors .
11076
11077 How angel-like he sings !
11078
11079 But his neat cookery ! he cut our roots
11080 In characters ,
11081 And sauc'd our broths as Juno had been sick
11082 And he her dieter .
11083
11084 Nobly he yokes
11085 A smiling with a sigh , as if the sigh
11086 Was that it was , for not being such a smile ;
11087 The smile mocking the sigh , that it would fly
11088 From so divine a temple , to commix
11089 With winds that sailors rail at .
11090
11091 I do note
11092 That grief and patience rooted in him , both
11093 Mingle their spurs together .
11094
11095 Grow , patience !
11096 And let the stinking-elder , grief , untwine
11097 His perishing root with the increasing vine !
11098
11099 It is great morning . Come , away !Who's there ?
11100
11101
11102 I cannot find those runagates ; that villain
11103 Hath mock'd me . I am faint .
11104
11105 'Those runagates !'
11106 Means he not us ? I partly know him ; 'tis
11107 Cloten , the son o' the queen . I fear some ambush .
11108 I saw him not these many years , and yet
11109 I know 'tis he . We are held as outlaws : hence !
11110
11111 He is but one . You and my brother search
11112 What companies are near ; pray you , away ;
11113 Let me alone with him .
11114
11115
11116 Soft ! What are you
11117 That fly me thus ? some villain mountainers ?
11118 I have heard of such . What slave art thou ?
11119
11120 A thing
11121 More slavish did I ne'er than answering
11122 A 'slave' without a knock .
11123
11124 Thou art a robber ,
11125 A law-breaker , a villain . Yield thee , thief .
11126
11127 To who ? to thee ? What art thou ? Have not I
11128 An arm as big as thine ? a heart as big ?
11129 Thy words , I grant , are bigger , for I wear not
11130 My dagger in my mouth . Say what thou art ,
11131 Why I should yield to thee ?
11132
11133 Thou villain base ,
11134 Know'st me not by my clothes ?
11135
11136 No , nor thy tailor , rascal ,
11137 Who is thy grandfather : he made those clothes ,
11138 Which , as it seems , make thee .
11139
11140 Thou precious varlet ,
11141 My tailor made them not .
11142
11143 Hence then , and thank
11144 The man that gave them thee . Thou art some fool ;
11145 I am loath to beat thee .
11146
11147 Thou injurious thief ,
11148 Hear but my name , and tremble .
11149
11150 What's thy name ?
11151
11152 Cloten , thou villain .
11153
11154 Cloten , thou double villain , be thy name ,
11155 I cannot tremble at it ; were it Toad , or Adder , Spider ,
11156 'Twould move me sooner .
11157
11158 To thy further fear ,
11159 Nay , to thy mere confusion , thou shalt know
11160 I am son to the queen .
11161
11162 I'm sorry for 't , not seeming
11163 So worthy as thy birth .
11164
11165 Art not afeard ?
11166
11167 Those that I reverence those I fear , the wise ;
11168 At fools I laugh , not fear them .
11169
11170 Die the death :
11171 When I have slain thee with my proper hand ,
11172 I'll follow those that even now fled hence ,
11173 And on the gates of Lud's town set your heads :
11174 Yield , rustic mountaineer .
11175
11176 No companies abroad .
11177
11178 None in the world . You did mistake him , sure .
11179
11180 I cannot tell ; long is it since I saw him ,
11181 But time hath nothing blurr'd those lines of favour
11182 Which then he wore ; the snatches in his voice ,
11183 And burst of speaking , were as his . I am absolute
11184 'Twas very Cloten .
11185
11186 In this place we left them :
11187 I wish my brother make good time with him ,
11188 You say he is so fell .
11189
11190 Being scarce made up ,
11191 I mean , to man , he had not apprehension
11192 Of roaring terrors ; for defect of judgment
11193 Is oft the cease of fear . But see , thy brother .
11194
11195
11196 This Cloten was a fool , an empty purse ,
11197 There was no money in 't . Not Hercules
11198 Could have knock'd out his brains , for he had none ;
11199 Yet I not doing this , the fool had borne
11200 My head as I do his .
11201
11202 What hast thou done ?
11203
11204 I am perfect what : cut off one Cloten's head ,
11205 Son to the queen , after his own report ;
11206 Who call'd me traitor , mountaineer , and swore ,
11207 With his own single hand he'd take us in ,
11208 Displace our heads where thank the gods !they grow ,
11209 And set them on Lud's town .
11210
11211 We are all undone .
11212
11213 Why , worthy father , what have we to lose ,
11214 But that he swore to take , our lives ? The law
11215 Protects not us ; then why should we be tender
11216 To let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us ,
11217 Play judge and executioner all himself ,
11218 For we do fear the law ? What company
11219 Discover you abroad ?
11220
11221 No single soul
11222 Can we set eye on ; but in all safe reason
11223 He must have some attendants . Though his humour
11224 Was nothing but mutation , ay , and that
11225 From one bad thing to worse ; not frenzy , not
11226 Absolute madness could so far have rav'd
11227 To bring him here alone . Although , perhaps ,
11228 It may be heard at court that such as we
11229 Cave here , hunt here , are outlaws , and in time
11230 May make some stronger head ; the which he hearing ,
11231 As it is like him ,might break out , and swear
11232 He'd fetch us in ; yet is 't not probable
11233 To come alone , either he so undertaking ,
11234 Or they so suffering ; then , on good ground we fear ,
11235 If we do fear this body hath a tail
11236 More perilous than the head .
11237
11238 Let ordinance
11239 Come as the gods foresay it ; howsoe'er ,
11240 My brother hath done well .
11241
11242 I had no mind
11243 To hunt this day ; the boy Fidele's sickness
11244 Did make my way long forth .
11245
11246 With his own sword ,
11247 Which he did wave against my throat , I have ta'en
11248 His head from him ; I'll throw 't into the creek
11249 Behind our rock , and let it to the sea ,
11250 And tell the fishes he's the queen's son , Cloten :
11251 That's all I reck .
11252
11253
11254 I fear 'twill be reveng'd .
11255 Would , Polydore , thou hadst not done 't ! though valour
11256 Becomes thee well enough .
11257
11258 Would I had done 't
11259 So the revenge alone pursu'd me ! Polydore ,
11260 I love thee brotherly , but envy much
11261 Thou hast robb'd me of this deed ; I would revenges ,
11262 That possible strength might meet , would seek us through
11263 And put us to our answer .
11264
11265 Well , 'tis done .
11266 We'll hunt no more to-day , nor seek for danger
11267 Where there's no profit . I prithee , to our rock ;
11268 You and Fidele play the cooks ; I'll stay
11269 Till hasty Polydore return , and bring him
11270 To dinner presently .
11271
11272 Poor sick Fidele !
11273 I'll willingly to him ; to gain his colour
11274 I'd let a parish of such Clotens blood ,
11275 And praise myself for charity .
11276
11277
11278 O thou goddess !
11279 Thou divine Nature , how thyself thou blazon'st
11280 In these two princely boys . They are as gentle
11281 As zephyrs , blowing below the violet ,
11282 Not wagging his sweet head ; and yet as rough ,
11283 Their royal blood enchaf'd , as the rud'st wind ,
11284 That by the top doth take the mountain pine ,
11285 And make him stoop to the vale . 'Tis wonder
11286 That an invisible instinct should frame them
11287 To royalty unlearn'd , honour untaught ,
11288 Civility not seen from other , valour
11289 That wildly grows in them , but yields a crop
11290 As if it had been sow'd ! Yet still it's strange
11291 What Cloten's being here to us portends ,
11292 Or what his death will bring us .
11293
11294
11295 Where's my brother ?
11296 I have sent Cloten's clotpoll down the stream ,
11297 In embassy to his mother ; his body's hostage
11298 For his return .
11299
11300
11301 My ingenious instrument !
11302 Hark ! Polydore , it sounds ; but what occasion
11303 Hath Cadwal now to give it motion ? Hark !
11304
11305 Is he at home ?
11306
11307 He went hence even now .
11308
11309 What does he mean ? since death of my dear'st mother
11310 It did not speak before . All solemn things
11311 Should answer solemn accidents . The matter ?
11312 Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys
11313 Is jollity for apes and grief for boys .
11314 Is Cadwal mad ?
11315
11316
11317 Look ! here he comes ,
11318 And brings the dire occasion in his arms
11319 Of what we blame him for .
11320
11321 The bird is dead
11322 That we have made so much on . I had rather
11323 Have skipp'd from sixteen years of age to sixty ,
11324 To have turn'd my leaping-time into a crutch ,
11325 Than have seen this .
11326
11327 O , sweetest , fairest lily !
11328 My brother wears thee not the one half so well
11329 As when thou grew'st thyself .
11330
11331 O melancholy !
11332 Who ever yet could sound thy bottom ? find
11333 The ooze , to show what coast thy sluggish crare
11334 Might easiliest harbour in ? Thou blessed thing !
11335 Jove knows what man thou mightst have made ; but I ,
11336 Thou diedst , a most rare boy , of melancholy .
11337 How found you him ?
11338
11339 Stark , as you see :
11340 Thus smiling , as some fly had tickled slumber ,
11341 Not as death's dart , being laugh'd at ; his right cheek
11342 Reposing on a cushion .
11343
11344 Where ?
11345
11346 O' the floor ,
11347 His arms thus leagu'd ; I thought he slept , and put
11348 My clouted brogues from off my feet , whose rudeness
11349 Answer'd my steps too loud .
11350
11351 Why , he but sleeps :
11352 If he be gone , he'll make his grave a bed ;
11353 With female fairies will his tomb be haunted ,
11354 And worms will not come to thee .
11355
11356 With fairest flowers
11357 While summer lasts and I live here , Fidele ,
11358 I'll sweeten thy sad grave ; thou shalt not lack
11359 The flower that's like thy face , pale primrose , nor
11360 The azur'd hare-bell , like thy veins , no , nor
11361 The leaf of eglantine , whom not to slander ,
11362 Out-sweeten'd not thy breath : the ruddock would ,
11363 With charitable bill ,O bill ! sore-shaming
11364 Those rich-left heirs , that let their fathers lie
11365 Without a monument ,bring thee all this ;
11366 Yea , and furr'd moss besides , when flowers are none ,
11367 To winter-ground thy corse .
11368
11369 Prithee , have done ,
11370 And do not play in wench-like words with that
11371 Which is so serious . Let us bury him ,
11372 And not protract with admiration what
11373 Is now due debt . To the grave !
11374
11375 Say , where shall 's lay him ?
11376
11377 By good Euriphile , our mother .
11378
11379 Be 't so :
11380 And let us , Polydore , though now our voices
11381 Have got the mannish crack , sing him to the ground ,
11382 As once our mother ; use like note and words ,
11383 Save that Euriphile must be Fidele .
11384
11385 Cadwal ,
11386 I cannot sing ; I'll weep , and word it with thee ;
11387 For notes of sorrow out of tune are worse
11388 Than priests and fanes that lie .
11389
11390 We'll speak it then .
11391
11392 Great griefs , I see , medicine the less , for Cloten
11393 Is quite forgot . He was a queen's son , boys ,
11394 And though he came our enemy , remember
11395 He was paid for that ; though mean and mighty rotting
11396 Together , have one dust , yet reverence
11397 That angel of the world doth make distinction
11398 Of place 'tween high and low . Our foe was princely ,
11399 And though you took his life , as being our foe ,
11400 Yet bury him as a prince .
11401
11402 Pray you , fetch him hither .
11403 Thersites' body is as good as Ajax'
11404 When neither are alive .
11405
11406 If you'll go fetch him ,
11407 We'll say our song the whilst . Brother , begin .
11408
11409
11410 Nay , Cadwal , we must lay his head to the east ;
11411 My father hath a reason for 't .
11412
11413 'Tis true .
11414
11415 Come on then , and remove him .
11416
11417 So , begin .
11418
11419
11420 Fear no more the heat o' the sun ,
11421 Nor the furious winter's rages ;
11422 Thou thy worldly task hast done ,
11423 Home art gone , and ta'en thy wages ;
11424 Golden lads and girls all must ,
11425 As chimney-sweepers , come to dust .
11426
11427 Fear no more the frown o' the great ,
11428 Thou art past the tyrant's stroke :
11429 Care no more to clothe and eat ;
11430 To thee the reed is as the oak :
11431 The sceptre , learning , physic , must
11432 All follow this , and come to dust .
11433
11434 Fear no more the lightning-flash ,
11435
11436 Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone ;
11437
11438 Fear not slander , censure rash ;
11439
11440 Thou hast finish'd joy and moan
11441
11442 All lovers young , all lovers must
11443 Consign to thee , and come to dust .
11444
11445 No exorciser harm thee !
11446
11447 Nor no witchcraft charm thee !
11448
11449 Ghost unlaid forbear thee !
11450
11451 Nothing ill come near thee !
11452
11453 Quiet consummation have ;
11454 And renowned be thy grave !
11455
11456 We have done our obsequies . Come , lay him down .
11457
11458 Here's a few flowers , but 'bout mid-night , more ;
11459 The herbs that have on them cold dew o' the night
11460 Are strewings fitt'st for graves . Upon their faces
11461 You were as flowers , now wither'd ; even so
11462 These herblets shall , which we upon you strew .
11463 Come on , away ; apart upon our knees .
11464 The ground that gave them first has them again ;
11465 Their pleasures here are past , so is their pain .
11466
11467
11468 Yes , sir , to Milford-Haven ; which is the way ?
11469 I thank you . By yond bush ? Pray , how far thither ?
11470 'Ods pittikins ! can it be six mile yet ?
11471 I have gone all night : Faith , I'll lie down and sleep .
11472
11473
11474 But , soft ! no bed-fellow ! O gods and goddesses !
11475 These flowers are like the pleasures of the world ;
11476 This bloody man , the care on 't . I hope I dream ;
11477 For so I thought I was a cave-keeper ,
11478 And cook to honest creatures ; but 'tis not so ,
11479 'Twas but a bolt of nothing , shot at nothing ,
11480 Which the brain makes of fumes . Our very eyes
11481 Are sometimes like our judgments , blind . Good faith ,
11482 I tremble still with fear ; but if there be
11483 Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity
11484 As a wren's eye , fear'd gods , a part of it !
11485 The dream's here still ; even when I wake , it is
11486 Without me , as within me ; not imagin'd , felt .
11487 A headless man ! The garments of Posthumus !
11488 I know the shape of 's leg , this is his hand ,
11489 His foot Mercurial , his Martial thigh ,
11490 The brawns of Hercules , but his Jovial face
11491 Murder in heaven ? How ! 'Tis gone . Pisanio ,
11492 All curses madded Hecuba gave the Greeks ,
11493 And mine to boot , be darted on thee ! Thou ,
11494 Conspir'd with that irregulous devil , Cloten ,
11495 Hast here cut off my lord . To write and read
11496 Be henceforth treacherous ! Damn'd Pisanio
11497 Hath with his forged letters , damn'd Pisanio ,
11498 From this most bravest vessel of the world
11499 Struck the main-top ! O Posthumus ! alas !
11500 Where is thy head ? where's that ? Ay me ! where's that ?
11501 Pisanio might have kill'd thee at the heart ,
11502 And left this head on . How should this be ? Pisanio ?
11503 'Tis he and Cloten ; malice and lucre in them
11504 Have laid this woe here . O ! 'tis pregnant , pregnant !
11505 The drug he gave me , which he said was precious
11506 And cordial to me , have I not found it
11507 Murderous to the senses ? That confirms it home ;
11508 This is Pisanio's deed , and Cloten's : O !
11509 Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood ,
11510 That we the horrider may seem to those
11511 Which chance to find us . O ! my lord , my lord .
11512
11513 To them the legions garrison'd in Gallia ,
11514 After your will , have cross'd the sea , attending
11515 You here at Milford-Haven with your ships :
11516 They are in readiness .
11517
11518 But what from Rome ?
11519
11520 The senate hath stirr'd up the confiners
11521 And gentlemen of Italy , most willing spirits ,
11522 That promise noble service ; and they come
11523 Under the conduct of bold Iachimo ,
11524 Sienna's brother .
11525
11526 When expect you them ?
11527
11528 With the next benefit o' the wind .
11529
11530 This forwardness
11531 Makes our hopes fair . Command our present numbers
11532 Be muster'd ; bid the captains look to 't . Now , sir ,
11533 What have you dream'd of late of this war's purpose ?
11534
11535 Last night the very gods show'd me a vision ,
11536 I fast and pray'd for their intelligence ,thus :
11537 I saw Jove's bird , the Roman eagle , wing'd
11538 From the spongy south to this part of the west ,
11539 There vanish'd in the sunbeams ; which portends ,
11540 Unless my sins abuse my divination ,
11541 Success to the Roman host .
11542
11543 Dream often so ,
11544 And never false . Soft , ho ! what trunk is here
11545 Without his top ? The ruin speaks that sometime
11546 It was a worthy building . How ! a page !
11547 Or dead or sleeping on him ? But dead rather ,
11548 For nature doth abhor to make his bed
11549 With the defunct , or sleep upon the dead .
11550 Let's see the boy's face .
11551
11552 He's alive , my lord .
11553
11554 He'll , then , instruct us of this body . Young one ,
11555 Inform us of thy fortunes , for it seems
11556 They crave to be demanded . Who is this
11557 Thou mak'st thy bloody pillow ? Or who was he
11558 That , otherwise than noble nature did ,
11559 Hath alter'd that good picture ? What's thy interest
11560 In this sad wrack ? How came it ? Who is it ?
11561 What art thou ?
11562
11563 I am nothing ; or if not ,
11564 Nothing to be were better . This was my master ,
11565 A very valiant Briton and a good ,
11566 That here by mountaineers lies slain . Alas !
11567 There are no more such masters ; I may wander
11568 From east to occident , cry out for service ,
11569 Try many , all good , serve truly , never
11570 Find such another master .
11571
11572 'Lack , good youth !
11573 Thou mov'st no less with thy complaining than
11574 Thy master in bleeding . Say his name , good friend .
11575
11576 Richard du Champ .
11577
11578 If I do lie and do
11579 No harm by it , though the gods hear , I hope
11580 They'll pardon it .Say you , sir ?
11581
11582 Thy name ?
11583
11584 Fidele , sir .
11585
11586 Thou dost approve thyself the very same ;
11587 Thy name well fits thy faith , thy faith thy name .
11588 Wilt take thy chance with me ? I will not say
11589 Thou shalt be so well master'd , but be sure
11590 No less belov'd . The Roman emperor's letters ,
11591 Sent by a consul to me , should not sooner
11592 Than thine own worth prefer thee . Go with me .
11593
11594 I'll follow , sir . But first , an 't please the gods ,
11595 I'll hide my master from the flies , as deep
11596 As these poor pickaxes can dig ; and when
11597 With wild wood-leaves and weeds I ha' strew'd his grave ,
11598 And on it said a century of prayers ,
11599 Such as I can , twice o'er , I'll weep and sigh ;
11600 And , leaving so his service , follow you ,
11601 So please you entertain me .
11602
11603 Ay , good youth ,
11604 And rather father thee than master thee .
11605 My friends ,
11606 The boy hath taught us manly duties ; let us
11607 Find out the prettiest daisied plot we can ,
11608 And make him with our pikes and partisans
11609 A grave ; come , arm him . Boy , he is preferr'd
11610 By thee to us , and he shall be interr'd
11611 As soldiers can . Be cheerful ; wipe thine eyes :
11612 Some falls are means the happier to arise .
11613
11614
11615 Again ; and bring me word how 'tis with her .
11616
11617 A fever with the absence of her son ,
11618 A madness , of which her life's in danger . Heavens !
11619 How deeply you at once do touch me . Imogen ,
11620 The great part of my comfort , gone ; my queen
11621 Upon a desperate bed , and in a time
11622 When fearful wars point at me ; her son gone ,
11623 So needful for this present : it strikes me , past
11624 The hope of comfort . But for thee , fellow ,
11625 Who needs must know of her departure and
11626 Dost seem so ignorant , we'll enforce it from thee
11627 By a sharp torture .
11628
11629 Sir , my life is yours ,
11630 I humbly set it at your will ; but , for my mistress ,
11631 I nothing know where she remains , why gone ,
11632 Nor when she purposes return . Beseech your highness ,
11633 Hold me your loyal servant .
11634
11635 Good my liege ,
11636 The day that she was missing he was here ;
11637 I dare be bound he's true and shall perform
11638 All parts of his subjection loyally . For Cloten ,
11639 There wants no diligence in seeking him ,
11640 And will , no doubt , be found .
11641
11642 The time is troublesome .
11643
11644
11645 We'll slip you for a season ; but our jealousy
11646 Does yet depend .
11647
11648 So please-your majesty ,
11649 The Roman legions , all from Gallia drawn ,
11650 Are landed on your coast , with a supply
11651 Of Roman gentlemen , by the senate sent .
11652
11653 Now for the counsel of my son and queen !
11654 I am amaz'd with matter .
11655
11656 Good my liege ,
11657 Your preparation can affront no less
11658 Than what you hear of ; come more , for more you're ready :
11659 The want is , but to put those powers in motion
11660 That long to move .
11661
11662 I thank you . Let's withdraw ;
11663 And meet the time as it seeks us . We fear not
11664 What can from Italy annoy us , but
11665 We grieve at chances here . Away !
11666
11667
11668 I heard no letter from my master since
11669 I wrote him Imogen was slain ; 'tis strange ;
11670 Nor hear I from my mistress , who did promise
11671 To yield me often tidings ; neither know I
11672 What is betid to Cloten ; but remain
11673 Perplex'd in all : the heavens still must work .
11674 Wherein I am false I am honest ; not true to be true :
11675 These present wars shall find I love my country ,
11676 Even to the note o' the king , or I'll fall in them .
11677 All other doubts , by time let them be clear'd ;
11678 Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd .
11679
11680
11681 The noise is round about us .
11682
11683 Let us from it .
11684
11685 What pleasure , sir , find we in life , to lock it
11686 From action and adventure ?
11687
11688 Nay , what hope
11689 Have we in hiding us ? this way , the Romans
11690 Must or for Britons slay us , or receive us
11691 For barbarous and unnatural revolts
11692 During their use , and slay us after .
11693
11694 Sons ,
11695 We'll higher to the mountains ; there secure us .
11696 To the king's party there's no going ; newness
11697 Of Cloten's death ,we being not known , not muster'd
11698 Among the bands ,may drive us to a render
11699 Where we have liv'd , and so extort from 's that
11700 Which we have done , whose answer would be death
11701 Drawn on with torture .
11702
11703 This is , sir , a doubt
11704 In such a time nothing becoming you ,
11705 Nor satisfying us .
11706
11707 It is not likely
11708 That when they hear the Roman horses neigh ,
11709 Behold their quarter'd fires , have both their eyes
11710 And ears so cloy'd importantly as now ,
11711 That they will waste their time upon our note ,
11712 To know from whence we are .
11713
11714 O ! I am known
11715 Of many in the army ; many years ,
11716 Though Cloten then but young , you see , not wore him
11717 From my remembrance . And , besides , the king
11718 Hath not deserv'd my service nor your loves
11719 Who find in my exile the want of breeding ,
11720 The certainty of this hard life ; aye hopeless
11721 To have the courtesy your cradle promis'd ,
11722 But to be still hot summer's tanlings and
11723 The shrinking slaves of winter .
11724
11725 Than be so
11726 Better to cease to be . Pray , sir , to the army :
11727 I and my brother are not known ; yourself ,
11728 So out of thought , and thereto so o'ergrown ,
11729 Cannot be question'd .
11730
11731 By this sun that shines ,
11732 I'll thither : what thing is it that I never
11733 Did see man die ! scarce ever look'd on blood
11734 But that of coward hares , hot goats , and venison !
11735 Never bestrid a horse , save one that had
11736 A rider like myself , who ne'er wore rowel
11737 Nor iron on his heel ! I am asham'd
11738 To look upon the holy sun , to have
11739 The benefit of his bless'd beams , remaining
11740 So long a poor unknown .
11741
11742 By heavens ! I'll go :
11743 If you will bless me , sir , and give me leave ,
11744 I'll take the better care ; but if you will not ,
11745 The hazard therefore due fall on me by
11746 The hands of Romans .
11747
11748 So say I ; amen .
11749
11750 No reason I , since of your lives you set
11751 So slight a valuation , should reserve
11752 My crack'd one to more care . Have with you , boys !
11753 If in your country wars you chance to die ,
11754 That is my bed too , lads , and there I'll lie :
11755 Lead , lead .
11756
11757 The time seems long ; their blood thinks scorn ,
11758 Till it fly out and show them princes born .
11759
11760 Yea , bloody cloth , I'll keep thee , for I wish'd
11761 Thou shouldst be colour'd thus . You married ones ,
11762 If each of you should take this course , how many
11763 Must murder wives much better than themselves
11764 For wrying but a little ! O Pisanio !
11765 Every good servant does not all commands ;
11766 No bond but to do just ones . Gods ! if you
11767 Should have ta'en vengeance on my faults , I never
11768 Had liv'd to put on this ; so had you sav'd
11769 The noble Imogen to repent , and struck
11770 Me , wretch more worth your vengeance . But , alack !
11771 You snatch some hence for little faults ; that's love ,
11772 To have them fall no more ; you some permit
11773 To second ills with ills , each elder worse ,
11774 And make them dread it , to the doers' thrift .
11775 But Imogen is your own ; do your best wills ,
11776 And make me bless'd to obey . I am brought hither
11777 Among the Italian gentry , and to fight
11778 Against my lady's kingdom ; 'tis enough
11779 That , Britain , I have kill'd thy mistress-piece !
11780 I'll give no wound to thee . Therefore good heavens ,
11781 Hear patiently my purpose : I'll disrobe me
11782 Of these Italian weeds , and suit myself
11783 As does a Briton peasant ; so I'll fight
11784 Against the part I come with , so I'll die
11785 For thee , O Imogen ! even for whom my life
11786 Is , every breath , a death : and thus , unknown ,
11787 Pitied nor hated , to the face of peril
11788 Myself I'll dedicate . Let me make men know
11789 More valour in me than my habits show .
11790 Gods ! put the strength o' the Leonati in me .
11791 To shame the guise o' the world , I will begin
11792 The fashion , less without and more within .
11793
11794
11795 The heaviness and guilt within my bosom
11796 Takes off my manhood : I have belied a lady ,
11797 The princess of this country , and the air on 't
11798 Revengingly enfeebles me ; or could this carl ,
11799 A very drudge of nature's , have subdu'd me
11800 In my profession ? Knighthoods and honours , borne
11801 As I wear mine , are titles but of scorn .
11802 If that thy gentry , Britain , go before
11803 This lout as he exceeds our lords , the odds
11804 Is that we scarce are men and you are gods .
11805
11806
11807 Stand , stand ! We have the advantage of the ground .
11808 The lane is guarded ; nothing routs us but
11809 The villany of our fears .
11810
11811 Stand , stand , and fight !
11812
11813 Stand , stand , and fight !
11814
11815 Away , boy , from the troops , and save thyself ;
11816 For friends kill friends , and the disorder's such
11817 As war were hoodwink'd .
11818
11819 'Tis their fresh supplies .
11820
11821 It is a day turn'd strangely : or betimes
11822 Let's re-inforce , or fly .
11823
11824
11825 Cam'st thou from where they made the stand ?
11826
11827 I did :
11828 Though you , it seems , come from the fliers .
11829
11830 I did .
11831
11832 No blame be to you , sir ; for all was lost ,
11833 But that the heavens fought . The king himself
11834 Of his wings destitute , the army broken ,
11835 And but the backs of Britons seen , all flying
11836 Through a strait lane ; the enemy full-hearted ,
11837 Lolling the tongue with slaughtering , having work
11838 More plentiful than tools to do 't , struck down
11839 Some mortally , some slightly touch'd , some falling
11840 Merely through fear ; that the strait pass was damm'd
11841 With dead men hurt behind , and cowards living
11842 To die with lengthen'd shame .
11843
11844 Where was this lane ?
11845
11846 Close by the battle , ditch'd , and wall'd with turf ;
11847 Which gave advantage to an ancient soldier ,
11848 An honest one , I warrant ; who deserv'd
11849 So long a breeding as his white beard came to ,
11850 In doing this for his country ; athwart the lane ,
11851 He , with two striplings ,lads more like to run
11852 The country base than to commit such slaughter ,
11853 With faces fit for masks , or rather fairer
11854 Than those for preservation cas'd , or shame ,
11855 Made good the passage ; cried to those that fled ,
11856 'Our Britain's harts die flying , not our men :
11857 To darkness fleet souls that fly backwards . Stand !
11858 Or we are Romans , and will give you that
11859 Like beasts which you shun beastly , and may save ,
11860 But to look back in frown : stand , stand !' These three ,
11861 Three thousand confident , in act as many ,
11862 For three performers are the file when all
11863 The rest do nothing ,with this word , 'Stand , stand !'
11864 Accommodated by the place , more charming
11865 With their own nobleness ,which could have turn'd
11866 A distaff to a lance ,gilded pale looks ,
11867 Part shame , part spirit renew'd ; that some , turn'd coward
11868 But by example ,O ! a sin of war ,
11869 Damn'd in the first beginners ,'gan to look
11870 The way that they did , and to grin like lions
11871 Upon the pikes o' the hunters . Then began
11872 A stop i' the chaser , a retire , anon ,
11873 A rout , confusion thick ; forthwith they fly
11874 Chickens , the way which they stoop'd eagles ; slaves ,
11875 The strides they victors made . And now our cowards
11876 Like fragments in hard voyages became
11877 The life o' the need ; having found the back door open
11878 Of the unguarded hearts , Heavens ! how they wound ;
11879 Some slain before ; some dying ; some their friends
11880 O'er-borne i' the former wave ; ten , chas'd by one ,
11881 Are now each one the slaughter-man of twenty ;
11882 Those that would die or ere resist are grown
11883 The mortal bugs o' the field .
11884
11885 This was strange chance :
11886 A narrow lane , an old man , and two boys !
11887
11888 Nay , do not wonder at it ; you are made
11889 Rather to wonder at the things you hear
11890 Than to work any . Will you rime upon 't ,
11891 And vent it for a mockery ? Here is one :
11892 'Two boys , an old man twice a boy , a lane ,
11893 Preserv'd the Britons , was the Romans' bane .'
11894
11895 Nay , be not angry , sir .
11896
11897 'Lack ! to what end ?
11898 Who dares not stand his foe , I'll be his friend ;
11899 For if he'll do , as he is made to do ,
11900 I know he'll quickly fly my friendship too .
11901 You have put me into rime .
11902
11903 Farewell ; you're angry .
11904
11905
11906 Still going ?This is a lord ! O noble misery !
11907 To be i' the field , and ask , 'what news ?' of me !
11908 To-day how many would have given their honours
11909 To have sav'd their carcases ! took heel to do 't ,
11910 And yet died too ! I , in mine own woe charm'd ,
11911 Could not find death where I did hear him groan ,
11912 Nor feel him where he struck : being an ugly monster ,
11913 'Tis strange he hides him in fresh cups , soft beds ,
11914 Sweet words ; or hath more ministers than we
11915 That draw his knives i' the war . Well , I will find him ;
11916 For being now a favourer to the Briton ,
11917 No more a Briton , I have resum'd again
11918 The part I came in ; fight I will no more ,
11919 But yield me to the veriest hind that shall
11920 Once touch my shoulder . Great the slaughter is
11921 Here made by the Roman ; great the answer be
11922 Britons must take . For me , my ransom's death ;
11923 On either side I come to spend my breath ,
11924 Which neither here I'll keep nor bear agen ,
11925 But end it by some means for Imogen .
11926
11927
11928 Great Jupiter be prais'd ! Lucius is taken .
11929 'Tis thought the old man and his sons were angels .
11930
11931 There was a fourth man , in a silly habit ,
11932 That gave th' affront with them .
11933
11934 So 'tis reported ;
11935 But none of 'em can be found . Stand ! who is there ?
11936
11937 A Roman ,
11938 Who had not now been drooping here , if seconds
11939 Had answer'd him .
11940
11941 Lay hands on him ; a dog !
11942 A lag of Rome shall not return to tell
11943 What crows have peck'd them here . He brags his service
11944 As if he were of note : bring him to the king .
11945
11946
11947 You shall not now be stol'n , you have locks upon you :
11948 So graze as you find pasture .
11949
11950 Ay , or a stomach .
11951
11952
11953 Most welcome , bondage ! for thou art a way ,
11954 I think , to liberty . Yet am I better
11955 Than one that's sick o' the gout , since he had rather
11956 Groan so in perpetuity than be cur'd
11957 By the sure physician death ; who is the key
11958 To unbar these locks . My conscience , thou art fetter'd
11959 More than my shanks and wrists : you good gods , give me
11960 The penitent instrument to pick that bolt ;
11961 Then , free for ever ! Is 't enough I am sorry ?
11962 So children temporal fathers do appease ;
11963 Gods are more full of mercy . Must I repent ?
11964 I cannot do it better than in gyves ,
11965 Desir'd more than constrain'd ; to satisfy ,
11966 If of my freedom 'tis the main part , take
11967 No stricter render of me than my all .
11968 I know you are more clement than vile men ,
11969 Who of their broken debtors take a third ,
11970 A sixth , a tenth , letting them thrive again
11971 On their abatement : that's not my desire ;
11972 For Imogen's dear life take mine ; and though
11973 'Tis not so dear , yet 'tis a life ; you coin'd it ;
11974 'Tween man and man they weigh not every stamp ;
11975 Though light , take pieces for the figure's sake :
11976 You rather mine , being yours ; and so great powers ,
11977 If you will take this audit , take this life ,
11978 And cancel these cold bonds . O Imogen !
11979 I'll speak to thee in silence .
11980
11981
11982 No more , thou thunder-master , show
11983 Thy spite on mortal flies :
11984 With Mars fall out , with Juno chide ,
11985 That thy adulteries
11986 Rates and revenges .
11987 Hath my poor boy done aught but well ,
11988 Whose face I never saw ?
11989 I died whilst in the womb he stay'd
11990 Attending nature's law :
11991 Whose father then as men report ,
11992 Thou orphans' father art
11993 Thou shouldst have been , and shielded him
11994 From this earth-vexing smart .
11995
11996 Lucina lent not me her aid ,
11997 But took me in my throes ;
11998 That from me was Posthumus ript ,
11999 Came crying 'mongst his foes ,
12000 A thing of pity !
12001
12002 Great nature , like his ancestry ,
12003 Moulded the stuff so fair ,
12004 That he deserv'd the praise o' the world ,
12005 As great Sicilius' heir .
12006
12007 When once he was mature for man ,
12008 In Britain where was he
12009 That could stand up his parallel ,
12010 Or fruitful object be
12011 In eye of Imogen , that best
12012 Could deem his dignity ?
12013
12014 With marriage wherefore was he mock'd ,
12015 To be exil'd , and thrown
12016 From Leonati's seat , and cast
12017 From her his dearest one ,
12018 Sweet Imogen ?
12019
12020 Why did you suffer Iachimo ,
12021 Slight thing of Italy ,
12022 To taint his nobler heart and brain
12023 With needless jealousy ;
12024 And to become the geck and scorn
12025 O' the other's villany ?
12026
12027 For this from stiller seats we came ,
12028 Our parents and us twain ,
12029 That striking in our country's cause
12030 Fell bravely and were slain ;
12031 Our fealty and Tenantius' right
12032 With honour to maintain .
12033
12034 Like hardiment Posthumus hath
12035 To Cymbeline perform'd :
12036 Then Jupiter , thou king of gods ,
12037 Why hast thou thus adjourn'd
12038 The graces for his merits due ,
12039 Being all to dolours turn'd ?
12040
12041 Thy crystal window ope ; look out ;
12042 No longer exercise
12043 Upon a valiant race thy harsh
12044 And potent injuries .
12045
12046 Since , Jupiter , our son is good ,
12047 Take off his miseries .
12048
12049 Peep through thy marble mansion ; help !
12050 Or we poor ghosts will cry
12051 To the shining synod of the rest
12052 Against thy deity .
12053
12054 Help , Jupiter ! or we appeal ,
12055 And from thy justice fly .
12056
12057
12058 No more , you petty spirits of region low , Offend our hearing ; hush ! How dare you ghosts
12059 Accuse the thunderer , whose bolt , you know ,
12060 Sky-planted , batters all rebelling coasts ?
12061 Poor shadows of Elysium , hence ; and rest
12062 Upon your never-withering banks of flowers :
12063 Be not with mortal accidents opprest ;
12064 No care of yours it is ; you know 'tis ours .
12065 Whom best I love I cross ; to make my gift ,
12066 The more delay'd , delighted . Be content ;
12067 Your low-laid son our godhead will uplift :
12068 His comforts thrive , his trials well are spent .
12069 Our Jovial star reign'd at his birth , and in
12070 Our temple was he married . Rise , and fade !
12071 He shall be lord of Lady Imogen ,
12072 And happier much by his affliction made .
12073 This tablet lay upon his breast , wherein
12074 Our pleasure his full fortune doth confine ;
12075 And so , away : no further with your din
12076 Express impatience , lest you stir up mine .
12077 Mount , eagle , to my palace crystalline .
12078
12079
12080 He came in thunder ; his celestial breath
12081 Was sulphurous to smell ; the holy eagle
12082 Stoop'd , as to foot us ; his ascension is
12083 More sweet than our bless'd fields ; his royal bird
12084 Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak ,
12085 As when his god is pleas'd .
12086
12087 Thanks , Jupiter !
12088
12089 The marble pavement closes ; he is enter'd
12090 His radiant roof . Away ! and , to be blest ,
12091 Let us with care perform his great behest .
12092
12093
12094 Sleep , thou hast been a grandsire , and begot
12095 A father to me ; and thou hast created
12096 A mother and two brothers . But O scorn !
12097 Gone ! they went hence so soon as they were born :
12098 And so I am awake . Poor wretches , that depend
12099 On greatness' favour dream as I have done ;
12100 Wake , and find nothing . But , alas ! I swerve :
12101 Many dream not to find , neither deserve ,
12102 And yet are steep'd in favours ; so am I ,
12103 That have this golden chance and know not why .
12104 What fairies haunt this ground ? A book ? O rare one !
12105 Be not , as is our fangled world , a garment
12106 Nobler than that it covers : let thy effects
12107 So follow , to be most unlike our courtiers ,
12108 As good as promise .
12109 Whenas a lion's whelp shall , to himself unknown , without seeking find , and be embraced by a piece of tender air ; and when from a stately cedar shall be lopped branches , which , being dead many years , shall after revive , be jointed to the old stock , and freshly grow , then shall Posthumus end his miseries , Britain be fortunate , and flourish in peace and plenty .
12110 'Tis still a dream , or else such stuff as madmen
12111 Tongue and brain not ; either both or nothing ;
12112 Or senseless speaking , or a speaking such
12113 As sense cannot untie . Be what it is ,
12114 The action of my life is like it , which
12115 I'll keep , if but for sympathy .
12116
12117
12118 Come , sir , are you ready for death ?
12119
12120 Over-roasted rather ; ready long ago .
12121
12122 Hanging is the word , sir : if you be ready for that , you are well cooked .
12123
12124 So , if I prove a good repast to the spectators , the dish pays the shot .
12125
12126 A heavy reckoning for you , sir ; but the comfort is , you shall be called to no more payments , fear no more tavern-bills , which are often the sadness of parting , as the procuring of mirth . You come in faint for want of meat , depart reeling with too much drink , sorry that you have paid too much ; and sorry that you are paid too much ; purse and brain both empty ; the brain the heavier for being too light , the purse too light , being drawn of heaviness of this contradiction you shall now be quit . O ! the charity of a penny cord ; it sums up thousands in a trice : you have no true debitor and creditor but it ; of what's past , is , and to come , the discharge . Your neck , sir , is pen , book and counters ; so the acquittance follows .
12127
12128 I am merrier to die than thou art to live .
12129
12130 Indeed , sir , he that sleeps feels not the toothache ; but a man that were to sleep your sleep , and a hangman to help him to bed , I think he would change places with his officer ; for look you , sir , you know not which way you shall go .
12131
12132 Yes , indeed do I , fellow .
12133
12134 Your death has eyes in 's head , then ; I have not seen him so pictured : you must either be directed by some that take upon them to know , or take upon yourself that which I am sure you do not know , or jump the after inquiry on your own peril : and how you shall speed in your journey's end , I think you'll never return to tell one .
12135
12136 I tell thee , fellow , there are none want eyes to direct them the way I am going but such as wink and will not use them .
12137
12138 What an infinite mock is this , that a man should have the best use of eyes to see the way of blindness ! I am sure hanging's the way of winking .
12139
12140
12141 Knock off his manacles ; bring your prisoner to the king .
12142
12143 Thou bring'st good news ; I am called to be made free .
12144
12145 I'll be hang'd , then .
12146
12147 Thou shalt be then freer than a gaoler ; no bolts for the dead .
12148
12149
12150 Unless a man would marry a gallows and beget young gibbets , I never saw one so prone . Yet , on my conscience , there are verier knaves desire to live , for all he be a Roman ; and there be some of them too , that die against their wills ; so should I , if I were one . I would we were all of one mind , and one mind good ; O ! there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses . I speak against my present profit , but my wish hath a preferment in 't .
12151
12152
12153 Stand by my side , you whom the gods have made
12154 Preservers of my throne . Woe is my heart
12155 That the poor soldier that so richly fought ,
12156 Whose rags sham'd gilded arms , whose naked breast
12157 Stepp'd before targes of proof , cannot be found :
12158 He shall be happy that can find him , if
12159 Our grace can make him so .
12160
12161 I never saw
12162 Such noble fury in so poor a thing ;
12163 Such precious deeds in one that promis'd nought
12164 But beggary and poor looks .
12165
12166 No tidings of him ?
12167
12168 He hath been search'd among the dead and living ,
12169 But no trace of him .
12170
12171 To my grief , I am
12172 The heir of his reward ; which I will add
12173
12174 To you , the liver , heart , and brain of Britain ,
12175 By whom , I grant , she lives . 'Tis now the time
12176 To ask of whence you are : report it .
12177
12178 Sir ,
12179 In Cambria are we born , and gentlemen :
12180 Further to boast were neither true nor modest ,
12181 Unless I add , we are honest .
12182
12183 Bow your knees .
12184 Arise , my knights o' the battle : I create you
12185 Companions to our person , and will fit you
12186 With dignities becoming your estates .
12187
12188
12189 There's business in these faces . Why so sadly
12190 Greet you our victory ? you look like Romans ,
12191
12192 And not o' the court of Britain .
12193
12194 Hail , great king !
12195 To sour your happiness , I must report
12196 The queen is dead .
12197
12198 Whom worse than a physician
12199 Would this report become ? But I consider ,
12200 By medicine life may be prolong'd , yet death
12201 Will seize the doctor too . How ended she ?
12202
12203 With horror , madly dying , like her life ;
12204 Which , being cruel to the world , concluded
12205 Most cruel to herself . What she confess'd
12206 I will report , so please you : these her women
12207 Can trip me if I err ; who with wet cheeks
12208 Were present when she finish'd .
12209
12210 Prithee , say .
12211
12212 First , she confess'd she never lov'd you , only
12213 Affected greatness got by you , not you ;
12214 Married your royalty , was wife to your place ;
12215 Abhorr'd your person .
12216
12217 She alone knew this ;
12218 And , but she spoke it dying , I would not
12219 Believe her lips in opening it . Proceed .
12220
12221 Your daughter , whom she bore in hand to love
12222 With such integrity , she did confess
12223 Was as a scorpion to her sight ; whose life ,
12224 But that her flight prevented it , she had
12225 Ta'en off by poison .
12226
12227 O most delicate fiend !
12228 Who is't can read a woman ? Is there more ?
12229
12230 More , sir , and worse . She did confess she had
12231 For you a mortal mineral ; which , being took ,
12232 Should by the minute feed on life , and ling'ring ,
12233 By inches waste you ; in which time she purpos'd ,
12234 By watching , weeping , tendance , kissing , to
12235 O'ercome you with her show ; yea , and in time
12236 When she had fitted you with her craft to work
12237 Her son into the adoption of the crown ;
12238 But failing of her end by his strange absence ,
12239 Grew shameless-desperate ; open'd , in despite
12240 Of heaven and men , her purposes ; repented
12241 The evils she hatch'd were not effected : so ,
12242 Despairing died .
12243
12244 Heard you all this , her women ?
12245
12246 We did , so please your highness .
12247
12248 Mine eyes
12249 Were not in fault , for she was beautiful ;
12250 Mine ears , that heard her flattery ; nor my heart ,
12251 That thought her like her seeming : it had been vicious
12252 To have mistrusted her : yet , O my daughter !
12253 That it was folly in me , thou mayst say ,
12254 And prove it in thy feeling . Heaven mend all !
12255
12256 Thou com'st not , Caius , now for tribute ; that
12257 The Britons have raz'd out , though with the loss
12258 Of many a bold one ; whose kinsmen have made suit
12259 That their good souls may be appeas'd with slaughter
12260 Of you their captives , which ourself have granted :
12261
12262 So , think of your estate .
12263
12264 Consider , sir , the chance of war : the day
12265 Was yours by accident ; had it gone with us ,
12266 We should not , when the blood was cool , have threaten'd
12267 Our prisoners with the sword . But since the gods
12268 Will have it thus , that nothing but our lives
12269 May be call'd ransom , let it come ; sufficeth ,
12270 A Roman with a Roman's heart can suffer ;
12271 Augustus lives to think on 't ; and so much
12272 For my peculiar care . This one thing only
12273 I will entreat ; my boy , a Briton born ,
12274 Let him be ransom'd ; never master had
12275 A page so kind , so duteous , diligent ,
12276 So tender over his occasions , true ,
12277 So feat , so nurse-like . Let his virtue join
12278 With my request , which I'll make bold your highness
12279 Cannot deny ; he hath done no Briton harm ,
12280 Though he have serv'd a Roman . Save him , sir ,
12281 And spare no blood beside .
12282
12283 I have surely seen him ;
12284 His favour is familiar to me . Boy ,
12285 Thou hast look'd thyself into my grace ,
12286 And art mine own . I know not why nor wherefore ,
12287 To say , 'live , boy :' ne'er thank thy master ; live :
12288 And ask of Cymbeline what boon thou wilt ,
12289 Fitting my bounty and thy state , I'll give it ;
12290 Yea , though thou do demand a prisoner ,
12291 The noblest ta'en .
12292
12293 I humbly thank your highness .
12294
12295 I do not bid thee beg my life , good lad ;
12296 And yet I know thou wilt .
12297
12298 No , no ; alack !
12299 There's other work in hand . I see a thing
12300 Bitter to me as death ; your life , good master ,
12301 Must shuffle for itself .
12302
12303 The boy disdains me ,
12304 He leaves me , scorns me ; briefly die their joys
12305 That place them on the truth of girls and boys .
12306 Why stands he so perplex'd ?
12307
12308 What wouldst thou , boy ?
12309 I love thee more and more ; think more and more
12310 What's best to ask . Know'st him thou look'st on ? speak ;
12311 Wilt have him live ? Is he thy kin ? thy friend ?
12312
12313 He is a Roman ; no more kin to me
12314 Than I to your highness ; who , being born your vassal ,
12315 Am something nearer .
12316
12317 Wherefore ey'st him so ?
12318
12319 I'll tell you , sir , in private , if you please
12320 To give me hearing .
12321
12322 Ay , with all my heart ,
12323 And lend my best attention . What's thy name ?
12324
12325 Fidele , sir .
12326
12327 Thou'rt my good youth , my page ;
12328 I'll be thy master : walk with me ; speak freely .
12329
12330
12331 Is not this boy reviv'd from death ?
12332
12333 One sand another
12334 Not more resembles ;that sweet rosy lad
12335 Who died , and was Fidele . What think you ?
12336
12337 The same dead thing alive .
12338
12339 Peace , peace ! see further ; he eyes us not ; forbear ;
12340 Creatures may be alike ; were 't he , I am sure
12341 He would have spoke to us .
12342
12343 But we saw him dead .
12344
12345 Be silent ; let's see further .
12346
12347 It is my mistress :
12348 Since she is living , let the time run on
12349 To good , or bad .
12350
12351
12352 Come , stand thou by our side :
12353 Make thy demand aloud .
12354
12355 Sir , step you forth ;
12356 Give answer to this boy , and do it freely ,
12357 Or , by our greatness and the grace of it ,
12358 Which is our honour , bitter torture shall
12359 Winnow the truth from falsehood . On , speak to him .
12360
12361 My boon is , that this gentleman may render
12362 Of whom he had this ring .
12363
12364 What's that to him ?
12365
12366 That diamond upon your finger , say
12367 How came it yours ?
12368
12369 Thou'lt torture me to leave unspoken that
12370 Which , to be spoke , would torture thee .
12371
12372 How ! me ?
12373
12374 I am glad to be constrain'd to utter that
12375 Which torments me to conceal . By villany
12376 I got this ring ; 'twas Leonatus' jewel ,
12377 Whom thou didst banish , and which more may grieve thee ,
12378 As it doth me a nobler sir ne'er liv'd
12379 'Twixt sky and ground . Wilt thou hear more , my lord ?
12380
12381 All that belongs to this .
12382
12383 That paragon , thy daughter ,
12384 For whom my heart drops blood , and my false spirits
12385 Quail to remember ,Give me leave ; I faint .
12386
12387 My daughter ! what of her ? Renew thy strength ;
12388 I had rather thou shouldst live while nature will
12389 Than die ere I hear more . Strive , man , and speak .
12390
12391 Upon a time ,unhappy was the clock
12392 That struck the hour !it was in Rome ,accurs'd
12393 The mansion where !'twas at a feast O , would
12394 Our viands had been poison'd , or at least
12395 Those which I heav'd to head !the good Posthumus ,
12396 What should I say ? he was too good to be
12397 Where ill men were ; and was the best of all
12398 Amongst the rar'st of good ones ;sitting sadly
12399 Hearing us praise our loves of Italy
12400 For beauty that made barren the swell'd boast
12401 Of him that best could speak ; for feature laming
12402 The shrine of Venus , or straight-pight Minerva ,
12403 Postures beyond brief nature ; for condition ,
12404 A shop of all the qualities that man
12405 Loves woman for ; besides that hook of wiving ,
12406 Fairness which strikes the eye .
12407
12408 I stand on fire .
12409 Come to the matter .
12410
12411 All too soon I shall ,
12412 Unless thou wouldst grieve quickly . This Posthumus
12413 Most like a noble lord in love , and one
12414 That had a royal lover took his hint ;
12415 And , not dispraising whom we prais'd ,therein
12416 He was as calm as virtue ,he began
12417 His mistress' picture ; which by his tongue being made ,
12418 And then a mind put in 't , either our brags
12419 Were crack'd of kitchen trulls , or his description
12420 Prov'd us unspeaking sots .
12421
12422 Nay , nay , to the purpose .
12423
12424 Your daughter's chastity , there it begins .
12425 He spake of her as Dian had hot dreams ,
12426 And she alone were cold ; whereat I , wretch ,
12427 Made scruple of his praise , and wager'd with him
12428 Pieces of gold 'gainst this , which then he wore
12429 Upon his honour'd finger , to attain
12430 In suit the place of his bed , and win this ring
12431 By hers and mine adultery . He , true knight ,
12432 No lesser of her honour confident
12433 Than I did truly find her , stakes this ring ;
12434 And would so , had it been a carbuncle
12435 Of Ph bus' wheel ; and might so safely , had it
12436 Been all the worth of 's car . Away to Britain
12437 Post I in this design . Well may you , sir ,
12438 Remember me at court , where I was taught
12439 Of your chaste daughter the wide difference
12440 'Twixt amorous and villanous . Being thus quench'd
12441 Of hope , not longing , mine Italian brain
12442 'Gan in your duller Britain operate
12443 Most vilely ; for my vantage , excellent ;
12444 And , to be brief , my practice so prevail'd ,
12445 That I return'd with simular proof enough
12446 To make the noble Leonatus mad ,
12447 By wounding his belief in her renown
12448 With tokens thus , and thus ; averring notes
12449 Of chamber-hanging , pictures , this her bracelet ;
12450 Oh cunning ! how I got it !nay , some marks
12451 Of secret on her person , that he could not
12452 But think her bond of chastity quite crack'd ,
12453 I having ta'en the forfeit . Whereupon ,
12454 Methinks I see him now ,
12455
12456 Ay , so thou dost ,
12457 Italian fiend !Ay me , most credulous fool ,
12458 Egregious murderer , thief , any thing
12459 That's due to all the villains past , in being ,
12460 To come . O ! give me cord , or knife , or poison ,
12461 Some upright justicer . Thou king , send out
12462 For torturers ingenious ; it is I
12463 That all the abhorred things o' the earth amend
12464 By being worse than they . I am Posthumus ,
12465 That kill'd thy daughter ; villain-like , I lie ;
12466 That caus'd a lesser villain than myself ,
12467 A sacrilegious thief , to do 't ; the temple
12468 Of virtue was she ; yea , and she herself .
12469 Spit , and throw stones , cast mire upon me , set
12470 The dogs o' the street to bay me ; every villain
12471 Be call'd Posthumus Leonatus ; and
12472 Be villany less than 'twas ! O Imogen !
12473 My queen , my life , my wife ! O Imogen ,
12474 Imogen , Imogen !
12475
12476 Peace , my lord ! hear , hear !
12477
12478 Shall 's have a play of this ? Thou scornful page ,
12479 There lie thy part .
12480
12481
12482 O , gentlemen , help !
12483 Mine , and your mistress ! O ! my Lord Posthumus ,
12484 You ne'er kill'd Imogen till now . Help , help !
12485 Mine honour'd lady !
12486
12487 Does the world go round ?
12488
12489 How come these staggers on me ?
12490
12491 Wake , my mistress !
12492
12493 If this be so , the gods do mean to strike me
12494 To death with mortal joy .
12495
12496 How fares my mistress ?
12497
12498 O ! get thee from my sight :
12499 Thou gav'st me poison : dangerous fellow , hence !
12500 Breathe not where princes are .
12501
12502 The tune of Imogen !
12503
12504 Lady ,
12505 The gods throw stones of sulphur on me , if
12506 That box I gave you was not thought by me
12507 A precious thing : I had it from the queen .
12508
12509 New matter still ?
12510
12511 It poison'd me .
12512
12513 O gods !
12514 I left out one thing which the queen confess'd ,
12515 Which must approve thee honest : 'If Pisanio
12516 Have ,' said she , 'given his mistress that confection
12517 Which I gave him for cordial , she is serv'd
12518 As I would serve a rat .'
12519
12520 What's this , Cornelius ?
12521
12522 The queen , sir , very oft importun'd me
12523 To temper poisons for her , still pretending
12524 The satisfaction of her knowledge only
12525 In killing creatures vile , as cats and dogs ,
12526 Of no esteem ; I , dreading that her purpose
12527 Was of more danger , did compound for her
12528 A certain stuff , which , being ta'en , would cease
12529 The present power of life , but in short time
12530 All offices of nature should again
12531 Do their due functions . Have you ta'en of it ?
12532
12533 Most like I did , for I was dead .
12534
12535 My boys ,
12536 There was our error .
12537
12538 This is , sure , Fidele .
12539
12540 Why did you throw your wedded lady from you ?
12541 Think that you are upon a rock ; and now
12542 Throw me again .
12543
12544
12545 Hang there like fruit , my soul ,
12546 Till the tree die !
12547
12548 How now , my flesh , my child !
12549 What , mak'st thou me a dullard in this act ?
12550 Wilt thou not speak to me ?
12551
12552 Your blessing , sir .
12553
12554 Though you did love this youth , I blame ye not ;
12555 You had a motive for 't .
12556
12557 My tears that fall
12558 Prove holy water on thee ! Imogen ,
12559 Thy mother's dead .
12560
12561 I am sorry for 't , my lord .
12562
12563 O , she was naught ; and long of her it was
12564 That we meet here so strangely ; but her son
12565 Is gone , we know not how , nor where .
12566
12567 My lord ,
12568 Now fear is from me , I'll speak troth . Lord Cloten ,
12569 Upon my lady's missing , came to me
12570 With his sword drawn , foam'd at the mouth , and swore
12571 If I discover'd not which way she was gone ,
12572 It was my instant death . By accident ,
12573 I had a feigned letter of my master's
12574 Then in my pocket , which directed him
12575 To seek her on the mountains near to Milford ;
12576 Where , in a frenzy , in my master's garments ,
12577 Which he enforc'd from me , away he posts
12578 With unchaste purpose and with oath to violate
12579 My lady's honour ; what became of him
12580 I further know not .
12581
12582 Let me end the story :
12583 I slew him there .
12584
12585 Marry , the gods forfend !
12586 I would not thy good deeds should from my lips
12587 Pluck a hard sentence : Prithee , valiant youth ,
12588 Deny 't again .
12589
12590 I have spoke it , and I did it .
12591
12592 He was a prince .
12593
12594 A most incivil one . The wrongs he did me
12595 Were nothing prince-like ; for he did provoke me
12596 With language that would make me spurn the sea
12597 If it could so roar to me . I cut off 's head ;
12598 And am right glad he is not standing here
12599 To tell this tale of mine .
12600
12601 I am sorry for thee :
12602 By thine own tongue thou art condemn'd , and must
12603 Endure our law . Thou'rt dead .
12604
12605 That headless man
12606 I thought had been my lord .
12607
12608 Bind the offender ,
12609 And take him from our presence .
12610
12611 Stay , sir king :
12612 This man is better than the man he slew ,
12613 As well descended as thyself ; and hath
12614 More of thee merited than a band of Clotens
12615 Had ever scar for .
12616
12617 Let his arms alone ;
12618 They were not born for bondage .
12619
12620 Why , old soldier ,
12621 Wilt thou undo the worth thou art unpaid for ,
12622 By tasting of our wrath ? How of descent
12623 As good as we ?
12624
12625 In that he spake too far .
12626
12627 And thou shalt die for 't .
12628
12629 We will die all three :
12630 But I will prove that two on 's are as good
12631 As I have given out him . My sons , I must
12632 For mine own part unfold a dangerous speech ,
12633 Though , haply , well for you .
12634
12635 Your danger's ours .
12636
12637 And our good his .
12638
12639 Have at it , then , by leave .
12640 Thou hadst , great king , a subject who was call'd
12641 Belarius .
12642
12643 What of him ? he is
12644 A banish'd traitor .
12645
12646 He it is that hath
12647 Assum'd this age : indeed , a banish'd man ;
12648 I know not how a traitor .
12649
12650 Take him hence :
12651 The whole world shall not save him .
12652
12653 Not too hot :
12654 First pay me for the nursing of thy sons ;
12655 And let it be confiscate all so soon
12656 As I have receiv'd it .
12657
12658 Nursing of my sons !
12659
12660 I am too blunt and saucy ; here's my knee :
12661 Ere I arise I will prefer my sons ;
12662 Then spare not the old father . Mighty sir ,
12663 These two young gentlemen , that call me father ,
12664 And think they are my sons , are none of mine ;
12665 They are the issue of your loins , my liege ,
12666 And blood of your begetting .
12667
12668 How ! my issue !
12669
12670 So sure as you your father's . I , old Morgan ,
12671 Am that Belarius whom you sometime banish'd :
12672 Your pleasure was my mere offence , my punishment
12673 Itself , and all my treason ; that I suffer'd
12674 Was all the harm I did . These gentle princes
12675 For such and so they are these twenty years
12676 Have I train'd up ; those arts they have as I
12677 Could put into them ; my breeding was , sir , as
12678 Your highness knows . Their nurse , Euriphile ,
12679 Whom for the theft I wedded , stole these children
12680 Upon my banishment : I mov'd her to 't ,
12681 Having receiv'd the punishment before ,
12682 For that which I did then ; beaten for loyalty
12683 Excited me to treason . Their dear loss ,
12684 The more of you 'twas felt the more it shap'd
12685 Unto my end of stealing them . But , gracious sir ,
12686 Here are your sons again ; and I must lose
12687 Two of the sweet'st companions in the world .
12688 The benediction of these covering heavens
12689 Fall on their heads like dew ! for they are worthy
12690 To inlay heaven with stars .
12691
12692 Thou weep'st , and speak'st .
12693 The service that you three have done is more
12694 Unlike than this thou tell'st . I lost my children :
12695 If these be they , I know not how to wish
12696 A pair of worthier sons .
12697
12698 Be pleas'd awhile .
12699 This gentleman , whom I call Polydore ,
12700 Most worthy prince , as yours , is true Guiderius ;
12701 This gentleman , my Cadwal , Arviragus ,
12702 Your younger princely son ; he , sir , was lapp'd
12703 In a most curious mantle , wrought by the hand
12704 Of his queen mother , which , for more probation ,
12705 I can with ease produce .
12706
12707 Guiderius had
12708 Upon his neck a mole , a sanguine star ;
12709 It was a mark of wonder .
12710
12711 This is he ,
12712 Who hath upon him still that natural stamp .
12713 It was wise nature's end in the donation ,
12714 To be his evidence now .
12715
12716 O ! what , am I
12717 A mother to the birth of three ? Ne'er mother
12718 Rejoic'd deliverance more . Blest pray you be ,
12719 That , after this strange starting from your orbs ,
12720 You may reign in them now . O Imogen !
12721 Thou hast lost by this a kingdom .
12722
12723 No , my lord ;
12724 I have got two worlds by 't . O my gentle brothers !
12725 Have we thus met ? O , never say hereafter
12726 But I am truest speaker : you call'd me brother ,
12727 When I was but your sister ; I you brothers
12728 When ye were so indeed .
12729
12730 Did you e'er meet ?
12731
12732 Ay , my good lord .
12733
12734 And at first meeting lov'd ;
12735 Continu'd so , until we thought he died .
12736
12737 By the queen's dram she swallow'd .
12738
12739 O rare instinct !
12740 When shall I hear all through ? This fierce abridgment
12741 Hath to it circumstantial branches , which
12742 Distinction should be rich in . Where ? how liv'd you ?
12743 And when came you to serve our Roman captive ?
12744 How parted with your brothers ? how first met them ?
12745 Why fied you from the court , and whither ? These ,
12746 And your three motives to the battle , with
12747 I know not how much more , should be demanded ,
12748 And all the other by-dependances ,
12749 From chance to chance , but nor the time nor place
12750 Will serve our long inter'gatories . See ,
12751 Posthumus anchors upon Imogen ,
12752 And she , like harmless lightning , throws her eye
12753 On him , her brothers , me , her master , hitting
12754 Each object with a joy : the counterchange
12755 Is severally in all . Let's quit this ground ,
12756 And smoke the temple with our sacrifices .
12757
12758
12759 Thou art my brother ; so we'll hold thee ever .
12760
12761 You are my father too ; and did relieve me ,
12762 To see this gracious season .
12763
12764 All o'erjoy'd
12765 Save these in bonds ; let them be joyful too ,
12766 For they shall taste our comfort .
12767
12768 My good master ,
12769 I will yet do you service .
12770
12771 Happy be you !
12772
12773 The forlorn soldier , that so nobly fought
12774 He would have well becom'd this place and grac'd
12775 The thankings of a king .
12776
12777 I am , sir ,
12778 The soldier that did company these three
12779 In poor beseeming ; 'twas a fitment for
12780 The purpose I then follow'd . That I was he ,
12781 Speak , Iachimo ; I had you down and might
12782 Have made you finish .
12783
12784 I am down again ;
12785 But now my heavy conscience sinks my knee ,
12786 As then your force did . Take that life , beseech you ,
12787 Which I so often owe , but your ring first ,
12788 And here the bracelet of the truest princess
12789 That ever swore her faith .
12790
12791 Kneel not to me :
12792 The power that I have on you is to spare you ;
12793 The malice towards you to forgive you . Live ,
12794 And deal with others better .
12795
12796 Nobly doom'd :
12797 We'll learn our freeness of a son-in-law ;
12798 Pardon's the word to all .
12799
12800 You holp us , sir ,
12801 As you did mean indeed to be our brother ;
12802 Joy'd are we that you are .
12803
12804 Your servant , princes . Good my lord of Rome ,
12805 Call forth your soothsayer . As I slept , methought
12806 Great Jupiter , upon his eagle back'd ,
12807 Appear'd to me , with other spritely shows
12808 Of mine own kindred : when I wak'd , I found
12809 This label on my bosom ; whose containing
12810 Is so from sense in hardness that I can
12811 Make no collection of it ; let him show
12812 His skill in the construction .
12813
12814 Philarmonus !
12815
12816 Here , my good lord .
12817
12818 Read , and declare the meaning
12819
12820 Whenas a lion's whelp shall , to himself unknown , without seeking find , and be embraced by a piece of tender air ; and when from a stately cedar shall be lopped branches , which , being dead many years , shall after revive , be jointed to the old stock , and freshly grow : then shall Posthumus end his miseries , Britain be fortunate , and flourish in peace and plenty .
12821 Thou , Leonatus , art the lion's whelp ;
12822 The fit and apt construction of thy name ,
12823 Being Leo-natus , doth import so much .
12824
12825
12826 The piece of tender air , thy virtuous daughter ,
12827 Which we call mollis aer ; and mollis aer
12828 We term it mulier ; which mulier , I divine ,
12829 Is this most constant wife ; who , even now ,
12830 Answering the letter of the oracle ,
12831 Unknown to you ,
12832
12833 unsought , were clipp'd about
12834 With this most tender air .
12835
12836 This hath some seeming .
12837
12838 The lofty cedar , royal Cymbeline ,
12839 Personates thee , and thy lopp'd branches point
12840 Thy two sons forth ; who , by Belarius stolen ,
12841 For many years thought dead , are now reviv'd
12842 To the majestic cedar join'd , whose issue
12843 Promises Britain peace and plenty .
12844
12845 Well ;
12846 My peace we will begin . And , Caius Lucius ,
12847 Although the victor , we submit to C sar ,
12848 And to the Roman empire ; promising
12849 To pay our wonted tribute , from the which
12850 We were dissuaded by our wicked queen ;
12851 Whom heavens in justice both on her and hers
12852 Have laid most heavy hand .
12853
12854 The fingers of the powers above do tune
12855 The harmony of this peace . The vision
12856 Which I made known to Lucius ere the stroke
12857 Of this yet scarce-cold battle , at this instant
12858 Is full accomplish'd ; for the Roman eagle ,
12859 From south to west on wing soaring aloft ,
12860 Lessen'd herself , and in the beams o' the sun
12861 So vanish'd : which foreshow'd our princely eagle ,
12862 The imperial C sar , should again unite
12863 His favour with the radiant Cymbeline ,
12864 Which shines here in the west .
12865
12866 Laud we the gods ;
12867 And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils
12868 From our bless'd altars . Publish we this peace
12869 To all our subjects . Set we forward : let
12870 A Roman and a British ensign wave
12871 Friendly together ; so through Lud's town march :
12872 And in the temple of great Jupiter
12873 Our peace we'll ratify ; seal it with feasts .
12874 Set on there . Never was a war did cease ,
12875 Ere bloody hands were wash'd , with such a peace .
12876
12877 LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
12878
12879 Let fame , that all hunt after in their lives ,
12880 Live register'd upon our brazen tombs ,
12881 And then grace us in the disgrace of death ;
12882 When , spite of cormorant devouring Time ,
12883 The endeavour of this present breath may buy
12884 That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge ,
12885 And make us heirs of all eternity .
12886 Therefore , brave conquerors ,for so you are ,
12887 That war against your own affections
12888 And the huge army of the world's desires ,
12889 Our late edict shall strongly stand in force :
12890 Navarre shall be the wonder of the world ;
12891 Our court shall be a little academe ,
12892 Still and contemplative in living art .
12893 You three , Berowne , Dumaine , and Longaville ,
12894 Have sworn for three years' term to live with me ,
12895 My fellow-scholars , and to keep those statutes
12896 That are recorded in this schedule here :
12897 Your oaths are pass'd ; and now subscribe your names ,
12898 That his own hand may strike his honour down
12899 That violates the smallest branch herein .
12900 If you are arm'd to do , as sworn to do ,
12901 Subscribe to your deep oaths , and keep it too .
12902
12903 I am resolv'd ; 'tis but a three years' fast :
12904 The mind shall banquet , though the body pine :
12905 Fat paunches have lean pates , and dainty bits
12906 Make rich the ribs , but bankrupt quite the wits .
12907
12908 My loving lord , Dumaine is mortified :
12909 The grosser manner of these world's delights
12910 He throws upon the gross world's baser slaves :
12911 To love , to wealth , to pomp , I pine and die ;
12912 With all these living in philosophy .
12913
12914 I can but say their protestation over ;
12915 So much , dear liege , I have already sworn ,
12916 That is , to live and study here three years .
12917 But there are other strict observances ;
12918 As , not to see a woman in that term ,
12919 Which I hope well is not enrolled there :
12920 And one day in a week to touch no food ,
12921 And but one meal on every day beside ;
12922 The which I hope is not enrolled there :
12923 And then , to sleep but three hours in the night ,
12924 And not be seen to wink of all the day ,
12925 When I was wont to think no harm all night
12926 And make a dark night too of half the day ,
12927 Which I hope well is not enrolled there .
12928 O ! these are barren tasks , too hard to keep ,
12929 Not to see ladies , study , fast , not sleep .
12930
12931 Your oath is pass'd to pass away from these .
12932
12933 Let me say no , my liege , an if you please .
12934 I only swore to study with your Grace ,
12935 And stay here in your court for three years' space .
12936
12937 You swore to that , Berowne , and to the rest .
12938
12939 By yea and nay , sir , then I swore in jest .
12940 What is the end of study ? let me know .
12941
12942 Why , that to know which else we should not know .
12943
12944 Things hid and barr'd , you mean , from common sense ?
12945
12946 Ay , that is study's god-like recompense .
12947
12948 Come on then ; I will swear to study so ,
12949 To know the thing I am forbid to know ;
12950 As thus : to study where I well may dine ,
12951 When I to feast expressly am forbid ;
12952 Or study where to meet some mistress fine ,
12953 When mistresses from common sense are hid ;
12954 Or , having sworn too hard-a-keeping oath ,
12955 Study to break it , and not break my troth .
12956 If study's gain be thus , and this be so ,
12957 Study knows that which yet it doth not know .
12958 Swear me to this , and I will ne'er say no .
12959
12960 These be the stops that hinder study quite ,
12961 And train our intellects to vain delight .
12962
12963 Why , all delights are vain ; but that most vain
12964 Which , with pain purchas'd doth inherit pain :
12965 As , painfully to pore upon a book ,
12966 To seek the light of truth ; while truth the while
12967 Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look :
12968 Light seeking light doth light of light beguile :
12969 So , ere you find where light in darkness lies ,
12970 Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes .
12971 Study me how to please the eye indeed ,
12972 By fixing it upon a fairer eye ,
12973 Who dazzling so , that eye shall be his heed ,
12974 And give him light that it was blinded by .
12975 Study is like the heaven's glorious sun ,
12976 That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks ;
12977 Small have continual plodders ever won ,
12978 Save base authority from others' books .
12979 These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights
12980 That give a name to every fixed star ,
12981 Have no more profit of their shining nights
12982 Than those that walk and wot not what they are .
12983 Too much to know is to know nought but fame ;
12984 And every godfather can give a name .
12985
12986 How well he's read , to reason against reading !
12987
12988 Proceeded well , to stop all good proceeding !
12989
12990 He weeds the corn , and still lets grow the weeding .
12991
12992 The spring is near , when green geese are a-breeding .
12993
12994 How follows that ?
12995
12996 Fit in his place and time .
12997
12998 In reason nothing .
12999
13000 Something then , in rime .
13001
13002 Berowne is like an envious sneaping frost
13003 That bites the first-born infants of the spring .
13004
13005 Well , say I am : why should proud summer boast
13006 Before the birds have any cause to sing ?
13007 Why should I joy in an abortive birth ?
13008 At Christmas I no more desire a rose
13009 Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth ;
13010 But like of each thing that in season grows .
13011 So you , to study now it is too late ,
13012 Climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate .
13013
13014 Well , sit you out : go home , Berowne : adieu !
13015
13016 No , my good lord ; I have sworn to stay with you :
13017 And though I have for barbarism spoke more
13018 Than for that angel knowledge you can say ,
13019 Yet confident I'll keep to what I swore ,
13020 And bide the penance of each three years' day .
13021 Give me the paper ; let me read the same ;
13022 And to the strict'st decrees I'll write my name .
13023
13024 How well this yielding rescues thee from shame !
13025
13026 Item , That no woman shall come within a mile of my court . Hath this been proclaimed ?
13027
13028 Four days ago .
13029
13030 Let's see the penalty . On pain of losing her tongue . Who devised this penalty ?
13031
13032 Marry , that did I .
13033
13034 Sweet lord , and why ?
13035
13036 To fright them hence with that dread penalty .
13037
13038 A dangerous law against gentility !
13039
13040 Item . If any man be seen to talk with a woman within the term of three years , he shall endure such public shame as the rest of the court can possibly devise .
13041 This article , my liege , yourself must break ;
13042 For well you know here comes in embassy
13043 The French king's daughter with yourself to speak
13044 A maid of grace and complete majesty
13045 About surrender up of Aquitaine
13046 To her decrepit , sick , and bed-rid father :
13047 Therefore this article is made in vain ,
13048 Or vainly comes th' admired princess hither .
13049
13050 What say you , lords ? why , this was quite forgot .
13051
13052 So study evermore is overshot :
13053 While it doth study to have what it would ,
13054 It doth forget to do the thing it should ;
13055 And when it hath the thing it hunteth most ,
13056 'Tis won as towns with fire ; so won , so lost .
13057
13058 We must of force dispense with this decree ;
13059 She must lie here on mere necessity .
13060
13061 Necessity will make us all forsworn
13062 Three thousand times within this three years' space ;
13063 For every man with his affects is born ,
13064 Not by might master'd , but by special grace .
13065 If I break faith this word shall speak for me ,
13066 I am forsworn 'on mere necessity .'
13067 So to the laws at large I write my name :
13068
13069 And he that breaks them in the least degree
13070 Stands in attainder of eternal shame :
13071 Suggestions are to others as to me ;
13072 But I believe , although I seem so loath ,
13073 I am the last that will last keep his oath .
13074 But is there no quick recreation granted ?
13075
13076 Ay , that there is . Our court , you know , is haunted
13077 With a refined traveller of Spain ;
13078 A man in all the world's new fashion planted ,
13079 That hath a mint of phrases in his brain ;
13080 One whom the music of his own vain tongue
13081 Doth ravish like enchanting harmony ;
13082 A man of complements , whom right and wrong
13083 Have chose as umpire of their mutiny :
13084 This child of fancy , that Armado hight ,
13085 For interim to our studies shall relate
13086 In high-born words the worth of many a knight
13087 From tawny Spain lost in the world's debate .
13088 How you delight , my lords , I know not , I ;
13089 But , I protest , I love to hear him lie ,
13090 And I will use him for my minstrelsy .
13091
13092 Armado is a most illustrious wight ,
13093 A man of fire-new words , fashion's own knight .
13094
13095 Costard the swain and he shall be our sport ;
13096 And , so to study , three years is but short .
13097
13098
13099 Which is the duke's own person ?
13100
13101 This , fellow . What wouldst ?
13102
13103 I myself reprehend his own person , for I am his Grace's tharborough : but I would see his own person in flesh and blood .
13104
13105 This is he .
13106
13107 Signior Arm Arm commends you . There's villany abroad : this letter will tell you more .
13108
13109 Sir , the contempts thereof are as touching me .
13110
13111 A letter from the magnificent Armado .
13112
13113 How long soever the matter , I hope in God for high words .
13114
13115 A high hope for a low heaven : God grant us patience !
13116
13117 To hear , or forbear laughing ?
13118
13119 To hear meekly , sir , and to laugh moderately ; or to forbear both .
13120
13121 Well , sir , be it as the style shall give us cause to climb in the merriness .
13122
13123 The matter is to me , sir , as concerning Jaquenetta . The manner of it is , I was taken with the manner .
13124
13125 In what manner ?
13126
13127 In manner and form following , sir ; all those three : I was seen with her in the manor-house , sitting with her upon the form , and taken following her into the park ; which , put together , is , in manner and form following . Now , sir , for the manner ,it is the manner of a man to speak to a woman , for the form ,in some form .
13128
13129 For the following , sir ?
13130
13131 As it shall follow in my correction ; and God defend the right !
13132
13133 Will you hear this letter with attention ?
13134
13135 As we would hear an oracle .
13136
13137 Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after the flesh .
13138
13139 Great deputy , the welkin's vicegerent , and sole dominator of Navarre , my soul's earth's God , and body's fostering patron ,
13140
13141 Not a word of Costard yet .
13142
13143 So it is ,
13144
13145 It may be so ; but if he say it is so , he is , in telling true , but so .
13146
13147 Peace !
13148
13149 Be to me and every man that dares not fight .
13150
13151 No words !
13152
13153 Of other men's secrets , I beseech you .
13154
13155 So it is , besieged with sable-coloured melancholy , I did commend the black-oppressing humour to the most wholesome physic of thy health-giving air ; and , as I am a gentleman , betook myself to walk . The time when ? About the sixth hour ; when beasts most graze , birds best peck , and men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper : so much for the time when . Now for the ground which ; which , I mean , I walked upon : it is ycleped thy park . Then for the place where ; where , I mean , I did encounter that most obscene and preposterous event , that draweth from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink , which here thou viewest , beholdest , surveyest , or seest . But to the place where , it standeth north-north-east and by east from the west corner of thy curious-knotted garden : there did I see that low-spirited swain , that base minnow of thy mirth ,
13156
13157 Me .
13158
13159 that unlettered small-knowing soul ,
13160
13161 Me .
13162
13163 that shallow vessel ,
13164
13165 Still me .
13166
13167 which , as I remember , hight Costard ,
13168
13169 O me .
13170
13171 sorted and consorted , contrary to thy established proclaimed edict and continent canon , with with ,O ! with but with this I passion to say wherewith ,
13172
13173 With a wench .
13174
13175 with a child of our grandmother Eve , a female ; or , for thy more sweet understanding , a woman . Him , I ,as my everesteemed duty pricks me on ,have sent to thee , to receive the meed of punishment , by thy sweet Grace's officer , Antony Dull ; a man of good repute , carriage , bearing , and estimation .
13176
13177 Me , an't please you ; I am Antony Dull .
13178
13179 For Jaquenetta ,so is the weaker vessel called which I apprehended with the aforesaid swain ,I keep her as a vessel of thy law's fury ; and shall , at the least of thy sweet notice , bring her to trial . Thine , in all compliments of devoted and heart-burning heat of duty ,
13180
13181 This is not so well as I looked for , but the best that ever I heard .
13182
13183 Ay , the best for the worst . But , sirrah , what say you to this ?
13184
13185 Sir , I confess the wench .
13186
13187 Did you hear the proclamation ?
13188
13189 I do confess much of the hearing it , but little of the marking of it .
13190
13191 It was proclaimed a year's imprisonment to be taken with a wench .
13192
13193 I was taken with none , sir : I was taken with a damosel .
13194
13195 Well , it was proclaimed 'damosel .'
13196
13197 This was no damosel neither , sir : she was a 'virgin .'
13198
13199 It is so varied too ; for it was proclaimed 'virgin .'
13200
13201 If it were , I deny her virginity : I was taken with a maid .
13202
13203 This maid will not serve your turn , sir .
13204
13205 This maid will serve my turn , sir .
13206
13207 Sir , I will pronounce your sentence : you shall fast a week with bran and water .
13208
13209 I had rather pray a month with mutton and porridge .
13210
13211 And Don Armado shall be your keeper .
13212 My Lord Berowne , see him deliver'd o'er :
13213 And go we , lords , to put in practice that
13214 Which each to other hath so strongly sworn .
13215
13216
13217 I'll lay my head to any good man's hat ,
13218 These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn .
13219 Sirrah , come on .
13220
13221 I suffer for the truth , sir : for true it is I was taken with Jaquenetta , and Jaquenetta is a true girl ; and therefore welcome the sour cup of prosperity ! Affliction may one day smile again ; and till then , sit thee down , sorrow !
13222
13223
13224 Boy , what sign is it when a man of great spirit grows melancholy ?
13225
13226 A great sign , sir , that he will look sad .
13227
13228 Why , sadness is one and the self-same thing , dear imp .
13229
13230 No , no ; O Lord , sir , no .
13231
13232 How canst thou part sadness and melancholy , my tender juvenal ?
13233
13234 By a familiar demonstration of the working , my tough senior .
13235
13236 Why tough senior ? why tough senior ?
13237
13238 Why tender juvenal ? why tender juvenal ?
13239
13240 I spoke it , tender juvenal , as a congruent epitheton appertaining to thy young days , which we may nominate tender .
13241
13242 And I , tough senior , as an appertinent title to your old time , which we may name tough .
13243
13244 Pretty , and apt .
13245
13246 How mean you , sir ? I pretty , and my saying apt ? or I apt , and my saying pretty ?
13247
13248 Thou pretty , because little .
13249
13250 Little pretty , because little . Wherefore apt ?
13251
13252 And therefore apt , because quick .
13253
13254 Speak you this in my praise , master ?
13255
13256 In thy condign praise .
13257
13258 I will praise an eel with the same praise .
13259
13260 What ! that an eel is ingenious ?
13261
13262 That an eel is quick .
13263
13264 I do say thou art quick in answers : thou heatest my blood .
13265
13266 I am answered , sir .
13267
13268 I love not to be crossed .
13269
13270 He speaks the mere contrary : crosses love not him .
13271
13272 I have promised to study three years with the duke .
13273
13274 You may do it in an hour , sir .
13275
13276 Impossible .
13277
13278 How many is one thrice told ?
13279
13280 I am ill at reckoning ; it fitteth the spirit of a tapster .
13281
13282 You are a gentleman and a gamester , sir .
13283
13284 I confess both : they are both the varnish of a complete man .
13285
13286 Then , I am sure you know how much the gross sum of deuce-ace amounts to .
13287
13288 It doth amount to one more than two .
13289
13290 Which the base vulgar do call three .
13291
13292 True .
13293
13294 Why , sir , is this such a piece of study ? Now , here's three studied , ere you'll thrice wink ; and how easy it is to put 'years' to the word 'three ,' and study three years in two words , the dancing horse will tell you .
13295
13296 A most fine figure !
13297
13298 To prove you a cipher .
13299
13300 I will hereupon confess I am in love ; and as it is base for a soldier to love , so am I in love with a base wench . If drawing my sword against the humour of affection would deliver me from the reprobate thought of it , I would take Desire prisoner , and ransom him to any French courtier for a new devised curtsy . I think scorn to sigh : methinks I should outswear Cupid . Comfort me , boy : what great men have been in love ?
13301
13302 Hercules , master .
13303
13304 Most sweet Hercules ! More authority , dear boy , name more ; and , sweet my child , let them be men of good repute and carriage .
13305
13306 Samson , master : he was a man of good carriage , great carriage , for he carried the towngates on his back like a porter ; and he was in love .
13307
13308 O well-knit Samson ! strong-jointed Samson ! I do excel thee in my rapier as much as thou didst me in carrying gates . I am in love too . Who was Samson's love , my dear Moth ?
13309
13310 A woman , master .
13311
13312 Of what complexion ?
13313
13314 Of all the four , or the three , or the two , or one of the four .
13315
13316 Tell me precisely of what complexion .
13317
13318 Of the sea-water green , sir .
13319
13320 Is that one of the four complexions ?
13321
13322 As I have read , sir ; and the best of them too .
13323
13324 Green indeed is the colour of lovers ; but to have a love of that colour , methinks Samson had small reason for it . He surely affected her for her wit .
13325
13326 It was so , sir , for she had a green wit .
13327
13328 My love is most immaculate white and red .
13329
13330 Most maculate thoughts , master , are masked under such colours .
13331
13332 Define , define , well-educated infant .
13333
13334 My father's wit , and my mother's tongue , assist me !
13335
13336 Sweet invocation of a child ; most pretty and pathetical !
13337
13338
13339 If she be made of white and red ,
13340 Her faults will ne'er be known ,
13341 For blushing cheeks by faults are bred ,
13342 And fears by pale white shown :
13343 Then if she fear , or be to blame ,
13344 By this you shall not know ,
13345 For still her cheeks possess the same
13346 Which native she doth owe .
13347
13348 A dangerous rime , master , against the reason of white and red .
13349
13350 Is there not a ballad , boy , of the King and the Beggar ?
13351
13352 The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since ; but I think now 'tis not to be found ; or , if it were , it would neither serve for the writing nor the tune .
13353
13354 I will have that subject newly writ o'er , that I may example my digression by some mighty precedent . Boy , I do love that country girl that I took in the park with the rational hind Costard : she deserves well .
13355
13356 To be whipped ; and yet a better love than my master .
13357
13358 Sing , boy : my spirit grows heavy in love .
13359
13360 And that's great marvel , loving a light wench .
13361
13362 I say , sing .
13363
13364 Forbear till this company be past .
13365
13366
13367 Sir , the duke's pleasure is , that you keep Costard safe : and you must let him take no delight nor no penance , but a' must fast three days a week . For this damsel , I must keep her at the park ; she is allowed for the day-woman .
13368 Fare you well .
13369
13370 I do betray myself with blushing . Maid !
13371
13372 Man ?
13373
13374 I will visit thee at the lodge .
13375
13376 That's hereby .
13377
13378 I know where it is situate .
13379
13380 Lord , how wise you are !
13381
13382 I will tell thee wonders .
13383
13384 With that face ?
13385
13386 I love thee .
13387
13388 So I heard you say .
13389
13390 And so farewell .
13391
13392 Fair weather after you !
13393
13394 Come , Jaquenetta , away !
13395
13396
13397 Villain , thou shalt fast for thy offences ere thou be pardoned .
13398
13399 Well , sir , I hope , when I do it , I shall do it on a full stomach .
13400
13401 Thou shalt be heavily punished .
13402
13403 I am more bound to you than your fellows , for they are but lightly rewarded .
13404
13405 Take away this villain : shut him up .
13406
13407 Come , you transgressing slave : away !
13408
13409 Let me not be pent up , sir : I will fast , being loose .
13410
13411 No , sir ; that were fast and loose : thou shalt to prison .
13412
13413 Well , if ever I do see the merry days of desolation that I have seen , some shall see
13414
13415 What shall some see ?
13416
13417 Nay , nothing , Master Moth , but what they look upon . It is not for prisoners to be too silent in their words ; and therefore I will say nothing : I thank God I have as little patience as another man , and therefore I can be quiet .
13418
13419
13420 I do affect the very ground , which is base , where her shoe , which is baser , guided by her foot , which is basest , doth tread . I shall be forsworn ,which is a great argument of falsehood ,if I love . And how can that be true love which is falsely attempted ? Love is a familiar ; Love is a devil : there is no evil angel but Love . Yet was Samson so tempted , and he had an excellent strength ; yet was Solomon so seduced , and he had a very good wit . Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club , and therefore too much odds for a Spaniard's rapier . The first and second clause will not serve my turn ; the passado he respects not , the duello he regards not : his disgrace is to be called boy , but his glory is , to subdue men . Adieu , valour ! rust , rapier ! be still , drum ! for your manager is in love ; yea , he loveth . Assist me some extemporal god of rime , for I am sure I shall turn sonneter . Devise , wit ; write , pen ; for I am for whole volumes in folio .
13421
13422 Now , madam , summon up your dearest spirits :
13423 Consider whom the king your father sends ,
13424 To whom he sends , and what's his embassy :
13425 Yourself , held precious in the world's esteem ,
13426 To parley with the sole inheritor
13427 Of all perfections that a man may owe ,
13428 Matchless Navarre ; the plea of no less weight
13429 Than Aquitaine , a dowry for a queen .
13430 Be now as prodigal of all dear grace
13431 As Nature was in making graces dear
13432 When she did starve the general world beside ,
13433 And prodigally gave them all to you .
13434
13435 Good Lord Boyet , my beauty , though but mean ,
13436 Needs not the painted flourish of your praise :
13437 Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye ,
13438 Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues .
13439 I am less proud to hear you tell my worth
13440 Than you much willing to be counted wise
13441 In spending your wit in the praise of mine .
13442 But now to task the tasker : good Boyet ,
13443 You are not ignorant , all-telling fame
13444 Doth noise abroad , Navarre hath made a vow ,
13445 Till painful study shall out-wear three years ,
13446 No woman may approach his silent court :
13447 Therefore to us seemth it a needful course ,
13448 Before we enter his forbidden gates ,
13449 To know his pleasure ; and in that behalf ,
13450 Bold of your worthiness , we single you
13451 As our best-moving fair solicitor .
13452 Tell him , the daughter of the King of France ,
13453 On serious business , craving quick dispatch ,
13454 Importunes personal conference with his Grace .
13455 Haste , signify so much ; while we attend ,
13456 Like humble-visag'd suitors , his high will .
13457
13458 Proud of employment , willingly I go .
13459
13460 All pride is willing pride , and yours is so .
13461
13462 Who are the votaries , my loving lords ,
13463 That are vow-fellows with this virtuous duke ?
13464
13465 Lord Longaville is one .
13466
13467 Know you the man ?
13468
13469 I know him , madam : at a marriage feast ,
13470 Between Lord Perigort and the beauteous heir
13471 Of Jacques Falconbridge , solemnized
13472 In Normandy , saw I this Longaville .
13473 A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd ;
13474 Well fitted in the arts , glorious in arms :
13475 Nothing becomes him ill that he would well .
13476 The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss ,
13477 If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil ,
13478 Is a sharp wit match'd with too blunt a will ;
13479 Whose edge hath power to cut , whose will still wills
13480 It should none spare that come within his power .
13481
13482 Some merry mocking lord , belike ; is't so ?
13483
13484 They say so most that most his humours know .
13485
13486 Such short-liv'd wits do wither as they grow .
13487 Who are the rest ?
13488
13489 The young Dumaine , a well-accomplish'd youth ,
13490 Of all that virtue love for virtue lov'd :
13491 Most power to do most harm , least knowing ill ,
13492 For he hath wit to make an ill shape good ,
13493 And shape to win grace though he had no wit .
13494 I saw him at the Duke Alen on's once ;
13495 And much too little of that good I saw
13496 Is my report to his great worthiness .
13497
13498 Another of these students at that time
13499 Was there with him , if I have heard a truth :
13500 Berowne they call him ; but a merrier man ,
13501 Within the limit of becoming mirth ,
13502 I never spent an hour's talk withal .
13503 His eye begets occasion for his wit ;
13504 For every object that the one doth catch
13505 The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ,
13506 Which his fair tongue , conceit's expositor ,
13507 Delivers in such apt and gracious words ,
13508 That aged ears play truant at his tales ,
13509 And younger hearings are quite ravished ;
13510 So sweet and voluble is his discourse .
13511
13512 God bless my ladies ! are they all in love ,
13513 That every one her own hath garnished
13514 With such bedecking ornaments of praise ?
13515
13516 Here comes Boyet .
13517
13518
13519 Now , what admittance , lord ?
13520
13521 Navarre had notice of your fair approach ;
13522 And he and his competitors in oath
13523 Were all address'd to meet you , gentle lady ,
13524 Before I came . Marry , thus much I have learnt ;
13525 He rather means to lodge you in the field ,
13526 Like one that comes here to besiege his court ,
13527 Than seek a dispensation for his oath ,
13528 To let you enter his unpeeled house .
13529 Here comes Navarre .
13530
13531 Fair princess , welcome to the court of Navarre .
13532
13533 'Fair ,' I give you back again ; and 'welcome' I have not yet : the roof of this court is too high to be yours , and welcome to the wide fields too base to be mine .
13534
13535 You shall be welcome , madam , to my court .
13536
13537 I will be welcome , then : conduct me thither .
13538
13539 Hear me , dear lady ; I have sworn an oath .
13540
13541 Our Lady help my lord ! he'll be forsworn .
13542
13543 Not for the world , fair madam , by my will .
13544
13545 Why , will shall break it ; will , and nothing else .
13546
13547 Your ladyship is ignorant what it is .
13548
13549 Were my lord so , his ignorance were wise ,
13550 Where now his knowledge must prove ignorance .
13551 I hear your grace hath sworn out house-keeping :
13552 'Tis deadly sin to keep that oath , my lord ,
13553 And sin to break it .
13554 But pardon me , I am too sudden-bold :
13555 To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me .
13556 Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming ,
13557 And suddenly resolve me in my suit .
13558
13559
13560 Madam , I will , if suddenly I may .
13561
13562 You will the sooner that I were away ,
13563 For you'll prove perjur'd if you make me stay .
13564
13565 Did not I dance with you in Brabant once ?
13566
13567 Did not I dance with you in Brabant once ?
13568
13569 I know you did .
13570
13571 How needless was it then
13572 To ask the question !
13573
13574 You must not be so quick .
13575
13576 'Tis 'long of you that spur me with such questions .
13577
13578 Your wit's too hot , it speeds too fast , 'twill tire .
13579
13580 Not till it leave the rider in the mire .
13581
13582 What time o' day ?
13583
13584 The hour that fools should ask .
13585
13586 Now fair befall your mask !
13587
13588 Fair fall the face it covers !
13589
13590 And send you many lovers !
13591
13592 Amen , so you be none .
13593
13594 Nay , then I will be gone .
13595
13596 Madam , your father here doth intimate
13597 The payment of a hundred thousand crowns ;
13598 Being but the one half of an entire sum
13599 Disbursed by my father in his wars .
13600 But say that he , or we ,as neither have ,
13601 Receiv'd that sum , yet there remains unpaid
13602 A hundred thousand more ; in surety of the which ,
13603 One part of Aquitaine is bound to us ,
13604 Although not valu'd to the money's worth .
13605 If then the king your father will restore
13606 But that one half which is unsatisfied ,
13607 We will give up our right in Aquitaine ,
13608 And hold fair friendship with his majesty .
13609 But that it seems , he little purposeth ,
13610 For here he doth demand to have repaid
13611 A hundred thousand crowns ; and not demands ,
13612 On payment of a hundred thousand crowns ,
13613 To have his title live in Aquitaine ;
13614 Which we much rather had depart withal ,
13615 And have the money by our father lent ,
13616 Than Aquitaine , so gelded as it is .
13617 Dear princess , were not his requests so far
13618 From reason's yielding , your fair self should make
13619 A yielding 'gainst some reason in my breast ,
13620 And go well satisfied to France again .
13621
13622 You do the king my father too much wrong
13623 And wrong the reputation of your name ,
13624 In so unseeming to confess receipt
13625 Of that which hath so faithfully been paid .
13626
13627 I do protest I never heard of it ;
13628 And if you prove it , I'll repay it back
13629 Or yield up Aquitaine .
13630
13631 We arrest your word .
13632 Boyet , you can produce acquittances
13633 For such a sum from special officers
13634 Of Charles his father .
13635
13636 Satisfy me so .
13637
13638 So please your Grace , the packet is not come
13639 Where that and other specialties are bound :
13640 To-morrow you shall have a sight of them .
13641
13642 It shall suffice me : at which interview
13643 All liberal reason I will yield unto .
13644 Meantime , receive such welcome at my hand
13645 As honour , without breach of honour , may
13646 Make tender of to thy true worthiness .
13647 You may not come , fair princess , in my gates ;
13648 But here without you shall be so receiv'd ,
13649 As you shall deem yourself lodg'd in my heart ,
13650 Though so denied fair harbour in my house .
13651 Your own good thoughts excuse me , and farewell :
13652 To-morrow shall we visit you again .
13653
13654 Sweet health and fair desires consort your Grace !
13655
13656 Thy own wish wish I thee in every place !
13657
13658
13659 Lady , I will commend you to mine own heart .
13660
13661 Pray you , do my commendations ; I would be glad to see it .
13662
13663 I would you heard it groan .
13664
13665 Is the fool sick ?
13666
13667 Sick at the heart .
13668
13669 Alack ! let it blood .
13670
13671 Would that do it good ?
13672
13673 My physic says , 'ay .'
13674
13675 Will you prick't with your eye ?
13676
13677 No point , with my knife .
13678
13679 Now , God save thy life !
13680
13681 And yours from long living !
13682
13683 I cannot stay thanksgiving .
13684
13685
13686 Sir , I pray you , a word : what lady is that same ?
13687
13688 The heir of Alen on , Katharine her name .
13689
13690 A gallant lady . Monsieur , fare you well .
13691
13692
13693 I beseech you a word : what is she in the white ?
13694
13695 A woman sometimes , an you saw her in the light .
13696
13697 Perchance light in the light . I desire her name .
13698
13699 She hath but one for herself ; to desire that , were a shame .
13700
13701 Pray you , sir , whose daughter ?
13702
13703 Her mother's , I have heard .
13704
13705 God's blessing on your beard !
13706
13707 Good sir , be not offended .
13708 She is an heir of Falconbridge .
13709
13710 Nay , my choler is ended .
13711 She is a most sweet lady .
13712
13713 Not unlike , sir ; that may be .
13714
13715
13716 What's her name , in the cap ?
13717
13718 Rosaline , by good hap .
13719
13720 Is she wedded or no ?
13721
13722 To her will , sir , or so .
13723
13724 You are welcome , sir . Adieu .
13725
13726 Farewell to me , sir , and welcome to you .
13727
13728
13729 That last is Berowne , the merry mad-cap lord :
13730 Not a word with him but a jest .
13731
13732 And every jest but a word .
13733
13734 It was well done of you to take him at his word .
13735
13736 I was as willing to grapple , as he was to board .
13737
13738 Two hot sheeps , marry !
13739
13740 And wherefore not ships ?
13741 No sheep , sweet lamb , unless we feed on your lips .
13742
13743 You sheep , and I pasture : shall that finish the jest ?
13744
13745 So you grant pasture for me .
13746
13747
13748 Not so , gentle beast .
13749 My lips are no common , though several they be .
13750
13751 Belonging to whom ?
13752
13753 To my fortunes and me .
13754
13755 Good wits will be jangling ; but , gentles , agree .
13756 This civil war of wits were much better us'd
13757 On Navarre and his book-men , for here 'tis abus'd .
13758
13759 If my observation ,which very seldom lies ,
13760 By the heart's still rhetoric disclosed with eyes ,
13761 Deceive me not now , Navarre is infected .
13762
13763 With what ?
13764
13765 With that which we lovers entitle affected .
13766
13767 Your reason .
13768
13769 Why , all his behaviours did make their retire
13770 To the court of his eye , peeping thorough desire ;
13771 His heart , like an agate , with your print impress'd ,
13772 Proud with his form , in his eye pride express'd :
13773 His tongue , all impatient to speak and not see ,
13774 Did stumble with haste in his eyesight to be ;
13775 All senses to that sense did make their repair ,
13776 To feel only looking on fairest of fair ,
13777 Methought all his senses were lock'd in his eye ,
13778 As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy ;
13779 Who , tend'ring their own worth from where they were glass'd ,
13780 Did point you to buy them , along as you pass'd .
13781 His face's own margent did quote such amazes ,
13782 That all eyes saw his eyes enchanted with gazes .
13783 I'll give you Aquitaine , and all that is his ,
13784 An' you give him for my sake but one loving kiss .
13785
13786 Come to our pavilion : Boyet is dispos'd .
13787
13788 But to speak that in words which his eye hath disclos'd .
13789 I only have made a mouth of his eye ,
13790 By adding a tongue which I know will not he .
13791
13792 Thou art an old love-monger , and speak'st skilfully .
13793
13794 He is Cupid's grandfather and learns news of him .
13795
13796 Then was Venus like her mother , for her father is but grim .
13797
13798 Do you hear , my mad wenches ?
13799
13800 No .
13801
13802 What , then , do you see ?
13803
13804 Ay , our way to be gone .
13805
13806 You are too hard for me .
13807
13808 Warble , child ; make passionate my sense of hearing .
13809
13810 Concolinel ,
13811
13812 Sweet air ! Go , tenderness of years ; take this key , give enlargement to the swain , bring him festinately hither ; I must employ him in a letter to my love .
13813
13814 Master , will you win your love with a French brawl ?
13815
13816 How meanest thou ? brawling in French ?
13817
13818 No , my complete master ; but to jig off a tune at the tongue's end , canary to it with your feet , humour it with turning up your eyelids , sigh a note and sing a note , sometime through the throat , as if you swallowed love by singing love , sometime through the nose , as if you snuffed up love by smelling love ; with your hat penthouse-like o'er the shop of your eyes ; with your arms crossed on your thin belly-doublet like a rabbit on a spit ; or your hands in your pocket like a man after the old painting ; and keep not too long in one tune , but a snip and away . These are complements , these are humours , these betray nice wenches , that would be betrayed without these ; and make them men of note ,do you note me ?that most are affected to these .
13819
13820 How hast thou purchased this experience ?
13821
13822 By my penny of observation .
13823
13824 But O but O ,
13825
13826 'The hobby-horse is forgot .'
13827
13828 Callest thou my love 'hobby-horse ?'
13829
13830 No , master ; the hobby-horse is but a colt , and your love perhaps , a hackney . But have you forgot your love ?
13831
13832 Almost I had .
13833
13834 Negligent student ! learn her by heart .
13835
13836 By heart , and in heart , boy .
13837
13838 And out of heart , master : all those three I will prove .
13839
13840 What wilt thou prove ?
13841
13842 A man , if I live ; and this , by , in , and without , upon the instant : by heart you love her , because your heart cannot come by her ; in heart you love her , because your heart is in love with her ; and out of heart you love her , being out of heart that you cannot enjoy her .
13843
13844 I am all these three .
13845
13846 And three times as much more , and yet nothing at all .
13847
13848 Fetch hither the swain : he must carry me a letter .
13849
13850 A message well sympathized : a horse to be ambassador for an ass .
13851
13852 Ha , ha ! what sayest thou ?
13853
13854 Marry , sir , you must send the ass upon the horse , for he is very slow-gaited . But I go .
13855
13856 The way is but short : away !
13857
13858 As swift as lead , sir .
13859
13860 Thy meaning , pretty ingenious ?
13861 Is not lead a metal heavy , dull , and slow ?
13862
13863 Minime , honest master ; or rather , master , no .
13864
13865 I say , lead is slow .
13866
13867 You are too swift , sir , to say so :
13868 Is that lead slow which is fir'd from a gun ?
13869
13870 Sweet smoke of rhetoric !
13871 He reputes me a cannon ; and the bullet , that's he :
13872 I shoot thee at the swain .
13873
13874 Thump then , and I flee .
13875
13876
13877 A most acute juvenal ; volable and free of grace !
13878 By thy favour , sweet welkin , I must sigh in thy face :
13879 Most rude melancholy , valour gives thee place .
13880 My herald is return'd .
13881
13882
13883 A wonder , master ! here's a costard broken in a shin .
13884
13885 Some enigma , some riddle : come , thy l'envoy ; begin .
13886
13887 No egma , no riddle , no l'envoy ; no salve in the mail , sir . O ! sir , plantain , a plain plantain : no l'envoy , no l'envoy : no salve , sir , but a plantain .
13888
13889 By virtue , thou enforcest laughter ; thy silly thought , my spleen ; the heaving of my lungs provokes me to ridiculous smiling : O ! pardon me , my stars . Doth the inconsiderate take salve for l'envoy , and the word l'envoy for a salve ?
13890
13891 Do the wise think them other ? is not l'envoy a salve ?
13892
13893 No , page : it is an epilogue or discourse , to make plain
13894 Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain .
13895 I will example it :
13896
13897 The fox , the ape , and the humble-bee
13898 Were still at odds , being but three .
13899
13900 There's the moral . Now the l'envoy .
13901
13902 I will add the l'envoy . Say the moral again .
13903
13904
13905 The fox , the ape , and the humble-bee ,
13906 Were still at odds , being but three .
13907
13908 Until the goose came out of door ,
13909 And stay'd the odds by adding four .
13910
13911 Now will I begin your moral , and do you follow with my l'envoy .
13912
13913 The fox , the ape , and the humble-bee ,
13914 Were still at odds , being but three .
13915
13916 Until the goose came out of door ,
13917 Staying the odds by adding four .
13918
13919
13920 A good l'envoy , ending in the goose .
13921 Would you desire more ?
13922
13923 The boy hath sold him a bargain , a goose , that's flat .
13924 Sir , your pennyworth is good an your goose be fat .
13925 To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose :
13926 Let me see ; a fat l'envoy ; ay , that's a fat goose .
13927
13928 Come hither , come hither . How did this argument begin ?
13929
13930 By saying that a costard was broken in a shin .
13931 Then call'd you for the l'envoy .
13932
13933 True , and I for a plantain : thus came your argument in ;
13934 Then the boy's fat l'envoy , the goose that you bought ;
13935 And he ended the market .
13936
13937 But tell me ; how was there a costard broken in a shin ?
13938
13939 I will tell you sensibly .
13940
13941 Thou hast no feeling of it , Moth : I will speak that l'envoy :
13942 I , Costard , running out , that was safely within ,
13943 Fell over the threshold and broke my shin .
13944
13945 We will talk no more of this matter .
13946
13947 Till there be more matter in the shin .
13948
13949 Sirrah Costard , I will enfranchise thee .
13950
13951 O ! marry me to one Frances : I smell some l'envoy , some goose , in this .
13952
13953 By my sweet soul , I mean setting thee at liberty , enfreedoming thy person : thou wert immured , restrained , captivated , bound .
13954
13955 True , true , and now you will be my purgation and let me loose .
13956
13957 I give thee thy liberty , set thee from durance ; and in lieu thereof , impose upon thee nothing but this :
13958
13959 Bear this significant to the country maid Jaquenetta . [Giving money .] There is remuneration ; for the best ward of mine honour is rewarding my dependents . Moth , follow .
13960
13961
13962 Like the sequel , I . Signior Costard , adieu .
13963
13964 My sweet ounce of man's flesh ! my incony Jew !
13965
13966 Now will I look to his remuneration . Remuneration ! O ! that's the Latin word for three farthings : three farthings , remuneration . 'What's the price of this inkle ?' 'One penny .' 'No , I'll give you a remuneration :' why , it carries it Remuneration ! why , it is a fairer name than French crown . I will never buy and sell out of this word .
13967
13968
13969 O ! my good knave Costard , exceedingly well met .
13970
13971 Pray you , sir , how much carnation riband may a man buy for a remuneration ?
13972
13973 What is a remuneration ?
13974
13975 Marry , sir , halfpenny farthing .
13976
13977 Why then , three-farthing-worth of silk .
13978
13979 I thank your worship . God be wi' you !
13980
13981 Stay , slave ; I must employ thee :
13982 As thou wilt win my favour , good my knave ,
13983 Do one thing for me that I shall entreat .
13984
13985 When would you have it done , sir ?
13986
13987 O , this afternoon .
13988
13989 Well , I will do it , sir ! fare you well .
13990
13991 O , thou knowest not what it is .
13992
13993 I shall know , sir , when I have done it .
13994
13995 Why , villain , thou must know first .
13996
13997 I will come to your worship to-morrow morning .
13998
13999 It must be done this afternoon . Hark , slave , it is but this :
14000 The princess comes to hunt here in the park ,
14001 And in her train there is a gentle lady :
14002 When tongues speak sweetly , then they name her name ,
14003 And Rosaline they call her : ask for her
14004 And to her white hand see thou do commend
14005 This seal'd-up counsel .
14006
14007 There's thy guerdon : go .
14008
14009 Gardon , O sweet gardon ! better than remuneration ; a 'leven-pence farthing better .
14010 Most sweet gardon ! I will do it , sir , in print
14011 Gardon ! remuneration !
14012
14013
14014 And I ,
14015 Forsooth , in love ! I , that have been love's whip ;
14016 A very beadle to a humorous sigh ;
14017 A critic , nay , a night-watch constable ,
14018 A domineering pedant o'er the boy ,
14019 Than whom no mortal so magnificent !
14020 This wimpled , whining , purblind , wayward boy ,
14021 This senior-junior , giant-dwarf , Dan Cupid ;
14022 Regent of love-rimes , lord of folded arms ,
14023 The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans ,
14024 Liege of all loiterers and malecontents ,
14025 Dread prince of plackets , king of codpieces ,
14026 Sole imperator and great general
14027 Of trotting 'paritors : O my little heart !
14028 And I to be a corporal of his field ,
14029 And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop !
14030 What I ! I love ! I sue ! I seek a wife !
14031 A woman that is like a German clock ,
14032 Still a-repairing , ever out of frame ,
14033 And never going aright , being a watch ,
14034 But being watch'd that it may still go right !
14035 Nay , to be perjur'd , which is worst of all ;
14036 And , among three , to love the worst of all ;
14037 A wightly wanton with a velvet brow ,
14038 With two pitch balls stuck in her face for eyes ;
14039 Ay , and , by heaven , one that will do the deed
14040 Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard :
14041 And I to sigh for her ! to watch for her !
14042 To pray for her ! Go to ; it is a plague
14043 That Cupid will impose for my neglect
14044 Of his almighty dreadful little might .
14045 Well , I will love , write , sigh , pray , sue , and groan :
14046 Some men must love my lady , and some Joan .
14047
14048 Was that the king , that spurr'd his horse so hard
14049 Against the steep uprising of the hill ?
14050
14051 I know not ; but I think it was not he .
14052
14053 Whoe'er a' was , a' show'd a mounting mind .
14054 Well , lords , to-day we shall have our dispatch ;
14055 On Saturday we will return to France .
14056 Then , forester , my friend , where is the bush
14057 That we must stand and play the murderer in ?
14058
14059 Hereby , upon the edge of yonder coppice ;
14060 A stand where you may make the fairest shoot .
14061
14062 I thank my beauty , I am fair that shoot ,
14063 And thereupon thou speak'st the fairest shoot .
14064
14065 Pardon me , madam , for I meant not so .
14066
14067 What , what ? first praise me , and again say no ?
14068 O short-liv'd pride ! Not fair ? alack for woe !
14069
14070 Yes , madam , fair .
14071
14072 Nay , never paint me now :
14073 Where fair is not , praise cannot mend the brow .
14074 Here , good my glass :
14075
14076 Take this for telling true :
14077 Fair payment for foul words is more than due .
14078
14079 Nothing but fair is that which you inherit .
14080
14081 See , see ! my beauty will be sav'd by merit .
14082 O heresy in fair , fit for these days !
14083 A giving hand , though foul , shall have fair praise .
14084 But come , the bow : now mercy goes to kill ,
14085 And shooting well is then accounted ill .
14086 Thus will I save my credit in the shoot :
14087 Not wounding , pity would not let me do't ;
14088 If wounding , then it was to show my skill ,
14089 That more for praise than purpose meant to kill .
14090 And out of question so it is sometimes ,
14091 Glory grows guilty of detested crimes ,
14092 When , for fame's sake , for praise , an outward part ,
14093 We bend to that the working of the heart ;
14094 As I for praise alone now seek to spill
14095 The poor deer's blood , that my heart means no ill .
14096
14097 Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty
14098 Only for praise' sake , when they strive to be
14099 Lords o'er their lords ?
14100
14101 Only for praise ; and praise we may afford
14102 To any lady that subdues a lord .
14103
14104
14105 Here comes a member of the commonwealth .
14106
14107 God dig-you-den all ! Pray you , which is the head lady ?
14108
14109 Thou shalt know her , fellow , by the rest that have no heads .
14110
14111 Which is the greatest lady , the highest ?
14112
14113 The thickest , and the tallest .
14114
14115 The thickest , and the tallest ! it is so ; truth is truth .
14116 An your waist , mistress , were as slender as my wit ,
14117 One o'these maids' girdles for your waist should be fit .
14118 Are not you the chief woman ? you are the thickest here .
14119
14120 What's your will , sir ? what's your will ?
14121
14122 I have a letter from Monsieur Berowne to one Lady Rosaline .
14123
14124 O ! thy letter , thy letter ; he's a good friend of mine .
14125 Stand aside , good bearer . Boyet , you can carve ;
14126 Break up this capon .
14127
14128 I am bound to serve .
14129 This letter is mistook ; it importeth none here :
14130 It is writ to Jaquenetta .
14131
14132 We will read it , I swear .
14133 Break the neck of the wax , and every one give ear .
14134
14135 By heaven , that thou art fair , is most infallible ; true , that thou art beauteous ; truth itself , that thou art lovely . More fairer than fair , beautiful than beauteous , truer than truth itself , have commiseration on thy heroical vassal ! The magnanimous and most illustrate king Cophetua set eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar Zenelophon , and he it was that might rightly say veni , vidi , vici ; which to anatomize in the vulgar O base and obscure vulgar !videlicet , he came , saw , and overcame : he came , one ; saw , two ; overcame , three . Who came ? the king : Why did he come ? to see : Why did he see ? to overcome : To whom came he ? to the beggar : What saw he ? the beggar . Whom overcame he ? the beggar . The conclusion is victory : on whose side ? the king's ; the captive is enriched : on whose side ? the beggar's . The catastrophe is a nuptial : on whose side ? the king's , no , on both in one , or one in both . I am the king , for so stands the comparison ; thou the beggar , for so witnesseth thy lowliness . Shall I command thy love ? I may : Shall I enforce thy love ? I could : Shall I entreat thy love ? I will . What shalt thou exchange for rags ? robes ; for tittles ? titles ; for thyself ? me . Thus , expecting thy reply , I profane my lips on thy foot , my eyes on thy picture , and my heart on thy every part .
14136 Thine , in the dearest design of Industry , DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO .
14137 Thus dost thou hear the Nemean lion roar
14138 'Gainst thee , thou lamb , that standest as his prey :
14139 Submissive fall his princely feet before ,
14140 And he from forage will incline to play .
14141 But if thou strive , poor soul , what art thou then ?
14142 Food for his rage , repasture for his den .
14143
14144 What plume of feathers is he that indited this letter ?
14145 What vane ? what weathercock ? did you ever hear better ?
14146
14147 I am much deceiv'd but I remember the style .
14148
14149 Else your memory is bad , going o'er it erewhile .
14150
14151 This Armado is a Spaniard , that keeps here in court ;
14152 A phantasime , a Monarcho , and one that makes sport
14153 To the prince and his book-mates .
14154
14155 Thou , fellow , a word .
14156 Who gave thee this letter ?
14157
14158 I told you ; my lord .
14159
14160 To whom shouldst thou give it ?
14161
14162 From my lord to my lady .
14163
14164 From which lord , to which lady ?
14165
14166 From my lord Berowne , a good master of mine ,
14167 To a lady of France , that he call'd Rosaline .
14168
14169 Thou hast mistaken his letter . Come , lords , away .
14170 Here , sweet , put up this : 'twill be thine another day .
14171
14172
14173 Who is the suitor ? who is the suitor ?
14174
14175 Shall I teach you to know ?
14176
14177 Ay , my continent of beauty .
14178
14179 Why , she that bears the bow .
14180 Finely put off !
14181
14182 My lady goes to kill horns ; but , if thou marry ,
14183 Hang me by the neck if horns that year miscarry .
14184 Finely put on !
14185
14186 Well then , I am the shooter .
14187
14188 And who is your deer ?
14189
14190 If we choose by the horns , yourself : come not near .
14191 Finely put on , indeed !
14192
14193 You still wrangle with her , Boyet , and she strikes at the brow .
14194
14195 But she herself is hit lower : have I hit her now ?
14196
14197 Shall I come upon thee with an old saying , that was a man when King Pepin of France was a little boy , as touching the hit it ?
14198
14199 So may I answer thee with one as old , that was a woman when Queen Guinever of Britain was a little wench , as touching the hit it .
14200
14201
14202 Thou canst not hit it , hit it , hit it ,
14203 Thou canst not hit it , my good man .
14204
14205 An I cannot , cannot , cannot ,
14206 An I cannot , another can .
14207
14208 By my troth , most pleasant : how both did fit it !
14209
14210 A mark marvellous well shot , for they both did hit it .
14211
14212 A mark ! O ! mark but that mark ; a mark , says my lady !
14213 Let the mark have a prick in't , to mete at , if it may be .
14214
14215 Wide o' the bow hand ! i' faith your hand is out .
14216
14217 Indeed a' must shoot nearer , or he'll ne'er hit the clout .
14218
14219 An' if my hand be out , then belike your hand is in .
14220
14221 Then will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin .
14222
14223 Come , come , you talk greasily ; your lips grow foul .
14224
14225 She's too hard for you at pricks , sir : challenge her to bowl .
14226
14227 I fear too much rubbing . Good night , my good owl .
14228
14229
14230 By my soul , a swain ! a most simple clown !
14231 Lord , lord how the ladies and I have put him down !
14232 O' my troth , most sweet jests ! most incony vulgar wit !
14233 When it comes so smoothly off , so obscenely , as it were , so fit ,
14234 Armado , o' the one side , O ! a most dainty man .
14235 To see him walk before a lady , and to bear her fan !
14236 To see him kiss his hand ! and how most sweetly a' will swear !
14237 And his page o' t'other side , that handful of wit !
14238 Ah ! heavens , it is a most pathetical nit .
14239
14240
14241 Sola , sola !
14242
14243
14244 Very reverend sport , truly : and done in the testimony of a good conscience .
14245
14246 The deer was , as you know , sanguis , in blood ; ripe as a pomewater , who now hangeth like a jewel in the ear of c lo , the sky , the welkin , the heaven ; and anon falleth like a crab on the face of terra , the soil , the land , the earth .
14247
14248 Truly , Master Holofernes , the epithets are sweetly varied , like a scholar at the least : but , sir , I assure ye , it was a buck of the first head .
14249
14250 Sir Nathaniel , haud credo .
14251
14252 'Twas not a haud credo ; 'twas a pricket .
14253
14254 Most barbarous intimation ! yet a kind of insinuation , as it were , in via , in way , of explication ; facere , as it were , replication , or , rather , ostentare , to show , as it were , his inclination ,after his undressed , unpolished , uneducated , unpruned , untrained , or , rather , unlettered , or , ratherest , unconfirmed fashion ,to insert again my haud credo for a deer .
14255
14256 I said the deer was not a haud credo ; 'twas a pricket .
14257
14258 Twice sod simplicity , bis coctus !
14259 O ! thou monster Ignorance , how deformed dost thou look !
14260
14261 Sir , he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred of a book ;
14262 he hath not eat paper , as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal , only sensible in the duller parts :
14263 And such barren plants are set before us , that we thankful should be ,
14264 Which we of taste and feeling are , for those parts that do fructify in us more than he ;
14265 For as it would ill become me to be vain , indiscreet , or a fool :
14266 So , were there a patch set on learning , to see him in a school :
14267 But , omne bene , say I ; being of an old Father's mind ,
14268 Many can brook the weather that love not the wind .
14269
14270 You two are book-men : can you tell by your wit ,
14271 What was a month old at Cain's birth , that's not five weeks old as yet ?
14272
14273 Dictynna , goodman Dull : Dictynna , goodman Dull .
14274
14275 What is Dictynna ?
14276
14277 A title to Ph be , to Luna , to the moon .
14278
14279 The moon was a month old when Adam was no more ;
14280 And raught not to five weeks when he came to five-score .
14281 The allusion holds in the exchange .
14282
14283 'Tis true indeed : the collusion holds in the exchange .
14284
14285 God comfort thy capacity ! I say , the allusion holds in the exchange .
14286
14287 And I say the pollusion holds in the exchange , for the moon is never but a month old ; and I say beside that 'twas a pricket that the princess killed .
14288
14289 Sir Nathaniel , will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer ? and , to humour the ignorant , I have call'd the deer the princess killed , a pricket .
14290
14291 Perge , good Master Holofernes , perge ; so it shall please you to abrogate scurrility .
14292
14293 I will something affect the letter ; for it argues facility .
14294
14295 The preyful princess pierc'd and prick'd a pretty pleasing pricket ;
14296 Some say a sore ; but not a sore , till now made sore with shooting .
14297 The dogs did yell ; put l to sore , then sorel jumps from thicket ;
14298 Or pricket , sore , or else sorel ; the people fall a hooting .
14299 If sore be sore , then l to sore makes fifty sores one sorel !
14300 Of one sore I a hundred make , by adding but one more l .
14301
14302
14303 A rare talent !
14304
14305 If a talent be a claw , look how he claws him with a talent .
14306
14307 This is a gift that I have , simple , simple ; a foolish extravagant spirit , full of forms , figures , shapes , objects , ideas , apprehensions , motions , revolutions : these are begot in the ventricle of memory , nourished in the womb of pia mater , and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion . But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute , and I am thankful for it .
14308
14309 Sir , I praise the Lord for you , and so may my parishioners ; for their sons are well tutored by you , and their daughters profit very greatly under you : you are a good member of the commonwealth .
14310
14311 Mehercle ! if their sons be ingenuous , they shall want no instruction ; if their daughters be capable , I will put it to them . But , vir sapit qui pauca loquitur . A soul feminine saluteth us .
14312
14313
14314 God give you good morrow , Master parson .
14315
14316 Master parson , quasi pers-on . An if one should be pierced , which is the one ?
14317
14318 Marry , Master schoolmaster , he that is likest to a hogshead .
14319
14320 Piercing a hogshead ! a good lustre of conceit in a turf of earth ; fire enough for a flint , pearl enough for a swine : 'tis pretty ; it is well .
14321
14322 Good Master parson
14323
14324 be so good as read me this letter : it was given me by Costard , and sent me from Don Armado : I beseech you , read it .
14325
14326 Fauste , precor gelida quando pecus omne sub umbra Ruminat , and so forth . Ah ! good old Mantuan . I may speak of thee as the traveller doth of Venice :
14327
14328 Venetia , Venetia ,
14329 Chi non te vede , non te pretia .
14330
14331 Old Mantuan ! old Mantuan ! Who understandeth thee not , loves thee not . Ut , re , sol , la , mi , fa . Under pardon , sir , what are the contents ? or , rather , as Horace says in his What , my soul , verses ?
14332
14333 Ay , sir , and very learned .
14334
14335 Let me hear a staff , a stanze , a verse : lege , domine .
14336
14337
14338 If love make me forsworn , how shall I swear to love ?
14339 Ah ! never faith could hold , if not to beauty vow'd ;
14340 Though to myself forsworn , to thee I'll faithful prove ;
14341 Those thoughts to me were oaks , to thee like osiers bow'd
14342 Study his bias leaves and makes his book thine eyes .
14343 Where all those pleasures live that art would comprehend :
14344 If knowledge be the mark , to know thee shall suffice
14345 Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend ;
14346 All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder ;
14347 Which is to me some praise that I thy parts admire
14348 Thy eye Jove's lightning bears , thy voice his dreadful thunder ,
14349 Which , not to anger bent , is music and sweet fire .
14350 Celestial as thou art , O ! pardon love this wrong .
14351 That sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue !
14352
14353
14354 You find not the apostrophas , and so miss the accent : let me supervise the canzonet . Here are only numbers ratified ; but , for the elegancy , facility , and golden cadence of poesy , caret . Ovidius Naso was the man : and why , indeed , Naso , but for smelling out the odoriferous flowers of fancy , the jerks of invention ? Imitari is nothing ; so doth the hound his master , the ape his keeper , the 'tired horse his rider . But , damosella virgin , was this directed to you ?
14355
14356 Ay , sir ; from one Monsieur Berowne , one of the strange queen's lords .
14357
14358 I will overglance the superscript . To the snow-white hand of the most beauteous Lady Rosaline . I will look again on the intellect of the letter , for the nomination of the party writing to the person written unto : Your ladyship's , in all desired employment ,
14359
14360
14361 Good Costard , go with me . Sir , God save your life !
14362
14363 Have with thee , my girl .
14364
14365
14366 Sir , you have done this in the fear of God , very religiously ; and , as a certain Father saith
14367
14368 Sir , tell not me of the Father ; I do fear colourable colours . But to return to the verses : did they please you , Sir Nathaniel ?
14369
14370 Marvellous well for the pen .
14371
14372 I do dine to-day at the father's of a certain pupil of mine ; where , if before repast it shall please you to gratify the table with a grace , I will , on my privilege I have with the parents of the foresaid child or pupil , undertake your ben venuto ; where I will prove those verses to be very unlearned , neither savouring of poetry , wit , nor invention . I beseech your society .
14373
14374 And thank you too ; for society saith the text is the happiness of life .
14375
14376 And , certes , the text most infallibly concludes it .[To
14377
14378 The king he is hunting the deer ; I am coursing myself : they have pitched a toil ; I am toiling in a pitch ,pitch that defiles : defile ! a foul word ! Well , sit thee down , sorrow ! for so they say the fool said , and so say I , and I the fool : well proved , wit ! By the Lord , this love is as mad as Ajax : it kills sheep : it kills me , I a sheep : well proved again o' my side ! I will not love ; if I do , hang me ; i' faith , I will not . O ! but her eye ,by this light , but for her eye , I would not love her ; yes , for her two eyes . Well , I do nothing in the world but lie , and lie in my throat . By heaven , I do love , and it hath taught me to rime , and to be melancholy ; and here is part of my rime , and here my melancholy . Well , she hath one o' my sonnets already : the clown bore it , the fool sent it , and the lady hath it : sweet clown , sweeter fool , sweetest lady ! By the world , I would not care a pin if the other three were in . Here comes one with a paper : God give him grace to groan !
14379
14380 Ah me !
14381
14382 Shot , by heaven ! Proceed , sweet Cupid : thou hast thumped him with thy bird-bolt under the left pap . In faith , secrets !
14383
14384
14385 So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not
14386 To those fresh morning drops upon the rose ,
14387 As thy eye-beams , when their fresh rays have smote
14388 The night of dew that on my cheeks down flows :
14389 Nor shines the silver moon one half so bright
14390 Through the transparent bosom of the deep ,
14391 As doth thy face through tears of mine give light ,
14392 Thou shin'st in every tear that I do weep .
14393 No drop but as a coach doth carry thee ;
14394 So ridest thou triumphing in my woe .
14395 Do but behold the tears that swell in me ,
14396 And they thy glory through my grief will show
14397 But do not love thyself , then thou wilt keep
14398 My tears for glasses , and still make me weep .
14399 O queen of queens ! how far thou dost excel ,
14400 No thought can think , nor tongue of mortal tell
14401
14402 How shall she know my griefs ? I'll drop the paper :
14403 Sweet leaves , shade folly . Who is he comes here ?
14404
14405 What , Longaville ! and reading ! listen , ear .
14406
14407
14408 Now , in thy likeness , one more fool appear !
14409
14410 Ay me ! I am forsworn .
14411
14412 Why , he comes in like a perjure , wearing papers .
14413
14414 In love , I hope : sweet fellowship in shame !
14415
14416 One drunkard loves another of the name .
14417
14418 Am I the first that have been perjur'd so ?
14419
14420 I could put thee in comfort : not by two that I know :
14421 Thou mak'st the triumviry , the corner-cap of society ,
14422 The shape of love's Tyburn , that hangs up simplicity .
14423
14424 I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move .
14425 O sweet Maria , empress of my love !
14426 These numbers will I tear , and write in prose .
14427
14428 O ! rimes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose :
14429 Disfigure not his slop .
14430
14431 This same shall go .
14432
14433 Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye ,
14434 'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument ,
14435 Persuade my heart to this false perjury ?
14436 Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment .
14437 A woman I forswore ; but I will prove ,
14438 Thou being a goddess , I forswore not thee :
14439 My vow was earthly , thou a heavenly love ;
14440 Thy grace , being gain'd , cures all disgrace in me .
14441 Vows are but breath , and breath a vapour is :
14442 Then thou , fair sun , which on my earth dost shine ,
14443 Exhal'st this vapour-vow ; in thee it is :
14444 If broken , then , it is no fault of mine :
14445 If by me broke , what fool is not so wise
14446 To lose an oath to win a paradise !
14447
14448
14449 This is the liver-vein , which makes flesh a deity ;
14450 A green goose a goddess ; pure , pure idolatry .
14451 God amend us , God amend ! we are much out o' the way .
14452
14453 By whom shall I send this ?Company ! stay .
14454
14455
14456 All hid , all hid ; an old infant play .
14457 Like a demi-god here sit I in the sky ,
14458 And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'er-eye .
14459 More sacks to the mill ! O heavens ! I have my wish .
14460
14461 Dumaine transform'd : four woodcocks in a dish !
14462
14463 O most divine Kate !
14464
14465 O most profane coxcomb !
14466
14467 By heaven , the wonder of a mortal eye !
14468
14469 By earth , she is but corporal ; there you lie .
14470
14471 Her amber hairs for foul have amber quoted .
14472
14473 An amber-colour'd raven was well noted .
14474
14475 As upright as the cedar .
14476
14477 Stoop , I say ;
14478 Her shoulder is with child .
14479
14480 As fair as day .
14481
14482 Ay , as some days ; but then no sun must shine .
14483
14484 O ! that I had my wish .
14485
14486 And I had mine !
14487
14488 And I mine too , good Lord !
14489
14490 Amen , so I had mine . Is not that a good word ?
14491
14492 I would forget her ; but a fever she
14493 Reigns in my blood , and will remember'd be .
14494
14495 A fever in your blood ! why , then incision
14496 Would let her out in saucers : sweet misprision !
14497
14498 Once more I'll read the ode that I have writ .
14499
14500 Once more I'll mark how love can vary wit .
14501
14502
14503 On a day , alack the day !
14504 Love , whose month is ever May ,
14505 Spied a blossom passing fair
14506 Playing in the wanton air :
14507 Through the velvet leaves the wind ,
14508 All unseen , 'gan passage find ;
14509 That the lover , sick to death ,
14510 Wish'd himself the heaven's breath .
14511 Air , quoth he , thy cheeks may blow ;
14512 Air , would I might triumph so !
14513 But alack ! my hand is sworn
14514 Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn :
14515 Vow , alack ! for youth unmeet ,
14516 Youth so apt to pluck a sweet .
14517 Do not call it sin in me ,
14518 That I am forsworn for thee ;
14519 Thou for whom e'en Jove would swear
14520 Juno but an Ethiop were ;
14521 And deny himself for Jove ,
14522 Turning mortal for thy love .
14523
14524 This will I send , and something else more plain ,
14525 That shall express my true love's fasting pain .
14526 O ! would the King , Berowne , and Longaville
14527 Were lovers too . Ill , to example ill ,
14528 Would from my forehead wipe a perjur'd note ;
14529 For none offend where all alike do dote .
14530
14531 Dumaine , thy love is far from charity ,
14532 That in love's grief desir'st society :
14533 You may look pale , but I should blush , I know ,
14534 To be o'erheard and taken napping so .
14535
14536 Come , sir , you blush : as his your case is such ;
14537 You chide at him , offending twice as much :
14538 You do not love Maria ; Longaville
14539 Did never sonnet for her sake compile ,
14540 Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart
14541 His loving bosom to keep down his heart .
14542 I have been closely shrouded in this bush ,
14543 And mark'd you both , and for you both did blush .
14544 I heard your guilty rimes , observ'd your fashion ,
14545 Saw sighs reek from you , noted well your passion :
14546 Ay me ! says one ; O Jove ! the other cries ;
14547 One , her hairs were gold , crystal the other's eyes :
14548
14549
14550 You would for paradise break faith and troth ;
14551
14552
14553 And Jove , for your love , would infringe an oath .
14554 What will Berowne say , when that he shall hear
14555 A faith infringed , which such zeal did swear ?
14556 How will he scorn ! how will he spend his wit !
14557 How will he triumph , leap and laugh at it !
14558 For all the wealth that ever I did see ,
14559 I would not have him know so much by me .
14560
14561 Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy .
14562
14563 Ah ! good my liege , I pray thee , pardon me :
14564 Good heart ! what grace hast thou , thus to reprove
14565 These worms for loving , that art most in love ?
14566 Your eyes do make no coaches ; in your tears
14567 There is no certain princess that appears :
14568 You'll not be perjur'd , 'tis a hateful thing :
14569 Tush ! none but minstrels like of sonneting .
14570 But are you not asham'd ? nay , are you not ,
14571 All three of you , to be thus much o'ershot ?
14572 You found his mote ; the king your mote did see ;
14573 But I a beam do find in each of three .
14574 O ! what a scene of foolery have I seen ,
14575 Of sighs , of groans , of sorrow , and of teen ;
14576 O me ! with what strict patience have I sat ,
14577 To see a king transformed to a gnat ;
14578 To see great Hercules whipping a gig ,
14579 And profound Solomon to tune a jig ,
14580 And Nestor play at push-pin with the boys ,
14581 And critic Timon laugh at idle toys !
14582 Where lies thy grief ? O ! tell me , good Dumaine ,
14583 And , gentle Longaville , where lies thy pain ?
14584 And where my liege's ? all about the breast :
14585 A caudle , ho !
14586
14587 Too bitter is thy jest .
14588 Are we betray'd thus to thy over-view ?
14589
14590 Not you to me , but I betray'd by you :
14591 I , that am honest ; I , that hold it sin
14592 To break the vow I am engaged in ;
14593 I am betray'd , by keeping company
14594 With men like men , men of inconstancy .
14595 When shall you see me write a thing in rime ?
14596 Or groan for Joan ? or spend a minute's time
14597 In pruning me ? When shall you hear that I
14598 Will praise a hand , a foot , a face , an eye ,
14599 A gait , a state , a brow , a breast , a waist , leg , a limb ?
14600
14601 Soft ! Whither away so fast ? true man or a thief that gallops so ?
14602
14603 I post from love ; good lover , let me go .
14604
14605
14606 God bless the king !
14607
14608 What present hast thou there ?
14609
14610 Some certain treason .
14611
14612 What makes treason here ?
14613
14614 Nay , it makes nothing , sir .
14615
14616 If it mar nothing neither ,
14617 The treason and you go in peace away together .
14618
14619 I beseech your Grace , let this letter be read :
14620 Our parson misdoubts it ; 'twas treason , he said .
14621
14622 Berowne , read it over
14623
14624 There hadst thou it ?
14625
14626 Of Costard .
14627
14628 Where hadst thou it ?
14629
14630 Of Dun Adramadio , Dun Adramadio .
14631
14632
14633 How now ! what is in you ? why dost thou tear it ?
14634
14635 A toy , my liege , a toy : your Grace needs not fear it .
14636
14637 It did move him to passion , and therefore let's hear it .
14638
14639 It is Berowne's writing , and here is his name .
14640
14641 Ah , you whoreson logger-head , you were born to do me shame .
14642 Guilty , my lord , guilty ; I confess , I confess .
14643
14644 What ?
14645
14646 That you three fools lack'd me fool to make up the mess ;
14647 He , he , and you , and you my liege , and I ,
14648 Are pick-purses in love , and we deserve to die .
14649 O ! dismiss this audience , and I shall tell you more .
14650
14651 Now the number is even .
14652
14653 True , true ; we are four .
14654 Will these turtles be gone ?
14655
14656 Hence , sirs ; away !
14657
14658 Walk aside the true folk , and let the traitors stay .
14659
14660
14661 Sweet lords , sweet lovers , O ! let us embrace .
14662 As true we are as flesh and blood can be :
14663 The sea will ebb and flow , heaven show his face ;
14664 Young blood doth not obey an old decree :
14665 We cannot cross the cause why we were born ;
14666 Therefore , of all hands must we be forsworn .
14667
14668 What ! did these rent lines show some love of thine ?
14669
14670 'Did they ,' quoth you ? Who sees the heavenly Rosaline ,
14671 That , like a rude and savage man of Inde ,
14672 At the first opening of the gorgeous east ,
14673 Bows not his vassal head , and , strucken blind ,
14674 Kisses the base ground with obedient breast ?
14675 What peremptory eagle-sighted eye
14676 Dares look upon the heaven of her brow ,
14677 That is not blinded by her majesty ?
14678
14679 What zeal , what fury hath inspir'd thee now ?
14680 My love , her mistress , is a gracious moon ;
14681 She , an attending star , scarce seen a light .
14682
14683 My eyes are then no eyes , nor I Berowne :
14684 O ! but for my love , day would turn to night .
14685 Of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty
14686 Do meet , as at a fair , in her fair cheek ;
14687 Where several worthies make one dignity ,
14688 Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek .
14689 Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues ,
14690 Fie , painted rhetoric ! O ! she needs it not :
14691 To things of sale a seller's praise belongs ;
14692 She passes praise ; then praise too short doth blot .
14693 A wither'd hermit , five-score winters worn ,
14694 Might shake off fifty , looking in her eye :
14695 Beauty doth varnish age , as if new-born ,
14696 And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy .
14697 O ! 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine .
14698
14699 By heaven , thy love is black as ebony .
14700
14701 Is ebony like her ? O wood divine !
14702 A wife of such wood were felicity .
14703 O ! who can give an oath ? where is a book ?
14704 That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack ,
14705 If that she learn not of her eye to look :
14706 No face is fair that is not full so black .
14707
14708 O paradox ! Black is the badge of hell ,
14709 The hue of dungeons and the scowl of night ;
14710 And beauty's crest becomes the heavens well .
14711
14712 Devils soonest tempt , resembling spirits of light .
14713 O ! if in black my lady's brows be deck'd ,
14714 It mourns that painting and usurping hair
14715 Should ravish doters with a false aspect ;
14716 And therefore is she born to make black fair .
14717 Her favour turns the fashion of the days ,
14718 For native blood is counted painting now :
14719 And therefore red , that would avoid dispraise ,
14720 Paints itself black , to imitate her brow .
14721
14722 To look like her are chimney-sweepers black .
14723
14724 And since her time are colliers counted bright .
14725
14726 And Ethiops of their sweet complexion crack .
14727
14728 Dark needs no candles now , for dark is light .
14729
14730 Your mistresses dare never come in rain ,
14731 For fear their colours should be wash'd away .
14732
14733 'Twere good yours did ; for , sir , to tell you plain ,
14734 I'll find a fairer face not wash'd to-day .
14735
14736 I'll prove her fair , or talk till doomsday here .
14737
14738 No devil will fright thee then so much as she .
14739
14740 I never knew man hold vile stuff so dear .
14741
14742 Look , here's thy love :
14743
14744 my foot and her face see .
14745
14746 O ! if the streets were paved with thine eyes ,
14747 Her feet were much too dainty for such tread .
14748
14749 O vile ! then , as she goes , what upward lies
14750 The street should see as she walk'd over head .
14751
14752 But what of this ? Are we not all in love ?
14753
14754 Nothing so sure ; and thereby all forsworn .
14755
14756 Then leave this chat ; and good Berowne , now prove
14757 Our loving lawful , and our faith not torn .
14758
14759 Ay , marry , there ; some flattery for this evil .
14760
14761 O ! some authority how to proceed ;
14762 Some tricks , some quillets , how to cheat the devil .
14763
14764 Some salve for perjury .
14765
14766 O , 'tis more than need .
14767 Have at you , then , affection's men-at-arms :
14768 Consider what you first did swear unto ,
14769 To fast , to study , and to see no woman ;
14770 Flat treason 'gainst the kingly state of youth .
14771 Say , can you fast ? your stomachs are too young ,
14772 And abstinence engenders maladies .
14773 And where that you have vow'd to study , lords ,
14774 In that each of you hath forsworn his book ,
14775 Can you still dream and pore and thereon look ?
14776 For when would you , my lord , or you , or you ,
14777 Have found the ground of study's excellence
14778 Without the beauty of a woman's face ?
14779 From women's eyes this doctrine I derive :
14780 They are the ground , the books , the academes ,
14781 From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire .
14782 Why , universal plodding poisons up
14783 The nimble spirits in the arteries ,
14784 As motion and long-during action tires
14785 The sinewy vigour of the traveller .
14786 Now , for not looking on a woman's face ,
14787 You have in that forsworn the use of eyes ,
14788 And study too , the causer of your vow ;
14789 For where is any author in the world
14790 Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ?
14791 Learning is but an adjunct to ourself ,
14792 And where we are our learning likewise is :
14793 Then when ourselves we see in ladies' eyes ,
14794 Do we not likewise see our learning there ?
14795 O ! we have made a vow to study , lords ,
14796 And in that vow we have forsworn our books :
14797 For when would you , my liege , or you , or you ,
14798 In leaden contemplation have found out
14799 Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes
14800 Of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with ?
14801 Other slow arts entirely keep the brain ,
14802 And therefore , finding barren practisers ,
14803 Scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil ;
14804 But love , first learned in a lady's eyes ,
14805 Lives not alone immured in the brain ,
14806 But , with the motion of all elements ,
14807 Courses as swift as thought in every power ,
14808 And gives to every power a double power ,
14809 Above their functions and their offices .
14810 It adds a precious seeing to the eye ;
14811 A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind ;
14812 A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound ,
14813 When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd :
14814 Love's feeling is more soft and sensible
14815 Than are the tender horns of cockled snails :
14816 Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste .
14817 For valour , is not Love a Hercules ,
14818 Still climbing trees in the Hesperides ?
14819 Subtle as Sphinx ; as sweet and musical
14820 As bright Apollo's lute , strung with his hair ;
14821 And when Love speaks , the voice of all the gods
14822 Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony .
14823 Never durst poet touch a pen to write
14824 Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs ;
14825 O ! then his lines would ravish savage ears ,
14826 And plant in tyrants mild humility .
14827 From women's eyes this doctrine I derive :
14828 They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ;
14829 They are the books , the arts , the academes ,
14830 That show , contain , and nourish all the world ;
14831 Else none at all in aught proves excellent .
14832 Then fools you were these women to forswear ,
14833 Or , keeping what is sworn , you will prove fools .
14834 For wisdom's sake , a word that all men love ,
14835 Or for love's sake , a word that loves all men ,
14836 Or for men's sake , the authors of these women ;
14837 Or women's sake , by whom we men are men ,
14838 Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves ,
14839 Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths .
14840 It is religion to be thus forsworn ;
14841 For charity itself fulfils the law ;
14842 And who can sever love from charity ?
14843
14844 Saint Cupid , then ! and , soldiers , to the field !
14845
14846 Advance your standards , and upon them , lords !
14847 Pell-mell , down with them ! but be first advis'd ,
14848 In conflict that you get the sun of them .
14849
14850 Now to plain-dealing ; lay these glozes by ;
14851 Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France ?
14852
14853 And win them too : therefore let us devise
14854 Some entertainment for them in their tents .
14855
14856 First , from the park let us conduct them thither ;
14857 Then homeward every man attach the hand
14858 Of his fair mistress : in the afternoon
14859 We will with some strange pastime solace them ,
14860 Such as the shortness of the time can shape ;
14861 For revels , dances , masks , and merry hours ,
14862 Forerun fair Love , strewing her way with flowers .
14863
14864 Away , away ! no time shall be omitted ,
14865 That will betime , and may by us be fitted .
14866
14867 Allons ! allons ! Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn ;
14868 And justice always whirls in equal measure :
14869 Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn ;
14870 If so , our copper buys no better treasure .
14871
14872 Satis quod sufficit .
14873
14874 I praise God for you , sir : your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious ; pleasant without scurrility , witty without affection , audacious without impudency , learned without opinion , and strange without heresy . I did converse this quondam day with a companion of the king's , who is intituled , nominated , or called , Don Adriano de Armado .
14875
14876 Novi hominem tanquam te : his humour is lofty , his discourse peremptory , his tongue field , his eye ambitious , his gait majestical , and his general behaviour vain , ridiculous , and thrasonical . He is too picked , too spruce , too affected , too odd , as it were , too peregrinate , as I may call it .
14877
14878 A most singular and choice epithet .
14879
14880
14881 He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument . I abhor such fanatical phantasimes , such insociable and point-devise companions ; such rackers of orthography , as to speak dout , fine , when he should say , doubt ; det , when he should pronounce , debt ,d , e , b , t , not d , e , t : he clepeth a calf , cauf ; half , hauf ; neighbour vocatur nebour , neigh abbreviated ne . This is abhominable , which he would call abominable ,it insinuateth me of insanie : anne intelligis , domine ? To make frantic , lunatic .
14882
14883 Laus Deo bone intelligo .
14884
14885 Bone ? bone , for bene : Priscian a little scratched ; 'twill serve .
14886
14887
14888 Videsne quis venit ?
14889
14890 Video , et gaudeo .
14891
14892 Chirrah !
14893
14894 Quare Chirrah , not sirrah ?
14895
14896 Men of peace , well encountered .
14897
14898 Most military sir , salutation .
14899
14900 They have been at a great feast of languages , and stolen the scraps .
14901
14902 O ! they have lived long on the almsbasket of words . I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus : thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon .
14903
14904 Peace ! the peal begins .
14905
14906 Monsieur , are you not lettered ?
14907
14908 Yes , yes ; he teaches boys the hornbook . What is a , b , spelt backward , with the horn on his head ?
14909
14910 Ba , pueritia , with a horn added .
14911
14912 Ba ! most silly sheep with a horn . You hear his learning .
14913
14914 Quis , quis , thou consonant ?
14915
14916 The third of the five vowels , if you repeat them ; or the fifth , if I .
14917
14918 I will repeat them ,a , e , i ,
14919
14920 The sheep ; the other two concludes it ,o , u .
14921
14922 Now , by the salt wave of the Mediterraneum , a sweet touch , a quick venew of wit ! snip , snap , quick and home ! it rejoiceth my intellect : true wit !
14923
14924 Offered by a child to an old man ; which is wit-old .
14925
14926 What is the figure ? what is the figure ?
14927
14928 Horns .
14929
14930 Thou disputest like an infant ; go , whip thy gig .
14931
14932 Lend me your horn to make one , and I will whip about your infamy circum circa . A gig of a cuckold's horn .
14933
14934 An I had but one penny in the world , thou shouldst have it to buy gingerbread . Hold , there is the very remuneration I had of thy master , thou halfpenny purse of wit , thou pigeon-egg of discretion . O ! an the heavens were so pleased that thou wert but my bastard , what a joyful father wouldst thou make me . Go to ; thou hast it ad dunghill , at the fingers' ends , as they say .
14935
14936 O ! I smell false Latin ; dunghill for unguem .
14937
14938 Arts-man , pr ambula : we will be singled from the barbarous . Do you not educate youth at the charge-house on the top of the mountain ?
14939
14940 Or mons , the hill .
14941
14942 At your sweet pleasure , for the mountain .
14943
14944 I do , sans question .
14945
14946 Sir , it is the king's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion in the posteriors of this day , which the rude multitude call the afternoon .
14947
14948 The posterior of the day , most generous sir , is liable , congruent , and measurable for the afternoon : the word is well culled , chose , sweet and apt , I do assure you , sir ; I do assure .
14949
14950 Sir , the king is a noble gentleman , and my familiar , I do assure ye , very good friend . For what is inward between us , let it pass : I do beseech thee , remember thy curtsy ; I beseech thee , apparel thy head : and among other importunate and most serious designs , and of great import indeed , too , but let that pass : for I must tell thee , it will please his Grace , by the world , sometime to lean upon my poor shoulder , and with his royal finger , thus dally with my excrement , with my mustachio : but , sweet heart , let that pass . By the world , I recount no fable : some certain special honours it pleaseth his greatness to impart to Armado , a soldier , a man of travel , that hath seen the world : but let that pass . The very all of all is , but , sweet heart , I do implore secrecy , that the king would have me present the princess , sweet chuck , with some delightful ostentation , or show , or pageant , or antick , or fire-work . Now , understanding that the curate and your sweet self are good at such eruptions and sudden breaking out of mirth , as it were , I have acquainted you withal , to the end to crave your assistance .
14951
14952 Sir , you shall present before her the Nine Worthies . Sir Nathaniel , as concerning some entertainment of time , some show in the posterior of this day , to be rendered by our assistance , at the king's command , and this most gallant , illustrate , and learned gentleman , before the princess ; I say , none so fit as to present the Nine Worthies .
14953
14954 Where will you find men worthy enough to present them ?
14955
14956 Joshua , yourself ; myself , or this gallant gentleman , Judas Maccab us ; this swain , because of his great limb , or joint , shall pass Pompey the Great ; the page , Hercules ,
14957
14958 Pardon , sir ; error : he is not quantity enough for that Worthy's thumb : he is not so big as the end of his club .
14959
14960 Shall I have audience ? he shall present Hercules in minority : his enter and exit shall be strangling a snake ; and I will have an apology for that purpose .
14961
14962 An excellent device ! so , if any of the audience hiss , you may cry , 'Well done , Hercules ! now thou crushest the snake !' that is the way to make an offence gracious , though few have the grace to do it .
14963
14964 For the rest of the Worthies ?
14965
14966 I will play three myself .
14967
14968 Thrice-worthy gentleman !
14969
14970 Shall I tell you a thing ?
14971
14972 We attend .
14973
14974 We will have , if this fadge not , an antick . I beseech you , follow .
14975
14976 Via , goodman Dull ! thou hast spoken no word all this while .
14977
14978 Nor understood none neither , sir .
14979
14980 Allons ! we will employ thee .
14981
14982 I'll make one in a dance , or so ; or I will play the tabor to the Worthies , and let them dance the hay .
14983
14984 Most dull , honest Dull , to our sport , away !
14985
14986
14987 Sweet hearts , we shall be rich ere we depart ,
14988 If fairings come thus plentifully in : lady wall'd about with diamonds !
14989 Look you what I have from the loving king .
14990
14991 Madam , came nothing else along with that ?
14992
14993 Nothing but this ! yes , as much love in rime
14994 As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper ,
14995 Writ o' both sides the leaf , margent and all ,
14996 That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name .
14997
14998 That was the way to make his godhead wax ;
14999 For he hath been five thousand years a boy .
15000
15001 Ay , and a shrewd unhappy gallows too .
15002
15003 You'll ne'er be friends with him : a' kill'd your sister .
15004
15005 He made her melancholy , sad , and heavy ;
15006 And so she died : had she been light , like you ,
15007 Of such a merry , nimble , stirring spirit ,
15008 She might ha' been a grandam ere she died ;
15009 And so may you , for a light heart lives long .
15010
15011 What's your dark meaning , mouse , of this light word ?
15012
15013 A light condition in a beauty dark .
15014
15015 We need more light to find your meaning out .
15016
15017 You'll mar the light by taking it in snuff ;
15018 Therefore , I'll darkly end the argument .
15019
15020 Look , what you do , you do it still i' the dark .
15021
15022 So do not you , for you are a light wench .
15023
15024 Indeed I weigh not you , and therefore light .
15025
15026 You weigh me not . O ! that's you care not for me .
15027
15028 Great reason ; for , 'past cure is still past care .'
15029
15030 Well bandied both ; a set of wit well play'd .
15031 But Rosaline , you have a favour too :
15032 Who sent it ? and what is it ?
15033
15034 I would you knew :
15035 An if my face were but as fair as yours ,
15036 My favour were as great ; be witness this .
15037 Nay , I have verses too , I thank Berowne :
15038 The numbers true ; and , were the numb'ring too ,
15039 I were the fairest goddess on the ground :
15040 I am compar'd to twenty thousand fairs .
15041 O ! he hath drawn my picture in his letter .
15042
15043 Anything like ?
15044
15045 Much in the letters , nothing in the praise .
15046
15047 Beauteous as ink ; a good conclusion .
15048
15049 Fair as a text B in a copy-book .
15050
15051 'Ware pencils ! how ? let me not die your debtor .
15052 My red dominical , my golden letter :
15053 O , that your face were not so full of O's !
15054
15055 A pox of that jest ! and beshrew all shrows !
15056
15057 But what was sent to you from fair Dumaine ?
15058
15059 Madam , this glove .
15060
15061 Did he not send you twain ?
15062
15063 Yes , madam ; and moreover ,
15064 Some thousand verses of a faithful lover :
15065 A huge translation of hypocrisy ,
15066 Vilely compil'd , profound simplicity .
15067
15068 This , and these pearls to me sent Longaville :
15069 The letter is too long by half a mile .
15070
15071 I think no less . Dost thou not wish in heart
15072 The chain were longer and the letter short ?
15073
15074 Ay , or I would these hands might never part .
15075
15076 We are wise girls to mock our lovers so .
15077
15078 They are worse fools to purchase mocking so .
15079 That same Berowne I'll torture ere I go .
15080 O that I knew he were but in by the week !
15081 How I would make him fawn , and beg , and seek ,
15082 And wait the season , and observe the times ,
15083 And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rimes ,
15084 And shape his service wholly to my hests ,
15085 And make him proud to make me proud that jests !
15086 So perttaunt-like would I o'ersway his state
15087 That he should be my fool , and I his fate .
15088
15089 None are so surely caught , when they are catch'd ,
15090 As wit turn'd fool : folly , in wisdom hatch'd ,
15091 Hath wisdom's warrant and the help of school
15092 And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool .
15093
15094 The blood of youth burns not with such excess
15095 As gravity's revolt to wantonness .
15096
15097 Folly in fools bears not so strong a note
15098 As foolery in the wise , when wit doth dote ;
15099 Since all the power thereof it doth apply
15100 To prove , by wit , worth in simplicity .
15101
15102
15103 Here comes Boyet , and mirth is in his face .
15104
15105 O ! I am stabb'd with laughter . Where's her Grace ?
15106
15107 Thy news , Boyet ?
15108
15109 Prepare , madam , prepare !
15110 Arm , wenches , arm ! encounters mounted are
15111 Against your peace : Love doth approach disguis'd ,
15112 Armed in arguments ; you'll be surpris'd :
15113 Muster your wits ; stand in your own defence ;
15114 Or hide your heads like cowards , and fly hence .
15115
15116 Saint Denis to Saint Cupid ! What are they
15117 That charge their breath against us ? say , scout , say .
15118
15119 Under the cool shade of a sycamore
15120 I thought to close mine eyes some half an hour ,
15121 When , lo ! to interrupt my purpos'd rest ,
15122 Toward that shade I might behold addrest
15123 The king and his companions : warily
15124 I stole into a neighbour thicket by ,
15125 And overheard what you shall overhear ;
15126 That , by and by , disguis'd they will be here .
15127 Their herald is a pretty knavish page ,
15128 That well by heart hath conn'd his embassage :
15129 Action and accent did they teach him there ;
15130 'Thus must thou speak , and thus thy body bear .'
15131 And ever and anon they made a doubt
15132 Presence majestical would put him out ;
15133 'For ,' quoth the king , 'an angel shalt thou see ;
15134 Yet fear not thou , but speak audaciously .'
15135 The boy replied , 'An angel is not evil ;
15136 I should have fear'd her had she been a devil .'
15137 With that all laugh'd and clapp'd him on the shoulder ,
15138 Making the bold wag by their praises bolder .
15139 One rubb'd his elbow thus , and fleer'd , and swore
15140 A better speech was never spoke before ;
15141 Another , with his finger and his thumb ,
15142 Cry'd 'Via ! we will do't , come what will come ;'
15143 The third he caper'd and cried , 'All goes well ;'
15144 The fourth turn'd on the toe , and down he fell .
15145 With that , they all did tumble on the ground ,
15146 With such a zealous laughter , so profound ,
15147 That in this spleen ridiculous appears ,
15148 To check their folly , passion's solemn tears .
15149
15150 But what , but what , come they to visit us ?
15151
15152 They do , they do ; and are apparell'd thus ,
15153 Like Muscovites or Russians , as I guess .
15154 Their purpose is to parle , to court and dance ;
15155 And every one his love-feat will advance
15156 Unto his several mistress , which they'll know
15157 By favours several which they did bestow .
15158
15159 And will they so ? the gallants shall be task'd :
15160 For , ladies , we will every one be mask'd ,
15161 And not a man of them shall have the grace ,
15162 Despite of suit , to see a lady's face .
15163 Hold , Rosaline , this favour thou shalt wear ,
15164 And then the king will court thee for his dear :
15165 Hold , take thou this , my sweet , and give me thine ,
15166 So shall Berowne take me for Rosaline ,
15167 And change you favours too ; so shall your loves
15168 Woo contrary , deceiv'd by these removes .
15169
15170 Come on , then ; wear the favours most in sight .
15171
15172 But in this changing what is your intent ?
15173
15174 The effect of my intent is , to cross theirs :
15175 They do it but in mocking merriment ;
15176 And mock for mock is only my intent .
15177 Their several counsels they unbosom shall
15178 To loves mistook and so be mock'd withal
15179 Upon the next occasion that we meet ,
15180 With visages display'd , to talk and greet .
15181
15182 But shall we dance , if they desire us to't ?
15183
15184 No , to the death , we will not move a foot :
15185 Nor to their penn'd speech render we no grace ;
15186 But while 'tis spoke each turn away her face .
15187
15188 Why , that contempt will kill the speaker's heart ,
15189 And quite divorce his memory from his part .
15190
15191 Therefore I do it ; and I make no doubt ,
15192 The rest will ne'er come in , if he be out .
15193 There's no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown ,
15194 To make theirs ours and ours none but our own :
15195 So shall we stay , mocking intended game ,
15196 And they , well mock'd , depart away with shame .
15197
15198
15199 The trumpet sounds : be mask'd ; the maskers come .
15200
15201
15202 All hail , the richest beauties on the earth !
15203
15204 Beauties no richer than rich taffeta .
15205
15206 A holy parcel of the fairest dames ,
15207
15208 That ever turn'd their backs to mortal views !
15209
15210 'Their eyes ,' villain , 'their eyes .'
15211
15212 That ever turn'd their eyes to mortal views !
15213 Out
15214
15215 True ; 'out ,' indeed .
15216
15217 'Out of your favours , heavenly spirits , vouchsafe
15218 Not to behold'
15219
15220 'Once to behold ,' rogue .
15221
15222 'Once to behold with your sun-beamed eyes ,
15223 with your sun-beamed eyes'
15224
15225 They will not answer to that epithet ;
15226 You were best call it 'daughter-beamed eyes .'
15227
15228 They do not mark me , and that brings me out .
15229
15230 Is this your perfectness ? be gone , you rogue !
15231
15232
15233 What would these strangers ? know their minds , Boyet :
15234 If they do speak our language , 'tis our will
15235 That some plain man recount their purposes :
15236 Know what they would .
15237
15238 What would you with the princess ?
15239
15240 Nothing but peace and gentle visitation .
15241
15242 What would they , say they ?
15243
15244 Nothing but peace and gentle visitation .
15245
15246 Why , that they have ; and bid them so be gone .
15247
15248 She says , you have it , and you may be gone .
15249
15250 Say to her , we have measur'd many miles ,
15251 To tread a measure with her on this grass .
15252
15253 They say , that they have measur'd many a mile ,
15254 To tread a measure with you on this grass .
15255
15256 It is not so . Ask them how many inches
15257 Is in one mile : if they have measur'd many ,
15258 The measure then of one is easily told .
15259
15260 If to come hither you have measur'd miles ,
15261 And many miles , the princess bids you tell
15262 How many inches do fill up one mile .
15263
15264 Tell her we measure them by weary steps .
15265
15266 She hears herself .
15267
15268 How many weary steps ,
15269 Of many weary miles you have o'ergone ,
15270 Are number'd in the travel of one mile ?
15271
15272 We number nothing that we spend for you :
15273 Our duty is so rich , so infinite ,
15274 That we may do it still without accompt .
15275 Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face ,
15276 That we , like savages , may worship it .
15277
15278 My face is but a moon , and clouded too .
15279
15280 Blessed are clouds , to do as such clouds do !
15281 Vouchsafe , bright moon , and these thy stars , to shine ,
15282 Those clouds remov'd , upon our wat'ry eyne .
15283
15284 O vain petitioner ! beg a greater matter ;
15285 Thou now request'st but moonshine in the water .
15286
15287 Then , in our measure but vouchsafe one change .
15288 Thou bid'st me beg ; this begging is not strange .
15289
15290 Play , music , then ! Nay , you must do it soon .
15291
15292 Not yet ! no dance ! thus change I like the moon .
15293
15294 Will you not dance ? How come you thus estrang'd ?
15295
15296 You took the moon at full , but now she's chang'd .
15297
15298 Yet still she is the moon , and I the man .
15299 The music plays ; vouchsafe some motion to it .
15300
15301 Our ears vouchsafe it .
15302
15303 But your legs should do it .
15304
15305 Since you are strangers , and come here by chance ,
15306 We'll not be nice : take hands : we will not dance .
15307
15308 Why take we hands then ?
15309
15310 Only to part friends .
15311 Curtsy , sweet hearts ; and so the measure ends .
15312
15313 More measure of this measure : be not nice .
15314
15315 We can afford no more at such a price .
15316
15317 Prize you yourselves ? what buys your company ?
15318
15319 Your absence only .
15320
15321 That can never be .
15322
15323 Then cannot we be bought : and so , adieu ;
15324 Twice to your visor , and half once to you !
15325
15326 If you deny to dance , let's hold more chat .
15327
15328 In private , then .
15329
15330 I am best pleas'd with that .
15331
15332
15333 White-handed mistress , one sweet word with thee .
15334
15335 Honey , and milk , and sugar ; there are three .
15336
15337 Nay then , two treys , an if you grow so nice ,
15338 Metheglin , wort , and malmsey : well run , dice !
15339 There's half a dozen sweets .
15340
15341 Seventh sweet , adieu :
15342 Since you can cog , I'll play no more with you .
15343
15344 One word in secret .
15345
15346 Let it not be sweet .
15347
15348 Thou griev'st my gall .
15349
15350 Gall ! bitter .
15351
15352 Therefore meet .
15353
15354
15355 Will you vouchsafe with me to change a word ?
15356
15357 Name it .
15358
15359 Fair lady ,
15360
15361 Say you so ? Fair lord ,
15362 Take that for your fair lady .
15363
15364 Please it you ,
15365 As much in private , and I'll bid adieu .
15366
15367
15368 What ! was your visor made without a tongue ?
15369
15370 I know the reason , lady , why you ask .
15371
15372 O ! for your reason ; quickly , sir ; I long .
15373
15374 You have a double tongue within your mask ,
15375 And would afford my speechless visor half .
15376
15377 'Veal ,' quoth the Dutchman . Is not 'veal' a calf ?
15378
15379 A calf , fair lady !
15380
15381 No , a fair lord calf .
15382
15383 Let's part the word .
15384
15385 No , I'll not be your half :
15386 Take all , and wean it : it may prove an ox .
15387
15388 Look , how you butt yourself in these sharp mocks .
15389 Will you give horns , chaste lady ? do not so .
15390
15391 Then die a calf , before your horns do grow .
15392
15393 One word in private with you , ere I die .
15394
15395 Bleat softly then ; the butcher hears you cry .
15396
15397
15398 The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
15399 As is the razor's edge invisible ,
15400 Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen ,
15401 Above the sense of sense ; so sensible
15402 Seemeth their conference ; their conceits have wings
15403 Fleeter than arrows , bullets , wind , thought , swifter things .
15404
15405 Not one word more , my maids : break off , break off .
15406
15407 By heaven , all dry-beaten with pure scoff !
15408
15409 Farewell , mad wenches : you have simple wits .
15410
15411 Twenty adieus , my frozen Muscovits .
15412
15413 Are these the breed of wits so wonder'd at ?
15414
15415 Tapers they are , with your sweet breaths puff'd out .
15416
15417 Well-liking wits they have ; gross , gross ; fat , fat .
15418
15419 O poverty in wit , kingly-poor flout !
15420 Will they not , think you , hang themselves to-night ?
15421 Or ever , but in visors , show their faces ?
15422 This pert Berowne was out of countenance quite .
15423
15424 O ! they were all in lamentable cases .
15425 The king was weeping-ripe for a good word .
15426
15427 Berowne did swear himself out of all suit .
15428
15429 Dumaine was at my service , and his sword :
15430 'No point ,' quoth I : my servant straight was mute .
15431
15432 Lord Longaville said , I came o'er his heart ;
15433 And trow you what he call'd me ?
15434
15435 Qualm , perhaps .
15436
15437 Yes , in good faith .
15438
15439 Go , sickness as thou art !
15440
15441 Well , better wits have worn plain statutecaps .
15442 But will you hear ? the king is my love sworn .
15443
15444 And quick Berowne hath plighted faith to me .
15445
15446 And Longaville was for my service born .
15447
15448 Dumaine is mine , as sure as bark on tree .
15449
15450 Madam , and pretty mistresses , give ear :
15451 Immediately they will again be here
15452 In their own shapes ; for it can never be
15453 They will digest this harsh indignity .
15454
15455 Will they return ?
15456
15457 They will , they will , God knows ;
15458 And leap for joy , though they are lame with blows :
15459 Therefore change favours ; and , when they repair ,
15460 Blow like sweet roses in this summer air .
15461
15462 How blow ? how blow ? speak to be understood .
15463
15464 Fair ladies mask'd , are roses in their bud :
15465 Dismask'd , their damask sweet commixture shown ,
15466 Are angels vailing clouds , or roses blown .
15467
15468 Avaunt perplexity ! What shall we do
15469 If they return in their own shapes to woo ?
15470
15471 Good madam , if by me you'll be advis'd ,
15472 Let's mock them still , as well known as disguis'd .
15473 Let us complain to them what fools were here ,
15474 Disguis'd like Muscovites , in shapeless gear ;
15475 And wonder what they were , and to what end
15476 Their shallow shows and prologue vilely penn'd ,
15477 And their rough carriage so ridiculous ,
15478 Should be presented at our tent to us .
15479
15480 Ladies , withdraw : the gallants are at hand .
15481
15482 Whip to your tents , as roes run over land .
15483
15484 Fair sir , God save you ! Where is the princess ?
15485
15486 Gone to her tent . Please it your majesty ,
15487 Command me any service to her thither ?
15488
15489 That she vouchsafe me audience for one word .
15490
15491 I will ; and so will she , I know , my lord .
15492
15493
15494 This fellow pecks up wit , as pigeons pease ,
15495 And utters it again when God doth please :
15496 He is wit's pedlar , and retails his wares
15497 At wakes and wassails , meetings , markets , fairs ;
15498 And we that sell by gross , the Lord doth know ,
15499 Have not the grace to grace it with such show .
15500 This gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve ;
15501 Had he been Adam , he had tempted Eve :
15502 He can carve too , and lisp : why , this is he
15503 That kiss'd his hand away in courtesy ;
15504 This is the ape of form , monsieur the nice ,
15505 That , when he plays at tables , chides the dice
15506 In honourable terms : nay , he can sing
15507 A mean most meanly , and in ushering
15508 Mend him who can : the ladies call him , sweet ;
15509 The stairs , as he treads on them , kiss his feet .
15510 This is the flower that smiles on every one ,
15511 To show his teeth as white as whales-bone ;
15512 And consciences , that will not die in debt ,
15513 Pay him the due of honey-tongu'd Boyet .
15514
15515 A blister on his sweet tongue , with my heart ,
15516 That put Armado's page out of his part !
15517
15518
15519 See where it comes ! Behaviour , what wert thou ,
15520 Till this man show'd thee ? and what art thou now ?
15521
15522 All hail , sweet madam , and fair time of day !
15523
15524 'Fair ,' in 'all hail ,' is foul , as I conceive .
15525
15526 Construe my speeches better , if you may .
15527
15528 Then wish me better : I will give you leave .
15529
15530 We came to visit you , and purpose now
15531 To lead you to our court : vouchsafe it then .
15532
15533 This field shall hold me , and so hold your vow :
15534 Nor God , nor I , delights in perjur'd men .
15535
15536 Rebuke me not for that which you provoke :
15537 The virtue of your eye must break my oath .
15538
15539 You nick-name virtue ; vice you should have spoke ;
15540 For virtue's office never breaks men's troth .
15541 Now , by my maiden honour , yet as pure
15542 As the unsullied lily , I protest ,
15543 A world of torments though I should endure ,
15544 I would not yield to be your house's guest ;
15545 So much I hate a breaking cause to be
15546 Of heavenly oaths , vow'd with integrity .
15547
15548 O ! you have liv'd in desolation here ,
15549 Unseen , unvisited , much to our shame .
15550
15551 Not so , my lord ; it is not so , I swear ;
15552 We have had pastime here and pleasant game .
15553 A mess of Russians left us but of late .
15554
15555 How , madam ! Russians ?
15556
15557 Ay , in truth , my lord ;
15558 Trim gallants , full of courtship and of state .
15559
15560 Madam , speak true . It is not so , my lord :
15561 My lady , to the manner of the days ,
15562 In courtesy gives undeserving praise .
15563 We four , indeed , confronted were with four
15564 In Russian habit : here they stay'd an hour ,
15565 And talk'd apace ; and in that hour , my lord ,
15566 They did not bless us with one happy word .
15567 I dare not call them fools ; but this I think ,
15568 When they are thirsty , fools would fam have drink .
15569
15570 This jest is dry to me . Fair gentle sweet ,
15571 Your wit makes wise things foolish : when we greet ,
15572 With eyes best seeing , heaven's fiery eye ,
15573 By light we lose light : your capacity
15574 Is of that nature that to your huge store
15575 Wise things seem foolish and rich things but poor .
15576
15577 This proves you wise and rich , for in my eye
15578
15579 I am a fool , and full of poverty .
15580
15581 But that you take what doth to you belong ,
15582 It were a fault to snatch words from my tongue .
15583
15584 O ! I am yours , and all that I possess .
15585
15586 All the fool mine ?
15587
15588 I cannot give you less .
15589
15590 Which of the visors was it that you wore ?
15591
15592 Where ? when ? what visor ? why demand you this ?
15593
15594 There , then , that visor ; that superfluous case
15595 That hid the worse , and show'd the better face .
15596
15597 We are descried : they'll mock us now downright .
15598
15599 Let us confess , and turn it to a jest .
15600
15601 Amaz'd , my lord ? Why looks your highness sad ?
15602
15603 Help ! hold his brows ! he'll swound .
15604 Why look you pale ?
15605 Sea-sick , I think , coming from Muscovy .
15606
15607 Thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury .
15608 Can any face of brass hold longer out ?
15609 Here stand I , lady ; dart thy skill at me ;
15610 Bruise me with scorn , confound me with a flout ;
15611 Thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance ;
15612 Cut me to pieces with thy keen conceit ;
15613 And I will wish thee never more to dance ,
15614 Nor never more in Russian habit wait .
15615 O ! never will I trust to speeches penn'd ,
15616 Nor to the motion of a school-boy's tongue ,
15617 Nor never come in visor to my friend ,
15618 Nor woo in rime , like a blind harper's song ,
15619 Taffeta phrases , silken terms precise ,
15620 Three-pil'd hyperboles , spruce affectation ,
15621 Figures pedantical ; these summer flies
15622 Have blown me full of maggot ostentation :
15623 I do forswear them ; and I here protest ,
15624 By this white glove ,how white the hand ,
15625 God knows ,
15626 Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd
15627 In russet yeas and honest kersey noes :
15628 And , to begin , wench ,so God help me , la !
15629 My love to thee is sound , sans crack or flaw .
15630
15631 Sans 'sans ,' I pray you .
15632
15633 Yet I have a trick
15634 Of the old rage : bear with me , I am sick ;
15635 I'll leave it by degrees . Soft ! let us see :
15636 Write , 'Lord have mercy on us' on those three ;
15637 They are infected , in their hearts it lies ;
15638 They have the plague , and caught it of your eyes :
15639 These lords are visited ; you are not free ,
15640 For the Lord's tokens on you do I see .
15641
15642 No , they are free that gave these tokens to us .
15643
15644 Our states are forfeit : seek not to undo us .
15645
15646 It is not so . For how can this be true ,
15647 That you stand forfeit , being those that sue ?
15648
15649 Peace ! for I will not have to do with you .
15650
15651 Nor shall not , if I do as I intend .
15652
15653 Speak for yourselves : my wit is at an end .
15654
15655 Teach us , sweet madam , for our rude transgression
15656 Some fair excuse .
15657
15658 The fairest is confession .
15659 Were you not here , but even now , disguis'd ?
15660
15661 Madam , I was .
15662
15663 And were you well advis'd ?
15664
15665 I was , fair madam .
15666
15667 When you then were here ,
15668 What did you whisper in your lady's ear ?
15669
15670 That more than all the world I did respect her .
15671
15672 When she shall challenge this , you will reject her .
15673
15674 Upon mine honour , no .
15675
15676 Peace ! peace ! forbear ;
15677 Your oath once broke , you force not to forswear .
15678
15679 Despise me , when I break this oath of mine .
15680
15681 I will ; and therefore keep it . Rosaline ,
15682 What did the Russian whisper in your ear ?
15683
15684 Madam , he swore that he did hold me dear
15685 As precious eyesight , and did value me
15686 Above this world ; adding thereto , moreover ,
15687 That he would wed me , or else die my lover .
15688
15689 God give thee joy of him ! the noble lord
15690 Most honourably doth uphold his word .
15691
15692 What mean you , madam ? by my life , my troth ,
15693 I never swore this lady such an oath .
15694
15695 By heaven you did ; and to confirm it plain ,
15696 You gave me this : but take it , sir , again .
15697
15698 My faith and this the princess I did give :
15699 I knew her by this jewel on her sleeve .
15700
15701 Pardon me , sir , this jewel did she wear ;
15702 And Lord Berowne , I thank him , is my dear .
15703 What , will you have me , or your pearl again ?
15704
15705 Neither of either ; I remit both twain .
15706 I see the trick on't : here was a consent ,
15707 Knowing aforehand of our merriment ,
15708 To dash it like a Christmas comedy .
15709 Some carry-tale , some please-man , some slight zany ,
15710 Some mumble-news , some trencher-knight , some Dick ,
15711 That smiles his cheek in years , and knows the trick
15712 To make my lady laugh when she's dispos'd ,
15713 Told our intents before ; which once disclos'd ,
15714 The ladies did change favours , and then we ,
15715 Following the signs , woo'd but the sign of she .
15716 Now , to our perjury to add more terror ,
15717 We are again forsworn , in will and error .
15718 Much upon this it is :
15719
15720 and might not you
15721 Forestall our sport , to make us thus untrue ?
15722 Do not you know my lady's foot by the squire ,
15723 And laugh upon the apple of her eye ?
15724 And stand between her back , sir , and the fire ,
15725 Holding a trencher , jesting merrily ?
15726 You put our page out : go , you are allow'd ;
15727 Die when you will , a smock shall be your shroud .
15728 You leer upon me , do you ? there's an eye
15729 Wounds like a leaden sword .
15730
15731 Full merrily
15732 Hath this brave manage , this career , been run .
15733
15734 Lo ! he is tilting straight . Peace ! I have done .
15735
15736 Welcome , pure wit ! thou partest a fair fray .
15737
15738 O Lord , sir , they would know
15739 Whether the three Worthies shall come in or no .
15740
15741 What , are there but three ?
15742
15743 No , sir ; but it is vara fine ,
15744 For every one pursents three .
15745
15746 And three times thrice is nine .
15747
15748 Not so , sir ; under correction , sir , I hope , it is not so .
15749 You cannot beg us , sir , I can assure you , sir ; we know what we know :
15750 I hope , sir , three times thrice , sir ,
15751
15752 Is not nine .
15753
15754 Under correction , sir , we know whereuntil it doth amount .
15755
15756 By Jove , I always took three threes for nine .
15757
15758 O Lord , sir ! it were pity you should get your living by reckoning , sir .
15759
15760 How much is it ?
15761
15762 O Lord , sir ! the parties themselves , the actors , sir , will show whereuntil it doth amount : for mine own part , I am , as they say , but to parfect one man in one poor man , Pompion the Great , sir .
15763
15764 Art thou one of the Worthies ?
15765
15766 It pleased them to think me worthy of Pompion the Great : for mine own part , I know not the degree of the Worthy , but I am to stand for him .
15767
15768 Go , bid them prepare .
15769
15770 We will turn it finely off , sir ; we will take some care .
15771
15772
15773 Berowne , they will shame us ; let them not approach .
15774
15775 We are shame-proof , my lord ; and 'tis some policy
15776 To have one show worse than the king's and his company .
15777
15778 I say they shall not come .
15779
15780 Nay , my good lord , let me o'errule you now .
15781 That sport best pleases that doth least know how ;
15782 Where zeal strives to content , and the contents
15783 Die in the zeal of those which it presents ;
15784 Their form confounded makes most form in mirth ,
15785 When great things labouring perish in their birth .
15786
15787 A right description of our sport , my lord .
15788
15789
15790 Anointed , I implore so much expense of thy royal sweet breath as will utter a brace of words .
15791
15792
15793 Doth this man serve God ?
15794
15795 Why ask you ?
15796
15797 He speaks not like a man of God's making ,
15798
15799 That's all one , my fair , sweet , honey monarch ; for , I protest , the schoolmaster is exceeding fantastical ; too-too vain ; too-too vain : but we will put it , as they say , to fortuna de la guerra . I wish you the peace of mind , most royal couplement !
15800
15801
15802 Here is like to be a good presence of Worthies . He presents Hector of Troy ; the swain , Pompey the Great ; the parish curate , Alexander ; Armado's page , Hercules ; the pedant , Judas Maccab us :
15803 And if these four Worthies in their first show thrive ,
15804 These four will change habits and present the other five .
15805
15806 There is five in the first show .
15807
15808 You are deceived , 'tis not so .
15809
15810 The pedant , the braggart , the hedgepriest , the fool , and the boy :
15811 Abate throw at novum , and the whole world again
15812 Cannot pick out five such , take each one in his vein .
15813
15814 The ship is under sail , and here she comes amain .
15815
15816
15817 I Pompey am ,
15818
15819 You lie , you are not he .
15820
15821 I Pompey am ,
15822
15823 With libbard's head on knee .
15824
15825 Well said , old mocker : I must needs be friends with thee .
15826
15827 I Pompey am , Pompey surnam'd the Big ,
15828
15829 'The Great .'
15830
15831 It is 'Great ,' sir ; Pompey surnam'd the Great ;
15832 That oft in field , with targe and shield , did make my foe to sweat :
15833 And travelling along this coast , I here am come by chance ,
15834 And lay my arms before the legs of this sweet lass of France .
15835 If your ladyship would say , 'Thanks , Pompey ,' I had done .
15836
15837 Great thanks , great Pompey .
15838
15839 'Tis not so much worth ; but I hope I was perfect . I made a little fault in 'Great .'
15840
15841 My hat to a halfpenny , Pompey proves the best Worthy .
15842
15843
15844 When in the world I liv'd , I was the world's commander ;
15845 By east , west , north , and south , I spread my conquering might :
15846 My scutcheon plain declares that I am Alisander ,
15847
15848 Your nose says , no , you are not ; for it stands too right .
15849
15850 Your nose smells 'no ,' in this , most tender-smelling knight .
15851
15852 The conqueror is dismay'd . Proceed , good Alexander .
15853
15854 When in the world I liv'd , I was the world's commander ;
15855
15856 Most true ; 'tis right : you were so , Alisander .
15857
15858 Pompey the Great ,
15859
15860 Your servant , and Costard .
15861
15862 Take away the conqueror , take away Alisander .
15863
15864
15865 There , an't shall please you : a foolish mild man ; an honest man , look you , and soon dashed ! He is a marvellous good neighbour , faith , and a very good bowler ; but , for Alisander ,alas , you see how 'tis ,a little o'erparted . But there are Worthies a-coming will speak their mind in some other sort .
15866
15867 Stand aside , good Pompey .
15868
15869
15870 Great Hercules is presented by this imp ,
15871 Whose club kill'd Cerberus , that three-headed canis ;
15872 And , when he was a babe , a child , a shrimp ,
15873 Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus .
15874 Quoniam , he seemeth in minority ,
15875 Ergo , I come with this apology .
15876 Keep some state in thy exit , and vanish .
15877
15878 Judas I am .
15879
15880 A Judas !
15881
15882 Not Iscariot , sir .
15883 Judas I am , ycleped Maccab us .
15884
15885 Judas Maccab us clipt is plain Judas .
15886
15887 A kissing traitor . How art thou prov'd Judas ?
15888
15889 Judas I am .
15890
15891 The more shame for you , Judas .
15892
15893 What mean you , sir ?
15894
15895 To make Judas hang himself .
15896
15897 Begin , sir ; you are my elder .
15898
15899 Well follow'd : Judas was hanged on an elder .
15900
15901 I will not be put out of countenance .
15902
15903 Because thou hast no face .
15904
15905 What is this ?
15906
15907 A cittern-head .
15908
15909 The head of a bodkin .
15910
15911 A death's face in a ring .
15912
15913 The face of an old Roman coin , scarce seen .
15914
15915 The pommel of C sar's falchion .
15916
15917 The carved-bone face on a flask .
15918
15919 Saint George's half-cheek in a brooch .
15920
15921 Ay , and in a brooch of lead .
15922
15923 Ay , and worn in the cap of a toothdrawer .
15924 And now forward ; for we have put thee in countenance .
15925
15926 You have put me out of countenance .
15927
15928 False : we have given thee faces .
15929
15930 But you have outfaced them all .
15931
15932 An thou wert a lion , we would do so .
15933
15934 Therefore , as he is an ass , let him go .
15935 And so adieu , sweet Jude ! nay , why dost thou stay ?
15936
15937 For the latter end of his name .
15938
15939 For the ass to the Jude ? give it him :Jud-as , away !
15940
15941 This is not generous , not gentle , not humble .
15942
15943 A light for Monsieur Judas ! it grows dark , he may stumble .
15944
15945 Alas ! poor Maccab us , how hath he been baited .
15946
15947
15948 Hide thy head , Achilles : here comes Hector in arms .
15949
15950 Though my mocks come home by me , I will now be merry .
15951
15952 Hector was but a Troyan in respect of this .
15953
15954 But is this Hector ?
15955
15956 I think Hector was not so clean-timbered .
15957
15958 His calf is too big for Hector .
15959
15960 More calf , certain .
15961
15962 No ; he is best indued in the small .
15963
15964 This cannot be Hector .
15965
15966 He's a god or a painter ; for he makes faces .
15967
15968 The armipotent Mars , of lances the almighty ,
15969 Gave Hector a gift ,
15970
15971 A gilt nutmeg .
15972
15973 A lemon .
15974
15975 Stuck with cloves .
15976
15977 No , cloven .
15978
15979 Peace !
15980 The armipotent Mars , of lances the almighty , Gave Hector a gift , the heir of Ilion ;
15981 A man so breath'd , that certain he would fight ye
15982 From morn till night , out of his pavilion .
15983 I am that flower ,
15984
15985 That mint .
15986
15987 That columbine .
15988
15989 Sweet Lord Longaville , rein thy tongue .
15990
15991 I must rather give it the rein , for it runs against Hector .
15992
15993 Ay , and Hector's a greyhound .
15994
15995 The sweet war-man is dead and rotten ; sweet chucks , beat not the bones of the buried ; when he breathed , he was a man . But I will forward with my device .
15996
15997 Sweet royalty , bestow on me the sense of hearing .
15998
15999 Speak , brave Hector ; we are much delighted .
16000
16001 I do adore thy sweet Grace's slipper .
16002
16003 Loves her by the foot .
16004
16005 He may not by the yard .
16006
16007 This Hector far surmounted Hannibal ,
16008
16009 The party is gone ; fellow Hector , she is gone ; she is two months on her way .
16010
16011 What meanest thou ?
16012
16013 Faith , unless you play the honest Troyan , the poor wench is cast away : she's quick ; the child brags in her belly already : 'tis yours .
16014
16015 Dost thou infamonize me among potentates ? Thou shalt die .
16016
16017 Then shall Hector be whipped for Jaquenetta that is quick by him , and hanged for Pompey that is dead by him .
16018
16019 Most rare Pompey !
16020
16021 Renowned Pompey !
16022
16023 Greater than great , great , great , great Pompey ! Pompey the Huge !
16024
16025 Hector trembles .
16026
16027 Pompey is moved . More Ates , more Ates ! stir them on ! stir them on !
16028
16029 Hector will challenge him .
16030
16031 Ay , if a' have no more man's blood in's belly than will sup a flea .
16032
16033 By the north pole , I do challenge thee .
16034
16035 I will not fight with a pole , like a northern man : I'll slash ; I'll do it by the sword . I bepray you , let me borrow my arms again .
16036
16037 Room for the incensed Worthies !
16038
16039 I'll do it in my shirt .
16040
16041 Most resolute Pompey !
16042
16043 Master , let me take you a button-hole lower . Do you not see Pompey is uncasing for the combat ? What mean you ? you will lose your reputation .
16044
16045 Gentlemen and soldiers , pardon me ; I will not combat in my shirt .
16046
16047 You may not deny it ; Pompey hath made the challenge .
16048
16049 Sweet bloods , I both may and will .
16050
16051 What reason have you for't ?
16052
16053 The naked truth of it is , I have no shirt . I go woolward for penance .
16054
16055 True , and it was enjoined him in Rome for want of linen ; since when , I'll be sworn , he wore none but a dish-clout of Jaquenetta's , and that a' wears next his heart for a favour .
16056
16057
16058 God save you , madam !
16059
16060 Welcome , Marcade ;
16061 But that thou interrupt'st our merriment .
16062
16063 I am sorry , madam ; for the news I bring
16064 Is heavy in my tongue . The king your father
16065
16066 Dead , for my life !
16067
16068 Even so : my tale is told .
16069
16070 Worthies , away ! The scene begins to cloud .
16071
16072 For my own part , I breathe free breath . I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion , and I will right myself like a soldier .
16073
16074
16075 How fares your majesty ?
16076
16077 Boyet , prepare : I will away to-night .
16078
16079 Madam , not so : I do beseech you , stay .
16080
16081 Prepare , I say . I thank you , gracious lords ,
16082 For all your fair endeavours ; and entreat ,
16083 Out of a new-sad soul , that you vouchsafe
16084 In your rich wisdom to excuse or hide
16085 The liberal opposition of our spirits ,
16086 If over-boldly we have borne ourselves
16087 In the converse of breath ; your gentleness
16088 Was guilty of it . Farewell , worthy lord !
16089 A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue ,
16090 Excuse me so , coming so short of thanks
16091 For my great suit so easily obtain'd .
16092
16093 The extreme part of time extremely forms
16094 All causes to the purpose of his speed ,
16095 And often , at his very loose , decides
16096 That which long process could not arbitrate :
16097 And though the mourning brow of progeny
16098 Forbid the smiling courtesy of love
16099 The holy suit which fain it would convince ;
16100 Yet , since love's argument was first on foot ,
16101 Let not the cloud of sorrow justle it
16102 From what it purpos'd ; since , to wail friends lost
16103 Is not by much so wholesome-profitable
16104 As to rejoice at friends but newly found .
16105
16106 I understand you not : my griefs are double .
16107
16108 Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief ;
16109 And by these badges understand the king .
16110 For your fair sakes have we neglected time ,
16111 Play'd foul play with our oaths . Your beauty , ladies ,
16112 Hath much deform'd us , fashioning our humours
16113 Even to the opposed end of our intents ;
16114 And what in us hath seem'd ridiculous ,
16115 As love is full of unbefitting strains ;
16116 All wanton as a child , skipping and vain ;
16117 Form'd by the eye , and , therefore , like the eye ,
16118 Full of stray shapes , of habits and of forms ,
16119 Varying in subjects , as the eye doth roll
16120 To every varied object in his glance :
16121 Which parti-coated presence of loose love
16122 Put on by us , if , in your heavenly eyes ,
16123 Have misbecome our oaths and gravities ,
16124 Those heavenly eyes , that look into these faults ,
16125 Suggested us to make . Therefore , ladies ,
16126 Our love being yours , the error that love makes
16127 Is likewise yours : we to ourselves prove false ,
16128 By being once false for ever to be true
16129 To those that make us both ,fair ladies , you :
16130 And even that falsehood , in itself a sin ,
16131 Thus purifies itself and turns to grace .
16132
16133 We have receiv'd your letters full of love ;
16134 Your favours , the embassadors of love ;
16135 And , in our maiden council , rated them
16136 At courtship , pleasant jest , and courtesy ,
16137 As bombast and as lining to the time .
16138 But more devout than this in our respects
16139 Have we not been ; and therefore met your loves
16140 In their own fashion , like a merriment .
16141
16142 Our letters , madam , show'd much more than jest .
16143
16144 So did our looks .
16145
16146 We did not quote them so .
16147
16148 Now , at the latest minute of the hour ,
16149 Grant us your loves .
16150
16151 A time , methinks , too short
16152 To make a world-without-end bargain in .
16153 No , no , my lord , your Grace is perjur'd much ,
16154 Full of dear guiltiness ; and therefore this :
16155 If for my love ,as there is no such cause ,
16156 You will do aught , this shall you do for me :
16157 Your oath I will not trust ; but go with speed
16158 To some forlorn and naked hermitage ,
16159 Remote from all the pleasures of the world ;
16160 There stay , until the twelve celestial signs
16161 Have brought about their annual reckoning .
16162 If this austere insociable life
16163 Change not your offer made in heat of blood ;
16164 If frosts and fasts , hard lodging and thin weeds ,
16165 Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love ,
16166 But that it bear this trial and last love ;
16167 Then , at the expiration of the year ,
16168 Come challenge me , challenge me by these deserts ,
16169 And , by this virgin palm now kissing thine ,
16170 I will be thine ; and , till that instant , shut
16171 My woful self up in a mourning house ,
16172 Raining the tears of lamentation
16173 For the remembrance of my father's death .
16174 If this thou do deny , let our hands part ;
16175 Neither intitled in the other's heart .
16176
16177 If this , or more than this , I would deny ,
16178 To flatter up these powers of mine with rest ,
16179 The sudden hand of death close up mine eye !
16180 Hence ever then my heart is in thy breast .
16181
16182 And what to me , my love ? and what to me ?
16183
16184 You must be purged too , your sins are rack'd :
16185 You are attaint with faults and perjury ;
16186 Therefore , if you my favour mean to get ,
16187 A twelvemonth shall you spend , and never rest ,
16188 But seek the weary beds of people sick .
16189
16190 But what to me , my love ? but what to me ?
16191
16192 A wife ! A beard , fair health , and honesty ;
16193 With three-fold love I wish you all these three .
16194
16195 O ! shall I say , I thank you , gentle wife ?
16196
16197 Not so , my lord . A twelvemonth and a day
16198 I'll mark no words that smooth-fac'd wooers say :
16199 Come when the king doth to my lady come ;
16200 Then , if I have much love , I'll give you some .
16201
16202 I'll serve thee true and faithfully till then .
16203
16204 Yet swear not , lest you be forsworn again .
16205
16206 What says Maria ?
16207
16208 At the twelvemonth's end
16209 I'll change my black gown for a faithful friend .
16210
16211 I'll stay with patience ; but the time is long .
16212
16213 The liker you ; few taller are so young .
16214
16215 Studies my lady ? mistress , look on me .
16216 Behold the window of my heart , mine eye ,
16217 What humble suit attends thy answer there ;
16218 Impose some service on me for thy love .
16219
16220 Oft have I heard of you , my Lord Berowne ,
16221 Before I saw you , and the world's large tongue
16222 Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks ;
16223 Full of comparisons and wounding flouts ,
16224 Which you on all estates will execute
16225 That lie within the mercy of your wit :
16226 To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain ,
16227 And therewithal to win me , if you please ,
16228 Without the which I am not to be won ,
16229 You shall this twelvemonth term , from day to day ,
16230 Visit the speechless sick , and still converse
16231 With groaning wretches ; and your task shall be ,
16232 With all the fierce endeavour of your wit
16233 To enforce the pained impotent to smile .
16234
16235 To move wild laughter in the throat of death ?
16236 It cannot be ; it is impossible :
16237 Mirth cannot move a soul in agony .
16238
16239 Why , that's the way to choke a gibing spirit ,
16240 Whose influence is begot of that loose grace
16241 Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools .
16242 A jest's prosperity lics in the ear
16243 Of him that hears it , never in the tongue
16244 Of him that makes it : then , if sickly ears ,
16245 Deaf'd with the clamours of their own dear groans ,
16246 Will hear your idle scorns , continue them ,
16247 And I will have you and that fault withal ;
16248 But if they will not , throw away that spirit ,
16249 And I shall find you empty of that fault ,
16250 Right joyful of your reformation .
16251
16252 A twelvemonth ! well , befall what will befall ,
16253 I'll jest a twelvemonth in a hospital .
16254
16255 Ay , sweet my lord ; and so I take my leave .
16256
16257 No , madam ; we will bring you on your way .
16258
16259 Our wooing doth not end like an old play ;
16260 Jack hath not Jill ; these ladies' courtesy
16261 Might well have made our sport a comedy .
16262
16263 Come , sir , it wants a twelvemonth and a day ,
16264 And then 'twill end .
16265
16266 That's too long for a play .
16267
16268
16269 Sweet majesty , vouchsafe me ,
16270
16271 Was not that Hector ?
16272
16273 The worthy knight of Troy .
16274
16275 I will kiss thy royal finger , and take leave . I am a votary ; I have vowed to Jaquenetta to hold the plough for her sweet love three years . But , most esteemed greatness , will you hear the dialogue that the two learned men have compiled in praise of the owl and the cuckoo ? it should have followed in the end of our show .
16276
16277 Call them forth quickly ; we will do so .
16278
16279 Holla ! approach .
16280
16281
16282 This side is Hiems , Winter ; this Ver , the Spring ; the one maintained by the owl , the other by the cuckoo . Ver , begin .
16283
16284 SPRING .
16285
16286
16287 I
16288
16289 When daisies pied and violets blue
16290 And lady-smocks all silver-white
16291 And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
16292 Do paint the meadows with delight ,
16293 The cuckoo then , on every tree ,
16294 Mocks married men ; for thus sings he ,
16295 Cuckoo ,
16296 Cuckoo , cuckoo : O , word of fear ,
16297 Unpleasing to a married ear !
16298
16299 II .
16300
16301 When shepherds pipe on oaten straws ,
16302 And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks ,
16303 When turtles tread , and rooks , and daws ,
16304 And maidens bleach their summer smocks ,
16305 The cuckoo then , on every tree ,
16306 Mocks married men ; for thus sings he ,
16307 Cuckoo ;
16308 Cuckoo , cuckoo : O , word of fear ,
16309 Unpleasing to a married ear !
16310
16311 WINTER .
16312
16313
16314 III .
16315
16316 When icicles hang by the wall ,
16317 And Dick the shepherd blows his nail ,
16318 And Tom bears logs into the hall ,
16319 And milk comes frozen home in pail ,
16320 When blood is nipp'd , and ways be foul ,
16321 Then nightly sings the staring owl ,
16322 Tu-who ;
16323 Tu-whit , tu-who a merry note ,
16324 While greasy Joan doth keel the pot .
16325
16326 IV
16327
16328 When all aloud the wind doth blow ,
16329 And coughing drowns the parson's saw ,
16330 And birds sit brooding in the snow ,
16331 And Marian's nose looks red and raw ,
16332 When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl ,
16333 Then nightly sings the staring owl ,
16334 Tu-who ;
16335 Tu-whit , tu-who a merry note ,
16336 While greasy Joan doth keel the pot .
16337
16338
16339 The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo . You , that way : we , this way .
16340
16341 MEASURE FOR MEASURE
16342
16343 Escalus .
16344
16345 My lord ?
16346
16347 Of government the properties to unfold ,
16348 Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse ,
16349 Since I am put to know that your own science
16350 Exceeds , in that , the lists of all advice
16351 My strength can give you : then no more remains ,
16352 But that , to your sufficiency , as your worth is able ,
16353 And let them work . The nature of our people ,
16354 Our city's institutions , and the terms
16355 For common justice , you're as pregnant in ,
16356 As art and practice hath enriched any
16357 That we remember . There is our commission ,
16358
16359 From which we would not have you warp . Call hither ,
16360 I say , bid come before us Angelo .
16361
16362 What figure of us think you he will bear ?
16363 For you must know , we have with special soul
16364 Elected him our absence to supply ,
16365 Lent him our terror , drest him with our love ,
16366 And given his deputation all the organs
16367 Of our own power : what think you of it ?
16368
16369 If any in Vienna be of worth
16370 To undergo such ample grace and honour ,
16371 It is Lord Angelo .
16372
16373 Look where he comes .
16374
16375
16376 Always obedient to your Grace's will ,
16377 I come to know your pleasure .
16378
16379 Angelo ,
16380 There is a kind of character in thy life ,
16381 That , to th' observer doth thy history
16382 Fully unfold . Thyself and thy belongings
16383 Are not thine own so proper , as to waste
16384 Thyself upon thy virtues , they on thee .
16385 Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ,
16386 Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues
16387 Did not go forth of us , 'twere all alike
16388 As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd
16389 But to fine issues , nor Nature never lends
16390 The smallest scruple of her excellence ,
16391 But , like a thrifty goddess , she determines
16392 Herself the glory of a creditor ,
16393 Both thanks and use . But I do bend my speech
16394 To one that can my part in him advertise ;
16395 Hold , therefore , Angelo :
16396
16397 In our remove be thou at full ourself ;
16398 Mortality and mercy in Vienna
16399 Live in thy tongue and heart . Old Escalus ,
16400 Though first in question , is thy secondary .
16401 Take thy commission .
16402
16403
16404 Now , good my lord ,
16405 Let there be some more test made of my metal ,
16406 Before so noble and so great a figure
16407 Be stamp'd upon it .
16408
16409 No more evasion :
16410 We have with a leaven'd and prepared choice
16411 Proceeded to you ; therefore take your honours .
16412 Our haste from hence is of so quick condition
16413 That it prefers itself , and leaves unquestion'd
16414 Matters of needful value . We shall write to you ,
16415 As time and our concernings shall importune ,
16416 How it goes with us ; and do look to know
16417 What doth befall you here . So , fare you well :
16418 To the hopeful execution do I leave you
16419 Of your commissions .
16420
16421 Yet , give leave , my lord ,
16422 That we may bring you something on the way .
16423
16424 My haste may not admit it ;
16425 Nor need you , on mine honour , have to do
16426 With any scruple : your scope is as mine own ,
16427 So to enforce or qualify the laws
16428 As to your soul seems good . Give me your hand ;
16429 I'll privily away : I love the people ,
16430 But do not like to stage me to their eyes .
16431 Though it do well , I do not relish well
16432 Their loud applause and Aves vehement ,
16433 Nor do I think the man of safe discretion
16434 That does affect it . Once more , fare you well .
16435
16436 The heavens give safety to your purposes !
16437
16438 Lead forth and bring you back in happiness !
16439
16440 I thank you . Fare you well .
16441
16442
16443 I shall desire you , sir , to give me leave
16444 To have free speech with you ; and it concerns me
16445 To look into the bottom of my place :
16446 A power I have , but of what strength and nature
16447 I am not yet instructed .
16448
16449 'Tis so with me . Let us withdraw together ,
16450 And we may soon our satisfaction have
16451 Touching that point .
16452
16453 I'll wait upon your honour .
16454
16455
16456 If the Duke with the other dukes come not to composition with the King of Hungary , why then , all the dukes fall upon the king .
16457
16458 Heaven grant us its peace , but not the King of Hungary's !
16459
16460 Amen .
16461
16462 Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate , that went to sea with the Ten Commandments , but scraped one out of the table .
16463
16464 'Thou shalt not steal ?'
16465
16466 Ay , that he razed .
16467
16468 Why , 'twas a commandment to command the captain and all the rest from their functions : they put forth to steal . There's not a soldier of us all , that , in the thanksgiving before meat , doth relish the petition well that prays for peace .
16469
16470 I never heard any soldier dislike it .
16471
16472 I believe thee , for I think thou never wast where grace was said .
16473
16474 No ? a dozen times at least .
16475
16476 What , in metre ?
16477
16478 In any proportion or in any language .
16479
16480 I think , or in any religion .
16481
16482 Ay ; why not ? Grace is grace , despite of all controversy : as , for example , thou thyself art a wicked villain , despite of all grace .
16483
16484 Well , there went but a pair of shears between us .
16485
16486 I grant ; as there may between the lists and the velvet : thou art the list .
16487
16488 And thou the velvet : thou art good velvet ; thou art a three-piled piece , I warrant thee . I had as lief be a list of an English kersey as be piled , as thou art piled , for a French velvet . Do I speak feelingly now ?
16489
16490 I think thou dost ; and , indeed , with most painful feeling of thy speech : I will , out of thine own confession , learn to begin thy health ; but , whilst I live , forget to drink after thee .
16491
16492 I think I have done myself wrong , have I not ?
16493
16494 Yes , that thou hast , whether thou art tainted or free .
16495
16496 Behold , behold , where Madam Mitigation comes ! I have purchased as many diseases under her roof as come to
16497
16498 To what , I pray ?
16499
16500 Judge .
16501
16502 To three thousand dolours a year .
16503
16504 Ay , and more .
16505
16506 A French crown more .
16507
16508 Thou art always figuring diseases in me ; but thou art full of error : I am sound .
16509
16510 Nay , not as one would say , healthy ; but so sound as things that are hollow : thy bones are hollow ; impiety has made a feast of thee .
16511
16512
16513 How now ! which of your hips has the most profound sciatica ?
16514
16515 Well , well ; there's one yonder arrested and carried to prison was worth five thousand of you all .
16516
16517 Who's that , I pray thee ?
16518
16519 Marry , sir , that's Claudio , Signior Claudio .
16520
16521 Claudio to prison ! 'tis not so .
16522
16523 Nay , but I know 'tis so : I saw him arrested ; saw him carried away ; and , which is more , within these three days his head to be chopped off .
16524
16525 But , after all this fooling , I would not have it so . Art thou sure of this ?
16526
16527 I am too sure of it ; and it is for getting Madam Julietta with child .
16528
16529 Believe me , this may be : he promised to meet me two hours since , and he was ever precise in promise-keeping .
16530
16531 Besides , you know , it draws something near to the speech we had to such a purpose .
16532
16533 But most of all , agreeing with the proclamation .
16534
16535 Away ! let's go learn the truth of it .
16536
16537
16538 Thus , what with the war , what with the sweat , what with the gallows and what with poverty , I am custom-shrunk .
16539
16540 How now ! what's the news with you ?
16541
16542 Yonder man is carried to prison .
16543
16544 Well : what has he done ?
16545
16546 A woman .
16547
16548 But what's his offence ?
16549
16550 Groping for trouts in a peculiar river .
16551
16552 What , is there a maid with child by him ?
16553
16554 No ; but there's a woman with maid by him . You have not heard of the proclamation , have you ?
16555
16556 What proclamation , man ?
16557
16558 All houses of resort in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down
16559
16560 And what shall become of those in the city ?
16561
16562 They shall stand for seed : they had gone down too , but that a wise burgher put in for them .
16563
16564 But shall all our houses of resort in the suburbs be pulled down ?
16565
16566 To the ground , mistress .
16567
16568 Why , here's a change indeed in the commonwealth ! What shall become of me ?
16569
16570 Come ; fear not you : good counsellors lack no clients : though you change your place , you need not change your trade ; I'll be your tapster still . Courage ! there will be pity taken on you ; you that have worn your eyes almost out in the service , you will be considered .
16571
16572 What's to do here , Thomas tapster ?
16573 Let's withdraw .
16574
16575 Here comes Signior Claudio , led by the provost to prison ; and there's Madam Juliet .
16576
16577 Fellow , why dost thou show me thus to the world ?
16578 Bear me to prison , where I am committed .
16579
16580 I do it not in evil disposition ,
16581 But from Lord Angelo by special charge .
16582
16583 Thus can the demi-god Authority
16584 Make us pay down for our offence' by weight .
16585 The words of heaven ; on whom it will , it will ;
16586 On whom it will not , so : yet still 'tis just .
16587
16588
16589 Why , how now , Claudio ! whence comes this restraint ?
16590
16591 From too much liberty , my Lucio , liberty :
16592 As surfeit is the father of much fast ,
16593 So every scope by the immoderate use
16594 Turns to restraint . Our natures do pursue
16595 Like rats that ravin down their proper bane ,
16596 A thirsty evil , and when we drink we die .
16597
16598 If I could speak so wisely under an arrest , I would send for certain of my creditors . And yet , to say the truth , I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment . What's thy offence , Claudio ?
16599
16600 What but to speak of would offend again .
16601
16602 What , is't murder ?
16603
16604 No .
16605
16606 Lechery ?
16607
16608 Call it so .
16609
16610 Away , sir ! you must go .
16611
16612 One word , good friend . Lucio , a word with you .
16613
16614
16615 A hundred , if they'll do you any good .
16616 Is lechery so looked after ?
16617
16618 Thus stands it with me : upon a true contract
16619 I got possession of Julietta's bed :
16620 You know the lady ; she is fast my wife ,
16621 Save that we do the denunciation lack
16622 Of outward order : this we came not to ,
16623 Only for propagation of a dower
16624 Remaining in the coffer of her friends ,
16625 From whom we thought it meet to hide our love
16626 Till time had made them for us . But it chances
16627 The stealth of our most mutual entertainment
16628 With character too gross is writ on Juliet .
16629
16630 With child , perhaps ?
16631
16632 Unhappily , even so .
16633 And the new deputy now for the duke ,
16634 Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness ,
16635 Or whether that the body public be
16636 A horse whereon the governor doth ride ,
16637 Who , newly in the seat , that it may know
16638 He can command , lets it straight feel the spur ;
16639 Whether the tyranny be in his place ,
16640 Or in his eminence that fills it up ,
16641 I stagger in :but this new governor
16642 Awakes me all the enrolled penalties
16643 Which have , like unscour'd armour , hung by the wall
16644 So long that nineteen zodiacs have gone round ,
16645 And none of them been worn ; and , for a name ,
16646 Now puts the drowsy and neglected act
16647 Freshly on me : 'tis surely for a name .
16648
16649 I warrant it is : and thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders that a milkmaid , if she be in love , may sigh it off . Send after the duke and appeal to him .
16650
16651 I have done so , but he's not to be found .
16652 I prithee , Lucio , do me this kind service .
16653 This day my sister should the cloister enter ,
16654 And there receive her approbation :
16655 Acquaint her with the danger of my state ;
16656 Implore her , in my voice , that she make friends
16657 To the strict deputy ; bid herself assay him :
16658 I have great hope in that ; for in her youth
16659 There is a prone and speechless dialect ,
16660 Such as move men ; beside , she hath prosperous art
16661 When she will play with reason and discourse ,
16662 And well she can persuade .
16663
16664 I pray she may : as well for the encouragement of the like , which else would stand under grievous imposition , as for the enjoying of thy life , who I would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a game of tick-tack . I'll to her .
16665
16666 I thank you , good friend Lucio .
16667
16668 Within two hours .
16669
16670 Come , officer , away !
16671
16672
16673 No , holy father ; throw away that thought :
16674 Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
16675 Can pierce a complete bosom . Why I desire thee
16676 To give me secret harbour , hath a purpose
16677 More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends
16678 Of burning youth .
16679
16680 May your Grace speak of it ?
16681
16682 My holy sir , none better knows than you
16683 How I have ever lov'd the life remov'd ,
16684 And held in idle price to haunt assemblies
16685 Where youth , and cost , and witless bravery keeps .
16686 I have deliver'd to Lord Angelo
16687 A man of stricture and firm abstinence
16688 My absolute power and place here in Vienna ,
16689 And he supposes me travell'd to Poland ;
16690 For so I have strew'd it in the common ear ,
16691 And so it is receiv'd . Now , pious sir ,
16692 You will demand of me why I do this ?
16693
16694 Gladly , my lord .
16695
16696 We have strict statutes and most biting laws ,
16697 The needful bits and curbs to headstrong steeds ,
16698 Which for this fourteen years we have let sleep ;
16699 Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave ,
16700 That goes not out to prey . Now , as fond fathers ,
16701 Having bound up the threat'ning twigs of birch ,
16702 Only to stick it in their children's sight
16703 For terror , not to use , in time the rod
16704 Becomes more mock'd than fear'd ; so our decrees ,
16705 Dead to infliction , to themselves are dead ,
16706 And liberty plucks justice by the nose ;
16707 The baby beats the nurse , and quite athwart
16708 Goes all decorum .
16709
16710 It rested in your Grace
16711 T' unloose this tied-up justice when you pleas'd ;
16712 And it in you more dreadful would have seem'd
16713 Than in Lord Angelo .
16714
16715 I do fear , too dreadful :
16716 Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope ,
16717 'Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them
16718 For what I bid them do : for we bid this be done ,
16719 When evil deeds have their permissive pass
16720 And not the punishment . Therefore , indeed , my father ,
16721 I have on Angelo impos'd the office ,
16722 Who may , in the ambush of my name , strike home ,
16723 And yet my nature never in the sight
16724 To do it slander . And to behold his sway ,
16725 I will , as 'twere a brother of your order ,
16726 Visit both prince and people : therefore , I prithee ,
16727 Supply me with the habit , and instruct me
16728 How I may formally in person bear me
16729 Like a true friar . Moe reasons for this action
16730 At our more leisure shall I render you ;
16731 Only , this one : Lord Angelo is precise ;
16732 Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce confesses
16733 That his blood flows , or that his appetite
16734 Is more to bread than stone : hence shall we see ,
16735 If power change purpose , what our seemers be .
16736
16737
16738 And have you nuns no further privileges ?
16739
16740 Are not these large enough ?
16741
16742 Yes , truly : I speak not as desiring more ,
16743 But rather wishing a more strict restraint
16744 Upon the sisterhood , the votarists of Saint Clare .
16745
16746 Ho ! Peace be in this place !
16747
16748 Who's that which calls ?
16749
16750 It is a man's voice . Gentle Isabella ,
16751 Turn you the key , and know his business of him :
16752 You may , I may not ; you are yet unsworn .
16753 When you have vow'd , you must not speak with men
16754 But in the presence of the prioress :
16755 Then , if you speak , you must not show your face ,
16756 Or , if you show your face , you must not speak .
16757 He calls again ; I pray you , answer him .
16758
16759
16760 Peace and prosperity ! Who is't that calls ?
16761
16762
16763 Hail , virgin , if you be , as those cheek-roses
16764 Proclaim you are no less ! Can you so stead me
16765 As bring me to the sight of Isabella ,
16766 A novice of this place , and the fair sister
16767 To her unhappy brother Claudio ?
16768
16769 Why 'her unhappy brother ?' let me ask ;
16770 The rather for I now must make you know
16771 I am that Isabella and his sister .
16772
16773 Gentle and fair , your brother kindly greets you :
16774 Not to be weary with you , he's in prison .
16775
16776 Woe me ! for what ?
16777
16778 For that which , if myself might be his judge ,
16779 He should receive his punishment in thanks :
16780 He hath got his friend with child .
16781
16782 Sir , make me not your story .
16783
16784 It is true .
16785 I would not , though 'tis my familiar sin
16786 With maids to seem the lapwing and to jest ,
16787 Tongue far from heart , play with all virgins so :
16788 I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted ;
16789 By your renouncement an immortal spirit ,
16790 And to be talk'd with in sincerity ,
16791 As with a saint .
16792
16793 You do blaspheme the good in mocking me .
16794
16795 Do not believe it . Fewness and truth , 'tis thus :
16796 Your brother and his lover have embrac'd :
16797 As those that feed grow full , as blossoming time
16798 That from the seedness the bare fallow brings
16799 To teeming foison , even so her plenteous womb
16800 Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry .
16801
16802 Some one with child by him ? My cousin Juliet ?
16803
16804 Is she your cousin ?
16805
16806 Adoptedly ; asschool-maids change their names
16807 By vain , though apt affection .
16808
16809 She it is .
16810
16811 O ! let him marry her .
16812
16813 This is the point .
16814 The duke is very strangely gone from hence ;
16815 Bore many gentlemen , myself being one ,
16816 In hand and hope of action ; but we do learn
16817 By those that know the very nerves of state ,
16818 His givings out were of an infinite distance
16819 From his true-meant design . Upon his place ,
16820 And with full line of his authority ,
16821 Governs Lord Angelo ; a man whose blood
16822 Is very snow-broth ; one who never feels
16823 The wanton stings and motions of the sense ,
16824 But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge
16825 With profits of the mind , study and fast .
16826 He ,to give fear to use and liberty ,
16827 Which have for long run by the hideous law ,
16828 As mice by lions , hath pick'd out an act ,
16829 Under whose heavy sense your brother's life
16830 Falls into forfeit : he arrests him on it ,
16831 And follows close the rigour of the statute ,
16832 To make him an example . All hope is gone ,
16833 Unless you have the grace by your fair prayer
16834 To soften Angelo ; and that's my pith of business
16835 Twixt you and your poor brother .
16836
16837 Doth he so seek his life ?
16838
16839 He's censur'd him
16840 Already ; and , as I hear , the provost hath
16841 A warrant for his execution .
16842
16843 Alas ! what poor ability's in me
16844 To do him good ?
16845
16846 Assay the power you have .
16847
16848 My power ? alas ! I doubt
16849
16850 Our doubts are traitors ,
16851 And make us lose the good we oft might win ,
16852 By fearing to attempt . Go to Lord Angelo ,
16853 And let him learn to know , when maidens sue ,
16854 Men give like gods ; but when they weep and kneel ,
16855 All their petitions are as freely theirs
16856 As they themselves would owe them .
16857
16858 I'll see what I can do .
16859
16860 But speedily .
16861
16862 I will about it straight ;
16863 No longer staying but to give the Mother
16864 Notice of my affair . I humbly thank you :
16865 Commend me to my brother ; soon at night
16866 I'll send him certain word of my success .
16867
16868 I take my leave of you .
16869
16870 Good sir , adieu .
16871
16872 We must not make a scarecrow of the law ,
16873 Setting it up to fear the birds of prey ,
16874 And let it keep one shape , till custom make it
16875 Their perch and not their terror .
16876
16877 Ay , but yet
16878 Let us be keen and rather cut a little ,
16879 Than fall , and bruise to death . Alas ! this gentleman ,
16880 Whom I would save , had a most noble father .
16881 Let but your honour know ,
16882 Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue ,
16883 That , in the working of your own affections ,
16884 Had time coher'd with place or place with wishing ,
16885 Or that the resolute acting of your blood
16886 Could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose ,
16887 Whether you had not , some time in your life ,
16888 Err'd in this point which now you censure him ,
16889 And pull'd the law upon you .
16890
16891 'Tis one thing to be tempted , Escalus ,
16892 Another thing to fall . I not deny ,
16893 The jury , passing on the prisoner's life ,
16894 May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
16895 Guiltier than him they try ; what's open made to justice ,
16896 That justice seizes : what know the laws
16897 That thieves do pass on thieves ? 'Tis very pregnant ,
16898 The jewel that we find , we stoop and take it
16899 Because we see it ; but what we do not see
16900 We tread upon , and never think of it .
16901 You may not so extenuate his offence
16902 For I have had such faults ; but rather tell me ,
16903 When I , that censure him , do so offend ,
16904 Let mine own judgment pattern out my death ,
16905 And nothing come in partial . Sir , he must die .
16906
16907 Be it as your wisdom will .
16908
16909 Where is the provost ?
16910
16911 Here , if it like your honour .
16912
16913 See that Claudio
16914 Be executed by nine to-morrow morning :
16915 Bring him his confessor , let him be prepar'd ;
16916 For that's the utmost of his pilgrimage .
16917
16918
16919 Well , heaven forgive him , and forgive us all !
16920 Some rise by sin , and some by virtue fall :
16921 Some run from brakes of ice , and answer none ,
16922 And some condemned for a fault alone .
16923
16924
16925 Come , bring them away : if these be good people in a common-weal that do nothing but use their abuses in common houses , I know no law : bring them away .
16926
16927 How now , sir ! What's your name , and what's the matter ?
16928
16929 If it please your honour , I am the poor duke's constable , and my name is Elbow : I do lean upon justice , sir ; and do bring in here before your good honour two notorious benefactors .
16930
16931 Benefactors ! Well ; what benefactors are they ? are they not malefactors ?
16932
16933 If it please your honour , I know not well what they are ; but precise villains they are , that I am sure of , and void of all profanation in the world that good Christians ought to have .
16934
16935 This comes off well : here's a wise officer .
16936
16937 Go to : what quality are they of ? Elbow is your name ? why dost thou not speak , Elbow ?
16938
16939 He cannot , sir : he's out at elbow .
16940
16941 What are you , sir ?
16942
16943 He , sir ! a tapster , sir ; parcel-bawd ; one that serves a bad woman , whose house , sir , was , as they say , plucked down in the suburbs ; and now she professes a hot-house , which , I think , is a very ill house too .
16944
16945 How know you that ?
16946
16947 My wife , sir , whom I detest before heaven and your honour ,
16948
16949 How ! thy wife ?
16950
16951 Ay , sir ; whom , I thank heaven , is an honest woman ,
16952
16953 Dost thou detest her therefore ?
16954
16955 I say , sir , I will detest myself also , as well as she , that this house , if it be not a bawd's house , it is pity of her life , for it is a naughty house .
16956
16957 How dost thou know that , constable ?
16958
16959 Marry , sir , by my wife ; who , if she had been a woman cardinally given , might have been accused in fornication , adultery , and all uncleanliness there .
16960
16961 By the woman's means ?
16962
16963 Ay , sir , by Mistress Overdone's means ; but as she spit in his face , so she defied him .
16964
16965 Sir , if it please your honour , this is not so .
16966
16967 Prove it before these varlets here , thou honourable man , prove it .
16968
16969 Do you hear how he misplaces ?
16970
16971 Sir , she came in , great with child , and longing ,saving your honour's reverence ,for stewed prunes . Sir , we had but two in the house , which at that very distant time stood , as it were , in a fruit-dish , a dish of some three-pence ; your honours have seen such dishes ; they are not China dishes , but very good dishes .
16972
16973 Go to , go to : no matter for the dish , sir .
16974
16975 No , indeed , sir , not of a pin ; you are therein in the right : but to the point . As I say , this Mistress Elbow , being , as I say , with child , and being great-bellied , and longing , as I said , for prunes , and having but two in the dish , as I said , Master Froth here , this very man , having eaten the rest , as I said , and , as I say , paying for them very honestly ; for , as you know , Master Froth , I could not give you three-pence again .
16976
16977 No , indeed .
16978
16979 Very well : you being then , if you be remembered , cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes ,
16980
16981 Ay , so I did , indeed .
16982
16983 Why , very well : I telling you then , if you be remembered , that such a one and such a one were past cure of the thing you wot of , unless they kept very good diet , as I told you ,
16984
16985 All this is true .
16986
16987 Why , very well then .
16988
16989 Come , you are a tedious fool : to the purpose . What was done to Elbow's wife , that he hath cause to complain of ? Come me to what was done to her .
16990
16991 Sir , your honour cannot come to that yet .
16992
16993 No , sir , nor I mean it not .
16994
16995 Sir , but you shall come to it , by your honour's leave . And , I beseech you , look into Master Froth here , sir ; a man of fourscore pound a year , whose father died at Hallowmas . Was't not at Hallowmas , Master Froth ?
16996
16997 All-hallownd eve .
16998
16999 Why , very well : I hope here be truths . He , sir , sitting , as I say , in a lower chair , sir ; 'twas in the Bunch of Grapes , where indeed , you have a delight to sit , have you not ?
17000
17001 I have so , because it is an open room and good for winter .
17002
17003 Why , very well then : I hope here be truths .
17004
17005 This will last out a night in Russia ,
17006 When nights are longest there : I'll take my leave ,
17007 And leave you to the hearing of the cause ,
17008 Hoping you'll find good cause to whip them all .
17009
17010 I think no less . Good morrow to your lordship .
17011
17012 Now , sir , come on : what was done to Elbow's wife , once more ?
17013
17014 Once , sir ? there was nothing done to her once .
17015
17016 I beseech you , sir , ask him what this man did to my wife .
17017
17018 I beseech your honour , ask me .
17019
17020 Well , sir , what did this gentleman to her ?
17021
17022 I beseech you , sir , look in this gentleman's face . Good Master Froth , look upon his honour ; 'tis for a good purpose . Doth your honour mark his face ?
17023
17024 Ay , sir , very well .
17025
17026 Nay , I beseech you , mark it well .
17027
17028 Well , I do so .
17029
17030 Doth your honour see any harm in his face ?
17031
17032 Why , no .
17033
17034 I'll be supposed upon a book , his face is the worst thing about him . Good , then ; if his face be the worst thing about him , how could Master Froth do the constable's wife any harm ? I would know that of your honour .
17035
17036 He's in the right . Constable , what say you to it ?
17037
17038 First , an' it like you , the house is a respected house ; next , this is a respected fellow , and his mistress is a respected woman .
17039
17040 By this hand , sir , his wife is a more respected person than any of us all .
17041
17042 Varlet , thou liest : thou liest , wicked varlet . The time is yet to come that she was ever respected with man , woman , or child .
17043
17044 Sir , she was respected with him before he married with her .
17045
17046 Which is the wiser here ? Justice , or Iniquity ? Is this true ?
17047
17048 O thou caitiff ! O thou varlet ! O thou wicked Hannibal ! I respected with her before I was married to her ? If ever I was respected with her , or she with me , let not your worship think me the poor duke's officer . Prove this , thou wicked Hannibal , or I'll have mine action of battery on thee .
17049
17050 If he took you a box o' th' ear , you might have your action of slander too .
17051
17052 Marry , I thank your good worship for it . What is't your worship's pleasure I shall do with this wicked caitiff ?
17053
17054 Truly , officer , because he hath some offences in him that thou wouldest discover if thou couldst , let him continue in his courses till thou knowest what they are .
17055
17056 Marry , I thank your worship for it . Thou seest , thou wicked varlet , now , what's come upon thee : thou art to continue now , thou varlet , thou art to continue .
17057
17058 Where were you born , friend ?
17059
17060 Here in Vienna , sir .
17061
17062 Are you of fourscore pounds a year ?
17063
17064 Yes , an't please you , sir .
17065
17066 So .
17067
17068 What trade are you of , sir ?
17069
17070 A tapster ; a poor widow's tapster .
17071
17072 Your mistress' name ?
17073
17074 Mistress Overdone .
17075
17076 Hath she had any more than one husband ?
17077
17078 Nine , sir ; Overdone by the last .
17079
17080 Nine !Come hither to me , Master Froth . Master Froth , I would not have you acquainted with tapsters ; they will draw you , Master Froth , and you will hang them . Get you gone , and let me hear no more of you .
17081
17082 I thank your worship . For mine own part , I never come into any room in a taphouse , but I am drawn in .
17083
17084 Well : no more of it , Master Froth : farewell .
17085
17086 Come you hither to me , Master tapster . What's your name , Master tapster ?
17087
17088 Pompey .
17089
17090 What else ?
17091
17092 Bum , sir .
17093
17094 Troth , and your bum is the greatest thing about you , so that , in the beastliest sense , you are Pompey the Great . Pompey , you are partly a bawd , Pompey , howsoever you colour it in being a tapster , are you not ? come , tell me true : it shall be the better for you .
17095
17096 Truly , sir , I am a poor fellow that would live .
17097
17098 How would you live , Pompey ? by being a bawd ? What do you think of the trade , Pompey ? is it a lawful trade ?
17099
17100 If the law would allow it , sir .
17101
17102 But the law will not allow it , Pompey ; nor it shall not be allowed in Vienna .
17103
17104 Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the youth of the city ?
17105
17106 No , Pompey .
17107
17108 Truly , sir , in my humble opinion , they will to't then . If your worship will take order for the drabs and the knaves , you need not to fear the bawds .
17109
17110 There are pretty orders beginning , I can tell you : it is but heading and hanging .
17111
17112 If you head and hang all that offend that way but for ten year together , you'll be glad to give out a commission for more heads . If this law hold in Vienna ten year , I'll rent the fairest house in it after threepence a bay . If you live to see this come to pass , say , Pompey told you so .
17113
17114 Thank you , good Pompey ; and , in requital of your prophecy , hark you : I advise you , let me not find you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever ; no , not for dwelling where you do : if I do , Pompey , I shall beat you to your tent , and prove a shrewd C sar to you . In plain dealing , Pompey , I shall have you whipt . So , for this time , Pompey , fare you well .
17115
17116 I thank your worship for your good counsel ;
17117
17118 but I shall follow it as the flesh and fortune shall better determine .
17119 Whip me ! No , no ; let carman whip his jade ;
17120 The valiant heart's not whipt out of his trade .
17121
17122
17123 Come hither to me , Master Elbow ; come hither , Master constable . How long have you been in this place of constable ?
17124
17125 Seven year and a half , sir .
17126
17127 I thought , by your readiness in the office , you had continued in it some time . You say , seven years together ?
17128
17129 And a half , sir .
17130
17131 Alas ! it hath been great pains to you ! They do you wrong to put you so oft upon 't . Are there not men in your ward sufficient to serve it ?
17132
17133 Faith , sir , few of any wit in such matters . As they are chosen , they are glad to choose me for them : I do it for some piece of money , and go through with all .
17134
17135 Look you bring me in the names of some six or seven , the most sufficient of your parish .
17136
17137 To your worship's house , sir ?
17138
17139 To my house . Fare you well .
17140
17141 What's o'clock , think you ?
17142
17143 Eleven , sir .
17144
17145 I pray you home to dinner with me .
17146
17147 I humbly thank you .
17148
17149 It grieves me for the death of Claudio ;
17150 But there is no remedy .
17151
17152 Lord Angelo is severe .
17153
17154 It is but needful :
17155 Mercy is not itself , that oft looks so ;
17156 Pardon is still the nurse of second woe .
17157 But yet , poor Claudio ! There's no remedy .
17158 Come , sir .
17159
17160
17161 He's hearing of a cause : he will come straight :
17162 I'll tell him of you .
17163
17164 Pray you , do .
17165
17166 I'll know
17167 His pleasure ; may be he will relent . Alas !
17168 He hath but as offended in a dream :
17169 All sects , all ages smack of this vice , and he
17170 To die for it !
17171
17172
17173 Now , what's the matter , provost ?
17174
17175 Is it your will Claudio shall die to-morrow ?
17176
17177 Did I not tell thee , yea ? hadst thou not order ?
17178 Why dost thou ask again ?
17179
17180 Lest I might be too rash .
17181 Under your good correction , I have seen ,
17182 When , after execution , Judgment hath
17183 Repented o'er his doom .
17184
17185 Go to ; let that be mine :
17186 Do you your office , or give up your place ,
17187 And you shall well be spar'd .
17188
17189 I crave your honour's pardon .
17190 What shall be done , sir , with the groaning Juliet ?
17191 She's very near her hour .
17192
17193 Dispose of her
17194 To some more fitter place ; and that with speed .
17195
17196
17197 Here is the sister of the man condemn'd
17198 Desires access to you .
17199
17200 Hath he a sister ?
17201
17202 Ay , my good lord ; a very virtuous maid ,
17203 And to be shortly of a sisterhood ,
17204 If not already .
17205
17206 Well , let her be admitted .
17207
17208 See you the fornicatress be remov'd :
17209 Let her have needful , but not lavish , means ;
17210 There shall be order for't .
17211
17212
17213 God save your honour !
17214
17215
17216 Stay a little while .
17217
17218 You're welcome : what's your will ?
17219
17220 I am a woful suitor to your honour ,
17221 Please but your honour hear me .
17222
17223 Well ; what's your suit ?
17224
17225 There is a vice that most I do abhor ,
17226 And most desire should meet the blow of justice ,
17227 For which I would not plead , but that I must ;
17228 For which I must not plead , but that I am
17229 At war 'twixt will and will not .
17230
17231 Well ; the matter ?
17232
17233 I have a brother is condemn'd to die :
17234 I do beseech you , let it be his fault ,
17235 And not my brother .
17236
17237 Heaven give thee moving graces !
17238
17239 Condemn the fault , and not the actor of it ?
17240 Why , every fault's condemn'd ere it be done .
17241 Mine were the very cipher of a function ,
17242 To fine the faults whose fine stands in record ,
17243 And let go by the actor .
17244
17245 O just , but severe law !
17246 I had a brother , then .Heaven keep your honour !
17247
17248
17249 Give't not o'er so : to him again , entreat him ;
17250 Kneel down before him , hang upon his gown ;
17251 You are too cold ; if you should need a pin ,
17252 You could not with more tame a tongue desire it .
17253 To him . I say !
17254
17255 Must he needs die ?
17256
17257 Maiden , no remedy .
17258
17259 Yes ; I do think that you might pardon him ,
17260 And neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy .
17261
17262 I will not do't .
17263
17264 But can you , if you would ?
17265
17266 Look , what I will not , that I cannot do .
17267
17268 But might you do't , and do the world no wrong ,
17269 If so your heart were touch'd with that remorse
17270 As mine is to him ?
17271
17272 He's sentenc'd : 'tis too late .
17273
17274 You are too cold .
17275
17276 Too late ? why , no ; I , that do speak a word ,
17277 May call it back again . Well , believe this ,
17278 No ceremony that to great ones 'longs ,
17279 Not the king's crown , nor the deputed sword ,
17280 The marshal's truncheon , nor the judge's robe ,
17281 Become them with one half so good a grace
17282 As mercy does .
17283 If he had been as you , and you as he ,
17284 You would have slipt like him ; but he , like you ,
17285 Would not have been so stern .
17286
17287 Pray you , be gone .
17288
17289 I would to heaven I had your potency ,
17290 And you were Isabel ! should it then be thus ?
17291 No ; I would tell what 'twere to be a judge ,
17292 And what a prisoner .
17293
17294 Ay , touch him ; there's the vein .
17295
17296 Your brother is a forfeit of the law ,
17297 And you but waste your words .
17298
17299 Alas ! alas !
17300 Why , all the souls that were were forfeit once ;
17301 And He that might the vantage best have took ,
17302 Found out the remedy . How would you be ,
17303 If He , which is the top of judgment , should
17304 But judge you as you are ? O ! think on that ,
17305 And mercy then will breathe within your lips ,
17306 Like man new made .
17307
17308 Be you content , fair maid ;
17309 It is the law , not I , condemn your brother :
17310 Were he my kinsman , brother , or my son ,
17311 It should be thus with him : he must die to-morrow .
17312
17313 To-morrow ! O ! that's sudden ! Spare him , spare him !
17314 He's not prepar'd for death . Even for our kitchens
17315 We kill the fowl of season : shall we serve heaven
17316 With less respect than we do minister
17317 To our gross selves ? Good , good my lord , bethink you :
17318 Who is it that hath died for this offence ?
17319 There's many have committed it .
17320
17321 Ay , well said .
17322
17323 The law hath not been dead , though it hath slept :
17324 Those many had not dar'd to do that evil ,
17325 If that the first that did th' edict infringe
17326 Had answer'd for his deed : now 'tis awake ,
17327 Takes note of what is done , and , like a prophet ,
17328 Looks in a glass , that shows what future evils ,
17329 Either new , or by remissness new-conceiv'd ,
17330 And so in progress to be hatch'd and born ,
17331 Are now to have no successive degrees ,
17332 But , ere they live , to end .
17333
17334 Yet show some pity .
17335
17336 I show it most of all when I show justice ;
17337 For then I pity those I do not know ,
17338 Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall ,
17339 And do him right , that , answering one foul wrong ,
17340 Lives not to act another . Be satisfied :
17341 Your brother dies to-morrow : be content .
17342
17343 So you must be the first that gives this sentence ,
17344 And he that suffers . O ! it is excellent
17345 To have a giant's strength , but it is tyrannous
17346 To use it like a giant .
17347
17348 That's well said .
17349
17350 Could great men thunder
17351 As Jove himself does , Jove would ne'er be quiet ,
17352 For every pelting , petty officer
17353 Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder .
17354 Merciful heaven !
17355 Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
17356 Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
17357 Than the soft myrtle ; but man , proud man ,
17358 Drest in a little brief authority ,
17359 Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd ,
17360 His glassy essence , like an angry ape ,
17361 Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
17362 As make the angels weep ; who , with our spleens ,
17363 Would all themselves laugh mortal .
17364
17365 O , to him , to him , wench ! He will relent :
17366 He's coming : I perceive't .
17367
17368 Pray heaven she win him !
17369
17370 We cannot weigh our brother with ourself :
17371 Great men may jest with saints ; 'tis wit in them ,
17372 But , in the less foul profanation .
17373
17374 Thou'rt in the right , girl : more o' that .
17375
17376 That in the captain's but a choleric word ,
17377 Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy .
17378
17379 Art advis'd o' that ? more on 't .
17380
17381 Why do you put these sayings upon me ?
17382
17383 Because authority , though it err like others ,
17384 Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself ,
17385 That skins the vice o' the top . Go to your bosom ;
17386 Knock there , and ask your heart what it doth know
17387 That's like my brother's fault : if it confess
17388 A natural guiltiness such as is his ,
17389 Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue
17390 Against my brother's life .
17391
17392 She speaks , and 'tis
17393 Such sense that my sense breeds with it . Fare you well .
17394
17395 Gentle my lord , turn back .
17396
17397 I will bethink me . Come again to-morrow .
17398
17399 Hark how I'll bribe you . Good my lord , turn back .
17400
17401 How ! bribe me ?
17402
17403 Ay , with such gifts that heaven shall share with you .
17404
17405 You had marr'd all else .
17406
17407 Not with fond sicles of the tested gold ,
17408 Or stones whose rates are either rich or poor
17409 As fancy values them ; but with true prayers
17410 That shall be up at heaven and enter there
17411 Ere sun-rise : prayers from preserved souls ,
17412 From fasting maids whose minds are dedicate
17413 To nothing temporal .
17414
17415 Well ; come to me to-morrow .
17416
17417 Go to ; 'tis well : away !
17418
17419 Heaven keep your honour safe !
17420
17421 Amen :
17422 For I am that way going to temptation ,
17423 Where prayers cross .
17424
17425 At what hour to-morrow
17426 Shall I attend your lordship ?
17427
17428 At any time 'fore noon .
17429
17430 Save your honour !
17431
17432
17433 From thee ; even from thy virtue !
17434 What's this ? what's this ? Is this her fault or mine ?
17435 The tempter or the tempted , who sins most ?
17436 Ha !
17437 Not she ; nor doth she tempt : but it is I ,
17438 That , lying by the violet in the sun ,
17439 Do as the carrion does , not as the flower ,
17440 Corrupt with virtuous season . Can it be
17441 That modesty may more betray our sense
17442 Than woman's lightness ? Having waste ground enough ,
17443 Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary ,
17444 And pitch our evils there ? O , fie , fie , fie !
17445 What dost thou , or what art thou , Angelo ?
17446 Dost thou desire her foully for those things
17447 That make her good ? O , let her brother live !
17448 Thieves for their robbery have authority
17449 When judges steal themselves . What ! do I love her ,
17450 That I desire to hear her speak again ,
17451 And feast upon her eyes ? What is't I dream on ?
17452 O cunning enemy , that , to catch a saint ,
17453 With saints dost bait thy hook ! Most dangerous
17454 Is that temptation that doth goad us on
17455 To sin in loving virtue : never could the strumpet ,
17456 With all her double vigour , art and nature ,
17457 Once stir my temper ; but this virtuous maid
17458 Subdues me quite . Ever till now ,
17459 When men were fond , I smil'd and wonder'd how .
17460
17461
17462 Hail to you , provost ! so I think you are .
17463
17464 I am the provost . What's your will , good friar ?
17465
17466 Bound by my charity and my bless'd order ,
17467 I come to visit the afflicted spirits
17468 Here in the prison : do me the common right
17469 To let me see them and to make me know
17470 The nature of their crimes , that I may minister
17471 To them accordingly .
17472
17473 I would do more than that , if more were needful .
17474 Look , here comes one : a gentlewoman of mine ,
17475 Who , falling in the flaws of her own youth ,
17476 Hath blister'd her report . She is with child ,
17477 And he that got it , sentenc'd ; a young man
17478 More fit to do another such offence ,
17479 Than die for this .
17480
17481
17482 When must he die ?
17483
17484 As I do think , to-morrow .
17485
17486
17487 I have provided for you : stay a while ,
17488 And you shall be conducted .
17489
17490 Repent you , fair one , of the sin you carry ?
17491
17492 I do , and bear the shame most patiently .
17493
17494 I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience ,
17495 And try your penitence , if it be sound ,
17496 Or hollowly put on .
17497
17498 I'll gladly learn .
17499
17500 Love you the man that wrong'd you ?
17501
17502 Yes , as I love the woman that wrong'd him .
17503
17504 So then it seems your most offenceful act
17505 Was mutually committed ?
17506
17507 Mutually .
17508
17509 Then was your sin of heavier kind than his .
17510
17511 I do confess it , and repent it , father .
17512
17513 'Tis meet so , daughter : but lest you do repent ,
17514 As that the sin hath brought you to this shame ,
17515 Which sorrow is always toward ourselves , not heaven ,
17516 Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it ,
17517 But as we stand in fear ,
17518
17519 I do repent me , as it is an evil ,
17520 And take the shame with joy .
17521
17522 There rest .
17523 Your partner , as I hear , must die to-morrow ,
17524 And I am going with instruction to him .
17525 God's grace go with you ! Benedicite !
17526
17527
17528 Must die to-morrow ! O injurious love ,
17529 That respites me a life , whose very comfort
17530 Is still a dying horror !
17531
17532 'Tis pity of him .
17533
17534
17535 When I would pray and think , I think and pray
17536 To several subjects : heaven hath my empty words ,
17537 Whilst my invention , hearing not my tongue ,
17538 Anchors on Isabel : heaven in my mouth ,
17539 As if I did but only chew his name ,
17540 And in my heart the strong and swelling evil
17541 Of my conception . The state , whereon I studied ,
17542 Is like a good thing , being often read ,
17543 Grown fear'd and tedious ; yea , my gravity ,
17544 Wherein , let no man hear me , I take pride ,
17545 Could I with boot change for an idle plume ,
17546 Which the air beats for vain . O place ! O form !
17547 How often dost thou with thy case , thy habit ,
17548 Wrench awe from fools , and tie the wiser souls
17549 To thy false seeming ! Blood , thou art blood :
17550 Let's write good angel on the devil's horn ,
17551 'Tis not the devil's crest .
17552
17553 How now ! who's there ?
17554
17555 One Isabel , a sister ,
17556 Desires access to you .
17557
17558 Teach her the way .
17559
17560 O heavens !
17561 Why does my blood thus muster to my heart ,
17562 Making both it unable for itself ,
17563 And dispossessing all my other parts
17564 Of necessary fitness ?
17565 So play the foolish throngs with one that swounds ;
17566 Come all to help him , and so stop the air
17567 By which he should revive : and even so
17568 The general , subject to a well-wish'd king ,
17569 Quit their own part , and in obsequious fondness
17570 Crowd to his presence , where their untaught love
17571 Must needs appear offence .
17572
17573 How now , fair maid !
17574
17575 I am come to know your pleasure .
17576
17577 That you might know it , would much better please me ,
17578 Than to demand what 'tis . Your brother cannot live .
17579
17580 Even so . Heaven keep your honour !
17581
17582 Yet may he live awhile ; and , it may be ,
17583 As long as you or I : yet he must die .
17584
17585 Under your sentence ?
17586
17587 Yea .
17588
17589 When , I beseech you ? that in his reprieve ,
17590 Longer or shorter , he may be so fitted
17591 That his soul sicken not .
17592
17593 Ha ! fie , these filthy vices ! It were as good
17594 To pardon him that hath from nature stolen
17595 A man already made , as to remit
17596 Their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven's image
17597 In stamps that are forbid : 'tis all as easy
17598 Falsely to take away a life true made ,
17599 As to put metal in restrained means
17600 To make a false one .
17601
17602 'Tis set down so in heaven , but not in earth .
17603
17604 Say you so ? then I shall pose you quickly .
17605 Which had you rather , that the most just law
17606 Now took your brother's life ; or , to redeem him ,
17607 Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness
17608 As she that he hath stain'd ?
17609
17610 Sir , believe this ,
17611 I had rather give my body than my soul .
17612
17613 I talk not of your soul . Our compell'd sins
17614 Stand more for number than for accompt .
17615
17616 How say you ?
17617
17618 Nay , I'll not warrant that ; for I can speak
17619 Against the thing I say . Answer to this :
17620 I , now the voice of the recorded law ,
17621 Pronounce a sentence on your brother's life :
17622 Might there not be a charity in sin
17623 To save this brother's life ?
17624
17625 Please you to do't ,
17626 I'll take it as a peril to my soul ;
17627 It is no sin at all , but charity .
17628
17629 Pleas'd you to do't , at peril of your soul ,
17630 Were equal poise of sin and charity .
17631
17632 That I do beg his life , if it be sin ,
17633 Heaven let me bear it ! you granting of my suit ,
17634 If that be sin , I'll make it my morn prayer
17635 To have it added to the faults of mine ,
17636 And nothing of your answer .
17637
17638 Nay , but hear me .
17639 Your sense pursues not mine : either you are ignorant ,
17640 Or seem so craftily ; and that's not good .
17641
17642 Let me be ignorant , and in nothing good ,
17643 But graciously to know I am no better .
17644
17645 Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright
17646 When it doth tax itself ; as these black masks
17647 Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder
17648 Than beauty could , display'd . But mark me ;
17649 To be received plain , I'll speak more gross :
17650 Your brother is to die .
17651
17652 So .
17653
17654 And his offence is so , as it appears
17655 Accountant to the law upon that pain .
17656
17657 True .
17658
17659 Admit no other way to save his life ,
17660 As I subscribe not that , nor any other ,
17661 But in the loss of question ,that you , his sister ,
17662 Finding yourself desir'd of such a person ,
17663 Whose credit with the judge , or own great place ,
17664 Could fetch your brother from the manacles
17665 Of the all-building law ; and that there were
17666 No earthly mean to save him , but that either
17667 You must lay down the treasures of your body
17668 To this suppos'd , or else to let him suffer ;
17669 What would you do ?
17670
17671 As much for my poor brother , as myself :
17672 That is , were I under the terms of death ,
17673 Th' impression of keen whips I'd wear as rubies ,
17674 And strip myself to death , as to a bed
17675 That , longing , have been sick for , ere I'd yield
17676 My body up to shame .
17677
17678 Then must your brother die .
17679
17680 And 'twere the cheaper way :
17681 Better it were a brother died at once ,
17682 Than that a sister , by redeeming him ,
17683 Should die for ever .
17684
17685 Were not you then as cruel as the sentence
17686 That you have slander'd so ?
17687
17688 Ignomy in ransom and free pardon
17689 Are of two houses : lawful mercy
17690 Is nothing kin to foul redemption .
17691
17692 You seem'd of late to make the law a tyrant ;
17693 And rather prov'd the sliding of your brother
17694 A merriment than a vice .
17695
17696 O , pardon me , my lord ! it oft falls out ,
17697 To have what we would have , we speak not what we mean .
17698 I something do excuse the thing I hate ,
17699 For his advantage that I dearly love .
17700
17701 We are all frail .
17702
17703 Else let my brother die ,
17704 If not a feodary , but only he
17705 Owe and succeed thy weakness .
17706
17707 Nay , women are frail too .
17708
17709 Ay , as the glasses where they view themselves ,
17710 Which are as easy broke as they make forms .
17711 Women ! Help heaven ! men their creation mar
17712 In profiting by them . Nay , call us ten times frail ,
17713 For we are soft as our complexions are ,
17714 And credulous to false prints .
17715
17716 I think it well :
17717 And from this testimony of your own sex ,
17718 Since I suppose we are made to be no stronger
17719 Than faults may shake our frames ,let me be bold ;
17720 I do arrest your words . Be that you are ,
17721 That is , a woman ; if you be more , you're none ;
17722 If you be one , as you are well express'd
17723 By all external warrants , show it now ,
17724 By putting on the destin'd livery .
17725
17726 I have no tongue but one : gentle my lord ,
17727 Let me entreat you speak the former language .
17728
17729 Plainly conceive , I love you .
17730
17731 My brother did love Juliet ; and you tell me
17732 That he shall die for't .
17733
17734 He shall not , Isabel , if you give me love .
17735
17736 I know your virtue hath a licence in't .
17737 Which seems a little fouler than it is ,
17738 To pluck on others .
17739
17740 Believe me , on mine honour ,
17741 My words express my purpose .
17742
17743 Ha ! little honour to be much believ'd ,
17744 And most pernicious purpose ! Seeming , seeming !
17745 I will proclaim thee , Angelo ; look for't :
17746 Sign me a present pardon for my brother ,
17747 Or with an outstretch'd throat I'll tell the world aloud
17748 What man thou art .
17749
17750 Who will believe thee , Isabel ?
17751 My unsoil'd name , the austereness of my life ,
17752 My vouch against you , and my place i' the state ,
17753 Will so your accusation overweigh ,
17754 That you shall stifle in your own report
17755 And smell of calumny . I have begun ;
17756 And now I give my sensual race the rein :
17757 Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite ;
17758 Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes ,
17759 That banish what they sue for ; redeem thy brother
17760 By yielding up thy body to my will ,
17761 Or else he must not only die the death ,
17762 But thy unkindness shall his death draw out
17763 To lingering sufferance . Answer me to-morrow ,
17764 Or , by the affection that now guides me most ,
17765 I'll prove a tyrant to him . As for you ,
17766 Say what you can , my false o'erweighs your true .
17767
17768
17769 To whom should I complain ? Did I tell this ,
17770 Who would believe me ? O perilous mouths !
17771 That bear in them one and the self-same tongue ,
17772 Either of condemnation or approof ,
17773 Bidding the law make curt'sy to their will ;
17774 Hooking both right and wrong to th' appetite ,
17775 To follow as it draws . I'll to my brother :
17776 Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood ,
17777 Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour ,
17778 That , had he twenty heads to tender down
17779 On twenty bloody blocks , he'd yield them up ,
17780 Before his sister should her body stoop
17781 To such abhorr'd pollution .
17782 Then , Isabel , live chaste , and , brother , die :
17783 More than our brother is our chastity .
17784 I'll tell him yet of Angelo's request ,
17785 And fit his mind to death , for his soul's rest .
17786
17787 So then you hope of pardon from Lord Angelo ?
17788
17789 The miserable have no other medicine
17790 But only hope :
17791 I have hope to live , and am prepar'd to die .
17792
17793 Be absolute for death ; either death or life
17794 Shall thereby be the sweeter . Reason thus with life :
17795 If I do lose thee , I do lose a thing
17796 That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art ,
17797 Servile to all the skyey influences ,
17798 That dost this habitation , where thou keep'st ,
17799 Hourly afflict . Merely , thou art death's fool ;
17800 For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun ,
17801 And yet run'st toward him still . Thou art not noble :
17802 For all th' accommodations that thou bear'st
17803 Are nurs'd by baseness . Thou art by no means valiant ;
17804 For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork
17805 Of a poor worm . Thy best of rest is sleep ,
17806 And that thou oft provok'st ; yet grossly fear'st
17807 Thy death , which is no more . Thou art not thyself ;
17808 For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains
17809 That issue out of dust . Happy thou art not ;
17810 For what thou hast not , still thou striv'st to get ,
17811 And what thou hast , forget'st . Thou art not certain ;
17812 For thy complexion shifts to strange effects ,
17813 After the moon . If thou art rich , thou'rt poor ;
17814 For , like an ass whose back with ingots bows ,
17815 Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey ,
17816 And death unloads thee . Friend hast thou none ;
17817 For thine own bowels , which do call thee sire ,
17818 The mere effusion of thy proper loins ,
17819 Do curse the gout , serpigo , and the rheum ,
17820 For ending thee no sooner . Thou hast nor youth nor age ;
17821 But , as it were , an after-dinner's sleep ,
17822 Dreaming on both ; for all thy blessed youth
17823 Becomes as aged , and doth beg the alms
17824 Of palsied eld ; and when thou art old and rich ,
17825 Thou hast neither heat , affection , limb , nor beauty ,
17826 To make thy riches pleasant . What's yet in this
17827 That bears the name of life ? Yet in this life
17828 Lie hid moe thousand deaths : yet death we fear ,
17829 That makes these odds all even .
17830
17831 I humbly thank you .
17832 To sue to live , I find I seek to die ,
17833 And , seeking death , find life : let it come on .
17834
17835 What ho ! Peace here ; grace and good company !
17836
17837 Who's there ? come in : the wish deserves a welcome .
17838
17839 Dear sir , ere long I'll visit you again .
17840
17841 Most holy sir , I thank you .
17842
17843
17844 My business is a word or two with Claudio .
17845
17846 And very welcome . Look , signior ; here's your sister .
17847
17848 Provost , a word with you .
17849
17850 As many as you please .
17851
17852 Bring me to hear them speak , where I may be conceal'd .
17853
17854
17855 Now , sister , what's the comfort ?
17856
17857 Why , as all comforts are ; most good , most good indeed .
17858 Lord Angelo , having affairs to heaven ,
17859 Intends you for his swift ambassador ,
17860 Where you shall be an everlasting leiger :
17861 Therefore , your best appointment make with speed ;
17862 To-morrow you set on .
17863
17864 Is there no remedy ?
17865
17866 None , but such remedy , as to save a head
17867 To cleave a heart in twain .
17868
17869 But is there any ?
17870
17871 Yes , brother , you may live :
17872 There is a devilish mercy in the judge ,
17873 If you'll implore it , that will free your life ,
17874 But fetter you till death .
17875
17876 Perpetual durance ?
17877
17878 Ay , just ; perpetual durance , a restraint ,
17879 Though all the world's vastidity you had ,
17880 To a determin'd scope .
17881
17882 But in what nature ?
17883
17884 In such a one as , you consenting to't ,
17885 Would bark your honour from that trunk you bear ,
17886 And leave you naked .
17887
17888 Let me know the point .
17889
17890 O , I do fear thee , Claudio ; and I quake ,
17891 Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain ,
17892 And six or seven winters more respect
17893 Than a perpetual honour . Dar'st thou die ?
17894 The sense of death is most in apprehension ,
17895 And the poor beetle , that we tread upon ,
17896 In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
17897 As when a giant dies .
17898
17899 Why give you me this shame ?
17900 Think you I can a resolution fetch
17901 From flowery tenderness ? If I must die ,
17902 I will encounter darkness as a bride ,
17903 And hug it in mine arms .
17904
17905 There spake my brother : there my father's grave
17906 Did utter forth a voice . Yes , thou must die :
17907 Thou art too noble to conserve a life
17908 In base appliances . This outward-sainted deputy ,
17909 Whose settled visage and deliberate word
17910 Nips youth i' the head , and follies doth enmew
17911 As falcon doth the fowl , is yet a devil ;
17912 His filth within being cast , he would appear
17913 A pond as deep as hell .
17914
17915 The prenzie Angelo ?
17916
17917 O , 'tis the cunning livery of hell ,
17918 The damned'st body to invest and cover
17919 In prenzie guards ! Dost thou think , Claudio ?
17920 If I would yield him my virginity ,
17921 Thou mightst be freed .
17922
17923 O heavens ! it cannot be .
17924
17925 Yes , he would give't thee , from this rank offence ,
17926 So to offend him still . This night's the time
17927 That I should do what I abhor to name ,
17928 Or else thou diest to-morrow .
17929
17930 Thou shalt not do't .
17931
17932 O ! were it but my life ,
17933 I'd throw it down for your deliverance
17934 As frankly as a pin .
17935
17936 Thanks , dear Isabel .
17937
17938 Be ready , Claudio , for your death to-morrow .
17939
17940 Yes . Has he affections in him ,
17941 That thus can make him bite the law by the nose ,
17942 When he would force it ? Sure , it is no sin ;
17943 Or of the deadly seven it is the least .
17944
17945 Which is the least ?
17946
17947 If it were damnable , he being so wise ,
17948 Why would he for the momentary trick
17949 Be perdurably fin'd ? O Isabel !
17950
17951 What says my brother ?
17952
17953 Death is a fearful thing .
17954
17955 And shamed life a hateful .
17956
17957 Ay , but to die , and go we know not where ;
17958 To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ;
17959 This sensible warm motion to become
17960 A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit
17961 To bathe in fiery floods , or to reside
17962 In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ;
17963 To be imprison'd in the viewless winds ,
17964 And blown with restless violence round about
17965 The pendant world ; or to be worse than worst
17966 Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts
17967 Imagine howling : 'tis too horrible !
17968 The weariest and most loathed worldly life
17969 That age , ache , penury and imprisonment
17970 Can lay on nature is a paradise
17971 To what we fear of death .
17972
17973 Alas ! alas !
17974
17975 Sweet sister , let me live :
17976 What sin you do to save a brother's life ,
17977 Nature dispenses with the deed so far
17978 That it becomes a virtue .
17979
17980 O you beast !
17981 O faithless coward ! O dishonest wretch !
17982 Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice ?
17983 Is't not a kind of incest , to take life
17984 From thine own sister's shame ? What should I think ?
17985 Heaven shield my mother play'd my father fair ;
17986 For such a warped slip of wilderness
17987 Ne'er issu'd from his blood . Take my defiance ;
17988 Die , perish ! Might but my bending down
17989 Reprieve thee from thy fate , it should proceed .
17990 I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death ,
17991 No word to save thee .
17992
17993 Nay , hear me , Isabel .
17994
17995 O , fie , fie , fie !
17996 Thy sin's not accidental , but a trade .
17997 Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd :
17998 'Tis best that thou diest quickly .
17999
18000
18001 O hear me , Isabella .
18002
18003
18004 Vouchsafe a word , young sister , but one word .
18005
18006 What is your will ?
18007
18008 Might you dispense with your leisure , I would by and by have some speech with you : the satisfaction I would require is likewise your own benefit .
18009
18010 I have no superfluous leisure : my stay must be stolen out of other affairs ; but I will attend you a while .
18011
18012 Son , I have overheard what hath past between you and your sister . Angelo had never the purpose to corrupt her ; only he hath made an assay of her virtue to practise his judgment with the disposition of natures . She , having the truth of honour in her , hath made him that gracious denial which he is most glad to receive : I am confessor to Angelo , and I know this to be true ; therefore prepare yourself to death . Do not satisfy your resolution with hopes that are fallible : to-morrow you must die ; go to your knees and make ready .
18013
18014 Let me ask my sister pardon . I am so out of love with life that I will sue to be rid of it .
18015
18016 Hold you there : farewell .
18017
18018
18019 Provost , a word with you .
18020
18021 What's your will , father ?
18022
18023 That now you are come , you will be gone . Leave me awhile with the maid : my mind promises with my habit no loss shall touch her by my company .
18024
18025 In good time .
18026
18027
18028 The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good : the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty brief in goodness ; but grace , being the soul of your complexion , shall keep the body of it ever fair . The assault that Angelo hath made to you , fortune hath conveyed to my understanding ; and , but that frailty hath examples for his falling , I should wonder at Angelo . How would you do to content this substitute , and to save your brother ?
18029
18030 I am now going to resolve him ; I had rather my brother die by the law than my son should be unlawfully born . But O , how much is the good duke deceived in Angelo ! If ever he return and I can speak to him . I will open my lips in vain , or discover his government .
18031
18032 That shall not be much amiss : yet , as the matter now stands , he will avoid your accusation ; 'he made trial of you only .' Therefore , fasten your ear on my advisings : to the love I have in doing good a remedy presents itself . I do make myself believe that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged lady a merited benefit , redeem your brother from the angry law , do no stain to your own gracious person , and much please the absent duke , if peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of this business .
18033
18034 Let me hear you speak further . I have spirit to do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit .
18035
18036 Virtue is bold , and goodness never fearful . Have you not heard speak of Mariana , the sister of Frederick , the great soldier who miscarried at sea ?
18037
18038 I have heard of the lady , and good words went with her name .
18039
18040 She should this Angelo have married ; was affianced to her by oath , and the nuptial appointed : between which time of the contract , and limit of the solemnity , her brother Frederick was wracked at sea , having in that perished vessel the dowry of his sister . But mark how heavily this befell to the poor gentlewoman : there she lost a noble and renowned brother , in his love toward her ever most kind and natural ; with him the portion and sinew of her fortune , her marriage-dowry with both , her combinate husband , this well-seeming Angelo .
18041
18042 Can this be so ? Did Angelo so leave her ?
18043
18044 Left her in her tears , and dried not one of them with his comfort ; swallowed his vows whole , pretending in her discoveries of dishonour : in few , bestowed her on her own lamentation , which she yet wears for his sake ; and he , a marble to her tears , is washed with them , but relents not .
18045
18046 What a merit were it in death to take this poor maid from the world ! What corruption in this life , that it will let this man live ! But how out of this can she avail ?
18047
18048 It is a rupture that you may easily heal ; and the cure of it not only saves your brother , but keeps you from dishonour in doing it .
18049
18050 Show me how , good father .
18051
18052 This forenamed maid hath yet in her the continuance of her first affection : his unjust unkindness , that in all reason should have quenched her love , hath , like an impediment in the current , made it more violent and unruly . Go you to Angelo : answer his requiring with a plausible obedience : agree with his demands to the point ; only refer yourself to this advantage , first , that your stay with him may not be long , that the time may have all shadow and silence in it , and the place answer to convenience . This being granted in course , and now follows all , we shall advise this wronged maid to stead up your appointment , go in your place ; if the encounter acknowledge itself hereafter , it may compel him to her recompense ; and here by this is your brother saved , your honour untainted , the poor Mariana advantaged , and the corrupt deputy scaled . The maid will I frame and make fit for his attempt . If you think well to carry this , as you may , the doubleness of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof . What think you of it ?
18053
18054 The image of it gives me content already , and I trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection .
18055
18056 It lies much in your holding up . Haste you speedily to Angelo : if for this night he entreat you to his bed , give him promise of satisfaction . I will presently to St . Luke's ; there , at the moated grange , resides this dejected Mariana : at that place call upon me , and dispatch with Angelo , that it may be quickly .
18057
18058 I thank you for this comfort . Fare you well , good father .
18059
18060
18061 Nay , if there be no remedy for it , but that you will needs buy and sell men and women like beasts , we shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard .
18062
18063 O heavens ! what stuff is here ?
18064
18065 'Twas never merry world , since , of two usuries , the merriest was put down , and the worser allowed by order of law a furred gown to keep him warm ; and furred with fox and lamb skins too , to signify that craft , being richer than innocency , stands for the facing .
18066
18067 Come your way , sir . Bless you , good father friar .
18068
18069 And you , good brother father . What offence hath this man made you , sir ?
18070
18071 Marry , sir , he hath offended the law : and , sir , we take him to be a thief too , sir ; for we have found upon him , sir , a strange picklock , which we have sent to the deputy .
18072
18073 Fie , sirrah : a bawd , a wicked bawd !
18074 The evil that thou causest to be done ,
18075 That is thy means to live . Do thou but think
18076 What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back
18077 From such a filthy vice : say to thyself ,
18078 From their abominable and beastly touches
18079 I drink , I eat , array myself , and live .
18080 Canst thou believe thy living is a life ,
18081 So stinkingly depending ? Go mend , go mend .
18082
18083 Indeed , it does stink in some sort , sir ; but yet , sir , I would prove
18084
18085 Nay , if the devil have given thee proofs for sin ,
18086 Thou wilt prove his . Take him to prison , officer ;
18087 Correction and instruction must both work
18088 Ere this rude beast will profit .
18089
18090 He must before the deputy , sir ; he has given him warning . The deputy cannot abide a whoremaster : if he be a whoremonger , and comes before him , he were as good go a mile on his errand .
18091
18092 That we were all , as some would seem to be ,
18093 From our faults , as faults from seeming , free !
18094
18095 His neck will come to your waist ,a cord , sir .
18096
18097 I spy comfort : I cry , bail . Here's a gentleman and a friend of mine .
18098
18099
18100 How now , noble Pompey ! What , at the wheels of C sar ? Art thou led in triumph ? What , is there none of Pygmalion's images , newly made woman , to he had now , for putting the hand in the pocket and extracting it clutched ? What reply ? ha ? What say'st thou to this tune , matter and method ? Is't not drowned i' the last rain , ha ? What sayest thou Trot ? Is the world as it was , man ? Which is the way ? Is it sad , and few words , or how ? The trick of it ?
18101
18102 Still thus , and thus , still worse !
18103
18104 How doth my dear morsel , thy mistress ? Procures she still , ha ?
18105
18106 Troth , sir , she hath eaten up all her beef , and she is herself in the tub .
18107
18108 Why , 'tis good ; it is the right of it ; it must be so : ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd : an unshunned consequence ; it must be so . Art going to prison , Pompey ?
18109
18110 Yes , faith , sir .
18111
18112 Why , 'tis not amiss , Pompey . Farewell . Go , say I sent thee thither . For debt , Pompey ? or how ?
18113
18114 For being a bawd , for being a bawd .
18115
18116 Well , then , imprison him . If imprisonment be the due of a bawd , why , 'tis his right : bawd is he , doubtless , and of antiquity too ; bawd-born . Farewell , good Pompey . Commend me to the prison , Pompey . You will turn good husband now , Pompey ; you will keep the house .
18117
18118 I hope , sir , your good worship will be my bail .
18119
18120 No , indeed will I not , Pompey ; it is not the wear . I will pray , Pompey , to increase your bondage : if you take it not patiently , why , your mettle is the more . Adieu , trusty Pompey . Bless you , friar .
18121
18122 And you .
18123
18124 Does Bridget paint still , Pompey , ha ?
18125
18126 Come your ways , sir ; come .
18127
18128 You will not bail me then , sir ?
18129
18130 Then , Pompey , nor now . What news abroad , friar ? What news ?
18131
18132 Come your ways , sir ; come .
18133
18134 Go to kennel , Pompey ; go .
18135
18136 What news , friar , of the duke ?
18137
18138 I know none . Can you tell me of any ?
18139
18140 Some say he is with the Emperor of Russia ; other some , he is in Rome : but where is he , think you ?
18141
18142 I know not where ; but wheresoever , I wish him well .
18143
18144 It was a mad fantastical trick of him to steal from the state , and usurp the beggary he was never born to . Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence ; he puts transgression to't .
18145
18146 He does well in't .
18147
18148 A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in him : something too crabbed that way , friar .
18149
18150 It is too general a vice , and severity must cure it .
18151
18152 Yes , in good sooth , the vice is of a great kindred ; it is well allied ; but it is impossible to extirp it quite , friar , till eating and drinking be put down . They say this Angelo was not made by man and woman after this downright way of creation : is it true , think you ?
18153
18154 How should he be made , then ?
18155
18156 Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him ; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes . But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice ; that I know to be true ; and he is a motion generative ; that's infallible .
18157
18158 You are pleasant , sir , and speak apace .
18159
18160 Why , what a ruthless thing is this in him , for the rebellion of a cod-piece to take away the life of a man ! Would the duke that is absent have done this ? Ere he would have hanged a man for the getting a hundred bastards , he would have paid for the nursing a thousand : he had some feeling of the sport ; he knew the service , and that instructed him to mercy .
18161
18162 I never heard the absent duke much detected for women ; he was not inclined that way .
18163
18164 O , sir , you are deceived .
18165
18166 'Tis not possible .
18167
18168 Who ? not the duke ? yes , your beggar of fifty , and his use was to put a ducat in her clack-dish ; the duke had crotchets in him . He would be drunk too ; that let me inform you .
18169
18170 You do him wrong , surely .
18171
18172 Sir , I was an inward of his . A shy fellow was the duke ; and , I believe I know the cause of his withdrawing .
18173
18174 What , I prithee , might be the cause ?
18175
18176 No , pardon ; 'tis a secret must be locked within the teeth and the lips ; but this I can let you understand , the greater file of the subject held the duke to be wise .
18177
18178 Wise ! why , no question but he was .
18179
18180 A very superficial , ignorant , unweighing fellow .
18181
18182 Either this is envy in you , folly , or mistaking : the very stream of his life and the business he hath helmed must , upon a warranted need , give him a better proclamation . Let him be but testimonied in his own bringings forth , and he shall appear to the envious a scholar , a statesman and a soldier . Therefore you speak unskilfully ; or , if your knowledge be more , it is much darkened in your malice .
18183
18184 Sir , I know him , and I love him .
18185
18186 Love talks with better knowledge , and knowledge with dearer love .
18187
18188 Come , sir , I know what I know .
18189
18190 I can hardly believe that , since you know not what you speak . But , if ever the duke return ,as our prayers are he may ,let me desire you to make your answer before him : if it be honest you have spoke , you have courage to maintain it . I am bound to call upon you ; and , I pray you , your name ?
18191
18192 Sir , my name is Lucio , well known to the duke .
18193
18194 He shall know you better , sir , if I may live to report you .
18195
18196 I fear you not .
18197
18198 O ! you hope the duke will return no more , or you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite . But indeed I can do you little harm ; you'll forswear this again .
18199
18200 I'll be hanged first : thou art deceived in me , friar . But no more of this . Canst thou tell if Claudio die to-morrow or no ?
18201
18202 Why should he die , sir ?
18203
18204 Why ? for filling a bottle with a tundish . I would the duke we talk of were returned again : this ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with continency ; sparrows must not build in his house-eaves , because they are lecherous . The duke yet would have dark deeds darkly answered ; he would never bring them to light : would he were returned ! Marry , this Claudio is condemned for untrussing . Farewell , good friar ; I prithee , pray for me . The duke , I say to thee again , would eat mutton on Fridays . He's not past it yet , and I say to thee , he would mouth with a beggar , though she smelt brown bread and garlic : say that I said so . Farewell .
18205
18206
18207 No might nor greatness in mortality
18208 Can censure 'scape : back-wounding calumny
18209 The whitest virtue strikes . What king so strong
18210 Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ?
18211 But who comes here ?
18212
18213
18214 Go ; away with her to prison !
18215
18216 Good my lord , be good to me ; your honour is accounted a merciful man ; good my lord .
18217
18218 Double and treble admonition , and still forfeit in the same kind ? This would make mercy swear , and play the tyrant .
18219
18220 A bawd of eleven years' continuance , may it please your honour .
18221
18222 My lord , this is one Lucio's information against me . Mistress Kate Keepdown was with child by him in the duke's time ; he promised her marriage ; his child is a year and a quarter old , come Philip and Jacob : I have kept it myself , and see how he goes about to abuse me !
18223
18224 That fellow is a fellow of much licence : let him be called before us . Away with her to prison ! Go to ; no more words .
18225
18226 Provost , my brother Angelo will not be altered ; Claudio must die to-morrow . Let him be furnished with divines , and have all charitable preparation : if my brother wrought by my pity , it should not be so with him .
18227
18228 So please you , this friar hath been with him , and advised him for the entertainment of death .
18229
18230 Good even , good father .
18231
18232 Bliss and goodness on you !
18233
18234 Of whence are you ?
18235
18236 Not of this country , though my chance is now
18237 To use it for my time : I am a brother
18238 Of gracious order , late come from the See ,
18239 In special business from his Holiness .
18240
18241 What news abroad i' the world ?
18242
18243 None , but there is so great a fever on goodness , that the dissolution of it must cure it : novelty is only in request ; and it is as dangerous to be aged in any kind of course , as it is virtuous to be constant in any undertaking : there is scarce truth enough alive to make societies secure , but security enough to make fellowships accursed . Much upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world . This news is old enough , yet it is every day's news . I pray you , sir , of what disposition was the duke ?
18244
18245 One that , above all other strifes , contended especially to know himself .
18246
18247 What pleasure was he given to ?
18248
18249 Rather rejoicing to see another merry , than merry at anything which professed to make him rejoice : a gentleman of all temperance . But leave we him to his events , with a prayer they may prove prosperous ; and let me desire to know how you find Claudio prepared . I am made to understand , that you have lent him visitation .
18250
18251 He professes to have received no sinister measure from his judge , but most willingly humbles himself to the determination of justice ; yet had he framed to himself , by the instruction of his frailty , many deceiving promises of life , which I , by my good leisure have discredited to him , and now is he resolved to die .
18252
18253 You have paid the heavens your function , and the prisoner the very debt of your calling . I have laboured for the poor gentleman to the extremest shore of my modesty ; but my brother justice have I found so severe , that he hath forced me to tell him he is indeed Justice .
18254
18255 If his own life answer the straitness of his proceeding , it shall become him well ; wherein if he chance to fail , he hath sentenced himself .
18256
18257 I am going to visit the prisoner . Fare you well .
18258
18259 Peace be with you !
18260
18261 He , who the sword of heaven will bear
18262 Should be as holy as severe ;
18263 Pattern in himself to know ,
18264 Grace to stand , and virtue go ;
18265 More nor less to others paying
18266 Than by self offences weighing .
18267 Shame to him whose cruel striking
18268 Kills for faults of his own liking !
18269 Twice treble shame on Angelo ,
18270 To weed my vice and let his grow !
18271 O , what may man within him hide ,
18272 Though angel on the outward side !
18273 How many likeness made in crimes ,
18274 Making practice on the times ,
18275 To draw with idle spiders' strings
18276 Most pond'rous and substantial things !
18277 Craft against vice I must apply :
18278 With Angelo to-night shall lie
18279 His old betrothed but despis'd :
18280 So disguise shall , by the disguis'd ,
18281 Pay with falsehood false exacting ,
18282 And perform an old contracting .
18283
18284 Take , O take those lips away ,
18285 That so sweetly were forsworn ;
18286 And those eyes , the break of day ,
18287 Lights that do mislead the morn :
18288 But my kisses bring again ,
18289 bring again ,
18290 Seals of love , but seal'd in vain ,
18291 seal'd in vain .
18292
18293
18294 Break off thy song , and haste thee quick away :
18295 Here comes a man of comfort , whose advice
18296 Hath often still'd my brawling discontent .
18297
18298 I cry you mercy , sir ; and well could wish
18299 You had not found me here so musical :
18300 Let me excuse me , and believe me so ,
18301
18302 My mirth it much displeas'd , but pleas'd my woe .
18303
18304 'Tis good ; though music oft hath such a charm
18305 To make bad good , and good provoke to harm .
18306 I pray you tell me , hath anybody inquired for me here to-day ? much upon this time have I promised here to meet .
18307
18308 You have not been inquired after : I have sat here all day .
18309
18310 I do constantly believe you . The time is come even now . I shall crave your forbearance a little ; may be I will call upon you anon , for some advantage to yourself .
18311
18312 I am always bound to you .
18313
18314 Very well met , and well come .
18315 What is the news from this good deputy ?
18316
18317 He hath a garden circummur'd with brick ,
18318 Whose western side is with a vineyard back'd ;
18319 And to that vineyard is a planched gate ,
18320 That makes his opening with this bigger key ;
18321 This other doth command a little door
18322 Which from the vineyard to the garden leads ;
18323 There have I made my promise
18324 Upon the heavy middle of the night
18325 To call upon him .
18326
18327 But shall you on your knowledge find this way ?
18328
18329 I have ta'en a due and wary note upon't :
18330 With whispering and most guilty diligence ,
18331 In action all of precept , he did show me
18332 The way twice o'er .
18333
18334 Are there no other tokens
18335 Between you 'greed concerning her observance ?
18336
18337 No , none , but only a repair i' the dark ;
18338 And that I have possess'd him my most stay
18339 Can be but brief ; for I have made him know
18340 I have a servant comes with me along ,
18341 That stays upon me , whose persuasion is
18342 I come about my brother .
18343
18344 'Tis well borne up .
18345 I have not yet made known to Mariana
18346 A word of this . What ho ! within ! come forth .
18347
18348
18349 I pray you , be acquainted with this maid ;
18350
18351 She comes to do you good .
18352
18353 I do desire the like .
18354
18355 Do you persuade yourself that I respect you ?
18356
18357 Good friar , I know you do , and oft have found it .
18358
18359 Take then this your companion by the hand ,
18360 Who hath a story ready for your ear .
18361 I shall attend your leisure : but make haste ;
18362 The vaporous night approaches .
18363
18364 Will't please you walk aside ?
18365
18366
18367 O place and greatness ! millions of false eyes
18368 Are stuck upon thee : volumes of report
18369 Run with these false and most contrarious quests
18370 Upon thy doings : thousand escapes of wit
18371 Make thee the father of their idle dream ,
18372 And rack thee in their fancies !
18373
18374 Welcome ! How agreed ?
18375
18376 She'll take the enterprise upon her , father ,
18377 If you advise it .
18378
18379 It is not my consent ,
18380 But my entreaty too .
18381
18382 Little have you to say
18383 When you depart from him , but , soft and low ,
18384 'Remember now my brother .'
18385
18386 Fear me not .
18387
18388 Nor , gentle daughter , fear you not at all .
18389 He is your husband on a pre-contract :
18390 To bring you thus together , 'tis no sin ,
18391 Sith that the justice of your title to him
18392 Doth flourish the deceit . Come , let us go :
18393 Our corn's to reap , for yet our tithe's to sow .
18394
18395
18396 Come hither , sirrah . Can you cut off a man's head ?
18397
18398 If the man be a bachelor , sir , I can ; but if he be a married man , he is his wife's head , and I can never cut off a woman's head .
18399
18400 Come , sir , leave me your snatches , and yield me a direct answer . To-morrow morning are to die Claudio and Barnardine . Here is in our prison a common executioner , who in his office lacks a helper : if you will take it on you to assist him , it shall redeem you from your gyves ; if not , you shall have your full time of imprisonment , and your deliverance with an unpitied whipping , for you have been a notorious bawd .
18401
18402 Sir , I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind ; but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman . I would be glad to receive some instruction from my fellow partner .
18403
18404 What ho , Abhorson ! Where's Abhorson , there ?
18405
18406
18407 Do you call , sir ?
18408
18409 Sirrah , here's a fellow will help you to-morrow in your execution . If you think it meet , compound with him by the year , and let him abide here with you ; if not , use him for the present , and dismiss him . He cannot plead his estimation with you ; he hath been a bawd .
18410
18411 A bawd , sir ? Fie upon him ! he will discredit our mystery .
18412
18413 Go to , sir ; you weigh equally ; a feather will turn the scale .
18414
18415
18416 Pray , sir , by your good favour for surely , sir , a good favour you have , but that you have a hanging look ,do you call , sir , your occupation a mystery ?
18417
18418 Ay , sir ; a mystery .
18419
18420 Painting , sir , I have heard say , is a mystery ; and your whores , sir , being members of my occupation , using painting , do prove my occupation a mystery : but what mystery there should be in hanging , if I should be hanged , I cannot imagine .
18421
18422 Sir , it is a mystery .
18423
18424 Proof ?
18425
18426 Every true man's apparel fits your thief .
18427
18428 If it be too little for your thief , your true man thinks it big enough ; if it be too big for your thief , your thief thinks it little enough : so , every true man's apparel fits your thief .
18429
18430
18431 Are you agreed ?
18432
18433 Sir , I will serve him ; for I do find that your hangman is a more penitent trade than your bawd , he doth often ask forgiveness .
18434
18435 You , sirrah , provide your block and your axe to-morrow four o'clock .
18436
18437 Come on , bawd ; I will instruct thee in my trade ; follow .
18438
18439 I do desire to learn , sir ; and , I hope , if you have occasion to use me for your own turn , you shall find me yare ; for , truly , sir , for your kindness I owe you a good turn .
18440
18441 Call hither Barnardine and Claudio :
18442
18443 The one has my pity ; not a jot the other ,
18444 Being a murderer , though he were my brother .
18445
18446
18447 Look , here's the warrant , Claudio , for thy death :
18448 'Tis now dead midnight , and by eight to-morrow
18449
18450 Thou must be made immortal . Where's Barnardine ?
18451
18452 As fast lock'd up in sleep as guiltless labour
18453 When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones ;
18454 He will not wake .
18455
18456 Who can do good on him ?
18457 Well , go ; prepare yourself .
18458
18459 But hark , what noise ?
18460 Heaven give your spirits comfort !
18461
18462 By and by .
18463 I hope it is some pardon or reprieve
18464 For the most gentle Claudio .
18465
18466 Welcome , father .
18467
18468 The best and wholesom'st spirits of the night
18469 Envelop you , good provost ! Who call'd here of late ?
18470
18471 None since the curfew rung .
18472
18473 Not Isabel ?
18474
18475 No .
18476
18477 They will , then , ere't be long .
18478
18479 What comfort is for Claudio ?
18480
18481 There's some in hope .
18482
18483 It is a bitter deputy .
18484
18485 Not so , not so : his life is parallel'd
18486 Even with the stroke and line of his great justice :
18487 He doth with holy abstinence subdue
18488 That in himself which he spurs on his power
18489 To qualify in others : were he meal'd with that
18490 Which he corrects , then were he tyrannous ;
18491 But this being so , he's just .
18492
18493 Now are they come .
18494
18495 This is a gentle provost : seldom when
18496 The steeled gaoler is the friend of men .
18497
18498 How now ! What noise ? That spirit's possess'd with haste
18499 That wounds the unsisting postern with these strokes .
18500
18501
18502 There he must stay until the officer
18503 Arise to let him in ; he is call'd up .
18504
18505 Have you no countermand for Claudio yet ,
18506 But he must die to-morrow ?
18507
18508 None , sir , none .
18509
18510 As near the dawning , provost , as it is ,
18511 You shall hear more ere morning .
18512
18513 Happily
18514 You something know ; yet , I believe there comes
18515 No countermand : no such example have we .
18516 Besides , upon the very siege of justice ,
18517 Lord Angelo hath to the public ear
18518 Profess'd the contrary .
18519
18520 This is his lordship's man .
18521
18522 And here comes Claudio's pardon .
18523
18524 My lord hath sent you this note ; and by me this further charge , that you swerve not from the smallest article of it , neither in time , matter , or other circumstance . Good morrow ; for , as I take it , it is almost day .
18525
18526 I shall obey him .
18527
18528
18529 This is his pardon , purchased by such sin
18530 For which the pardoner himself is in ;
18531 Hence hath offence his quick celerity ,
18532 When it is borne in high authority .
18533 When vice makes mercy , mercy's so extended ,
18534 That for the fault's love is the offender friended .
18535 Now , sir , what news ?
18536
18537 I told you ; Lord Angelo , belike thinking me remiss in mine office , awakens me with this unwonted putting on ; methinks strangely , for he hath not used it before .
18538
18539 Pray you , let's hear .
18540
18541 Whatsoever you may hear to the contrary , let Claudio be executed by four of the clock ; and , in the afternoon , Barnardine . For my better satisfaction , let me have Claudio's head sent me by five . Let this be duly performed ; with a thought that more depends on it than we must yet deliver . Thus fail not to do your office , as you will answer it at your peril .
18542 What say you to this , sir ?
18543
18544 What is that Barnardine who is to be executed this afternoon ?
18545
18546 A Bohemian born , but here nursed up and bred ; one that is a prisoner nine years old .
18547
18548 How came it that the absent duke had not either delivered him to his liberty or executed him ? I have heard it was ever his manner to do so .
18549
18550 His friends still wrought reprieves for him ; and , indeed , his fact , till now in the government of Lord Angelo , came not to an undoubtful proof .
18551
18552 It is now apparent ?
18553
18554 Most manifest , and not denied by himself .
18555
18556 Hath he borne himself penitently in prison ? How seems he to be touched ?
18557
18558 A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep ; careless , reckless , and fearless of what's past , present , or to come ; insensible of mortality , and desperately mortal .
18559
18560 He wants advice .
18561
18562 He will hear none . He hath evermore had the liberty of the prison : give him leave to escape hence , he would not : drunk many times a day , if not many days entirely drunk . We have very oft awaked him , as if to carry him to execution , and showed him a seeming warrant for it : it hath not moved him at all .
18563
18564 More of him anon . There is written in your brow , provost , honesty and constancy ; if I read it not truly , my ancient skill beguiles me ; but , in the boldness of my cunning I will lay myself in hazard . Claudio , whom here you have warrant to execute , is no greater forfeit to the law than Angalo who hath sentenced him . To make you understand this in a manifested effect , I crave but four days' respite , for the which you are to do me both a present and a dangerous courtesy .
18565
18566 Pray , sir , in what ?
18567
18568 In the delaying death .
18569
18570 Alack ! how may I do it , having the hour limited , and an express command , under penalty , to deliver his head in the view of Angelo ? I may make my case as Claudio's to cross this in the smallest .
18571
18572 By the vow of mine order I warrant you , if my instructions may be your guide . Let this Barnardine be this morning executed , and his head borne to Angelo .
18573
18574 Angelo hath seen them both , and will discover the favour .
18575
18576 O ! death's a great disguiser , and you may add to it . Shave the head , and tie the beard ; and say it was the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his death : you know the course is common . If anything fall to you upon this , more than thanks and good fortune , by the saint whom I profess , I will plead against it with my life .
18577
18578 Pardon me , good father ; it is against my oath .
18579
18580 Were you sworn to the duke or to the deputy ?
18581
18582 To him , and to his substitutes .
18583
18584 You will think you have made no offence , if the duke avouch the justice of your dealing ?
18585
18586 But what likelihood is in that ?
18587
18588 Not a resemblance , but a certainty . Yet since I see you fearful , that neither my coat , integrity , nor persuasion can with ease attempt you , I will go further than I meant , to pluck all fears out of you . Look you , sir ; here is the hand and seal of the duke : you know the character , I doubt not , and the signet is not strange to you .
18589
18590 I know them both .
18591
18592 The contents of this is the return of the duke : you shall anon over-read if at your pleasure , where you shall find within these two days , he will be here . This is a thing that Angelo knows not , for he this very day receives letters of strange tenour ; perchance of the duke's death ; perchance , his entering into some monastery ; but , by chance , nothing of what is writ . Look , the unfolding star calls up the shepherd . Put not yourself into amazement how these things should be : all difficulties are but easy when they are known . Call your executioner , and off with Barnardine's head : I will give him a present shrift and advise him for a better place . Yet you are amaz'd , but this shall absolutely resolve you . Come away ; it is almost clear dawn .
18593
18594
18595 I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house of profession : one would think it were Mistress Overdone's own house , for here be many of her old customers . First , here's young Master Rash ; he's in for a commodity of brown paper and old ginger , nine-score and seventeen pounds , of which he made five marks , ready money : marry , then ginger was not much in request , for the old women were all dead . Then is there here one Master Caper , at the suit of Master Three-pile the mercer , for some four suits of peach-colour'd satin , which now peaches him a beggar . Then have we young Dizy , and young Master Deep-vow , and Master Copperspur , and Master Starve-lackey the rapier and dagger man , and young Drop-heir that kill'd lusty Pudding , and Master Forthlight , the tilter , and brave Master Shoe-tie the great traveller , and wild Half-can that stabbed Pots , and , I think , forty more ; all great doers in our trade , and are now 'for the Lord's sake .'
18596
18597
18598 Sirrah , bring Barnardine hither .
18599
18600 Master Barnardine ! you must rise and be hanged , Master Barnardine .
18601
18602 What ho ! Barnardine !
18603
18604 A pox o' your throats !
18605 Who makes that noise there ? What are you ?
18606
18607 Your friends , sir ; the hangman . You must be so good , sir , to rise and be put to death .
18608
18609 Away ! you rogue , away !
18610 I am sleepy .
18611
18612 Tell him he must awake , and that quickly too .
18613
18614 Pray , Master Barnardine , awake till you are executed , and sleep afterwards .
18615
18616 Go in to him , and fetch him out .
18617
18618 He is coming , sir , he is coming ; I hear his straw rustle .
18619
18620 Is the axe upon the block , sirrah ?
18621
18622 Very ready , sir .
18623
18624
18625 How now , Abhorson ! what's the news with you ?
18626
18627 Truly , sir , I would desire you to clap into your prayers ; for , look you , the warrant's come .
18628
18629 You rogue , I have been drinking all night ; I am not fitted for't .
18630
18631 O , the better , sir ; for he that drinks all night , and is hang'd betimes in the morning , may sleep the sounder all the next day .
18632
18633 Look you , sir ; here comes your ghostly father : do we jest now , think you ?
18634
18635
18636 Sir , induced by my charity , and hearing how hastily you are to depart , I am come to advise you , comfort you , and pray with you .
18637
18638 Friar , not I : I have been drinking hard all night , and I will have more time to prepare me , or they shall beat out my brains with billets . I will not consent to die this day , that's certain .
18639
18640 O , sir , you must ; and therefore , I beseech you look forward on the journey you shall go .
18641
18642 I swear I will not die to-day for any man's persuasion .
18643
18644 But hear you .
18645
18646 Not a word : if you have anything to say to me , come to my ward ; for thence will not I to day .
18647
18648 Unfit to live or die . O , gravel heart !
18649 After him fellows : bring him to the block .
18650
18651
18652 Now , sir , how do you find the prisoner ?
18653
18654 A creature unprepar'd , unmeet for death ;
18655 And , to transport him in the mind he is
18656 Were damnable .
18657
18658 Here in the prison , father ,
18659 There died this morning of a cruel fever
18660 One Ragozine , a most notorious pirate ,
18661 A man of Claudio's years ; his beard and head
18662 Just of his colour . What if we do omit
18663 This reprobate till he were well inclin'd ,
18664 And satisfy the deputy with the visage
18665 Of Ragozine , more like to Claudio ?
18666
18667 O , 'tis an accident that heaven provides !
18668 Dispatch it presently : the hour draws on
18669 Prefix'd by Angelo . See this be done ,
18670 And sent according to command , whiles I
18671 Persuade this rude wretch willingly to die .
18672
18673 This shall be done , good father , presently .
18674 But Barnardine must die this afternoon :
18675 And how shall we continue Claudio ,
18676 To save me from the danger that might come
18677 If he were known alive ?
18678
18679 Let this be done :
18680 Put them in secret holds , both Barnardine and Claudio :
18681 Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting
18682 To the under generation , you shall find
18683 Your safety manifested .
18684
18685 I am your free dependant .
18686
18687 Quick , dispatch ,
18688 And send the head to Angelo .
18689
18690 Now will I write letters to Angelo ,
18691 The provost , he shall bear them ,whose contents
18692 Shall witness to him I am near at home ,
18693 And that , by great injunctions , I am bound
18694 To enter publicly : him I'll desire
18695 To meet me at the consecrated fount
18696 A league below the city ; and from thence ,
18697 By cold gradation and well-balanc'd form ,
18698 We shall proceed with Angelo .
18699
18700
18701 Here is the head ; I'll carry it myself .
18702
18703 Convenient is it . Make a swift return ,
18704 For I would commune with you of such things
18705 That want no ear but yours .
18706
18707 I'll make all speed .
18708
18709
18710 Peace , ho , be here !
18711
18712 The tongue of Isabel . She's come to know
18713 If yet her brother's pardon be come hither ;
18714 But I will keep her ignorant of her good ,
18715 To make her heavenly comforts of despair ,
18716 When it is least expected .
18717
18718
18719 Ho ! by your leave .
18720
18721 Good morning to you , fair and gracious daughter .
18722
18723 The better , given me by so holy a man .
18724 Hath yet the deputy sent my brother's pardon ?
18725
18726 He hath releas'd him , Isabel , from the world :
18727 His head is off and sent to Angelo .
18728
18729 Nay , but it is not so .
18730
18731 It is no other : show your wisdom , daughter ,
18732 In your close patience .
18733
18734 O ! I will to him and pluck out his eyes !
18735
18736 You shall not be admitted to his sight .
18737
18738 Unhappy Claudio ! Wretched Isabel !
18739 Injurious world ! Most damned Angelo !
18740
18741 This nor hurts him nor profits you a jot ;
18742 Forbear it therefore ; give your cause to heaven .
18743 Mark what I say , which you shall find
18744 By every syllable a faithful verity .
18745 The duke comes home to-morrow ; nay , dry your eyes :
18746 One of our covent , and his confessor ,
18747 Gives me this instance : already he hath carried
18748 Notice to Escalus and Angelo ,
18749 Who do prepare to meet him at the gates ,
18750 There to give up their power . If you can , pace your wisdom
18751 In that good path that I would wish it go ,
18752 And you shall have your bosom on this wretch ,
18753 Grace of the Duke , revenges to your heart ,
18754 And general honour .
18755
18756 I am directed by you .
18757
18758 This letter then to Friar Peter give ;
18759 'Tis that he sent me of the duke's return :
18760 Say , by this token , I desire his company
18761 At Mariana's house to-night . Her cause and yours ,
18762 I'll perfect him withal , and he shall bring you
18763 Before the duke ; and to the head of Angelo
18764 Accuse him home , and home . For my poor self ,
18765 I am combined by a sacred vow
18766 And shall be absent . Wend you with this letter .
18767 Command these fretting waters from your eyes
18768 With a light heart : trust not my holy order ,
18769 If I pervert your course . Who's here ?
18770
18771
18772 Good even . Friar , where is the provost ?
18773
18774 Not within , sir .
18775
18776 O pretty Isabella , I am pale at mine heart to see thine eyes so red : thou must be patient . I am fain to dine and sup with water and bran ; I dare not for my head fill my belly ; one fruitful meal would set me to't . But they say the duke will be here to-morrow . By my troth , Isabel , I loved thy brother : if the old fantastical duke of dark corners had been at home , he had lived .
18777
18778
18779 Sir , the duke is marvellous little beholding to your reports ; but the best is , he lives not in them .
18780
18781 Friar , thou knowest not the duke so well as I do : he's a better woodman than thou takest him for .
18782
18783 Well , you'll answer this one day .
18784 Fare ye well .
18785
18786 Nay , tarry ; I'll go along with thee : I can tell thee pretty tales of the duke .
18787
18788 You have told me too many of him already , sir , if they be true ; if not true , none were enough .
18789
18790 I was once before him for getting a wench with child .
18791
18792 Did you such a thing ?
18793
18794 Yes , marry , did I ; but I was fain to forswear it : they would else have married me to the rotten medlar .
18795
18796 Sir , your company is fairer than honest .
18797 Rest you well .
18798
18799 By my troth , I'll go with thee to the lane's end . If bawdy talk offend you , we'll have very little of it . Nay , friar , I am a kind of burr ; I shall stick .
18800
18801
18802 Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other .
18803
18804 In most uneven and distracted manner .
18805 His actions show much like to madness : pray heaven his wisdom be not tainted ! And why meet him at the gates , and redeliver our authorities there ?
18806
18807 I guess not .
18808
18809 And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his entering , that if any crave redress of injustice , they should exhibit their petitions in the street ?
18810
18811 He shows his reason for that : to have a dispatch of complaints , and to deliver us from devices hereafter , which shall then have no power to stand against us .
18812
18813 Well , I beseech you , let it be proclaim'd :
18814 Betimes i' the morn I'll call you at your house ;
18815 Give notice to such men of sort and suit
18816 As are to meet him .
18817
18818 I shall , sir : fare you well .
18819
18820 Good night .
18821
18822 This deed unshapes me quite , makes me unpregnant
18823 And dull to all proceedings . A deflower'd maid ,
18824 And by an eminent body that enforc'd
18825 The law against it ! But that her tender shame
18826 Will not proclaim against her maiden loss ,
18827 How might she tongue me ! Yet reason dares her no :
18828 For my authority bears so credent bulk ,
18829 That no particular scandal once can touch :
18830 But it confounds the breather . He should have liv'd ,
18831 Save that his riotous youth , with dangerous sense ,
18832 Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge ,
18833 By so receiving a dishonour'd life
18834 With ransom of such shame . Would yet he had liv'd !
18835 Alack ! when once our grace we have forgot ,
18836 Nothing goes right : we would , and we would not .
18837
18838
18839 These letters at fit time deliver me .
18840
18841 The provost knows our purpose and our plot .
18842 The matter being afoot , keep your instruction ,
18843 And hold you ever to our special drift ,
18844 Though sometimes you do blench from this to that ,
18845 As cause doth minister . Go call at Flavius' house ,
18846 And tell him where I stay : give the like notice
18847 To Valentinus , Rowland , and to Crassus ,
18848 And bid them bring the trumpets to the gate ;
18849 But send me Flavius first .
18850
18851 It shall be speeded well .
18852
18853 I thank thee , Varrius ; thou hast made good haste .
18854 Come , we will walk . There's other of our friends
18855 Will greet us here anon , my gentle Varrius .
18856
18857
18858 To speak so indirectly I am loath :
18859 I would say the truth ; but to accuse him so ,
18860 That is your part : yet I'm advis'd to do it ;
18861 He says , to veil full purpose .
18862
18863 Be rul'd by him .
18864
18865 Besides , he tells me that if peradventure
18866 He speak against me on the adverse side ,
18867 I should not think it strange ; for 'tis a physic
18868 That's bitter to sweet end .
18869
18870 I would , Friar Peter
18871
18872 O , peace ! the friar is come .
18873
18874
18875 Come ; I have found you out a stand most fit ,
18876 Where you may have such vantage on the duke ,
18877 He shall not pass you . Twice have the trumpets sounded :
18878 The generous and gravest citizens
18879 Have hent the gates , and very near upon
18880 The duke is ent'ring : therefore hence , away !
18881
18882 My very worthy cousin , fairly met !
18883 Our old and faithful friend , we are glad to see you .
18884
18885 Happy return be to your royal Grace !
18886
18887 Happy return be to your royal Grace !
18888
18889 Many and hearty thankings to you both .
18890 We have made inquiry of you ; and we hear
18891 Such goodness of your justice , that our soul
18892 Cannot but yield you forth to public thanks ,
18893 Forerunning more requital .
18894
18895 You make my bonds still greater .
18896
18897 O ! your desert speaks loud ; and I should wrong it ,
18898 To lock it in the wards of covert bosom ,
18899 When it deserves , with characters of brass ,
18900 A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
18901 And razure of oblivion . Give me your hand ,
18902 And let the subject see , to make them know
18903 That outward courtesies would fain proclaim
18904 Favours that keep within . Come , Escalus ,
18905 You must walk by us on our other hand ;
18906 And good supporters are you .
18907
18908
18909 Now is your time : speak loud and kneel before him .
18910
18911 Justice , O royal duke ! Vail your regard
18912 Upon a wrong'd , I'd fain have said , a maid !
18913 O worthy prince ! dishonour not your eye
18914 By throwing it on any other object
18915 Till you have heard me in my true complaint
18916 And given me justice , justice , justice , justice !
18917
18918 Relate your wrongs : in what ? by whom ? Be brief ;
18919 Here is Lord Angelo , shall give you justice :
18920 Reveal yourself to him .
18921
18922 O worthy duke !
18923 You bid me seek redemption of the devil .
18924 Hear me yourself ; for that which I must speak
18925 Must either punish me , not being believ'd ,
18926 Or wring redress from you . Hear me , O , hear me , here !
18927
18928 My lord , her wits , I fear me , are not firm :
18929 She hath been a suitor to me for her brother
18930 Cut off by course of justice ,
18931
18932 By course of justice !
18933
18934 And she will speak most bitterly and strange .
18935
18936 Most strange , but yet most truly , will I speak .
18937 That Angelo's forsworn , is it not strange ?
18938 That Angelo's a murderer , is't not strange ?
18939 That Angelo is an adulterous thief ,
18940 A hypocrite , a virgin-violator ;
18941 Is it not strange , and strange ?
18942
18943 Nay , it is ten times strange .
18944
18945 It is not truer he is Angelo
18946 Than this is all as true as it is strange ;
18947 Nay , it is ten times true ; for truth is truth
18948 To the end of reckoning .
18949
18950 Away with her ! poor soul ,
18951 She speaks this in the infirmity of sense .
18952
18953 O prince , I conjure thee , as thou believ'st
18954 There is another comfort than this world ,
18955 That thou neglect me not , with that opinion
18956 That I am touch'd with madness . Make not impossible
18957 That which but seems unlike . 'Tis not impossible
18958 But one , the wicked'st caitiff on the ground ,
18959 May seem as shy , as grave , as just , as absolute
18960 As Angelo ; even so may Angelo ,
18961 In all his dressings , characts , titles , forms ,
18962 Be an arch-villain . Believe it , royal prince :
18963 If he be less , he's nothing ; but he's more ,
18964 Had I more name for badness .
18965
18966 By mine honesty ,
18967 If she be mad ,as I believe no other ,
18968 Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense ,
18969 Such a dependency of thing on thing ,
18970 As e'er I heard in madness .
18971
18972 O gracious duke !
18973 Harp not on that ; nor do not banish reason
18974 For inequality ; but let your reason serve
18975 To make the truth appear where it seems hid ,
18976 And hide the false seems true .
18977
18978 Many that are not mad
18979 Have , sure , more lack of reason . What would you say ?
18980
18981 I am the sister of one Claudio ,
18982 Condemn'd upon the act of fornication
18983 To lose his head ; condemn'd by Angelo .
18984 I , in probation of a sisterhood ,
18985 Was sent to by my brother ; one Lucio
18986 As then the messenger ,
18987
18988 That's I , an't like your Grace :
18989 I came to her from Claudio , and desir'd her
18990 To try her gracious fortune with Lord Angelo
18991 For her poor brother's pardon .
18992
18993 That's he indeed .
18994
18995 You were not bid to speak .
18996
18997 No , my good lord ;
18998 Nor wish'd to hold my peace .
18999
19000 I wish you now , then ;
19001 Pray you , take note of it ; and when you have
19002 A business for yourself , pray heaven you then
19003 Be perfect .
19004
19005 I warrant your honour .
19006
19007 The warrant's for yourself : take heed to it .
19008
19009 This gentleman told somewhat of my tale ,
19010
19011 Right .
19012
19013 It may be right ; but you are in the wrong
19014 To speak before your time . Proceed .
19015
19016 I went
19017 To this pernicious caitiff deputy .
19018
19019 That's somewhat madly spoken .
19020
19021 Pardon it ;
19022 The phrase is to the matter .
19023
19024 Mended again : the matter ; proceed .
19025
19026 In brief , to set the needless process by ,
19027 How I persuaded , how I pray'd , and kneel'd ,
19028 How he refell'd me , and how I replied ,
19029 For this was of much length ,the vile conclusion
19030 I now begin with grief and shame to utter .
19031 He would not , but by gift of my chaste body
19032 To his concupiscible intemperate lust ,
19033 Release my brother ; and , after much debatement ,
19034 My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour ,
19035 And I did yield to him . But the next morn betimes ,
19036 His purpose surfeiting , he sends a warrant
19037 For my poor brother's head .
19038
19039 This is most likely !
19040
19041 O , that it were as like as it is true !
19042
19043 By heaven , fond wretch ! thou know'st not what thou speak'st ,
19044 Or else thou art suborn'd against his honour
19045 In hateful practice . First , his integrity
19046 Stands without blemish ; next , it imports no reason
19047 That with such vehemency he should pursue
19048 Faults proper to himself : if he had so offended ,
19049 He would have weigh'd thy brother by himself ,
19050 And not have cut him off . Some one hath set you on :
19051 Confess the truth , and say by whose advice
19052 Thou cam'st here to complain .
19053
19054 And is this all ?
19055 Then , O you blessed ministers above ,
19056 Keep me in patience ; and , with ripen'd time
19057 Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up
19058 In countenance ! Heaven shield your Grace from woe ,
19059 As I , thus wrong'd , hence unbelieved go !
19060
19061 I know you'd fain be gone . An officer !
19062 To prison with her ! Shall we thus permit
19063 A blasting and a scandalous breath to fall
19064 On him so near us ? This needs must be a practice .
19065 Who knew of your intent and coming hither ?
19066
19067 One that I would were here , Friar Lodowick .
19068
19069 A ghostly father , belike . Who knows that Lodowick ?
19070
19071 My lord , I know him ; 'tis a meddling friar ;
19072 I do not like the man : had he been lay , my lord ,
19073 For certain words he spake against your Grace
19074 In your retirement , I had swing'd him soundly .
19075
19076 Words against me ! This' a good friar , belike !
19077 And to set on this wretched woman here
19078 Against our substitute ! Let this friar be found .
19079
19080 But yesternight , my lord , she and that friar ,
19081 I saw them at the prison : a saucy friar ,
19082 A very scurvy fellow .
19083
19084 Bless'd be your royal Grace !
19085 I have stood by , my lord , and I have heard
19086 Your royal ear abus'd . First , hath this woman
19087 Most wrongfully accus'd your substitute ,
19088 Who is as free from touch or soil with her ,
19089 As she from one ungot .
19090
19091 We did believe no less .
19092 Know you that Friar Lodowick that she speaks of ?
19093
19094 I know him for a man divine and holy ;
19095 Not scurvy , nor a temporary meddler ,
19096 As he's reported by this gentleman ;
19097 And , on my trust , a man that never yet
19098 Did , as he vouches , misreport your Grace .
19099
19100 My lord , most villanously ; believe it .
19101
19102 Well ; he in time may come to clear himself ,
19103 But at this instant he is sick , my lord ,
19104 Of a strange fever . Upon his mere request ,
19105 Being come to knowledge that there was complaint
19106 Intended 'gainst Lord Angelo , came I hither ,
19107 To speak , as from his mouth , what he doth know
19108 Is true and false ; and what he with his oath
19109 And all probation will make up full clear ,
19110 Whensoever he's convented . First , for this woman ,
19111 To justify this worthy nobleman ,
19112 So vulgarly and personally accus'd ,
19113 Her shall you hear disproved to her eyes ,
19114 Till she herself confess it .
19115
19116 Good friar , let's hear it .
19117
19118 Do you not smile at this , Lord Angelo ?
19119 O heaven , the vanity of wretched fools !
19120 Give us some seats . Come , cousin Angelo ;
19121 In this I'll be impartial ; be you judge
19122 Of your own cause . Is this the witness , friar ?
19123 First , let her show her face , and after speak .
19124
19125 Pardon , my lord ; I will not show my face
19126 Until my husband bid me .
19127
19128 What , are you married ?
19129
19130 No , my lord .
19131
19132 Are you a maid ?
19133
19134 No , my lord .
19135
19136 A widow , then ?
19137
19138 Neither , my lord .
19139
19140 Why , you
19141 Are nothing , then : neither maid , widow , nor wife ?
19142
19143 My lord , she may be a punk ; for many of them are neither maid , widow , nor wife .
19144
19145 Silence that fellow : I would he had some cause
19146 To prattle for himself .
19147
19148 Well , my lord .
19149
19150 My lord , I do confess I ne'er was married ;
19151 And I confess besides I am no maid :
19152 I have known my husband yet my husband knows not
19153 That ever he knew me .
19154
19155 He was drunk then my lord : it can be no better .
19156
19157 For the benefit of silence , would thou wert so too !
19158
19159 Well , my lord .
19160
19161 This is no witness for Lord Angelo .
19162
19163 Now I come to't , my lord :
19164 She that accuses him of fornication ,
19165 In self-same manner doth accuse my husband ;
19166 And charges him , my lord , with such a time ,
19167 When , I'll depose , I had him in mine arms ,
19168 With all th' effect of love .
19169
19170 Charges she moe than me ?
19171
19172 Not that I know .
19173
19174 No ? you say your husband .
19175
19176 Why , just , my lord , and that is Angelo ,
19177 Who thinks he knows that he ne'er knew my body
19178 But knows he thinks that he knows Isabel's .
19179
19180 This is a strange abuse . Let's see thy face .
19181
19182 My husband bids me ; now I will unmask .
19183
19184 This is that face , thou cruel Angelo ,
19185 Which once thou swor'st was worth the looking on :
19186 This is the hand which , with a vow'd contract ,
19187 Was fast belock'd in thine : this is the body
19188 That took away the match from Isabel ,
19189 And did supply thee at thy garden-house
19190 In her imagin'd person .
19191
19192 Know you this woman ?
19193
19194 Carnally , she says .
19195
19196 Sirrah , no more !
19197
19198 Enough , my lord .
19199
19200 My lord , I must confess I know this woman ;
19201 And five years since there was some speech of marriage
19202 Betwixt myself and her , which was broke off ,
19203 Partly for that her promised proportions
19204 Came short of composition ; but , in chief
19205 For that her reputation was disvalu'd
19206 In levity : since which time of five years
19207 I never spake with her , saw her , nor heard from her ,
19208 Upon my faith and honour .
19209
19210 Noble prince ,
19211 As there comes light from heaven and words from breath ,
19212 As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue ,
19213 I am affianc'd this man's wife as strongly
19214 As words could make up vows : and , my good lord ,
19215 But Tuesday night last gone in 's garden-house
19216 He knew me as a wife . As this is true ,
19217 Let me in safety raise me from my knees
19218 Or else for ever be confixed here ,
19219 A marble monument .
19220
19221 I did but smile till now :
19222 Now , good my lord , give me the scope of justice ;
19223 My patience here is touch'd . I do perceive
19224 These poor informal women are no more
19225 But instruments of some more mightier member
19226 That sets them on . Let me have way , my lord ,
19227 To find this practice out .
19228
19229 Ay , with my heart ;
19230 And punish them unto your height of pleasure .
19231 Thou foolish friar , and thou pernicious woman ,
19232 Compact with her that's gone , think'st thou thy oaths ,
19233 Though they would swear down each particular saint ,
19234 Were testimonies against his worth and credit
19235 That's seal'd in approbation ? You , Lord Escalus ,
19236 Sit with my cousin ; lend him your kind pains
19237 To find out this abuse , whence 'tis deriv'd .
19238 There is another friar that set them on ;
19239 Let him be sent for .
19240
19241 Would he were here , my lord ; for he indeed
19242 Hath set the women on to this complaint :
19243 Your provost knows the place where he abides
19244 And he may fetch him .
19245
19246 Go do it instantly .
19247
19248 And you , my noble and well-warranted cousin ,
19249 Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth ,
19250 Do with your injuries as seems you best ,
19251 In any chastisement : I for awhile will leave you ;
19252 But stir not you , till you have well determin'd
19253 Upon these slanderers .
19254
19255 My lord , we'll do it throughly .
19256
19257 Signior Lucio , did not you say you knew that
19258 Friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person ?
19259
19260 Cucullus non facit monachum : honest in nothing , but in his clothes ; and one that hath spoke most villanous speeches of the duke .
19261
19262 We shall entreat you to abide here till he come and enforce them against him . We shall find this friar a notable fellow .
19263
19264 As any in Vienna , on my word .
19265
19266 Call that same Isabel here once again :
19267 I would speak with her .
19268
19269
19270 Pray you , my lord , give me leave to question ; you shall see how I'll handle her .
19271
19272 Not better than he , by her own report .
19273
19274 Say you ?
19275
19276 Marry , sir , I think , if you handled her privately , she would sooner confess : perchance , publicly , she'll be ashamed .
19277
19278 I will go darkly to work with her .
19279
19280 That's the way : for women are light at midnight .
19281
19282
19283 Come on , mistress : here's a gentlewoman denies all that you have said .
19284
19285 My lord , here comes the rascal I spoke of ; here with the provost .
19286
19287 In very good time : speak not you to him , till we call upon you .
19288
19289
19290 Mum .
19291
19292 Come , sir . Did you set these women on to slander Lord Angelo ? they have confessed you did .
19293
19294 'Tis false .
19295
19296 How ! know you where you are ?
19297
19298 Respect to your great place ! and let the devil
19299 Be sometime honour'd for his burning throne .
19300 Where is the duke ? 'tis he should hear me speak .
19301
19302 The duke's in us , and we will hear you speak :
19303 Look you speak justly .
19304
19305 Boldly , at least . But , O , poor souls !
19306 Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox ?
19307 Good night to your redress ! Is the duke gone ?
19308 Then is your cause gone too . The duke's unjust ,
19309 Thus to retort your manifest appeal ,
19310 And put your trial in the villain's mouth
19311 Which here you come to accuse .
19312
19313 This is the rascal : this is he I spoke of .
19314
19315 Why , thou unreverend and unhallow'd friar !
19316 Is't not enough thou hast suborn'd these women
19317 To accuse this worthy man , but , in foul mouth ,
19318 And in the witness of his proper ear ,
19319 To call him villain ?
19320 And then to glance from him to the duke himself .
19321 To tax him with injustice ? take him hence ;
19322 To the rack with him ! We'll touse you joint by joint ,
19323 But we will know his purpose . What ! 'unjust' ?
19324
19325 Be not so hot ; the duke
19326 Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he
19327 Dare rack his own : his subject am I not ,
19328 Nor here provincial . My business in this state
19329 Made me a looker-on here in Vienna ,
19330 Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble
19331 Till it o'er-run the stew : laws for all faults ,
19332 But faults so countenanc'd , that the strong statutes
19333 Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop ,
19334 As much in mock as mark .
19335
19336 Slander to the state ! Away with him to prison !
19337
19338 What can you vouch against him , Signior Lucio ?
19339 Is this the man that you did tell us of ?
19340
19341 'Tis he , my lord . Come hither , goodman bald-pate : do you know me ?
19342
19343 I remember you , sir , by the sound of your voice : I met you at the prison , in the absence of the duke .
19344
19345 O ! did you so ? And do you remember what you said of the duke ?
19346
19347 Most notedly , sir .
19348
19349 Do you so , sir ? And was the duke a flesh-monger , a fool , and a coward , as you then reported him to be ?
19350
19351 You must , sir , change persons with me , ere you make that my report : you , indeed , spoke so of him ; and much more , much worse .
19352
19353 O thou damnable fellow ! Did not I pluck thee by the nose for thy speeches ?
19354
19355 I protest I love the duke as I love myself .
19356
19357 Hark how the villain would close now , after his treasonable abuses !
19358
19359 Such a fellow is not to be talk'd withal .
19360 Away with him to prison ! Where is the provost ?
19361 Away with him to prison ! Lay bolts enough on him , let him speak no more . Away with those giglots too , and with the other confederate companion !
19362
19363
19364 Stay , sir ; stay awhile .
19365
19366 What ! resists he ? Help him , Lucio .
19367
19368 Come , sir ; come , sir ; come , sir ; foh ! sir . Why , you bald-pated , lying rascal , you must be hooded , must you ? show your knave's visage , with a pox to you ! show your sheepbiting face , and be hanged an hour ! Will't not off ?
19369
19370
19371 Thou art the first knave that e'er made a duke .
19372 First , provost , let me bail these gentle three .
19373
19374
19375 Sneak not away , sir ; for the friar and you
19376 Must have a word anon . Lay hold on him .
19377
19378 This may prove worse than hanging .
19379
19380 What you have spoke I pardon ; sit you down :
19381 We'll borrow place of him .
19382
19383 Sir , by your leave .
19384 Hast thou or word , or wit , or impudence ,
19385 That yet can do thee office ? If thou hast ,
19386 Rely upon it till my tale be heard ,
19387 And hold no longer out .
19388
19389 O my dread lord !
19390 I should be guiltier than my guiltiness ,
19391 To think I can be undiscernible
19392 When I perceive your Grace , like power divine ,
19393 Hath look'd upon my passes . Then , good prince ,
19394 No longer session hold upon my shame ,
19395 But let my trial be mine own confession :
19396 Immediate sentence then and sequent death
19397 Is all the grace I beg .
19398
19399 Come hither , Mariana ,
19400 Say , wast thou e'er contracted to this woman ?
19401
19402 I was , my lord .
19403
19404 Go take her hence , and marry her instantly .
19405 Do you the office , friar ; which consummate ,
19406 Return him here again . Go with him , provost .
19407
19408
19409 My lord , I am more amaz'd at his dishonour
19410 Than at the strangeness of it .
19411
19412 Come hither , Isabel .
19413 Your friar is now your prince : as I was then
19414 Advertising and holy to your business ,
19415 Not changing heart with habit , I am still
19416 Attorney'd at your service .
19417
19418 O , give me pardon ,
19419 That I , your vassal , have employ'd and pain'd
19420 Your unknown sovereignty !
19421
19422 You are pardon'd , Isabel :
19423 And now , dear maid , be you as free to us .
19424 Your brother's death , I know , sits at your heart ;
19425 And you may marvel why I obscur'd myself ,
19426 Labouring to save his life , and would not rather
19427 Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power
19428 Than let him so be lost . O most kind maid !
19429 It was the swift celerity of his death ,
19430 Which I did think with slower foot came on ,
19431 That brain'd my purpose : but , peace be with him !
19432 That life is better life , past fearing death ,
19433 Than that which lives to fear : make it your comfort ,
19434 So happy is your brother .
19435
19436 I do , my lord .
19437
19438
19439 For this new-married man approaching here ,
19440 Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd
19441 Your well-defended honour , you must pardon
19442 For Mariana's sake . But as he adjudg'd your brother ,
19443 Being criminal , in double violation
19444 Of sacred chastity , and of promise-breach ,
19445 Thereon dependent , for your brother's life ,
19446 The very mercy of the law cries out
19447 Most audible , even from his proper tongue ,
19448 'An Angelo for Claudio , death for death !'
19449 Haste still pays haste , and leisure answers leisure ,
19450 Like doth quit like , and Measure still for Measure .
19451 Then , Angelo , thy fault's thus manifested ,
19452 Which , though thou wouldst deny , denies thee vantage .
19453 We do condemn thee to the very block
19454 Where Claudio stoop'd to death , and with like haste .
19455 Away with him !
19456
19457 O , my most gracious lord !
19458 I hope you will not mock me with a husband .
19459
19460 It is your husband mock'd you with a husband .
19461 Consenting to the safeguard of your honour ,
19462 I thought your marriage fit ; else imputation ,
19463 For that he knew you , might reproach your life
19464 And choke your good to come . For his possessions ,
19465 Although by confiscation they are ours ,
19466 We do instate and widow you withal ,
19467 To buy you a better husband .
19468
19469 O my dear lord !
19470 I crave no other , nor no better man .
19471
19472 Never crave him ; we are definitive .
19473
19474 Gentle my liege ,
19475
19476 You do but lose your labour .
19477 Away with him to death !
19478
19479 Now , sir , to you .
19480
19481 O my good lord ! Sweet Isabel , take my part :
19482 Lend me your knees , and , all my life to come ,
19483 I'll lend you all my life to do you service ,
19484
19485 Against all sense you do importune her :
19486 Should she kneel down in mercy of this fact ,
19487 Her brother's ghost his paved bed would break ,
19488 And take her hence in horror .
19489
19490 Isabel ,
19491 Sweet Isabel , do yet but kneel by me :
19492 Hold up your hands , say nothing , I'll speak all .
19493 They say best men are moulded out of faults ,
19494 And , for the most , become much more the better
19495 For being a little bad : so may my husband .
19496 O , Isabel ! will you not lend a knee ?
19497
19498 He dies for Claudio's death .
19499
19500 Most bounteous sir ,
19501 Look , if it please you , on this man condemn'd ,
19502 As if my brother liv'd . I partly think
19503 A due sincerity govern'd his deeds ,
19504 Till he did look on me : since it is so ,
19505 Let him not die . My brother had but justice ,
19506 In that he did the thing for which he died :
19507 For Angelo ,
19508 His act did not o'ertake his bad intent ;
19509 And must be buried but as an intent
19510 That perish'd by the way . Thoughts are no subjects ;
19511 Intents but merely thoughts .
19512
19513 Merely , my lord .
19514
19515 Your suit's unprofitable : stand up , I say .
19516 I have bethought me of another fault .
19517 Provost , how came it Claudio was beheaded
19518 At an unusual hour ?
19519
19520 It was commanded so .
19521
19522 Had you a special warrant for the deed ?
19523
19524 No , my good lord ; it was by private message .
19525
19526 For which I do discharge you of your office :
19527 Give up your keys .
19528
19529 Pardon me , noble lord :
19530 I thought it was a fault , but knew it not ,
19531 Yet did repent me , after more advice ;
19532 For testimony whereof , one in the prison ,
19533 That should by private order else have died
19534 I have reserv'd alive .
19535
19536 What's he ?
19537
19538 His name is Barnardine .
19539
19540 I would thou hadst done so by Claudio .
19541 Go , fetch him hither : let me look upon him .
19542
19543
19544 I am sorry , one so learned and so wise
19545 As you , Lord Angelo , have still appear'd ,
19546 Should slip so grossly , both in the heat of blood ,
19547 And lack of temper'd judgment afterward .
19548
19549 I am sorry that such sorrow I procure ;
19550 And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart
19551 That I crave death more willingly than mercy :
19552 'Tis my deserving , and I do entreat it .
19553
19554
19555 Which is that Barnardine ?
19556
19557 This , my lord .
19558
19559 There was a friar told me of this man .
19560 Sirrah , thou art said to have a stubborn soul ,
19561 That apprehends no further than this world ,
19562 And squar'st thy life according . Thou'rt condemn'd :
19563 But , for those earthly faults , I quit them all ,
19564 And pray thee take this mercy to provide
19565 For better times to come . Friar , advise him :
19566 I leave him to your hand .What muffled fellow's that ?
19567
19568 This is another prisoner that I sav'd ,
19569 That should have died when Claudio lost his head ,
19570 As like almost to Claudio as himself .
19571
19572
19573 If he be like your brother , for his sake
19574 Is he pardon'd ; and , for your lovely sake
19575 Give me your hand and say you will be mine ,
19576 He is my brother too . But fitter time for that .
19577 By this , Lord Angelo perceives he's safe :
19578 Methinks I see a quickening in his eye .
19579 Well , Angelo , your evil quits you well :
19580 Look that you love your wife ; her worth worth yours .
19581 I find an apt remission in myself ,
19582 And yet here's one in place I cannot pardon .
19583
19584
19585 You , sirrah , that knew me for a fool , a coward ,
19586 One all of luxury , an ass , a madman :
19587 Wherein have I so deserv'd of you ,
19588 That you extol me thus ?
19589
19590 'Faith , my lord , I spoke it but according to the trick . If you will hang me for it , you may ; but I had rather it would please you I might be whipped .
19591
19592 Whipp'd first , sir , and hang'd after .
19593 Proclaim it , provost , round about the city ,
19594 If any woman's wrong'd by this lewd fellow ,
19595 As I have heard him swear himself there's one
19596 Whom he begot with child , let her appear ,
19597 And he shall marry her : the nuptial finish'd ,
19598 Let him be whipp'd and hang'd .
19599
19600 I beseech your highness , do not marry me to a whore . Your highness said even now , I made you a duke : good my lord , do not recompense me in making me a cuckold .
19601
19602 Upon mine honour , thou shalt marry her .
19603 Thy slanders I forgive ; and therewithal
19604 Remit thy other forfeits . Take him to prison ,
19605 And see our pleasure herein executed .
19606
19607 Marrying a punk , my lord , is pressing to death , whipping , and hanging .
19608
19609 Slandering a prince deserves it .
19610 She , Claudio , that you wrong'd , look you restore .
19611 Joy to you , Mariana ! love her , Angelo :
19612 I have confess'd her and I know her virtue .
19613 Thanks , good friend Escalus , for thy much goodness :
19614 There's more behind that is more gratulate .
19615 Thanks , provost , for thy care and secrecy ;
19616 We shall employ thee in a worthier place .
19617 Forgive him , Angelo , that brought you home
19618 The head of Ragozine for Claudio's :
19619 The offence pardons itself . Dear Isabel ,
19620 I have a motion much imports your good ;
19621 Whereto if you'll a willing ear incline ,
19622 What's mine is yours , and what is yours is mine .
19623 So , bring us to our palace ; where we'll show
19624 What's yet behind , that's meet you all should know .
19625
19626 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
19627
19628 I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina .
19629
19630 He is very near by this : he was not three leagues off when I left him .
19631
19632 How many gentlemen have you lost in this action ?
19633
19634 But few of any sort , and none of name .
19635
19636 A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers . I find here that Don Pedro hath bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called Claudio .
19637
19638 Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by Don Pedro . He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age , doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion : he hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how .
19639
19640 He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much glad of it .
19641
19642 I have already delivered him letters , and there appears much joy in him ; even so much that joy could not show itself modest enough without a badge of bitterness .
19643
19644 Did he break out into tears ?
19645
19646 In great measure .
19647
19648 A kind overflow of kindness . There are no faces truer than those that are so washed : how much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping !
19649
19650 I pray you is Signior Mountanto returned from the wars or no ?
19651
19652 I know none of that name , lady : there was none such in the army of any sort .
19653
19654 What is he that you ask for , niece ?
19655
19656 My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua .
19657
19658 O ! he is returned , and as pleasant as ever he was .
19659
19660 He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged Cupid at the flight ; and my uncle's fool , reading the challenge , subscribed for Cupid , and challenged him at the bird-bolt . I pray you , how many hath he killed and eaten in these wars ? But how many hath he killed ? for , indeed , I promised to eat all of his killing .
19661
19662 Faith , niece , you tax Signior Benedick too much ; but he'll be meet with you , I doubt it not .
19663
19664 He hath done good service , lady , in these wars .
19665
19666 You had musty victual , and he hath holp to eat it : he is a very valiant trencherman ; he hath an excellent stomach .
19667
19668 And a good soldier too , lady .
19669
19670 And a good soldier to a lady ; but what is he to a lord ?
19671
19672 A lord to a lord , a man to a man , stuffed with all honourable virtues .
19673
19674 It is so , indeed ; he is no less than a stuffed man ; but for the stuffing ,well , we are all mortal .
19675
19676 You must not , sir , mistake my niece There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her : they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them .
19677
19678 Alas ! he gets nothing by that . In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off , and now is the whole man governed with one ! so that if he have wit enough to keep himself warm , let him bear it for a difference between himself and his horse ; for it is all the wealth that he hath left to be known a reasonable creature . Who is his companion now ? He hath every month a new sworn brother .
19679
19680 Is't possible ?
19681
19682 Very easily possible : he wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat ; it ever changes with the next block .
19683
19684 I see , lady , the gentleman is not in your books .
19685
19686 No ; an he were , I would burn my study . But , I pray you , who is his companion ? Is there no young squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil ?
19687
19688 He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio .
19689
19690 O Lord ! he will hang upon him like a disease : he is sooner caught than the pestilence , and the taker runs presently mad . God help the noble Claudio ! if he have caught the Benedick , it will cost him a thousand pound ere a' be cured .
19691
19692 I will hold friends with you , lady .
19693
19694 Do , good friend .
19695
19696 You will never run mad , niece .
19697
19698 No , not till a hot January .
19699
19700 Don Pedro is approached .
19701
19702
19703 Good Signior Leonato , you are come to meet your trouble : the fashion of the world is to avoid cost , and you encounter it .
19704
19705 Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of your Grace , for trouble being gone , comfort should remain ; but when you depart from me , sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave .
19706
19707 You embrace your charge too willingly . I think this is your daughter .
19708
19709 Her mother hath many times told me so .
19710
19711 Were you in doubt , sir , that you asked her ?
19712
19713 Signior Benedick , no ; for then you were a child .
19714
19715 You have it full , Benedick : we may guess by this what you are , being a man . Truly , the lady fathers herself . Be happy , lady , for you are like an honourable father .
19716
19717 If Signior Leonato be her father , she would not have his head on her shoulders for all Messina , as like him as she is .
19718
19719 I wonder that you will still be talking , Signior Benedick : nobody marks you .
19720
19721 What ! my dear Lady Disdain , are you yet living ?
19722
19723 Is it possible Disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick ? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain , if you come in her presence .
19724
19725 Then is courtesy a turncoat . But it is certain I am loved of all ladies , only you excepted ; and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart ; for , truly , I love none .
19726
19727 A dear happiness to women : they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor . I thank God and my cold blood , I am of your humour for that : I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me .
19728
19729 God keep your ladyship still in that mind ; so some gentleman or other shall scape a predestinate scratched face .
19730
19731 Scratching could not make it worse , an 'twere such a face as yours were .
19732
19733 Well , you are a rare parrot-teacher .
19734
19735 A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours .
19736
19737 I would my horse had the speed of your tongue , and so good a continuer . But keep your way , i' God's name ; I have done .
19738
19739 You always end with a jade's trick : I know you of old .
19740
19741 This is the sum of all , Leonato : Signior Claudio , and Signior Benedick , my dear friend Leonato hath invited you all . I tell him we shall stay here at the least a month , and he heartily prays some occasion may detain us longer : I dare swear he is no hypocrite , but prays from his heart .
19742
19743 If you swear , my lord , you shall not be forsworn .
19744
19745 Let me bid you welcome , my lord : being reconciled to the prince your brother , I owe you all duty .
19746
19747 I thank you : I am not of many words , but I thank you .
19748
19749 Please it your Grace lead on ?
19750
19751 Your hand , Leonato ; we will go together .
19752
19753
19754 Benedick , didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato ?
19755
19756 I noted her not ; but I looked on her .
19757
19758 Is she not a modest young lady ?
19759
19760 Do you question me , as an honest man should do , for my simple true judgment ; or would you have me speak after my custom , as being a professed tyrant to their sex ?
19761
19762 No ; I pray thee speak in sober judgment .
19763
19764 Why , i' faith , methinks she's too low for a high praise , too brown for a fair praise , and too little for a great praise : only this commendation I can afford her , that were she other than she is , she were unhandsome , and being no other but as she is , I do not like her .
19765
19766 Thou thinkest I am in sport : I pray thee tell me truly how thou likest her .
19767
19768 Would you buy her , that you inquire after her ?
19769
19770 Can the world buy such a jewel ?
19771
19772 Yea , and a case to put it into . But speak you this with a sad brow , or do you play the flouting Jack , to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder , and Vulcan a rare carpenter ? Come , in what key shall a man take you , to go in the song ?
19773
19774 In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I looked on .
19775
19776 I can see yet without spectacles and I see no such matter : there's her cousin an she were not possessed with a fury , exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December . But I hope you have no intent to turn husband , have you ?
19777
19778 I would scarce trust myself , though I had sworn to the contrary , if Hero would be my wife .
19779
19780 Is't come to this , i' faith ? Hath not the world one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion ? Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again ? Go to , i' faith ; an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck into a yoke , wear the print of it , and sigh away Sundays . Look ! Don Pedro is returned to seek you .
19781
19782
19783 What secret hath held you here , that you followed not to Leonato's ?
19784
19785 I would your Grace would constrain me to tell .
19786
19787 I charge thee on thy allegiance .
19788
19789 You hear , Count Claudio : I can be secret as a dumb man ; I would have you think so ; but on my allegiance , mark you this , on my allegiance : he is in love . With who ? now that is your Grace's part . Mark how short his answer is : with Hero , Leonato's short daughter .
19790
19791 If this were so , so were it uttered .
19792
19793 Like the old tale , my lord : 'it is not so , nor 'twas not so ; but , indeed , God forbid it should be so .'
19794
19795 If my passion change not shortly , God forbid it should be otherwise .
19796
19797 Amen , if you love her ; for the lady is very well worthy .
19798
19799 You speak this to fetch me in , my lord .
19800
19801 By my troth , I speak my thought .
19802
19803 And in faith , my lord , I spoke mine .
19804
19805 And by my two faiths and troths , my lord , I spoke mine .
19806
19807 That I love her , I feel .
19808
19809 That she is worthy , I know .
19810
19811 That I neither feel how she should be loved nor know how she should be worthy , is the opinion that fire cannot melt out of me : I will die in it at the stake .
19812
19813 Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite of beauty .
19814
19815 And never could maintain his part but in the force of his will .
19816
19817 That a woman conceived me , I thank her ; that she brought me up , I likewise give her most humble thanks : but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead , or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick , all women shall pardon me . Because I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any , I will do myself the right to trust none ; and the fine is ,for the which I may go the finer ,I will live a bachelor .
19818
19819 I shall see thee , ere I die , look pale with love .
19820
19821 With anger , with sickness , or with hunger , my lord ; not with love : prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking , pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen , and hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid .
19822
19823 Well , if ever thou dost fall from this faith , thou wilt prove a notable argument .
19824
19825 If I do , hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot at me ; and he that hits me , let him be clapped on the shoulder , and called Adam .
19826
19827 Well , as time shall try :
19828 'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke .'
19829
19830 The savage bull may ; but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it , pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead ; and let me be vilely painted , and in such great letters as they write , 'Here is good horse to hire ,' let them signify under my sign 'Here you may see Benedick the married man .'
19831
19832 If this should ever happen , thou wouldst be horn-mad .
19833
19834 Nay , if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice , thou wilt quake for this shortly .
19835
19836 I look for an earthquake too then .
19837
19838 Well , you will temporize with the hours . In the meantime , good Signior Benedick , repair to Leonato's : commend me to him and tell him I will not fail him at supper ; for indeed he hath made great preparation .
19839
19840 I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage ; and so I commit you
19841
19842 To the tuition of God : from my house , if I had it ,
19843
19844 The sixth of July : your loving friend , Benedick .
19845
19846 Nay , mock not , mock not . The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments , and the guards are but slightly basted on neither : ere you flout old ends any further , examine your conscience : and so I leave you .
19847
19848
19849 My liege , your highness now may do me good .
19850
19851 My love is thine to teach : teach it but how ,
19852 And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn
19853 Any hard lesson that may do thee good .
19854
19855 Hath Leonato any son , my lord ?
19856
19857 No child but Hero ; she's his only heir .
19858 Dost thou affect her , Claudio ?
19859
19860 O ! my lord ,
19861 When you went onward on this ended action ,
19862 I looked upon her with a soldier's eye ,
19863 That lik'd , but had a rougher task in hand
19864 Than to drive liking to the name of love ;
19865 But now I am return'd , and that war-thoughts
19866 Have left their places vacant , in their rooms
19867 Come thronging soft and delicate desires ,
19868 All prompting me how fair young Hero is ,
19869 Saying , I lik'd her ere I went to wars .
19870
19871 Thou wilt be like a lover presently ,
19872 And tire the hearer with a book of words .
19873 If thou dost love fair Hero , cherish it ,
19874 And I will break with her , and with her father ,
19875 And thou shalt have her . Was't not to this end
19876 That thou began'st to twist so fine a story ?
19877
19878 How sweetly do you minister to love ,
19879 That know love's grief by his complexion !
19880 But lest my liking might too sudden seem ,
19881 I would have salv'd it with a longer treatise .
19882
19883 What need the bridge much broader than the flood ?
19884 The fairest grant is the necessity .
19885 Look , what will serve is fit : 'tis once , thou lov'st ,
19886 And I will fit thee with the remedy .
19887 I know we shall have revelling to-night :
19888 I will assume thy part in some disguise ,
19889 And tell fair Hero I am Claudio ;
19890 And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart ,
19891 And take her hearing prisoner with the force
19892 And strong encounter of my amorous tale :
19893 Then , after to her father will I break ;
19894 And the conclusion is , she shall be thine .
19895 In practice let us put it presently .
19896
19897
19898 How now , brother ! Where is my cousin , your son ? Hath he provided this music ?
19899
19900 He is very busy about it . But , brother , I can tell you strange news that you yet dreaint not of .
19901
19902 Are they good ?
19903
19904 As the event stamps them : but they have a good cover ; they show well outward . The prince and Count Claudio , walking in a thick-pleached alley in my orchard , were thus much overheard by a man of mine : the prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my niece your daughter , and meant to acknowledge it this night in a dance ; and , if he found her accordant , he meant to take the present time by the top and instantly break with you of it .
19905
19906 Hath the fellow any wit that told you this ?
19907
19908 A good sharp fellow : I will send for him ; and question him yourself .
19909
19910 No , no ; we will hold it as a dream till it appear itself : but I will acquaint my daughter withal , that she may be the better prepared for an answer , if peradventure this be true . Go you , and tell her of it .
19911
19912 Cousins , you know what you have to do . O ! I cry you mercy , friend ; go you with me , and I will use your skill . Good cousin , have a care this busy time .
19913
19914
19915 What the good-year , my lord ! why are you thus out of measure sad ?
19916
19917 There is no measure in the occasion that breeds ; therefore the sadness is without limit .
19918
19919 You should hear reason .
19920
19921 And when I have heard it , what blessing brings it ?
19922
19923 It not a present remedy , at least a patient sufferance .
19924
19925 I wonder that thou , being ,as thou say'st thou art ,born under Saturn , goest about to apply a moral medicine to a mortifying mischief . I cannot hide what I am : I must be sad when I have cause , and smile at no man's jests ; eat when I have stomach , and wait for no man's leisure ; sleep when I am drowsy , and tend on no man's business ; laugh when I am merry , and claw no man in his humour .
19926
19927 Yea ; but you must not make the full show of this till you may do it without controlment . You have of late stood out against your brother , and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace ; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself : it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest .
19928
19929 I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace ; and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any : in this , though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man , it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain . I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog ; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage . If I had my mouth , I would bite ; if I had my liberty , I would do my liking : in the meantime , let me be that I am , and seek not to alter me .
19930
19931 Can you make no use of your discontent ?
19932
19933 I make all use of it , for I use it only . Who comes here ?
19934
19935 What news , Borachio ?
19936
19937 I came yonder from a great supper : the prince , your brother , is royally entertained by Leonato ; and I can give you intelligence of an intended marriage .
19938
19939 Will it serve for any model to build mischief on ? What is he for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness ?
19940
19941 Marry , it is your brother's right hand .
19942
19943 Who ? the most exquisite Claudio ?
19944
19945 Even he .
19946
19947 A proper squire ! And who , and who ? which way looks he ?
19948
19949 Marry , on Hero , the daughter and heir of Leonato .
19950
19951 A very forward March-chick ! How came you to this ?
19952
19953 Being entertained for a perfumer , as I was smoking a musty room , comes me the prince and Claudio , hand in hand , in sad conference : I whipt me behind the arras , and there heard it agreed upon that the prince should woo Hero for himself , and having obtained her , give her to Count Claudio .
19954
19955 Come , come ; let us thither : this may prove food to my displeasure . That young start-up hath all the glory of my overthrow : if I can cross him any way , I bless myself every way . You are both sure , and will assist me ?
19956
19957 To the death , my lord .
19958
19959 To the death , my lord .
19960
19961 Let us to the great supper : their cheer is the greater that I am subdued . Would the cook were of my mind ! Shall we go prove what's to be done ?
19962
19963 We'll wait upon your lordship .
19964
19965 Was not Count John here at supper ?
19966
19967 I saw him not .
19968
19969 How tartly that gentleman looks ! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after .
19970
19971 He is of a very melancholy disposition .
19972
19973 He were an excellent man that were made just in the mid-way between him and Benedick : the one is too like an image , and says nothing ; and the other too like my lady's eldest son , evermore tattling .
19974
19975 Then half Signior Benedick's tongue in Count John's mouth , and half Count John's melancholy in Signior Benedick's face ,
19976
19977 With a good leg and a good foot , uncle , and money enough in his purse , such a man would win any woman in the world , if a' could get her good will .
19978
19979 By my troth , niece , thou wilt never get thee a husband , if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue .
19980
19981 In faith , she's too curst .
19982
19983 Too curst is more than curst : I shall lessen God's sending that way ; for it is said , 'God sends a curst cow short horns ;' but to a cow too curst he sends none .
19984
19985 So , by being too curst , God will send you no horns ?
19986
19987 Just , if he send me no husband ; for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening . Lord ! I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face : I had rather lie in the woollen .
19988
19989 You may light on a husband that hath no beard .
19990
19991 What should I do with him ? dress him in my apparel and make him my waiting-gentlewoman ? He that hath a beard is more than a youth , and he that hath no beard is less than a man ; and he that is more than a youth is not for me ; and he that is less than a man , I am not for him : therefore I will even take sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward , and lead his apes into hell .
19992
19993 Well then , go you into hell ?
19994
19995 No ; but to the gate ; and there will the devil meet me , like an old cuckold , with horns on his head , and say , 'Get you to heaven , Beatrice , get you to heaven ; here's no place for you maids :' so deliver I up my apes , and away to Saint Peter for the heavens ; he shows me where the bachelors sit , and there live we as merry as the day is long .
19996
19997 Well , niece , I trust you will be ruled by your father .
19998
19999 Yes , faith ; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy , and say , 'Father , as it please you :' but yet for all that , cousin , let him be a handsome fellow , or else make another curtsy , and say , 'Father , as it please me .'
20000
20001 Well , niece , I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband .
20002
20003 Not till God make men of some other metal than earth . Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered with a piece of valiant dust ? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl ? No , uncle , I'll none : Adam's sons are my brethren ; and truly , I hold it a sin to match in my kindred .
20004
20005 Daughter , remember what I told you : if the prince do solicit you in that kind , you know your answer .
20006
20007 The fault will be in the music , cousin , if you be not wooed in good time : if the prince be too important , tell him there is measure in everything , and so dance out the answer . For , hear me , Hero : wooing , wedding , and repenting , is as a Scotch jig , a measure , and a cinque-pace : the first suit is hot and hasty , like a Scotch jig , and full as fantastical ; the wedding , mannerly-modest , as a measure , full of state and ancientry ; and then comes Repentance , and , with his bad legs , falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster , till he sink into his grave .
20008
20009 Cousin , you apprehend passing shrewdly .
20010
20011 I have a good eye , uncle : I can see a church by daylight .
20012
20013 The revellers are entering , brother : make good room .
20014
20015 Lady , will you walk about with your friend ?
20016
20017 So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing , I am yours for the walk ; and especially when I walk away .
20018
20019 With me in your company ?
20020
20021 I may say so , when I please .
20022
20023 And when please you to say so ?
20024
20025 When I like your favour ; for God defend the lute should be like the case !
20026
20027 My visor is Philemon's roof ; within the house is Jove .
20028
20029 Why , then , your visor should be thatch'd .
20030
20031 Speak low , if you speak love .
20032
20033
20034 Well , I would you did like me .
20035
20036 So would not I , for your own sake ; for I have many ill qualities .
20037
20038 Which is one ?
20039
20040 I say my prayers aloud .
20041
20042 I love you the better ; the hearers may cry Amen .
20043
20044 God match me with a good dancer !
20045
20046 Amen .
20047
20048 And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is done ! Answer , clerk .
20049
20050 No more words : the clerk is answered .
20051
20052 I know you well enough : you are Signior Antonio .
20053
20054 At a word , I am not .
20055
20056 I know you by the waggling of your head .
20057
20058 To tell you true , I counterfeit him .
20059
20060 You could never do him so ill-well , unless you were the very man . Here's his dry hand up and down : you are he , you are he .
20061
20062 At a word , I am not .
20063
20064 Come , come ; do you think I do not know you by your excellent wit ? Can virtue hide itself ? Go to , mum , you are he : graces will appear , and there's an end .
20065
20066 Will you not tell me who told you so ?
20067
20068 No , you shall pardon me .
20069
20070 Nor will you not tell me who you are ?
20071
20072 Not now .
20073
20074 That I was disdainful , and that I had my good wit out of the 'Hundred Merry Tales .' Well , this was Signior Benedick that said so .
20075
20076 What's he ?
20077
20078 I am sure you know him well enough .
20079
20080 Not I , believe me .
20081
20082 Did he never make you laugh ?
20083
20084 I pray you , what is he ?
20085
20086 Why , he is the prince's jester : a very dull fool ; only his gift is in devising impossible slanders : none but libertines delight in him ; and the commendation is not in his wit , but in his villany ; for he both pleases men and angers them , and then they laugh at him and beat him . I am sure he is in the fleet : I would he had boarded me !
20087
20088 When I know the gentleman , I'll tell him what you say .
20089
20090 Do , do : he'll but break a comparison or two on me ; which , peradventure not marked or not laughed at , strikes him into melancholy ; and then there's a partridge wing saved , for the fool will eat no supper that night .
20091
20092 We must follow the leaders .
20093
20094 In every good thing .
20095
20096 Nay , if they lead to any ill , I will leave them at the next turning .
20097
20098
20099 Sure my brother is amorous on Hero , and hath withdrawn her father to break with him about it . The ladies follow her and but one visor remains .
20100
20101 And that is Claudio : I know him by his bearing .
20102
20103 Are you not Signior Benedick ?
20104
20105 You know me well ; I am he .
20106
20107 Signior , you are very near my brother in his love : he is enamoured on Hero ; I pray you , dissuade him from her ; she is no equal for his birth : you may do the part of an honest man in it .
20108
20109 How know you he loves her ?
20110
20111 I heard him swear his affection .
20112
20113 So did I too ; and he swore he would marry her to-night .
20114
20115 Come , let us to the banquet .
20116
20117
20118 Thus answer I in name of Benedick ,
20119 But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio .
20120 'Tis certain so ; the prince woos for himself .
20121 Friendship is constant in all other things
20122 Save in the office and affairs of love :
20123 Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues ;
20124 Let every eye negotiate for itself
20125 And trust no agent ; for beauty is a witch
20126 Against whose charms faith melteth into blood .
20127 This is an accident of hourly proof ,
20128 Which I mistrusted not . Farewell , therefore , Hero !
20129
20130
20131 Count Claudio ?
20132
20133 Yea , the same .
20134
20135 Come , will you go with me ?
20136
20137 Whither ?
20138
20139 Even to the next willow , about your own business , count . What fashion will you wear the garland of ? About your neck , like a usurer's chain ? or under your arm , like a lieutenant's scarf ? You must wear it one way , for the prince hath got your Hero .
20140
20141 I wish him joy of her .
20142
20143 Why , that's spoken like an honest drovier : so they sell bullocks . But did you think the prince would have served you thus ?
20144
20145 I pray you , leave me .
20146
20147 Ho ! now you strike like the blind man : 'twas the boy that stole your meat , and you'll beat the post .
20148
20149 If it will not be , I'll leave you .
20150
20151
20152 Alas ! poor hurt fowl . Now will he creep into sedges . But , that my lady Beatrice should know me , and not know me ! The prince's fool ! Ha ! it may be I go under that title because I am merry . Yea , but so I am apt to do myself wrong ; I am not so reputed : it is the base though bitter disposition of Beatrice that puts the world into her person , and so gives me out . Well , I'll be revenged as I may .
20153
20154
20155 Now , signior , where's the count ? Did you see him ?
20156
20157 Troth , my lord , I have played the part of Lady Fame . I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a warren . I told him , and I think I told him true , that your Grace had got the good will of this young lady ; and I offered him my company to a willow tree , either to make him a garland , as being forsaken , or to bind him up a rod , as being worthy to be whipped .
20158
20159 To be whipped ! What's his fault ?
20160
20161 The flat transgression of a school-boy , who , being overjoy'd with finding a bird's nest , shows it his companion , and he steals it .
20162
20163 Wilt thou make a trust a transgression ? The transgression is in the stealer .
20164
20165 Yet it had not been amiss the rod had been made , and the garland too ; for the garland he might have worn himself , and the rod he might have bestowed on you , who , as I take it , have stolen his bird's nest .
20166
20167 I will but teach them to sing , and restore them to the owner .
20168
20169 If their singing answer your saying , by my faith , you say honestly .
20170
20171 The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you : the gentleman that danced with her told her she is much wronged by you .
20172
20173 O ! she misused me past the endurance of a block : an oak but with one green leaf on it , would have answered her : my very visor began to assume life and scold with her . She told me , not thinking I had been myself , that I was the prince's jester ; that I was duller than a great thaw ; huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me , that I stood like a man at a mark , with a whole army shooting at me . She speaks poniards , and every word stabs : if her breath were as terrible as her terminations , there were no living near her ; she would infect to the north star . I would not marry her , though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed : she would have made Hercules have turned spit , yea , and have cleft his club to make the fire too . Come , talk not of her ; you shall find her the infernal Ate in good apparel . I would to God some scholar would conjure her , for certainly , while she is here , a man may live as quiet in hell as in a sanctuary ; and people sin upon purpose because they would go thither ; so , indeed , all disquiet , horror and perturbation follow her .
20174
20175
20176 Look ! here she comes .
20177
20178 Will your Grace command me any service to the world's end ? I will go on the slightest errand now to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on ; I will fetch you a toothpicker now from the furthest inch of Asia ; bring you the length of Prester John's foot ; fetch you a hair off the Great Cham's beard ; do you any embassage to the Pigmies , rather than hold three words' conference with this harpy . You have no employment for me ?
20179
20180 None , but to desire your good company .
20181
20182 O God , sir , here's a dish I love not : I cannot endure my Lady Tongue .
20183
20184
20185 Come , lady , come ; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick .
20186
20187 Indeed , my lord , he lent it me awhile ; and I gave him use for it , a double heart for a single one : marry , once before he won it of me with false dice , therefore your Grace may well say I have lost it .
20188
20189 You have put him down , lady , you have put him down .
20190
20191 So I would not he should do me , my lord , lest I should prove the mother of fools . I have brought Count Claudio , whom you sent me to seek .
20192
20193 Why , how now , count ! wherefore are you sad ?
20194
20195 Not sad , my lord .
20196
20197 How then ? Sick ?
20198
20199 Neither , my lord .
20200
20201 The count is neither sad , nor sick , nor merry , nor well ; but civil count , civil as an orange , and something of that jealous complexion .
20202
20203 I' faith , lady , I think your blazon to be true ; though , I'll be sworn , if he be so , his conceit is false . Here , Claudio , I have wooed in thy name , and fair Hero is won ; I have broke with her father , and , his good will obtained ; name the day of marriage , and God give thee joy !
20204
20205 Count , take of me my daughter , and with her my fortunes : his Grace hath made the match , and all grace say Amen to it !
20206
20207 Speak , count , 'tis your cue .
20208
20209 Silence is the perfectest herald of joy : I were but little happy , if I could say how much . Lady , as you are mine , I am yours : I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange .
20210
20211 Speak , cousin ; or , if you cannot , stop his mouth with a kiss , and let not him speak neither .
20212
20213 In faith , lady , you have a merry heart .
20214
20215 Yea , my lord ; I thank it , poor fool , it keeps on the windy side of care . My cousin tells him in his ear that he is in her heart .
20216
20217 And so she doth , cousin .
20218
20219 Good Lord , for alliance ! Thus goes every one to the world but I , and I am sunburnt . I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband !
20220
20221 Lady Beatrice , I will get you one .
20222
20223 I would rather have one of your father's getting . Hath your Grace ne'er a brother like you ? Your father got excellent husbands , if a maid could come by them .
20224
20225 Will you have me , lady ?
20226
20227 No , my lord , unless I might have another for working days : your Grace is too costly to wear every day . But , I beseech your Grace , pardon me ; I was born to speak all mirth and no matter .
20228
20229 Your silence most offends me , and to be merry best becomes you ; for , out of question , you were born in a merry hour .
20230
20231 No , sure , my lord , my mother cried ; but then there was a star danced , and under that was I born . Cousins , God give you joy !
20232
20233 Niece , will you look to those things I told you of ?
20234
20235 I cry you mercy , uncle . By your Grace's pardon .
20236
20237
20238 By my troth , a pleasant-spirited lady .
20239
20240 There's little of the melancholy element in her , my lord : she is never sad but when she sleeps ; and not ever sad then , for I have heard my daughter say , she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing .
20241
20242 She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband .
20243
20244 O ! by no means : she mocks all her wooers out of suit .
20245
20246 She were an excellent wife for Benedick .
20247
20248 O Lord ! my lord , if they were but a week married , they would talk themselves mad .
20249
20250 Count Claudio , when mean you to go to church ?
20251
20252 To-morrow , my lord . Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites .
20253
20254 Not till Monday , my dear son , which is hence a just seven-night ; and a time too brief too , to have all things answer my mind .
20255
20256 Come , you shake the head at so long a breathing ; but , I warrant thee , Claudio , the time shall not go dully by us . I will in the interim undertake one of Hercules' labours , which is , to bring Signior Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection the one with the other . I would fain have it a match ; and I doubt not but to fashion it , if you three will but minister such assistance as I shall give you direction .
20257
20258 My lord , I am for you , though it cost me ten nights' watchings .
20259
20260 And I , my lord .
20261
20262 And you too , gentle Hero ?
20263
20264 I will do any modest office , my lord , to help my cousin to a good husband .
20265
20266 And Benedick is not the unhopefullest husband that I know . Thus far can I praise him ; he is of a noble strain , of approved valour , and confirmed honesty . I will teach you how to humour your cousin , that she shall fall in love with Benedick ; and I , with your two helps , will so practise on Benedick that , in despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach , he shall fall in love with Beatrice . If we can do this , Cupid is no longer an archer : his glory shall be ours , for we are the only love-gods . Go in with me , and I will tell you my drift .
20267
20268
20269 It is so ; the Count Claudio shall marry the daughter of Leonato .
20270
20271 Yea , my lord ; but I can cross it .
20272
20273 Any bar , any cross , any impediment will be medicinable to me : I am sick in displeasure to him , and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges evenly with mine . How canst thou cross this marriage ?
20274
20275 Not honestly , my lord ; but so covertly that no dishonesty shall appear in me .
20276
20277 Show me briefly how .
20278
20279 I think I told your lordship , a year since , how much I am in the favour of Margaret , the waiting-gentlewoman to Hero .
20280
20281 I remember .
20282
20283 I can , at any unseasonable instant of the night , appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber-window .
20284
20285 What life is in that , to be the death of this marriage ?
20286
20287 The poison of that lies in you to temper . Go you to the prince your brother ; spare not to tell him , that he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned Claudio ,whose estimation do you mightily hold up ,to a contaminated stale , such a one as Hero .
20288
20289 What proof shall I make of that ?
20290
20291 Proof enough to misuse the prince , to vex Claudio , to undo Hero , and kill Leonato .
20292 Look you for any other issue ?
20293
20294 Only to despite them , I will endeavour any thing .
20295
20296 Go , then ; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and the Count Claudio alone : tell them that you know that Hero loves me ; intend a kind of zeal both to the prince and Claudio , as in love of your brother's honour , who hath made this match , and his friend's reputation , who is thus like to be cozened with the semblance of a maid ,that you have discovered thus . They will scarcely believe this without trial : offer them instances , which shall bear no less likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window , hear me call Margaret Hero ; hear Margaret term me Claudio ; and bring them to see this the very night before the intended wedding : for in the meantime I will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be absent ; and there shall appear such seeming truth of Hero's disloyalty , that jealousy shall be called assurance , and all the preparation overthrown .
20297
20298 Grow this to what adverse issue it can , I will put it in practice . Be cunning in the working this , and thy fee is a thousand ducats .
20299
20300 Be you constant in the accusation , and my cunning shall not shame me .
20301
20302 I will presently go learn their day of marriage .
20303
20304
20305 Boy !
20306
20307
20308 Signior ?
20309
20310 In my chamber-window lies a book ; bring it hither to me in the orchard .
20311
20312 I am here already , sir .
20313
20314 I know that ; but I would have thee hence , and here again . [Exit Boy .] I do much wonder that one man , seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviours to love , will , after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others , become the argument of his own scorn by falling in love : and such a man is Claudio . I have known , when there was no music with him but the drum and the fife ; and now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe : I have known , when he would have walked ten mile afoot to see a good armour ; and now will he lie ten nights awake , carving the fashion of a new doublet . He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose , like an honest man and a soldier ; and now is he turned orthographer ; his words are a very fantastical banquet , just so many strange dishes . May I be so converted , and see with these eyes ? I cannot tell ; I think not : I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster ; but I'll take my oath on it , till he have made an oyster of me , he shall never make me such a fool . One woman is fair , yet I am well ; another is wise , yet I am well ; another virtuous , yet I am well ; but till all graces be in one woman , one woman shall not come in my grace . Rich she shall be , that's certain ; wise , or I'll none ; virtuous , or I'll never cheapen her ; fair , or I'll never look on her ; mild , or come not near me ; noble , or not I for an angel ; of good discourse , an excellent musician , and her hair shall be of what colour it please God . Ha ! the prince and Monsieur Love ! I will hide me in the arbour .
20315
20316 Come , shall we hear this music ?
20317
20318 Yea , my good lord . How still the evening is ,
20319 As hush'd on purpose to grace harmony !
20320
20321 See you where Benedick hath hid himself ?
20322
20323 O ! very well , my lord : the music ended ,
20324 We'll fit the kid-fox with a penny-worth .
20325
20326 Come , Balthazar , we'll hear that song again .
20327
20328 O ! good my lord , tax not so bad a voice
20329 To slander music any more than once .
20330
20331 It is the witness still of excellency ,
20332 To put a strange face on his own perfection .
20333 I pray thee , sing , and let me woo no more .
20334
20335 Because you talk of wooing , I will sing ;
20336 Since many a wooer doth commence his suit
20337 To her he thinks not worthy ; yet he woos ;
20338 Yet will he swear he loves .
20339
20340 Nay , pray thee , come ;
20341 Or if thou wilt hold longer argument ,
20342 Do it in notes .
20343
20344 Note this before my notes ;
20345 There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting .
20346
20347 Why these are very crotchets that he speaks ;
20348 Notes , notes , forsooth , and nothing !
20349
20350
20351 Now , divine air ! now is his soul ravished ! Is it not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out of men's bodies ? Well , a horn for my money , when all's done .
20352
20353 Sigh no more , ladies , sigh no more ,
20354 Men were deceivers ever ;
20355 One foot in sea , and one on shore ,
20356 To one thing constant never .
20357 Then sigh not so ,
20358 But let them go ,
20359 And be you blithe and bonny ,
20360 Converting all your sounds of woe
20361 Into Hey nonny , nonny .
20362 Sing no more ditties , sing no mo
20363 Of dumps so dull and heavy ;
20364 The fraud of men was ever so ,
20365 Since summer first was leavy .
20366 Then sigh not so ,
20367 But let them go ,
20368 And be you blithe and bonny ,
20369 Converting all your sounds of woe
20370 Into Hey nonny , nonny .
20371
20372
20373 By my troth , a good song .
20374
20375 And an ill singer , my lord .
20376
20377 Ha , no , no , faith ; thou singest well enough for a shift .
20378
20379 An he had been a dog that should have howled thus , they would have hanged him ; and I pray God his bad voice bode no mischief . I had as lief have heard the night-raven , come what plague could have come after it .
20380
20381 Yea , marry ; dost thou hear , Balthazar ? I pray thee , get us some excellent music , for to-morrow night we would have it at the Lady Hero's chamber-window .
20382
20383 The best I can , my lord .
20384
20385 Do so : farewell .
20386
20387 Come hither , Leonato : what was it you told me of to-day , that your niece Beatrice was in love with Signior Benedick ?
20388
20389 O ! ay :
20390
20391 Stalk on , stalk on ; the fowl sits . I did never think that lady would have loved any man .
20392
20393 No , nor I neither ; but most wonderful that she should so dote on Signior Benedick , whom she hath in all outward behaviours seemed ever to abhor .
20394
20395 Is't possible ? Sits the wind in that corner ?
20396
20397 By my troth , my lord , I cannot tell what to think of it but that she loves him with an enraged affection : it is past the infinite of thought .
20398
20399 May be she doth but counterfeit .
20400
20401 Faith , like enough .
20402
20403 O God ! counterfeit ! There was never counterfeit of passion came so near the life of passion as she discovers it .
20404
20405 Why , what effects of passion shows she ?
20406
20407 Bait the hook well : this fish will bite .
20408
20409 What effects , my lord ? She will sit you ;
20410
20411 You heard my daughter tell you how .
20412
20413 She did , indeed .
20414
20415 How , how , I pray you ? You amaze me : I would have thought her spirit had been invincible against all assaults of affection .
20416
20417 I would have sworn it had , my lord ; especially against Benedick .
20418
20419 I should think this a gull , but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it : knavery cannot , sure , hide itself in such reverence .
20420
20421 He hath ta'en the infection : hold it up .
20422
20423 Hath she made her affection known to Benedick ?
20424
20425 No ; and swears she never will : that's her torment .
20426
20427 'Tis true , indeed ; so your daughter says : 'Shall I ,' says she , 'that have so oft encountered him with scorn , write to him that I love him ?'
20428
20429 This says she now when she is beginning to write to him ; for she'll be up twenty times a night , and there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a sheet of paper : my daughter tells us all .
20430
20431 Now you talk of a sheet of paper , I remember a pretty jest your daughter told us of .
20432
20433 O ! when she had writ it , and was reading it over , she found Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet ?
20434
20435 That .
20436
20437 O ! she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence ; railed at herself , that she should be so immodest to write to one that she knew would flout her : 'I measure him ,' says she , 'by my own spirit ; for I should flout him , if he writ to me ; yea , though I love him , I should .'
20438
20439 Then down upon her knees she falls , weeps , sobs , beats her heart , tears her hair , prays , curses ; 'O sweet Benedick ! God give me patience !'
20440
20441 She doth indeed ; my daughter says so ; and the ecstasy hath so much overborne her , that my daughter is sometimes afeard she will do a desperate outrage to herself . It is very true .
20442
20443 It were good that Benedick knew of it by some other , if she will not discover it .
20444
20445 To what end ? he would but make a sport of it and torment the poor lady worse .
20446
20447 An he should , it were an alms to hang him . She's an excellent sweet lady , and , out of all suspicion , she is virtuous .
20448
20449 And she is exceeding wise .
20450
20451 In everything but in loving Benedick .
20452
20453 O ! my lord , wisdom and blood combating in so tender a body , we have ten proofs to one that blood hath the victory . I am sorry for her , as I have just cause , being her uncle and her guardian .
20454
20455 I would she had bestowed this dotage on me ; I would have daffed all other respects and made her half myself . I pray you , tell Benedick of it , and hear what a' will say .
20456
20457 Were it good , think you ?
20458
20459 Hero thinks surely she will die ; for she says she will die if he love her not , and she will die ere she make her love known , and she will die if he woo her , rather than she will bate one breath of her accustomed crossness .
20460
20461 She doth well : if she should make tender of her love , 'tis very possible he'll scorn it ; for the man ,as you know all ,hath a contemptible spirit .
20462
20463 he is a very proper man .
20464
20465 He hath indeed a good outward happiness .
20466
20467 'Fore God , and in my mind , very wise .
20468
20469 He doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit .
20470
20471 And I take him to be valiant .
20472
20473 As Hector , I assure you : and in the managing of quarrels you may say he is wise ; for either he avoids them with great discretion , or undertakes them with a most Christian-like fear .
20474
20475 If he do fear God , a' must necessarily keep peace : if he break the peace , he ought to enter into a quarrel with fear and trembling .
20476
20477 And so will he do ; for the man doth fear God , howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests he will make . Well , I am sorry for your niece . Shall we go seek Benedick , and tell him of her love ?
20478
20479 Never tell him , my lord : let her wear it out with good counsel .
20480
20481 Nay , that's impossible : she may wear her heart out first .
20482
20483 Well , we will hear further of it by your daughter : let it cool the while . I love Benedick well , and I could wish he would modestly examine himself , to see how much he is unworthy to have so good a lady .
20484
20485 My lord , will you walk ? dinner is ready .
20486
20487 If he do not dote on her upon this , I will never trust my expectation .
20488
20489 Let there be the same net spread for her ; and that must your daughter and her gentlewoman carry . The sport will be , when they hold one an opinion of another's dotage , and no such matter : that's the scene that I would see , which will be merely a dumbshow . Let us send her to call him in to dinner .
20490
20491
20492 This can be no trick : the conference was sadly borne . They have the truth of this from Hero . They seem to pity the lady : it seems , her affections have their full bent . Love me ! why , it must be requited . I hear how I am censured : they say I will bear myself proudly , if I perceive the love come from her ; they say too that she will rather die than give any sign of affection . I did never think to marry : I must not seem proud : happy are they that hear their detractions , and can put them to mending . They say the lady is fair : 'tis a truth , I can bear them witness ; and virtuous : 'tis so , I cannot reprove it ; and wise , but for loving me : by my troth , it is no addition to her wit , nor no great argument of her folly , for I will be horribly in love with her . I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me , because I have railed so long against marriage ; but doth not the appetite alter ? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age . Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour ? No ; the world must be peopled . When I said I would die a bachelor , I did not think I should live till I were married . Here comes Beatrice . By this day ! she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her .
20493
20494
20495 Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner .
20496
20497 Fair Beatrice , I thank you for your pains .
20498
20499 I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me : if it had been painful , I would not have come .
20500
20501 You take pleasure then in the message ?
20502
20503 Yea , just so much as you may take upon a knife's point , and choke a daw withal . You have no stomach , signior : fare you well .
20504
20505
20506 Ha ! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner ,' there's a double meaning in that . 'I took no more pains for those thanks than you took pains to thank me ,' that's as much as to say , Any pains that I take for you is as easy as thanks . If I do not take pity of her , I am a villain ; if I do not love her , I am a Jew . I will go get her picture .
20507
20508 Good Margaret , run thee to the parlour ;
20509 There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice
20510 Proposing with the prince and Claudio :
20511 Whisper her ear , and tell her , I and Ursula
20512 Walk in the orchard , and our whole discourse
20513 Is all of her ; say that thou overheard'st us ,
20514 And bid her steal into the pleached bower ,
20515 Where honey-suckles , ripen'd by the sun ,
20516 Forbid the sun to enter ; like favourites ,
20517 Made proud by princes , that advance their pride
20518 Against that power that bred it . There will she hide her ,
20519 To listen our propose . This is thy office ;
20520 Bear thee well in it and leave us alone .
20521
20522 I'll make her come , I warrant you , presently .
20523
20524
20525 Now , Ursula , when Beatrice doth come ,
20526 As we do trace this alley up and down ,
20527 Our talk must only be of Benedick :
20528 When I do name him , let it be thy part
20529 To praise him more than ever man did merit .
20530 My talk to thee must be how Benedick
20531 Is sick in love with Beatrice : of this matter
20532 Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made ,
20533 That only wounds by hearsay .
20534
20535
20536 Now begin ;
20537 For look where Beatrice , like a lapwing , runs
20538
20539 Close by the ground , to hear our conference .
20540
20541 The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
20542 Cut with her golden oars the silver stream ,
20543 And greedily devour the treacherous bait :
20544 So angle we for Beatrice ; who even now
20545 Is couched in the woodbine coverture .
20546 Fear you not my part of the dialogue .
20547
20548 Then go we near her , that her ear lose nothing
20549 Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it .
20550
20551 No , truly , Ursula , she is too disdainful ;
20552 I know her spirits are as coy and wild
20553 As haggerds of the rock .
20554
20555 But are you sure
20556 That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely ?
20557
20558 So says the prince , and my new-trothed lord .
20559
20560 And did they bid you tell her of it , madam ?
20561
20562 They did entreat me to acquaint her of it ;
20563 But I persuaded them , if they lov'd Benedick ,
20564 To wish him wrestle with affection ,
20565 And never to let Beatrice know of it .
20566
20567 Why did you so ? Doth not the gentleman
20568 Deserve as full as fortunate a bed
20569 As ever Beatrice shall couch upon ?
20570
20571 O god of love ! I know he doth deserve
20572 As much as may be yielded to a man ;
20573 But nature never fram'd a woman's heart
20574 Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice ;
20575 Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes ,
20576 Misprising what they look on , and her wit
20577 Values itself so highly , that to her
20578 All matter else seems weak . She cannot love ,
20579 Nor take no shape nor project of affection ,
20580 She is so self-endear'd .
20581
20582 Sure , I think so ;
20583 And therefore certainly it were not good
20584 She knew his love , lest she make sport at it .
20585
20586 Why , you speak truth . I never yet saw man ,
20587 How wise , how noble , young , how rarely featur'd ,
20588 But she would spell him backward : if fair-fac'd ,
20589 She would swear the gentleman should be her sister ;
20590 If black , why , Nature , drawing of an antick ,
20591 Made a foul blot ; if tall , a lance ill-headed ;
20592 If low , an agate very vilely cut ;
20593 If speaking , why , a vane blown with all winds ;
20594 If silent , why , a block moved with none .
20595 So turns she every man the wrong side out ,
20596 And never gives to truth and virtue that
20597 Which simpleness and merit purchaseth .
20598
20599 Sure , sure , such carping is not commendable .
20600
20601 No ; not to be so odd and from all fashions
20602 As Beatrice is , cannot be commendable .
20603 But who dare tell her so ? If I should speak ,
20604 She would mock me into air : O ! she would laugh me
20605 Out of myself , press me to death with wit .
20606 Therefore let Benedick , like cover'd fire ,
20607 Consume away in sighs , waste inwardly :
20608 It were a better death than die with mocks ,
20609 Which is as bad as die with tickling .
20610
20611 Yet tell her of it : hear what she will say .
20612
20613 No ; rather I will go to Benedick ,
20614 And counsel him to fight against his passion .
20615 And , truly , I'll devise some honest slanders
20616 To stain my cousin with . One doth not know
20617 How much an ill word may empoison liking .
20618
20619 O ! do not do your cousin such a wrong .
20620 She cannot be so much without true judgment ,
20621 Having so swift and excellent a wit
20622 As she is priz'd to have ,as to refuse
20623 So rare a gentleman as Signior Benedick .
20624
20625 He is the only man of Italy ,
20626 Always excepted my dear Claudio .
20627
20628 I pray you , be not angry with me , madam ,
20629 Speaking my fancy : Signior Benedick ,
20630 For shape , for bearing , argument and valour ,
20631 Goes foremost in report through Italy .
20632
20633 Indeed , he hath an excellent good name .
20634
20635 His excellence did earn it , ere he had it .
20636 When are you married , madam ?
20637
20638 Why , every day , to-morrow . Come , go in :
20639 I'll show thee some attires , and have thy counsel
20640 Which is the best to furnish me to-morrow .
20641
20642 She's lim'd , I warrant you : we have caught her , madam .
20643
20644 If it prove so , then loving goes by haps :
20645 Some Cupid kills with arrows , some with traps .
20646
20647
20648 What fire is in mine ears ? Can this be true ?
20649 Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much ?
20650 Contempt , farewell ! and maiden pride , adieu !
20651 No glory lives behind the back of such .
20652 And , Benedick , love on ; I will requite thee ,
20653 Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand :
20654 If thou dost love , my kindness shall incite thee
20655 To bind our loves up in a holy band ;
20656 For others say thou dost deserve , and I
20657 Believe it better than reportingly .
20658
20659
20660 I do but stay till your marriage be consummate , and then go I toward Arragon .
20661
20662 I'll bring you thither , my lord , if you'll vouchsafe me .
20663
20664 Nay , that would be as great a soil in the new gloss of your marriage , as to show a child his new coat and forbid him to wear it . I will only be bold with Benedick for his company ; for , from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot , he is all mirth : he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's bow-string , and the little hangman dare not shoot at him . He hath a heart as sound as a bell , and his tongue is the clapper ; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks .
20665
20666 Gallants , I am not as I have been .
20667
20668 So say I : methinks you are sadder .
20669
20670 I hope he be in love .
20671
20672 Hang him , truant ! there's no true drop of blood in him , to be truly touched with love . If he be sad , he wants money .
20673
20674 I have the tooth-ache .
20675
20676 Draw it .
20677
20678 Hang it .
20679
20680 You must hang it first , and draw it afterwards .
20681
20682 What ! sigh for the tooth-ache ?
20683
20684 Where is but a humour or a worm ?
20685
20686 Well , every one can master a grief but he that has it .
20687
20688 Yet say I , he is in love .
20689
20690 There is no appearance of fancy in him , unless it be a fancy that he hath to strange disguises ; as , to be a Dutchman to-day , a Frenchman to-morrow , or in the shape of two countries at once , as a German from the waist downward , all slops , and a Spaniard from the hip upward , no doublet . Unless he have a fancy to this foolery , as it appears he hath , he is no fool for fancy , as you would have it appear he is .
20691
20692 If he be not in love with some woman , there is no believing old signs : a' brushes his hat a mornings ; what should that bode ?
20693
20694 Hath any man seen him at the barber's ?
20695
20696 No , but the barber's man hath been seen with him ; and the old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed tennis-balls .
20697
20698 Indeed he looks younger than he did , by the loss of a beard .
20699
20700 Nay , a' rubs himself with civet : can you smell him out by that ?
20701
20702 That's as much as to say the sweet youth's in love .
20703
20704 The greatest note of it is his melancholy .
20705
20706 And when was he wont to wash his face ?
20707
20708 Yea , or to paint himself ? for the which , I hear what they say of him .
20709
20710 Nay , but his jesting spirit ; which is now crept into a lute-string , and new-governed by stops .
20711
20712 Indeed , that tells a heavy tale for him . Conclude , conclude he is in love .
20713
20714 Nay , but I know who loves him .
20715
20716 That would I know too : I warrant , one that knows him not .
20717
20718 Yes , and his ill conditions ; and in despite of all , dies for him .
20719
20720 She shall be buried with her face upwards .
20721
20722 Yet is this no charm for the tooth-ache .
20723 Old signior , walk aside with me : I have studied eight or nine wise words to speak to you , which these hobby-horses must not hear .
20724
20725
20726 For my life , to break with him about Beatrice .
20727
20728 'Tis even so . Hero and Margaret have by this played their parts with Beatrice , and then the two bears will not bite one another when they meet .
20729
20730
20731 My lord and brother , God save you !
20732
20733 Good den , brother .
20734
20735 If your leisure served , I would speak with you .
20736
20737 In private ?
20738
20739 If it please you ; yet Count Claudio may hear , for what I would speak of concerns him .
20740
20741 What's the matter ?
20742
20743 Means your lordship to be married to-morrow ?
20744
20745 You know he does .
20746
20747 I know not that , when he knows what I know .
20748
20749 If there be any impediment , I pray you discover it .
20750
20751 You may think I love you not : let that appear hereafter , and aim better at me by that I now will manifest . For my brother , I think he holds you well , and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect your ensuing marriage ; surely suit ill-spent , and labour ill bestowed !
20752
20753 Why , what's the matter ?
20754
20755 I came hither to tell you ; and circumstances shortened ,for she hath been too long a talking of ,the lady is disloyal .
20756
20757 Who , Hero ?
20758
20759 Even she : Leonato's Hero , your Hero , every man's Hero .
20760
20761 Disloyal ?
20762
20763 The word's too good to paint out her wickedness ; I could say , she were worse : think you of a worse title , and I will fit her to it . Wonder not till further warrant : go but with me to-night , you shall see her chamber-window entered , even the night before her wedding-day : if you love her then , to-morrow wed her ; but it would better fit your honour to change your mind .
20764
20765 May this be so ?
20766
20767 I will not think it .
20768
20769 If you dare not trust that you see , confess not that you know . If you will follow me , I will show you enough ; and when you have seen more and heard more , proceed accordingly .
20770
20771 If I see any thing to-night why I should not marry her to-morrow , in the congregation , where I should wed , there will I shame her .
20772
20773 And , as I wooed for thee to obtain her , I will join with thee to disgrace her .
20774
20775 I will disparage her no further till you are my witnesses : bear it coldly but till midnight , and let the issue show itself .
20776
20777 O day untowardly turned !
20778
20779 O mischief strangely thwarting !
20780
20781 O plague right well prevented ! So will you say when you have seen the sequel .
20782
20783
20784 Are you good men and true ?
20785
20786 Yea , or else it were pity but they should suffer salvation , body and soul .
20787
20788 Nay , that were a punishment too good for them , if they should have any allegiance in them , being chosen for the prince's watch .
20789
20790 Well , give them their charge , neighbour Dogberry .
20791
20792 First , who think you the most desartless man to be constable ?
20793
20794 Hugh Oatcake , sir , or George Seacoal ; for they can write and read .
20795
20796 Come hither , neighbour Seacoal . God hath blessed you with a good name : to be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune ; but to write and read comes by nature .
20797
20798 Both which , Master constable ,
20799
20800 You have : I knew it would be your answer . Well , for your favour , sir , why , give God thanks , and make no boast of it ; and for your writing and reading , let that appear when there is no need of such vanity . You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch ; therefore bear you the lanthorn . This is your charge : you shall comprehend all vagrom men ; you are to bid any man stand , in the prince's name .
20801
20802 How , if a' will not stand ?
20803
20804 Why , then , take no note of him , but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together , and thank God you are rid of a knave .
20805
20806 If he will not stand when he is bidden , he is none of the prince's subjects .
20807
20808 True , and they are to meddle with none but the prince's subjects . You shall also make no noise in the streets : for , for the watch to babble and to talk is most tolerable and not to be endured .
20809
20810 We will rather sleep than talk : we know what belongs to a watch .
20811
20812 Why , you speak like an ancient and most quiet watchman , for I cannot see how sleeping should offend ; only have a care that your bills be not stolen . Well , you are to call at all the alehouses , and bid those that are drunk get them to bed .
20813
20814 How if they will not ?
20815
20816 Why then , let them alone till they are sober : if they make you not then the better answer , you may say they are not the men you took them for .
20817
20818 Well , sir .
20819
20820 If you meet a thief , you may suspect him , by virtue of your office , to be no true man ; and , for such kind of men , the less you meddle or make with them , why , the more is for your honesty .
20821
20822 If we know him to be a thief , shall we not lay hands on him ?
20823
20824 Truly , by your office , you may ; but I think they that touch pitch will be defiled . The most peaceable way for you , if you do take a thief , is , to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company .
20825
20826 You have been always called a merciful man , partner .
20827
20828 Truly , I would not hang a dog by my will , much more a man who hath any honesty in him .
20829
20830 If you hear a child cry in the night , you must call to the nurse and bid her still it .
20831
20832 How if the nurse be asleep and will not hear us ?
20833
20834 Why , then , depart in peace , and let the child wake her with crying ; for the ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baes , will never answer a calf when he bleats .
20835
20836 'Tis very true .
20837
20838 This is the end of the charge . You constable , are to present the prince's own person : if you meet the prince in the night , you may stay him .
20839
20840 Nay , by 'r lady , that I think , a' cannot .
20841
20842 Five shillings to one on't , with any man that knows the statues , he may stay him : marry , not without the prince be willing ; for , indeed , the watch ought to offend no man , and it is an offence to stay a man against his will .
20843
20844 By 'r lady , I think it be so .
20845
20846 Ha , ah , ha ! Well , masters , good night : an there be any matter of weight chances , call up me : keep your fellows' counsels and your own , and good night . Come , neighbour .
20847
20848 Well , masters , we hear our charge : let us go sit here upon the church-bench till two , and then all go to bed .
20849
20850 One word more , honest neighbours . I pray you , watch about Signior Leonato's door ; for the wedding being there to-morrow , there is a great coil to-night . Adieu ; be vigitant , I beseech you .
20851
20852 What , Conrade !
20853
20854 Peace ! stir not .
20855
20856 Conrade , I say !
20857
20858 Here , man , I am at thy elbow .
20859
20860 Mass , and my elbow itched ; I thought there would a scab follow .
20861
20862 I will owe thee an answer for that ; and now forward with thy tale .
20863
20864 Stand thee close then under this penthouse , for it drizzles rain , and I will , like a true drunkard , utter all to thee .
20865
20866 Some treason , masters ; yet stand close .
20867
20868 Therefore know , I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats .
20869
20870 Is it possible that any villany should be so dear ?
20871
20872 Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any villany should be so rich ; for when rich villains have need of poor ones , poor ones may make what price they will .
20873
20874 I wonder at it .
20875
20876 That shows thou art unconfirmed . Thou knowest that the fashion of a doublet , or a hat , or a cloak , is nothing to a man .
20877
20878 Yes , it is apparel .
20879
20880 I mean , the fashion .
20881
20882 Yes , the fashion is the fashion .
20883
20884 Tush ! I may as well say the fool's the fool . But seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion is ?
20885
20886 I know that Deformed ; a' has been a vile thief this seven years ; a' goes up and down like a gentleman : I remember his name .
20887
20888 Didst thou not hear somebody ?
20889
20890 No : 'twas the vane on the house .
20891
20892 Seest thou not , I say , what a deformed thief this fashion is ? how giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty ? sometime fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers in the reechy painting ; sometime like god Bel's priests in the old church-window ; sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry , where his cod-piece seems as massy as his club ?
20893
20894 All this I see , and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man . But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too , that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion ?
20895
20896 Not so , neither ; but know , that I have to-night wooed Margaret , the Lady Hero's gentlewoman , by the name of Hero : she leans me out at her mistress' chamber-window , bids me a thousand times good night ,I tell this tale vilely :I should first tell thee how the prince , Claudio , and my master , planted and placed and possessed by my master Don John , saw afar off in the orchard this amiable encounter .
20897
20898 And thought they Margaret was Hero ?
20899
20900 Two of them did , the prince and Claudio ; but the devil my master , knew she was Margaret ; and partly by his oaths , which first possessed them , partly by the dark night , which did deceive them , but chiefly by my villany , which did confirm any slander that Don John had made , away went Claudio enraged ; swore he would meet her , as he was appointed , next morning at the temple , and there , before the whole congregation , shame her with what he saw o'er night , and send her home again without a husband .
20901
20902 We charge you in the prince's name , stand !
20903
20904 Call up the right Master constable . We have here recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that ever was known in the commonwealth .
20905
20906 And one Deformed is one of them : I know him , a' wears a lock .
20907
20908 Masters , masters !
20909
20910 You'll be made bring Deformed forth , I warrant you .
20911
20912 Masters ,
20913
20914 Never speak : we charge you let us obey you to go with us .
20915
20916 We are like to prove a goodly commodity , being taken up of these men's bills .
20917
20918 A commodity in question , I warrant you . Come , we'll obey you .
20919
20920
20921 Good Ursula , wake my cousin Beatrice , and desire her to rise .
20922
20923 I will , lady .
20924
20925 And bid her come hither .
20926
20927 Well .
20928
20929
20930 Troth , I think your other rabato were better .
20931
20932 No , pray thee , good Meg , I'll wear this .
20933
20934 By my troth's not so good ; and I warrant your cousin will say so .
20935
20936 My cousin's a fool , and thou art another : I'll wear none but this .
20937
20938 I like the new tire within excellently , if the hair were a thought browner ; and your gown's a most rare fashion , i' faith . I saw the Duchess of Milan's gown that they praise so .
20939
20940 O ! that exceeds , they say .
20941
20942 By my troth's but a night-gown in respect of yours : cloth o' gold , and cuts , and laced with silver , set with pearls , down sleeves , side sleeves , and skirts round , underborne with a bluish tinsel ; but for a fine , quaint , graceful , and excellent fashion , yours is worth ten on't .
20943
20944 God give me joy to wear it ! for my heart is exceeding heavy .
20945
20946 'Twill be heavier soon by the weight of a man .
20947
20948 Fie upon thee ! art not ashamed ?
20949
20950 Of what , lady ? of speaking honourably ? is not marriage honourable in a beggar ? Is not your lord honourable without marriage ? I think you would have me say , 'saving your reverence , a husband :' an bad thinking do not wrest true speaking , I'll offend nobody . Is there any harm in 'the heavier for a husband ?' None , I think , an it be the right husband and the right wife ; otherwise 'tis light , and not heavy : ask my Lady Beatrice else ; here she comes .
20951
20952
20953 Good morrow , coz .
20954
20955 Good morrow , sweet Hero .
20956
20957 Why , how now ! do you speak in the sick tune ?
20958
20959 I am out of all other tune , methinks .
20960
20961 Clap's into 'Light o' love ;' that goes without a burden : do you sing it , and I'll dance it .
20962
20963 Ye light o' love with your heels ! then , if your husband have stables enough , you'll see he shall lack no barns .
20964
20965 O illegitimate construction ! I scorn that with my heels .
20966
20967 'Tis almost five o'clock , cousin ; 'tis time you were ready . By my troth , I am exceeding ill . Heigh-ho !
20968
20969 For a hawk , a horse , or a husband ?
20970
20971 For the letter that begins them all , H .
20972
20973 Well , an you be not turned Turk , there's no more sailing by the star .
20974
20975 What means the fool , trow ?
20976
20977 Nothing I ; but God send every one their heart's desire !
20978
20979 These gloves the count sent me ; they are an excellent perfume .
20980
20981 I am stuffed , cousin , I cannot smell .
20982
20983 A maid , and stuffed ! there's goodly catching of cold .
20984
20985 O , God help me ! God help me ! how long have you professed apprehension ?
20986
20987 Ever since you left it . Doth not my wit become me rarely !
20988
20989 It is not seen enough , you should wear it in your cap . By my troth , I am sick .
20990
20991 Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus , and lay it to your heart : it is the only thing for a qualm .
20992
20993 There thou prick'st her with a thistle .
20994
20995 Benedictus ! why Benedictus ? you have some moral in this Benedictus .
20996
20997 Moral ! no , by my troth , I have no moral meaning ; I meant , plain holy-thistle . You may think , perchance , that I think you are in love : nay , by'r lady , I am not such a fool to think what I list ; nor I list not to think what I can ; nor , indeed , I cannot think , if I would think my heart out of thinking , that you are in love , or that you will be in love , or that you can be in love . Yet Benedick was such another , and now is he become a man : he swore he would never marry ; and yet now , in despite of his heart , he eats his meat without grudging : and how you may be converted , I know not ; but methinks you look with your eyes as other women do .
20998
20999 What pace is this that thy tongue keeps ?
21000
21001 Not a false gallop .
21002
21003
21004 Madam , withdraw : the prince , the count , Signior Benedick , Don John , and all the gallants of the town , are come to fetch you to church .
21005
21006 Help to dress me , good coz , good Meg , good Ursula .
21007
21008
21009 What would you with me , honest neighbour ?
21010
21011 Marry , sir , I would have some confidence with you , that decerns you nearly .
21012
21013 Brief , I pray you ; for you see it is a busy time with me .
21014
21015 Marry , this it is , sir .
21016
21017 Yes , in truth it is , sir .
21018
21019 What is it , my good friends ?
21020
21021 Goodman Verges , sir , speaks a little off the matter : an old man , sir , and his wits are not so blunt , as , God help , I would desire they were ; but , in faith , honest as the skin between his brows .
21022
21023 Yes , I thank God , I am as honest as any man living , that is an old man and no honester than I .
21024
21025 Comparisons are odorous : palabras , neighbour Verges .
21026
21027 Neighbours , you are tedious .
21028
21029 It pleases your worship to say so , but we are the poor duke's officers ; but truly , for mine own part , if I were as tedious as a king , I could find in my heart to bestow it all of your worship .
21030
21031 All thy tediousness on me ! ha ?
21032
21033 Yea , an't were a thousand pound more than 'tis ; for I hear as good exclamation on your worship , as of any man in the city , and though I be but a poor man , I am glad to hear it .
21034
21035 And so am I .
21036
21037 I would fain know what you have to say .
21038
21039 Marry , sir , our watch to-night , excepting your worship's presence , ha' ta'en a couple of as arrant knaves as any in Messina .
21040
21041 A good old man , sir ; he will be talking ; as they say , 'when the age is in , the wit is out .' God help us ! it is a world to see ! Well said , i' faith , neighbour Verges : well , God's a good man ; an two men ride of a horse , one must ride behind . An honest soul , i' faith , sir ; by my troth he is , as ever broke bread : but God is to be worshipped : all men are not alike ; alas ! good neighbour .
21042
21043 Indeed , neighbour , he comes too short of you .
21044
21045 Gifts that God gives .
21046
21047 I must leave you .
21048
21049 One word , sir : our watch , sir , hath indeed comprehended two aspicious persons , and we would have them this morning examined before your worship .
21050
21051 Take their examination yourself , and bring it me : I am now in great haste , as may appear unto you .
21052
21053 It shall be suffigance .
21054
21055 Drink some wine ere you go : fare you well .
21056
21057
21058 My lord , they stay for you to give your daughter to her husband .
21059
21060 I'll wait upon them : I am ready .
21061
21062
21063 Go , good partner , go , get you to Francis Seacoal ; bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the gaol : we are now to examination these men .
21064
21065 And we must do it wisely .
21066
21067 We will spare for no wit , I warrant you ; here's that shall drive some of them to a non-come : only get the learned writer to set down our excommunication , and meet me at the gaol .
21068
21069 Come , Friar Francis , be brief : only to the plain form of marriage , and you shall recount their particular duties afterwards .
21070
21071 You come hither , my lord , to marry this lady ?
21072
21073 No .
21074
21075 To be married to her , friar ; you come to marry her .
21076
21077 Lady , you come hither to be married to this count ?
21078
21079 I do .
21080
21081 If either of you know any inward impediment , why you should not be conjoined , I charge you , on your souls , to utter it .
21082
21083 Know you any , Hero ?
21084
21085 None , my lord .
21086
21087 Know you any , count ?
21088
21089 I dare make his answer ; none .
21090
21091 O ! what men dare do ! what men may do ! what men daily do , not knowing what they do !
21092
21093 How now ! Interjections ? Why then , some be of laughing , as ah ! ha ! he !
21094
21095 Stand thee by , friar . Father , by your leave :
21096 Will you with free and unconstrained soul
21097 Give me this maid , your daughter ?
21098
21099 As freely , son , as God did give her me .
21100
21101 And what have I to give you back whose worth
21102 May counterpoise this rich and precious gift ?
21103
21104 Nothing , unless you render her again .
21105
21106 Sweet prince , you learn me noble thankfulness .
21107 There , Leonato , take her back again :
21108 Give not this rotten orange to your friend ;
21109 She's but the sign and semblance of her honour .
21110 Behold ! how like a maid she blushes here .
21111 O ! what authority and show of truth
21112 Can cunning sin cover itself withal .
21113 Comes not that blood as modest evidence
21114 To witness simple virtue ? Would you not swear ,
21115 All you that see her , that she were a maid ,
21116 By these exterior shows ? But she is none :
21117 She knows the heat of a luxurious bed ;
21118 Her blush is guiltiness , not modesty .
21119
21120 What do you mean , my lord ?
21121
21122 Not to be married ,
21123 Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton .
21124
21125 Dear my lord , if you , in your own proof ,
21126 Have vanquish'd the resistance of her youth ,
21127 And made defeat of her virginity ,
21128
21129 I know what you would say : if I have known her ,
21130 You'll say she did embrace me as a husband ,
21131 And so extenuate the 'forehand sin :
21132 No , Leonato ,
21133 I never tempted her with word too large ;
21134 But , as a brother to his sister , show'd
21135 Bashful sincerity and comely love .
21136
21137 And seem'd I ever otherwise to you ?
21138
21139 Out on thee ! Seeming ! I will write against it :
21140 You seem to me as Dian in her orb ,
21141 As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown ;
21142 But you are more intemperate in your blood
21143 Than Venus , or those pamper'd animals
21144 That rage in savage sensuality .
21145
21146 Is my lord well , that he doth speak so wide ?
21147
21148 Sweet prince , why speak not you ?
21149
21150 What should I speak ?
21151 I stand dishonour'd , that have gone about
21152 To link my dear friend to a common stale .
21153
21154 Are these things spoken , or do I but dream ?
21155
21156 Sir , they are spoken , and these things are true .
21157
21158 This looks not like a nuptial .
21159
21160 True ! O God !
21161
21162 Leonato , stand I here ?
21163 Is this the prince ? Is this the prince's brother ?
21164 Is this face Hero's ? Are our eyes our own ?
21165
21166 All this is so ; but what of this , my lord ?
21167
21168 Let me but move one question to your daughter ;
21169 And by that fatherly and kindly power
21170 That you have in her , bid her answer truly .
21171
21172 I charge thee do so , as thou art my child .
21173
21174 O , God defend me ! how am I beset !
21175 What kind of catechizing call you this ?
21176
21177 To make you answer truly to your name .
21178
21179 Is it not Hero ? Who can blot that name
21180 With any just reproach ?
21181
21182 Marry , that can Hero :
21183 Hero itself can blot out Hero's virtue .
21184 What man was he talk'd with you yesternight
21185 Out at your window , betwixt twelve and one ?
21186 Now , if you are a maid , answer to this .
21187
21188 I talk'd with no man at that hour , my lord .
21189
21190 Why , then are you no maiden . Leonato ,
21191 I am sorry you must hear : upon mine honour ,
21192 Myself , my brother , and this grieved count ,
21193 Did see her , hear her , at that hour last night ,
21194 Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window ;
21195 Who hath indeed , most like a liberal villain ,
21196 Confess'd the vile encounters they have had
21197 A thousand times in secret .
21198
21199 Fie , fie ! they are not to be nam'd , my lord ,
21200 Not to be spoke of ;
21201 There is not chastity enough in language
21202 Without offence to utter them . Thus , pretty lady ,
21203 I am sorry for thy much misgovernment .
21204
21205 O Hero ! what a Hero hadst thou been ,
21206 If half thy outward graces had been plac'd
21207 About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart !
21208 But fare thee well , most foul , most fair ! farewell ,
21209 Thou pure impiety , and impious purity !
21210 For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love ,
21211 And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang ,
21212 To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm ,
21213 And never shall it more be gracious .
21214
21215 Hath no man's dagger here a point for me ?
21216
21217
21218 Why , how now , cousin ! wherefore sink you down ?
21219
21220 Come , let us go . These things , come thus to light ,
21221 Smother her spirits up .
21222
21223
21224 How doth the lady ?
21225
21226 Dead , I think ! help , uncle !
21227 Hero ! why , Hero ! Uncle ! Signior Benedick !
21228 Friar !
21229
21230 O Fate ! take not away thy heavy hand :
21231 Death is the fairest cover for her shame
21232 That may be wish'd for .
21233
21234 How now , cousin Hero !
21235
21236 Have comfort , lady .
21237
21238 Dost thou look up ?
21239
21240 Yea ; wherefore should she not ?
21241
21242 Wherefore ! Why , doth not every earthly thing
21243 Cry shame upon her ? Could she here deny
21244 The story that is printed in her blood ?
21245 Do not live , Hero ; do not ope thine eyes ;
21246 For , did I think thou wouldst not quickly die ,
21247 Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames ,
21248 Myself would , on the rearward of reproaches ,
21249 Strike at thy life . Griev'd I , I had but one ?
21250 Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame ?
21251 O ! one too much by thee . Why had I one ?
21252 Why ever wast thou lovely in mine eyes ?
21253 Why had I not with charitable hand
21254 Took up a beggar's issue at my gates ,
21255 Who smirched thus , and mir'd with infamy ,
21256 I might have said , 'No part of it is mine ;
21257 This shame derives itself from unknown loins ?'
21258 But mine , and mine I lov'd , and mine I prais'd ,
21259 And mine that I was proud on , mine so much
21260 That I myself was to myself not mine ,
21261 Valuing of her ; why , she O ! she is fallen
21262 Into a pit of ink , that the wide sea
21263 Hath drops too few to wash her clean again ,
21264 And salt too little which may season give
21265 To her foul-tainted flesh .
21266
21267 Sir , sir , be patient .
21268 For my part , I am so attir'd in wonder ,
21269 I know not what to say .
21270
21271 O ! on my soul , my cousin is belied !
21272
21273 Lady , were you her bedfellow last night ?
21274
21275 No , truly , not ; although , until last night ,
21276 I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow .
21277
21278 Confirm'd , confirm'd ! O ! that is stronger made ,
21279 Which was before barr'd up with ribs of iron .
21280 Would the two princes lie ? and Claudio lie ,
21281 Who lov'd her so , that , speaking of her foulness ,
21282 Wash'd it with tears ? Hence from her ! let her die .
21283
21284 Hear me a little ;
21285 For I have only been silent so long ,
21286 And given way unto this course of fortune ,
21287 By noting of the lady : I have mark'd
21288 A thousand blushing apparitions
21289 To start into her face ; a thousand innocent shames
21290 In angel whiteness bear away those blushes ;
21291 And in her eye there hath appear'd a fire ,
21292 To burn the errors that these princess hold
21293 Against her maiden truth . Call me a fool ;
21294 Trust not my reading nor my observations ,
21295 Which with experimental seal doth warrant
21296 The tenour of my book ; trust not my age ,
21297 My reverence , calling , nor divinity ,
21298 If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here
21299 Under some biting error .
21300
21301 Friar , it cannot be .
21302 Thou seest that all the grace that she hath left
21303 Is , that she will not add to her damnation
21304 A sin of perjury : she not denies it .
21305 Why seek'st thou then to cover with excuse
21306 That which appears in proper nakedness ?
21307
21308 Lady , what man is he you are accus'd of ?
21309
21310 They know that do accuse me , I know none ;
21311 If I know more of any man alive
21312 Than that which maiden modesty doth warrant ,
21313 Let all my sins lack mercy ! O , my father !
21314 Prove you that any man with me convers'd
21315 At hours unmeet , or that I yesternight
21316 Maintain'd the change of words with any creature ,
21317 Refuse me , hate me , torture me to death .
21318
21319 There is some strange misprision in the princes .
21320
21321 Two of them have the very bent of honour ;
21322 And if their wisdoms be misled in this ,
21323 The practice of it lives in John the bastard ,
21324 Whose spirits toil in frame of villanies .
21325
21326 I know not . If they speak but truth of her ,
21327 These hands shall tear her ; if they wrong her honour ,
21328 The proudest of them shall well hear of it .
21329 Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine .
21330 Nor age so eat up my invention ,
21331 Nor fortune made such havoc of my means ,
21332 Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends ,
21333 But they shall find , awak'd in such a kind ,
21334 Both strength of limb and policy of mind ,
21335 Ability in means and choice of friends ,
21336 To quit me of them throughly .
21337
21338 Pause awhile ,
21339 And let my counsel sway you in this case .
21340 Your daughter here the princes left for dead ;
21341 Let her awhile be secretly kept in ,
21342 And publish it that she is dead indeed :
21343 Maintain a mourning ostentation ;
21344 And on your family's old monument
21345 Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites
21346 That appertain unto a burial .
21347
21348 What shall become of this ? What will this do ?
21349
21350 Marry , this well carried shall on her behalf
21351 Change slander to remorse ; that is some good :
21352 But not for that dream I on this strange course ,
21353 But on this travail look for greater birth .
21354 She dying , as it must be so maintain'd ,
21355 Upon the instant that she was accus'd ,
21356 Shall be lamented , pitied and excus'd
21357 Of every hearer ; for it so falls out
21358 That what we have we prize not to the worth
21359 Whiles we enjoy it , but being lack'd and lost ,
21360 Why , then we rack the value , then we find
21361 The virtue that possession would not show us
21362 Whiles it was ours . So will it fare with Claudio :
21363 When he shall hear she died upon his words ,
21364 The idea of her life shall sweetly creep
21365 Into his study of imagination ,
21366 And every lovely organ of her life
21367 Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit ,
21368 More moving-delicate , and full of life
21369 Into the eye and prospect of his soul ,
21370 Than when she liv'd indeed : then shall he mourn ,
21371 If ever love had interest in his liver ,
21372 And wish he had not so accused her ,
21373 No , though he thought his accusation true .
21374 Let this be so , and doubt not but success
21375 Will fashion the event in better shape
21376 Than I can lay it down in likelihood .
21377 But if all aim but this be levell'd false ,
21378 The supposition of the lady's death
21379 Will quench the wonder of her infamy :
21380 And if it sort not well , you may conceal her ,
21381 As best befits her wounded reputation ,
21382 In some reclusive and religious life ,
21383 Out of all eyes , tongues , minds , and injuries .
21384
21385 Signior Leonato , let the friar advise you :
21386 And though you know my inwardness and love
21387 Is very much unto the prince and Claudio ,
21388 Yet , by mine honour , I will deal in this
21389 As secretly and justly as your soul
21390 Should with your body .
21391
21392 Being that I flow in grief ,
21393 The smallest twine may lead me .
21394
21395 'Tis well consented : presently away ;
21396 For to strange sores strangely they strain the cure .
21397 Come , lady , die to live : this wedding day
21398 Perhaps is but prolong'd : have patience and endure .
21399
21400
21401 Lady Beatrice , have you wept all this while ?
21402
21403 Yea , and I will weep a while longer .
21404
21405 I will not desire that .
21406
21407 You have no reason ; I do it freely .
21408
21409 Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged .
21410
21411 Ah ! how much might the man deserve of me that would right her .
21412
21413 Is there any way to show such friendship ?
21414
21415 A very even way , but no such friend .
21416
21417 May a man do it ?
21418
21419 It is a man's office , but not yours .
21420
21421 I do love nothing in the world so well as you : is not that strange ?
21422
21423 As strange as the thing I know not .
21424 It were as possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as your , but believe me not , and yet I lie not ; I confess nothing , not I deny nothing . I am sorry for my cousin .
21425
21426 By my sword , Beatrice , thou lovest me .
21427
21428 Do not swear by it , and eat it .
21429
21430 I will swear by it that you love me ; and I will make him eat it that says I love not you .
21431
21432 Will you not eat your word ?
21433
21434 With no sauce that can be devised to it . I protest I love thee .
21435
21436 Why then , God forgive me !
21437
21438 What offence , sweet Beatrice ?
21439
21440 You have stayed me in a happy hour :
21441 I was about to protest I loved you .
21442
21443 And do it with all thy heart .
21444
21445 I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest .
21446
21447 Come , bid me do anything for thee .
21448
21449 Kill Claudio .
21450
21451 Ha ! not for the wide world .
21452
21453 You kill me to deny it . Farewell .
21454
21455 Tarry , sweet Beatrice .
21456
21457 I am gone , though I am here : there is no love in you : nay , I pray you , let me go .
21458
21459 Beatrice ,
21460
21461 In faith , I will go .
21462
21463 We'll be friends first .
21464
21465 You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy .
21466
21467 Is Claudio thine enemy ?
21468
21469 Is he not approved in the height a villain , that hath slandered , scorned , dishonoured my kinswoman ? O ! that I were a man . What ! bear her in hand until they come to take hands , and then , with public accusation , uncovered slander , unmitigated rancour ,O God , that I were a man ! I would eat his heart in the market-place .
21470
21471 Hear me , Beatrice ,
21472
21473 Talk with a man out at a window ! a proper saying !
21474
21475 Nay , but Beatrice ,
21476
21477 Sweet Hero ! she is wronged , she is slandered , she is undone .
21478
21479 Beat
21480
21481 Princes and counties ! Surely , a princely testimony , a goodly Count Comfect ; a sweet gallant , surely ! O ! that I were a man for his sake , or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake ! But manhood is melted into curtsies , valour into compliment , and men are only turned into tongue , and trim ones too : he is now as valiant as Hercules , that only tells a lie and swears it . I cannot be a man with wishing , therefore I will die a woman with grieving .
21482
21483 Tarry , good Beatrice . By this hand , I love thee .
21484
21485 Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it .
21486
21487 Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath wronged Hero ?
21488
21489 Yea , as sure as I have a thought or a soul .
21490
21491 Enough ! I am engaged , I will challenge him . I will kiss your hand , and so leave you . By this hand , Claudio shall render me a dear account . As you hear of me , so think of me . Go , comfort your cousin : I must say she is dead ; and so , farewell .
21492
21493
21494 Is our whole dissembly appeared ?
21495
21496 O ! a stool and a cushion for the sexton .
21497
21498 Which be the malefactors ?
21499
21500 Marry , that am I and my partner .
21501
21502 Nay , that's certain : we have the exhibition to examine .
21503
21504 But which are the offenders that are to be examined ? let them come before Master constable .
21505
21506 Yea , marry , let them come before me .
21507 What is your name , friend ?
21508
21509 Borachio .
21510
21511 Pray write down Borachio . Yours , sirrah ?
21512
21513 I am a gentleman , sir , and my name is Conrade .
21514
21515 Write down Master gentleman Conrade . Masters , do you serve God ?
21516
21517 Yea , sir , we hope .
21518
21519 Yea , sir , we hope .
21520
21521 Write down that they hope they serve God : and write God first ; for God defend but God should go before such villains ! Masters , it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves , and it will go near to be thought so shortly . How answer you for yourselves ?
21522
21523 Marry , sir , we say we are none .
21524
21525 A marvellous witty fellow , I assure you ; but I will go about with him . Come you hither , sirrah ; a word in your ear : sir , I say to you , it is thought you are false knaves .
21526
21527 Sir , I say to you we are none .
21528
21529 Well , stand aside . 'Fore God , they are both in a tale . Have you writ down , that they are none ?
21530
21531 Master constable , you go not the way to examine : you must call forth the watch that are their accusers .
21532
21533 Yea , marry , that's the eftest way . Let the watch come forth . Masters , I charge you , in the prince's name , accuse these men .
21534
21535 This man said , sir , that Don John , the prince's brother , was a villain .
21536
21537 Write down Prince John a villain .
21538 Why , this is flat perjury , to call a prince's brother villain .
21539
21540 Master constable ,
21541
21542 Pray thee , fellow , peace : I do not like thy look , I promise thee .
21543
21544 What heard you him say else ?
21545
21546 Marry , that he had received a thousand ducats of Don John for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully .
21547
21548 Flat burglary as ever was committed .
21549
21550 Yea , by the mass , that it is .
21551
21552 What else , fellow ?
21553
21554 And that Count Claudio did mean , upon his words , to disgrace Hero before the whole assembly , and not marry her .
21555
21556 O villain ! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this .
21557
21558 What else ?
21559
21560 This is all .
21561
21562 And this is more , masters , than you can deny . Prince John is this morning secretly stolen away : Hero was in this manner accused , in this very manner refused , and , upon the grief of this , suddenly died . Master constable , let these men be bound , and brought to Leonato's : I will go before and show him their examination .
21563
21564
21565 Come , let them be opinioned .
21566
21567 Let them be in the hands
21568
21569 Off , coxcomb !
21570
21571 God's my life ! where's the sexton ? let him write down the prince's officer coxcomb . Come , bind them . Thou naughty varlet !
21572
21573 Away ! you are an ass ; you are an ass .
21574
21575 Dost thou not suspect my place ? Dost thou not suspect my years ? O that he were here to write me down an ass ! but , masters , remember that I am an ass ; though it be not written down , yet forget not that I am an ass . No , thou villain , thou art full of piety , as shall be proved upon thee by good witness . I am a wise fellow ; and , which is more , an officer ; and , which is more , a householder ; and , which is more , as pretty a piece of flesh as any in Messina ; and one that knows the law , go to ; and a rich fellow enough , go to ; and a fellow that hath had losses ; and one that hath two gowns , and everything handsome about him . Bring him away . O that I had been writ down an ass !
21576
21577 If you go on thus , you will kill yourself ;
21578 And 'tis not wisdom thus to second grief
21579 Against yourself .
21580
21581 I pray thee , cease thy counsel ,
21582 Which falls into mine ears as profitless
21583 As water in a sieve : give not me counsel ;
21584 Nor let no comforter delight mine ear
21585 But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine :
21586 Bring me a father that so lov'd his child ,
21587 Whose joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine ,
21588 And bid him speak of patience ;
21589 Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine ,
21590 And let it answer every strain for strain ,
21591 As thus for thus and such a grief for such ,
21592 In every lineament , branch , shape , and form :
21593 If such a one will smile , and stroke his beard ;
21594 Bid sorrow wag , cry 'hem' when he should groan ,
21595 Patch grief with proverbs ; make misfortune drunk
21596 With candle-wasters ; bring him yet to me ,
21597 And I of him will gather patience .
21598 But there is no such man ; for , brother , men
21599 Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
21600 Which they themselves not feel ; but , tasting it ,
21601 Their counsel turns to passion , which before
21602 Would give preceptial medicine to rage ,
21603 Fetter strong madness in a silken thread ,
21604 Charm ache with air and agony with words .
21605 No , no ; 'tis all men's office to speak patience
21606 To those that wring under the load of sorrow ,
21607 But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
21608 To be so moral when he shall endure
21609 The like himself . Therefore give me no counsel :
21610 My griefs cry louder than advertisement .
21611
21612 Therein do men from children nothing differ .
21613
21614 I pray thee , peace ! I will be flesh and blood ;
21615 For there was never yet philosopher
21616 That could endure the toothache patiently ,
21617 However they have writ the style of gods
21618 And made a push at chance and sufferance .
21619
21620 Yet bend not all the harm upon yourself ;
21621 Make those that do offend you suffer too .
21622
21623 There thou speak'st reason : nay , I will do so .
21624 My soul doth tell me Hero is belied ;
21625 And that shall Claudio know ; so shall the prince ,
21626 And all of them that thus dishonour her .
21627
21628 Here come the prince and Claudio hastily .
21629
21630
21631 Good den , good den .
21632
21633 Good day to both of you .
21634
21635 Hear you , my lords ,
21636
21637 We have some haste , Leonato .
21638
21639 Some haste , my lord ! well , fare you well , my lord :
21640 Are you so hasty now ?well , all is one .
21641
21642 Nay , do not quarrel with us , good old man .
21643
21644 If he could right himself with quarrelling ,
21645 Some of us would lie low .
21646
21647 Who wrongs him ?
21648
21649 Marry , thou dost wrong me ; thou dissembler , thou .
21650 Nay , never lay thy hand upon thy sword ;
21651 I fear thee not .
21652
21653 Marry , beshrew my hand ,
21654 If it should give your age such cause of fear .
21655 In faith , my hand meant nothing to my sword .
21656
21657 Tush , tush , man ! never fleer and jest at me :
21658 I speak not like a dotard nor a fool ,
21659 As , under privilege of age , to brag
21660 What I have done being young , or what would do ,
21661 Were I not old . Know , Claudio , to thy head ,
21662 Thou hast so wrong'd mine innocent child and me
21663 That I am forc'd to lay my reverence by ,
21664 And , with grey hairs and bruise of many days ,
21665 Do challenge thee to trial of a man .
21666 I say thou hast belied mine innocent child :
21667 Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart ,
21668 And she lies buried with her ancestors ;
21669 O ! in a tomb where never scandal slept ,
21670 Save this of hers , fram'd by thy villany !
21671
21672 My villany ?
21673
21674 Thine , Claudio ; thine , I say .
21675
21676 You say not right , old man .
21677
21678 My lord , my lord ,
21679 I'll prove it on his body , if he dare ,
21680 Despite his nice fence and his active practice ,
21681 His May of youth and bloom of lustihood .
21682
21683 Away ! I will not have to do with you .
21684
21685 Canst thou so daff me ? Thou hast kill'd my child ;
21686 If thou kill'st me , boy , thou shalt kill a man .
21687
21688 He shall kill two of us , and men indeed :
21689 But that's no matter ; let him kill one first :
21690 Win me and wear me ; let him answer me .
21691 Come , follow me , boy ; come , sir boy , come , follow me .
21692 Sir boy , I'll whip you from your foining fence ;
21693 Nay , as I am a gentleman , I will .
21694
21695 Brother ,
21696
21697 Content yourself . God knows I lov'd my niece ;
21698 And she is dead , slander'd to death by villains ,
21699 That dare as well answer a man indeed
21700 As I dare take a serpent by the tongue .
21701 Boys , apes , braggarts , Jacks , milksops !
21702
21703 Brother Antony ,
21704
21705 Hold you content . What , man ! I know them , yea ,
21706 And what they weigh , even to the utmost scruple ,
21707 Scrambling , out-facing , fashion-monging boys ,
21708 That lie and cog and flout , deprave and slander ,
21709 Go antickly , show outward hideousness ,
21710 And speak off half a dozen dangerous words ,
21711 How they might hurt their enemies , if they durst ;
21712 And this is all !
21713
21714 But , brother Antony ,
21715
21716 Come , 'tis no matter :
21717 Do not you meddle , let me deal in this .
21718
21719 Gentlemen both , we will not wake your patience .
21720 My heart is sorry for your daughter's death ;
21721 But , on my honour , she was charg'd with nothing
21722 But what was true and very full of proof .
21723
21724 My lord , my lord
21725
21726 I will not hear you .
21727
21728 No ?
21729 Come , brother , away . I will be heard .
21730
21731 And shall , or some of us will smart for it .
21732
21733 See , see ; here comes the man we went to seek .
21734
21735 Now , signior , what news ?
21736
21737 Good day , my lord .
21738
21739 Welcome , signior : you are almost come to part almost a fray .
21740
21741 We had like to have had our two noses snapped off with two old men without teeth .
21742
21743 Leonato and his brother . What thinkest thou ? Had we fought , I doubt we should have been too young for them .
21744
21745 In a false quarrel there is no true valour . I came to seek you both .
21746
21747 We have been up and down to seek thee ; for we are high-proof melancholy , and would fain have it beaten away . Wilt thou use thy wit ?
21748
21749 It is in my scabbard ; shall I draw it ?
21750
21751 Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side ?
21752
21753 Never any did so , though very many have been beside their wit . I will bid thee draw , as we do the minstrels ; draw , to pleasure us .
21754
21755 As I am an honest man , he looks pale . Art thou sick , or angry ?
21756
21757 What , courage , man ! What though care killed a cat , thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care .
21758
21759 Sir , I shall meet your wit in the career , an you charge it against me . I pray you choose another subject .
21760
21761 Nay then , give him another staff : this last was broke cross .
21762
21763 By this light , he changes more and more : I think he be angry indeed .
21764
21765 If he be , he knows how to turn his girdle .
21766
21767 Shall I speak a word in your ear ?
21768
21769 God bless me from a challenge !
21770
21771 You are a villain ; I jest not : I will make it good how you dare , with what you dare , and when you dare . Do me right , or I will protest your cowardice . You have killed a sweet lady , and her death shall fall heavy on you . Let me hear from you .
21772
21773 Well I will meet you , so I may have good cheer .
21774
21775 What , a feast , a feast ?
21776
21777 I' faith , I thank him ; he hath bid me to a calf's-head and a capon , the which if I do not carve most curiously , say my knife's naught .
21778 Shall I not find a woodcock too ?
21779
21780 Sir , your wit ambles well ; it goes easily .
21781
21782 I'll tell thee how Beatrice praised thy wit the other day . I said , thou hadst a fine wit . 'True ,' says she , 'a fine little one .' 'No ,' said I , 'a great wit .' 'Right ,' said she , 'a great gross one .' 'Nay ,' said I , 'a good wit .' 'Just ,' said she , 'it hurts nobody .' 'Nay ,' said I , 'the gentleman is wise .' 'Certain ,' said she , 'a wise gentleman .' 'Nay ,' said I , 'he hath the tongues .' 'That I believe ,' said she . 'for he swore a thing to me on Monday night , which he forswore on Tuesday morning : there's a double tongue ; there's two tongues .' Thus did she , an hour together , trans-shape thy particular virtues ; yet at last she concluded with a sigh , thou wast the properest man in Italy .
21783
21784 For the which she wept heartily and said she cared not .
21785
21786 Yea , that she did ; but yet , for all that , an if she did not hate him deadly , she would love him dearly . The old man's daughter told us all .
21787
21788 All , all ; and moreover , God saw him when he was hid in the garden .
21789
21790 But when shall we set the savage bull's horns on the sensible Benedick's head ?
21791
21792 Yea , and text underneath , 'Here dwells Benedick the married man !'
21793
21794 Fare you well , boy : you know my mind . I will leave you now to your gossip-like humour : you break jests as braggarts do their blades , which , God be thanked , hurt not . My lord , for your many courtesies I thank you : I must discontinue your company . Your brother the bastard is fled from Messina : you have , among you , killed a sweet and innocent lady . For my Lord Lack-beard there , he and I shall meet ; and till then , peace be with him .
21795
21796
21797 He is in earnest .
21798
21799 In most profound earnest ; and , I'll warrant you , for the love of Beatrice .
21800
21801 And hath challenged thee ?
21802
21803 Most sincerely .
21804
21805 What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit !
21806
21807 He is then a giant to an ape ; but then is an ape a doctor to such a man .
21808
21809 But , soft you ; let me be : pluck up , my heart , and be sad ! Did he not say my brother was fled ?
21810
21811
21812 Come , you , sir : if justice cannot tame you , she shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance . Nay , an you be a cursing hypocrite once , you must be looked to .
21813
21814 How now ! two of my brother's men bound ! Borachio , one !
21815
21816 Hearken after their offence , my lord .
21817
21818 Officers , what offence have these men done ?
21819
21820 Marry , sir , they have committed false report ; moreover , they have spoken untruths ; secondarily , they are slanders ; sixth and lastly , they have belied a lady ; thirdly , they have verified unjust things ; and to conclude , they are lying knaves .
21821
21822 First , I ask thee what they have done ; thirdly , I ask thee what's their offence ; sixth and lastly , why they are committed ; and , to conclude , what you lay to their charge ?
21823
21824 Rightly reasoned , and in his own division ; and , by my troth , there's one meaning well suited .
21825
21826 Who have you offended , masters , that you are thus bound to your answer ? this learned constable is too cunning to be understood . What's your offence ?
21827
21828 Sweet prince , let me go no further to mine answer : do you hear me , and let this count kill me . I have deceived even your very eyes : what your wisdoms could not discover , these shallow fools have brought to light ; who , in the night overheard me confessing to this man how Don John your brother incensed me to slander the Lady Hero ; how you were brought into the orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero's garments ; how you disgraced her , when you should marry her . My villany they have upon record ; which I had rather seal with my death than repeat over to my shame . The lady is dead upon mine and my master's false accusation ; and , briefly , I desire nothing but the reward of a villain .
21829
21830 Runs not this speech like iron through your blood ?
21831
21832 I have drunk poison whiles he utter'd it .
21833
21834 But did my brother set thee on to this ?
21835
21836 Yea ; and paid me richly for the practice of it .
21837
21838 He is compos'd and fram'd of treachery :
21839 And fled he is upon this villany .
21840
21841 Sweet Hero ! now thy image doth appear
21842 In the rare semblance that I lov'd it first .
21843
21844 Come , bring away the plaintiffs : by this time our sexton hath reformed Signior Leonato of the matter . And masters , do not forget to specify , when time and place shall serve , that I am an ass .
21845
21846 Here , here comes Master Signior Leonato , and the sexton too .
21847
21848
21849 Which is the villain ? Let me see his eyes ,
21850 That , when I note another man like him ,
21851 I may avoid him . Which of these is he ?
21852
21853 If you would know your wronger , look on me .
21854
21855 Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd
21856 Mine innocent child ?
21857
21858 Yea , even I alone .
21859
21860 No , not so , villain ; thou beliest thyself :
21861 Here stand a pair of honourable men ;
21862 A third is fled , that had a hand in it .
21863 I thank you , princes , for my daughter's death
21864 Record it with your high and worthy deeds .
21865 'Twas bravely done , if you bethink you of it .
21866
21867 I know not how to pray your patience ;
21868 Yet I must speak . Choose your revenge yourself ;
21869 Impose me to what penance your invention
21870 Can lay upon my sin : yet sinn'd I not
21871 But in mistaking .
21872
21873 By my soul , nor I :
21874 And yet , to satisfy this good old man ,
21875 I would bend under any heavy weight
21876 That he'll enjoin me to .
21877
21878 I cannot bid you bid my daughter live ;
21879 That were impossible : but , I pray you both ,
21880 Possess the people in Messina here
21881 How innocent she died ; and if your love
21882 Can labour aught in sad invention ,
21883 Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb ,
21884 And sing it to her bones : sing it to-night .
21885 To-morrow morning come you to my house ,
21886 And since you could not be my son-in-law ,
21887 Be yet my nephew . My brother hath a daughter ,
21888 Almost the copy of my child that's dead ,
21889 And she alone is heir to both of us :
21890 Give her the right you should have given her cousin ,
21891 And so dies my revenge .
21892
21893 O noble sir ,
21894 Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me !
21895 I do embrace your offer ; and dispose
21896 For henceforth of poor Claudio .
21897
21898 To-morrow then I will expect your coming ;
21899 To-night I take my leave . This naughty man
21900 Shall face to face be brought to Margaret ,
21901 Who , I believe , was pack'd in all this wrong ,
21902 Hir'd to it by your brother .
21903
21904 No , by my soul she was not ;
21905 Nor knew not what she did when she spoke to me ;
21906 But always hath been just and virtuous
21907 In anything that I do know by her .
21908
21909 Moreover , sir ,which , indeed , is not under white and black ,this plaintiff here , the offender , did call me ass : I beseech you , let it be remembered in his punishment . And also , the watch heard them talk of one Deformed : they say he wears a key in his ear and a lock hanging by it , and borrows money in God's name , the which he hath used so long and never paid , that now men grow hard-hearted , and will lend nothing for God's sake . Pray you , examine him upon that point .
21910
21911 I thank thee for thy care and honest pains .
21912
21913 Your worship speaks like a most thankful and reverend youth , and I praise God for you .
21914
21915 There's for thy pains .
21916
21917 God save the foundation !
21918
21919 Go , I discharge thee of thy prisoner , and I thank thee .
21920
21921 I leave an arrant knave with your worship ; which I beseech your worship to corect yourself , for the example of others . God keep your worship ! I wish your worship well ; God restore you to health ! I humbly give you leave to depart , and if a merry meeting may be wished , God prohibit it ! Come , neighbour .
21922
21923
21924 Until to-morrow morning , lords , farewell .
21925
21926 Farewell , my lords : we look for you to-morrow .
21927
21928 We will not fail .
21929
21930 To-night I'll mourn with Hero .
21931
21932
21933 Bring you these fellows on . We'll talk with Margaret ,
21934 How her acquaintance grew with this lewd fellow .
21935
21936
21937 Pray thee , sweet Mistress Margaret , deserve well at my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice .
21938
21939 Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty ?
21940
21941 In so high a style , Margaret , that no man living shall come over it ; for , in most comely truth , thou deservest it .
21942
21943 To have no man come over me ! why , shall I always keep below stairs ?
21944
21945 Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth ; it catches .
21946
21947 And yours as blunt as the fencer's foils , which hit , but hurt not .
21948
21949 A most manly wit , Margaret ; it will not hurt a woman : and so , I pray thee , call Beatrice . I give thee the bucklers .
21950
21951 Give us the swords , we have bucklers of our own .
21952
21953 If you use them , Margaret , you must put in the pikes with a vice ; and they are dangerous weapons for maids .
21954
21955 Well , I will call Beatrice to you , who I think hath legs .
21956
21957 And therefore will come .
21958
21959
21960 The god of love ,
21961 That sits above ,
21962 And knows me , and knows me ,
21963 How pitiful I deserve ,
21964
21965 I mean , in singing ; but in loving , Leander the good swimmer , Troilus the first employer of pandars , and a whole book full of these quondam carpet-mongers , whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a blank verse , why , they were never so truly turned over and over as my poor self , in love . Marry , I cannot show it in rime ; I have tried : I can find out no rime to 'lady' but 'baby ,' an innocent rime ; for 'scorn ,' 'horn ,' a hard rime ; for 'school ,' 'fool ,' a babbling rime ; very ominous endings : no , I was not born under a riming planet , nor I cannot woo in festival terms .
21966
21967 Sweet Beatrice , wouldst thou come when I called thee ?
21968
21969 Yea , signior ; and depart when you bid me .
21970
21971 O , stay but till then !
21972
21973 'Then' is spoken ; fare you well now : and yet , ere I go , let me go with that I came for ; which is , with knowing what hath passed between you and Claudio .
21974
21975 Only foul words ; and thereupon I will kiss thee .
21976
21977 Foul words is but foul wind , and foul wind is but foul breath , and foul breath is noisome ; therefore I will depart unkissed .
21978
21979 Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense , so forcible is thy wit . But I must tell thee plainly , Claudio undergoes my challenge , and either I must shortly hear from him , or I will subscribe him a coward . And , I pray thee now , tell me , for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me ?
21980
21981 For them all together ; which maintained so politic a state of evil that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them . But for which of my good parts did you first suffer love for me ?
21982
21983 'Suffer love ,' a good epithet ! I do suffer love indeed , for I love thee against my will .
21984
21985 In spite of your heart , I think . Alas , poor heart ! If you spite it for my sake , I will spite it for yours ; for I will never love that which my friend hates .
21986
21987 Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably .
21988
21989 It appears not in this confession : there's not one wise man among twenty that will praise himself .
21990
21991 An old , an old instance , Beatrice , that lived in the time of good neighbours . If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies , he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weeps .
21992
21993 And how long is that think you ?
21994
21995 Question : why , an hour in clamour and a quarter in rheum : therefore it is most expedient for the wise ,if Don Worm , his conscience , find no impediment to the contrary ,to be the trumpet of his own virtues , as I am to myself . So much for praising myself , who , I myself will bear witness , is praiseworthy . And now tell me , how doth your cousin ?
21996
21997 Very ill .
21998
21999 And how do you ?
22000
22001 Very ill too .
22002
22003 Serve God , love me , and mend . There will I leave you too , for here comes one in haste .
22004
22005
22006 Madam , you must come to your uncle . Yonder's old coil at home : it is proved , my Lady Hero hath been falsely accused , the prince and Claudio mightily abused ; and Don John is the author of all , who is fled and gone . Will you come presently ?
22007
22008 Will you go hear this news , signior ?
22009
22010 I will live in thy heart , die in thy lap , and be buried in thy eyes ; and moreover I will go with thee to thy uncle's .
22011
22012
22013 Is this the monument of Leonato ?
22014
22015 It is , my lord .
22016
22017 Done to death by slanderous tongues
22018 Was the Hero that here lies :
22019 Death , in guerdon of her wrongs ,
22020 Gives her fame which never dies .
22021 So the life that died with shame
22022 Lives in doath with glorious fame .
22023
22024 Hang thou there upon the tomb ,
22025 Praising her when I am dumb .
22026 Now , music , sound , and sing your solemn hymn .
22027
22028 Pardon , goddess of the night ,
22029 Those that slew thy virgin knight ;
22030 For the which , with songs of woe ,
22031 Round about her tomb they go .
22032 Midnight , assist our moan ;
22033 Help us to sigh and groan ,
22034 Heavily , heavily :
22035 Graves , yawn and yield your dead ,
22036 Till death be uttered ,
22037 Heavily , heavily .
22038
22039 Now , unto thy bones good night !
22040 Yearly will I do this rite .
22041
22042 Good morrow , masters : put your torches out .
22043 The wolves have prey'd ; and look , the gentle day ,
22044 Before the wheels of Ph bus , round about
22045 Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey .
22046 Thanks to you all , and leave us : fare you well
22047
22048 Good morrow , masters : each his several way .
22049
22050 Come , let us hence , and put on other weeds ;
22051 And then to Leonato's we will go .
22052
22053 And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's ,
22054 Than this for whom we render'd up this woe !
22055
22056
22057 Did I not tell you she was innocent ?
22058
22059 So are the prince and Claudio , who accus'd her
22060 Upon the error that you heard debated :
22061 But Margaret was in some fault for this ,
22062 Although against her will , as it appears
22063 In the true course of all the question .
22064
22065 Well , I am glad that all things sort so well .
22066
22067 And so am I , being else by faith enforc'd
22068 To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it .
22069
22070 Well , daughter , and you gentlewomen all ,
22071 Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves ,
22072 And when I send for you , come hither mask'd :
22073 The prince and Claudio promis'd by this hour
22074 To visit me .
22075
22076 You know your office , brother ;
22077 You must be father to your brother's daughter ,
22078 And give her to young Claudio .
22079
22080 Which I will do with confirm'd countenance .
22081
22082 Friar , I must entreat your pains , I think .
22083
22084 To do what , signior ?
22085
22086 To bind me , or undo me ; one of them .
22087 Signior Leonato , truth it is , good signior ,
22088 Your niece regards me with an eye of favour .
22089
22090 That eye my daughter lent her : 'tis most true .
22091
22092 And I do with an eye of love requite her .
22093
22094 The sight whereof I think , you had from me ,
22095 From Claudio , and the prince . But what's your will ?
22096
22097 Your answer , sir , is enigmatical :
22098 But , for my will , my will is your good will
22099 May stand with ours , this day to be conjoin'd
22100 In the state of honourable marriage :
22101 In which , good friar , I shall desire your help .
22102
22103 My heart is with your liking .
22104
22105 And my help .
22106 Here come the prince and Claudio .
22107
22108
22109 Good morrow to this fair assembly .
22110
22111 Good morrow , prince ; good morrow , Claudio :
22112 We here attend you . Are you yet determin'd
22113 To-day to marry with my brother's daughter ?
22114
22115 I'll hold my mind , were she an Ethiop .
22116
22117 Call her forth , brother : here's the friar ready .
22118
22119
22120 Good morrow , Benedick . Why , what's the matter ,
22121 That you have such a February face ,
22122 So full of frost , of storm and cloudiness ?
22123
22124 I think he thinks upon the savage bull .
22125 Tush ! fear not , man , we'll tip thy horns with gold ,
22126 And all Europa shall rejoice at thee ,
22127 As once Europa did at lusty Jove ,
22128 When he would play the noble beast in love .
22129
22130 Bull Jove , sir , had an amiable low :
22131 And some such strange bull leap'd your father's cow ,
22132 And got a calf in that same noble feat ,
22133 Much like to you , for you have just his bleat .
22134
22135 For this I owe you : here come other reckonings .
22136
22137 Which is the lady I must seize upon ?
22138
22139 This same is she , and I do give you her .
22140
22141 Why , then she's mine . Sweet , let me see your face .
22142
22143 No , that you shall not , till you take her hand
22144 Before this friar , and swear to marry her .
22145
22146 Give me your hand : before this holy friar ,
22147 I am your husband , if you like of me .
22148
22149 And when I liv'd , I was your other wife :
22150
22151 And when you lov'd , you were my other husband .
22152
22153 Another Hero !
22154
22155 Nothing certainer :
22156 One Hero died defil'd , but I do live ,
22157 And surely as I live , I am a maid .
22158
22159 The former Hero ! Hero that is dead !
22160
22161 She died , my lord , but whiles her slander liv'd .
22162
22163 All this amazement can I qualify :
22164 When after that the holy rites are ended ,
22165 I'll tell you largely of fair Hero's death :
22166 Meantime , let wonder seem familiar ,
22167 And to the chapel let us presently .
22168
22169 Soft and fair , friar . Which is Beatrice ?
22170
22171 I answer to that name . What is your will ?
22172
22173 Do not you love me ?
22174
22175 Why , no ; no more than reason .
22176
22177 Why , then , your uncle and the prince and Claudio
22178 Have been deceived ; for they swore you did .
22179
22180 Do not you love me ?
22181
22182 Troth , no ; no more than reason .
22183
22184 Why , then , my cousin , Margaret , and Ursula ,
22185 Are much deceiv'd ; for they did swear you did .
22186
22187 They swore that you were almost sick for me .
22188
22189 They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me .
22190
22191 'Tis no such matter . Then , you do not love me ?
22192
22193 No , truly , but in friendly recompense .
22194
22195 Come , cousin , I am sure you love the gentleman .
22196
22197 And I'll be sworn upon 't that he loves her ;
22198 For here's a paper written in his hand ,
22199 A halting sonnet of his own pure brain ,
22200 Fashion'd to Beatrice .
22201
22202 And here's another ,
22203 Writ in my cousin's hand , stolen from her pocket ,
22204 Containing her affection unto Benedick .
22205
22206 A miracle ! here's our own hands against our hearts . Come , I will have thee ; but , by this light , I take thee for pity .
22207
22208 I would not deny you ; but , by this good day , I yield upon great persuasion , and partly to save your life , for I was told you were in a consumption .
22209
22210 Peace ! I will stop your mouth .
22211
22212
22213 How dost thou , Benedick , the married man ?
22214
22215 I'll tell thee what , prince ; a college of witcrackers cannot flout me out of my humour . Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram ? No ; if a man will be beaten with brains , a' shall wear nothing handsome about him . In brief , since I do purpose to marry , I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it ; and therefore never flout at me for what I have said against it , for man is a giddy thing , and this is my conclusion . For thy part , Claudio , I did think to have beaten thee ; but , in that thou art like to be my kinsman , live unbruised , and love my cousin .
22216
22217 I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice , that I might have cudgelled thee out of thy single life , to make thee a double-dealer ; which , out of question , thou wilt be , if my cousin do not look exceeding narrowly to thee .
22218
22219 Come , come , we are friends . Let's have a dance ere we are married , that we may lighten our own hearts and our wives' heels .
22220
22221 We'll have dancing afterward .
22222
22223 First , of my word ; therefore play , music ! Prince , thou art sad ; get thee a wife , get thee a wife : there is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn .
22224
22225
22226 My lord , your brother John is ta'en in flight ,
22227 And brought with armed men back to Messina .
22228
22229 Think not on him till to-morrow : I'll devise thee brave punishments for him . Strike up , pipers !
22230
22231 PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE
22232
22233
22234 To sing a song that old was sung ,
22235 From ashes ancient Gower is come ,
22236 Assuming man's infirmities ,
22237 To glad your ear , and please your eyes .
22238 It hath been sung at festivals ,
22239 On ember-eves , and holy-ales ;
22240 And lords and ladies in their lives
22241 Have read it for restoratives :
22242 The purchase is to make men glorious ;
22243 Et bonum quo antiquius , eo melius .
22244 If you , born in these latter times ,
22245 When wit's more ripe , accept my rimes ,
22246 And that to hear an old man sing
22247 May to your wishes pleasure bring ,
22248 I life would wish , and that I might
22249 Waste it for you like taper-light .
22250 This Antioch , then , Antiochus the Great
22251 Built up , this city , for his chiefest seat ,
22252 The fairest in all Syria ,
22253 I tell you what mine authors say :
22254 This king unto him took a fere ,
22255 Who died and left a female heir ,
22256 So buxom , blithe , and full of face
22257 As heaven had lent her all his grace ;
22258 With whom the father liking took ,
22259 And her to incest did provoke .
22260 Bad child , worse father ! to entice his own
22261 To evil should be done by none .
22262 By custom what they did begin
22263 Was with long use account no sin .
22264 The beauty of this sinful dame
22265 Made many princes thither frame ,
22266 To seek her as a bed-fellow ,
22267 In marriage-pleasures play-fellow :
22268 Which to prevent , he made a law ,
22269 To keep her still , and men in awe ,
22270 That whoso ask'd her for his wife ,
22271 His riddle told not , lost his life :
22272 So for her many a wight did die ,
22273 As yon grim looks do testify .
22274 What now ensues , to the judgment of your eye
22275 I give , my cause who best can justify .
22276
22277
22278 Young Prince of Tyre , you have at large receiv'd
22279 The danger of the task you undertake .
22280
22281 I have , Antiochus , and , with a soul
22282 Embolden'd with the glory of her praise ,
22283 Think death no hazard in this enterprise .
22284
22285 Bring in our daughter , clothed like a bride ,
22286 For the embracements even of Jove himself ;
22287 At whose conception , till Lucina reign'd ,
22288 Nature this dowry gave , to glad her presence ,
22289 The senate-house of planets all did sit ,
22290 To knit in her their best perfections .
22291
22292 See , where she comes apparell'd like the spring ,
22293 Graces her subjects , and her thoughts the king
22294 Of every virtue gives renown to men !
22295 Her face the book of praises , where is read
22296 Nothing but curious pleasures , as from thence
22297 Sorrow were ever raz'd , and testy wrath
22298 Could never be her mild companion .
22299 You gods , that made me man , and sway in love ,
22300 That hath inflam'd desire in my breast
22301 To taste the fruit of you celestial tree
22302 Or die in the adventure , be my helps ,
22303 As I am son and servant to your will ,
22304 To compass such a boundless happiness !
22305
22306 Prince Pericles ,
22307
22308 That would be son to great Antiochus .
22309
22310 Before thee stands this fair Hesperides ,
22311 With golden fruit , but dangerous to be touch'd ;
22312 For death-like dragons here affright thee hard :
22313 Her face , like heaven , enticeth thee to view
22314 Her countless glory , which desert must gain ;
22315 And which , without desert , because thine eye
22316 Presumes to reach , all thy whole heap must die .
22317 Yon sometime famous princes , like thyself ,
22318 Drawn by report , adventurous by desire ,
22319 Tell thee with speechless tongues and semblance pale ,
22320 That without covering , save yon field of stars ,
22321 They here stand martyrs , slain in Cupid's wars ;
22322 And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist
22323 For going on death's net , whom none resist .
22324
22325 Antiochus , I thank thee , who hath taught
22326 My frail mortality to know itself ,
22327 And by those fearful objects to prepare
22328 This body , like to them , to what I must ;
22329 For death remember'd should be like a mirror ,
22330 Who tells us life's but breath , to trust it error .
22331 I'll make my will then ; and as sick men do ,
22332 Who know the world , see heaven , but feeling woe ,
22333 Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did :
22334 So I bequeath a happy peace to you
22335 And all good men , as every prince should do ;
22336 My riches to the earth from whence they came ,
22337
22338 But my unspotted fire of love to you .
22339 Thus ready for the way of life or death ,
22340 I wait the sharpest blow .
22341
22342 Scorning advice , read the conclusion then ;
22343 Which read and not expounded , 'tis decreed ,
22344 As these before thee thou thyself shalt bleed .
22345
22346 Of all say'd yet , mayst thou prove prosperous !
22347 Of all say'd yet , I wish thee happiness !
22348
22349 Like a bold champion , I assume the lists ,
22350 Nor ask advice of any other thought
22351 But faithfulness and courage .
22352
22353 I am no viper , yet I feed
22354 On mother's flesh which did me breed ;
22355 I sought a husband , in which labour
22356 I found that kindness in a father .
22357 He's father , son , and husband mild ,
22358 I mother , wife , and yet his child .
22359 How they may be , and yet in two ,
22360 As you will live , resolve it you .
22361
22362 Sharp physic is the last : but , O you powers !
22363 That give heaven countless eyes to view men's acts ,
22364 Why cloud they not their sights perpetually ,
22365 If this be true , which makes me pale to read it ?
22366 Fair glass of light , I lov'd you , and could still ,
22367 Were not this glorious casket stor'd with ill :
22368 But I must tell you now my thoughts revolt ;
22369 For he's no man on whom perfections wait
22370 That , knowing sin within , will touch the gate .
22371 You're a fair viol , and your sense the strings ,
22372 Who , finger'd to make men his lawful music ,
22373 Would draw heaven down and all the gods to hearken ;
22374 But being play'd upon before your time ,
22375 Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime .
22376 Good sooth , I care not for you .
22377
22378 Prince Pericles , touch not , upon thy life ,
22379 For that's an article within our law ,
22380 As dangerous as the rest . Your time's expir'd :
22381 Either expound now or receive your sentence .
22382
22383 Great king ,
22384 Few love to hear the sins they love to act ;
22385 'Twould braid yourself too near for me to tell it .
22386 Who has a book of all that monarchs do ,
22387 He's more secure to keep it shut than shown ;
22388 For vice repeated is like the wandering wind ,
22389 Blows dust in others' eyes , to spread itself ;
22390 And yet the end of all is bought thus dear ,
22391 The breath is gone , and the sore eyes see clear
22392 To stop the air would hurt them . The blind mole casts
22393 Copp'd hills towards heaven , to tell the earth is throng'd
22394 By man's oppression ; and the poor worm doth die for 't .
22395 Kings are earth's gods ; in vice their law's their will ;
22396 And if Jove stray , who dares say Jove doth ill ?
22397 It is enough you know ; and it is fit ,
22398 What being more known grows worse , to smother it .
22399 All love the womb that their first being bred ,
22400 Then give my tongue like leave to love my head .
22401
22402 Heaven ! that I had thy head ; he has found the meaning ;
22403 But I will gloze with him . Young Prince of Tyre ,
22404 Though by the tenour of our strict edict ,
22405 Your exposition misinterpreting ,
22406 We might proceed to cancel of your days ;
22407 Yet hope , succeeding from so fair a tree
22408 As your fair self , doth tune us otherwise :
22409 Forty days longer we do respite you ;
22410 If by which time our secret be undone ,
22411 This mercy shows we'll joy in such a son :
22412 And until then your entertain shall be
22413 As doth befit our honour and your worth .
22414
22415
22416 How courtesy would seem to cover sin ,
22417 When what is done is like a hypocrite ,
22418 The which is good in nothing but in sight !
22419 If it be true that I interpret false ,
22420 Then were it certain you were not so bad
22421 As with foul incest to abuse your soul ;
22422 Where now you're both a father and a son ,
22423 By your untimely claspings with your child ,
22424 Which pleasure fits a husband , not a father ;
22425 And she an eater of her mother's flesh ,
22426 By the defiling of her parent's bed ;
22427 And both like serpents are , who though they feed
22428 On sweetest flowers , yet they poison breed .
22429 Antioch , farewell ! for wisdom sees , those men
22430 Blush not in actions blacker than the night ,
22431 Will shun no course to keep them from the light .
22432 One sin , I know , another doth provoke ;
22433 Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke .
22434 Poison and treason are the hands of sin ,
22435 Ay , and the targets , to put off the shame :
22436 Then , lest my life be cropp'd to keep you clear ,
22437 By flight I'll shun the danger which I fear .
22438
22439 He hath found the meaning , for which we mean
22440 To take his head .
22441 He must not live to trumpet forth my infamy ,
22442 Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sin
22443 In such a loathed manner ;
22444 And therefore instantly this prince must die ,
22445 For by his fall my honour must keep high .
22446 Who attends us there ?
22447
22448
22449 Doth your highness call ?
22450
22451 Thaliard ,
22452 You're of our chamber , and our mind partakes
22453 Her private actions to your secrecy ;
22454 And for your faithfulness we will advance you .
22455 Thaliard , behold , here's poison , and here's gold ;
22456 We hate the Prince of Tyre , and thou must kill him :
22457 It fits thee not to ask the reason why ,
22458 Because we bid it . Say , is it done ?
22459
22460 My lord , 'tis done .
22461
22462 Enough .
22463
22464 Let your breath cool yourself , telling your haste .
22465
22466 My lord , Prince Pericles is fled .
22467
22468
22469 As thou
22470 Wilt live , fly after ; and , as an arrow shot
22471 From a well-experienc'd archer hits the mark
22472 His eye doth level at , so thou ne'er return
22473 Unless thou say 'Prince Pericles is dead .'
22474
22475 My lord ,
22476 If I can get him within my pistol's length ,
22477 I'll make him sure enough : so , farewell to your highness .
22478
22479 Thaliard , adieu !
22480
22481 Till Pericles be dead ,
22482 My heart can lend no succour to my head .
22483
22484
22485 Let none disturb us .
22486 Why should this change of thoughts ,
22487 The sad companion , dull-ey'd melancholy ,
22488 Be my so us'd a guest , as not an hour
22489 In the day's glorious walk or peaceful night
22490 The tomb where grief should sleep can breed me quiet ?
22491 Here pleasures court mine eyes , and mine eyes shun them ,
22492 And danger , which I feared , is at Antioch ,
22493 Whose arm seems far too short to hit me here ;
22494 Yet neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits ,
22495 Nor yet the other's distance comfort me .
22496 Then it is thus : the passions of the mind ,
22497 That have their first conception by mis-dread ,
22498 Have after-nourishment and life by care ;
22499 And what was first but fear what might be done ,
22500 Grows elder now and cares it be not done .
22501 And so with me : the great Antiochus ,
22502 'Gainst whom I am too little to contend ,
22503 Since he's so great can make his will his act ,
22504 Will think me speaking , though I swear to silence ;
22505 Nor boots it me to say I honour him ,
22506 If he suspect I may dishonour him ;
22507 And what may make him blush in being known ,
22508 He'll stop the course by which it might be known .
22509 With hostile forces he'll o'erspread the land ,
22510 And with the ostent of war will look so huge ,
22511 Amazement shall drive courage from the state ,
22512 Our men be vanquish'd ere they do resist ,
22513 And subjects punish'd that ne'er thought offence :
22514 Which care of them , not pity of myself ,
22515 Who am no more but as the tops of trees ,
22516 Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them ,
22517 Make both my body pine and soul to languish ,
22518 And punish that before that he would punish .
22519
22520
22521 Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast !
22522
22523 And keep your mind , till you return to us ,
22524 Peaceful and comfortable .
22525
22526 Peace , peace ! and give experience tongue .
22527 They do abuse the king that flatter him ;
22528 For flattery is the bellows blows up sin ;
22529 The thing the which is flatter'd , but a spark ,
22530 To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing ;
22531 Whereas reproof , obedient and in order ,
22532 Fits kings , as they are men , for they may err :
22533 When Signior Sooth here does proclaim a peace ,
22534 He flatters you , makes war upon your life .
22535 Prince , pardon me , or strike me , if you please ;
22536 I cannot be much lower than my knees .
22537
22538 All leave us else ; but let your cares o'erlook
22539 What shipping and what lading's in our haven ,
22540 And then return to us .
22541
22542 Helicanus , thou
22543 Hast mov'd us ; what seest thou in our looks ?
22544
22545 An angry brow , dread lord .
22546
22547 If there be such a dart in prince's frowns ,
22548 How durst thy tongue move anger to our face ?
22549
22550 How dare the plants look up to heaven , from whence
22551 They have their nourishment ?
22552
22553 Thou know'st I have power
22554 To take thy life from thee .
22555
22556 I have ground the axe myself ;
22557 Do you but strike the blow .
22558
22559 Rise , prithee , rise ;
22560 Sit down ; thou art no flatterer :
22561 I thank thee for it ; and heaven forbid
22562 That kings should let their ears hear their faults hid !
22563 Fit counsellor and servant for a prince ,
22564 Who by thy wisdom mak'st a prince thy servant ,
22565 What wouldst thou have me do ?
22566
22567 To bear with patience
22568 Such griefs as you yourself do lay upon yourself .
22569
22570 Thou speak'st like a physician , Helicanus ,
22571 That minister'st a potion unto me
22572 That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself .
22573 Attend me then : I went to Antioch ,
22574 Where as thou know'st , against the face of death
22575 I sought the purchase of a glorious beauty ,
22576 From whence an issue I might propagate
22577 Are arms to princes and bring joys to subjects .
22578 Her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder ;
22579 The rest , hark in thine ear , as black as incest ;
22580 Which by my knowledge found , the sinful father
22581 Seem'd not to strike , but smooth ; but thou know'st this ,
22582 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss .
22583 Which fear so grew in me I hither fled ,
22584 Under the covering of a careful night ,
22585 Who seem'd my good protector ; and , being here ,
22586 Bethought me what was past , what might succeed .
22587 I knew him tyrannous ; and tyrants' fears
22588 Decrease not , but grow faster than the years .
22589 And should he doubt it , as no doubt he doth ,
22590 That I should open to the listening air
22591 How many worthy princes' bloods were shed ,
22592 To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope ,
22593 To lop that doubt he'll fill this land with arms ,
22594 And make pretence of wrong that I have done him ;
22595 When all , for mine , if I may call 't , offence ,
22596 Must feel war's blow , who spares not innocence :
22597 Which love to all , of which thyself art one ,
22598 Who now reprov'st me for it ,
22599
22600 Alas ! sir .
22601
22602 Drew sleep out of mine eyes , blood from my cheeks ,
22603 Musings into my mind , with thousand doubts
22604 How I might stop this tempest , ere it came ;
22605 And finding little comfort to relieve them ,
22606 I thought it princely charity to grieve them .
22607
22608 Well , my lord , since you have given me leave to speak ,
22609 Freely will I speak . Antiochus you fear ,
22610 And justly too , I think , you fear the tyrant ,
22611 Who either by public war or private treason
22612 Will take away your life .
22613 Therefore , my lord , go travel for a while ,
22614 Till that his rage and anger be forgot ,
22615 Or till the Destinies do cut his thread of life .
22616 Your rule direct to any ; if to me ,
22617 Day serves not light more faithful than I'll be .
22618
22619 I do not doubt thy faith ;
22620 But should he wrong my liberties in my absence ?
22621
22622 We'll mingle our bloods together in the earth ,
22623 From whence we had our being and our birth .
22624
22625 Tyre , I now look from thee then , and to Tarsus
22626 Intend my travel , where I'll hear from thee ,
22627 And by whose letters I'll dispose myself .
22628 The care I had and have of subjects' good
22629 On thee I'll lay , whose wisdom's strength can bear it .
22630 I'll take thy word for faith , not ask thine oath ;
22631 Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both .
22632 But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe ,
22633 That time of both this truth shall ne'er convince ,
22634 Thou show'dst a subject's shine , I a true prince .
22635
22636
22637 So this is Tyre , and this the court . Here must I kill King Pericles ; and if I do not , I am sure to be hanged at home : 'tis dangerous . Well , I perceive he was a wise fellow , and had good discretion , that , being bid to ask what he would of the king , desired he might know none of his secrets : now do I see he had some reason for it ; for if a king bid a man be a villain , he is bound by the indenture of his oath to be one . Hush ! here come the lords of Tyre .
22638
22639
22640 You shall not need , my fellow peers of Tyre ,
22641 Further to question me of your king's departure :
22642 His seal'd commission , left in trust with me ,
22643 Doth speak sufficiently he's gone to travel .
22644
22645 How ! the king gone !
22646
22647 If further yet you will be satisfied ,
22648 Why , as it were unlicens'd of your loves ,
22649 He would depart , I'll give some light unto you .
22650 Being at Antioch
22651
22652 What from Antioch ?
22653
22654 Royal Antiochus on what cause I know not
22655 Took some displeasure at him , at least he judg'd so ;
22656 And doubting lest that he had err'd or sinn'd ,
22657 To show his sorrow he'd correct himself ;
22658 So puts himself unto the shipman's toil ,
22659 With whom each minute threatens life or death .
22660
22661 Well , I perceive
22662 I shall not be hang'd now , although I would ;
22663 But since he's gone , the king it sure must please :
22664 He 'scap'd the land , to perish at the sea .
22665 I'll present myself .
22666
22667 Peace to the lords of Tyre .
22668
22669 Lord Thaliard from Antiochus is welcome .
22670
22671 From him I come ,
22672 With message unto princely Pericles ;
22673 But since my landing I have understood
22674 Your lord hath betook himself to unknown travels ,
22675 My message must return from whence it came .
22676
22677 We have no reason to desire it ,
22678 Commended to our master , not to us :
22679 Yet , ere you shall depart , this we desire ,
22680 As friends to Antioch , we may feast in Tyre .
22681
22682
22683 My Dionyza , shall we rest us here ,
22684 And by relating tales of others' griefs ,
22685 See if 'twill teach us to forget our own ?
22686
22687 That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it ;
22688 For who digs hills because they do aspire
22689 Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher .
22690 O my distressed lord ! even such our griefs are ;
22691 Here they're but felt , and seen with mischief's eyes ,
22692 But like to groves , being topp'd , they higher rise .
22693
22694 O Dionyza ,
22695 Who wanteth food , and will not say he wants it ,
22696 Or can conceal his hunger till he famish ?
22697 Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep
22698 Our woes into the air ; our eyes do weep
22699 Till tongues fetch breath that may proclaim them louder ;
22700 That if heaven slumber while their creatures want ,
22701 They may awake their helps to comfort them .
22702 I'll then discourse our woes , felt several years ,
22703 And wanting breath to speak help me with tears .
22704
22705 I'll do my best , sir .
22706
22707 This Tarsus , o'er which I have the government ,
22708 A city on whom plenty held full hand ,
22709 For riches strew'd herself even in the streets ;
22710 Whose towers bore heads so high they kiss'd the clouds ,
22711 And strangers ne'er beheld but wonder'd at ;
22712 Whose men and dames so jetted and adorn'd ,
22713 Like one another's glass to trim them by :
22714 Their tables were stor'd full to glad the sight ,
22715 And not so much to feed on as delight ;
22716 All poverty was scorn'd , and pride so great ,
22717 The name of help grew odious to repeat .
22718
22719 O ! 'tis too true ,
22720
22721 But see what heaven can do ! By this our change ,
22722 These mouths , whom but of late earth , sea , and air
22723 Were all too little to content and please ,
22724 Although they gave their creatures in abundance ,
22725 As houses are defil'd for want of use ,
22726 They are now starv'd for want of exercise ;
22727 Those palates who , not yet two summers younger ,
22728 Must have inventions to delight the taste ,
22729 Would now be glad of bread , and beg for it ;
22730 Those mothers who , to nousle up their babes ,
22731 Thought nought too curious , are ready now
22732 To eat those little darlings whom they lov'd .
22733 So sharp are hunger's teeth , that man and wife
22734 Draw lots who first shall die to lengthen life .
22735 Here stands a lord , and there a lady weeping ;
22736 Here many sink , yet those which see them fall
22737 Have scarce strength left to give them burial .
22738 Is not this true ?
22739
22740 Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it .
22741
22742 O ! let those cities that of plenty's cup
22743 And her prosperities so largely taste ,
22744 With their superfluous riots , hear these tears :
22745 The misery of Tarsus may be theirs .
22746
22747
22748 Where's the lord governor ?
22749
22750 Here .
22751 Speak out thy sorrows which thou bring'st in haste ,
22752 For comfort is too far for us to expect .
22753
22754 We have descried , upon our neighbouring shore ,
22755 A portly sail of ships make hitherward .
22756
22757 I thought as much .
22758 One sorrow never comes but brings an heir
22759 That may succeed as his inberitor ;
22760 And so in ours . Some neighbouring nation ,
22761 Taking advantage of our misery ,
22762 Hath stuff'd these hollow vessels with their power ,
22763 To beat us down , the which are down already ;
22764 And make a conquest of unhappy me ,
22765 Whereas no glory's got to overcome .
22766
22767 That's the least fear ; for by the semblance
22768 Of their white flags display'd , they bring us peace ,
22769 And come to us as favourers , not as foes .
22770
22771 Thou speak'st like him 's untutor'd to repeat :
22772 Who makes the fairest show means most deceit .
22773 But bring they what they will and what they can ,
22774 What need we fear ?
22775 The ground's the lowest and we are half way there .
22776 Go tell their general we attend him here ,
22777 To know for what he comes , and whence he comes ,
22778 And what he craves .
22779
22780 I go , my lord .
22781
22782
22783 Welcome is peace if he on peace consist ;
22784 If wars we are unable to resist .
22785
22786
22787 Lord governor , for so we hear you are ,
22788 Let not our ships and number of our men ,
22789 Be like a beacon fir'd to amaze your eyes .
22790 We have heard your miseries as far as Tyre ,
22791 And seen the desolation of your streets :
22792 Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears ,
22793 But to relieve them of their heavy load ;
22794 And these our ships , you happily may think
22795 Are like the Trojan horse was stuff'd within
22796 With bloody veins , expecting overthrow ,
22797 Are stor'd with corn to make your needy bread ,
22798 And give them life whom hunger starv'd half dead .
22799
22800 The gods of Greece protect you !
22801 And we'll pray for you .
22802
22803 Arise , I pray you , rise :
22804 We do not look for reverence , but for love ,
22805 And harbourage for ourself , our ships , and men .
22806
22807 The which when any shall not gratify ,
22808 Or pay you with unthankfulness in thought ,
22809 Be it our wives , our children , or ourselves ,
22810 The curse of heaven and men succeed their evils !
22811 Till when the which , I hope , shall ne'er be seen
22812 Your Grace is welcome to our town and us .
22813
22814 Which welcome we'll accept ; feast here awhile ,
22815 Until our stars that frown lend us a smile .
22816
22817 Here have you seen a mighty king
22818 His child , I wis , to incest bring ;
22819 A better prince and benign lord ,
22820 That will prove awful both in deed and word .
22821 Be quiet , then , as men should be ,
22822 Till he hath pass'd necessity .
22823 I'll show you those in troubles reign ,
22824 Losing a mite , a mountain gain .
22825 The good in conversation ,
22826 To whom I give my benison ,
22827 Is still at Tarsus , where each man
22828 Thinks all is writ he speken can ;
22829 And , to remember what he does ,
22830 Build his statue to make him glorious :
22831 But tidings to the contrary
22832 Are brought your eyes ; what need speak I ?
22833
22834
22835 Good Helicane hath stay'd at home ,
22836 Not to eat honey like a drone
22837 From others' labours ; for though he strive
22838 To killen bad , keep good alive ,
22839 And to fulfil his prince' desire ,
22840 Sends word of all that haps in Tyre :
22841 How Thaliard came full bent with sin
22842 And had intent to murder him ;
22843 And that in Tarsus was not best
22844 Longer for him to make his rest .
22845 He , doing so , put forth to seas ,
22846 Where when men been , there's seldom ease ;
22847 For now the wind begins to blow ;
22848 Thunder above and deeps below
22849 Make such unquiet , that the ship
22850 Should house him safe is wrack'd and split ;
22851 And he , good prince , having all lost ,
22852 By waves from coast to coast is tost .
22853 All perishen of man , of pelf ,
22854 Ne aught escapen but himself ;
22855 Till Fortune , tir'd with doing bad ,
22856 Threw him ashore , to give him glad ;
22857 And here he comes . What shall be next ,
22858 Pardon old Gower , this longs the text .
22859
22860 Yet cease your ire , you angry stars of heaven !
22861 Wind , rain , and thunder , remember , earthly man
22862 Is but a substance that must yield to you ;
22863 And I , as fits my nature , do obey you .
22864 Alas ! the sea hath cast me on the rocks ,
22865 Wash'd me from shore to shore , and left me breath
22866 Nothing to think on but ensuing death :
22867 Let it suffice the greatness of your powers
22868 To have bereft a prince of all his fortunes ;
22869 And having thrown him from your watery grave ,
22870 Here to have death in peace is all he'll crave .
22871
22872
22873 What , ho , Pilch !
22874
22875 Ha ! come and bring away the nets .
22876
22877 What , Patch-breech , I say !
22878
22879 What say you , master ?
22880
22881 Look how thou stirrest now ! come away , or I'll fetch thee with a wannion .
22882
22883 Faith , master , I am thinking of the poor men that were cast away before us even now .
22884
22885 Alas ! poor souls ; it grieved my heart to hear what pitiful cries they made to us to help them , when , well-a-day , we could scarce help ourselves .
22886
22887 Nay , master , said not I as much when I saw the porpus how he bounced and tumbled ? they say they're half fish half flesh ; a plague on them ! they ne'er come but I look to be washed . Master , I marvel how the fishes live in the sea .
22888
22889 Why , as men do a-land ; the great ones eat up the little ones ; I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale ; a' plays and tumbles , driving the poor fry before him , and at last devours them all at a mouthful . Such whales have I heard on o' the land , who never leave gaping till they've swallowed the whole parish , church , steeple , bells , and all .
22890
22891 A pretty moral .
22892
22893 But master , if I had been the sexton , I would have been that day in the belfry .
22894
22895 Why , man ?
22896
22897 Because he should have swallowed me too ; and when I had been in his belly , I would have kept such a jangling of the bells , that he should never have left till he cast bells , steeple , church , and parish , up again . But if the good King Simonides were of my mind ,
22898
22899 Simonides !
22900
22901 We would purge the land of these drones , that rob the bee of her honey .
22902
22903 How from the finny subject of the sea
22904 These fishers tell the infirmities of men ;
22905 And from their watery empire recollect
22906 All that may men approve or men detect !
22907
22908
22909 Peace be at your labour , honest fishermen .
22910
22911 Honest ! good fellow , what's that ? if it be a day fits you , search out of the calendar , and nobody look after it .
22912
22913 Y' may see the sea hath cast me on your coast .
22914
22915 What a drunken knave was the sea , to cast thee in our way !
22916
22917 A man whom both the waters and the wind ,
22918 In that vast tennis-court , have made the ball
22919 For them to play upon , entreats you pity him ;
22920 He asks of you , that never us'd to beg .
22921
22922 No , friend , cannot you beg ? here's them in our country of Greece gets more with begging than we can do with working .
22923
22924 Canst thou catch any fishes then ?
22925
22926 I never practised it .
22927
22928 Nay then thou wilt starve , sure ; for here's nothing to be got now-a-days unless thou canst fish for 't .
22929
22930 What I have been I have forgot to know ,
22931 But what I am want teaches me to think on ;
22932 A man throng'd up with cold ; my veins are chill ,
22933 And have no more of life than may suffice
22934 To give my tongue that heat to ask your help ;
22935 Which if you shall refuse , when I am dead ,
22936 For that I am a man , pray see me buried .
22937
22938 Die , quoth-a ? Now , gods forbid ! I have a gown here ; come , put it on ; keep thee warm . Now , afore me , a handsome fellow ! Come , thou shalt go home , and we'll have flesh for holidays , fish for fasting-days , and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks ; and thou shalt be welcome .
22939
22940 I thank you , sir .
22941
22942 Hark you , my friend ; you said you could not beg .
22943
22944 I did but crave .
22945
22946 But crave ! Then I'll turn craver too , and so I shall 'scape whipping .
22947
22948 Why , are all your beggars whipped , then ?
22949
22950 O ! not all , my friend , not all ; for if all your beggars were whipped , I would wish no better office than to be beadle . But , master , I'll go draw up the net .
22951
22952
22953 How well this honest mirth becomes their labour !
22954
22955 Hark you , sir ; do you know where ye are ?
22956
22957 Not well .
22958
22959 Why , I'll tell you : this is called Pentapolis , and our king the good Simonides .
22960
22961 The good King Simonides do you call him ?
22962
22963 Ay , sir ; and he deserves to be so called for his peaceable reign and good government .
22964
22965 He is a happy king , since he gains from his subjects the name of good by his government . How far is his court distant from this shore ?
22966
22967 Marry , sir , half a day's journey ; and I'll tell you , he hath a fair daughter , and to-morrow is her birthday ; and there are princes and knights come from all parts of the world to just and tourney for her love .
22968
22969 Were my fortunes equal to my desires , I could wish to make one there .
22970
22971 O ! sir , things must be as they may ; and what a man cannot get , he may lawfully deal for his wife's soul ,
22972
22973
22974 Help , master , help ! here's a fish hangs in the net , like a poor man's right in the law ; 'twill hardly come out . Ha ! bots on 't , 'tis come at last , and 'tis turned to a rusty armour .
22975
22976 An armour , friends ! I pray you , let me see it .
22977 Thanks , Fortune , yet , that after all my crosses
22978 Thou giv'st me somewhat to repair myself ;
22979 And though it was mine own , part of mine heritage ,
22980 Which my dead father did bequeath to me ,
22981 With this strict charge , even as he left his life ,
22982 'Keep it , my Pericles , it hath been a shield
22983 'Twixt me and death ;' and pointed to this brace ;
22984 'For that it sav'd me , keep it ; in like necessity
22985 The which the gods protect thee from !'t may defend thee .'
22986 It kept where I kept , I so dearly lov'd it ;
22987 Till the rough seas , that spare not any man ,
22988 Took it in rage , though calm'd they have given 't again .
22989 I thank thee for 't ; my shipwrack now 's no ill ,
22990 Since I have here my father's gift in 's will .
22991
22992 What mean you , sir ?
22993
22994 To beg of you , kind friends , this coat of worth ,
22995 For it was sometime target to a king ;
22996 I know it by this mark . He lov'd me dearly ,
22997 And for his sake I wish the having of it ;
22998 And that you'd guide me to your sovereign's court ,
22999 Where with it I may appear a gentleman ;
23000 And if that ever my low fortunes better ,
23001 I'll pay your bounties ; till then rest your debtor .
23002
23003 Why , wilt thou tourney for the lady ?
23004
23005 I'll show the virtue I have borne in arms .
23006
23007 Why , do'e take it ; and the gods give thee good on 't !
23008
23009 Ay , but hark you , my friend ; 'twas we that made up this garment through the rough seams of the water ; there are certain condolements , certain vails . I hope , sir , if you thrive , you'll remember from whence you had it .
23010
23011 Believe it , I will .
23012 By your furtherance I am cloth'd in steel ;
23013 And spite of all the rapture of the sea ,
23014 This jewel holds his biding on my arm :
23015 Unto thy value will I mount myself
23016 Upon a courser , whose delightful steps
23017 Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread .
23018 Only , my friend , I yet am unprovided
23019 Of a pair of bases .
23020
23021 We'll sure provide ; thou shalt have my best gown to make thee a pair , and I'll bring thee to the court myself .
23022
23023 Then honour be but a goal to my will ! This day I'll rise , or else add ill to ill .
23024
23025 Are the knights ready to begin the triumph ?
23026
23027 They are , my liege ;
23028 And stay your coming to present themselves .
23029
23030 Return them , we are ready ; and our daughter ,
23031 In honour of whose birth these triumphs are ,
23032 Sits here , like beauty's child , whom nature gat
23033 For men to see , and seeing wonder at .
23034
23035
23036 It pleaseth you , my royal father , to express
23037 My commendations great , whose merit's less .
23038
23039 'Tis fit it should be so ; for princes are
23040 A model , which heaven makes like to itself :
23041 As jewels lose their glory if neglected ,
23042 So princes their renowns if not respected .
23043 'Tis now your honour , daughter , to explain
23044 The labour of each knight in his device .
23045
23046 Which , to preserve mine honour , I'll perform .
23047
23048
23049 Who is the first that doth prefer himself ?
23050
23051 A knight of Sparta , my renowned father ;
23052 And the device he bears upon his shield
23053 Is a black Ethiop reaching at the sun ;
23054 The word , Lux tua vita mihi .
23055
23056 He loves you well that holds his life of you .
23057
23058 Who is the second that presents himself ?
23059
23060 A prince of Macedon , my royal father ;
23061 And the device he bears upon his shield
23062 Is an arm'd knight that's conquer'd by a lady ;
23063 The motto thus , in Spanish , Piu por dulzura que por fuerza .
23064
23065
23066 And what's the third ?
23067
23068 The third of Antioch ;
23069 And his device , a wreath of chivalry ;
23070 The word , Me pomp provexit apex .
23071
23072
23073 What is the fourth ?
23074
23075 A burning torch that's turned upside down ;
23076 The word , Quod me alit me extinguit .
23077
23078 Which shows that beauty hath his power and will ,
23079 Which can as well inflame as it can kill .
23080
23081
23082 The fifth , a hand environed with clouds ,
23083 Holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried ;
23084 The motto thus , Sic spectanda fides .
23085
23086
23087 And what 's
23088 The sixth and last , the which the knight himself
23089 With such a graceful courtesy deliver'd ?
23090
23091 He seems to be a stranger ; but his present is
23092 A wither'd branch , that's only green at top ;
23093 The motto , In hac spe vivo .
23094
23095 A pretty moral ;
23096 From the dejected state wherein he is ,
23097 He hopes by you his fortune yet may flourish .
23098
23099 He had need mean better than his outward show
23100 Can any way speak in his just commend ;
23101 For , by his rusty outside he appears
23102 To have practis'd more the whipstock than the lance .
23103
23104 He well may be a stranger , for he comes
23105 To an honour'd triumph strangely furnished .
23106
23107 And on set purpose let his armour rust
23108 Until this day , to scour it in the dust .
23109
23110 Opinion's but a fool , that makes us scan
23111 The outward habit by the inward man .
23112 But stay , the knights are coming ; we'll withdraw
23113 Into the gallery .
23114
23115
23116 Knights ,
23117 To say you're welcome were superfluous .
23118 To place upon the volume of your deeds ,
23119 As in a title-page , your worth in arms ,
23120 Were more than you expect , or more than's fit ,
23121 Since every worth in show commends itself .
23122 Prepare for mirth , for mirth becomes a feast :
23123 You are princes and my guests .
23124
23125 But you , my knight and guest ;
23126 To whom this wreath of victory I give ,
23127 And crown you king of this day's happiness .
23128
23129 'Tis more by fortune , lady , than by merit .
23130
23131 Call it by what you will , the day is yours ;
23132 And here , I hope , is none that envies it .
23133 In framing an artist art hath thus decreed ,
23134 To make some good , but others to exceed ;
23135 And you're her labour'd scholar . Come , queen o' the feast ,
23136 For , daughter , so you are ,here take your place ;
23137 Marshal the rest , as they deserve their grace .
23138
23139 We are honour'd much by good Simonides .
23140
23141 Your presence glads our days ; honour we love ,
23142 For who hates honour , hates the gods above .
23143
23144 Sir , yonder is your place .
23145
23146 Some other is more fit .
23147
23148 Contend not , sir ; for we are gentlemen
23149 That neither in our hearts nor outward eyes
23150 Envy the great nor do the low despise .
23151
23152 You are right courteous knights .
23153
23154 Sit , sir ; sit .
23155
23156 By Jove , I wonder , that is king of thoughts ,
23157 These cates resist me , she but thought upon .
23158
23159 By Juno , that is queen of marriage ,
23160 All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury ,
23161 Wishing him my meat . Sure , he's a gallant gentleman .
23162
23163 He's but a country gentleman ;
23164 He has done no more than other knights have done ;
23165 He has broken a staff or so ; so let it pass .
23166
23167 To me he seems like diamond to glass .
23168
23169 Yon king's to me like to my father's picture ,
23170 Which tells me in that glory once he was ;
23171 Had princes sit , like stars , about his throne ,
23172 And he the sun for them to reverence .
23173 None that beheld him , but like lesser lights
23174 Did vail their crowns to his supremacy ;
23175 Where now his son's like a glow-worm in the night ,
23176 The which hath fire in darkness , none in light :
23177 Whereby I see that Time's the king of men ;
23178 He's both their parent , and he is their grave ,
23179 And gives them what he will , not what they crave .
23180
23181 What , are you merry , knights ?
23182
23183 Who can be other in this royal presence ?
23184
23185 Here , with a cup that's stor'd unto the brim ,
23186 As you do love , fill to your mistress' lips ,
23187 We drink this health to you .
23188
23189 We thank your Grace .
23190
23191 Yet pause awhile ;
23192 Yon knight doth sit too melancholy ,
23193 As if the entertainment in our court
23194 Had not a show might countervail his worth .
23195 Note it not you , Thaisa ?
23196
23197 What is it
23198 To me , my father ?
23199
23200 O ! attend , my daughter :
23201 Princes in this should live like gods above ,
23202 Who freely give to every one that comes
23203 To honour them ;
23204 And princes not doing so are like to gnats ,
23205 Which make a sound , but kill'd are wonder'd at .
23206 Therefore to make his entrance more sweet ,
23207 Here say we drink this standing-bowl of wine to him .
23208
23209 Alas ! my father , it befits not me
23210 Unto a stranger knight to be so bold ;
23211 He may my proffer take for an offence ,
23212 Since men take women's gifts for impudence .
23213
23214 How !
23215 Do as I bid you , or you'll move me else .
23216
23217 Now , by the gods , he could not please me better .
23218
23219 And further tell him , we desire to know of him ,
23220 Of whence he is , his name , and parentage .
23221
23222 The king , my father , sir , has drunk to you .
23223
23224 I thank him .
23225
23226 Wishing it so much blood unto your life .
23227
23228 I thank both him and you , and pledge him freely .
23229
23230 And further he desires to know of you ,
23231 Of whence you are , your name and parentage .
23232
23233 A gentleman of Tyre , my name , Pericles ;
23234 My education been in arts and arms ;
23235 Who , looking for adventures in the world ,
23236 Was by the rough seas reft of ships and men ,
23237 And after shipwrack , driven upon this shore .
23238
23239 He thanks your Grace ; names himself Pericles ,
23240 A gentleman of Tyre ,
23241 Who only by misfortune of the seas
23242 Bereft of ships and men , cast on this shore .
23243
23244 Now , by the gods , I pity his misfortune ,
23245 And will awake him from his melancholy .
23246 Come , gentlemen , we sit too long on trifles ,
23247 And waste the time which looks for other revels .
23248 Even in your armours , as you are address'd ,
23249 Will very well become a soldier's dance .
23250 I will not have excuse , with saying this
23251 Loud music is too harsh for ladies' heads
23252 Since they love men in arms as well as beds .
23253
23254 So this was well ask'd , 'twas so well perform'd .
23255 Come , sir ;
23256 Here is a lady that wants breathing too :
23257 And I have often heard , you knights of Tyre
23258 Are excellent in making ladies trip ,
23259 And that their measures are as excellent .
23260
23261 In those that practise them they are , my lord .
23262
23263 O ! that's as much as you would be denied
23264 Of your fair courtesy .
23265
23266 Unclasp , unclasp ;
23267 Thanks , gentlemen , to all ; all have done well ,
23268
23269
23270 But you the best . Pages and lights , to conduct
23271 These knights unto their several lodgings ! Yours , sir ,
23272 We have given order to be next our own .
23273
23274 I am at your Grace's pleasure .
23275
23276 Princes , it is too late to talk of love ,
23277 And that's the mark I know you level at ;
23278 Therefore each one betake him to his rest ;
23279 To-morrow all for speeding do their best .
23280
23281
23282 No , Escanes , know this of me ,
23283 Antiochus from incest liv'd not free ;
23284 For which , the most high gods not minding longer
23285 To withhold the vengeance that they had in store ,
23286 Due to this heinous capital offence ,
23287 Even in the height and pride of all his glory ,
23288 When he was seated in a chariot
23289 Of an inestimable value , and his daughter with him ,
23290 A fire from heaven came and shrivell'd up
23291 Their bodies , even to loathing ; for they so stunk ,
23292 That all those eyes ador'd them ere their fall
23293 Scorn now their hand should give them burial .
23294
23295 'Twas very strange .
23296
23297 And yet but just ; for though
23298 This king were great , his greatness was no guard
23299 To bar heaven's shaft , but sin had his reward .
23300
23301 'Tis very true .
23302
23303
23304 See , not a man in private conference
23305 Or council has respect with him but he .
23306
23307 It shall no longer grieve without reproof .
23308
23309 And curs'd be he that will not second it .
23310
23311 Follow me then . Lord Helicane , a word .
23312
23313 With me ? and welcome . Happy day , my lords .
23314
23315 Know that our griefs are risen to the top ,
23316 And now at length they overflow their banks .
23317
23318 Your griefs ! for what ? wrong not the prince you love .
23319
23320 Wrong not yourself then , noble Helicane ;
23321 But if the prince do live , let us salute him ,
23322 Or know what ground's made happy by his breath .
23323 If in the world he live , we'll seek him out ;
23324 If in his grave he rest , we'll find him there ;
23325 And be resolv'd he lives to govern us ,
23326 Or dead , give 's cause to mourn his funeral ,
23327 And leaves us to our free election .
23328
23329 Whose death's indeed the strongest in our censure :
23330 And knowing this kingdom is without a head ,
23331 Like goodly buildings left without a roof
23332 Soon fall to ruin , your noble self ,
23333 That best know'st how to rule and how to reign ,
23334 We thus submit unto , our sovereign .
23335
23336 Live , noble Helicane !
23337
23338 For honour's cause forbear your suffrages :
23339 If that you love Prince Pericles , forbear .
23340 Take I your wish , I leap into the seas ,
23341 Where's hourly trouble for a minute's ease .
23342 A twelvemonth longer , let me entreat you
23343 To forbear the absence of your king ;
23344 If in which time expir'd he not return ,
23345 I shall with aged patience bear your yoke .
23346 But if I cannot win you to this love ,
23347 Go search like nobles , like noble subjects ,
23348 And in your search spend your adventurous worth ;
23349 Whom if you find , and win unto return ,
23350 You shall like diamonds sit about his crown .
23351
23352 To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield ;
23353 And since Lord Helicane enjoineth us ,
23354 We with our travels will endeavour it .
23355
23356 Then you love us , we you , and we'll clasp hands :
23357 When peers thus knit , a kingdom ever stands .
23358
23359
23360 Good morrow to the good Simonides .
23361
23362 Knights , from my daughter this I let you know ,
23363 That for this twelvemonth she'll not undertake
23364 A married life .
23365 Her reason to herself is only known ,
23366 Which yet from her by no means can I get .
23367
23368 May we not get access to her , my lord ?
23369
23370 Faith , by no means ; she hath so strictly tied
23371 Her to her chamber that 'tis impossible .
23372 One twelve moons more she'll wear Diana's livery ;
23373 This by the eye of Cynthia hath she vow'd ,
23374 And on her virgin honour will not break it .
23375
23376 Though loath to bid farewell , we take our leaves .
23377
23378
23379 So ,
23380 They're well dispatch'd ; now to my daughter's letter .
23381 She tells me here , she'll wed the stranger knight ,
23382 Or never more to view nor day nor light .
23383 'Tis well , mistress ; your choice agrees with mine ;
23384 I like that well : how absolute she's in 't ,
23385 Not minding whether I dislike or no !
23386 Well , I do commend her choice ;
23387 And will no longer have it be delay'd .
23388 Soft ! here he comes : I must dissemble it .
23389
23390
23391 All fortune to the good Simonides !
23392
23393 To you as much , sir ! I am beholding to you
23394 For your sweet music this last night : I do
23395 Protest my ears were never better fed
23396 With such delightful pleasing harmony
23397
23398 It is your Grace's pleasure to commend ,
23399 Not my desert .
23400
23401 Sir , you are music's master .
23402
23403 The worst of all her scholars , my good lord .
23404
23405 Let me ask you one thing .
23406 What do you think of my daughter , sir ?
23407
23408 A most virtuous princess .
23409
23410 And she is fair too , is she not ?
23411
23412 As a fair day in summer ; wondrous fair .
23413
23414 My daughter , sir , thinks very well of you ;
23415 Ay , so well , that you must be her master ,
23416 And she will be your scholar : therefore look to it .
23417
23418 I am unworthy for her schoolmaster .
23419
23420 She thinks not so ; peruse this writing else .
23421
23422 What's here ?
23423 A letter that she loves the knight of Tyre !
23424 'Tis the king's subtilty to have my life .
23425 O ! seek not to entrap me , gracious lord ,
23426 A stranger and distressed gentleman ,
23427 That never aim'd so high to love your daughter ,
23428 But bent all offices to honour her .
23429
23430 Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter , and thou art
23431 A villain .
23432
23433 By the gods , I have not :
23434 Never did thought of mine levy offence ;
23435 Nor never did my actions yet commence
23436 A deed might gain her love or your displeasure .
23437
23438 Traitor , thou liest .
23439
23440 Traitor !
23441
23442 Ay , traitor .
23443
23444 Even in his throat , unless it be the king ,
23445 That calls me traitor , I return the lie .
23446
23447 Now , by the gods , I do applaud his courage .
23448
23449 My actions are as noble as my thoughts ,
23450 That never relish'd of a base descent .
23451 I came unto your court for honour's cause ,
23452 And not to be a rebel to her state ;
23453 And he that otherwise accounts of me ,
23454 This sword shall prove he's honour's enemy .
23455
23456 No ?
23457 Here comes my daughter , she can witness it .
23458
23459
23460 Then , as you are as virtuous as fair ,
23461 Resolve your angry father , if my tongue
23462 Did e'er solicit , or my hand subscribe
23463 To any syllable that made love to you .
23464
23465 Why , sir , say if you had ,
23466 Who takes offence at that would make me glad ?
23467
23468 Yea , mistress , are you so peremptory ?
23469
23470
23471 I am glad on 't , with all my heart .
23472 I'll tame you ; I'll bring you in subjection .
23473 Will you , not having my consent ,
23474 Bestow your love and your affections
23475 Upon a stranger ?
23476
23477 who , for aught I know ,
23478 May be , nor can I think the contrary ,
23479 As great in blood as I myself .
23480
23481
23482 Therefore , hear you , mistress ; either frame
23483 Your will to mine ; and you , sir , hear you ,
23484 Either be rul'd by me , or I will make you
23485 Man and wife :
23486 Nay , come , your hands and lips must seal it too ;
23487 And being join'd , I'll thus your hopes destroy ;
23488 And for a further grief ,God give you joy !
23489 What ! are you both pleas'd ?
23490
23491 Yes , if you love me , sir .
23492
23493 Even as my life , or blood that fosters it .
23494
23495 What ! are you both agreed ?
23496
23497 Yes , if 't please your majesty .
23498
23499 Yes , if 't please your majesty .
23500
23501 It pleaseth me so well , that I will see you wed ;
23502 Then with what haste you can get you to bed .
23503
23504 Now sleep yslaked hath the rout ;
23505 No din but snores the house about ,
23506 Made louder by the o'er-fed breast
23507 Of this most pompous marriage-feast .
23508 The cat , with eyne of burning coal ,
23509 Now couches fore the mouse's hole ;
23510 And crickets sing at the oven's mouth ,
23511 E'er the blither for their drouth .
23512 Hymen hath brought the bride to bed ,
23513 Where , by the loss of maidenhead ,
23514 A babe is moulded . Be attent ;
23515 And time that is so briefly spent
23516 With your fine fancies quaintly eche ;
23517 What's dumb in show I'll plain with speech .
23518
23519
23520 By many a dern and painful perch ,
23521 Of Pericles the careful search
23522 By the four opposing coigns ,
23523 Which the world together joins ,
23524 Is made with all due diligence
23525 That horse and sail and high expense ,
23526 Can stead the quest . At last from Tyre ,
23527 Fame answering the most strange inquire
23528 To the court of King Simonides
23529 Are letters brought , the tenour these :
23530 Antiochus and his daughter dead ;
23531 The men of Tyrus on the head
23532 Of Helicanus would set on
23533 The crown of Tyre , but he will none :
23534 The mutiny he there hastes t' oppress ;
23535 Says to 'em , if King Pericles
23536 Come not home in twice six moons ,
23537 He , obedient to their dooms ,
23538 Will take the crown . The sum of this ,
23539 Brought hither to Pentapolis ,
23540 Yravished the regions round ,
23541 And every one with claps can sound ,
23542 'Our heir-apparent is a king !
23543 Who dream'd , who thought of such a thing ?'
23544 Brief , he must hence depart to Tyre :
23545 His queen , with child , makes her desire ,
23546 Which who shall cross ?along to go ;
23547 Omit we all their dole and woe :
23548 Lychorida , her nurse , she takes ,
23549 And so to sea . Their vessel shakes
23550 On Neptune's billow ; half the flood
23551 Hath their keel cut : but Fortune's mood
23552 Varies again ; the grisled north
23553 Disgorges such a tempest forth ,
23554 That , as a duck for life that dives ,
23555 So up and down the poor ship drives .
23556 The lady shrieks , and well-a-near
23557 Does fall in travail with her fear ;
23558 And what ensues in this fell storm
23559 Shall for itself itself perform .
23560 I nill relate , action may
23561 Conveniently the rest convey ,
23562 Which might not what by me is told .
23563 In your imagination hold
23564 This stage the ship , upon whose deck
23565 The sea-tost Pericles appears to speak .
23566
23567 Thou God of this great vast , rebuke these surges ,
23568 Which wash both heaven and hell ; and thou , that hast
23569 Upon the winds command , bind them in brass ,
23570 Having call'd them from the deep . O ! still
23571 Thy deafening , dreadful thunders ; gently quench
23572 Thy nimble , sulphurous flashes . O ! how Lychorida ,
23573 How does my queen ? Thou stormest venomously ;
23574 Wilt thou spit all thyself ? The seaman's whistle
23575 Is as a whisper in the ears of death ,
23576 Unheard . Lychorida ! Lucina , O !
23577 Divinest patroness , and midwife gentle
23578 To those that cry by night , convey thy deity
23579 Aboard our dancing boat ; make swift the pangs
23580 Of my queen's travails !
23581
23582 Now , Lychorida !
23583
23584 Here is a thing too young for such a place ,
23585 Who , if it had conceit , would die , as I
23586 Am like to do : take in your arms this piece
23587 Of your dead queen .
23588
23589 How , how , Lychorida !
23590
23591 Patience , good sir ; do not assist the storm .
23592 Here's all that is left living of your queen ,
23593 A little daughter : for the sake of it ,
23594 Be manly , and take comfort .
23595
23596 O you gods !
23597 Why do you make us love your goodly gifts ,
23598 And snatch them straight away ? We here below ,
23599 Recall not what we give , and therein may
23600 Use honour with you .
23601
23602 Patience , good sir ,
23603 Even for this charge .
23604
23605 Now , mild may be thy life !
23606 For a more blust'rous birth had never babe :
23607 Quiet and gentle thy conditions !
23608 For thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world
23609 That e'er was prince's child . Happy what follows !
23610 Thou hast as chiding a nativity
23611 As fire , air , water , earth , and heaven can make ,
23612 To herald thee from the womb ; even at the first
23613 Thy loss is more than can thy portage quit ,
23614 With all thou canst find here . Now , the good gods
23615 Throw their best eyes upon 't !
23616
23617
23618 What courage , sir ? God save you !
23619
23620 Courage enough . I do not fear the flaw ;
23621 It hath done to me the worst . Yet for the love
23622 Of this poor infant , this fresh-new sea-farer ,
23623 I would it would be quiet .
23624
23625 Slack the bolins there ! thou wilt not , wilt thou ? Blow , and split thyself .
23626
23627 But sea-room , an the brine and cloudy billow kiss the moon , I care not .
23628
23629 Sir , you queen must overboard : the sea works high , the wind is loud , and will not lie till the ship be cleared of the dead .
23630
23631 That's your superstition .
23632
23633 Pardon us , sir ; with us at sea it hath been still observed , and we are strong in custom . Therefore briefly yield her , for she must overboard straight .
23634
23635 As you think meet . Most wretched queen !
23636
23637 Here she lies , sir .
23638
23639 A terrible child-bed hast thou had , my dear ;
23640 No light , no fire : the unfriendly elements
23641 Forgot thee utterly ; nor have I time
23642 To give thee hallow'd to thy grave , but straight
23643 Must cast thee , scarcely coffin'd , in the ooze ;
23644 Where , for a monument upon thy bones ,
23645 And aye-remaining lamps , the belching whale
23646 And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse ,
23647 Lying with simple shells ! O Lychorida !
23648 Bid Nestor bring me spices , ink and paper ,
23649 My casket and my jewels ; and bid Nicander
23650 Bring me the satin coffer : lay the babe
23651 Upon the pillow . Hie thee , whiles I say
23652 A priestly farewell to her : suddenly , woman .
23653
23654
23655 Sir , we have a chest beneath the hatches , caulk'd and bitumed ready .
23656
23657 I thank thee . Mariner , say what coast is this ?
23658
23659 We are near Tarsus .
23660
23661 Thither , gentle mariner ,
23662 Alter thy course for Tyre . When canst thou reach it ?
23663
23664 By break of day , if the wind cease .
23665
23666 O ! make for Tarsus .
23667 There will I visit Cleon , for the babe
23668 Cannot hold out to Tyrus ; there I'll leave it
23669 At careful nursing . Go thy ways , good mariner ;
23670 I'll bring the body presently .
23671
23672
23673 Philemon , ho !
23674
23675
23676 Doth my lord call ?
23677
23678 Get fire and meat for these poor men ;
23679 'T has been a turbulent and stormy night .
23680
23681 I have been in many ; but such a night as this
23682 Till now I ne'er endur'd .
23683
23684 Your master will be dead ere you return ;
23685 There's nothing can be minister'd to nature
23686 That can recover him .
23687
23688 Give this to the 'pothecary ,
23689 And tell me how it works .
23690
23691 Good morrow , sir .
23692
23693 Good morrow to your lordship .
23694
23695 Gentlemen ,
23696 Why do you stir so early ?
23697
23698 Sir ,
23699 Our lodgings , standing bleak upon the sea ,
23700 Shook as the earth' did quake ;
23701 The very principals did seem to rend ,
23702 And all to topple . Pure surprise and fear
23703 Made me to quit the house .
23704
23705 That is the cause we trouble you so early ;
23706 'Tis not our husbandry .
23707
23708 O ! you say well .
23709
23710 But I much marvel that your lordship , having
23711 Rich tire about you , should at these early hours
23712 Shake off the golden slumber of repose .
23713 'Tis most strange ,
23714 Nature should be so conversant with pain ,
23715 Being thereto not compell'd .
23716
23717 I hold it ever ,
23718 Virtue and cunning were endowments greater
23719 Than nobleness and riches ; careless heirs
23720 May the two latter darken and expend ,
23721 But immortality attends the former ,
23722 Making a man a god . 'Tis known I ever
23723 Have studied physic , through which secret art ,
23724 By turning o'er authorities , I have
23725 Together with my practice made familiar
23726 To me and to my aid the blest infusions
23727 That dwell in vegetives , in metals , stones ;
23728 And can speak of the disturbances
23729 That nature works , and of her cures ; which doth give me
23730 A more content in course of true delight
23731 Than to be thirsty after tottering honour ,
23732 Or tie my treasure up in silken bags ,
23733 To please the fool and death .
23734
23735 Your honour has through Ephesus pour'd forth
23736 Your charity , and hundreds call themselves
23737 Your creatures , who by you have been restor'd :
23738 And not your knowledge , your personal pain , but even
23739 Your purse , still open , hath built Lord Cerimon
23740 Such strong renown as time shall ne'er decay .
23741
23742
23743 So ; lift there .
23744
23745 What is that ?
23746
23747 Sir , even now
23748 Did the sea toss upon our shore this chest :
23749 'Tis of some wrack .
23750
23751 Set it down ; let's look upon 't .
23752
23753 'Tis like a coffin , sir .
23754
23755 Whate'er it be ,
23756 'Tis wondrous heavy . Wrench it open straight ;
23757 If the sea's stomach be o'ercharg'd with gold ,
23758 'Tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us .
23759
23760 'Tis so , my lord .
23761
23762 How close 'tis caulk'd and bitumed !
23763 Did the sea cast it up ?
23764
23765 I never saw so huge a billow , sir ,
23766 As toss'd it upon shore .
23767
23768 Come , wrench it open .
23769 Soft ! it smells most sweetly in my sense .
23770
23771 A delicate odour .
23772
23773 As ever hit my nostril . So , up with it .
23774 O you most potent gods ! what's here ? a corse !
23775
23776 Most strange !
23777
23778 Shrouded in cloth of state ; balm'd and entreasur'd
23779 With full bags of spices ! A passport too !
23780 Apollo , perfect me i' the characters !
23781
23782 Here I give to understand ,
23783 If e'er this coffin drive a-land ,
23784 I , King Pericles , have lost
23785 This queen worth all our mundane cost .
23786 Who finds her , give her burying ;
23787 She was the daughter of a king :
23788 Besides this treasure for a fee ,
23789 The gods requite his charity !
23790
23791 If thou liv'st , Pericles , thou hast a heart
23792 That even cracks for woe ! This chanc'd to-night .
23793
23794 Most likely , sir .
23795
23796 Nay , certainly to-night ;
23797 For look , how fresh she looks . They were too rough
23798 That threw her in the sea . Make fire within ;
23799 Fetch hither all the boxes in my closet .
23800
23801 Death may usurp on nature many hours ,
23802 And yet the fire of life kindle again
23803 The overpress'd spirits . I heard
23804 Of an Egyptian , that had nine hours lien dead ,
23805 Who was by good appliances recovered .
23806
23807
23808 Well said , well said ; the fire and cloths .
23809 The rough and woeful music that we have ,
23810 Cause it to sound , beseech you .
23811 The viol once more ;how thou stirr'st , thou block !
23812 The music there ! I pray you , give her air .
23813 Gentlemen ,
23814 This queen will live ; nature awakes , a warmth
23815 Breathes out of her ; she hath not been entranc'd
23816 Above five hours . See ! how she 'gins to blow
23817
23818 Into life's flower again .
23819
23820 The heavens
23821 Through you increase our wonder and set up
23822 Your fame for ever .
23823
23824 She is alive ! behold ,
23825 Her eyelids , cases to those heavenly jewels
23826 Which Pericles hath lost ,
23827 Begin to part their fringes of bright gold ;
23828 The diamonds of a most praised water
23829 Do appear , to make the world twice rich . Live ,
23830 And make us weep to hear your fate , fair creature ,
23831 Rare as you seem to be !
23832
23833
23834 O dear Diana !
23835 Where am I ? Where's my lord ? What world is this ?
23836
23837 Is not this strange ?
23838
23839 Most rare .
23840
23841 Hush , gentle neighbours !
23842 Lend me your hands ; to the next chamber bear her .
23843 Get linen ; now this matter must be look'd to ,
23844 For her relapse is mortal , Come , come ;
23845 And sculapius guide us !
23846
23847
23848 Most honour'd Cleon , I must needs be gone ;
23849 My twelve months are expir'd , and Tyrus stands
23850 In a litigious peace . You and your lady
23851 Take from my heart all thankfulness ; the gods
23852 Make up the rest upon you !
23853
23854 Your shafts of fortune , though they hurt you mortally ,
23855 Yet glance full wanderingly on us .
23856
23857 O your sweet queen !
23858 That the strict fates had pleas'd you had brought her hither ,
23859 To have bless'd mine eyes with her !
23860
23861 We cannot but obey
23862 The powers above us . Could I rage and roar
23863 As doth the sea she lies in , yet the end
23864 Must be as 'tis . My gentle babe Marina whom ,
23865 For she was born at sea , I have nam'd so here
23866 I charge your charity withal , and leave her
23867 The infant of your care , beseeching you
23868 To give her princely training , that she may be
23869 Manner'd as she is born .
23870
23871 Fear not , my lord , but think
23872 Your Grace , that fed my country with your corn
23873 For which the people's prayers still fall upon you
23874 Must in your child be thought on . If neglection
23875 Should therein make me vile , the common body ,
23876 By you reliev'd , would force me to my duty ;
23877 But if to that my nature need a spur ,
23878 The gods revenge it upon me and mine ,
23879 To the end of generation !
23880
23881 I believe you ;
23882 Your honour and your goodness teach me to 't ,
23883 Without your vows . Till she be married , madam ,
23884 By bright Diana , whom we honour , all
23885 Unscissar'd shall this hair of mine remain ,
23886 Though I show ill in 't . So I take my leave .
23887 Good madam , make me blessed in your care
23888 In bringing up my child .
23889
23890 I have one myself ,
23891 Who shall not be more dear to my respect
23892 Than yours , my lord .
23893
23894 Madam , my thanks and prayers .
23895
23896 We'll bring your Grace e'en to the edge o' the shore ;
23897 Then give you up to the mask'd Neptune and
23898 The gentlest winds of heaven .
23899
23900 I will embrace
23901 Your offer . Come , dearest madam . O ! no tears ,
23902 Lychorida , no tears :
23903 Look to your little mistress , on whose grace
23904 You may depend hereafter . Come , my lord .
23905
23906
23907 Madam , this letter , and some certain jewels ,
23908 Lay with you in your coffer ; which are now
23909 At your command . Know you the character ?
23910
23911 It is my lord's .
23912 That I was shipp'd at sea , I well remember ,
23913 Even on my eaning time ; but whether there
23914 Deliver'd , by the holy gods ,
23915 I cannot rightly say . But since King Pericles ,
23916 My wedded lord , I ne'er shall see again ,
23917 A vestal livery will I take me to ,
23918 And never more have joy .
23919
23920 Madam , if this you purpose as you speak ,
23921 Diana's temple is not distant far ,
23922 Where you may abide till your date expire .
23923 Moreover , if you please , a niece of mine
23924 Shall there attend you .
23925
23926 My recompense is thanks , that's all ;
23927 Yet my good will is great , though the gift small .
23928
23929 Imagine Pericles arriv'd at Tyre ,
23930 Welcom'd and settled to his own desire .
23931 His woeful queen we leave at Ephesus ,
23932 Unto Diana there a votaress .
23933 Now to Marina bend your mind ,
23934 Whom our fast-growing scene must find
23935 At Tarsus , and by Cleon train'd
23936 In music , letters ; who hath gain'd
23937 Of education all the grace ,
23938 Which makes her bath the heart and places
23939 Of general wonder . But , alack !
23940 That monster envy , oft the wrack
23941 Of earned praise , Marina's life
23942 Seeks to take off by treason's knife .
23943 And in this kind hath our Cleon
23944 One daughter , and a wench full grown ,
23945 Even ripe for marriage-rite ; this maid
23946 Hight Philoten , and it is said
23947 For certain in our story , she
23948 Would ever with Marina be :
23949 Be 't when she weav'd the sleided silk
23950 With fingers , long , small , white as milk ,
23951 Or when she would with sharp neeld wound
23952 The cambric , which she made more sound
23953 By hurting it ; when to the lute
23954 She sung , and made the night-bird mute ,
23955 That still records with moan ; or when
23956 She would with rich and constant pen
23957 Vail to her mistress Dian ; still
23958 This Philoten contends in skill
23959 With absolute Marina : so
23960 With the dove of Paphos might the crow
23961 Vie feathers white . Marina gets
23962 All praises , which are paid as debts ,
23963 And not as given . This so darks
23964 In Philoten all graceful marks ,
23965 That Cleon's wife , with envy rare ,
23966 A present murderer does prepare
23967 For good Marina , that her daughter
23968 Might stand peerless by this slaughter .
23969 The sooner her vile thoughts to stead ,
23970 Lychorida , our nurse , is dead :
23971 And cursed Dionyza hath
23972 The pregnant instrument of wrath
23973 Prest for this blow . The unborn event
23974 I do commend to your content :
23975 Only I carry winged time
23976 Post on the lame feet of my rime ;
23977 Which never could I so convey ,
23978 Unless your thoughts went on my way .
23979 Dionyza doth appear ,
23980 With Leonine , a murderer .
23981
23982
23983 Thy oath remember ; thou hast sworn to do 't :
23984 'Tis but a blow , which never shall be known .
23985 Thou canst not do a thing i' the world so soon ,
23986 To yield thee so much profit . Let not conscience ,
23987 Which is but cold , inflaming love i' thy bosom ,
23988 Inflame too nicely ; nor let pity , which
23989 Even women have cast off , melt thee , but he
23990 A soldier to thy purpose .
23991
23992 I'll do 't ; but yet she is a goodly creature .
23993
23994 The fitter , then , the gods should have her . Here
23995 She comes weeping for her only mistress' death .
23996 Thou art resolv'd ?
23997
23998 I am resolv'd .
23999
24000
24001 No , I will rob Tellus of her weed ,
24002 To strew thy green with flowers ; the yellows , blues ,
24003 The purple violets , and marigolds ,
24004 Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave ,
24005 While summer days do last . Ay me ! poor maid ,
24006 Born in a tempest , when my mother died ,
24007 This world to me is like a lasting storm ,
24008 Whirring me from my friends .
24009
24010 How now , Marina ! why do you keep alone ?
24011 How chance my daughter is not with you ? Do not
24012 Consume your blood with sorrowing ; you have
24013 A nurse of me . Lord ! how your favour's chang'd
24014 With this unprofitable woe . Come ,
24015 Give me your flowers , ere the sea mar it .
24016 Walk with Leonine ; the air is quick there ,
24017 And it pierces and sharpens the stomach . Come ,
24018 Leonine , take her by the arm , walk with her .
24019
24020 No , I pray you ;
24021 I'll not bereave you of your servant .
24022
24023 Come , come ;
24024 I love the king your father , and yourself ,
24025 With more than foreign heart . We every day
24026 Expect him here ; when he shall come and find
24027 Our paragon to all reports thus blasted ,
24028 He will repent the breadth of his great voyage ;
24029 Blame both my lord and me , that we have taken
24030 No care to your best courses . Go , I pray you ;
24031 Walk , and be cheerful once again ; reserve
24032 That excellent complexion , which did steal
24033 The eyes of young and old . Care not for me ;
24034 I can go home alone .
24035
24036 Well , I will go ;
24037 But yet I have no desire to it .
24038
24039 Come , come , I know 'tis good for you .
24040 Walk half an hour , Leonine , at least .
24041 Remember what I have said .
24042
24043 I warrant you , madam .
24044
24045 I'll leave you , my sweet lady , for a while ;
24046 Pray you walk softly , do not heat your blood :
24047 What ! I must have care of you .
24048
24049 My thanks , sweet madam .
24050
24051 Is this wind westerly that blows ?
24052
24053 South-west .
24054
24055 When I was born , the wind was north .
24056
24057 Was 't so ?
24058
24059 My father , as nurse said , did never fear ,
24060 But cried 'Good seamen !' to the sailors , galling
24061 His kingly hands haling ropes ;
24062 And , clasping to the mast , endur'd a sea
24063 That almost burst the deck .
24064
24065 When was this ?
24066
24067 When I was born :
24068 Never were waves nor wind more violent ;
24069 And from the ladder-tackle washes off
24070 A canvas-climber . 'Ha !' says one , 'wilt out ?'
24071 And with a dropping industry they skip
24072 From stem to stern ; the boatswain whistles , and
24073 The master calls , and trebles their confusion .
24074
24075 Come ; say your prayers .
24076
24077 What mean you ?
24078
24079 If you require a little space for prayer ,
24080 I grant it . Pray ; but be not tedious ,
24081 For the gods are quick of ear , and I am sworn
24082 To do my work with haste .
24083
24084 Why will you kill me ?
24085
24086 To satisfy my lady .
24087
24088 Why would she have me kill'd ?
24089 Now , as I can remember , by my troth ,
24090 I never did her hurt in all my life .
24091 I never spake bad word , nor did ill turn
24092 To any living creature ; believe me , la ,
24093 I never kill'd a mouse , nor hurt a fly ;
24094 I trod upon a worm against my will ,
24095 But I wept for it . How have I offended ,
24096 Wherein my death might yield her any profit ,
24097 Or my life imply her any danger ?
24098
24099 My commission
24100 Is not to reason of the deed , but do 't .
24101
24102 You will not do 't for all the world , I hope .
24103 You are well favour'd , and your looks foreshow
24104 You have a gentle heart . I saw you lately ,
24105 When you caught hurt in parting two that fought ;
24106 Good sooth , it show'd well in you ; do so now ;
24107 Your lady seeks my life ; come you between ,
24108 And save poor me , the weaker .
24109
24110 I am sworn ,
24111 And will dispatch .
24112
24113
24114 Hold , villain !
24115
24116
24117 A prize ! a prize !
24118
24119 Half-part , mates , half-part .
24120 Come , let's have her aboard suddenly .
24121
24122 These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes ;
24123 And they have seiz'd Marina . Let her go ;
24124 There's no hope she'll return . I'll swear she's dead ,
24125 And thrown into the sea . But I'll see further ;
24126 Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her ,
24127 Not carry her aboard . If she remain ,
24128 Whom they have ravish'd must by me be slain .
24129
24130
24131 Boult .
24132
24133 Sir ?
24134
24135 Search the market narrowly ; Mitylene is full of gallants ; we lost too much money this mart by being too wenchless .
24136
24137 We were never so much out of creatures . We have but poor three , and they can do no more than they can do ; and they with continual action are even as good as rotten .
24138
24139 Therefore , let's have fresh ones , whate'er we pay for them . If there be not a conscience to be used in every trade , we shall never prosper .
24140
24141 Thou sayst true ; 'tis not the bringing up of poor bastards , as , I think , I have brought up some eleven
24142
24143 Ay , to eleven ; and brought them down again . But shall I search the market ?
24144
24145 What else , man ? The stuff we have a strong wind will blow it to pieces , they are so pitifully sodden .
24146
24147 Thou sayst true ; they're too unwholesome , o' conscience . The poor Transylvanian is dead , that lay with the little baggage .
24148
24149 Ay , she quickly pooped him ; she made him roast-meat for worms . But I'll go search the market .
24150
24151
24152 Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty a proportion to live quietly , and so give over .
24153
24154 Why to give over , I pray you ? is it a shame to get when we are old ?
24155
24156 O ! our credit comes not in like the commodity , nor the commodity wages not with the danger ; therefore , if in our youths we could pick up some pretty estate , 'twere not amiss to keep our door hatched . Besides , the sore terms we stand upon with the gods will be strong with us for giving over .
24157
24158 Come , other sorts offend as well as we .
24159
24160 As well as we ! ay , and better too ; we offend worse . Neither is our profession any trade ; it's no calling . But here comes Boult .
24161
24162
24163 Come your ways . My masters , you say she's a virgin ?
24164
24165 O ! sir , we doubt it not .
24166
24167 Master , I have gone through for this piece , you see : if you like her , so ; if not , I have lost my earnest .
24168
24169 Boult , has she any qualities ?
24170
24171 She has a good face , speaks well , and has excellent good clothes ; there's no further necessity of qualities can make her be refused .
24172
24173 What's her price , Boult ?
24174
24175 I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand pieces .
24176
24177 Well , follow me , my masters , you shall have your money presently . Wife , take her in ; instruct her what she has to do , that she may not be raw in her entertainment .
24178
24179
24180 Boult , take you the marks of her , the colour of her hair , complexion , height , age , with warrant of her virginity ; and cry , 'He that will give most , shall have her first .' Such a maiden-head were no cheap thing , if men were as they have been . Get this done as I command you .
24181
24182 Performance shall follow .
24183
24184
24185 Alack ! that Leonine was so slack , so slow .
24186 He should have struck , not spoke ; or that these pirates
24187 Not enough barbarous had not o'erboard thrown me
24188 For to seek my mother !
24189
24190 Why lament you , pretty one ?
24191
24192 That I am pretty .
24193
24194 Come , the gods have done their part in you .
24195
24196 I accuse them not .
24197
24198 You are lit into my hands , where you are like to live .
24199
24200 The more my fault
24201 To 'scape his hands where I was like to die .
24202
24203 Ay , and you shall live in pleasure .
24204
24205 No .
24206
24207 Yes , indeed , shall you , and taste gentlemen of all fashions . You shall fare well ; you shall have the difference of all complexions . What ! do you stop your ears ?
24208
24209 Are you a woman ?
24210
24211 What would you have me be , an I be not a woman ?
24212
24213 An honest woman , or not a woman .
24214
24215 Marry , whip thee , gosling ; I think I shall have something to do with you . Come , you are a young foolish sapling , and must be bowed as I would have you .
24216
24217 The gods defend me !
24218
24219 If it please the gods to defend you by men , then men must comfort you , men must feed you , men must stir you up . Boult's returned .
24220
24221 Now , sir , hast thou cried her through the market ?
24222
24223 I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs ; I have drawn her picture with my voice .
24224
24225 And I prithee , tell me , how dost thou find the inclination of the people , especially of the younger sort ?
24226
24227 Faith , they listened to me , as they would have hearkened to their father's testament . There was a Spaniard's mouth so watered , that he went to bed to her very description .
24228
24229 We shall have him here to-morrow with his best ruff on .
24230
24231 To-night , to-night . But , mistress , do you know the French knight that cowers i' the hams ?
24232
24233 Who ? Monsieur Veroles ?
24234
24235 Ay ; he offered to cut a caper at the proclamation ; but he made a groan at it , and swore he would see her to-morrow .
24236
24237 Well , well ; as for him , he brought his disease hither : here he does but repair it . I know he will come in our shadow , to scatter his crowns in the sun .
24238
24239 Well , if we had of every nation a traveller , we should lodge them with this sign .
24240
24241 Pray you , come hither awhile . You have fortunes coming upon you . Mark me : you must seem to do that fearfully , which you commit willingly ; to despise profit where you have most gain . To weep that you live as ye do makes pity in your lovers ; seldom but that pity begets you a good opinion , and that opinion a mere profit .
24242
24243 I understand you not .
24244
24245 O ! take her home , mistress , take her home ; these blushes of hers must be quenched with some present practice .
24246
24247 Thou sayst true , i' faith , so they must ; for your bride goes to that with shame which is her way to go with warrant .
24248
24249 Faith , some do , and some do not . But , mistress , if I have bargained for the joint ,
24250
24251 Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit .
24252
24253 I may so ?
24254
24255 Who should deny it ? Come , young one , I like the manner of your garments well .
24256
24257 Ay , by my faith , they shall not be changed yet .
24258
24259 Boult , spend thou that in the town ; report what a sojourner we have ; you'll lose nothing by custom . When nature framed this piece , she meant thee a good turn ; therefore say what a paragon she is , and thou hast the harvest out of thine own report .
24260
24261 I warrant you , mistress , thunder shall not so awake the beds of eels as my giving out her beauty stir up the lewdly-inclined . I'll bring home some to-night .
24262
24263 Come your ways ; follow me .
24264
24265 If fires be hot , knives sharp , or waters deep ,
24266 Untied I still my virgin knot will keep .
24267 Diana , aid my purpose !
24268
24269 What have we to do with Diana ?
24270 Pray you , will you go with us ?
24271
24272
24273 Why , are you foolish ? Can it be undone ?
24274
24275 O Dionyza ! such a piece of slaughter
24276 The sun and moon ne'er look'd upon .
24277
24278 I think
24279 You'll turn a child again .
24280
24281 Were I chief lord of all this spacious world ,
24282 I'd give it to undo the deed . O lady !
24283 Much less in blood than virtue , yet a princess
24284 To equal any single crown o' the earth
24285 I' the justice of compare . O villain Leonine !
24286 Whom thou hast poison'd too ;
24287 If thou hadst drunk to him 't had been a kindness
24288 Becoming well thy fact ; what canst thou say
24289 When noble Pericles shall demand his child ?
24290
24291 That she is dead . Nurses are not the fates ,
24292 To foster it , nor ever to preserve .
24293 She died at night ; I'll say so . Who can cross it ?
24294 Unless you play the pious innocent ,
24295 And for an honest attribute cry out
24296 'She died by foul play .'
24297
24298 O ! go to . Well , well ,
24299 Of all the faults beneath the heavens , the gods
24300 Do like this worst .
24301
24302 Be one of those that think
24303 The pretty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence ,
24304 And open this to Pericles . I do shame
24305 To think of what a noble strain you are ,
24306 And of how coward a spirit .
24307
24308 To such proceeding
24309 Who ever but his approbation added ,
24310 Though not his prime consent , he did not flow
24311 From honourable sources .
24312
24313 Be it so , then ;
24314 Yet none does know but you how she came dead ,
24315 Nor none can know , Leonine being gone .
24316 She did distain my child , and stood between
24317 Her and her fortunes ; none would look on her ,
24318 But cast their gazes on Marina's face ,
24319 Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin
24320 Not worth the time of day . It pierc'd me thorough ;
24321 And though you call my course unnatural ,
24322 You not your child well loving , yet I find
24323 It greets me as an enterprise of kindness
24324 Perform'd to your sole daughter .
24325
24326 Heavens forgive it !
24327
24328 And as for Pericles ,
24329 What should he say ? We wept after her hearse ,
24330 And even yet we mourn ; her monument
24331 Is almost finish'd , and her epitaphs
24332 In glittering golden characters express
24333 A general praise to her , and care in us
24334 At whose expense 'tis done .
24335
24336 Thou art like the harpy ,
24337 Which , to betray , dost with thine angel's face ,
24338 Seize with thine eagle's talons .
24339
24340 You are like one that superstitiously
24341 Doth swear to the gods that winter kills the flies ;
24342 But yet I know you'll do as I advise .
24343
24344 Thus time we waste , and longest leagues make short ;
24345 Sail seas in cockles , have an wish but for 't ;
24346 Making to take your imagination
24347 From bourn to bourn , region to region .
24348 By you being pardon'd , we commit no crime
24349 To use one language in each several clime
24350 Where our scenes seem to live . I do beseech you
24351 To learn of me , who stand i' the gaps to teach you ,
24352 The stages of our story . Pericles
24353 Is now again thwarting the wayward seas ,
24354 Attended on by many a lord and knight ,
24355 To see his daughter , all his life's delight .
24356 Old Helicanus goes along . Behind
24357 Is left to govern it , you bear in mind ,
24358 Old Escanes , whom Helicanus late
24359 Advanc'd in time to great and high estate .
24360 Well-sailing ships and bounteous winds have brought
24361 This king to Tarsus , think his pilot thought ,
24362 So with his steerage shall your thoughts grow on ,
24363 To fetch his daughter home , who first is gone .
24364 Like motes and shadows see them move awhile ;
24365 Your ears unto your eyes I'll reconcile .
24366
24367
24368 See how belief may suffer by foul show !
24369 This borrow'd passion stands for true old woe ;
24370 And Pericles , in sorrow all devour'd ,
24371 With sighs shot through , and biggest tears o'ershower'd ,
24372 Leaves Tarsus and again embarks . He swears
24373 Never to wash his face , nor cut his hairs ;
24374 He puts on sackcloth , and to sea . He bears
24375 A tempest , which his mortal vessel tears ,
24376 And yet he rides it out . Now please you wit
24377 The epitaph is for Marina writ
24378 By wicked Dionyza .
24379
24380
24381 the fairest , sweet'st , and best lies here ,
24382 who wither'd in her spring of year :
24383 she was of tyrus the king's daughter ,
24384 on whom foul death hath made this slaughter .
24385 marina was she call'd ; and at her birth ,
24386 thetis , being proud , swallow'd some part o' the earth :
24387 therefore the earth , fearing to be o'erflow'd ,
24388 hath thetis' birth-child on the heavens bestow'd :
24389 wherefore she does , and swears she'll never stint ,
24390 make raging battery upon shores of flint .
24391
24392 No visor does become black villany
24393 So well as soft and tender flattery .
24394 Let Pericles believe his daughter's dead ,
24395 And bear his courses to be ordered
24396 By Lady Fortune ; while our scene must play
24397 His daughter's woe and heavy well-a-day
24398 In her unholy service . Patience then ,
24399 And think you now are all in Mitylen .
24400
24401
24402 Did you ever hear the like ?
24403
24404 No , nor never shall do in such a place as this , she being once gone .
24405
24406 But to have divinity preached there ! did you ever dream of such a thing ?
24407
24408 No , no . Come , I am for no more bawdy-houses . Shall's go hear the vestals sing ?
24409
24410 I'll do any thing now that is virtuous ; but I am out of the road of rutting for ever .
24411
24412
24413 Well , I had rather than twice the worth of her she had ne'er come here .
24414
24415 Fie , fie upon her ! she is able to freeze the god Priapus , and undo a whole generation ; we must either get her ravished , or be rid of her . When she should do for clients her fitment , and do me the kindness of our profession , she has me her quirks , her reasons , her master-reasons , her prayers , her knees ; that she would make a puritan of the devil if he should cheapen a kiss of her .
24416
24417 Faith , I must ravish her , or she'll disfurnish us of all our cavaliers , and make all our swearers priests .
24418
24419 Now , the pox upon her green-sickness for me !
24420
24421 Faith , there's no way to be rid on 't but by the way to the pox . Here comes the Lord Lysimachus , disguised .
24422
24423 We should have both lord and lown if the peevish baggage would but give way to customers .
24424
24425
24426 How now ! How a dozen of virginities ?
24427
24428 Now , the gods to-bless your honour !
24429
24430 I am glad to see your honour in good health .
24431
24432 You may so ; 'tis the better for you that your resorters stand upon sound legs . How now ! wholesome iniquity , have you that a man may deal withal , and defy the surgeon ?
24433
24434 We have here one , sir , if she would but there never came her like in Mitylene .
24435
24436 If she'd do the deed of darkness , thou wouldst say .
24437
24438 Your honour knows what 'tis to say well enough .
24439
24440 Well ; call forth , call forth .
24441
24442 For flesh and blood , sir , white and red , you shall see a rose ; and she were a rose indeed if she had but
24443
24444 What , prithee ?
24445
24446 O ! sir , I can be modest .
24447
24448 That dignifies the renown of a bawd no less than it gives a good report to a number to be chaste .
24449
24450
24451 Here comes that which grows to the stalk ; never plucked yet , I can assure you .
24452
24453 Is she not a fair creature ?
24454
24455 Faith , she would serve after a long voyage at sea . Well , there's for you ; leave us .
24456
24457 I beseech your honour , give me leave ; a word , and I'll have done presently .
24458
24459 I beseech you do .
24460
24461 First , I would have you note , this is an honourable man .
24462
24463 I desire to find him so , that I may worthily note him .
24464
24465 Next , he's the governor of this country , and a man whom I am bound to .
24466
24467 If he govern the country , you are bound to him indeed ; but how honourable he is in that I know not .
24468
24469 Pray you , without any more virginal fencing , will you use him kindly ? He will line your apron with gold .
24470
24471 What he will do graciously , I will thankfully receive .
24472
24473 Ha' you done ?
24474
24475 My lord , she's not paced yet ; you must take some pains to work her to your manage . Come , we will leave his honour and her together .
24476
24477 Go thy ways .
24478
24479 Now , pretty one , how long have you been at this trade ?
24480
24481 What trade , sir ?
24482
24483 Why , I cannot name 't but I shall offend .
24484
24485 I cannot be offended with my trade . Please you to name it .
24486
24487 How long have you been of this profession ?
24488
24489 E'er since I can remember .
24490
24491 Did you go to 't so young ? Were you a gamester at five or at seven ?
24492
24493 Earlier too , sir , if now I be one .
24494
24495 Why , the house you dwell in proclaims you to be a creature of sale .
24496
24497 Do you know this house to be a place of such resort , and will come into 't ? I hear say you are of honourable parts , and are the governor of this place .
24498
24499 Why , hath your principal made known unto you who I am ?
24500
24501 Who is my principal ?
24502
24503 Why , your herb-woman ; she that sets seeds and roots of shame and iniquity . O ! you have heard something of my power , and so stand aloof for more serious wooing . But I protest to thee , pretty one , my authority shall not see thee , or else look friendly upon thee . Come , bring me to some private place ; come , come .
24504
24505 If you were born to honour , show it now ;
24506 If put upon you , make the judgment good
24507 That thought you worthy of it .
24508
24509 How's this ? how's this ? Some more ; be sage .
24510
24511 For me ,
24512 That am a maid , though most ungentle fortune
24513 Hath plac'd me in this sty , where , since I came ,
24514 Diseases have been sold dearer than physic ,
24515 O ! that the gods
24516 Would set me free from this unhallow'd place ,
24517 Though they did change me to the meanest bird
24518 That flies i' the purer air !
24519
24520 I did not think
24521 Thou couldst have spoke so well ; ne'er dream'd thou couldst .
24522 Had I brought hither a corrupted mind ,
24523 Thy speech had alter'd it . Hold , here's gold for thee ;
24524 Persever in that clear way thou goest ,
24525 And the gods strengthen thee !
24526
24527 The good gods preserve you !
24528
24529 For me , be you thoughten
24530 That I came with no ill intent , for to me
24531 The very doors and windows savour vilely .
24532 Farewell . Thou art a piece of virtue , and
24533 I doubt not but thy training hath been noble .
24534 Hold , here's more gold for thee .
24535 A curse upon him , die he like a thief ,
24536 That robs thee of thy goodness ! If thou dost
24537 Hear from me , it shall be for thy good .
24538
24539
24540 I beseech your honour , one piece for me .
24541
24542 Avaunt ! thou damned door-keeper . Your house ,
24543 But for this virgin that doth prop it , would
24544 Sink and overwhelm you . Away !
24545
24546
24547 How's this ? We must take another course with you . If your peevish chastity , which is not worth a breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope , shall undo a whole household , let me be gelded like a spaniel . Come your ways .
24548
24549 Whither would you have me ?
24550
24551 I must have your maidenhead taken off , or the common hangman shall execute it . Come your ways . We'll have no more gentlemen driven away . Come your ways , I say .
24552
24553
24554 How now ! what's the matter ?
24555
24556 Worse and worse , mistress ; she has here spoken holy words to the Lord Lysimachus .
24557
24558 O ! abominable .
24559
24560 She makes our profession as it were to stink afore the face of the gods .
24561
24562 Marry , hang her up for ever !
24563
24564 The nobleman would have dealt with her like a nobleman , and she sent him away as cold as a snowball ; saying his prayers too .
24565
24566 Boult , take her away ; use her at thy pleasure ; crack the glass of her virginity , and make the rest malleable .
24567
24568 An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she is , she shall be ploughed .
24569
24570 Hark , hark , you gods !
24571
24572 She conjures ; away with her ! Would she had never come within my doors ! Marry , hang you ! She's born to undo us . Will you not go the way of women-kind ? Marry , come up , my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays !
24573
24574
24575 Come , mistress ; come your ways with me .
24576
24577 Whither wilt thou have me ?
24578
24579 To take from you the jewel you hold so dear .
24580
24581 Prithee , tell me one thing first .
24582
24583 Come now , your one thing .
24584
24585 What canst thou wish thine enemy to be ?
24586
24587 Why , I could wish him to be my master , or rather , my mistress .
24588
24589 Neither of these are so bad as thou art ,
24590 Since they do better thee in their command .
24591 Thou hold'st a place , for which the pained'st fiend
24592 Of hell would not in reputation change ;
24593 Thou art the damned door-keeper to every
24594 Coystril that comes inquiring for his Tib ,
24595 To the choleric fisting of every rogue
24596 Thy ear is liable , thy food is such
24597 As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs .
24598
24599 What would you have me do ? go to the wars , would you ? where a man may serve seven years for the loss of a leg , and have not money enough in the end to buy him a wooden one ?
24600
24601 Do any thing but this thou doest . Empty .
24602 Old receptacles , or common sewers , of filth ;
24603 Serve by indenture to the common hangman :
24604 Any of these ways are yet better than this ;
24605 For what thou professest , a baboon , could he speak ,
24606 Would own a name too dear . O ! that the gods
24607 Would safely deliver me from this place .
24608 Here , here's gold for thee .
24609 If that thy master would gain by me ,
24610 Proclaim that I can sing , weave , sew , and dance ,
24611 With other virtues , which I'll keep from boast ;
24612 And I will undertake all these to teach .
24613 I doubt not but this populous city will
24614 Yield many scholars .
24615
24616 But can you teach all this you speak of ?
24617
24618 Prove that I cannot , take me home again ,
24619 And prostitute me to the basest groom
24620 That doth frequent your house .
24621
24622 Well , I will see what I can do for thee ; if I can place thee , I will .
24623
24624 But , amongst honest women .
24625
24626 Faith , my acquaintance lies little amongst them . But since my master and mistress have bought you , there's no going but by their consent ; therefore I will make them acquainted with your purpose , and I doubt not but I shall find them tractable enough . Come ; I'll do for thee what I can ; come your ways .
24627
24628
24629 Marina thus the brothel 'scapes , and chances
24630 Into an honest house , our story says .
24631 She sings like one immortal , and she dances
24632 As goddess-like to her admired lays ;
24633 Deep clerks she dumbs ; and with her neeld composes
24634 Nature's own shape , of bud , bird , branch , or berry ,
24635 That even her art sisters the natural roses ;
24636 Her inkle , silk , twin with the rubied cherry ;
24637 That pupils lacks she none of noble race ,
24638 Who pour their bounty on her ; and her gain
24639 She gives the cursed bawd . Here we her place ;
24640 And to her father turn our thoughts again ,
24641 Where we left him , on the sea . We there him lost ,
24642 Whence , driven before the winds , he is arriv'd
24643 Here where his daughter dwells : and on this coast
24644 Suppose him now at anchor . The city striv'd
24645 God Neptune's annual feast to keep ; from whence
24646 Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies ,
24647 His banners sable , trimm'd with rich expense ;
24648 And to him in his barge with fervour hies .
24649 In your supposing once more put your sight
24650 Of heavy Pericles ; think this his bark :
24651 Where what is done in action , more , if might ,
24652 Shall be discover'd ; please you , sit and hark .
24653
24654 Where's the Lord Helicanus ? he can resolve you .
24655 O ! here he is .
24656 Sir , there's a barge put off from Mitylene ,
24657 And in it is Lysimachus , the governor ,
24658 Who craves to come aboard . What is your will ?
24659
24660 That he have his . Call up some gentlemen .
24661
24662 Ho , gentlemen ! my lord calls .
24663
24664
24665 Doth your lordship call ?
24666
24667 Gentlemen , there's some of worth would come aboard ;
24668 I pray ye , greet them fairly .
24669
24670 Sir ,
24671 This is the man that can , in aught you would ,
24672 Resolve you .
24673
24674 Hail , reverend sir ! The gods preserve you !
24675
24676 And you , sir , to outlive the age I am ,
24677 And die as I would do .
24678
24679 You wish me well .
24680 Being on shore , honouring of Neptune's triumphs ,
24681 Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us ,
24682 I made to it to know of whence you are .
24683
24684 First , what is your place ?
24685
24686 I am the governor of this place you lie before .
24687
24688 Sir ,
24689 Our vessel is of Tyre , in it the king ;
24690 A man who for this three months hath not spoken
24691 To any one , nor taken sustenance
24692 But to prorogue his grief .
24693
24694 Upon what ground is his distemperature ?
24695
24696 'Twould be too tedious to repeat ;
24697 But the main grief springs from the loss
24698 Of a beloved daughter and a wife .
24699
24700 May we not see him ?
24701
24702 You may ;
24703 But bootless is your sight : he will not speak
24704 To any .
24705
24706 Yet let me obtain my wish .
24707
24708 Behold him .
24709
24710 This was a goodly person ,
24711 Till the disaster that , one mortal night ,
24712 Drove him to this .
24713
24714 Sir king , all hail ! the gods preserve you !
24715 Hall , royal sir !
24716
24717 It is in vain ; he will not speak to you .
24718
24719 Sir ,
24720 We have a maid in Mitylene , I durst wager ,
24721 Would win some words of him .
24722
24723 'Tis well bethought .
24724 She questionless with her sweet harmony
24725 And other chosen attractions , would allure ,
24726 And make a battery through his deafen'd ports
24727 Which now are midway stopp'd :
24728 She is all happy as the fair'st of all ,
24729 And with her fellow maids is now upon
24730 The leafy shelter that abuts against
24731 The island's side .
24732
24733
24734 Sure , all's effectless ; yet nothing we'll omit ,
24735 That bears recovery's name . But , since your kindness
24736 We have stretch'd thus far , let us beseech you ,
24737 That for our gold we may provision have ,
24738 Wherein we are not destitute for want ,
24739 But weary for the staleness .
24740
24741 O ! sir , a courtesy ,
24742 Which if we should deny , the most just gods
24743 For every graff would send a caterpillar ,
24744 And so afflict our province . Yet once more
24745 Let me entreat to know at large the cause
24746 Of your king's sorrow .
24747
24748 Sit , sir , I will recount it to you ;
24749 But see , I am prevented .
24750
24751
24752 O ! here is
24753 The lady that I sent for . Welcome , fair one !
24754 Is't not a goodly presence ?
24755
24756 She's a gallant lady .
24757
24758 She's such a one , that were I well assur'd
24759 Came of a gentle kind and noble stock ,
24760 I'd wish no better choice , and think me rarely wed .
24761 Fair one , all goodness that consists in bounty
24762 Expect even here , where is a kingly patient :
24763 If that thy prosperous and artificial feat
24764 Can draw him but to answer thee in aught ,
24765 Thy sacred physic shall receive such pay
24766 As thy desires can wish .
24767
24768 Sir , I will use
24769 My utmost skill in his recovery ,
24770 Provided
24771 That none but I and my companion maid
24772 Be suffer'd to come near him .
24773
24774 Come , let us leave her ;
24775 And the gods make her prosperous !
24776
24777
24778 Mark'd he your music ?
24779
24780 No , nor look'd on us .
24781
24782 See , she will speak to him .
24783
24784 Hail , sir ! my lord , lend ear .
24785
24786 Hum ! ha !
24787
24788 I am a maid ,
24789 My lord , that ne'er before invited eyes ,
24790 But have been gaz'd on like a comet ; she speaks ,
24791 My lord , that , may be , hath endur'd a grief
24792 Might equal yours , if both were justly weigh'd .
24793 Though wayward Fortune did malign my state ,
24794 My derivation was from ancestors
24795 Who stood equivalent with mighty kings ;
24796 But time hath rooted out my parentage ,
24797 And to the world and awkward casualties
24798 Bound me in servitude .
24799
24800 I will desist ;
24801 But there is something glows upon my cheek ,
24802 And whispers in mine ear , 'Go not till he speak .'
24803
24804 My fortunes parentage good parentage
24805 To equal mine !was it not thus ? what say you ?
24806
24807 I said , my lord , if you did know my parentage ,
24808 You would not do me violence .
24809
24810 I do think so . Pray you , turn your eyes upon me .
24811 You are like something that What country-woman ?
24812 Here of these shores ?
24813
24814 No , nor of any shores ;
24815 Yet I was mortally brought forth , and am
24816 No other than I appear .
24817
24818 I am great with woe , and shall deliver weeping .
24819 My dearest wife was like this maid , and such a one
24820 My daughter might have been : my queen's square brows ;
24821 Her stature to an inch ; as wand-like straight ;
24822 As silver-voic'd ; her eyes as jewel-like ,
24823 And cas'd as richly ; in pace another Juno ;
24824 Who starves the ears she feeds , and makes them hungry ,
24825 The more she gives them speech . Where do you live ?
24826
24827 Where I am but a stranger ; from the deck
24828 You may discern the place .
24829
24830 Where were you bred ?
24831 And how achiev'd you these endowments , which
24832 You make more rich to owe ?
24833
24834 Should I tell my history , it would seem
24835 Like lies , disdain'd in the reporting .
24836
24837 Prithee , speak ;
24838 Falseness cannot come from thee , for thou look'st
24839 Modest as justice , and thou seem'st a palace
24840 For the crown'd truth to dwell in . I believe thee ,
24841 And make my senses credit thy relation
24842 To points that seem impossible ; for thou lookest
24843 Like one I lov'd indeed . What were thy friends ?
24844 Didst thou not say when I did push thee back ,
24845 Which was when I perceiv'd thee ,that thou cam'st
24846 From good descending ?
24847
24848 So indeed I did .
24849
24850 Report thy parentage . I think thou saidst
24851 Thou hadst been toss'd from wrong to injury ,
24852 And that thou thought'st thy griefs might equal mine ,
24853 If both were open'd .
24854
24855 Some such thing
24856 I said , and said no more but what my thoughts
24857 Did warrant me was likely .
24858
24859 Tell thy story ;
24860 If thine consider'd prove the thousandth part
24861 Of my endurance , thou art a man , and I
24862 Have suffer'd like a girl ; yet thou dost look
24863 Like Patience gazing on kings' graves , and smiling
24864 Extremity out of act . What were thy friends ?
24865 How lost thou them ? Thy name , my most kind virgin ?
24866 Recount , I do beseech thee . Come , sit by me .
24867
24868 My name is Marina .
24869
24870 O ! I am mock'd ,
24871 And thou by some incensed god sent hither
24872 To make the world to laugh at me .
24873
24874 Patience , good sir ,
24875 Or here I'll cease .
24876
24877 Nay , I'll be patient .
24878 Thou little know'st how thou dost startle me ,
24879 To call thyself Marina .
24880
24881 The name
24882 Was given me by one that had some power ;
24883 My father , and a king .
24884
24885 How ! a king's daughter ?
24886 And call'd Marina ?
24887
24888 You said you would believe me ;
24889 But , not to be a troubler of your peace ,
24890 I will end here .
24891
24892 But are you flesh and blood ?
24893 Have you a working pulse ? and are no fairy ?
24894 Motion !Well ; speak on . Where were you born ?
24895 And wherefore call'd Marina ?
24896
24897 Call'd Marina
24898 For I was born at sea .
24899
24900 At sea ! what mother ?
24901
24902 My mother was the daughter of a king ;
24903 Who died the minute I was born ,
24904 As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft
24905 Deliver'd weeping .
24906
24907 O ! stop there a little .
24908 This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep
24909 Did mock sad fools withal ; this cannot be .
24910 My daughter's buried . Well ; where were you bred ?
24911 I'll hear you more , to the bottom of your story ,
24912 And never interrupt you .
24913
24914 You'll scorn to believe me ; 'twere best I did give o'er .
24915
24916 I will believe you by the syllable
24917 Of what you shall deliver . Yet , give me leave :
24918 How came you in these parts ? where were you bred ?
24919
24920 The king my father did in Tarsus leave me ,
24921 Till cruel Cleon , with his wicked wife ,
24922 Did seek to murder me ; and having woo'd
24923 A villain to attempt it , who having drawn to do 't ,
24924 A crew of pirates came and rescu'd me ;
24925 Brought me to Mitylene . But , good sir ,
24926 Whither will you have me ? Why do you weep ? It may be
24927 You think me an impostor ; no , good faith ;
24928 I am the daughter to King Pericles ,
24929 If good King Pericles be .
24930
24931 Ho , Helicanus !
24932
24933 Calls my lord ?
24934
24935 Thou art a grave and noble counsellor ,
24936 Most wise in general ; tell me , if thou canst ,
24937 What this maid is , or what is like to be ,
24938 That thus hath made me weep ?
24939
24940 I know not ; but
24941 Here is the regent , sir , of Mitylene ,
24942 Speaks nobly of her .
24943
24944 She never would tell
24945 Her parentage ; being demanded that ,
24946 She would sit still and weep .
24947
24948 O Helicanus ! strike me , honour'd sir ;
24949 Give me a gash , put me to present pain ,
24950 Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me
24951 O'erbear the shores of my mortality ,
24952 And drown me with their sweetness . O ! come hither ,
24953 Thou that begett'st him that did thee beget ;
24954 Thou that wast born at sea , buried at Tarsus ,
24955 And found at sea again . O Helicanus !
24956 Down on thy knees , thank the holy gods as loud
24957 As thunder threatens us ; this is Marina .
24958 What was thy mother's name ? tell me but that ,
24959 For truth can never be confirm'd enough ,
24960 Though doubts did ever sleep .
24961
24962 First , sir , I pray ,
24963 What is your title ?
24964
24965 I am Pericles of Tyre : but tell me now
24966 My drown'd queen's name , as in the rest you said
24967 Thou hast been god-like perfect ;
24968 Thou'rt heir of kingdoms , and another life
24969 To Pericles thy father .
24970
24971 Is it no more to be your daughter than
24972 To say my mother's name was Thaisa ?
24973 Thaisa was my mother , who did end
24974 The minute I began .
24975
24976 Now , blessing on thee ! rise ; thou art my child ,
24977 Give me fresh garments . Mine own , Helicanus ;
24978 She is not dead at Tarsus , as she should have been ,
24979 By savage Cleon ; she shall tell thee all ;
24980 When thou shalt kneel , and justify in knowledge
24981 She is thy very princess . Who is this ?
24982
24983 Sir , 'tis the governor of Mitylene ,
24984 Who , hearing of your melancholy state ,
24985 Did come to see you .
24986
24987 I embrace you .
24988 Give me my robes . I am wild in my beholding .
24989 O heavens ! bless my girl . But , hark ! what music ?
24990 Tell Helicanus , my Marina , tell him
24991 O'er , point by point , for yet he seems to doubt ,
24992 How sure you are my daughter . But , what music ?
24993
24994 My lord , I hear none .
24995
24996 None !
24997 The music of the spheres ! List , my Marina .
24998
24999 It is not good to cross him ; give him way .
25000
25001 Rarest sounds ! Do ye not hear ?
25002
25003 My lord , I hear .
25004
25005
25006 Most heavenly music :
25007 It nips me unto list'ning , and thick slumber
25008 Hangs upon mine eyes ; let me rest .
25009
25010
25011 A pillow for his head .
25012 So , leave him all . Well , my companion friends ,
25013 If this but answer to my just belief ,
25014 I'll well remember you .
25015
25016 My temple stands in Ephesus ; hie thee thither ,
25017 And do upon mine altar sacrifice .
25018 There , when my maiden priests are met together ,
25019 Before the people all ,
25020 Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife ;
25021 To mourn thy crosses , with thy daughter's , call
25022 And give them repetition to the life .
25023 Perform my bidding , or thou liv'st in woe ;
25024 Do it , and happy ; by my silver bow !
25025 Awake , and tell thy dream !
25026
25027
25028 Celestial Dian , goddess argentine ,
25029 I will obey thee ! Helicanus !
25030
25031
25032 Sir ?
25033
25034 My purpose was for Tarsus , there to strike
25035 The inhospitable Cleon : but I am
25036 For other service first : toward Ephesus
25037 Turn our blown sails ; eftsoons I'll tell thee why .
25038
25039
25040 Shall we refresh us , sir , upon your shore ,
25041 And give you gold for such provision
25042 As our intents will need ?
25043
25044 Sir ,
25045 With all my heart ; and when you come ashore ,
25046 I have another suit .
25047
25048 You shall prevail ,
25049 Were it to woo my daughter ; for it seems
25050 You have been noble towards her .
25051
25052 Sir , lend me your arm .
25053
25054 Come , my Marina .
25055
25056
25057 Now our sands are almost run ;
25058 More a little , and then dumb .
25059 This , my last boon , give me ,
25060 For such kindness must relieve me ,
25061 That you aptly will suppose
25062 What pageantry , what feats , what shows ,
25063 What minstrelsy , and pretty din ,
25064 The regent made in Mitylen
25065 To greet the king . So he thriv'd ,
25066 That he is promis'd to be wiv'd
25067 To fair Marina ; but in no wise
25068 Till he had done his sacrifice ,
25069 As Dian bade : whereto being bound ,
25070 The interim , pray you , all confound .
25071 In feather'd briefness sails are fill'd ,
25072 And wishes fall out as they're will'd .
25073 At Ephesus , the temple see ,
25074 Our king and all his company .
25075 That he can hither come so soon ,
25076 Is by your fancy's thankful doom .
25077
25078 Hail , Dian ! to perform thy just command ,
25079 I here confess myself the King of Tyre ;
25080 Who , frighted from my country , did wed
25081 At Pentapolis the fair Thaisa .
25082 At sea in childbed died she , but brought forth
25083 A maid-child call'd Marina ; who , O goddess !
25084 Wears yet thy silver livery . She at Tarsus
25085 Was nurs'd with Cleon , whom at fourteen years
25086 He sought to murder ; but her better stars
25087 Brought her to Mitylene , 'gainst whose shore
25088 Riding , her fortunes brought the maid aboard us ,
25089 Where , by her own most clear remembrance , she
25090 Made known herself my daughter .
25091
25092 Voice and favour !
25093 You are , you are O royal Pericles !
25094
25095
25096 What means the nun ? she dies ! help , gentlemen !
25097
25098 Noble sir ,
25099 If you have told Diana's altar true ,
25100 This is your wife .
25101
25102 Reverend appearer , no ;
25103 I threw her o'erboard with these very arms .
25104
25105 Upon this coast , I warrant you .
25106
25107 'Tis most certain .
25108
25109 Look to the lady . O ! she's but o'erjoy'd .
25110 Early in blustering morn this lady was
25111 Thrown upon this shore . I op'd the coffin ,
25112 Found there rich jewels ; recover'd her , and plac'd her
25113 Here in Diana's temple .
25114
25115 May we see them ?
25116
25117 Great sir , they shall be brought you to my house ,
25118 Whither I invite you . Look ! Thaisa is
25119 Recovered .
25120
25121 O ! let me look !
25122 If he be none of mine , my sanctity
25123 Will to my sense bend no licentious ear ,
25124 But curb it , spite of seeing . O ! my lord ,
25125 Are you not Pericles ? Like him you speak ,
25126 Like him you are . Did you not name a tempest ,
25127 A birth , and death ?
25128
25129 The voice of dead Thaisa !
25130
25131 That Thaisa am I , supposed dead
25132 And drown'd .
25133
25134 Immortal Dian !
25135
25136 Now I know you better .
25137 When we with tears parted Pentapolis ,
25138 The king my father gave you such a ring .
25139
25140
25141 This , this : no more , you gods ! your present kindness
25142 Makes my past miseries sport : you shall do well ,
25143 That on the touching of her lips I may
25144 Melt and no more be seen . O ! come , be buried
25145 A second time within these arms .
25146
25147 My heart
25148 Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom .
25149
25150
25151 Look , who kneels here ! Flesh of thy flesh , Thaisa ;
25152 Thy burden at the sea , and call'd Marina ,
25153 For she was yielded there .
25154
25155 Bless'd , and mine own !
25156
25157 Hail , madam , and my queen !
25158
25159 I know you not .
25160
25161 You have heard me say , when I did fly from Tyre ,
25162 I left behind an ancient substitute ;
25163 Can you remember what I call'd the man ?
25164 I have nam'd him oft .
25165
25166 'Twas Helicanus then .
25167
25168 Still confirmation !
25169 Embrace him , dear Thaisa ; this is he .
25170 Now do I long to hear how you were found ,
25171 How possibly preserv'd , and whom to thank ,
25172 Besides the gods , for this great miracle .
25173
25174 Lord Cerimon , my lord ; this man ,
25175 Through whom the gods have shown their power ; that can
25176 From first to last resolve you .
25177
25178 Reverend sir ,
25179 The gods can have no mortal officer
25180 More like a god than you . Will you deliver
25181 How this dead queen re-lives ?
25182
25183 I will , my lord .
25184 Beseech you , first go with me to my house .
25185 Where shall be shown you all was found with her ;
25186 How she came placed here in the temple ;
25187 No needful thing omitted .
25188
25189 Pure Dian ! bless thee for thy vision ; I
25190 Will offer night-oblations to thee . Thaisa ,
25191 This prince , the fair-betrothed of your daughter ,
25192 Shall marry her at Pentapolis . And now
25193 This ornament
25194 Makes me look dismal will I clip to form ;
25195 And what this fourteen years no rasor touch'd ,
25196 To grace thy marriage-day I'll beautify .
25197
25198 Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit , sir ,
25199 My father's dead .
25200
25201 Heavens make a star of him ! Yet there , my queen ,
25202 We'll celebrate their nuptials , and ourselves
25203 Will in that kingdom spend our following days ;
25204 Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign .
25205 Lord Cerimon , we do our longing stay
25206 To hear the rest untold . Sir , lead's the way .
25207
25208 In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard
25209 Of monstrous lust the due and just reward :
25210 In Pericles , his queen , and daughter , seen
25211 Although assail'd with fortune fierce and keen
25212 Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast ,
25213 Led on by heaven , and crown'd with joy at last .
25214 In Helicanus may you well descry
25215 A figure of truth , of faith , of loyalty .
25216 In reverend Cerimon there well appears
25217 The worth that learned charity aye wears .
25218 For wicked Cleon and his wife , when fame
25219 Had spread their cursed deed , and honour'd name
25220 Of Pericles , to rage the city turn ,
25221 That him and his they in his palace burn :
25222 The gods for murder seemed so content
25223 To punish them ; although not done , but meant .
25224 So on your patience evermore attending ,
25225 New joy wait on you ! Here our play hath ending .
25226
25227 THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
25228
25229 Proceed , Solinus , to procure my fall ,
25230 And by the doom of death end woes and all .
25231
25232 Merchant of Syracusa , plead no more .
25233 I am not partial to infringe our laws :
25234 The enmity and discord which of late
25235 Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke
25236 To merchants , our well-dealing countrymen ,
25237 Who , wanting guilders to redeem their lives ,
25238 Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods ,
25239 Excludes all pity from our threat'ning looks .
25240 For , since the mortal and intestine jars
25241 'Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us ,
25242 It hath in solemn synods been decreed ,
25243 Both by the Syracusians and ourselves ,
25244 T' admit no traffic to our adverse towns :
25245 Nay , more , if any , born at Ephesus
25246 Be seen at Syracusian marts and fairs ;
25247 Again , if any Syracusian born
25248 Come to the bay of Ephesus , he dies ,
25249 His goods confiscate to the duke's dispose ;
25250 Unless a thousand marks be levied ,
25251 To quit the penalty and to ransom him .
25252 Thy substance , valu'd at the highest rate ,
25253 Cannot amount unto a hundred marks ;
25254 Therefore , by law thou art condemn'd to die .
25255
25256 Yet this my comfort : when your words are done ,
25257 My woes end likewise with the evening sun .
25258
25259 Well , Syracusian ; say , in brief the cause
25260 Why thou departedst from thy native home ,
25261 And for what cause thou cam'st to Ephesus .
25262
25263 A heavier task could not have been impos'd
25264 Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable ;
25265 Yet , that the world may witness that my end
25266 Was wrought by nature , not by vile offence ,
25267 I'll utter what my sorrow gives me leave .
25268 In Syracusa was I born , and wed
25269 Unto a woman , happy but for me ,
25270 And by me too , had not our hap been bad .
25271 With her I liv'd in joy : our wealth increas'd
25272 By prosperous voyages I often made
25273 To Epidamnum ; till my factor's death ,
25274 And the great care of goods at random left ,
25275 Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse :
25276 From whom my absence was not six months old ,
25277 Before herself ,almost at fainting under
25278 The pleasing punishment that women bear ,
25279 Had made provision for her following me ,
25280 And soon and safe arrived where I was .
25281 There had she not been long but she became
25282 A joyful mother of two goodly sons ;
25283 And , which was strange , the one so like the other ,
25284 As could not be distinguish'd but by names .
25285 That very hour , and in the self-same inn ,
25286 A meaner woman was delivered
25287 Of such a burden , male twins , both alike .
25288 Those ,for their parents were exceeding poor ,
25289 I bought , and brought up to attend my sons .
25290 My wife , not meanly proud of two such boys ,
25291 Made daily motions for our home return :
25292 Unwilling I agreed ; alas ! too soon
25293 We came aboard .
25294 A league from Epidamnum had we sail'd ,
25295 Before the always-wind-obeying deep
25296 Gave any tragic instance of our harm :
25297 But longer did we not retain much hope ;
25298 For what obscured light the heavens did grant
25299 Did but convey unto our fearful minds
25300 A doubtful warrant of immediate death ;
25301 Which , though myself would gladly have embrac'd ,
25302 Yet the incessant weepings of my wife ,
25303 Weeping before for what she saw must come ,
25304 And piteous plainings of the pretty babes ,
25305 That mourn'd for fashion , ignorant what to fear ,
25306 Forc'd me to seek delays for them and me .
25307 And this it was , for other means was none :
25308 The sailors sought for safety by our boat ,
25309 And left the ship , then sinking-ripe , to us :
25310 My wife , more careful for the latter-born ,
25311 Had fasten'd him unto a small spare mast ,
25312 Such as seafaring men provide for storms ;
25313 To him one of the other twins was bound ,
25314 Whilst I had been like heedful of the other .
25315 The children thus dispos'd , my wife and I ,
25316 Fixing our eyes on whom our care was fix'd ,
25317 Fasten'd ourselves at either end the mast ;
25318 And floating straight , obedient to the stream ,
25319 Were carried towards Corinth , as we thought .
25320 At length the sun , gazing upon the earth ,
25321 Dispers'd those vapours that offended us ,
25322 And , by the benefit of his wished light
25323 The seas wax'd calm , and we discovered
25324 Two ships from far making amain to us ;
25325 Of Corinth that , of Epidaurus this :
25326 But ere they came ,O ! let me say no more ;
25327 Gather the sequel by that went before .
25328
25329 Nay , forward , old man ; do not break off so ;
25330 For we may pity , though not pardon thee .
25331
25332 O ! had the gods done so , I had not now
25333 Worthily term'd them merciless to us !
25334 For , ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues ,
25335 We were encounter'd by a mighty rock ;
25336 Which being violently borne upon ,
25337 Our helpful ship was splitted in the midst ;
25338 So that , in this unjust divorce of us
25339 Fortune had left to both of us alike
25340 What to delight in , what to sorrow for .
25341 Her part , poor soul ! seeming as burdened
25342 With lesser weight , but not with lesser woe ,
25343 Was carried with more speed before the wind ,
25344 And in our sight they three were taken up
25345 By fishermen of Corinth , as we thought .
25346 At length , another ship had seiz'd on us ;
25347 And , knowing whom it was their hap to save ,
25348 Gave healthful welcome to their ship-wrack'd guests ;
25349 And would have reft the fishers of their prey ,
25350 Had not their bark been very slow of sail ;
25351 And therefore homeward did they bend their course .
25352 Thus have you heard me sever'd from my bliss ,
25353 That by misfortune was my life prolong'd ,
25354 To tell sad stories of my own mishaps .
25355
25356 And , for the sake of them thou sorrowest for ,
25357 Do me the favour to dilate at full
25358 What hath befall'n of them and thee till now .
25359
25360 My youngest boy , and yet my eldest care ,
25361 At eighteen years became inquisitive
25362 After his brother ; and importun'd me
25363 That his attendant for his case was like ,
25364 Reft of his brother , but retain'd his name
25365 Might bear him company in the quest of him ;
25366 Whom whilst I labour'd of a love to see ,
25367 I hazarded the loss of whom I lov'd .
25368 Five summers have I spent in furthest Greece ,
25369 Roaming clean through the bounds of Asia ,
25370 And , coasting homeward , came to Ephesus ,
25371 Hopeless to find , yet loath to leave unsought
25372 Or that or any place that harbours men .
25373 But here must end the story of my life ;
25374 And happy were I in my timely death ,
25375 Could all my travels warrant me they live .
25376
25377 Hapless geon , whom the fates have mark'd
25378 To bear the extremity of dire mishap !
25379 Now , trust me , were it not against our laws ,
25380 Against my crown , my oath , my dignity ,
25381 Which princes , would they , may not disannul ,
25382 My soul should sue as advocate for thee .
25383 But though thou art adjudged to the death
25384 And passed sentence may not be recall'd
25385 But to our honour's great disparagement ,
25386 Yet will I favour thee in what I can :
25387 Therefore , merchant , I'll limit thee this day
25388 To seek thy life by beneficial help .
25389 Try all the friends thou hast in Ephesus ;
25390 Beg thou , or borrow , to make up the sum ,
25391 And live ; if no , then thou art doom'd to die .
25392 Gaoler , take him to thy custody .
25393
25394 I will , my lord .
25395
25396 Hopeless and helpless doth geon wend ,
25397 But to procrastinate his lifeless end .
25398
25399
25400 Therefore , give out you are of Epidamnum ,
25401 Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate .
25402 This very day , a Syracusian merchant
25403 Is apprehended for arrival here ;
25404 And , not being able to buy out his life ,
25405 According to the statute of the town
25406 Dies ere the weary sun set in the west .
25407 There is your money that I had to keep .
25408
25409 Go bear it to the Centaur , where we host ,
25410 And stay there , Dromio , till I come to thee .
25411 Within this hour it will be dinner-time :
25412 Till that , I'll view the manners of the town ,
25413 Peruse the traders , gaze upon the buildings ,
25414 And then return and sleep within mine inn ,
25415 For with long travel I am stiff and weary .
25416 Get thee away .
25417
25418 Many a man would take you at your word ,
25419 And go indeed , having so good a mean .
25420
25421
25422 A trusty villain , sir , that very oft ,
25423 When I am dull with care and melancholy ,
25424 Lightens my humour with his merry jests .
25425 What , will you walk with me about the town ,
25426 And then go to my inn and dine with me ?
25427
25428 I am invited , sir , to certain merchants ,
25429 Of whom I hope to make much benefit ;
25430 I crave your pardon . Soon at five o'clock ,
25431 Please you , I'll meet with you upon the mart ,
25432 And afterward consort you till bed-time :
25433 My present business calls me from you now .
25434
25435 Farewell till then : I will go lose myself ,
25436 And wander up and down to view the city .
25437
25438 Sir , I commend you to your own content .
25439
25440
25441 He that commends me to mine own content ,
25442 Commends me to the thing I cannot get .
25443 I to the world am like a drop of water
25444 That in the ocean seeks another drop ;
25445 Who , falling there to find his fellow forth ,
25446 Unseen , inquisitive , confounds himself :
25447 So I , to find a mother and a brother ,
25448 In quest of them , unhappy , lose myself .
25449
25450
25451 Here comes the almanack of my true date .
25452
25453 What now ? How chance thou art return'd so soon ?
25454
25455 Return'd so soon ! rather approach'd too late :
25456 The capon burns , the pig falls from the spit ,
25457 The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell ;
25458 My mistress made it one upon my cheek :
25459 She is so hot because the meat is cold ;
25460 The meat is cold because you come not home ;
25461 You come not home because you have no stomach ;
25462 You have no stomach , having broke your fast ;
25463 But we , that know what 'tis to fast and pray ,
25464 Are penitent for your default to-day .
25465
25466 Stop in your wind , sir : tell me this , I pray :
25467 Where have you left the money that I gave you ?
25468
25469 O !sixpence , that I had o' Wednesday last
25470 To pay the saddler for my mistress' crupper ;
25471 The saddler had it , sir ; I kept it not .
25472
25473 I am not in a sportive humour now .
25474 Tell me , and dally not , where is the money ?
25475 We being strangers here , how dar'st thou trust
25476 So great a charge from thine own custody ?
25477
25478 I pray you , jest , sir , as you sit at dinner .
25479 I from my mistress come to you in post ;
25480 If I return , I shall be post indeed ,
25481 For she will score your fault upon my pate .
25482 Methinks your maw , like mine , should be your clock
25483 And strike you home without a messenger .
25484
25485 Come , Dromio , come ; these jests are out of season ;
25486 Reserve them till a merrier hour than this .
25487 Where is the gold I gave in charge to thee ?
25488
25489 To me , sir ? why , you gave no gold to me .
25490
25491 Come on , sir knave , have done your foolishness ,
25492 And tell me how thou hast dispos'd thy charge .
25493
25494 My charge was but to fetch you from the mart
25495 Home to your house , the Ph nix , sir , to dinner :
25496 My mistress and her sister stays for you .
25497
25498 Now , as I am a Christian , answer me ,
25499 In what safe place you have bestow'd my money ;
25500 Or I shall break that merry sconce of yours
25501 That stands on tricks when I am undispos'd .
25502 Where is the thousand marks thou hadst of me ?
25503
25504 I have some marks of yours upon my pate ,
25505 Some of my mistress' marks upon my shoulders ,
25506 But not a thousand marks between you both .
25507 If I should pay your worship those again ,
25508 Perchance you will not bear them patiently .
25509
25510 Thy mistress' marks ! what mistress , slave , hast thou ?
25511
25512 Your worship's wife , my mistress at the Ph nix ;
25513 She that doth fast till you come home to dinner ,
25514 And prays that you will hie you home to dinner .
25515
25516 What ! wilt thou flout me thus unto my face ,
25517 Being forbid ? There , take you that , sir knave .
25518
25519
25520 What mean you , sir ? for God's sake , hold your hands !
25521 Nay , an you will not , sir , I'll take my heels .
25522
25523
25524 Upon my life , by some device or other
25525 The villain is o'er-raught of all my money .
25526 They say this town is full of cozenage ;
25527 As , nimble jugglers that deceive the eye ,
25528 Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind ,
25529 Soul-killing witches that deform the body ,
25530 Disguised cheaters , prating mountebanks ,
25531 And many such-like liberties of sin :
25532 If it prove so , I will be gone the sooner .
25533 I'll to the Centaur , to go seek this slave :
25534 I greatly fear my money is not safe .
25535
25536 Neither my husband , nor the slave return'd ,
25537 That in such haste I sent to seek his master !
25538 Sure , Luciana , it is two o'clock .
25539
25540 Perhaps some merchant hath invited him ,
25541 And from the mart he's somewhere gone to dinner .
25542 Good sister , let us dine and never fret :
25543 A man is master of his liberty :
25544 Time is their master , and , when they see time ,
25545 They'll go or come : if so , be patient , sister .
25546
25547 Why should their liberty than ours be more ?
25548
25549 Because their business still lies out o' door .
25550
25551 Look , when I serve him so , he takes it ill .
25552
25553 O ! know he is the bridle of your will .
25554
25555 There's none but asses will be bridled so .
25556
25557 Why , headstrong liberty is lash'd with woe .
25558 There's nothing situate under heaven's eye
25559 But hath his bound , in earth , in sea , in sky :
25560 The beasts , the fishes , and the winged fowls ,
25561 Are their males' subjects and at their controls .
25562 Men , more divine , the masters of all these ,
25563 Lords of the wide world , and wild wat'ry seas ,
25564 Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls ,
25565 Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls ,
25566 Are masters to their females and their lords :
25567 Then , let your will attend on their accords .
25568
25569 This servitude makes you to keep unwed .
25570
25571 Not this , but troubles of the marriage-bed .
25572
25573 But , were you wedded , you would bear some sway .
25574
25575 Ere I learn love , I'll practise to obey .
25576
25577 How if your husband start some other where ?
25578
25579 Till he come home again , I would forbear .
25580
25581 Patience unmov'd ! no marvel though she pause ;
25582 They can be meek that have no other cause .
25583 A wretched soul , bruis'd with adversity ,
25584 We bid be quiet when we hear it cry ;
25585 But were we burden'd with like weight of pain ,
25586 As much , or more we should ourselves complain :
25587 So thou , that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee ,
25588 With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me :
25589 But if thou live to see like right bereft .
25590 This fool-begg'd patience in thee will be left .
25591
25592 Well , I will marry one day , but to try .
25593 Here comes your man : now is your husband nigh .
25594
25595
25596 Say , is your tardy master now at hand ?
25597
25598 Nay , he's at two hands with me , and that my two ears can witness .
25599
25600 Say , didst thou speak with him ? Know'st thou his mind ?
25601
25602 Ay , ay , he told his mind upon mine ear .
25603 Beshrew his hand , I scarce could understand it .
25604
25605 Spake he so doubtfully , thou couldst not feel his meaning ?
25606
25607 Nay , he struck so plainly , I could too well feel his blows ; and withal so doubtfully , that I could scarce understand them .
25608
25609 But say , I prithee , is he coming home ?
25610 It seems he hath great care to please his wife .
25611
25612 Why , mistress , sure my master is horn-mad .
25613
25614 Horn-mad , thou villain !
25615
25616 I mean not cuckold-mad ; but , sure , he is stark mad .
25617 When I desir'd him to come home to dinner ,
25618 He ask'd me for a thousand marks in gold :
25619 ''Tis dinner time ,' quoth I ; 'my gold !' quoth he :
25620 'Your meat doth burn ,' quoth I ; 'my gold !' quoth he :
25621 'Will you come home ?' quoth I : 'my gold !' quoth he :
25622 'Where is the thousand marks I gave thee , villain ?'
25623 'The pig ,' quoth I , 'is burn'd ;' 'my gold !' quoth he :
25624 'My mistress , sir ,' quoth I : 'hang up thy mistress !
25625 I know not thy mistress : out on thy mistress !'
25626
25627 Quoth who ?
25628
25629 Quoth my master :
25630 'I know ,' quoth he , 'no house , no wife , no mistress .'
25631 So that my errand , due unto my tongue ,
25632 I thank him , I bear home upon my shoulders ;
25633 For , in conclusion , he did beat me there .
25634
25635 Go back again , thou slave , and fetch him home .
25636
25637 Go back again , and be new beaten home ?
25638 For God's sake , send some other messenger .
25639
25640 Back , slave , or I will break thy pate across .
25641
25642 And he will bless that cross with other beating :
25643 Between you , I shall have a holy head .
25644
25645 Hence , prating peasant ! fetch thy master home .
25646
25647 Am I so round with you as you with me ,
25648 That like a football you do spurn me thus ?
25649 You spurn me hence , and he will spurn me hither :
25650 If I last in this service , you must case me in leather .
25651
25652
25653 Fie , how impatience loureth in your face !
25654
25655 His company must do his minions grace ,
25656 Whilst I at home starve for a merry look .
25657 Hath homely age the alluring beauty took
25658 From my poor cheek ? then , he hath wasted it :
25659 Are my discourses dull ? barren my wit ?
25660 If voluble and sharp discourse be marr'd ,
25661 Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard :
25662 Do their gay vestments his affections bait ?
25663 That's not my fault ; he's master of my state :
25664 What ruins are in me that can be found
25665 By him not ruin'd ? then is he the ground
25666 Of my defeatures . My decayed fair
25667 A sunny look of his would soon repair ;
25668 But , too unruly deer , he breaks the pale
25669 And feeds from home : poor I am but his stale .
25670
25671 Self-harming jealousy ! fie ! beat it hence .
25672
25673 Unfeeling fools can with such wrengs dispense .
25674 I know his eye doth homage otherwhere ,
25675 Or else what lets it but he would be here ?
25676 Sister , you know he promis'd me a chain :
25677 Would that alone , alone he would detain ,
25678 So he would keep fair quarter with his bed !
25679 I see , the jewel best enamelled
25680 Will lose his beauty ; and though gold bides still
25681 That others touch , yet often touching will
25682 Wear gold ; and no man that hath a name ,
25683 By falsehood and corruption doth it shame .
25684 Since that my beauty cannot please his eye ,
25685 I'll weep what's left away , and weeping die .
25686
25687 How many fond fools serve mad jealousy !
25688
25689
25690 The gold I gave to Dromio is laid up
25691 Safe at the Centaur ; and the heedful slave
25692 Is wander'd forth , in care to seek me out .
25693 By computation , and mine host's report ,
25694 I could not speak with Dromio since at first
25695 I sent him from the mart . See , here he comes .
25696
25697
25698 How now , sir ! is your merry humour alter'd ?
25699 As you love strokes , so jest with me again .
25700 You know no Centaur ? You receiv'd no gold ?
25701 Your mistress sent to have me home to dinner ?
25702 My house was at the Ph nix ? Wast thou mad ,
25703
25704 That thus so madly thou didst answer me ?
25705
25706 What answer , sir ? when spake I such a word ?
25707
25708 Even now , even here , not half-an-hour since .
25709
25710 I did not see you since you sent me hence ,
25711 Home to the Centaur , with the gold you gave me .
25712
25713 Villain , thou didst deny the gold's receipt ,
25714 And told'st me of a mistress and a dinner ;
25715 For which , I hope , thou felt'st I was displeas'd .
25716
25717 I am glad to see you in this merry vein :
25718 What means this jest ? I pray you , master , tell me .
25719
25720 Yea , dost thou jeer , and flout me in the teeth ?
25721 Think'st thou I jest ? Hold , take thou that , and that .
25722
25723
25724 Hold , sir , for God's sake ! now your jest is earnest .
25725 Upon what bargain do you give it me ?
25726
25727 Because that I familiarly sometimes
25728 Do use you for my fool , and chat with you ,
25729 Your sauciness will jest upon my love ,
25730 And make a common of my serious hours .
25731 When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport ,
25732 But creep in crannies when he hides his beams .
25733 If you will jest with me , know my aspect ,
25734 And fashion your demeanour to my looks ,
25735 Or I will beat this method in your sconce .
25736
25737 Sconce , call you it ? so you would leave battering , I had rather have it a head : an you use these blows long , I must get a sconce for my head and insconce it too ; or else I shall seek my wit in my shoulders . But , I pray , sir , why am I beaten ?
25738
25739 Dost thou not know ?
25740
25741 Nothing , sir , but that I am beaten .
25742
25743 Shall I tell you why ?
25744
25745 Ay , sir , and wherefore ; for they say every why hath a wherefore .
25746
25747 Why , first ,for flouting me ; and then , wherefore ,
25748 For urging it the second time to me .
25749
25750 Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season ,
25751 When , in the why and the wherefore is neither rime nor reason ?
25752 Well , sir , I thank you .
25753
25754 Thank me , sir ! for what ?
25755
25756 Marry , sir , for this something that you gave me for nothing .
25757
25758 I'll make you amends next , to give you nothing for something . But say , sir , is it dinner-time ?
25759
25760 No , sir : I think the meat wants that I have
25761
25762 In good time , sir ; what's that ?
25763
25764 Basting .
25765
25766 Well , sir , then 'twill be dry .
25767
25768 If it be , sir , I pray you eat none of it .
25769
25770 Your reason ?
25771
25772 Lest it make you choleric , and purchase me another dry basting .
25773
25774 Well , sir , learn to jest in good time : there's a time for all things .
25775
25776 I durst have denied that , before you were so choleric .
25777
25778 By what rule , sir ?
25779
25780 Marry , sir , by a rule as plain as the plain bald pate of Father Time himself .
25781
25782 Let's hear it .
25783
25784 There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature .
25785
25786 May he not do it by fine and recovery ?
25787
25788 Yes , to pay a fine for a periwig and recover the lost hair of another man .
25789
25790 Why is Time such a niggard of hair , being , as it is , so plentiful an excrement ?
25791
25792 Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts : and what he hath scanted men in hair , he hath given them in wit .
25793
25794 Why , but there's many a man hath more hair than wit .
25795
25796 Not a man of those but he hath the wit to lose his hair .
25797
25798 Why , thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit .
25799
25800 The plainer dealer , the sooner lost : yet be loseth it in a kind of jollity .
25801
25802 For what reason ?
25803
25804 For two ; and sound ones too .
25805
25806 Nay , not sound , I pray you .
25807
25808 Sure ones then .
25809
25810 Nay , not sure , in a thing falsing .
25811
25812 Certain ones , then .
25813
25814 Name them .
25815
25816 The one , to save the money that he spends in tiring ; the other , that at dinner they should not drop in his porridge .
25817
25818 You would all this time have proved there is no time for all things .
25819
25820 Marry , and did , sir ; namely , no time to recover hair lost by nature .
25821
25822 But your reason was not substantial , why there is not time to recover .
25823
25824 Thus I mend it : Time himself is bald , and therefore to the world's end will have bald followers .
25825
25826 I knew 'twould be a bald conclusion .
25827 But soft ! who wafts us yonder ?
25828
25829
25830 Ay , ay , Antipholus , look strange , and frown :
25831 Some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects ,
25832 I am not Adriana , nor thy wife .
25833 The time was once when thou unurg'd wouldst vow
25834 That never words were music to thine ear ,
25835 That never object pleasing in thine eye ,
25836 That never touch well welcome to thy hand ,
25837 That never meat sweet-savour'd in thy taste ,
25838 Unless I spake , or look'd , or touch'd , or carv'd to thee .
25839 How comes it now , my husband , O ! how comes it ,
25840 That thou art thus estranged from thyself ?
25841 Thyself I call it , being strange to me ,
25842 That , undividable , incorporate ,
25843 Am better than thy dear self's better part .
25844 Ah ! do not tear away thyself from me ,
25845 For know , my love , as easy mayst thou fall
25846 A drop of water in the breaking gulf ,
25847 And take unmingled thence that drop again ,
25848 Without addition or diminishing ,
25849 As take from me thyself and not me too .
25850 How dearly would it touch thee to the quick ,
25851 Shouldst thou but hear I were licentious ,
25852 And that this body , consecrate to thee ,
25853 By ruffian lust should be contaminate !
25854 Wouldst thou not spit at me and spurn at me ,
25855 And hurl the name of husband in my face ,
25856 And tear the stain'd skin off my harlot-brow ,
25857 And from my false hand cut the wedding-ring
25858 And break it with a deep-divorcing vow ?
25859 I know thou canst ; and therefore , see thou do it .
25860 I am possess'd with an adulterate blot ;
25861 My blood is mingled with the crime of lust :
25862 For if we two be one and thou play false ,
25863 I do digest the poison of thy flesh ,
25864 Being strumpeted by thy contagion .
25865 Keep then fair league and truce with thy true bed ;
25866 I live unstain'd , thou undishonoured .
25867
25868 Plead you to me , fair dame ? I know you not :
25869 In Ephesus I am but two hours old ,
25870 As strange unto your town as to your talk ;
25871 Who , every word by all my wit being scann'd ,
25872 Want wit in all one word to understand .
25873
25874 Fie , brother : how the world is chang'd with you !
25875 When were you wont to use my sister thus ?
25876 She sent for you by Dromio home to dinner .
25877
25878 By Dromio ?
25879
25880 By me ?
25881
25882 By thee ; and this thou didst return from him ,
25883 That he did buffet thee , and in his blows ,
25884 Denied my house for his , me for his wife .
25885
25886 Did you converse , sir , with this gentle-woman ?
25887 What is the course and drift of your compact ?
25888
25889 I , sir ? I never saw her till this time .
25890
25891 Villain , thou liest ; for even her very words
25892 Didst thou deliver to me on the mart .
25893
25894 I never spake with her in all my life .
25895
25896 How can she thus then , call us by our names ,
25897 Unless it be by inspiration ?
25898
25899 How ill agrees it with your gravity
25900 To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave ,
25901 A betting him to thwart me in my mood !
25902 Be it my wrong you are from me exempt ,
25903 But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt .
25904 Come , I will fasten on this sleeve of thine ;
25905 Thou art an elm , my husband , I a vine ,
25906 Whose weakness , married to thy stronger state ,
25907 Makes me with thy strength to communicate :
25908 If aught possess thee from me , it is dross ,
25909 Usurping ivy , brier , or idle moss ;
25910 Who , all for want of pruning , with intrusion
25911 Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion .
25912
25913 To me she speaks ; she moves me for her theme !
25914 What ! was I married to her in my dream ?
25915 Or sleep I now and think I hear all this ?
25916 What error drives our eyes and ears amiss ?
25917 Until I know this sure uncertainty ,
25918 I'll entertain the offer'd fallacy .
25919
25920 Dromio , go bid the servants spread for dinner
25921
25922 O , for my beads ! I cross me for a sinner .
25923 This is the fairy land : O ! spite of spites .
25924 We talk with goblins , owls , and elvish sprites :
25925 If we obey them not , this will ensue ,
25926 They'll suck our breath , or pinch us black and blue .
25927
25928 Why prat'st thou to thyself and answer'st not ?
25929 Dromio , thou drone , thou snail , thou slug , thou sot !
25930
25931 I am transformed , master , am not I ?
25932
25933 I think thou art , in mind , and so am I .
25934
25935 Nay , master , both in mind and in my shape .
25936
25937 Thou hast thine own form .
25938
25939 No , I am an ape .
25940
25941 If thou art chang'd to aught , 'tis to an ass .
25942
25943 'Tis true ; she rides me and I long for grass .
25944 'Tis so , I am an ass ; else it could never be
25945 But I should know her as well as she knows me .
25946
25947 Come , come ; no longer will I be a fool ,
25948 To put the finger in the eye and weep ,
25949 Whilst man and master laugh my woes to scorn .
25950 Come , sir , to dinner . Dromio , keep the gate .
25951 Husband , I'll dine above with you to-day ,
25952 And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks .
25953 Sirrah , if any ask you for your master ,
25954 Say he dines forth , and let no creature enter .
25955 Come , sister . Dromio , play the porter well .
25956
25957 Am I in earth , in heaven , or in hell ?
25958 Sleeping or waking ? mad or well-advis'd ?
25959 Known unto these , and to myself disguis'd !
25960 I'll say as they say , and persever so ,
25961 And in this mist at all adventures go .
25962
25963 Master , shall I be porter at the gate ?
25964
25965 Ay ; and let none enter , lest I break your pate .
25966
25967 Come , come , Antipholus ; we dine too late .
25968
25969 Good Signior Angelo , you must excuse us all ;
25970 My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours ;
25971 Say that I linger'd with you at your shop
25972 To see the making of her carkanet ,
25973 And that to-morrow you will bring it home .
25974 But here's a villain , that would face me down
25975 He met me on the mart , and that I beat him ,
25976 And charg'd him with a thousand marks in gold ,
25977 And that I did deny my wife and house .
25978 Thou drunkard , thou , what didst thou mean by this ?
25979
25980 Say what you will , sir , but I know what I know ;
25981 That you beat me at the mart , I have your hand to show :
25982 If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink ,
25983 Your own handwriting would tell you what I think .
25984
25985 I think thou art an ass .
25986
25987 Marry , so it doth appear
25988 By the wrongs I suffer and the blows I bear .
25989 I should kick , being kick'd ; and , being at that pass ,
25990 You would keep from my heels and beware of an ass .
25991
25992 You are sad , Signior Balthazar : pray God , our cheer
25993 May answer my good will and your good welcome here .
25994
25995 I hold your dainties cheap , sir , and your welcome dear .
25996
25997 O , Signior Balthazar , either at flesh or fish ,
25998 A table-full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish .
25999
26000 Good meat , sir , is common ; that every churl affords .
26001
26002 And welcome more common , for that's nothing but words .
26003
26004 Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast .
26005
26006 Ay , to a niggardly host and more sparing guest :
26007 But though my cates be mean , take them in good part ;
26008 Better cheer may you have , but not with better heart .
26009 But soft ! my door is lock'd . Go bid them let us in .
26010
26011 Maud , Bridget , Marian , Cicely , Gillian , Ginn !
26012
26013 Mome , malt-horse , capon , coxcomb , idiot , patch !
26014 Either get thee from the door or sit down at the hatch .
26015 Dost thou conjure for wenches , that thou call'st for such store ,
26016 When one is one too many ? Go , get thee from the door .
26017
26018 What patch is made our porter ?My master stays in the street .
26019
26020 Let him walk from whence he came , lest he catch cold on's feet .
26021
26022 Who talks within there ? ho ! open the door .
26023
26024 Right , sir ; I'll tell you when , an you'll tell me wherefore .
26025
26026 Wherefore ? for my dinner : I have not din'd to-day .
26027
26028 Nor to-day here you must not ; come again when you may .
26029
26030 What art thou that keep'st me out from the house I owe ?
26031
26032 The porter for this time , sir , and my name is Dromio .
26033
26034 O villain ! thou hast stolen both mine office and my name :
26035 The one ne'er got me credit , the other mickle blame .
26036 If thou hadst been Dromio to-day in my place ,
26037 Thou wouldst have chang'd thy face for a name , or thy name for an ass .
26038
26039 What a coil is there , Dromio ! who are those at the gate ?
26040
26041 Let my master in , Luce .
26042
26043 Faith , no ; he comes too late ;
26044 And so tell your master .
26045
26046 O Lord ! I must laugh .
26047 Have at you with a proverb : Shall I set in my staff ?
26048
26049 Have at you with another : that's when ? can you tell ?
26050
26051 If thy name be call'd Luce ,Luce , thou hast answer'd him well .
26052
26053 Do you hear , you minion ? you'll let us in , I trow ?
26054
26055 I thought to have ask'd you .
26056
26057 And you said , no .
26058
26059 So come , help : well struck ! there was blow for blow .
26060
26061 Thou baggage , let me in .
26062
26063 Can you tell for whose sake ?
26064
26065 Master , knock the door hard .
26066
26067 Let him knock till it ache .
26068
26069 You'll cry for this , minion , if I beat the door down .
26070
26071 What needs all that , and a pair of stocks in the town ?
26072
26073 Who is that at the door that keeps all this noise ?
26074
26075 By my troth your town is troubled with unruly boys .
26076
26077 Are you there , wife ? you might have come before .
26078
26079 Your wife , sir knave ! go , get you from the door .
26080
26081 If you went in pain , master , this 'knave' would go sore .
26082
26083 Here is neither cheer , sir , nor welcome : we would fain have either .
26084
26085 In debating which was best , we shall part with neither .
26086
26087 They stand at the door , master : bid them welcome hither .
26088
26089 There is something in the wind , that we cannot get in .
26090
26091 You would say so , master , if your garments were thin .
26092 Your cake here is warm within ; you stand here in the cold :
26093 It would make a man mad as a buck to be so bought and sold .
26094
26095 Go fetch me something : I'll break ope the gate .
26096
26097 Break any breaking here , and I'll break your knave's pate .
26098
26099 A man may break a word with you , sir , and words are but wind :
26100 Ay , and break it in your face , so he break it not behind .
26101
26102 It seems thou wantest breaking : out upon thee , hind !
26103
26104 Here's too much 'out upon thee !' I pray thee , let me in .
26105
26106 Ay , when fowls have no feathers , and fish have no fin .
26107
26108 Well , I'll break in . Go borrow me a crow .
26109
26110 A crow without feather ? Master , mean you so ?
26111 For a fish without a fin , there's a fowl without a feather :
26112 If a crow help us in , sirrah , we'll pluck a crow together .
26113
26114 Go get thee gone : fetch me an iron crow .
26115
26116 Have patience , sir ; O ! let it not be so ;
26117 Herein you war against your reputation ,
26118 And draw within the compass of suspect
26119 The unviolated honour of your wife .
26120 Once this ,your long experience of her wisdom ,
26121 Her sober virtue , years , and modesty ,
26122 Plead on her part some cause to you unknown ;
26123 And doubt not , sir , but she will well excuse
26124 Why at this time the doors are made against you .
26125 Be rul'd by me : depart in patience ,
26126 And let us to the Tiger all to dinner ;
26127 And about evening come yourself alone ,
26128 To know the reason of this strange restraint .
26129 If by strong hand you offer to break in
26130 Now in the stirring passage of the day ,
26131 A vulgar comment will be made of it ,
26132 And that supposed by the common rout
26133 Against your yet ungalled estimation ,
26134 That may with foul intrusion enter in
26135 And dwell upon your grave when you are dead ;
26136 For slander lives upon succession ,
26137 For ever housed where it gets possession .
26138
26139 You have prevail'd : I will depart in quiet ,
26140 And , in despite of mirth , mean to be merry .
26141 I know a wench of excellent discourse ,
26142 Pretty and witty , wild and yet , too , gentle :
26143 There will we dine : this woman that I mean ,
26144 My wife ,but , I protest , without desert ,
26145 Hath oftentimes upbraided me withal :
26146 To her will we to dinner .
26147
26148 Get you home ,
26149 And fetch the chain ; by this I know 'tis made :
26150 Bring it , I pray you , to the Porpentine ;
26151 For there's the house : that chain will I bestow ,
26152 Be it for nothing but to spite my wife ,
26153 Upon mine hostess there . Good sir , make haste .
26154 Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me ,
26155 I'll knock elsewhere , to see if they'll disdain me .
26156
26157 I'll meet you at that place some hour hence .
26158
26159 Do so . This jest shall cost me some expense .
26160
26161
26162 And may it be that you have quite forgot A husband's office ? Shall , Antipholus ,
26163 Even in the spring of love , thy love-springs rot ?
26164 Shall love , in building , grow so ruinous ?
26165 If you did wed my sister for her wealth ,
26166 Then , for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness :
26167 Or , if you like elsewhere , do it by stealth ;
26168 Muffle your false love with some show of blindness ;
26169 Let not my sister read it in your eye ;
26170 Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator ;
26171 Look sweet , speak fair , become disloyalty ;
26172 Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger ;
26173 Bear a fair presence , though your heart be tainted ;
26174 Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint ;
26175 Be secret-false : what need she be acquainted ?
26176 What simple thief brags of his own attaint ?
26177 'Tis double wrong to truant with your bed ,
26178 And let her read it in thy looks at board :
26179 Shame hath a bastard fame , well managed ;
26180 Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word .
26181 Alas ! poor women , make us but believe ,
26182 Being compact of credit , that you love us ;
26183 Though others have the arm , show us the sleeve ;
26184 We in your motion turn , and you may move us .
26185 Then , gentle brother , get you in again ;
26186 Comfort my sister , cheer her , call her wife :
26187 'Tis holy sport to be a little vain ,
26188 When the sweet breath of flattery conquers strife .
26189
26190 Sweet mistress ,what your name is else , I know not ,
26191 Nor by what wonder you do hit of mine ,
26192 Less in your knowledge and your grace you show not
26193 Than our earth's wonder ; more than earth divine .
26194 Teach me , dear creature , how to think and speak :
26195 Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit ,
26196 Smother'd in errors , feeble , shallow , weak ,
26197 The folded meaning of your words' deceit .
26198 Against my soul's pure truth why labour you
26199 To make it wander in an unknown field ?
26200 Are you a god ? would you create me new ?
26201 Transform me then , and to your power I'll yield .
26202 But if that I am I , then well I know
26203 Your weeping sister is no wife of mine ,
26204 Nor to her bed no homage do I owe :
26205 Far more , far more , to you do I decline .
26206 O ! train me not , sweet mermaid , with thy note ,
26207 To drown me in thy sister flood of tears :
26208 Sing , siren , for thyself , and I will dote :
26209 Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs ,
26210 And as a bed I'll take them and there lie ;
26211 And , in that glorious supposition think
26212 He gains by death that hath such means to die :
26213 Let Love , being light , be drowned if she sink !
26214
26215 What ! are you mad , that you do reason so ?
26216
26217 Not mad , but mated ; how , I do not know .
26218
26219 It is a fault that springeth from your eye .
26220
26221 For gazing on your beams ; fair sun , being by .
26222
26223 Gaze where you should , and that will clear your sight .
26224
26225 As good to wink , sweet love , as look on night .
26226
26227 Why call you me love ? call my sister so .
26228
26229 Thy sister's sister .
26230
26231 That's my sister .
26232
26233 No ;
26234 It is thyself , mine own self's better part ;
26235 Mine eye's clear eye , my dear heart's dearer heart ;
26236 My food , my fortune , and my sweet hope's aim ,
26237 My sole earth's heaven , and my heaven's claim .
26238
26239 All this my sister is , or else should be .
26240
26241 Call thyself sister , sweet , for I aim thee .
26242 Thee will I love and with thee lead my life :
26243 Thou hast no husband yet nor I no wife .
26244 Give me thy hand .
26245
26246 O ! soft , sir ; hold you still :
26247 I'll fetch my sister , to get her good will .
26248
26249 Why , how now , Dromio ! where run'st thou so fast ?
26250
26251 Do you know me , sir ? am I Dromio ? am I your man ? am I myself ?
26252
26253 Thou art Dromio , thou art my man , thou art thyself .
26254
26255 I am an ass , I am a woman's man and besides myself .
26256
26257 What woman's man ? and how besides thyself ?
26258
26259 Marry , sir , besides myself , I am due to a woman ; one that claims me , one that haunts me , one that will have me .
26260
26261 What claim lays she to thee ?
26262
26263 Marry , sir , such claim as you would lay to your horse ; and she would have me as a beast : not that , I being a beast , she would have me ; but that she , being a very beastly creature , lays claim to me .
26264
26265 What is she ?
26266
26267 A very reverent body ; aye , such a one as a man may not speak of , without he say , 'Sir-reverence .' I have but lean luck in the match , and yet is she a wondrous fat marriage .
26268
26269 How dost thou mean a fat marriage ?
26270
26271 Marry , sir , she's the kitchen-wench , and all grease ; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light . I warrant her rags and the tallow in them will burn a Poland winter ; if she lives till doomsday , she'll burn a week longer than the whole world .
26272
26273 What complexion is she of ?
26274
26275 Swart , like my shoe , but her face nothing like so clean kept : for why she sweats ; a man may go over shoes in the grime of it .
26276
26277 That's a fault that water will mend .
26278
26279 No , sir , 'tis in grain ; Noah's flood could not do it .
26280
26281 What's her name ?
26282
26283 Nell , sir ; but her name and three quarters ,that is , an ell and three quarters ,will not measure her from hip to hip .
26284
26285 Then she bears some breadth ?
26286
26287 No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip : she is spherical , like a globe ; I could find out countries in her .
26288
26289 In what part of her body stands Ireland ?
26290
26291 Marry , sir , in her buttocks : I found it out by the bogs .
26292
26293 Where Scotland ?
26294
26295 I found it by the barrenness ; hard in the palm of the hand .
26296
26297 Where France ?
26298
26299 In her forehead ; armed and reverted , making war against her heir .
26300
26301 Where England ?
26302
26303 I looked for the chalky cliffs , but I could find no whiteness in them : but I guess it stood in her chin , by the salt rheum that ran between France and it .
26304
26305 Where Spain ?
26306
26307 Faith , I saw not ; but I felt it hot in her breath .
26308
26309 Where America , the Indies ?
26310
26311 O , sir ! upon her nose , all o'er embellished with rubies , carbuncles , sapphires , declining their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain , who sent whole armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose .
26312
26313 Where stood Belgia , the Netherlands ?
26314
26315 O , sir ! I did not look so low . To conclude , this drudge , or diviner , laid claim to me ; call'd me Dromio ; swore I was assured to her ; told me what privy marks I had about me , as the mark of my shoulder , the mole in my neck , the great wart on my left arm , that I , amazed , ran from her as a witch .
26316 And , I think , if my breast had not been made of faith and my heart of steel ,
26317 She had transform'd me to a curtal dog and made me turn i' the wheel .
26318
26319 Go hie thee presently post to the road :
26320 An if the wind blow any way from shore ,
26321 I will not harbour in this town to-night :
26322 If any bark put forth , come to the mart ,
26323 Where I will walk till thou return to me .
26324 If every one knows us and we know none ,
26325 'Tis time , I think , to trudge , pack , and be gone .
26326
26327 As from a bear a man would run for life ,
26328 So fly I from her that would be my wife .
26329
26330
26331 There's none but witches do inhabit here ,
26332 And therefore 'tis high time that I were hence .
26333 She that doth call me husband , even my soul
26334 Doth for a wife abhor ; but her fair sister ,
26335 Possess'd with such a gentle sovereign grace ,
26336 Of such enchanting presence and discourse ,
26337 Hath almost made me traitor to myself :
26338 But , lest myself be guilty to self-wrong ,
26339 I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song .
26340
26341
26342 Master Antipholus !
26343
26344 Ay , that's my name .
26345
26346 I know it well , sir : lo , here is the chain .
26347 I thought to have ta'en you at the Porpentine ;
26348 The chain unfinish'd made me stay thus long .
26349
26350 What is your will that I shall do with this ?
26351
26352 What please yourself , sir : I have made it for you .
26353
26354 Made it for me , sir ! I bespoke it not
26355
26356 Not once , nor twice , but twenty times you have .
26357 Go home with it and please your wife withal ;
26358 And soon at supper-time I'll visit you ,
26359 And then receive my money for the chain .
26360
26361 I pray you , sir , receive the money now ,
26362 For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more .
26363
26364 You are a merry man , sir : fare you well .
26365
26366
26367 What I should think of this , I cannot tell :
26368 But this I think , there's no man is so vain
26369 That would refuse so fair an offer'd chain .
26370 I see , a man here needs not live by shifts ,
26371 When in the streets he meets such golden gifts .
26372 I'll to the mart , and there for Dromio stay :
26373 If any ship put out , then straight away .
26374
26375 You know since Pentecost the sum is due ,
26376 And since I have not much importun'd you ;
26377 Nor now I had not , but that I am bound
26378 To Persia , and want guilders for my voyage :
26379 Therefore make present satisfaction ,
26380 Or I'll attach you by this officer .
26381
26382 Even just the sum that I do owe to you
26383 Is growing to me by Antipholus ;
26384 And in the instant that I met with you
26385 He had of me a chain : at five o'clock
26386 I shall receive the money for the same .
26387 Pleaseth you walk with me down to his house ,
26388 I will discharge my bond , and thank you too .
26389
26390
26391 That labour may you save : see where he comes .
26392
26393 While I go to the goldsmith's house , go thou
26394 And buy a rope's end , that I will bestow
26395 Among my wife and her confederates ,
26396 For locking me out of my doors by day .
26397 But soft ! I see the goldsmith . Get thee gone ;
26398 Buy thou a rope , and bring it home to me .
26399
26400 I buy a thousand pound a year : I buy a rope !
26401
26402
26403 A man is well holp up that trusts to you :
26404 I promised your presence and the chain ;
26405 But neither chain nor goldsmith came to me .
26406 Belike you thought our love would last too long ,
26407 If it were chain'd together , and therefore came not .
26408
26409 Saving your merry humour , here's the note
26410 How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat .
26411 The fineness of the gold , and chargeful fashion ,
26412 Which doth amount to three odd ducats more
26413 Than I stand debted to this gentleman :
26414 I pray you see him presently discharg'd ,
26415 For he is bound to sea and stays but for it .
26416
26417 I am not furnish'd with the present money ;
26418 Besides , I have some business in the town .
26419 Good signior , take the stranger to my house ,
26420 And with you take the chain , and bid my wife
26421 Disburse the sum on the receipt thereof :
26422 Perchance I will be there as soon as you .
26423
26424 Then , you will bring the chain to her yourself ?
26425
26426 No ; bear it with you , lest I come not time enough .
26427
26428 Well , sir , I will . Have you the chain about you ?
26429
26430 An if I have not , sir , I hope you have ,
26431 Or else you may return without your money .
26432
26433 Nay , come , I pray you , sir , give me the chain :
26434 Both wind and tide stays for this gentleman ,
26435 And I , to blame , have held him here too long .
26436
26437 Good Lord ! you use this dalliance to excuse
26438 Your breach of promise to the Porpentine .
26439 I should have child you for not bringing it ,
26440 But , like a shrew , you first begin to brawl .
26441
26442 The hour steals on ; I pray you , sir , dispatch .
26443
26444 You hear how he importunes me : the chain !
26445
26446 Why , give it to my wife and fetch your money .
26447
26448 Come , come ; you know I gave it you even now .
26449 Either send the chain or send by me some token .
26450
26451 Fie ! now you run this humour out of breath .
26452 Come , where's the chain ? I pray you , let me see it .
26453
26454 My business cannot brook this dalliance .
26455 Good sir , say whe'r you'll answer me or no :
26456 If not , I'll leave him to the officer .
26457
26458 I answer you ! what should I answer you ?
26459
26460 The money that you owe me for the chain .
26461
26462 I owe you none till I receive the chain .
26463
26464 You know I gave it you half an hour since .
26465
26466 You gave me none : you wrong me much to say so .
26467
26468 You wrong me more , sir , in denying it :
26469 Consider how it stands upon my credit .
26470
26471 Well , officer , arrest him at my suit .
26472
26473 I do ;
26474 And charge you in the duke's name to obey me .
26475
26476 This touches me in reputation .
26477 Either consent to pay this sum for me ,
26478 Or I attach you by this officer .
26479
26480 Consent to pay thee that I never had !
26481 Arrest me , foolish fellow , if thou dar'st .
26482
26483 Here is thy fee : arrest him , officer .
26484 I would not spare my brother in this case ,
26485 If he should scorn me so apparently .
26486
26487 I do arrest you , sir : you hear the suit .
26488
26489 I do obey thee till I give thee bail .
26490 But , sirrah , you shall buy this sport as dear
26491 As all the metal in your shop will answer .
26492
26493 Sir , sir , I shall have law in Ephesus ,
26494 To your notorious shame , I doubt it not .
26495
26496
26497 Master , there is a bark of Epidamnum
26498 That stays but till her owner comes aboard ,
26499 And then she bears away . Our fraughtage , sir ,
26500 I have convey'd aboard , and I have bought
26501 The oil , the balsamum , and aqua-vit .
26502 The ship is in her trim ; the merry wind
26503 Blows fair from land ; they stay for nought at all
26504 But for their owner , master , and yourself .
26505
26506 How now ! a madman ! Why , thou peevish sheep ,
26507 What ship of Epidamnum stays for me ?
26508
26509 A ship you sent me to , to hire waftage .
26510
26511 Thou drunken slave , I sent thee for a rope ;
26512 And told thee to what purpose , and what end .
26513
26514 You sent me for a rope's end as soon :
26515 You sent me to the bay , sir , for a bark .
26516
26517 I will debate this matter at more leisure ,
26518 And teach your ears to list me with more heed .
26519 To Adriana , villain , hie thee straight ;
26520 Give her this key , and tell her , in the desk
26521 That's cover'd o'er with Turkish tapestry ,
26522 There is a purse of ducats : let her send it .
26523 Tell her I am arrested in the street ,
26524 And that shall bail me . Hie thee , slave , be gone !
26525 On , officer , to prison till it come .
26526
26527
26528 To Adriana ! that is where we din'd ,
26529 Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband :
26530 She is too big , I hope , for me to compass .
26531 Thither I must , although against my will ,
26532 For servants must their masters' minds fulfil .
26533
26534
26535 Ah ! Luciana , did he tempt thee so ?
26536 Mights thou perceive austerely in his eye
26537 That he did plead in earnest ? yea or no ?
26538 Look'd he or red or pale ? or sad or merrily ?
26539 What observation mad'st thou in this case
26540 Of his heart's meteors tilting in his face ?
26541
26542 First he denied you had in him no right .
26543
26544 He meant he did me none ; the more my spite .
26545
26546 Then swore he that he was a stranger here .
26547
26548 And true he swore , though yet forsworn he were .
26549
26550 Then pleaded I for you .
26551
26552 And what said he ?
26553
26554 That love I begg'd for you he begg'd of me .
26555
26556 With what persuasion did he tempt thy love ?
26557
26558 With words that in an honest suit might move .
26559 First , he did praise my beauty , then my speech .
26560
26561 Didst speak him fair ?
26562
26563 Have patience , I beseech .
26564
26565 I cannot , nor I will not hold me still :
26566 My tongue , though not my heart , shall have his will .
26567 He is deformed , crooked , old and sere ,
26568 Ill-fac'd , worse bodied , shapeless every where :
26569 Vicious , ungentle , foolish , blunt , unkind ,
26570 Stigmatical in making , worse in mind .
26571
26572 Who would be jealous then , of such a one ?
26573 No evil lost is wail'd when it is gone .
26574
26575 Ah ! but I think him better than I say ,
26576 And yet would herein others' eyes were worse .
26577 Far from her nest the lapwing cries away :
26578 My heart prays for him , though my tongue do curse .
26579
26580
26581 Here , go : the desk ! the purse ! sweet , now , make haste .
26582
26583 How hast thou lost thy breath ?
26584
26585 By running fast .
26586
26587 Where is thy master , Dromio ? is he well ?
26588
26589 No , he's in Tartar limbo , worse than hell .
26590 A devil in an everlasting garment hath him ,
26591 One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel ;
26592 A fiend , a fairy , pitiless and rough ;
26593 A wolf , nay , worse , a fellow all in buff ;
26594 A back-friend , a shoulder-clapper , one that countermands
26595 The passages of alleys , creeks and narrow lands ;
26596 A hound that runs counter and yet draws dryfoot well ;
26597 One that , before the judgment , carries poor souls to hell .
26598
26599 Why , man , what is the matter ?
26600
26601 I do not know the matter : he is 'rested on the case .
26602
26603 What , is he arrested ? tell me at whose suit .
26604
26605 I know not at whose suit he is arrested well ;
26606 But he's in a suit of buff which 'rested him , that can I tell .
26607 Will you send him , mistress , redemption , the money in his desk ?
26608
26609 Go fetch it , sister .
26610
26611 This I wonder at :
26612 That he , unknown to me , should be in debt :
26613 Tell me , was he arrested on a band ?
26614
26615 Not on a band , but on a stronger thing ;
26616 A chain , a chain . Do you not hear it ring ?
26617
26618 What , the chain ?
26619
26620 No , no , the bell : 'tis time that I were gone :
26621 It was two ere I left him , and now the clock strikes one .
26622
26623 The hours come back ! that did I never hear .
26624
26625 O yes ; if any hour meet a sergeant , a' turns back for very fear .
26626
26627 As if Time were in debt ! how fondly dost thou reason !
26628
26629 Time is a very bankrupt , and owes more than he's worth to season .
26630 Nay , he's a thief too : have you not heard men say ,
26631 That Time comes stealing on by night and day ?
26632 If Time be in debt and theft , and a sergeant in the way ,
26633 Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day ?
26634
26635
26636 Go , Dromio : there's the money , bear it straight ,
26637 And bring thy master home immediately .
26638 Come , sister ; I am press'd down with conceit ; Conceit , my comfort and my injury .
26639
26640
26641 There's not a man I meet but doth salute me ,
26642 As if I were their well acquainted friend ;
26643 And every one doth call me by my name .
26644 Some tender money to me ; some invite me ;
26645 Some other give me thanks for kindnesses ;
26646 Some offer me commodities to buy :
26647 Even now a tailor call'd me in his shop
26648 And show'd me silks that he had bought for me ,
26649 And therewithal , took measure of my body .
26650 Sure these are but imaginary wiles ,
26651 And Lapland sorcerers inhabit here .
26652
26653
26654 Master , here's the gold you sent me for .
26655 What ! have you got the picture of old Adam new apparelled ?
26656
26657 What gold is this ? What Adam dost thou mean ?
26658
26659 Not that Adam that kept the Paradise , but that Adam that keeps the prison : he that goes in the calf's skin that was killed for the Prodigal : he that came behind you , sir , like an evil angel , and bid you forsake your liberty .
26660
26661 I understand thee not .
26662
26663 No ? why , 'tis a plain case : he that went , like a base-viol , in a case of leather ; the man , sir , that , when gentlemen are tired , gives them a fob , and 'rests them ; he , sir , that takes pity on decayed men and gives them suits of durance ; he that sets up his rest to do more exploits with his mace than a morris-pike .
26664
26665 What , thou meanest an officer ?
26666
26667 Ay , sir , the sergeant of the band ; he that brings any man to answer it that breaks his band ; one that thinks a man always going to bed , and says , 'God give you good rest !'
26668
26669 Well , sir , there rest in your foolery . Is there any ship puts forth to-night ? may we be gone ?
26670
26671 Why , sir , I brought you word an hour since that the bark Expedition put forth to-night ; and then were you hindered by the sergeant to tarry for the hoy Delay . Here are the angels that you sent for to deliver you .
26672
26673 The fellow is distract , and so am I ;
26674 And here we wander in illusions :
26675 Some blessed power deliver us from hence !
26676
26677
26678 Well met , well met , Master Antipholus .
26679 I see , sir , you have found the goldsmith now :
26680 Is that the chain you promis'd me to-day ?
26681
26682 Satan , avoid ! I charge thee tempt me not !
26683
26684 Master , is this Mistress Satan ?
26685
26686 It is the devil .
26687
26688 Nay , she is worse , she is the devil's dam , and here she comes in the habit of a light wench : and thereof comes that the wenches say , 'God damn me ;' that's as much as to say , 'God make me a light wench .' It is written , they appear to men like angels of light : light is an effect of fire , and fire will burn ; ergo , light wenches will burn . Come not near her .
26689
26690 Your man and you are marvellous merry , sir . Will you go with me ? we'll mend our dinner here .
26691
26692 Master , if you do , expect spoon-meat , so bespeak a long spoon .
26693
26694 Why , Dromio ?
26695
26696 Marry , he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil .
26697
26698 Avoid thee , fiend ! what tell'st thou me of supping ?
26699 Thou art , as you are all , a sorceress :
26700 I conjure thee to leave me and be gone .
26701
26702 Give me the ring of mine you had at dinner ,
26703 Or , for my diamond , the chain you promis'd ,
26704 And I'll be gone , sir , and not trouble you .
26705
26706 Some devils ask but the parings of one's nail ,
26707 A rush , a hair , a drop of blood , a pin ,
26708 A nut , a cherry-stone ;
26709 But she , more covetous , would have a chain .
26710 Master , be wise : an if you give it her ,
26711 The devil will shake her chain and fright us with it .
26712
26713 I pray you , sir , my ring , or else the chain :
26714 I hope you do not mean to cheat me so .
26715
26716 Avaunt , thou witch ! Come , Dromio , let us go .
26717
26718 'Fly pride ,' says the peacock : mistress , that you know .
26719
26720
26721 Now , out of doubt , Antipholus is mad ,
26722 Else would he never so demean himself .
26723 A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats ,
26724 And for the same he promis'd me a chain :
26725 Both one and other he denies me now .
26726 The reason that I gather he is mad ,
26727 Besides this present instance of his rage ,
26728 Is a mad tale he told to-day at dinner ,
26729 Of his own doors being shut against his entrance
26730 Belike his wife , acquainted with his fits ,
26731 On purpose shut the doors against his way .
26732 My way is now to hie home to his house ,
26733 And tell his wife , that , being lunatic ,
26734 He rush'd into my house , and took perforce
26735 My ring away . This course I fittest choose ,
26736 For forty ducats is too much to lose .
26737
26738
26739 Fear me not , man ; I will not break away :
26740 I'll give thee , ere I leave thee , so much money ,
26741 To warrant thee , as I am 'rested for .
26742 My wife is in a wayward mood to-day ,
26743 And will not lightly trust the messenger .
26744 That I should be attach'd in Ephesus ,
26745 I tell you , 'twill sound harshly in her ears .
26746
26747
26748 Here comes my man : I think he brings the money .
26749
26750 How now , sir ! have you that I sent you for ?
26751
26752 Here's that , I warrant you , will pay them all .
26753
26754 But where's the money ?
26755
26756 Why , sir , I gave the money for the rope .
26757
26758 Five hundred ducats , villain , for a rope ?
26759
26760 I'll serve you , sir , five hundred at the rate .
26761
26762 To what end did I bid thee hie thee home ?
26763
26764 To a rope's end , sir ; and to that end am I return'd .
26765
26766 And to that end , sir , I will welcome you .
26767
26768
26769 Good sir , be patient .
26770
26771 Nay , 'tis for me to be patient ; I am in adversity .
26772
26773 Good now , hold thy tongue .
26774
26775 Nay , rather persuade him to hold his hands .
26776
26777 Thou whoreson , senseless villain !
26778
26779 I would I were senseless , sir , that I might not feel your blows .
26780
26781 Thou art sensible in nothing but blows , and so is an ass .
26782
26783 I am an ass indeed ; you may prove it by my long ears . I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant , and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows . When I am cold , he heats me with beating ; when I am warm , he cools me with beating ; I am waked with it when I sleep ; raised with it when I sit ; driven out of doors with it when I go from home ; welcomed home with it when I return ; nay , I bear it on my shoulders , as a beggar wont her brat ; and , I think , when he hath lamed me , I shall beg with it from door to door .
26784
26785 Come , go along ; my wife is coming yonder .
26786
26787
26788 Mistress , respice finem , respect your end ; or rather , to prophesy like the parrot , 'Beware the rope's end .'
26789
26790 Wilt thou still talk ?
26791
26792
26793 How say you now ? is not your husband mad ?
26794
26795 His incivility confirms no less .
26796 Good Doctor Pinch , you are a conjurer ;
26797 Establish him in his true sense again ,
26798 And I will please you what you will demand .
26799
26800 Alas ! how fiery and how sharp he looks .
26801
26802 Mark how he trembles in his ecstasy !
26803
26804 Give me your hand and let me feel your pulse .
26805
26806 There is my hand , and let it feel your ear .
26807
26808
26809 I charge thee , Satan , hous'd within this man ,
26810 To yield possession to my holy prayers ,
26811 And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight :
26812 I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven .
26813
26814 Peace , doting wizard , peace ! I am not mad .
26815
26816 O ! that thou wert not , poor distressed soul !
26817
26818 You minion , you , are these your customers ?
26819 Did this companion with the saffron face
26820 Revel and feast it at my house to-day ,
26821 Whilst upon me the guilty doors were shut
26822 And I denied to enter in my house ?
26823
26824 O husband , God doth know you din'd at home ;
26825 Where would you had remain'd until this time .
26826 Free from these slanders and this open shame !
26827
26828 Din'd at home ! Thou villain , what say'st thou ?
26829
26830 Sir , sooth to say , you did not dine at home .
26831
26832 Were not my doors lock'd up and I shut out ?
26833
26834 Perdy , your doors were lock'd and you shut out .
26835
26836 And did not she herself revile me there ?
26837
26838 Sans fable , she herself revil'd you there .
26839
26840 Did not her kitchen-maid rail , taunt , and scorn me ?
26841
26842 Certes , she did ; the kitchen-vestal scorn'd you .
26843
26844 And did not I in rage depart from thence ?
26845
26846 In verity you did : my bones bear witness ,
26847 That since have felt the vigour of his rage .
26848
26849 Is't good to soothe him in these contraries ?
26850
26851 It is no shame : the fellow finds his vein ,
26852 And , yielding to him humours well his frenzy .
26853
26854 Thou hast suborn'd the goldsmith to arrest me .
26855
26856 Alas ! I sent you money to redeem you ,
26857 By Dromio here , who came in haste for it .
26858
26859 Money by me ! heart and good will you might ;
26860 But surely , master , not a rag of money .
26861
26862 Went'st not thou to her for a purse of ducats ?
26863
26864 He came to me , and I deliver'd it .
26865
26866 And I am witness with her that she did .
26867
26868 God and the rope-maker bear me witness
26869 That I was sent for nothing but a rope !
26870
26871 Mistress , both man and master is possess'd :
26872 I know it by their pale and deadly looks .
26873 They must be bound and laid in some dark room .
26874
26875 Say , wherefore didst thou lock me forth to-day ?
26876 And why dost thou deny the bag of gold ?
26877
26878 I did not , gentle husband , lock thee forth .
26879
26880 And , gentle master , I receiv'd no gold ;
26881 But I confess , sir , that we were lock'd out .
26882
26883 Dissembling villain ! thou speak'st false in both .
26884
26885 Dissembling harlot ! thou art false in all ;
26886 And art confederate with a damned pack
26887 To make a loathsome abject scorn of me ;
26888 But with these nails I'll pluck out those false eyes
26889 That would behold in me this shameful sport .
26890
26891 O ! bind him , bind him , let him not come near me .
26892
26893 More company ! the fiend is strong within him .
26894
26895 Ay me ! poor man , how pale and wan he looks !
26896
26897
26898 What , will you murder me ? Thou gaoler , thou ,
26899 I am thy prisoner : wilt thou suffer them
26900 To make a rescue ?
26901
26902 Masters , let him go :
26903 He is my prisoner , and you shall not have him .
26904
26905 Go bind this man , for he is frantic too .
26906
26907
26908 What wilt thou do , thou peevish officer ?
26909 Hast thou delight to see a wretched man
26910 Do outrage and displeasure to himself ?
26911
26912 He is my prisoner : if I let him go ,
26913 The debt he owes will be requir'd of me .
26914
26915 I will discharge thee ere I go from thee :
26916 Bear me forthwith unto his creditor ,
26917 And , knowing how the debt grows , I will pay it .
26918 Good Master doctor , see him safe convey'd
26919 Home to my house . O most unhappy day !
26920
26921 O most unhappy strumpet !
26922
26923 Master , I am here enter'd in bond for you .
26924
26925 Out on thee , villain ! wherefore dost thou mad me ?
26926
26927 Will you be bound for nothing ? be mad , good master ; cry , 'the devil !'
26928
26929 God help , poor souls ! how idly do they talk .
26930
26931 Go bear him hence . Sister , go you with me .
26932
26933 Say now , whose suit is he arrested at ?
26934
26935 One Angelo , a goldsmith ; do you know him ?
26936
26937 I know the man . What is the sum he owes ?
26938
26939 Two hundred ducats .
26940
26941 Say , how grows it due ?
26942
26943 Due for a chain your husband had of him .
26944
26945 He did bespeak a chain for me , but had it not .
26946
26947 When as your husband all in rage , to-day
26948 Came to my house , and took away my ring ,
26949 The ring I saw upon his finger now ,
26950 Straight after did I meet him with a chain .
26951
26952 It may be so , but I did never see it .
26953 Come , gaoler , bring me where the goldsmith is :
26954 I long to know the truth hereof at large .
26955
26956
26957 God , for thy mercy ! they are loose again .
26958
26959 And come with naked swords . Let's call more help
26960 To have them bound again .
26961
26962 Away ! they'll kill us .
26963
26964
26965 I see , these witches are afraid of swords .
26966
26967 She that would be your wife now ran from you .
26968
26969 Come to the Centaur ; fetch our stuff from thence :
26970 I long that we were safe and sound aboard .
26971
26972 Faith , stay here this night , they will surely do us no harm ; you saw they speak us fair , give us gold : methinks they are such a gentle nation , that , but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me , I could find in my heart to stay here still , and turn witch .
26973
26974 I will not stay to-night for all the town ;
26975 Therefore away , to get our stuff aboard .
26976
26977 I am sorry , sir , that I have hinder'd you ;
26978 But , I protest , he had the chain of me ,
26979 Though most dishonestly he doth deny it .
26980
26981 How is the man esteem'd here in the city ?
26982
26983 Of very reverend reputation , sir ,
26984 Of credit infinite , highly belov'd ,
26985 Second to none that lives here in the city :
26986 His word might bear my wealth at any time .
26987
26988 Speak softly : yonder , as I think , he walks .
26989
26990
26991 'Tis so ; and that self chain about his neck
26992 Which he forswore most monstrously to have .
26993 Good sir , draw near to me , I'll speak to him .
26994 Signior Antipholus , I wonder much
26995 That you would put me to this shame and trouble ;
26996 And not without some scandal to yourself ,
26997 With circumstance and oaths so to deny
26998 This chain which now you wear so openly :
26999 Beside the charge , the shame , imprisonment ,
27000 You have done wrong to this my honest friend ,
27001 Who , but for staying on our controversy ,
27002 Had hoisted sail and put to sea to-day .
27003 This chain you had of me ; can you deny it ?
27004
27005 I think I had : I never did deny it .
27006
27007 Yes , that you did , sir , and forswore it too .
27008
27009 Who heard me to deny it or forswear it ?
27010
27011 These ears of mine , thou know'st , did hear thee .
27012 Fie on thee , wretch ! 'tis pity that thou liv'st
27013 To walk where any honest men resort .
27014
27015 Thou art a villain to impeach me thus :
27016 I'll prove mine honour and mine honesty
27017 Against thee presently , if thou dar'st stand .
27018
27019 I dare , and do defy thee for a villain .
27020
27021 Hold ! hurt him not , for God's sake ! he is mad .
27022 Some get within him , take his sword away .
27023 Bind Dromio too , and bear them to my house .
27024
27025 Run , master , run ; for God's sake , take a house !
27026 This is some priory : in , or we are spoil'd .
27027
27028 Be quiet , people . Wherefore throng you hither ?
27029
27030 To fetch my poor distracted husband hence .
27031 Let us come in , that we may bind him fast ,
27032 And bear him home for his recovery .
27033
27034 I knew he was not in his perfect wits .
27035
27036 I am sorry now that I did draw on him .
27037
27038 How long hath this possession held the man ?
27039
27040 This week he hath been heavy , sour , sad ,
27041 And much different from the man he was ;
27042 But , till this afternoon his passion
27043 Ne'er brake into extremity of rage .
27044
27045 Hath he not lost much wealth by wrack of sea ?
27046 Buried some dear friend ? Hath not else his eye
27047 Stray'd his affection in unlawful love ?
27048 A sin prevailing much in youthful men ,
27049 Who give their eyes the liberty of gazing .
27050 Which of these sorrows is he subject to ?
27051
27052 To none of these , except it be the last ;
27053 Namely , some love that drew him oft from home .
27054
27055 You should for that have reprehended him .
27056
27057 Why , so I did .
27058
27059 Ay , but not rough enough .
27060
27061 As roughly as my modesty would let me .
27062
27063 Haply , in private .
27064
27065 And in assemblies too .
27066
27067 Ay , but not enough .
27068
27069 It was the copy of our conference :
27070 In bed , he slept not for my urging it ;
27071 At board , he fed not for my urging it ;
27072 Alone , it was the subject of my theme ;
27073 In company I often glanced it :
27074 Still did I tell him it was vile and bad .
27075
27076 And thereof came it that the man was mad :
27077 The venom clamours of a jealous woman
27078 Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth .
27079 It seems , his sleeps were hinder'd by thy railing ,
27080 And thereof comes it that his head is light .
27081 Thou say'st his meat was sauc'd with thy upbraidings :
27082 Unquiet meals make ill digestions ;
27083 Thereof the raging fire of fever bred :
27084 And what's a fever but a fit of madness ?
27085 Thou say'st his sports were hinder'd by thy brawls :
27086 Sweet recreation barr'd , what doth ensue
27087 But moody moping , and dull melancholy ,
27088 Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair ,
27089 And at her heels a huge infectious troop
27090 Of pale distemperatures and foes to life ?
27091 In food , in sport , and life-preserving rest
27092 To be disturb'd , would mad or man or beast :
27093 The consequence is then , thy jealous fits
27094 Have scar'd thy husband from the use of wits .
27095
27096 She never reprehended him but mildly
27097 When he demean'd himself rough , rude , and wildly .
27098 Why bear you these rebukes and answer not ?
27099
27100 She did betray me to my own reproof .
27101 Good people , enter , and lay hold on him .
27102
27103 No ; not a creature enters in my house .
27104
27105 Then , let your servants bring my husband forth .
27106
27107 Neither : he took this place for sanctuary ,
27108 And it shall privilege him from your hands
27109 Till I have brought him to his wits again ,
27110 Or lose my labour in assaying it .
27111
27112 I will attend my husband , be his nurse ,
27113 Diet his sickness , for it is my office ,
27114 And will have no attorney but myself ;
27115 And therefore let me have him home with me .
27116
27117 Be patient ; for I will not let him stir
27118 Till I have us'd the approved means I have ,
27119 With wholesome syrups , drugs , and holy prayers ,
27120 To make of him a formal man again .
27121 It is a branch and parcel of mine oath ,
27122 A charitable duty of my order ;
27123 Therefore depart and leave him here with me .
27124
27125 I will not hence and leave my husband here ;
27126 And ill it doth beseem your holiness
27127 To separate the husband and the wife .
27128
27129 Be quiet , and depart : thou shalt not have him .
27130
27131
27132 Complain unto the duke of this indignity .
27133
27134 Come , go : I will fall prostrate at his feet ,
27135 And never rise until my tears and prayers
27136 Have won his Grace to come in person hither ,
27137 And take perforce my husband from the abbess .
27138
27139 By this , I think , the dial points at five :
27140 Anon , I'm sure , the duke himself in person
27141 Comes this way to the melancholy vale ,
27142 The place of death and sorry execution ,
27143 Behind the ditches of the abbey here .
27144
27145 Upon what cause ?
27146
27147 To see a reverend Syracusian merchant ,
27148 Who put unluckily into this bay
27149 Against the laws and statutes of this town ,
27150 Beheaded publicly for his offence .
27151
27152 See where they come : we will behold his death .
27153
27154 Kneel to the duke before he pass the abbey .
27155
27156
27157 Yet once again proclaim it publicly ,
27158 If any friend will pay the sum for him ,
27159 He shall not die ; so much we tender him .
27160
27161 Justice , most sacred duke , against the abbess !
27162
27163 She is a virtuous and a reverend lady :
27164 It cannot be that she hath done thee wrong .
27165
27166 May it please your Grace , Antipholus , my husband ,
27167 Whom I made lord of me and all I had ,
27168 At your important letters , this ill day
27169 A most outrageous fit of madness took him ,
27170 That desperately he hurried through the street ,
27171 With him his bondman , all as mad as he ,
27172 Doing displeasure to the citizens
27173 By rushing in their houses , bearing thence
27174 Rings , jewels , anything his rage did like .
27175 Once did I get him bound and sent him home ,
27176 Whilst to take order for the wrongs I went
27177 That here and there his fury had committed .
27178 Anon , I wot not by what strong escape ,
27179 He broke from those that had the guard of him ,
27180 And with his mad attendant and himself ,
27181 Each one with ireful passion , with drawn swords
27182 Met us again , and , madly bent on us
27183 Chas'd us away , till , raising of more aid
27184 We came again to bind them . Then they fled
27185 Into this abbey , whither we pursu'd them ;
27186 And here the abbess shuts the gates on us ,
27187 And will not suffer us to fetch him out ,
27188 Nor send him forth that we may bear him hence .
27189 Therefore , most gracious duke , with thy command
27190 Let him be brought forth , and borne hence for help .
27191
27192 Long since thy husband serv'd me in my wars ,
27193 And I to thee engag'd a prince's word ,
27194 When thou didst make him master of thy bed ,
27195 To do him all the grace and good I could .
27196 Go , some of you , knock at the abbey gate
27197 And bid the lady abbess come to me .
27198 I will determine this before I stir .
27199
27200
27201 O mistress , mistress ! shift and save yourself !
27202 My master and his man are both broke loose ,
27203 Beaten the maids a-row and bound the doctor ,
27204 Whose beard they have sing'd off with brands of fire ;
27205 And ever as it blaz'd they threw on him
27206 Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair .
27207 My master preaches patience to him , and the while
27208 His man with scissors nicks him like a fool ;
27209 And sure , unless you send some present help ,
27210 Between them they will kill the conjurer .
27211
27212 Peace , fool ! thy master and his man are here ,
27213 And that is false thou dost report to us .
27214
27215 Mistress , upon my life , I tell you true ;
27216 I have not breath'd almost , since I did see it .
27217 He cries for you and vows , if he can take you ,
27218 To scotch your face , and to disfigure you .
27219
27220 Hark , hark ! I hear him , mistress : fly , be gone !
27221
27222 Come , stand by me ; fear nothing . Guard with halberds !
27223
27224 Ay me , it is my husband ! Witness you ,
27225 That he is borne about invisible :
27226 Even now we hous'd him in the abbey here ,
27227 And now he's here , past thought of human reason .
27228
27229
27230 Justice , most gracious duke ! O ! grant me justice ,
27231 Even for the service that long since I did thee ,
27232 When I bestrid thee in the wars and took
27233 Deep scars to save thy life ; even for the blood
27234 That then I lost for thee , now grant me justice .
27235
27236 Unless the fear of death doth make me dote ,
27237 I see my son Antipholus and Dromio !
27238
27239 Justice , sweet prince , against that woman there !
27240 She whom thou gav'st to me to be my wife ,
27241 That hath abused and dishonour'd me ,
27242 Even in the strength and height of injury !
27243 Beyond imagination is the wrong
27244 That she this day hath shameless thrown on me .
27245
27246 Discover how , and thou shalt find me just .
27247
27248 This day , great duke , she shut the doors upon me ,
27249 While she with harlots feasted in my house .
27250
27251 A grievous fault ! Say , woman , didst thou so ?
27252
27253 No , my good lord : myself , he , and my sister
27254 To-day did dine together . So befall my soul
27255 As this is false he burdens me withal !
27256
27257 Ne'er may I look on day , nor sleep on night ,
27258 But she tells to your highness simple truth !
27259
27260 O perjur'd woman ! They are both forsworn :
27261 In this the madman justly chargeth them !
27262
27263 My liege , I am advised what I say :
27264 Neither disturb'd with the effect of wine ,
27265 Nor heady-rash , provok'd with raging ire ,
27266 Albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad .
27267 This woman lock'd me out this day from dinner :
27268 That goldsmith there , were he not pack'd with her ,
27269 Could witness it , for he was with me then ;
27270 Who parted with me to go fetch a chain ,
27271 Promising to bring it to the Porpentine ,
27272 Where Balthazar and I did dine together .
27273 Our dinner done , and he not coming thither ,
27274 I went to seek him : in the street I met him ,
27275 And in his company that gentleman .
27276 There did this perjur'd goldsmith swear me down
27277 That I this day of him receiv'd the chain ,
27278 Which , God he knows , I saw not ; for the which
27279 He did arrest me with an officer .
27280 I did obey , and sent my peasant home
27281 For certain ducats : he with none return'd .
27282 Then fairly I bespoke the officer
27283 To go in person with me to my house .
27284 By the way we met
27285 My wife , her sister , and a rabble more
27286 Of vile confederates : along with them
27287 They brought one Pinch , a hungry lean-fac'd villain ,
27288 A mere anatomy , a mountebank ,
27289 A threadbare juggler , and a fortune-teller ,
27290 A needy , hollow-ey'd , sharp-looking wretch ,
27291 A living-dead man . This pernicious slave ,
27292 Forsooth , took on him as a conjurer ,
27293 And , gazing in mine eyes , feeling my pulse ,
27294 And with no face , as 'twere , out-facing me ,
27295 Cries out , I was possess'd . Then , altogether
27296 They fell upon me , bound me , bore me thence ,
27297 And in a dark and dankish vault at home
27298 There left me and my man , both bound together ;
27299 Till , gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder ,
27300 I gain'd my freedom , and immediately
27301 Ran hither to your Grace ; whom I beseech
27302 To give me ample satisfaction
27303 For these deep shames and great indignities .
27304
27305 My lord , in truth , thus far I witness with him ,
27306 That he din'd not at home , but was lock'd out .
27307
27308 But had he such a chain of thee , or no ?
27309
27310 He had , my lord ; and when he ran in here ,
27311 These people saw the chain about his neck .
27312
27313 Besides , I will be sworn these ears of mine
27314 Heard you confess you had the chain of him
27315 After you first forswore it on the mart ;
27316 And thereupon I drew my sword on you ;
27317 And then you fled into this abbey here ,
27318 From whence , I think , you are come by miracle .
27319
27320 I never came within these abbey walls ;
27321 Nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me ;
27322 I never saw the chain , so help me heaven !
27323 And this is false you burden me withal .
27324
27325 Why , what an intricate impeach is this !
27326 I think you all have drunk of Circe's cup .
27327 If here you hous'd him , here he would have been ;
27328 If he were mad , he would not plead so coldly ;
27329 You say he din'd at home ; the goldsmith here
27330 Denies that saying . Sirrah , what say you ?
27331
27332 Sir , he din'd with her there , at the Porpentine .
27333
27334 He did , and from my finger snatch'd that ring .
27335
27336 'Tis true , my liege ; this ring I had of her .
27337
27338 Saw'st thou him enter at the abbey here ?
27339
27340 As sure , my liege , as I do see your Grace .
27341
27342 Why , this is strange . Go call the abbess hither .
27343
27344 I think you are all mated or stark mad .
27345
27346 Most mighty duke , vouchsafe me speak a word :
27347 Haply I see a friend will save my life ,
27348 And pay the sum that may deliver me .
27349
27350 Speak freely , Syracusian , what thou wilt .
27351
27352 Is not your name , sir , called Antipholus ?
27353 And is not that your bondman Dromio ?
27354
27355 Within this hour I was his bondman , sir ;
27356 But he , I thank him , gnaw'd in two my cords :
27357 Now am I Dromio and his man , unbound .
27358
27359 I am sure you both of you remember me .
27360
27361 Ourselves we do remember , sir , by you ;
27362 For lately we were bound , as you are now .
27363 You are not Pinch's patient , are you , sir ?
27364
27365 Why look you strange on me ? you know me well .
27366
27367 I never saw you in my life till now .
27368
27369 O ! grief hath chang'd me since you saw me last ,
27370 And careful hours , with Time's deformed hand ,
27371 Have written strange defeatures in my face :
27372 But tell me yet , dost thou not know my voice ?
27373
27374 Neither .
27375
27376 Dromio , nor thou ?
27377
27378 No , trust me , sir , not I .
27379
27380 I am sure thou dost .
27381
27382 Ay , sir ; but I am sure I do not ; and whatsoever a man denies , you are now bound to believe him .
27383
27384 Not know my voice ! O , time's extremity ,
27385 Hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poor tongue
27386 In seven short years , that here my only son
27387 Knows not my feeble key of untun'd cares ?
27388 Though now this grained face of mine be hid
27389 In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow ,
27390 And all the conduits of my blood froze up ,
27391 Yet hath my night of life some memory ,
27392 My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left ,
27393 My dull deaf ears a little use to hear :
27394 All these old witnesses , I cannot err ,
27395 Tell me thou art my son Antipholus .
27396
27397 I never saw my father in my life .
27398
27399 But seven years since , in Syracusa , boy ,
27400 Thou know'st we parted : but perhaps , my son ,
27401 Thou sham'st to acknowledge me in misery .
27402
27403 The duke and all that know me in the city
27404 Can witness with me that it is not so :
27405 I ne'er saw Syracusa in my life .
27406
27407 I tell thee , Syracusian , twenty years
27408 Have I been patron to Antipholus ,
27409 During which time he ne'er saw Syracusa .
27410 I see thy age and dangers make thee dote .
27411
27412
27413 Most mighty duke , behold a man much wrong'd .
27414
27415
27416 I see two husbands , or mine eyes deceive me !
27417
27418 One of these men is Genius to the other ;
27419 And so of these : which is the natural man ,
27420 And which the spirit ? Who deciphers them ?
27421
27422 I , sir , am Dromio : command him away .
27423
27424 I , sir , am Dromio : pray let me stay .
27425
27426 geon art thou not ? or else his ghost ?
27427
27428 O ! my old master ; who hath bound him here ?
27429
27430 Whoever bound him , I will loose his bonds ,
27431 And gain a husband by his liberty .
27432 Speak , old geon , if thou be'st the man
27433 That hadst a wife once call'd milia ,
27434 That bore thee at a burden two fair sons .
27435 O ! if thou be'st the same geon , speak ,
27436 And speak unto the same milia !
27437
27438 If I dream not , thou art milia :
27439 If thou art she , tell me where is that son
27440 That floated with thee on the fatal raft ?
27441
27442 By men of Epidamnum , he and I ,
27443 And the twin Dromio , all were taken up :
27444 But by and by rude fishermen of Corinth
27445 By force took Dromio and my son from them ,
27446 And me they left with those of Epidamnum .
27447 What then became of them , I cannot tell ;
27448 I to this fortune that you see me in .
27449
27450 Why , here begins his morning story right :
27451 These two Antipholus' , these two so like ,
27452 And these two Dromios , one in semblance ,
27453 Besides her urging of her wrack at sea ;
27454 These are the parents to these children ,
27455 Which accidentally are met together .
27456 Antipholus , thou cam'st from Corinth first ?
27457
27458 No , sir , not I ; I came from Syracuse .
27459
27460 Stay , stand apart ; I know not which is which .
27461
27462 I came from Corinth , my most gracious lord ,
27463
27464 And I with him .
27465
27466 Brought to this town by that most famous warrior ,
27467 Duke Menaphon , your most renowned uncle .
27468
27469 Which of you two did dine with me to-day ?
27470
27471 I , gentle mistress .
27472
27473 And are not you my husband ?
27474
27475 No ; I say nay to that .
27476
27477 And so do I ; yet did she call me so ;
27478 And this fair gentlewoman , her sister here ,
27479 Did call me brother .
27480
27481 What I told you then ,
27482 I hope I shall have leisure to make good ,
27483 If this be not a dream I see and hear .
27484
27485 That is the chain , sir , which you had of me .
27486
27487 I think it be , sir ; I deny it not .
27488
27489 And you , sir , for this chain arrested me .
27490
27491 I think I did , sir ; I deny it not .
27492
27493 I sent you money , sir , to be your bail ,
27494 By Dromio ; but I think he brought it not .
27495
27496 No , none by me .
27497
27498 This purse of ducats I receiv'd from you ,
27499 And Dromio , my man , did bring them me .
27500 I see we still did meet each other's man ,
27501 And I was ta'en for him , and he for me ,
27502 And thereupon these errors are arose .
27503
27504 These ducats pawn I for my father here .
27505
27506 It shall not need : thy father hath his life .
27507
27508 Sir , I must have that diamond from you .
27509
27510 There , take it ; and much thanks for my good cheer .
27511
27512 Renowned duke , vouchsafe to take the pains
27513 To go with us into the abbey here ,
27514 And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes ;
27515 And all that are assembled in this place ,
27516 That by this sympathized one day's error
27517 Have suffer'd wrong , go keep us company ,
27518 And we shall make full satisfaction .
27519 Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail
27520 Of you , my sons ; and , till this present hour
27521 My heavy burdens ne'er delivered .
27522 The duke , my husband , and my children both ,
27523 And you the calendars of their nativity ,
27524 Go to a gossip's feast , and joy with me :
27525 After so long grief such festivity !
27526
27527 With all my heart I'll gossip at this feast .
27528
27529
27530 Master , shall I fetch your stuff from shipboard ?
27531
27532 Dromio , what stuff of mine hast thou embark'd ?
27533
27534 Your goods that lay at host , sir , in the Centaur .
27535
27536 He speaks to me . I am your master , Dromio :
27537 Come , go with us ; we'll look to that anon :
27538 Embrace thy brother there ; rejoice with him .
27539
27540
27541 There is a fat friend at your master's house ,
27542 That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner :
27543 She now shall be my sister , not my wife .
27544
27545 Methinks you are my glass , and not my brother :
27546 I see by you I am a sweet-fac'd youth .
27547 Will you walk in to see their gossiping ?
27548
27549 Not I , sir ; you are my elder .
27550
27551 That's a question : how shall we try it ?
27552
27553 We'll draw cuts for the senior : till then lead thou first .
27554
27555 Nay , then , thus :
27556 We came into the world like brother and brother ;
27557 And now let's go hand in hand , not one before another .
27558
27559 THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
27560
27561
27562 In sooth , I know not why I am so sad :
27563 It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ;
27564 But how I caught it , found it , or came by it ,
27565 What stuff 'tis made of , whereof it is born ,
27566 I am to learn ;
27567 And such a want-wit sadness makes of me ,
27568 That I have much ado to know myself .
27569
27570 Your mind is tossing on the ocean ;
27571 There , where your argosies with portly sail ,
27572 Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood ,
27573 Or , as it were , the pageants of the sea ,
27574 Do overpeer the petty traffickers ,
27575 That curtsy to them , do them reverence ,
27576 As they fly by them with their woven wings .
27577
27578 Believe me , sir , had I such venture forth ,
27579 The better part of my affections would
27580 Be with my hopes abroad . I should be still
27581 Plucking the grass to know where sits the wind ;
27582 Peering in maps for ports , and piers , and roads ;
27583 And every object that might make me fear
27584 Misfortune to my ventures , out of doubt
27585 Would make me sad .
27586
27587 My wind , cooling my broth ,
27588 Would blow me to an ague , when I thought
27589 What harm a wind too great might do at sea .
27590 I should not see the sandy hour-glass run
27591 But I should think of shallows and of flats ,
27592 And see my wealthy Andrew dock'd in sand
27593 Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs
27594 To kiss her burial . Should I go to church
27595 And see the holy edifice of stone ,
27596 And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks ,
27597 Which touching but my gentle vessel's side
27598 Would scatter all her spices on the stream ,
27599 Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks ;
27600 And , in a word , but even now worth this ,
27601 And now worth nothing ? Shall I have the thought
27602 To think on this , and shall I lack the thought
27603 That such a thing bechanc'd would make me sad ?
27604 But tell not me : I know Antonio
27605 Is sad to think upon his merchandise .
27606
27607 Believe me , no : I thank my fortune for it ,
27608 My ventures are not in one bottom trusted ,
27609 Nor to one place ; nor is my whole estate
27610 Upon the fortune of this present year :
27611 Therefore , my merchandise makes me not sad .
27612
27613 Why , then you are in love .
27614
27615 Fie , fie !
27616
27617 Not in love neither ? Then let's say you are sad ,
27618 Because you are not merry : and 'twere as easy
27619 For you to laugh and leap , and say you are merry ,
27620 Because you are not sad . Now , by two-headed Janus ,
27621 Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time :
27622 Some that will evermore peep through their eyes
27623 And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper ,
27624 And other of such vinegar aspect
27625 That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile ,
27626 Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable .
27627
27628
27629 Here comes Bassanio , your most noble kinsman ,
27630 Gratiano , and Lorenzo . Fare ye well :
27631 We leave you now with better company .
27632
27633 I would have stay'd till I had made you merry ,
27634 If worthier friends had not prevented me .
27635
27636 Your worth is very dear in my regard .
27637 I take it , your own business calls on you ,
27638 And you embrace the occasion to depart .
27639
27640 Good morrow , my good lords .
27641
27642 Good signiors both , when shall we laugh ? say when ?
27643 You grow exceeding strange : must it be so ?
27644
27645 We'll make our leisures to attend on yours .
27646
27647
27648 My Lord Bassanio , since you have found Antonio ,
27649 We too will leave you ; but , at dinner-time ,
27650 I pray you , have in mind where we must meet .
27651
27652 I will not fail you .
27653
27654 You look not well , Signior Antonio ;
27655 You have too much respect upon the world :
27656 They lose it that do buy it with much care :
27657 Believe me , you are marvellously chang'd .
27658
27659 I hold the world but as the world , Gratiano ;
27660 A stage where every man must play a part ,
27661 And mine a sad one .
27662
27663 Let me play the fool :
27664 With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ,
27665 And let my liver rather heat with wine
27666 Than my heart cool with mortifying groans .
27667 Why should a man , whose blood is warm within ,
27668 Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ?
27669 Sleep when he wakes , and creep into the jaundice
27670 By being peevish ? I tell thee what , Antonio
27671 I love thee , and it is my love that speaks
27672 There are a sort of men whose visages
27673 Do cream and mantle like a standing pond ,
27674 And do a wilful stillness entertain ,
27675 With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion
27676 Of wisdom , gravity , profound conceit ;
27677 As who should say , 'I am Sir Oracle ,
27678 And when I ope my lips let no dog bark !'
27679 O , my Antonio , I do know of these ,
27680 That therefore only are reputed wise
27681 For saying nothing ; when , I am very sure ,
27682 If they should speak , would almost damn those ears
27683 Which , hearing them , would call their brothers fools .
27684 I'll tell thee more of this another time :
27685 But fish not , with this melancholy bait ,
27686 For this fool-gudgeon , this opinion .
27687 Come , good Lorenzo . Fare ye well awhile :
27688 I'll end my exhortation after dinner .
27689
27690 Well , we will leave you then till dinner-time .
27691 I must be one of these same dumb-wise men ,
27692 For Gratiano never lets me speak .
27693
27694 Well , keep me company but two years moe ,
27695 Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue .
27696
27697 Farewell : I'll grow a talker for this gear .
27698
27699 Thanks , i' faith ; for silence is only commendable
27700 In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible .
27701
27702
27703 Is that anything now ?
27704
27705 Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing , more than any man in all Venice . His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them , and , when you have them , they are not worth the search .
27706
27707 Well , tell me now , what lady is the same
27708 To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage ,
27709 That you to-day promis'd to tell me of ?
27710
27711 'Tis not unknown to you , Antonio ,
27712 How much I have disabled mine estate ,
27713 By something showing a more swelling port
27714 Than my faint means would grant continuance :
27715 Nor do I now make moan to be abridg'd
27716 From such a noble rate ; but my chief care
27717 Is , to come fairly off from the great debts
27718 Wherein my time , something too prodigal ,
27719 Hath left me gag'd . To you , Antonio ,
27720 I owe the most , in money and in love ;
27721 And from your love I have a warranty
27722 To unburthen all my plots and purposes
27723 How to get clear of all the debts I owe .
27724
27725 I pray you , good Bassanio , let me know it ;
27726 And if it stand , as you yourself still do ,
27727 Within the eye of honour , be assur'd ,
27728 My purse , my person , my extremest means ,
27729 Lie all unlock'd to your occasions .
27730
27731 In my school-days , when I had lost one shaft ,
27732 I shot his fellow of the self-same flight
27733 The self-same way with more advised watch ,
27734 To find the other forth , and by adventuring both ,
27735 I oft found both . I urge this childhood proof ,
27736 Because what follows is pure innocence .
27737 I owe you much , and , like a wilful youth ,
27738 That which I owe is lost ; but if you please
27739 To shoot another arrow that self way
27740 Which you did shoot the first , I do not doubt ,
27741 As I will watch the aim , or to find both ,
27742 Or bring your latter hazard back again ,
27743 And thankfully rest debtor for the first .
27744
27745 You know me well , and herein spend but time
27746 To wind about my love with circumstance ;
27747 And out of doubt you do me now more wrong
27748 In making question of my uttermost
27749 Than if you had made waste of all I have :
27750 Then do but say to me what I should do
27751 That in your knowledge may by me be done ,
27752 And I am prest unto it : therefore speak .
27753
27754 In Belmont is a lady richly left ,
27755 And she is fair , and , fairer than that word ,
27756 Of wondrous virtues : sometimes from her eyes
27757 I did receive fair speechless messages :
27758 Her name is Portia ; nothing undervalu'd
27759 To Cato's daughter , Brutus' Portia :
27760 Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth ,
27761 For the four winds blow in from every coast
27762 Renowned suitors ; and her sunny locks
27763 Hang on her temples like a golden fleece ;
27764 Which makes her seat of Belmont Colchos' strond ,
27765 And many Jasons come in quest of her .
27766 O my Antonio ! had I but the means
27767 To hold a rival place with one of them ,
27768 I have a mind presages me such thrift ,
27769 That I should questionless be fortunate .
27770
27771 Thou knowest that all my fortunes are at sea ;
27772 Neither have I money , nor commodity
27773 To raise a present sum : therefore go forth ;
27774 Try what my credit can in Venice do :
27775 That shall be rack'd , even to the uttermost ,
27776 To furnish thee to Belmont , to fair Portia .
27777 Go , presently inquire , and so will I ,
27778 Where money is , and I no question make
27779 To have it of my trust or for my sake .
27780
27781
27782 By my troth , Nerissa , my little body is aweary of this great world .
27783
27784 You would be , sweet madam , if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are : and yet , for aught I see , they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing . It is no mean happiness therefore , to be seated in the mean : superfluity comes sooner by white hairs , but competency lives longer .
27785
27786 Good sentences and well pronounced .
27787
27788 They would be better if well followed .
27789
27790 If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do , chapels had been churches , and poor men's cottages princes' palaces . It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done , than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching . The brain may devise laws for the blood , but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree : such a hare is madness the youth , to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple . But this reasoning is not in the fashion to choose me a husband . O me , the word 'choose !' I may neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I dislike ; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father . Is it not hard , Nerissa , that I cannot choose one nor refuse none ?
27791
27792 Your father was ever virtuous , and holy men at their death have good inspirations ; therefore , the lottery that he hath devised in these three chests of gold , silver , and lead , whereof who chooses his meaning chooses you , will , no doubt , never be chosen by any rightly but one who you shall rightly love . But what warmth is there in your affection towards any of these princely suitors that are already come ?
27793
27794 I pray thee , over-name them , and as thou namest them , I will describe them ; and , according to my description , level at my affection .
27795
27796 First , there is the Neapolitan prince .
27797
27798 Ay , that's a colt indeed , for he doth nothing but talk of his horse ; and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts that he can shoe him himself . I am much afeard my lady his mother played false with a smith .
27799
27800 Then is there the County Palatine .
27801
27802 He doth nothing but frown , as who should say , 'An you will not have me , choose .' He hears merry tales , and smiles not : I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old , being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth . I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth than to either of these . God defend me from these two !
27803
27804 How say you by the French lord , Monsieur Le Bon ?
27805
27806 God made him , and therefore let him pass for a man . In truth , I know it is a sin to be a mocker ; but , he ! why , he hath a horse better than the Neapolitan's , a better bad habit of frowning than the Count Palatine ; he is every man in no man ; if a throstle sing , he falls straight a-capering ; he will fence with his own shadow : if I should marry him , I should marry twenty husbands . If he would despise me , I would forgive him , for if he love me to madness , I shall never requite him .
27807
27808 What say you , then , to Falconbridge , the young baron of England ?
27809
27810 You know I say nothing to him , for he understands not me , nor I him : he hath neither Latin , French , nor Italian ; and you will come into the court and swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English . He is a proper man's picture , but , alas ! who can converse with a dumb-show ? How oddly he is suited ! I think he bought his doublet in Italy , his round hose in France , his bonnet in Germany , and his behaviour every where .
27811
27812 What think you of the Scottish lord , his neighbour ?
27813
27814 That he hath a neighbourly charity in him , for he borrowed a box of the ear of the Englishman , and swore he would pay him again when he was able : I think the Frenchman became his surety and sealed under for another .
27815
27816 How like you the young German , the Duke of Saxony's nephew ?
27817
27818 Very vilely in the morning , when he is sober , and most vilely in the afternoon , when he is drunk : when he is best , he is a little worse than a man , and when he is worst , he is little better than a beast . An the worst fall that ever fell , I hope I shall make shift to go without him .
27819
27820 If he should offer to choose , and choose the right casket , you should refuse to perform your father's will , if you should refuse to accept him .
27821
27822 Therefore , for fear of the worst , I pray thee , set a deep glass of Rhenish wine on the contrary casket , for , if the devil be within and that temptation without , I know he will choose it . I will do anything , Nerissa , ere I will be married to a sponge .
27823
27824 You need not fear , lady , the having any of these lords : they have acquainted me with their determinations ; which is , indeed , to return to their home and to trouble you with no more suit , unless you may be won by some other sort than your father's imposition depending on the caskets .
27825
27826 If I live to be as old as Sibylla , I will die as chaste as Diana , unless I be obtained by the manner of my father's will . I am glad this parcel of wooers are so reasonable , for there is not one among them but I dote on his very absence , and I pray God grant them a fair departure .
27827
27828 Do you not remember , lady , in your father's time , a Venetian , a scholar and a soldier , that came hither in the company of the Marquis of Montferrat ?
27829
27830 Yes , yes : it was Bassanio ; as I think , he was so called .
27831
27832 True , madam : he , of all the men that ever my foolish eyes looked upon , was the best deserving a fair lady .
27833
27834 I remember him well , and I remember him worthy of thy praise .
27835
27836 How now ! what news ?
27837
27838 The four strangers seek for you , madam , to take their leave ; and there is a forerunner come from a fifth , the Prince of Morocco , who brings word the prince his master will be here to-night .
27839
27840 If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good heart as I can bid the other four farewell , I should be glad of his approach : if he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil , I had rather he should shrive me than wive me . Come , Nerissa . Sirrah , go before .
27841 Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer , another knocks at the door .
27842
27843
27844 Three thousand ducats ; well ?
27845
27846 Ay , sir , for three months .
27847
27848 For three months ; well ?
27849
27850 For the which , as I told you , Antonio shall be bound .
27851
27852 Antonio shall become bound ; well ?
27853
27854 May you stead me ? Will you pleasure me ? Shall I know your answer ?
27855
27856 Three thousand ducats , for three months , and Antonio bound .
27857
27858 Your answer to that .
27859
27860 Antonio is a good man .
27861
27862 Have you heard any imputation to the contrary ?
27863
27864 Ho , no , no , no , no : my meaning in saying he is a good man is to have you understand me that he is sufficient . Yet his means are in supposition : he hath an argosy bound to Tripolis , another to the Indies ; I understand moreover upon the Rialto , he hath a third at Mexico , a fourth for England , and other ventures he hath , squandered abroad . But ships are but boards , sailors but men : there be land-rats and water-rats , land-thieves , and water-thieves ,I mean pirates ,and then there is the peril of waters , winds , and rocks . The man is , notwithstanding , sufficient . Three thousand ducats ; I think , I may take his bond .
27865
27866 Be assured you may .
27867
27868 I will be assured I may ; and , that I may be assured , I will bethink me . May I speak with Antonio ?
27869
27870 If it please you to dine with us .
27871
27872 Yes , to smell pork : to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into . I will buy with you , sell with you , talk with you , walk with you , and so following ; but I will not eat with you , drink with you , nor pray with you . What news on the Rialto ? Who is he comes here ?
27873
27874
27875 This is Signior Antonio .
27876
27877 How like a fawning publican he looks !
27878 I hate him for he is a Christian ;
27879 But more for that in low simplicity
27880 He lends out money gratis , and brings down
27881 The rate of usance here with us in Venice .
27882 If I can catch him once upon the hip ,
27883 I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him .
27884 He hates our sacred nation , and he rails ,
27885 Even there where merchants most do congregate ,
27886 On me , my bargains , and my well-won thrift ,
27887 Which he calls interest . Cursed be my tribe ,
27888 If I forgive him !
27889
27890 Shylock , do you hear ?
27891
27892 I am debating of my present store ,
27893 And , by the near guess of my memory ,
27894 I cannot instantly raise up the gross
27895 Of full three thousand ducats . What of that ?
27896 Tubal , a wealthy Hebrew of my tribe ,
27897 Will furnish me . But soft ! how many months
27898 Do you desire ?
27899
27900 Rest you fair , good signior ;
27901 Your worship was the last man in our mouths .
27902
27903 Shylock , albeit I neither lend nor borrow
27904 By taking nor by giving of excess ,
27905 Yet , to supply the ripe wants of my friend ,
27906 I'll break a custom .
27907
27908 Is he yet possess'd
27909 How much ye would ?
27910
27911 Ay , ay , three thousand ducats .
27912
27913 And for three months .
27914
27915 I had forgot ; three months ; you told me so .
27916 Well then , your bond ; and let me see . But hear you ;
27917 Methought you said you neither lend nor borrow
27918 Upon advantage .
27919
27920 I do never use it .
27921
27922 When Jacob graz'd his uncle Laban's sheep ,
27923 This Jacob from our holy Abram was ,
27924 As his wise mother wrought in his behalf ,
27925 The third possessor : ay , he was the third ,
27926
27927 And what of him ? did he take interest ?
27928
27929 No ; not take interest ; not , as you would say ,
27930 Directly interest : mark what Jacob did .
27931 When Laban and himself were compromis'd ,
27932 That all the eanlings that were streak'd and pied
27933 Should fall as Jacob's hire , the ewes , being rank ,
27934 In end of autumn turned to the rams ;
27935 And , when the work of generation was
27936 Between these woolly breeders in the act ,
27937 The skilful shepherd peel'd me certain wands ,
27938 And , in the doing of the deed of kind ,
27939 He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes ,
27940 Who , then conceiving , did in eaning time
27941 Fall parti-colour'd lambs , and those were Jacob's .
27942 This was a way to thrive , and he was blest :
27943 And thrift is blessing , if men steal it not .
27944
27945 This was a venture , sir , that Jacob serv'd for ;
27946 A thing not in his power to bring to pass ,
27947 But sway'd and fashion'd by the hand of heaven .
27948 Was this inserted to make interest good ?
27949 Or is your gold and silver ewes and rams ?
27950
27951 I cannot tell ; I make it breed as fast : But note me , signior .
27952
27953 Mark you this , Bassanio ,
27954 The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose .
27955 An evil soul , producing holy witness ,
27956 Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ,
27957 A goodly apple rotten at the heart .
27958 O , what a goodly outside falsehood hath !
27959
27960 Three thousand ducats ; 'tis a good round sum .
27961 Three months from twelve , then let me see the rate .
27962
27963 Well , Shylock , shall we be beholding to you ?
27964
27965 Signior Antonio , many a time and oft
27966 In the Rialto you have rated me
27967 About my moneys and my usances :
27968 Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ,
27969 For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe .
27970 You call me misbeliever , cut-throat dog ,
27971 And spet upon my Jewish gaberdine ,
27972 And all for use of that which is mine own .
27973 Well then , it now appears you need my help :
27974 Go to then ; you come to me , and you say ,
27975 'Shylock , we would have moneys :' you say so ;
27976 You , that did void your rheum upon my beard ,
27977 And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
27978 Over your threshold : moneys is your suit .
27979 What should I say to you ? Should I not say ,
27980 'Hath a dog money ? Is it possible
27981 A cur can lend three thousand ducats ?' or
27982 Shall I bend low , and in a bondman's key ,
27983 With bated breath , and whispering humbleness ,
27984 Say this :
27985 'Fair sir , you spet on me on Wednesday last ;
27986 You spurn'd me such a day ; another time
27987 You call'd me dog ; and for these courtesies
27988 I'll lend you thus much moneys ?'
27989
27990 I am as like to call thee so again ,
27991 To spet on thee again , to spurn thee too .
27992 If thou wilt lend this money , lend it not
27993 As to thy friends ,for when did friendship take
27994 A breed for barren metal of his friend ?
27995 But lend it rather to thine enemy ;
27996 Who if he break , thou mayst with better face
27997 Exact the penalty .
27998
27999 Why , look you , how you storm !
28000 I would be friends with you , and have your love ,
28001 Forget the shames that you have stain'd me with ,
28002 Supply your present wants , and take no doit
28003 Of usance for my moneys , and you'll not hear me :
28004 This is kind I offer .
28005
28006 This were kindness .
28007
28008 This kindness will I show .
28009 Go with me to a notary , seal me there
28010 Your single bond ; and , in a merry sport ,
28011 If you repay me not on such a day ,
28012 In such a place , such sum or sums as are
28013 Express'd in the condition , let the forfeit
28014 Be nominated for an equal pound
28015 Of your fair flesh , to be cut off and taken
28016 In what part of your body pleaseth me .
28017
28018 Content , i' faith : I'll seal to such a bond ,
28019 And say there is much kindness in the Jew .
28020
28021 You shall not seal to such a bond for me :
28022 I'll rather dwell in my necessity .
28023
28024 Why , fear not , man ; I will not forfeit it :
28025 Within these two months , that's a month before
28026 This bond expires , I do expect return
28027 Of thrice three times the value of this bond .
28028
28029 O father Abram ! what these Christians are ,
28030 Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect
28031 The thoughts of others . Pray you , tell me this ;
28032 If he should break his day , what should I gain
28033 By the exaction of the forfeiture ?
28034 A pound of man's flesh , taken from a man ,
28035 Is not so estimable , profitable neither ,
28036 As flesh of muttons , beefs , or goats . I say ,
28037 To buy his favour , I extend this friendship :
28038 If he will take it , so ; if not , adieu ;
28039 And , for my love , I pray you wrong me not .
28040
28041 Yes , Shylock , I will seal unto this bond .
28042
28043 Then meet me forthwith at the notary's ;
28044 Give him direction for this merry bond ,
28045 And I will go and purse the ducats straight ,
28046 See to my house , left in the fearful guard
28047 Of an unthrifty knave , and presently
28048 I will be with you .
28049
28050 Hie thee , gentle Jew .
28051
28052 This Hebrew will turn Christian : he grows kind .
28053
28054 I like not fair terms and a villain's mind .
28055
28056 Come on : in this there can be no dismay ;
28057 My ships come home a month before the day .
28058
28059
28060 Mislike me not for my complexion ,
28061 The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun ,
28062 To whom I am a neighbour and near bred .
28063 Bring me the fairest creature northward born ,
28064 Where Ph bus' fire scarce thaws the icicles ,
28065 And let us make incision for your love ,
28066 To prove whose blood is reddest , his or mine .
28067 I tell thee , lady , this aspect of mine
28068 Hath fear'd the valiant : by my love , I swear
28069 The best regarded virgins of our clime
28070 Have lov'd it too : I would not change this hue ,
28071 Except to steal your thoughts , my gentle queen .
28072
28073 In terms of choice I am not solely led
28074 By nice direction of a maiden's eyes ;
28075 Besides , the lottery of my destiny
28076 Bars me the right of voluntary choosing :
28077 But if my father had not scanted me
28078 And hedg'd me by his wit , to yield myself
28079 His wife who wins me by that means I told you ,
28080 Yourself , renowned prince , then stood as fair
28081 As any comer I have look'd on yet
28082 For my affection .
28083
28084 Even for that I thank you :
28085 Therefore , I pray you , lead me to the caskets
28086 To try my fortune . By this scimitar ,
28087 That slew the Sophy , and a Persian prince
28088 That won three fields of Sultan Solyman ,
28089 I would outstare the sternest eyes that look ,
28090 Outbrave the heart most daring on the earth ,
28091 Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear ,
28092 Yea , mock the lion when he roars for prey ,
28093 To win thee , lady . But , alas the while !
28094 If Hercules and Lichas play at dice
28095 Which is the better man , the greater throw
28096 May turn by fortune from the weaker hand :
28097 So is Alcides beaten by his page ;
28098 And so may I , blind fortune leading me ,
28099 Miss that which one unworthier may attain ,
28100 And die with grieving .
28101
28102 You must take your chance ;
28103 And either not attempt to choose at all ,
28104 Or swear before you choose , if you choose wrong ,
28105 Never to speak to lady afterward
28106 In way of marriage : therefore be advis'd .
28107
28108 Nor will not : come , bring me unto my chance .
28109
28110 First , forward to the temple : after dinner
28111 Your hazard shall be made .
28112
28113 Good fortune then !
28114 To make me blest or cursed'st among men !
28115
28116
28117 Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from this Jew my master . The fiend is at mine elbow , and tempts me , saying to me , 'Gobbo , Launcelot Gobbo , good Launcelot ,' or 'good Gobbo ,' or 'good Launcelot Gobbo , use your legs , take the start , run away .' My conscience says , 'No ; take heed , honest Launcelot ; take heed , honest Gobbo ;' or , as aforesaid , 'honest Launcelot Gobbo ; do not run ; scorn running with thy heels .' Well , the most courageous fiend bids me pack : 'Via !' says the fiend ; 'away !' says the fiend ; 'for the heavens , rouse up a brave mind ,' says the fiend , 'and run .' Well , my conscience , hanging about the neck of my heart , says very wisely to me , 'My honest friend Launcelot , being an honest man's son ,' or rather an honest woman's son ;for , indeed , my father did something smack , something grow to , he had a kind of taste ;well , my conscience says , 'Launcelot , budge not .' 'Budge ,' says the fiend . 'Budge not ,' says my conscience . 'Conscience ,' say I , 'you counsel well ;' 'fiend ,' say I , 'you counsel well :' to be ruled by my conscience , I should stay with the Jew my master , who , God bless the mark ! is a kind of devil ; and , to run away from the Jew , I should be ruled by the fiend , who , saving your reverence , is the devil himself . Certainly , the Jew is the very devil incarnal ; and , in my conscience , my conscience is but a kind of hard conscience , to offer to counsel me to stay with the Jew . The fiend gives the more friendly counsel : I will run , fiend ; my heels are at your commandment ; I will run .
28118
28119
28120 Master young man , you ; I pray you , which is the way to Master Jew's ?
28121
28122 O heavens ! this is my truebegotten father , who , being more than sandblind , high-gravel blind , knows me not : I will try confusions with him .
28123
28124 Master young gentleman , I pray you , which is the way to Master Jew's ?
28125
28126 Turn up on your right hand at the next turning , but , at the next turning of all , on your left ; marry , at the very next turning , turn of no hand , but turn down indirectly to the Jew's house .
28127
28128 By God's sonties , 'twill be a hard way to hit . Can you tell me whether one Launcelot , that dwells with him , dwell with him or no ?
28129
28130 Talk you of young Master Launcelot ?
28131
28132 Mark me now ; now will I raise the waters . Talk you of young Master Launcelot ?
28133
28134 No master , sir , but a poor man's son : his father , though I say it , is an honest , exceeding poor man , and , God be thanked , well to live .
28135
28136 Well , let his father be what a' will , we talk of young Master Launcelot .
28137
28138 Your worship's friend , and Launcelot , sir .
28139
28140 But I pray you , ergo , old man , ergo , I beseech you , talk you of young Master Launcelot ?
28141
28142 Of Launcelot , an't please your mastership .
28143
28144 Ergo , Master Launcelot . Talk not of Master Launcelot , father ; for the young gentleman ,according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings , the Sisters Three and such branches of learning ,is , indeed , deceased ; or , as you would say in plain terms , gone to heaven .
28145
28146 Marry , God forbid ! the boy was the very staff of my age , my very prop .
28147
28148 Do I look like a cudgel or a hovel-post , a staff or a prop ? Do you know me , father ?
28149
28150 Alack the day ! I know you not , young gentleman : but I pray you , tell me , is my boy ,God rest his soul !alive or dead ?
28151
28152 Do you not know me , father ?
28153
28154 Alack , sir , I am sand-blind ; I know you not .
28155
28156 Nay , indeed , if you had your eyes , you might fail of the knowing me : it is a wise father that knows his own child . Well , old man , I will tell you news of your son . Give me your blessing ; truth will come to light ; murder cannot be hid long ; a man's son may , but , in the end , truth will out .
28157
28158 Pray you , sir , stand up . I am sure you are not Launcelot , my boy .
28159
28160 Pray you , let's have no more fooling about it , but give me your blessing : I am Launcelot , your boy that was , your son that is , your child that shall be .
28161
28162 I cannot think you are my son .
28163
28164 I know not what I shall think of that ; but I am Launcelot , the Jew's man , and I am sure Margery your wife is my mother .
28165
28166 Her name is Margery , indeed : I'll be sworn , if thou be Launcelot , thou art mine own flesh and blood . Lord worshipped might he be ! what a beard hast thou got ! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail .
28167
28168 It should seem then that Dobbin's tail grows backward : I am sure he had more hair on his tail than I have on my face , when I last saw him .
28169
28170 Lord ! how art thou changed . How dost thou and thy master agree ? I have brought him a present . How 'gree you now ?
28171
28172 Well , well : but , for mine own part , as I have set up my rest to run away , so I will not rest till I have run some ground . My master's a very Jew : give him a present ! give him a halter : I am farnished in his service ; you may tell every finger I have with my ribs . Father , I am glad you are come : give me your present to one Master Bassanio , who , indeed , gives rare new liveries . If I serve not him , I will run as far as God has any ground . O rare fortune ! here comes the man : to him , father ; for I am a Jew , if I serve the Jew any longer .
28173
28174
28175 You may do so ; but let it be so hasted that supper be ready at the very furthest by five of the clock . See these letters delivered ; put the liveries to making ; and desire Gratiano to come anon to my lodging .
28176
28177
28178 To him , father .
28179
28180 God bless your worship !
28181
28182 Gramercy ! wouldst thou aught with me ?
28183
28184 Here's my son , sir , a poor boy ,
28185
28186 Not a poor boy , sir , but the rich Jew's man ; that would , sir ,as my father shall specify ,
28187
28188 He hath a great infection , sir , as one would say , to serve
28189
28190 Indeed , the short and the long is , I serve the Jew , and have a desire , as my father shall specify ,
28191
28192 His master and he , saving your worship's reverence , are scarce cater-cousins ,
28193
28194 To be brief , the very truth is that the Jew having done me wrong , doth cause me ,as my father , being , I hope , an old man , shall frutify unto you ,
28195
28196 I have here a dish of doves that I would bestow upon your worship , and my suit is ,
28197
28198 In very brief , the suit is impertinent to myself , as your worship shall know by this honest old man ; and , though I say it , though old man , yet poor man , my father .
28199
28200 One speak for both . What would you ?
28201
28202 Serve you , sir .
28203
28204 That is the very defect of the matter , sir .
28205
28206 I know thee well ; thou hast obtain'd thy suit :
28207 Shylock thy master spoke with me this day ,
28208 And hath preferr'd thee , if it be preferment
28209 To leave a rich Jew's service , to become
28210 The follower of so poor a gentleman .
28211
28212 The old proverb is very well parted between my master Shylock and you , sir : you have the grace of God , sir , and he hath enough .
28213
28214 Thou speak'st it well . Go , father , with thy son .
28215 Take leave of thy old master , and inquire
28216 My lodging out .
28217
28218 Give him a livery
28219 More guarded than his fellows' : see it done .
28220
28221 Father , in . I cannot get a service , no ; I have ne'er a tongue in my head . Well ,
28222
28223 if any man in Italy have a fairer table which doth offer to swear upon a book , I shall have good fortune . Go to ; here's a simple line of life : here's a small trifle of wives : alas ! fifteen wives is nothing : a 'leven widows and nine maids is a simple coming-in for one man ; and then to 'scape drowning thrice , and to be in peril of my life with the edge of a feather-bed ; here are simple 'scapes . Well , if Fortune be a woman , she's a good wench for this gear . Father , come ; I'll take my leave of the Jew in the twinkling of an eye .
28224
28225
28226 I pray thee , good Leonardo , think on this :
28227 These things being bought , and orderly bestow'd ,
28228 Return in haste , for I do feast to-night
28229 My best-esteem'd acquaintance : hie thee , go .
28230
28231 My best endeavours shall be done herein .
28232
28233
28234 Where is your master ?
28235
28236 Yonder , sir , he walks .
28237
28238
28239 Signior Bassanio !
28240
28241 Gratiano !
28242
28243 I have a suit to you .
28244
28245 You have obtain'd it .
28246
28247 You must not deny me : I must go with you to Belmont .
28248
28249 Why , then you must . But hear thee , Gratiano ;
28250 Thou art too wild , too rude and bold of voice ;
28251 Parts that become thee happily enough ,
28252 And in such eyes as ours appear not faults ;
28253 But where thou art not known , why , there they show
28254 Something too liberal . Pray thee , take pain
28255 To allay with some cold drops of modesty
28256 Thy skipping spirit , lest , through thy wild behaviour ,
28257 I be misconstru'd in the place I go to ,
28258 And lose my hopes .
28259
28260 Signior Bassanio , hear me :
28261 If I do not put on a sober habit ,
28262 Talk with respect , and swear but now and then ,
28263 Wear prayer-books in my pocket , look demurely ,
28264 Nay more , while grace is saying , hood mine eyes
28265 Thus with my hat , and sigh , and say 'amen ;'
28266 Use all the observance of civility ,
28267 Like one well studied in a sad ostent
28268 To please his grandam , never trust me more .
28269
28270 Well , we shall see your bearing .
28271
28272 Nay , but I bar to-night ; you shall not gauge me
28273 By what we do to-night .
28274
28275 No , that were pity :
28276 I would entreat you rather to put on
28277 Your boldest suit of mirth , for we have friends
28278 That purpose merriment . But fare you well :
28279 I have some business .
28280
28281 And I must to Lorenzo and the rest ;
28282 But we will visit you at supper-time .
28283
28284
28285 I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so :
28286 Our house is hell , and thou , a merry devil ,
28287 Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness .
28288 But fare thee well ; there is a ducat for thee :
28289 And , Launcelot , soon at supper shalt thou see
28290 Lorenzo , who is thy new master's guest :
28291 Give him this letter ; do it secretly ;
28292 And so farewell : I would not have my father
28293 See me in talk with thee .
28294
28295 Adieu ! tears exhibit my tongue . Most beautiful pagan , most sweet Jew ! If a Christian did not play the knave and get thee , I am much deceived . But , adieu ! these foolish drops do somewhat drown my manly spirit : adieu !
28296
28297 Farewell , good Launcelot .
28298
28299 Alack , what heinous sin is it in me
28300 To be asham'd to be my father's child !
28301 But though I am a daughter to his blood ,
28302 I am not to his manners . O Lorenzo !
28303 If thou keep promise , I shall end this strife ,
28304 Become a Christian , and thy loving wife .
28305
28306
28307 Nay , we will slink away in supper-time ,
28308 Disguise us at my lodging , and return
28309 All in an hour .
28310
28311 We have not made good preparation .
28312
28313 We have not spoke us yet of torch-bearers .
28314
28315 'Tis vile , unless it may be quaintly order'd ,
28316 And better , in my mind , not undertook .
28317
28318 'Tis now but four o'clock : we have two hours
28319 To furnish us .
28320
28321 Friend Launcelot , what's the news ?
28322
28323 An it shall please you to break up this , it shall seem to signify .
28324
28325 I know the hand : in faith , 'tis a fair hand ;
28326 And whiter than the paper it writ on
28327 Is the fair hand that writ .
28328
28329 Love news , in faith .
28330
28331 By your leave , sir .
28332
28333 Whither goest thou ?
28334
28335 Marry , sir , to bid my old master , the Jew , to sup to-night with my new master , the Christian .
28336
28337 Hold here , take this : tell gentle Jessica
28338 I will not fail her ; speak it privately .
28339 Go , gentlemen ,
28340
28341 Will you prepare you for this masque to-night ?
28342 I am provided of a torch-bearer .
28343
28344 Ay , marry , I'll be gone about it straight .
28345
28346 And so will I .
28347
28348 Meet me and Gratiano
28349 At Gratiano's lodging some hour hence .
28350
28351 'Tis good we do so .
28352
28353
28354 Was not that letter from fair Jessica ?
28355
28356 I must needs tell thee all . She hath directed
28357 How I shall take her from her father's house ;
28358 What gold and jewels she is furnish'd with ;
28359 What page's suit she hath in readiness .
28360 If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven ,
28361 It will be for his gentle daughter's sake ;
28362 And never dare misfortune cross her foot ,
28363 Unless she do it under this excuse ,
28364 That she is issue to a faithless Jew .
28365 Come , go with me : peruse this as thou goest .
28366 Fair Jessica shall be my torch-bearer .
28367
28368
28369 Well , thou shalt see , thy eyes shall be thy judge ,
28370 The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio :
28371 What , Jessical thou shalt not gormandize ,
28372 As thou hast done with me ;What , Jessical
28373 And sleep and snore , and rend apparel out
28374 Why , Jessica , I say !
28375
28376 Why , Jessica !
28377
28378 Who bids thee call ? I do not bid thee call .
28379
28380 Your worship was wont to tell me that
28381 I could do nothing without bidding .
28382
28383
28384 Call you ? What is your will ?
28385
28386 I am bid forth to supper , Jessica :
28387 There are my keys . But wherefore should I go ?
28388 I am not bid for love ; they flatter me :
28389 But yet I'll go in hate , to feed upon
28390 The prodigal Christian . Jessica , my girl ,
28391 Look to my house . I am right loath to go :
28392 There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest ,
28393 For I did dream of money-bags to-night .
28394
28395 I beseech you , sir , go : my young master doth expect your reproach .
28396
28397 So do I his .
28398
28399 And they have conspired together : I will not say you shall see a masque ; but if you do , then it was not for nothing that my nose fell a-bleeding on Black-Monday last , at six o'clock i' the morning , falling out that year on Ash-Wednesday was four year in the afternoon .
28400
28401 What ! are there masques ? Hear you me , Jessica :
28402 Lock up my doors ; and when you hear the drum ,
28403 And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife ,
28404 Clamber not you up to the casements then ,
28405 Nor thrust your head into the public street
28406 To gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces ,
28407 But stop my house's ears , I mean my casements ;
28408 Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter
28409 My sober house . By Jacob's staff I swear
28410 I have no mind of feasting forth to-night ;
28411 But I will go . Go you before me , sirrah ;
28412 Say I will come .
28413
28414 I will go before , air . Mistress , look out at window , for all this ;
28415
28416 There will come a Christian by ,
28417 Will be worth a Jewess' eye .
28418
28419 What says that fool of Hagar's offspring , ha ?
28420
28421 His words were , 'Farewell , mistress ;' nothing else .
28422
28423 The patch is kind enough , but a huge feeder ;
28424 Snail-slow in profit , and he sleeps by day
28425 More than the wild cat : drones hive not with me ;
28426 Therefore I part with him , and part with him
28427 To one that I would have him help to waste
28428 His borrow'd purse . Well , Jessica , go in :
28429 Perhaps I will return immediately :
28430 Do as I bid you ; shut doors after you :
28431 'Fast bind , fast find ,'
28432 A proverb never stale in thrifty mind .
28433
28434
28435 Farewell ; and if my fortune be not crost ,
28436 I have a father , you a daughter , lost .
28437
28438
28439 This is the penthouse under which Lorenzo
28440 Desir'd us to make stand .
28441
28442 His hour is almost past .
28443
28444 And it is marvel he out-dwells his hour ,
28445 For lovers ever run before the clock .
28446
28447 O ! ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly
28448 To seal love's bonds new-made , than they are wont
28449 To keep obliged faith unforfeited !
28450
28451 That ever holds : who riseth from a feast
28452 With that keen appetite that he sits down ?
28453 Where is the horse that doth untread again
28454 His tedious measures with the unbated fire
28455 That he did pace them first ? All things that are ,
28456 Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd .
28457 How like a younker or a prodigal
28458 The scarfed bark puts from her native bay ,
28459 Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind !
28460 How like the prodigal doth she return ,
28461 With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails ,
28462 Lean , rent , and beggar'd by the strumpet wind !
28463
28464 Here comes Lorenzo : more of this hereafter .
28465
28466
28467 Sweet friends , your patience for my long abode ;
28468 Not I , but my affairs , have made you wait :
28469 When you shall please to play the thieves for wives ,
28470 I'll watch as long for you then . Approach ;
28471 Here dwells my father Jew . Ho ! who's within ?
28472
28473
28474 Who are you ? Tell me , for more certainty ,
28475 Albeit I'll swear that I do know your tongue .
28476
28477 Lorenzo , and thy love .
28478
28479 Lorenzo , certain ; and my love indeed ,
28480 For whom love I so much ? And now who knows
28481 But you , Lorenzo , whether I am yours ?
28482
28483 Heaven and thy thoughts are witness that thou art .
28484
28485 Here , catch this casket ; it is worth the pains .
28486 I am glad 'tis night , you do not look on me ,
28487 For I am much asham'd of my exchange ;
28488 But love is blind , and lovers cannot see
28489 The pretty follies that themselves commit ;
28490 For if they could , Cupid himself would blush
28491 To see me thus transformed to a boy .
28492
28493 Descend , for you must be my torch-bearer .
28494
28495 What ! must I hold a candle to my shames ?
28496 They in themselves , good sooth , are too-too light .
28497 Why , 'tis an office of discovery , love ,
28498 And I should be obscur'd .
28499
28500 So are you , sweet ,
28501 Even in the lovely garnish of a boy .
28502 But come at once ;
28503 For the close night doth play the runaway ,
28504 And we are stay'd for at Bassanio's feast .
28505
28506 I will make fast the doors , and gild myself
28507 With some more ducats , and be with you straight .
28508
28509
28510 Now , by my hood , a Gentile , and no Jew .
28511
28512 Beshrew me , but I love her heartily ;
28513 For she is wise , if I can judge of her ,
28514 And fair she is , if that mine eyes be true ,
28515 And true she is , as she hath prov'd herself ;
28516 And therefore , like herself , wise , fair , and true ,
28517 Shall she be placed in my constant soul .
28518
28519
28520 What , art thou come ? On , gentlemen ; away !
28521 Our masquing mates by this time for us stay .
28522
28523
28524 Who's there ?
28525
28526 Signior Antonio !
28527
28528 Fie , fie , Gratiano ! where are all the rest ?
28529 'Tis nine o'clock ; our friends all stay for you .
28530 No masque to-night : the wind is come about ;
28531 Bassanio presently will go aboard :
28532 I have sent twenty out to seek for you .
28533
28534 I am glad on't : I desire no more delight
28535 Than to be under sail and gone to-night .
28536
28537
28538 Go , draw aside the curtains , and discover
28539 The several caskets to this noble prince .
28540 Now make your choice .
28541
28542 The first , of gold , which this inscription bears :
28543 Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire .
28544 The second , silver , which this promise carries :
28545 Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves .
28546 This third , dull lead , with warning all as blunt :
28547 Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath .
28548 How shall I know if I do choose the right ?
28549
28550 The one of them contains my picture , prince :
28551 If you choose that , then I am yours withal .
28552
28553 Some god direct my judgment ! Let me see :
28554 I will survey the inscriptions back again :
28555 What says this leaden casket ?
28556 Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath .
28557 Must give : For what ? for lead ? hazard for lead ?
28558 This casket threatens . Men that hazard all
28559 Do it in hope of fair advantages :
28560 A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross ;
28561 I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead .
28562 What says the silver with her virgin hue ?
28563 Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves .
28564 As much as he deserves ! Pause there , Morocco ,
28565 And weigh thy value with an even hand .
28566 If thou be'st rated by thy estimation ,
28567 Thou dost deserve enough ; and yet enough
28568 May not extend so far as to the lady :
28569 And yet to be afeard of my deserving
28570 Were but a weak disabling of myself .
28571 As much as I deserve ! Why , that's the lady :
28572 I do in birth deserve her , and in fortunes ,
28573 In graces , and in qualities of breeding ;
28574 But more than these , in love I do deserve .
28575 What if I stray'd no further , but chose here ?
28576 Let's see once more this saying grav'd in gold :
28577 Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire .
28578 Why , that's the lady : all the world desires her ;
28579 From the four corners of the earth they come ,
28580 To kiss this shrine , this mortal-breathing saint :
28581 The Hyrcanian deserts and the vasty wilds
28582 Of wide Arabia are as throughfares now
28583 For princes to come view fair Portia :
28584 The watery kingdom , whose ambitious head
28585 Spits in the face of heaven , is no bar
28586 To stop the foreign spirits , but they come ,
28587 As o'er a brook , to see fair Portia .
28588 One of these three contains her heavenly picture .
28589 Is't like that lead contains her ? 'Twere damnation
28590 To think so base a thought : it were too gross
28591 To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave .
28592 Or shall I think in silver she's immur'd ,
28593 Being ten times undervalu'd to tried gold ?
28594 O sinful thought ! Never so rich a gem
28595 Was set in worse than gold . They have in England
28596 A coin that bears the figure of an angel
28597 Stamped in gold , but that's insculp'd upon ;
28598 But here an angel in a golden bed
28599 Lies all within . Deliver me the key :
28600 Here do I choose , and thrive I as I may !
28601
28602 There , take it , prince ; and if my form lie there ,
28603 Then I am yours .
28604
28605
28606 O hell ! what have we here ?
28607 A carrion Death , within whose empty eye
28608 There is a written scroll . I'll read the writing .
28609
28610 All that glisters is not gold ;
28611 Often have you heard that told :
28612 Many a man his life hath sold
28613 But my outside to behold :
28614 Gilded tombs do worms infold .
28615 Had you been as wise as bold ,
28616 Young in limbs , in judgment old ,
28617 Your answer had not been inscroll'd :
28618 Fare you well ; your suit is cold .
28619
28620 Cold , indeed ; and labour lost :
28621 Then , farewell , heat , and welcome , frost !
28622 Portia , adieu . I have too griev'd a heart
28623 To take a tedious leave : thus losers part .
28624
28625
28626 A gentle riddance . Draw the curtains : go .
28627 Let all of his complexion choose me so .
28628
28629
28630 Why , man , I saw Bassanio under sail :
28631 With him is Gratiano gone along ;
28632 And in their ship I'm sure Lorenzo is not .
28633
28634 The villain Jew with outcries rais'd the duke ,
28635 Who went with him to search Bassanio's ship .
28636
28637 He came too late , the ship was under sail :
28638 But there the duke was given to understand
28639 That in a gondola were seen together
28640 Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica .
28641 Besides , Antonio certified the duke
28642 They were not with Bassanio in his ship .
28643
28644 I never heard a passion so confus'd ,
28645 So strange , outrageous , and so variable ,
28646 As the dog Jew did utter in the streets :
28647 'My daughter ! O my ducats ! O my daughter !
28648 Fled with a Christian ! O my Christian ducats !
28649 Justice ! the law ! my ducats , and my daughter !
28650 A sealed bag , two sealed bags of ducats ,
28651 Of double ducats , stol'n from me by my daughter !
28652 And jewels ! two stones , two rich and precious stones ,
28653 Stol'n by my daughter ! Justice ! find the girl !
28654 She hath the stones upon her , and the ducats .'
28655
28656 Why , all the boys in Venice follow him ,
28657 Crying , his stones , his daughter , and his ducats .
28658
28659 Let good Antonio look he keep his day ,
28660 Or he shall pay for this .
28661
28662 Marry , well remember'd .
28663 I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday ,
28664 Who told me ,in the narrow seas that part
28665 The French and English ,there miscarried
28666 A vessel of our country richly fraught .
28667 I thought upon Antonio when he told me ,
28668 And wish'd in silence that it were not his .
28669
28670 You were best to tell Antonio what you hear ;
28671 Yet do not suddenly , for it may grieve him .
28672
28673 A kinder gentleman treads not the earth .
28674 I saw Bassanio and Antonio part :
28675 Bassanio told him he would make some speed
28676 Of his return : he answer'd 'Do not so ;
28677 Slubber not business for my sake , Bassanio ,
28678 But stay the very riping of the time ;
28679 And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me ,
28680 Let it not enter in your mind of love :
28681 Be merry , and employ your chiefest thoughts
28682 To courtship and such fair ostents of love
28683 As shall conveniently become you there :'
28684 And even there , his eye being big with tears ,
28685 Turning his face , he put his hand behind him ,
28686 And with affection wondrous sensible
28687 He wrung Bassanio's hand ; and so they parted .
28688
28689 I think he only loves the world for him .
28690 I pray thee , let us go and find him out ,
28691 And quicken his embraced heaviness
28692 With some delight or other .
28693
28694 Do we so .
28695
28696
28697 Quick , quick , I pray thee ; draw the curtain straight :
28698 The Prince of Arragon hath ta'en his oath ,
28699 And comes to his election presently .
28700
28701
28702 Behold , there stands the caskets , noble prince :
28703 If you choose that wherein I am contain'd ,
28704 Straight shall our nuptial rites be solemniz'd ;
28705 But if you fail , without more speech , my lord ,
28706 You must be gone from hence immediately .
28707
28708 I am enjoin'd by oath to observe three things :
28709 First , never to unfold to any one
28710 Which casket 'twas I chose ; next , if I fail
28711 Of the right casket , never in my life
28712 To woo a maid in way of marriage ;
28713 Lastly ,
28714 If I do fail in fortune of my choice ,
28715 Immediately to leave you and be gone .
28716
28717 To these injunctions every one doth swear
28718 That comes to hazard for my worthless self .
28719
28720 And so have I address'd me . Fortune now
28721 To my heart's hope ! Gold , silver , and base lead .
28722 Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath :
28723 You shall look fairer , ere I give or hazard .
28724 What says the golden chest ? ha ! let me see :
28725 Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire .
28726 What many men desire ! that 'many' may be meant
28727 By the fool multitude , that choose by show ,
28728 Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach ;
28729 Which pries not to the interior , but , like the martlet ,
28730 Builds in the weather on the outward wall ,
28731 Even in the force and road of casualty .
28732 I will not choose what many men desire ,
28733 Because I will not jump with common spirits
28734 And rank me with the barbarous multitude .
28735 Why , then to thee , thou silver treasure-house ;
28736 Tell me once more what title thou dost bear :
28737 Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves .
28738 And well said too ; for who shall go about
28739 To cozen fortune and be honourable
28740 Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume
28741 To wear an undeserved dignity .
28742 O ! that estates , degrees , and offices
28743 Were not deriv'd corruptly , and that clear honour
28744 Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer .
28745 How many then should cover that stand bare ;
28746 How many be commanded that command ;
28747 How much low peasantry would then be glean'd
28748 From the true seed of honour ; and how much honour
28749 Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times
28750 To be new varnish'd ! Well , but to my choice :
28751 Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves .
28752 I will assume desert . Give me a key for this ,
28753 And instantly unlock my fortunes here .
28754
28755
28756 Too long a pause for that which you find there .
28757
28758 What's here ? the portrait of a blinking idiot ,
28759 Presenting me a schedule ! I will read it .
28760 How much unlike art thou to Portia !
28761 How much unlike my hopes and my deservings !
28762 Who chooseth me shall have as much as he deserves .
28763 Did I deserve no more than a fool's head ?
28764 Is that my prize ? are my deserts no better ?
28765
28766 To offend , and judge , are distinct offices ,
28767 And of opposed natures .
28768
28769 What is here ?
28770
28771 The fire seven times tried this :
28772 Seven times tried that judgment is
28773 That did never choose amiss .
28774 Some there be that shadows kiss ;
28775 Such have but a shadow's bliss :
28776 There be fools alive , I wis ,
28777 Silver'd o'er ; and so was this .
28778 Take what wife you will to bed ,
28779 I will ever be your head :
28780 So be gone , sir : you are sped .
28781
28782
28783 Still more fool I shall appear
28784 By the time I linger here :
28785 With one fool's head I came to woo ,
28786 But I go away with two .
28787 Sweet , adieu . I'll keep my oath ,
28788 Patiently to bear my wroth .
28789
28790 Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth .
28791 O , these deliberate fools ! when they do choose ,
28792 They have the wisdom by their wit to lose .
28793
28794 The ancient saying is no heresy :
28795 'Hanging and wiving goes by destiny .'
28796
28797 Come , draw the curtain , Nerissa .
28798
28799
28800 Where is my lady ?
28801
28802 Here ; what would my lord ?
28803
28804 Madam , there is alighted at your gate
28805 A young Venetian , one that comes before
28806 To signify the approaching of his lord ;
28807 From whom he bringeth sensible regreets ,
28808 To wit , besides commends and courteous breath ,
28809 Gifts of rich value . Yet I have not seen
28810 So likely an embassador of love .
28811 A day in April never came so sweet ,
28812 To show how costly summer was at hand ,
28813 As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord .
28814
28815 No more , I pray thee : I am half afeard
28816 Thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee ,
28817 Thou spend'st such high-day wit in praising him .
28818 Come , come , Nerissa ; for I long to see
28819 Quick Cupid's post that comes so mannerly .
28820
28821 Bassanio , lord Love , if thy will it be !
28822
28823 Now , what news on the Rialto ?
28824
28825 Why , yet it lives there unchecked that Antonio hath a ship of rich lading wracked on the narrow seas ; the Goodwins , I think they call the place ; a very dangerous flat , and fatal , where the carcasses of many a tall ship lie buried , as they say , if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word .
28826
28827 I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped ginger , or made her neighbours believe she wept for the death of a third husband . But it is true ,without any slips of prolixity or crossing the plain highway of talk ,that the good Antonio , the honest Antonio ,O , that I had a title good enough to keep his name company !
28828
28829 Come , the full stop .
28830
28831 Ha ! what sayst thou ? Why , the end is , he hath lost a ship .
28832
28833 I would it might prove the end of his losses .
28834
28835 Let me say 'amen' betimes , lest the devil cross my prayer , for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew .
28836
28837 How now , Shylock ! what news among the merchants ?
28838
28839 You knew , none so well , none so well as you , of my daughter's flight .
28840
28841 That's certain : I , for my part , knew the tailor that made the wings she flew withal .
28842
28843 And Shylock , for his own part , knew the bird was fledged ; and then it is the complexion of them all to leave the dam .
28844
28845 She is damned for it .
28846
28847 That's certain , if the devil may be her judge .
28848
28849 My own flesh and blood to rebel !
28850
28851 Out upon it , old carrion ! rebels it at these years ?
28852
28853 I say my daughter is my flesh and blood .
28854
28855 There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory ; more between your bloods than there is between red wine and Rhenish . But tell us , do you hear whether Antonio have had any loss at sea or no ?
28856
28857 There I have another bad match : a bankrupt , a prodigal , who dare scarce show his head on the Rialto ; a beggar , that used to come so smug upon the mart ; let him look to his bond : he was wont to call me usurer ; let him look to his bond : he was wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy ; let him look to his bond .
28858
28859 Why , I am sure , if he forfeit thou wilt not take his flesh : what's that good for ?
28860
28861 To bait fish withal : if it will feed nothing else , it will feed my revenge . He hath disgraced me , and hindered me half a million , laughed at my losses , mocked at my gains , scorned my nation , thwarted my bargains , cooled my friends , heated mine enemies ; and what's his reason ? I am a Jew . Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands , organs , dimensions , senses , affections , passions ? fed with the same food , hurt with the same weapons , subject to the same diseases , healed by the same means , warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer , as a Christian is ? If you prick us , do we not bleed ? if you tickle us , do we not laugh ? if you poison us , do we not die ? and if you wrong us , shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest , we will resemble you in that . If a Jew wrong a Christian , what is his humility ? Revenge . If a Christian wrong a Jew , what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? Why , revenge . The villany you teach me I will execute , and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction .
28862
28863
28864 Gentlemen , my master Antonio is at his house , and desires to speak with you both .
28865
28866 We have been up and down to seek him .
28867
28868
28869 Here comes another of the tribe : a third cannot be matched , unless the devil himself turn Jew .
28870
28871
28872 How now , Tubal ! what news from Genoa ? Hast thou found my daughter ?
28873
28874 I often came where I did hear of her , but cannot find her .
28875
28876 Why there , there , there ! a diamond gone , cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort ! The curse never fell upon our nation till now ; I never felt it till now : two thousand ducats in that ; and other precious , precious jewels . I would my daughter were dead at my foot , and the jewels in her ear ! would she were hearsed at my foot , and the ducats in her coffin ! No news of them ? Why , so : and I know not what's spent in the search : Why thou loss upon loss ! the thief gone with so much , and so much to find the thief ; and no satisfaction , no revenge : nor no ill luck stirring but what lights on my shoulders ; no sighs but of my breathing ; no tears but of my shedding .
28877
28878 Yes , other men have ill luck too . Antonio , as I heard in Genoa ,
28879
28880 What , what , what ? ill luck , ill luck ?
28881
28882 hath an argosy cast away , coming from Tripolis .
28883
28884 I thank God ! I thank God ! Is it true ? is it true ?
28885
28886 I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wrack .
28887
28888 I thank thee , good Tubal . Good news , good news ! ha , ha ! Where ? in Genoa ?
28889
28890 Your daughter spent in Genoa , as I heard , one night , fourscore ducats .
28891
28892 Thou stick'st a dagger in me : I shall never see my gold again : fourscore ducats at a sitting ! fourscore ducats !
28893
28894 There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my company to Venice , that swear he cannot choose but break .
28895
28896 I am very glad of it : I'll plague him ; I'll torture him : I am glad of it .
28897
28898 One of them showed me a ring that he had of your daughter for a monkey .
28899
28900 Out upon her ! Thou torturest me , Tubal : it was my turquoise ; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor : I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys .
28901
28902 But Antonio is certainly undone .
28903
28904 Nay , that's true , that's very true . Go , Tubal , fee me an officer ; bespeak him a fortnight before . I will have the heart of him , if he forfeit ; for , were he out of Venice , I can make what merchandise I will . Go , go , Tubal , and meet me at our synagogue ; go , good Tubal ; at our synagogue , Tubal .
28905
28906
28907 I pray you , tarry : pause a day or two
28908 Before you hazard ; for , in choosing wrong .
28909 I lose your company : therefore , forbear awhile .
28910 There's something tells me , but it is not love ,
28911 I would not lose you ; and you know yourself ,
28912 Hate counsels not in such a quality .
28913 But lest you should not understand me well ,
28914 And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought ,
28915 I would detain you here some month or two
28916 Before you venture for me . I could teach you
28917 How to choose right , but then I am forsworn ;
28918 So will I never be : so may you miss me ;
28919 But if you do , you'll make me wish a sin ,
28920 That I had been forsworn . Beshrew your eyes ,
28921 They have o'erlook'd me and divided me :
28922 One half of me is yours , the other half yours ,
28923 Mine own , I would say ; but if mine , then yours ,
28924 And so all yours . O ! these naughty times
28925 Put bars between the owners and their rights ;
28926 And so , though yours , not yours . Prove it so ,
28927 Let fortune go to hell for it , not I .
28928 I speak too long ; but 'tis to peise the time ,
28929 To eke it and to draw it out in length ,
28930 To stay you from election .
28931
28932 Let me choose ;
28933 For as I am , I live upon the rack .
28934
28935 Upon the rack , Bassanio ! then confess
28936 What treason there is mingled with your love .
28937
28938 None but that ugly treason of mistrust ,
28939 Which makes me fear th' enjoying of my love :
28940 There may as well be amity and life
28941 'Tween snow and fire , as treason and my love .
28942
28943 Ay , but I fear you speak upon the rack ,
28944 Where men enforced do speak anything .
28945
28946 Promise me life , and I'll confess the truth .
28947
28948 Well then , confess , and live .
28949
28950 'Confess' and 'love'
28951 Had been the very sum of my confession :
28952 O happy torment , when my torturer
28953 Doth teach me answers for deliverance !
28954 But let me to my fortune and the caskets .
28955
28956 Away then ! I am lock'd in one of them :
28957 If you do love me , you will find me out .
28958 Nerissa and the rest , stand all aloof .
28959 Let music sound while he doth make his choice ;
28960 Then , if he lose , he makes a swan-like end ,
28961 Fading in music : that the comparison
28962 May stand more proper , my eye shall be the stream
28963 And watery death-bed for him . He may win ;
28964 And what is music then ? then music is
28965 Even as the flourish when true subjects bow
28966 To a new-crowned monarch : such it is
28967 As are those dulcet sounds in break of day
28968 That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear ,
28969 And summon him to marriage . Now he goes ,
28970 With no less presence , but with much more love ,
28971 Than young Alcides , when he did redeem
28972 The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy
28973 To the sea-monster : I stand for sacrifice ;
28974 The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives ,
28975 With bleared visages , come forth to view
28976 The issue of the exploit . Go , Hercules !
28977 Live thou , I live : with much , much more dismay
28978 I view the fight than thou that mak'st the fray .
28979
28980
28981 Tell me where is fancy bred ,
28982 Or in the heart or in the head ?
28983 How begot , how nourished ?
28984 Reply , reply .
28985 It is engender'd in the eyes ,
28986 With gazing fed ; and fancy dies
28987 In the cradle where it lies
28988 Let us all ring fancy's knell ;
28989 I'll begin it ,Ding , dong , bell .
28990
28991
28992 Ding , dong , bell .
28993
28994 So may the outward shows be least themselves :
28995 The world is still deceiv'd with ornament .
28996 In law , what plea so tainted and corrupt
28997 But , being season'd with a gracious voice ,
28998 Obscures the show of evil ? In religion ,
28999 What damned error , but some sober brow
29000 Will bless it and approve it with a text ,
29001 Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ?
29002 There is no vice so simple but assumes
29003 Some mark of virtue on his outward parts .
29004 How many cowards , whose hearts are all as false
29005 As stairs of sand , wear yet upon their chins
29006 The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars ,
29007 Who , inward search'd , have livers white as milk ;
29008 And these assume but valour's excrement
29009 To render them redoubted ! Look on beauty ,
29010 And you shall see 'tis purchas'd by the weight ;
29011 Which therein works a miracle in nature ,
29012 Making them lightest that wear most of it :
29013 So are those crisped snaky golden locks
29014 Which make such wanton gambols with the wind ,
29015 Upon supposed fairness , often known
29016 To be the dowry of a second head ,
29017 The skull that bred them , in the sepulchre .
29018 Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
29019 To a most dangerous sea ; the beauteous scarf
29020 Veiling an Indian beauty ; in a word ,
29021 The seeming truth which cunning times put on
29022 To entrap the wisest . Therefore , thou gaudy gold ,
29023 Hard food for Midas , I will none of thee ;
29024 Nor none of thee , thou pale and common drudge
29025 'Tween man and man : but thou , thou meagre lead ,
29026 Which rather threat'nest than dost promise aught ,
29027 Thy plainness moves me more than eloquence ,
29028 And here choose I : joy be the consequence !
29029
29030 How all the other passions fleet to air ,
29031 As doubtful thoughts , and rash-embrac'd despair ,
29032 And shuddering fear , and green-ey'd jealousy .
29033 O love ! be moderate ; allay thy ecstasy ;
29034 In measure rain thy joy ; scant this excess ;
29035 I feel too much thy blessing ; make it less ,
29036 For fear I surfeit !
29037
29038 What find I here ?
29039
29040 Fair Portia's counterfeit ! What demi-god
29041 Hath come so near creation ? Move these eyes ?
29042 Or whether , riding on the balls of mine ,
29043 Seem they in motion ? Here are sever'd lips ,
29044 Parted with sugar breath ; so sweet a bar
29045 Should sunder such sweet friends . Here , in her hairs
29046 The painter plays the spider , and hath woven
29047 A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men
29048 Faster than gnats in cobwebs : but her eyes !
29049 How could he see to do them ? having made one ,
29050 Methinks it should have power to steal both his
29051 And leave itself unfurnish'd : yet look , how far
29052 The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow
29053 In underprizing it , so far this shadow
29054 Doth limp behind the substance . Here's the scroll ,
29055 The continent and summary of my fortune .
29056
29057 You that choose not by the view ,
29058 Chance as fair and choose as true !
29059 Since this fortune falls to you ,
29060 Be content and seek no new .
29061 If you be well pleas'd with this
29062 And hold your fortune for your bliss ,
29063 Turn you where your lady is
29064 And claim her with a loving kiss .
29065
29066 A gentle scroll . Fair lady , by your leave ;
29067
29068 I come by note , to give and to receive .
29069 Like one of two contending in a prize ,
29070 That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes ,
29071 Hearing applause and universal shout ,
29072 Giddy in spirit , still gazing in a doubt
29073 Whether those peals of praise be his or no ;
29074 So , thrice-fair lady , stand I , even so ,
29075 As doubtful whether what I see be true ,
29076 Until confirm'd , sign'd , ratified by you .
29077
29078 You see me , Lord Bassanio , where I stand ,
29079 Such as I am : though for myself alone
29080 I would not be ambitious in my wish ,
29081 To wish myself much better ; yet , for you
29082 I would be trebled twenty times myself ;
29083 A thousand times more fair , ten thousand times
29084 More rich ;
29085 That only to stand high in your account ,
29086 I might in virtues , beauties , livings , friends ,
29087 Exceed account : but the full sum of me
29088 Is sum of nothing ; which , to term in gross ,
29089 Is an unlesson'd girl , unschool'd , unpractis'd ;
29090 Happy in this , she is not yet so old
29091 But she may learn ; happier than this ,
29092 She is not bred so dull but she can learn ;
29093 Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit
29094 Commits itself to yours to be directed ,
29095 As from her lord , her governor , her king .
29096 Myself and what is mine to you and yours
29097 Is now converted : but now I was the lord
29098 Of this fair mansion , master of my servants ,
29099 Queen o'er myself ; and even now , but now ,
29100 This house , these servants , and this same myself
29101 Are yours , my lord . I give them with this ring ;
29102 Which when you part from , lose , or give away ,
29103 Let it presage the ruin of your love ,
29104 And be my vantage to exclaim on you .
29105
29106 Madam , you have bereft me of all words ,
29107 Only my blood speaks to you in my veins ;
29108 And there is such confusion in my powers ,
29109 As , after some oration fairly spoke
29110 By a beloved prince , there doth appear
29111 Among the buzzing pleased multitude ;
29112 Where every something , being blent together ,
29113 Turns to a wild of nothing , save of joy ,
29114 Express'd and not express'd . But when this ring
29115 Parts from this finger , then parts life from hence :
29116 O ! then be bold to say Bassanio's dead .
29117
29118 My lord and lady , it is now our time ,
29119 That have stood by and seen our wishes prosper ,
29120 To cry , good joy . Good joy , my lord and lady !
29121
29122 My Lord Bassanio and my gentle lady ,
29123 I wish you all the joy that you can wish ;
29124 For I am sure you can wish none from me :
29125 And when your honours mean to solemnize
29126 The bargain of your faith , I do beseech you ,
29127 Even at that time I may be married too .
29128
29129 With all my heart , so thou canst get a wife .
29130
29131 I thank your lordship , you have got me one .
29132 My eyes , my lord , can look as swift as yours :
29133 You saw the mistress , I beheld the maid ;
29134 You lov'd , I lov'd for intermission .
29135 No more pertains to me , my lord , than you .
29136 Your fortune stood upon the caskets there ,
29137 And so did mine too , as the matter falls ;
29138 For wooing here until I sweat again ,
29139 And swearing till my very roof was dry
29140 With oaths of love , at last , if promise last ,
29141 I got a promise of this fair one here
29142 To have her love , provided that your fortune
29143 Achiev'd her mistress .
29144
29145 Is this true , Nerissa ?
29146
29147 Madam , it is , so you stand pleas'd withal .
29148
29149 And do you , Gratiano , mean good faith ?
29150
29151 Yes , faith , my lord .
29152
29153 Our feast shall be much honour'd in your marriage .
29154
29155 We'll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats .
29156
29157 What ! and stake down ?
29158
29159 No ; we shall ne'er win at that sport , and stake down .
29160 But who comes here ? Lorenzo and his infidel ?
29161 What ! and my old Venetian friend , Salanio ?
29162
29163
29164 Lorenzo , and Salanio , welcome hither ,
29165 If that the youth of my new interest here
29166 Have power to bid you welcome . By your leave ,
29167 I bid my very friends and countrymen ,
29168 Sweet Portia , welcome .
29169
29170 So do I , my lord :
29171 They are entirely welcome .
29172
29173 I thank your honour . For my part , my lord ,
29174 My purpose was not to have seen you here ;
29175 But meeting with Salanio by the way ,
29176 He did entreat me , past all saying nay ,
29177 To come with him along .
29178
29179 I did , my lord ,
29180 And I have reason for it . Signior Antonio
29181 Commends him to you .
29182
29183
29184 Ere I ope his letter ,
29185 I pray you , tell me how my good friend doth .
29186
29187 Not sick , my lord , unless it be in mind ;
29188 Nor well , unless in mind : his letter there
29189 Will show you his estate .
29190
29191 Nerissa , cheer yon stranger ; bid her welcome .
29192 Your hand , Salanio . What's the news from Venice ?
29193 How doth that royal merchant , good Antonio ?
29194 I know he will be glad of our success ;
29195 We are the Jasons , we have won the fleece .
29196
29197 I would you had won the fleece that he hath lost .
29198
29199 There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper ,
29200 That steal the colour from Bassanio's cheek :
29201 Some dear friend dead , else nothing in the world
29202 Could turn so much the constitution
29203 Of any constant man . What , worse and worse !
29204 With leave , Bassanio ; I am half yourself ,
29205 And I must freely have the half of anything
29206 That this same paper brings you .
29207
29208 O sweet Portia !
29209 Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words
29210 That ever blotted paper . Gentle lady ,
29211 When I did first impart my love to you ,
29212 I freely told you all the wealth I had
29213 Ran in my veins , I was a gentleman :
29214 And then I told you true ; and yet , dear lady ,
29215 Rating myself at nothing , you shall see
29216 How much I was a braggart . When I told you
29217 My state was nothing , I should then have told you
29218 That I was worse than nothing ; for , indeed ,
29219 I have engag'd myself to a dear friend ,
29220 Engag'd my friend to his mere enemy ,
29221 To feed my means . Here is a letter , lady ;
29222 The paper as the body of my friend ,
29223 And every word in it a gaping wound ,
29224 Issuing life-blood . But is it true , Salanio ?
29225 Hath all his ventures fail'd ? What , not one hit ?
29226 From Tripolis , from Mexico , and England ,
29227 From Lisbon , Barbary , and India ?
29228 And not one vessel 'scape the dreadful touch
29229 Of merchant-marring rocks ?
29230
29231 Not one , my lord .
29232 Besides , it should appear , that if he had
29233 The present money to discharge the Jew ,
29234 He would not take it . Never did I know
29235 A creature , that did bear the shape of man ,
29236 So keen and greedy to confound a man .
29237 He plies the duke at morning and at night ,
29238 And doth impeach the freedom of the state ,
29239 If they deny him justice : twenty merchants ,
29240 The duke himself , and the magnificoes
29241 Of greatest port , have all persuaded with him ;
29242 But none can drive him from the envious plea
29243 Of forfeiture , of justice , and his bond .
29244
29245 When I was with him , I have heard him swear
29246 To Tubal and to Chus , his countrymen ,
29247 That he would rather have Antonio's flesh
29248 Than twenty times the value of the sum
29249 That he did owe him ; and I know , my lord ,
29250 If law , authority , and power deny not ,
29251 It will go hard with poor Antonio .
29252
29253 Is it your dear friend that is thus in trouble ?
29254
29255 The dearest friend to me , the kindest man ,
29256 The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit
29257 In doing courtesies , and one in whom
29258 The ancient Roman honour more appears
29259 Than any that draws breath in Italy .
29260
29261 What sum owes he the Jew ?
29262
29263 For me , three thousand ducats .
29264
29265 What , no more ?
29266 Pay him six thousand , and deface the bond ;
29267 Double six thousand , and then treble that ,
29268 Before a friend of this description
29269 Shall lose a hair thorough Bassanio's fault .
29270 First go with me to church and call me wife ,
29271 And then away to Venice to your friend ;
29272 For never shall you lie by Portia's side
29273 With an unquiet soul . You shall have gold
29274 To pay the petty debt twenty times over :
29275 When it is paid , bring your true friend along .
29276 My maid Nerissa and myself meantime ,
29277 Will live as maids and widows . Come , away !
29278 For you shall hence upon your wedding-day .
29279 Bid your friends welcome , show a merry cheer ;
29280 Since you are dear bought , I will love you dear .
29281 But let me hear the letter of your friend .
29282
29283 Sweet Bassanio , my ships have all miscarried , my creditors grow cruel , my estate is very low , my bond to the Jew is forfeit ; and since , in paying it , it is impossible I should live , all debts are cleared between you and I , if I might but see you at my death . Notwithstanding , use your pleasure : if your love do not persuade you to come , let not my letter .
29284
29285 O love , dispatch all business , and be gone !
29286
29287 Since I have your good leave to go away ,
29288 I will make haste ; but , till I come again ,
29289 No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay ,
29290 Nor rest be interposer 'twixt us twain .
29291
29292
29293 Gaoler , look to him : tell not me of mercy ;
29294 This is the fool that lent out money gratis :
29295 Gaoler , look to him .
29296
29297 Hear me yet , good Shylock .
29298
29299 I'll have my bond ; speak not against my bond :
29300 I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond .
29301 Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause ,
29302 But , since I am a dog , beware my fangs :
29303 The duke shall grant me justice . I do wonder ,
29304 Thou naughty gaoler , that thou art so fond
29305 To come abroad with him at his request .
29306
29307 I pray thee , hear me speak .
29308
29309 I'll have my bond ; I will not hear thee speak :
29310 I'll have my bond , and therefore speak no more .
29311 I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool ,
29312 To shake the head , relent , and sigh , and yield
29313 To Christian intercessors . Follow not ;
29314 I'll have no speaking ; I will have my bond .
29315
29316
29317 It is the most impenetrable cur
29318 That ever kept with men .
29319
29320 Let him alone :
29321 I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers .
29322 He seeks my life ; his reason well I know .
29323 I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures
29324 Many that have at times made moan to me ;
29325 Therefore he hates me .
29326
29327 I am sure the duke
29328 Will never grant this forfeiture to hold .
29329
29330 The duke cannot deny the course of law :
29331 For the commodity that strangers have
29332 With us in Venice , if it be denied ,
29333 'Twill much impeach the justice of the state ;
29334 Since that the trade and profit of the city
29335 Consisteth of all nations . Therefore , go :
29336 These griefs and losses have so bated me ,
29337 That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh
29338 To-morrow to my bloody creditor .
29339 Well , gaoler , on . Pray God , Bassanio come
29340 To see me pay his debt , and then I care not !
29341
29342
29343 Madam , although I speak it in your presence ,
29344 You have a noble and a true conceit
29345 Of god-like amity ; which appears most strongly
29346 In bearing thus the absence of your lord .
29347 But if you knew to whom you show this honour ,
29348 How true a gentleman you send relief ,
29349 How dear a lover of my lord your husband ,
29350 I know you would be prouder of the work
29351 Than customary bounty can enforce you .
29352
29353 I never did repent for doing good ,
29354 Nor shall not now : for in companions
29355 That do converse and waste the time together ,
29356 Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love ,
29357 There must be needs a like proportion
29358 Of lineaments , of manners , and of spirit ;
29359 Which makes me think that this Antonio ,
29360 Being the bosom lover of my lord ,
29361 Must needs be like my lord . If it be so ,
29362 How little is the cost I have bestow'd
29363 In purchasing the semblance of my soul
29364 From out the state of hellish cruelty !
29365 This comes too near the praising of myself ;
29366 Therefore , no more of it : hear other things .
29367 Lorenzo , I commit into your hands
29368 The husbandry and manage of my house
29369 Until my lord's return : for mine own part ,
29370 I have toward heaven breath'd a secret vow
29371 To live in prayer and contemplation ,
29372 Only attended by Nerissa here ,
29373 Until her husband and my lord's return .
29374 There is a monastery two miles off ,
29375 And there will we abide . I do desire you
29376 Not to deny this imposition ,
29377 The which my love and some necessity
29378 Now lays upon you .
29379
29380 Madam , with all my heart :
29381 I shall obey you in all fair commands .
29382
29383 My people do already know my mind ,
29384 And will acknowledge you and Jessica
29385 In place of Lord Bassanio and myself .
29386 So fare you well till we shall meet again .
29387
29388 Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you !
29389
29390 I wish your ladyship all heart's content .
29391
29392 I thank you for your wish , and am well pleas'd
29393 To wish it back on you : fare you well , Jessica .
29394
29395 Now , Balthazar ,
29396 As I have ever found thee honest-true ,
29397 So let me find thee still . Take this same letter ,
29398 And use thou all the endeavour of a man
29399 In speed to Padua : see thou render this
29400 Into my cousin's hand , Doctor Bellario ;
29401 And , look , what notes and garments he doth give thee ,
29402 Bring them , I pray thee , with imagin'd speed
29403 Unto the traject , to the common ferry
29404 Which trades to Venice . Waste no time in words ,
29405 But get thee gone : I shall be there before thee .
29406
29407 Madam , I go with all convenient speed .
29408
29409
29410 Come on , Nerissa : I have work in hand
29411 That you yet know not of : we'll see our husbands
29412 Before they think of us .
29413
29414 Shall they see us ?
29415
29416 They shall , Nerissa ; but in such a habit
29417 That they shall think we are accomplished
29418 With that we lack . I'll hold thee any wager ,
29419 When we are both accoutred like young men ,
29420 I'll prove the prettier fellow of the two ,
29421 And wear my dagger with the braver grace ,
29422 And speak between the change of man and boy
29423 With a reed voice , and turn two mincing steps
29424 Into a manly stride , and speak of frays
29425 Like a fine bragging youth , and tell quaint lies ,
29426 How honourable ladies sought my love ,
29427 Which I denying , they fell sick and died :
29428 I could not do withal ; then I'll repent ,
29429 And wish , for all that , that I had not kill'd them :
29430 And twenty of these puny lies I'll tell ,
29431 That men shall swear I have discontinu'd school
29432 Above a twelvemonth . I have within my mind
29433 A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks ,
29434 Which I will practise .
29435
29436 Why , shall we turn to men ?
29437
29438 Fie , what a question's that ,
29439 If thou wert near a lewd interpreter !
29440 But come : I'll tell thee all my whole device
29441 When I am in my coach , which stays for us
29442 At the park gate ; and therefore haste away ,
29443 For we must measure twenty miles to-day .
29444
29445
29446 Yes , truly ; for , look you , the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children ; therefore , I promise you , I fear you . I was always plain with you , and so now I speak my agitation of the matter : therefore be of good cheer ; for , truly , I think you are damned . There is but one hope in it that can do you any good , and that is but a kind of bastard hope neither .
29447
29448 And what hope is that , I pray thee ?
29449
29450 Marry , you may partly hope that your father got you not , that you are not the Jew's daughter .
29451
29452 That were a kind of bastard hope , indeed : so the sins of my mother should be visited upon me .
29453
29454 Truly then I fear you are damned both by father and mother : thus when I shun Scylla , your father , I fall into Charybdis , your mother : well , you are gone both ways .
29455
29456 I shall be saved by my husband ; he hath made me a Christian .
29457
29458 Truly the more to blame he : we were Christians enow before ; e'en as many as could well live one by another . This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs : if we grow all to be pork-eaters , we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money .
29459
29460 I'll tell my husband , Launcelot , what you say : here he comes .
29461
29462
29463 I shall grow jealous of you shortly , Launcelot , if you thus get my wife into corners .
29464
29465 Nay , you need not fear us , Lorenzo : Launcelot and I are out . He tells me flatly , there is no mercy for me in heaven , because I am a Jew's daughter : and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth , for , in converting Jews to Christians , you raise the price of pork .
29466
29467 I shall answer that better to the commonwealth than you can the getting up of the negro's belly : the Moor is with child by you , Launcelot .
29468
29469 It is much that the Moor should be more than reason ; but if she be less than an honest woman , she is indeed more than I took her for .
29470
29471 How every fool can play upon the word ! I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence , and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots . Go in , sirrah : bid them prepare for dinner .
29472
29473 That is done , sir ; they have all stomachs .
29474
29475 Goodly Lord , what a wit-snapper are you ! then bid them prepare dinner .
29476
29477 That is done too , sir ; only , 'cover' is the word .
29478
29479 Will you cover , then , sir ?
29480
29481 Not so , sir , neither ; I know my duty .
29482
29483 Yet more quarrelling with occasion ! Wilt thou show the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant ? I pray thee , understand a plain man in his plain meaning : go to thy fellows ; bid them cover the table , serve in the meat , and we will come in to dinner .
29484
29485 For the table , sir , it shall be served in ; for the meat , sir , it shall be covered ; for your coming in to dinner , sir , why , let it be as humours and conceits shall govern .
29486
29487
29488 O dear discretion , how his words are suited !
29489 The fool hath planted in his memory
29490 An army of good words : and I do know
29491 A many fools , that stand in better place ,
29492 Garnish'd like him , that for a tricksy word
29493 Defy the matter . How cheer'st thou , Jessica ?
29494 And now , good sweet , say thy opinion ;
29495 How dost thou like the Lord Bassanio's wife ?
29496
29497 Past all expressing . It is very meet ,
29498 The Lord Bassanio live an upright life ,
29499 For , having such a blessing in his lady ,
29500 He finds the joys of heaven here on earth ;
29501 And if on earth he do not mean it , then
29502 In reason he should never come to heaven .
29503 Why , if two gods should play some heavenly match ,
29504 And on the wager lay two earthly women ,
29505 And Portia one , there must be something else
29506 Pawn'd with the other , for the poor rude world
29507 Hath not her fellow .
29508
29509 Even such a husband
29510 Hast thou of me as she is for a wife .
29511
29512 Nay , but ask my opinion too of that .
29513
29514 I will anon ; first , let us go to dinner .
29515
29516 Nay , let me praise you while I have a stomach .
29517
29518 No , pray thee , let it serve for table-talk ; Then howsoe'er thou speak'st , 'mong other things I shall digest it .
29519
29520 Well , I'll set you forth .
29521
29522 What , is Antonio here ?
29523
29524 Ready , so please your Grace .
29525
29526 I am sorry for thee : thou art come to answer
29527 A stony adversary , an inhuman wretch
29528 Uncapable of pity , void and empty
29529 From any dram of mercy .
29530
29531 I have heard
29532 Your Grace hath ta'en great pains to qualify
29533 His rigorous course ; but since he stands obdurate ,
29534 And that no lawful means can carry me
29535 Out of his envy's reach , I do oppose
29536 My patience to his fury , and am arm'd
29537 To suffer with a quietness of spirit
29538 The very tyranny and rage of his .
29539
29540 Go one , and call the Jew into the court .
29541
29542 He's ready at the door : he comes , my lord .
29543
29544
29545 Make room , and let him stand before our face .
29546 Shylock , the world thinks , and I think so too ,
29547 That thou but lead'st this fashion of thy malice
29548 To the last hour of act ; and then 'tis thought
29549 Thou'lt show thy mercy and remorse more strange
29550 Than is thy strange-apparent cruelty ;
29551 And where thou now exact'st the penalty ,
29552 Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh ,
29553 Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture ,
29554 But , touch'd with human gentleness and love ,
29555 Forgive a moiety of the principal ;
29556 Glancing an eye of pity on his losses ,
29557 That have of late so huddled on his back ,
29558 Enow to press a royal merchant down ,
29559 And pluck commiseration of his state
29560 From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint ,
29561 From stubborn Turks and Tartars , never train'd
29562 To offices of tender courtesy .
29563 We all expect a gentle answer , Jew .
29564
29565 I have possess'd your Grace of what I purpose ;
29566 And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn
29567 To have the due and forfeit of my bond :
29568 If you deny it , let the danger light
29569 Upon your charter and your city's freedom .
29570 You'll ask me , why I rather choose to have
29571 A weight of carrion flesh than to receive
29572 Three thousand ducats : I'll not answer that :
29573 But say it is my humour : is it answer'd ?
29574 What if my house be troubled with a rat ,
29575 And I be pleas'd to give ten thousand ducats
29576 To have it ban'd ? What , are you answer'd yet ?
29577 Some men there are love not a gaping pig ;
29578 Some , that are mad if they behold a cat ;
29579 And others , when the bagpipe sings i' the nose ,
29580 Cannot contain their urine : for affection ,
29581 Mistress of passion , sways it to the mood
29582 Of what it likes , or loathes . Now , for your answer :
29583 As there is no firm reason to be render'd ,
29584 Why he cannot abide a gaping pig ;
29585 Why he , a harmless necessary cat ;
29586 Why he , a wauling bagpipe ; but of force
29587 Must yield to such inevitable shame
29588 As to offend , himself being offended ;
29589 So can I give no reason , nor I will not ,
29590 More than a lodg'd hate and a certain loathing
29591 I bear Antonio , that I follow thus
29592 A losing suit against him . Are you answer'd ?
29593
29594 This is no answer , thou unfeeling man ,
29595 To excuse the current of thy cruelty .
29596
29597 I am not bound to please thee with my answer .
29598
29599 Do all men kill the things they do not love ?
29600
29601 Hates any man the thing he would not kill ?
29602
29603 Every offence is not a hate at first .
29604
29605 What ! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice ?
29606
29607 I pray you , think you question with the Jew :
29608 You may as well go stand upon the beach ,
29609 And bid the main flood bate his usual height ;
29610 You may as well use question with the wolf ,
29611 Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ;
29612 You may as well forbid the mountain pines
29613 To wag their high tops , and to make no noise
29614 When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven ;
29615 You may as well do anything most hard ,
29616 As seek to soften that than which what's harder ?
29617 His Jewish heart : therefore , I do beseech you ,
29618 Make no more offers , use no further means ;
29619 But with all brief and plain conveniency ,
29620 Let me have judgment , and the Jew his will .
29621
29622 For thy three thousand ducats here is six .
29623
29624 If every ducat in six thousand ducats
29625 Were in six parts and every part a ducat ,
29626 I would not draw them ; I would have my bond .
29627
29628 How shalt thou hope for mercy , rendering none ?
29629
29630 What judgment shall I dread , doing no wrong ?
29631 You have among you many a purchas'd slave ,
29632 Which , like your asses and your dogs and mules ,
29633 You use in abject and in slavish parts ,
29634 Because you bought them : shall I say to you ,
29635 Let them be free , marry them to your heirs ?
29636 Why sweat they under burdens ? let their beds
29637 Be made as soft as yours , and let their palates
29638 Be season'd with such viands ? You will answer :
29639 'The slaves are ours :' so do I answer you :
29640 The pound of flesh which I demand of him ,
29641 Is dearly bought ; 'tis mine and I will have it .
29642 If you deny me , fie upon your law !
29643 There is no force in the decrees of Venice .
29644 I stand for judgment : answer ; shall I have it ?
29645
29646 Upon my power I may dismiss this court ,
29647 Unless Bellario , a learned doctor ,
29648 Whom I have sent for to determine this ,
29649 Come here to-day .
29650
29651 My lord , here stays without
29652 A messenger with letters from the doctor ,
29653 New come from Padua .
29654
29655 Bring us the letters : call the messenger .
29656
29657 Good cheer , Antonio ! What , man , courage yet !
29658 The Jew shall have my flesh , blood , bones , and all ,
29659 Ere thou shalt lose for me one drop of blood .
29660
29661 I am a tainted wether of the flock ,
29662 Meetest for death : the weakest kind of fruit
29663 Drops earliest to the ground ; and so let me :
29664 You cannot better be employ'd , Bassanio ,
29665 Than to live still , and write mine epitaph .
29666
29667
29668 Came you from Padua , from Bellario ?
29669
29670 From both , my lord . Bellario greets your Grace .
29671
29672
29673 Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly ?
29674
29675 To cut the forfeiture from that bankrupt there .
29676
29677 Not on thy sole , but on thy soul , harsh Jew ,
29678 Thou mak'st thy knife keen ; but no metal can ,
29679 No , not the hangman's axe , bear half the keenness
29680 Of thy sharp envy . Can no prayers pierce thee ?
29681
29682 No , none that thou hast wit enough to make .
29683
29684 O , be thou damn'd , inexecrable dog !
29685 And for thy life let justice be accus'd .
29686 Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith
29687 To hold opinion with Pythagoras ,
29688 That souls of animals infuse themselves
29689 Into the trunks of men : thy currish spirit
29690 Govern'd a wolf , who , hang'd for human slaughter ,
29691 Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet ,
29692 And whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam ,
29693 Infus'd itself in thee ; for thy desires
29694 Are wolfish , bloody , starv'd , and ravenous .
29695
29696 Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond ,
29697 Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud :
29698 Repair thy wit , good youth , or it will fall
29699 To cureless ruin . I stand here for law .
29700
29701 This letter from Bellario doth commend
29702 A young and learned doctor to our court .
29703 Where is he ?
29704
29705 He attendeth here hard by ,
29706 To know your answer , whether you'll admit him .
29707
29708 With all my heart : some three or four of you
29709 Go give him courteous conduct to this place .
29710 Meantime , the court shall hear Bellario's letter .
29711
29712 Your Grace shall understand that at the receipt of your letter I am very sick ; but in the instant that your messenger came , in loving visitation was with me a young doctor of Rome ; his name is Balthazar . I acquainted him with the cause in controversy between the Jew and Antonio the merchant : we turned o'er many books together : he is furnished with my opinion ; which , bettered with his own learning ,the greatness whereof I cannot enough commend ,comes with him , at my importunity , to fill up your Grace's request in my stead I beseech you , let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation , for I never knew so young a body with so old a head . I leave him to your gracious acceptance , whose trial shall better publish his commendation .
29713
29714 You hear the learn'd Bellario , what he writes :
29715 And here , I take it , is the doctor come .
29716
29717 Give me your hand . Came you from old Bellario ?
29718
29719 I did , my lord .
29720
29721 You are welcome : take your place .
29722 Are you acquainted with the difference
29723 That holds this present question in the court ?
29724
29725 I am informed throughly of the cause .
29726 Which is the merchant here , and which the Jew ?
29727
29728 Antonio and old Shylock , both stand forth .
29729
29730 Is your name Shylock ?
29731
29732 Shylock is my name .
29733
29734 Of a strange nature is the suit you follow ;
29735 Yet in such rule that the Venetian law
29736 Cannot impugn you as you do proceed .
29737
29738
29739 You stand within his danger , do you not ?
29740
29741 Ay , so he says .
29742
29743 Do you confess the bond ?
29744
29745 I do .
29746
29747 Then must the Jew be merciful .
29748
29749 On what compulsion must I ? tell me that .
29750
29751 The quality of mercy is not strain'd ,
29752 It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
29753 Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ;
29754 It blesseth him that gives and him that takes :
29755 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes
29756 The throned monarch better than his crown ;
29757 His sceptre shows the force of temporal power ,
29758 The attribute to awe and majesty ,
29759 Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ;
29760 But mercy is above this sceptred sway ,
29761 It is enthroned in the hearts of kings ,
29762 It is an attribute to God himself ,
29763 And earthly power doth then show likest God's
29764 When mercy seasons justice . Therefore , Jew ,
29765 Though justice be thy plea , consider this ,
29766 That in the course of justice none of us
29767 Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ,
29768 And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
29769 The deeds of mercy . I have spoke thus much
29770 To mitigate the justice of thy plea ,
29771 Which if thou follow , this strict court of Venice
29772 Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there .
29773
29774 My deeds upon my head ! I crave the law ,
29775 The penalty and forfeit of my bond .
29776
29777 Is he not able to discharge the money ?
29778
29779 Yes , here I tender it for him in the court ;
29780 Yea , twice the sum : if that will not suffice ,
29781 I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er ,
29782 On forfeit of my hands , my head , my heart .
29783 If this will not suffice , it must appear
29784 That malice bears down truth . And , I beseech you ,
29785 Wrest once the law to your authority :
29786 To do a great right , do a little wrong ,
29787 And curb this cruel devil of his will .
29788
29789 It must not be . There is no power in Venice
29790 Can alter a decree established :
29791 'Twill be recorded for a precedent ,
29792 And many an error by the same example
29793 Will rush into the state . It cannot be .
29794
29795 A Daniel come to judgment ! yea , a Daniel !
29796 O wise young judge , how I do honour thee !
29797
29798 I pray you , let me look upon the bond .
29799
29800 Here 'tis , most reverend doctor ; here it is .
29801
29802 Shylock , there's thrice thy money offer'd thee .
29803
29804 An oath , an oath , I have an oath in heaven :
29805 Shall I lay perjury upon my soul ?
29806 No , not for Venice .
29807
29808 Why , this bond is forfeit ;
29809 And lawfully by this the Jew may claim
29810 A pound of flesh , to be by him cut off
29811 Nearest the merchant's heart . Be merciful :
29812 Take thrice thy money ; bid me tear the bond .
29813
29814 When it is paid according to the tenour .
29815 It doth appear you are a worthy judge ;
29816 You know the law , your exposition
29817 Hath been most sound : I charge you by the law ,
29818 Whereof you are a well-deserving pillar ,
29819 Proceed to judgment : by my soul I swear
29820 There is no power in the tongue of man
29821 To alter me . I stay here on my bond .
29822
29823 Most heartily I do beseech the court
29824 To give the judgment .
29825
29826 Why then , thus it is :
29827 You must prepare your bosom for his knife .
29828
29829 O noble judge ! O excellent young man !
29830
29831 For , the intent and purpose of the law
29832 Hath full relation to the penalty ,
29833 Which here appeareth due upon the bond .
29834
29835 'Tis very true ! O wise and upright judge !
29836 How much more elder art thou than thy looks !
29837
29838 Therefore lay bare your bosom .
29839
29840 Ay , 'his breast :'
29841 So says the bond :doth it not , noble judge ?
29842 'Nearest his heart :' those are the very words .
29843
29844 It is so . Are there balance here to weigh
29845 The flesh ?
29846
29847 I have them ready .
29848
29849 Have by some surgeon , Shylock , on your charge ,
29850 To stop his wounds , lest he do bleed to death .
29851
29852 Is it so nominated in the bond ?
29853
29854 It is not so express'd ; but what of that ?
29855 'Twere good you do so much for charity .
29856
29857 I cannot find it : 'tis not in the bond .
29858
29859 You , merchant , have you anything to say ?
29860
29861 But little : I am arm'd and well prepar'd .
29862 Give me your hand , Bassanio : fare you well !
29863 Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you ;
29864 For herein Fortune shows herself more kind
29865 Than is her custom : it is still her use
29866 To let the wretched man outlive his wealth ,
29867 To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
29868 An age of poverty ; from which lingering penance
29869 Of such a misery doth she cut me off .
29870 Commend me to your honourable wife :
29871 Tell her the process of Antonio's end ;
29872 Say how I lov'd you , speak me fair in death ;
29873 And , when the tale is told , bid her be judge
29874 Whether Bassanio had not once a love .
29875 Repent not you that you shall lose your friend ,
29876 And he repents not that he pays your debt ;
29877 For if the Jew do cut but deep enough ,
29878 I'll pay it instantly with all my heart .
29879
29880 Antonio , I am married to a wife
29881 Which is as dear to me as life itself ;
29882 But life itself , my wife , and all the world ,
29883 Are not with me esteem'd above thy life :
29884 I would lose all , ay , sacrifice them all ,
29885 Here to this devil , to deliver you .
29886
29887 Your wife would give you little thanks for that ,
29888 If she were by to hear you make the offer .
29889
29890 I have a wife , whom , I protest , I love :
29891 I would she were in heaven , so she could
29892 Entreat some power to change this currish Jew .
29893
29894 'Tis well you offer it behind her back ;
29895 The wish would make else an unquiet house .
29896
29897 These be the Christian husbands ! I have a daughter ;
29898 Would any of the stock of Barabbas
29899 Had been her husband rather than a Christian !
29900 We trifle time ; I pray thee , pursue sentence .
29901
29902 A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine :
29903 The court awards it , and the law doth give it .
29904
29905 Most rightful judge !
29906
29907 And you must cut this flesh from off his breast :
29908 The law allows it , and the court awards it .
29909
29910 Most learned judge ! A sentence ! come , prepare !
29911
29912 Tarry a little : there is something else .
29913 This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood ;
29914 The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh :'
29915 Then take thy bond , take thou thy pound of flesh ;
29916 But , in the cutting it , if thou dost shed
29917 One drop of Christian blood , thy lands and goods
29918 Are , by the laws of Venice , confiscate
29919 Unto the state of Venice .
29920
29921 O upright judge ! Mark , Jew : O learned judge !
29922
29923 Is that the law ?
29924
29925 Thyself shalt see the act ;
29926 For , as thou urgest justice , be assur'd
29927 Thou shalt have justice , more than thou desir'st .
29928
29929 O learned judge ! Mark , Jew : a learned judge !
29930
29931 I take this offer then : pay the bond thrice ,
29932 And let the Christian go .
29933
29934 Here is the money .
29935
29936 Soft !
29937 The Jew shall have all justice ; soft ! no haste :
29938 He shall have nothing but the penalty .
29939
29940 O Jew ! an upright judge , a learned judge !
29941
29942 Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh .
29943 Shed thou no blood ; nor cut thou less , nor more ,
29944 But just a pound of flesh : if thou tak'st more ,
29945 Or less , than a just pound , be it but so much
29946 As makes it light or heavy in the substance ,
29947 Or the division of the twentieth part
29948 Of one poor scruple , nay , if the scale do turn
29949 But in the estimation of a hair ,
29950 Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate .
29951
29952 A second Daniel , a Daniel , Jew !
29953 Now , infidel , I have thee on the hip .
29954
29955 Why doth the Jew pause ? take thy forfeiture .
29956
29957 Give me my principal , and let me go .
29958
29959 I have it ready for thee ; here it is .
29960
29961 He hath refus'd it in the open court :
29962 He shall have merely justice , and his bond .
29963
29964 A Daniel , still say I ; a second Daniel !
29965 I thank thee , Jew , for teaching me that word .
29966
29967 Shall I not have barely my principal ?
29968
29969 Thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture ,
29970 To be so taken at thy peril , Jew .
29971
29972 Why , then the devil give him good of it !
29973 I'll stay no longer question .
29974
29975 Tarry , Jew :
29976 The law hath yet another hold on you .
29977 It is enacted in the laws of Venice ,
29978 If it be prov'd against an alien
29979 That by direct or indirect attempts
29980 He seek the life of any citizen ,
29981 The party 'gainst the which he doth contrive
29982 Shall seize one half his goods ; the other half
29983 Comes to the privy coffer of the state ;
29984 And the offender's life lies in the mercy
29985 Of the duke only , 'gainst all other voice .
29986 In which predicament , I say , thou stand'st ;
29987 For it appears by manifest proceeding ,
29988 That indirectly and directly too
29989 Thou hast contriv'd against the very life
29990 Of the defendant ; and thou hast incurr'd
29991 The danger formerly by me rehears'd .
29992 Down therefore and beg mercy of the duke .
29993
29994 Beg that thou mayst have leave to hang thyself :
29995 And yet , thy wealth being forfeit to the state ,
29996 Thou hast not left the value of a cord ;
29997 Therefore thou must be hang'd at the state's charge .
29998
29999 That thou shalt see the difference of our spirits ,
30000 I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it .
30001 For half thy wealth , it is Antonio's ;
30002 The other half comes to the general state ,
30003 Which humbleness may drive into a fine .
30004
30005 Ay , for the state ; not for Antonio .
30006
30007 Nay , take my life and all ; pardon not that :
30008 You take my house when you do take the prop
30009 That doth sustain my house ; you take my life
30010 When you do take the means whereby I live .
30011
30012 What mercy can you render him , Antonio ?
30013
30014 A halter gratis ; nothing else , for God's sake !
30015
30016 So please my lord the duke , and all the court ,
30017 To quit the fine for one half of his goods ,
30018 I am content ; so he will let me have
30019 The other half in use , to render it ,
30020 Upon his death , unto the gentleman
30021 That lately stole his daughter :
30022 Two things provided more , that , for this favour ,
30023 He presently become a Christian ;
30024 The other , that he do record a gift ,
30025 Here in the court , of all he dies possess'd ,
30026 Unto his son Lorenzo , and his daughter .
30027
30028 He shall do this , or else I do recant
30029 The pardon that I late pronounced here .
30030
30031 Art thou contented , Jew ? what dost thou say ?
30032
30033 I am content .
30034
30035 Clerk , draw a deed of gift .
30036
30037 I pray you give me leave to go from hence :
30038 I am not well . Send the deed after me ,
30039 And I will sign it .
30040
30041 Get thee gone , but do it .
30042
30043 In christening thou shalt have two godfathers ;
30044 Had I been judge , thou shouldst have had ten more ,
30045 To bring thee to the gallows , not the font .
30046
30047
30048 Sir , I entreat you home with me to dinner .
30049
30050 I humbly do desire your Grace of pardon :
30051 I must away this night toward Padua ,
30052 And it is meet I presently set forth .
30053
30054 I am sorry that your leisure serves you not .
30055 Antonio , gratify this gentleman ,
30056 For , in my mind , you are much bound to him .
30057
30058
30059 Most worthy gentleman , I and my friend
30060 Have by your wisdom been this day acquitted
30061 Of grievous penalties ; in lieu whereof ,
30062 Three thousand ducats , due unto the Jew ,
30063 We freely cope your courteous pains withal .
30064
30065 And stand indebted , over and above ,
30066 In love and service to you evermore .
30067
30068 He is well paid that is well satisfied ;
30069 And I , delivering you , am satisfied ,
30070 And therein do account myself well paid :
30071 My mind was never yet more mercenary .
30072 I pray you , know me when we meet again :
30073 I wish you well , and so I take my leave .
30074
30075 Dear sir , of force I must attempt you further :
30076 Take some remembrance of us , as a tribute ,
30077 Not as a fee . Grant me two things , I pray you ,
30078 Not to deny me , and to pardon me .
30079
30080 You press me far , and therefore I will yield .
30081
30082
30083 Give me your gloves , I'll wear them for your sake ;
30084
30085
30086 And , for your love , I'll take this ring from you .
30087 Do not draw back your hand ; I'll take no more ;
30088 And you in love shall not deny me this .
30089
30090 This ring , good sir ? alas ! it is a trifle ;
30091 I will not shame myself to give you this .
30092
30093 I will have nothing else but only this ;
30094 And now methinks I have a mind to it .
30095
30096 There's more depends on this than on the value .
30097 The dearest ring in Venice will I give you ,
30098 And find it out by proclamation :
30099 Only for this , I pray you , pardon me .
30100
30101 I see , sir , you are liberal in offers :
30102 You taught me first to beg , and now methinks
30103 You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd .
30104
30105 Good sir , this ring was given me by my wife ;
30106 And , when she put it on , she made me vow
30107 That I should never sell nor give nor lose it .
30108
30109 That 'scuse serves many men to save their gifts .
30110 An if your wife be not a mad-woman ,
30111 And know how well I have deserv'd the ring ,
30112 She would not hold out enemy for ever ,
30113 For giving it to me . Well , peace be with you .
30114
30115
30116 My Lord Bassanio , let him have the ring :
30117 Let his deservings and my love withal
30118 Be valu'd 'gainst your wife's commandment .
30119
30120 Go , Gratiano ; run and overtake him ;
30121 Give him the ring , and bring him , if thou canst ,
30122 Unto Antonio's house . Away ! make haste .
30123
30124 Come , you and I will thither presently ,
30125 And in the morning early will we both
30126 Fly toward Belmont . Come , Antonio .
30127
30128
30129 Inquire the Jew's house out , give him this deed ,
30130 And let him sign it . We'll away to-night ,
30131 And be a day before our husbands home :
30132 This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo .
30133
30134
30135 Fair sir , you are well o'erta'en .
30136 My Lord Bassanio upon more advice
30137 Hath sent you here this ring , and doth entreat
30138 Your company at dinner .
30139
30140 That cannot be :
30141 His ring I do accept most thankfully ;
30142 And so , I pray you , tell him : furthermore ,
30143 I pray you , show my youth old Shylock's house .
30144
30145 That will I do .
30146
30147 Sir , I would speak with you .
30148
30149
30150 I'll see if I can get my husband's ring ,
30151 Which I did make him swear to keep for ever .
30152
30153 Thou mayst , I warrant . We shall have old swearing
30154 That they did give the rings away to men ;
30155 But we'll outface them , and outswear them too .
30156 Away ! make haste : thou know'st where I will tarry .
30157
30158 Come , good sir , will you show me to this house ?
30159
30160 The moon shines bright : in such a night as this ,
30161 When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees
30162 And they did make no noise , in such a night
30163 Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls ,
30164 And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents ,
30165 Where Cressid lay that night .
30166
30167 In such a night
30168 Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew ,
30169 And saw the lion's shadow ere himself ,
30170 And ran dismay'd away .
30171
30172 In such a night
30173 Stood Dido with a willow in her hand
30174 Upon the wild sea-banks , and waft her love
30175 To come again to Carthage .
30176
30177 In such a night
30178 Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs
30179 That did renew old son .
30180
30181 In such a night
30182 Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew ,
30183 And with an unthrift love did run from Venice ,
30184 As far as Belmont .
30185
30186 In such a night
30187 Did young Lorenzo swear he lov'd her well ,
30188 Stealing her soul with many vows of faith ,
30189 And ne'er a true one .
30190
30191 In such a night
30192 Did pretty Jessica , like a little shrew ,
30193 Slander her love , and he forgave it her .
30194
30195 I would out-night you , did no body come ;
30196 But , hark ! I hear the footing of a man .
30197
30198
30199 Who comes so fast in silence of the night ?
30200
30201 A friend .
30202
30203 A friend ! what friend ? your name , I pray you , friend .
30204
30205 Stephano is my name ; and I bring word
30206 My mistress will before the break of day
30207 Be here at Belmont : she doth stray about
30208 By holy crosses , where she kneels and prays
30209 For happy wedlock hours .
30210
30211 Who comes with her ?
30212
30213 None , but a holy hermit and her maid .
30214 I pray you , is my master yet return'd ?
30215
30216 He is not , nor we have not heard from him .
30217 But go we in , I pray thee , Jessica ,
30218 And ceremoniously let us prepare
30219 Some welcome for the mistress of the house .
30220
30221
30222 Sola , sola ! wo ha , ho ! sola , sola !
30223
30224 Who calls ?
30225
30226 Sola ! did you see Master Lorenzo ?
30227 Master Lorenzo ! sola , sola !
30228
30229 Leave hollaing , man ; here .
30230
30231 Sola ! where ? where ?
30232
30233 Here .
30234
30235 Tell him there's a post come from my master , with his horn full of good news : my master will be here ere morning .
30236
30237
30238 Sweet soul , let's in , and there expect their coming .
30239 And yet no matter ; why should we go in ?
30240 My friend Stephano , signify , I pray you ,
30241 Within the house , your mistress is at hand ;
30242 And bring your music forth into the air .
30243
30244 How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank !
30245 Here will we sit , and let the sounds of music
30246 Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night
30247 Become the touches of sweet harmony .
30248 Sit , Jessica : look , how the floor of heaven
30249 Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold :
30250 There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
30251 But in his motion like an angel sings ,
30252 Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ;
30253 Such harmony is in immortal souls ;
30254 But , whilst this muddy vesture of decay
30255 Doth grossly close it in , we cannot hear it .
30256
30257 Come , ho ! and wake Diana with a hymn :
30258 With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear ,
30259 And draw her home with music .
30260
30261
30262 I am never merry when I hear sweet music .
30263
30264 The reason is , your spirits are attentive :
30265 For do but note a wild and wanton herd ,
30266 Or race of youthful and unhandled colts ,
30267 Fetching mad bounds , bellowing and neighing loud ,
30268 Which is the hot condition of their blood ;
30269 If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound ,
30270 Or any air of music touch their ears ,
30271 You shall perceive them make a mutual stand ,
30272 Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze
30273 By the sweet power of music : therefore the poet
30274 Did feign that Orpheus drew trees , stones , and floods ;
30275 Since nought so stockish , hard , and full of rage ,
30276 But music for the time doth change his nature .
30277 The man that hath no music in himself ,
30278 Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds ,
30279 Is fit for treasons , stratagems , and spoils ;
30280 The motions of his spirit are dull as night ,
30281 And his affections dark as Erebus :
30282 Let no such man be trusted . Mark the music .
30283
30284
30285 That light we see is burning in my hall .
30286 How far that little candle throws his beams !
30287 So shines a good deed in a naughty world .
30288
30289 When the moon shone , we did not see the candle .
30290
30291 So doth the greater glory dim the less :
30292 A substitute shines brightly as a king
30293 Until a king be by , and then his state
30294 Empties itself , as doth an inland brook
30295 Into the main of waters . Music ! hark !
30296
30297 It is your music , madam , of the house .
30298
30299 Nothing is good , I see , without respect :
30300 Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day .
30301
30302 Silence bestows that virtue on it , madam .
30303
30304 The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark
30305 When neither is attended , and I think
30306 The nightingale , if she should sing by day ,
30307 When every goose is cackling , would be thought
30308 No better a musician than the wren .
30309 How many things by season season'd are
30310 To their right praise and true perfection !
30311 Peace , ho ! the moon sleeps with Endymion ,
30312 And would not be awak'd !
30313
30314
30315 That is the voice ,
30316 Or I am much deceiv'd , of Portia .
30317
30318 He knows me , as the blind man knows the cuckoo ,
30319 By the bad voice .
30320
30321 Dear lady , welcome home .
30322
30323 We have been praying for our husbands' welfare ,
30324 Which speed , we hope , the better for our words .
30325 Are they return'd ?
30326
30327 Madam , they are not yet ;
30328 But there is come a messenger before ,
30329 To signify their coming .
30330
30331 Go in , Nerissa :
30332 Give order to my servants that they take
30333 No note at all of our being absent hence ;
30334 Nor you , Lorenzo ; Jessica , nor you .
30335
30336
30337 Your husband is at hand ; I hear his trumpet :
30338 We are no tell-tales , madam ; fear you not .
30339
30340 This night methinks is but the daylight sick ;
30341 It looks a little paler : 'tis a day ,
30342 Such as the day is when the sun is hid .
30343
30344
30345 We should hold day with the Antipodes ,
30346 If you would walk in absence of the sun .
30347
30348 Let me give light , but let me not be light ;
30349 For a light wife doth make a heavy husband ,
30350 And never be Bassanio so for me :
30351 But God sort all ! You are welcome home , my lord .
30352
30353 I thank you , madam . Give welcome to my friend :
30354 This is the man , this is Antonio ,
30355 To whom I am so infinitely bound .
30356
30357 You should in all sense be much bound to him ,
30358 For , as I hear , he was much bound for you .
30359
30360 No more than I am well acquitted of .
30361
30362 Sir , you are very welcome to our house :
30363 It must appear in other ways than words ,
30364 Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy .
30365
30366 By yonder moon I swear you do me wrong ;
30367 In faith , I gave it to the judge's clerk :
30368 Would he were gelt that had it , for my part ,
30369 Since you do take it , love , so much at heart .
30370
30371 A quarrel , ho , already ! what's the matter ?
30372
30373 About a hoop of gold , a paltry ring
30374 That she did give me , whose poesy was
30375 For all the world like cutlers' poetry
30376 Upon a knife , 'Love me , and leave me not .'
30377
30378 What talk you of the posy , or the value ?
30379 You swore to me , when I did give it you ,
30380 That you would wear it till your hour of death ,
30381 And that it should lie with you in your grave :
30382 Though not for me , yet for your vehement oaths ,
30383 You should have been respective and have kept it .
30384 Gave it a judge's clerk ! no , God's my judge ,
30385 The clerk will ne'er wear hair on's face that had it .
30386
30387 He will , an if he live to be a man .
30388
30389 Ay , if a woman live to be a man .
30390
30391 Now , by this hand , I gave it to a youth ,
30392 A kind of boy , a little scrubbed boy ,
30393 No higher than thyself , the judge's clerk .
30394 A prating boy , that begg'd it as a fee :
30395 I could not for my heart deny it him .
30396
30397 You were to blame ,I must be plain with you ,
30398 To part so slightly with your wife's first gift ;
30399 A thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger ,
30400 And riveted so with faith unto your flesh .
30401 I gave my love a ring and made him swear
30402 Never to part with it ; and here he stands ,
30403 I dare be sworn for him he would not leave it
30404 Nor pluck it from his finger for the wealth
30405 That the world masters . Now , in faith , Gratiano ,
30406 You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief :
30407 An 'twere to me , I should be mad at it .
30408
30409 Why , I were best to cut my left hand off ,
30410 And swear I lost the ring defending it .
30411
30412 My Lord Bassanio gave his ring away
30413 Unto the judge that begg'd it , and indeed
30414 Deserv'd it too ; and then the boy , his clerk ,
30415 That took some pains in writing , he begg'd mine ;
30416 And neither man nor master would take aught
30417 But the two rings .
30418
30419 What ring gave you , my lord ?
30420 Not that , I hope , that you receiv'd of me .
30421
30422 If I could add a lie unto a fault ,
30423 I would deny it ; but you see my finger
30424 Hath not the ring upon it ; it is gone .
30425
30426 Even so void is your false heart of truth .
30427 By heaven , I will ne'er come in your bed
30428 Until I see the ring .
30429
30430 Nor I in yours ,
30431 Till I again see mine .
30432
30433 Sweet Portia ,
30434 If you did know to whom I gave the ring ,
30435 If you did know for whom I gave the ring ,
30436 And would conceive for what I gave the ring ,
30437 And how unwillingly I left the ring ,
30438 When naught would be accepted but the ring ,
30439 You would abate the strength of your displeasure .
30440
30441 If you had known the virtue of the ring ,
30442 Or half her worthiness that gave the ring ,
30443 Or your own honour to contain the ring ,
30444 You would not then have parted with the ring .
30445 What man is there so much unreasonable ,
30446 If you had pleas'd to have defended it
30447 With any terms of zeal , wanted the modesty
30448 To urge the thing held as a ceremony ?
30449 Nerissa teaches me what to believe :
30450 I'll die for't but some woman had the ring .
30451
30452 No , by my honour , madam , by my soul ,
30453 No woman had it ; but a civil doctor ,
30454 Which did refuse three thousand ducats of me ,
30455 And begg'd the ring , the which I did deny him ,
30456 And suffer'd him to go displeas'd away ;
30457 Even he that did uphold the very life
30458 Of my dear friend . What should I say , sweet lady ?
30459 I was enforc'd to send it after him ;
30460 I was beset with shame and courtesy ;
30461 My honour would not let ingratitude
30462 So much besmear it . Pardon me , good lady ,
30463 For , by these blessed candles of the night ,
30464 Had you been there , I think you would have begg'd
30465 The ring of me to give the worthy doctor .
30466
30467 Let not that doctor e'er come near my house .
30468 Since he hath got the jewel that I lov'd ,
30469 And that which you did swear to keep for me ,
30470 I will become as liberal as you ;
30471 I'll not deny him anything I have ;
30472 No , not my body , nor my husband's bed .
30473 Know him I shall , I am well sure of it :
30474 Lie not a night from home ; watch me like Argus :
30475 If you do not , if I be left alone ,
30476 Now by mine honour , which is yet mine own ,
30477 I'll have that doctor for my bedfellow .
30478
30479 And I his clerk ; therefore be well advis'd
30480 How you do leave me to mine own protection .
30481
30482 Well , do you so : let me not take him , then ;
30483 For if I do , I'll mar the young clerk's pen .
30484
30485 I am the unhappy subject of these quarrels .
30486
30487 Sir , grieve not you ; you are welcome notwithstanding .
30488
30489 Portia , forgive me this enforced wrong ;
30490 And in the hearing of these many friends ,
30491 I swear to thee , even by thine own fair eyes ,
30492 Wherein I see myself ,
30493
30494 Mark you but that !
30495 In both my eyes he doubly sees himself ;
30496 In each eye , one : swear by your double self ,
30497 And there's an oath of credit .
30498
30499 Nay , but hear me :
30500 Pardon this fault , and by my soul I swear
30501 I never more will break an oath with thee .
30502
30503 I once did lend my body for his wealth ,
30504 Which , but for him that had your husband's ring ,
30505 Had quite miscarried : I dare be bound again ,
30506 My soul upon the forfeit , that your lord
30507 Will never more break faith advisedly .
30508
30509 Then you shall be his surety . Give him this ,
30510 And bid him keep it better than the other .
30511
30512 Here , Lord Bassanio ; swear to keep this ring .
30513
30514 By heaven ! it is the same I gave the doctor !
30515
30516 I had it of him : pardon me , Bassanio ,
30517 For , by this ring , the doctor lay with me .
30518
30519 And pardon me , my gentle Gratiano ;
30520 For that same scrubbed boy , the doctor's clerk ,
30521 In lieu of this last night did lie with me .
30522
30523 Why , this is like the mending of highways
30524 In summer , where the ways are fair enough .
30525 What ! are we cuckolds ere we have deserv'd it ?
30526
30527 Speak not so grossly . You are all amaz'd :
30528 Here is a letter ; read it at your leisure ;
30529 It comes from Padus , from Bellario :
30530 There you shall find that Portia was the doctor ,
30531 Nerissa , there , her clerk : Lorenzo here
30532 Shall witness I set forth as soon as you
30533 And even but now return'd ; I have not yet
30534 Enter'd my house . Antonio , you are welcome ;
30535 And I have better news in store for you
30536 Than you expect : unseal this letter soon ;
30537 There you shall find three of your argosies
30538 Are richly come to harbour suddenly .
30539 You shall not know by what strange accident
30540 I chanced on this letter .
30541
30542 I am dumb .
30543
30544 Were you the doctor and I knew you not ?
30545
30546 Were you the clerk that is to make me cuckold ?
30547
30548 Ay ; but the clerk that never means to do it ,
30549 Unless he live until he be a man .
30550
30551 Sweet doctor , you shall be my bedfellow :
30552 When I am absent , then , lie with my wife .
30553
30554 Sweet lady , you have given me life and living ;
30555 For here I read for certain that my ships
30556 Are safely come to road .
30557
30558 How now , Lorenzo !
30559 My clerk hath some good comforts too for you .
30560
30561 Ay , and I'll give them him without a fee .
30562 There do I give to you and Jessica ,
30563 From the rich Jew , a special deed of gift ,
30564 After his death , of all he dies possess'd of .
30565
30566 Fair ladies , you drop manna in the way
30567 Of starved people .
30568
30569 It is almost morning ,
30570 And yet I am sure you are not satisfied
30571 Of these events at full . Let us go in ;
30572 And charge us there upon inter'gatories ,
30573 And we will answer all things faithfully .
30574
30575 Let it be so : the first inter'gatory
30576 That my Nerissa shall be sworn on is ,
30577 Whe'r till the next night she had rather stay ,
30578 Or go to bed now , being two hours to day :
30579 But were the day come , I should wish it dark ,
30580 That I were couching with the doctor's clerk .
30581 Well , while I live I'll fear no other thing
30582 So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring .
30583
30584 THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
30585
30586 Sir Hugh , persuade me not ; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it ; if he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs he shall not abuse Robert Shallow , esquire .
30587
30588 In the county of Gloster , justice of peace , and coram .
30589
30590 Ay , cousin Slender , and cust-alorum .
30591
30592 Ay , and rato-lorum too ; and a gentleman born , Master Parson ; who writes himself armigero , in any bill , warrant , quittance , or obligation ,armigero .
30593
30594 Ay , that I do ; and have done any time these three hundred years .
30595
30596 All his successors gone before him hath done't ; and all his ancestors that come after him may : they may give the dozen white luces in their coat .
30597
30598 It is an old coat .
30599
30600 The dozen white louses do become an old coat well ; it agrees well , passant ; it is a familiar beast to man , and signifies love .
30601
30602 The luce is the fresh fish ; the salt fish is an old coat .
30603
30604 I may quarter , coz ?
30605
30606 You may , by marrying .
30607
30608 It is marring indeed , if he quarter it .
30609
30610 Not a whit .
30611
30612 Yes , py'r lady ; if he has a quarter of your coat , there is but three skirts for yourself , in my simple conjectures : but that is all one . If Sir John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto you , I am of the Church , and will be glad to do my benevolence to make atonements and compremises between you .
30613
30614 The Council shall hear it ; it is a riot .
30615
30616 It is not meet the Council hear a riot ; there is no fear of Got in a riot . The Council , look you , shall desire to hear the fear of Got , and not to hear a riot ; take your vizaments in that .
30617
30618 Ha ! o' my life , if I were young again , the sword should end it .
30619
30620 It is petter that friends is the sword , and end it ; and there is also another device in my prain , which , peradventure , prings goot discretions with it . There is Anne Page , which is daughter to Master Thomas Page , which is pretty virginity .
30621
30622 Mistress Anne Page ? She has brown hair , and speaks small like a woman .
30623
30624 It is that fery person for all the orld , as just as you will desire ; and seven hundred pounds of moneys , and gold and silver , is her grandsire , upon his death's-bed ,Got deliver to a joyful resurrections !give , when she is able to overtake seventeen years old . It were a goot motion if we leave our pribbles and prabbles , and desire a marriage between Master Abraham and Mistress Anne Page .
30625
30626 Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound ?
30627
30628 Ay , and her father is make her a petter penny .
30629
30630 I know the young gentlewoman ; she has good gifts .
30631
30632 Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is goot gifts .
30633
30634 Well , let us see honest Master Page . Is Falstaff there ?
30635
30636 Shall I tell you a lie ? I do despise a har as I do despise one that is false ; or as I despise one that is not true . The knight , Sir John , is there ; and , I beseech you , be ruled by your well-willers . I will peat the door for Master Page .
30637
30638 What , hoa ! Got pless your house here !
30639
30640 Who's there ?
30641
30642 Here is Got's plessing , and your friend . and Justice Shallow ; and here young Master Slender , that peradventures shall tell you another tale , if matters grow to your likings .
30643
30644
30645 I am glad to see your worships well . I thank you for my venison , Master Shallow .
30646
30647 Master Page , I am glad to see you : much good do it your good heart ! I wished your venison better ; it was ill killed . How doth good Mistress Page ?and I thank you always with my heart , la ! with my heart .
30648
30649 Sir , I thank you .
30650
30651 Sir , I thank you ; by yea and no , I do .
30652
30653 I am glad to see you , good Master Slender .
30654
30655 How does your fallow greyhound , sir ? I heard say he was outrun on Cotsall .
30656
30657 It could not be judged , sir .
30658
30659 You'll not confess , you'll not confess .
30660
30661 That he will not : 'tis your fault , 'tis your fault . 'Tis a good dog .
30662
30663 A cur , sir .
30664
30665 Sir , he's a good dog , and a fair dog ; can there be more said ? he is good and fair . Is Sir John Falstaff here ?
30666
30667 Sir , he is within ; and I would I could do a good office between you .
30668
30669 It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak .
30670
30671 He hath wronged me , Master Page .
30672
30673 Sir , he doth in some sort confess it .
30674
30675 If it be confessed , it is not redressed : is not that so , Master Page ? He hath wronged me ; indeed , he hath ;at a word , he hath ,believe me : Robert Shallow , esquire , saith , he is wronged .
30676
30677 Here comes Sir John .
30678
30679
30680 Now , Master Shallow , you'll complain of me to the king ?
30681
30682 Knight , you have beaten my men , killed my deer , and broke open my lodge .
30683
30684 But not kissed your keeper's daughter ?
30685
30686 Tut , a pin ! this shall be answered .
30687
30688 I will answer it straight : I have done all this . That is now answered .
30689
30690 The Council shall know this .
30691
30692 'Twere better for you if it were known in counsel : you'll be laughed at .
30693
30694 Pauca verba , Sir John ; goot worts .
30695
30696 Good worts ! good cabbage . Slender , I broke your head : what matter have you against me ?
30697
30698 Marry , sir , I have matter in my head against you ; and against your cony-catching rascals , Bardolph , Nym , and Pistol . They carried me to the tavern , and made me drunk , and afterwards picked my pocket .
30699
30700 You Banbury cheese !
30701
30702 Ay , it is no matter .
30703
30704 How now , Mephistophilus !
30705
30706 Ay , it is no matter .
30707
30708 Slice , I say ! pauca , pauca ; slice ! that's my humour .
30709
30710 Where's Simple , my man ? can you tell , cousin ?
30711
30712 Peace , I pray you . Now let us understand : there is three umpires in this matter , as I understand ; that is Master Page , fidelicet , Master Page ; and there is myself , fidelicet , myself ; and the three party is , lastly and finally , mine host of the Garter .
30713
30714 We three , to hear it and end it between them .
30715
30716 Fery goot : I will make a prief of it in my note-book ; and we will afterwards ork upon the cause with as great discreetly as we can .
30717
30718 Pistol !
30719
30720 He hears with ears .
30721
30722 The tevil and his tam ! what phrase is this , 'He hears with ear ?' Why , it is affectations .
30723
30724 Pistol , did you pick Master Slender's purse ?
30725
30726 Ay , by these gloves , did he ,or I would I might never come in mine own great chamber again else ,of seven groats in mill-sixpences , and two Edward shovel-boards , that cost me two shilling and two pence a-piece of Yead Miller , by these gloves .
30727
30728 Is this true , Pistol ?
30729
30730 No ; it is false , if it is a pick-purse .
30731
30732 Ha , thou mountain foreigner !Sir John and master mine ,
30733 I combat challenge of this latten bilbo .
30734 Word of denial in thy labras here !
30735 Word of denial : froth and scum , thou liest .
30736
30737 By these gloves , then , 'twas he .
30738
30739 Be avised , sir , and pass good humours . I will say , 'marry trap ,' with you , if you run the nuthook's humour on me : that is the very note of it .
30740
30741 By this hat , then , he in the red face had it ; for though I cannot remember what I did when you made me drunk , yet I am not altogether an ass .
30742
30743 What say you , Scarlet and John ?
30744
30745 Why , sir , for my part , I say , the gentleman had drunk himself out of his five sentences .
30746
30747 It is his 'five senses ;' fie , what the ignorance is !
30748
30749 And being fap , sir , was , as they say , cashier'd ; and so conclusions pass'd the careires .
30750
30751 Ay , you spake in Latin then too ; but 'tis no matter . I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again , but in honest , civil , godly company , for this trick : if I be drunk , I'll be drunk with those that have the fear of God , and not with drunken knaves .
30752
30753 So Got udge me , that is a virtuous mind .
30754
30755 You hear all these matters denied , gentlemen ; you hear it .
30756
30757
30758 Nay , daughter , carry the wine in ; we'll drink within .
30759
30760
30761 O heaven ! this is Mistress Anne Page .
30762
30763 How now , Mistress Ford !
30764
30765 Mistress Ford , by my troth , you are very well met : by your leave , good mistress .
30766
30767
30768 Wife , bid these gentlemen welcome . Come , we have a hot venison pasty to dinner : come , gentlemen , I hope we shall drink down all unkindness .
30769
30770
30771 I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here .
30772
30773 How now , Simple ! Where have you been ? I must wait on myself , must I ? You have not the Book of Riddles about you , have you ?
30774
30775 Book of Riddles ! why , did you not lend it to Alice Shortcake upon All-Hallowmas last , a fortnight afore Michaelmas ?
30776
30777 Come , coz ; come , coz ; we stay for you . A word with you , coz ; marry , this , coz : there is , as 'twere a tender , a kind of tender , made afar off by Sir Hugh here : do you understand me ?
30778
30779 Ay , sir , you shall find me reasonable : if it be so , I shall do that that is reason .
30780
30781 Nay , but understand me .
30782
30783 So I do , sir .
30784
30785 Give ear to his motions , Master Slender : I will description the matter to you , if you pe capacity of it .
30786
30787 Nay , I will do as my cousin Shallow says . I pray you pardon me ; he's a justice of peace in his country , simple though I stand here .
30788
30789 But that is not the question ; the question is concerning your marriage .
30790
30791 Ay , there's the point , sir .
30792
30793 Marry , is it , the very point of it ; to Mistress Anne Page .
30794
30795 Why , if it be so , I will marry her upon any reasonable demands .
30796
30797 But can you affection the 'oman ? Let us command to know that of your mouth or of your lips ; for divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth : therefore , precisely , can you carry your good will to the maid ?
30798
30799 Cousin Abraham Slender , can you love her ?
30800
30801 I hope , sir , I will do as it shall become one that would do reason .
30802
30803 Nay , Got's lords and his ladies ! you must speak possitable , if you can carry her your desires towards her .
30804
30805 That you must . Will you , upon good dowry , marry her ?
30806
30807 I will do a greater thing than that , upon your request , cousin , in any reason .
30808
30809 Nay , conceive me , conceive me , sweet coz : what I do , is to pleasure you , coz . Can you love the maid ?
30810
30811 I will marry her , sir , at your request ; but if there be no great love in the beginning , yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance , when we are married and have more occasion to know one another : I hope , upon familiarity will grow more contempt : but if you say , 'Marry her ,' I will marry her ; that I am freely dissolved , and dissolutely .
30812
30813 It is a fery discretion answer ; save , the faul is in the ort 'dissolutely :' the ort is , according to our meaning , 'resolutely .' His meaning is goot .
30814
30815 Ay , I think my cousin meant well .
30816
30817 Ay , or else I would I might be hanged , la !
30818
30819 Here comes fair Mistress Anne .
30820
30821 Would I were young for your sake , Mistress Anne .
30822
30823 The dinner is on the table ; my father desires your worships' company .
30824
30825 I will wait on him , fair Mistress Anne .
30826
30827 Od's plessed will ! I will not be absence at the grace .
30828
30829
30830 Will't please your worship to come in , sir ?
30831
30832 No , I thank you , forsooth , heartily ; I am very well .
30833
30834 The dinner attends you , sir .
30835
30836 I am not a-hungry , I thank you forsooth . Go , sirrah , for all you are my man , go wait upon my cousin Shallow .
30837
30838 A justice of peace sometime may be beholding to his friend for a man . I keep but three men and a boy yet , till my mother be dead ; but what though ? yet I live like a poor gentleman born .
30839
30840 I may not go in without your worship : they will not sit till you come .
30841
30842 I' faith , I'll eat nothing ; I thank you as much as though I did .
30843
30844 I pray you , sir , walk in .
30845
30846 I had rather walk here , I thank you . I bruised my shin th' other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence ; three veneys for a dish of stewed prunes ;and , by my troth , I cannot abide the smell of hot meat since . Why do your dogs bark so ? be there bears i' the town ?
30847
30848 I think there are , sir ; I heard them talked of .
30849
30850 I love the sport well ; but I shall as soon quarrel at it as any man in England . You are afraid , if you see the bear loose , are you not ?
30851
30852 Ay , indeed , sir .
30853
30854 That's meat and drink to me , now : I have seen Sackerson loose twenty times , and have taken him by the chain ; but , I warrant you , the women have so cried and shrieked at it , that it passed : but women , indeed , cannot abide 'em ; they are very ill-favoured rough things .
30855
30856
30857 Come , gentle Master Slender , come ; we stay for you .
30858
30859 I'll eat nothing , I thank you , sir .
30860
30861 By cock and pie , you shall not choose , sir ! come , come .
30862
30863 Nay , pray you , lead the way .
30864
30865 Come on , sir .
30866
30867 Mistress Anne , yourself shall go first .
30868
30869 Not I , sir ; pray you , keep on .
30870
30871 Truly , I will not go first : truly , la ! I will not do you that wrong .
30872
30873 I pray you , sir .
30874
30875 I'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome . You do yourself wrong , indeed , la !
30876
30877
30878 Go your ways , and ask of Doctor Caius' house , which is the way : and there dwells one Mistress Quickly , which is in the manner of his nurse , or his try nurse , or his cook , or his laundry , his washer , and his wringer .
30879
30880 Well , sir .
30881
30882 Nay , it is petter yet . Give her this letter ; for it is a 'oman that altogether's acquaintance with Mistress Anne Page : and the letter is , to desire and require her to solicit your master's desires to Mistress Anne Page . I pray you , be gone : I will make an end of my dinner ; there's pippins and seese to come .
30883
30884
30885 Mine host of the Garter !
30886
30887 What says my bully-rook ? Speak scholarly and wisely .
30888
30889 Truly , mine host , I must turn away some of my followers .
30890
30891 Discard , bully Hercules ; cashier : let them wag ; trot , trot .
30892
30893 I sit at ten pounds a week .
30894
30895 Thou'rt an emperor , C sar , Keisar , and Pheezar . I will entertain Bardolph ; he shall draw , he shall tap : said I well , bully Hector ?
30896
30897 Do so , good mine host .
30898
30899 I have spoke ; let him follow .
30900
30901 Let me see thee forth and lime : I am at a word ; follow .
30902
30903
30904 Bardolph , follow him . A tapster is a good trade : an old cloak makes a new jerkin ; a withered serving-man , a fresh tapster . Go ; adieu .
30905
30906 It is a life that I have desired . I will thrive .
30907
30908 O base Hungarian wight ! wilt thou the spigot wield ?
30909
30910
30911 He was gotten in drink ; is not the humour conceited ?
30912
30913 I am glad I am so acquit of this tinderbox ; his thefts were too open ; his filching was like an unskilful singer ; he kept not time .
30914
30915 The good humour is to steal at a minim's rest .
30916
30917 'Convey ,' the wise it call . 'Steal !' foh ! a fico for the phrase !
30918
30919 Well , sirs , I am almost out at heels .
30920
30921 Why , then , let kibes ensue .
30922
30923 There is no remedy ; I must conycatch , I must shift .
30924
30925 Young ravens must have food .
30926
30927 Which of you know Ford of this town ?
30928
30929 I ken the wight : he is of substance good .
30930
30931 My honest lads , I will tell you what I am about .
30932
30933 Two yards , and more .
30934
30935 No quips now , Pistol ! Indeed , I am in the waist two yards about ; but I am now about no waste ; I am about thrift . Briefly , I do mean to make love to Ford's wife : I spy entertainment in her ; she discourses , she carves , she gives the leer of invitation : I can construe the action of her familiar style ; and the hardest voice of her behaviour , to be Englished rightly , is , 'I am Sir John Falstaff's .'
30936
30937 He hath studied her well , and translated her well , out of honesty into English .
30938
30939 The anchor is deep : will that humour pass ?
30940
30941 Now , the report goes she has all the rule of her husband's purse ; he hath a legion of angels .
30942
30943 As many devils entertain , and 'To her , boy ,' say I .
30944
30945 The humour rises ; it is good : humour me the angels .
30946
30947 I have writ me here a letter to her ; and here another to Page's wife , who even now gave me good eyes too , examined my parts with most judicious illiades : sometimes the beam of her view gilded my foot , sometimes my portly belly .
30948
30949 Then did the sun on dunghill shine .
30950
30951 I thank thee for that humour .
30952
30953 O ! she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a greedy intention , that the appetite of her eye did seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass . Here's another letter to her : she bears the purse too ; she is a region in Guiana , all gold and bounty . I will be 'cheator to them both , and they shall be exchequers to me : they shall be my East and West Indies , and I will trade to them both . Go bear thou this letter to Mistress Page ; and thou this to Mistress Ford . We will thrive , lads , we will thrive .
30954
30955 Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become ,
30956 And by my side wear steel ? then , Lucifer take all !
30957
30958 I will run no base humour : here , take the humour-letter . I will keep the haviour of reputation .
30959
30960 Hold , sirrah , bear you these letters tightly :
30961 Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores .
30962 Rogues , hence ! avaunt ! vanish like hailstones , go ;
30963 Trudge , plod away o'the hoof ; seek shelter , pack !
30964 Falstaff will learn the humour of this age ,
30965 French thrift , you rogues : myself and skirted page .
30966
30967
30968 Let vultures gripe thy guts ! for gourd and fullam holds ,
30969 And high and low beguile the rich and poor .
30970 Tester I'll have in pouch when thou shalt lack ,
30971 Base Phrygian Turk !
30972
30973 I have operations in my head , which be humours of revenge .
30974
30975 Wilt thou revenge ?
30976
30977 By welkin and her star !
30978
30979 With wit or steel ?
30980
30981 With both the humours , I :
30982 I will discuss the humour of this love to Page .
30983
30984
30985 And I to Ford shall eke unfold
30986 How Falstaff , varlet vile ,
30987 His dove will prove , his gold will hold ,
30988 And his soft couch defile .
30989
30990
30991 My humour shall not cool : I will incense Page to deal with poison ; I will possess him with yellowness , for the revolt of mine is dangerous : that is my true humour .
30992
30993 Thou art the Mars of malcontents : I second thee ; troop on .
30994
30995
30996 What , John Rugby !
30997
30998 I pray thee , go to the casement , and see if you can see my master , Master Doctor Caius , coming : if he do , i' faith , and find anybody in the house , here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English .
30999
31000 I'll go watch .
31001
31002 Go ; and we'll have a posset for't soon at night , in faith , at the latter end of a sea-coal fire .
31003
31004 An honest , willing , kind fellow , as ever servant shall come in house withal ; and , I warrant you , no tell-tale , nor no breed-bate : his worst fault is , that he is given to prayer ; he is something peevish that way , but nobody but has his fault ; but let that pass . Peter Simple you say your name is ?
31005
31006 Ay , for fault of a better .
31007
31008 And Master Slender's your master ?
31009
31010 Ay , forsooth .
31011
31012 Does he not wear a great round beard like a glover's paring-knife ?
31013
31014 No , forsooth : he hath but a little wheyface , with a little yellow beard a cane-coloured beard .
31015
31016 A softly-sprighted man , is he not ?
31017
31018 Ay , forsooth ; but he is as tall a man of his hands as any is between this and his head : he hath fought with a warrener .
31019
31020 How say you ?O ! I should remember him : does he not hold up his head , as it were , and strut in his gait ?
31021
31022 Yes , indeed , does he .
31023
31024 Well , heaven send Anne Page no worse fortune ! Tell Master Parson Evans I will do what I can for your master : Anne is a good girl , and I wish
31025
31026
31027 Out , alas ! here comes my master .
31028
31029 We shall all be shent . Run in here , good young man ; go into this closet .
31030
31031
31032 'And down , down , adown-a ,' &c .
31033
31034 Vat is you sing ? I do not like dese toys . Pray you , go and vetch me in my closet une boitine verde ; a box , a green-a box : do intend vat I speak ? a green-a box .
31035
31036 Ay , forsooth ; I'll fetch it you .
31037
31038 I am glad he went not in himself : if he had found the young man , he would have been horn-mad .
31039
31040 Fe , fe , fe , fe ! ma foi , il fait fort chaud . Je m'en vais la cour ,la grande affaire .
31041
31042 Is it this , sir ?
31043
31044 Oui ; mettez le au mon pocket ; d p chez , quickly .Vere is dat knave Rugby ?
31045
31046 What , John Rugby ! John !
31047
31048
31049 Here , sir .
31050
31051 You are John Rugby , and you are Jack Rugby : come , take-a your rapier , and come after my heel to de court .
31052
31053 'Tis ready , sir , here in the porch .
31054
31055 By my trot , I tarry too long .Od's me ! Qu'ay j'oubli ? dere is some simples in my closet , dat I vill not for de varld I shall leave behind .
31056
31057 Ay me ! he'll find the young man there , and be mad .
31058
31059 O diable ! diable ! vat is in my closet ?Villain ! larron !
31060
31061 Rugby , my rapier !
31062
31063 Good master , be content .
31064
31065 Verefore shall I be content-a ?
31066
31067 The young man is an honest man .
31068
31069 Vat shall de honest man do in my closet ? dere is no honest man dat shall come in my closet .
31070
31071 I beseech you , be not so phlegmatic . Hear the truth of it : he came of an errand to me from Parson Hugh .
31072
31073 Vell .
31074
31075 Ay , forsooth , to desire her to
31076
31077 Peace , I pray you .
31078
31079 Peace-a your tongue !Speak-a your tale .
31080
31081 To desire this honest gentlewoman , your maid , to speak a good word to Mistress Anne Page for my master in the way of marriage .
31082
31083 This is all , indeed , la ! but I'll ne'er put my finger in the fire , and need not .
31084
31085 Sir Hugh send-a you ?Rugby , baillez me some paper : tarry you a little-a while .
31086
31087
31088 I am glad he is so quiet : if he had been throughly moved , you should have heard him so loud , and so melancholy . But , notwithstanding , man , I'll do your master what good I can ; and the very yea and the no is , the French doctor , my master ,I may call him my master , look you , for I keep his house ; and I wash , wring , brew , bake , scour , dress meat and drink , make the beds , and do all myself ,
31089
31090 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand .
31091
31092 Are you avis'd o' that ? you shall find it a great charge : and to be up early and down late ; but notwithstanding ,to tell you in your ear ,I would have no words of it ,my master himself is in love with Mistress Anne Page : but notwithstanding that , I know Anne's mind , that's neither here nor there .
31093
31094 You jack'nape , give-a dis letter to Sir Hugh ; by gar , it is a challenge : I vill cut his troat in de Park ; and I vill teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make . You may be gone ; it is not good you tarry here : by gar , I vill cut all his two stones ; by gar , he shall not have a stone to trow at his dog .
31095
31096
31097 Alas ! he speaks but for his friend .
31098
31099 It is no matter-a for dat :do not you tell-a me dat I shall have Anne Page for myself ? By gar , I vill kill de Jack priest ; and I have appointed mine host of de Jartiere to measure our weapon . By gar , I vill myself have Anne Page .
31100
31101 Sir , the maid loves you , and all shall be well . We must give folks leave to prate : what , the good-jer !
31102
31103 Rugby , come to the court vit me . By gar , if I have not Anne Page , I shall turn your head out of my door . Follow my heels , Rugby .
31104
31105
31106 You shall have An fool's-head of your own . No , I know Anne's mind for that : never a woman in Windsor knows more of Anne's mind than I do ; nor can do more than I do with her , I thank heaven .
31107
31108 Who's within there ? ho !
31109
31110 Who's there , I trow ? Come near the house , I pray you .
31111
31112
31113 How now , good woman ! how dost thou ?
31114
31115 The better , that it pleases your good worship to ask .
31116
31117 What news ? how does pretty Mistress Anne ?
31118
31119 In truth , sir , and she is pretty , and honest , and gentle ; and one that is your friend , I can tell you that by the way ; I praise heaven for it .
31120
31121 Shall I do any good , thinkest thou ? Shall I not lose my suit ?
31122
31123 Troth , sir , all is in his hands above ; but notwithstanding , Master Fenton , I'll be sworn on a book , she loves you . Have not your worship a wart above your eye ?
31124
31125 Yes , marry have I ; what of that ?
31126
31127 Well , thereby hangs a tale . Good faith , it is such another Nan ; but , I detest , an honest maid as ever broke bread : we had an hour's talk of that wart . I shall never laugh but in that maid's company ;but , indeed , she is given too much to allicholy and musing . But for you well , go to .
31128
31129 Well , I shall see her to-day . Hold , there's money for thee ; let me have thy voice in my behalf : if thou seest her before me , commend me .
31130
31131 Will I ? i' faith , that we will : and I will tell your worship more of the wart the next time we have confidence ; and of other wooers .
31132
31133 Well , farewell ; I am in great haste now .
31134
31135 Farewell to your worship .
31136
31137 Truly , an honest gentleman : but Anne loves him not ; for I know Anne's mind as well as another does . Out upon't ! what have I forgot ?
31138
31139 What ! have I 'scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty , and am I now a subject for them ? Let me see .
31140
31141 Ask me no reason why I love you ; for though Love use Reason for his physician , he admits him not for his counsellor . You are not young , no more am I ; go to then , there's sympathy ; you are merry , so am I , ha ! ha ! then , there's more sympathy , you love sack , and so do I , would you desire better sympathy ? Let it suffice thee , Mistress Page , at the least , if the love of a soldier can suffice , that I love thee I will not say , pity me ,'tis not a soldier-like phrase ; but I say , love me . By me ,
31142
31143 Thine own true knight ,
31144 By day or night ,
31145 Or any kind of light ,
31146 With all his might
31147 For thee to fight ,
31148
31149 What a Herod of Jewry is this ! O wicked , wicked world ! one that is well-nigh worn to pieces with age , to show himself a young gallant ! What an unweighed behaviour hath this Flemish drunkard picked , with the devil's name ! out of my conversation , that he dares in this manner assay me ? Why , he hath not been thrice in my company ! What should I say to him ? I was then frugal of my mirth :heaven forgive me ! Why , I'll exhibit a bill in the parliament for the putting down of men . How shall I be revenged on him ? for revenged I will be , as sure as his guts are made of puddings .
31150
31151
31152 Mistress Page ! trust me , I was going to your house .
31153
31154 And , trust me , I was coming to you . You look very ill .
31155
31156 Nay , I'll ne'er believe that : I have to show to the contrary .
31157
31158 Faith , but you do , in my mind .
31159
31160 Well , I do then ; yet , I say I could show you to the contrary . O , Mistress Page ! give me some counsel .
31161
31162 What's the matter , woman ?
31163
31164 O woman , if it were not for one trifling respect , I could come to such honour !
31165
31166 Hang the trifle , woman ; take the honour . What is it ?dispense with trifles ;what is it ?
31167
31168 If I would but go to hell for an eternal moment or so , I could be knighted .
31169
31170 What ? thou liest . Sir Alice Ford ! These knights will hack ; and so thou shouldst not alter the article of thy gentry .
31171
31172 We burn daylight : here , read , read ; perceive how I might be knighted . I shall think the worse of fat men as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking : and yet he would not swear ; praised women's modesty ; and gave such orderly and well-behaved reproof to all uncomeliness , that I would have sworn his disposition would have gone to the truth of his words ; but they do no more adhere and keep place together than the Hundredth Psalm to the tune of 'Green Sleeves .' What tempest , I trow , threw this whale , with so many tuns of oil in his belly , ashore at Windsor ? How shall I be revenged on him ? I think , the best way were to entertain him with hope , till the wicked fire of lust have melted him in his own grease . Did you ever hear the like ?
31173
31174 Letter for letter , but that the name of Page and Ford differs ! To thy great comfort in this mystery of ill opinions , here's the twin brother of thy letter : but let thine inherit first ; for , I protest , mine never shall . I warrant , he hath a thousand of these letters , writ with blank space for different names , sure more , and these are of the second edition . He will print them , out of doubt ; for he cares not what he puts into the press , when he would put us two : I had rather be a grantess , and lie under Mount Pelion . Well , I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man .
31175
31176 Why , this is the very same ; the very hand , the very words . What doth he think of us ?
31177
31178 Nay , I know not : it makes me almost ready to wrangle with mine own honesty . I'll entertain myself like one that I am not acquainted withal ; for , sure , unless he know some strain in me , that I know not myself , he would never have boarded me in this fury .
31179
31180 Boarding call you it ? I'll be sure to keep him above deck .
31181
31182 So will I : if he come under my hatches , I'll never to sea again . Let's be revenged on him : let's appoint him a meeting ; give him a show of comfort in his suit , and lead him on with a fine-baited delay , till he hath pawned his horses to mine host of the Garter .
31183
31184 Nay , I will consent to act any villany against him , that may not sully the chariness of our honesty . O , that my husband saw this letter ! it would give eternal food to his jealousy .
31185
31186 Why , look , where he comes ; and my good man too : he's as far from jealousy , as I am from giving him cause ; and that , I hope , is an unmeasurable distance .
31187
31188 You are the happier woman .
31189
31190 Let's consult together against this greasy knight . Come hither .
31191
31192 Well , I hope it be not so .
31193
31194 Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs :
31195 Sir John affects thy wife .
31196
31197 Why , sir , my wife is not young .
31198
31199 He woos both high and low , both rich and poor ,
31200 Both young and old , one with another , Ford .
31201 He loves the galimaufry : Ford , perpend .
31202
31203 Love my wife !
31204
31205 With liver burning hot : prevent , or go thou ,
31206 Like Sir Act on he , with Ringwood at thy heels .
31207 O ! odious is the name !
31208
31209 What name , sir ?
31210
31211 The horn , I say . Farewell :
31212 Take heed ; have open eye , for thieves do foot by night :
31213 Take heed , ere summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing .
31214 Away , sir Corporal Nym !
31215 Believe it , Page ; he speaks sense .
31216
31217
31218 I will be patient : I will find out this .
31219
31220 And this is true ; I like not the humour of lying . He hath wronged me in some humours : I should have borne the humoured letter to her , but I have a sword and it shall bite upon my necessity . He loves your wife ; there's the short and the long . My name is Corporal Nym ; I speak , and I avouch 'tis true : my name is Nym , and Falstaff loves your wife . Adieu . I love not the humour of bread and cheese ; and there's the humour of it . Adieu .
31221
31222
31223 'The humour of it ,' quoth'a ! here's a fellow frights humour out of his wits .
31224
31225 I will seek out Falstaff .
31226
31227 I never heard such a drawling , affecting rogue .
31228
31229 If I do find it : well .
31230
31231 I will not believe such a Cataian , though the priest o' the town commended him for a true man .
31232
31233 'Twas a good sensible fellow : well .
31234
31235 How now , Meg !
31236
31237 Whither go you , George ?Hark you .
31238
31239 How now , sweet Frank ! why art thou melancholy ?
31240
31241 I melancholy ! I am not melancholy . Get you home , go .
31242
31243 Faith , thou hast some crotchets in thy head now . Will you go , Mistress Page ?
31244
31245 Have with you . You'll come to dinner , George ?
31246
31247 Look , who comes yonder : she shall be our messenger to this paltry knight .
31248
31249 Trust me , I thought on her : she'll fit it .
31250
31251
31252 You are come to see my daughter Anne ?
31253
31254 Ay , forsooth ; and , I pray , how does good Mistress Anne ?
31255
31256 Go in with us , and see : we'd have an hour's talk with you .
31257
31258
31259 How now , Master Ford !
31260
31261 You heard what this knave told me , did you not ?
31262
31263 Yes ; and you heard what the other told me ?
31264
31265 Do you think there is truth in them ?
31266
31267 Hang 'em , slaves ! I do not think the knight would offer it : but these that accuse him in his intent towards our wives , are a yoke of his discarded men ; very rogues , now they be out of service .
31268
31269 Were they his men ?
31270
31271 Marry , were they .
31272
31273 I like it never the better for that . Does he lie at the Garter ?
31274
31275 Ay , marry , does he . If he should intend this voyage towards my wife , I would turn her loose to him ; and what he gets more of her than sharp words , let it lie on my head .
31276
31277 I do not misdoubt my wife , but I would be loth to turn them together . A man may be too confident : I would have nothing 'lie on my head :' I cannot be thus satisfied .
31278
31279 Look , where my ranting host of the Garter comes . There is either liquor in his pate or money in his purse when he looks so merrily .
31280
31281 How now , mine host !
31282
31283 How now , bully-rook ! thou'rt a gentleman . Cavaliero-justice , I say !
31284
31285 I follow , mine host , I follow . Good even and twenty , good Master Page ! Master Page , will you go with us ? we have sport in hand .
31286
31287 Tell him , cavaliero-justice ; tell him , bully-rook .
31288
31289 Sir , there is a fray to be fought between Sir Hugh the Welsh priest and Caius the French doctor .
31290
31291 Good mine host o' the Garter , a word with you .
31292
31293 What sayest thou , my bully-rook ?
31294
31295
31296 Will you go with us to behold it ? My merry host hath had the measuring of their weapons , and , I think , hath appointed them contrary places ; for , believe me , I hear the parson is no jester . Hark , I will tell you what our sport shall be .
31297
31298
31299 Hast thou no suit against my knight , my guest-cavalier ?
31300
31301 None , I protest : but I'll give you a pottle of burnt sack to give me recourse to him and tell him my name is Brook , only for a jest .
31302
31303 My hand , bully : thou shalt have egress and regress ; said I well ? and thy name shall be Brook . It is a merry knight . Will you go , mynheers ?
31304
31305 Have with you , mine host .
31306
31307 I have heard , the Frenchman hath good skill in his rapier .
31308
31309 Tut , sir ! I could have told you more . In these times you stand on distance , your passes , stoccadoes , and I know not what : 'tis the heart , Master Page ; 'tis here , 'tis here . I have seen the time with my long sword I would have made you four tall fellows skip like rats .
31310
31311 Here , boys , here , here ! shall we wag ?
31312
31313 Have with you . I had rather hear them scold than fight .
31314
31315
31316 Though Page be a secure fool , and stands so firmly on his wife's frailty , yet I cannot put off my opinion so easily . She was in his company at Page's house , and what they made there , I know not . Well , I will look further into't ; and I have a disguise to sound Falstaff . If I find her honest , I lose not my labour ; if she be otherwise , 'tis labour well bestowed .
31317
31318
31319 I will not lend thee a penny .
31320
31321 Why , then the world's mine oyster ,
31322 Which I with sword will open .
31323 I will retort the sum in equipage .
31324
31325 Not a penny . I have been content , sir , you should lay my countenance to pawn : I have grated upon my good friends for three reprieves for you and your coach-fellow Nym ; or else you had looked through the grate , like a geminy of baboons . I am damned in hell for swearing to gentlemen my friends , you were good soldiers and tall fellows ; and when Mistress Bridget lost the handle of her fan , I took't upon mine honour thou hadst it not .
31326
31327 Didst thou not share ? hadst thou not fifteen pence ?
31328
31329 Reason , you rogue , reason : thinkest thou , I'll endanger my soul gratis ? At a word , hang no more about me ; I am no gibbet for you : go : a short knife and a throng !to your manor of Picht-hatch ! go . You'll not bear a letter for me , you rogue !you stand upon your honour !Why , thou unconfinable baseness , it is as much as I can do to keep the terms of mine honour precise . I , I , I , myself sometimes , leaving the fear of God on the left hand and hiding mine honour in my necessity , am fain to shuffle , to hedge and to lurch ; and yet you , rogue , will ensconce your rags , your cat-a-mountain looks , your red-lattice phrases , and your bold-beating oaths , under the shelter of your honour ! You will not do it , you !
31330
31331 I do relent : what wouldst thou more of man ?
31332
31333
31334 Sir , here's a woman would speak with you .
31335
31336 Let her approach .
31337
31338
31339 Give your worship good morrow .
31340
31341 Good morrow , good wife .
31342
31343 Not so , an't please your worship .
31344
31345 Good maid , then .
31346
31347 I'll be sworn
31348 As my mother was , the first hour I was born .
31349
31350 I do believe the swearer . What with me ?
31351
31352 Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two ?
31353
31354 Two thousand , fair woman ; and I'll vouchsafe thee the hearing .
31355
31356 There is one Mistress Ford , sir ,I pray , come a little nearer this ways :I myself dwell with Master Doctor Caius .
31357
31358 Well , on : Mistress Ford , you say ,
31359
31360 Your worship says very true :I pray your worship , come a little nearer this ways .
31361
31362 I warrant thee , nobody hears ; mine own people , mine own people .
31363
31364 Are they so ? God bless them , and make them his servants !
31365
31366 Well : Mistress Ford ; what of her ?
31367
31368 Why , sir , she's a good creature . Lord , Lord ! your worship's a wanton ! Well , heaven forgive you , and all of us , I pray !
31369
31370 Mistress Ford ; come , Mistress Ford ,
31371
31372 Marry , this is the short and the long of it . You have brought her into such a canaries as 'tis wonderful : the best courtier of them all , when the court lay at Windsor , could never have brought her to such a canary ; yet there has been knights , and lords , and gentlemen , with their coaches , I warrant you , coach after coach , letter after letter , gift after gift ; smelling so sweetly all musk , and so rushling , I warrant you , in silk and gold ; and in such alligant terms ; and in such wine and sugar of the best and the fairest , that would have won any woman's heart ; and , I warrant you , they could never get an eye-wink of her . I had myself twenty angels given me this morning ; but I defy all angels , in any such sort , as they say , but in the way of honesty : and , I warrant you , they could never get her so much as sip on a cup with the proudest of them all ; and yet there has been earls , nay , which is more , pensioners ; but , I warrant you , all is one with her .
31373
31374 But what says she to me ? be brief , my good she Mercury .
31375
31376 Marry , she hath received your letter ; for the which she thanks you a thousand times ; and she gives you to notify that her husband will be absence from his house between ten and eleven .
31377
31378 Ten and eleven ?
31379
31380 Ay , forsooth ; and then you may come and see the picture , she says , that you wot of : Master Ford , her husband , will be from home . Alas ! the sweet woman leads an ill life with him ; he's a very jealousy man ; she leads a very frampold life with him , good heart .
31381
31382 Ten and eleven . Woman , commend me to her ; I will not fail her .
31383
31384 Why , you say well . But I have another messenger to your worship : Mistress Page hath her hearty commendations to you too : and let me tell you in your ear , she's as fartuous a civil modest wife , and one , I tell you , that will not miss you morning nor evening prayer , as any is in Windsor , whoe'er be the other : and she bade me tell your worship that her husband is seldom from home ; but , she hopes there will come a time . I never knew a woman so dote upon a man : surely , I think you have charms , la ; yes , in truth .
31385
31386 Not I , I assure thee : setting the attraction of my good parts aside , I have no other charms .
31387
31388 Blessing on your heart for't !
31389
31390 But , I pray thee , tell me this : has Ford's wife and Page's wife acquainted each other how they love me ?
31391
31392 That were a jest indeed ! they have not so little grace , I hope : that were a trick , indeed ! But Mistress Page would desire you to send her your little page , of all loves : her husband has a marvellous infection to the little page ; and , truly , Master Page is an honest man . Never a wife in Windsor leads a better life than she does : do what she will , say what she will , take all , pay all , go to bed when she list , rise when she list , all is as she will : and , truly she deserves it ; for if there be a kind woman in Windsor , she is one . You must send her your page ; no remedy .
31393
31394 Why , I will .
31395
31396 Nay , but do so , then : and , look you , he may come and go between you both ; and in any case have a nay-word , that you may know one another's mind , and the boy never need to understand any thing ; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness : old folks , you know , have discretion , as they say , and know the world .
31397
31398 Fare thee well : commend me to them both . There's my purse ; I am yet thy debtor .Boy , go along with this woman .
31399
31400 This news distracts me .
31401
31402 This punk is one of Cupid's carriers .
31403 Clap on more sails ; pursue ; up with your fights ;
31404 Give fire ! she is my prize , or ocean whelm them all !
31405
31406
31407 Sayest thou so , old Jack ? go thy ways ; I'll make more of thy old body than I have done . Will they yet look after thee ? Wilt thou , after the expense of so much money , be now a gainer ? Good body , I thank thee . Let them say 'tis grossly done ; so it be fairly done , no matter .
31408
31409
31410 Sir John , there's one Master Brook below would fain speak with you , and be acquainted with you : and hath sent your worship a morning's draught of sack .
31411
31412 Brook is his name ?
31413
31414 Ay , sir .
31415
31416 Call him in .
31417
31418 Such Brooks are welcome to me , that o'erflow such liquor . Ah , ha ! Mistress Ford and Mistress Page , have I encompassed you ? go to ; via !
31419
31420
31421 Bless your , sir !
31422
31423 And you , sir ; would you speak with me ?
31424
31425 I make bold to press with so little preparation upon you .
31426
31427 You're welcome . What's your will ?Give us leave , drawer .
31428
31429
31430 Sir , I am a gentleman that have spent much : my name is Brook .
31431
31432 Good Master Brook , I desire more acquaintance of you .
31433
31434 Good Sir John , I sue for yours : not to charge you ; for I must let you understand I think myself in better plight for a lender than you are : the which hath something emboldened me to this unseasoned intrusion ; for , they say , if money go before , all ways do lie open .
31435
31436 Money is a good soldier , sir , and will on .
31437
31438 Troth , and I have a bag of money here troubles me : if you will help to bear it , Sir John , take all , or half , for easing me of the carriage .
31439
31440 Sir , I know not how I may deserve to be your porter .
31441
31442 I will tell you , sir , if you will give me the hearing .
31443
31444 Speak , good Master Brook ; I shall be glad to be your servant .
31445
31446 Sir , I hear you are a scholar ,I will be brief with you , and you have been a man long known to me , though I had never so good means , as desire , to make myself acquainted with you . I shall discover a thing to you , wherein I must very much lay open mine own imperfection ; but , good Sir John , as you have one eye upon my follies , as you hear them unfolded , turn another into the register of your own , that I may pass with a reproof the easier , sith you yourself know how easy it is to be such an offender .
31447
31448 Very well , sir ; proceed .
31449
31450 There is a gentlewoman in this town , her husband's name is Ford .
31451
31452 Well , sir .
31453
31454 I have long loved her , and , I protest to you , bestowed much on her ; followed her with a doting observance ; engrossed opportunities to meet her ; fee'd every slight occasion that could but niggardly give me sight of her ; not only bought many presents to give her , but have given largely to many to know what she would have given . Briefly , I have pursued her as love hath pursued me ; which hath been on the wing of all occasions . But whatsoever I have merited , either in my mind or in my means , meed , I am sure , I have received none ; unless experience be a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite rate ; and that hath taught me to say this ,
31455
31456 Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues ;
31457 Pursuing that that flies , and flying what pursues
31458
31459
31460 Have you received no promise of satisfaction at her hands ?
31461
31462 Never .
31463
31464 Have you importuned her to such a purpose ?
31465
31466 Never .
31467
31468 Of what quality was your love , then ?
31469
31470 Like a fair house built upon another man's ground ; so that I have lost my edifice by mistaking the place where I erected it .
31471
31472 To what purpose have you unfolded this to me ?
31473
31474 When I have told you that , I have told you all . Some say , that though she appear honest to me , yet in other places she enlargeth her mirth so far that there is shrewd construction made of her . Now , Sir John , here is the heart of my purpose : you are a gentleman of excellent breeding , admirable discourse , of great admittance , authentic in your place and person , generally allowed for your many war-like , court-like , and learned preparations .
31475
31476 O , sir !
31477
31478 Believe it , for you know it . There is money ; spend it , spend it ; spend more ; spend all I have ; only give me so much of your time in exchange of it , as to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife : use your art of wooing , win her to consent to you ; if any man may , you may as soon as any .
31479
31480 Would it apply well to the vehemency of your affection , that I should win what you would enjoy ? Methinks you prescribe to yourself very preposterously .
31481
31482 O , understand my drift . She dwells so securely on the excellency of her honour , that the folly of my soul dares not present itself : she is too bright to be looked against . Now , could I come to her with any detection in my hand , my desires had instance and argument to commend themselves : I could drive her then from the ward of her purity , her reputation , her marriage vow , and a thousand other her defences , which now are too-too strongly embattled against me . What say you to't , Sir John ?
31483
31484 Master Brook , I will first make bold with your money ; next , give me your hand ; and last , as I am a gentleman , you shall , if you will , enjoy Ford's wife .
31485
31486 O good sir !
31487
31488 I say you shall .
31489
31490 Want no money , Sir John ; you shall want none .
31491
31492 Want no Mistress Ford , Master Brook ; you shall want none . I shall be with her , I may tell you , by her own appointment ; even as you came in to me , her assistant or go-between parted from me : I say I shall be with her between ten and eleven ; for at that time the jealous rascally knave her husband will be forth . Come you to me at night ; you shall know how I speed .
31493
31494 I am blest in your acquaintance . Do you know Ford , sir ?
31495
31496 Hang him , poor cuckoldly knave ! I know him not . Yet I wrong him , to call him poor : they say the jealous wittolly knave hath masses of money ; for the which his wife seems to me well-favoured . I will use her as the key of the cuckoldly rogue's coffer ; and there's my harvest-home .
31497
31498 I would you knew Ford , sir , that you might avoid him , if you saw him .
31499
31500 Hang him , mechanical salt-butter rogue ! I will stare him out of his wits ; I will awe him with my cudgel : it shall hang like a meteor o'er the cuckold's horns . Master Brook , thou shalt know I will predominate over the peasant , and thou shalt he with his wife . Come to me soon at night . Ford's a knave , and I will aggravate his style ; thou , Master Brook , shalt know him for knave and cuckold . Come to me soon at night .
31501
31502
31503 What a damned Epicurean rascal is this ! My heart is ready to crack with impatience . Who says this is improvident jealousy ? my wife hath sent to him , the hour is fixed , the match is made . Would any man have thought this ? See the hell of having a false woman ! My bed shall be abused , my coffers ransacked , my reputation gnawn at ; and I shall not only receive this villanous wrong , but stand under the adoption of abominable terms , and by him that does me this wrong . Terms ! names ! Amaimon sounds well ; Lucifer , well ; Barbason , well ; yet they are devils' additions , the names of fiends : but Cuckold ! Wittol !Cuckold ! the devil himself hath not such a name . Page is an ass , a secure ass : he will trust his wife ; he will not be jealous . I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter , Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese , an Irishman with my aqua-vit bottle , or a thief to walk my ambling gelding , than my wife with herself : then she plots , then she ruminates , then she devises ; and what they think in their hearts they may effect , they will break their hearts but they will effect . God be praised for my jealousy ! Eleven o'clock the hour : I will prevent this , detect my wife , be revenged on Falstaff , and laugh at Page . I will about it ; better three hours too soon than a minute too late . Fie , fie , fie ! cuckold ! cuckold ! cuckold !
31504
31505
31506 Jack Rugby !
31507
31508 Sir ?
31509
31510 Vat is de clock , Jack ?
31511
31512 'Tis past the hour , sir , that Sir Hugh promised to meet .
31513
31514 By gar , he has save his soul , dat he is no come : he has pray his Pible vell , dat he is no come . By gar , Jack Rugby , he is dead already , if he be come .
31515
31516 He is wise , sir ; he knew your worship would kill him , if he came .
31517
31518 By gar , de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him . Take your rapier , Jack ; I vill tell you how I vill kill him .
31519
31520 Alas , sir ! I cannot fence .
31521
31522 Villany , take your rapier .
31523
31524 Forbear ; here's company .
31525
31526
31527 Bless thee , bully doctor !
31528
31529 Save you , Master Doctor Caius !
31530
31531 Now , good Master doctor !
31532
31533 Give you good morrow , sir .
31534
31535 Vat be all you , one , two , tree , four , come for ?
31536
31537 To see thee fight , to see thee foin , to see thee traverse ; to see thee here , to see thee there ; to see thee pass thy punto , thy stock , thy reverse , thy distance , thy montant . Is he dead , my Ethiopian ? is he dead , my Francisco ? ha , bully ! What says my sculapius ? my Galen ? my heart of elder ? ha ! is he dead , bully stale ? is he dead ?
31538
31539 By gar , he is de coward Jack priest of de vorld ; he is not show his face .
31540
31541 Thou art a Castilian King Urinal ! Hector of Greece , my boy !
31542
31543 I pray you , bear vitness that me have stay six or seven , two , tree hours for him , and he is no come .
31544
31545 He is the wiser man , Master doctor : he is a curer of souls , and you a curer of bodies ; if you should fight , you go against the hair of your professions . Is it not true , Master Page ?
31546
31547 Master Shallow , you have yourself been a great fighter , though now a man of peace .
31548
31549 Bodykins , Master Page , though I now be old and of the peace , if I see a sword out , my finger itches to make one . Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen , Master Page , we have some salt of our youth in us ; we are the sons of women , Master Page .
31550
31551 'Tis true , Master Shallow .
31552
31553 It will be found so , Master Page . Master Doctor Caius , I am come to fetch you home . I am sworn of the peace : you have showed yourself a wise physician , and Sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise and patient churchman . You must go with me , Master doctor .
31554
31555 Pardon , guest-justice .A word , Monsieur Mockwater .
31556
31557 Mock-vater ! vat is dat ?
31558
31559 Mock-water , in our English tongue , is valour , bully .
31560
31561 By gar , den , I have as mush mock-vater as de Englishman . Scurvy jack-dog priest ! by gar , me vill cut his ears .
31562
31563 He will clapper-claw thee tightly , bully .
31564
31565 Clapper-de-claw ! vat is dat ?
31566
31567 That is , he will make thee amends .
31568
31569 By gar , me do look , he shall clapper-de-claw me ; for , by gar , me vill have it .
31570
31571 And I will provoke him to't , or let him wag .
31572
31573 Me tank you for dat .
31574
31575 And moreover , bully ,But first , Master guest , and Master Page , and eke Cavaliero Slender , go you through the town to Frogmore .
31576
31577
31578 Sir Hugh is there , is he ?
31579
31580 He is there : see what humour he is in ; and I will bring the doctor about by the fields . Will it do well ?
31581
31582 We will do it .
31583
31584 Adieu , good Master doctor .
31585
31586
31587 By gar , me vill kill de priest ; for he speak for a jack-an-ape to Anne Page .
31588
31589 Let him die . Sheathe thy impatience ; throw cold water on thy choler : go about the fields with me through Frogmore : I will bring thee where Mistress Anne Page is , at a farmhouse a-feasting ; and thou shalt woo her . Cried I aim ? said I well ?
31590
31591 By gar , me tank you for dat : by gar , I love you ; and I shall procure-a you de good guest , de earl , de knight , de lords , de gentlemen , my patients .
31592
31593 For the which I will be thy adversary toward Anne Page : said I well ?
31594
31595 By gar , 'tis good ; vell said .
31596
31597 Let us wag , then .
31598
31599 Come at my heels , Jack Rugby .
31600
31601 I pray you now , good Master Slender's serving-man , and friend Simple by your name , which way have you looked for Master Caius , that calls himself doctor of physic ?
31602
31603 Marry , sir , the pittie-ward , the parkward , every way ; old Windsor way , and every way but the town way .
31604
31605 I most fehemently desire you you will also look that way .
31606
31607 I will , sir .
31608
31609
31610 Pless my soul ! how full of chollors I am , and trempling of mind ! I shall be glad if he have deceived me . How melancholies I am ! I will knog his urinals about his knave's costard when I have goot opportunities for the 'ork : pless my soul !
31611
31612
31613 To shallow rivers , to whose falls
31614 Melodious birds sing madrigals ;
31615 There will we make our peds of roses ,
31616 And a thousand fragrant pasies .
31617 To shallow
31618
31619 Mercy on me ! I have a great dispositions to cry .
31620
31621
31622 Melodious birds sing madrigals ,
31623 When as I sat in Pabylon ,
31624 And a thousand vagram posies .
31625 To shallow ,
31626
31627 Yonder he is coming , this way , Sir Hugh .
31628
31629 He's welcome .
31630
31631
31632 To shallow rivers , to whose falls
31633
31634 Heaven prosper the right !what weapons is he ?
31635
31636 No weapons , sir . There comes my master , Master Shallow , and another gentleman , from Frogmore , over the stile , this way .
31637
31638 Pray you , give me my gown ; or else keep it in your arms .
31639
31640 How now , Master Parson ! Good morrow , good Sir Hugh . Keep a gamester from the dice , and a good student from his book , and it is wonderful .
31641
31642 Ah , sweet Anne Page !
31643
31644 Save you , good Sir Hugh !
31645
31646 Pless you from His mercy sake , all of you !
31647
31648 What , the sword and the word ! do you study them both , Master Parson ?
31649
31650 And youthful still in your doublet and hose ! this raw rheumatic day ?
31651
31652 There is reasons and causes for it .
31653
31654 We are come to you to do a good office , Master parson .
31655
31656 Fery well : what is it ?
31657
31658 Yonder is a most reverend gentleman , who , belike having received wrong by some person , is at most odds with his own gravity and patience that ever you saw .
31659
31660 I have lived fourscore years and upward ; I never heard a man of his place , gravity , and learning , so wide of his own respect .
31661
31662 What is he ?
31663
31664 I think you know him ; Master Doctor Caius , the renowned French physician .
31665
31666 Got's will , and his passion of my heart ! I had as lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge .
31667
31668 Why ?
31669
31670 He has no more knowledge in Hibbocrates and Galen ,and he is a knave besides ; a cowardly knave as you would desires to be acquainted withal .
31671
31672 I warrant you , he's the man should fight with him .
31673
31674 O , sweet Anne Page !
31675
31676 It appears so , by his weapons . Keep them asunder : here comes Doctor Caius .
31677
31678
31679 Nay , good Master parson , keep in your weapon .
31680
31681 So do you , good Master doctor .
31682
31683 Disarm them , and let them question : let them keep their limbs whole and hack our English .
31684
31685 I pray you , let-a me speak a word vit your ear : verefore vill you not meet-a me ?
31686
31687 Pray you , use your patience : in good time .
31688
31689 By gar , you are de coward , de Jack dog , John ape .
31690
31691 Pray you , let us not be laughing-stogs to other men's humours ; I desire you in friendship , and I will one way or other make you amends : [Aloud .] I will knog your urinals about your knave's cogscomb for missing your meetings and appointments .
31692
31693 Diable !Jack Rugby ,mine host de Jarretierre ,have I not stay for him to kill him ? have I not , at de place I did appoint ?
31694
31695 As I am a Christians soul , now , look you , this is the place appointed : I'll be judgment by mine host of the Garter .
31696
31697 Peace , I say , Gallia and Guallia ; French and Welsh , soul-curer and body-curer !
31698
31699 Ay , dat is very good ; excellent .
31700
31701 Peace , I say ! hear mine host of the Garter . Am I politic ? am I subtle ? am I a Machiavel ? Shall I lose my doctor ? no ; he gives me the potions and the motions . Shall I lose my parson , my priest , my Sir Hugh ? no ; he gives me the proverbs and the no-verbs . Give me thy hand , terrestrial ; so ;give me thy hand celestial ; so . Boys of art , I have deceived you both ; I have directed you to wrong places : your hearts are mighty , your skins are whole , and let burnt sack be the issue . Come , lay their swords to pawn . Follow me , lads of peace ; follow , follow , follow .
31702
31703 Trust me , a mad host !Follow , gentlemen , follow .
31704
31705 O , sweet Anne Page !
31706
31707
31708 Ha ! do I perceive dat ? have you make-a de sot of us , ha , ha ?
31709
31710 This is well ; he has made us his vlouting-stog . I desire you that we may be friends and let us knog our prains together to be revenge on this same scall , scurvy , cogging companion , the host of the Garter .
31711
31712 By gar , vit all my heart . He promise to bring me vere is Anne Page : by gar , he deceive me too .
31713
31714 Well , I will smite his noddles . Pray you , follow .
31715
31716
31717 Nay , keep your way , little gallant : you were wont to be a follower , but now you are a leader . Whether had you rather lead mine eyes , or eye your master's heels ?
31718
31719 I had rather , forsooth , go before you like a man than follow him like a dwarf .
31720
31721 O ! you are a flattering boy : now I see you'll be a courtier .
31722
31723
31724 Well met , Mistress Page . Whither go you ?
31725
31726 Truly , sir , to see your wife : is she at home ?
31727
31728 Ay ; and as idle as she may hang together , for want of company . I think , if your husbands were dead , you two would marry .
31729
31730 Be sure of that ,two other husbands .
31731
31732 Where had you this pretty weathercock ?
31733
31734 I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my husband had him of . What do you call your knight's name , sirrah ?
31735
31736 Sir John Falstaff .
31737
31738 Sir John Falstaff !
31739
31740 He , he ; I can never hit on's name . There is such a league between my good man and he ! Is your wife at home indeed ?
31741
31742 Indeed she is .
31743
31744 By your leave , sir : I am sick till I see her .
31745
31746
31747 Has Page any brains ? hath he any eyes ? hath he any thinking ? Sure , they sleep ; he hath no use of them . Why , this boy will carry a letter twenty mile , as easy as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve score . He pieces out his wife's inclination ; he gives her folly motion and advantage : and now she's going to my wife , and Falstaff's boy with her . A man may hear this shower sing in the wind : and Falstaff's boy with her ! Good plots ! they are laid ; and our revolted wives share damnation together . Well ; I will take him , then torture my wife , pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page , divulge Page himself for a secure and wilful Act on ; and to these violent proceedings all my neighbours shall cry aim .
31748
31749 The clock gives me my cue , and my assurance bids me search ; there I shall find Falstaff . I shall be rather praised for this than mocked ; for it is as positive as the earth is firm , that Falstaff is there : I will go .
31750
31751
31752 Well met , Master Ford .
31753
31754 Trust me , a good knot . I have good cheer at home ; and I pray you all go with me .
31755
31756 I must excuse myself , Master Ford .
31757
31758 And so must I , sir : we have appointed to dine with Mistress Anne , and I would not break with her for more money than I'll speak of .
31759
31760 We have lingered about a match between Anne Page and my cousin Slender , and this day we shall have our answer .
31761
31762 I hope I have your good will , father Page .
31763
31764 You have , Master Slender ; I stand wholly for you : but my wife , Master doctor , is for you altogether .
31765
31766 Ay , by gar ; and de maid is love-a me : my nursh-a Quickly tell me so mush .
31767
31768 What say you to young Master Fenton ? he capers , he dances , he has eyes of youth , he writes verses , he speaks holiday , he smells April and May : he will carry't , he will carry't ; 'tis in his buttons ; he will carry't .
31769
31770 Not by my consent , I promise you . The gentleman is of no having : he kept company with the wild prince and Pointz ; he is of too high a region ; he knows too much . No , he shall not knit a knot in his fortunes with the finger of my substance : if he take her , let him take her simply ; the wealth I have waits on my consent , and my consent goes not that way .
31771
31772 I beseech you heartily , some of you go home with me to dinner : besides your cheer , you shall have sport ; I will show you a monster . Master doctor , you shall go ; so shall you , Master Page ; and you , Sir Hugh .
31773
31774 Well , fare you well : we shall have the freer wooing at Master Page's .
31775
31776
31777 Go home , John Rugby ; I come anon .
31778
31779
31780 Farewell , my hearts : I will to my honest knight Falstaff , and drink canary with him .
31781
31782
31783 I think I shall drink in pipewine first with him ; I'll make him dance . Will you go , gentles ?
31784
31785 Have with you to see this monster .
31786
31787
31788 What , John ! what , Robert !
31789
31790 Quickly , quickly :Is the buckbasket
31791
31792 I warrant . What , Robin , I say !
31793
31794
31795 Come , come , come .
31796
31797 Here , set it down .
31798
31799 Give your men the charge ; we must be brief .
31800
31801 Marry , as I told you before , John , and Robert , be ready here hard by in the brewhouse ; and when I suddenly call you , come forth , and without any pause or staggering , take this basket on your shoulders : that done , trudge with it in all haste , and carry it among the whitsters in Datchet-mead , and there empty it in the muddy ditch , close by the Thames side .
31802
31803 You will do it ?
31804
31805 I have told them over and over ; they lack no direction . Be gone , and come when you are called .
31806
31807
31808 Here comes little Robin .
31809
31810
31811 How now , my eyas-musket ! what news with you ?
31812
31813 My master , Sir John , is come in at your back-door , Mistress Ford , and requests your company .
31814
31815 You little Jack-a-Lent , have you been true to us ?
31816
31817 Ay , I'll be sworn . My master knows not of your being here , and hath threatened to put me into everlasting liberty if I tell you of it ; for he swears he'll turn me away .
31818
31819 Thou'rt a good boy ; this secrecy of thine shall be a tailor to thee and shall make thee a new doublet and hose . I'll go hide me .
31820
31821 Do so . Go tell thy master I am alone .
31822
31823 Mistress Page , remember you your cue .
31824
31825 I warrant thee ; if I do not act it , hiss me .
31826
31827
31828 Go to , then : we'll use this unwholesome humidity , this gross watery pumpion ; we'll teach him to know turtles from jays .
31829
31830
31831 'Have I caught my heavenly jewel ?' Why , now let me die , for I have lived long enough : this is the period of my ambition : O this blessed hour !
31832
31833 O , sweet Sir John !
31834
31835 Mistress Ford , I cannot cog , I cannot prate , Mistress Ford . Now shall I sin in my wish : I would thy husband were dead . I'll speak it before the best lord , I would make thee my lady .
31836
31837 I your lady , Sir John ! alas , I should be a pitiful lady .
31838
31839 Let the court of France show me such another . I see how thine eye would emulate the diamond : thou hast the right arched beauty of the brow that becomes the ship-tire , the tire-valiant , or any tire of Venetian admittance .
31840
31841 A plain kerchief , Sir John : my brows become nothing else ; nor that well neither .
31842
31843 By the Lord , thou art a traitor to say so : thou wouldst make an absolute courtier ; and the firm fixture of thy foot would give an excellent motion to thy gait in a semi-circled farthingale . I see what thou wert , if Fortune thy foe were not , Nature thy friend . Come , thou canst not hide it .
31844
31845 Believe me , there's no such thing in me .
31846
31847 What made me love thee ? let that persuade thee there's something extraordinary in thee . Come , I cannot cog and say thou art this and that , like a many of these lisping hawthornbuds , that come like women in men s apparel , and smell like Bucklersbury in simple-time ; I cannot ; but I love thee ; none but thee ; and thou deservest it .
31848
31849 Do not betray me , sir . I fear you love Mistress Page .
31850
31851 Thou mightst as well say , I love to walk by the Counter-gate , which is as hateful to me as the reek of a lime-kiln .
31852
31853 Well , heaven knows how I love you ; and you shall one day find it .
31854
31855 Keep in that mind ; I'll deserve it .
31856
31857 Nay , I must tell you , so you do , or else I could not be in that mind .
31858
31859 Mistress Ford ! Mistress Ford ! here's Mistress Page at the door , sweating and blowing and looking wildly , and would needs speak with you presently .
31860
31861 She shall not see me : I will ensconce me behind the arras .
31862
31863 Pray you , do so : she's a very tattling woman .
31864
31865
31866 What's the matter ? how now !
31867
31868 O Mistress Ford ! what have you done ? You're shamed , you are overthrown , you're undone for ever !
31869
31870 What's the matter , good Mistress Page ?
31871
31872 O well-a-day , Mistress Ford ! having an honest man to your husband , to give him such cause of suspicion !
31873
31874 What cause of suspicion ?
31875
31876 What cause of suspicion ! Out upon you ! how am I mistook in you !
31877
31878 Why , alas , what's the matter ?
31879
31880 Your husband's coming hither , woman , with all the officers of Windsor , to search for a gentleman that he says is here now in the house by your consent , to take an ill advantage of his absence : you are undone .
31881
31882 Speak louder .'Tis not so , I hope .
31883
31884 Pray heaven it be not so , that you have such a man here ! but 'tis most certain your husband's coming with half Windsor at his heels , to search for such a one . I come before to tell you . If you know yourself clear , why , I am glad of it ; but if you have a friend here , convey , convey him out . Be not amazed ; call all your senses to you : defend your reputation , or bid farewell to your good life for ever .
31885
31886 What shall I do ?There is a gentleman , my dear friend ; and I fear not mine own shame so much as his peril : I had rather than a thousand pound he were out of the house .
31887
31888 For shame ! never stand 'you had rather' and 'you had rather :' your husband's here at hand ; bethink you of some conveyance : in the house you cannot hide him . O , how have you deceived me ! Look , here is a basket : if he be of any reasonable stature , he may creep in here ; and throw foul linen upon him , as if it were going to bucking : or it is whiting-time send him by your two men to Datchet-mead .
31889
31890 He's too big to go in there . What shall I do ?
31891
31892 Let me see't , let me see't , O , let me see't ! I'll in , I'll in . Follow your friend's counsel . I'll in .
31893
31894 What , Sir John Falstaff ! Are these your letters , knight ?
31895
31896 I love thee , and none but thee ; help me away : let me creep in here . I'll never
31897
31898
31899 Help to cover your master , boy . Call your men , Mistress Ford . You dissembling knight !
31900
31901 What , John ! Robert ! John !
31902
31903 Go take up these clothes here quickly ; where's the cowl-staff ? look , how you drumble ! carry them to the laundress in Datchet-mead ; quickly , come .
31904
31905 Pray you , come near : if I suspect without cause , why then make sport at me ; then let me be your jest ; I deserve it . How now ! what goes here ? whither bear you this ?
31906
31907 To the laundress , forsooth .
31908
31909 Why , what have you to do whither they bear it ? You were best meddle with buck-washing .
31910
31911 Buck ! I would I could wash myself of the buck ! Buck , buck , buck ! Ay , buck ; I warrant you , buck ; and of the season too , it shall appear .
31912
31913 Gentlemen , I have dreamed to-night ; I'll tell you my dream . Here , here , here be my keys : ascend my chambers ; search , seek , find out : I'll warrant we'll unkennel the fox . Let me stop this way first . [Locking the door .] So , now uncape .
31914
31915 Good Master Ford , be contented : you wrong yourself too much .
31916
31917 True , Master Page . Up , gentlemen ; you shall see sport anon : follow me , gentlemen .
31918
31919
31920 This is fery fantastical humours and jealousies .
31921
31922 By gar , 'tis no de fashion of France ; it is not jealous in France .
31923
31924 Nay , follow him , gentlemen ; see the issue of his search .
31925
31926
31927 Is there not a double excellency in this ?
31928
31929 I know not which pleases me better ; that my husband is deceived , or Sir John .
31930
31931 What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket !
31932
31933 I am half afraid he will have need of washing ; so throwing him into the water will do him a benefit .
31934
31935 Hang him , dishonest rascal ! I would all of the same strain were in the same distress .
31936
31937 I think my husband hath some special suspicion of Falstaff's being here ; for I never saw him so gross in his jealousy till now .
31938
31939 I will lay a plot to try that ; and we will yet have more tricks with Falstaff : his dissolute disease will scarce obey this medicine .
31940
31941 Shall we send that foolish carrion Mistress Quickly to him , and excuse his throwing into the water ; and give him another hope , to betray him to another punishment ?
31942
31943 We will do it : let him be sent for to-morrow , eight o'clock , to have amends .
31944
31945
31946 I cannot find him : may be the knave bragged of that he could not compass .
31947
31948 Heard you that ?
31949
31950 Ay , ay , peace .You use me well , Master Ford , do you ?
31951
31952 Ay , I do so .
31953
31954 Heaven make you better than your thoughts !
31955
31956 Amen !
31957
31958 You do yourself mighty wrong , Master Ford .
31959
31960 Ay , ay ; I must bear it .
31961
31962 If there pe any pody in the house , and in the chambers , and in the coffers , and in the presses , heaven forgive my sins at the day of judgment !
31963
31964 By gar , nor I too , dere is no bodies .
31965
31966 Fie , fie , Master Ford ! are you not ashamed ? What spirit , what devil suggests this imagination ? I would not ha' your distemper in this kind for the wealth of Windsor Castle .
31967
31968 'Tis my fault , Master Page : I suffer for it .
31969
31970 You suffer for a pad conscience : your wife is as honest a 'omans as I will desires among five thousand , and five hundred too .
31971
31972 By gar , I see 'tis an honest woman .
31973
31974 Well ; I promised you a dinner . Come , come , walk in the Park : I pray you , pardon me ; I will hereafter make known to you why I have done this . Come , wife ; come , Mistress Page . I pray you , pardon me ; pray heartily , pardon me .
31975
31976 Let's go in , gentlemen ; but , trust me , we'll mock him . I do invite you to-morrow morning to my house to breakfast ; after , we'll a-birding together : I have a fine hawk for the bush . Shall it be so ?
31977
31978 Any thing .
31979
31980 If there is one , I shall make two in the company .
31981
31982 If dere be one or two , I shall make-a de turd .
31983
31984 Pray you go , Master Page .
31985
31986 I pray you now , remembrance to-morrow on the lousy knave , mine host .
31987
31988 Dat is good ; by gar , vit all my heart .
31989
31990 A lousy knave ! to have his gibes and his mockeries !
31991
31992
31993 I see I cannot get thy father's love ;
31994 Therefore no more turn me to him , sweet Nan .
31995
31996 Alas ! how then ?
31997
31998 Why , thou must be thyself .
31999 He doth object , I am too great of birth ,
32000 And that my state being gall'd with my expense ,
32001 I seek to heal it only by his wealth .
32002 Besides these , other bars he lays before me ,
32003 My riots past , my wild societies ;
32004 And tells me 'tis a thing impossible
32005 I should love thee but as a property .
32006
32007 May be he tells you true .
32008
32009 No , heaven so speed me in my time to come !
32010 Albeit I will confess thy father's wealth
32011 Was the first motive that I woo'd thee , Anne :
32012 Yet , wooing thee , I found thee of more value
32013 Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags ;
32014 And 'tis the very riches of thyself
32015 That now I aim at .
32016
32017 Gentle Master Fenton ,
32018 Yet seek my father's love ; still seek it , sir :
32019 If opportunity and humblest suit
32020 Cannot attain it , why , then ,hark you hither .
32021
32022 Break their talk , Mistress Quickly : my kinsman shall speak for himself .
32023
32024 I'll make a shaft or a bolt on't . 'Slid , 'tis but venturing .
32025
32026 Be not dismayed .
32027
32028 No , she shall not dismay me : I care not for that , but that I am afeard .
32029
32030 Hark ye ; Master Slender would speak a word with you .
32031
32032 I come to him .
32033
32034 This is my father's choice .
32035 O , what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults
32036 Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year !
32037
32038 And how does good Master Fenton ? Pray you , a word with you .
32039
32040 She's coming ; to her , coz . O boy , thou hadst a father !
32041
32042 I had a father , Mistress Anne ; my uncle can tell you good jests of him . Pray you , uncle , tell Mistress Anne the jest , how my father stole two geese out of a pen , good uncle .
32043
32044 Mistress Anne , my cousin loves you .
32045
32046 Ay , that I do ; as well as I love any woman in Glostershire .
32047
32048 He will maintain you like a gentlewoman .
32049
32050 Ay , that I will , come cut and long-tail , under the degree of a squire .
32051
32052 He will make you a hundred and fifty pounds jointure .
32053
32054 Good Master Shallow , let him woo for himself .
32055
32056 Marry , I thank you for it ; I thank you for that good comfort . She calls you , coz : I'll leave you .
32057
32058 Now , Master Slender .
32059
32060 Now , good Mistress Anne .
32061
32062 What is your will ?
32063
32064 My will ? od's heartlings ! that's a pretty jest , indeed ! I ne'er made my will yet , I thank heaven ; I am not such a sickly creature , I give heaven praise .
32065
32066 I mean , Master Slender , what would you with me ?
32067
32068 Truly , for mine own part , I would little or nothing with you . Your father and my uncle have made motions : if it be my luck , so ; if not , happy man be his dole ! They can tell you how things go better than I can : you may ask your father ; here he comes .
32069
32070
32071 Now , Master Slender : love him , daughter Anne .
32072 Why , how now ! what does Master Fenton here ?
32073 You wrong me , sir , thus still to haunt my house :
32074 I told you , sir , my daughter is dispos'd of .
32075
32076 Nay , Master Page , be not impatient .
32077
32078 Good Master Fenton , come not to my child .
32079
32080 She is no match for you .
32081
32082 Sir , will you hear me ?
32083
32084 No , good Master Fenton .
32085 Come , Master Shallow ; come , son Slender , in .
32086 Knowing my mind , you wrong me , Master Fenton .
32087
32088
32089 Speak to Mistress Page .
32090
32091 Good Mistress Page , for that I love your daughter
32092 In such a righteous fashion as I do ,
32093 Perforce , against all checks , rebukes and manners ,
32094 I must advance the colours of my love
32095 And not retire : let me have your good will .
32096
32097 Good mother , do not marry me to yond fool .
32098
32099 I mean it not ; I seek you a better husband .
32100
32101 That's my master , Master doctor .
32102
32103 Alas ! I had rather be set quick i' the earth ,
32104 And bowl'd to death with turnips .
32105
32106 Come , trouble not yourself . Good Master Fenton ,
32107 I will not be your friend nor enemy :
32108 My daughter will I question how she loves you ,
32109 And as I find her , so am I affected .
32110 'Till then , farewell , sir : she must needs go in ;
32111 Her father will be angry .
32112
32113 Farewell , gentle mistress . Farewell , Nan .
32114
32115
32116 This is my doing , now : 'Nay ,' said I , 'will you cast away your child on a fool , and a physician ? Look on Master Fenton .' This is my doing .
32117
32118 I thank thee : and I pray thee , once to-night
32119 Give my sweet Nan this ring . There's for thy pains .
32120
32121 Now heaven send thee good fortune !
32122
32123 A kind heart he hath : a woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart . But yet I would my master had Mistress Anne ; or I would Master Slender had her ; or , in sooth , I would Master Fenton had her . I will do what I can for them all three , for so I have promised , and I'll be as good as my word ; but speciously for Master Fenton . Well , I must of another errand to Sir John Falstaff from my two mistresses : what a beast am I to slack it !
32124
32125
32126 Bardolph , I say ,
32127
32128 Here , sir .
32129
32130 Go fetch me a quart of sack ; put a toast in't .
32131
32132 Have I lived to be carried in a basket , and to be thrown in the Thames like a barrow of butcher's offal ? Well , if I be served such another trick , I'll have my brains ta'en out , and buttered , and give them to a dog for a new year's gift . The rogues slighted me into the river with as little remorse as they would have drowned a blind bitch's puppies , fifteen i' the litter ; and you may know by my size that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking : if the bottom were as deep as hell , I should down . I had been drowned but that the shore was shelvy and shallow ; a death that I abhor , for the water swells a man , and what a thing should I have been when I had been swelled ! I should have been a mountain of mummy .
32133
32134
32135 Here's Mistress Quickly , sir , to speak with you .
32136
32137 Come , let me pour in some sack to the Thames water , for my belly's as cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for pills to cool the reins . Call her in .
32138
32139 Come in , woman .
32140
32141
32142 By your leave . I cry you mercy : give your worship good morrow .
32143
32144 Take away these chalices . Go brew me a pottle of sack finely .
32145
32146 With eggs , sir ?
32147
32148 Simple of itself ; I'll no pullet-sperm in my brewage .
32149
32150 How now !
32151
32152 Marry , sir , I come to your worship from Mistress Ford .
32153
32154 Mistress Ford ! I have had ford enough ; I was thrown into the ford ; I have my belly full of ford .
32155
32156 Alas the day ! good heart , that was not her fault : she does so take on with her men ; they mistook their erection .
32157
32158 So did I mine , to build upon a foolish woman's promise .
32159
32160 Well , she laments , sir , for it , that it would yearn your heart to see it . Her husband goes this morning a-birding : she desires you once more to come to her between eight and nine . I must carry her word quickly : she'll make you amends , I warrant you .
32161
32162 Well , I will visit her : tell her so ; and bid her think what a man is : let her consider his frailty , and then judge of my merit .
32163
32164 I will tell her .
32165
32166 Do so . Between nine and ten , sayest thou ?
32167
32168 Eight and nine , sir .
32169
32170 Well , be gone : I will not miss her .
32171
32172 Peace be with you , sir .
32173
32174
32175 I marvel I hear not of Master Brook ; he sent me word to stay within . I like his money well . O ! here he comes .
32176
32177
32178 Bless you , sir !
32179
32180 Now , Master Brook , you come to know what hath passed between me and Ford's wife ?
32181
32182 That , indeed , Sir John , is my business .
32183
32184 Master Brook , I will not lie to you : I was at her house the hour she appointed me .
32185
32186 And how sped you , sir ?
32187
32188 Very ill-favouredly , Master Brook .
32189
32190 How so , sir ? did she change her determination ?
32191
32192 No , Master Brook ; but the peaking cornuto her husband , Master Brook , dwelling in a continual 'larum of jealousy , comes me in the instant of our encounter , after we had embraced , kissed , protested , and , as it were , spoke the prologue of our comedy ; and at his heels a rabble of his companions , thither provoked and instigated by his distemper , and , forsooth , to search his house for his wife's love .
32193
32194 What ! while you were there ?
32195
32196 While I was there .
32197
32198 And did he search for you , and could not find you ?
32199
32200 You shall hear . As good luck would have it , comes in one Mistress Page ; gives intelligence of Ford's approach ; and in her invention , and Ford's wife's distraction , they conveyed me into a buck-basket .
32201
32202 A buck-basket !
32203
32204 By the Lord , a buck-basket ! rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks , socks , foul stockings , greasy napkins ; that , Master Brook , there was the rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril .
32205
32206 And how long lay you there ?
32207
32208 Nay , you shall hear , Master Brook , what I have suffered to bring this woman to evil for your good . Being thus crammed in the basket , a couple of Ford's knaves , his hinds , were called forth by their mistress to carry me in the name of foul clothes to Datchet-lane : they took me on their shoulders ; met the jealous knave their master in the door , who asked them once or twice what they had in their basket . I quaked for fear lest the lunatic knave would have searched it ; but Fate , ordaining he should be a cuckold , held his hand . Well ; on went he for a search , and away went I for foul clothes . But mark the sequel , Master Brook : I suffered the pangs of three several deaths : first , an intolerable-fright , to be detected with a jealous rotten bell-wether ; next , to be compassed , like a good bilbo , in the circumference of a peck , hilt to point , heel to head ; and then , to be stopped in , like a strong distillation , with stinking clothes that fretted in their own grease : think of that , a man of my kidney , think of that , that am as subject to heat as butter ; a man of continual dissolution and thaw : it was a miracle to 'scape suffocation . And in the height of this bath , when I was more than half stewed in grease , like a Dutch dish , to be thrown into the Thames , and cooled , glowing hot , in that surge , like a horse-shoe ; think of that , hissing hot , think of that , Master Brook !
32209
32210 In good sadness , sir , I am sorry that for my sake you have suffered all this . My suit then is desperate ; you'll undertake her no more ?
32211
32212 Master Brook , I will be thrown into Etna , as I have been into Thames , ere I will leave her thus . Her husband is this morning gone a-birding : I have received from her another embassy of meeting ; 'twixt eight and nine is the hour , Master Brook .
32213
32214 'Tis past eight already , sir .
32215
32216 Is it ? I will then address me to my appointment . Come to me at your convenient leisure , and you shall know how I speed , and the conclusion shall be crowned with your enjoying her : adieu . You shall have her , Master Brook ; Master Brook , you shall cuckold Ford .
32217
32218
32219 Hum ! ha ! is this a vision ? is this a dream ? do I sleep ? Master Ford , awake ! awake , Master Ford ! there's a hole made in your best coat , Master Ford . This 'tis to be married : this 'tis to have linen and buck-baskets ! Well , I will proclaim myself what I am : I will now take the lecher ; he is at my house ; he cannot 'scape me ; 'tis impossible he should ; he cannot creep into a half-penny purse , nor into a pepper-box ; but , lest the devil that guides him should aid him , I will search impossible places . Though what I am I cannot avoid , yet to be what I would not , shall not make me tame : if I have horns to make me mad , let the proverb go with me ; I'll be horn-mad .
32220
32221 Is he at Master Ford's already , thinkest thou ?
32222
32223 Sure he is by this , or will be presently ; but truly , he is very courageous mad about his throwing into the water . Mistress Ford desires you to come suddenly .
32224
32225 I'll be with her by and by : I'll but bring my young man here to school . Look , where his master comes ; 'tis a playing-day , I see .
32226
32227 How now , Sir Hugh ! no school to-day ?
32228
32229 No ; Master Slender is get the boys leave to play .
32230
32231 Blessing of his heart !
32232
32233 Sir Hugh , my husband says my son profits nothing in the world at his book : I pray you , ask him some questions in his accidence .
32234
32235 Come hither , William ; hold up your head ; come .
32236
32237 Come on , sirrah ; hold up your head ; answer your master , be not afraid .
32238
32239 William , how many numbers is in nouns ?
32240
32241 Two .
32242
32243 Truly , I thought there had been one number more , because they say , 'Od's nouns .'
32244
32245 Peace your tattlings ! What is fair , William ?
32246
32247 Pulcher .
32248
32249 Polecats ! there are fairer things than polecats , sure .
32250
32251 You are a very simplicity 'oman : I pray you peace . What is lapis , William ?
32252
32253 A stone .
32254
32255 And what is a stone , William ?
32256
32257 A pebble .
32258
32259 No , it is lapis : I pray you remember in your prain .
32260
32261 Lapis .
32262
32263 That is a good William . What is he , William , that does lend articles ?
32264
32265 Articles are borrowed of the pronoun , and be thus declined , Singulariter , nominativo , hic , h c , hoc .
32266
32267 Nominativo , hig , hag , hog ; pray you , mark : genitivo , hujus . Well , what is your accusative case ?
32268
32269 Accusativo , hinc .
32270
32271 I pray you , have your remembrance , child ; accusativo , hung , hang , hog .
32272
32273 Hang hog is Latin for bacon , I warrant you .
32274
32275 Leave your prabbles , 'oman . What is the focative case , William ?
32276
32277 O vocativo , O .
32278
32279 Remember , William ; focative is caret .
32280
32281 And that's a good root .
32282
32283 'Oman , forbear .
32284
32285 Peace !
32286
32287 What is your genitive case plural , William ?
32288
32289 Genitive case ?
32290
32291 Ay .
32292
32293 Genitive , horum , harum , horum .
32294
32295 Vengeance of Jenny's case ! fie on her ! Never name her , child , if she be a whore .
32296
32297 For shame , 'oman !
32298
32299 You do ill to teach the child such words . He teaches him to hick and to hack , which they'll do fast enough of themselves , and to call 'horum ?' fie upon you !
32300
32301 'Oman , art thou lunatics ? hast thou no understandings for thy cases and the numbers and the genders ? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as I would desires .
32302
32303 Prithee , hold thy peace .
32304
32305 Show me now , William , some declensions of your pronouns .
32306
32307 Forsooth , I have forgot .
32308
32309 It is qui , qu , quod ; if you forget your quis , your qu s , and your quods , you must be preeches . Go your ways and play ; go .
32310
32311 He is a better scholar than I thought he was .
32312
32313 He is a good sprag memory . Farewell , Mistress Page .
32314
32315 Adieu , good Sir Hugh .
32316
32317 Get you home , boy . Come , we stay too long .
32318
32319
32320 Mistress Ford , your sorrow hath eaten up my sufferance . I see you are obsequious in your love , and I profess requital to a hair's breadth ; not only , Mistress Ford , in the simple office of love , but in all the accoutrement , complement and ceremony of it . But are you sure of your husband now ?
32321
32322 He's a-birding , sweet Sir John .
32323
32324 What ho ! gossip Ford ! what ho !
32325
32326 Step into the chamber , Sir John .
32327
32328 How now , sweetheart ! who's at home besides yourself ?
32329
32330 Why , none but mine own people .
32331
32332 Indeed !
32333
32334 No , certainly .
32335
32336 Speak louder .
32337
32338 Truly , I am so glad you have nobody here .
32339
32340 Why ?
32341
32342 Why , woman , your husband is in his old lunes again : he so takes on yonder with my husband ; so rails against all married mankind ; so curses all Eve's daughters , of what complexion soever ; and so buffets himself on the forehead , crying , 'Peer out , peer out !' that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but tameness , civility and patience , to this his distemper he is in now . I am glad the fat knight is not here .
32343
32344 Why , does he talk of him ?
32345
32346 Of none but him ; and swears he was carried out , the last time he searched for him , in a basket : protests to my husband he is now here , and hath drawn him and the rest of their company from their sport , to make another experiment of his suspicion . But I am glad the knight is not here ; now he shall see his own foolery .
32347
32348 How near is he , Mistress Page ?
32349
32350 Hard by ; at street end ; he will be here anon .
32351
32352 I am undone ! the knight is here .
32353
32354 Why then you are utterly shamed , and he's but a dead man . What a woman are you ! Away with him , away with him ! better shame than murder .
32355
32356 Which way should he go ? how should I bestow him ? Shall I put him into the basket again ?
32357
32358
32359 No , I'll come no more i' the basket . May I not go out ere he come ?
32360
32361 Alas ! three of Master Ford's brothers watch the door with pistols , that none shall issue out ; otherwise you might slip away ere he came . But what make you here ?
32362
32363 What shall I do ? I'll creep up into the chimney .
32364
32365 There they always use to discharge their birding-pieces .
32366
32367 Creep into the kiln-hole .
32368
32369 Where is it ?
32370
32371 He will seek there , on my word . Neither press , coffer , chest , trunk , well , vault , but he hath an abstract for the remembrance of such places , and goes to them by his note : there is no hiding you in the house .
32372
32373 I'll go out , then .
32374
32375 If you go out in your own semblance , you die , Sir John . Unless you go out disguised ,
32376
32377 How might we disguise him ?
32378
32379 Alas the day ! I know not . There is no woman's gown big enough for him ; otherwise , he might put on a hat , a muffler , and a kerchief , and so escape .
32380
32381 Good hearts , devise something : any extremity rather than a mischief .
32382
32383 My maid's aunt , the fat woman of Brainford , has a gown above .
32384
32385 On my word , it will serve him ; she's as big as he is : and there's her thrummed hat and her muffler too . Run up , Sir John .
32386
32387 Go , go , sweet Sir John : Mistress Page and I will look some linen for your head .
32388
32389 Quick , quick ! we'll come dress you straight ; put on the gown the while .
32390
32391
32392 I would my husband would meet him in this shape : he cannot abide the old woman of Brainford ; he swears she's a witch ; forbade her my house , and hath threatened to beat her .
32393
32394 Heaven guide him to thy husband's cudgel , and the devil guide his cudgel afterwards !
32395
32396 But is my husband coming ?
32397
32398 Ay , in good sadness , is he ; and talks of the basket too , howsoever he hath had intelligence .
32399
32400 We'll try that ; for I'll appoint my men to carry the basket again , to meet him at the door with it , as they did last time .
32401
32402 Nay , but he'll be here presently : let's go dress him like the witch of Brainford .
32403
32404 I'll first direct my men what they shall do with the basket . Go up ; I'll bring linen for him straight .
32405
32406
32407 Hang him , dishonest varlet ! we cannot misuse him enough .
32408 We'll leave a proof , by that which we will do ,
32409 Wives may be merry , and yet honest too :
32410 We do not act that often jest and laugh ;
32411 'Tis old , but true , 'Still swine eats all the draff .'
32412
32413 Go , sirs , take the basket again on your shoulders : your master is hard at door ; if he bid you set it down , obey him . Quickly ; dispatch .
32414
32415
32416 Come , come , take it up .
32417
32418 Pray heaven , it be not full of knight again .
32419
32420 I hope not ; I had as lief bear so much lead .
32421
32422
32423 Ay , but if it prove true , Master Page , have you any way then to unfool me again ? Set down the basket , villains . Somebody call my wife . Youth in a basket ! O you panderly rascals ! there's a knot , a ging , a pack , a conspiracy against me : now shall the devil be shamed . What , wife , I say ! Come , come forth ! Behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching !
32424
32425 Why , this passes ! Master Ford , you are not to go loose any longer ; you must be pinioned .
32426
32427 Why , this is lunatics ! this is mad as a mad dog !
32428
32429 Indeed , Master Ford , this is not well , indeed .
32430
32431 So say I too , sir .
32432
32433 Come hither , Mistress Ford , the honest woman , the modest wife , the virtuous creature , that hath the jealous fool to her husband ! I suspect without cause , mistress , do I ?
32434
32435 Heaven by my witness , you do , if you suspect me in any dishonesty .
32436
32437 Well said , brazen-face ! hold it out . Come forth , sirrah !
32438
32439
32440 This passes !
32441
32442 Are you not ashamed ? let the clothes alone .
32443
32444 I shall find you anon .
32445
32446 'Tis unreasonable . Will you take up your wife's clothes ? Come away .
32447
32448 Empty the basket , I say !
32449
32450 Why , man , why ?
32451
32452 Master Page , as I am an honest man , there was one conveyed out of my house yesterday in this basket : why may not he be there again ? In my house I am sure he is ; my intelligence is true ; my jealousy is reasonable . Pluck me out all the linen .
32453
32454 If you find a man there he shall die a flea's death .
32455
32456 Here's no man .
32457
32458 By my fidelity , this is not well , Master Ford ; this wrongs you .
32459
32460 Master Ford , you must pray , and not follow the imaginations of your own heart : this is jealousies .
32461
32462 Well , he's not here I seek for .
32463
32464 No , nor nowhere else but in your brain .
32465
32466
32467 Help to search my house this one time : if I find not what I seek , show no colour for my extremity ; let me for ever be your table-sport ; let them say of me , 'As jealous as Ford , that searched a hollow walnut for his wife's leman .' Satisfy me once more ; once more search with me .
32468
32469 What ho , Mistress Page ! come you and the old woman down ; my husband will come into the chamber .
32470
32471 Old woman ! What old woman's that ?
32472
32473 Why , it is my maid's aunt of Brainford .
32474
32475 A witch , a quean , an old cozening quean ! Have I not forbid her my house ? She comes of errands , does she ? We are simple men ; we do not know what's brought to pass under the profession of fortune-telling . She works by charms , by spells , by the figure , and such daubery as this is , beyond our element : we know nothing . Come down , you witch , you hag , you ; come down , I say !
32476
32477 Nay , good , sweet husband ! good gentlemen , let him not strike the old woman .
32478
32479
32480 Come , Mother Prat ; come , give me your hand .
32481
32482 I'll 'prat' her .
32483
32484 Out of my door , you witch , you rag , you baggage , you polecat , you ronyon ! out , out ! I'll conjure you , I'll fortune-tell you .
32485
32486
32487 Are you not ashamed ? I think you have killed the poor woman .
32488
32489 Nay , he will do it . 'Tis a goodly credit for you .
32490
32491 Hang her , witch !
32492
32493 By yea and no , I think the 'oman is a witch indeed : I like not when a 'oman has a great peard ; I spy a great peard under her muffler .
32494
32495 Will you follow , gentlemen ? I beseech you , follow : see but the issue of my jealousy . If I cry out thus upon no trail , never trust me when I open again .
32496
32497 Let's obey his humour a little further . Come , gentlemen .
32498
32499
32500 Trust me , he beat him most pitifully .
32501
32502 Nay , by the mass , that he did not ; he beat him most unpitifully methought .
32503
32504 I'll have the cudgel hallowed and hung o'er the altar : it hath done meritorious service .
32505
32506 What think you ? May we , with the warrant of womanhood and the witness of a good conscience , pursue him with any further revenge ?
32507
32508 The spirit of wantonness is , sure , scared out of him : if the devil have him not in fee-simple , with fine and recovery , he will never , I think , in the way of waste , attempt us again .
32509
32510 Shall we tell our husbands how we have served him ?
32511
32512 Yes , by all means ; if it be but to scrape the figures out of your husband's brains . If they can find in their hearts the poor unvirtuous fat knight shall be any further afflicted , we two will still be the ministers .
32513
32514 I'll warrant they'll have him publicly shamed , and methinks there would be no period to the jest , should he not be publicly shamed .
32515
32516 Come , to the forge with it then ; shape it : I would not have things cool .
32517
32518
32519 Sir , the Germans desire to have three of your horses : the duke himself will be to-morrow at court , and they are going to meet him .
32520
32521 What duke should that be comes so secretly ? I hear not of him in the court . Let me speak with the gentlemen ; they speak English ?
32522
32523 Ay , sir ; I'll call them to you .
32524
32525 They shall have my horses , but I'll make them pay ; I'll sauce them : they have had my house a week at command ; I have turned away my other guests : they must come off ; I'll sauce them . Come .
32526
32527
32528 'Tis one of the pest discretions of a 'oman as ever I did look upon .
32529
32530 And did he send you both these letters at an instant ?
32531
32532 Within a quarter of an hour .
32533
32534 Pardon me , wife . Henceforth do what thou wilt ;
32535 I rather will suspect the sun with cold
32536 Than thee with wantonness : now doth thy honour stand ,
32537 In him that was of late an heretic ,
32538 As firm as faith .
32539
32540 'Tis well , 'tis well ; no more .
32541 Be not as extreme in submission
32542 As in ofrence ;
32543 But let our plot go forward : let our wives
32544 Yet once again , to make us public sport ,
32545 Appoint a meeting with this old fat fellow ,
32546 Where we may take him and disgrace him for it .
32547
32548 There is no better way than that they spoke of .
32549
32550 How ? to send him word they'll meet him in the Park at midnight ? Fie , fie ! he'll never come .
32551
32552 You say he has been thrown into the rivers , and has been grievously peaten as an old 'oman : methinks there should be terrors in him that he should not come ; methinks his flesh is punished , he shall have no desires .
32553
32554 So think I too .
32555
32556 Devise but how you'll use him when he comes ,
32557 And let us two devise to bring him thither .
32558
32559 There is an old tale goes that Herne the hunter ,
32560 Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest ,
32561 Doth all the winter-time , at still midnight ,
32562 Walk round about an oak , with great ragg'd horns ;
32563 And there he blasts the tree , and takes the cattle ,
32564 And makes milch-kine yield blood , and shakes a chain
32565 In a most hideous and dreadful manner :
32566 You have heard of such a spirit , and well you know
32567 The superstitious idle-headed eld
32568 Receiv'd and did deliver to our age
32569 This tale of Herne the hunter for a truth .
32570
32571 Why , yet there want not many that do fear
32572 In deep of night to walk by this Herne's oak .
32573 But what of this ?
32574
32575 Marry , this is our device ;
32576 That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us ,
32577 Disguis'd like Herne with huge horns on his head .
32578
32579 Well , let it not be doubted but he'll come ,
32580 And in this shape when you have brought him thither ,
32581 What shall be done with him ? what is your plot ?
32582
32583 That likewise have we thought upon , and thus :
32584 Nan Page my daughter , and my little son ,
32585 And three or four more of their growth , we'll dress
32586 Like urchins , ouphs and fairies , green and white ,
32587 With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads ,
32588 And rattles in their hands . Upon a sudden ,
32589 As Falstaff , she , and I , are newly met ,
32590 Let them from forth a sawpit rush at once
32591 With some diffused song : upon their sight ,
32592 We two in great amazedness will fly :
32593 Then let them all encircle him about ,
32594 And , fairy-like , to-pinch the unclean knight ;
32595 And ask him why , that hour of fairy revel ,
32596 In their so sacred paths he dares to tread
32597 In shape profane .
32598
32599 And till he tell the truth ,
32600 Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound
32601 And burn him with their tapers .
32602
32603 The truth being known ,
32604 We'll all present ourselves , dis-horn the spirit ,
32605 And mock him home to Windsor .
32606
32607 The children must
32608 Be practis'd well to this , or they'll ne'er do't .
32609
32610 I will teach the children their behaviours ; and I will be like a jack-an-apes also , to burn the knight with my taber .
32611
32612 That will be excellent . I'll go buy them vizards .
32613
32614 My Nan shall be the queen of all the fairies ,
32615 Finely attired in a robe of white .
32616
32617 That silk will I go buy :
32618
32619 and in that time
32620 Shall Master Slender steal my Nan away ,
32621 And marry her at Eton . Go , send to Falstaff straight .
32622
32623 Nay , I'll to him again in name of Brook ;
32624 He'll tell me all his purpose . Sure , he'll come .
32625
32626 Fear not you that . Go , get us properties ,
32627 And tricking for our fairies .
32628
32629 Let us about it : it is admirable pleasures and fery honest knaveries .
32630
32631
32632 Go , Mistress Ford ,
32633 Send Quickly to Sir John , to know his mind .
32634
32635 I'll to the doctor : he hath my good will ,
32636 And none but he , to marry with Nan Page .
32637 That Slender , though well landed , is an idiot ;
32638 And him my husband best of all affects :
32639 The doctor is well money'd , and his friends
32640 Potent at court : he , none but he , shall have her ,
32641 Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her .
32642
32643
32644 What wouldst thou have , boor ? what , thick-skin ? speak , breathe , discuss ; brief , short , quick , snap .
32645
32646 Marry , sir , I come to speak with Sir John Falstaff from Master Slender .
32647
32648 There's his chamber , his house , his castle , his standing-bed and truckle-bed : 'tis painted about with the story of the Prodigal , fresh and new . Go knock and call : he'll speak like an Anthropophaginian unto thee : knock , I say .
32649
32650 There's an old woman , a fat woman , gone up into his chamber : I'll be so bold as stay , sir , till she come down ; I come to speak with her , indeed .
32651
32652 Ha ! a fat woman ! the knight may be robbed : I'll call . Bully knight ! Bully Sir John ! speak from thy lungs military : art thou there ? it is thine host , thine Ephesian , calls .
32653
32654 How now , mine host !
32655
32656 Here's a Bohemian-Tartar tarries the coming down of thy fat woman . Let her descend , bully ; let her descend ; my chambers are honourable : fie ! privacy ? fie !
32657
32658
32659 There was , mine host , an old fat woman even now with me , but she's gone .
32660
32661 Pray you , sir , was't not the wise woman of Brainford ?
32662
32663 Ay , marry , was it , muscle-shell : what would you with her ?
32664
32665 My Master , sir , Master Slender , sent to her , seeing her go thorough the streets , to know , sir , whether one Nym , sir , that beguiled him of a chain , had the chain or no .
32666
32667 I spake with the old woman about it .
32668
32669 And what says she , I pray , sir ?
32670
32671 Marry , she says that the very same man that beguiled Master Slender of his chain cozened him of it .
32672
32673 I would I could have spoken with the woman herself : I had other things to have spoken with her too , from him .
32674
32675 What are they ? let us know .
32676
32677 Ay , come ; quick .
32678
32679 I may not conceal them , sir .
32680
32681 Conceal them , or thou diest .
32682
32683 Why , sir , they were nothing but about Mistress Anne Page ; to know if it were my master's fortune to have her or no .
32684
32685 'Tis , 'tis his fortune .
32686
32687 What , sir ?
32688
32689 To have her , or no . Go ; say the woman told me so .
32690
32691 May I be bold to say so , sir ?
32692
32693 Ay , Sir Tike ; who more bold ?
32694
32695 I thank your worship : I shall make my master glad with these tidings .
32696
32697
32698 Thou art clerkly , thou art clerkly , Sir John . Was there a wise woman with thee ?
32699
32700 Ay , that there was , mine host ; one that hath taught me more wit than ever I learned before in my life : and I paid nothing for it neither , but was paid for my learning .
32701
32702
32703 Out , alas , sir ! cozenage , mere cozenage !
32704
32705 Where be my horses ? speak well of them , varletto .
32706
32707 Run away , with the cozeners ; for so soon as I came beyond Eton , they threw me off , from behind one of them , in a slough of mire ; and set spurs and away , like three German devils , three Doctor Faustuses .
32708
32709 They are gone but to meet the duke , villain . Do not say they be fled : Germans are honest men .
32710
32711
32712 Where is mine host ?
32713
32714 What is the matter , sir ?
32715
32716 Have a care of your entertainments : there is a friend of mine come to town , tells me , there is three cozen-germans that has cozened all the hosts of Readins , of Maidenhead , of Colebrook , of horses and money . I tell you for good will , look you : you are wise and full of gibes and vlouting-stogs , and 'tis not convenient you should be cozened . Fare you well .
32717
32718 Vere is mine host de Jarteer ?
32719
32720 Here , Master doctor , in perplexity and doubtful dilemma .
32721
32722 I cannot tell vat is dat ; but it is tell-a me dat you make grand preparation for a duke de Jamany : by my trot , dere is no duke dat de court is know to come . I tell you for good vill : adieu .
32723
32724
32725 Hue and cry , villain ! go . Assist me , knight ; I am undone . Fly , run , hue and cry , villain ! I am undone !
32726
32727
32728 I would all the world might be cozened , for I have been cozened and beaten too . If it should come to the ear of the court how I have been transformed , and how my transformation hath been washed and cudgelled , they would melt me out of my fat drop by drop , and liquor fishermen's boots with me : I warrant they would whip me with their fine wits till I were as crest-fallen as a dried pear . I never prospered since I forswore myself at primero . Well , if my wind were but long enough to say my prayers , I would repent .
32729
32730 Now , whence come you ?
32731
32732 From the two parties , forsooth .
32733
32734 The devil take one party and his dam the other ! and so they shall be both bestowed . I have suffered more for their sakes , more than the villanous inconstancy of man's disposition is able to bear .
32735
32736 And have not they suffered ? Yes , I warrant ; speciously one of them : Mistress Ford , good heart , is beaten black and blue , that you cannot see a white spot about her .
32737
32738 What tellest thou me of black and blue ? I was beaten myself into all the colours of the rainbow ; and I was like to be apprehended for the witch of Brainford : but that my admirable dexterity of wit , my counterfeiting the action of an old woman , delivered me , the knave constable had set me i' the stocks , i' the common stocks , for a witch .
32739
32740 Sir , let me speak with you in your chamber ; you shall hear how things go , and , I warrant , to your content . Here is a letter will say somewhat . Good hearts ! what ado here is to bring you together ! Sure , one of you does not serve heaven well , that you are so crossed .
32741
32742 Come up into my chamber .
32743
32744
32745 Master Fenton , talk not to me : my mind is heavy ; I will give over all .
32746
32747 Yet hear me speak . Assist me in my purpose ,
32748 And , as I am a gentleman , I'll give thee
32749 A hundred pound in gold more than your loss .
32750
32751 I will hear you , Master Fenton ; and I will , at the least , keep your counsel .
32752
32753 From time to time I have acquainted you
32754 With the dear love I bear to fair Anne Page ;
32755 Who , mutually hath answer'd my affection ,
32756 So far forth as herself might be her chooser ,
32757 Even to my wish . I have a letter from her
32758 Of such contents as you will wonder at ;
32759 The mirth whereof so larded with my matter ,
32760 That neither singly can be manifested ,
32761 Without the show of both ; wherein fat Falstaff
32762 Hath a great scare : the image of the jest
32763 I'll show you here at large
32764
32765 Hark , good mine host :
32766 To-night at Herne's oak , just 'twixt twelve and one ,
32767 Must my sweet Nan present the Fairy Queen ;
32768 The purpose why , is here : in which disguise ,
32769 While other jests are something rank on foot ,
32770 Her father hath commanded her to slip
32771 Away with Slender , and with him at Eton
32772 Immediately to marry : she hath consented :
32773 Now , sir ,
32774 Her mother , even strong against that match
32775 And firm for Doctor Caius , hath appointed
32776 That he shall likewise shuffle her away ,
32777 While other sports are tasking of their minds ;
32778 And at the deanery , where a priest attends ,
32779 Straight marry her : to this her mother's plot
32780 She , seemingly obedient , likewise hath
32781 Made promise to the doctor . Now , thus it rests :
32782 Her father means she shall be all in white ,
32783 And in that habit , when Slender sees his time
32784 To take her by the hand and bid her go ,
32785 She shall go with him : her mother hath intended ,
32786 The better to denote her to the doctor ,
32787 For they must all be mask'd and vizarded
32788 That quaint in green she shall be loose enrob'd ,
32789 With ribands pendent , flaring 'bout her head ;
32790 And when the doctor spies his vantage ripe ,
32791 To pinch her by the hand ; and on that token
32792 The maid hath given consent to go with him .
32793
32794 Which means she to deceive , father or mother ?
32795
32796 Both , my good host , to go along with me :
32797 And here it rests , that you'll procure the vicar
32798 To stay for me at church 'twixt twelve and one ,
32799 And , in the lawful name of marrying ,
32800 To give our hearts united ceremony .
32801
32802 Well , husband your device ; I'll to the vicar .
32803 Bring you the maid , you shall not lack a priest .
32804
32805 So shall I evermore be bound to thee ;
32806 Besides , I'll make a present recompense .
32807
32808 Prithee , no more prattling ; go : I'll hold . This is the third time ; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers . Away ! go . They say there is divinity in odd numbers , either in nativity , chance or death . Away !
32809
32810 I'll provide you a chain , and I'll do what I can to get you a pair of horns .
32811
32812 Away , I say ; time wears : hold up your head , and mince .
32813
32814
32815 How now , Master Brook ! Master Brook , the matter will be known to-night , or never . Be you in the Park about midnight , at Herne's oak , and you shall see wonders .
32816
32817 Went you not to her yesterday , sir , as you told me you had appointed ?
32818
32819 I went to her , Master Brook , as you see , like a poor old man ; but I came from her , Master Brook , like a poor old woman . That same knave Ford , her husband , hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him , Master Brook , that ever governed frenzy . I will tell you : he beat me grievously , in the shape of a woman ; for in the shape of a man , Master Brook , I fear not Goliath with a weaver's beam , because I know also life is a shuttle . I am in haste : go along with me ; I'll tell you all , Master Brook . Since I plucked geese , played traunt , and whipped top , I knew not what it was to be beaten till lately . Follow me : I'll tell you strange things of this knave Ford , on whom to-night I will be revenged , and I will deliver his wife into your hand . Follow . Strange things in hand , Master Brook ! Follow .
32820
32821
32822 Come , come ; we'll couch i' the castle-ditch till we see the light of our fairies . Remember , son Slender , my daughter .
32823
32824 Ay , forsooth ; I have spoke with her and we have a nayword how to know one another . I come to her in white , and cry , 'mum ;' she cries , 'budget ;' and by that we know one another .
32825
32826 That's good too : but what needs either your 'mum ,' or her 'budget ?' the white will decipher her well enough . It hath struck ten o'clock .
32827
32828 The night is dark ; light and spirits will become it well . Heaven prosper our sport ! No man means evil but the devil , and we shall know him by his horns . Let's away ; follow me .
32829
32830
32831 Master Doctor , my daughter is in green : when you see your time , take her by the hand , away with her to the deanery , and dispatch it quickly . Go before into the Park : we two must go together .
32832
32833 I know vat I have to do . Adieu .
32834
32835 Fare you well , sir .
32836
32837 My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of Falstaff , as he will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter : but 'tis no matter ; better a little chiding than a great deal of heart break .
32838
32839 Where is Nan now and her troop of fairies , and the Welsh devil , Hugh ?
32840
32841 They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak , with obscured lights ; which , at the very instant of Falstaff's and our meeting , they will at once display to the night .
32842
32843 That cannot choose but amaze him .
32844
32845 If he be not amazed , he will be mocked ; if he be amazed , he will every way be mocked .
32846
32847 We'll betray him finely .
32848
32849 Against such lewdsters and their lechery ,
32850 Those that betray them do no treachery .
32851
32852 The hour draws on : to the oak , to the oak !
32853
32854
32855 Trib , trib , fairies : come ; and remember your parts . Be pold , I pray you ; follow me into the pit , and when I give the watch-ords , do as I pid you . Come , come ; trib , trib .
32856
32857
32858 The Windsor bell hath struck twelve ; the minute draws on . Now , the hot-blooded gods assist me ! Remember , Jove , thou wast a bull for thy Europa ; love set on thy horns . O powerful love ! that , in some respects , makes a beast a man ; in some other , a man a beast . You were also , Jupiter , a swan for the love of Leda ; O omnipotent love ! how near the god drew to the complexion of a goose ! A fault done first in the form of a beast ; O Jove , a beastly fault ! and then another fault in the semblance of a fowl : think on 't , Jove ; a foul fault ! When gods have hot backs , what shall poor men do ? For me , I am here a Windsor stag ; and the fattest , I think , i' the forest : send me a cool rut-time , Jove , or who can blame me to piss my tallow ? Who comes here ? my doe ?
32859
32860
32861 Sir John ! art thou there , my deer ? my male deer ?
32862
32863 My doe with the black scut ! Let the sky rain potatoes ; let it thunder to the tune of 'Green Sleeves ;' hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes ; let there come a tempest of provocation , I will shelter me here .
32864
32865
32866 Mistress Page is come with me , sweetheart .
32867
32868 Divide me like a brib'd buck , each a haunch : I will keep my sides to myself , my shoulders for the fellow of this walk , and my horns I bequeath your husbands . Am I a woodman , ha ? Speak I like Herne the hunter ? Why , now is Cupid a child of conscience ; he makes restitution . As I am a true spirit , welcome !
32869
32870
32871 Alas ! what noise ?
32872
32873 Heaven forgive our sins !
32874
32875 What should this be ?
32876
32877 Away , away !
32878
32879 Away , away !
32880
32881
32882 I think the devil will not have me damned , lest the oil that is in me should set hell on fire ; he would never else cross me thus .
32883
32884
32885 Fairies , black , grey , green , and white ,
32886 You moonshine revellers , and shades of night ,
32887 You orphan heirs of fixed destiny ,
32888 Attend your office and your quality .
32889 Crier Hobgoblin , make the fairy oyes .
32890
32891 Elves , list your names : silence , you airy toys !
32892 Cricket , to Windsor chimneys shalt thou leap :
32893 Where fires thou find'st unrak'd and hearths unswept ,
32894 There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry :
32895 Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery .
32896
32897 They are fairies ; he that speaks to them shall die :
32898 I'll wink and couch : no man their works must eye .
32899
32900
32901 Where's Bede ? Go you , and where you find a maid
32902 That , ere she sleep , has thrice her prayers said ,
32903 Rein up the organs of her fantasy ,
32904 Sleep she as sound as careless infancy ;
32905 But those that sleep and think not on their sins ,
32906 Pinch them , arms , legs , backs , shoulders , sides , and shins .
32907
32908 About , about !
32909 Search Windsor castle , elves , within and out :
32910 Strew good luck , ouphs , on every sacred room ,
32911 That it may stand till the perpetual doom ,
32912 In state as wholesome as in state 'tis fit ,
32913 Worthy the owner , and the owner it .
32914 The several chairs of order look you scour
32915 With juice of balm and every precious flower :
32916 Each fair instalment , coat , and several crest ,
32917 With loyal blazon , ever more be blest !
32918 And nightly , meadow-fairies , look you sing ,
32919 Like to the Garter's compass , in a ring :
32920 The expressure that it bears , green let it be ,
32921 More fertile-fresh than all the field to see ;
32922 And , Honi soit qui mal y pense write
32923 In emerald tufts , flowers purple , blue , and white ;
32924 Like sapphire , pearl , and rich embroidery ,
32925 Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee :
32926 Fairies use flowers for their charactery .
32927 Away ! disperse ! But , till 'tis one o'clock ,
32928 Our dance of custom round about the oak
32929 Of Herne the hunter , let us not forget .
32930
32931 Pray you , lock hand in hand ; yourselves in order set ;
32932 And twenty glow-worms shall our lanthorns be ,
32933 To guide our measure round about the tree .
32934 But , stay ; I smell a man of middle-earth .
32935
32936 Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy , lest he transform me to a piece of cheese !
32937
32938 Vile worm , thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth .
32939
32940 With trial-fire touch me his finger-end :
32941 If he be chaste , the flame will back descend
32942 And turn him to no pain ; but if he start ,
32943 It is the flesh of a corrupted heart .
32944
32945 A trial ! come .
32946
32947 Come , will this wood take fire ?
32948
32949
32950 Oh , oh , oh !
32951
32952 Corrupt , corrupt , and tainted in desire !
32953 About him , fairies , sing a scornful rime ;
32954 And , as you trip , still pinch him to your time .
32955
32956 Fie on sinful fantasy !
32957 Fie on lust and luxury !
32958 Lust is but a bloody fire ,
32959 Kindled with unchaste desire ,
32960 Fed in heart , whose flames aspire ,
32961 As thoughts do blow them higher and higher .
32962 Pinch him , fairies , mutually ;
32963 Pinch him for his villany ;
32964 Pinch him , and burn him , and turn him about ,
32965 Till candles and star-light and moonshine be out .
32966
32967
32968 Nay , do not fly : I think we have watch'd you now :
32969 Will none but Herne the hunter serve your turn ?
32970
32971 I pray you , come , hold up the jest no higher .
32972 Now , good Sir John , how like you Windsor wives ?
32973 See you these , husband ? do not these fair yokes
32974 Become the forest better than the town ?
32975
32976 Now sir , who's a cuckold now ? Master Brook , Falstaff's a knave , a cuckoldly knave ; here are his horns , Master Brook : and , Master Brook , he hath enjoyed nothing of Ford's but his buck-basket , his cudgel , and twenty pounds of money , which must be paid too , Master Brook ; his horses are arrested for it , Master Brook .
32977
32978 Sir John , we have had ill luck ; we could never meet . I will never take you for my love again , but I will always count you my deer .
32979
32980 I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass .
32981
32982 Ay , and an ox too ; both the proofs are extant .
32983
32984 And these are not fairies ? I was three or four times in the thought they were not fairies ; and yet the guiltiness of my mind , the sudden surprise of my powers , drove the grossness of the foppery into a received belief , in despite of the teeth of all rime and reason , that they were fairies . See now how wit may be made a Jack-a-lent , when 'tis upon ill employment !
32985
32986 Sir John Falstaff , serve Got , and leave your desires , and fairies will not pinse you .
32987
32988 Well said , fairy Hugh .
32989
32990 And leave you your jealousies too , I pray you .
32991
32992 I will never mistrust my wife again , till thou art able to woo her in good English .
32993
32994 Have I laid my brain in the sun and dried it , that it wants matter to prevent so gross o'er-reaching as this ? Am I ridden with a Welsh goat too ? shall I have a coxcomb of frize ? 'Tis time I were choked with a piece of toasted cheese .
32995
32996 Seese is not goot to give putter : your pelly is all putter .
32997
32998 'Seese' and 'putter !' have I lived to stand at the taunt of one that makes fritters of English ? This is enough to be the decay of lust and late-walking through the realm .
32999
33000 Why , Sir John , do you think , though we would have thrust virtue out of our hearts by the head and shoulders , and have given ourselves without scruple to hell , that ever the devil could have made you our delight ?
33001
33002 What , a hodge-pudding ? a bag of flax ?
33003
33004 A puffed man ?
33005
33006 Old , cold , withered , and of intolerable entrails ?
33007
33008 And one that is as slanderous as Satan ?
33009
33010 And as poor as Job ?
33011
33012 And as wicked as his wife ?
33013
33014 And given to fornications , and to taverns , and sack and wine and metheglins , and to drinkings and swearings and starings , pribbles and prabbles ?
33015
33016 Well , I am your theme : you have the start of me ; I am dejected ; I am not able to answer the Welsh flannel . Ignorance itself is a plummet o'er me : use me as you will .
33017
33018 Marry , sir , we'll bring you to Windsor , to one Master Brook , that you have cozened of money , to whom you should have been a pander : over and above that you have suffered , I think , to repay that money will be a biting affliction .
33019
33020 Nay , husband , let that go to make amends ;
33021 Forgive that sum , and so we'll all be friends .
33022
33023 Well , here's my hand : all is forgiven at last .
33024
33025 Yet be cheerful , knight : thou shalt eat a posset to-night at my house ; where I will desire thee to laugh at my wife , that now laughs at thee . Tell her , Master Slender hath married her daughter .
33026
33027 Doctors doubt that : if Anne Page be my daughter , she is , by this Doctor Caius' wife .
33028
33029
33030 Whoa , ho ! ho ! father Page !
33031
33032 Son , how now ! how now , son ! have you dispatched ?
33033
33034 Dispatched ! I'll make the best in Gloster-shire know on 't ; would I were hanged , la , else !
33035
33036 Of what , son ?
33037
33038 I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne Page , and she's a great lubberly boy : if it had not been i' the church , I would have swinged him , or he should have swinged me . If I did not think it had been Anne Page , would I might never stir ! and 'tis a postmaster's boy .
33039
33040 Upon my life , then , you took the wrong .
33041
33042 What need you tell me that ? I think so , when I took a boy for a girl . If I had been married to him , for all he was in woman's apparel , I would not have had him .
33043
33044 Why , this is your own folly . Did not I tell you how you should know my daughter by her garments ?
33045
33046 I went to her in white , and cried , 'mum ,' and she cried 'budget ,' as Anne and I had appointed ; and yet it was not Anne , but a postmaster's boy .
33047
33048 Jeshu ! Master Slender , cannot you see put marry poys ?
33049
33050 O I am vexed at heart : what shall I do ?
33051
33052 Good George , be not angry : I knew of your purpose ; turned my daughter into green ; and , indeed , she is now with the doctor at the deanery , and there married .
33053
33054
33055 Vere is Mistress Page ? By gar , I am cozened : I ha' married un gar on , a boy ; un paysan , by gar , a boy ; it is not Anne Page : by gar , I am cozened .
33056
33057 Why , did you not take her in green ?
33058
33059 Ay , by gar , and 'tis a boy : by gar , I'll raise all Windsor .
33060
33061
33062 This is strange . Who hath got the right Anne ?
33063
33064 My heart misgives me : here comes Master Fenton .
33065
33066 How now , Master Fenton !
33067
33068 Pardon , good father ! good my mother , pardon !
33069
33070 Now , mistress , how chance you went not with Master Slender ?
33071
33072 Why went you not with Master Doctor , maid ?
33073
33074 You do amaze her : hear the truth of it .
33075 You would have married her most shamefully ,
33076 Where there was no proportion held in love .
33077 The truth is , she and I , long since contracted ,
33078 Are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us .
33079 The offence is holy that she hath committed ,
33080 And this deceit loses the name of craft ,
33081 Of disobedience , or unduteous title ,
33082 Since therein she doth evitate and shun
33083 A thousand irreligious cursed hours ,
33084 Which forced marriage would have brought upon her .
33085
33086 Stand not amaz'd : here is no remedy :
33087 In love the heavens themselves do guide the state :
33088 Money buys lands , and wives are sold by fate .
33089
33090 I am glad , though you have ta'en a special stand to strike at me , that your arrow hath glanced .
33091
33092 Well , what remedy ?Fenton , heaven give thee joy !
33093 What cannot be eschew'd must be embrac'd .
33094
33095 When night dogs run all sorts of deer are chas'd .
33096
33097 Well , I will muse no further . Master Fenton ,
33098 Heaven give you many , many merry days !
33099 Good husband , let us every one go home ,
33100 And laugh this sport o'er by a country fire ;
33101 Sir John and all .
33102
33103 Let it be so . Sir John ,
33104 To Master Brook you yet shall hold your word ;
33105 For he to-night shall lie with Mistress Ford .
33106
33107 THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
33108
33109
33110 I'll pheeze you , in faith .
33111
33112 A pair of stocks , you rogue !
33113
33114 Y'are a baggage : the Slys are no rogues ; look in the chronicles ; we came in with Richard Conqueror . Therefore , paucas pallabris ; let the world slide . Sessa !
33115
33116 You will not pay for the glasses you have burst ?
33117
33118 No , not a denier . Go by , Jeronimy , go to thy cold bed , and warm thee .
33119
33120 I know my remedy : I must go fetch the third-borough .
33121
33122
33123 Third , or fourth , or fifth borough , I'll answer him by law . I'll not budge an inch , boy : let him come , and kindly .
33124
33125 Huntsman , I charge thee , tender well my hounds :
33126 Brach Merriman , the poor cur is emboss'd ,
33127 And couple Clowder with the deep-mouth'd brach .
33128 Saw'st thou not , boy , how Silver made it good
33129 At the hedge-corner , in the coldest fault ?
33130 I would not lose the dog for twenty pound .
33131
33132 Why , Bellman is as good as he , my lord ;
33133 He cried upon it at the merest loss ,
33134 And twice to-day pick'd out the dullest scent :
33135 Trust me , I take him for the better dog .
33136
33137 Thou art a fool : if Echo were as fleet ,
33138 I would esteem him worth a dozen such .
33139 But sup them well , and look unto them all :
33140 To-morrow I intend to hunt again .
33141
33142 I will , my lord .
33143
33144 What's here ? one dead , or drunk ? See , doth he breathe ?
33145
33146 He breathes , my lord . Were he not warm'd with ale ,
33147 This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly .
33148
33149 O monstrous beast ! how like a swine he lies !
33150 Grim death , how foul and loathsome is thine image !
33151 Sirs , I will practise on this drunken man .
33152 What think you , if he were convey'd to bed ,
33153 Wrapp'd in sweet clothes , rings put upon his fingers ,
33154 A most delicious banquet by his bed ,
33155 And brave attendants near him when he wakes ,
33156 Would not the beggar then forget himself ?
33157
33158 Believe me , lord , I think he cannot choose .
33159
33160 It would seem strange unto him when he wak'd .
33161
33162 Even as a flattering dream or worthless fancy .
33163 Then take him up and manage well the jest .
33164 Carry him gently to my fairest chamber ,
33165 And hang it round with all my wanton pictures ;
33166 Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters ,
33167 And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet .
33168 Procure me music ready when he wakes ,
33169 To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound ;
33170 And if he chance to speak , be ready straight ,
33171 And with a low submissive reverence
33172 Say , 'What is it your honour will command ?'
33173 Let one attend him with a silver basin
33174 Full of rose-water , and bestrew'd with flowers ;
33175 Another bear the ewer , the third a diaper ,
33176 And say , 'Will't please your lordship cool your hands ?'
33177 Some one be ready with a costly suit ,
33178 And ask him what apparel he will wear ;
33179 Another tell him of his hounds and horse ,
33180 And that his lady mourns at his disease .
33181 Persuade him that he hath been lunatic ;
33182 And , when he says he is say that he dreams ,
33183 For he is nothing but a mighty lord .
33184 This do , and do it kindly , gentle sirs :
33185 It will be pastime passing excellent ,
33186 If it be husbanded with modesty .
33187
33188 My lord , I warrant you we will play our part ,
33189 As he shall think , by our true diligence ,
33190 He is no less than what we say he is .
33191
33192 Take him up gently , and to bed with him ,
33193 And each one to his office when he wakes .
33194
33195 Sirrah , go see what trumpet 'tis that sounds :
33196
33197 Belike , some noble gentleman that means ,
33198 Travelling some journey , to repose him here .
33199
33200 How now ! who is it ?
33201
33202 An it please your honour ,
33203 Players that offer service to your lordship .
33204
33205 Bid them come near .
33206
33207 Now , fellows , you are welcome .
33208
33209 We thank your honour .
33210
33211 Do you intend to stay with me to-night ?
33212
33213 So please your lordship to accept our duty .
33214
33215 With all my heart . This fellow I remember ,
33216 Since once he play'd a farmer's eldest son :
33217 'Twas where you woo'd the gentlewoman so well .
33218 I have forgot your name ; but , sure , that part
33219 Was aptly fitted and naturally perform'd .
33220
33221 I think 'twas Soto that your honour means .
33222
33223 'Tis very true : thou didst it excellent .
33224 Well , you are come to me in happy time ,
33225 The rather for I have some sport in hand
33226 Wherein your cunning can assist me much .
33227 There is a lord will hear you play to-night ;
33228 But I am doubtful of your modesties ,
33229 Lest , over-eyeing of his odd behaviour ,
33230 For yet his honour never heard a play ,
33231 You break into some merry passion
33232 And so offend him ; for I tell you , sirs ,
33233 If you should smile he grows impatient .
33234
33235 Fear not , my lord : we can contain ourselves
33236 Were he the veriest antick in the world .
33237
33238 Go , sirrah , take them to the buttery ,
33239 And give them friendly welcome every one :
33240 Let them want nothing that my house affords .
33241
33242 Sirrah , go you to Barthol'mew my page ,
33243 And see him dress'd in all suits like a lady :
33244 That done , conduct him to the drunkard's chamber ;
33245 And call him 'madam ,' do him obeisance .
33246 Tell him from me ,as he will win my love ,
33247 He bear himself with honourable action ,
33248 Such as he hath observ'd in noble ladies
33249 Unto their lords , by them accomplished :
33250 Such duty to the drunkard let him do
33251 With soft low tongue and lowly courtesy ;
33252 And say , 'What is't your honour will command ,
33253 Wherein your lady and your humble wife
33254 May show her duty , and make known her love ?'
33255 And then , with kind embracements , tempting kisses ,
33256 And with declining head into his bosom ,
33257 Bid him shed tears , as being overjoy'd
33258 To see her noble lord restor'd to health ,
33259 Who for this seven years hath esteemed him
33260 No better than a poor and loathsome beggar .
33261 And if the boy have not a woman's gift
33262 To rain a shower of commanded tears ,
33263 An onion will do well for such a shift ,
33264 Which in a napkin being close convey'd ,
33265 Shall in despite enforce a watery eye .
33266 See this dispatch'd with all the haste thou canst :
33267 Anon I'll give thee more instructions .
33268
33269 I know the boy will well usurp the grace ,
33270 Voice , gait , and action of a gentlewoman :
33271 I long to hear him call the drunkard husband ,
33272 And how my men will stay themselves from laughter
33273 When they do homage to this simple peasant .
33274 I'll in to counsel them : haply , my presence
33275 May well abate the over merry spleen
33276 Which otherwise would grow into extremes .
33277
33278
33279 For God's sake ! a pot of small ale .
33280
33281 Will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack ?
33282
33283 Will't please your honour taste of these conserves ?
33284
33285 What raiment will your honour wear to-day ?
33286
33287 I am Christophero Sly ; call not me honour , nor lordship : I ne'er drank sack in my life ; and if you give me any conserves , give me conserves of beef . Ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear , for I have no more doublets than backs , no more stockings than legs , nor no more shoes than feet : nay , sometime more feet than shoes , or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather .
33288
33289 Heaven cease this idle humour in your honour !
33290 O , that a mighty man , of such descent ,
33291 Of such possessions , and so high esteem ,
33292 Should be infused with so foul a spirit !
33293
33294 What ! would you make me mad ? Am not I Christopher Sly , old Sly's son , of Burtonheath ; by birth a pedlar , by education a cardmaker , by transmutation a bear-herd , and now by present profession a tinker ? Ask Marian Hacket , the fat ale-wife of Wincot , if she know me not : if she say I am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale , score me up for the lyingest knave in Christendom . What ! I am not bestraught : here's
33295
33296 O ! this it is that makes your lady mourn .
33297
33298 O ! this it is that makes your servants droop .
33299
33300 Hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house ,
33301 As beaten hence by your strange lunacy .
33302 O noble lord , bethink thee of thy birth ,
33303 Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment ,
33304 And banish hence these abject lowly dreams .
33305 Look how thy servants do attend on thee ,
33306 Each in his office ready at thy beck :
33307 Wilt thou have music ? hark ! Apollo plays ,
33308
33309 And twenty caged nightingales do sing :
33310 Or wilt thou sleep ? we'll have thee to a couch
33311 Softer and sweeter than the lustful bed
33312 On purpose trimm'd up for Semiramis .
33313 Say thou wilt walk , we will bestrew the ground :
33314 Or wilt thou ride ? thy horses shall be trapp'd ,
33315 Their harness studded all with gold and pearl .
33316 Dost thou love hawking ? thou hast hawks will soar
33317 Above the morning lark : or wilt thou hunt ?
33318 Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them ,
33319 And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth .
33320
33321 Say thou wilt course ; thy greyhounds are as swift
33322 As breathed stags , ay , fleeter than the roe .
33323
33324 Dost thou love pictures ? we will fetch thee straight
33325 Adonis painted by a running brook ,
33326 And Cytherea all in sedges hid ,
33327 Which seem to move and wanton with her breath ,
33328 Even as the waving sedges play with wind .
33329
33330 We'll show thee Io as she was a maid ,
33331 And how she was beguiled and surpris'd ,
33332 As lively painted as the deed was done .
33333
33334 Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood ,
33335 Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds ;
33336 And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep ,
33337 So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn .
33338
33339 Thou art a lord and nothing but a lord :
33340 Thou hast a lady far more beautiful
33341 Than any woman in this waning age .
33342
33343 And till the tears that she hath shed for thee
33344 Like envious floods o'er-run her lovely face ,
33345 She was the fairest creature in the world ;
33346 And yet she is inferior to none .
33347
33348 Am I a lord ? and have I such a lady ?
33349 Or do I dream ? or have I dream'd till now ?
33350 I do not sleep ; I see , I hear , I speak ;
33351 I smell sweet savours , and I feel soft things :
33352 Upon my life , I am a lord indeed ;
33353 And not a tinker , nor Christophero Sly .
33354 Well , bring our lady hither to our sight ;
33355 And once again , a pot o' the smallest ale .
33356
33357 Will't please your mightiness to wash your hands ?
33358
33359 O , how we joy to see your wit restor'd !
33360 O , that once more you knew but what you are !
33361 These fifteen years you have been in a dream ,
33362 Or , when you wak'd , so wak'd as if you slept .
33363
33364 These fifteen years ! by my fay , a goodly nap .
33365 But did I never speak of all that time ?
33366
33367 O ! yes , my lord , but very idle words ;
33368 For though you lay here in this goodly chamber ,
33369 Yet would you say ye were beaten out of door ,
33370 And rail upon the hostess of the house ,
33371 And say you would present her at the leet ,
33372 Because she brought stone jugs and no seal'd quarts .
33373 Sometimes you would call out for Cicely Hacket .
33374
33375 Ay , the woman's maid of the house .
33376
33377 Why , sir , you know no house , nor no such maid ,
33378 Nor no such men as you have reckon'd up ,
33379 As Stephen Sly , and old John Naps of Greece ,
33380 And Peter Turf , and Henry Pimpernell ,
33381 And twenty more such names and men as these ,
33382 Which never were nor no man ever saw .
33383
33384 Now , Lord be thanked for my good amends !
33385
33386 Amen .
33387
33388 I thank thee ; thou shalt not lose by it .
33389
33390
33391 How fares my noble lord ?
33392
33393 Marry , I fare well , for here is cheer enough .
33394 Where is my wife ?
33395
33396 Here , noble lord : what is thy will with her ?
33397
33398 Are you my wife , and will not call me husband ?
33399 My men should call me lord : I am your goodman .
33400
33401 My husband and my lord , my lord and husband ;
33402 I am your wife in all obedience .
33403
33404 I know it well . What must I call her ?
33405
33406 Madam .
33407
33408 Al'ce madam , or Joan madam ?
33409
33410 Madam , and nothing else : so lords call ladies .
33411
33412 Madam wife , they say that I have dream'd
33413 And slept above some fifteen year or more .
33414
33415 Ay , and the time seems thirty unto me ,
33416 Being all this time abandon'd from your bed .
33417
33418 'Tis much . Servants , leave me and her alone .
33419 Madam , undress you , and come now to bed .
33420
33421 Thrice noble lord , let me entreat of you
33422 To pardon me yet for a night or two ,
33423 Or , if not so , until the sun be set :
33424 For your physicians have expressly charg'd ,
33425 In peril to incur your former malady ,
33426 That I should yet absent me from your bed :
33427 I hope this reason stands for my excuse .
33428
33429 Ay , it stands so , that I may hardly tarry so long ; but I would be loath to fall into my dreams again : I will therefore tarry , in spite of the flesh and the blood .
33430
33431
33432 Your honour's players , hearing your amendment ,
33433 Are come to play a pleasant comedy ;
33434 For so your doctors hold it very meet ,
33435 Seeing too much sadness hath congeal'd your blood ,
33436 And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy :
33437 Therefore they thought it good you hear a play ,
33438 And frame your mind to mirth and merriment ,
33439 Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life .
33440
33441 Marry , I will ; let them play it . Is not a commonty a Christmas gambold or a tumbling-trick ?
33442
33443 No , my good lord ; it is more pleasing stuff .
33444
33445 What ! household stuff ?
33446
33447 It is a kind of history .
33448
33449 Well , we'll see't . Come , madam wife , sit by my side ,
33450 And let the world slip : we shall ne'er be younger .
33451
33452
33453 Tranio , since for the great desire I had
33454 To see fair Padua , nursery of arts ,
33455 I am arriv'd for fruitful Lombardy ,
33456 The pleasant garden of great Italy ;
33457 And by my father's love and leave am arm'd
33458 With his good will and thy good company ,
33459 My trusty servant well approv'd in all ,
33460 Here let us breathe , and haply institute
33461 A course of learning and ingenious studies .
33462 Pisa , renowned for grave citizens ,
33463 Gave me my being and my father first ,
33464 A merchant of great traffic through the world ,
33465 Vincentio , come of the Bentivolii .
33466 Vincentio's son , brought up in Florence ,
33467 It shall become to serve all hopes conceiv'd ,
33468 To deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds :
33469 And therefore , Tranio , for the time I study ,
33470 Virtue and that part of philosophy
33471 Will I apply that treats of happiness
33472 By virtue specially to be achiev'd .
33473 Tell me thy mind ; for I have Pisa left
33474 And am to Padua come , as he that leaves
33475 A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep ,
33476 And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst .
33477
33478 Mi perdonate , gentle master mine ,
33479 I am in all affected as yourself ,
33480 Glad that you thus continue your resolve
33481 To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy .
33482 Only , good master , while we do admire
33483 This virtue and this moral discipline ,
33484 Let's be no stoics nor no stocks , I pray ;
33485 Or so devote to Aristotle's checks
33486 As Ovid be an outcast quite abjur'd .
33487 Balk logic with acquaintance that you have ,
33488 And practise rhetoric in your common talk ;
33489 Music and poesy use to quicken you ;
33490 The mathematics and the metaphysics ,
33491 Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you ;
33492 No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en ;
33493 In brief , sir , study what you most affect .
33494
33495 Gramercies , Tranio , well dost thou advise .
33496 If , Biondello , thou wert come ashore ,
33497 We could at once put us in readiness ,
33498 And take a lodging fit to entertain
33499 Such friends as time in Padua shall beget .
33500 But stay awhile : what company is this ?
33501
33502 Master , some show to welcome us to town .
33503
33504
33505 Gentlemen , importune me no further ,
33506 For how I firmly am resolv'd you know ;
33507 That is , not to bestow my youngest daughter
33508 Before I have a husband for the elder .
33509 If either of you both love Katharina ,
33510 Because I know you well and love you well ,
33511 Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure .
33512
33513 To cart her rather : she's too rough for me .
33514 There , there , Hortensio , will you any wife ?
33515
33516 I pray you , sir , is it your will
33517 To make a stale of me amongst these mates ?
33518
33519 Mates , maid ! how mean you that ? no mates for you ,
33520 Unless you were of gentler , milder mould .
33521
33522 I' faith , sir , you shall never need to fear :
33523 I wis it is not half way to her heart ;
33524 But if it were , doubt not her care should be
33525 To comb your noddle with a three-legg'd stool ,
33526 And paint your face , and use you like a fool .
33527
33528 From all such devils , good Lord deliver us !
33529
33530 And me too , good Lord !
33531
33532 Hush , master ! here is some good pastime toward :
33533 That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward .
33534
33535 But in the other's silence do I see
33536 Maid's mild behaviour and sobriety .
33537 Peace , Tranio !
33538
33539 Well said , master ; mum ! and gaze your fill .
33540
33541 Gentlemen , that I may soon make good
33542 What I have said ,Bianca , get you in :
33543 And let it not displease thee , good Bianca ,
33544 For I will love thee ne'er the less , my girl .
33545
33546 A pretty peat ! it is best
33547 Put finger in the eye , an she knew why .
33548
33549 Sister , content you in my discontent .
33550 Sir , to your pleasure humbly I subscribe :
33551 My books and instruments shall be my company ,
33552 On them to look and practise by myself .
33553
33554 Hark , Tranio ! thou mayst hear Minerva speak .
33555
33556 Signior Baptista , will you be so strange ?
33557 Sorry am I that our good will effects
33558 Bianca's grief .
33559
33560 Why will you mew her up ,
33561 Signior Baptista , for this fiend of hell ,
33562 And make her bear the penance of her tongue ?
33563
33564 Gentlemen , content ye ; I am resolv'd .
33565 Go in , Bianca .
33566
33567 And for I know she taketh most delight
33568 In music , instruments , and poetry ,
33569 Schoolmasters will I keep within my house ,
33570 Fit to instruct her youth . If you , Hortensio ,
33571 Or Signior Gremio , you , know any such ,
33572 Prefer them hither ; for to cunning men
33573 I will be very kind , and liberal
33574 To mine own children in good bringing up ;
33575 And so , farewell . Katharina , you may stay ;
33576 For I have more to commune with Bianca .
33577
33578
33579 Why , and I trust I may go too ; may I not ?
33580 What ! shall I be appointed hours , as though , belike ,
33581 I knew not what to take , and what to leave ? Ha !
33582
33583
33584 You may go to the devil's dam : your gifts are so good , here's none will hold you . Their love is not so great , Hortensio , but we may blow our nails together , and fast it fairly out : our cake's dough on both sides . Farewell : yet , for the love I bear my sweet Bianca , if I can by any means light on a fit man to teach her that wherein she delights , I will wish him to her father .
33585
33586 So will I , Signior Gremio : but a word , I pray . Though the nature of our quarrel yet never brooked parle , know now , upon advice , it toucheth us both ,that we may yet again have access to our fair mistress and be happy rivals in Bianca's love ,to labour and effect one thing specially .
33587
33588 What's that , I pray ?
33589
33590 Marry , sir , to get a husband for her sister .
33591
33592 A husband ! a devil .
33593
33594 I say , a husband .
33595
33596 I say , a devil . Thinkest thou , Hortensio , though her father be very rich , any man is so very a fool to be married to hell ?
33597
33598 Tush , Gremio ! though it pass your patience and mine to endure her loud alarums , why , man , there be good fellows in the world , an a man could light on them , would take her with all faults , and money enough .
33599
33600 I cannot tell ; but I had as lief take her dowry with this condition , to be whipped at the high-cross every morning .
33601
33602 Faith , as you say , there's small choice in rotten apples . But , come ; since this bar in law makes us friends , it shall be so far forth friendly maintained , till by helping Baptista's eldest daughter to a husband , we set his youngest free for a husband , and then have to't afresh . Sweet Bianca ! Happy man be his dole ! He that runs fastest gets the ring . How say you , Signior Gremio ?
33603
33604 I am agreed : and would I had given him the best horse in Padua to begin his wooing , that would thoroughly woo her , wed her , and bed her , and rid the house of her . Come on .
33605
33606
33607 I pray , sir , tell me , is it possible
33608 That love should of a sudden take such hold ?
33609
33610 O Tranio ! till I found it to be true ,
33611 I never thought it possible or likely ;
33612 But see , while idly I stood looking on ,
33613 I found the effect of love in idleness ;
33614 And now in plainness do confess to thee ,
33615 That art to me as secret and as dear
33616 As Anna to the Queen of Carthage was ,
33617 Tranio , I burn , I pine , I perish , Tranio ,
33618 If I achieve not this young modest girl .
33619 Counsel me , Tranio , for I know thou canst :
33620 Assist me , Tranio , for I know thou wilt .
33621
33622 Master , it is no time to chide you now ;
33623 Affection is not rated from the heart :
33624 If love have touch'd you , nought remains but so ,
33625 Redime te captum , quam queas minimo .
33626
33627 Gramercies , lad ; go forward : this contents :
33628 The rest will comfort , for thy counsel's sound .
33629
33630 Master , you look'd so longly on the maid ,
33631 Perhaps you mark'd not what's the pith of all .
33632
33633 O yes , I saw sweet beauty in her face ,
33634 Such as the daughter of Agenor had ,
33635 That made great Jove to humble him to her hand ,
33636 When with his knees he kiss'd the Cretan strand .
33637
33638 Saw you no more ? mark'd you not how her sister
33639 Began to scold and raise up such a storm
33640 That mortal ears might hardly endure the din ?
33641
33642 Tranio , I saw her coral lips to move ,
33643 And with her breath she did perfume the air ;
33644 Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her .
33645
33646 Nay , then , 'tis time to stir him from his trance .
33647 I pray , awake , sir : if you love the maid ,
33648 Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her . Thus it stands :
33649 Her elder sister is so curst and shrewd ,
33650 That till the father rid his hands of her ,
33651 Master , your love must live a maid at home ;
33652 And therefore has he closely mew'd her up ,
33653 Because she will not be annoy'd with suitors .
33654
33655 Ah , Tranio , what a cruel father's he !
33656 But art thou not advis'd he took some care
33657 To get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her ?
33658
33659 Ay , marry , am I , sir ; and now 'tis plotted .
33660
33661 I have it , Tranio .
33662
33663 Master , for my hand ,
33664 Both our inventions meet and jump in one .
33665
33666 Tell me thine first .
33667
33668 You will be schoolmaster ,
33669 And undertake the teaching of the maid :
33670 That's your device .
33671
33672 It is : may it be done ?
33673
33674 Not possible ; for who shall bear your part ,
33675 And be in Padua here Vincentio's son ?
33676 Keep house and ply his book , welcome his friends ;
33677 Visit his countrymen , and banquet them ?
33678
33679 Basta ; content thee ; for I have it full .
33680 We have not yet been seen in any house ,
33681 Nor can we be distinguish'd by our faces
33682 For man , or master : then , it follows thus :
33683 Thou shalt be master , Tranio , in my stead ,
33684 Keep house , and port , and servants , as I should :
33685 I will some other be ; some Florentine ,
33686 Some Neapolitan , or meaner man of Pisa .
33687 'Tis hatch'd and shall be so : Tranio , at once
33688 Uncase thee , take my colour'd hat and cloak :
33689 When Biondello comes , he waits on thee ;
33690 But I will charm him first to keep his tongue .
33691
33692
33693 So had you need .
33694 In brief then , sir , sith it your pleasure is ,
33695 And I am tied to be obedient ;
33696 For so your father charg'd me at our parting ,
33697 'Be serviceable to my son ,' quoth he ,
33698 Although I think 'twas in another sense :
33699 I am content to be Lucentio ,
33700 Because so well I love Lucentio .
33701
33702 Tranio , be so , because Lucentio loves ;
33703 And let me be a slave , to achieve that maid
33704 Whose sudden sight hath thrall'd my wounded eye .
33705 Here comes the rogue .
33706
33707 Sirrah , where have you been ?
33708
33709 Where have I been ! Nay , how now ! where are you ?
33710 Master , has my fellow Tranio stol'n your clothes ,
33711 Or you stol'n his ? or both ? pray , what's the news ?
33712
33713 Sirrah , come hither : 'tis no time to jest ,
33714 And therefore frame your manners to the time .
33715 Your fellow Tranio , here , to save my life ,
33716 Puts my apparel and my countenance on ,
33717 And I for my escape have put on his ;
33718 For in a quarrel since I came ashore
33719 I kill'd a man , and fear I was descried .
33720 Wait you on him , I charge you , as becomes ,
33721 While I make way from hence to save my life :
33722 You understand me ?
33723
33724 I , sir ! ne'er a whit .
33725
33726 And not a jot of Tranio in your mouth :
33727 Tranio is changed to Lucentio .
33728
33729 The better for him : would I were so too !
33730
33731 So would I , faith , boy , to have the next wish after ,
33732 That Lucentio indeed had Baptista's youngest daughter .
33733 But , sirrah , not for my sake , but your master's , I advise
33734 You use your manners discreetly in all kind of companies :
33735 When I am alone , why , then I am Tranio ;
33736 But in all places else your master , Lucentio .
33737
33738 Tranio , let's go . One thing more rests , that thyself execute , to make one among these wooers : if thou ask me why , sufficeth my reasons are both good and weighty .
33739
33740 My lord , you nod ; you do not mind the play .
33741
33742 Yes , by Saint Anne , I do . A good matter , surely : comes there any more of it ?
33743
33744 My lord , 'tis but begun .
33745
33746 'Tis a very excellent piece of work , madam lady : would 'twere done !
33747
33748
33749 Verona , for awhile I take my leave ,
33750 To see my friends in Padua ; but , of all
33751 My best beloved and approved friend ,
33752 Hortensio ; and I trow this is his house .
33753 Here , sirrah Grumio ; knock , I say .
33754
33755 Knock , sir ! whom should I knock ? is there any man has rebused your worship ?
33756
33757 Villain , I say , knock me here soundly .
33758
33759 Knock you here , sir ! why , sir , what am I , sir , that I should knock you here , sir ?
33760
33761 Villain , I say , knock me at this gate ;
33762 And rap me well , or I'll knock your knave's pate .
33763
33764 My master is grown quarrelsome . I should knock you first ,
33765 And then I know after who comes by the worst .
33766
33767 Will it not be ?
33768 Faith , sirrah , an you'll not knock , I'll ring it ;
33769 I'll try how you can sol , fa , and sing it .
33770
33771
33772 Help , masters , help ! my master is mad .
33773
33774 Now , knock when I bid you , sirrah villain !
33775
33776
33777 How now ! what's the matter ? My old friend Grumio ! and my good friend Petruchio ! How do you all at Verona ?
33778
33779 Signior Hortensio , come you to part the fray ?
33780 Con tutto il cuore ben trovato , may I say .
33781
33782 Alla nostra casa ben venuto ; molto honorato signior mio Petruchio .
33783 Rise , Grumio , rise : we will compound this quarrel .
33784
33785 Nay , 'tis no matter , sir , what he 'leges in Latin . If this be not a lawful cause for me to leave his service , look you , sir , he bid me knock him and rap him soundly , sir : well , was it fit for a servant to use his master so ; being , perhaps , for aught I see , two-and-thirty , a pip out ?
33786 Whom would to God , I had well knock'd at first ,
33787 Then had not Grumio come by the worst .
33788
33789 A senseless villain ! Good Hortensio ,
33790 I bade the rascal knock upon your gate ,
33791 And could not get him for my heart to do it .
33792
33793 Knock at the gate ! O heavens ! Spake you not these words plain , 'Sirrah , knock me here , rap me here , knock me well , and knock me soundly ?' And come you now with 'knocking at the gate ?'
33794
33795 Sirrah , be gone , or talk not , I advise you .
33796
33797 Petruchio , patience ; I am Grumio's pledge .
33798 Why , this's a heavy chance 'twixt him and you ,
33799 Your ancient , trusty , pleasant servant Grumio .
33800 And tell me now , sweet friend , what happy gale
33801 Blows you to Padua here from old Verona ?
33802
33803 Such wind as scatters young men through the world
33804 To seek their fortunes further than at home ,
33805 Where small experience grows . But in a few ,
33806 Signior Hortensio , thus it stands with me :
33807 Antonio , my father , is deceas'd ,
33808 And I have thrust myself into this maze ,
33809 Haply to wive and thrive as best I may .
33810 Crowns in my purse I have and goods at home ,
33811 And so am come abroad to see the world .
33812
33813 Petruchio , shall I then come roundly to thee ,
33814 And wish thee to a shrewd ill-favour'd wife ?
33815 Thou'dst thank me but a little for my counsel ;
33816 And yet I'll promise thee she shall be rich ,
33817 And very rich : but thou'rt too much my friend ,
33818 And I'll not wish thee to her .
33819
33820 Signior Hortensio , 'twixt such friends as we ,
33821 Few words suffice ; and therefore , if thou know
33822 One rich enough to be Petruchio's wife ,
33823 As wealth is burden of my wooing dance ,
33824 Be she as foul as was Florentius' love ,
33825 As old as Sibyl , and as curst and shrewd
33826 As Socrates' Xanthippe , or a worse ,
33827 She moves me not , or not removes , at least ,
33828 Affection's edge in me , were she as rough
33829 As are the swelling Adriatic seas :
33830 I come to wive it wealthily in Padua ;
33831 If wealthily , then happily in Padua .
33832
33833 Nay , look you , sir , he tells you flatly what his mind is : why , give him gold enough and marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby ; or an old trot with ne'er a tooth in her head , though she have as many diseases as two-and-fifty horses : why , nothing comes amiss , so money comes withal .
33834
33835 Petruchio , since we are stepp'd thus far in ,
33836 I will continue that I broach'd in jest .
33837 I can , Petruchio , help thee to a wife
33838 With wealth enough , and young and beauteous ,
33839 Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman :
33840 Her only fault ,and that is faults enough ,
33841 Is , that she is intolerable curst
33842 And shrewd and froward , so beyond all measure ,
33843 That , were my state far worser than it is ,
33844 I would not wed her for a mine of gold :
33845
33846 Hortensio , peace ! thou know'st not gold's effect :
33847 Tell me her father's name , and 'tis enough ;
33848 For I will board her , though she chide as loud
33849 As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack .
33850
33851 Her father is Baptista Minola ,
33852 An affable and courteous gentleman ;
33853 Her name is Katharina Minola ,
33854 Renown'd in Padua for her scolding tongue .
33855
33856 I know her father , though I know not her ;
33857 And he knew my deceased father well .
33858 I will not sleep , Hortensio , till I see her ;
33859 And therefore let me be thus bold with you ,
33860 To give you over at this first encounter ,
33861 Unless you will accompany me thither .
33862
33863 I pray you , sir , let him go while the humour lasts . O' my word , an she knew him as well as I do , she would think scolding would do little good upon him . She may , perhaps , call him half a score knaves or so : why , that's nothing : an he begin once , he'll rail in his ropetricks . I'll tell you what , sir , an she stand him but a little , he will throw a figure in her face , and so disfigure her with it that she shall have no more eyes to see withal than a cat . You know him not , sir .
33864
33865 Tarry , Petruchio , I must go with thee ,
33866 For in Baptista's keep my treasure is :
33867 He hath the jewel of my life in hold ,
33868 His youngest daughter , beautiful Bianca ,
33869 And her withholds from me and other more ,
33870 Suitors to her and rivals in my love ;
33871 Supposing it a thing impossible ,
33872 For those defects I have before rehears'd ,
33873 That ever Katharina will be woo'd :
33874 Therefore this order hath Baptista ta'en ,
33875 That none shall have access unto Bianca ,
33876 Till Katharine the curst have got a husband .
33877
33878 Katharine the curst !
33879 A title for a maid of all titles the worst .
33880
33881 Now shall my friend Petruchio do me grace ,
33882 And offer me , disguis'd in sober robes ,
33883 To old Baptista as a schoolmaster
33884 Well seen in music , to instruct Bianca ;
33885 That so I may , by this device , at least
33886 Have leave and leisure to make love to her ,
33887 And unsuspected court her by herself .
33888
33889 Here's no knavery ! See , to beguile the old folks , how the young folks lay their heads together !
33890
33891 Master , master , look about you : who goes there , ha ?
33892
33893 Peace , Grumio ! 'tis the rival of my love .
33894 Petruchio , stand by awhile .
33895
33896 A proper stripling , and an amorous !
33897
33898 O ! very well ; I have perus'd the note .
33899 Hark you , sir ; I'll have them very fairly bound :
33900 All books of love , see that at any hand ,
33901 And see you read no other lectures to her .
33902 You understand me . Over and beside
33903 Signior Baptista's liberality ,
33904 I'll mend it with a largess . Take your papers too ,
33905 And let me have them very well perfum'd ;
33906 For she is sweeter than perfume itself
33907 To whom they go to . What will you read to her ?
33908
33909 Whate'er I read to her , I'll plead for you ,
33910 As for my patron , stand you so assur'd ,
33911 As firmly as yourself were still in place ;
33912 Yea , and perhaps with more successful words
33913 Than you , unless you were a scholar , sir .
33914
33915 O ! this learning , what a thing it is .
33916
33917 O ! this woodcock , what an ass it is .
33918
33919 Peace , sirrah !
33920
33921 Grumio , mum ! God save you , Signior Gremio !
33922
33923 And you're well met , Signior Hortensio .
33924 Trow you whither I am going ? To Baptista Minola .
33925 I promis'd to inquire carefully
33926 About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca ;
33927 And , by good fortune , I have lighted well
33928 On this young man ; for learning and behaviour
33929 Fit for her turn ; well read in poetry
33930 And other books , good ones , I warrant ye .
33931
33932 'Tis well : and I have met a gentleman
33933 Hath promis'd me to help me to another ,
33934 A fine musician to instruct our mistress :
33935 So shall I no whit be behind in duty
33936 To fair Bianca , so belov'd of me .
33937
33938 Belov'd of me , and that my deeds shall prove .
33939
33940 And that his bags shall prove .
33941
33942 Gremio , 'tis now no time to vent our love :
33943 Listen to me , and if you speak me fair ,
33944 I'll tell you news indifferent good for either .
33945 Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met ,
33946 Upon agreement from us to his liking ,
33947 Will undertake to woo curst Katharine ;
33948 Yea , and to marry her , if her dowry please .
33949
33950 So said , so done , is well .
33951 Hortensio , have you told him all her faults ?
33952
33953 I know she is an irksome , brawling scold :
33954 If that be all , masters , I hear no harm .
33955
33956 No , sayst me so , friend ? What countryman ?
33957
33958 Born in Verona , old Antonio's son :
33959 My father dead , my fortune lives for me ;
33960 And I do hope good days and long to see .
33961
33962 O , sir , such a life , with such a wife , were strange !
33963 But if you have a stomach , to't i' God's name :
33964 You shall have me assisting you in all .
33965 But will you woo this wild-cat ?
33966
33967 Will I live ?
33968
33969 Will he woo her ? ay , or I'll hang her .
33970
33971 Why came I hither but to that intent ?
33972 Think you a little din can daunt mine ears ?
33973 Have I not in my time heard lions roar ?
33974 Have I not heard the sea , puff'd up with winds ,
33975 Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat ?
33976 Have I not heard great ordnance in the field ,
33977 And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies ?
33978 Have I not in a pitched battle heard
33979 Loud 'larums , neighing steeds , and trumpets' clang ?
33980 And do you tell me of a woman's tongue ,
33981 That gives not half so great a blow to hear
33982 As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire ?
33983 Tush , tush ! fear boys with bugs .
33984
33985 For he fears none .
33986
33987 Hortensio , hark :
33988 This gentleman is happily arriv'd ,
33989 My mind presumes , for his own good and ours .
33990
33991 I promis'd we would be contributors ,
33992 And bear his charge of wooing , whatsoe'er .
33993
33994 And so we will , provided that he win her .
33995
33996 I would I were as sure of a good dinner .
33997
33998
33999 Gentlemen , God save you ! If I may be bold ,
34000 Tell me , I beseech you , which is the readiest way
34001 To the house of Signior Baptista Minola ?
34002
34003 He that has the two fair daughters : is't he you mean ?
34004
34005 Even he , Biondello !
34006
34007 Hark you , sir ; you mean not her to
34008
34009 Perhaps , him and her , sir : what have you to do ?
34010
34011 Not her that chides , sir , at any hand , I pray .
34012
34013 I love no chiders , sir . Biondello , let's away .
34014
34015 Well begun , Tranio .
34016
34017 Sir , a word ere you go :
34018 Are you a suitor to the maid you talk of , yea or no ?
34019
34020 And if I be , sir , is it any offence ?
34021
34022 No ; if without more words you will get you hence .
34023
34024 Why , sir , I pray , are not the streets as free
34025 For me as for you ?
34026
34027 But so is not she .
34028
34029 For what reason , I beseech you ?
34030
34031 For this reason , if you'll know ,
34032 That she's the choice love of Signior Gremio .
34033
34034 That she's the chosen of Signior Hortensio .
34035
34036 Softly , my masters ! if you be gentlemen ,
34037 Do me this right ; hear me with patience .
34038 Baptista is a noble gentleman ,
34039 To whom my father is not all unknown ;
34040 And were his daughter fairer than she is ,
34041 She may more suitors have , and me for one .
34042 Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers ;
34043 Then well one more may fair Bianca have ,
34044 And so she shall ; Lucentio shall make one ,
34045 Though Paris came in hope to speed alone .
34046
34047 What ! this gentleman will out-talk us all .
34048
34049 Sir , give him head : I know he'll prove a jade .
34050
34051 Hortensio , to what end are all these words ?
34052
34053 Sir , let me be so bold as ask you ,
34054 Did you yet ever see Baptista's daughter ?
34055
34056 No , sir ; but hear I do that he hath two ,
34057 The one as famous for a scolding tongue
34058 As is the other for beauteous modesty .
34059
34060 Sir , sir , the first's for me ; let her go by .
34061
34062 Yea , leave that labour to great Hercules ,
34063 And let it be more than Alcides' twelve .
34064
34065 Sir , understand you this of me in sooth :
34066 The youngest daughter , whom you hearken for ,
34067 Her father keeps from all access of suitors ,
34068 And will not promise her to any man
34069 Until the elder sister first be wed ;
34070 The younger then is free , and not before .
34071
34072 If it be so , sir , that you are the man
34073 Must stead us all , and me among the rest ;
34074 And if you break the ice , and do this feat ,
34075 Achieve the elder , set the younger free
34076 For our access , whose hap shall be to have her
34077 Will not so graceless be to be ingrate .
34078
34079 Sir , you say well , and well you do conceive ;
34080 And since you do profess to be a suitor ,
34081 You must , as we do , gratify this gentleman ,
34082 To whom we all rest generally beholding .
34083
34084 Sir , I shall not be slack : in sign whereof ,
34085 Please ye we may contrive this afternoon ,
34086 And quaff carouses to our mistress' health ,
34087 And do as adversaries do in law ,
34088 Strive mightily , but eat and drink as friends .
34089
34090 O excellent motion ! Fellows , let's be gone .
34091
34092 O excellent motion ! Fellows , let's be gone .
34093
34094 The motion's good indeed , and be it so :
34095 Petruchio , I shall be your ben venuto .
34096
34097 Good sister , wrong me not , nor wrong yourself ,
34098 To make a bondmaid and a slave of me ;
34099 That I disdain : but for these other gawds ,
34100 Unbind my hands , I'll pull them off myself ,
34101 Yea , all my raiment , to my petticoat ;
34102 Or what you will command me will I do ,
34103 So well I know my duty to my elders .
34104
34105 Of all thy suitors , here I charge thee , tell
34106 Whom thou lov'st best : see thou dissemble not .
34107
34108 Believe me , sister , of all the men alive
34109 I never yet beheld that special face
34110 Which I could fancy more than any other .
34111
34112 Minion , thou liest . Is't not Hortensio ?
34113
34114 If you affect him , sister , here I swear
34115 I'll plead for you myself , but you shall have him .
34116
34117 O ! then , belike , you fancy riches more :
34118 You will have Gremio to keep you fair .
34119
34120 Is it for him you do envy me so ?
34121 Nay , then you jest ; and now I well perceive
34122 You have but jested with me all this while :
34123 I prithee , sister Kate , untie my hands .
34124
34125 If that be jest , then all the rest was so .
34126
34127 Why , how now , dame ! whence grows this insolence ?
34128 Bianca , stand aside . Poor girl ! she weeps .
34129 Go ply thy needle ; meddle not with her .
34130 For shame , thou hilding of a devilish spirit ,
34131 Why dost thou wrong her that did ne'er wrong thee ?
34132 When did she cross thee with a bitter word ?
34133
34134 Her silence flouts me , and I'll be reveng'd .
34135
34136
34137 What ! in my sight ? Bianca , get thee in .
34138
34139
34140 What ! will you not suffer me ? Nay , now I see
34141 She is your treasure , she must have a husband ;
34142 I must dance bare-foot on her wedding-day ,
34143 And , for your love to her , lead apes in hell .
34144 Talk not to me : I will go sit and weep
34145 Till I can find occasion of revenge .
34146
34147
34148 Was ever gentleman thus griev'd as I ?
34149 But who comes here ?
34150
34151
34152 Good morrow , neighbour Baptista .
34153
34154 Good morrow , neighbour Gremio . God save you , gentlemen !
34155
34156 And you , good sir . Pray , have you not a daughter
34157 Call'd Katharina , fair and virtuous ?
34158
34159 I have a daughter , sir , call'd Katharina .
34160
34161 You are too blunt : go to it orderly .
34162
34163 You wrong me , Signior Gremio : give me leave .
34164 I am a gentleman of Verona , sir ,
34165 That , hearing of her beauty and her wit ,
34166 Her affability and bashful modesty ,
34167 Her wondrous qualities and mild behaviour ,
34168 Am bold to show myself a forward guest
34169 Within your house , to make mine eye the witness
34170 Of that report which I so oft have heard .
34171 And , for an entrance to my entertainment ,
34172 I do present you with a man of mine ,
34173
34174 Cunning in music and the mathematics ,
34175 To instruct her fully in those sciences ,
34176 Whereof I know she is not ignorant .
34177 Accept of him , or else you do me wrong :
34178 His name is Licio , born in Mantua .
34179
34180 You're welcome , sir ; and he , for your good sake .
34181 But for my daughter Katharine , this I know ,
34182 She is not for your turn , the more my grief .
34183
34184 I see you do not mean to part with her ,
34185 Or else you like not of my company .
34186
34187 Mistake me not ; I speak but as I find .
34188 Whence are you , sir ? what may I call your name ?
34189
34190 Petruchio is my name ; Antonio's son ;
34191 A man well known throughout all Italy .
34192
34193 I know him well : you are welcome for his sake .
34194
34195 Saving your tale , Petruchio , I pray ,
34196 Let us , that are poor petitioners , speak too .
34197 Backare ! you are marvellous forward .
34198
34199 O , pardon me , Signior Gremio ; I would fain be doing .
34200
34201 I doubt it not , sir ; but you will curse your wooing .
34202 Neighbour , this is a gift very grateful , I am sure of it . To express the like kindness myself , that have been more kindly beholding to you than any , freely give unto you this young scholar ,
34203
34204 that has been long studying at Rheims ; as cunning in Greek , Latin , and other languages , as the other in music and mathematics . His name is Cambio ; pray accept his service .
34205
34206 A thousand thanks , Signior Gremio ; welcome , good Cambio .
34207
34208 But , gentle sir , methinks you walk like a stranger : may I be so bold to know the cause of your coming ?
34209
34210 Pardon me , sir , the boldness is mine own ,
34211 That , being a stranger in this city here ,
34212 Do make myself a suitor to your daughter ,
34213 Unto Bianca , fair and virtuous .
34214 Nor is your firm resolve unknown to me ,
34215 In the preferment of the eldest sister .
34216 This liberty is all that I request ,
34217 That , upon knowledge of my parentage ,
34218 I may have welcome 'mongst the rest that woo ,
34219 And free access and favour as the rest :
34220 And , toward the education of your daughters ,
34221 I here bestow a simple instrument ,
34222 And this small packet of Greek and Latin books :
34223 If you accept them , then their worth is great .
34224
34225 Lucentio is your name , of whence , I pray ?
34226
34227 Of Pisa , sir ; son to Vincentio .
34228
34229 A mighty man of Pisa ; by report
34230 I know him well : you are very welcome , sir .
34231
34232
34233 and you the set of books ;
34234 You shall go see your pupils presently .
34235 Holla , within !
34236
34237
34238 Sirrah , lead these gentlemen
34239 To my two daughters , and then tell them both
34240 These are their tutors : bid them use them well .
34241
34242 We will go walk a little in the orchard ,
34243 And then to dinner . You are passing welcome ,
34244
34245 And so I pray you all to think yourselves .
34246
34247 Signior Baptista , my business asketh haste ,
34248 And every day I cannot come to woo .
34249 You knew my father well , and in him me ,
34250 Left solely heir to all his lands and goods ,
34251 Which I have better'd rather than decreas'd :
34252 Then tell me , if I get your daughter's love ,
34253 What dowry shall I have with her to wife ?
34254
34255 After my death the one half of my lands ,
34256 And in possession twenty thousand crowns .
34257
34258 And , for that dowry , I'll assure her of
34259 Her widowhood , be it that she survive me ,
34260 In all my lands and leases whatsoever .
34261 Let specialties be therefore drawn between us ,
34262 That covenants may be kept on either hand .
34263
34264 Ay , when the special thing is well obtain'd ,
34265 That is , her love ; for that is all in all .
34266
34267 Why , that is nothing ; for I tell you , father ,
34268 I am as peremptory as she proud-minded ;
34269 And where two raging fires meet together
34270 They do consume the thing that feeds their fury :
34271 Though little fire grows great with little wind ,
34272 Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all ;
34273 So I to her , and so she yields to me ;
34274 For I am rough and woo not like a babe .
34275
34276 Well mayst thou woo , and happy be thy speed !
34277 But be thou arm'd for some unhappy words .
34278
34279 Ay , to the proof ; as mountains are for winds ,
34280 That shake not , though they blow perpetually .
34281
34282
34283 How now , my friend ! why dost thou look so pale ?
34284
34285 For fear , I promise you , if I look pale .
34286
34287 What , will my daughter prove a good musician ?
34288
34289 I think she'll sooner prove a soldier :
34290 Iron may hold with her , but never lutes .
34291
34292 Why , then thou canst not break her to the lute ?
34293
34294 Why , no ; for she hath broke the lute to me .
34295 I did but tell her she mistook her frets ,
34296 And bow'd her hand to teach her fingering ;
34297 When , with a most impatient devilish spirit ,
34298 'Frets , call you these ?' quoth she ; 'I'll fume with them ;'
34299 And , with that word , she struck me on the head ,
34300 And through the instrument my pate made way ;
34301 And there I stood amazed for a while ,
34302 As on a pillory , looking through the lute ;
34303 While she did call me rascal fiddler ,
34304 And twangling Jack ; with twenty such vile terms
34305 As she had studied to misuse me so .
34306
34307 Now , by the world , it is a lusty wench !
34308 I love her ten times more than e'er I did :
34309 O ! how I long to have some chat with her !
34310
34311 Well , go with me , and be not so discomfited :
34312 Proceed in practice with my younger daughter ;
34313 She's apt to learn , and thankful for good turns .
34314 Signior Petruchio , will you go with us ,
34315 Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you ?
34316
34317 I pray you do ; I will attend her here ,
34318
34319 And woo her with some spirit when she comes .
34320 Say that she rail ; why then I'll tell her plain
34321 She sings as sweetly as a nightingale :
34322 Say that she frown ; I'll say she looks as clear
34323 As morning roses newly wash'd with dew :
34324 Say she be mute and will not speak a word ;
34325 Then I'll commend her volubility ,
34326 And say she uttereth piercing eloquence :
34327 If she do bid me pack ; I'll give her thanks ,
34328 As though she bid me stay by her a week :
34329 If she deny to wed ; I'll crave the day
34330 When I shall ask the banns , and when be married .
34331 But here she comes ; and now , Petruchio , speak .
34332
34333 Good morrow , Kate ; for that's your name , I hear .
34334
34335 Well have you heard , but something hard of hearing :
34336 They call me Katharine that do talk of me .
34337
34338 You lie , in faith ; for you are call'd plain Kate ,
34339 And bonny Kate , and sometimes Kate the curst ;
34340 But , Kate , the prettiest Kate in Christendom ;
34341 Kate of Kate-Hall , my super-dainty Kate ,
34342 For dainties are all cates : and therefore , Kate ,
34343 Take this of me , Kate of my consolation ;
34344 Hearing thy mildness prais'd in every town ,
34345 Thy virtues spoke of , and thy beauty sounded ,
34346 Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs ,
34347 Myself am mov'd to woo thee for my wife .
34348
34349 Mov'd ! in good time : let him that mov'd you hither
34350 Remove you hence . I knew you at the first ,
34351 You were a moveable .
34352
34353 Why , what's a moveable ?
34354
34355 A joint-stool .
34356
34357 Thou hast hit it : come , sit on me .
34358
34359 Asses are made to bear , and so are you .
34360
34361 Women are made to bear , and so are you .
34362
34363 No such jade as bear you , if me you mean .
34364
34365 Alas ! good Kate , I will not burden thee ;
34366 For , knowing thee to be but young and light ,
34367
34368 Too light for such a swain as you to catch ,
34369 And yet as heavy as my weight should be .
34370
34371 Should be ! should buz !
34372
34373 Well ta'en , and like a buzzard .
34374
34375 O slow-wing'd turtle ! shall a buzzard take thee ?
34376
34377 Ay , for a turtle , as he takes a buzzard .
34378
34379 Come , come , you wasp ; i' faith you are too angry .
34380
34381 If I be waspish , best beware my sting .
34382
34383 My remedy is , then , to pluck it out .
34384
34385 Ay , if the fool could find it where it lies .
34386
34387 Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting ?
34388 In his tail .
34389
34390 In his tongue .
34391
34392 Whose tongue ?
34393
34394 Yours , if you talk of tails ; and so farewell .
34395
34396 What ! with my tongue in your tail ? nay , come again .
34397 Good Kate , I am a gentleman .
34398
34399 That I'll try .
34400
34401
34402 I swear I'll cuff you if you strike again .
34403
34404 So may you lose your arms :
34405 If you strike me , you are no gentleman ;
34406 And if no gentleman , why then no arms .
34407
34408 A herald , Kate ? O ! put me in thy books .
34409
34410 What is your crest ? a coxcomb ?
34411
34412 A combless cock , so Kate will be my hen .
34413
34414 No cock of mine ; you crow too like a craven .
34415
34416 Nay , come , Kate , come ; you must not look so sour .
34417
34418 It is my fashion when I see a crab .
34419
34420 Why , here's no crab , and therefore look not sour .
34421
34422 There is , there is .
34423
34424 Then show it me .
34425
34426 Had I a glass , I would .
34427
34428 What , you mean my face ?
34429
34430 Well aim'd of such a young one .
34431
34432 Now , by Saint George , I am too young for you .
34433
34434 Yet you are wither'd .
34435
34436 'Tis with cares .
34437
34438 I care not .
34439
34440 Nay , hear you , Kate : in sooth , you 'scape not so .
34441
34442 I chafe you , if I tarry : let me go .
34443
34444 No , not a whit : I find you passing gentle .
34445 'Twas told me you were rough and coy and sullen ,
34446 And now I find report a very liar ;
34447 For thou art pleasant , gamesome , passing courteous ,
34448 But slow in speech , yet sweet as spring-time flowers :
34449 Thou canst not frown , thou canst not look askance ,
34450 Nor bite the lip , as angry wenches will ;
34451 Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk ;
34452 But thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers ,
34453 With gentle conference , soft and affable .
34454 Why does the world report that Kate doth limp ?
34455 O slanderous world ! Kate , like the hazel-twig ,
34456 Is straight and slender , and as brown in hue
34457 As hazel nuts , and sweeter than the kernels .
34458 O ! let me see thee walk : thou dost not halt .
34459
34460 Go , fool , and whom thou keep'st command .
34461
34462 Did ever Dian so become a grove
34463 As Kate this chamber with her princely gait ?
34464 O ! be thou Dian , and let her be Kate ,
34465 And then let Kate be chaste , and Dian sportful !
34466
34467 Where did you study all this goodly speech ?
34468
34469 It is extempore , from my mother-wit .
34470
34471 A witty mother ! witless else her son .
34472
34473 Am I not wise ?
34474
34475 Yes ; keep you warm .
34476
34477 Marry , so I mean , sweet Katharine , in thy bed :
34478 And therefore , setting all this chat aside ,
34479 Thus in plain terms : your father hath consented
34480 That you shall be my wife ; your dowry 'greed on ;
34481 And will you , nill you , I will marry you .
34482 Now , Kate , I am a husband for your turn ;
34483 For , by this light , whereby I see thy beauty ,
34484 Thy beauty that doth make me like thee well ,
34485 Thou must be married to no man but me :
34486 For I am he am born to tame you , Kate ;
34487 And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate
34488 Conformable as other household Kates .
34489 Here comes your father : never make denial ;
34490 I must and will have Katharine to my wife .
34491
34492
34493 Now , Signior Petruchio , how speed you with my daughter ?
34494
34495 How but well , sir ? how but well ?
34496 It were impossible I should speed amiss .
34497
34498 Why , how now , daughter Katharine ! in your dumps ?
34499
34500 Call you me daughter ? now , I promise you
34501 You have show'd a tender fatherly regard ,
34502 To wish me wed to one half lunatic ;
34503 A mad-cap ruffian and a swearing Jack ,
34504 That thinks with oaths to face the matter out .
34505
34506 Father , 'tis thus : yourself and all the world ,
34507 That talk'd of her , have talk'd amiss of her :
34508 If she be curst , it is for policy ,
34509 For she's not froward , but modest as the dove ;
34510 She is not hot , but temperate as the morn ;
34511 For patience she will prove a second Grissel ,
34512 And Roman Lucrece for her chastity ;
34513 And to conclude , we have 'greed so well together ,
34514 That upon Sunday is the wedding-day .
34515
34516 I'll see thee hang'd on Sunday first .
34517
34518 Hark , Petruchio : she says she'll see thee hang'd first .
34519
34520 Is this your speeding ? nay then , good night our part !
34521
34522 Be patient , gentlemen ; I choose her for myself :
34523 If she and I be pleas'd , what's that to you ?
34524 'Tis bargain'd 'twixt us twain , being alone ,
34525 That she shall still be curst in company .
34526 I tell you , 'tis incredible to believe
34527 How much she loves me : O ! the kindest Kate .
34528 She hung about my neck , and kiss on kiss
34529 She vied so fast , protesting oath on oath ,
34530 That in a twink she won me to her love .
34531 O ! you are novices : 'tis a world to see ,
34532 How tame , when men and women are alone ,
34533 A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew .
34534 Give me thy hand , Kate : I will unto Venice
34535 To buy apparel 'gainst the wedding-day .
34536 Provide the feast , father , and bid the guests ;
34537 I will be sure my Katharine shall be fine .
34538
34539 I know not what to say ; but give me your hands .
34540 God send you joy , Petruchio ! 'tis a match .
34541
34542 Amen , say we : we will be witnesses .
34543
34544 Amen , say we : we will be witnesses .
34545
34546 Father , and wife , and gentlemen , adieu .
34547 I will to Venice ; Sunday comes apace :
34548 We will have rings , and things , and fine array ;
34549 And , kiss me , Kate , we will be married o' Sunday .
34550
34551
34552 Was ever match clapp'd up so suddenly ?
34553
34554 Faith , gentlemen , now I play a merchant's part ,
34555 And venture madly on a desperate mart .
34556
34557 'Twas a commodity lay fretting by you :
34558 'Twill bring you gain , or perish on the seas .
34559
34560 The gain I seek is , quiet in the match .
34561
34562 No doubt but he hath got a quiet catch .
34563 But now , Baptista , to your younger daughter :
34564 Now is the day we long have looked for :
34565 I am your neighbour , and was suitor first .
34566
34567 And I am one that love Bianca more
34568 Than words can witness , or your thoughts can guess .
34569
34570 Youngling , thou canst not love so dear as I .
34571
34572 Greybeard , thy love doth freeze .
34573
34574 But thine doth fry .
34575 Skipper , stand back : 'tis age that nourisheth .
34576
34577 But youth in ladies eyes that flourisheth .
34578
34579 Content you , gentlemen ; I'll compound this strife :
34580 'Tis deeds must win the prize ; and he , of both ,
34581 That can assure my daughter greatest dower
34582 Shall have my Bianca's love .
34583 Say , Signior Gremio , what can you assure her ?
34584
34585 First , as you know , my house within the city
34586 Is richly furnished with plate and gold :
34587 Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands ;
34588 My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry ;
34589 In ivory coffers I have stuff'd my crowns ;
34590 In cypress chests my arras counterpoints ,
34591 Costly apparel , tents , and canopies ,
34592 Fine linen , Turkey cushions boss'd with pearl ,
34593 Valance of Venice gold in needle-work ,
34594 Pewter and brass , and all things that belong
34595 To house or housekeeping : then , at my farm
34596 I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail ,
34597 Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls ,
34598 And all things answerable to this portion .
34599 Myself am struck in years , I must confess ;
34600 And if I die to-morrow , this is hers ,
34601 If whilst I live she will be only mine .
34602
34603 That 'only' came well in . Sir , list to me :
34604 I am my father's heir and only son :
34605 If I may have your daughter to my wife ,
34606 I'll leave her houses three or four as good ,
34607 Within rich Pisa walls , as any one
34608 Old Signior Gremio has in Padua ;
34609 Besides two thousand ducats by the year
34610 Of fruitful land , all of which shall be her jointure .
34611 What , have I pinch'd you , Signior Gremio ?
34612
34613 Two thousand ducats by the year of land !
34614 My land amounts not to so much in all :
34615 That she shall have ; besides an argosy
34616 That now is lying in Marseilles' road .
34617 What , have I chok'd you with an argosy ?
34618
34619 Gremio , 'tis known my father hath no less
34620 Than three great argosies , besides two galliasses ,
34621 And twelve tight galleys ; these I will assure her ,
34622 And twice as much , whate'er thou offer'st next .
34623
34624 Nay , I have offer'd all , I have no more ;
34625 And she can have no more than all I have :
34626 If you like me , she shall have me and mine .
34627
34628 Why , then the maid is mine from all the world ,
34629 By your firm promise . Gremio is out-vied .
34630
34631 I must confess your offer is the best ;
34632 And , let your father make her the assurance ,
34633 She is your own ; else , you must pardon me :
34634 If you should die before him , where's her dower ?
34635
34636 That's but a cavil : he is old , I young .
34637
34638 And may not young men die as well as old ?
34639
34640 Well , gentlemen ,
34641 I am thus resolv'd . On Sunday next , you know ,
34642 My daughter Katharine is to be married :
34643 Now , on the Sunday following , shall Bianca
34644 Be bride to you , if you make this assurance ;
34645 If not , to Signior Gremio :
34646 And so , I take my leave , and thank you both .
34647
34648 Adieu , good neighbour .
34649
34650 Now I fear thee not :
34651 Sirrah young gamester , your father were a fool
34652 To give thee all , and in his waning age
34653 Set foot under thy table . Tut ! a toy !
34654 An old Italian fox is not so kind , my boy .
34655
34656
34657 A vengeance on your crafty wither'd hide !
34658 Yet I have fac'd it with a card of ten .
34659 'Tis in my head to do my master good :
34660 I see no reason , but suppos'd Lucentio
34661 Must get a father , called 'suppos'd Vincentio ;'
34662 And that's a wonder : fathers , commonly
34663 Do get their children ; but in this case of wooing ,
34664 A child shall get a sire , if I fail not of my cunning .
34665
34666 Fiddler , forbear ; you grow too forward , sir :
34667 Have you so soon forgot the entertainment
34668 Her sister Katharine welcom'd you withal ?
34669
34670 But , wrangling pedant , this is
34671 The patroness of heavenly harmony :
34672 Then give me leave to have prerogative ;
34673 And when in music we have spent an hour ,
34674 Your lecture shall have leisure for as much .
34675
34676 Preposterous ass , that never read so far
34677 To know the cause why music was ordain'd !
34678 Was it not to refresh the mind of man
34679 After his studies or his usual pain ?
34680 Then give me leave to read philosophy ,
34681 And while I pause , serve in your harmony .
34682
34683 Sirrah , I will not bear these braves of thine .
34684
34685 Why , gentlemen , you do me double wrong ,
34686 To strive for that which resteth in my choice .
34687 I am no breeching scholar in the schools ;
34688 I'll not be tied to hours nor 'pointed times ,
34689 But learn my lessons as I please myself .
34690 And , to cut off all strife , here sit we down :
34691 Take you your instrument , play you the whiles ;
34692 His lecture will be done ere you have tun'd .
34693
34694 You'll leave his lecture when I am in tune ?
34695
34696
34697 That will be never : tune vour instrument .
34698
34699 Where left we last ?
34700
34701 Here , madam :
34702
34703 Hac ibat Simois ; hic est Sigeia tellus ;
34704 Hic steterat Priami regia celsa senis .
34705
34706
34707 Construe them .
34708
34709 Hac ibat , as I told you before , Simois , I am Lucentio , hic est , son unto Vincentio of Pisa , Sigeia tellus , disguised thus to get your love ; Hic steterat , and that Lucentio that comes a wooing , Priami , is my man Tranio , regia , bearing my port , celsa senis , that we might beguile the old pantaloon .
34710
34711 Madam , my instrument's in tune .
34712
34713 Let's hear .
34714
34715 O fie ! the treble jars .
34716
34717 Spit in the hole , man , and tune again .
34718
34719 Now let me see if I can construe it : Hac ibat Simois , I know you not , hic est Sigeia tellus , I trust you not ; Hic steterat Priami , take heed he hear us not , regia , presume not ; celsa senis , despair not .
34720
34721 Madam , 'tis now in tune .
34722
34723 All but the base .
34724
34725 The base is right ; 'tis the base knave that jars .
34726 How fiery and forward our pedant is !
34727
34728
34729 Now , for my life , the knave doth court my love :
34730 Pedascule , I'll watch you better yet .
34731
34732 In time I may believe , yet I mistrust .
34733
34734 Mistrust it not ; for , sure , acides
34735 Was Ajax , call'd so from his grandfather .
34736
34737 I must believe my master ; else , I promise you ,
34738 I should be arguing still upon that doubt :
34739 But let it rest . Now , Licio , to you .
34740 Good masters , take it not unkindly , pray ,
34741 That I have been thus pleasant with you both .
34742
34743 You may go walk , and give me leave a while :
34744 My lessons make no music in three parts .
34745
34746 Are you so formal , sir ?
34747
34748 Well , I must wait ,
34749 And watch withal ; for , but I be deceiv'd ,
34750 Our fine musician groweth amorous .
34751
34752 Madam , before you touch the instrument ,
34753 To learn the order of my fingering ,
34754 I must begin with rudiments of art ;
34755 To teach you gamut in a briefer sort ,
34756 More pleasant , pithy , and effectual ,
34757 Than hath been taught by any of my trade :
34758 And there it is in writing , fairly drawn .
34759
34760 Why , I am past my gamut long ago .
34761
34762 Yet read the gamut of Hortensio .
34763
34764
34765 'Gamut' I am , the ground of all accord ,
34766 'A re ,' to plead Hortensio's passion ;
34767 'B mi ,' Bianca , take him for thy lord ,
34768 'C fa ut ,' that loves with all affection :
34769 'D sol re ,' one clef , two notes have I :
34770 'E la mi ,' show pity , or I die .
34771
34772 Call you this gamut ? tut , I like it not :
34773 Old fashions please me best ; I am not so nice ,
34774 To change true rules for odd inventions .
34775
34776
34777 Mistress , your father prays you leave your books ,
34778 And help to dress your sister's chamber up :
34779 You know to-morrow is the wedding-day .
34780
34781 Farewell , sweet masters both : I must be gone .
34782
34783
34784 Faith , mistress , then I have no cause to stay .
34785
34786
34787 But I have cause to pry into this pedant :
34788 Methinks he looks as though he were in love .
34789 Yet if thy thoughts , Bianca , be so humble
34790 To cast thy wandering eyes on every stale ,
34791 Seize thee that list : if once I find thee ranging ,
34792 Hortensio will be quit with thee by changing .
34793
34794
34795 Signior Lucentio , this is the 'pointed day
34796 That Katharine and Petruchio should be married ,
34797 And yet we hear not of our son-in-law .
34798 What will be said ? what mockery will it be
34799 To want the bridegroom when the priest attends
34800 To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage !
34801 What says Lucentio to this shame of ours ?
34802
34803 No shame but mine : I must , forsooth , be forc'd
34804 To give my hand oppos'd against my heart
34805 Unto a mad-brain rudesby , full of spleen ;
34806 Who woo'd in haste and means to wed at leisure .
34807 I told you , I , he was a frantic fool ,
34808 Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behaviour ;
34809 And to be noted for a merry man ,
34810 He'll woo a thousand , 'point the day of marriage ,
34811 Make friends invite , and proclaim the banns ;
34812 Yet never means to wed where he hath woo'd .
34813 Now must the world point at poor Katharine ,
34814 And say , 'Lo ! there is mad Petruchio's wife ,
34815 If it would please him come and marry her .'
34816
34817 Patience , good Katharine , and Baptista too .
34818 Upon my life , Petruchio means but well ,
34819 Whatever fortune stays him from his word :
34820 Though he be blunt , I know him passing wise ;
34821 Though he be merry , yet withal he's honest .
34822
34823 Would Katharine had never seen him though !
34824
34825
34826 Go , girl : I cannot blame thee now to weep ,
34827 For such an injury would vex a very saint ,
34828 Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour .
34829
34830
34831 Master , master ! news ! old news , and such news as you never heard of !
34832
34833 Is it new and old too ? how may that be ?
34834
34835 Why , is it not news to hear of Petruchio's coming ?
34836
34837 Is he come ?
34838
34839 Why , no , sir .
34840
34841 What then ?
34842
34843 He is coming .
34844
34845 When will he be here ?
34846
34847 When he stands where I am and sees you there .
34848
34849 But , say , what to thine old news ?
34850
34851 Why , Petruchio is coming , in a new hat and an old jerkin ; a pair of old breeches thrice turned ; a pair of boots that have been candle-cases , one buckled , another laced ; an old rusty sword ta'en out of the town-armoury , with a broken hilt , and chapeless ; with two broken points : his horse hipped with an old mothy saddle and stirrups of no kindred ; besides , possessed with the glanders and like to mose in the chine ; troubled with the lampass , infected with the fashions , full of windgalls , sped with spavins , rayed with the yellows , past cure of the fives , stark spoiled with the staggers , begnawn with the bots , swayed in the back , and shoulder-shotten ; near-legged before , and with a half-checked bit , and a head-stall of sheep's leather , which , being restrained to keep him from stumbling , hath been often burst and now repaired with knots ; one girth six times pieced , and a woman's crupper of velure , which hath two letters for her name fairly set down in studs , and here and there pieced with packthread .
34852
34853 Who comes with him ?
34854
34855 O , sir ! his lackey , for all the world caparisoned like the horse ; with a linen stock on one leg and a kersey boot-hose on the other , gartered with a red and blue list ; an old hat , and the 'humour of forty fancies' pricked in't for a feather : a monster , a very monster in apparel , and not like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey .
34856
34857 'Tis some odd humour pricks him to this fashion ;
34858 Yet oftentimes he goes but mean-apparell'd .
34859
34860 I am glad he is come , howsoe'er he comes .
34861
34862 Why , sir , he comes not .
34863
34864 Didst thou not say he comes ?
34865
34866 Who ? that Petruchio came ?
34867
34868 Ay , that Petruchio came .
34869
34870 No , sir ; I say his horse comes , with him on his back .
34871
34872 Why , that's all one .
34873
34874
34875 Nay , by Saint Jamy ,
34876 I hold you a penny ,
34877 A horse and a man
34878 Is more than one ,
34879 And yet not many .
34880
34881 Come , where be these gallants ? who is at home ?
34882
34883 You are welcome , sir .
34884
34885 And yet I come not well .
34886
34887 And yet you halt not .
34888
34889 Not so well apparell'd
34890 As I wish you were .
34891
34892 Were it better , I should rush in thus .
34893 But where is Kate ? where is my lovely bride ?
34894 How does my father ? Gentles , methinks you frown :
34895 And wherefore gaze this goodly company ,
34896 As if they saw some wondrous monument ,
34897 Some comet , or unusual prodigy ?
34898
34899 Why , sir , you know this is your weddingday :
34900 First were we sad , fearing you would not come ;
34901 Now sadder , that you come so unprovided .
34902 Fie ! doff this habit , shame to your estate ,
34903 An eye-sore to our solemn festival .
34904
34905 And tell us what occasion of import
34906 Hath all so long detain'd you from your wife ,
34907 And sent you hither so unlike yourself ?
34908
34909 Tedious it were to tell , and harsh to hear :
34910 Sufficeth , I am come to keep my word ,
34911 Though in some part enforced to digress ;
34912 Which , at more leisure , I will so excuse
34913 As you shall well be satisfied withal .
34914 But where is Kate ? I stay too long from her :
34915 The morning wears , 'tis time we were at church .
34916
34917 See not your bride in these unreverent robes :
34918 Go to my chamber ; put on clothes of mine .
34919
34920 Not I , believe me : thus I'll visit her .
34921
34922 But thus , I trust , you will not marry her .
34923
34924 Good sooth , even thus ; therefore ha' done with words :
34925 To me she's married , not unto my clothes .
34926 Could I repair what she will wear in me
34927 As I can change these poor accoutrements ,
34928 'Twere well for Kate and better for myself .
34929 But what a fool am I to chat with you
34930 When I should bid good morrow to my bride ,
34931 And seal the title with a lovely kiss !
34932
34933
34934 He hath some meaning in his mad attire .
34935 We will persuade him , be it possible ,
34936 To put on better ere he go to church .
34937
34938 I'll after him , and see the event of this .
34939
34940
34941 But to her love concerneth us to add
34942 Her father's liking : which to bring to pass ,
34943 As I before imparted to your worship ,
34944 I am to get a man ,whate'er he be
34945 It skills not much , we'll fit him to our turn ,
34946 And he shall be Vincentio of Pisa ,
34947 And make assurance here in Padua ,
34948 Of greater sums than I have promised .
34949 So shall you quietly enjoy your hope ,
34950 And marry sweet Bianca with consent .
34951
34952 Were it not that my fellow schoolmaster
34953 Doth watch Bianca's steps so narrowly ,
34954 'Twere good , methinks , to steal our marriage ;
34955 Which once perform'd , let all the world say no ,
34956 I'll keep mine own , despite of all the world .
34957
34958 That by degrees we mean to look into ,
34959 And watch our vantage in this business .
34960 We'll over-reach the greybeard , Gremio ,
34961 The narrow-prying father , Minola ,
34962 The quaint musician , amorous Licio ;
34963 All for my master's sake , Lucentio .
34964
34965 Signior Gremio , came you from the church ?
34966
34967 As willingly as e'er I came from school .
34968
34969 And is the bride and bridegroom coming home ?
34970
34971 A bridegroom say you ? 'Tis a groom indeed ,
34972 A grumbling groom , and that the girl shall find .
34973
34974 Curster than she ? why , 'tis impossible .
34975
34976 Why , he's a devil , a devil , a very fiend .
34977
34978 Why , she's a devil , a devil , the devil's dam .
34979
34980 Tut ! she's a lamb , a dove , a fool to him .
34981 I'll tell you , Sir Lucentio : when the priest
34982 Should ask , if Katharine should be his wife ,
34983 'Ay , by gogs-wouns !' quoth he ; and swore so loud ,
34984 That , all amaz'd , the priest let fall the book ;
34985 And , as he stoop'd again to take it up ,
34986 The mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff
34987 That down fell priest and book and book and priest :
34988 'Now take them up ,' quoth he , 'if any list .'
34989
34990 What said the wench when he arose again ?
34991
34992 Trembled and shook ; for why he stampt and swore ,
34993 As if the vicar meant to cozen him .
34994 But after many ceremonies done ,
34995 He calls for wine : 'A health !' quoth he ; as if
34996 He had been aboard , carousing to his mates
34997 After a storm ; quaff'd off the muscadel ,
34998 And threw the sops all in the sexton's face ;
34999 Having no other reason
35000 But that his beard grew thin and hungerly ,
35001 And seem'd to ask him sops as he was drinking .
35002 This done , he took the bride about the neck ,
35003 And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack
35004 That at the parting all the church did echo :
35005 And I , seeing this , came thence for very shame ;
35006 And after me , I know , the rout is coming .
35007 Such a mad marriage never was before .
35008 Hark , hark ! I hear the minstrels play .
35009
35010 Gentlemen and friends , I thank you for your pains :
35011 I know you think to dine with me to-day ,
35012 And have prepar'd great store of wedding cheer ;
35013 But so it is , my haste doth call me hence ,
35014 And therefore here I mean to take my leave .
35015
35016 Is't possible you will away to-night ?
35017
35018 I must away to-day , before night come .
35019 Make it no wonder : if you knew my business ,
35020 You would entreat me rather go than stay .
35021 And , honest company , I thank you all ,
35022 That have beheld me give away myself
35023 To this most patient , sweet , and virtuous wife .
35024 Dine with my father , drink a health to me ,
35025 For I must hence ; and farewell to you all .
35026
35027 Let us entreat you stay till after dinner .
35028
35029 It may not be .
35030
35031 Let me entreat you .
35032
35033 It cannot be .
35034
35035 Let me entreat you .
35036
35037 I am content .
35038
35039 Are you content to stay ?
35040
35041 I am content you shall entreat me stay ,
35042 But yet not stay , entreat me how you can .
35043
35044 Now , if you love me , stay .
35045
35046 Grumio , my horse !
35047
35048 Ay , sir , they be ready : the oats have eaten the horses .
35049
35050 Nay , then ,
35051 Do what thou canst , I will not go to-day ;
35052 No , nor to-morrow , nor till I please myself ,
35053 The door is open , sir , there lies your way ;
35054 You may be jogging whiles your boots are green ;
35055 For me , I'll not be gone till I please myself .
35056 'Tis like you'll prove a jolly surly groom ,
35057 That take it on you at the first so roundly .
35058
35059 O Kate ! content thee : prithee , be not angry .
35060
35061 I will be angry : what hast thou to do ?
35062 Father , be quiet ; he shall stay my leisure .
35063
35064 Ay , marry , sir , now it begins to work .
35065
35066 Gentlemen , forward to the bridal dinner :
35067 I see a woman may be made a fool ,
35068 If she had not a spirit to resist .
35069
35070 They shall go forward , Kate , at thy command .
35071 Obey the bride , you that attend on her ;
35072 Go to the feast , revel and domineer ,
35073 Carouse full measure to her maidenhead ,
35074 Be mad and merry , or go hang yourselves :
35075 But for my bonny Kate , she must with me .
35076 Nay , look not big , nor stamp , nor stare , nor fret ;
35077 I will be master of what is mine own .
35078 She is my goods , my chattels ; she is my house ,
35079 My household stuff , my field , my barn ,
35080 My horse , my ox , my ass , my anything ;
35081 And here she stands , touch her whoever dare ;
35082 I'll bring mine action on the proudest he
35083 That stops my way in Padua . Grumio ,
35084 Draw forth thy weapon , we're beset with thieves ;
35085 Rescue thy mistress , if thou be a man .
35086 Fear not , sweet wench ; they shall not touch thee , Kate :
35087 I'll buckler thee against a million .
35088
35089
35090 Nay , let them go , a couple of quiet ones .
35091
35092 Went they not quickly I should die with laughing .
35093
35094 Of all mad matches never was the like .
35095
35096 Mistress , what's your opinion of your sister ?
35097
35098 That , being mad herself , she's madly mated .
35099
35100 I warrant him , Petruchio is Kated .
35101
35102 Neighbours and friends , though bride and bridegroom wants
35103 For to supply the places at the table ,
35104 You know there wants no junkets at the feast .
35105 Lucentio , you shall supply the bridegroom's place ,
35106 And let Bianca take her sister's room .
35107
35108 Shall sweet Bianca practise how to bride it ?
35109
35110 She shall , Lucentio . Come , gentlemen , let's go .
35111
35112 Fie , fie , on all tired jades , on all mad masters , and all foul ways ! Was ever man so beaten ? was ever man so rayed ? was ever man so weary ? I am sent before to make a fire , and they are coming after to warm them . Now , were not I a little pot and soon hot , my very lips might freeze to my teeth , my tongue to the roof of my mouth , my heart in my belly , ere I should come by a fire to thaw me ; but I , with blowing the fire , shall warm myself ; for , considering the weather , a taller man than I will take cold . Holla , ho ! Curtis .
35113
35114
35115 Who is that calls so coldly ?
35116
35117 A piece of ice : if thou doubt it , thou mayst slide from my shoulder to my heel with no greater a run but my head and my neck . A fire , good Curtis .
35118
35119 Is my master and his wife coming , Grumio ?
35120
35121 O ! ay , Curtis , ay ; and therefore fire , fire ; cast on no water .
35122
35123 Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported ?
35124
35125 She was , good Curtis , before this frost ; but , thou knowest , winter tames man , woman , and beast ; for it hath tamed my old master , and my new mistress , and myself , fellow Curtis .
35126
35127 Away , you three-inch-fool ! I am no beast .
35128
35129 Am I but three inches ? why , thy horn is a foot ; and so long am I at the least . But wilt thou make a fire , or shall I complain on thee to our mistress , whose hand ,she being now at hand ,thou shalt soon feel , to thy cold comfort , for being slow in thy hot office ?
35130
35131 I prithee , good Grumio , tell me , how goes the world ?
35132
35133 A cold world , Curtis , in every office but thine ; and therefore , fire . Do thy duty , and have thy duty , for my master and mistress are almost frozen to death .
35134
35135 There's fire ready ; and therefore , good Grumio , the news ?
35136
35137 Why , 'Jack , boy ! ho , boy !' and as much news as thou wilt .
35138
35139 Come , you are so full of cony-catching .
35140
35141 Why therefore fire : for I have caught extreme cold . Where's the cook ? is supper ready , the house trimmed , rushes strewed , cobwebs swept ; the serving-men in their new fustian , their white stockings , and every officer his wedding-garment on ? Be the Jacks fair within , the Jills fair without , and carpets laid , and everything in order ?
35142
35143 All ready ; and therefore , I pray thee , news ?
35144
35145 First , know , my horse is tired ; my master and mistress fallen out .
35146
35147 How ?
35148
35149 Out of their saddles into the dirt ; and thereby hangs a tale .
35150
35151 Let's ha't , good Grumio .
35152
35153 Lend thine ear .
35154
35155 Here .
35156
35157 There .
35158
35159 This is to feel a tale , not to hear a tale .
35160
35161 And therefore it is called a sensible tale ; and this cuff was but to knock at your ear and beseech listening . Now I begin : Imprimis , we came down a foul hill , my master riding behind my mistress ,
35162
35163 Both of one horse ?
35164
35165 What's that to thee ?
35166
35167 Why , a horse .
35168
35169 Tell thou the tale : but hadst thou not crossed me thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell , and she under her horse ; thou shouldst have heard in how miry a place , how she was bemoiled : how he left her with the horse upon her ; how he beat me because her horse stumbled ; how she waded through the dirt to pluck him off me : how he swore ; how she prayed , that never prayed before ; how I cried ; how the horses ran away ; how her bridle was burst ; how I lost my crupper ; with many things of worthy memory , which now shall die in oblivion , and thou return unexperienced to thy grave .
35170
35171 By this reckoning he is more shrew than she .
35172
35173 Ay ; and that , thou and the proudest of you all shall find when he comes home . But what talk I of this ? Call forth Nathaniel , Joseph , Nicholas , Philip , Walter , Sugarsop , and the rest : let their heads be sleekly combed , their blue coats brushed , and their garters of an indifferent knit : let them curtsy with their left legs , and not presume to touch a hair of my master's horsetail till they kiss their hands . Are they all ready ?
35174
35175 They are .
35176
35177 Call them forth .
35178
35179 Do you hear ? ho ! you must meet my master to countenance my mistress .
35180
35181 Why , she hath a face of her own .
35182
35183 Who knows not that ?
35184
35185 Thou , it seems , that callest for company to countenance her .
35186
35187 I call them forth to credit her .
35188
35189 Why , she comes to borrow nothing of them .
35190
35191
35192 Welcome home , Grumio !
35193
35194 How now , Grumio ?
35195
35196 What , Grumio !
35197
35198 Fellow Grumio !
35199
35200 How now , old lad !
35201
35202 Welcome , you ; how now , you ; what , you ; fellow , you ; and thus much for greeting . Now , my spruce companions , is all ready , and all things neat ?
35203
35204 All things is ready . How near is our master ?
35205
35206 E'en at hand , alighted by this ; and therefore be not ,Cock's passion , silence ! I hear my master .
35207
35208
35209 Where be these knaves ? What ! no man at door
35210 To hold my stirrup nor to take my horse ?
35211 Where is Nathaniel , Gregory , Philip ?
35212
35213 Here , here , sir ; here , sir .
35214
35215 Here , sir ! here , sir ! here , sir ! here , sir !
35216 You logger-headed and unpolish'd grooms !
35217 What , no attendance ? no regard ? no duty ?
35218 Where is the foolish knave I sent before ?
35219
35220 Here , sir ; as foolish as I was before .
35221
35222 You peasant swain ! you whoreson malt-horse drudge !
35223 Did I not bid thee meet me in the park ,
35224 And bring along these rascal knaves with thee ?
35225
35226 Nathaniel's coat , sir , was not fully made ,
35227 And Gabriel's pumps were all unpink'd i' the heel ,
35228 There was no link to colour Peter's hat ,
35229 And Walter's dagger was not come from sheathing ,
35230 There were none fine but Adam , Ralph , and Gregory ;
35231 The rest were ragged , old , and beggarly ;
35232 Yet , as they are , here are they come to meet you .
35233
35234 Go , rascals , go , and fetch my supper in .
35235
35236 Where is the life that late I led ?
35237 Where are those ? Sit down , Kate , and welcome .
35238 Soud , soud , soud , soud !
35239
35240
35241 Why , when , I say ?Nay , good sweet Kate , be merry .
35242 Off with my boots , you rogues ! you villains ! When ?
35243
35244 It was the friar of orders grey ,
35245 As he forth walked on his way :
35246
35247 Out , you rogue ! you pluck my foot awry :
35248
35249 Take that , and mend the plucking off the other .
35250 Be merry , Kate . Some water , here ; what , ho !
35251 Where's my spaniel Troilus ? Sirrah , get you hence
35252 And bid my cousin Ferdinand come hither :
35253
35254 One , Kate , that you must kiss , and be acquainted with .
35255 Where are my slippers ? Shall I have some water ?
35256 Come , Kate , and wash , and welcome heartily .
35257
35258
35259 You whoreson villain ! will you let it fall ?
35260
35261 Patience , I pray you ; 'twas a fault unwilling .
35262
35263 A whoreson , beetle-headed , flap-ear'd knave !
35264 Come , Kate , sit down ; I know you have a stomach .
35265 Will you give thanks , sweet Kate , or else shall I ?
35266 What's this ? mutton ?
35267
35268 Ay .
35269
35270 Who brought it ?
35271
35272 I .
35273
35274 'Tis burnt ; and so is all the meat .
35275 What dogs are these ! Where is the rascal cook ?
35276 How durst you , villains , bring it from the dresser ,
35277 And serve it thus to me that love it not ?
35278
35279 There , take it to you , trenchers , cups , and all .
35280 You heedless joltheads and unmanner'd slaves !
35281 What ! do you grumble ? I'll be with you straight .
35282
35283 I pray you , husband , be not so disquiet :
35284 The meat was well if you were so contented .
35285
35286 I tell thee , Kate , 'twas burnt and dried away ;
35287 And I expressly am forbid to touch it ,
35288 For it engenders choler , planteth anger ;
35289 And better 'twere that both of us did fast ,
35290 Since , of ourselves , ourselves are choleric ,
35291 Than feed it with such over-roasted flesh .
35292 Be patient ; to-morrow't shall be mended ,
35293 And for this night we'll fast for company :
35294 Come , I will bring thee to thy bridal chamber .
35295
35296
35297 Peter , didst ever see the like ?
35298
35299 He kills her in her own humour .
35300
35301
35302 Where is he ?
35303
35304 In her chamber , making a sermon of continency to her ;
35305 And rails , and swears , and rates , that she , poor soul ,
35306 Knows not which way to stand , to look , to speak ,
35307 And sits as one new-risen from a dream .
35308 Away , away ! for he is coming hither .
35309
35310 Thus have I politicly begun my reign ,
35311 And 'tis my hope to end successfully .
35312 My falcon now is sharp and passing empty ,
35313 And till she stoop she must not be full-gorg'd ,
35314 For then she never looks upon her lure .
35315 Another way I have to man my haggard ,
35316 To make her come and know her keeper's call ;
35317 That is , to watch her , as we watch these kites
35318 That bate and beat and will not be obedient .
35319 She eat no meat to-day , nor none shall eat ;
35320 Last night she slept not , nor to-night she shall not :
35321 As with the meat , some undeserved fault
35322 I'll find about the making of the bed ;
35323 And here I'll fling the pillow , there the bolster ,
35324 This way the coverlet , another way the sheets :
35325 Ay , and amid this hurly I intend
35326 That all is done in reverend care of her ;
35327 And in conclusion she shall watch all night :
35328 And if she chance to nod I'll rail and brawl ,
35329 And with the clamour keep her still awake .
35330 This is a way to kill a wife with kindness ;
35331 And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour .
35332 He that knows better how to tame a shrew ,
35333 Now let him speak : 'tis charity to show .
35334
35335
35336 Is't possible , friend Licio , that Mistress Bianca
35337 Doth fancy any other but Lucentio ?
35338 I tell you , sir , she bears me fair in hand .
35339
35340 Sir , to satisfy you in what I have said ,
35341 Stand by , and mark the manner of his teaching .
35342
35343 Now , mistress , profit you in what you read ?
35344
35345 What , master , read you ? first resolve me that .
35346
35347 I read that I profess , the Art to Love .
35348
35349 And may you prove , sir , master of your art !
35350
35351 While you , sweet dear , prove mistress of my heart .
35352
35353
35354 Quick proceeders , marry ! Now , tell me , I pray ,
35355 You that durst swear that your mistress Bianca
35356 Lov'd none in the world so well as Lucentio .
35357
35358 O despiteful love ! unconstant womankind !
35359 I tell thee , Licio , this is wonderful .
35360
35361 Mistake no more : I am not Licio ,
35362 Nor a musician , as I seem to be ;
35363 But one that scorns to live in this disguise ,
35364 For such a one as leaves a gentleman ,
35365 And makes a god of such a cullion :
35366 Know , sir , that I am call'd Hortensio .
35367
35368 Signior Hortensio , I have often heard
35369 Of your entire affection to Bianca ;
35370 And since mine eyes are witness of her lightness ,
35371 I will with you , if you be so contented ,
35372 Forswear Bianca and her love for ever .
35373
35374 See , how they kiss and court ! Signior Lucentio ,
35375 Here is my hand , and here I firmly vow
35376 Never to woo her more ; but I do forswear her ,
35377 As one unworthy all the former favours
35378 That I have fondly flatter'd her withal .
35379
35380 And here I take the like unfeigned oath ,
35381 Never to marry with her though she would entreat .
35382 Fie on her ! see how beastly she doth court him .
35383
35384 Would all the world , but he had quite forsworn !
35385 For me , that I may surely keep mine oath ,
35386 I will be married to a wealthy widow
35387 Ere three days pass , which hath as long lov'd me
35388 As I have lov'd this proud disdainful haggard .
35389 And so farewell , Signior Lucentio .
35390 Kindness in women , not their beauteous looks ,
35391 Shall win my love : and so I take my leave ,
35392 In resolution as I swore before .
35393
35394
35395 Mistress Bianca , bless you with such grace
35396 As 'longeth to a lover's blessed case !
35397 Nay , I have ta'en you napping , gentle love ,
35398 And have forsworn you with Hortensio .
35399
35400 Tranio , you jest . But have you both forsworn me ?
35401
35402 Mistress , we have .
35403
35404 Then we are rid of Licio .
35405
35406 I' faith , he'll have a lusty widow now , That shall be woo'd and wedded in a day .
35407
35408 God give him joy !
35409
35410 Ay , and he'll tame her .
35411
35412 He says so , Tranio .
35413
35414 Faith , he is gone unto the taming-school .
35415
35416 The taming-school ! what , is there such a place ?
35417
35418 Ay , mistress , and Petruchio is the master ;
35419 That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long ,
35420 To tame a shrew , and charm her chattering tongue .
35421
35422
35423 O master , master ! I have watch'd so long
35424 That I'm dog-weary ; but at last I spied
35425 An ancient angel coming down the hill
35426 Will serve the turn .
35427
35428 What is he , Biondello ?
35429
35430 Master , a mercatante , or a pedant ,
35431 I know not what ; but formal in apparel ,
35432 In gait and countenance surely like a father .
35433
35434 And what of him , Tranio ?
35435
35436 If he be credulous and trust my tale ,
35437 I'll make him glad to seem Vincentio ,
35438 And give assurance to Baptista Minola ,
35439 As if he were the right Vincentio .
35440 Take in your love , and then let me alone .
35441
35442 God save you , sir !
35443
35444 And you , sir ! you are welcome .
35445 Travel you far on , or are you at the furthest ?
35446
35447 Sir , at the furthest for a week or two ;
35448 But then up further , and as far as Rome ;
35449 And so to Tripoli , if God lend me life .
35450
35451 What countryman , I pray ?
35452
35453 Of Mantua .
35454
35455 Of Mantua , sir ! marry , God forbid !
35456 And come to Padua , careless of your life ?
35457
35458 My life , sir ! how , I pray ? for that goes hard .
35459
35460 'Tis death for any one in Mantua
35461 To come to Padua . Know you not the cause ?
35462 Your ships are stay'd at Venice ; and the duke ,
35463 For private quarrel 'twixt your duke and him ,
35464 Hath publish'd and proclaim'd it openly .
35465 'Tis marvel , but that you are but newly come ,
35466 You might have heard it else proclaim'd about .
35467
35468 Alas , sir ! it is worse for me than so ;
35469 For I have bills for money by exchange
35470 From Florence , and must here deliver them .
35471
35472 Well , sir , to do you courtesy ,
35473 This will I do , and this I will advise you :
35474 First , tell me , have you ever been at Pisa ?
35475
35476 Ay , sir , in Pisa have I often been ;
35477 Pisa , renowned for grave citizens .
35478
35479 Among them , know you one Vincentio ?
35480
35481 I know him not , but I have heard of him ;
35482 A merchant of incomparable wealth .
35483
35484 He is my father , sir ; and , sooth to say ,
35485 In countenance somewhat doth resemble you .
35486
35487 As much as an apple doth an oyster , and all one .
35488
35489 To save your life in this extremity ,
35490 This favour will I do you for his sake ;
35491 And think it not the worst of all your fortunes
35492 That you are like to Sir Vincentio .
35493 His name and credit shall you undertake ,
35494 And in my house you shall be friendly lodg'd ,
35495 Look that you take upon you as you should !
35496 You understand me , sir ; so shall you stay
35497 Till you have done your business in the city .
35498 If this be courtesy , sir , accept of it .
35499
35500 O sir , I do ; and will repute you ever
35501 The patron of my life and liberty .
35502
35503 Then go with me to make the matter good .
35504 This , by the way , I let you understand :
35505 My father is here look'd for every day ,
35506 To pass assurance of a dower in marriage
35507 'Twixt me and one Baptista's daughter here :
35508 In all these circumstances I'll instruct you .
35509 Go with me to clothe you as becomes you .
35510
35511
35512 No , no , forsooth ; I dare not , for my life .
35513
35514 The more my wrong the more his spite appears .
35515 What , did he marry me to famish me ?
35516 Beggars , that come unto my father's door ,
35517 Upon entreaty have a present alms ;
35518 If not , elsewhere they meet with charity :
35519 But I , who never knew how to entreat ,
35520 Nor never needed that I should entreat ,
35521 Am starv'd for meat , giddy for lack of sleep ;
35522 With oaths kept waking , and with brawling fed .
35523 And that which spites me more than all these wants ,
35524 He does it under name of perfect love ;
35525 As who should say , if I should sleep or eat
35526 'Twere deadly sickness , or else present death .
35527 I prithee go and get me some repast ;
35528 I care not what , so it be wholesome food .
35529
35530 What say you to a neat's foot ?
35531
35532 'Tis passing good : I prithee let me have it .
35533
35534 I fear it is too choleric a meat .
35535 How say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd ?
35536
35537 I like it well : good Grumio , fetch it me .
35538
35539 I cannot tell ; I fear 'tis choleric .
35540 What say you to a piece of beef and mustard ?
35541
35542 A dish that I do love to feed upon .
35543
35544 Ay , but the mustard is too hot a little .
35545
35546 Why , then the beef , and let the mustard rest .
35547
35548 Nay , then I will not : you shall have the mustard ,
35549 Or else you get no beef of Grumio .
35550
35551 Then both , or one , or anything thou wilt .
35552
35553 Why then , the mustard without the beef .
35554
35555 Go , get thee gone , thou false deluding slave ,
35556
35557 That feed'st me with the very name of meat .
35558 Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you ,
35559 That triumph thus upon my misery !
35560 Go , get thee gone , I say .
35561
35562
35563 How fares my Kate ? What , sweeting , all amort ?
35564
35565 Mistress , what cheer ?
35566
35567 Faith , as cold as can be .
35568
35569 Pluck up thy spirits ; look cheerfully upon me .
35570 Here , love ; thou seest how diligent I am ,
35571 To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee :
35572
35573 I am sure , sweet Kate , this kindness merits thanks .
35574 What ! not a word ? Nay then , thou lov'st it not ,
35575 And all my pains is sorted to no proof .
35576 Here , take away this dish .
35577
35578 I pray you , let it stand .
35579
35580 The poorest service is repaid with thanks ,
35581 And so shall mine , before you touch the meat .
35582
35583 I thank you , sir .
35584
35585 Signior Petruchio , fie ! you are to blame .
35586 Come , Mistress Kate , I'll bear you company .
35587
35588 Eat it up all , Hortensio , if thou lov'st me .
35589 Much good do it unto thy gentle heart !
35590 Kate , eat apace : and now , my honey love ,
35591 Will we return unto thy father's house ,
35592 And revel it as bravely as the best ,
35593 With silken coats and caps and golden rings ,
35594 With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things ;
35595 With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery ,
35596 With amber bracelets , beads and all this knavery .
35597 What ! hast thou din'd ? The tailor stays thy leisure ,
35598 To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure .
35599
35600
35601 Come , tailor , let us see these ornaments ;
35602 Lay forth the gown .
35603
35604
35605 What news with you , sir ?
35606
35607 Here is the cap your worship did bespeak .
35608
35609 Why , this was moulded on a porringer ;
35610 A velvet dish : fie , fie ! 'tis lewd and filthy :
35611 Why , 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell ,
35612 A knack , a toy , a trick , a baby's cap :
35613 Away with it ! come , let me have a bigger .
35614
35615 I'll have no bigger : this doth fit the time ,
35616 And gentlewomen wear such caps as these .
35617
35618 When you are gentle , you shall have one too ;
35619 And not till then .
35620
35621 That will not be in haste .
35622
35623 Why , sir , I trust I may have leave to speak ,
35624 And speak I will ; I am no child , no babe :
35625 Your betters have endur'd me say my mind ,
35626 And if you cannot , best you stop your ears .
35627 My tongue will tell the anger of my heart ,
35628 Or else my heart , concealing it , will break :
35629 And rather than it shall , I will be free
35630 Even to the uttermost , as I please , in words .
35631
35632 Why , thou sayst true ; it is a paltry cap ,
35633 A custard-coffin , a bauble , a silken pie .
35634 I love thee well in that thou lik'st it not .
35635
35636 Love me or love me not , I like the cap ,
35637 And it I will have , or I will have none .
35638
35639
35640 Thy gown ? why , ay : come , tailor , let us see't .
35641 O mercy , God ! what masquing stuff is here ?
35642 What's this ? a sleeve ? 'tis like a demi-cannon :
35643 What ! up and down , carv'd like an apple-tart ?
35644 Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash ,
35645 Like to a censer in a barber's shop .
35646 Why , what , i' devil's name , tailor , call'st thou this ?
35647
35648 I see , she's like to have neither cap nor gown .
35649
35650 You bid me make it orderly and well ,
35651 According to the fashion and the time .
35652
35653 Marry , and did : but if you be remember'd ,
35654 I did not bid you mar it to the time .
35655 Go , hop me over every kennel home ,
35656 For you shall hop without my custom , sir .
35657 I'll none of it : hence ! make your best of it .
35658
35659 I never saw a better-fashion'd gown ,
35660 More quaint , more pleasing , nor more commendable .
35661 Belike you mean to make a puppet of me .
35662
35663 Why , true ; he means to make a puppet of thee .
35664
35665 She says your worship means to make a puppet of her .
35666
35667 O monstrous arrogance ! Thou liest , thou thread ,
35668 Thou thimble ,
35669 Thou yard , three-quarters , half-yard , quarter , nail !
35670 Thou flea , thou nit , thou winter-cricket thou !
35671 Brav'd in mine own house with a skein of thread !
35672 Away ! thou rag , thou quantity , thou remnant ,
35673 Or I shall so be-mete thee with thy yard
35674 As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou liv'st !
35675 I tell thee , I , that thou hast marr'd her gown .
35676
35677 Your worship is deceiv'd : the gown is made
35678 Just as my master had direction .
35679 Grumio gave order how it should be done .
35680
35681 I gave him no order ; I gave him the stuff .
35682
35683 But how did you desire it should be made ?
35684
35685 Marry , sir , with needle and thread .
35686
35687 But did you not request to have it cut ?
35688
35689 Thou hast faced many things .
35690
35691 I have .
35692
35693 Face not me : thou hast braved many men ; brave not me : I will neither be faced nor braved . I say unto thee , I bid thy master cut out the gown ; but I did not bid him cut it to pieces : ergo , thou liest .
35694
35695 Why , here is the note of the fashion to testify .
35696
35697 Read it .
35698
35699 The note lies in's throat if he say I said so .
35700
35701 Imprimis . A loose-bodied gown .
35702
35703 Master , if ever I said loose-bodied gown , sew me in the skirts of it , and beat me to death with a bottom of brown thread . I said , a gown .
35704
35705 Proceed .
35706
35707 With a small compassed cape .
35708
35709 I confess the cape .
35710
35711 With a trunk sleeve .
35712
35713 I confess two sleeves .
35714
35715 The sleeves curiously cut .
35716
35717 Ay , there's the villany .
35718
35719 Error i' the bill , sir ; error i' the bill . I commanded the sleeves should be cut out and sewed up again ; and that I'll prove upon thee , though thy little finger be armed in a thimble .
35720
35721 This is true that I say : an I had thee in place where thou shouldst know it .
35722
35723 I am for thee straight : take thou the bill , give me thy mete-yard , and spare not me .
35724
35725 God-a-mercy , Grumio ! then he shall have no odds .
35726
35727 Well , sir , in brief , the gown is not for me .
35728
35729 You are i' the right , sir ; 'tis for my mistress .
35730
35731 Go , take it up unto thy master's use .
35732
35733 Villain , not for thy life ! take up my mistress' gown for thy master's use !
35734
35735 Why , sir , what's your conceit in that ?
35736
35737 O , sir , the conceit is deeper than you think for .
35738 Take up my mistress' gown to his master's use !
35739 O , fie , fie , fie !
35740
35741 Hortensio , say thou wilt see the tailor paid .
35742
35743
35744 Go take it hence ; be gone , and say no more .
35745
35746 Tailor , I'll pay thee for thy gown to-morrow :
35747 Take no unkindness of his hasty words .
35748 Away ! I say ; commend me to thy master .
35749
35750
35751 Well , come , my Kate ; we will unto your father's ,
35752 Even in these honest mean habiliments .
35753 Our purses shall be proud , our garments poor :
35754 For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich ;
35755 And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds ,
35756 So honour peereth in the meanest habit .
35757 What is the jay more precious than the lark
35758 Because his feathers are more beautiful ?
35759 Or is the adder better than the eel
35760 Because his painted skin contents the eye ?
35761 O , no , good Kate ; neither art thou the worse
35762 For this poor furniture and mean array .
35763 If thou account'st it shame , lay it on me ;
35764 And therefore frolic : we will hence forthwith ,
35765 To feast and sport us at thy father's house .
35766 Go , call my men , and let us straight to him ;
35767 And bring our horses unto Long-lane end ;
35768 There will we mount , and thither walk on foot .
35769 Let's see ; I think 'tis now some seven o'clock ,
35770 And well we may come there by dinner-time .
35771
35772 I dare assure you , sir , 'tis almost two ;
35773 And 'twill be supper-time ere you come there .
35774
35775 It shall be seven ere I go to horse .
35776 Look , what I speak , or do , or think to do ,
35777 You are still crossing it . Sirs , let't alone :
35778 I will not go to-day ; and ere I do ,
35779 It shall be what o'clock I say it is .
35780
35781 Why , so this gallant will command the sun .
35782
35783
35784 Sir , this is the house : please it you that I call ?
35785
35786 Ay , what else ? and , but I be deceived ,
35787 Signior Baptista may remember me ,
35788 Near twenty years ago , in Genoa ,
35789 Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus .
35790
35791 'Tis well ; and hold your own , in any case ,
35792 With such austerity as 'longeth to a father .
35793
35794 I warrant you . But , sir , here comes your boy ;
35795 'Twere good he were school'd .
35796
35797
35798 Fear you not him . Sirrah Biondello ,
35799 Now do your duty throughly , I advise you :
35800 Imagine 'twere the right Vincentio .
35801
35802 Tut ! fear not me .
35803
35804 But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista ?
35805
35806 I told him that your father was at Venice ,
35807 And that you look'd for him this day in Padua .
35808
35809 Thou'rt a tall fellow : hold thee that to drink .
35810 Here comes Baptista . Set your countenance , sir .
35811
35812
35813 Signior Baptista , you are happily met .
35814
35815
35816 Sir , this is the gentleman I told you of :
35817 I pray you , stand good father to me now ,
35818
35819 Give me Bianca for my patrimony .
35820
35821 Soft , son !
35822 Sir , by your leave : having come to Padua
35823 To gather in some debts , my son Lucentio
35824 Made me acquainted with a weighty cause
35825 Of love between your daughter and himself :
35826 And ,for the good report I hear of you ,
35827 And for the love he beareth to your daughter ,
35828 And she to him ,to stay him not too long ,
35829 I am content , in a good father's care ,
35830 To have him match'd ; and , if you please to like
35831 No worse than I , upon some agreement
35832 Me shall you find ready and willing
35833 With one consent to have her so bestow'd ;
35834 For curious I cannot be with you ,
35835 Signior Baptista , of whom I hear so well .
35836
35837 Sir , pardon me in what I have to say :
35838 Your plainness and your shortness please me well .
35839 Right true it is , your son Lucentio here
35840 Doth love my daughter and she loveth him ,
35841 Or both dissemble deeply their affections :
35842 And therefore , if you say no more than this ,
35843 That like a father you will deal with him
35844 And pass my daughter a sufficient dower ,
35845 The match is made , and all is done :
35846 Your son shall have my daughter with consent .
35847
35848 I thank you , sir . Where , then , do you know best
35849 We be affied and such assurance ta'en
35850 As shall with either part's agreement stand ?
35851
35852 Not in my house , Lucentio ; for , you know ,
35853 Pitchers have ears , and I have many servants .
35854 Besides , old Gremio is hearkening still ,
35855 And happily we might be interrupted .
35856
35857 Then at my lodging an it like you :
35858 There doth my father lie , and there this night
35859 We'll pass the business privately and well .
35860 Send for your daughter by your servant here ;
35861 My boy shall fetch the scrivener presently .
35862 The worst is this , that , at so slender warning ,
35863 You're like to have a thin and slender pittance .
35864
35865 It likes me well . Cambio , hie you home ,
35866 And bid Bianca make her ready straight ;
35867 And , if you will , tell what hath happened :
35868 Lucentio's father is arriv'd in Padua ,
35869 And how she's like to be Lucentio's wife .
35870
35871 I pray the gods she may with all my heart !
35872
35873 Dally not with the gods , but get thee gone .
35874 Signior Baptista , shall I lead the way ?
35875 Welcome ! one mess is like to be your cheer .
35876 Come , sir ; we will better it in Pisa .
35877
35878 I follow you .
35879
35880
35881 Cambio !
35882
35883 What sayst thou , Biondello ?
35884
35885 You saw my master wink and laugh upon you ?
35886
35887 Biondello , what of that ?
35888
35889 Faith , nothing ; but he has left me here behind to expound the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens .
35890
35891 I pray thee , moralize them .
35892
35893 Then thus . Baptista is safe , talking with the deceiving father of a deceitful son .
35894
35895 And what of him ?
35896
35897 His daughter is to be brought by you to the supper .
35898
35899 And then ?
35900
35901 The old priest at Saint Luke's church is at your command at all hours .
35902
35903 And what of all this ?
35904
35905 I cannot tell , expect they are busied about a counterfeit assurance : take you assurance of her , cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum . To the church ! take the priest , clerk , and some sufficient honest witnesses .
35906 If this be not that you look for , I have no more to say ,
35907 But bid Bianca farewell for ever and a day .
35908
35909
35910 Hearest thou , Biondello ?
35911
35912 I cannot tarry : I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit ; and so may you , sir ; and so , adieu , sir . My master hath appointed me to go to Saint Luke's , to bid the priest be ready to come against you come with your appendix .
35913
35914
35915 I may , and will , if she be so contented :
35916 She will be pleas'd ; then wherefore should I doubt ?
35917 Hap what hap may , I'll roundly go about her :
35918 It shall go hard if Cambio go without her .
35919
35920
35921 Come on , i' God's name ; once more toward our father's .
35922 Good Lord , how bright and goodly shines the moon !
35923
35924 The moon ! the sun : it is not moonlight now .
35925
35926 I say it is the moon that shines so bright .
35927
35928 I know it is the sun that shines so bright .
35929
35930 Now , by my mother's son , and that's myself ,
35931 It shall be moon , or star , or what I list ,
35932 Or ere I journey to your father's house .
35933 Go one and fetch our horses back again .
35934 Evermore cross'd and cross'd ; nothing but cross'd !
35935
35936 Say as he says , or we shall never go .
35937
35938 Forward , I pray , since we have come so far ,
35939 And be it moon , or sun , or what you please .
35940 An if you please to call it a rush-candle ,
35941 Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me .
35942
35943 I say it is the moon .
35944
35945 I know it is the moon .
35946
35947 Nay , then you lie ; it is the blessed sun .
35948
35949 Then God be bless'd , it is the blessed sun :
35950 But sun it is not when you say it is not ,
35951 And the moon changes even as your mind .
35952 What you will have it nam'd , even that it is ;
35953 And so , it shall be so for Katharine .
35954
35955 Petruchio , go thy ways ; the field is won .
35956
35957 Well , forward , forward ! thus the bowl should run ,
35958 And not unluckily against the bias .
35959 But soft ! what company is coming here ?
35960
35961
35962 Good morrow , gentle mistress : where away ?
35963 Tell me , sweet Kate , and tell me truly too ,
35964 Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman ?
35965 Such war of white and red within her cheeks !
35966 What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty ,
35967 As those two eyes become that heavenly face ?
35968 Fair lovely maid , once more good day to thee .
35969
35970 Sweet Kate , embrace her for her beauty's sake .
35971
35972 A' will make the man mad , to make a woman of him .
35973
35974 Young budding virgin , fair and fresh and sweet ,
35975 Whither away , or where is thy abode ?
35976 Happy the parents of so fair a child ;
35977 Happier the man , whom favourable stars
35978 Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow !
35979
35980 Why , how now , Kate ! I hope thou art not mad :
35981 This is a man , old , wrinkled , faded , wither'd ,
35982 And not a maiden , as thou sayst he is .
35983
35984 Pardon , old father , my mistaking eyes ,
35985 That have been so bedazzled with the sun
35986 That everything I look on seemeth green :
35987 Now I perceive thou art a reverend father ;
35988 Pardon , I pray thee , for my mad mistaking .
35989
35990 Do , good old grandsire ; and withal make known
35991 Which way thou travellest : if along with us ,
35992 We shall be joyful of thy company .
35993
35994 Fair sir , and you my merry mistress ,
35995 That with your strange encounter much amaz'd me ,
35996 My name is called Vincentio ; my dwelling , Pisa ;
35997 And bound I am to Padua , there to visit
35998 A son of mine , which long I have not seen .
35999
36000 What is his name ?
36001
36002 Lucentio , gentle sir .
36003
36004 Happily met ; the happier for thy son .
36005 And now by law , as well as reverend age ,
36006 I may entitle thee my loving father :
36007 The sister to my wife , this gentlewoman ,
36008 Thy son by this hath married . Wonder not ,
36009 Nor be not griev'd : she is of good esteem ,
36010 Her dowry wealthy , and of worthy birth ;
36011 Beside , so qualified as may beseem
36012 The spouse of any noble gentleman .
36013 Let me embrace with old Vincentio ;
36014 And wander we to see thy honest son ,
36015 Who will of thy arrival be full joyous .
36016
36017 But is this true ? or is it else your pleasure ,
36018 Like pleasant travellers , to break a jest
36019 Upon the company you overtake ?
36020
36021 I do assure thee , father , so it is .
36022
36023 Come , go along , and see the truth hereof ;
36024 For our first merriment hath made thee jealous .
36025
36026
36027 Well , Petruchio , this has put me in heart .
36028 Have to my widow ! and if she be froward ,
36029 Then hast thou taught Hortensio to be untoward .
36030
36031 Softly and swiftly , sir , for the priest is ready .
36032
36033 I fly , Biondello : but they may chance to need thee at home ; therefore leave us .
36034
36035 Nay , faith , I'll see the church o' your back ; and then come back to my master as soon as I can .
36036
36037
36038 I marvel Cambio comes not all this while .
36039
36040
36041 Sir , here's the door , this is Lucentio's house :
36042 My father's bears more toward the marketplace ;
36043 Thither must I , and here I leave you , sir .
36044
36045 You shall not choose but drink before you go .
36046 I think I shall command your welcome here ,
36047 And , by all likelihood , some cheer is toward .
36048
36049
36050 They're busy within ; you were best knock louder .
36051
36052
36053 What's he that knocks as he would beat down the gate ?
36054
36055 Is Signior Lucentio within , sir ?
36056
36057 He's within , sir , but not to be spoken withal .
36058
36059 What if a man bring him a hundred pound or two , to make merry withal ?
36060
36061 Keep your hundred pounds to yourself : he shall need none so long as I live .
36062
36063 Nay , I told you your son was well beloved in Padua . Do you hear , sir ? To leave frivolous circumstances , I pray you , tell Signior Lucentio that his father is come from Pisa , and is here at the door to speak with him .
36064
36065 Thou liest : his father is come from Padua , and here looking out at the window .
36066
36067 Art thou his father ?
36068
36069 Ay , sir ; so his mother says , if I may believe her .
36070
36071 Why , how now , gentleman ! why , this is flat knavery , to take upon you another man's name .
36072
36073 Lay hands on the villain : I believe , a' means to cozen somebody in this city under my countenance .
36074
36075
36076 I have seen them in the church together : God send 'em good shipping ! But who is here ? mine old master , Vincentio ! now we are undone and brought to nothing .
36077
36078 Come hither , crack-hemp .
36079
36080 I hope I may choose , sir .
36081
36082 Come hither , you rogue . What , have you forgot me ?
36083
36084 Forgot you ! no , sir : I could not forget you , for I never saw you before in all my life .
36085
36086 What , you notorious villain ! didst thou never see thy master's father , Vincentio ?
36087
36088 What , my old , worshipful old master ? yes , marry , sir : see where he looks out of the window .
36089
36090 Is't so , indeed ?
36091
36092
36093 Help , help , help ! here's a madman will murder me .
36094
36095
36096 Help , son ! help , Signior Baptista !
36097
36098
36099 Prithee , Kate , let's stand aside , and see the end of this controversy .
36100
36101 Sir , what are you that offer to beat my servant ?
36102
36103 What am I , sir ! nay , what are you , sir ? O immortal gods ! O fine villain ! A silken doublet ! a velvet hose ! a scarlet cloak ! and a copatain hat ! O , I am undone ! I am undone ! while I play the good husband at home , my son and my servant spend all at the university .
36104
36105 How now ! what's the matter ?
36106
36107 What , is the man lunatic ?
36108
36109 Sir , you seem a sober ancient gentleman by your habit , but your words show you a madman . Why , sir , what 'cerns it you if I wear pearl and gold ? I thank my good father , I am able to maintain it .
36110
36111 Thy father ! O villain ! he is a sailmaker in Bergamo .
36112
36113 You mistake , sir , you mistake , sir . Pray , what do you think is his name ?
36114
36115 His name ! as if I knew not his name : I have brought him up ever since he was three years old , and his name is Tranio .
36116
36117 Away , away , mad ass ! his name is Lucentio ; and he is mine only son , and heir to the lands of me , Signior Vincentio .
36118
36119 Lucentio ! O ! he hath murdered his master . Lay hold on him , I charge you in the duke's name . O my son , my son ! tell me , thou villain , where is my son Lucentio ?
36120
36121 Call forth an officer .
36122
36123 Carry this mad knave to the gaol . Father Baptista , I charge you see that he be forthcoming .
36124
36125 Carry me to the gaol !
36126
36127 Stay , officer : he shall not go to prison .
36128
36129 Talk not , Signior Gremio : I say he shall go to prison .
36130
36131 Take heed , Signior Baptista , lest you be cony-catched in this business : I dare swear this is the right Vincentio .
36132
36133 Swear , if thou darest .
36134
36135 Nay , I dare not swear it .
36136
36137 Then thou wert best say , that I am not Lucentio .
36138
36139 Yes , I know thee to be Signior Lucentio .
36140
36141 Away with the dotard ! to the gaol with him !
36142
36143 Thus strangers may be haled and abused : O monstrous villain !
36144
36145
36146 O ! we are spoiled ; and yonder he is : deny him , forswear him , or else we are all undone .
36147
36148 Pardon , sweet father .
36149
36150 Lives my sweetest son ?
36151
36152
36153 Pardon , dear father .
36154
36155 How hast thou offended ?
36156 Where is Lucentio ?
36157
36158 Here's Lucentio ,
36159 Right son to the right Vincentio ;
36160 That have by marriage made thy daughter mine ,
36161 While counterfeit supposes blear'd thine eyne .
36162
36163 Here's packing , with a witness , to deceive us all !
36164
36165 Where is that damned villain Tranio ,
36166 That fac'd and brav'd me in this matter so ?
36167
36168 Why , tell me , is not this my Cambio ?
36169
36170 Cambio is chang'd into Lucentio .
36171
36172 Love wrought these miracles . Bianca's love
36173 Made me exchange my state with Tranio ,
36174 While he did bear my countenance in the town ;
36175 And happily I have arriv'd at last
36176 Unto the wished haven of my bliss .
36177 What Tranio did , myself enforc'd him to ;
36178 Then pardon him , sweet father , for my sake .
36179
36180 I'll slit the villain's nose , that would have sent me to the gaol .
36181
36182 But do you hear , sir ?
36183 Have you married my daughter without asking my good will ?
36184
36185 Fear not , Baptista ; we will content you , go to : but I will in , to be revenged for this villany .
36186
36187
36188 And I , to sound the depth of this knavery .
36189
36190
36191 Look not pale , Bianca ; thy father will not frown .
36192
36193
36194 My cake is dough ; but I'll in among the rest ,
36195 Out of hope of all , but my share of the feast .
36196
36197 Husband , let's follow , to see the end of this ado .
36198
36199 First kiss me , Kate , and we will .
36200
36201 What ! in the midst of the street ?
36202
36203 What ! art thou ashamed of me ?
36204
36205 No , sir , God forbid ; but ashamed to kiss .
36206
36207 Why , then let's home again . Come , sirrah , let's away .
36208
36209 Nay , I will give thee a kiss : now pray thee , love , stay .
36210
36211 Is not this well ? Come , my sweet Kate :
36212 Better once than never , for never too late .
36213
36214
36215 At last , though long , our jarring notes agree :
36216 And time it is , when raging war is done ,
36217 To smile at 'scapes and perils overblown .
36218 My fair Bianca , bid my father welcome ,
36219 While I with self-same kindness welcome thine .
36220 Brother Petruchio , sister Katharina ,
36221 And thou , Hortensio , with thy loving widow ,
36222 Feast with the best , and welcome to my house :
36223 My banquet is to close our stomachs up ,
36224 After our great good cheer . Pray you , sit down ;
36225 For now we sit to chat as well as eat .
36226
36227
36228 Nothing but sit and sit , and eat and eat !
36229
36230 Padua affords this kindness , son Petruchio .
36231
36232 Padua affords nothing but what is kind .
36233
36234 For both our sakes I would that word were true .
36235
36236 Now , for my life , Hortensio fears his widow .
36237
36238 Then never trust me , if I be afeard .
36239
36240 You are very sensible , and yet you miss my sense :
36241 I mean , Hortensio is afeard of you .
36242
36243 He that is giddy thinks the world turns round .
36244
36245 Roundly replied .
36246
36247 Mistress , how mean you that ?
36248
36249 Thus I conceive by him .
36250
36251 Conceives by me ! How likes Hortensio that ?
36252
36253 My widow says , thus she conceives her tale .
36254
36255 Very well mended . Kiss him for that , good widow .
36256
36257 'He that is giddy thinks the world turns round :'
36258 I pray you , tell me what you meant by that .
36259
36260 Your husband , being troubled with a shrew ,
36261 Measures my husband's sorrow by his woe :
36262 And now you know my meaning .
36263
36264 A very mean meaning .
36265
36266 Right , I mean you .
36267
36268 And I am mean , indeed , respecting you .
36269
36270 To her , Kate !
36271
36272 To her , widow !
36273
36274 A hundred marks , my Kate does put her down .
36275
36276 That's my office .
36277
36278 Spoke like an officer : ha' to thee , lad .
36279
36280
36281 How likes Gremio these quick-witted folks ?
36282
36283 Believe me , sir , they butt together well .
36284
36285 Head and butt ! a hasty-witted body
36286 Would say your head and butt were head and horn .
36287
36288 Ay , mistress bride , hath that awaken'd you ?
36289
36290 Ay , but not frighted me ; therefore I'll sleep again .
36291
36292 Nay , that you shall not ; since you have begun ,
36293 Have at you for a bitter jest or two .
36294
36295 Am I your bird ? I mean to shift my bush ;
36296 And then pursue me as you draw your bow .
36297 You are welcome all .
36298
36299
36300 She hath prevented me . Here , Signior Tranio ;
36301 This bird you aim'd at , though you hit her not :
36302 Therefore a health to all that shot and miss'd .
36303
36304 O sir ! Lucentio slipp'd me , like his greyhound ,
36305 Which runs himself , and catches for his master .
36306
36307 A good swift simile , but something currish .
36308
36309 'Tis well , sir , that you hunted for yourself :
36310 'Tis thought your deer does hold you at a bay .
36311
36312 O ho , Petruchio ! Tranio hits you now .
36313
36314 I thank thee for that gird , good Tranio .
36315
36316 Confess , confess , hath he not hit you here ?
36317
36318 A' has a little gall'd me , I confess ;
36319 And , as the jest did glance away from me ,
36320 'Tis ten to one it maim'd you two outright .
36321
36322 Now , in good sadness , son Petruchio ,
36323 I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all .
36324
36325 Well , I say no : and therefore , for assurance ,
36326 Let's each one send unto his wife ;
36327 And he whose wife is most obedient
36328 To come at first when he doth send for her ,
36329 Shall win the wager which we will propose .
36330
36331 Content . What is the wager ?
36332
36333 Twenty crowns .
36334
36335 Twenty crowns !
36336 I'll venture so much of my hawk or hound ,
36337 But twenty times so much upon my wife .
36338
36339 A hundred then .
36340
36341 Content .
36342
36343 A match ! 'tis done .
36344
36345 Who shall begin ?
36346
36347 That will I .
36348 Go , Biondello , bid your mistress come to me .
36349
36350 I go .
36351
36352
36353 Son , I will be your half , Bianca comes .
36354
36355 I'll have no halves ; I'll bear it all myself .
36356
36357 How now ! what news ?
36358
36359 Sir , my mistress sends you word
36360 That she is busy and she cannot come .
36361
36362 How ! she is busy , and she cannot come !
36363 Is that an answer ?
36364
36365 Ay , and a kind one too :
36366 Pray God , sir , your wife send you not a worse .
36367
36368 I hope , better .
36369
36370 Sirrah Biondello , go and entreat my wife
36371 To come to me forthwith .
36372
36373
36374 O ho ! entreat her !
36375 Nay , then she must needs come .
36376
36377 I am afraid , sir ,
36378 Do what you can , yours will not be entreated .
36379
36380 Now , where's my wife ?
36381
36382 She says you have some goodly jest in hand :
36383 She will not come : she bids you come to her .
36384
36385 Worse and worse ; she will not come ! O vile ,
36386 Intolerable , not to be endur'd !
36387 Sirrah Grumio , go to your mistress ; say ,
36388 I command her come to me .
36389
36390
36391 I know her answer .
36392
36393 What ?
36394
36395 She will not .
36396
36397 The fouler fortune mine , and there an end .
36398
36399
36400 Now , by my holidame , here comes Katharina !
36401
36402 What is your will , sir , that you send for me ?
36403
36404 Where is your sister , and Hortensio's wife ?
36405
36406 They sit conferring by the parlour fire .
36407
36408 Go , fetch them hither : if they deny to come ,
36409 Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands .
36410 Away , I say , and bring them hither straight .
36411
36412
36413 Here is a wonder , if you talk of a wonder .
36414
36415 And so it is . I wonder what it bodes .
36416
36417 Marry , peace it bodes , and love , and quiet life ,
36418 An awful rule and right supremacy ;
36419 And , to be short , what not that's sweet and happy .
36420
36421 Now fair befall thee , good Petruchio !
36422 The wager thou hast won ; and I will add
36423 Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns ;
36424 Another dowry to another daughter ,
36425 For she is chang'd , as she had never been .
36426
36427 Nay , I will win my wager better yet ,
36428 And show more sign of her obedience ,
36429 Her new-built virtue and obedience .
36430 See where she comes , and brings your froward wives
36431 As prisoners to her womanly persuasion .
36432
36433
36434 Katharine , that cap of yours becomes you not :
36435 Off with that bauble , throw it under foot .
36436
36437 Lord ! let me never have a cause to sigh ,
36438 Till I be brought to such a silly pass !
36439
36440 Fie ! what a foolish duty call you this ?
36441
36442 I would your duty were as foolish too :
36443 The wisdom of your duty , fair Bianca ,
36444 Hath cost me an hundred crowns since supper-time .
36445
36446 The more fool you for laying on my duty .
36447
36448 Katharine , I charge thee , tell these headstrong women
36449 What duty they do owe their lords and husbands .
36450
36451 Come , come , you're mocking : we will have no telling .
36452
36453 Come on , I say ; and first begin with her .
36454
36455 She shall not .
36456
36457 I say she shall : and first begin with her .
36458
36459 Fie , fie ! unknit that threatening unkind brow ,
36460 And dart not scornful glances from those eyes ,
36461 To wound thy lord , thy king , thy governor :
36462 It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads ,
36463 Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds ,
36464 And in no sense is meet or amiable .
36465 A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled ,
36466 Muddy , ill-seeming , thick , bereft of beauty ;
36467 And while it is so , none so dry or thirsty
36468 Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it .
36469 Thy husband is thy lord , thy life , thy keeper ,
36470 Thy head , thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee ,
36471 And for thy maintenance commits his body
36472 To painful labour both by sea and land ,
36473 To watch the night in storms , the day in cold ,
36474 Whilst thou liest warm at home , secure and safe ;
36475 And craves no other tribute at thy hands
36476 But love , fair looks , and true obedience ;
36477 Too little payment for so great a debt .
36478 Such duty as the subject owes the prince ,
36479 Even such a woman oweth to her husband ;
36480 And when she's froward , peevish , sullen , sour ,
36481 And not obedient to his honest will ,
36482 What is she but a foul contending rebel ,
36483 And graceless traitor to her loving lord ?
36484 I am asham'd that women are so simple
36485 To offer war where they should kneel for peace ,
36486 Or seek for rule , supremacy , and sway ,
36487 When they are bound to serve , love , and obey .
36488 Why are our bodies soft , and weak , and smooth ,
36489 Unapt to toil and trouble in the world ,
36490 But that our soft conditions and our hearts
36491 Should well agree with our external parts ?
36492 Come , come , you froward and unable worms !
36493 My mind hath been as big as one of yours ,
36494 My heart as great , my reason haply more ,
36495 To bandy word for word and frown for frown ;
36496 But now I see our lances are but straws ,
36497 Our strength as weak , our weakness past compare ,
36498 That seeming to be most which we indeed least are .
36499 Then vail your stomachs , for it is no boot ,
36500 And place your hands below your husband's foot :
36501 In token of which duty , if he please ,
36502 My hand is ready ; may it do him ease .
36503
36504 Why , there's a wench ! Come on , and kiss me , Kate .
36505
36506 Well , go thy ways , old lad , for thou shalt ha't .
36507
36508 'Tis a good hearing when children are toward .
36509
36510 But a harsh hearing when women are froward .
36511
36512 Come , Kate , we'll to bed .
36513 We three are married , but you two are sped .
36514 'Twas I won the wager ,
36515
36516 though you hit the white ;
36517 And , being a winner , God give you good night !
36518
36519
36520 Now , go thy ways ; thou hast tam'd a curst shrew .
36521
36522 'Tis a wonder , by your leave , she will be tam'd so .
36523
36524 THE TEMPEST
36525
36526 Boatswain !
36527
36528 Here , master : what cheer ?
36529
36530 Good , speak to the mariners : fall to't yarely , or we run ourselves aground : bestir , bestir .
36531
36532 Heigh , my hearts ! cheerly , cheerly , my hearts ! yare , yare ! Take in the topsail . Tend to the master's whistle .Blow , till thou burst thy wind , if room enough !
36533
36534
36535 Good boatswain , have care . Where's the master ? Play the men .
36536
36537 I pray now , keep below .
36538
36539 Where is the master , boson ?
36540
36541 Do you not hear him ? You mar our labour : keep your cabins : you do assist the storm .
36542
36543 Nay , good , be patient .
36544
36545 When the sea is . Hence ! What cares these roarers for the name of king ? To cabin : silence ! trouble us not .
36546
36547 Good , yet remember whom thou hast aboard .
36548
36549 None that I more love than myself . You are a counsellor : if you can command these elements to silence , and work the peace of the present , we will not hand a rope more ; use your authority : if you cannot , give thanks you have lived so long , and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour , if it so hap .Cheerly , good hearts !Out of our way , I say .
36550
36551
36552 I have great comfort from this fellow : methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him ; his complexion is perfect gallows . Stand fast , good Fate , to his hanging ! make the rope of his destiny our cable , for our own doth little advantage ! If he be not born to be hanged , our case is miserable .
36553
36554 Down with the topmast ! yare ! lower , lower ! Bring her to try with main-course .
36555
36556 A plague upon this howling ! they are louder than the weather , or our office .
36557
36558 Yet again ? what do you here ? Shall we give o'er , and drown ? Have you a mind to sink ?
36559
36560 A pox o' your throat , you bawling , blasphemous , incharitable dog !
36561
36562 Work you , then .
36563
36564 Hang , cur , hang ! you whoreson , insolent noisemaker , we are less afraid to be drowned than thou art .
36565
36566 I'll warrant him for drowning ; though the ship were no stronger than a nutshell , and as leaky as an unstanched wench .
36567
36568 Lay her a-hold , a-hold ! Set her two courses ; off to sea again ; lay her off .
36569
36570
36571 All lost ! to prayers , to prayers ! all lost !
36572
36573
36574 What , must our mouths be cold ?
36575
36576 The king and prince at prayers ! let us assist them ,
36577 For our case is as theirs .
36578
36579 I am out of patience .
36580
36581 We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards .
36582 This wide-chapp'd rascal ,would thou might'st lie drowning ,
36583 The washing of ten tides !
36584
36585 He'll be hang'd yet ,
36586 Though every drop of water swear against it ,
36587 And gape at wid'st to glut him .
36588
36589 'We split , we split !' 'Farewell , my wife and children !'
36590 'Farewell , brother !' 'We split , we split , we split !' ]
36591
36592 Let's all sink wi' the king .
36593
36594
36595 Let's take leave of him .
36596
36597
36598 Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ; long heath , brown furze , any thing . The wills above be done ! but I would fain die a dry death .
36599
36600
36601 If by your art , my dearest father , you have
36602 Put the wild waters in this roar , allay them .
36603 The sky , it seems , would pour down stinking pitch ,
36604 But that the sea , mounting to th' welkin's cheek ,
36605 Dashes the fire out . O ! I have suffer'd
36606 With those that I saw suffer : a brave vessel ,
36607 Who had , no doubt , some noble creatures in her ,
36608 Dash'd all to pieces . O ! the cry did knock
36609 Against my very heart . Poor souls , they perish'd .
36610 Had I been any god of power , I would
36611 Have sunk the sea within the earth , or e'er
36612 It should the good ship so have swallow'd and
36613 The fraughting souls within her .
36614
36615 Be collected :
36616 No more amazement . Tell your piteous heart
36617 There's no harm done .
36618
36619 O , woe the day !
36620
36621 No harm .
36622 I have done nothing but in care of thee ,
36623 Of thee , my dear one ! thee , my daughter !who
36624 Art ignorant of what thou art , nought knowing
36625 Of whence I am : nor that I am more better
36626 Than Prospero , master of a full poor cell ,
36627 And thy no greater father .
36628
36629 More to know
36630 Did never meddle with my thoughts .
36631
36632 'Tis time
36633 I should inform thee further . Lend thy hand ,
36634 And pluck my magic garment from me .So :
36635
36636 Lie there , my art .Wipe thou thine eyes ; have comfort .
36637 The direful spectacle of the wrack , which touch'd
36638 The very virtue of compassion in thee ,
36639 I have with such provision in mine art
36640 So safely order'd , that there is no soul
36641 No , not so much perdition as an hair ,
36642 Betid to any creature in the vessel
36643 Which thou heard'st cry , which thou saw'st sink . Sit down ;
36644 For thou must now know further .
36645
36646 You have often
36647 Begun to tell me what I am , but stopp'd ,
36648 And left me to a bootless inquisition ,
36649 Concluding , 'Stay ; not yet .'
36650
36651 The hour's now come ,
36652 The very minute bids thee ope thine ear ;
36653 Obey and be attentive . Canst thou remember
36654 A time before we came unto this cell ?
36655 I do not think thou canst , for then thou wast not
36656 Out three years old .
36657
36658 Certainly , sir , I can .
36659
36660 By what ? by any other house or person ?
36661 Of anything the image tell me , that
36662 Hath kept with thy remembrance .
36663
36664 'Tis far off ;
36665 And rather like a dream than an assurance
36666 That my remembrance warrants . Had I not
36667 Four or five women once that tended me ?
36668
36669 Thou hadst , and more , Miranda . But how is it
36670 That this lives in thy mind ? What seest thou else
36671 In the dark backward and abysm of time ?
36672 If thou remember'st aught ere thou cam'st here ,
36673 How thou cam'st here , thou may'st .
36674
36675 But that I do not .
36676
36677 Twelve year since , Miranda , twelve year since ,
36678 Thy father was the Duke of Milan and
36679 A prince of power .
36680
36681 Sir , are not you my father ?
36682
36683 Thy mother was a piece of virtue , and
36684 She said thou wast my daughter ; and thy father
36685 Was Duke of Milan , and his only heir
36686 A princess ,no worse issued .
36687
36688 O , the heavens !
36689 What foul play had we that we came from thence ?
36690 Or blessed was't we did ?
36691
36692 Both , both , my girl :
36693 By foul play , as thou say'st , were we heav'd thence ;
36694 But blessedly holp hither .
36695
36696 O ! my heart bleeds
36697 To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to ,
36698 Which is from my remembrance . Please you , further .
36699
36700 My brother and thy uncle , call'd Antonio ,
36701 I pray thee , mark me ,that a brother should
36702 Be so perfidious !he whom next thyself ,
36703 Of all the world I lov'd , and to him put
36704 The manage of my state ; as at that time ,
36705 Through all the signiories it was the first ,
36706 And Prospero the prime duke ; being so reputed
36707 In dignity , and for the liberal arts ,
36708 Without a parallel : those being all my study ,
36709 The government I cast upon my brother ,
36710 And to my state grew stranger , being transported
36711 And rapt in secret studies . Thy false uncle
36712 Dost thou attend me ?
36713
36714 Sir , most heedfully .
36715
36716 Being once perfected how to grant suits ,
36717 How to deny them , who t'advance , and who
36718 To trash for over-topping ; new created
36719 The creatures that were mine , I say , or chang'd 'em ,
36720 Or else new form'd 'em : having both the key
36721 Of officer and office , set all hearts i' the state
36722 To what tune pleas'd his ear ; that now he was
36723 The ivy which had hid my princely trunk ,
36724 And suck'd my verdure out on't .Thou attend'st not .
36725
36726 O , good sir ! I do .
36727
36728 I pray thee , mark me .
36729 I , thus neglecting worldly ends , all dedicated
36730 To closeness and the bettering of my mind
36731 With that , which , but by being so retir'd ,
36732 O'erpriz'd all popular rate , in my false brother
36733 Awak'd an evil nature ; and my trust ,
36734 Like a good parent , did beget of him
36735 A falsehood in its contrary as great
36736 As my trust was ; which had , indeed no limit ,
36737 A confidence sans bound . He being thus lorded ,
36738 Not only with what my revenue yielded ,
36739 But what my power might else exact ,like one ,
36740 Who having , into truth , by telling of it ,
36741 Made such a sinner of his memory ,
36742 To credit his own lie ,he did believe
36743 He was indeed the duke ; out o' the substitution ,
36744 And executing th' outward face of royalty ,
36745 With all prerogative :Hence his ambition growing ,
36746 Dost thou hear ?
36747
36748 Your tale , sir , would cure deafness .
36749
36750 To have no screen between this part he play'd
36751 And him he play'd it for , he needs will be
36752 Absolute Milan . Me , poor man ,my library
36753 Was dukedom large enough : of temporal royalties
36754 He thinks me now incapable ; confederates ,
36755 So dry he was for sway ,wi' the king of Naples
36756 To give him annual tribute , do him homage ;
36757 Subject his coronet to his crown , and bend
36758 The dukedom , yet unbow'd ,alas , poor Milan !
36759 To most ignoble stooping .
36760
36761 O the heavens !
36762
36763 Mark his condition and the event ; then tell me
36764 If this might be a brother .
36765
36766 I should sin
36767 To think but nobly of my grandmother :
36768 Good wombs have borne bad sons .
36769
36770 Now the condition .
36771 This King of Naples , being an enemy
36772 To me inveterate , hearkens my brother's suit ;
36773 Which was , that he , in lieu o' the premises
36774 Of homage and I know not how much tribute ,
36775 Should presently extirpate me and mine
36776 Out of the dukedom , and confer fair Milan ,
36777 With all the honours on my brother : whereon ,
36778 A treacherous army levied , one midnight
36779 Fated to the purpose did Antonio open
36780 The gates of Milan ; and , i' the dead of darkness ,
36781 The ministers for the purpose hurried thence
36782 Me and thy crying self .
36783
36784 Alack , for pity !
36785 I , not rememb'ring how I cried out then ,
36786 Will cry it o'er again : it is a hint ,
36787 That wrings mine eyes to 't .
36788
36789 Hear a little further ,
36790 And then I'll bring thee to the present business
36791 Which now's upon us ; without the which this story
36792 Were most impertinent .
36793
36794 Wherefore did they not
36795 That hour destroy us ?
36796
36797 Well demanded , wench :
36798 My tale provokes that question . Dear , they durst not ,
36799 So dear the love my people bore me , nor set
36800 A mark so bloody on the business ; but
36801 With colours fairer painted their foul ends .
36802 In few , they hurried us aboard a bark ,
36803 Bore us some leagues to sea ; where they prepar'd
36804 A rotten carcass of a boat , not rigg'd ,
36805 Nor tackle , sail , nor mast ; the very rats
36806 Instinctively have quit it : there they hoist us ,
36807 To cry to the sea that roar'd to us ; to sigh
36808 To the winds whose pity , sighing back again ,
36809 Did us but loving wrong .
36810
36811 Alack ! what trouble
36812 Was I then to you !
36813
36814 O , a cherubin
36815 Thou wast , that did preserve me ! Thou didst smile ,
36816 Infused with a fortitude from heaven ,
36817 When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt ,
36818 Under my burden groan'd ; which rais'd in me
36819 An undergoing stomach , to bear up
36820 Against what should ensue .
36821
36822 How came we ashore ?
36823
36824 By Providence divine .
36825 Some food we had and some fresh water that
36826 A noble Neapolitan , Gonzalo ,
36827 Out of his charity ,who being then appointed
36828 Master of this design ,did give us ; with
36829 Rich garments , linens , stuffs , and necessaries ,
36830 Which since have steaded much ; so , of his gentleness ,
36831 Knowing I lov'd my books , he furnish'd me ,
36832 From mine own library with volumes that
36833 I prize above my dukedom .
36834
36835 Would I might
36836 But ever see that man !
36837
36838 Now I arise :
36839
36840 Sit still , and hear the last of our sea-sorrow .
36841 Here in this island we arriv'd ; and here
36842 Have I , thy schoolmaster , made thee more profit
36843 Than other princes can , that have more time
36844 For vainer hours and tutors not so careful .
36845
36846 Heavens thank you for't ! And now , I pray you , sir ,
36847 For still 'tis beating in my mind ,your reason
36848 For raising this sea-storm ?
36849
36850 Know thus far forth .
36851 By accident most strange , bountiful Fortune ,
36852 Now my dear lady , hath mine enemies
36853 Brought to this shore ; and by my prescience
36854 I find my zenith doth depend upon
36855 A most auspicious star , whose influence
36856 If now I court not but omit , my fortunes
36857 Will ever after droop . Here cease more questions ;
36858 Thou art inclin'd to sleep ; 'tis a good dulness ,
36859 And give it way ;I know thou canst not choose .
36860
36861 Come away , servant , come ! I'm ready now .
36862 Approach , my Ariel ; come !
36863
36864
36865 All hail , great master ! grave sir , hail ! I come
36866 To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly ,
36867 To swim , to dive into the fire , to ride
36868 On the curl'd clouds : to thy strong bidding task
36869 Ariel and all his quality .
36870
36871 Hast thou , spirit ,
36872 Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee ?
36873
36874 To every article .
36875 I boarded the king's ship ; now on the beak ,
36876 Now in the waist , the deck , in every cabin ,
36877 I flam'd amazement : sometime I'd divide
36878 And burn in many places ; on the topmast ,
36879 The yards , and boresprit , would I flame distinctly ,
36880 Then meet , and join : Jove's lightnings , the precursors
36881 O' the dreadful thunder-claps , more momentary
36882 And sight-outrunning were not : the fire and cracks
36883 Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune
36884 Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble ,
36885 Yea , his dread trident shake .
36886
36887 My brave spirit !
36888 Who was so firm , so constant , that this coil
36889 Would not infect his reason ?
36890
36891 Not a soul
36892 But felt a fever of the mad and play'd
36893 Some tricks of desperation . All but mariners ,
36894 Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel ,
36895 Then all a-fire with me : the king's son , Ferdinand ,
36896 With hair up-staring ,then like reeds , not hair ,
36897 Was the first man that leap'd ; cried , 'Hell is empty ,
36898 And all the devils are here .'
36899
36900 Why , that's my spirit !
36901 But was not this nigh shore ?
36902
36903 Close by , my master .
36904
36905 But are they , Ariel , safe ?
36906
36907 Not a hair perish'd ;
36908 On their sustaining garments not a blemish ,
36909 But fresher than before : and , as thou bad'st me ,
36910 In troops I have dispers'd them 'bout the isle .
36911 The king's son have I landed by himself ;
36912 Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs
36913 In an odd angle of the isle and sitting ,
36914 His arms in this sad knot .
36915
36916 Of the king's ship
36917 The mariners , say how thou hast dispos'd ,
36918 And all the rest o' the fleet .
36919
36920 Safely in harbour
36921 Is the king's ship ; in the deep nook , where once
36922 Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew
36923 From the still-vex'd Bermoothes ; there she's hid :
36924 The mariners all under hatches stow'd ;
36925 Who , with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour ,
36926 I have left asleep : and for the rest o' the fleet
36927 Which I dispers'd , they all have met again ,
36928 And are upon the Mediterranean flote ,
36929 Bound sadly home for Naples ,
36930 Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrack'd ,
36931 And his great person perish .
36932
36933 Ariel , thy charge
36934 Exactly is perform'd : but there's more work :
36935 What is the time o' th' day ?
36936
36937 Past the mid season .
36938
36939 At least two glasses . The time 'twixt six and now
36940 Must by us both be spent most preciously .
36941
36942 Is there more toil ? Since thou dost give me pains ,
36943 Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd
36944 Which is not yet perform'd me .
36945
36946 How now ! moody ?
36947 What is't thou canst demand ?
36948
36949 My liberty .
36950
36951 Before the time be out ? no more !
36952
36953 I prithee
36954 Remember , I have done thee worthy service ;
36955 Told thee no lies , made no mistakings , serv'd
36956 Without or grudge or grumblings : thou didst promise
36957 To bate me a full year .
36958
36959 Dost thou forget
36960 From what a torment I did free thee ?
36961
36962 No .
36963
36964 Thou dost ; and think'st it much to tread the ooze
36965 Of the salt deep ,
36966 To run upon the sharp wind of the north ,
36967 To do me business in the veins o' th' earth
36968 When it is bak'd with frost .
36969
36970 I do not , sir .
36971
36972 Thou liest , malignant thing ! Hast thou forgot
36973 The foul witch Sycorax , who with age and envy
36974 Was grown into a hoop ? hast thou forgot her ?
36975
36976 No , sir .
36977
36978 Thou hast . Where was she born ? speak ; tell me .
36979
36980 Sir , in Argier .
36981
36982 O ! was she so ? I must ,
36983 Once in a month , recount what thou hast been ,
36984 Which thou forget'st . This damn'd witch , Sycorax ,
36985 For mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible
36986 To enter human hearing , from Argier ,
36987 Thou know'st , was banish'd : for one thing she did
36988 They would not take her life . Is not this true ?
36989
36990 Ay , sir .
36991
36992 This blue-ey'd hag was hither brought with child
36993 And here was left by the sailors . Thou , my slave ,
36994 As thou report'st thyself , wast then her servant :
36995 And , for thou wast a spirit too delicate
36996 To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands ,
36997 Refusing her grand hests , she did confine thee ,
36998 By help of her more potent ministers ,
36999 And in her most unmitigable rage ,
37000 Into a cloven pine ; within which rift
37001 Imprison'd , thou didst painfully remain
37002 A dozen years ; within which space she died
37003 And left thee there , where thou didst vent thy groans
37004 As fast as mill-wheels strike . Then was this island ,
37005 Save for the son that she did litter here ,
37006 A freckled whelp hag-born ,not honour'd with
37007 A human shape .
37008
37009 Yes ; Caliban her son .
37010
37011 Dull thing , I say so ; he that Caliban ,
37012 Whom now I keep in service . Thou best know'st
37013 What torment I did find thee in ; thy groans
37014 Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts
37015 Of ever-angry bears : it was a torment
37016 To lay upon the damn'd , which Sycorax
37017 Could not again undo ; it was mine art ,
37018 When I arriv'd and heard thee , that made gape
37019 The pine , and let thee out .
37020
37021 I thank thee , master .
37022
37023 If thou more murmur'st , I will rend an oak
37024 And peg thee in his knotty entrails till
37025 Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters .
37026
37027 Pardon , master ;
37028 I will be correspondent to command ,
37029 And do my spiriting gently .
37030
37031 Do so ; and after two days
37032 I will discharge thee .
37033
37034 That's my noble master !
37035 What shall I do ? say what ? what shall I do ?
37036
37037 Go make thyself like a nymph of the sea : be subject
37038 To no sight but thine and mine ; invisible
37039 To every eyeball else . Go , take this shape ,
37040 And hither come in't : go , hence with diligence !
37041
37042 Awake , dear heart , awake ! thou hast slept well ;
37043 Awake !
37044
37045 The strangeness of your story put
37046 Heaviness in me .
37047
37048 Shake it off . Come on ;
37049 We'll visit Caliban my slave , who never
37050 Yields us kind answer .
37051
37052 'Tis a villain , sir ,
37053 I do not love to look on .
37054
37055 But , as 'tis ,
37056 We cannot miss him : he does make our fire ,
37057 Fetch in our wood ; and serves in offices
37058 That profit us .What ho ! slave ! Caliban !
37059 Thou earth , thou ! speak .
37060
37061 There's wood enough within .
37062
37063 Come forth , I say ; there's other business for thee :
37064 Come , thou tortoise ! when ?
37065
37066
37067 Fine apparition ! My quaint Ariel ,
37068
37069 Hark in thine ear .
37070
37071 My lord , it shall be done .
37072
37073
37074 Thou poisonous slave , got by the devil himself
37075 Upon thy wicked dam , come forth !
37076
37077
37078 As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd
37079 With raven's feather from unwholesome fen
37080 Drop on you both ! a south-west blow on ye ,
37081 And blister you all o'er !
37082
37083 For this , be sure , to-night thou shalt have cramps ,
37084 Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up ; urchins
37085 Shall forth at vast of night , that they may work
37086 All exercise on thee : thou shalt be pinch'd
37087 As thick as honeycomb , each pinch more stinging
37088 Than bees that made them .
37089
37090 I must eat my dinner .
37091 This island's mine , by Sycorax my mother ,
37092 Which thou tak'st from me . When thou camest first ,
37093 Thou strok'dst me , and mad'st much of me ; wouldst give me
37094 Water with berries in't ; and teach me how
37095 To name the bigger light , and how the less ,
37096 That burn by day and night : and then I lov'd thee
37097 And show'd thee all the qualities o' th' isle ,
37098 The fresh springs , brine-pits , barren place , and fertile .
37099 Cursed be I that did so !All the charms
37100 Of Sycorax , toads , beetles , bats , light on you !
37101 For I am all the subjects that you have ,
37102 Which first was mine own king ; and here you sty me
37103 In this hard rock , whiles you do keep from me
37104 The rest o' th' island .
37105
37106 Thou most lying slave ,
37107 Whom stripes may move , not kindness ! I have us'd thee ,
37108 Filth as thou art , with human care ; and lodg'd thee
37109 In mine own cell , till thou didst seek to violate
37110 The honour of my child .
37111
37112 Oh ho ! Oh ho !would it had been done !
37113 Thou didst prevent me ; I had peopled else
37114 This isle with Calibans .
37115
37116 Abhorred slave ,
37117 Which any print of goodness will not take ,
37118 Being capable of all ill ! I pitied thee ,
37119 Took pains to make thee speak , taught thee each hour
37120 One thing or other : when thou didst not , savage ,
37121 Know thine own meaning , but wouldst gabble like
37122 A thing most brutish , I endow'd thy purposes
37123 With words that made them known : but thy vile race ,
37124 Though thou didst learn , had that in't which good natures
37125 Could not abide to be with ; therefore wast thou
37126 Deservedly confin'd into this rock ,
37127 Who hadst deserv'd more than a prison .
37128
37129 You taught me language : and my profit on't
37130 Is , I know how to curse : the red plague rid you ,
37131 For learning me your language !
37132
37133 Hag-seed , hence !
37134 Fetch us in fuel ; and be quick , thou'rt best ,
37135 To answer other business . Shrug'st thou , malice ?
37136 If thou neglect'st , or dost unwillingly
37137 What I command , I'll rack thee with old cramps ,
37138 Fill all thy bones with aches ; make thee roar ,
37139 That beasts shall tremble at thy din .
37140
37141 No , pray thee !
37142
37143
37144 I must obey : his art is of such power ,
37145 It would control my dam's god , Setebos ,
37146 And make a vassal of him .
37147
37148 So , slave ; hence !
37149
37150 Come unto these yellow sands ,
37151 And then take hands :
37152 Curtsied when you have , and kiss'd ,
37153 The wild waves whist ,
37154 Foot it featly here and there ;
37155 And , sweet sprites , the burden bear .
37156 Hark , hark !
37157
37158 The watch-dogs bark :
37159
37160 Hark , hark ! I hear
37161 The strain of strutting Chanticleer
37162
37163 Where should this music be ? i' th' air , or th' earth ?
37164 It sounds no more ;and sure , it waits upon
37165 Some god o' th' island . Sitting on a bank ,
37166 Weeping again the king my father's wrack ,
37167 This music crept by me upon the waters ,
37168 Allaying both their fury , and my passion ,
37169 With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it ,
37170 Or it hath drawn me rather ,but 'tis gone .
37171 No , it begins again .
37172
37173 Full fathom five thy father lies ;
37174 Of his bones are coral made
37175 Those are pearls that were his eyes :
37176 Nothing of him that doth fade ,
37177 But doth suffer a sea-change
37178 Into something rich and strange .
37179 Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell :
37180
37181 Hark ! now I hear them ,ding-dong , bell .
37182
37183
37184 The ditty does remember my drown'd father .
37185 This is no mortal business , nor no sound
37186 That the earth owes :I hear it now above me .
37187
37188 The fringed curtains of thine eye advance ,
37189 And say what thou seest yond .
37190
37191 What is't ? a spirit ?
37192 Lord , how it looks about ! Believe me , sir ,
37193 It carries a brave form :but 'tis a spirit .
37194
37195 No , wench ; it eats and sleeps , and hath such senses
37196 As we have , such ; this gallant which thou see'st ,
37197 Was in the wrack ; and , but he's something stain'd
37198 With grief ,that's beauty's canker ,thou might'st call him
37199 A goodly person : he hath lost his fellows
37200 And strays about to find 'em .
37201
37202 I might call him
37203 A thing divine ; for nothing natural
37204 I ever saw so noble .
37205
37206 It goes on , I see ,
37207 As my soul prompts it .Spirit , fine spirit ! I'll free thee
37208 Within two days for this .
37209
37210 Most sure , the goddess
37211 On whom these airs attend !Vouchsafe , my prayer
37212 May know if you remain upon this island ;
37213 And that you will some good instruction give
37214 How I may bear me here : my prime request ,
37215 Which I do last pronounce , is ,O you wonder !
37216 If you be maid or no ?
37217
37218 No wonder , sir ;
37219 But certainly a maid .
37220
37221 My language ! heavens !
37222 I am the best of them that speak this speech ,
37223 Were I but where 'tis spoken .
37224
37225 How ! the best ?
37226 What wert thou , if the King of Naples heard thee ?
37227
37228 A single thing , as I am now , that wonders
37229 To hear thee speak of Naples . He does hear me ;
37230 And , that he does , I weep : myself am Naples ,
37231 Who with mine eyes ,ne'er since at ebb ,beheld
37232 The king , my father wrack'd .
37233
37234 Alack , for mercy !
37235
37236 Yes , faith , and all his lords ; the Duke of Milan ,
37237 And his brave son being twain .
37238
37239 The Duke of Milan ,
37240 And his more braver daughter could control thee ,
37241 If now 'twere fit to do't .At the first sight
37242
37243 They have changed eyes :delicate Ariel ,
37244 I'll set thee free for this !
37245
37246 A word , good sir ;
37247 I fear you have done yourself some wrong : a word .
37248
37249 Why speaks my father so ungently ? This
37250 Is the third man that e'er I saw ; the first
37251 That e'er I sigh'd for : pity move my father
37252 To be inclin'd my way !
37253
37254 O ! if a virgin ,
37255 And your affection not gone forth , I'll make you
37256 The Queen of Naples .
37257
37258 Soft , sir : one word more
37259
37260
37261 They are both in either's powers : but this swift business
37262 I must uneasy make , lest too light winning
37263 Make the prize light .
37264
37265 One word more : I charge thee
37266 That thou attend me . Thou dost here usurp
37267 The name thou ow'st not ; and hast put thyself
37268 Upon this island as a spy , to win it
37269 From me , the lord on't .
37270
37271 No , as I am a man .
37272
37273 There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple :
37274 If the ill spirit have so fair a house ,
37275 Good things will strive to dwell with't .
37276
37277 Follow me .
37278
37279
37280 Come ;
37281 I'll manacle thy neck and feet together :
37282 Sea-water shalt thou drink ; thy food shall be
37283 The fresh-brook muscles , wither'd roots and husks
37284 Wherein the acorn cradled . Follow .
37285
37286 No ;
37287 I will resist such entertainment till
37288 Mine enemy has more power .
37289
37290
37291 O dear father !
37292 Make not too rash a trial of him , for
37293 He's gentle , and not fearful .
37294
37295 What ! I say ,
37296 My foot my tutor ?Put thy sword up , traitor ;
37297 Who mak'st a show , but dar'st not strike , thy conscience
37298 Is so possess'd with guilt : come from thy ward ,
37299 For I can here disarm thee with this stick
37300 And make thy weapon drop .
37301
37302 Beseech you , father !
37303
37304 Hence ! hang not on my garments .
37305
37306 Sir , have pity :
37307 I'll be his surety .
37308
37309 Silence ! one word more
37310 Shall make me chide thee , if not hate thee . What !
37311 An advocate for an impostor ? hush !
37312 Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he ,
37313 Having seen but him and Caliban : foolish wench !
37314 To the most of men this is a Caliban
37315 And they to him are angels .
37316
37317 My affections
37318 Are then most humble ; I have no ambition
37319 To see a goodlier man .
37320
37321 Come on ; obey :
37322 Thy nerves are in their infancy again ,
37323 And have no vigour in them .
37324
37325 So they are :
37326 My spirits , as in a dream , are all bound up .
37327 My father's loss , the weakness which I feel ,
37328 The wrack of all my friends , or this man's threats ,
37329 To whom I am subdued , are but light to me ,
37330 Might I but through my prison once a day
37331 Behold this maid : all corners else o' th' earth
37332 Let liberty make use of ; space enough
37333 Have I in such a prison .
37334
37335 Come on .
37336 Thou hast done well , fine Ariel !
37337
37338 Follow me .
37339
37340
37341 Hark , what thou else shalt do me .
37342
37343 Be of comfort ;
37344 My father's of a better nature , sir ,
37345 Than he appears by speech : this is unwonted ,
37346 Which now came from him .
37347
37348 Thou shalt be as free
37349 As mountain winds ; but then exactly do
37350 All points of my command .
37351
37352 To the syllable .
37353
37354 Come , follow .Speak not for him .
37355
37356 Beseech you , sir , be merry : you have cause ,
37357 So have we all , of joy ; for our escape
37358 Is much beyond our loss . Our hint of woe
37359 Is common : every day some sailor's wife ,
37360 The masters of some merchant and the merchant ,
37361 Have just our theme of woe ; but for the miracle ,
37362 I mean our preservation , few in millions
37363 Can speak like us : then wisely , good sir , weigh
37364 Our sorrow with our comfort .
37365
37366 Prithee , peace .
37367
37368 He receives comfort like cold porridge .
37369
37370 The visitor will not give him o'er so .
37371
37372 Look , he's winding up the watch of his wit ; by and by it will strike .
37373
37374 Sir ,
37375
37376 One : tell .
37377
37378 When every grief is entertain'd that's offer'd ,
37379 Comes to the entertainer
37380
37381 A dollar .
37382
37383 Dolour comes to him , indeed : you have spoken truer than you purposed .
37384
37385 You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should .
37386
37387 Therefore , my lord ,
37388
37389 Fie , what a spendthrift is he of his tongue !
37390
37391 I prithee , spare .
37392
37393 Well , I have done : but yet
37394
37395 He will be talking .
37396
37397 Which , of he or Adrian , for a good wager , first begins to crow ?
37398
37399 The old cock .
37400
37401 The cockerel .
37402
37403 Done . The wager ?
37404
37405 A laughter .
37406
37407 A match !
37408
37409 Though this island seem to be desert ,
37410
37411 Ha , ha , ha ! So you're paid .
37412
37413 Uninhabitable , and almost inaccessible ,
37414
37415 Yet
37416
37417 Yet
37418
37419 He could not miss it .
37420
37421 It must needs be of subtle , tender , and delicate temperance .
37422
37423 Temperance was a delicate wench .
37424
37425 Ay , and a subtle ; as he most learnedly delivered .
37426
37427 The air breathes upon us here most sweetly .
37428
37429 As if it had lungs , and rotten ones .
37430
37431 Or as 'twere perfumed by a fen .
37432
37433 Here is everything advantageous to life .
37434
37435 True ; save means to live .
37436
37437 Of that there's none , or little .
37438
37439 How lush and lusty the grass looks ! how green !
37440
37441 The ground indeed is tawny .
37442
37443 With an eye of green in't .
37444
37445 He misses not much .
37446
37447 No ; he doth but mistake the truth totally .
37448
37449 But the rarity of it is ,which is indeed almost beyond credit ,
37450
37451 As many vouch'd rarities are .
37452
37453 That our garments , being , as they were , drenched in the sea , hold notwithstanding their freshness and glosses ; being rather new-dyed than stain'd with salt water .
37454
37455 If but one of his pockets could speak , would it not say he lies ?
37456
37457 Ay , or very falsely pocket up his report .
37458
37459 Methinks , our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Afric , at the marriage of the king's fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis .
37460
37461 'Twas a sweet marriage , and we prosper well in our return .
37462
37463 Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon to their queen .
37464
37465 Not since widow Dido's time .
37466
37467 Widow ! a pox o' that ! How came that widow in ? Widow Dido !
37468
37469 What if he had said , widower neas too ? Good Lord , how you take it !
37470
37471 Widow Dido , said you ? you make me study of that : she was of Carthage , not of Tunis .
37472
37473 This Tunis , sir , was Carthage .
37474
37475 Carthage ?
37476
37477 I assure you , Carthage .
37478
37479 His word is more than the miraculous harp .
37480
37481 He hath rais'd the wall , and houses too .
37482
37483 What impossible matter will he make easy next ?
37484
37485 I think he will carry this island home in his pocket , and give it his son for an apple .
37486
37487 And , sowing the kernels of it in the sea , bring forth more islands .
37488
37489 Ay ?
37490
37491 Why , in good time .
37492
37493 Sir , we were talking that our garments seem now as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the marriage of your daughter , who is now queen .
37494
37495 And the rarest that e'er came there .
37496
37497 Bate , I beseech you , widow Dido .
37498
37499 O ! widow Dido ; ay , widow Dido .
37500
37501 Is not , sir , my doublet as fresh as the first day I wore it ? I mean , in a sort .
37502
37503 That sort was well fish'd for .
37504
37505 When I wore it at your daughter's marriage ?
37506
37507 You cram these words into mine ears , against
37508 The stomach of my sense . Would I had never
37509 Married my daughter there ! for , coming thence ,
37510 My son is lost ; and , in my rate , she too ,
37511 Who is so far from Italy remov'd ,
37512 I ne'er again shall see her . O thou , mine heir
37513 Of Naples and of Milan ! what strange fish
37514 Hath made his meal on thee ?
37515
37516 Sir , he may live :
37517 I saw him beat the surges under him ,
37518 And ride upon their backs : he trod the water ,
37519 Whose enmity he flung aside , and breasted
37520 The surge most swoln that met him : his bold head
37521 'Bove the contentious waves he kept , and oar'd
37522 Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke
37523 To the shore , that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd ,
37524 As stooping to relieve him . I not doubt
37525 He came alive to land .
37526
37527 No , no ; he's gone .
37528
37529 Sir , you may thank yourself for this great loss ,
37530 That would not bless our Europe with your daughter ,
37531 But rather lose her to an African ;
37532 Where she at least is banish'd from your eye ,
37533 Who hath cause to wet the grief on't .
37534
37535 Prithee , peace .
37536
37537 You were kneel'd to and importun'd otherwise
37538 By all of us ; and the fair soul herself
37539 Weigh'd between loathness and obedience , at
37540 Which end o' the beam should bow . We have lost your son ,
37541 I fear , for ever : Milan and Naples have
37542 More widows in them of this business' making ,
37543 Than we bring men to comfort them : the fault's
37544 Your own .
37545
37546 So is the dearest of the loss .
37547
37548 My lord Sebastian ,
37549 The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
37550 And time to speak it in ; you rub the sore ,
37551 When you should bring the plaster .
37552
37553 Very well .
37554
37555 And most chirurgeonly .
37556
37557 It is foul weather in us all , good sir ,
37558 When you are cloudy .
37559
37560 Foul weather ?
37561
37562 Very foul .
37563
37564 Had I plantation of this isle , my lord ,
37565
37566 He'd sow't with nettle-seed .
37567
37568 Or docks , or mallows .
37569
37570 'And were the king on't , what would I do ?
37571
37572 'Scape being drunk for want of wine .
37573
37574 I' the commonwealth I would by contraries
37575 Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic
37576 Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ;
37577 Letters should not be known ; riches , poverty ,
37578 And use of service , none ; contract , succession ,
37579 Bourn , bound of land , tilth , vineyard , none ;
37580 No use of metal , corn , or wine , or oil ;
37581 No occupation ; all men idle , all ;
37582 And women too , but innocent and pure ;
37583 No sovereignty ,
37584
37585 Yet he would be king on't .
37586
37587 The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning .
37588
37589 All things in common nature should produce
37590 Without sweat or endeavour : treason , felony ,
37591 Sword , pike , knife , gun , or need of any engine ,
37592 Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth ,
37593 Of its own kind , all foison , all abundance ,
37594 To feed my innocent people .
37595
37596 No marrying 'mong his subjects ?
37597
37598 None , man ; all idle ; whores and knaves .
37599
37600 I would with such perfection govern , sir ,
37601 To excel the golden age
37602
37603 Save his majesty !
37604
37605 Long live Gonzalo !
37606
37607 And ,do you mark me , sir ?
37608
37609 Prithee , no more : thou dost talk nothing to me .
37610
37611 I do well believe your highness ; and did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen , who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that they always use to laugh at nothing .
37612
37613 'Twas you we laugh'd at .
37614
37615 Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing to you ; so you may continue and laugh at nothing still .
37616
37617 What a blow was there given !
37618
37619 An it had not fallen flat-long .
37620
37621 You are gentlemen of brave mettle : you would lift the moon out of her sphere , if she would continue in it five weeks without changing .
37622
37623
37624 We would so , and then go a-bat-fowling .
37625
37626 Nay , good my lord , be not angry .
37627
37628 No , I warrant you ; I will not adventure my discretion so weakly . Will you laugh me asleep , for I am very heavy ?
37629
37630 Go sleep , and hear us .
37631
37632
37633 What ! all so soon asleep ! I wish mine eyes
37634 Would , with themselves , shut up my thoughts : I find
37635 They are inclin'd to do so .
37636
37637 Please you , sir ,
37638 Do not omit the heavy offer of it :
37639 It seldom visits sorrow ; when it doth
37640 It is a comforter .
37641
37642 We two , my lord ,
37643 Will guard your person while you take your rest ,
37644 And watch your safety .
37645
37646 Thank you . Wondrous heavy .
37647
37648
37649 What a strange drowsiness possesses them !
37650
37651 It is the quality o' the climate .
37652
37653 Why
37654 Doth it not then our eyelids sink ? I find not
37655 Myself dispos'd to sleep .
37656
37657 Nor I : my spirits are nimble .
37658 They fell together all , as by consent ;
37659 They dropp'd , as by a thunder-stroke . What might ,
37660 Worthy Sebastian ? O ! what might ?No more :
37661 And yet methinks I see it in thy face ,
37662 What thou should'st be . The occasion speaks thee ; and
37663 My strong imagination sees a crown
37664 Dropping upon thy head .
37665
37666 What ! art thou waking ?
37667
37668 Do you not hear me speak ?
37669
37670 I do ; and surely ,
37671 It is a sleepy language , and thou speak'st
37672 Out of thy sleep . What is it thou didst say ?
37673 This is a strange repose , to be asleep
37674 With eyes wide open ; standing , speaking , moving ,
37675 And yet so fast asleep .
37676
37677 Noble Sebastian ,
37678 Thou let'st thy fortune sleep die rather ; wink'st
37679 Whiles thou art waking .
37680
37681 Thou dost snore distinctly :
37682 There's meaning in thy snores .
37683
37684 I am more serious than my custom : you
37685 Must be so too , if heed me ; which to do
37686 Trebles thee o'er .
37687
37688 Well ; I am standing water .
37689
37690 I'll teach you how to flow .
37691
37692 Do so : to ebb ,
37693 Hereditary sloth instructs me .
37694
37695 O !
37696 If you but knew how you the purpose cherish
37697 Whiles thus you mock it ! how , in stripping it ,
37698 You more invest it ! Ebbing men , indeed ,
37699 Most often do so near the bottom run
37700 By their own fear or sloth .
37701
37702 Prithee , say on :
37703 The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim
37704 A matter from thee , and a birth indeed
37705 Which throes thee much to yield .
37706
37707 Thus , sir :
37708 Although this lord of weak remembrance , this
37709 Who shall be of as little memory
37710 When he is earth'd , hath here almost persuaded ,
37711 For he's a spirit of persuasion , only
37712 Professes to persuade ,the king , his son's alive ,
37713 'Tis as impossible that he's undrown'd
37714 As he that sleeps here swims .
37715
37716 I have no hope
37717 That he's undrown'd .
37718
37719 O ! out of that 'no hope
37720 What great hope have you ! no hope that way is
37721 Another way so high a hope that even
37722 Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond ,
37723 But doubts discovery there . Will you grant with me
37724 That Ferdinand is drown'd ?
37725
37726 He's gone .
37727
37728 Then tell me
37729 Who's the next heir of Naples ?
37730
37731 Claribel .
37732
37733 She that is Queen of Tums ; she that dwells
37734 Ten leagues beyond man's life ; she that from Naples
37735 Can have no note , unless the sun were post
37736 The man i' th' moon's too slow till new-born chins
37737 Be rough and razorable : she that , from whom ?
37738 We all were sea-swallow'd , though some cast again ,
37739 And by that destiny to perform an act
37740 Whereof what's past is prologue , what to come
37741 In yours and my discharge .
37742
37743 What stuff is this !How say you ?
37744 'Tis true my brother's daughter's Queen of Tunis ;
37745 So is she heir of Naples ; 'twixt which regions
37746 There is some space .
37747
37748 A space whose every cubit
37749 Seems to cry out , 'How shall that Claribel
37750 Measure us back to Naples ?Keep in Tunis ,
37751 And let Sebastian wake !' Say , this were death
37752 That now hath seiz'd them ; why , they were no worse
37753 Than now they are . There be that can rule Naples
37754 As well as he that sleeps ; lords that can prate
37755 As amply and unnecessarily
37756 As this Gonzalo ; I myself could make
37757 A chough of as deep chat . O , that you bore
37758 The mind that I do ! what a sleep were this
37759 For your advancement ! Do you understand me ?
37760
37761 Methinks I do .
37762
37763 And how does your content
37764 Tender your own good fortune ?
37765
37766 I remember
37767 You did supplant your brother Prospero .
37768
37769 True :
37770 And look how well my garments sit upon me ;
37771 Much feater than before ; my brother's servants
37772 Were then my fellows ; now they are my men .
37773
37774 But , for your conscience ,
37775
37776 Ay , sir ; where lies that ? if it were a kibe ,
37777 'Twould put me to my slipper ; but I feel not
37778 This deity in my bosom : twenty consciences ,
37779 That stand 'twixt me and Milan , candied be they ,
37780 And melt ere they molest ! Here lies your brother ,
37781 No better than the earth he lies upon ,
37782 If he were that which now he's like , that's dead ;
37783 Whom I , with this obedient steel ,three inches of it ,
37784 Can lay to bed for ever ; whiles you , doing thus ,
37785 To the perpetual wink for aye might put
37786 This ancient morsel , this Sir Prudence , who
37787 Should not upbraid our course . For all the rest ,
37788 They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk ;
37789 They'll tell the clock to any business that
37790 We say befits the hour .
37791
37792 Thy case , dear friend ,
37793 Shall be my precedent : as thou got'st Milan ,
37794 I'll come by Naples . Draw thy sword : one stroke
37795 Shall free thee from the tribute which thou pay'st ,
37796 And I the king shall love thee .
37797
37798 Draw together ;
37799 And when I rear my hand , do you the like ,
37800 To fall it on Gonzalo .
37801
37802 O ! but one word .
37803
37804 My master through his art foresees the danger
37805 That you , his friend , are in ; and sends me forth
37806 For else his project dies to keep thee living .
37807
37808
37809 While you here do snoring lie ,
37810 Open-ey'd Conspiracy
37811 His time doth take .
37812 If of life you keep a care ,
37813 Shake off slumber , and beware
37814 Awake ! awake !
37815
37816
37817 Then let us both be sudden .
37818
37819 Now , good angels
37820 Preserve the king !
37821
37822
37823 Why , how now ! ho , awake ! Why are you drawn ?
37824 Wherefore this ghastly looking ?
37825
37826 What's the matter ?
37827
37828 Whiles we stood here securing your repose ,
37829 Even now , we heard a hollow burst of bellowing
37830 Like bulls , or rather hons ; did't not wake you ?
37831 It struck mine ear most terribly .
37832
37833 I heard nothing .
37834
37835 O ! 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear ,
37836 To make an earthquake : sure it was the roar
37837 Of a whole herd of lions .
37838
37839 Heard you this , Gonzalo ?
37840
37841 Upon mine honour , sir , I heard a humming ,
37842 And that a strange one too , which did awake me .
37843 I shak'd you , sir , and cry'd ; as mine eyes open'd ,
37844 I saw their weapons drawn :there was a noise ,
37845 That's verily . 'Tis best we stand upon our guard ,
37846 Or that we quit this place : let's draw our weapons .
37847
37848 Lead off this ground , and let's make further search
37849 For my poor son .
37850
37851 Heavens keep him from these beasts !
37852 For he is , sure , i' the island .
37853
37854 Lead away .
37855
37856
37857 Prospero my lord shall know what I have done :
37858 So , king , go safely on to seek thy son .
37859
37860
37861 All the infections that the sun sucks up
37862 From bogs , fens , flats , on Prosper fall , and make him
37863 By inch-meal a disease ! His spirits hear me ,
37864 And yet I needs must curse . But they'll nor pinch ,
37865 Fright me with urchin-shows , pitch me i' the mire ,
37866 Nor lead me , like a firebrand , in the dark
37867 Out of my way , unless he bid 'em ; but
37868 For every trifle are they set upon me :
37869 Sometime like apes , that mow and chatter at me
37870 And after bite me ; then like hedge-hogs , which
37871 Lie tumbling in my bare-foot way and mount
37872 Their pricks at my foot-fall ; sometime am I
37873 All wound with adders , who with cloven tongues
37874 Do hiss me into madness .
37875
37876
37877 Lo now ! lo !
37878 Here comes a spirit of his , and to torment me
37879 For bringing wood in slowly : I'll fall flat ;
37880
37881 Perchance he will not mind me .
37882
37883 Here's neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather at all , and another storm brewing ; I hear it sing i' the wind : yond same black cloud , yond huge one , looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor . If it should thunder as it did before , I know not where to hide my head : yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls .What have we here ? a man or a fish ? Dead or alive ? A fish : he smells like a fish ; a very ancient and fish-like smell ; a kind of not of the newest Poor-John . A strange fish ! Were I in England now ,as once I was ,and had but this fish painted , not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man ; any strange beast there makes a man . When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar , they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian . Legg'd like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm , o' my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion , hold it no longer ; this is no fish , but an islander , that hath lately suffered by a thunderbolt .
37884
37885 Alas ! the storm is come again : my best way is to creep under his gaberdine ; there is no other shelter hereabout : misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows . I will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past .
37886
37887 I shall no more to sea , to sea ,
37888 Here shall I die a-shore :
37889
37890 This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral :
37891 Well , here's my comfort .
37892
37893
37894 The master , the swabber , the boatswain and I ,
37895 The gunner and his mate ,
37896 Lov'd Mall , Meg , and Marian and Margery ,
37897 But none of us car'd for Kate ;
37898 For she had a tongue with a tang ,
37899 Would cry to a sailor , 'Go hang !'
37900 She lov'd not the savour of tar nor of pitch ,
37901 Yet a tailor might scratch her where-e'er she did itch :
37902 Then to sea , boys , and let her go hang .
37903
37904 This is a scurvy tune too : but here's my comfort .
37905
37906
37907 Do not torment me : O !
37908
37909 What's the matter ? Have we devils here ? Do you put tricks upon us with savages and men of Ind ? Ha ! I have not 'scaped drowning , to be afeard now of your four legs ; for it hath been said , As proper a man as ever went on four legs cannot make him give ground : and it shall be said so again while Stephano breathes at's nostrils .
37910
37911 The spirit torments me : O !
37912
37913 This is some monster of the isle with four legs , who hath got , as I take it , an ague . Where the devil should he learn our language ? I will give him some relief , if it be but for that : if I can recover him and keep him tame and get to Naples with him , he's a present for any emperor that ever trod on neat's-leather .
37914
37915 Do not torment me , prithee : I'll bring my wood home faster .
37916
37917 He's in his fit now and does not talk after the wisest . He shall taste of my bottle : if he have never drunk wine afore it will go near to remove his fit . If I can recover him , and keep him tame , I will not take too much for him : he shall pay for him that hath him , and that soundly .
37918
37919 Thou dost me yet but little hurt ; thou wilt anon , I know it by thy trembling : now Prosper works upon thee .
37920
37921 Come on your ways : open your mouth ; here is that which will give language to you , cat . Open your mouth : this will shake your shaking , I can tell you , and that soundly
37922
37923 : you cannot tell who's your friend ; open your chaps again .
37924
37925 I should know that voice : it should be but he is drowned , and these are devils . O ! defend me .
37926
37927 Four legs and two voices ; a most delicate monster ! His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend ; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches , and to detract . If all the wine in my bottle will recover him , I will help his ague . Come . Amen ! I will pour some in thy other mouth .
37928
37929 Stephano !
37930
37931 Doth thy other mouth call me ? Mercy ! mercy ! This is a devil , and no monster : I will leave him ; I have no long spoon .
37932
37933 Stephano !if thou beest Stephano , touch me , and speak to me ; for I am Trinculo :be not afeard thy good friend Trinculo .
37934
37935 If thou beest Trinculo , come forth . I'll pull thee by the lesser legs : if any be Trinculo's legs , these are they . Thou art very Trinculo indeed ! How cam'st thou to be the siege of this moon-calf ? Can he vent Trinculos ?
37936
37937 I took him to be killed with a thunderstroke . But art thou not drowned , Stephano ? I hope now thou art not drowned . Is the storm overblown ? I hid me under the dead mooncalf's gaberdine for fear of the storm . And art thou living , Stephano ? O Stephano ! two Neapolitans 'scaped !
37938
37939 Prithee , do not turn me about : my stomach is not constant .
37940
37941 These be fine things an if they be not sprites .
37942 That's a brave god and bears celestial liquor :
37943 I will kneel to him .
37944
37945 How didst thou 'scape ? How cam'st thou hither ? swear by this bottle , how thou cam'st hither . I escaped upon a butt of sack , which the sailors heaved overboard , by this bottle ! which I made of the bark of a tree with mine own hands , since I was cast ashore .
37946
37947 I'll swear upon that bottle , to be thy true subject ; for the liquor is not earthly .
37948
37949 Here : swear then , how thou escapedst .
37950
37951 Swam ashore , man , like a duck : I can swim like a duck , I'll be sworn .
37952
37953 Here , kiss the book
37954
37955 . Though thou canst swim like a duck , thou art made like a goose .
37956
37957 O Stephano ! hast any more of this ?
37958
37959 The whole butt , man : my cellar is in a rock by the seaside , where my wine is hid . How now , moon-calf ! how does thine ague ?
37960
37961 Hast thou not dropped from heaven ?
37962
37963 Out o the moon , I do assure thee : I was the man in the moon , when time was .
37964
37965 I have seen thee in her , and I do adore thee ; my mistress showed me thee , and thy dog , and thy bush .
37966
37967 Come , swear to that ; kiss the book ; I will furnish it anon with new contents ; swear .
37968
37969 By this good light , this is a very shallow monster .I afeard of him !a very weak monster .The man i' the moon ! a most poor credulous monster !Well drawn , monster , in good sooth .
37970
37971 I'll show thee every fertile inch o' the island ;
37972 And I will kiss thy foot . I prithee , be my god .
37973
37974 By this light , a most perfidious and drunken monster : when his god's asleep , he'll rob his bottle .
37975
37976 I'll kiss thy foot : I'll swear myself thy subject .
37977
37978 Come on then ; down , and swear .
37979
37980 I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster . A most scurvy monster ! I could find in my heart to beat him ,
37981
37982 Come , kiss .
37983
37984 But that the poor monster's in drink : an abominable monster !
37985
37986 I'll shew thee the best springs ; I'll pluck thee berries ;
37987 I'll fish for thee , and get thee wood enough .
37988 A plague upon the tyrant that I serve !
37989 I'll bear him no more sticks , but follow thee ,
37990 Thou wondrous man .
37991
37992 A most ridiculous monster , to make a wonder of a poor drunkard !
37993
37994 I prithee , let me bring thee where crabs grow ;
37995 And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts ;
37996 Show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how
37997 To snare the nimble marmozet ; I'll bring thee
37998 To clust'ring filberts , and sometimes I'll get thee
37999 Young scamels from the rock . Wilt thou go with me ?
38000
38001 I prithee now , lead the way , without any more talking .Trinculo , the king and all our company else being drowned , we will inherit here .Here ; bear my bottle .Fellow Trinculo , we'll fill him by and by again .
38002
38003 Farewell , master ; farewell , farewell
38004
38005
38006 A howling monster , a drunken monster .
38007
38008
38009 No more dams I'll make for fish ,
38010 Nor fetch in firing
38011 At requiring ,
38012 Nor scrape trenchering , nor wash dish ,
38013 'Ban , 'Ban , Ca Caliban ,
38014 Has a new master Get a new man .
38015
38016 Freedom , high-day ! high-day , freedom ! freedom ! high-day , freedom !
38017
38018 O brave monster ! lead the way .
38019
38020 There be some sports are painful , and their labour
38021 Delight in them sets off : some kinds of baseness
38022 Are nobly undergone , and most poor matters
38023 Point to rich ends . This my mean task
38024 Would be as heavy to me as odious ; but
38025 The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead
38026 And makes my labours pleasures : O ! she is
38027 Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed ,
38028 And he's compos'd of harshness . I must remove
38029 Some thousands of these logs and pile them up ,
38030 Upon a sore injunction : my sweet mistress
38031 Weeps when she sees me work , and says such baseness
38032 Had never like executor . I forget :
38033 But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours ,
38034 Most busiest when I do it .
38035
38036
38037 Alas ! now , pray you ,
38038 Work not so hard : I would the lightning had
38039 Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile !
38040 Pray , set it down and rest you : when this burns ,
38041 'Twill weep for having wearied you . My father
38042 Is hard at study ; pray now , rest yourself :
38043 He's safe for these three hours .
38044
38045 O most dear mistress ,
38046 The sun will set , before I shall discharge
38047 What I must strive to do .
38048
38049 If you'll sit down ,
38050 I'll bear your logs the while . Pray , give me that ;
38051 I'll carry it to the pile .
38052
38053 No , precious creature :
38054 I had rather crack my sinews , break my back ,
38055 Than you should such dishonour undergo ,
38056 While I sit lazy by .
38057
38058 It would become me
38059 As well as it does you : and I should do it
38060 With much more ease ; for my good will is to it ,
38061 And yours it is against .
38062
38063 Poor worm ! thou art infected :
38064 This visitation shows it .
38065
38066 You look wearily .
38067
38068 No , noble mistress ; 'tis fresh morning with me
38069 When you are by at night . I do beseech you
38070 Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers
38071 What is your name ?
38072
38073 Miranda .O my father !
38074 I have broke your hest to say so .
38075
38076 Admir'd Miranda !
38077 Indeed , the top of admiration ; worth
38078 What's dearest to the world ! Full many a lady
38079 I have ey'd with best regard , and many a time
38080 The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
38081 Brought my too diligent ear : for several virtues
38082 Have I lik'd several women ; never any
38083 With so full soul but some defect in her
38084 Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd ,
38085 And put it to the foil : but you , O you !
38086 So perfect and so peerless , are created
38087 Of every creature's best .
38088
38089 I do not know
38090 One of my sex ; no woman's face remember ,
38091 Save , from my glass , mine own ; nor have I seen
38092 More that I may call men than you , good friend ,
38093 And my dear father : how features are abroad ,
38094 I am skill-less of ; but , by my modesty ,
38095 The jewel in my dower ,I would not wish
38096 Any companion in the world but you ;
38097 Nor can imagination form a shape ,
38098 Besides yourself , to like of . But I prattle
38099 Something too wildly and my father's precepts
38100 I therein do forget .
38101
38102 I am in my condition
38103 A prince , Miranda ; I do think , a king ;
38104 I would not so !and would no more endure
38105 This wooden slavery than to suffer
38106 The flesh-fly blow my mouth .Hear my soul speak :
38107 The very instant that I saw you did
38108 My heart fly to your service ; there resides ,
38109 To make me slave to it ; and for your sake
38110 Am I this patient log-man .
38111
38112 Do you love me ?
38113
38114 O heaven ! O earth ! bear witness to this sound ,
38115 And crown what I profess with kind event
38116 If I speak true : if hollowly , invert
38117 What best is boded me to mischief ! I ,
38118 Beyond all limit of what else i' the world ,
38119 Do love , prize , honour you .
38120
38121 I am a fool
38122 To weep at what I am glad of .
38123
38124 Fair encounter
38125 Of two most rare affections ! Heavens rain grace
38126 On that which breeds between them !
38127
38128 Wherefore weep you ?
38129
38130 At mine unworthiness , that dare not offer
38131 What I desire to give ; and much less take
38132 What I shall die to want . But this is trifling ;
38133 And all the more it seeks to hide itself
38134 The bigger bulk it shows . Hence , bashful cunning !
38135 And prompt me , plain and holy innocence !
38136 I am your wife , if you will marry me ;
38137 If not , I'll die your maid : to be your fellow
38138 You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant
38139 Whether you will or no .
38140
38141 My mistress , dearest ;
38142 And I thus humble ever .
38143
38144 My husband then ?
38145
38146 Ay , with a heart as willing
38147 As bondage e'er of freedom : here's my hand .
38148
38149 And mine , with my heart in't : and now farewell
38150 Till half an hour hence .
38151
38152 A thousand thousand !
38153
38154
38155 So glad of this as they , I cannot be ,
38156 Who are surpris'd withal ; but my rejoicing
38157 At nothing can be more . I'll to my book ;
38158 For yet , ere supper time , must I perform
38159 Much business appertaining .
38160
38161
38162 Tell not me :when the butt is out , we will drink water ; not a drop before : therefore bear up , and board 'em .Servant-monster , drink to me .
38163
38164 Servant-monster ! the folly of this island ! They say there's but five upon this isle : we are three of them ; if th' other two be brained like us , the state totters .
38165
38166 Drink , servant-monster , when I bid thee : thy eyes are almost set in thy head .
38167
38168 Where should they be set else ? he were a brave monster indeed , if they were set in his tail .
38169
38170 My man-monster hath drowned his tongue in sack : for my part , the sea cannot drown me ; I swam , ere I could recover the shore , five-and-thirty leagues , off and on , by this light . Thou shalt be my lieutenant , monster , or my standard .
38171
38172 Your lieutenant , if you list ; he's no standard .
38173
38174 We'll not run , Monsieur monster .
38175
38176 Nor go neither : but you'll lie , like dogs ; and yet say nothing neither .
38177
38178 Moon-calf , speak once in thy life , if thou beest a good moon-calf .
38179
38180 How does thy honour ? Let me lick thy shoe . I'll not serve him , he is not valiant .
38181
38182 Thou hest , most ignorant monster : I am in case to justle a constable . Why , thou deboshed fish thou , was there ever a man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day ? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie , being but half a fish and half a monster ?
38183
38184 Lo , how he mocks me ! wilt thou let him , my lord ?
38185
38186 'Lord' quoth he !that a monster should be such a natural !
38187
38188 Lo , lo , again ! bite him to death , I prithee .
38189
38190 Trinculo , keep a good tongue in your head : if you prove a mutineer , the next tree ! The poor monster's my subject , and he shall not suffer indignity .
38191
38192 I thank my noble lord . Wilt thou be pleas'd
38193 To hearken once again the suit I made thee ?
38194
38195 Marry , will I ; kneel , and repeat it : I will stand , and so shall Trinculo .
38196
38197
38198 As I told thee before , I am subject to a tyrant , a sorcerer , that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island .
38199
38200 Thou liest .
38201
38202 Thou liest , thou jesting monkey thou ;
38203 I would my valiant master would destroy thee ;
38204 I do not lie .
38205
38206 Trinculo , if you trouble him any more in his tale , by this hand , I will supplant some of your teeth .
38207
38208 Why , I said nothing .
38209
38210 Mum then and no more .
38211
38212 Proceed .
38213
38214 I say , by sorcery he got this isle ;
38215 From me he got it : if thy greatness will ,
38216 Revenge it on him ,for , I know , thou dar'st ;
38217 But this thing dare not ,
38218
38219 That's most certain .
38220
38221 Thou shalt be lord of it and I'll serve thee .
38222
38223 How now shall this be compassed ? Canst thou bring me to the party ?
38224
38225 Yea , yea , my lord : I'll yield him thee asleep ,
38226 Where thou may'st knock a nail into his head .
38227
38228 Thou liest ; thou canst not .
38229
38230 What a pied ninny's this ! Thou scurvy patch !
38231 I do beseech thy greatness , give him blows ,
38232 And take his bottle from him : when that's gone
38233 He shall drink nought but brine ; for I'll not show him
38234 Where the quick freshes are .
38235
38236 Trinculo , run into no further danger : interrupt the monster one word further , and , by this hand , I'll turn my mercy out o' doors and make a stock-fish of thee .
38237
38238 Why , what did I ? I did nothing . I'll go further off .
38239
38240 Didst thou not say he hed ?
38241
38242 Thou liest .
38243
38244 Do I so ? take thou that .
38245
38246
38247 As you like this , give me the lie another time .
38248
38249 I did not give thee the he :Out o' your wits and hearing too ?A pox o' your bottle ! this can sack and drinking do .A murrain on your monster , and the devil take your fingers !
38250
38251 Ha , ha , ha !
38252
38253 Now , forward with your tale .Prithee stand further off .
38254
38255 Beat him enough : after a little time
38256 I'll beat him too .
38257
38258 Stand further .Come , proceed .
38259
38260 Why , as I told thee , 'tis a custom with him
38261 I' the afternoon to sleep : there thou may'st brain him ,
38262 Having first seiz'd his books ; or with a log
38263 Batter his skull , or paunch him with a stake ,
38264 Or cut his wezand with thy knife . Remember
38265 First to possess his books ; for without them
38266 He's but a sot , as I am , nor hath not
38267 One spirit to command : they all do hate him
38268 As rootedly as I . Burn but his books ;
38269 He has brave utensils ,for so he calls them ,
38270 Which , when he has a house , he'll deck withal :
38271 And that most deeply to consider is
38272 The beauty of his daughter ; he himself
38273 Calls her a nonpareil : I never saw a woman ,
38274 But only Sycorax my dam and she ;
38275 But she as far surpasseth Sycorax
38276 As great'st does least .
38277
38278 Is it so brave a lass ?
38279
38280 Ay , lord ; she will become thy bed , I warrant ,
38281 And bring thee forth brave brood .
38282
38283 Monster , I will kill this man : his daughter and I will be king and queen ,save our graces ! and Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys . Dost thou like the plot , Trinculo ?
38284
38285 Excellent .
38286
38287 Give me thy hand : I am sorry I beat thee ; but , while thou livest , keep a good tongue in thy head .
38288
38289 Within this half hour will he be asleep ;
38290 Wilt thou destroy him then ?
38291
38292 Ay , on mine honour .
38293
38294 This will I tell my master .
38295
38296 Thou mak'st me merry : I am full of pleasure .
38297 Let us be jocund : will you troll the catch
38298 You taught me but while-ere ?
38299
38300 At thy request , monster , I will do reason , any reason : Come on , Trinculo , let us sing .
38301
38302
38303 Flout 'em , and scout 'em ; and scout 'em , and flout 'em ;
38304 Thought is free .
38305
38306
38307 That's not the tune .
38308
38309
38310 What is this same ?
38311
38312 This is the tune of our catch , played by the picture of Nobody .
38313
38314 If thou beest a man , show thyself in thy likeness : if thou beest a devil , take't as thou list .
38315
38316 O , forgive me my sins !
38317
38318 He that dies pays all debts : I defy thee .Mercy upon us !
38319
38320 Art thou afeard ?
38321
38322 No , monster , not I .
38323
38324 Be not afeard : the isle is full of noises ,
38325 Sounds and sweet airs , that give delight , and hurt not .
38326 Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
38327 Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices ,
38328 That , if I then had wak'd after long sleep ,
38329 Will make mesleep again : and then , in dreaming ,
38330 The clouds methought would open and show riches
38331 Ready to drop upon me ; that , when I wak'd
38332 I cried to dream again .
38333
38334 This will prove a brave kingdom to me , where I shall have my music for nothing .
38335
38336 When Prospero is destroyed .
38337
38338 That shall be by and by : I remember the story .
38339
38340 The sound is going away : let's follow it , and after do our work .
38341
38342 Lead , monster ; we'll follow .I would I could see this taborer ! he lays it on . Wilt come ?
38343
38344 I'll follow , Stephano .
38345
38346
38347 By'r lakin , I can go no further , sir ;
38348 My old bones ache : here's a maze trod indeed ,
38349 Through forth-rights , and meanders ! by your patience ,
38350 I needs must rest me .
38351
38352 Old lord , I cannot blame thee ,
38353 Who am myself attach'd with weariness ,
38354 To the dulling of my spirits : sit down , and rest .
38355 Even here I will put off my hope , and keep it
38356 No longer for my flatterer : he is drown'd
38357 Whom thus we stray to find ; and the sea mocks
38358 Our frustrate search on land . Well , let him go .
38359
38360 I am right glad that he's so out of hope .
38361 Do not , for one repulse , forego the purpose
38362 That you resolv'd to effect .
38363
38364 The next advantage
38365 Will we take throughly .
38366
38367 Let it be to-night ;
38368 For , now they are oppress'd with travel , they
38369 Will not , nor cannot , use such vigilance
38370 As when they are fresh .
38371
38372 I say to-night : no more .
38373
38374 What harmony is this ? my good friends , hark !
38375
38376 Marvellous sweet music !
38377
38378 Give us kind keepers , heavens ! What were these ?
38379
38380 A living drollery . Now I will believe
38381 That there are unicorns ; that in Arabia
38382 There is one tree , the ph nix' throne ; one ph nix
38383 At this hour reigning there .
38384
38385 I'll believe both ;
38386 And what does else want credit , come to me ,
38387 And I'll be sworn 'tis true : travellers ne'er did lie ,
38388 Though fools at home condemn them .
38389
38390 If in Naples
38391 I should report this now , would they believe me ?
38392 If I should say I saw such islanders ,
38393 For , certes , these are people of the island ,
38394 Who , though they are of monstrous shape , yet , note ,
38395 Their manners are more gentle-kind than of
38396 Our human generation you shall find
38397 Many , nay , almost any .
38398
38399 Honest lord ,
38400 Thou hast said well ; for some of you there present
38401 Are worse than devils .
38402
38403 I cannot too much muse ,
38404 Such shapes , such gesture , and such sound , expressing ,
38405 Although they want the use of tongue ,a kind
38406 Of excellent dumb discourse .
38407
38408 Praise in departing .
38409
38410 They vanish'd strangely .
38411
38412 No matter , since
38413 They have left their viands behind ; for we have stomachs .
38414 Will't please you to taste of what is here ?
38415
38416 Not I .
38417
38418 Faith , sir , you need not fear . When we were boys ,
38419 Who would believe that there were mountaineers
38420 Dew-lapp'd like bulls , whose throats had hanging at them
38421 Wallets of flesh ? or that there were such men
38422 Whose heads stood in their breasts ? which now we find
38423 Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
38424 Good warrant of .
38425
38426 I will stand to and feed ,
38427 Although my last ; no matter , since I feel
38428 The best is past .Brother , my lord the duke ,
38429 Stand to and do as we .
38430
38431 You are three men of sin , whom Destiny
38432 That hath to instrument this lower world
38433 And what is in't ,the never-surfeited sea
38434 Hath caused to belch up you ; and on this island
38435 Where man doth not inhabit ; you 'mongst men
38436 Being most unfit to live . I have made you mad ;
38437
38438
38439 And even with such-like valour men hang and drown
38440 Their proper selves . You fools ! I and my fellows
38441 Are ministers of fate : the elements
38442 Of whom your swords are temper'd , may as well
38443 Wound the loud winds , or with bemock'd-at stabs
38444 Kill the still-closing waters , as diminish
38445 One dowle that's in my plume ; my fellow-ministers
38446 Are like invulnerable . If you could hurt ,
38447 Your swords are now too massy for your strengths ,
38448 And will not be uplifted . But , remember ,
38449 For that's my business to you ,that you three
38450 From Milan did supplant good Prospero ;
38451 Expos'd unto the sea , which hath requit it ,
38452 Him and his innocent child : for which foul deed
38453 The powers , delaying , not forgetting , have
38454 Incens'd the seas and shores , yea , all the creatures ,
38455 Against your peace . Thee of thy son , Alonso ,
38456 They have bereft ; and do pronounce , by me ,
38457 Lingering perdition ,worse than any death
38458 Can be at once ,shall step by step attend
38459 You and your ways ; whose wraths to guard you from
38460 Which here in this most desolate isle , else falls
38461 Upon your heads ,is nothing but heart-sorrow
38462 And a clear life ensuing .
38463
38464
38465 Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou
38466 Perform'd , my Ariel ; a grace it had , devouring :
38467 Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
38468 In what thou hadst to say : so , with good life
38469 And observation strange , my meaner ministers
38470 Their several kinds have done . My high charms work ,
38471 And these mine enemies are all knit up
38472 In their distractions : they now are in my power ;
38473 And in these fits I leave them , while I visit
38474 Young Ferdinand ,whom they suppose is drown'd ,
38475 And his and mine lov'd darling .
38476
38477
38478 I the name of something holy , sir , why stand you
38479 In this strange stare ?
38480
38481 O , it is monstrous ! monstrous !
38482 Methought the billows spoke and told me of it ;
38483 The winds did sing it to me ; and the thunder ,
38484 That deep and dreadful organ-pipe , pronounc'd
38485 The name of Prosper : it did bass my trespass .
38486 Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded ; and
38487 I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded ,
38488 And with him there lie mudded .
38489
38490
38491 But one fiend at a time ,
38492 I'll fight their legions o'er .
38493
38494 I'll be thy second .
38495
38496
38497 All three of them are desperate ; their great guilt ,
38498 Like poison given to work a great time after ,
38499 Now 'gins to bite the spirits .I do beseech you
38500 That are of suppler joints , follow them swiftly
38501 And hinder them from what this ecstasy
38502 May now provoke them to .
38503
38504 Follow , I pray you .
38505
38506 If I have too austerely punish'd you ,
38507 Your compensation makes amends ; for I
38508 Have given you here a third of mine own life ,
38509 Or that for which I live ; whom once again
38510 I tender to thy hand : all thy vexations
38511 Were but my trials of thy love , and thou
38512 Hast strangely stood the test : here , afore Heaven ,
38513 I ratify this my rich gift . O Ferdinand !
38514 Do not smile at me that I boast her off ,
38515 For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise ,
38516 And make it halt behind her .
38517
38518 I do believe it
38519 Against an oracle .
38520
38521 Then , as my gift and thine own acquisition
38522 Worthily purchas'd , take my daughter : but
38523 If thou dost break her virgin knot before
38524 All sanctimonious ceremonies may
38525 With full and holy rite be minister'd ,
38526 No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
38527 To make this contract grow ; but barren hate ,
38528 Sour-ey'd disdain and discord shall bestrew
38529 The union of your bed with weeds so loathly
38530 That you shall hate it both : therefore take heed ,
38531 As Hymen's lamps shall light you .
38532
38533 As I hope
38534 For quiet days , fair issue and long life ,
38535 With such love as 'tis now , the murkiest den ,
38536 The most opportune place , the strong'st sug gestion
38537 Our worser genius can , shall never melt
38538 Mine honour into lust , to take away
38539 The edge of that day's celebration
38540 When I shall think , or Ph bus' steeds are founder'd ,
38541 Or Night kept chain'd below .
38542
38543 Fairly spoke :
38544 Sit then , and talk with her , she is thine own .
38545 What , Ariell my industrious servant Ariell
38546
38547
38548 What would my potent master ? here I am .
38549
38550 Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service
38551 Did worthily perform ; and I must use you
38552 In such another trick . Go bring the rabble ,
38553 O'er whom I give thee power , here to this place :
38554 Incite them to quick motion ; for I must
38555 Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple
38556 Some vanity of mine art : it is my promise ,
38557 And they expect it from me .
38558
38559 Presently ?
38560
38561 Ay , with a twink .
38562
38563 Before you can say , 'Come ,' and 'Go ,'
38564 And breathe twice ; and cry , 'so , so ,'
38565 Each one , tripping on his toe ,
38566 Will be here with mop and mow .
38567 Do you love me , master ? no ?
38568
38569 Dearly my delicate Ariel . Do not approach
38570 Till thou dost hear me call .
38571
38572 Well , I conceive .
38573
38574
38575 Look , thou be true ; do not give dalliance
38576 Too much the rein : the strongest oaths are straw
38577 To the fire i' the blood : be more abstemious ,
38578 Or else good night your vow !
38579
38580 I warrant you , sir ;
38581 The white-cold virgin snow upon my heart
38582 Abates the ardour of my liver .
38583
38584 Well .
38585 Now come , my Ariel ! bring a corollary ,
38586 Rather than want a spirit : appear , and pertly .
38587 No tongue ! all eyes ! be silent .
38588
38589 Ceres , most bounteous lady , thy rich leas
38590 Of wheat , rye , barley , vetches , oats , and peas ;
38591 Thy turfy mountains , where live nibbling sheep ,
38592 And flat meads thatch'd with stover , them to keep ;
38593 Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims ,
38594 Which spongy April at thy hest betrims ,
38595 To make cold nymphs chaste crowns ; and thy broom groves ,
38596 Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves ,
38597 Being lass-lorn ; thy pole-clipt vineyard ;
38598 And thy sea-marge , sterile and rocky-hard ,
38599 Where thou thyself dost air : the queen o' the sky ,
38600 Whose watery arch and messenger am I ,
38601 Bids thee leave these ; and with her sovereign grace ,
38602 Here on this grass-plot , in this very place ,
38603 To come and sport ; her peacocks fly amain :
38604 Approach , rich Ceres , her to entertain .
38605
38606
38607 Hail , many-colour'd messenger , that ne'er
38608 Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter ;
38609 Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers
38610 Diffusest honey-drops , refreshing showers :
38611 And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
38612 My bosky acres , and my unshrubb'd down ,
38613 Rich scarf to my proud earth ; why hath thy queen
38614 Summon'd me hither , to this short-grass'd green ?
38615
38616 A contract of true love to celebrate ,
38617 And some donation freely to estate
38618 On the bless'd lovers .
38619
38620 Tell me , heavenly bow ,
38621 If Venus or her son , as thou dost know ,
38622 Do now attend the queen ? since they did plot
38623 The means that dusky Dis my daughter got ,
38624 Her and her blind boy's scandal'd company
38625 I have forsworn .
38626
38627 Of her society
38628 Be not afraid ; I met her deity
38629 Cutting the clouds towards Paphos and her son
38630 Dove-drawn with her . Here thought they to have done
38631 Some wanton charm upon this man and maid ,
38632 Whose vows are , that no bed-rite shall be paid
38633 Till Hymen's torch be lighted ; but in vain :
38634 Mars's hot minion is return'd again ;
38635 Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows ,
38636 Swears he will shoot no more , but play with sparrows ,
38637 And be a boy right out .
38638
38639 Highest queen of state ,
38640 Great Juno comes ; I know her by her gait .
38641
38642
38643 How does my bounteous sister ? Go with me
38644 To bless this twain , that they may prosperous be ,
38645 And honour'd in their issue .
38646
38647 Honour , riches , marriage-blessing ,
38648 Long continuance , and increasing ,
38649 Hourly joys be still upon you !
38650 Juno sings her blessings on you .
38651
38652 Earth's increase , foison plenty ,
38653 Barns and garners never empty :
38654 Vines , with clust'ring bunches growing ;
38655 Plants with goodly burden bowing ;
38656 Spring come to you at the farthest
38657 In the very end of harvest !
38658 Scarcity and want shall shun you ;
38659 Ceres' blessing so is on you .
38660
38661 This is a most majestic vision , and
38662 Harmonious charmingly : May I be bold
38663 To think these spirits ?
38664
38665 Spirits , which by mine art
38666 I have from their confines call'd to enact
38667 My present fancies .
38668
38669 Let me live here ever :
38670 So rare a wonder'd father and a wise ,
38671 Makes this place Paradise .
38672
38673
38674 Sweet , now , silence !
38675 Juno and Ceres whisper seriously ,
38676 There's something else to do : hush , and be mute ,
38677 Or else our spell is marr'd .
38678
38679 You nymphs , call'd Naiades , of the windring brooks ,
38680 With your sedg'd crowns , and ever-harmless looks ,
38681 Leave your crisp channels , and on this green land
38682 Answer your summons : Juno does command .
38683 Come , temperate nymphs , and help to celebrate
38684 A contract of true love : be not too late .
38685
38686
38687 You sun-burn'd sicklemen , of August weary ,
38688 Come hither from the furrow , and be merry :
38689 Make holiday : your rye-straw hats put on ,
38690 And these fresh nymphs encounter every one
38691 In country footing .
38692
38693
38694 I had forgot that foul conspiracy
38695 Of the beast Caliban , and his confederates
38696 Against my life : the minute of their plot
38697 Is almost come .
38698
38699 Well done ! avoid ; no more !
38700
38701 This is strange : your father's in some passion
38702 That works him strongly .
38703
38704 Never till this day
38705 Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd .
38706
38707 You do look , my son , in a mov'd sort ,
38708 As if you were dismay'd : be cheerful , sir :
38709 Our revels now are ended . These our actors ,
38710 As I foretold you , were all spirits and
38711 Are melted into air , into thin air :
38712 And , like the baseless fabric of this vision ,
38713 The cloud-capp'd towers , the gorgeous palaces ,
38714 The solemn temples , the great globe itself ,
38715 Yea , all which it inherit , shall dissolve
38716 And , like this insubstantial pageant faded ,
38717 Leave not a rack behind . We are such stuff
38718 As dreams are made on , and our little life
38719 Is rounded with a sleep .Sir , I am vex'd :
38720 Bear with my weakness ; my old brain is troubled .
38721 Be not disturb'd with my infirmity .
38722 If you be pleas'd , retire into my cell
38723 And there repose : a turn or two I'll walk ,
38724 To still my beating mind .
38725
38726 We wish your peace .
38727
38728
38729 Come with a thought !
38730
38731 I thank thee : Ariel , come !
38732
38733
38734 Thy thoughts I cleave to . What's thy pleasure ?
38735
38736 Spirit ,
38737 We must prepare to meet with Caliban .
38738
38739 Ay , my commander ; when I presented Ceres ,
38740 I thought to have told thee of it ; but I fear'd
38741 Lest I might anger thee .
38742
38743 Say again , where didst thou leave these varlets ?
38744
38745 I told you , sir , they were red-hot with drinking ;
38746 So full of valour that they smote the air
38747 For breathing in their faces ; beat the ground
38748 For kissing of their feet ; yet always bending
38749 Towards their project . Then I beat my tabor ;
38750 At which , like unback'd colts , they prick'd their ears ,
38751 Advanc'd their eyelids , lifted up their noses
38752 As they smelt music : so I charm'd their ears
38753 That , calf-like , they my lowing follow'd through
38754 Tooth'd briers , sharp furzes , pricking goss and thorns ,
38755 Which enter'd their frail shins : at last I left them
38756 I' the filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell ,
38757 There dancing up to the chins , that the foul lake
38758 O'erstunk their feet .
38759
38760 This was well done , my bird .
38761 Thy shape invisible retain thou still :
38762 The trumpery in my house , go bring it hither ,
38763 For stale to catch these thieves .
38764
38765 I go , I go .
38766
38767
38768 A devil , a born devil , on whose nature
38769 Nurture can never stick ; on whom my pains ,
38770 Humanely taken , are all lost , quite lost ;
38771 And as with age his body uglier grows ,
38772 So his mind cankers . I will plague them all ,
38773 Even to roaring .
38774
38775
38776 Come , hang them on this line .
38777
38778 Pray you , tread softly , that the blind mole may not
38779 Hear a foot fall : we now are near his cell .
38780
38781 Monster , your fairy , which you say is a harmless fairy , has done little better than played the Jack with us .
38782
38783 Monster , I do smell all horse-piss ; at which my nose is in great indignation .
38784
38785 So is mine .Do you hear , monster ? If I should take a displeasure against you , look you ,
38786
38787 Thou wert but a lost monster .
38788
38789 Good my lord , give me thy favour still :
38790 Be patient , for the prize I'll bring thee to
38791 Shall hoodwink this mischance : therefore speak softly ;
38792 All's hush'd as midnight yet .
38793
38794 Ay , but to lose our bottles in the pool ,
38795
38796 There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that , monster , but an infinite loss .
38797
38798 That's more to me than my wetting : yet this is your harmless fairy , monster .
38799
38800 I will fetch off my bottle , though I be o'er ears for my labour .
38801
38802 Prithee , my king , be quiet . Seest thou here ,
38803 This is the mouth o' the cell : no noise , and enter .
38804 Do that good mischief , which may make this island
38805 Thine own for ever , and I , thy Caliban ,
38806 For aye thy foot-licker .
38807
38808 Give me thy hand : I do begin to have bloody thoughts .
38809
38810 O king Stephano ! O peer ! O worthy Stephano ! look , what a wardrobe here is for thee !
38811
38812 Let it alone , thou fool ; it is but trash .
38813
38814 O , ho , monster ! we know what belongs to a frippery .O king Stephano !
38815
38816 Put off that gown , Trinculo ; by this hand , I'll have that gown .
38817
38818 Thy grace shall have it .
38819
38820 The dropsy drown this fooll what do you mean
38821 To dote thus on such luggage ? Let's along ,
38822 And do the murder first : if he awake ,
38823 From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches ;
38824 Make us strange stuff .
38825
38826 Be you quiet , monster .Mistress line , is not this my jerkin ? Now is the jerkin under the line : now , jerkin , you are like to lose your hair and prove a bald jerkin .
38827
38828 Do , do : we steal by line and level , an't like your grace .
38829
38830 I thank thee for that jest ; here's a garment for't : wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this country : 'Steal by line and level ,' is an excellent pass of pate ; there's another garment for't .
38831
38832 Monster , come , put some lime upon your fingers , and away with the rest .
38833
38834 I will have none on't : we shall lose our time ,
38835 And all be turn'd to barnacles , or to apes
38836 With foreheads villanous low .
38837
38838 Monster , lay-to your fingers : help to bear this away where my hogshead of wine is , or I'll turn you out of my kingdom . Go to ; carry this .
38839
38840 And this .
38841
38842 Ay , and this .
38843
38844 Hey , Mountain , hey !
38845
38846 Silver ! there it goes , Silver !
38847
38848 Fury , Fury ! there , Tyrant , there ! hark , hark !
38849
38850 Go , charge my goblins that they grind their joints
38851 With dry convulsions ; shorten up their sinews
38852 With aged cramps , and more pinch-spotted make them
38853 Than pard , or cat o' mountain .
38854
38855 Hark ! they roar .
38856
38857 Let them be hunted soundly . At this hour
38858 Lie at my mercy all mine enemies :
38859 Shortly shall all my labours end , and thou
38860 Shalt have the air at freedom : for a little ,
38861 Follow , and do me service .
38862
38863 Now does my project gather to a head :
38864 My charms crack not ; my spirits obey , and time
38865 Goes upright with his carriage . How's the day ?
38866
38867 On the sixth hour ; at which time , my lord ,
38868 You said our work should cease .
38869
38870 I did say so ,
38871 When first I rais'd the tempest . Say , my spirit ,
38872 How fares the king and's followers ?
38873
38874 Confin'd together
38875 In the same fashion as you gave in charge ,
38876 Just as you left them : all prisoners , sir ,
38877 In the line-grove which weather-fends your cell ;
38878 They cannot budge till your release . The king ,
38879 His brother , and yours , abide all three distracted ,
38880 And the remainder mourning over them ,
38881 Brimful of sorrow and dismay ; but chiefly
38882 Him , that you term'd , sir , 'The good old lord Gonzalo :'
38883 His tears run down his beard , like winter's drops
38884 From eaves of reeds ; your charm so strongly works them ,
38885 That if you now beheld them , your affections
38886 Would become tender .
38887
38888 Dost thou think so , spirit ?
38889
38890 Mine would , sir , were I human .
38891
38892 And mine shall .
38893 Hast thou , which art but air , a touch , a feeling
38894 Of their afflictions , and shall not myself ,
38895 One of their kind , that relish all as sharply ,
38896 Passion as they , be kindlier mov'd than thou art ?
38897 Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick ,
38898 Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury
38899 Do I take part : the rarer action is
38900 In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent ,
38901 The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
38902 Not a frown further . Go , release them , Ariel .
38903 My charms I'll break , their senses I'll restore ,
38904 And they shall be themselves .
38905
38906 I'll fetch them , sir
38907
38908
38909 Ye elves of hills , brooks , standing lakes , and groves ;
38910 And ye , that on the sands with printless foot
38911 Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him
38912 When he comes back ; you demi-puppets , that
38913 By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make
38914 Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you , whose pastime
38915 Is to make midnight mushrooms ; that rejoice
38916 To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid ,
38917 Weak masters though ye be I have bedimm'd
38918 The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds ,
38919 And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault
38920 Set roaring war : to the dread-rattling thunder
38921 Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak
38922 With his own bolt : the strong-bas'd promontory
38923 Have I made shake ; and by the spurs pluck'd up
38924 The pine and cedar : graves at my command
38925 Have wak'd their sleepers , op'd , and let them forth
38926 By my so potent art . But this rough magic
38927 I here abjure ; and , when I have requir'd
38928 Some heavenly music ,which even now I do ,
38929 To work mine end upon their senses that
38930 This airy charm is for , I'll break my staff ,
38931 Bury it certain fathoms in the earth ,
38932 And , deeper than did ever plummet sound ,
38933 I'll drown my book .
38934
38935 A solemn air and the best comforter
38936 To an unsettled fancy , cure thy brains ,
38937 Now useless , boil'd within thy skull ! There stand ,
38938 For you are spell-stopp'd .
38939 Holy Gonzalo , honourable man ,
38940 Mine eyes , even sociable to the show of thine ,
38941 Fall fellowly drops . The charm dissolves apace ;
38942 And as the morning steals upon the night ,
38943 Melting the darkness , so their rising senses
38944 Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
38945 Their clearer reason .O good Gonzalo !
38946 My true preserver , and a loyal sir
38947 To him thou follow'st , I will pay thy graces
38948 Home , both in word and deed .Most cruelly
38949 Didst thou , Alonso , use me and my daughter :
38950 Thy brother was a furtherer in the act ;
38951 Thou'rt pinch'd for't now , Sebastian .Flesh and blood ,
38952 You , brother mine , that entertain'd ambition ,
38953 Expell'd remorse and nature ; who , with Sebastian ,
38954 Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong ,
38955 Would here have kill'd your king ; I do forgive thee ,
38956 Unnatural though thou art !Their understanding
38957 Begins to swell , and the approaching tide
38958 Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
38959 That now lie foul and muddy . Not one of them
38960 That yet looks on me , or would know me .Ariel ,
38961 Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell :
38962
38963 I will discase me , and myself present ,
38964 As I was sometime Milan .Quickly , spirit ;
38965 Thou shalt ere long be free .
38966
38967
38968 Where the bee sucks , there suck I
38969 In a cowslip's bell I he :
38970 There I couch when owls do cry .
38971 On the bat's back I do fly
38972 After summer merrily
38973 Merrily , merrily shall I live now
38974 Under the blossom that hangs on the bough
38975
38976
38977 Why , that's my dainty Ariel ! I shall miss thee ;
38978 But yet thou shalt have freedom ;so , so , so .
38979 To the king's ship , invisible as thou art :
38980 There shalt thou find the mariners asleep
38981 Under the hatches ; the master and the boatswain
38982 Being awake , enforce them to this place ,
38983 And presently , I prithee .
38984
38985 I drink the air before me , and return
38986 Or e'er your pulse twice beat .
38987
38988
38989 All torment , trouble , wonder , and amazement
38990 Inhabits here : some heavenly power guide us
38991 Out of this fearful country !
38992
38993 Behold , sir king ,
38994 The wronged Duke of Milan , Prospero .
38995 For more assurance that a living prince
38996 Does now speak to thee , I embrace thy body ;
38997 And to thee and thy company I bid
38998 A hearty welcome .
38999
39000 Whe'r thou beest he or no ,
39001 Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me ,
39002 As late I have been , I not know : thy pulse
39003 Beats , as of flesh and blood ; and , since I saw thee ,
39004 Th' affliction of my mind amends , with which ,
39005 I fear , a madness held me : this must crave ,
39006 An if this be at all a most strange story .
39007 Thy dukedom I resign , and do entreat
39008 Thou pardon me my wrongs .But how should Prospero
39009 Be living , and be here ?
39010
39011 First , noble friend ,
39012 Let me embrace thine age ; whose honour cannot
39013 Be measur'd , or confin'd .
39014
39015 Whether this be ,
39016 Or be not , I'll not swear .
39017
39018 You do yet taste
39019 Some subtilties o' the isle , that will not let you
39020 Believe things certain .Welcome ! my friends all :
39021
39022
39023 But you , my brace of lords , were I so minded ,
39024 I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you ,
39025 And justify you traitors : at this time
39026 I will tell no tales .
39027
39028 The devil speaks in him .
39029
39030 No .
39031 For you , most wicked sir , whom to call brother
39032 Would even infect my mouth , I do forgive
39033 Thy rankest fault ; all of them ; and require
39034 My dukedom of thee , which , perforce , I know ,
39035 Thou must restore .
39036
39037 If thou beest Prospero ,
39038 Give us particulars of thy preservation ;
39039 How thou hast met us here , who three hours since
39040 Were wrack'd upon this shore ; where I have lost ,
39041 How sharp the point of this remembrance is !
39042 My dear son Ferdinand .
39043
39044 I am woe for't , sir .
39045
39046 Irreparable is the loss , and patience
39047 Says it is past her cure .
39048
39049 I rather think
39050 You have not sought her help ; of whose soft grace ,
39051 For the like loss I have her sovereign aid ,
39052 And rest myself content .
39053
39054 You the like loss !
39055
39056 As great to me , as late ; and , supportable
39057 To make the dear loss , have I means much weaker
39058 Than you may call to comfort you , for I
39059 Have lost my daughter .
39060
39061 A daughter ?
39062 O heavens ! that they were living both in Naples ,
39063 The king and queen there ! that they were , I wish
39064 Myself were mudded in that oozy bed
39065 Where my son lies . When did you lose your daughter ?
39066
39067 In this last tempest . I perceive , these lords
39068 At this encounter do so much admire
39069 That they devour their reason , and scarce think
39070 Their eyes do offices of truth , their words
39071 Are natural breath : but , howsoe'er you have
39072 Been justled from your senses , know for certain
39073 That I am Prospero and that very duke
39074 Which was thrust forth of Milan ; who most strangely
39075 Upon this shore , where you were wrack'd , was landed ,
39076 To be the lord on't . No more yet of this ;
39077 For 'tis a chronicle of day by day ,
39078 Not a relation for a breakfast nor
39079 Befitting this first meeting . Welcome , sir ;
39080 This cell's my court : here have I few attendants
39081 And subjects none abroad : pray you , look in .
39082 My dukedom since you have given me again ,
39083 I will requite you with as good a thing ;
39084 At least bring forth a wonder , to content ye
39085 As much as me my dukedom .
39086
39087
39088 Sweet lord , you play me false .
39089
39090 No , my dearest love ,
39091 I would not for the world .
39092
39093 Yes , for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle ,
39094 And I would call it fair play .
39095
39096 If this prove
39097 A vision of the island , one dear son
39098 Shall I twice lose .
39099
39100 A most high miracle !
39101
39102 Though the seas threaten , they are merciful :
39103 I have curs'd them without cause .
39104
39105
39106 Now , all the blessings
39107 Of a glad father compass thee about !
39108 Arise , and say how thou cam'st here .
39109
39110 O , wonder !
39111 How many goodly creatures are there here !
39112 How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world ,
39113 That has such people in't !
39114
39115 'Tis new to thee .
39116
39117 What is this maid , with whom thou wast at play ?
39118 Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours :
39119 Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us ,
39120 And brought us thus together ?
39121
39122 Sir , she is mortal ;
39123 But by immortal Providence she's mine ;
39124 I chose her when I could not ask my father
39125 For his advice , nor thought I had one . She
39126 Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan ,
39127 Of whom so often I have heard renown ,
39128 But never saw before ; of whom I have
39129 Receiv'd a second life ; and second father
39130 This lady makes him to me .
39131
39132 I am hers :
39133 But O ! how oddly will it sound that I
39134 Must ask my child forgiveness !
39135
39136 There , sir , stop :
39137 Let us not burden our remembrances
39138 With a heaviness that's gone .
39139
39140 I have inly wept ,
39141 Or should have spoke ere this . Look down , you gods ,
39142 And on this couple drop a blessed crown ;
39143 For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way
39144 Which brought us hither !
39145
39146 I say , Amen , Gonzalo !
39147
39148 Was Milan thrust from Milan , that his issue
39149 Should become kings of Naples ? O , rejoice
39150 Beyond a common joy , and set it down
39151 With gold on lasting pillars . In one voyage
39152 Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis ,
39153 And Ferdinand , her brother , found a wife
39154 Where he himself was lost ; Prospero his dukedom
39155 In a poor isle ; and all of us ourselves ,
39156 When no man was his own .
39157
39158 Give me your hands :
39159 Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart
39160 That doth not wish you joy !
39161
39162 Be it so : Amen !
39163
39164
39165 O look , sir ! look , sir ! here are more of us .
39166 I prophesied , if a gallows were on land ,
39167 This fellow could not drown .Now , blasphemy ,
39168 That swear'st grace o'erboard , not an oath on shore ?
39169
39170 Hast thou no mouth by land ? What is the news ?
39171
39172 The best news is that we have safely found
39173 Our king and company : the next , our ship ,
39174 Which but three glasses since we gave out split ,
39175 Is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when
39176 We first put out to sea .
39177
39178 Sir , all this service
39179 Have I done since I went .
39180
39181 My tricksy spirit !
39182
39183 These are not natural events ; they strengthen
39184 From strange to stranger .Say , how came you hither ?
39185
39186 If I did think , sir , I were well awake ,
39187 I'd strive to tell you . We were dead of sleep ,
39188 And ,how we know not ,all clapp'd under hatches ,
39189 Where , but even now , with strange and several noises
39190 Of roaring , shrieking , howling , jingling chains ,
39191 And mo diversity of sounds , all horrible ,
39192 We were awak'd ; straightway , at liberty :
39193 Where we , in all her trim , freshly beheld
39194 Our royal , good , and gallant ship ; our master
39195 Capering to eye her : on a trice , so please you ,
39196 Even in a dream , were we divided from them ,
39197 And were brought moping hither .
39198
39199 Was't well done ?
39200
39201 Bravely , my diligence ! Thou shalt be free .
39202
39203 This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod ;
39204 And there is in this business more than nature
39205 Was ever conduct of : some oracle
39206 Must rectify our knowledge .
39207
39208 Sir , my liege ,
39209 Do not infest your mind with beating on
39210 The strangeness of this business : at pick'd leisure
39211 Which shall be shortly , single I'll resolve you ,
39212 Which to you shall seem probable ,of every
39213 These happen'd accidents ; till when , be cheerful ,
39214 And think of each thing well .
39215
39216 Come hither , spirit ;
39217 Set Caliban and his companions free ;
39218 Untie the spell .
39219
39220 How fares my gracious sir ?
39221 There are yet missing of your company
39222 Some few odd lads that you remember not .
39223
39224
39225 Every man shift for all the rest , and let no man take care for himself , for all is but fortune .Coragio ! bully-monster , Coragio !
39226
39227 If these be true spies which I wear in my head , here's a goodly sight .
39228
39229 O Setebos ! these be brave spirits , indeed .
39230 How fine my master is ! I am afraid
39231 He will chastise me .
39232
39233 Ha , ha !
39234 What things are these , my lord Antonio ?
39235 Will money buy them ?
39236
39237 Very like ; one of them
39238 Is a plain fish , and , no doubt , marketable .
39239
39240 Mark but the badges of these men , my lords ,
39241 Then say , if they be true .This mis-shapen knave ,
39242 His mother was a witch ; and one so strong
39243 That could control the moon , make flows and ebbs ,
39244 And deal in her command without her power .
39245 These three have robb'd me ; and this demidevil ,
39246 For he's a bastard one ,had plotted with them
39247 To take my life : two of these fellows you
39248 Must know and own ; this thing of darkness I
39249 Acknowledge mine .
39250
39251 I shall be pinch'd to death
39252
39253 Is not this Stephano , my drunken butler ?
39254
39255 He is drunk now : where had he wine ?
39256
39257 And Trinculo is reeling-ripe : where should they
39258 Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them ?
39259 How cam'st thou in this pickle ?
39260
39261 I have been in such a pickle since I saw you last that , I fear me , will never out of my bones : I shall not fear fly-blowing .
39262
39263 Why , how now , Stephano !
39264
39265 O ! touch me not : I am not Stephano , but a cramp .
39266
39267 You'd be king of the isle , sirrah ?
39268
39269 I should have been a sore one then .
39270
39271 This is a strange thing as e'er I look'd on .
39272
39273
39274 He is as disproportion'd in his manners As in his shape .Go , sirrah , to my cell ;
39275 Take with you your companions : as you look
39276 To have my pardon , trim it handsomely .
39277
39278 Ay , that I will ; and I'll be wise hereafter ,
39279 And seek for grace . What a thrice-double ass
39280 Was I , to take this drunkard for a god ,
39281 And worship this dull fool !
39282
39283 Go to ; away !
39284
39285 Hence , and bestow your luggage where you found it .
39286
39287 Or stole it , rather .
39288
39289
39290 Sir , I invite your highness and your train
39291 To my poor cell , where you shall take your rest
39292 For this one night ; which part of it I'll waste
39293 With such discourse as , I not doubt , shall make it
39294 Go quick away ; the story of my life
39295 And the particular accidents gone by
39296 Since I came to this isle : and in the morn
39297 I'll bring you to your ship , and so to Naples ,
39298 Where I have hope to see the nuptial
39299 Of these our dear-beloved solemniz'd ;
39300 And thence retire me to my Milan , where
39301 Every third thought shall be my grave .
39302
39303 I long
39304 To hear the story of your life , which must
39305 Take the ear strangely .
39306
39307 I'll deliver all ;
39308 And promise you calm seas , auspicious gales
39309 And sail so expeditious that shall catch
39310 Your royal fleet far off .
39311
39312 My Ariel , chick ,
39313 That is thy charge : then to the elements
39314 Be free , and fare thou well !Please you , draw near .
39315
39316 Now my charms are all o'erthrown ,
39317 And what strength I have's mine own ;
39318 Which is most faint : now , 'tis true ,
39319 I must be here confin'd by you ,
39320 Or sent to Naples Let me not ,
39321 Since I have my dukedom got
39322 And pardon'd the deceiver , dwell
39323 In this bare island by your spell ;
39324 But release me from my bands
39325 With the help of your good hands .
39326 Gentle breath of yours my sails
39327 Must fill , or else my project fails ,
39328 Which was to please . Now I want
39329 Spirits to enforce , art to enchant ;
39330 And my ending is despair ,
39331 Unless I be reliev'd by prayer ,
39332 Which pierces so that it assaults
39333 Mercy itself and frees all faults .
39334 As you from crimes would pardon'd be ,
39335 Let your indulgence set me free .
39336
39337 THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
39338
39339 Cease to persuade , my loving Proteus :
39340 Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits .
39341 Were't not affection chains thy tender days
39342 To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love ,
39343 I rather would entreat thy company
39344 To see the wonders of the world abroad
39345 Than , living dully sluggardiz'd at home ,
39346 Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness .
39347 But since thou lov'st , love still , and thrive therein ,
39348 Even as I would when I to love begin .
39349
39350 Wilt thou be gone ? Sweet Valentine , adieu !
39351 Think on thy Proteus , when thou haply seest
39352 Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel :
39353 Wish me partaker in thy happiness
39354 When thou dost meet good hap ; and in thy danger ,
39355 If ever danger do environ thee ,
39356 Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers ,
39357 For I will be thy beadsman , Valentine .
39358
39359 And on a love-book pray for my success ?
39360
39361 Upon some book I love I'll pray for thee .
39362
39363 That's on some shallow story of deep love ,
39364 How young Leander cross'd the Hellespont .
39365
39366 That's a deep story of a deeper love ;
39367 For he was more than over shoes in love .
39368
39369 'Tis true ; for you are over boots in love ,
39370 And yet you never swum the Hellespont .
39371
39372 Over the boots ? nay , give me not the boots .
39373
39374 No , I will not , for it boots thee not .
39375
39376 What ?
39377
39378 To be in love , where scorn is bought with groans ;
39379 Coy looks with heart-sore sighs ; one fading moment's mirth
39380 With twenty watchful , weary , tedious nights :
39381 If haply won , perhaps a hapless gain ;
39382 If lost , why then a grievous labour won :
39383 However , but a folly bought with wit ,
39384 Or else a wit by folly vanquished .
39385
39386 So , by your circumstance , you call me fool .
39387
39388 So , by your circumstance , I fear you'll prove .
39389
39390 'Tis love you cavil at : I am not Love .
39391
39392 Love is your master , for he masters you ;
39393 And he that is so yoked by a fool ,
39394 Methinks , should not be chronicled for wise .
39395
39396 Yet writers say , as in the sweetest bud
39397 The eating canker dwells , so eating love
39398 Inhabits in the finest wits of all .
39399
39400 And writers say , as the most forward bud
39401 Is eaten by the canker ere it blow ,
39402 Even so by love the young and tender wit
39403 Is turned to folly ; blasting in the bud ,
39404 Losing his verdure even in the prime ,
39405 And all the fair effects of future hopes .
39406 But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee
39407 That art a votary to fond desire ?
39408 Once more adieu ! my father at the road
39409 Expects my coming , there to see me shipp'd .
39410
39411 And thither will I bring thee , Valentine .
39412
39413 Sweet Proteus , no ; now let us take our leave .
39414 To Milan let me hear from thee by letters
39415 Of thy success in love , and what news else
39416 Betideth here in absence of thy friend ;
39417 And I likewise will visit thee with mine .
39418
39419 All happiness bechance to thee in Milan !
39420
39421 As much to you at home ! and so , farewell .
39422
39423
39424 He after honour hunts , I after love :
39425 He leaves his friends to dignify them more ;
39426 I leave myself , my friends and all , for love .
39427 Thou , Julia , thou hast metamorphos'd me ;
39428 Made me neglect my studies , lose my time ,
39429 War with good counsel , set the world at nought ;
39430 Made wit with musing weak , heart sick with thought .
39431
39432
39433 Sir Proteus , save you ! Saw you my master ?
39434
39435 But now he parted hence , to embark for Milan .
39436
39437 Twenty to one , then , he is shipp'd already ,
39438 And I have play'd the sheep , in losing him .
39439
39440 Indeed , a sheep doth very often stray ,
39441 An if the shepherd be a while away .
39442
39443 You conclude that my master is a shepherd , then , and I a sheep ?
39444
39445 I do .
39446
39447 Why then my horns are his horns , whether I wake or sleep .
39448
39449 A silly answer , and fitting well a sheep .
39450
39451 This proves me still a sheep .
39452
39453 True , and thy master a shepherd .
39454
39455 Nay , that I can deny by a circumstance .
39456
39457 It shall go hard but I'll prove it by another .
39458
39459 The shepherd seeks the sheep , and not the sheep the shepherd ; but I seek my master , and my master seeks not me : therefore I am no sheep .
39460
39461 The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd , the shepherd for food follows not the sheep ; thou for wages followest thy master , thy master for wages follows not thee : therefore thou art a sheep .
39462
39463 Such another proof will make me cry 'baa .'
39464
39465 But , dost thou hear ? gavest thou my letter to Julia ?
39466
39467 Ay , sir : I , a lost mutton , gave your letter to her , a laced mutton ; and she , a laced mutton , gave me , a lost mutton , nothing for my labour .
39468
39469 Here's too small a pasture for such store of muttons .
39470
39471 If the ground be overcharged , you were best stick her .
39472
39473 Nay , in that you are astray ; 'twere best pound you .
39474
39475 Nay , sir , less than a pound shall serve me for carrying your letter .
39476
39477 You mistake : I mean the pound ,a pinfold .
39478
39479 From a pound to a pin ? fold it over and over ,
39480 'Tis threefold too little for carrying a letter to your lover .
39481
39482 But what said she ?
39483
39484 Did she nod ?
39485
39486 Ay .
39487
39488 Nod , ay ? why , that's noddy .
39489
39490 You mistook , sir : I say she did nod ; and you ask me if she did nod ; and I say , Ay .
39491
39492 And that set together is noddy .
39493
39494 Now you have taken the pains to set it together , take it for your pains .
39495
39496 No , no ; you shall have it for bearing the letter .
39497
39498 Well , I perceive I must be fain to bear with you .
39499
39500 Why , sir , how do you bear with me ?
39501
39502 Marry , sir , the letter very orderly ; having nothing but the word 'noddy' for my pains .
39503
39504 Beshrew me , but you have a quick wit .
39505
39506 And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse .
39507
39508 Come , come ; open the matter in brief : what said she ?
39509
39510 Open your purse , that the money and the matter may be both at once delivered .
39511
39512 Well , sir , here is for your pains
39513
39514 What said she ?
39515
39516 Truly , sir , I think you'll hardly win her .
39517
39518 Why ? couldst thou perceive so much from her ?
39519
39520 Sir , I could perceive nothing at all from her ; no , not so much as a ducat for delivering your letter . And being so hard to me that brought your mind , I fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling your mind . Give her no token but stones , for she's as hard as steel .
39521
39522 What ! said she nothing ?
39523
39524 No , not so much as 'Take this for thy pains .' To testify your bounty , I thank you , you have testerned me ; in requital whereof , henceforth carry your letters yourself . And so , sir , I'll commend you to my master .
39525
39526 Go , go , be gone , to save your ship from wrack ;
39527 Which cannot perish , having thee aboard ,
39528 Being destin'd to a drier death on shore .
39529
39530 I must go send some better messenger :
39531 I fear my Julia would not deign my lines ,
39532 Receiving them from such a worthless post .
39533
39534
39535 But say , Lucetta , now we are alone ,
39536 Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love ?
39537
39538 Ay , madam , so you stumble not unheedfully .
39539
39540 Of all the fair resort of gentlemen
39541 That every day with parle encounter me ,
39542 In thy opinion which is worthiest love ?
39543
39544 Please you repeat their names , I'll show my mind
39545 According to my shallow simple skill .
39546
39547 What think'st thou of the fair Sir Eglamour ?
39548
39549 As of a knight well-spoken , neat and fine ;
39550 But , were I you , he never should be mine .
39551
39552 What think'st thou of the rich Mercatio ?
39553
39554 Well of his wealth ; but of himself , so so .
39555
39556 What think'st thou of the gentle Proteus ?
39557
39558 Lord , Lord ! to see what folly reigns in us !
39559
39560 How now ! what means this passion at his name ?
39561
39562 Pardon , dear madam ; 'tis a passing shame
39563 That I , unworthy body as I am ,
39564 Should censure thus on lovely gentlemen .
39565
39566 Why not on Proteus , as of all the rest ?
39567
39568 Then thus ,of many good I think him best .
39569
39570 Your reason ?
39571
39572 I have no other but a woman's reason :
39573 I think him so because I think him so .
39574
39575 And wouldst thou have me cast my love on him ?
39576
39577 Ay , if you thought your love not cast away .
39578
39579 Why , he , of all the rest hath never mov'd me .
39580
39581 Yet he of all the rest , I think , best loves ye .
39582
39583 His little speaking shows his love but small .
39584
39585 Fire that's closest kept burns most of all .
39586
39587 They do not love that do not show their love .
39588
39589 O ! they love least that let men know their love .
39590
39591 I would I knew his mind .
39592
39593 Peruse this paper , madam .
39594
39595
39596 'To Julia .' Say from whom ?
39597
39598 That the contents will show .
39599
39600 Say , say , who gave it thee ?
39601
39602 Sir Valentine's page , and sent , I think , from Proteus .
39603 He would have given it you , but I , being in the way ,
39604 Did in your name receive it ; pardon the fault , I pray .
39605
39606 Now , by my modesty , a goodly broker !
39607 Dare you presume to harbour wanton lines ?
39608 To whisper and conspire against my youth ?
39609 Now , trust me , 'tis an office of great worth
39610 And you an officer fit for the place .
39611 There , take the paper : see it be return'd ;
39612 Or else return no more into my sight .
39613
39614 To plead for love deserves more fee than hate .
39615
39616 Will ye be gone ?
39617
39618 That you may ruminate .
39619
39620
39621 And yet I would I had o'erlook'd the letter .
39622 It were a shame to call her back again
39623 And pray her to a fault for which I chid her .
39624 What fool is she , that knows I am a maid ,
39625 And would not force the letter to my view !
39626 Since maids , in modesty , say 'No' to that
39627 Which they would have the profferer construe 'Ay .'
39628 Fie , fie ! how wayward is this foolish love
39629 That , like a testy babe , will scratch the nurse
39630 And presently all humbled kiss the rod !
39631 How churlishly I child Lucetta hence ,
39632 When willingly I would have had her here :
39633 How angerly I taught my brow to frown ,
39634 When inward joy enforc'd my heart to smile .
39635 My penance is , to call Lucetta back
39636 And ask remission for my folly past .
39637 What ho ! Lucetta !
39638
39639
39640 What would your ladyship ?
39641
39642 Is it near dinner-time ?
39643
39644 I would it were ;
39645 That you might kill your stomach on your meat
39646 And not upon your maid .
39647
39648 What is't that you took up so gingerly ?
39649
39650 Nothing .
39651
39652 Why didst thou stoop , then ?
39653
39654 To take a paper up
39655 That I let fall .
39656
39657 And is that paper nothing ?
39658
39659 Nothing concerning me .
39660
39661 Then let it lie for those that it concerns .
39662
39663 Madam , it will not lie where it concerns ,
39664 Unless it have a false interpreter .
39665
39666 Some love of yours hath writ to you in rime .
39667
39668 That I might sing it , madam , to a tune :
39669 Give me a note : your ladyship can set .
39670
39671 As little by such toys as may be possible ;
39672 Best sing it to the tune of 'Light o' Love .'
39673
39674 It is too heavy for so light a tune .
39675
39676 Heavy ! belike it hath some burden , then ?
39677
39678 Ay ; and melodious were it , would you sing it .
39679
39680 And why not you ?
39681
39682 I cannot reach so high .
39683
39684 Let's see your song .
39685
39686 How now , minion !
39687
39688 Keep tune there still , so you will sing it out :
39689 And yet methinks , I do not like this tune .
39690
39691 You do not ?
39692
39693 No , madam ; it is too sharp .
39694
39695 You , minion , are too saucy .
39696
39697 Nay , now you are too flat
39698 And mar the concord with too harsh a descant :
39699 There wanteth but a mean to fill your song .
39700
39701 The mean is drown'd with your unruly bass .
39702
39703 Indeed , I bid the base for Proteus .
39704
39705 This babble shall not henceforth trouble me .
39706 Here is a coil with protestation !
39707
39708 Go , get you gone , and let the papers lie :
39709 You would be fingering them , to anger me .
39710
39711 She makes it strange ; but she would be best pleas'd
39712 To be so anger'd with another letter .
39713
39714
39715 Nay , would I were so anger'd with the same !
39716 O hateful hands , to tear such loving words !
39717 Injurious wasps , to feed on such sweet honey
39718 And kill the bees that yield it with your stings !
39719 I'll kiss each several paper for amends .
39720 Look , here is writ 'kind Julia :' unkind Julia !
39721 As in revenge of thy ingratitude ,
39722 I throw thy name against the bruising stones ,
39723 Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain .
39724 And here is writ 'love-wounded Proteus :'
39725 Poor wounded name ! my bosom , as a bed
39726 Shall lodge thee till thy wound be throughly heal'd ;
39727 And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss .
39728 But twice or thrice was 'Proteus' written down :
39729 Be calm , good wind , blow not a word away
39730 Till I have found each letter in the letter ,
39731 Except mine own name ; that some whirlwind bear
39732 Unto a ragged , fearful hanging rock ,
39733 And throw it thence into the raging sea !
39734 Lo ! here in one line is his name twice writ ,
39735 'Poor forlorn Proteus , passionate Proteus ,
39736 To the sweet Julia' :that I'll tear away ;
39737 And yet I will not , sith so prettily
39738 He couples it to his complaining names :
39739 Thus will I fold them one upon another :
39740 Now kiss , embrace , contend , do what you will .
39741
39742
39743 Madam ,
39744 Dinner is ready , and your father stays .
39745
39746 Well , let us go .
39747
39748 What ! shall these papers he like tell-tales here ?
39749
39750 If you respect them , best to take them up .
39751
39752 Nay , I was taken up for laying them down ;
39753 Yet here they shall not lie , for catching cold .
39754
39755 I see you have a month's mind to them .
39756
39757 Ay , madam , you may say what sights you see ;
39758 I see things too , although you judge I wink .
39759
39760 Come , come ; will't please you go ?
39761
39762
39763 Tell me , Panthino , what sad talk was that
39764 Wherewith my brother held you in the cloister ?
39765
39766 'Twas of his nephew Proteus , your son .
39767
39768 Why , what of him ?
39769
39770 He wonder'd that your lordship
39771 Would suffer him to spend his youth at home ,
39772 While other men , of slender reputation ,
39773 Put forth their sons to seek preferment out :
39774 Some to the wars , to try their fortune there ;
39775 Some to discover islands far away ;
39776 Some to the studious universities .
39777 For any or for all these exercises
39778 He said that Proteus your son was meet ,
39779 And did request me to importune you
39780 To let him spend his time no more at home ,
39781 Which would be great impeachment to his age ,
39782 In having known to travel in his youth .
39783
39784 Nor need'st thou much importune me to that
39785 Whereon this month I have been hammering .
39786 I have consider'd well his loss of time ,
39787 And how he cannot be a perfect man ,
39788 Not being tried and tutor'd in the world :
39789 Experience is by industry achiev'd
39790 And perfected by the swift course of time .
39791 Then tell me , whither were I best to send him ?
39792
39793 I think your lordship is not ignorant
39794 How his companion , youthful Valentine ,
39795 Attends the emperor in his royal court .
39796
39797 I know it well .
39798
39799 'Twere good , I think , your lordship sent him thither :
39800 There shall be practise tilts and tournaments ,
39801 Hear sweet discourse , converse with noblemen ,
39802 And be in eye of every exercise
39803 Worthy his youth and nobleness of birth .
39804
39805 I like thy counsel , well hast thou advis'd :
39806 And that thou mayst perceive how well I like it
39807 The execution of it shall make known .
39808 Even with the speediest expedition
39809 I will dispatch him to the emperor's court .
39810
39811 To-morrow , may it please you , Don Alphonso
39812 With other gentlemen of good esteem ,
39813 Are journeying to salute the emperor
39814 And to commend their service to his will .
39815
39816 Good company ; with them shall Proteus go :
39817 And in good time :now will we break with him .
39818
39819
39820 Sweet love ! sweet lines ! sweet life !
39821 Here is her hand , the agent of her heart ;
39822 Here is her oath for love , her honour's pawn .
39823 O ! that our fathers would applaud our loves ,
39824 To seal our happiness with their consents !
39825 O heavenly Julia !
39826
39827 How now ! what letter are you reading there ?
39828
39829 May't please your lordship , 'tis a word or two
39830 Of commendations sent from Valentine ,
39831 Deliver'd by a friend that came from him .
39832
39833 Lend me the letter ; let me see what news .
39834
39835 There is no news , my lord ; but that he writes
39836 How happily he lives , how well belov'd
39837 And daily graced by the emperor ;
39838 Wishing me with him , partner of his fortune .
39839
39840 And how stand you affected to his wish ?
39841
39842 As one relying on your lordship's will
39843 And not depending on his friendly wish .
39844
39845 My will is something sorted with his wish .
39846 Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed ;
39847 For what I will , I will , and there an end .
39848 I am resolv'd that thou shalt spend some time
39849 With Valentinus in the emperor's court :
39850 What maintenance he from his friends receives ,
39851 Like exhibition thou shalt have from me .
39852 To-morrow be in readiness to go :
39853 Excuse it not , for I am peremptory .
39854
39855 My lord , I cannot be so soon provided :
39856 Please you , deliberate a day or two .
39857
39858 Look , what thou want'st shall be sent after thee :
39859 No more of stay ; to-morrow thou must go .
39860 Come on , Panthino : you shall be employ'd
39861 To hasten on his expedition .
39862
39863
39864 Thus have I shunn'd the fire for fear of burning ,
39865 And drench'd me in the sea , where I am drown'd .
39866 I fear'd to show my father Julia's letter ,
39867 Lest he should take exceptions to my love ;
39868 And with the vantage of mine own excuse
39869 Hath he excepted most against my love .
39870 O ! how this spring of love resembleth
39871 The uncertain glory of an April day ,
39872 Which now shows all the beauty of the sun ,
39873 And by and by a cloud takes all away !
39874
39875
39876 Sir Proteus , your father calls for you :
39877 He is in haste ; therefore , I pray you , go .
39878
39879 Why , this it is : my heart accords thereto ,
39880 And yet a thousand times it answers , 'no .'
39881
39882 Sir , your glove .
39883
39884
39885 Not mine ; my gloves are on .
39886
39887 Why , then this may be yours , for this is but one .
39888
39889 Ha ! let me see : ay , give it me , it's mine ;
39890 Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine !
39891 Ah Silvia ! Silvia !
39892
39893 Madam Silvia ! Madam Silvia !
39894
39895 How now , sirrah ?
39896
39897 She is not within hearing , sir .
39898
39899 Why , sir , who bade you call her ?
39900
39901 Your worship , sir ; or else I mistook .
39902
39903 Well , you'll still be too forward .
39904
39905 And yet I was last chidden for being too slow .
39906
39907 Go to , sir . Tell me , do you know Madam Silvia ?
39908
39909 She that your worship loves ?
39910
39911 Why , how know you that I am in love ?
39912
39913 Marry , by these special marks : first , you have learned , like Sir Proteus , to wreathe your arms , like a malecontent ; to relish a love-song , like a robin-redbreast ; to walk alone , like one that had the pestilence ; to sigh , like a schoolboy that had lost his A B C ; to weep , like a young wench that had buried her grandam ; to fast , like one that takes diet ; to watch , like one that fears robbing ; to speak puling , like a beggar at Hallowmas . You were wont , when you laughed , to crow like a cock ; when you walked , to walk like one of the lions ; when you fasted , it was presently after dinner ; when you looked sadly , it was for want of money : and now you are metamorphosed with a mistress , that , when I look on you , I can hardly think you my master .
39914
39915 Are all these things perceived in me ?
39916
39917 They are all perceived without ye .
39918
39919 Without me ? they cannot .
39920
39921 Without you ? nay , that's certain ; for , without you were so simple , none else would : but you are so without these follies , that these follies are within you and shine through you like the water in an urinal , that not an eye that sees you but is a physician to comment on your malady .
39922
39923 But tell me , dost thou know my lady Silvia ?
39924
39925 She that you gaze on so as she sits at supper ?
39926
39927 Hast thou observed that ? even she , I mean .
39928
39929 Why , sir , I know her not .
39930
39931 Dost thou know her by my gazing on her , and yet knowest her not ?
39932
39933 Is she not hard-favoured , sir ?
39934
39935 Not so fair , boy , as well-favoured .
39936
39937 Sir , I know that well enough .
39938
39939 What dost thou know ?
39940
39941 That she is not so fair , as , of you , well-favoured .
39942
39943 I mean that her beauty is exquisite , but her favour infinite .
39944
39945 That's because the one is painted and the other out of all count .
39946
39947 How painted ? and how out of count ?
39948
39949 Marry , sir , so painted to make her fair , that no man counts of her beauty .
39950
39951 How esteemest thou me ? I account of her beauty .
39952
39953 You never saw her since she was deformed .
39954
39955 How long hath she been deformed ?
39956
39957 Ever since you loved her .
39958
39959 I have loved her ever since I saw her , and still I see her beautiful .
39960
39961 If you love her you cannot see her .
39962
39963 Why ?
39964
39965 Because Love is blind . O ! that you had mine eyes ; or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to have when you chid at Sir Proteus for going ungartered !
39966
39967 What should I see then ?
39968
39969 Your own present folly and her passing deformity : for he , being in love , could not see to garter his hose ; and you , being in love , cannot see to put on your hose .
39970
39971 Belike , boy , then , you are in love ; for last morning you could not see to wipe my shoes .
39972
39973 True , sir ; I was in love with my bed . I thank you , you swinged me for my love , which makes me the bolder to chide you for yours .
39974
39975 In conclusion , I stand affected to her .
39976
39977 I would you were set , so your affection would cease .
39978
39979 Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves .
39980
39981 And have you ?
39982
39983 I have .
39984
39985 Are they not lamely writ ?
39986
39987 No , boy , but as well as I can do them .
39988 Peace ! here she comes .
39989
39990
39991 O excellent motion ! O exceeding puppet ! now will he interpret to her .
39992
39993 Madam and mistress , a thousand good morrows .
39994
39995 O ! give ye good even : here's a million of manners .
39996
39997 Sir Valentine and servant , to you two thousand .
39998
39999 He should give her interest , and she gives it him .
40000
40001 As you enjoin'd me , I have writ your letter
40002 Unto the secret nameless friend of yours ;
40003 Which I was much unwilling to proceed in
40004 But for my duty to your ladyship .
40005
40006
40007 I thank you , gentle servant . 'Tis very clerkly done .
40008
40009 Now , trust me , madam , it came hardly off ;
40010 For , being ignorant to whom it goes
40011 I writ at random , very doubtfully .
40012
40013 Perchance you think too much of so much pains ?
40014
40015 No , madam ; so it stead you , I will write ,
40016 Please you command , a thousand times as much .
40017 And yet
40018
40019 A pretty period ! Well , I guess the sequel ;
40020 And yet I will not name it ; and yet I care not ;
40021 And yet take this again ; and yet I thank you ,
40022 Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more .
40023
40024 And yet you will ; and yet another yet .
40025
40026 What means your ladyship ? do you not like it ?
40027
40028 Yes , yes : the lines are very quaintly writ ,
40029 But since unwillingly , take them again :
40030 Nay , take them .
40031
40032
40033 Madam , they are for you .
40034
40035 Ay , ay ; you writ them , sir , at my request ,
40036 But I will none of them ; they are for you .
40037 I would have had them writ more movingly .
40038
40039 Please you , I'll write your ladyship another .
40040
40041 And when it's writ , for my sake read it over :
40042 And if it please you , so ; if not , why , so .
40043
40044 If it please me , madam , what then ?
40045
40046 Why , if it please you , take it for your labour :
40047 And so , good morrow , servant .
40048
40049
40050 O jest unseen , inscrutable , invisible ,
40051 As a nose on a man's face , or a weathercock on a steeple !
40052 My master sues to her , and she hath taught her suitor ,
40053 He being her pupil , to become her tutor .
40054 O excellent device ! was there ever heard a better ,
40055 That my master , being scribe , to himself should write the letter ?
40056
40057 How now , sir ! what are you reasoning with yourself ?
40058
40059 Nay , I was riming : 'tis you that have the reason .
40060
40061 To do what ?
40062
40063 To be a spokesman from Madam Silvia .
40064
40065 To whom ?
40066
40067 To yourself . Why , she wooes you by a figure .
40068
40069 What figure ?
40070
40071 By a letter , I should say .
40072
40073 Why , she hath not writ to me ?
40074
40075 What need she , when she hath made you write to yourself ? Why , do you not perceive the jest ?
40076
40077 No , believe me .
40078
40079 No believing you , indeed , sir . But did you perceive her earnest ?
40080
40081 She gave me none , except an angry word .
40082
40083 Why , she hath given you a letter .
40084
40085 That's the letter I writ to her friend .
40086
40087 And that letter hath she delivered , and there an end .
40088
40089 I would it were no worse .
40090
40091 I'll warrant you , 'tis as well :
40092 'For often have you writ to her , and she , in modesty ,
40093 Or else for want of idle time , could not again reply ;
40094 Or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover ,
40095 Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover .'
40096 All this I speak in print , for in print I found it .
40097 Why muse you , sir ? 'tis dinner-time .
40098
40099 I have dined .
40100
40101 Ay , but hearken , sir : though the chameleon Love can feed on the air , I am one that am nourished by my victuals and would fain have meat . O ! be not like your mistress : be moved , be moved .
40102
40103
40104 Have patience , gentle Julia .
40105
40106 I must , where is no remedy .
40107
40108 When possibly I can , I will return .
40109
40110 If you turn not , you will return the sooner .
40111 Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake .
40112
40113
40114 Why , then , we'll make exchange : here , take you this .
40115
40116
40117 And seal the bargain with a holy kiss .
40118
40119 Here is my hand for my true constancy ;
40120 And when that hour o'erslips me in the day
40121 Wherein I sigh not , Julia , for thy sake ,
40122 The next ensuing hour some foul mischance
40123 Torment me for my love's forgetfulness !
40124 My father stays my coming ; answer not .
40125 The tide is now : nay , not thy tide of tears ;
40126 That tide will stay me longer than I should .
40127 Julia , farewell .
40128
40129 What ! gone without a word ?
40130 Ay , so true love should do : it cannot speak ;
40131 For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it .
40132
40133
40134 Sir Proteus , you are stay'd for .
40135
40136 Go ; I come , I come .
40137 Alas ! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb .
40138
40139
40140 Nay , 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping : all the kind of the Launces have this very fault . I have received my proportion , like the prodigious son , and am going with Sir Proteus to the imperial's court . I think Crab my dog be the sourest-natured dog that lives : my mother weeping , my father wailing , my sister crying , our maid howling , our cat wringing her hands , and all our house in a great perplexity , yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear . He is a stone , a very pebble stone , and has no more pity in him than a dog ; a Jew would have wept to have seen our parting : why , my grandam , having no eyes , look you , wept herself blind at my parting . Nay , I'll show you the manner of it . This shoe is my father ; no , this left shoe is my father : no , no , this left shoe is my mother ; nay , that cannot be so neither :yes , it is so ; it is so ; it hath the worser sole . This shoe , with the hole in , is my mother , and this my father . A vengeance on't ! there 'tis : now , sir , this staff is my sister ; for , look you , she is as white as a lily and as small as a wand : this hat is Nan , our maid : I am the dog ; no , the dog is himself , and I am the dog ,O ! the dog is me , and I am myself : ay , so , so . Now come I to my father ; 'Father , your blessing ;' now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping : now should I kiss my father ; well , he weeps on . Now come I to my mother ;O , that she could speak now like a wood woman ! Well , I kiss her ; why , there 'tis ; here's my mother's breath up and down . Now come I to my sister ; mark the moan she makes : Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a word ; but see how I lay the dust with my tears .
40141
40142
40143 Launce , away , away , aboard ! thy master is shipped , and thou art to post after with oars . What's the matter ? why weepest thou , man ? Away , ass ! you'll lose the tide if you tarry any longer .
40144
40145 It is no matter if the tied were lost ; for it is the unkindest tied that ever any man tied .
40146
40147 What's the unkindest tide ?
40148
40149 Why , he that's tied here , Crab , my dog .
40150
40151 Tut , man , I mean thou'lt lose the flood ; and , in losing the flood , lose thy voyage , and , in losing thy voyage , lose thy master ; and , in losing thy master , lose thy service ; and , in losing thy service ,Why dost thou stop my mouth ?
40152
40153 For fear thou shouldst lose thy tongue .
40154
40155 Where should I lose my tongue ?
40156
40157 In thy tale .
40158
40159 In thy tail !
40160
40161 Lose the tide , and the voyage , and the master , and the service , and the tied ! Why , man , if the river were dry , I am able to fill it with my tears ; if the wind were down , I could drive the boat with my sighs .
40162
40163 Come , come away , man ; I was sent to call thee .
40164
40165 Sir , call me what thou darest .
40166
40167 Wilt thou go ?
40168
40169 Well , I will go .
40170
40171
40172 Servant !
40173
40174 Mistress ?
40175
40176 Master , Sir Thurio frowns on you .
40177
40178 Ay , boy , it's for love .
40179
40180 Not of you .
40181
40182 Of my mistress , then .
40183
40184 'Twere good you knock'd him .
40185
40186 Servant , you are sad .
40187
40188 Indeed , madam , I seem so .
40189
40190 Seem you that you are not ?
40191
40192 Haply I do .
40193
40194 So do counterfeits .
40195
40196 So do you .
40197
40198 What seem I that I am not ?
40199
40200 Wise .
40201
40202 What instance of the contrary ?
40203
40204 Your folly .
40205
40206 And how quote you my folly ?
40207
40208 I quote it in your jerkin .
40209
40210 My jerkin is a doublet .
40211
40212 Well , then , I'll double your folly .
40213
40214 How ?
40215
40216 What , angry , Sir Thurio ! do you change colour ?
40217
40218 Give him leave , madam ; he is a kind of chameleon .
40219
40220 That hath more mind to feed on your blood than live in your air .
40221
40222 You have said , sir .
40223
40224 Ay , sir , and done too , for this time .
40225
40226 I know it well , sir : you always end ere you begin .
40227
40228 A fine volley of words , gentlemen , and quickly shot off .
40229
40230 'Tis indeed , madam ; we thank the giver .
40231
40232 Who is that , servant ?
40233
40234 Yourself , sweet lady ; for you gave the fire . Sir Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks , and spends what he borrows kindly in your company .
40235
40236 Sir , if you spend word for word with me , I shall make your wit bankrupt .
40237
40238 I know it well , sir : you have an exchequer of words , and , I think , no other treasure to give your followers ; for it appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words .
40239
40240 No more , gentlemen , no more . Here comes my father .
40241
40242
40243 Now , daughter Silvia , you are hard beset .
40244 Sir Valentine , your father's in good health :
40245 What say you to a letter from your friends
40246 Of much good news ?
40247
40248 My lord , I will be thankful
40249 To any happy messenger from thence .
40250
40251 Know ye Don Antonio , your countryman ?
40252
40253 Ay , my good lord ; I know the gentleman
40254 To be of worth and worthy estimation ,
40255 And not without desert so well reputed .
40256
40257 Hath he not a son ?
40258
40259 Ay , my good lord ; a son that well deserves
40260 The honour and regard of such a father .
40261
40262 You know him well ?
40263
40264 I know him as myself ; for from our infancy
40265 We have convers'd and spent our hours together :
40266 And though myself have been an idle truant ,
40267 Omitting the sweet benefit of time
40268 To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection ,
40269 Yet hath Sir Proteus ,for that's his name ,
40270 Made use and fair advantage of his days :
40271 His years but young , but his experience old ;
40272 His head unmellow'd , but his judgment ripe ;
40273 And , in a word ,for far behind his worth
40274 Come all the praises that I now bestow ,
40275 He is complete in feature and in mind
40276 With all good grace to grace a gentleman .
40277
40278 Beshrew me , sir , but if he make this good ,
40279 He is as worthy for an empress' love
40280 As meet to be an emperor's counsellor .
40281 Well , sir , this gentleman is come to me
40282 With commendation from great potentates ;
40283 And here he means to spend his time awhile :
40284 I think , 'tis no unwelcome news to you .
40285
40286 Should I have wish'd a thing , it had been he .
40287
40288 Welcome him then according to his worth .
40289 Silvia , I speak to you ; and you , Sir Thurio :
40290 For Valentine , I need not cite him to it .
40291 I'll send him hither to you presently .
40292
40293
40294 This is the gentleman I told your ladyship
40295 Had come along with me , but that his mistress
40296 Did hold his eyes lock'd in her crystal looks .
40297
40298 Belike that now she hath enfranchis'd them
40299 Upon some other pawn for fealty .
40300
40301 Nay , sure , I think she holds them prisoners still .
40302
40303 Nay , then he should be blind ; and , being blind ,
40304 How could he see his way to seek out you ?
40305
40306 Why , lady , Love hath twenty pairs of eyes .
40307
40308 They say that Love hath not an eye at all .
40309
40310 To see such lovers , Thurio , as yourself :
40311 Upon a homely object Love can wink .
40312
40313 Have done , have done . Here comes the gentleman .
40314
40315
40316 Welcome , dear Proteus ! Mistress , I beseech you ,
40317 Confirm his welcome with some special favour .
40318
40319 His worth is warrant for his welcome hither ,
40320 If this be he you oft have wish'd to hear from .
40321
40322 Mistress , it is : sweet lady , entertain him
40323 To be my fellow-servant to your ladyship .
40324
40325 Too low a mistress for so high a servant .
40326
40327 Not so , sweet lady ; but too mean a servant
40328 To have a look of such a worthy mistress .
40329
40330 Leave off discourse of disability :
40331 Sweet lady , entertain him for your servant .
40332
40333 My duty will I boast of , nothing else .
40334
40335 And duty never yet did want his meed .
40336 Servant , you are welcome to a worthless mistress .
40337
40338 I'll die on him that says so but yourself .
40339
40340 That you are welcome ?
40341
40342 That you are worthless .
40343
40344
40345 Madam , my lord your father would speak with you .
40346
40347 I wait upon his pleasure .
40348
40349 Come , Sir Thurio ,
40350 Go with me . Once more , new servant , welcome :
40351 I'll leave you to confer of home-affairs ;
40352 When you have done , we look to hear from you .
40353
40354 We'll both attend upon your ladyship .
40355
40356
40357 Now , tell me , how do all from whence you came ?
40358
40359 Your friends are well and have them much commended .
40360
40361 And how do yours ?
40362
40363 I left them all in health .
40364
40365 How does your lady and how thrives your love ?
40366
40367 My tales of love were wont to weary you ;
40368 I know you joy not in a love-discourse .
40369
40370 Ay , Proteus , but that life is alter'd now :
40371 I have done penance for contemning love ;
40372 Whose high imperious thoughts have punish'd me
40373 With bitter fasts , with penitential groans ,
40374 With nightly tears and daily heart-sore sighs ;
40375 For , in revenge of my contempt of love ,
40376 Love hath chas'd sleep from my enthralled eyes ,
40377 And made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow .
40378 O , gentle Proteus ! Love's a mighty lord ,
40379 And hath so humbled me as I confess ,
40380 There is no woe to his correction ,
40381 Nor to his service no such joy on earth .
40382 Now no discourse , except it be of love ;
40383 Now can I break my fast , dine , sup and sleep ,
40384 Upon the very naked name of love .
40385
40386 Enough ; I read your fortune in your eye .
40387 Was this the idol that you worship so ?
40388
40389 Even she ; and is she not a heavenly saint ?
40390
40391 No ; but she is an earthly paragon .
40392
40393 Call her divine .
40394
40395 I will not flatter her .
40396
40397 O ! flatter me , for love delights in praises .
40398
40399 When I was sick you gave me bitter pills ,
40400 And I must minister the like to you .
40401
40402 Then speak the truth by her ; if not divine ,
40403 Yet let her be a principality ,
40404 Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth .
40405
40406 Except my mistress .
40407
40408 Sweet , except not any ,
40409 Except thou wilt except against my love .
40410
40411 Have I not reason to prefer mine own ?
40412
40413 And I will help thee to prefer her too :
40414 She shall be dignified with this high honour ,
40415 To bear my lady's train , lest the base earth
40416 Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss ,
40417 And , of so great a favour growing proud ,
40418 Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower ,
40419 And make rough winter everlastingly .
40420
40421 Why , Valentine , what braggardism is this ?
40422
40423 Pardon me , Proteus : all I can is nothing
40424 To her whose worth makes other worthies nothing .
40425 She is alone .
40426
40427 Then , let her alone .
40428
40429 Not for the world : why , man , she is mine own ,
40430 And I as rich in having such a jewel
40431 As twenty seas , if all their sand were pearl ,
40432 The water nectar , and the rocks pure gold .
40433 Forgive me that I do not dream on thee ,
40434 Because thou see'st me dote upon my love .
40435 My foolish rival , that her father likes
40436 Only for his possessions are so huge ,
40437 Is gone with her along , and I must after ,
40438 For love , thou know'st , is full of jealousy .
40439
40440 But she loves you ?
40441
40442 Ay , and we are betroth'd : nay , more , our marriage-hour ,
40443 With all the cunning manner of our flight ,
40444 Determin'd of : how I must climb her window ,
40445 The ladder made of cords , and all the means
40446 Plotted and 'greed on for my happiness .
40447 Good Proteus , go with me to my chamber ,
40448 In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel .
40449
40450 Go on before , I shall inquire you forth :
40451 I must unto the road , to disembark
40452 Some necessaries that I needs must use ,
40453 And then I'll presently attend you .
40454
40455 Will you make haste ?
40456
40457 I will .
40458
40459 Even as one heat another heat expels ,
40460 Or as one nail by strength drives out another ,
40461 So the remembrance of my former love
40462 Is by a newer object quite forgotten .
40463 Is it mine eye , or Valentinus' praise ,
40464 Her true perfection , or my false transgression ,
40465 That makes me reasonless to reason thus ?
40466 She's fair ; and so is Julia that I love ,
40467 That I did love , for now my love is thaw'd ,
40468 Which , like a waxen image 'gainst a fire ,
40469 Bears no impression of the thing it was .
40470 Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold ,
40471 And that I love him not as I was wont :
40472 O ! but I love his lady too-too much ;
40473 And that's the reason I love him so little .
40474 How shall I dote on her with more advice ,
40475 That thus without advice begin to love her ?
40476 'Tis but her picture I have yet beheld ,
40477 And that hath dazzled my reason's light ;
40478 But when I look on her perfections ,
40479 There is no reason but I shall be blind .
40480 If I can check my erring love , I will ;
40481 If not , to compass her I'll use my skill .
40482
40483
40484 Launce ! by mine honesty , welcome to Milan !
40485
40486 Forswear not thyself , sweet youth , for I am not welcome . I reckon this always that a man is never undone till he be hanged ; nor never welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say , 'Welcome !'
40487
40488 Come on , you madcap , I'll to the alehouse with you presently ; where , for one shot of five pence , thou shalt have five thousand welcomes . But , sirrah , how did thy master part with Madam Julia ?
40489
40490 Marry , after they closed in earnest , they parted very fairly in jest .
40491
40492 But shall she marry him ?
40493
40494 No .
40495
40496 How then ? Shall he marry her ?
40497
40498 No , neither .
40499
40500 What , are they broken ?
40501
40502 No , they are both as whole as a fish .
40503
40504 Why then , how stands the matter with them ?
40505
40506 Marry , thus ; when it stands well with him , it stands well with her .
40507
40508 What an ass art thou ! I understand thee not .
40509
40510 What a block art thou , that thou canst not ! My staff understands me .
40511
40512 What thou sayest ?
40513
40514 Ay , and what I do too : look thee , I'll but lean , and my staff understands me .
40515
40516 It stands under thee , indeed .
40517
40518 Why , stand-under and under-stand is all one .
40519
40520 But tell me true , will't be a match ?
40521
40522 Ask my dog : if he say ay , it will ; if he say no , it will ; if he shake his tail and say nothing , it will .
40523
40524 The conclusion is , then , that it will .
40525
40526 Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a parable .
40527
40528 'Tis well that I get it so . But , Launce , how sayest thou , that my master is become a notable lover ?
40529
40530 I never knew him otherwise .
40531
40532 Than how ?
40533
40534 A notable lubber , as thou reportest him to be .
40535
40536 Why , thou whoreson ass , thou mistakest me .
40537
40538 Why , fool , I meant not thee ; I meant thy master .
40539
40540 I tell thee , my master is become a hot lover .
40541
40542 Why , I tell thee , I care not though he burn himself in love . If thou wilt go with me to the alehouse so ; if not , thou art a Hebrew , a Jew , and not worth the name of a Christian .
40543
40544 Why ?
40545
40546 Because thou hast not so much charity in thee as to go to the ale with a Christian . Wilt thou go ?
40547
40548 At thy service .
40549
40550
40551 To leave my Julia , shall I be forsworn ;
40552 To love fair Silvia , shall I be forsworn ;
40553 To wrong my friend , I shall be much forsworn ;
40554 And even that power which gave me first my oath
40555 Provokes me to this threefold perjury :
40556 Love bade me swear , and Love bids me forswear .
40557 O sweet-suggesting Love ! if thou hast sinn'd ,
40558 Teach me , thy tempted subject , to excuse it .
40559 At first I did adore a twinkling star ,
40560 But now I worship a celestial sun .
40561 Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken ;
40562 And he wants wit that wants resolved will
40563 To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better .
40564 Fie , fie , unreverend tongue ! to call her bad ,
40565 Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferr'd
40566 With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths .
40567 I cannot leave to love , and yet I do ;
40568 But there I leave to love where I should love .
40569 Julia I lose and Valentine I lose :
40570 If I keep them , I needs must lose myself ;
40571 If I lose them , thus find I by their loss ,
40572 For Valentine , myself ; for Julia , Silvia .
40573 I to myself am dearer than a friend ,
40574 For love is still most precious in itself ;
40575 And Silvia witness heaven that made her fair !
40576 Shows Julia but a swarthy Ethiope .
40577 I will forget that Julia is alive ,
40578 Remembering that my love to her is dead ;
40579 And Valentine I'll hold an enemy ,
40580 Aiming at Silvia as a sweeter friend .
40581 I cannot now prove constant to myself
40582 Without some treachery us'd to Valentine :
40583 This night he meaneth with a corded ladder
40584 To climb celestial Silvia's chamber-window ,
40585 Myself in counsel , his competitor .
40586 Now presently , I'll give her father notice
40587 Of their disguising and pretended flight ;
40588 Who , all enrag'd , will banish Valentine ;
40589 For Thurio , he intends , shall wed his daughter ;
40590 But , Valentine being gone , I'll quickly cross ,
40591 By some sly trick blunt Thurio's dull proceeding .
40592 Love , lend me wings to make my purpose swift ,
40593 As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift !
40594
40595
40596 Counsel , Lucetta ; gentle girl , assist me :
40597 And e'en in kind love I do conjure thee ,
40598 Who art the table wherein all my thoughts
40599 Are visibly character'd and engrav'd ,
40600 To lesson me and tell me some good mean
40601 How , with my honour , I may undertake
40602 A journey to my loving Proteus .
40603
40604 Alas ! the way is wearisome and long .
40605
40606 A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary
40607 To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps ;
40608 Much less shall she that hath Love's wings to fly ,
40609 And when the flight is made to one so dear ,
40610 Of such divine perfection , as Sir Proteus .
40611
40612 Better forbear till Proteus make return .
40613
40614 O ! know'st thou not his looks are my soul's food ?
40615 Pity the dearth that I have pined in ,
40616 By longing for that food so long a time .
40617 Didst thou but know the inly touch of love ,
40618 Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
40619 As seek to quench the fire of love with words .
40620
40621 I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire ,
40622 But qualify the fire's extreme rage ,
40623 Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason .
40624
40625 The more thou damm'st it up , the more it burns .
40626 The current that with gentle murmur glides ,
40627 Thou know'st , being stopp'd , impatiently doth rage ;
40628 But when his fair course is not hindered ,
40629 He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones ,
40630 Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge
40631 He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ;
40632 And so by many winding nooks he strays
40633 With willing sport , to the wild ocean .
40634 Then let me go and hinder not my course :
40635 I'll be as patient as a gentle stream
40636 And make a pastime of each weary step ,
40637 Till the last step have brought me to my love ;
40638 And there I'll rest , as after much turmoil
40639 A blessed soul doth in Elysium .
40640
40641 But in what habit will you go along ?
40642
40643 Not like a woman ; for I would prevent
40644 The loose encounters of lascivious men .
40645 Gentle Lucetta , fit me with such weeds
40646 As may beseem some well-reputed page .
40647
40648 Why , then , your ladyship must cut your hair .
40649
40650 No , girl ; I'll knit it up in silken strings
40651 With twenty odd-conceited true-love knots :
40652 To be fantastic may become a youth
40653 Of greater time than I shall show to be .
40654
40655 What fashion , madam , shall I make your breeches ?
40656
40657 That fits as well as 'Tell me , good my lord ,
40658 What compass will you wear your farthingale ?'
40659 Why , even what fashion thou best lik'st , Lucetta .
40660
40661 You must needs have them with a cod-piece , madam .
40662
40663 Out , out , Lucetta ! that will be ill-favour'd .
40664
40665 A round hose , madam , now's not worth a pin ,
40666 Unless you have a cod-piece to stick pins on .
40667
40668 Lucetta , as thou lov'st me , let me have
40669 What thou think'st meet and is most mannerly .
40670 But tell me , wench , how will the world repute me
40671 For undertaking so unstaid a journey ?
40672 I fear me , it will make me scandaliz'd .
40673
40674 If you think so , then stay at home and go not .
40675
40676 Nay , that I will not .
40677
40678 Then never dream on infamy , but go .
40679 If Proteus like your journey when you come ,
40680 No matter who's displeas'd when you are gone .
40681 I fear me , he will scarce be pleas'd withal .
40682
40683 That is the least , Lucetta , of my fear :
40684 A thousand oaths , an ocean of his tears ,
40685 And instances of infinite of love
40686 Warrant me welcome to my Proteus .
40687
40688 All these are servants to deceitful men .
40689
40690 Base men , that use them to so base effect ;
40691 But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth :
40692 His words are bonds , his oaths are oracles ,
40693 His love sincere , his thoughts immaculate ,
40694 His tears pure messengers sent from his heart ,
40695 His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth .
40696
40697 Pray heaven he prove so when you come to him !
40698
40699 Now , as thou lov'st me , do him not that wrong
40700 To bear a hard opinion of his truth :
40701 Only deserve my love by loving him ,
40702 And presently go with me to my chamber ,
40703 To take a note of what I stand in need of
40704 To furnish me upon my longing journey .
40705 All that is mine I leave at thy dispose ,
40706 My goods , my lands , my reputation ;
40707 Only , in lieu thereof , dispatch me hence .
40708 Come , answer not , but to it presently !
40709 I am impatient of my tarriance .
40710
40711 Sir Thurio , give us leave , I pray , awhile ;
40712 We have some secrets to confer about .
40713
40714 Now tell me , Proteus , what's your will with me ?
40715
40716 My gracious lord , that which I would discover
40717 The law of friendship bids me to conceal ;
40718 But when I call to mind your gracious favours
40719 Done to me , undeserving as I am ,
40720 My duty pricks me on to utter that
40721 Which else no worldly good should draw from me .
40722 Know , worthy prince , Sir Valentine , my friend ,
40723 This night intends to steal away your daughter :
40724 Myself am one made privy to the plot .
40725 I know you have determin'd to bestow her
40726 On Thurio , whom your gentle daughter hates ;
40727 And should she thus be stol'n away from you
40728 It would be much vexation to your age .
40729 Thus , for my duty's sake , I rather chose
40730 To cross my friend in his intended drift ,
40731 Than , by concealing it , heap on your head
40732 A pack of sorrows which would press you down ,
40733 Being unprevented , to your timeless grave .
40734
40735 Proteus , I thank thee for thine honest care ,
40736 Which to requite , command me while I live .
40737 This love of theirs myself have often seen ,
40738 Haply , when they have judg'd me fast asleep ,
40739 And oftentimes have purpos'd to forbid
40740 Sir Valentine her company and my court ;
40741 But fearing lest my jealous aim might err
40742 And so unworthily disgrace the man ,
40743 A rashness that I ever yet have shunn'd ,
40744 I gave him gentle looks , thereby to find
40745 That which thyself hast now disclos'd to me .
40746 And , that thou mayst perceive my fear of this ,
40747 Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested ,
40748 I nightly lodge her in an upper tower ,
40749 The key whereof myself have ever kept ;
40750 And thence she cannot be convey'd away .
40751
40752 Know , noble lord , they have devis'd a mean
40753 How he her chamber-window will ascend
40754 And with a corded ladder fetch her down ;
40755 For which the youthful lover now is gone
40756 And this way comes he with it presently ;
40757 Where , if it please you , you may intercept him .
40758 But , good my lord , do it so cunningly
40759 That my discovery be not aimed at ;
40760 For love of you , not hate unto my friend ,
40761 Hath made me publisher of this pretence .
40762
40763 Upon mine honour , he shall never know
40764 That I had any light from thee of this .
40765
40766 Adieu , my lord : Sir Valentine is coming .
40767
40768 Sir Valentine , whither away so fast ?
40769
40770 Please it your Grace , there is a messenger
40771 That stays to bear my letters to my friends ,
40772 And I am going to deliver them .
40773
40774 Be they of much import ?
40775
40776 The tenour of them doth but signify
40777 My health and happy being at your court .
40778
40779 Nay then , no matter : stay with me awhile ;
40780 I am to break with thee of some affairs
40781 That touch me near , wherein thou must be secret .
40782 'Tis not unknown to thee that I have sought
40783 To match my friend Sir Thurio to my daughter .
40784
40785 I know it well , my lord ; and sure , the match
40786 Were rich and honourable ; besides , the gentleman
40787 Is full of virtue , bounty , worth , and qualities
40788 Beseeming such a wife as your fair daughter .
40789 Cannot your Grace win her to fancy him ?
40790
40791 No , trust me : she is peevish , sullen , froward ,
40792 Proud , disobedient , stubborn , lacking duty ;
40793 Neither regarding that she is my child ,
40794 Nor fearing me as if I were her father :
40795 And , may I say to thee this pride of hers ,
40796 Upon advice , hath drawn my love from her ;
40797 And , where I thought the remnant of mine age
40798 Should have been cherish'd by her child-like duty ,
40799 I now am full resolv'd to take a wife
40800 And turn her out to who will take her in :
40801 Then let her beauty be her wedding-dower ;
40802 For me and my possessions she esteems not .
40803
40804 What would your Grace have me to do in this ?
40805
40806 There is a lady of Verona here ,
40807 Whom I affect ; but she is nice and coy
40808 And nought esteems my aged eloquence :
40809 Now therefore , would I have thee to my tutor ,
40810 For long agone I have forgot to court ;
40811 Besides , the fashion of the time is chang'd ,
40812 How and which way I may bestow myself
40813 To be regarded in her sun-bright eye .
40814
40815 Win her with gifts , if she respect not words :
40816 Dumb jewels often in their silent kind
40817 More than quick words do move a woman's mind .
40818
40819 But she did scorn a present that I sent her .
40820
40821 A woman sometime scorns what best contents her .
40822 Send her another ; never give her o'er ,
40823 For scorn at first makes after-love the more .
40824 If she do frown , 'tis not in hate of you ,
40825 But rather to beget more love in you ;
40826 If she do chide , 'tis not to have you gone ;
40827 For why the fools are mad if left alone .
40828 Take no repulse , whatever she doth say ;
40829 For , 'get you gone ,' she doth not mean , 'away !'
40830 Flatter and praise , commend , extol their graces ;
40831 Though ne'er so black , say they have angels' faces .
40832 That man that hath a tongue , I say , is no man ,
40833 If with his tongue he cannot win a woman .
40834
40835 But she I mean is promis'd by her friends
40836 Unto a youthful gentleman of worth ,
40837 And kept severely from resort of men ,
40838 That no man hath access by day to her .
40839
40840 Why then , I would resort to her by night .
40841
40842 Ay , but the doors be lock'd and keys kept safe ,
40843 That no man hath recourse to her by night .
40844
40845 What lets but one may enter at her window ?
40846
40847 Her chamber is aloft , far from the ground ,
40848 And built so shelving that one cannot climb it
40849 Without apparent hazard of his life .
40850
40851 Why then , a ladder quaintly made of cords ,
40852 To cast up , with a pair of anchoring hooks ,
40853 Would serve to scale another Hero's tower ,
40854 So bold Leander would adventure it .
40855
40856 Now , as thou art a gentleman of blood ,
40857 Advise me where I may have such a ladder .
40858
40859 When would you use it ? pray , sir , tell me that .
40860
40861 This very night ; for Love is like a child ,
40862 That longs for every thing that he can come by .
40863
40864 By seven o'clock I'll get you such a ladder .
40865
40866 But hark thee ; I will go to her alone :
40867 How shall I best convey the ladder thither ?
40868
40869 It will be light , my lord , that you may bear it
40870 Under a cloak that is of any length .
40871
40872 A cloak as long as thine will serve the turn ?
40873
40874 Ay , my good lord .
40875
40876 Then let me see thy cloak :
40877 I'll get me one of such another length .
40878
40879 Why , any cloak will serve the turn , my lord .
40880
40881 How shall I fashion me to wear a cloak ?
40882 I pray thee , let me feel thy cloak upon me .
40883
40884 What letter is this same ? What's here ?To Silvia !
40885 And here an engine fit for my proceeding !
40886 I'll be so bold to break the seal for once .
40887
40888 My thoughts do harbour with my Silvia nightly ;
40889 And slaves they are to me that send them flying
40890 O ! could their master come and go as lightly ,
40891 Himself would lodge where senseless they are lying !
40892 My herald thoughts in thy pure bosom rest them ;
40893 While I , their king , that thither them importune ,
40894 Do curse the grace that with such grace hath bless'd them ,
40895 Because myself do want my servants' fortune :
40896 I curse myself , for they are sent by me ,
40897 That they should harbour where their lord would be .
40898
40899 What's here ?
40900
40901 Silvia , this night I will enfranchise thee
40902
40903 'Tis so ; and here's the ladder for the purpose .
40904 Why , Phaethon ,for thou art Merops' son ,
40905 Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car
40906 And with thy daring folly burn the world ?
40907 Wilt thou reach stars , because they shine on thee ?
40908 Go , basc intruder ! overweening slave !
40909 Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates ,
40910 And think my patience , more than thy desert ,
40911 Is privilege for thy departure hence .
40912 Thank me for this more than for all the favours
40913 Which all too much I have bestow'd on thee .
40914 But if thou linger in my territories
40915 Longer than swiftest expedition
40916 Will give thee time to leave our royal court ,
40917 By heaven ! my wrath shall far exceed the love
40918 I ever borc my daughter or thyself .
40919 Be gone ! I will not hear thy vain excuse ;
40920 But , as thou lov'st thy life , make speed from hence .
40921
40922
40923 And why not death rather than living torment ?
40924 To die is to be banish'd from myself ;
40925 And Silvia is myself : banish'd from her
40926 Is self from self ,a deadly banishment !
40927 What light is light , if Silvia be not seen ?
40928 What joy is joy , if Silvia be not by ?
40929 Unless it be to think that she is by
40930 And feed upon the shadow of perfection .
40931 Except I be by Silvia in the night ,
40932 There is no music in the nightingale ;
40933 Unless I look on Silvia in the day ,
40934 There is no day for me to look upon .
40935 She is my essence ; and I leave to be ,
40936 If I be not by her fair influence
40937 Foster'd , illumin'd , cherish'd , kept alive .
40938 I fly not death , to fly his deadly doom :
40939 Tarry I here , I but attend on death ;
40940 But , fly I hence , I fly away from life .
40941
40942
40943 Run , boy ; run , run , and seek him out .
40944
40945 Soho ! soho !
40946
40947 What seest thou ?
40948
40949 Him we go to find : there's not a hair on's head but 'tis a Valentine .
40950
40951 Valentine ?
40952
40953 No .
40954
40955 Who then ? his spirit ?
40956
40957 Neither .
40958
40959 What then ?
40960
40961 Nothing .
40962
40963 Can nothing speak ? Master , shall I strike ?
40964
40965 Who would'st thou strike ?
40966
40967 Nothing .
40968
40969 Villain , forbear .
40970
40971 Why , sir , I'll strike nothing : I pray you ,
40972
40973 Sirrah , I say , forbear .Friend Valentine , a word .
40974
40975 My ears are stopp'd and cannot hear good news ,
40976 So much of bad already hath possess'd them .
40977
40978 Then in dumb silence will I bury mine ,
40979 For they are harsh , untuneable and bad .
40980
40981 Is Silvia dead ?
40982
40983 No , Valentine .
40984
40985 No Valentine , indeed , for sacred Silvia !
40986 Hath she forsworn me ?
40987
40988 No , Valentine .
40989
40990 No Valentine , if Silvia have forsworn me !
40991 What is your news ?
40992
40993 Sir , there is a proclamation that you are vanished .
40994
40995 That thou art banished , O , that's the news ,
40996 From hence , from Silvia , and from me thy friend .
40997
40998 O , I have fed upon this woe already ,
40999 And now excess of it will make me surfeit .
41000 Doth Silvia know that I am banished ?
41001
41002 Ay , ay ; and she hath offer'd to the doom
41003 Which , unrevers'd , stands in effectual force
41004 A sea of melting pearl , which some call tears :
41005 Those at her father's churlish feet she tender'd ;
41006 With them , upon her knees , her humble self ;
41007 Wringing her hands , whose whiteness so became them
41008 As if but now they waxed pale for woe :
41009 But neither bended knees , pure hands held up ,
41010 Sad sighs , deep groans , nor silver-shedding tears ,
41011 Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire ;
41012 But Valentine , if he be ta'en , must die .
41013 Besides , her intercession chaf'd him so ,
41014 When she for thy repeal was suppliant ,
41015 That to close prison he commanded her ,
41016 With many bitter threats of biding there .
41017
41018 No more ; unless the next word that thou speak'st
41019 Have some malignant power upon my life :
41020 If so , I pray thee , breathe it in mine ear ,
41021 As ending anthem of my endless dolour .
41022
41023 Cease to lament for that thou canst not help ,
41024 And study help for that which thou lament'st .
41025 Time is the nurse and breeder of all good .
41026 Here if thou stay , thou canst not see thy love ;
41027 Besides , thy staying will abridge thy life .
41028 Hope is a lover's staff ; walk hence with that
41029 And manage it against despairing thoughts .
41030 Thy letters may be here , though thou art hence ;
41031 Which , being writ to me , shall be deliver'd
41032 Even in the milk-white bosom of thy love .
41033 The time now serves not to expostulate :
41034 Come , I'll convey thee through the city-gate ,
41035 And , ere I part with thee , confer at large
41036 Of all that may concern thy love-affairs .
41037 As thou lov'st Silvia , though not for thyself ,
41038 Regard thy danger , and along with me !
41039
41040 I pray thee , Launce , and if thou seest my boy ,
41041 Bid him make haste and meet me at the North-gate .
41042
41043 Go , sirrah , find him out . Come , Valentine .
41044
41045 O my dear Silvia ! hapless Valentine !
41046
41047
41048 I am but a fool , look you ; and yet I have the wit to think my master is a kind of a knave : but that's all one , if he be but one knave . He lives not now that knows me to be in love : yet I am in love ; but a team of horse shall not pluck that from me , nor who 'tis I love ; and yet 'tis a woman ; but what woman , I will not tell myself ; and yet 'tis a milkmaid ; yet 'tis not a maid , for she hath had gossips ; yet 'tis a maid , for she is her master's maid , and serves for wages . She hath more qualities than a water-spaniel ,which is much in a bare Christian .
41049
41050 Here is the catelog of her condition . Imprimis , She can fetch and carry . Why , a horse can do no more : nay , a horse cannot fetch , but only carry ; therefore , is she better than a jade . Item , She can milk ; look you , a sweet virtue in a maid with clean hands .
41051
41052
41053 How now , Signior Launce ! what news with your mastership ?
41054
41055 With my master's ship ? why , it is at sea .
41056
41057 Well , your old vice still ; mistake the word . What news , then , in your paper ?
41058
41059 The blackest news that ever thou heardest .
41060
41061 Why , man , how black ?
41062
41063 Why , as black as ink .
41064
41065 Let me read them .
41066
41067 Fie on thee , jolthead ! thou canst not read .
41068
41069 Thou liest ; I can .
41070
41071 I will try thee . Tell me this : who begot thee ?
41072
41073 Marry , the son of my grandfather .
41074
41075 O , illiterate loiterer ! it was the son of thy grandmother . This proves that thou canst not read .
41076
41077 Come , fool , come : try me in thy paper .
41078
41079 There ; and Saint Nicholas be thy speed !
41080
41081 Imprimis , She can milk .
41082
41083 Ay , that she can .
41084
41085 Item , She brews good ale .
41086
41087 And thereof comes the proverb , 'Blessing of your heart , you brew good ale .'
41088
41089 Item , She can sew .
41090
41091 That's as much as to say , Can she so ?
41092
41093 Item , She can knit .
41094
41095 What need a man care for a stock with a wench , when she can knit him a stock ?
41096
41097 Item , She can wash and scour .
41098
41099 A special virtue ; for then she need not be washed and scoured .
41100
41101 Item , She can spin .
41102
41103 Then may I set the world on wheels , when she can spin for her living .
41104
41105 Item , She hath many nameless virtues .
41106
41107 That's as much as to say , bastard virtues ; that , indeed , know not their fathers , and therefore have no names .
41108
41109 Here follow her vices .
41110
41111 Close at the heels of her virtues .
41112
41113 Item , She is not to be kissed fasting , in respect of her breath .
41114
41115 Well , that fault may be mended with a breakfast . Read on .
41116
41117 Item , She hath a sweet mouth .
41118
41119 That makes amends for her sour breath .
41120
41121 Item , She doth talk in her sleep .
41122
41123 It's no matter for that , so she sleep not in her talk .
41124
41125 Item , She is slow in words .
41126
41127 O villain , that set this down among her vices ! To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue : I pray thee , out with't , and place it for her chief virtue .
41128
41129 Item , She is proud .
41130
41131 Out with that too : it was Eve's legacy , and cannot be ta'en from her .
41132
41133 Item , She hath no teeth .
41134
41135 I care not for that neither , because I love crusts .
41136
41137 Item , She is curst .
41138
41139 Well ; the best is , she hath no teeth to bite .
41140
41141 Item , She will often praise her liquor .
41142
41143 If her liquor be good , she shall : if she will not , I will ; for good things should be praised .
41144
41145 Item , She is too liberal .
41146
41147 Of her tongue she cannot , for that's writ down she is slow of : of her purse she shall not , for that I'll keep shut : now , of another thing she may , and that cannot I help . Well , proceed .
41148
41149 Item , She hath more hair than wit , and more faults than hairs , and more wealth than faults .
41150
41151 Stop there ; I'll have her : she was mine , and not mine , twice or thrice in that last article . Rehearse that once more .
41152
41153 Item , She hath more hair than wit .
41154
41155 More hair than wit it may be ; I'll prove it : the cover of the salt hides the salt , and therefore it is more than the salt ; the hair , that covers the wit is more than the wit , for the greater hides the less . What's next ?
41156
41157 And more faults than hairs .
41158
41159 That's monstrous ! O , that that were out !
41160
41161 And more wealth than faults .
41162
41163 Why , that word makes the faults gracious . Well , I'll have her ; and if it be a match , as nothing is impossible ,
41164
41165 What then ?
41166
41167 Why , then will I tell thee ,that thy master stays for thee at the North-gate .
41168
41169 For me ?
41170
41171 For thee ! ay ; who art thou ? he hath stayed for a better man than thee .
41172
41173 And must I go to him ?
41174
41175 Thou must run to him , for thou hast stayed so long that going will scarce serve the turn .
41176
41177 Why didst not tell me sooner ? pox of your love-letters !
41178
41179
41180 Now will he be swing'd for reading my letter . An unmannerly slave , that will thrust himself into secrets . I'll after , to rejoice in the boy's correction .
41181
41182
41183 Sir Thurio , fear not but that she will love you ,
41184 Now Valentine is banish'd from her sight .
41185
41186 Since his exile she hath despis'd me most ,
41187 Forsworn my company and rail'd at me ,
41188 That I am desperate of obtaining her .
41189
41190 This weak impress of love is as a figure
41191 Trenched in ice , which with an hour's heat
41192 Dissolves to water and doth lose his form .
41193 A little time will melt her frozen thoughts ,
41194 And worthless Valentine shall be forgot .
41195
41196
41197 How now , Sir Proteus ! Is your countryman
41198
41199 According to our proclamation gone ?
41200
41201 Gone , my good lord .
41202
41203 My daughter takes his going grievously .
41204
41205 A little time , my lord , will kill that grief .
41206
41207 So I believe ; but Thurio thinks not so .
41208 Proteus , the good conceit I hold of thee ,
41209 For thou hast shown some sign of good desert ,
41210 Makes me the better to confer with thee .
41211
41212 Longer than I prove loyal to your Grace
41213 Let me not live to look upon your Grace .
41214
41215 Thou know'st how willingly I would effect
41216 The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter .
41217
41218 I do , my lord .
41219
41220 And also , I think , thou art not ignorant
41221 How she opposes her against my will .
41222
41223 She did , my lord , when Valentine was here .
41224
41225 Ay , and perversely she persevers so .
41226 What might we do to make the girl forget
41227 The love of Valentine , and love Sir Thurio ?
41228
41229 The best way is to slander Valentine
41230 With falsehood , cowardice , and poor descent ,
41231 Three things that women highly hold in hate .
41232
41233 Ay , but she'll think that it is spoke in hate .
41234
41235 Ay , if his enemy deliver it :
41236 Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken
41237 By one whom she esteemeth as his friend .
41238
41239 Then you must undertake to slander him .
41240
41241 And that , my lord , I shall be loath to do :
41242 'Tis an ill office for a gentleman ,
41243 Especially against his very friend .
41244
41245 Where your good word cannot advantage him ,
41246 Your slander never can endamage him :
41247 Therefore the office is indifferent ,
41248 Being entreated to it by your friend .
41249
41250 You have prevail'd , my lord . If I can do it ,
41251 By aught that I can speak in his dispraise ,
41252 She shall not long continue love to him .
41253 But say this weed her love from Valentine ,
41254 It follows not that she will love Sir Thurio .
41255
41256 Therefore , as you unwind her love from him ,
41257 Lest it should ravel and be good to none ,
41258 You must provide to bottom it on me ;
41259 Which must be done by praising me as much
41260 As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine .
41261
41262 And , Proteus , we dare trust you in this kind ,
41263 Because we know , on Valentine's report ,
41264 You are already Love's firm votary
41265 And cannot soon revolt and change your mind .
41266 Upon this warrant shall you have access
41267 Where you with Silvia may confer at large ;
41268 For she is lumpish , heavy , melancholy ,
41269 And , for your friend's sake , will be glad of you ;
41270 Where you may temper her , by your persuasion
41271 To hate young Valentine and love my friend .
41272
41273 As much as I can do I will effect .
41274 But you , Sir Thurio , are not sharp enough ;
41275 You must lay lime to tangle her desires
41276 By wailful sonnets , whose composed rimes
41277 Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows .
41278
41279 Ay ,
41280 Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy .
41281
41282 Say that upon the altar of her beauty
41283 You sacrifice your tears , your sighs , your heart .
41284 Write till your ink be dry , and with your tears
41285 Moist it again , and frame some feeling line
41286 That may discover such integrity :
41287 For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews ,
41288 Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones ,
41289 Make tigers tame and huge leviathans
41290 Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands .
41291 After your dire-lamenting elegies ,
41292 Visit by night your lady's chamber-window
41293 With some sweet consort : to their instruments
41294 Tune a deploring dump ; the night's dead silence
41295 Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance .
41296 This , or else nothing , will inherit her .
41297
41298 This discipline shows thou hast been in love .
41299
41300 And thy advice this night I'll put in practice .
41301 Therefore , sweet Proteus , my direction-giver ,
41302 Let us into the city presently
41303 To sort some gentlemen well skill'd in music .
41304 I have a sonnet that will serve the turn
41305 To give the onset to thy good advice .
41306
41307 About it , gentlemen !
41308
41309 We'll wait upon your grace till aftersupper ,
41310 And afterward determine our proceedings .
41311
41312 Even now about it ! I will pardon you .
41313
41314 Fellows , stand fast ; I see a passenger .
41315
41316 If there be ten , shrink not , but down with 'em .
41317
41318
41319 Stand , sir , and throw us that you have about ye ;
41320 If not , we'll make you sit and rifle you .
41321
41322 Sir , we are undone : these are the villains
41323 That all the travellers do fear so much .
41324
41325 My friends ,
41326
41327 That's not so , sir ; we are your enemies .
41328
41329 Peace ! we'll hear him .
41330
41331 Ay , by my beard , will we , for he is a proper man .
41332
41333 Then know , that I have little wealth to lose .
41334 A man I am cross'd with adversity :
41335 My riches are these poor habiliments ,
41336 Of which if you should here disfurnish me ,
41337 You take the sum and substance that I have .
41338
41339 Whither travel you ?
41340
41341 To Verona .
41342
41343 Whence came you ?
41344
41345 From Milan .
41346
41347 Have you long sojourn'd there ?
41348
41349 Some sixteen months ; and longer might have stay'd
41350 If crooked fortune had not thwarted me .
41351
41352 What ! were you banish'd thence ?
41353
41354 I was .
41355
41356 For what offence ?
41357
41358 For that which now torments me to rehearse .
41359 I kill'd a man , whose death I much repent ;
41360 But yet I slew him manfully , in fight ,
41361 Without false vantage or base treachery .
41362
41363 Why , ne'er repent it , if it were done so .
41364 But were you banish'd for so small a fault ?
41365
41366 I was , and held me glad of such a doom .
41367
41368 Have you the tongues ?
41369
41370 My youthful travel therein made me happy ,
41371 Or else I often had been miserable .
41372
41373 By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar ,
41374 This fellow were a king for our wild faction !
41375
41376 We'll have him : Sirs , a word .
41377
41378 Master , be one of them ;
41379 It is an honourable kind of thievery .
41380
41381 Peace , villain !
41382
41383 Tell us this : have you anything to take to ?
41384
41385 Nothing , but my fortune .
41386
41387 Know then , that some of us are gentlemen ,
41388 Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth
41389 Thrust from the company of awful men :
41390 Myself was from Verona banished
41391 For practising to steal away a lady ,
41392 An heir , and near allied unto the duke .
41393
41394 And I from Mantua , for a gentleman ,
41395 Who , in my mood , I stabb'd unto the heart .
41396
41397 And I for such like petty crimes as these .
41398 But to the purpose ; for we cite our faults ,
41399 That they may hold excus'd our lawless lives ;
41400 And , partly , seeing you are beautified
41401 With goodly shape , and by your own report
41402 A linguist , and a man of such perfection
41403 As we do in our quality much want
41404
41405 Indeed , because you are a banish'd man ,
41406 Therefore , above the rest , we parley to you .
41407 Are you content to be our general ?
41408 To make a virtue of necessity
41409 And live , as we do , in this wilderness ?
41410
41411 What say'st thou ? wilt thou be of our consort ?
41412 Say 'ay ,' and be the captain of us all :
41413 We'll do thee homage and be rul'd by thee ,
41414 Love thee as our commander and our king .
41415
41416 But if thou scorn our courtesy , thou diest .
41417
41418 Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offer'd .
41419
41420 I take your offer and will live with you ,
41421 Provided that you do no outrages
41422 On silly women , or poor passengers .
41423
41424 No ; we detest such vile , base practices .
41425 Come , go with us ; we'll bring thee to our crews ,
41426 And show thee all the treasure we have got ,
41427 Which , with ourselves , all rest at thy dispose .
41428
41429
41430 Already have I been false to Valentine ,
41431 And now I must be as unjust to Thurio .
41432 Under the colour of commending him ,
41433 I have access my own love to prefer :
41434 But Silvia is too fair , too true , too holy ,
41435 To be corrupted with my worthless gifts .
41436 When I protest true loyalty to her ,
41437 She twits me with my falsehood to my friend ;
41438 When to her beauty I commend my vows ,
41439 She bids me think how I have been forsworn
41440 In breaking faith with Julia whom I lov'd :
41441 And notwithstanding all her sudden quips ,
41442 The least whereof would quell a lover's hope ,
41443 Yet , spaniel-like , the more she spurns my love ,
41444 The more it grows , and fawneth on her still .
41445 But here comes Thurio : now must we to her window ,
41446 And give some evening music to her ear .
41447
41448
41449 How now , Sir Proteus ! are you crept before us ?
41450
41451 Ay , gentle Thurio ; for you know that love
41452 Will creep in service where it cannot go .
41453
41454 Ay ; but I hope , sir , that you love not here .
41455
41456 Sir , but I do ; or else I would be hence .
41457
41458 Who ? Silvia ?
41459
41460 Ay , Silvia , for your sake .
41461
41462 I thank you for your own . Now , gentlemen ,
41463 Let's tune , and to it lustily a while .
41464
41465
41466 Now , my young guest , methinks you're allycholly : I pray you , why is it ?
41467
41468 Marry , mine host , because I cannot be merry .
41469
41470 Come , we'll have you merry . I'll bring you where you shall hear music and see the gentleman that you asked for .
41471
41472 But shall I hear him speak ?
41473
41474 Ay , that you shall .
41475
41476 That will be music .
41477
41478
41479 Hark ! hark !
41480
41481 Is he among these ?
41482
41483 Ay ; but peace ! let's hear 'em .
41484
41485
41486 Who is Silvia ? what is she ?
41487 That all our swains commend her ?
41488 Holy , fair , and wise is she ;
41489 The heaven such grace did lend her ,
41490 That she might admired be .
41491 Is she kind as she is fair ?
41492 For beauty lives with kindness :
41493 Love doth to her eyes repair ,
41494 To help him of his blindness ;
41495 And , being help'd , inhabits there .
41496 Then to Silvia let us sing ,
41497 That Silvia is excelling ;
41498 She excels each mortal thing
41499 Upon the dull earth dwelling ;
41500 To her let us garlands bring .
41501
41502 How now ! are you sadder than you were before ? How do you , man ? the music likes you not .
41503
41504 You mistake ; the musician likes me not .
41505
41506 Why , my pretty youth ?
41507
41508 He plays false , father .
41509
41510 How ? out of tune on the strings ?
41511
41512 Not so ; but yet so false that he grieves my very heart-strings .
41513
41514 You have a quick ear .
41515
41516 Ay ; I would I were deaf ; it makes me have a slow heart .
41517
41518 I perceive you delight not in music .
41519
41520 Not a whit ,when it jars so .
41521
41522 Hark ! what fine change is in the music !
41523
41524 Ay , that change is the spite .
41525
41526 You would have them always play but one thing ?
41527
41528 I would always have one play but one thing .
41529 But , host , doth this Sir Proteus that we talk on
41530 Often resort unto this gentlewoman ?
41531
41532 I will tell you what Launce , his man , told me : he lov'd her out of all nick .
41533
41534 Where is Launce ?
41535
41536 Gone to seek his dog ; which , to-morrow , by his master's command , he must carry for a present to his lady .
41537
41538 Peace ! stand aside : the company parts .
41539
41540 Sir Thurio , fear not you : I will so plead
41541 That you shall say my cunning drift excels .
41542
41543 Where meet we ?
41544
41545 At Saint Gregory's well .
41546
41547 Farewell .
41548
41549 Madam , good even to your ladyship .
41550
41551 I thank you for your music , gentlemen .
41552 Who is that that spake ?
41553
41554 One , lady , if you knew his pure heart's truth ,
41555 You would quickly learn to know him by his voice .
41556
41557 Sir Proteus , as I take it .
41558
41559 Sir Proteus , gentle lady , and your servant .
41560
41561 What is your will ?
41562
41563 That I may compass yours .
41564
41565 You have your wish ; my will is even this :
41566 That presently you hie you home to bed .
41567 Thou subtle , perjur'd , false , disloyal man !
41568 Think'st thou I am so shallow , so conceitless ,
41569 To be seduced by thy flattery ,
41570 That hast deceiv'd so many with thy vows ?
41571 Return , return , and make thy love amends .
41572 For me , by this pale queen of night I swear ,
41573 I am so far from granting thy request
41574 That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit ,
41575 And by and by intend to chide myself
41576 Even for this time I spend in talking to thee .
41577
41578 I grant , sweet love , that I did love a lady ;
41579 But she is dead .
41580
41581 'Tware false , if I should speak it ;
41582 For I am sure she is not buried .
41583
41584 Say that she be ; yet Valentine thy friend
41585 Survives ; to whom , thyself art witness
41586 I am betroth'd : and art thou not asham'd
41587 To wrong him with thy importunacy ?
41588
41589 I likewise hear that Valentine is dead .
41590
41591 And so suppose am I ; for in his grave , Assure thyself my love is buried .
41592
41593 Sweet lady , let me rake it from the earth .
41594
41595 Go to thy lady's grave and call hers thence ;
41596 Or , at the least , in hers sepulchre thine .
41597
41598 He heard not that .
41599
41600 Madam , if your heart be so obdurate ,
41601 Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love ,
41602 The picture that is hanging in your chamber :
41603 To that I'll speak , to that I'll sigh and weep ;
41604 For since the substance of your perfect self
41605 Is else devoted , I am but a shadow ,
41606 And to your shadow will I make true love .
41607
41608 If 'twere a substance , you would , sure , deceive it ,
41609 And make it but a shadow , as I am .
41610
41611 I am very loath to be your idol , sir ;
41612 But , since your falsehood shall become you well
41613 To worship shadows and adore false shapes ,
41614 Send to me in the morning and I'll send it .
41615 And so , good rest .
41616
41617 As wretches have o'er night
41618 That wait for execution in the morn .
41619
41620
41621 Host , will you go ?
41622
41623 By my halidom , I was fast asleep .
41624
41625 Pray you , where lies Sir Proteus ?
41626
41627 Marry , at my house . Trust me , I think 'tis almost day .
41628
41629 Not so ; but it hath been the longest night
41630 That e'er I watch'd and the most heaviest .
41631
41632
41633 This is the hour that Madam Silvia
41634 Entreated me to call , and know her mind :
41635 There's some great matter she'd employ me in .
41636 Madam , Madam !
41637
41638
41639 Who calls ?
41640
41641 Your servant , and your friend ;
41642 One that attends your ladyship's command .
41643
41644 Sir Eglamour , a thousand times good morrow .
41645
41646 As many , worthy lady , to yourself .
41647 According to your ladyship's impose ,
41648 I am thus early come to know what service
41649 It is your pleasure to command me in .
41650
41651 O Eglamour , thou art a gentleman
41652 Think not I flatter , for I swear I do not
41653 Valiant , wise , remorseful , well-accomplish'd .
41654 Thou art not ignorant what dear good will
41655 I bear unto the banish'd Valentine ,
41656 Nor how my father would enforce me marry
41657 Vain Thurio , whom my very soul abhors .
41658 Thyself hast lov'd ; and I have heard thee say
41659 No grief did ever come so near thy heart
41660 As when thy lady and thy true love died ,
41661 Upon whose grave thou vow'dst pure chastity .
41662 Sir Eglamour , I would to Valentine ,
41663 To Mantua , where , I hear he makes abode ;
41664 And , for the ways are dangerous to pass ,
41665 I do desire thy worthy company ,
41666 Upon whose faith and honour I repose .
41667 Urge not my father's anger , Eglamour ,
41668 But think upon my grief , a lady's grief ,
41669 And on the justice of my flying hence ,
41670 To keep me from a most unholy match ,
41671 Which heaven and fortune still rewards with plagues .
41672 I do desire thee , even from a heart
41673 As full of sorrows as the sea of sands ,
41674 To bear me company and go with me :
41675 If not , to hide what I have said to thee ,
41676 That I may venture to depart alone .
41677
41678 Madam , I pity much your grievances ;
41679 Which since I know they virtuously are plac'd ,
41680 I give consent to go along with you ,
41681 Recking as little what betideth me
41682 As much I wish all good befortune you .
41683 When will you go ?
41684
41685 This evening coming .
41686
41687 Where shall I meet you ?
41688
41689 At Friar Patrick's cell ,
41690 Where I intend holy confession .
41691
41692 I will not fail your ladyship .
41693 Good morrow , gentle lady .
41694
41695 Good morrow , kind Sir Eglamour .
41696
41697
41698 When a man's servant shall play the cur with him , look you , it goes hard ; one that I brought up of a puppy ; one that I saved from drowning , when three or four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it . I have taught him , even as one would say precisely , 'Thus would I teach a dog .' I was sent to deliver him as a present to Mistress Silvia from my master , and I came no sooner into the dining-chamber but he steps me to her trencher and steals her capon's leg . O ! 'tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies . I would have , as one should say , one that takes upon him to be a dog indeed , to be , as it were , a dog at all things . If I had not had more wit than he , to take a fault upon me that he did , I think verily he had been hanged for't : sure as I live , he had suffered for't : you shall judge . He thrusts me himself into the company of three or four gentleman-like dogs under the duke's table : he had not been there bless the mark a pissing-while , but all the chamber smelt him . 'Out with the dog !' says one ; 'What cur is that ?' says another ; 'Whip him out ,' says the third ; 'Hang him up ,' says the duke . I , having been acquainted with the smell before , knew it was Crab , and goes me to the fellow that whips the dogs : 'Friend ,' quoth I , 'you mean to whip the dog ?' 'Ay , marry , do I ,' quoth he . 'You do him the more wrong ,' quoth I ; ''twas I did the thing you wot of .' He makes me no more ado , but whips me out of the chamber . How many masters would do this for his servant ? Nay , I'll be sworn , I have sat in the stocks for puddings he hath stolen , otherwise he had been executed ; I have stood on the pillory for geese he hath killed , otherwise he had suffered for't ; thou thinkest not of this now . Nay , I remember the trick you served me when I took my leave of Madam Silvia : did not I bid thee still mark me and do as I do ? When didst thou see me heave up my leg and make water against a gentlewoman's farthingale ? Didst thou ever see me do such a trick ?
41699
41700
41701 Sebastian is thy name ? I like thee well
41702 And will employ thee in some service presently .
41703
41704 In what you please : I will do what I can .
41705
41706 I hope thou wilt .
41707
41708 How now , you whoreson peasant !
41709 Where have you been these two days loitering ?
41710
41711 Marry , sir , I carried Mistress Silvia the dog you bade me .
41712
41713 And what says she to my little jewel ?
41714
41715 Marry , she says , your dog was a cur , and tells you , currish thanks is good enough for such a present .
41716
41717 But she received my dog ?
41718
41719 No , indeed , did she not : here have I brought him back again .
41720
41721 What ! didst thou offer her this from me ?
41722
41723 Ay , sir : the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman boys in the marketplace ; and then I offered her mine own , who is a dog as big as ten of yours , and therefore the gift the greater .
41724
41725 Go , get thee hence , and find my dog again ,
41726 Or ne'er return again into my sight .
41727 Away , I say ! Stay'st thou to vex me here ?
41728 A slave that still an end turns me to shame .
41729
41730 Sebastian , I have entertained thee
41731 Partly , that I have need of such a youth ,
41732 That can with some discretion do my business ,
41733 For't is no trusting to yond foolish lout ;
41734 But chiefly for thy face and thy behaviour ,
41735 Which , if my augury deceive me not ,
41736 Witness good bringing up , fortune , and truth :
41737 Therefore , know thou , for this I entertain thee .
41738 Go presently , and take this ring with thee .
41739 Deliver it to Madam Silvia :
41740 She lov'd me well deliver'd it to me .
41741
41742 It seems , you lov'd not her , to leave her token .
41743 She's dead , belike ?
41744
41745 Not so : I think , she lives .
41746
41747 Alas !
41748
41749 Why dost thou cry 'alas ?'
41750
41751 I cannot choose
41752 But pity her .
41753
41754 Wherefore should'st thou pity her ?
41755
41756 Because methinks that she lov'd you as well
41757 As you do love your lady Silvia .
41758 She dreams on him that has forgot her love ;
41759 You dote on her , that cares not for your love .
41760 'Tis pity , love should be so contrary ;
41761 And thinking on it makes me cry , 'alas !'
41762
41763 Well , well , give her that ring and therewithal
41764 This letter : that's her chamber . Tell my lady
41765 I claim the promise for her heavenly picture .
41766 Your message done , hie home unto my chamber ,
41767 Where thou shalt find me sad and solitary .
41768
41769
41770 How many women would do such a message ?
41771 Alas , poor Proteus ! thou hast entertain'd
41772 A fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs .
41773 Alas , poor fool ! why do I pity him
41774 That with his very heart despiseth me ?
41775 Because he loves her , he despiseth me ;
41776 Because I love him , I must pity him .
41777 This ring I gave him when he parted from me ,
41778 To bind him to remember my good will ;
41779 And now am I unhappy messenger
41780 To plead for that which I would not obtain ,
41781 To carry that which I would have refus'd ,
41782 To praise his faith which I would have disprais'd .
41783 I am my master's true-confirmed love ,
41784 But cannot be true servant to my master ,
41785 Unless I prove false traitor to myself .
41786 Yet will I woo for him ; but yet so coldly
41787 As heaven it knows , I would not have him speed .
41788
41789
41790 Gentlewoman , good day ! I pray you , be my mean
41791
41792 To bring me where to speak with Madam Silvia .
41793
41794 What would you with her , if that I be she ?
41795
41796 If you be she , I do entreat your patience To hear me speak the message I am sent on .
41797
41798 From whom ?
41799
41800 From my master , Sir Proteus , madam .
41801
41802 O ! he sends you for a picture ?
41803
41804 Ay , madam .
41805
41806 Ursula , bring my picture there .
41807
41808 Go , give your master this : tell him from me ,
41809 One Julia , that his changing thoughts forget ,
41810 Would better fit his chamber than this shadow .
41811
41812 Madam , please you peruse this letter .
41813 Pardon me , madam , I have unadvis'd
41814 Deliver'd you a paper that I should not :
41815 This is the letter to your ladyship .
41816
41817 I pray thee , let me look on that again .
41818
41819 It may not be : good madam , pardon me .
41820
41821 There , hold .
41822 I will not look upon your master's lines :
41823 I know , they are stuff'd with protestations
41824 And full of new-found oaths , which he will break
41825 As easily as I do tear his paper .
41826
41827 Madam , he sends your ladyship this ring .
41828
41829 The more shame for him that he sends it me ;
41830 For , I have heard him say a thousand times ,
41831 His Julia gave it him at his departure .
41832 Though his false finger have profan'd the ring ,
41833 Mine shall not do his Julia so much wrong .
41834
41835 She thanks you .
41836
41837 What say'st thou ?
41838
41839 I thank you , madam , that you tender her .
41840 Poor gentlewoman ! my master wrongs her much .
41841
41842 Dost thou know her ?
41843
41844 Almost as well as I do know myself :
41845 To think upon her woes , I do protest
41846 That I have wept a hundred several times .
41847
41848 Belike , she thinks , that Proteus hath forsook her .
41849
41850 I think she doth , and that's her cause of sorrow .
41851
41852 Is she not passing fair ?
41853
41854 She hath been fairer , madam , than she is .
41855 When she did think my master lov'd her well ,
41856 She , in my judgment , was as fair as you ;
41857 But since she did neglect her looking-glass
41858 And threw her sun-expelling mask away ,
41859 The air hath starv'd the roses in her cheeks
41860 And pinch'd the lily-tincture of her face ,
41861 That now she is become as black as I .
41862
41863 How tall was she ?
41864
41865 About my stature ; for , at Pentecost ,
41866 When all our pageants of delight were play'd ,
41867 Our youth got me to play the woman's part ,
41868 And I was trimm'd in Madam Julia's gown ,
41869 Which served me as fit , by all men's judgments ,
41870 As if the garment had been made for me :
41871 Therefore I know she is about my height .
41872 And at that time I made her weep agood ;
41873 For I did play a lamentable part .
41874 Madam , 'twas Ariadne passioning
41875 For Theseus' perjury and unjust flight ;
41876 Which I so lively acted with my tears
41877 That my poor mistress , moved therewithal ,
41878 Wept bitterly , and would I might be dead
41879 If I in thought felt not her very sorrow !
41880
41881 She is beholding to thee , gentle youth .
41882 Alas , poor lady , desolate and left !
41883 I weep myself to think upon thy words .
41884 Here , youth , there is my purse : I give thee this
41885 For thy sweet mistress' sake , because thou lov'st her .
41886 Farewell .
41887
41888 And she shall thank you for't , if e'er you know her .
41889
41890 A virtuous gentlewoman , mild and beautiful .
41891 I hope my master's suit will be but cold ,
41892 Since she respects my mistress' love so much .
41893 Alas , how love can trifle with itself !
41894 Here is her picture : let me see ; I think ,
41895 If I had such a tire , this face of mine
41896 Were full as lovely as is this of hers ;
41897 And yet the painter flatter'd her a little ,
41898 Unless I flatter with myself too much .
41899 Her hair is auburn , mine is perfect yellow :
41900 If that be all the difference in his love
41901 I'll get me such a colour'd periwig .
41902 Her eyes are grey as glass , and so are mine :
41903 Ay , but her forehead's low , and mine's as high .
41904 What should it be that he respects in her
41905 But I can make respective in myself ,
41906 If this fond Love were not a blinded god ?
41907 Come , shadow , come , and take this shadow up ,
41908 For 'tis thy rival . O thou senseless form !
41909 Thou shalt be worshipp'd , kiss'd , lov'd , and ador'd ,
41910 And , were there sense in his idolatry ,
41911 My substance should be statue in thy stead .
41912 I'll use thee kindly for thy mistress' sake ,
41913 That us'd me so ; or else , by Jove I vow ,
41914 I should have scratch'd out your unseeing eyes ,
41915 To make my master out of love with thee .
41916
41917 The sun begins to gild the western sky ,
41918 And now it is about the very hour
41919 That Silvia at Friar Patrick's cell should meet me .
41920 She will not fail ; for lovers break not hours ,
41921 Unless it be to come before their time ,
41922 So much they spur their expedition .
41923 See , where she comes .
41924
41925 Lady , a happy evening !
41926
41927 Amen , amen ! go on , good Eglamour ,
41928 Out at the postern by the abbey-wall .
41929 I fear I am attended by some spies .
41930
41931 Fear not : the forest is not three leagues off ;
41932 If we recover that , we're sure enough .
41933
41934
41935 Sir Proteus , what says Silvia to my suit ?
41936
41937 O , sir , I find her milder than she was ;
41938 And yet she takes exceptions at your person .
41939
41940 What ! that my leg is too long ?
41941
41942 No , that it is too little .
41943
41944 I'll wear a boot to make it somewhat rounder .
41945
41946 But love will not be spurr'd to what it loathes .
41947
41948 What says she to my face ?
41949
41950 She says it is a fair one .
41951
41952 Nay then , the wanton lies ; my face is black .
41953
41954 But pearls are fair , and the old saying is ,
41955 'Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes .'
41956
41957 'Tis true , such pearls as put out ladies' eyes ;
41958 For I had rather wink than look on them .
41959
41960 How likes she my discourse ?
41961
41962 Ill , when you talk of war .
41963
41964 But well , when I discourse of love and peace ?
41965
41966 But better , indeed , when you hold your peace .
41967
41968 What says she to my valour ?
41969
41970 O , sir , she makes no doubt of that .
41971
41972 She needs not , when she knows it cowardice .
41973
41974 What says she to my birth ?
41975
41976 That you are well deriv'd .
41977
41978 True ; from a gentleman to a fool .
41979
41980 Considers she my possessions ?
41981
41982 O , ay ; and pities them .
41983
41984 Wherefore ?
41985
41986 That such an ass should owe them .
41987
41988 That they are out by lease .
41989
41990 Here comes the duke .
41991
41992
41993 How now , Sir Proteus ! how now , Thurio !
41994 Which of you saw Sir Eglamour of late ?
41995
41996 Not I .
41997
41998 Nor I .
41999
42000 Saw you my daughter ?
42001
42002 Neither .
42003
42004 Why then ,
42005 She's fled unto that peasant Valentine ,
42006 And Eglamour is in her company .
42007 'Tis true ; for Friar Laurence met them both ,
42008 As he in penance wander'd through the forest ;
42009 Him he knew well , and guess'd that it was she ,
42010 But , being mask'd , he was not sure of it ;
42011 Besides , she did intend confession
42012 At Patrick's cell this even , and there she was not .
42013 These likelihoods confirm her flight from hence .
42014 Therefore , I pray you , stand not to discourse ,
42015 But mount you presently and meet with me
42016 Upon the rising of the mountain-foot ,
42017 That leads towards Mantua , whither they are fled .
42018 Dispatch , sweet gentlemen , and follow me .
42019
42020
42021 Why , this it is to be a peevish girl ,
42022 That flies her fortune when it follows her .
42023 I'll after , more to be reveng'd on Eglamour
42024 Than for the love of reckless Silvia .
42025
42026
42027 And I will follow , more for Silvia's love
42028 Than hate of Eglamour that goes with her .
42029
42030
42031 And I will follow , more to cross that love
42032 Than hate for Silvia that is gone for love .
42033
42034
42035 Come , come ,
42036 Be patient ; we must bring you to our captain .
42037
42038 A thousand more mischances than this one
42039 Have learn'd me how to brook this patiently .
42040
42041 Come , bring her away .
42042
42043 Where is the gentleman that was with her ?
42044
42045 Being nimble-footed , he hath outrun us ;
42046 But Moyses and Valerius follow him .
42047 Go thou with her to the west end of the wood ;
42048 There is our captain . We'll follow him that's fled :
42049 The thicket is beset ; he cannot 'scape .
42050
42051
42052 Come , I must bring you to our captain's cave .
42053 Fear not ; he bears an honourable mind ,
42054 And will not use a woman lawlessly .
42055
42056 O Valentine ! this I endure for thee .
42057
42058
42059 How use doth breed a habit in a man !
42060 This shadowy desart , unfrequented woods ,
42061 I better brook than flourishing peopled towns .
42062 Here can I sit alone , unseen of any ,
42063 And to the nightingale's complaining notes
42064 Tune my distresses and record my woes .
42065 O thou that dost inhabit in my breast ,
42066 Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ,
42067 Lest , growing ruinous , the building fall
42068 And leave no memory of what it was !
42069 Repair me with thy presence , Silvia !
42070 Thou gentle nymph , cherish thy forlorn swain !
42071
42072 What halloing and what stir is this to-day ?
42073 These are my mates , that make their wills their law ,
42074 Have some unhappy passenger in chase .
42075 They love me well ; yet I have much to do
42076 To keep them from uncivil outrages .
42077 Withdraw thee , Valentine : who's this comes here ?
42078
42079 Madam , this service I have done for you
42080 Though you respect not aught your servant doth
42081 To hazard life and rescue you from him
42082 That would have forc'd your honour and your love .
42083 Vouchsafe me , for my meed , but one fair look ;
42084 A smaller boon than this I cannot beg ,
42085 And less than this , I am sure , you cannot give .
42086
42087 How like a dream is this I see and hear !
42088 Love , lend me patience to forbear awhile .
42089
42090 O , miserable , unhappy that I am !
42091
42092 Unhappy were you , madam , ere I came ;
42093 But by my coming I have made you happy .
42094
42095 By thy approach thou mak'st me most unhappy .
42096
42097 And me , when he approacheth to your presence .
42098
42099 Had I been seized by a hungry lion ,
42100 I would have been a breakfast to the beast ,
42101 Rather than have false Proteus rescue me .
42102 O ! heaven be judge how I love Valentine ,
42103 Whose life's as tender to me as my soul ,
42104 And full as much for more there cannot be
42105 I do detest false perjur'd Proteus .
42106 Therefore be gone , solicit me no more .
42107
42108 What dangerous action , stood it next to death ,
42109 Would I not undergo for one calm look !
42110 O , 'tis the curse in love , and still approv'd ,
42111 When women cannot love where they're belov'd !
42112
42113 When Proteus cannot love where he's belov'd .
42114 Read over Julia's heart , thy first best love ,
42115 For whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy faith
42116 Into a thousand oaths ; and all those oaths
42117 Descended into perjury to love me .
42118 Thou hast no faith left now , unless thou'dst two ,
42119 And that's far worse than none : better have none
42120 Than plural faith which is too much by one .
42121 Thou counterfeit to thy true friend !
42122
42123 In love
42124 Who respects friend ?
42125
42126 All men but Proteus .
42127
42128 Nay , if the gentle spirit of moving words
42129 Can no way change you to a milder form ,
42130 I'll woo you like a soldier , at arms' end ,
42131 And love you 'gainst the nature of love ,force ye .
42132
42133 O heaven !
42134
42135 I'll force thee yield to my desire .
42136
42137 Ruffian , let go that rude uncivil touch ;
42138 Thou friend of an ill fashion !
42139
42140 Valentine !
42141
42142 Thou common friend , that's without faith or love
42143 For such is a friend now treach'rous man !
42144 Thou hast beguil'd my hopes : naught but mine eye
42145 Could have persuaded me . Now I dare not say
42146 I have one friend alive : thou wouldst disprove me .
42147 Who should be trusted now , when one's right hand
42148 Is perjur'd to the bosom ? Proteus ,
42149 I am sorry I must never trust thee more ,
42150 But count the world a stranger for thy sake .
42151 The private wound is deep'st . O time most curst !
42152 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst !
42153
42154 My shame and guilt confound me .
42155 Forgive me , Valentine . If hearty sorrow
42156 Be a sufficient ransom for offence ,
42157 I tender't here : I do as truly suffer
42158 As e'er I did commit .
42159
42160 Then , I am paid ;
42161 And once again I do receive thee honest .
42162 Who by repentance is not satisfied
42163 Is nor of heaven , nor earth ; for these are pleas'd .
42164 By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeas'd :
42165 And , that my love may appear plain and free ,
42166 All that was mine in Silvia I give thee .
42167
42168 O me unhappy !
42169
42170
42171 Look to the boy .
42172
42173 Why , boy ! why , wag ! how now ! what's the matter ?
42174 Look up ; speak .
42175
42176 O good sir , my master charg'd me
42177 To deliver a ring to Madam Silvia ,
42178 Which out of my neglect was never done .
42179
42180 Where is that ring , boy ?
42181
42182 Here 'tis this is it .
42183
42184
42185 How ! let me see .
42186 Why this is the ring I gave to Julia .
42187
42188 O , cry you mercy , sir ; I have mistook :
42189 This is the ring you sent to Silvia .
42190
42191
42192 But how cam'st thou by this ring ?
42193 At my depart I gave this unto Julia .
42194
42195 And Julia herself did give it me ;
42196 And Julia herself hath brought it hither .
42197
42198 How ! Julia !
42199
42200 Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths ,
42201 And entertain'd them deeply in her heart :
42202 How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root !
42203 O Proteus ! let this habit make thee blush .
42204 Be thou asham'd that I have took upon me
42205 Such an immodest raiment ; if shame live
42206 In a disguise of love .
42207 It is the lesser blot , modesty finds ,
42208 Women to change their shapes than men their minds .
42209
42210 Than men their minds ! 'tis true . O heaven ! were man
42211 But constant , he were perfect : that one error
42212 Fills him with faults ; makes him run through all the sins :
42213 Inconstancy falls off ere it begins .
42214 What is in Silvia's face , but I may spy
42215 More fresh in Julia's with a constant eye ?
42216
42217 Come , come , a hand from either .
42218 Let me be blest to make this happy close :
42219 'Twere pity two such friends should be long foes .
42220
42221 Bear witness , heaven , I have my wish , for ever .
42222
42223 And I mine .
42224
42225
42226 A prize ! a prize ! a prize !
42227
42228 Forbear , forbear , I say ; it is my lord the duke .
42229 Your Grace is welcome to a man disgrac'd ,
42230 Banished Valentine .
42231
42232 Sir Valentine !
42233
42234 Yonder is Silvia ; and Silvia's mine .
42235
42236 Thurio , give back , or else embrace thy death ;
42237 Come not within the measure of my wrath ;
42238 Do not name Silvia thine ; if once again ,
42239 Verona shall not hold thee . Here she stands ;
42240 Take but possession of her with a touch ;
42241 I dare thee but to breathe upon my love .
42242
42243 Sir Valentine , I care not for her , I .
42244 I hold him but a fool that will endanger
42245 His body for a girl that loves him not :
42246 I claim her not , and therefore she is thine .
42247
42248 The more degenerate and base art thou ,
42249 To make such means for her as thou hast done ,
42250 And leave her on such slight conditions .
42251 Now , by the honour of my ancestry ,
42252 I do applaud thy spirit , Valentine ,
42253 And think thee worthy of an empress' love .
42254 Know then , I here forget all former griefs ,
42255 Cancel all grudge , repeal thee home again ,
42256 Plead a new state in thy unrivall'd merit ,
42257 To which I thus subscribe : Sir Valentine ,
42258 Thou art a gentleman and well deriv'd ;
42259 Take thou thy Silvia , for thou hast deserv'd her .
42260
42261 I thank your Grace ; the gift hath made me happy .
42262 I now beseech you , for your daughter's sake ,
42263 To grant one boon that I shall ask of you .
42264
42265 I grant it , for thine own , whate'er it be .
42266
42267 These banish'd men , that I have kept withal
42268 Are men endu'd with worthy qualities :
42269 Forgive them what they have committed here ,
42270 And let them be recall'd from their exile .
42271 They are reformed , civil , full of good ,
42272 And fit for great employment , worthy lord .
42273
42274 Thou hast prevail'd ; I pardon them , and thee :
42275 Dispose of them as thou know'st their deserts .
42276 Come , let us go : we will include all jars
42277 With triumphs , mirth , and rare solemnity .
42278
42279 And as we walk along , I dare be bold
42280 With our discourse to make your Grace to smile .
42281 What think you of this page , my lord ?
42282
42283 I think the boy hath grace in him : he blushes .
42284
42285 I warrant you , my lord , more grace than boy .
42286
42287 What mean you by that saying ?
42288
42289 Please you , I'll tell you as we pass along ,
42290 That you will wonder what hath fortuned .
42291 Come , Proteus ; 'tis your penance , but to hear
42292 The story of your loves discovered :
42293 That done , our day of marriage shall be yours ;
42294 One feast , one house , one mutual happiness .
42295
42296 THE WINTERS TALE
42297
42298 If you shall chance , Camillo , to visit Bohemia , on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot , you shall see , as I have said , great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia .
42299
42300 I think , this coming summer , the King of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him .
42301
42302 Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be justified in our loves : for , indeed ,
42303
42304 Beseech you ,
42305
42306 Verily , I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge : we cannot with such magnificence in so rare I know not what to say . We will give you sleepy drinks , that your senses , unintelligent of our insufficience , may , though they cannot praise us , as little accuse us .
42307
42308 You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely .
42309
42310 Believe me , I speak as my understanding instructs me , and as mine honesty puts it to utterance .
42311
42312 Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia . They were trained together in their childhoods ; and there rooted betwixt them then such an affection which cannot choose but branch now . Since their more mature dignities and royal necessities made separation of their society , their encounters , though not personal , have been royally attorneyed with interchange of gifts , letters , loving embassies ; that they have seemed to be together , though absent , shook hands , as over a vast , and embraced , as it were , from the ends of opposed winds . The heavens continue their loves !
42313
42314 I think there is not in the world either malice or matter to alter it . You have an unspeakable comfort of your young Prince Mamilhus : it is a gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came into my note .
42315
42316 I very well agree with you in the hopes of him . It is a gallant child ; one that indeed physics the subject , makes old hearts fresh ; they that went on crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to see him a man .
42317
42318 Would they else be content to die ?
42319
42320 Yes ; if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live .
42321
42322 If the king had no son , they would desire to live on crutches till he had one .
42323
42324
42325 Nine changes of the watery star have been
42326 The shepherd's note since we have left our throne
42327 Without a burden : time as long again
42328 Would be fill'd up , my brother , with our thanks ;
42329 And yet we should for perpetuity
42330 Go hence in debt : and therefore , like a cipher ,
42331 Yet standing in rich place , I multiply
42332 With one 'We thank you' many thousands moe
42333 That go before it .
42334
42335 Stay your thanks awhile ,
42336 And pay them when you part .
42337
42338 Sir , that's to-morrow .
42339 I am question'd by my fears , of what may chance
42340 Or breed upon our absence ; that may blow
42341 No sneaping winds at home , to make us say ,
42342 'This is put forth too truly !' Besides , I have stay'd
42343 To tire your royalty .
42344
42345 We are tougher , brother ,
42346 Than you can put us to't .
42347
42348 No longer stay .
42349
42350 One seven-night longer .
42351
42352 Very sooth , to-morrow .
42353
42354 We'll part the time between's then ; and in that
42355 I'll no gainsaying .
42356
42357 Press me not , beseech you , so .
42358 There is no tongue that moves , none , none i' the world ,
42359 So soon as yours could win me : so it should now ,
42360 Were there necessity in your request , although
42361 'Twere needful I denied it . My affairs
42362 Do even drag me homeward ; which to hinder
42363 Were in your love a whip to me ; my stay
42364 To you a charge and trouble : to save both ,
42365 Farewell , our brother .
42366
42367 Tongue-tied , our queen ? speak you .
42368
42369 I had thought , sir , to have held my peace until
42370 You had drawn oaths from him not to stay .
42371 You , sir ,
42372 Charge him too coldly : tell him , you are sure
42373 All in Bohemia's well : this satisfaction
42374 The by-gone day proclaim'd : say this to him ,
42375 He's beat from his best ward .
42376
42377 Well said , Hermione .
42378
42379 To tell he longs to see his son were strong :
42380 But let him say so then , and let him go ;
42381 But let him swear so , and he shall not stay ,
42382 We'll thwack him hence with distaffs .
42383
42384
42385 Yet of your royal presence I'll adventure
42386 The borrow of a week . When at Bohemia
42387 You take my lord , I'll give him my commission
42388 To let him there a month behind the gest
42389 Prefix'd for's parting : yet , good deed , Leontes ,
42390 I love thee not a jar o' the clock behind
42391 What lady she her lord . You'll stay ?
42392
42393 No , madam .
42394
42395 Nay , but you will ?
42396
42397 I may not , verily .
42398
42399 Verily !
42400 You put me off with limber vows ; but I ,
42401 Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with oaths ,
42402 Should yet say , 'Sir , no going .' Verily ,
42403 You shall not go : a lady's 'verily' 's
42404 As potent as a lord's . Will you go yet ?
42405 Force me to keep you as a prisoner ,
42406 Not like a guest ; so you shall pay your fees
42407 When you depart , and save your thanks . How say you ?
42408 My prisoner , or my guest ? by your dread 'verily ,'
42409 One of them you shall be .
42410
42411 Your guest , then , madam :
42412 To be your prisoner should import offending ;
42413 Which is for me less easy to commit
42414 Than you to punish .
42415
42416 Not your gaoler then ,
42417 But your kind hostess . Come , I'll question you
42418 Of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys :
42419 You were pretty lordings then .
42420
42421 We were , fair queen ,
42422 Two lads that thought there was no more behind
42423 But such a day to-morrow as to-day ,
42424 And to be boy eternal .
42425
42426 Was not my lord the verier wag o' the two ?
42427
42428 We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun ,
42429 And bleat the one at the other : what we chang'd
42430 Was innocence for innocence ; we knew not
42431 The doctrine of ill-doing , no nor dream'd
42432 That any did . Had we pursu'd that life ,
42433 And our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd
42434 With stronger blood , we should have answer'd heaven
42435 Boldly , 'not guilty ;' the imposition clear'd
42436 Hereditary ours .
42437
42438 By this we gather
42439 You have tripp'd since .
42440
42441 O ! my most sacred lady ,
42442 Temptations have since then been born to's ; for
42443 In those unfledg'd days was my wife a girl ;
42444 Your precious self had then not cross'd the eyes
42445 Of my young playfellow .
42446
42447 Grace to boot !
42448 Of this make no conclusion , lest you say
42449 Your queen and I are devils ; yet , go on :
42450 The offences we have made you do we'll answer ;
42451 If you first sinn'd with us , and that with us
42452 You did continue fault , and that you slipp'd not
42453 With any but with us .
42454
42455 Is he won yet ?
42456
42457 He'll stay , my lord .
42458
42459 At my request he would not .
42460 Hermione , my dearest , thou never spok'st
42461 To better purpose .
42462
42463 Never ?
42464
42465 Never , but once .
42466
42467 What ! have I twice said well ? when was't before ?
42468 I prithee tell me ; cram's with praise , and make's
42469 As fat as tame things : one good deed , dying tongueless ,
42470 Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that .
42471 Our praises are our wages : you may ride's
42472 With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere
42473 With spur we heat an acre . But to the goal :
42474 My last good deed was to entreat his stay :
42475 What was my first ? it has an elder sister ,
42476 Or I mistake you : O ! would her name were Grace .
42477 But once before I spoke to the purpose : when ?
42478 Nay , let me have't ; I long .
42479
42480 Why , that was when
42481 Three crabbed months had sour'd themselves to death ,
42482 Ere I could make thee open thy white hand
42483 And clap thyself my love : then didst thou utter ,
42484 'I am yours for ever .'
42485
42486 'Tis grace indeed .
42487 Why , lo you now , I have spoke to the purpose twice :
42488 The one for ever earn'd a royal husband ,
42489 The other for some while a friend .
42490
42491
42492 Too hot , too hot !
42493 To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods .
42494 I have tremor cordis on me : my heart dances ;
42495 But not for joy ; not joy . This entertainment
42496 May a free face put on , derive a liberty
42497 From heartiness , from bounty , fertile bosom ,
42498 And well become the agent :'t may I grant :
42499 But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers ,
42500 As now they are , and making practis'd smiles ,
42501 As in a looking-glass ; and then to sigh , as 'twere
42502 The mort o' the deer ; O ! that is entertainment
42503 My bosom likes not , nor my brows . Mamillius ,
42504 Art thou my boy ?
42505
42506 Ay , my good lord .
42507
42508 I' fecks ?
42509 Why , that's my bawcock . What ! hast smutch'd thy nose ?
42510 They say it is a copy out of mine . Come , captain ,
42511 We must be neat ; not neat , but cleanly , captain :
42512 And yet the steer , the heifer , and the calf ,
42513 Are all call'd neat . Still virginalling
42514 Upon his palm ! How now , you wanton calf !
42515 Art thou my calf ?
42516
42517 Yes , if you will , my lord .
42518
42519 Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have ,
42520 To be full like me : yet they say we are
42521 Almost as like as eggs ; women say so ,
42522 That will say anything : but were they false
42523 As o'er-dy'd blacks , as wind , as waters , false
42524 As dice are to be wish'd by one that fixes
42525 No bourn 'twixt his and mine , yet were it true
42526 To say this boy were like me . Come , sir page ,
42527 Look on me with your wolkin eye : sweet villain !
42528 Most dear'st ! my collop ! Can thy dam ?may't be ?
42529 Affection ! thy intention stabs the centre :
42530 Thou dost make possible things not so held ,
42531 Communicat'st with dreams ;how can this be ?
42532 With what's unreal thou co-active art ,
42533 And fellow'st nothing : then , 'tis very credent
42534 Thou mayst co-join with something ; and thou dost ,
42535 And that beyond commission , and I find it ,
42536 And that to the infection of my brains
42537 And hardening of my brows .
42538
42539 What means Sicilia ?
42540
42541 He something seems unsettled .
42542
42543 How , my lord !
42544 What cheer ? how is't with you , best brother ?
42545
42546 You look
42547 As if you held a brow of much distraction :
42548 Are you mov'd , my lord ?
42549
42550 No , in good earnest .
42551 How sometimes nature will betray its folly ,
42552 Its tenderness , and make itself a pastime
42553 To harder bosoms ! Looking on the lines
42554 Of my boy's face , methoughts I did recoil
42555 Twenty-three years , and saw myself unbreech'd ,
42556 In my green velvet coat , my dagger muzzled ,
42557 Lest it should bite its master , and so prove ,
42558 As ornaments oft do , too dangerous :
42559 How like , methought , I then was to this kernel ,
42560 This squash , this gentleman . Mine honest friend ,
42561 Will you take eggs for money ?
42562
42563 No , my lord , I'll fight .
42564
42565 You will ? why , happy man be his dole ! My brother ,
42566 Are you so fond of your young prince as we
42567 Do seem to be of ours ?
42568
42569 If at home , sir ,
42570 He's all my exercise , my mirth , my matter ,
42571 Now my sworn friend and then mine enemy ;
42572 My parasite , my soldier , statesman , all :
42573 He makes a July's day short as December ,
42574 And with his varying childness cures in me
42575 Thoughts that would thick my blood .
42576
42577 So stands this squire
42578 Offic'd with me . We two will walk , my lord ,
42579 And leave you to your graver steps . Hermione ,
42580 How thou lov'st us , show in our brother's welcome :
42581 Let what is dear in Sicily be cheap :
42582 Next to thyself and my young rover , he's
42583 Apparent to my heart .
42584
42585 If you would seek us ,
42586 We are yours i' the garden : shall's attend you there ?
42587
42588 To your own bents dispose you : you'll be found ,
42589 Be you beneath the sky .
42590
42591 I am angling now ,
42592 Though you perceive me not how I give line .
42593 Go to , go to !
42594 How she holds up the neb , the bill to him !
42595 And arms her with the boldness of a wife
42596 To her allowing husband !
42597
42598 Gone already !
42599 Inch-thick , knee-deep , o'er head and ears a fork'd one !
42600 Go play , boy , play ; thy mother plays , and I
42601 Play too , but so disgrac'd a part , whose issue
42602 Will hiss me to my grave : contempt and clamour
42603 Will be my knell . Go play , boy , play . There have been ,
42604 Or I am much deceiv'd , cuckolds ere now ;
42605 And many a man there is even at this present ,
42606 Now , while I speak this , holds his wife by the arm ,
42607 That little thinks she has been sluic'd in's absence ,
42608 And his pond fish'd by his next neighbour , by
42609 Sir Smile , his neighbour : nay , there's comfort in't ,
42610 Whiles other men have gates , and those gates open'd ,
42611 As mine , against their will . Should all despair
42612 That have revolted wives the tenth of mankind
42613 Would hang themselves . Physic for't there is none ;
42614 It is a bawdy planet , that will strike
42615 Where 'tis predominant ; and 'tis powerful , think it ,
42616 From east , west , north , and south : be it concluded ,
42617 No barricado for a belly : know't ;
42618 It will let in and out the enemy
42619 With bag and baggage . Many a thousand on's
42620 Have the disease , and feel't not . How now , boy !
42621
42622 I am like you , they say .
42623
42624 Why , that's some comfort .
42625 What ! Camillo there ?
42626
42627 Ay , my good lord .
42628
42629 Go play , Mamillius ; thou'rt an honest man .
42630
42631 Camillo , this great sir will yet stay longer .
42632
42633 You had much ado to make his anchor hold :
42634 When you cast out , it still came home .
42635
42636 Didst note it ?
42637
42638 He would not stay at your petitions ; made
42639 His business more material .
42640
42641 Didst perceive it ?
42642
42643
42644 They're here with me already , whispering , rounding
42645 'Sicilia is a so-forth .' 'Tis far gone ,
42646 When I shall gust it last . How came't , Camillo ,
42647 That he did stay ?
42648
42649 At the good queen's entreaty .
42650
42651 At the queen's , be't : 'good' should be pertinent ;
42652 But so it is , it is not . Was this taken
42653 By any understanding pate but thine ?
42654 For thy conceit is soaking ; will draw in
42655 More than the common blocks : not noted , is't ,
42656 But of the finer natures ? by some severals
42657 Of head-piece extraordinary ? lower messes
42658 Perchance are to this business purblind ? say .
42659
42660 Business , my lord ! I think most understand
42661 Bohemia stays here longer .
42662
42663 Ha !
42664
42665 Stays here longer .
42666
42667 Ay , but why ?
42668
42669 To satisfy your highness and the entreaties
42670 Of our most gracious mistress .
42671
42672 Satisfy !
42673 The entreaties of your mistress ! satisfy !
42674 Let that suffice . I have trusted thee , Camillo ,
42675 With all the nearest things to my heart , as well
42676 My chamber-councils , wherein , priest-like , thou
42677 Hast cleans'd my bosom : I from thee departed
42678 Thy penitent reform'd ; but we have been
42679 Deceiv'd in thy integrity , deceiv'd
42680 In that which seems so .
42681
42682 Be it forbid , my lord !
42683
42684 To bide upon 't , thou art not honest ; or ,
42685 If thou inclin'st that way , thou art a coward ,
42686 Which hoxes honesty behind , restraining
42687 From course requir'd ; or else thou must be counted
42688 A servant grafted in my serious trust ,
42689 And therein negligent ; or else a fool
42690 That seest a game play'd home , the rich stake drawn ,
42691 And tak'st it all for jest .
42692
42693 My gracious lord ,
42694 I may be negligent , foolish , and fearful ;
42695 In every one of these no man is free ,
42696 But that his negligence , his folly , fear ,
42697 Among the infinite doings of the world ,
42698 Sometime puts forth . In your affairs , my lord ,
42699 If ever I were wilful-negligent ,
42700 It was my folly ; if industriously
42701 I play'd the fool , it was my negligence ,
42702 Not weighing well the end ; if ever fearful
42703 To do a thing , where I the issue doubted ,
42704 Whereof the execution did cry out
42705 Against the non-performance , 'twas a fear
42706 Which oft infects the wisest : these , my lord ,
42707 Are such allow'd infirmities that honesty
42708 Is never free of : but , beseech your Grace ,
42709 Be plainer with me ; let me know my trespass
42710 By its own visage ; if I then deny it ,
42711 'Tis none of mine .
42712
42713 Ha' not you seen , Camillo ,
42714 But that's past doubt ; you have , or your eyeglass
42715 Is thicker than a cuckold's horn ,or heard ,
42716 For to a vision so apparent rumour
42717 Cannot be mute ,or thought ,for cogitation
42718 Resides not in that man that does not think ,
42719 My wife is slippery ? If thou wilt confess ,
42720 Or else be impudently negative ,
42721 To have nor eyes , nor ears , nor thought ,then say
42722 My wife's a hobby-horse ; deserves a name
42723 As rank as any flax-wench that puts to
42724 Before her troth-plight : say't and justify't .
42725
42726 I would not be a stander-by , to hear
42727 My sovereign mistress clouded so , without
42728 My present vengeance taken : 'shrew my heart ,
42729 You never spoke what did become you less
42730 Than this ; which to reiterate were sin
42731 As deep as that , though true .
42732
42733 Is whispering nothing ?
42734 Is leaning cheek to cheek ? is meeting noses ?
42735 Kissing with inside lip ? stopping the career
42736 Of laughter with a sigh ?a note infallible
42737 Of breaking honesty ,horsing foot on foot ?
42738 Skulking in corners ? wishing clocks more swift ?
42739 Hours , minutes ? noon , midnight ? and all eyes
42740 Blind with the pin and web but theirs , theirs only ,
42741 That would unseen be wicked ? is this nothing ?
42742 Why , then the world and all that's in't is nothing ;
42743 The covering sky is nothing ; Bohemia nothing ;
42744 My wife is nothing ; nor nothing have these nothings ,
42745 If this be nothing .
42746
42747 Good my lord , be cur'd
42748 Of this diseas'd opinion , and betimes ;
42749 For 'tis most dangerous .
42750
42751 Say it be , 'tis true .
42752
42753 No , no , my lord .
42754
42755 It is ; you lie , you lie :
42756 I say thou liest , Camillo , and I hate thee ;
42757 Pronounce thee a gross lout , a mindless slave ,
42758 Or else a hovering temporizer , that
42759 Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil ,
42760 Inclining to them both : were my wife's liver
42761 Infected as her life , she would not live
42762 The running of one glass .
42763
42764 Who does infect her ?
42765
42766 Why , he that wears her like her medal , hanging
42767 About his neck , Bohemia : who , if I
42768 Had servants true about me , that bare eyes
42769 To see alike mine honour as their profits ,
42770 Their own particular thrifts , they would do that
42771 Which should undo more doing : ay , and thou ,
42772 His cup-bearer ,whom I from meaner form
42773 Have bench'd and rear'd to worship , who mayst see
42774 Plainly , as heaven sees earth , and earth sees heaven ,
42775 How I am galled ,mightst bespice a cup ,
42776 To give mine enemy a lasting wink ;
42777 Which draught to me were cordial .
42778
42779 Sir , my lord ,
42780 I could do this , and that with no rash potion ,
42781 But with a lingering dram that should not work
42782 Maliciously like poison : but I cannot
42783 Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress ,
42784 So sovereingly being honourable :
42785 I have lov'd thee ,
42786
42787 Make that thy question , and go rot !
42788 Dost think I am so muddy , so unsettled ,
42789 To appoint myself in this vexation ; sully
42790 The purity and whiteness of my sheets ,
42791 Which to preserve is sleep ; which being spotted
42792 Is goads , thorns , nettles , tails of wasps ?
42793 Give scandal to the blood o' the prince my son ,
42794 Who I do think is mine , and love as mine ,
42795 Without ripe moving to't ? Would I do this ?
42796 Could man so blench ?
42797
42798 I must believe you , sir :
42799 I do ; and will fetch off Bohemia for't ;
42800 Provided that when he's remov'd , your highness
42801 Will take again your queen as yours at first ,
42802 Even for your son's sake ; and thereby for sealing
42803 The injury of tongues in courts and kingdoms
42804 Known and allied to yours .
42805
42806 Thou dost advise me
42807 Even so as I mine own course have set down :
42808 I'll give no blemish to her honour , none .
42809
42810 My lord ,
42811 Go then ; and with a countenance as clear
42812 As friendship wears at feasts , keep with Bohemia ,
42813 And with your queen . I am his cupbearer ;
42814 If from me he have wholesome beverage ,
42815 Account me not your servant .
42816
42817 This is all :
42818 Do't , and thou hast the one half of my heart ;
42819 Do't not , thou split'st thine own .
42820
42821 I'll do't , my lord .
42822
42823 I will seem friendly , as thou hast advis'd me .
42824
42825
42826 O miserable lady ! But , for me ,
42827 What case stand I in ? I must be the poisoner
42828 Of good Polixenes ; and my ground to do't
42829 Is the obedience to a master ; one
42830 Who , in rebellion with himself will have
42831 All that are his so too . To do this deed
42832 Promotion follows . If I could find example
42833 Of thousands that had struck anointed kings ,
42834 And flourish'd after , I'd not do't ; but since
42835 Nor brass nor stone nor parchment bears not one ,
42836 Let villany itself forswear't . I must
42837 Forsake the court : to do't , or no , is certain
42838 To me a break-neck . Happy star reign now !
42839 Here comes Bohemia .
42840
42841
42842 This is strange : methinks
42843 My favour here begins to warp . Not speak ?
42844 Good day , Camillo .
42845
42846 Hail , most royal sir !
42847
42848 What is the news i' the court ?
42849
42850 None rare , my lord .
42851
42852 The king hath on him such a countenance
42853 As he had lost some province and a region
42854 Lov'd as he loves himself : even now I met him
42855 With customary compliment , when he ,
42856 Wafting his eyes , to the contrary , and falling
42857 A lip of much contempt , speeds from me and
42858 So leaves me to consider what is breeding
42859 That changes thus his manners .
42860
42861 I dare not know , my lord .
42862
42863 How ! dare not ! do not ! Do you know , and dare not
42864 Be intelligent to me ? 'Tis thereabouts :
42865 For , to yourself , what you do know , you must ,
42866 And cannot say you dare not . Good Camillo ,
42867 Your chang'd complexions are to me a mirror
42868 Which shows me mine chang'd too ; for I must be
42869 A party in this alteration , finding
42870 Myself thus alter'd with't .
42871
42872 There is a sickness
42873 Which puts some of us in distemper ; but
42874 I cannot name the disease , and it is caught
42875 Of you that yet are well .
42876
42877 How ! caught of me ?
42878 Make me not sighted like the basilisk :
42879 I have look'd on thousands , who have sped the better
42880 By my regard , but kill'd none so . Camillo ,
42881 As you are certainly a gentleman , thereto
42882 Clerk-like experienc'd , which no less adorns
42883 Our gentry than our parents' noble names ,
42884 In whose success we are gentle ,I beseech you ,
42885 If you know aught which does behove my knowledge
42886 Thereof to be inform'd , imprison it not
42887 In ignorant concealment .
42888
42889 I may not answer .
42890
42891 A sickness caught of me , and yet I well !
42892 I must be answer'd . Dost thou hear , Camillo ;
42893 I conjure thee , by all the parts of man
42894 Which honour does acknowledge ,whereof the least
42895 Is not this suit of mine ,that thou declare
42896 What incidency thou dost guess of harm
42897 Is creeping toward me ; how far off , how near ;
42898 Which way to be prevented if to be ;
42899 If not , how best to bear it .
42900
42901 Sir , I will tell you ;
42902 Since I am charg'd in honour and by him
42903 That I think honourable . Therefore mark my counsel ,
42904 Which must be even as swiftly follow'd as
42905 I mean to utter it , or both yourself and me
42906 Cry 'lost ,' and so good night !
42907
42908 On , good Camillo .
42909
42910 I am appointed him to murder you .
42911
42912 By whom , Camillo ?
42913
42914 By the king .
42915
42916 For what ?
42917
42918 He thinks , nay , with all confidence he swears ,
42919 As he had seen't or been an instrument
42920 To vice you to't , that you have touch'd his queen
42921 Forbiddenly .
42922
42923 O , then my best blood turn
42924 To an infected jelly , and my name
42925 Be yok'd with his that did betray the Best !
42926 Turn then my freshest reputation to
42927 A savour , that may strike the dullest nostril
42928 Where I arrive ; and my approach be shunn'd ,
42929 Nay , hated too , worse than the great'st infection
42930 That e'er was heard or read !
42931
42932 Swear his thought over
42933 By each particular star in heaven and
42934 By all their influences , you may as well
42935 Forbid the sea for to obey the moon
42936 As or by oath remove or counsel shake
42937 The fabric of his folly , whose foundation
42938 Is pil'd upon his faith , and will continue
42939 The standing of his body .
42940
42941 How should this grow ?
42942
42943 I know not : but I am sure 'tis safer to
42944 Avoid what's grown than question how 'tis born .
42945 If therefore you dare trust my honesty ,
42946 That lies enclosed in this trunk , which you
42947 Shall bear along impawn'd , away to-night !
42948 Your followers I will whisper to the business ,
42949 And will by twos and threes at several posterns
42950 Clear them o'the city . For myself , I'll put
42951 My fortunes to your service , which are here
42952 By this discovery lost . Be not uncertain ;
42953 For , by the honour of my parents , I
42954 Have utter'd truth , which , if you seek to prove ,
42955 I dare not stand by ; nor shall you be safer
42956 Than one condemn'd by the king's own mouth , thereon
42957 His execution sworn .
42958
42959 I do believe thee :
42960 I saw his heart in's face . Give me thy hand :
42961 Be pilot to me and thy places shall
42962 Still neighbour mine . My ships are ready and
42963 My people did expect my hence departure
42964 Two days ago . This jealousy
42965 Is for a precious creature : as she's rare
42966 Must it be great , and , as his person's mighty
42967 Must it be violent , and , as he does conceive
42968 He is dishonour'd by a man which ever
42969 Profess'd to him , why , his revenges must
42970 In that be made more bitter . Fear o'ershades me :
42971 Good expedition be my friend , and comfort
42972 The gracious queen , part of his theme , but nothing
42973 Of his ill-ta'en suspicion ! Come . Camillo ;
42974 I will respect thee as a father if
42975 Thou bear'st my life off hence : let us avoid .
42976
42977 It is in mine authority to command
42978 The keys of all the posterns : please your highness
42979 To take the urgent hour . Come , sir , away !
42980
42981 Take the boy to you : he so troubles me , 'Tis past enduring .
42982
42983 Come , my gracious lord , Shall I be your playfellow ?
42984
42985 No , I'll none of you .
42986
42987 Why , my sweet lord ?
42988
42989 You'll kiss me hard and speak to me as if
42990 I were a baby still . I love you better .
42991
42992 And why so , my lord ?
42993
42994 Not for because
42995 Your brows are blacker ; yet black brows , they say ,
42996 Become some women best , so that there be not
42997 Too much hair there , but in a semicircle ,
42998 Or a half-moon made with a pen .
42999
43000 Who taught you this ?
43001
43002 I learn'd it out of women's faces . Pray now ,
43003 What colour are your eyebrows ?
43004
43005 Blue , my lord .
43006
43007 Nay , that's a mock : I have seen a lady's nose
43008 That has been blue , but not her eyebrows .
43009
43010 Hark ye ;
43011 The queen your mother rounds apace : we shall
43012 Present our services to a fine new prince
43013 One of these days ; and then you'd wanton with us ,
43014 If we would have you .
43015
43016 She is spread of late
43017 Into a goodly bulk : good time encounter her !
43018
43019 What wisdom stirs amongst you ? Come sir , now
43020 I am for you again : pray you , sit by us ,
43021 And tell's a tale .
43022
43023 Merry or sad shall't be ?
43024
43025 As merry as you will .
43026
43027 A sad tale's best for winter .
43028 I have one of sprites and goblins .
43029
43030 Let's have that , good sir .
43031 Come on , sit down : come on , and do your best
43032 To fright me with your sprites ; you're powerful at it .
43033
43034 There was a man ,
43035
43036 Nay , come , sit down ; then on .
43037
43038 Dwelt by a churchyard . I will tell it softly ;
43039 Yond crickets shall not hear it .
43040
43041 Come on then ,
43042 And give't me in mine ear .
43043
43044
43045 Was he met there ? his train ? Camillo with him ?
43046
43047 Behind the tuft of pines I met them : never
43048 Saw I men scour so on their way : I ey'd them
43049 Even to their ships
43050
43051 How blest am I
43052 In my just censure , in my true opinion !
43053 Alack , for lesser knowledge ! How accurs'd
43054 In being so blest ! There may be in the cup
43055 A spider steep'd , and one may drink , depart ,
43056 And yet partake no venom , for his knowledge
43057 Is not infected ; but if one present
43058 The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye , make known
43059 How he hath drunk , he cracks his gorge , his sides ,
43060 With violent hefts . I have drunk , and seen the spider .
43061 Camillo was his help in this , his pandar :
43062 There is a plot against my life , my crown ;
43063 All's true that is mistrusted : that false villain
43064 Whom I employ'd was pre-employ'd by him :
43065 He has discover'd my design , and I
43066 Remain a pinch'd thing ; yea , a very trick
43067 For them to play at will . How came the posterns
43068 So easily open ?
43069
43070 By his great authority ;
43071 Which often hath no less prevail'd than so
43072 On your command .
43073
43074 I know't too well .
43075
43076
43077 Give me the boy : I am glad you did not nurse him :
43078 Though he does bear some signs of me , yet you
43079 Have too much blood in him .
43080
43081 What is this ? sport ?
43082
43083 Bear the boy hence ; he shall not come about her ;
43084 Away with him !
43085
43086 and let her sport herself
43087 With that she's big with ; for 'tis Polixenes
43088 Has made thee swell thus .
43089
43090 But I'd say he had not ,
43091 And I'll be sworn you would believe my saying ,
43092 Howe'er you lean to the nayward .
43093
43094 You , my lords ,
43095 Look on her , mark her well ; be but about
43096 To say , 'she is a goodly lady ,' and
43097 The justice of your hearts will thereto add
43098 ''Tis pity she's not honest , honourable :'
43099 Praise her but for this her without-door form ,
43100 Which , on my faith deserves high speech ,and straight
43101 The shrug , the hum or ha , these petty brands
43102 That calumny doth use ,O , I am out !
43103 That mercy does , for calumny will sear
43104 Virtue itself : these shrugs , these hums and ha's ,
43105 When you have said 'she's goodly ,' come between ,
43106 Ere you can say 'she's honest .' But be't known ,
43107 From him that has most cause to grieve it should be ,
43108 She's an adulteress .
43109
43110 Should a villain say so ,
43111 The most replenish'd villain in the world ,
43112 He were as much more villain : you , my lord ,
43113 Do but mistake .
43114
43115 You have mistook , my lady ,
43116 Polixenes for Leontes . O thou thing !
43117 Which I'll not call a creature of thy place ,
43118 Lest barbarism , making me the precedent ,
43119 Should a like language use to all degrees ,
43120 And mannerly distinguishment leave out
43121 Betwixt the prince and beggar : I have said
43122 She's an adulteress ; I have said with whom :
43123 More , she's a traitor , and Camillo is
43124 A federary with her , and one that knows
43125 What she should shame to know herself
43126 But with her most vile principal , that she's
43127 A bed-swerver , even as bad as those
43128 That vulgars give bold'st titles ; ay , and privy
43129 To this their late escape .
43130
43131 No , by my life ,
43132 Privy to none of this . How will this grieve you
43133 When you shall come to clearer knowledge that
43134 You thus have publish'd me ! Gentle my lord ,
43135 You scarce can right me throughly then to say
43136 You did mistake .
43137
43138 No ; if I mistake
43139 In those foundations which I build upon ,
43140 The centre is not big enough to bear
43141 A schoolboy's top . Away with her to prison !
43142 He who shall speak for her is afar off guilty
43143 But that he speaks .
43144
43145 There's some ill planet reigns :
43146 I must be patient till the heavens look
43147 With an aspect more favourable . Good my lords ,
43148 I am not prone to weeping , as our sex
43149 Commonly are ; the want of which vain dew
43150 Perchance shall dry your pities ; but I have
43151 That honourable grief lodg'd here which burns
43152 Worse than tears drown . Beseech you all , my lords ,
43153 With thoughts so qualified as your charities
43154 Shall best instruct you , measure me ; and so
43155 The king's will be perform'd !
43156
43157 Shall I be heard ?
43158
43159 Who is't that goes with me ? Beseech your highness ,
43160 My women may be with me ; for you see
43161 My plight requires it . Do not weep , good fools ;
43162 There is no cause : when you shall know your mistress
43163 Has deserv'd prison , then abound in tears
43164 As I come out : this action I now go on
43165 Is for my better grace . Adieu , my lord :
43166 I never wish'd to see you sorry ; now
43167 I trust I shall . My women , come ; you have leave .
43168
43169 Go , do our bidding : hence !
43170
43171
43172 Beseech your highness call the queen again .
43173
43174 Be certain what you do , sir , lest your justice
43175 Prove violence : in the which three great ones suffer ,
43176 Yourself , your queen , your son .
43177
43178 For her , my lord ,
43179 I dare my life lay down , and will do't , sir ,
43180 Please you to accept it ,that the queen is spotless
43181 I' the eyes of heaven and to you : I mean ,
43182 In this which you accuse her .
43183
43184 If it prove
43185 She's otherwise , I'll keep my stables where
43186 I lodge my wife ; I'll go in couples with her ;
43187 Than when I feel and see her no further trust her ;
43188 For every inch of woman in the world ,
43189 Ay , every dram of woman's flesh is false ,
43190 If she be .
43191
43192 Hold your peaces !
43193
43194 Good my lord ,
43195
43196 It is for you we speak , not for ourselves .
43197 You are abus'd , and by some putter-on
43198 That will be damn'd for't ; would I knew the villain ,
43199 I would land-damn him . Be she honour-flaw'd ,
43200 I have three daughters ; the eldest is eleven ,
43201 The second and the third , nine and some five ;
43202 If this prove true , they'll pay for't : by mine honour ,
43203 I'll geld them all ; fourteen they shall not see ,
43204 To bring false generations : they are co-heirs ;
43205 And I had rather glib myself than they
43206 Should not produce fair issue .
43207
43208 Cease ! no more .
43209 You smell this business with a sense as cold
43210 As is a dead man's nose ; but I do see't and feel't ,
43211 As you feel doing thus , and see withal
43212 The instruments that feel .
43213
43214 If it be so ,
43215 We need no grave to bury honesty :
43216 There's not a grain of it the face to sweeten
43217 Of the whole dungy earth .
43218
43219 What ! lack I credit ?
43220
43221 I had rather you did lack than I , my lord ,
43222 Upon this ground ; and more it would content me
43223 To have her honour true than your suspicion ,
43224 Be blam'd for't how you might .
43225
43226 Why , what need we
43227 Commune with you of this , but rather follow
43228 Our forceful instigation ? Our prerogative
43229 Calls not your counsels , but our natural goodness
43230 Imparts this ; which if you ,or stupified
43231 Or seeming so in skill ,cannot or will not
43232 Relish a truth like us , inform yourselves
43233 We need no more of your advice : the matter ,
43234 The loss , the gain , the ordering on't , is all
43235 Properly ours .
43236
43237 And I wish , my liege ,
43238 You had only in your silent judgment tried it ,
43239 Without more overture .
43240
43241 How could that be ?
43242 Either thou art most ignorant by age ,
43243 Or thou wert born a fool . Camillo's flight ,
43244 Added to their familiarity ,
43245 Which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture ,
43246 That lack'd sight only , nought for approbation
43247 But only seeing , all other circumstances
43248 Made up to the deed , doth push on this proceeding :
43249 Yet , for a greater confirmation ,
43250 For in an act of this importance 'twere
43251 Most piteous to be wild ,I have dispatch'd in post
43252 To sacred Delphos , to Apollo's temple ,
43253 Cleomenes and Dion , whom you know
43254 Of stuff'd sufficiency . Now , from the oracle
43255 They will bring all ; whose spiritual counsel had ,
43256 Shall stop or spur me . Have I done well ?
43257
43258 Well done , my lord .
43259
43260 Though I am satisfied and need no more
43261 Than what I know , yet shall the oracle
43262 Give rest to the minds of others , such as he
43263 Whose ignorant credulity will not
43264 Come up to the truth . So have we thought it good
43265 From our free person she should be confin'd ,
43266 Lest that the treachery of the two fled hence
43267 Be left her to perform . Come , follow us :
43268 We are to speak in public ; for this business
43269 Will raise us all .
43270
43271 To laughter , as I take it ,
43272 If the good truth were known .
43273
43274
43275 The keeper of the prison , call to him ;
43276 Let him have knowledge who I am .
43277
43278 Good lady ,
43279 No court in Europe is too good for thee ;
43280 What dost thou then in prison ?
43281
43282
43283 Now , good sir ,
43284
43285 You know me , do you not ?
43286
43287 For a worthy lady
43288 And one whom much I honour .
43289
43290 Pray you then ,
43291 Conduct me to the queen .
43292
43293 I may not , madam : to the contrary
43294 I have express commandment .
43295
43296 Here's ado ,
43297 To lock up honesty and honour from
43298 The access of gentle visitors ! Is't lawful , pray you ,
43299 To see her women ? any of them ? Emilia ?
43300
43301 So please you , madam ,
43302 To put apart these your attendants , I
43303 Shall bring Emilia forth .
43304
43305 I pray now , call her .
43306 Withdraw yourselves .
43307
43308
43309 And , madam ,
43310 I must be present at your conference .
43311
43312 Well , be't so , prithee .
43313
43314 Here's such ado to make no stain a stain ,
43315 As passes colouring .
43316
43317
43318 Dear gentlewoman ,
43319
43320 How fares our gracious lady ?
43321
43322 As well as one so great and so forlorn
43323 May hold together . On her frights and griefs ,
43324 Which never tender lady hath borne greater ,
43325 She is something before her time deliver'd .
43326
43327 A boy ?
43328
43329 A daughter ; and a goodly babe ,
43330 Lusty and like to live : the queen receives
43331 Much comfort in't ; says , 'My poor prisoner ,
43332 I am innocent as you .'
43333
43334 I dare be sworn :
43335 These dangerous unsafe lunes i' the king , beshrew them !
43336 He must be told on't , and he shall : the office
43337 Becomes a woman best ; I'll take't upon me .
43338 If I prove honey-mouth'd , let my tongue blister ,
43339 And never to my red-look'd anger be
43340 The trumpet any more . Pray you , Emilia ,
43341 Commend my best obedience to the queen :
43342 If she dares trust me with her little babe ,
43343 I'll show it to the king and undertake to be
43344 Her advocate to the loud'st . We do not know
43345 How he may soften at the sight of the child :
43346 The silence often of pure innocence
43347 Persuades when speaking fails .
43348
43349 Most worthy madam ,
43350 Your honour and your goodness is so evident
43351 That your free undertaking cannot miss
43352 A thriving issue : there is no lady living
43353 So meet for this great errand . Please your ladyship
43354 To visit the next room , I'll presently
43355 Acquaint the queen of your most noble offer ,
43356 Who but to-day hammer'd of this design ,
43357 But durst not tempt a minister of honour ,
43358 Lest she should be denied .
43359
43360 Tell her , Emilia ,
43361 I'll use that tongue I have : if wit flow from't
43362 As boldness from my bosom , let it not be doubted
43363 I shall do good .
43364
43365 Now be you blest for it !
43366 I'll to the queen . Please you , come something nearer .
43367
43368 Madam , if't please the queen to send the babe ,
43369 I know not what I shall incur to pass it ,
43370 Having no warrant .
43371
43372 You need not fear it , sir :
43373 The child was prisoner to the womb , and is
43374 By law and process of great nature thence
43375 Freed and enfranchis'd ; not a party to
43376 The anger of the king , nor guilty of ,
43377 If any be , the trespass of the queen .
43378
43379 I do believe it .
43380
43381 Do not you fear : upon mine honour , I
43382 Will stand betwixt you and danger .
43383
43384
43385 Nor night , nor day , no rest ; it is but weakness
43386 To bear the matter thus ; mere weakness . If
43387 The cause were not in being ,part o' the cause ,
43388 She the adultress ; for the harlot king
43389 Is quite beyond mine arm , out of the blank
43390 And level of my brain , plot-proof ; but she
43391 I can hook to me : say , that she were gone ,
43392 Given to the fire , a moiety of my rest
43393 Might come to me again . Who's there ?
43394
43395 My lord ?
43396
43397 How does the boy ?
43398
43399 He took good rest to-night ;
43400 'Tis hop'd his sickness is discharg'd .
43401
43402 To see his nobleness !
43403 Conceiving the dishonour of his mother ,
43404 He straight declin'd , droop'd , took it deeply ,
43405 Fasten'd and fix'd the shame on't in himself ,
43406 Threw off his spirit , his appetite , his sleep ,
43407 And downright languish'd . Leave me solely : go ,
43408 See how he fares .
43409
43410 Fie , fie ! no thought of him ;
43411 The very thought of my revenges that way
43412 Recoil upon me : in himself too mighty ,
43413 And in his parties , his alliance ; let him be
43414 Until a time may serve : for present vengeance ,
43415 Take it on her . Camillo and Polixenes
43416 Laugh at me ; make their pastime at my sorrow :
43417 They should not laugh , if I could reach them , nor
43418 Shall she within my power .
43419
43420
43421 You must not enter .
43422
43423 Nay , rather , good my lords , be second to me :
43424 Fear you his tyrannous passion more , alas ,
43425 Than the queen's life ? a gracious innocent soul ,
43426 More free than he is jealous .
43427
43428 That's enough .
43429
43430 Madam , he hath not slept to-night ; commanded
43431 None should come at him .
43432
43433 Not so hot , good sir ;
43434 I come to bring him sleep . 'Tis such as you ,
43435 That creep like shadows by him and do sigh
43436 At each his needless heavings , such as you
43437 Nourish the cause of his awaking : I
43438 Do come with words as med'cinal as true ,
43439 Honest as either , to purge him of that humour
43440 That presses him from sleep .
43441
43442 What noise there , ho ?
43443
43444 No noise , my lord ; but needful conference
43445 About some gossips for your highness .
43446
43447 How !
43448 Away with that audacious lady ! Antigonus ,
43449 I charg'd thee that she should not come about me :
43450 I knew she would .
43451
43452 I told her so , my lord ,
43453 On your displeasure's peril , and on mine ,
43454 She should not visit you .
43455
43456 What ! canst not rule her ?
43457
43458 From all dishonesty he can : in this ,
43459 Unless he take the course that you have done ,
43460 Commit me for committing honour , trust it ,
43461 He shall not rule me .
43462
43463 La you now ! you hear ;
43464 When she will take the rein I let her run ;
43465 But she'll not stumble .
43466
43467 Good my liege , I come ,
43468 And I beseech you , hear me , who professes
43469 Myself your loyal servant , your physician ,
43470 Your most obedient counsellor , yet that dares
43471 Less appear so in comforting your evils
43472 Than such as most seem yours : I say , I come
43473 From your good queen .
43474
43475 Good queen !
43476
43477 Good queen , my lord , good queen ; I say , good queen ;
43478 And would by combat make her good , so were I
43479 A man , the worst about you .
43480
43481 Force her hence .
43482
43483 Let him that makes but trifles of his eyes
43484 First hand me : on mine own accord I'll off ;
43485 But first I'll do my errand . The good queen ,
43486 For she is good , hath brought you forth a daughter :
43487 Here 'tis ; commends it to your blessing .
43488
43489
43490 Out !
43491 A mankind witch ! Hence with her , out o' door :
43492 A most intelligencing bawd !
43493
43494 Not so ;
43495 I am as ignorant in that as you
43496 In so entitling me , and no less honest
43497 Than you are mad ; which is enough , I'll warrant ,
43498 As this world goes , to pass for honest .
43499
43500 Traitors !
43501 Will you not push her out ? Give her the bastard .
43502
43503
43504 Thou dotard ! thou art woman-tir'd , unroosted
43505 By thy dame Partlet here . Take up the bastard ;
43506 Take't up , I say ; give't to thy crone .
43507
43508 For ever
43509 Unvenerable be thy hands , if thou
43510 Tak'st up the princess by that forced baseness
43511 Which he has put upon't !
43512
43513 He dreads his wife .
43514
43515 So I would you did ; then , 'twere past all doubt ,
43516 You'd call your children yours .
43517
43518 A nest of traitors !
43519
43520 I am none , by this good light .
43521
43522 Nor I ; nor any
43523 But one that's here , and that's himself ; for he
43524 The sacred honour of himself , his queen's ,
43525 His hopeful son's , his babe's , betrays to slander ,
43526 Whose sting is sharper than the sword's ; and will not ,
43527 For , as the case now stands , it is a curse
43528 He cannot be compell'd to't ,once remove
43529 The root of his opinion , which is rotten
43530 As ever oak or stone was sound .
43531
43532 A callat
43533 Of boundless tongue , who late hath beat her husband
43534 And now baits me ! This brat is none of mine ;
43535 It is the issue of Polixenes :
43536 Hence with it ; and , together with the dam
43537 Commit them to the fire !
43538
43539 It is yours ;
43540 And , might we lay the old proverb to your charge ,
43541 'So like you , 'tis the worse .' Behold , my lords ,
43542 Although the print be little , the whole matter
43543 And copy of the father ; eye , nose , lip ,
43544 The trick of's frown , his forehead , nay , the valley ,
43545 The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek , his smiles ,
43546 The very mould and frame of hand , nail , finger :
43547 And thou , good goddess Nature , which hast made it
43548 So like to him that got it , if thou hast
43549 The ordering of the mind too , 'mongst all colours
43550 No yellow in't ; lest she suspect , as he does ,
43551 Her children not her husband's .
43552
43553 A gross hag !
43554 And , lozel , thou art worthy to be hang'd ,
43555 That wilt not stay her tongue .
43556
43557 Hang all the husbands
43558 That cannot do that feat , you'll leave yourself
43559 Hardly one subject .
43560
43561 Once more , take her hence .
43562
43563 A most unworthy and unnatural lord
43564 Can do no more .
43565
43566 I'll ha' thee burn'd .
43567
43568 I care not :
43569 It is a heretic that makes the fire ,
43570 Not she which burns in't . I'll not call you tyrant ;
43571 But this most cruel usage of your queen ,
43572 Not able to produce more accusation
43573 Than your own weak-hing'd fancy ,something savours
43574 Of tyranny , and will ignoble make you ,
43575 Yea , scandalous to the world .
43576
43577 On your allegiance ,
43578 Out of the chamber with her ! Were I a tyrant ,
43579 Where were her life ? she durst not call me so
43580 If she did know me one . Away with her !
43581
43582 I pray you do not push me ; I'll be gone .
43583 Look to your babe , my lord ; 'tis yours : Jove send her
43584 A better guiding spirit ! What need these hands ?
43585 You , that are thus so tender o'er his follies ,
43586 Will never do him good , not one of you .
43587 So , so : farewell ; we are gone .
43588
43589
43590 Thou , traitor , hast set on thy wife to this .
43591 My child ! away with't !even thou , that hast
43592 A heart so tender o'er it , take it hence
43593 And see it instantly consum'd with fire :
43594 Even thou and none but thou . Take it up straight :
43595 Within this hour bring me word 'tis done ,
43596 And by good testimony ,or I'll seize thy life ,
43597 With what thou else call'st thine . If thou refuse
43598 And wilt encounter with my wrath , say so ;
43599 The bastard brains with these my proper hands
43600 Shall I dash out . Go , take it to the fire ;
43601 For thou sett'st on thy wife .
43602
43603 I did not , sir :
43604 These lords , my noble fellows , if they please ,
43605 Can clear me in't .
43606
43607 We can , my royal liege ,
43608 He is not guilty of her coming hither .
43609
43610 You are liars all .
43611
43612 Beseech your highness , give us better credit :
43613 We have always truly serv'd you , and beseech you
43614 So to esteem of us ; and on our knees we beg ,
43615 As recompense of our dear services
43616 Past and to come , that you do change this purpose ,
43617 Which being so horrible , so bloody , must
43618 Lead on to some foul issue . We all kneel .
43619
43620 I am a feather for each wind that blows .
43621 Shall I live on to see this bastard kneel
43622 And call me father ? Better burn it now
43623 Than curse it then . But , be it ; let it live :
43624 It shall not neither .
43625
43626 You , sir , come you hither ;
43627 You that have been so tenderly officious
43628 With Lady Margery , your midwife there ,
43629 To save this bastard's life ,for 'tis a bastard ,
43630 So sure as thy beard's grey ,what will you adventure
43631 To save this brat's life ?
43632
43633 Any thing , my lord ,
43634 That my ability may undergo ,
43635 And nobleness impose : at least , thus much :
43636 I'll pawn the little blood which I have left ,
43637 To save the innocent : any thing possible .
43638
43639 It shall be possible . Swear by this sword
43640 Thou wilt perform my bidding .
43641
43642 I will , my lord .
43643
43644 Mark and perform it ,seest thou !for the fail
43645 Of any point in't shall not only be
43646 Death to thyself , but to thy lewd-tongu'd wife ,
43647 Whom for this time we pardon . We enjoin thee ,
43648 As thou art liegeman to us , that thou carry
43649 This female bastard hence ; and that thou bear it
43650 To some remote and desart place quite out
43651 Of our dominions ; and that there thou leave it ,
43652 Without more mercy , to its own protection ,
43653 And favour of the climate . As by strange fortune
43654 It came to us , I do in justice charge thee ,
43655 On thy soul's peril and thy body's torture ,
43656 That thou commend it strangely to some place ,
43657 Where chance may nurse or end it . Take it up .
43658
43659 I swear to do this , though a present death
43660 Had been more merciful . Come on , poor babe :
43661 Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens
43662 To be thy nurses ! Wolves and bears , they say ,
43663 Casting their savageness aside have done
43664 Like offices of pity . Sir , be prosperous
43665 In more than this deed doth require ! And blessing
43666 Against this cruelty fight on thy side ,
43667 Poor thing , condemn'd to loss !
43668
43669
43670 No ; I'll not rear
43671 Another's issue .
43672
43673
43674 Please your highness , posts
43675 From those you sent to the oracle are come
43676 An hour since : Cleomenes and Dion ,
43677 Being well arriv'd from Delphos , are both landed ,
43678 Hasting to the court .
43679
43680 So please you , sir , their speed
43681 Hath been beyond account .
43682
43683 Twenty-three days
43684 They have been absent : 'tis good speed ; foretells
43685 The great Apollo suddenly will have
43686 The truth of this appear . Prepare you , lords ;
43687 Summon a session , that we may arraign
43688 Our most disloyal lady ; for , as she hath
43689 Been publicly accus'd , so shall she have
43690 A just and open trial . While she lives
43691 My heart will be a burden to me . Leave me ,
43692 And think upon my bidding .
43693
43694 The climate's delicate , the air most sweet ,
43695 Fertile the isle , the temple much surpassing
43696 The common praise it bears .
43697
43698 I shall report ,
43699 For most it caught me , the celestial habits ,
43700 Methinks I so should term them ,and the reverence
43701 Of the grave wearers . O , the sacrifice !
43702 How ceremonious , solemn , and unearthly
43703 It was i' the offering !
43704
43705 But of all , the burst
43706 And the ear-deafening voice o' the oracle ,
43707 Kin to Jove's thunder , so surpris'd my sense ,
43708 That I was nothing .
43709
43710 If the event o' the journey
43711 Prove as successful to the queen ,O , be't so !
43712 As it hath been to us rare , pleasant , speedy ,
43713 The time is worth the use on't .
43714
43715 Great Apollo
43716 Turn all to the best ! These proclamations ,
43717 So forcing faults upon Hermione ,
43718 I little like .
43719
43720 The violent carriage of it
43721 Will clear or end the business : when the oracle ,
43722 Thus by Apollo's great divine seal'd up ,
43723 Shall the contents discover , something rare
43724 Even then will rush to knowledge .Go :fresh horses !
43725 And gracious be the issue !
43726
43727
43728 This sessions , to our great grief we pronounce ,
43729 Even pushes 'gainst our heart : the party tried
43730 The daughter of a king , our wife , and one
43731 Of us too much belov'd . Let us be clear'd
43732 Of being tyrannous , since we so openly
43733 Proceed in justice , which shall have due course ,
43734 Even to the guilt or the purgation .
43735 Produce the prisoner .
43736
43737 It is his highness' pleasure that the queen
43738 Appear in person here in court . Silence !
43739
43740
43741 Read the indictment .
43742
43743 Hermione , queen to the worthy Leontes , King of Sicilia , thou art here accused and arraigned of high treason , in committing adultery with Polixenes , King of Bohemia , and conspiring with Camillo to take away the life of our sovereign lord the king , thy royal husband : the pretence whereof being by circumstances partly laid open , thou , Hermione , contrary to the faith and allegiance of a true subject , didst counsel and aid them , for their better safety , to fly away by night .
43744
43745 Since what I am to say must be but that
43746 Which contradicts my accusation , and
43747 The testimony on my part no other
43748 But what comes from myself , it shall scarce boot me
43749 To say 'Not guilty :' mine integrity
43750 Being counted falsehood , shall , as I express it ,
43751 Be so receiv'd . But thus : if powers divine
43752 Behold our human actions , as they do ,
43753 I doubt not then but innocence shall make
43754 False accusation blush , and tyranny
43755 Tremble at patience . You , my lord , best know ,
43756 Who least will seem to do so ,my past life
43757 Hath been as continent , as chaste , as true ,
43758 As I am now unhappy ; which is more
43759 Than history can pattern , though devis'd
43760 And play'd to take spectators . For behold me ,
43761 A fellow of the royal bed , which owe
43762 A moiety of the throne , a great king's daughter ,
43763 The mother to a hopeful prince , here standing
43764 To prate and talk for life and honour 'fore
43765 Who please to come and hear . For life , I prize it .
43766 As I weigh grief , which I would spare : for honour ,
43767 'Tis a derivative from me to mine ,
43768 And only that I stand for . I appeal
43769 To your own conscience , sir , before Polixenes
43770 Came to your court , how I was in your grace ,
43771 How merited to be so ; since he came ,
43772 With what encounter so uncurrent I
43773 Have strain'd , to appear thus : if one jot beyond
43774 The bound of honour , or in act or will
43775 That way inclining , harden'd be the hearts
43776 Of all that hear me , and my near'st of kin
43777 Cry fie upon my grave !
43778
43779 I ne'er heard yet
43780 That any of these bolder vices wanted
43781 Less impudence to gainsay what they did
43782 Than to perform it first .
43783
43784 That's true enough ;
43785 Though 'tis a saying , sir , not due to me .
43786
43787 You will not own it .
43788
43789 More than mistress of
43790 Which comes to me in name of fault , I must not
43791 At all acknowledge . For Polixenes ,
43792 With whom I am accus'd ,I do confess
43793 I lov'd him as in honour he requir'd ,
43794 With such a kind of love as might become
43795 A lady like me ; with a love even such ,
43796 So and no other , as yourself commanded :
43797 Which not to have done I think had been in me
43798 Both disobedience and ingratitude
43799 To you and toward your friend , whose love had spoke ,
43800 Even since it could speak , from an infant , freely
43801 That it was yours . Now , for conspiracy ,
43802 I know not how it tastes , though it be dish'd
43803 For me to try how : all I know of it
43804 Is that Camillo was an honest man ;
43805 And why he left your court , the gods themselves ,
43806 Wotting no more than I , are ignorant .
43807
43808 You knew of his departure , as you know
43809 What you have underta'en to do in's absence .
43810
43811 Sir ,
43812 You speak a language that I understand not :
43813 My life stands in the level of your dreams ,
43814 Which I'll lay down .
43815
43816 Your actions are my dreams :
43817 You had a bastard by Polixenes ,
43818 And I but dream'd it . As you were past all shame ,
43819 Those of your fact are so ,so past all truth :
43820 Which to deny concerns more than avails ; for as
43821 Thy brat hath been cast out , like to itself ,
43822 No father owning it ,which is , indeed ,
43823 More criminal in thee than it ,so thou
43824 Shalt feel our justice , in whose easiest passage
43825 Look for no less than death .
43826
43827 Sir , spare your threats :
43828 The bug which you would fright me with I seek .
43829 To me can life be no commodity :
43830 The crown and comfort of my life , your favour ,
43831 I do give lost ; for I do feel it gone ,
43832 But know not how it went . My second joy ,
43833 And first-fruits of my body , from his presence
43834 I am barr'd , like one infectious . My third comfort ,
43835 Starr'd most unluckily , is from my breast ,
43836 The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth ,
43837 Hal'd out to murder : myself on every post
43838 Proclaim'd a strumpet : with immodest hatred
43839 The child-bed privilege denied , which 'longs
43840 To women of all fashion : lastly , hurried
43841 Here to this place , i'the open air , before
43842 I have got strength of limit . Now , my liege ,
43843 Tell me what blessings I have here alive ,
43844 That I should fear to die ? Therefore proceed .
43845 But yet hear this ; mistake me not ; no life ,
43846 I prize it not a straw :but for mine honour ,
43847 Which I would free , if I shall be condemn'd
43848 Upon surmises , all proofs sleeping else
43849 But what your jealousies awake , I tell you
43850 'Tis rigour and not law . Your honours all ,
43851 I do refer me to the oracle :
43852 Apollo be my judge !
43853
43854 This your request
43855 Is altogether just : therefore , bring forth ,
43856 And in Apollo's name , his oracle .
43857
43858
43859 The Emperor of Russia was my father :
43860 O ! that he were alive , and here beholding
43861 His daughter's trial ; that he did but see
43862 The flatness of my misery ; yet with eyes
43863 Of pity , not revenge !
43864
43865
43866 You here shall swear upon this sword of justice ,
43867 That you , Cleomenes and Dion , have
43868 Been both at Delphos , and from thence have brought
43869 This seal'd-up oracle , by the hand deliver'd
43870 Of great Apollo's priest , and that since then
43871 You have not dar'd to break the holy seal ,
43872 Nor read the secrets in't .
43873
43874 All this we swear .
43875
43876 All this we swear .
43877
43878 Break up the seals , and read .
43879
43880 Hermione is chaste ; Polixenes blameless ; Camillo a true subject ; Leontes a jealous tyrant ; his innocent babe truly begotten ; and the king shall live without an heir if that which is lost be not found !
43881
43882 Now blessed be the great Apollo !
43883
43884 Praised !
43885
43886 Hast thou read truth ?
43887
43888 Ay , my lord ; even so
43889 As it is here set down .
43890
43891 There is no truth at all i' the oracle :
43892 The sessions shall proceed : this is mere falsehood .
43893
43894
43895 My lord the king , the king !
43896
43897 What is the business ?
43898
43899 O sir ! I shall be hated to report it :
43900 The prince your son , with mere conceit and fear
43901 Of the queen's speed , is gone .
43902
43903 How ! gone !
43904
43905 Is dead .
43906
43907 Apollo's angry ; and the heavens themselves
43908 Do strike at my injustice .
43909
43910 How now , there !
43911
43912 This news is mortal to the queen : look down ,
43913 And see what death is doing .
43914
43915 Take her hence :
43916 Her heart is but o'ercharg'd ; she will recover :
43917 I have too much believ'd mine own suspicion :
43918 Beseech you , tenderly apply to her
43919 Some remedies for life .
43920
43921 Apollo , pardon
43922 My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle !
43923 I'll reconcile me to Polixenes ,
43924 New woo my queen , recall the good Camillo ,
43925 Whom I proclaim a man of truth , of mercy ;
43926 For , being transported by my jealousies
43927 To bloody thoughts and to revenge , I chose
43928 Camillo for the minister to poison
43929 My friend Polixenes : which had been done ,
43930 But that the good mind of Camillo tardied
43931 My swift command ; though I with death and with
43932 Reward did threaten and encourage him ,
43933 Not doing it , and being done : he , most humane
43934 And fill'd with honour , to my kingly guest
43935 Unclasp'd my practice , quit his fortunes here ,
43936 Which you knew great , and to the certain hazard
43937 Of all incertainties himself commended ,
43938 No richer than his honour : how he glisters
43939 Thorough my rust ! and how his piety
43940 Does my deeds make the blacker !
43941
43942
43943 Woe the while !
43944 O , cut my lace , lest my heart , cracking it ,
43945 Break too !
43946
43947 What fit is this , good lady ?
43948
43949 What studied torments , tyrant , hast for me ?
43950 What wheels ? racks ? fires ? What flaying ? or what boiling
43951 In leads , or oils ? what old or newer torture
43952 Must I receive , whose every word deserves
43953 To taste of thy most worst ? Thy tyranny ,
43954 Together working with thy jealousies ,
43955 Fancies too weak for boys , too green and idle
43956 For girls of nine , O ! think what they have done ,
43957 And then run mad indeed , stark mad ; for all
43958 Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it .
43959 That thou betray'dst Polixenes , 'twas nothing ;
43960 That did but show thee of a fool , inconstant
43961 And damnable ingrateful ; nor was't much
43962 Thou wouldst have poison'd good Camillo's honour
43963 To have him kill a king ; poor trespasses ,
43964 More monstrous standing by : whereof I reckon
43965 The casting forth to crows thy baby daughter
43966 To be or none or little ; though a devil
43967 Would have shed water out of fire ere done't :
43968 Nor is't directly laid to thee , the death
43969 Of the young prince , whose honourable thoughts ,
43970 Thoughts high for one so tender ,cleft the heart
43971 That could conceive a gross and foolish sire
43972 Blemish'd his gracious dam : this is not , no ,
43973 Laid to thy answer : but the last ,O lords !
43974 When I have said , cry , 'woe !' the queen , the queen ,
43975 The sweetest , dearest creature's dead , and vengeance for't
43976 Not dropp'd down yet .
43977
43978 The higher powers forbid !
43979
43980 I say she's dead ; I'll swear't : if word nor oath
43981 Prevail not , go and see : if you can bring
43982 Tincture or lustre in her lip , her eye ,
43983 Heat outwardly , or breath within , I'll serve you
43984 As I would do the gods . But , O thou tyrant !
43985 Do not repent these things , for they are heavier
43986 Than all thy woes can stir ; therefore betake thee
43987 To nothing but despair . A thousand knees
43988 Ten thousand years together , naked , fasting ,
43989 Upon a barren mountain , and still winter
43990 In storm perpetual , could not move the gods
43991 To look that way thou wert .
43992
43993 Go on , go on ;
43994 Thou canst not speak too much : I have deserv'd
43995 All tongues to talk their bitterest .
43996
43997 Say no more :
43998 Howe'er the business goes , you have made fault
43999 I' the boldness of your speech .
44000
44001 I am sorry for't :
44002 All faults I make , when I shall come to know them ,
44003 I do repent . Alas ! I have show'd too much
44004 The rashness of a woman : he is touch'd
44005 To the noble heart . What's gone and what's past help
44006 Should be past grief : do not receive affliction
44007 At my petition ; I beseech you , rather
44008 Let me be punish'd , that have minded you
44009 Of what you should forget . Now , good my liege ,
44010 Sir , royal sir , forgive a foolish woman :
44011 The love I bore your queen ,lo , fool again !
44012 I'll speak of her no more , nor of your children ;
44013 I'll not remember you of my own lord ,
44014 Who is lost too : take your patience to you ,
44015 And I'll say nothing .
44016
44017 Thou didst speak but well ,
44018 When most the truth , which I receive much better
44019 Than to be pitied of thee . Prithee , bring me
44020 To the dead bodies of my queen and son :
44021 One grave shall be for both : upon them shall
44022 The causes of their death appear , unto
44023 Our shame perpetual . Once a day I'll visit
44024 The chapel where they lie , and tears shed there
44025 Shall be my recreation : so long as nature
44026 Will bear up with this exercise , so long
44027 I daily vow to use it . Come and lead me
44028 Unto these sorrows .
44029
44030
44031 Thou art perfect , then , our ship hath touch'd upon
44032 The desarts of Bohemia ?
44033
44034 Ay , my lord ; and fear
44035 We have landed in ill time : the skies look grimly
44036 And threaten present blusters . In my conscience ,
44037 The heavens with that we have in hand are angry ,
44038 And frown upon's .
44039
44040 Their sacred wills be done ! Go , get aboard ;
44041 Look to thy bark : I'll not be long before
44042 I call upon thee .
44043
44044 Make your best haste , and go not
44045 Too far i' the land : 'tis like to be loud weather ;
44046 Besides , this place is famous for the creatures
44047 Of prey that keep upon't .
44048
44049 Go thou away :
44050 I'll follow instantly .
44051
44052 I am glad at heart
44053 To be so rid of the business .
44054
44055
44056 Come , poor babe :
44057 I have heard , but not believ'd , the spirits o' the dead
44058 May walk again : if such thing be , thy mother
44059 Appear'd to me last night , for ne'er was dream
44060 So like a waking . To me comes a creature ,
44061 Sometimes her head on one side , some another ;
44062 I never saw a vessel of like sorrow ,
44063 So fill'd , and so becoming : in pure white robes ,
44064 Like very sanctity , she did approach
44065 My cabin where I lay ; thrice bow'd before me ,
44066 And , gasping to begin some speech , her eyes
44067 Became two spouts : the fury spent , anon
44068 Did this break from her : 'Good Antigonus ,
44069 Since fate , against thy better disposition ,
44070 Hath made thy person for the thrower-out
44071 Of my poor babe , according to thine oath ,
44072 Places remote enough are in Bohemia ,
44073 There weep and leave it crying ; and , for the babe
44074 Is counted lost for ever , Perdita ,
44075 I prithee , call't : for this ungentle business ,
44076 Put on thee by my lord , thou ne'er shalt see
44077 Thy wife Paulina more :' and so , with shrieks ,
44078 She melted into air . Affrighted much ,
44079 I did in time collect myself , and thought
44080 This was so and no slumber . Dreams are toys ;
44081 Yet for this once , yea , superstitiously ,
44082 I will be squar'd by this . I do believe
44083 Hermione hath suffer'd death ; and that
44084 Apollo would , this being indeed the issue
44085 Of King Polixenes , it should here be laid ,
44086 Either for life or death , upon the earth
44087 Of its right father . Blossom , speed thee well !
44088
44089 There lie ; and there thy character : there these ;
44090
44091 Which may , if fortune please , both breed thee , pretty ,
44092 And still rest thine . The storm begins : poor wretch !
44093 That for thy mother's fault art thus expos'd
44094 To loss and what may follow . Weep I cannot ,
44095 But my heart bleeds , and most accurs'd am I
44096 To be by oath enjoin'd to this . Farewell !
44097 The day frowns more and more : thou art like to have
44098 A lullaby too rough . I never saw
44099 The heavens so dim by day . A savage clamour !
44100 Well may I get aboard ! This is the chase :
44101 I am gone for ever .
44102
44103 I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty , or that youth would sleep out the rest ; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child , wronging the ancientry , stealing , fighting . Hark you now ! Would any but these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty hunt this weather ? They have scared away two of my best sheep ; which I fear the wolf will sooner find than the master : if anywhere I have them , 'tis by the sea-side , browsing of ivy . Good luck , an't be thy will ! what have we here ?
44104
44105 Mercy on's , a barne ; a very pretty barne ! A boy or a child , I wonder ? A pretty one ; a very pretty one ; sure some scape : though I am not bookish , yet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the scape . This has been some stair-work , some trunk-work , some behind-door-work ; they were warmer that got this than the poor thing is here . I'll take it up for pity ; yet I'll tarry till my son come ; he hollaed but even now . Whoa , ho , hoa !
44106
44107
44108 Hilloa , loa !
44109
44110 What ! art so near ? If thou'lt see a thing to talk on when thou art dead and rotten , come hither . What ailest thou , man ?
44111
44112 I have seen two such sights by sea and by land ! but I am not to say it is a see , for it is now the sky : betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust a bodkin's point .
44113
44114 Why , boy , how is it ?
44115
44116 I would you did but see how it chafes , how it rages , how it takes up the shore ! but that's not to the point . O ! the most piteous cry of the poor souls ; sometimes to see 'em , and not to see 'em ; now the ship boring the moon with her mainmast , and anon swallowed with yest and froth , as you'd thrust a cork into a hogshead . And then for the land-service : to see how the bear tore out his shoulderbone ; how he cried to me for help and said his name was Antigonus , a nobleman . But to make an end of the ship : to see how the sea flap-dragoned it : but , first , how the poor souls roared , and the sea mocked them ; and how the poor gentleman roared , and the bear mocked him , both roaring louder than the sea or weather .
44117
44118 Name of mercy ! when was this , boy ?
44119
44120 Now , now ; I have not winked since I saw these sights : the men are not yet cold under water , nor the bear half dined on the gentleman : he's at it now .
44121
44122 Would I had been by , to have helped the old man !
44123
44124 I would you had been by the ship's side , to have helped her : there your charity would have lacked footing .
44125
44126 Heavy matters ! heavy matters ! but look thee here , boy . Now bless thyself : thou mettest with things dying , I with things new born . Here's a sight for thee ; look thee , a bearing-cloth for a squire's child ! Look thee here : take up , take up , boy ; open't . So , let's see : it was told me , I should be rich by the fairies : this is some changeling .Open't . What's within , boy ?
44127
44128 You're a made old man : if the sins of your youth are forgiven you , you're well to live . Gold ! all gold !
44129
44130 This is fairy gold , boy , and 'twill prove so : up with't , keep it close : home , home , the next way . We are lucky , boy ; and to be so still , requires nothing but secrecy . Let my sheep go . Come , good boy , the next way home .
44131
44132 Go you the next way with your findings . I'll go see if the bear be gone from the gentleman , and how much he hath eaten : they are never curst but when they are hungry . If there be any of him left , I'll bury it .
44133
44134 That's a good deed . If thou mayst discern by that which is left of him what he is , fetch me to the sight of him .
44135
44136 Marry , will I ; and you shall help to put him i' the ground .
44137
44138 'Tis a lucky day , boy , and we'll do good deeds on't .
44139
44140 I , that please some , try all , both joy and terror
44141 Of good and bad , that make and unfold error ,
44142 Now take upon me , in the name of Time ,
44143 To use my wings . Impute it not a crime
44144 To me or my swift passage , that I slide
44145 O'er sixteen years , and leave the growth untried
44146 Of that wide gap ; since it is in my power
44147 To o'erthrow law , and in one self-born hour
44148 To plant and o'erwhelm custom . Let me pass
44149 The same I am , ere ancient'st order was
44150 Or what is now receiv'd : I witness to
44151 The times that brought them in ; so shall I do
44152 To the freshest things now reigning , and make stale
44153 The glistering of this present , as my tale
44154 Now seems to it . Your patience this allowing ,
44155 I turn my glass and give my scene such growing
44156 As you had slept between . Leontes leaving ,
44157 The effects of his fond jealousies so grieving ,
44158 That he shuts up himself ,imagine me ,
44159 Gentle spectators , that I now may be
44160 In fair Bohemia ; and remember well ,
44161 I mention'd a son o' the king's , which Florizel
44162 I now name to you ; and with speed so pace
44163 To speak of Perdita , now grown in grace
44164 Equal with wondering : what of her ensues
44165 I list not prophesy ; but let Time's news
44166 Be known when 'tis brought forth . A shepherd's daughter ,
44167 And what to her adheres , which follows after ,
44168 Is th' argument of Time . Of this allow ,
44169 If ever you have spent time worse ere now :
44170 If never , yet that Time himself doth say
44171 He wishes earnestly you never may .
44172
44173 I pray thee , good Camillo , be no more importunate : 'tis a sickness denying thee anything ; a death to grant this .
44174
44175 It is fifteen years since I saw my country : though I have for the most part been aired abroad , I desire to lay my bones there . Besides , the penitent king , my master , hath sent for me ; to whose feeling sorrows I might be some allay , or I o'erween to think so , which is another spur to my departure .
44176
44177 As thou lovest me , Camillo , wipe not out the rest of thy services by leaving me now . The need I have of thee thine own goodness hath made : better not to have had thee than thus to want thee . Thou , having made me businesses which none without thee can sufficiently manage , must either stay to execute them thyself or take away with thee the very services thou hast done ; which if I have not enough considered ,as too much I cannot ,to be more thankful to thee shall be my study , and my profit therein , the heaping friendships . Of that fatal country , Sicilia , prithee speak no more , whose very naming punishes me with the remembrance of that penitent , as thou callest him , and reconciled king , my brother ; whose loss of his most precious queen and children are even now to be afresh lamented . Say to me , when sawest thou the Prince Florizel , my son ? Kings are no less unhappy , their issue not being gracious , than they are in losing them when they have approved their virtues .
44178
44179 Sir , it is three days since I saw the prince . What his happier affairs may be , are to me unknown ; but I have missingly noted he is of late much retired from court , and is less frequent to his princely exercises than formerly he hath appeared .
44180
44181 I have considered so much , Camillo , and with some care ; so far , that I have eyes under my service which look upon his removedness ; from whom I have this intelligence , that he is seldom from the house of a most homely shepherd ; a man , they say , that from very nothing , and beyond the imagination of his neighbours , is grown into an unspeakable estate .
44182
44183 I have heard , sir , of such a man , who hath a daughter of most rare note : the report of her is extended more than can be thought to begin from such a cottage .
44184
44185 That's likewise part of my intelligence ; but I fear , the angle that plucks our son thither . Thou shalt accompany us to the place ; where we will , not appearing what we are , have some question with the shepherd ; from whose simplicity I think it not uneasy to get the cause of my son's resort thither . Prithee , be my present partner in this business , and lay aside the thoughts of Sicilia .
44186
44187 I willingly obey your command .
44188
44189 My best Camillo !We must disguise ourselves .
44190
44191 When daffodils begin to peer ,
44192 With heigh ! the doxy , over the dale ,
44193 Why , then comes in the sweet o' the year ;
44194 For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale .
44195
44196
44197 The white sheet bleaching on the hedge ,
44198 With heigh ! the sweet birds , O , how they sing !
44199 Doth set my pugging tooth on edge ;
44200 For a quart of ale is a dish for a king
44201
44202
44203 The lark , that tirra-lirra chants ,
44204 With , heigh ! with , heigh ! the thrush and the jay ,
44205 Are summer songs for me and my aunts ,
44206 While we lie tumbling in the hay .
44207
44208
44209 I have served Prince Florizel , and in my time wore three-pile ; but now I am out of service :
44210
44211 But shall I go mourn for that , my dear ?
44212 The pale moon shines by night ;
44213 And when I wander here and there ,
44214 I then do most go right .
44215 If tinkers may have leave to live ,
44216 And bear the sow-skin bowget ,
44217 Then my account I well may give ,
44218 And in the stocks avouch it
44219
44220 My traffic is sheets ; when the kite builds , look to lesser linen . My father named me Autolycus ; who being , as I am , littered under Mercury , was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles . With die and drab I purchased this caparison , and my revenue is the silly cheat . Gallows and knock are too powerful on the highway : beating and hanging are terrors to me : for the life to come , I sleep out the thought of it . A prize ! a prize !
44221
44222
44223 Let me see : Every 'leven wether tods ; every tod yields pound and odd shilling : fifteen hundred shorn , what comes the wool to ?
44224
44225 If the springe hold , the cock's mine .
44226
44227 I cannot do't without compters . Let me see ; what am I to buy for our sheep-shearing feast ? 'Three pound of sugar ; five pound of currants ; rice ,' what will this sister of mine do with rice ? But my father hath made her mistress of the feast , and she lays it on . She hath made me four-and-twenty nosegays for the shearers , three-man song-men all , and very good ones ; but they are most of them means and bases : but one puritan amongst them , and he sings psalms to hornpipes . I must have saffron , to colour the warden pies ; mace , dates ,none ; that's out of my note :nutmegs seven ; a race or two of ginger ,but that I may beg ;four pound of prunes , and as many of raisins o' the sun .
44228
44229 O ! that ever I was born !
44230
44231
44232 I' the name of me !
44233
44234 O ! help me , help me ! pluck but off these rags , and then death , death !
44235
44236 Alack , poor soul ! thou hast need of more rags to lay on thee , rather than have these off .
44237
44238 O , sir ! the loathsomeness of them offends me more than the stripes I have received , which are mighty ones and millions .
44239
44240 Alas , poor man ! a million of beating may come to a great matter .
44241
44242 I am robbed , sir , and beaten ; my money and apparel ta'en from me , and these detestable things put upon me .
44243
44244 What , by a horseman or a footman ?
44245
44246 A footman , sweet sir , a footman .
44247
44248 Indeed , he should be a footman , by the garments he hath left with thee : if this be a horseman's coat , it hath seen very hot service . Lend me thy hand , I'll help thee : come , lend me thy hand .
44249
44250
44251 O ! good sir , tenderly , O !
44252
44253 Alas , poor soul !
44254
44255 O ! good sir ; softly , good sir ! I fear , sir , my shoulder-blade is out .
44256
44257 How now ! canst stand ?
44258
44259 Softly , dear sir ;
44260
44261 good sir , softly . You ha' done me a charitable office .
44262
44263 Dost lack any money ? I have a little money for thee .
44264
44265 No , good sweet sir : no , I beseech you , sir . I have a kinsman not past three-quarters of a mile hence , unto whom I was going : I shall there have money , or anything I want : offer me no money , I pray you ! that kills my heart .
44266
44267 What manner of fellow was he that robbed you ?
44268
44269 A fellow , sir , that I have known to go about with trol-my-dames : I knew him once a servant of the prince . I cannot tell , good sir , for which of his virtues it was , but he was certainly whipped out of the court .
44270
44271 His vices , you would say : there's no virtue whipped out of the court : they cherish it , to make it stay there , and yet it will no more but abide .
44272
44273 Vices , I would say , sir . I know this man well : he hath been since an ape-bearer ; then a process-server , a bailiff ; then he compassed a motion of the Prodigal Son , and married a tinker's wife within a mile where my land and living lies ; and having flown over many knavish professions , he settled only in rogue : some call him Autolycus .
44274
44275 Out upon him ! Prig , for my life , prig : he haunts wakes , fairs , and bear-baitings .
44276
44277 Very true , sir ; he , sir , he : that's the rogue that put me into this apparel .
44278
44279 Not a more cowardly rogue in all Bohemia : if you had but looked big and spit at him , he'd have run .
44280
44281 I must confess to you , sir , I am no fighter : I am false of heart that way , and that he knew , I warrant him .
44282
44283 How do you now ?
44284
44285 Sweet sir , much better than I was : I can stand and walk . I will even take my leave of you , and pace softly towards my kinsman's .
44286
44287 Shall I bring thee on the way ?
44288
44289 No , good-faced sir ; no , sweet sir .
44290
44291 Then fare thee well : I must go buy spices for our sheep-shearing .
44292
44293 Prosper you , sweet sir !
44294
44295 Your purse is not hot enough to purchase your spice . I'll be with you at your sheep-shearing too . If I make not this cheat bring out another , and the shearers prove sheep , let me be unrolled , and my name put in the book of virtue .
44296
44297 Jog on , jog on , the footpath way ,
44298 And merrily hent the stile-a :
44299 A merry heart goes all the day ,
44300 Your sad tares in a mile-a .
44301
44302 These your unusual weeds to each part of you
44303 Do give a life : no shepherdess , but Flora
44304 Peering in April's front . This your sheep-shearing
44305 Is as a meeting of the petty gods ,
44306 And you the queen on't .
44307
44308 Sir , my gracious lord ,
44309 To chide at your extremes it not becomes me :
44310 O ! pardon , that I name them . Your high self ,
44311 The gracious mark o' the land , you have obscur'd
44312 With a swain's wearing , and me , poor lowly maid ,
44313 Most goddess-like prank'd up . But that our feasts
44314 In every mess have folly , and the feeders
44315 Digest it with a custom , I should blush
44316 To see you so attired ,swoon , I think ,
44317 To show myself a glass .
44318
44319 I bless the time
44320 When my good falcon made her flight across
44321 Thy father's ground .
44322
44323 Now , Jove afford you cause !
44324 To me the difference forges dread ; your greatness
44325 Hath not been us'd to fear . Even now I tremble
44326 To think , your father , by some accident ,
44327 Should pass this way as you did . O , the Fates !
44328 How would he look , to see his work , so noble ,
44329 Vilely bound up ? What would he say ? Or how
44330 Should I , in these my borrow'd flaunts , behold
44331 The sternness of his presence ?
44332
44333 Apprehend
44334 Nothing but jollity . The gods themselves ,
44335 Humbling their deities to love , have taken
44336 The shapes of beasts upon them : Jupiter
44337 Became a bull , and bellow'd ; the green Neptune
44338 A ram , and bleated ; and the fire-rob'd god ,
44339 Golden Apollo , a poor humble swain ,
44340 As I seem now . Their transformations
44341 Were never for a piece of beauty rarer ,
44342 Nor in a way so chaste , since my desires
44343 Run not before mine honour , nor my lusts
44344 Burn hotter than my faith .
44345
44346 O ! but , sir ,
44347 Your resolution cannot hold , when 'tis
44348 Oppos'd , as it must be , by the power of the king .
44349 One of these two must be necessities ,
44350 Which then will speak , that you must change this purpose ,
44351 Or I my life .
44352
44353 Thou dearest Perdita ,
44354 With these forc'd thoughts , I prithee , darken not
44355 The mirth o' the feast : or I'll be thine , my fair ,
44356 Or not my father's ; for I cannot be
44357 Mine own , nor anything to any , if
44358 I be not thine : to this I am most constant ,
44359 Though destiny say no . Be merry , gentle ;
44360 Strangle such thoughts as these with any thing
44361 That you behold the while . Your guests are coming :
44362 Lift up your countenance , as it were the day
44363 Of celebration of that nuptial which
44364 We two have sworn shall come .
44365
44366 O lady Fortune ,
44367 Stand you auspicious !
44368
44369 See , your guests approach :
44370 Address yourself to entertain them sprightly ,
44371 And let's be red with mirth .
44372
44373
44374 Fie , daughter ! when my old wife liv'd , upon
44375 This day she was both pantler , butler , cook ;
44376 Both dame and servant ; welcom'd all , serv'd all ,
44377 Would sing her song and dance her turn ; now here ,
44378 At upper end o' the table , now i' the middle ;
44379 On his shoulder , and his ; her face o' fire
44380 With labour and the thing she took to quench it ,
44381 She would to each one sip . You are retir'd ,
44382 As if you were a feasted one and not
44383 The hostess of the meeting : pray you , bid
44384 These unknown friends to's welcome ; for it is
44385 A way to make us better friends , more known .
44386 Come , quench your blushes and present yourself
44387 That which you are , mistress o' the feast : come on ,
44388 And bid us welcome to your sheep-shearing ,
44389 As your good flock shall prosper .
44390
44391 Sir , welcome :
44392 It is my father's will I should take on me
44393 The hostess-ship o' the day :
44394
44395 You're welcome , sir .
44396 Give me those flowers there , Dorcas . Reverend sirs ,
44397 For you there's rosemary and rue ; these keep
44398 Seeming and savour all the winter long :
44399 Grace and remembrance be to you both ,
44400 And welcome to our shearing !
44401
44402 Shepherdess ,
44403 A fair one are you ,well you fit our ages
44404 With flowers of winter .
44405
44406 Sir , the year growing ancient ,
44407 Not yet on summer's death , nor on the birth
44408 Of trembling winter , the fairest flowers o' the season
44409 Are our carnations , and streak'd gillyvors ,
44410 Which some call nature's bastards : of that kind
44411 Our rustic garden's barren , and I care not
44412 To get slips of them .
44413
44414 Wherefore , gentle maiden ,
44415 Do you neglect them ?
44416
44417 For I have heard it said
44418 There is an art which in their piedness shares
44419 With great creating nature .
44420
44421 Say there be ;
44422 Yet nature is made better by no mean
44423 But nature makes that mean : so , over that art ,
44424 Which you say adds to nature , is an art
44425 That nature makes . You see , sweet maid , we marry
44426 A gentler scion to the wildest stock ,
44427 And make conceive a bark of baser kind
44428 By bud of nobler race : this is an art
44429 Which does mend nature , change it rather , but
44430 The art itself is nature .
44431
44432 So it is .
44433
44434 Then make your garden rich in gillyvors ,
44435 And do not call them bastards .
44436
44437 I'll not put
44438 The dibble in earth to set one slip of them ;
44439 No more than , were I painted , I would wish
44440 This youth should say , 'twere well , and only therefore
44441 Desire to breed by me . Here's flowers for you ;
44442 Hot lavender , mints , savory , marjoram ;
44443 The marigold , that goes to bed wi' the sun ,
44444 And with him rises weeping : these are flowers
44445 Of middle summer , and I think they are given
44446 To men of middle age . You're very welcome .
44447
44448 I should leave grazing , were I of your flock ,
44449 And only live by gazing .
44450
44451 Out , alas !
44452 You'd be so lean , that blasts of January
44453 Would blow you through and through . Now , my fair'st friend ,
44454 I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might
44455 Become your time of day ; and yours , and yours ,
44456 That wear upon your virgin branches yet
44457 Your maidenheads growing : O Proserpina !
44458 For the flowers now that frighted thou let'st fall
44459 From Dis's waggon ! daffodils ,
44460 That come before the swallow dares , and take
44461 The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim ,
44462 But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes
44463 Or Cytherea's breath ; pale prime-roses ,
44464 That die unmarried , ere they can behold
44465 Bright Ph bus in his strength , a malady
44466 Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips and
44467 The crown imperial ; lilies of all kinds ,
44468 The flower-de-luce being one . O ! these I lack
44469 To make you garlands of , and my sweet friend ,
44470 To strew him o'er and o'er !
44471
44472 What ! like a corse ?
44473
44474 No , like a bank for love to lie and play on ;
44475 Not like a corse ; or if ,not to be buried ,
44476 But quick and in mine arms . Come , take your flowers :
44477 Methinks I play as I have seen them do
44478 In Whitsun pastorals : sure this robe of mine
44479 Does change my disposition .
44480
44481 What you do
44482 Still betters what is done . When you speak , sweet ,
44483 I'd have you do it ever : when you sing ,
44484 I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ;
44485 Pray so ; and , for the ordering your affairs ,
44486 To sing them too : when you do dance , I wish you
44487 A wave o' the sea , that you might ever do
44488 Nothing but that ; move still , still so ,
44489 And own no other function : each your doing ,
44490 So singular in each particular ,
44491 Crowns what you are doing in the present deed ,
44492 That all your acts are queens .
44493
44494 O Doricles !
44495 Your praises are too large : but that your youth ,
44496 And the true blood which fairly peeps through it ,
44497 Do plainly give you out an unstain'd shepherd ,
44498 With wisdom I might fear , my Doricles ,
44499 You woo'd me the false way .
44500
44501 I think you have
44502 As little skill to fear as I have purpose
44503 To put you to't . But , come ; our dance , I pray .
44504 Your hand , my Perdita : so turtles pair
44505 That never mean to part .
44506
44507 I'll swear for 'em .
44508
44509 This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever
44510 Ran on the green-sord : nothing she does or seems
44511 But smacks of something greater than herself ;
44512 Too noble for this place .
44513
44514 He tells her something
44515 That makes her blood look out . Good sooth , she is
44516 The queen of curds and cream .
44517
44518 Come on , strike up .
44519
44520 Mopsa must be your mistress : marry , garlic ,
44521 To mend her kissing with .
44522
44523 Now , in good time !
44524
44525 Not a word , a word : we stand upon our manners .
44526 Come , strike up .
44527
44528
44529 Pray , good shepherd , what fair swain is this
44530 Which dances with your daughter ?
44531
44532 They call him Doricles , and boasts himself
44533 To have a worthy feeding ; but I have it
44534 Upon his own report and I believe it :
44535 He looks like sooth . He says he loves my daughter :
44536 I think so too ; for never gaz'd the moon
44537 Upon the water as he'll stand and read
44538 As 'twere my daughter's eyes ; and , to be plain ,
44539 I think there is not half a kiss to choose
44540 Who loves another best .
44541
44542 She dances featly .
44543
44544 So she does any thing , though I report it
44545 That should be silent . If young Doricles
44546 Do light upon her , she shall bring him that
44547 Which he not dreams of .
44548
44549
44550 O master ! if you did but hear the pedlar at the door , you would never dance again after a tabor and pipe ; no , the bagpipe could not move you . He sings several tunes faster than you'll tell money ; he utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men's ears grew to his tunes .
44551
44552 He could never come better : he shall come in : I love a ballad but even too well , if it be doleful matter merrily set down , or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably .
44553
44554 He hath songs for man or woman , of all sizes ; no milliner can so fit his customers with gloves : he has the prettiest love-songs for maids ; so without bawdry , which is strange ; with such delicate burthens of dildos and fadings , 'jump her and thump her ;' and where some stretchmouthed rascal would , as it were , mean mischief and break a foul gap into the matter , he makes the maid to answer , 'Whoop , do me no harm , good man ;' puts him off , slights him with 'Whoop , do me no harm , good man .'
44555
44556 This is a brave fellow .
44557
44558 Believe me , thou talkest of an admirable conceited fellow . Has he any unbraided wares ?
44559
44560 He hath ribands of all the colours i' the rainbow ; points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can learnedly handle , though they come to him by the gross ; inkles , caddisses , cambrics , lawns : why , he sings 'em over , as they were gods or goddesses . You would think a smock were a she-angel , he so chants to the sleeve-hand and the work about the square on't .
44561
44562 Prithee , bring him in , and let him approach singing .
44563
44564 Forewarn him that he use no scurrilous words in's tunes .
44565
44566
44567 You have of these pedlars , that have more in them than you'd think , sister .
44568
44569 Ay , good brother , or go about to think .
44570
44571 Lawn as white as driven snow ;
44572 Cyprus black as e'er was crow ;
44573 Gloves as sweet as damask roses ;
44574 Masks for faces and for noses ;
44575 Bugle-bracelet , necklace-amber ,
44576 Perfume for a lady's chamber ;
44577 Golden quoifs and stomachers ,
44578 For my lads to give their dears ;
44579 Pins and poking-sticks of steel ;
44580 What maids lack from head to heel :
44581 Come buy of me , come ; come buy , come buy ;
44582 Buy , lads , or else your lasses cry :
44583 Come buy .
44584
44585 If I were not in love with Mopsa , thou shouldst take no money of me ; but being enthralled as I am , it will also be the bondage of certain ribands and gloves .
44586
44587 I was promised them against the feast ; but they come not too late now .
44588
44589 He hath promised you more than that , or there be liars .
44590
44591 He hath paid you all he promised you : may be he has paid you more , which will shame you to give him again .
44592
44593 Is there no manners left among maids ? will they wear their plackets where they should bear their faces ? Is there not milking-time , when you are going to bed , or kiln-hole , to whistle off these secrets , but you must be tittle-tattling before all our guests ? 'Tis well they are whispering : clamour your tongues , and not a word more .
44594
44595 I have done . Come , you promised me a tawdry lace and a pair of sweet gloves .
44596
44597 Have I not told thee how I was cozened by the way , and lost all my money ?
44598
44599 And indeed , sir , there are cozeners abroad ; therefore it behoves men to be wary .
44600
44601 Fear not thou , man , thou shalt lose nothing here .
44602
44603 I hope so , sir ; for I have about me many parcels of charge .
44604
44605 What hast here ? ballads ?
44606
44607 Pray now , buy some : I love a ballad in print , a-life , for then we are sure they are true .
44608
44609 Here's one to a very doleful tune , how a usurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burden ; and how she longed to eat adders' heads and toads carbonadoed .
44610
44611 Is it true , think you ?
44612
44613 Very true , and but a month old .
44614
44615 Bless me from marrying a usurer !
44616
44617 Here's the midwife's name to't , one Mistress Taleporter , and five or six honest wives' that were present . Why should I carry lies abroad ?
44618
44619 Pray you now , buy it .
44620
44621 Come on , lay it by : and let's first see moe ballads ; we'll buy the other things anon .
44622
44623 Here's another ballad of a fish that appeared upon the coast on Wednesday the fourscore of April , forty thousand fathom above water , and sung this ballad against the hard hearts of maids : it was thought she was a woman and was turned into a cold fish for she would not exchange flesh with one that loved her . The ballad is very pitiful and as true .
44624
44625 Is it true too , think you ?
44626
44627 Five justices' hands at it , and witnesses more than my pack will hold .
44628
44629 Lay it by too : another .
44630
44631 This is a merry ballad , but a very pretty one .
44632
44633 Let's have some merry ones .
44634
44635 Why , this is a passing merry one , and goes to the tune of 'Two maids wooing a man :' there's scarce a maid westward but she sings it : 'tis in request , I can tell you .
44636
44637 We can both sing it : if thou'lt bear a part thou shalt hear ; 'tis in three parts .
44638
44639 We had the tune on't a month ago .
44640
44641 I can bear my part ; you must know 'tis my occupation : have at it with you .
44642
44643
44644 Get you hence , for I must go ,
44645 Where it fits not you to know .
44646
44647 Whither ?
44648
44649 O ! whither ?
44650
44651 Whither ?
44652
44653 It becomes thy oath full woll ,
44654 Thou to me thy secrets tell .
44655
44656 Me too : let me go thither .
44657
44658 Or thou go'st to the grange or mill .
44659
44660 If to either , thou dost ill .
44661
44662 Neither .
44663
44664 What , neither ?
44665
44666 Neither .
44667
44668 Thou hast sworn my love to be
44669
44670 Thou hast sworn it more to me :
44671 Then whither go'st ? say whither ?
44672
44673
44674 We'll have this song out anon by ourselves : my father and the gentlemen are in sad talk , and we'll not trouble them : come , bring away thy pack after me . Wenches , I'll buy for you both . Pedlar , let's have the first choice . Follow me , girls .
44675
44676
44677 And you shall pay well for 'em .
44678
44679 Will you buy any tape ,
44680 Or lace for your cape ,
44681 My dainty duck , my dear-a ?
44682 Any silk , any thread ,
44683 Any toys for your head ,
44684 Of the new'st and fin'st , fin'st wear-a ?
44685 Come to the pedlar ;
44686 Money's a meddler ,
44687 That doth utter all men's ware-a .
44688
44689
44690 Master , there is three carters , three shepherds , three neat-herds , three swine-herds , that have made themselves all men of hair ; they call themselves Saltiers ; and they have a dance which the wenches say is a gallimaufry of gambols , because they are not in't ; but they themselves are o' the mind ,if it be not too rough for some that know little but bowling ,it will please plentifully .
44691
44692 Away ! we'll none on't : here has been too much homely foolery already . I know , sir , we weary you .
44693
44694 You weary those that refresh us : pray , let's see these four threes of herdsmen .
44695
44696 One three of them , by their own report , sir , hath danced before the king ; and not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier .
44697
44698 Leave your prating : since these good men are pleased let them come in : but quickly now .
44699
44700 Why , they stay at door , sir .
44701
44702 O , father ! you'll know more of that hereafter .
44703
44704
44705 Is it not too far gone ? 'Tis time to part them .
44706 He's simple and tells much .
44707
44708 How now , fair shepherd !
44709 Your heart is full of something that does take
44710 Your mind from feasting . Sooth , when I was young ,
44711 And handed love as you do , I was wont
44712 To load my she with knacks : I would have ransack'd
44713 The pedlar's silken treasury and have pour'd it
44714 To her acceptance ; you have let him go
44715 And nothing marted with him . If your lass
44716 Interpretation should abuse and call this
44717 Your lack of love or bounty , you were straited
44718 For a reply , at least if you make a care
44719 Of happy holding her .
44720
44721 Old sir , I know
44722 She prizes not such trifles as these are .
44723 The gifts she looks from me are pack'd and lock'd
44724 Up in my heart , which I have given already ,
44725 But not deliver'd . O ! hear me breathe my life
44726 Before this ancient sir , who , it should seem ,
44727 Hath sometime lov'd : I take thy hand ; this hand ,
44728 As soft as dove's down , and as white as it ,
44729 Or Ethiopian's tooth , or the fann'd snow
44730 That's bolted by the northern blasts twice o'er .
44731
44732 What follows this ?
44733 How prettily the young swain seems to wash
44734 The hand was fair before ! I have put you out :
44735 But to your protestation : let me hear
44736 What you profess .
44737
44738 Do , and be witness to't .
44739
44740 And this my neighbour too ?
44741
44742 And he , and more
44743 Than he , and men , the earth , the heavens , and all ;
44744 That , were I crown'd the most imperial monarch ,
44745 Thereof most worthy , were I the fairest youth
44746 That ever made eye swerve , had force and knowledge
44747 More than was ever man's , I would not prize them
44748 Without her love : for her employ them all ;
44749 Commend them and condemn them to her service
44750 Or to their own perdition .
44751
44752 Fairly offer'd .
44753
44754 This shows a sound affection .
44755
44756 But , my daughter ,
44757 Say you the like to him ?
44758
44759 I cannot speak
44760 So well , nothing so well ; no , nor mean better :
44761 By the pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out
44762 The purity of his .
44763
44764 Take hands ; a bargain ;
44765 And , friends unknown , you shall bear witness to't :
44766 I give my daughter to him , and will make
44767 Her portion equal his .
44768
44769 O ! that must be
44770 I' the virtue of your daughter : one being dead ,
44771 I shall have more than you can dream of yet ;
44772 Enough then for your wonder . But , come on ;
44773 Contract us 'fore these witnesses .
44774
44775 Come , your hand ;
44776 And , daughter , yours .
44777
44778 Soft , swain , awhile , beseech you .
44779 Have you a father ?
44780
44781 I have ; but what of him ?
44782
44783 Knows he of this ?
44784
44785 He neither does nor shall .
44786
44787 Methinks a father
44788 Is , at the nuptial of his son , a guest
44789 That best becomes the table . Pray you , once more ,
44790 Is not your father grown incapable
44791 Of reasonable affairs ? is he not stupid
44792 With age and altering rheums ? can he speak ? hear ?
44793 Know man from man ? dispute his own estate ?
44794 Lies he not bed-rid ? and again does nothing
44795 But what he did being childish ?
44796
44797 No , good sir :
44798 He has his health and ampler strength indeed
44799 Than most have of his age .
44800
44801 By my white beard ,
44802 You offer him , if this be so , a wrong
44803 Something unfilial . Reason my son
44804 Should choose himself a wife , but as good reason
44805 The father ,all whose joy is nothing else
44806 But fair posterity ,should hold some counsel
44807 In such a business .
44808
44809 I yield all this ;
44810 But for some other reasons , my grave sir ,
44811 Which 'tis not fit you know , I not acquaint
44812 My father of this business .
44813
44814 Let him know't .
44815
44816 He shall not .
44817
44818 Prithee , let him .
44819
44820 No , he must not .
44821
44822 Let him , my son : he shall not need to grieve
44823 At knowing of thy choice .
44824
44825 Come , come , he must not .
44826 Mark our contract .
44827
44828 Mark your divorce , young sir ,
44829
44830 Whom son I dare not call : thou art too base
44831 To be acknowledg'd : thou a sceptre's heir ,
44832 That thus affect'st a sheep-hook ! Thou old traitor ,
44833 I am sorry that by hanging thee I can
44834 But shorten thy life one week . And thou , fresh piece
44835 Of excellent witchcraft , who of force must know
44836 The royal fool thou cop'st with ,
44837
44838 O , my heart !
44839
44840 I'll have thy beauty scratch'd with briers , and made
44841 More homely than thy state . For thee , fond boy ,
44842 If I may ever know thou dost but sigh
44843 That thou no more shalt see this knack ,as never
44844 I mean thou shalt ,we'll bar thee from succession ;
44845 Not hold thee of our blood , no , not our kin ,
44846 Far than Deucalion off : mark thou my words :
44847 Follow us to the court . Thou , churl , for this time ,
44848 Though full of our displeasure , yet we free thee
44849 From the dead blow of it . And you , enchantment ,
44850 Worthy enough a herdsman ; yea , him too ,
44851 That makes himself , but for our honour therein ,
44852 Unworthy thee ,if ever henceforth thou
44853 These rural latches to his entrance open ,
44854 Or hoop his body more with thy embraces ,
44855 I will devise a death as cruel for thee
44856 As thou art tender to't .
44857
44858
44859 Even here undone !
44860 I was not much afeard ; for once or twice
44861 I was about to speak and tell him plainly ,
44862 The self-same sun that shines upon his court
44863 Hides not his visage from our cottage , but
44864 Looks on alike . Will't please you , sir , be gone ?
44865 I told you what would come of this : beseech you ,
44866 Of your own state take care : this dream of mine
44867 Being now awake , I'll queen it no inch further ,
44868 But milk my ewes and weep .
44869
44870 Why , how now , father !
44871 Speak , ere thou diest .
44872
44873 I cannot speak , nor think ,
44874 Nor dare to know that which I know . O sir !
44875 You have undone a man of fourscore three ,
44876 That thought to fill his grave in quiet , yea ,
44877 To die upon the bed my father died ,
44878 To lie close by his honest bones : but now
44879 Some hangman must put on my shroud and lay me
44880 Where no priest shovels in dust . O cursed wretch !
44881 That knew'st this was the prince , and wouldst adventure
44882 To mingle faith with him . Undone ! undone !
44883 If I might die within this hour , I have liv'd
44884 To die when I desire .
44885
44886
44887 Why look you so upon me ?
44888 I am but sorry , not afeard ; delay'd ,
44889 But nothing alter'd . What I was , I am :
44890 More straining on for plucking back ; not following
44891 My leash unwillingly .
44892
44893 Gracious my lord ,
44894 You know your father's temper : at this time
44895 He will allow no speech , which I do guess
44896 You do not purpose to him ; and as hardly
44897 Will he endure your sight as yet , I fear :
44898 Then , till the fury of his highness settle ,
44899 Come not before him .
44900
44901 I not purpose it .
44902 I think , Camillo ?
44903
44904 Even he , my lord .
44905
44906 How often have I told you 'twould be thus !
44907 How often said my dignity would last
44908 But till 'twere known !
44909
44910 It cannot fail but by
44911 The violation of my faith ; and then
44912 Let nature crush the sides o' the earth together
44913 And mar the seeds within ! Lift up thy looks :
44914 From my succession wipe me , father ; I
44915 Am heir to my affection .
44916
44917 Be advis'd .
44918
44919 I am ; and by my fancy : if my reason
44920 Will thereto be obedient , I have reason ;
44921 If not , my senses , better pleas'd with madness ,
44922 Do bid it welcome .
44923
44924 This is desperate , sir .
44925
44926 So call it ; but it does fulfil my vow ,
44927 I needs must think it honesty . Camillo ,
44928 Not for Bohemia , nor the pomp that may
44929 Be thereat glean'd , for all the sun sees or
44930 The close earth wombs or the profound sea hides
44931 In unknown fathoms , will I break my oath
44932 To this my fair belov'd . Therefore , I pray you ,
44933 As you have ever been my father's honour'd friend ,
44934 When he shall miss me ,as , in faith , I mean not
44935 To see him any more ,cast your good counsels
44936 Upon his passion : let myself and fortune
44937 Tug for the time to come . This you may know
44938 And so deliver , I am put to sea
44939 With her whom here I cannot hold on shore ;
44940 And most opportune to our need , I have
44941 A vessel rides fast by , but not prepar'd
44942 For this design . What course I mean to hold
44943 Shall nothing benefit your knowledge , nor
44944 Concern me the reporting .
44945
44946 O my lord !
44947 I would your spirit were easier for advice ,
44948 Or stronger for your need .
44949
44950 Hark , Perdita .
44951
44952
44953 I'll hear you by and by .
44954
44955 He's irremovable ,
44956 Resolv'd for flight . Now were I happy if
44957 His going I could frame to serve my turn ,
44958 Save him from danger , do him love and honour ,
44959 Purchase the sight again of dear Sicilia
44960 And that unhappy king , my master , whom
44961 I so much thirst to see .
44962
44963 Now , good Camillo ,
44964 I am so fraught with curious business that
44965 I leave out ceremony .
44966
44967 Sir , I think
44968 You have heard of my poor services , i' the love
44969 That I have borne your father ?
44970
44971 Very nobly
44972 Have you deserv'd : it is my father's music
44973 To speak your deeds , not little of his care
44974 To have them recompens'd as thought on .
44975
44976 Well , my lord ,
44977 If you may please to think I love the king
44978 And through him what's nearest to him , which is
44979 Your gracious self , embrace but my direction ,
44980 If your more ponderous and settled project
44981 May suffer alteration , on mine honour
44982 I'll point you where you shall have such receiving
44983 As shall become your highness ; where you may
44984 Enjoy your mistress ,from the whom , I see ,
44985 There's no disjunction to be made , but by ,
44986 As , heavens forfend ! your ruin ,marry her ;
44987 And with my best endeavours in your absence
44988 Your discontenting father strive to qualify ,
44989 And bring him up to liking .
44990
44991 How , Camillo ,
44992 May this , almost a miracle , be done ?
44993 That I may call thee something more than man ,
44994 And , after that trust to thee .
44995
44996 Have you thought on
44997 A place whereto you'll go ?
44998
44999 Not any yet ;
45000 But as the unthought-on accident is guilty
45001 To what we wildly do , so we profess
45002 Ourselves to be the slaves of chance and flies
45003 Of every wind that blows .
45004
45005 Then list to me :
45006 This follows ; if you will not change your purpose
45007 But undergo this flight , make for Sicilia ,
45008 And there present yourself and your fair princess ,
45009 For so , I see , she must be ,'fore Leontes ;
45010 She shall be habited as it becomes
45011 The partner of your bed . Methinks I see
45012 Leontes opening his free arms and weeping
45013 His welcomes forth ; asks thee , the son , forgiveness
45014 As 'twere i' the father's person ; kisses the hands
45015 Of your fresh princess ; o'er and o'er divides him
45016 'Twixt his unkindness and his kindness : the one
45017 He chides to hell , and bids the other grow
45018 Faster than thought or time .
45019
45020 Worthy Camillo ,
45021 What colour for my visitation shall I
45022 Hold up before him ?
45023
45024 Sent by the king your father
45025 To greet him and to give him comforts . Sir ,
45026 The manner of your bearing towards him , with
45027 What you as from your father shall deliver ,
45028 Things known betwixt us three , I'll write you down :
45029 The which shall point you forth at every sitting
45030 What you must say ; that he shall not perceive
45031 But that you have your father's bosom there
45032 And speak his very heart .
45033
45034 I am bound to you .
45035 There is some sap in this .
45036
45037 A course more promising
45038 Than a wild dedication of yourselves
45039 To unpath'd waters , undream'd shores , most certain
45040 To miseries enough : no hope to help you ,
45041 But as you shake off one to take another ;
45042 Nothing so certain as your anchors , who
45043 Do their best office , if they can but stay you
45044 Where you'll be loath to be . Besides , you know
45045 Prosperity's the very bond of love ,
45046 Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together
45047 Affliction alters .
45048
45049 One of these is true :
45050 I think affliction may subdue the cheek ,
45051 But not take in the mind .
45052
45053 Yea , say you so ?
45054 There shall not at your father's house these seven years
45055 Be born another such .
45056
45057 My good Camillo ,
45058 She is as forward of her breeding as
45059 She is i' the rear o' her birth .
45060
45061 I cannot say 'tis pity
45062 She lacks instructions , for she seems a mistress
45063 To most that teach .
45064
45065 Your pardon , sir ; for this
45066 I'll blush you thanks .
45067
45068 My prettiest Perdita !
45069 But O ! the thorns we stand upon . Camillo ,
45070 Preserver of my father , now of me ,
45071 The med'cine of our house , how shall we do ?
45072 We are not furnish'd like Bohemia's son ,
45073 Nor shall appear in Sicilia .
45074
45075 My lord ,
45076 Fear none of this : I think you know my fortunes
45077 Do all lie there : it shall be so my care
45078 To have you royally appointed as if
45079 The scene you play were mine . For instance , sir ,
45080 That you may know you shall not want , one word .
45081
45082 Ha , ha ! what a fool Honesty is ! and Trust , his sworn brother , a very simple gentleman ! I have sold all my trumpery : not a counterfeit stone , not a riband , glass , pomander , brooch , table-book , ballad , knife , tape , glove , shoe-tie , bracelet , horn-ring , to keep my pack from fasting : they throng who should buy first , as if my trinkets had been hallowed and brought a benediction to the buyer : by which means I saw whose purse was best in picture ; and what I saw , to my good use I remembered . My clown ,who wants but something to be a reasonable man ,grew so in love with the wenches' song that he would not stir his pettitoes till he had both tune and words ; which so drew the rest of the herd to me that all their other senses stuck in ears : you might have pinched a placket , it was senseless ; 'twas nothing to geld a codpiece of a purse ; I would have filed keys off that hung in chains : no hearing , no feeling , but my sir's song , and admiring the nothing of it ; so that , in this time of lethargy I picked and cut most of their festival purses ; and had not the old man come in with a whoo-bub against his daughter and the king's son , and scared my choughs from the chaff , I had not left a purse alive in the whole army .
45083
45084
45085 Nay , but my letters , by this means being there
45086 So soon as you arrive , shall clear that doubt .
45087
45088 And those that you'll procure from King Leontes
45089
45090 Shall satisfy your father .
45091
45092 Happy be you !
45093 All that you speak shows fair .
45094
45095 Whom have we here ?
45096 We'll make an instrument of this : omit
45097 Nothing may give us aid .
45098
45099 If they have overheard me now , why , hanging .
45100
45101 How now , good fellow ! Why shakest thou so ? Fear not , man ; here's no harm intended to thee .
45102
45103 I am a poor fellow , sir .
45104
45105 Why , be so still ; here's nobody will steal that from thee ; yet , for the outside of thy poverty we must make an exchange ; therefore , discase thee instantly ,thou must think , there's a necessity in't ,and change garments with this gentleman : though the pennyworth on his side be the worst , yet hold thee , there's some boot .
45106
45107 I am a poor fellow , sir .
45108
45109 I know ye well enough .
45110
45111 Nay , prithee , dispatch : the gentleman is half flayed already .
45112
45113 Are you in earnest , sir ?
45114
45115 I smell the trick on't .
45116
45117 Dispatch , I prithee .
45118
45119 Indeed , I have had earnest ; but I cannot with conscience take it .
45120
45121 Unbuckle , unbuckle .
45122
45123 Fortunate mistress ,let my prophecy
45124 Come home to ye !you must retire yourself
45125 Into some covert : take your sweetheart's hat
45126 And pluck it o'er your brows ; muffle your face ;
45127 Dismantle you , and , as you can , disliken
45128 The truth of your own seeming ; that you may ,
45129 For I do fear eyes over you ,to shipboard
45130 Get undescried .
45131
45132 I see the play so lies
45133 That I must bear a part .
45134
45135 No remedy .
45136 Have you done there ?
45137
45138 Should I now meet my father
45139 He would not call me son .
45140
45141 Nay , you shall have no hat .
45142
45143 Come , lady , come . Farewell , my friend .
45144
45145 Adieu , sir .
45146
45147 O Perdita , what have we twain forgot !
45148 Pray you , a word .
45149
45150
45151 What I do next shall be to tell the king
45152 Of this escape , and whither they are bound ;
45153 Wherein my hope is I shall so prevail
45154 To force him after : in whose company
45155 I shall review Sicilia , for whose sight
45156 I have a woman's longing .
45157
45158 Fortune speed us !
45159 Thus we set on , Camillo , to the sea-side .
45160
45161 The swifter speed the better .
45162
45163
45164 I understand the business ; I hear it . To have an open ear , a quick eye , and a nimble hand , is necessary for a cut-purse : a good nose is requisite also , to smell out work for the other senses . I see this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive . What an exchange had this been without boot ! what a boot is here with this exchange ! Sure , the gods do this year connive at us , and we may do anything extempore . The prince himself is about a piece of iniquity ; stealing away from his father with his clog at his heels . If I thought it were a piece of honesty to acquaint the king withal , I would not do't : I hold it the more knavery to conceal it , and therein am I constant to my profession . Aside , aside : here is more matter for a hot brain . Every lane's end , every shop , church , session , hanging , yields a careful man work .
45165
45166
45167 See , see , what a man you are now ! There is no other way but to tell the king she's a changeling and none of your flesh and blood .
45168
45169 Nay , but hear me .
45170
45171 Nay , but hear me .
45172
45173 Go to , then .
45174
45175 She being none of your flesh and blood , your flesh and blood has not offended the king ; and so your flesh and blood is not to be punished by him . Show those things you found about her ; those secret things , all but what she has with her : this being done , let the law go whistle : I warrant you .
45176
45177 I will tell the king all , every word , yea , and his son's pranks too ; who , I may say , is no honest man neither to his father nor to me , to go about to make me the king's brother-in-law .
45178
45179 Indeed , brother-in-law was the furthest off you could have been to him , and then your blood had been the dearer by I know not how much an ounce .
45180
45181 Very wisely , puppies !
45182
45183 Well , let us to the king : there is that in this fardel will make him scratch his beard .
45184
45185 I know not what impediment this complaint may be to the flight of my master .
45186
45187 Pray heartily he be at palace .
45188
45189 Though I am not naturally honest , I am so sometimes by chance : let me pocket up my pedlar's excrement . [Takes off his false beard .] How now , rustics ! whither are you bound ?
45190
45191 To the palace , an it like your worship .
45192
45193 Your affairs there , what , with whom , the condition of that fardel , the place of your dwelling , your names , your ages , of what having , breeding , and anything that is fitting to be known , discover .
45194
45195 We are but plain fellows , sir .
45196
45197 A lie ; you are rough and hairy . Let me have no lying ; it becomes none but tradesmen , and they often give us soldiers the lie ; but we pay them for it with stamped coin , not stabbing steel ; therefore they do not give us the lie .
45198
45199 Your worship had like to have given us one , if you had not taken yourself with the manner .
45200
45201 Are you a courtier , an't like you , sir ?
45202
45203 Whether it like me or no , I am a courtier . Seest thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings ? hath not my gait in it the measure of the court ? receives not thy nose court-odour from me ? reflect I not on thy baseness court-contempt ? Think'st thou , for that I insinuate , or toaze from thee thy business , I am therefore no courtier ? I am courtier , cap-a-pe , and one that will either push on or pluck back thy business there : whereupon I command thee to open thy affair .
45204
45205 My business , sir , is to the king .
45206
45207 What advocate hast thou to him ?
45208
45209 I know not , an't like you .
45210
45211 Advocate's the court-word for a pheasant : say you have none .
45212
45213 None , sir ; I have no pheasant , cock nor hen .
45214
45215 How bless'd are we that are not simple men !
45216 Yet nature might have made me as these are ,
45217 Therefore I'll not disdain .
45218
45219 This cannot be but a great courtier .
45220
45221 His garments are rich , but he wears them not handsomely .
45222
45223 He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical : a great man , I'll warrant ; I know by the picking on's teeth .
45224
45225 The fardel there ? what's i' the fardel ?
45226 Wherefore that box ?
45227
45228 Sir , there lies such secrets in this fardel and box which none must know but the king ; and which he shall know within this hour if I may come to the speech of him .
45229
45230 Age , thou hast lost thy labour .
45231
45232 Why , sir ?
45233
45234 The king is not at the palace ; he is gone aboard a new ship to purge melancholy and air himself : for , if thou be'st capable of things serious , thou must know the king is full of grief .
45235
45236 So 'tis said , sir , about his son , that should have married a shepherd's daughter .
45237
45238 If that shepherd be not now in hand-fast , let him fly : the curses he shall have , the torture he shall feel , will break the back of man , the heart of monster .
45239
45240 Think you so , sir ?
45241
45242 Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy and vengeance bitter ; but those that are germane to him , though removed fifty times , shall all come under the hangman : which though it be great pity , yet it is necessary . An old sheep-whistling rogue , a ram-tender , to offer to have his daughter come into grace ! Some say he shall be stoned ; but that death is too soft for him , say I : draw our throne into a sheep cote ! all deaths are too few , the sharpest too easy .
45243
45244 Has the old man e'er a son , sir , do you hear , an't like you , sir ?
45245
45246 He has a son , who shall be flayed alive ; then 'nointed over with honey , set on the head of a wasp's nest ; then stand till he be three quarters and a dram dead ; then recovered again with aqua-vit or some other hot infusion ; then , raw as he is , and in the hottest day prognostication proclaims , shall he be set against a brick-wall , the sun looking with a southward eye upon him , where he is to behold him with flies blown to death . But what talk we of these traitorly rascals , whose miseries are to be smiled at , their offences being so capital ? Tell me ,for you seem to be honest plain men ,what you have to the king : being something gently considered , I'll bring you where he is aboard , tender your persons to his presence , whisper him in your behalfs ; and if it be in man besides the king to effect your suits , here is a man shall do it .
45247
45248 He seems to be of great authority : close with him , give him gold ; and though authority be a stubborn bear , yet he is oft led by the nose with gold . Show the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand , and no more ado . Remember , 'stoned ,' and 'flayed alive !'
45249
45250 An't please you , sir , to undertake the business for us , here is that gold I have : I'll make it as much more and leave this young man in pawn till I bring it you .
45251
45252 After I have done what I promised ?
45253
45254 Ay , sir .
45255
45256 Well , give me the moiety . Are you a party in this business ?
45257
45258 In some sort , sir : but though my case be a pitiful one , I hope I shall not be flayed out of it .
45259
45260 O ! that's the case of the shepherd's son : hang him , he'll be made an example .
45261
45262 Comfort , good comfort ! we must to the king and show our strange sights : he must know 'tis none of your daughter nor my sister ; we are gone else . Sir , I will give you as much as this old man does when the business is performed ; and remain , as he says , your pawn till it be brought you .
45263
45264 I will trust you . Walk before toward the sea-side ; go on the right hand , I will but look upon the hedge and follow you .
45265
45266 We are blessed in this man , as I may say , even blessed .
45267
45268 Let's before as he bids us . He was provided to do us good .
45269
45270
45271 If I had a mind to be honest I see Fortune would not suffer me : she drops booties in my mouth . I am courted now with a double occasion , gold , and a means to do the prince my master good ; which who knows how that may turn back to my advancement ? I will bring these two moles , these blind ones , aboard him : if he think it fit to shore them again , and that the complaint they have to the king concerns him nothing , let him call me rogue for being so far officious ; for I am proof against that title and what shame else belongs to't . To him will I present them : there may be matter in it .
45272
45273 Sir , you have done enough , and have perform'd
45274 A saint-like sorrow : no fault could you make
45275 Which you have not redeem'd ; indeed , paid down
45276 More penitence than done trespass . At the last ,
45277 Do as the heavens have done , forget your evil ;
45278 With them forgive yourself .
45279
45280 Whilst I remember
45281 Her and her virtues , I cannot forget
45282 My blemishes in them , and so still think of
45283 The wrong I did myself ; which was so much ,
45284 That heirless it hath made my kingdom , and
45285 Destroy'd the sweet'st companion that e'er man
45286 Bred his hopes out of .
45287
45288 True , too true , my lord ;
45289 If one by one you wedded all the world ,
45290 Or from the all that are took something good ,
45291 To make a perfect woman , she you kill'd
45292 Would be unparallel'd .
45293
45294 I think so . Kill'd !
45295 She I kill'd ! I did so ; but thou strik'st me
45296 Sorely to say I did : it is as bitter
45297 Upon thy tongue as in my thought . Now , good now
45298 Say so but seldom .
45299
45300 Not at all , good lady :
45301 You might have spoken a thousand things that would
45302 Have done the time more benefit , and grac'd
45303 Your kindness better .
45304
45305 You are one of those
45306 Would have him wed again .
45307
45308 If you would not so ,
45309 You pity not the state , nor the remembrance
45310 Of his most sovereign name ; consider little
45311 What dangers , by his highness' fail of issue ,
45312 May drop upon his kingdom and devour
45313 Incertain lookers-on . What were more holy
45314 Than to rejoice the former queen is well ?
45315 What holier than for royalty's repair ,
45316 For present comfort , and for future good ,
45317 To bless the bed of majesty again
45318 With a sweet fellow to't ?
45319
45320 There is none worthy ,
45321 Respecting her that's gone . Besides , the gods
45322 Will have fulfill'd their secret purposes ;
45323 For has not the divine Apollo said ,
45324 Is't not the tenour of his oracle ,
45325 That King Leontes shall not have an heir
45326 Till his lost child be found ? which that it shall ,
45327 Is all as monstrous to our human reason
45328 As my Antigonus to break his grave
45329 And come again to me ; who , on my life ,
45330 Did perish with the infant . 'Tis your counsel
45331 My lord should to the heavens be contrary ,
45332 Oppose against their wills .
45333
45334 Care not for issue ;
45335 The crown will find an heir : great Alexander
45336 Left his to the worthiest , so his successor
45337 Was like to be the best .
45338
45339 Good Paulina ,
45340 Who hast the memory of Hermione ,
45341 I know , in honour ; O ! that ever I
45342 Had squar'd me to thy counsel ! then , even now ,
45343 I might have look'd upon my queen's full eyes ,
45344 Have taken treasure from her lips ,
45345
45346 And left them
45347 More rich , for what they yielded .
45348
45349 Thou speak'st truth .
45350 No more such wives ; therefore , no wife : one worse ,
45351 And better us'd , would make her sainted spirit
45352 Again possess her corpse and on this stage ,
45353 Where we're offenders now ,appear soul-vex'd ,
45354 And begin , 'Why to me ?'
45355
45356 Had she such power ,
45357 She had just cause .
45358
45359 She had ; and would incense me
45360 To murder her I married .
45361
45362 I should so :
45363 Were I the ghost that walk'd , I'd bid you mark
45364 Her eye , and tell me for what dull part in't
45365 You chose her ; then I'd shriek , that even your ears
45366 Should rift to hear me ; and the words that follow'd
45367 Should be 'Remember mine .'
45368
45369 Stars , stars !
45370 And all eyes else dead coals . Fear thou no wife ;
45371 I'll have no wife , Paulina .
45372
45373 Will you swear
45374 Never to marry but by my free leave ?
45375
45376 Never , Paulina : so be bless'd my spirit !
45377
45378 Then , good my lords , bear witness to his oath .
45379
45380 You tempt him over much .
45381
45382 Unless another ,
45383 As like Hermione as is her picture ,
45384 Affront his eye .
45385
45386 Good madam ,
45387
45388 I have done .
45389 Yet , if my lord will marry ,if you will , sir ,
45390 No remedy , but you will ,give me the office
45391 To choose you a queen , she shall not be so young
45392 As was your former ; but she shall be such
45393 As , walk'd your first queen's ghost , it should take joy
45394 To see her in your arms .
45395
45396 My true Paulina ,
45397 We shall not marry till thou bidd'st us .
45398
45399 That
45400 Shall be when your first queen's again in breath ;
45401 Never till then .
45402
45403
45404 One that gives out himself Prince Florizel ,
45405 Son of Polixenes , with his princess ,she
45406 The fairest I have yet beheld ,desires access
45407 To your high presence .
45408
45409 What with him ? he comes not
45410 Like to his father's greatness ; his approach ,
45411 So out of circumstance and sudden , tells us
45412 'Tis not a visitation fram'd , but forc'd
45413 By need and accident . What train ?
45414
45415 But few ,
45416 And those but mean .
45417
45418 His princess , say you , with him ?
45419
45420 Ay , the most peerless piece of earth , I think ,
45421 That e'er the sun shone bright on .
45422
45423 O Hermione !
45424 As every present time doth boast itself
45425 Above a better gone , so must thy grave
45426 Give way to what's seen now . Sir , you yourself
45427 Have said and writ so ,but your writing now
45428 Is colder than that theme ,'She had not been ,
45429 Nor was not to be equall'd ;' thus your verse
45430 Flow'd with her beauty once : 'tis shrewdly ebb'd
45431 To say you have seen a better .
45432
45433 Pardon , madam :
45434 The one I have almost forgot your pardon
45435 The other , when she has obtain'd your eye ,
45436 Will have your tongue too . This is a creature ,
45437 Would she begin a sect , might quench the zeal
45438 Of all professors else , make proselytes
45439 Of who she but bid follow .
45440
45441 How ! not women ?
45442
45443 Women will love her , that she is a woman
45444 More worth than any man ; men , that she is
45445 The rarest of all women .
45446
45447 Go , Cleomenes ;
45448 Yourself , assisted with your honour'd friends ,
45449 Bring them to our embracement . Still 'tis strange ,
45450
45451 He thus should steal upon us .
45452
45453 Had our prince
45454 Jewel of children seen this hour , he had pair'd
45455 Well with this lord : there was not full a month
45456 Between their births .
45457
45458 Prithee , no more : cease ! thou know'st
45459 He dies to me again when talk'd of : sure ,
45460 When I shall see this gentleman , thy speeches
45461 Will bring me to consider that which may
45462 Unfurnish me of reason . They are come .
45463
45464
45465 Your mother was most true to wedlock , prince ;
45466 For she did print your royal father off ,
45467 Conceiving you . Were I but twenty-one ,
45468 Your father's image is so hit in you ,
45469 His very air , that I should call you brother ,
45470 As I did him ; and speak of something wildly
45471 By us perform'd before . Most dearly welcome !
45472 And you , fair princess ,goddess ! O , alas !
45473 I lost a couple , that 'twixt heaven and earth
45474 Might thus have stood begetting wonder as
45475 You , gracious couple , do : and then I lost
45476 All mine own folly the society ,
45477 Amity too , of your brave father , whom ,
45478 Though bearing misery , I desire my life
45479
45480 Once more to look on him .
45481
45482 By his command
45483 Have I here touch'd Sicilia ; and from him
45484 Give you all greetings that a king , at friend ,
45485 Can send his brother : and , but infirmity ,
45486 Which waits upon worn times ,hath something seiz'd
45487 His wish'd ability , he had himself
45488 The land and waters 'twixt your throne and his
45489 Measur'd to look upon you , whom he loves
45490 He bade me say so more than all the sceptres
45491 And those that bear them living .
45492
45493 O , my brother !
45494 Good gentleman ,the wrongs I have done thee stir
45495 Afresh within me , and these thy offices
45496 So rarely kind , are as interpreters
45497 Of my behind-hand slackness ! Welcome hither ,
45498 As is the spring to the earth . And hath he too
45499 Expos'd this paragon to the fearful usage
45500 At least ungentle of the dreadful Neptune ,
45501 To greet a man not worth her pains , much less
45502 The adventure of her person ?
45503
45504 Good my lord ,
45505 She came from Libya .
45506
45507 Where the war-like Smalus ,
45508 That noble honour'd lord , is fear'd and lov'd ?
45509
45510 Most royal sir , from thence ; from him , whose daughter
45511 His tears proclaim'd his , parting with her : thence
45512 A prosperous south-wind friendly we have cross'd ,
45513 To execute the charge my father gave me
45514 For visiting your highness : my best train
45515 I have from your Sicilian shores dismiss'd ;
45516 Who for Bohemia bend , to signify
45517 Not only my success in Libya , sir ,
45518 But my arrival and my wife's , in safety
45519 Here where we are .
45520
45521 The blessed gods
45522 Purge all infection from our air whilst you
45523 Do climate here ! You have a holy father ,
45524 A graceful gentleman ; against whose person ,
45525 So sacred as it is , I have done sin :
45526 For which the heavens , taking angry note ,
45527 Have left me issueless ; and your father's bless'd
45528 As he from heaven merits it with you ,
45529 Worthy his goodness . What might I have been ,
45530 Might I a son and daughter now have look'd on ,
45531 Such goodly things as you !
45532
45533
45534 Most noble sir ,
45535 That which I shall report will bear no credit ,
45536 Were not the proof so nigh . Please you , great sir ,
45537 Bohemia greets you from himself by me ;
45538 Desires you to attach his son , who has
45539 His dignity and duty both cast off
45540 Fled from his father , from his hopes , and with
45541 A shepherd's daughter .
45542
45543 Where's Bohemia ? speak .
45544
45545 Here in your city ; I now came from him :
45546 I speak amazedly , and it becomes
45547 My marvel and my message . To your court
45548 Whiles he was hastening ,in the chase it seems
45549 Of this fair couple ,meets he on the way
45550 The father of this seeming lady and
45551 Her brother , having both their country quitted
45552 With this young prince .
45553
45554 Camillo has betray'd me ;
45555 Whose honour and whose honesty till now
45556 Endur'd all weathers .
45557
45558 Lay't so to his charge :
45559 He's with the king your father .
45560
45561 Who ? Camillo ?
45562
45563 Camillo , sir : I spake with him , who now
45564 Has these poor men in question . Never saw I
45565 Wretches so quake : they kneel , they kiss the earth ,
45566 Forswear themselves as often as they speak :
45567 Bohemia stops his ears , and threatens them
45568 With divers deaths in death .
45569
45570 O my poor father !
45571 The heaven sets spies upon us , will not have
45572 Our contract celebrated .
45573
45574 You are married ?
45575
45576 We are not , sir , nor are we like to be ;
45577 The stars , I see , will kiss the valleys first :
45578 The odds for high and low's alike .
45579
45580 My lord ,
45581 Is this the daughter of a king ?
45582
45583 She is ,
45584 When once she is my wife .
45585
45586 That 'once ,' I see , by your good father's speed ,
45587 Will come on very slowly . I am sorry ,
45588 Most sorry , you have broken from his liking
45589 Where you were tied in duty ; and as sorry
45590 Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty ,
45591 That you might well enjoy her .
45592
45593 Dear , look up :
45594 Though Fortune , visible an enemy ,
45595 Should chase us with my father , power no jot
45596 Hath she to change our loves . Beseech you , sir ,
45597 Remember since you ow'd no more to time
45598 Than I do now ; with thought of such affections ,
45599 Step forth mine advocate ; at your request
45600 My father will grant precious things as trifles
45601
45602 Would he do so , I'd beg your precious mistress ,
45603 Which he counts but a trifle .
45604
45605 Sir , my liege ,
45606 Your eye hath too much youth in't : not a month
45607 'Fore your queen died , she was more worth such gazes
45608 Than what you look on now .
45609
45610 I thought of her ,
45611 Even in these looks I made .
45612
45613 But your petition
45614 Is yet unanswer'd . I will to your father :
45615 Your honour not o'erthrown by your desires ,
45616 I am friend to them and you ; upon which errand
45617 I now go toward him . Therefore follow me ,
45618 And mark what way I make : come , good my lord .
45619
45620
45621 Beseech you , sir , were you present at this relation ?
45622
45623 I was by at the opening of the fardel , heard the old shepherd deliver the manner how he found it : whereupon , after a little amazedness , we were all commanded out of the chamber ; only this methought I heard the shepherd say , he found the child .
45624
45625 I would most gladly know the issue of it .
45626
45627 I make a broken delivery of the business ; but the changes I perceived in the king and Camillo were very notes of admiration : they seemed almost , with staring on one another , to tear the cases of their eyes ; there was speech in their dumbness , language in their very gesture ; they looked as they had heard of a world ransomed , or one destroyed : a notable passion of wonder appeared in them ; but the wisest beholder , that knew no more but seeing , could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow ; but in the extremity of the one it must needs be .
45628
45629 Here comes a gentleman that haply knows more . The news , Rogero ?
45630
45631 Nothing but bonfires : the oracle is fulfilled ; the king's daughter is found : such a deal of wonder is broken out within this hour that ballad-makers cannot be able to express it .
45632
45633 Here comes the lady Paulina's steward : he can deliver you more . How goes it now , sir ? this news which is called true is so like an old tale , that the verity of it is in strong suspicion : has the king found his heir ?
45634
45635 Most true , if ever truth were pregnant by circumstance : that which you hear you'll swear you see , there is such unity in the proofs . The mantle of Queen Hermione , her jewel about the neck of it , the letters of Antigonus found with it , which they know to be his character ; the majesty of the creature in resemblance of the mother , the affection of nobleness which nature shows above her breeding , and many other evidences proclaim her with all certainty to be the king's daughter . Did you see the meeting of the two kings ?
45636
45637 No .
45638
45639 Then have you lost a sight , which was to be seen , cannot be spoken of . There might you have beheld one joy crown another , so , and in such manner that , it seemed , sorrow wept to take leave of them , for their joy waded in tears . There was casting up of eyes , holding up of hands , with countenances of such distraction that they were to be known by garment , not by favour . Our king , being ready to leap out of himself for joy of his found daughter , as if that joy were now become a loss , cries , 'O , thy mother , thy mother !' then asks Bohemia forgiveness ; then embraces his son-in-law ; then again worries he his daughter with clipping her ; now he thanks the old shepherd , which stands by like a weather-bitten conduit of many kings' reigns . I never heard of such another encounter , which lames report to follow it and undoes description to do it .
45640
45641 What , pray you , became of Antigonus that carried hence the child ?
45642
45643 Like an old tale still , which will have matter to rehearse , though credit be asleep and not an ear open . He was torn to pieces with a bear : this avouches the shepherd's son , who has not only his innocence which seems much to justify him , but a handkerchief and rings of his that Paulina knows .
45644
45645 What became of his bark and his followers ?
45646
45647 Wracked , the same instant of their master's death , and in the view of the shepherd : so that all the instruments which aided to expose the child were even then lost when it was found . But , O ! the noble combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in Paulina . She had one eye declined for the loss of her husband , another elevated that the oracle was fulfilled : she lifted the princess from the earth , and so locks her in embracing , as if she would pin her to her heart that she might no more be in danger of losing .
45648
45649 The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings and princes , for by such was it acted .
45650
45651 One of the prettiest touches of all , and that which angled for mine eyes ,caught the water though not the fish ,was when at the relation of the queen's death , with the manner how she came to it ,bravely confessed and lamented by the king ,how attentiveness wounded his daughter ; till , from one sign of dolour to another , she did , with an 'alas !' I would fain say , bleed tears , for I am sure my heart wept blood . Who was most marble there changed colour ; some swounded , all sorrowed : if all the world could have seen't , the woe had been universal .
45652
45653 Are they returned to the court ?
45654
45655 No ; the princess hearing of her mother's statue , which is in the keeping of Paulina a piece many years in doing , and now newly performed by that rare Italian master , Julio Romano ; who , had he himself eternity and could put breath into his work , would beguile Nature of her custom , so perfectly he is her ape : he so near to Hermione hath done Hermione that they say one would speak to her and stand in hope of answer : thither with all greediness of affection are they gone , and there they intend to sup .
45656
45657 I thought she had some great matter there in hand , for she hath privately , twice or thrice a day , ever since the death of Hermione , visited that removed house . Shall we thither and with our company piece the rejoicing ?
45658
45659 Who would be thence that has the benefit of access ? every wink of an eye some new grace will be born : our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge . Let's along .
45660
45661
45662 Now , had I not the dash of my former life in me , would preferment drop on my head . I brought the old man and his son aboard the prince ; told him I heard them talk of a fardel and I know not what ; but he at that time , overfond of the shepherd's daughter ,so he then took her to be ,who began to be much sea-sick , and himself little better , extremity of weather continuing , this mystery remained undiscovered . But 'tis all one to me ; for had I been the finder out of this secret , it would not have relished among my other discredits . Here come those I have done good to against my will , and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune .
45663
45664
45665 Come , boy ; I am past moe children , but thy sons and daughters will be all gentlemen born .
45666
45667 You are well met , sir . You denied to fight with me this other day , because I was no gentleman born : see you these clothes ? say , you see them not and think me still no gentleman born : you were best say these robes are not gentleman born . Give me the lie , do , and try whether I am not now gentleman born .
45668
45669 I know you are now , sir , a gentleman born .
45670
45671 Ay , and have been so any time these four hours .
45672
45673 And so have I , boy .
45674
45675 So you have : but I was a gentleman born before my father ; for the king's son took me by the hand and called me brother ; and then the two kings called my father brother ; and then the prince my brother and the princess my sister called my father father ; and so we wept : and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed .
45676
45677 We may live , son , to shed many more .
45678
45679 Ay ; or else 'twere hard luck , being in so preposterous estate as we are .
45680
45681 I humbly beseech you , sir , to pardon me all the faults I have committed to your worship , and to give me your good report to the prince my master .
45682
45683 Prithee , son , do ; for we must be gentle , now we are gentlemen .
45684
45685 Thou wilt amend thy life ?
45686
45687 Ay , an it like your good worship .
45688
45689 Give me thy hand : I will swear to the prince thou art as honest a true fellow as any is in Bohemia .
45690
45691 You may say it , but not swear it .
45692
45693 Not swear it , now I am a gentleman ? Let boors and franklins say it , I'll swear it .
45694
45695 How if it be false , son ?
45696
45697 If it be ne'er so false , a true gentleman may swear it in the behalf of his friend : and I'll swear to the prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt not be drunk ; but I know thou art no tall fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt be drunk : but I'll swear it , and I would thou wouldst be a tall fellow of thy hands .
45698
45699 I will prove so , sir , to my power .
45700
45701 Ay , by any means prove a tall fellow : if I do not wonder how thou darest venture to be drunk , not being a tall fellow , trust me not . Hark ! the kings and the princes , our kindred , are going to see the queen's picture . Come , follow us : we'll be thy good masters .
45702
45703
45704 O grave and good Paulina , the great comfort
45705 That I have had of thee !
45706
45707 What , sovereign sir ,
45708 I did not well , I meant well . All my services
45709 You have paid home ; but that you have vouchsaf'd ,
45710 With your crown'd brother and these your contracted
45711 Heirs of your kingdoms , my poor house to visit ,
45712 It is a surplus of your grace , which never
45713 My life may last to answer .
45714
45715 O Paulina !
45716 We honour you with trouble : but we came
45717 To see the statue of our queen : your gallery
45718 Have we pass'd through , not without much content
45719 In many singularities , but we saw not
45720 That which my daughter came to look upon ,
45721 The statue of her mother .
45722
45723 As she liv'd peerless ,
45724 So her dead likeness , I do well believe ,
45725 Excels whatever yet you look'd upon
45726 Or hand of man hath done ; therefore I keep it
45727 Lonely , apart . But here it is : prepare
45728 To see the life as lively mock'd as ever
45729 Still sleep mock'd death : behold ! and say 'tis well .
45730
45731 I like your silence : it the more shows off
45732 Your wonder ; but yet speak : first you , my liege .
45733 Comes it not something near ?
45734
45735 Her natural posture !
45736 Chide me , dear stone , that I may say , indeed
45737 Thou art Hermione ; or rather , thou art she
45738 In thy not chiding , for she was as tender
45739 As infancy and grace . But yet , Paulina ,
45740 Hermione was not so much wrinkled ; nothing
45741 So aged as this seems .
45742
45743 O ! not by much .
45744
45745 So much the more our carver's excellence ;
45746 Which lets go by some sixteen years and makes her
45747 As she liv'd now .
45748
45749 As now she might have done ,
45750 So much to my good comfort , as it is
45751 Now piercing to my soul . O ! thus she stood ,
45752 Even with such life of majesty ,warm life ,
45753 As now it coldly stands ,when first I woo'd her .
45754 I am asham'd : does not the stone rebuke me
45755 For being more stone than it ? O , royal piece !
45756 There's magic in thy majesty , which has
45757 My evils conjur'd to remembrance , and
45758 From thy admiring daughter took the spirits ,
45759 Standing like stone with thee .
45760
45761 And give me leave ,
45762 And do not say 'tis superstition , that
45763 I kneel and then implore her blessing . Lady ,
45764 Dear queen , that ended when I but began ,
45765 Give me that hand of yours to kiss .
45766
45767 O , patience !
45768 The statue is but newly fix'd , the colour's
45769 Not dry .
45770
45771 My lord , your sorrow was too sore laid on ,
45772 Which sixteen winters cannot blow away ,
45773 So many summers dry : scarce any joy
45774 Did ever so long live ; no sorrow
45775 But kill'd itself much sooner .
45776
45777 Dear my brother ,
45778 Let him that was the cause of this have power
45779 To take off so much grief from you as he
45780 Will piece up in himself .
45781
45782 Indeed , my lord ,
45783 If I had thought the sight of my poor image
45784 Would thus have wrought you ,for the stone is mine ,
45785 I'd not have show'd it .
45786
45787 Do not draw the curtain .
45788
45789 No longer shall you gaze on't , lest your fancy
45790 May think anon it moves .
45791
45792 Let be , let be !
45793 Would I were dead , but that , methinks , already
45794 What was he that did make it ? See , my lord ,
45795 Would you not deem it breath'd , and that those veins
45796 Did verily bear blood ?
45797
45798 Masterly done :
45799 The very life seems warm upon her lip .
45800
45801 The fixure of her eye has motion in't ,
45802 As we are mock'd with art .
45803
45804 I'll draw the curtain ;
45805 My lord's almost so far transported that
45806 He'll think anon it lives .
45807
45808 O sweet Paulina !
45809 Make me to think so twenty years together :
45810 No settled senses of the world can match
45811 The pleasure of that madness . Let't alone .
45812
45813 I am sorry , sir , I have thus far stirr'd you : but
45814 I could afflict you further .
45815
45816 Do , Paulina ;
45817 For this affliction has a taste as sweet
45818 As any cordial comfort . Still , methinks ,
45819 There is an air comes from her : what fine chisel
45820 Could ever yet cut breath ? Let no man mock me ,
45821 For I will kiss her .
45822
45823 Good my lord , forbear .
45824 The ruddiness upon her lip is wet :
45825 You'll mar it if you kiss it ; stain your own
45826 With oily painting . Shall I draw the curtain ?
45827
45828 No , not these twenty years .
45829
45830 So long could I
45831 Stand by , a looker-on .
45832
45833 Either forbear ,
45834 Quit presently the chapel , or resolve you
45835 For more amazement . If you can behold it ,
45836 I'll make the statue move indeed , descend ,
45837 And take you by the hand ; but then you'll think ,
45838 Which I protest against ,I am assisted
45839 By wicked powers .
45840
45841 What you can make her do ,
45842 I am content to look on : what to speak ,
45843 I am content to hear ; for 'tis as easy
45844 To make her speak as move .
45845
45846 It is requir'd
45847 You do awake your faith . Then , all stand still ;
45848 Or those that think it is unlawful business
45849 I am about , let them depart .
45850
45851 Proceed :
45852 No foot shall stir .
45853
45854 Music , awake her : strike !
45855
45856 'Tis time ; descend ; be stone no more : approach ;
45857 Strike all that look upon with marvel . Come ;
45858 I'll fill your grave up : stir ; nay , come away ;
45859 Bequeath to death your numbness , for from him
45860 Dear life redeems you . You perceive she stirs :
45861
45862 Start not ; her actions shall be holy as
45863 You hear my spell is lawful : do not shun her
45864 Until you see her die again , for then
45865 You kill her double . Nay , present your hand :
45866 When she was young you woo'd her ; now in age
45867 Is she become the suitor !
45868
45869 O ! she's warm .
45870 If this be magic , let it be an art
45871 Lawful as eating .
45872
45873 She embraces him .
45874
45875 She hangs about his neck :
45876 If she pertain to life let her speak too .
45877
45878 Ay ; and make't manifest where she has liv'd ,
45879 Or how stol'n from the dead .
45880
45881 That she is living ,
45882 Were it but told you , should be hooted at
45883 Like an old tale ; but it appears she lives ,
45884 Though yet she speak not . Mark a little while .
45885 Please you to interpose , fair madam . kneel
45886 And pray your mother's blessing . Turn , good lady ;
45887 Our Perdita is found .
45888
45889
45890 You gods , look down ,
45891 And from your sacred vials pour your graces
45892 Upon my daughter's head ! Tell me , mine own ,
45893 Where hast thou been preserv'd ? where liv'd ? how found
45894 Thy father's court ? for thou shalt hear that I ,
45895 Knowing by Paulina that the oracle
45896 Gave hope thou wast in being , have preserv'd
45897 Myself to see the issue .
45898
45899 There's time enough for that ;
45900 Lest they desire upon this push to trouble
45901 Your joys with like relation . Go together ,
45902 You precious winners all : your exultation
45903 Partake to every one . I , an old turtle ,
45904 Will wing me to some wither'd bough , and there
45905 My mate , that's never to be found again ,
45906 Lament till I am lost .
45907
45908 O ! peace , Paulina .
45909 Thou shouldst a husband take by my consent ,
45910 As I by thine a wife : this is a match ,
45911 And made between's by vows . Thou hast found mine ;
45912 But how , is to be question'd ; for I saw her ,
45913 As I thought dead , and have in vain said many
45914 A prayer upon her grave . I'll not seek far ,
45915 For him , I partly know his mind ,to find thee
45916 An honourable husband . Come , Camillo ,
45917 And take her by the hand ; whose worth and honesty
45918 Is richly noted , and here justified
45919 By us , a pair of kings . Let's from this place .
45920 What ! look upon my brother : both your pardons ,
45921 That e'er I put between your holy looks
45922 My ill suspicion . This' your son-in-law ,
45923 And son unto the king ,whom heavens directing ,
45924 Is troth-plight to your daughter . Good Paulina ,
45925 Lead us from hence , where we may leisurely
45926 Each one demand and answer to his part
45927 Perform'd in this wide gap of time since first
45928 We were dissever'd : hastily lead away .
45929
45930 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
45931
45932 In Troy there lies the scene . From isles of Greece
45933 The princes orgulous , their high blood chaf'd ,
45934 Have to the port of Athens sent their ships ,
45935 Fraught with the ministers and instruments
45936 Of cruel war : sixty and nine , that wore
45937 Their crownets regal , from the Athenian bay
45938 Put forth toward Phrygia ; and their vow is made
45939 To ransack Troy , within whose strong immures
45940 The ravish'd Helen , Menelaus' queen ,
45941 With wanton Paris sleeps ; and that's the quarrel .
45942 To Tenedos they come ,
45943 And the deep-drawing barks do there disgorge
45944 Their war-like fraughtage : now on Dardan plains
45945 The fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitch
45946 Their brave pavilions : Priam's six-gated city ,
45947 Dardan , and Tymbria , Ilias , Chetas , Trojan ,
45948 And Antenorides , with massy staples
45949 And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts ,
45950 Sperr up the sons of Troy .
45951 Now expectation , tickling skittish spirits ,
45952 On one and other side , Trojan and Greek ,
45953 Sets all on hazard . And hither am I come
45954 A prologue arm'd , but not in confidence
45955 Of author's pen or actor's voice , but suited
45956 In like conditions as our argument ,
45957 To tell you , fair beholders , that our play
45958 Leaps o'er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils ,
45959 Beginning in the middle ; starting thence away
45960 To what may be digested in a play .
45961 Like or find fault ; do as your pleasures are :
45962 Now good or bad , 'tis but the chance of war .
45963
45964 Call here my varlet , I'll unarm again :
45965 Why should I war without the walls of Troy ,
45966 That find such cruel battle here within ?
45967 Each Trojan that is master of his heart ,
45968 Let him to field ; Troilus , alas ! has none .
45969
45970 Will this gear ne'er be mended ?
45971
45972 The Greeks are strong , and skilful to their strength .
45973 Fierce to their skill , and to their fierceness valiant ;
45974 But I am weaker than a woman's tear ,
45975 Tamer than sleep , fonder than ignorance ,
45976 Less valiant than the virgin in the night ,
45977 And skilless as unpractis'd infancy .
45978
45979 Well , I have told you enough of this : for my part , I'll not meddle nor make no further . He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding .
45980
45981 Have I not tarried ?
45982
45983 Ay , the grinding ; but you must tarry the bolting .
45984
45985 Have I not tarried ?
45986
45987 Ay , the bolting ; but you must tarry the leavening .
45988
45989 Still have I tarried .
45990
45991 Ay , to the leavening ; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading , the making of the cake , the heating of the oven , and the baking ; nay , you must stay the cooling too , or you may chance to burn your lips .
45992
45993 Patience herself , what goddess e'er she be ,
45994 Doth lesser blench at sufferance than I do .
45995 At Priam's royal table do I sit ;
45996 And when fair Cressid comes into my thoughts ,
45997 So , traitor ! 'when she comes' !When is she thence ?
45998
45999 Well , she looked yesternight fairer than ever I saw her look , or any woman else .
46000
46001 I was about to tell thee : when my heart ,
46002 As wedged with a sigh , would rive in twain ,
46003 Lest Hector or my father should perceive me ,
46004 I have as when the sun doth light a storm
46005 Buried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile ;
46006 But sorrow , that is couch'd in seeming gladness ,
46007 Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness .
46008
46009 An her hair were not somewhat darker than Helen's ,well , go to ,there were no more comparison between the women : but , for my part , she is my kins woman ; I would not , as they term it , praise her , but I would somebody had heard her talk yesterday , as I did : I will not dispraise your sister Cassandra's wit , but
46010
46011 O Pandarus ! I tell thee , Pandarus ,
46012 When I do tell thee , there my hopes lie drown'd ,
46013 Reply not in how many fathoms deep
46014 They lie indrench'd . I tell thee I am mad
46015 In Cressid's love : thou answer'st , she is fair ;
46016 Pour'st in the open ulcer of my heart
46017 Her eyes , her hair , her cheek , her gait , her voice ;
46018 Handlest in thy discourse , O ! that her hand ,
46019 In whose comparison all whites are ink ,
46020 Writing their own reproach ; to whose soft seizure
46021 The cygnet's down is harsh , and spirit of sense
46022 Hard as the palm of ploughman : this thou tell'st me ,
46023 As true thou tell'st me , when I say I love her ;
46024 But , saying thus , instead of oil and balm ,
46025 Thou lay'st in every gash that love hath given me
46026 The knife that made it .
46027
46028 I speak no more than truth .
46029
46030 Thou dost not speak so much .
46031
46032 Faith , I'll not meddle in't . Let her be as she is : if she be fair , 'tis the better for her ; an she be not , she has the mends in her own hands .
46033
46034 Good Pandarus , how now , Pandarus !
46035
46036 I have had my labour for my travail ; ill-thought on of her , and ill-thought on of you : gone between , and between , but small thanks for my labour .
46037
46038 What ! art thou angry , Pandarus ? what ! with me ?
46039
46040 Because she's kin to me , therefore she's not so fair as Helen : an she were not kin to me , she would be as fair on Friday as Helen is on Sunday . But what care I ? I care not an she were a black-a-moor ; 'tis all one to me .
46041
46042 Say I she is not fair ?
46043
46044 I do not care whether you do or no . She's a fool to stay behind her father : let her to the Greeks ; and so I'll tell her the next time I see her . For my part , I'll meddle nor make no more i' the matter .
46045
46046 Pandarus ,
46047
46048 Not I .
46049
46050 Sweet Pandarus ,
46051
46052 Pray you , speak no more to me ! I will leave all as I found it , and there an end .
46053
46054
46055 Peace , you ungracious clamours ! peace , rude sounds !
46056 Fools on both sides ! Helen must needs bo fair ,
46057 When with your blood you daily paint her thus .
46058 I cannot fight upon this argument ;
46059 It is too starv'd a subject for my sword .
46060 But Pandarus ,O gods ! how do you plague me .
46061 I cannot come to Cressid but by Pandar ;
46062 And he's as tetchy to be woo'd to woo
46063 As she is stubborn-chaste against all suit .
46064 Tell me , Apollo , for thy Daphne's love ,
46065 What Cressid is , what Pandar , and what we ?
46066 Her bed is India ; there she lies , a pearl :
46067 Between our Ilium and where she resides
46068 Let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood ;
46069 Ourself the merchant , and this sailing Pandar
46070 Our doubtful hope , our convoy and our bark .
46071
46072
46073 How now , Prince Troilus ! wherefore not afield ?
46074
46075 Because not there : this woman's answer sorts ,
46076 For womanish it is to be from thence .
46077 What news , neas , from the field to-day ?
46078
46079 That Paris is returned home , and hurt .
46080
46081 By whom , neas ?
46082
46083 Troilus , by Menelaus .
46084
46085 Let Paris bleed : 'tis but a scar to scorn ;
46086 Paris is gor'd with Menelaus' horn .
46087
46088
46089 Hark , what good sport is out of town to-day !
46090
46091 Better at home , if 'would I might' were 'may .'
46092 But to the sport abroad : are you bound thither ?
46093
46094 In all swift haste .
46095
46096 Come , go we then together .
46097
46098
46099 Who were those went by ?
46100
46101 Queen Hecuba and Helen .
46102
46103 And whither go they ?
46104
46105 Up to the eastern tower ,
46106 Whose height commands as subject all the vale ,
46107 To see the battle . Hector , whose patience
46108 Is as a virtue fix'd , to-day was mov'd :
46109 He chid Andromache , and struck his armourer ;
46110 And , like as there were husbandry in war ,
46111 Before the sun rose he was harness'd light ,
46112 And to the field goes he ; where every flower
46113 Did , as a prophet , weep what it foresaw
46114 In Hector's wrath .
46115
46116 What was his cause of anger ?
46117
46118 The noise goes , this : there is among the Greeks
46119 A lord of Trojan blood , nephew to Hector ;
46120 They call him Ajax .
46121
46122 Good ; and what of him ?
46123
46124 They say he is a very man per se
46125 And stands alone .
46126
46127 So do all men , unless they are drunk , sick , or have no legs .
46128
46129 This man , lady , hath robbed many beasts of their particular additions : he is as valiant as the lion , churlish as the bear , slow as the elephant : a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crushed into folly , his folly sauced with discretion : there is no man hath a virtue that he hath not a glimpse of , nor any man an attaint but he carries some stain of it . He is melancholy without cause , and merry against the hair ; he hath the joints of every thing , but every thing so out of joint that he is a gouty Briareus , many hands and no use ; or purblind Argus , all eyes and no sight .
46130
46131 But how should this man , that makes me smile , make Hector angry ?
46132
46133 They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle and struck him down ; the disdain and shame whereof hath ever since kept Hector fasting and waking .
46134
46135 Who comes here ?
46136
46137
46138 Madam , your uncle Pandarus .
46139
46140 Hector's a gallant man .
46141
46142 As may be in the world , lady .
46143
46144 What's that ? what's that ?
46145
46146 Good morrow , uncle Pandarus .
46147
46148 Good morrow , cousin Cressid . What do you talk of ? Good morrow , Alexander .
46149 How do you , cousin ? When were you at Ilium ?
46150
46151 This morning , uncle .
46152
46153 What were you talking of when I came ? Was Hector armed and gone ere ye came to Ilium ? Helen was not up , was she ?
46154
46155 Hector was gone , but Helen was not up .
46156
46157 E'en so : Hector was stirring early .
46158
46159 That were we talking of , and of his anger .
46160
46161 Was he angry ?
46162
46163 So he says here .
46164
46165 True , he was so ; I know the cause too : he'll lay about him to-day , I can tell them that : and there's Troilus will not come far behind him ; let them take heed of Troilus , I can tell them that too .
46166
46167 What ! is he angry too ?
46168
46169 Who , Troilus ? Troilus is the better man of the two .
46170
46171 O Jupiter ! there's no comparison .
46172
46173 What ! not between Troilus and Hector ?
46174 Do you know a man if you see him ?
46175
46176 Ay , if I ever saw him before and knew him .
46177
46178 Well , I say Troilus is Troilus .
46179
46180 Then you say as I say ; for I am sure he is not Hector .
46181
46182 No , nor Hector is not Troilus in some degrees .
46183
46184 'Tis just to each of them ; he is himself .
46185
46186 Himself ! Alas , poor Troilus , I would he were .
46187
46188 So he is .
46189
46190 Condition , I had gone bare-foot to India .
46191
46192 He is not Hector .
46193
46194 Himself ! no , he's not himself . Would a' were himself : well , the gods are above ; time must friend or end : well , Troilus , well , I would my heart were in her body . No , Hector is not a better man than Troilus .
46195
46196 Excuse me .
46197
46198 He is elder .
46199
46200 Pardon me , pardon me .
46201
46202 Th' other's not come to't ; you shall tell me another tale when the other's come to't . Hector shall not have his wit this year .
46203
46204 He shall not need it if he have his own .
46205
46206 Nor his qualities .
46207
46208 No matter .
46209
46210 Nor his beauty .
46211
46212 'Twould not become him ; his own's better .
46213
46214 You have no judgment , niece : Helen herself swore th' other day , that Troilus , for a brown favour ,for so 'tis I must confess ,not brown neither ,
46215
46216 No , but brown .
46217
46218 Faith , to say truth , brown and not brown .
46219
46220 To say the truth , true and not true .
46221
46222 She prais'd his complexion above Paris .
46223
46224 Why , Paris hath colour enough .
46225
46226 So he has .
46227
46228 Then Troilus should have too much : if she praised him above , his complexion is higher than his : he having colour enough , and the other higher , is too flaming a praise for a good complexion . I had as lief Helen's golden tongue had commended Troilus for a copper nose .
46229
46230 I swear to you , I think Helen loves him better than Paris .
46231
46232 Then she's a merry Greek indeed .
46233
46234 Nay , I am sure she does . She came to him th' other day into the compassed window , and , you know , he has not past three or four hairs on his chin ,
46235
46236 Indeed , a tapster's arithmetic may soon bring his particulars therein to a total .
46237
46238 Why , he is very young ; and yet will he , within three pound , lift as much as his brother Hector .
46239
46240 Is he so young a man , and so old a lifter ?
46241
46242 But to prove to you that Helen loves him : she came and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin ,
46243
46244 Juno have mercy ! how came it cloven ?
46245
46246 Why , you know , 'tis dimpled . I think his smiling becomes him better than any man in all Phrygia .
46247
46248 O ! he smiles valiantly .
46249
46250 Does he not ?
46251
46252 O ! yes , an 'twere a cloud in autumn .
46253
46254 Why , go to , then . But to prove to you that Helen loves Troilus ,
46255
46256 Troilus will stand to the proof , if you'll prove it so .
46257
46258 Troilus ! why he esteems her no more than I esteem an addle egg .
46259
46260 If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head , you would eat chickens i' the shell .
46261
46262 I cannot choose but laugh , to think how she tickled his chin : indeed , she has a marvell's white hand , I must needs confess ,
46263
46264 Without the rack .
46265
46266 And she takes upon her to spy a white hair on his chin .
46267
46268 Alas ! poor chin ! many a wart is richer .
46269
46270 But there was such laughing : Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er .
46271
46272 With millstones .
46273
46274 And Cassandra laughed .
46275
46276 But there was more temperate fire under the pot of her eyes : did her eyes run o'er too ?
46277
46278 And Hector laughed .
46279
46280 At what was all this laughing ?
46281
46282 Marry , at the white hair that Helen spied on Troilus' chin .
46283
46284 An't had been a green hair , I should have laughed too .
46285
46286 They laughed not so much at the hair as at his pretty answer .
46287
46288 What was his answer ?
46289
46290 Quoth she , 'Here's but one-and-fifty hairs on your chin , and one of them is white .'
46291
46292 This is her question .
46293
46294 That's true ; make no question of that . 'One-and-fifty hairs ,' quoth he , 'and one white : that white hair is my father , and all the rest are his sons .' 'Jupiter !' quoth she , 'which of these hairs is Paris , my husband ?' 'The forked one ,' quoth he ; 'pluck't out , and give it him .' But there was such laughing , and Helen so blushed , and Paris so chafed , and all the rest so laughed , that it passed .
46295
46296 So let it now , for it has been a great while going by .
46297
46298 Well , cousin , I told you a thing yesterday ; think on't .
46299
46300 So I do .
46301
46302 I'll be sworn 'tis true : he will weep you , an 'twere a man born in April .
46303
46304 And I'll spring up in his tears , an 'twere a nettle against May .
46305
46306
46307 Hark ! they are coming from the field . Shall we stand up here , and see them as they pass toward Ilium ? good niece , do ; sweet niece , Cressida .
46308
46309 At your pleasure .
46310
46311 Here , here ; here's an excellent place : here we may see most bravely . I'll tell you them all by their names as they pass by , but mark Troilus above the rest .
46312
46313 Speak not so loud .
46314
46315
46316 That's neas : is not that a brave man ? he's one of the flowers of Troy , I can tell you : but mark Troilus ; you shall see anon .
46317
46318
46319 Who's that ?
46320
46321 That's Antenor : he has a shrewd wit , I can tell you ; and he's a man good enough : he's one o' the soundest judgments in Troy , whosoever , and a proper man of person . When comes Troilus ? I'll show you Troilus anon : if he see me , you shall see him nod at me .
46322
46323 Will he give you the nod ?
46324
46325 You shall see .
46326
46327 If he do , the rich shall have more .
46328
46329
46330 That's Hector , that , that , look you , that ; there's a fellow ! Go thy way , Hector ! There's a brave man , niece . O brave Hector ! Look how he looks ! there's a countenance ! Is't not a brave man ?
46331
46332 O ! a brave man .
46333
46334 Is a' not ? It does a man's heart good . Look you what hacks are on his helmet ! look you yonder , do you see ? look you there : there's no jesting ; there's laying on , take't off who will , as they say : there be hacks !
46335
46336 Be those with swords ?
46337
46338 Swords ? any thing , he cares not ; an the devil come to him , it's all one : by God's lid , it does one's heart good . Yonder comes Paris , yonder comes Paris .
46339
46340 Look ye yonder , niece : is't not a gallant man too , is't not ? Why , this is brave now . Who said he came hurt home to-day ? he's not hurt : why , this will do Helen's heart good now , ha ! Would I could see Troilus now ! You shall see Troilus anon .
46341
46342 Who's that ?
46343
46344
46345 That's Helenus . I marvel where Troilus is . That's Helenus . I think he went not forth to-day . That's Helenus .
46346
46347 Can Helenus fight , uncle ?
46348
46349 Helenus ? no , yes , he'll fight indifferent well . I marvel where Troilus is . Hark ! do you not hear the people cry , 'Troilus ?' Helenus is a priest .
46350
46351 What sneaking fellow comes yonder ?
46352
46353
46354 Where ? yonder ? that's Deiphobus .
46355 Tis Troilus ! there's a man , niece ! Hem ! Brave
46356 Troilus ! the prince of chivalry !
46357
46358 Peace ! for shame , peace !
46359
46360 Mark him ; note him : O brave Troilus ! look well upon him , niece : look you how his sword is bloodied , and his helmet more hacked than Hector's ; and how he looks , and how he goes ! O admirable youth ! he ne'er saw three-and-twenty . Go thy way , Troilus , go thy way ! Had I a sister were a grace , or a daughter a goddess , he should take his choice . O admirable man ! Paris ? Paris is dirt to him ; and , I warrant , Helen , to change , would give an eye to boot .
46361
46362 Here come more .
46363
46364
46365 Asses , fools , dolts ! chaff and bran , chaff and bran ! porridge after meat ! I could live and die i' the eyes of Troilus . Ne'er look , ne'er look ; the eagles are gone : crows and daws , crows and daws ! I had rather be such a man as Troilus than Agamemnon and all Greece .
46366
46367 There is among the Greeks Achilles , a better man than Troilus .
46368
46369 Achilles ! a drayman , a porter , a very camel .
46370
46371 Well , well .
46372
46373 'Well , well !' Why , have you any discretion ? have you any eyes ? Do you know what a man is ? Is not birth , beauty , good shape , discourse , manhood , learning , gentleness , virtue , youth , liberality , and so forth , the spice and salt that season a man ?
46374
46375 Ay , a minced man : and then to be baked with no date in the pie , for then the man's date's out .
46376
46377 You are such a woman ! one knows not at what ward you lie .
46378
46379 Upon my back , to defend my belly ; upon my wit , to defend my wiles ; upon my secrecy , to defend mine honesty ; my mask , to defend my beauty ; and you , to defend all these : and at all these wards I lie , at a thousand watches .
46380
46381 Say one of your watches .
46382
46383 Nay , I'll watch you for that ; and that's one of the chiefest of them too : if I cannot ward what I would not have hit , I can watch you for telling how I took the blow ; unless it swell past hiding , and then it's past watching .
46384
46385 You are such another !
46386
46387
46388 Sir , my lord would instantly speak with you .
46389
46390 Where ?
46391
46392 At your own house ; there he unarms him .
46393
46394 Good boy , tell him I come .
46395
46396 I doubt he be hurt . Fare ye well , good niece .
46397
46398 Adieu , uncle .
46399
46400 I'll be with you , niece , by and by .
46401
46402 To bring , uncle ?
46403
46404 Ay , a token from Troilus .
46405
46406 By the same token , you are a bawd .
46407
46408 Words , vows , gifts , tears , and love's full sacrifice
46409 He offers in another's enterprise ;
46410 But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see
46411 Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be .
46412 Yet hold I off . Women are angels , wooing :
46413 Things won are done ; joy's soul lies in the doing :
46414 That she belov'd knows nought that knows not this :
46415 Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is :
46416 That she was never yet , that ever knew
46417 Love got so sweet as when desire did sue .
46418 Therefore this maxim out of love I teach :
46419 Achievement is command ; ungain'd , beseech :
46420 Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear ,
46421 Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear .
46422
46423
46424 Princes ,
46425 What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks ?
46426 The ample proposition that hope makes
46427 In all designs begun on earth below
46428 Fails in the promis'd largeness : checks and disasters
46429 Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd ;
46430 As knots , by the conflux of meeting sap ,
46431 Infect the sound pine and divert his grain
46432 Tortive and errant from his course of growth .
46433 Nor , princes , is it matter new to us
46434 That we come short of our suppose so far
46435 That after seven years' siege yet Troy walls stand ;
46436 Sith every action that hath gone before ,
46437 Whereof we have record , trial did draw
46438 Bias and thwart , not answering the aim ,
46439 And that unbodied figure of the thought
46440 That gave't surmised shape . Why then , you princes ,
46441 Do you with cheeks abash'd behold our works ,
46442 And call them shames ? which are indeed nought else
46443 But the protractive trials of great Jove ,
46444 To find persistive constancy in men :
46445 The fineness of which metal is not found
46446 In Fortune's love ; for then , the bold and coward ,
46447 The wise and fool , the artist and unread ,
46448 The hard and soft , seem all affin'd and kin :
46449 But , in the wind and tempest of her frown ,
46450 Distinction , with a broad and powerful fan ,
46451 Puffing at all , winnows the light away ;
46452 And what hath mass or matter , by itself
46453 Lies rich in virtue and unmingled .
46454
46455 With due observance of thy god-like seat ,
46456 Great Agamemnon , Nestor shall apply
46457 Thy latest words . In the reproof of chance
46458 Lies the true proof of men : the sea being smooth ,
46459 How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
46460 Upon her patient breast , making their way
46461 With those of nobler bulk !
46462 But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage
46463 The gentle Thetis , and anon behold
46464 The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut ,
46465 Bounding between the two moist elements ,
46466 Like Perseus' horse : where's then the saucy boat
46467 Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now
46468 Co-rivall'd greatness ? either to harbour fled ,
46469 Or made a toast for Neptune . Even so
46470 Doth valour's show and valour's worth divide
46471 In storms of fortune ; for in her ray and brightness
46472 The herd hath more annoyance by the breese
46473 Than by the tiger ; but when the splitting wind
46474 Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks ,
46475 And flies fled under shade , why then the thing of courage ,
46476 As rous'd with rage , with rage doth sympathize ,
46477 And with an accent tun'd in self-same key ,
46478 Retorts to chiding fortune .
46479
46480 Agamemnon ,
46481 Thou great commander , nerve and bone of Greece ,
46482 Heart of our numbers , soul and only spirit ,
46483 In whom the tempers and the minds of all
46484 Should be shut up , hear what Ulysses speaks .
46485 Besides the applause and approbation
46486 The which ,
46487
46488 most mighty for thy place and sway ,
46489
46490
46491 And thou most reverend for thy stretch'd-out life ,
46492 I give to both your speeches , which were such
46493 As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece
46494 Should hold up high in brass ; and such again
46495 As venerable Nestor , hatch'd in silver ,
46496 Should with a bond of air , strong as the axle-tree
46497 On which heaven rides , knit all the Greekish ears
46498 To his experienc'd tongue , yet let it please hoth ,
46499 Thou great , and wise , to hear Ulysses speak .
46500
46501 Speak , Prince of Ithaca ; and be't of less expect
46502 That matter needless , of importless burden ,
46503 Divide thy lips , than we are confident ,
46504 When rank Thersites opes his mastick jaws ,
46505 We shall hear music , wit , and oracle .
46506
46507 Troy , yet upon his basis , had been down ,
46508 And the great Hector's sword had lack'd a master ,
46509 But for these instances .
46510 The specialty of rule hath been neglected :
46511 And look , how many Grecian tents do stand
46512 Hollow upon this plain , so many hollow factions .
46513 When that the general is not like the hive
46514 To whom the foragers shall all repair ,
46515 What honey is expected ? Degree being vizarded ,
46516 The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask .
46517 The heavens themselves , the planets , and this centre
46518 Observe degree , priority , and place ,
46519 Insisture , course , proportion , season , form ,
46520 Office , and custom , in all line of order :
46521 And therefore is the glorious planet Sol
46522 In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd
46523 Amidst the other ; whose med'cinable eye
46524 Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil ,
46525 And posts , like the commandment of a king ,
46526 Sans check , to good and bad : but when the planets
46527 In evil mixture to disorder wander ,
46528 What plagues , and what portents , what mutiny ,
46529 What raging of the sea , shaking of earth ,
46530 Commotion in the winds , frights , changes , horrors ,
46531 Divert and crack , rend and deracinate
46532 The unity and married calm of states
46533 Quite from their fixure ! O ! when degree is shak'd ,
46534 Which is the ladder to all high designs ,
46535 The enterprise is sick . How could communities ,
46536 Degrees in schools , and brotherhoods in cities ,
46537 Peaceful commerce from dividable shores ,
46538 The primogenitive and due of birth ,
46539 Prerogative of age , crowns , sceptres , laurels ,
46540 But by degree , stand in authentic place ?
46541 Take but degree away , untune that string ,
46542 And , hark ! what discord follows ; each thing meets
46543 In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters
46544 Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores ,
46545 And make a sop of all this solid globe :
46546 Strength should be lord of imbecility ,
46547 And the rude son should strike his father dead :
46548 Force should be right ; or rather , right and wrong
46549 Between whose endless jar justice resides
46550 Should lose their names , and so should justice too .
46551 Then every thing includes itself in power ,
46552 Power into will , will into appetite ;
46553 And appetite , a universal wolf ,
46554 So doubly seconded with will and power ,
46555 Must make perforce a universal prey ,
46556 And last eat up himself . Great Agamemnon ,
46557 This chaos , when degree is suffocate ,
46558 Follows the choking .
46559 And this neglection of degree it is
46560 That by a pace goes backward , with a purpose
46561 It hath to climb . The general's disdain'd
46562 By him one step below , he by the next ,
46563 That next by him beneath ; so every step ,
46564 Exampled by the first pace that is sick
46565 Of his superior , grows to an envious fever
46566 Of pale and bloodless emulation :
46567 And 'tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot ,
46568 Not her own sinews . To end a tale of length ,
46569 Troy in our weakness lives , not in her strength .
46570
46571 Most wisely hath Ulysses here discover'd
46572 The fever whereof all our power is sick .
46573
46574 The nature of the sickness found , Ulysses ,
46575 What is the remedy ?
46576
46577 The great Achilles , whom opinion crowns
46578 The sinew and the forehand of our host ,
46579 Having his ear full of his airy fame ,
46580 Grows dainty of his worth , and in his tent
46581 Lies mocking our designs . With him Patroclus
46582 Upon a lazy bed the livelong day
46583 Breaks scurril jests ,
46584 And with ridiculous and awkward action
46585 Which , slanderer , he imitation calls
46586 He pageants us . Sometime , great Agamemnon ,
46587 Thy topless deputation he puts on
46588 And , like a strutting player , whose conceit
46589 Lies in his hamstring , and doth think it rich
46590 To hear the wooden dialogue and sound
46591 'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage ,
46592 Such to-be-pitied and o'er-wrested seeming
46593 He acts thy greatness in :and when he speaks ,
46594 'Tis like a chime a mending ; with terms unsquar'd ,
46595 Which , from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropp'd ,
46596 Would seem hyperboles . At this fusty stuff
46597 The large Achilles , on his press'd bed lolling ,
46598 From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause ;
46599 Cries , 'Excellent ! 'tis Agamemnon just .
46600 Now play me Nestor ; hem , and stroke thy beard ,
46601 As he being drest to some oration .'
46602 That's done ;as near as the extremest ends
46603 Of parallels , like as Vulcan and his wife :
46604 Yet good Achilles still cries , 'Excellent !
46605 'Tis Nestor right . Now play him me , Patroclus ,
46606 Arming to answer in a night alarm .'
46607 And then , forsooth , the faint defects of age
46608 Must be the scene of mirth ; to cough and spit ,
46609 And with a palsy-fumbling on his gorget ,
46610 Shake in and out the rivet : and at this sport
46611 Sir Valour dies ; cries , 'O ! enough , Patroclus ;
46612 Or give me ribs of steel ; I shall split all
46613 In pleasure of my spleen .' And in this fashion ,
46614 All our abilities , gifts , natures , shapes ,
46615 Severals and generals of grace exact ,
46616 Achievements , plots , orders , preventions ,
46617 Excitements to the field , or speech for truce ,
46618 Success or loss , what is or is not , serves
46619 As stuff for these two to make paradoxes .
46620
46621 And in the imitation of these twain
46622 Whom , as Ulysses says , opinion crowns
46623 With an imperial voice many are infect .
46624 Ajax is grown self-will'd , and bears his head
46625 In such a rein , in full as proud a place
46626 As broad Achilles ; keeps his tent like him ;
46627 Makes factious feasts ; rails on our state of war ,
46628 Bold as an oracle , and sets Thersites
46629 A slave whose gall coins slanders like a mint
46630 To match us in comparison with dirt ;
46631 To weaken and discredit our exposure ,
46632 How rank soever rounded in with danger .
46633
46634 They tax our policy , and call it cowardice ;
46635 Count wisdom as no member of the war ;
46636 Forestall prescience , and esteem no act
46637 But that of hand : the still and mental parts ,
46638 That do contrive how many hands shall strike ,
46639 When fitness calls them on , and know by measure
46640 Of their observant toil the enemies' weight ,
46641 Why , this hath not a finger's dignity :
46642 They call this bed-work , mappery , closet-war ;
46643 So that the ram that batters down the wall ,
46644 For the great swing and rudeness of his poise ,
46645 They place before his hand that made the engine ,
46646 Or those that with the fineness of their souls
46647 By reason guides his execution .
46648
46649 Let this be granted , and Achilles' horse
46650 Makes many Thetis' sons .
46651
46652
46653 What trumpet ? look , Menelaus .
46654
46655 From Troy .
46656
46657
46658 What would you 'fore our tent ?
46659
46660 Is this great Agamemnon's tent , I pray you ?
46661
46662 Even this .
46663
46664 May one , that is a herald and a prince ,
46665 Do a fair message to his kingly ears ?
46666
46667 With surety stronger than Achilles' arm
46668 'Fore all the Greekish heads , which with one voice
46669 Call Agamemnon head and general .
46670
46671 Fair leave and large security . How may
46672 A stranger to those most imperial looks
46673 Know them from eyes of other mortals ?
46674
46675 How !
46676
46677 Ay ;
46678 I ask , that I might waken reverence ,
46679 And bid the cheek be ready with a blush
46680 Modest as morning when she coldly eyes
46681 The youthful Ph bus :
46682 Which is that god in office , guiding men ?
46683 Which is the high and mighty Agamemnon ?
46684
46685 This Trojan scorns us ; or the men of Troy
46686 Are ceremonious courtiers .
46687
46688 Courtiers as free , as debonair , unarm'd ,
46689 As bending angels ; that's their fame in peace :
46690 But when they would seem soldiers , they have galls ,
46691 Good arms , strong joints , true swords ; and , Jove's accord ,
46692 Nothing so full of heart . But peace , neas !
46693 Peace , Trojan ! lay thy finger on thy lips !
46694 The worthiness of praise distains his worth ,
46695 If that the prais'd himself bring the praise forth ;
46696 But what the repining enemy commends ,
46697 That breath fame blows ; that praise , sole pure , transcends .
46698
46699 Sir , you of Troy , call you yourself neas ?
46700
46701 Ay , Greek , that is my name .
46702
46703 What's your affair , I pray you ?
46704
46705 Sir , pardon ; 'tis for Agamemnon's ears .
46706
46707 He hears nought privately that comes from Troy .
46708
46709 Nor I from Troy come not to whisper him :
46710 I bring a trumpet to awake his ear ,
46711 To set his sense on the attentive bent ,
46712 And then to speak .
46713
46714 Speak frankly as the wind :
46715 It is not Agamemnon's sleeping hour ;
46716 That thou shalt know , Trojan , he is awake ,
46717 He tells thee so himself .
46718
46719 Trumpet , blow aloud ,
46720 Send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents ;
46721 And every Greek of mettle , let him know ,
46722 What Troy means fairly shall be spoke aloud .
46723
46724 We have , great Agamemnon , here in Troy .
46725 A prince called Hector ,Priam is his father ,
46726 Who in this dull and long-continu'd truce
46727 Is rusty grown : he bade me take a trumpet ,
46728 And to this purpose speak : kings , princes , lords !
46729 If there be one among the fair'st of Greece
46730 That holds his honour higher than his ease ,
46731 That seeks his praise more than he fears his peril ,
46732 That knows his valour , and knows not his fear ,
46733 That loves his mistress more than in confession ,
46734 With truant vows to her own lips he loves ,
46735 And dare avow her beauty and her worth
46736 In other arms than hers ,to him this challenge .
46737 Hector , in view of Trojans and of Greeks ,
46738 Shall make it good , or do his best to do it ,
46739 He hath a lady wiser , fairer , truer ,
46740 Than ever Greek did compass in his arms ;
46741 And will to-morrow with his trumpet call ,
46742 Mid-way between your tents and walls of Troy ,
46743 To rouse a Grecian that is true in love :
46744 If any come , Hector shall honour him ;
46745 If none , he'll say in Troy when he retires ,
46746 The Grecian dames are sunburnt , and not worth
46747 The splinter of a lance . Even so much .
46748
46749 This shall be told our lovers , Lord neas ;
46750 If none of them have soul in such a kind ,
46751 We left them all at home : but we are soldiers ;
46752 And may that soldier a mere recreant prove ,
46753 That means not , hath not , or is not in love !
46754 If then one is , or hath , or means to be ,
46755 That one meets Hector ; if none else , I am he .
46756
46757 Tell him of Nestor , one that was a man
46758 When Hector's grandsire suck'd : he is old now ;
46759 But if there be not in our Grecian host
46760 One noble man that hath one spark of fire
46761 To answer for his love , tell him from me ,
46762 I'll hide my silver beard in a gold beaver ,
46763 And in my vantbrace put this wither'd brawn ;
46764 And , meeting him , will tell him that my lady
46765 Was fairer than his grandam , and as chaste
46766 As may be in the world : his youth in flood ,
46767 I'll prove this truth with my three drops of blood .
46768
46769 Now heavens forbid such scarcity of youth !
46770
46771 Amen .
46772
46773 Fair Lord neas , let me touch your hand ;
46774 To our pavilion shall I lead you first .
46775 Achilles shall have word of this intent ;
46776 So shall each lord of Greece , from tent to tent :
46777 Yourself shall feast with us before you go ,
46778 And find the welcome of a noble foe .
46779
46780
46781 Nestor !
46782
46783 What says Ulysses ?
46784
46785 I have a young conception in my brain ;
46786 Be you my time to bring it to some shape .
46787
46788 What is't ?
46789
46790 This 'tis :
46791 Blunt wedges rive hard knots : the seeded pride
46792 That hath to this maturity blown up
46793 In rank Achilles , must or now be cropp'd ,
46794 Or , shedding , breed a nursery of like evil ,
46795 To overbulk us all .
46796
46797 Well , and how ?
46798
46799 This challenge that the gallant Hector sends ,
46800 However it is spread in general name ,
46801 Relates in purpose only to Achilles .
46802
46803 The purpose is perspicuous even as substance
46804 Whose grossness little characters sum up :
46805 And , in the publication , make no strain ,
46806 But that Achilles , were his brain as barren
46807 As banks of Libya ,though , Apollo knows ,
46808 'Tis dry enough ,will with great speed of judgment ,
46809 Ay , with celerity , find Hector's purpose
46810 Pointing on him .
46811
46812 And wake him to the answer , think you ?
46813
46814 Yes , 'tis most meet : whom may you else oppose ,
46815 That can from Hector bring those honours off ,
46816 If not Achilles ? Though't be a sportful combat ,
46817 Yet in the trial much opinion dwells ;
46818 For here the Trojans taste our dear'st repute
46819 With their fin'st palate : and trust to me , Ulysses ,
46820 Our imputation shall be oddly pois'd
46821 In this wild action ; for the success ,
46822 Although particular , shall give a scantling
46823 Of good or bad unto the general ;
46824 And in such indexes , although small pricks
46825 To their subsequent volumes , there is seen
46826 The baby figure of the giant mass
46827 Of things to come at large . It is suppos'd
46828 He that meets Hector issues from our choice ;
46829 And choice , being mutual act of all our souls ,
46830 Makes merit her election , and doth boil ,
46831 As 'twere from forth us all , a man distill'd
46832 Out of our virtues ; who miscarrying ,
46833 What heart receives from bence the conquering part ,
46834 To steel a strong opinion to themselves ?
46835 Which entertain'd , limbs are his instruments ,
46836 In no less working than are swords and bows
46837 Directive by the limbs .
46838
46839 Give pardon to my speech :
46840 Therefore 'tis meet Achilles meet not Hector .
46841 Let us like merchants show our foulest wares ,
46842 And think perchance they'll sell ; if not ,
46843 The lustre of the better yet to show
46844 Shall show the better . Do not consent
46845 That ever Hector and Achilles meet ;
46846 For both our honour and our shame in this
46847 Are dogg'd with two strange followers .
46848
46849 I see them not with my old eyes : what are they ?
46850
46851 What glory our Achilles shares from Hector ,
46852 Were he not proud , we all should share with him :
46853 But he already is too insolent ;
46854 And we were better parch in Afric sun
46855 Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes ,
46856 Should he 'scape Hector fair : if he were foil'd ,
46857 Why then we did our main opinion crush
46858 In taint of our best man . No ; make a lottery ;
46859 And by device let blockish Ajax draw
46860 The sort to fight with Hector : among ourselves
46861 Give him allowance as the worthier man ,
46862 For that will physic the great Myrmidon
46863 Who broils in loud applause ; and make him fall
46864 His crest that prouder than blue Iris bends .
46865 If the dull brainless Ajax come safe off ,
46866 We'll dress him up in voices : if he fail ,
46867 Yet go we under our opinion still
46868 That we have better men . But , hit or miss ,
46869 Our project's life this shape of sense assumes :
46870 Ajax employ'd plucks down Achilles' plumes .
46871
46872 Ulysses ,
46873 Now I begin to relish thy advice ;
46874 And I will give a taste of it forthwith
46875 To Agamemnon : go we to him straight .
46876 Two curs shall tame each other : pride alone
46877 Must tarre the mastiffs on , as 'twere their bone .
46878
46879
46880 Thersites !
46881
46882 Agamemnon , how if he had boils ? full , all over , generally ?
46883
46884 Thersites !
46885
46886 And those boils did run ? Say so , did not the general run then ? were not that a botchy core ?
46887
46888 Dog !
46889
46890 Then would come some matter from him : I see none now .
46891
46892 Thou bitch-wolf's son , canst thou not hear ?
46893 Feel , then .
46894
46895
46896 The plague of Greece upon thee , thou mongrel beef-witted lord !
46897
46898 Speak then , thou vinewedst leaven , speak : I will beat thee into handsomeness .
46899
46900 I shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness : but I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book . Thou canst strike , canst thou ? a red murrain o' thy jade's tricks !
46901
46902 Toadstool , learn me the proclamation .
46903
46904 Dost thou think I have no sense , thou strikest me thus ?
46905
46906 The proclamation !
46907
46908 Thou art proclaimed a fool , I think .
46909
46910 Do not , porpentine , do not : my fingers itch .
46911
46912 I would thou didst itch from head to foot , and I had the scratching of thee ; I would make thee the loathsomest scab of Greece . When thou art forth in the incursions , thou strikest as slow as another .
46913
46914 I say , the proclamation !
46915
46916 Thou grumblest and railest every hour on Achilles , and thou art as full of envy at his greatness as Cerberus is at Proserpina's beauty , ay that thou barkest at him .
46917
46918 Mistress Thersites !
46919
46920 Thou shouldst strike him .
46921
46922 Cobloaf !
46923
46924 He would pun thee into shivers with his fist , as a sailor breaks a biscuit .
46925
46926 You whoreson cur .
46927
46928
46929 Do , do .
46930
46931 Thou stool for a witch !
46932
46933 Ay , do , do ; thou sodden-witted lord ! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows ; an assinego may tutor thee : thou scurvy-valiant ass ! thou art here but to thrash Trojans ; and thou art bought and sold among those of any wit , like a barbarian slave . If thou use to beat me , I will begin at thy heel , and tell what thou art by inches , thou thing of no bowels , thou !
46934
46935 You dog !
46936
46937 You scurvy lord !
46938
46939 You cur !
46940
46941
46942 Mars his idiot ! do , rudeness ; do , camel ; do , do .
46943
46944
46945 Why , how now , Ajax ! wherefore do you this ?
46946 How now , Thersites ! what's the matter , man ?
46947
46948 You see him there , do you ?
46949
46950 Ay ; what's the matter ?
46951
46952 Nay , look upon him .
46953
46954 So I do : what's the matter ?
46955
46956 Nay , but regard him well .
46957
46958 'Well !' why , so I do .
46959
46960 But yet you look not well upon him ; for , whosoever you take him to be , he is Ajax .
46961
46962 I know that , fool .
46963
46964 Ay , but that fool knows not himself .
46965
46966 Therefore I beat thee .
46967
46968 Lo , lo , lo , lo , what modicums of wit he utters ! his evasions have ears thus long . I have bobbed his brain more than he has beat my bones : I will buy nine sparrows for a penny , and his pia mater is not worth the ninth part of a sparrow . This lord , Achilles , Ajax , who wears his wit in his belly , and his guts in his head , I'll tell you what I say of him .
46969
46970 What ?
46971
46972 I say , this Ajax ,
46973
46974
46975 Nay , good Ajax .
46976
46977 Has not so much wit
46978
46979 Nay , I must hold you .
46980
46981 As will stop the eye of Helen's needle , for whom he comes to fight .
46982
46983 Peace , fool !
46984
46985 I would have peace and quietness , but the fool will not : he there ; that he ; look you there .
46986
46987 O thou damned cur ! I shall
46988
46989 Will you set your wit to a fool's ?
46990
46991 No , I warrant you ; for a fool's will shame it .
46992
46993 Good words , Thersites .
46994
46995 What's the quarrel ?
46996
46997 I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenour of the proclamation , and he rails upon me .
46998
46999 I serve thee not .
47000
47001 Well , go to , go to .
47002
47003 I serve here voluntary .
47004
47005 Your last service was sufferance , 'twas not voluntary ; no man is beaten voluntary : Ajax was here the voluntary , and you as under an impress .
47006
47007 Even so ; a great deal of your wit too lies in your sinews , or else there be liars . Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains : a' were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel .
47008
47009 What , with me too , Thersites ?
47010
47011 There's Ulysses and old Nestor , whose wit was mouldy ere your grandsires had nails on their toes , yoke you like draught-oxen , and make you plough up the wars .
47012
47013 What , what ?
47014
47015 Yes , good sooth : to , Achilles ! to , Ajax ! to !
47016
47017 I shall cut out your tongue .
47018
47019 'Tis no matter ; I shall speak as much as thou afterwards .
47020
47021 No more words , Thersites ; peace !
47022
47023 I will hold my peace when Achilles' brach bids me , shall I ?
47024
47025 There's for you , Patroclus .
47026
47027 I will see you hanged , like clotpoles , ere I come any more to your tents : I will keep where there is wit stirring and leave the faction of fools .
47028
47029
47030 A good riddance .
47031
47032 Marry , this , sir , is proclaim'd through all our host :
47033 That Hector , by the fifth hour of the sun ,
47034 Will , with a trumpet , 'twixt our tents and Troy
47035 To morrow morning call some knight to arms
47036 That hath a stomach ; and such a one that dare
47037 Maintain I know not what : 'tis trash . Farewell .
47038
47039 Farewell . Who shall answer him ?
47040
47041 I know not : it is put to lottery ; otherwise ,
47042 He knew his man .
47043
47044 O , meaning you . I will go learn more of it .
47045
47046
47047 After so many hours , lives , speeches spent ,
47048 Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks :
47049 'Deliver Helen , and all damage else ,
47050 As honour , loss of time , travail , expense ,
47051 Wounds , friends , and what else dear that is consum'd
47052 In hot digestion of this cormorant war ,
47053 Shall be struck off .' Hector , what say you to't ?
47054
47055 Though no man lesser fears the Greeks than I ,
47056 As far as toucheth my particular ,
47057 Yet , dread Priam ,
47058 There is no lady of more softer bowels ,
47059 More spongy to suck in the sense of fear ,
47060 More ready to cry out 'Who knows what follows ?'
47061 Than Hector is . The wound of peace is surety ,
47062 Surety secure ; but modest doubt is call'd
47063 The beacon of the wise , the tent that searches
47064 To the bottom of the worst . Let Helen go :
47065 Since the first sword was drawn about this question ,
47066 Every tithe soul , 'mongst many thousand dismes ,
47067 Hath been as dear as Helen ; I mean , of ours :
47068 If we have lost so many tenths of ours ,
47069 To guard a thing not ours nor worth to us ,
47070 Had it our name , the value of one ten ,
47071 What merit's in that reason which denies
47072 The yielding of her up ?
47073
47074 Fie , fie ! my brother ,
47075 Weigh you the worth and honour of a king
47076 So great as our dread father in a scale
47077 Of common ounces ? will you with counters sum
47078 The past proportion of his infinite ?
47079 And buckle in a waist most fathomless
47080 With spans and inches so diminutive
47081 As fears and reasons ? fie , for godly shame !
47082
47083 No marvel , though you bite so sharp at reasons ,
47084 You are so empty of them . Should not our father
47085 Bear the great sway of his affairs with reasons ,
47086 Because your speech hath none that tells him so ?
47087
47088 You are for dreams and slumbers , brother priest ;
47089 You fur your gloves with reason . Here are your reasons :
47090 You know an enemy intends you harm ;
47091 You know a sword employ'd is perilous ,
47092 And reason flies the object of all harm :
47093 Who marvels then , when Helenus beholds
47094 A Grecian and his sword , if he do set
47095 The very wings of reason to his heels ,
47096 And fly like chidden Mercury from Jove ,
47097 Or like a star disorb'd ? Nay , if we talk of reason ,
47098 Let's shut our gates and sleep : manhood and honour
47099 Should have hare-hearts , would they but fat their thoughts
47100 With this cramm'd reason : reason and respect
47101 Make livers pale , and lustihood deject .
47102
47103 Brother , she is not worth what she doth cost
47104 The holding .
47105
47106 What is aught but as 'tis valu'd ?
47107
47108 But value dwells not in particular will ;
47109 It holds his estimate and dignity
47110 As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
47111 As in the prizer . 'Tis mad idolatry
47112 To make the service greater than the god ;
47113 And the will dotes that is inclinable
47114 To what infectiously itself affects ,
47115 Without some image of the affected merit .
47116
47117 I take to-day a wife , and my election
47118 Is led on in the conduct of my will ;
47119 My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears ,
47120 Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores
47121 Of will and judgment . How may I avoid ,
47122 Although my will distaste what it elected ,
47123 The wife I chose ? there can be no evasion
47124 To blench from this and to stand firm by honour .
47125 We turn not back the silks upon the merchant
47126 When we have soil'd them , nor the remainder viands
47127 We do not throw in unrespective sink
47128 Because we now are full . It was thought meet
47129 Paris should do some vengeance on the Greeks :
47130 Your breath of full consent bellied his sails ;
47131 The seas and winds old wranglers took a truce
47132 And did him service : he touch'd the ports desir'd ,
47133 And for an old aunt whom the Greeks held captive
47134 He brought a Grecian queen , whose youth and freshness
47135 Wrinkles Apollo's , and makes stale the morning .
47136 Why keep we her ? the Grecians keep our aunt :
47137 Is she worth keeping ? why , she is a pearl ,
47138 Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships ,
47139 And turn'd crown'd kings to merchants .
47140 If you'll avouch 'twas wisdom Paris went ,
47141 As you must needs , for you all cried 'Go , go ,'
47142 If you'll confess he brought home noble prize ,
47143 As you must needs , for you all clapp'd your hands ,
47144 And cry'd 'Inestimable !' why do you now
47145 The issue of your proper wisdoms rate ,
47146 And do a deed that Fortune never did ,
47147 Beggar the estimation which you priz'd
47148 Richer than sea and land ? O ! theft most base ,
47149 That we have stol'n what we do fear to keep !
47150 But thieves unworthy of a thing so stol'n ,
47151 That in their country did them that disgrace
47152 We fear to warrant in our native place .
47153
47154 Cry , Trojans , cry !
47155
47156 What noise ? what shriek ?
47157
47158 'Tis our mad sister , I do know her voice
47159
47160 Cry , Trojans !
47161
47162 It is Cassandra .
47163
47164
47165 Cry , Trojans , cry ! lend me ten thousand eyes ,
47166 And I will fill them with prophetic tears .
47167
47168 Peace , sister , peace !
47169
47170 Virgins and boys , mid-age and wrinkled eld ,
47171 Soft infancy , that nothing canst but cry ,
47172 Add to my clamours ! let us pay betimes
47173 A moiety of that mass of moan to come .
47174 Cry , Trojans , cry ! practise your eyes with tears !
47175 Troy must not be , nor goodly Ilion stand ;
47176 Our firebrand brother , Paris , burns us all .
47177 Cry , Trojans , cry ! a Helen and a woe !
47178 Cry , cry ! Troy burns , or else let Helen go .
47179
47180
47181 Now , youthful Troilus , do not these high strains
47182 Of divination in our sister work
47183 Some touches of remorse ? or is your blood
47184 So madly hot that no discourse of reason ,
47185 Nor fear of bad success in a bad cause ,
47186 Can qualify the same ?
47187
47188 Why , brother Hector ,
47189 We may not think the justness of each act
47190 Such and no other than event doth form it ,
47191 Nor once deject the courage of our minds ,
47192 Because Cassandra's mad : her brain-sick raptures
47193 Cannot distaste the goodness of a quarrel
47194 Which hath our several honours all engag'd
47195 To make it gracious . For my private part ,
47196 I am no more touch'd than all Priam's sons ;
47197 And Jove forbid there should be done amongst us
47198 Such things as might offend the weakest spleen
47199 To fight for and maintain .
47200
47201 Else might the world convince of levity
47202 As well my undertakings as your counsels ;
47203 But I attest the gods , your full consent
47204 Gave wings to my propension and cut off
47205 All fears attending on so dire a project :
47206 For what , alas ! can these my single arms ?
47207 What propugnation is in one man's valour ,
47208 To stand the push and enmity of those
47209 This quarrel would excite ? Yet , I protest ,
47210 Were I alone to pass the difficulties ,
47211 And had as ample power as I have will ,
47212 Paris should ne'er retract what he hath done ,
47213 Nor faint in the pursuit .
47214
47215 Paris , you speak
47216 Like one besotted on your sweet delights :
47217 You have the honey still , but these the gall ;
47218 So to be valiant is no praise at all .
47219
47220 Sir , I propose not merely to myself
47221 The pleasure such a beauty brings with it ;
47222 But I would have the soil of her fair rape
47223 Wip'd off , in honourable keeping her .
47224 What treason were it to the ransack'd queen ,
47225 Disgrace to your great worths , and shame to me ,
47226 Now to deliver her possession up ,
47227 On terms of base compulsion ! Can it be
47228 That so degenerate a strain as this
47229 Should once set footing in your generous bosoms ?
47230 There's not the meanest spirit on our party
47231 Without a heart to dare or sword to draw
47232 When Helen is defended , nor none so noble
47233 Whose life were ill bestow'd or death unfam'd
47234 Where Helen is the subject : then , I say ,
47235 Well may we fight for her , whom , we know well ,
47236 The world's large spaces cannot parallel .
47237
47238 Paris and Troilus , you have both said well ;
47239 And on the cause and question now in hand
47240 Have gloz'd , but superficially ; not much
47241 Unlike young men , whom Aristotle thought
47242 Unfit to hear moral philosophy .
47243 The reasons you allege do more conduce
47244 To the hot passion of distemper'd blood
47245 Than to make up a free determination
47246 'Twixt right and wrong ; for pleasure and revenge
47247 Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
47248 Of any true decision . Nature craves
47249 All dues be render'd to their owners : now ,
47250 What nearer debt in all humanity
47251 Than wife is to the husband ? if this law
47252 Of nature be corrupted through affection ,
47253 And that great minds , of partial indulgence
47254 To their benumbed wills , resist the saine ;
47255 There is a law in each well-order'd nation
47256 To curb those raging appetites that are
47257 Most disobedient and refractory .
47258 If Helen then be wife to Sparta's king ,
47259 As it is known she is , these moral laws
47260 Of nature , and of nations , speak aloud
47261 To have her back return'd : thus to persist
47262 In doing wrong extenuates not wrong ,
47263 But makes it much more heavy . Hector's opinion
47264 Is this , in way of truth ; yet , ne'ertheless ,
47265 My spritely brethren , I propend to you
47266 In resolution to keep Helen still ;
47267 For 'tis a cause that hath no mean dependance
47268 Upon our joint and several dignities .
47269
47270 Why , there you touch'd the life of our design :
47271 Were it not glory that we more affected
47272 Than the performance of our heaving spleens ,
47273 I would not wish a drop of Trojan blood
47274 Spent more in her defence . But , worthy Hector ,
47275 She is a theme of honour and renown ,
47276 A spur to valiant and magnanimous deeds ,
47277 Whose present courage may beat down our foes ,
47278 And fame in time to come canonize us ;
47279 For , I presume , brave Hector would not lose
47280 So rich advantage of a promis'd glory
47281 As smiles upon the forehead of this action
47282 For the wide world's revenue .
47283
47284 I am yours ,
47285 You valiant offspring of great Priamus .
47286 I have a roisting challenge sent amongst
47287 The dull and factious nobles of the Greeks
47288 Will strike amazement to their drowsy spirits .
47289 I was advertis'd their great general slept
47290 Whilst emulation in the army crept :
47291 This , I presume , will wake him .
47292
47293
47294 How now , Thersites ! what , lost in the labyrinth of thy fury ! Shall the elephant Ajax carry it thus ? he beats me , and I rail at him : O worthy satisfaction ! Would it were otherwise ; that I could beat him , whilst he railed at me . 'Sfoot , I'll learn to conjure and raise devils , but I'll see some issue of my spiteful execrations . Then there's Achilles , a rare enginer . If Troy be not taken till these two undermine it , the walls will stand till they fall of themselves . O ! thou great thunder-darter of Olympus , forget that thou art Jove the king of gods , and , Mercury , lose all the serpentine craft of thy caduceus , if ye take not that little little less than little wit from them that they have ; which short-armed ignorance itself knows is so abundant scarce it will not in circumvention deliver a fly from a spider , without drawing their massy irons and cutting the web . After this , the vengeance on the whole camp ! or , rather , the Neapolitan bone-ache ! for that , methinks , is the curse dependant on those that war for a placket . I have said my prayers , and devil Envy say Amen . What , ho ! my Lord Achilles !
47295
47296
47297 Who's there ? Thersites ! Good Thersites , come in and rail .
47298
47299 If I could have remembered a gilt counterfeit , thou wouldst not have slipped out of my contemplation : but it is no matter ; thyself upon thyself ! The common curse of mankind , folly and ignorance , be thine in great revenue ! heaven bless thee from a tutor , and discipline come not near thee ! Let thy blood be thy direction till thy death ! then , if she that lays thee out says thou art a fair corpse , I'll be sworn and sworn upon't she never shrouded any but lazars . Amen . Where's Achilles ?
47300
47301 What ! art thou devout ? wast thou in prayer ?
47302
47303 Ay ; the heavens hear me !
47304
47305
47306 Who's there ?
47307
47308 Thersites , my lord .
47309
47310 Where , where ? Art thou come ? Why , my cheese , my digestion , why hast thou not served thyself in to my table so many meals ? Come , what's Agamemnon ?
47311
47312 Thy commander , Achilles . Then tell me , Patroclus , what's Achilles ?
47313
47314 Thy lord , Thersites . Then tell me , I pray thee , what's thyself ?
47315
47316 Thy knower , Patroclus . Then tell me , Patroclus , what art thou ?
47317
47318 Thou mayst tell that knowest .
47319
47320 O ! tell , tell .
47321
47322 I'll decline the whole question . Agamemnon commands Achilles ; Achilles is my lord ; I am Patroclus' knower ; and Patroclus is a fool .
47323
47324 You rascal !
47325
47326 Peace , fool ! I have not done .
47327
47328 He is a privileged man . Proceed , Thersites .
47329
47330 Agamemnon is a fool ; Achilles is a fool ; Thersites is a fool ; and , as aforesaid , Patroclus is a fool .
47331
47332 Derive this ; come .
47333
47334 Agamemnon is a fool to offer to command Achilles ; Achilles is a fool to be commanded of Agamemnon ; Thersites is a fool to serve such a fool ; and Patroclus is a fool positive .
47335
47336 Why am I a fool ?
47337
47338 Make that demand to the Creator . It suffices me thou art . Look you , who comes here ?
47339
47340 Patroclus , I'll speak with nobody . Come in with me , Thersites .
47341
47342
47343 Here is such patchery , such juggling , and such knavery ! all the argument is a cuckold and a whore ; a good quarrel to draw emulous factions and bleed to death upon . Now , the dry serpigo on the subject ! and war and lechery confound all !
47344
47345 Where is Achilles ?
47346
47347 Within his tent ; but ill-dispos'd , my lord .
47348
47349 Let it be known to him that we are here .
47350 He shent our messengers ; and we lay by
47351 Our appertainments , visiting of him :
47352 Let him be told so ; lest perchance he think
47353 We dare not move the question of our place ,
47354 Or know not what we are .
47355
47356 I shall say so to him .
47357
47358
47359 We saw him at the opening of his tent :
47360 He is not sick .
47361
47362 Yes , lion-sick , sick of proud heart : you may call it melancholy if you will favour the man ; but , by my head , 'tis pride : but why , why ? let him show us a cause . A word , my lord .
47363
47364
47365 What moves Ajax thus to bay at him ?
47366
47367 Achilles hath inveigled his fool from him .
47368
47369 Who , Thersites ?
47370
47371 He .
47372
47373 Then will Ajax lack matter , if he have lost his argument .
47374
47375 No ; you see , he is his argument that has his argument , Achilles .
47376
47377 All the better ; their fraction is more our wish than their faction : but it was a strong composure a fool could disunite .
47378
47379 The amity that wisdom knits not folly may easily untie . Here comes Patroclus .
47380
47381
47382 No Achilles with him .
47383
47384 The elephant hath joints , but none for courtesy : his legs are legs for necessity , not for flexure .
47385
47386 Achilles bids me say , he is much sorry
47387 If any thing more than your sport and pleasure
47388 Did move your greatness and this noble state
47389 To call upon him ; he hopes it is no other
47390 But , for your health and your digestion sake ,
47391 An after-dinner's breath .
47392
47393 Hear you , Patroclus :
47394 We are too well acquainted with these answers :
47395 But his evasion , wing'd thus swift with scorn ,
47396 Cannot outfly our apprehensions .
47397 Much attribute he hath , and much the reason
47398 Why we ascribe it to him ; yet all his virtues ,
47399 Not virtuously on his own part beheld ,
47400 Do in our eyes begin to lose their gloss ,
47401 Yea , like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish ,
47402 Are like to rot untasted . Go and tell him ,
47403 We come to speak with him ; and you shall not sin
47404 If you do say we think him over-proud
47405 And under-honest , in self-assumption greater
47406 Than in the note of judgment ; and worthier than himself
47407 Here tend the savage strangeness he puts on ,
47408 Disguise the holy strength of their command ,
47409 And underwrite in an observing kind
47410 His humorous predominance ; yea , watch
47411 His pettish lunes , his ebbs , his flows , as if
47412 The passage and whole carriage of this action
47413 Rode on his tide . Go tell him this , and add ,
47414 That if he overhold his price so much ,
47415 We'll none of him ; but let him , like an engine
47416 Not portable , lie under this report :
47417 'Bring action hither , this cannot go to war :'
47418 A stirring dwarf we do allowance give
47419 Before a sleeping giant : tell him so .
47420
47421 I shall ; and bring his answer presently .
47422
47423
47424 In second voice we'll not be satisfied ;
47425 We come to speak with him . Ulysses , enter you .
47426
47427
47428 What is he more than another ?
47429
47430 No more than what he thinks he is .
47431
47432 Is he so much ? Do you not think he thinks himself a better man than I am ?
47433
47434 No question .
47435
47436 Will you subscribe his thought , and say he is ?
47437
47438 No , noble Ajax ; you are as strong , as valiant , as wise , no less noble , much more gentle , and altogether more tractable .
47439
47440 Why should a man be proud ? How doth pride grow ? I know not what pride is .
47441
47442 Your mind is the clearer , Ajax , and your virtues the fairer . He that is proud eats up himself : pride is his own glass , his own trumpet , his own chronicle ; and whatever praises itself but in the deed , devours the deed in the praise .
47443
47444 I do hate a proud man , as I hate the engendering of toads .
47445
47446 Yet he loves himself : is't not strange ?
47447
47448
47449 Achilles will not to the field to-morrow .
47450
47451 What's his excuse ?
47452
47453 He doth rely on none ,
47454 But carries on the stream of his dispose
47455 Without observance or respect of any ,
47456 In will peculiar and in self-admission .
47457
47458 Why will he not upon our fair request
47459 Untent his person and share the air with us ?
47460
47461 Things small as nothing , for request's sake only ,
47462 He makes important : possess'd he is with greatness ,
47463 And speaks not to himself but with a pride
47464 That quarrels at self-breath : imagin'd worth
47465 Holds in his blood such swoln and hot discourse ,
47466 That 'twixt his mental and his active parts
47467 Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages
47468 And batters down himself : what should I say ?
47469 He is so plaguy proud , that the death-tokens of it
47470 Cry 'No recovery .'
47471
47472 Let Ajax go to him .
47473 Dear lord , go you and meet him in his tent :
47474 'Tis said he holds you well , and will be led
47475 At your request a little from himself .
47476
47477 O Agamemnon ! let it not be so .
47478 We'll consecrate the steps that Ajax makes
47479 When they go from Achilles : shall the proud lord
47480 That bastes his arrogance with his own seam ,
47481 And never suffers matter of the world
47482 Enter his thoughts , save such as do revolve
47483 And ruminate himself , shall he be worshipp'd
47484 Of that we hold an idol more than he ?
47485 No , this thrice-worthy and right valiant lord
47486 Must not so stale his palm , nobly acquir'd ;
47487 Nor , by my will , assubjugate his merit ,
47488 As amply titled as Achilles is ,
47489 By going to Achilles :
47490 That were to enlard his fat-already pride ,
47491 And add more coals to Cancer when he burns
47492 With entertaining great Hyperion .
47493 This lord go to him ! Jupiter forbid ,
47494 And say in thunder , 'Achilles go to him .'
47495
47496 O ! this is well ; he rubs the vein of him .
47497
47498 And how his silence drinks up this applause !
47499
47500 If I go to him , with my armed fist
47501 I'll pash him o'er the face .
47502
47503 O , no ! you shall not go .
47504
47505 An a' be proud with me , I'll pheeze his pride .
47506 Let me go to him .
47507
47508 Not for the worth that hangs upon our quarrel .
47509
47510 A paltry , insolent fellow !
47511
47512 How he describes himself !
47513
47514 Can he not be sociable ?
47515
47516 The raven chides blackness .
47517
47518 I'll let his humours blood .
47519
47520 He will be the physician that should be the patient .
47521
47522 An all men were o' my mind ,
47523
47524 Wit would be out of fashion .
47525
47526 A' should not bear it so , a' should eat swords first : shall pride carry it ?
47527
47528 An't would , you'd carry half .
47529
47530 A' would have ten shares .
47531
47532 I will knead him ; I will make him supple .
47533
47534 He's not yet through warm : force him with praises : pour in , pour in ; his ambition is dry .
47535
47536 My lord , you feed too much on this dislike .
47537
47538 Our noble general , do not do so .
47539
47540 You must prepare to fight without Achilles .
47541
47542 Why , 'tis this naming of him does him harm .
47543 Here is a man but 'tis before his face ;
47544 I will be silent .
47545
47546 Wherefore should you so ?
47547 He is not emulous , as Achilles is .
47548
47549 Know the whole world , he is as valiant .
47550
47551 A whoreson dog , that shall palter thus with us ! Would he were a Trojan !
47552
47553 What a vice were it in Ajax now ,
47554
47555 If he were proud ,
47556
47557 Or covetous of praise ,
47558
47559 Ay , or surly borne ,
47560
47561 Or strange , or self-affected !
47562
47563 Thank the heavens , lord , thou art of sweet composure ;
47564 Praise him that got thee , her that gave thee suck :
47565 Fam'd be thy tutor , and thy parts of nature
47566 Thrice-fam'd , beyond all erudition :
47567 But he that disciplin'd thy arms to fight ,
47568 Let Mars divide eternity in twain ,
47569 And give him half : and , for thy vigour ,
47570 Bull-bearing Milo his addition yield
47571 To sinewy Ajax . I will not praise thy wisdom ,
47572 Which , like a bourn , a pale , a shore , confines
47573 Thy spacious and dilated parts : here's Nestor
47574 Instructed by the antiquary times ,
47575 He must , he is , he cannot but be wise ;
47576 But pardon , father Nestor , were your days
47577 As green as Ajax , and your brain so temper'd ,
47578 You should not have the eminence of him ,
47579 But be as Ajax .
47580
47581 Shall I call you father ?
47582
47583 Ay , my good son .
47584
47585 Be rul'd by him , Lord Ajax .
47586
47587 There is no tarrying here ; the hart Achilles
47588 Keeps thicket . Please it our great general
47589 To call together all his state of war ;
47590 Fresh kings are come to Troy : to-morrow ,
47591 We must with all our main of power stand fast :
47592 And here's a lord ,come knights from east to west ,
47593 And cull their flower , Ajax shall cope the best .
47594
47595 Go we to council . Let Achilles sleep :
47596 Light boats sail swift , though greater hulks draw deep .
47597
47598
47599 Friend ! you ! pray you , a word : do not you follow the young Lord Paris ?
47600
47601 Ay , sir , when he goes before me .
47602
47603 You depend upon him , I mean ?
47604
47605 Sir , I do depend upon the Lord .
47606
47607 You depend upon a noble gentleman ;
47608 I must needs praise him .
47609
47610 The Lord be praised !
47611
47612 You know me , do you not ?
47613
47614 Faith , sir , superficially .
47615
47616 Friend , know me better . I am the
47617 Lord Pandarus .
47618
47619 I hope I shall know your honour better .
47620
47621 I do desire it .
47622
47623 You are in the state of grace .
47624
47625 Grace ! not so , friend ; honour and lordship are my titles .
47626
47627 What music is this ?
47628
47629 I do but partly know , sir : it is music in parts .
47630
47631 Know you the musicians ?
47632
47633 Wholly , sir .
47634
47635 Who play they to ?
47636
47637 To the hearers , sir .
47638
47639 At whose pleasure , friend ?
47640
47641 At mine , sir , and theirs that love music .
47642
47643 Command , I mean , friend .
47644
47645 Who shall I command , sir ?
47646
47647 Friend , we understand not one another :
47648 I am too courtly , and thou art too cunning . At whose request do these men play ?
47649
47650 That's to't , indeed , sir . Marry , sir , at the request of Paris my lord , who is there in person ; with him the mortal Venus , the heartblood of beauty , love's invisible soul .
47651
47652 Who , my cousin Cressida ?
47653
47654 No , sir , Helen : could you not find out that by her attributes ?
47655
47656 It should seem , fellow , that thou hast not seen the Lady Cressida . I come to speak with Paris from the Prince Troilus : I will make a complimental assault upon him , for my business seethes .
47657
47658 Sodden business : there's a stewed phrase , indeed .
47659
47660
47661 Fair be to you , my lord , and to all this fair company ! fair desires , in all fair measures , fairly guide them ! especially to you , fair queen ! fair thoughts be your fair pillow !
47662
47663 Dear lord , you are full of fair words .
47664
47665 You speak your fair pleasure , sweet queen . Fair prince , here is good broken music .
47666
47667 You have broke it , cousin ; and , by my life , you shall make it whole again : you shall piece it out with a piece of your performance . Nell , he is full of harmony .
47668
47669 Truly , lady , no .
47670
47671 O , sir !
47672
47673 Rude , in sooth ; in good sooth , very rude .
47674
47675 Well said , my lord ! Well , you say so in fits .
47676
47677 I have business to my lord , dear queen .
47678 My lord , will you vouchsafe me a word ?
47679
47680 Nay , this shall not hedge us out : we'll hear you sing , certainly .
47681
47682 Well , sweet queen , you are pleasant with me . But , marry , thus , my lord . My dear lord and most esteemed friend , your brother Troilus
47683
47684 My Lord Pandarus ; honey-sweet lord ,
47685
47686 Go to , sweet queen , go to : commends himself most affectionately to you .
47687
47688 You shall not bob us out of our melody : if you do , our melancholy upon your head !
47689
47690 Sweet queen , sweet queen ! that's a sweet queen , i' faith .
47691
47692 And to make a sweet lady sad is a sour offence .
47693
47694 Nay , that shall not serve your turn ; that shall it not , in truth , la ! Nay , I care not for such words : no , no . And , my lord , he desires you , that if the king call for him at supper , you will make his excuse .
47695
47696 My Lord Pandarus ,
47697
47698 What says my sweet queen , my very sweet queen ?
47699
47700 What exploit's in hand ? where sups he to-night ?
47701
47702 Nay , but my lord ,
47703
47704 What says my sweet queen ! My cousin will fall out with you . You must know where he sups .
47705
47706 I'll lay my life , with my disposer Cressida .
47707
47708 No , no , no such matter ; you are wide . Come , your disposer is sick .
47709
47710 Well , I'll make excuse .
47711
47712 Ay , good my lord . Why should you say Cressida ? no , your poor disposer's sick .
47713
47714 I spy .
47715
47716 You spy ! what do you spy ? Come , give me an instrument . Now , sweet queen .
47717
47718 Why , this is kindly done .
47719
47720 My niece is horribly in love with a thing you have , sweet queen .
47721
47722 She shall have it , my lord , if it be not my Lord Paris .
47723
47724 He ! no , she'll none of him ; they two are twain .
47725
47726 Falling in , after falling out , may make them three .
47727
47728 Come , come , I'll hear no more of this .
47729 I'll sing you a song now .
47730
47731 Ay , ay , prithee now . By my troth , sweet lord , thou hast a fine forehead .
47732
47733 Ay , you may , you may .
47734
47735 Let thy song be love : this love will undo us all . O Cupid , Cupid , Cupid !
47736
47737 Love ! ay , that it shall , i' faith .
47738
47739 Ay , good now , love , love , nothing but love .
47740
47741 In good troth , it begins so :
47742
47743
47744 Love , love , nothing but love , still more !
47745 For , oh ! love's bow
47746 Shoots buck and doe :
47747 The shaft confounds ,
47748 Not that it wounds ,
47749 But tickles still the sore .
47750 These lovers cry O ! O ! they die !
47751 Yet that which seems the wound to kill ,
47752 Doth turn O ! O ! to ha ! ha ! he !
47753 So dying love lives still :
47754 O ! O ! a while , but ha ! ha ! ha !
47755 O ! O ! groans out for ha ! ha ! ha !
47756
47757 Heigh-ho !
47758
47759 In love , i' faith , to the very tip of the nose .
47760
47761 He eats nothing but doves , love ; and that breeds hot blood , and hot blood begets hot thoughts , and hot thoughts beget hot deeds , and hot deeds is love .
47762
47763 Is this the generation of love ? hot blood ? hot thoughts , and hot deeds ? Why , they are vipers : is love a generation of vipers ? Sweet lord , who's a-field to-day ?
47764
47765 Hector , Deiphobus , Helenus , Antenor , and all the gallantry of Troy : I would fain have armed to-day , but my Nell would not have it so . How chance my brother Troilus went not ?
47766
47767 He hangs the lip at something : you know all , Lord Pandarus .
47768
47769 Not I , honey-sweet queen . I long to hear how they sped to-day . You'll remember your brother's excuse ?
47770
47771 To a hair .
47772
47773 Farewell , sweet queen .
47774
47775 Commend me to your niece .
47776
47777 I will , sweet queen .
47778
47779
47780 They're come from field : let us to Priam's hall
47781 To greet the warriors . Sweet Helen , I must woo you
47782 To help unarm our Hector : his stubborn buckles ,
47783 With these your white enchanting fingers touch'd ,
47784 Shall more obey than to the edge of steel
47785 Or force of Greekish sinews ; you shall do more
47786 Than all the island kings ,disarm great Hector .
47787
47788 'Twill make us proud to be his servant , Paris ;
47789 Yea , what he shall receive of us in duty
47790 Gives us more palm in beauty than we have ,
47791 Yea , overshines ourself .
47792
47793 Sweet , above thought I love thee .
47794
47795
47796 How now ! where's thy master ? at my cousin Cressida's ?
47797
47798 No , sir ; he stays for you to conduct him thither .
47799
47800
47801 O ! here he comes . How now , how now !
47802
47803 Sirrah , walk off .
47804
47805
47806 Have you seen my cousin ?
47807
47808 No , Pandarus : I stalk about her door ,
47809 Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks
47810 Staying for waftage . O ! be thou my Charon ,
47811 And give me swift transportance to those fields
47812 Where I may wallow in the lily-beds
47813 Propos'd for the deserver ! O gentle Pandarus !
47814 From Cupid's shoulder pluck his painted wings ,
47815 And fly with me to Cressid .
47816
47817 Walk here i' the orchard . I'll bring her straight .
47818
47819
47820 I am giddy , expectation whirls me round .
47821 The imaginary relish is so sweet
47822 That it enchants my sense . What will it be
47823 When that the watery palate tastes indeed
47824 Love's thrice-repured nectar ? death , I fear me ,
47825 Swounding destruction , or some joy too fine ,
47826 Too subtle-potent , tun'd too sharp in sweetness
47827 For the capacity of my ruder powers :
47828 I fear it much ; and I do fear besides
47829 That I shall lose distinction in my joys ;
47830 As doth a battle , when they charge on heaps
47831 The enemy flying .
47832
47833
47834 She's making her ready : she'll come straight : you must be witty now . She does so blush , and fetches her wind so short , as if she were frayed with a sprite : I'll fetch her . It is the prettiest villain : she fetches her breath as short as a new-ta'en sparrow .
47835
47836
47837 Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom ;
47838 My heart beats thicker than a fev'rous pulse ;
47839 And all my powers do their bestowing lose ,
47840 Like vassalage at unawares encountering
47841 The eye of majesty .
47842
47843
47844 Come , come , what need you blush ? shame's a baby . Here she is now : swear the oaths now to her that you have sworn to me . What ! are you gone again ? you must be watched ere you be made tame , must you ? Come your ways , come your ways ; an you draw backward , we'll put you i' the fills . Why do you not speak to her ? Come , draw this curtain , and let's see your picture . Alas the day , how loath you are to offend day-light ! an 'twere dark , you'd close sooner . So , so ; rub on , and kiss the mistress . How now ! a kiss in fee-farm ! build there , carpenter ; the air is sweet . Nay , you shall fight your hearts out ere I part you . The falcon as the tercel , for all the ducks i' the river : go to , go to .
47845
47846 You have bereft me of all words , lady .
47847
47848 Words pay no debts , give her deeds ; but she'll bereave you of the deeds too if she call your activity in question . What ! billing again ? Here's 'In witness whereof the parties interchangeably' Come in , come in : I'll go get a fire .
47849
47850
47851 Will you walk in , my lord ?
47852
47853 O Cressida ! how often have I wished me thus !
47854
47855 Wished , my lord ! The gods grant ,O my lord !
47856
47857 What should they grant ? what makes this pretty abruption ? What too curious dreg espies my sweet lady in the fountain of our love ?
47858
47859 More dregs than water , if my fears have eyes .
47860
47861 Fears make devils of cherubins ; they never see truly .
47862
47863 Blind fear , that seeing reason leads , finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear : to fear the worst oft cures the worse .
47864
47865 O ! let my lady apprehend no fear : in all Cupid's pageant there is presented no monster .
47866
47867 Nor nothing monstrous neither ?
47868
47869 Nothing but our undertakings ; when we vow to weep seas , live in fire , eat rocks , tame tigers ; thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition enough than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed . This is the monstruosity in love , lady , that the will is infinite , and the execution confined ; that the desire is boundless , and the act a slave to limit .
47870
47871 They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able , and yet reserve an ability that they never perform ; vowing more than the perfection of ten and discharging less than the tenth part of one . They that have the voice of lions and the act of hares , are they not monsters ?
47872
47873 Are there such ? such are not we . Praise us as we are tasted , allow us as we prove ; our head shall go bare , till merit crown it . No perfection in reversion shall have a praise in present : we will not name desert before his birth , and , being born , his addition shall be humble . Few words to fair faith : Troilus shall be such to Cressid , as what envy can say worst shall be a mock for his truth ; and what truth can speak truest not truer than Troilus .
47874
47875 Will you walk in , my lord ?
47876
47877
47878 What ! blushing still ? have you not done talking yet ?
47879
47880 Well , uncle , what folly I commit , I dedicate to you .
47881
47882 I thank you for that : if my lord get a boy of you , you'll give him me . Be true to my lord ; if he flinch , chide me for it .
47883
47884 You know now your hostages ; your uncle's word , and my firm faith .
47885
47886 Nay , I'll give my word for her too . Our kindred , though they be long ere they are wooed , they are constant being won : they are burrs , I can tell you ; they'll stick where they are thrown .
47887
47888 Boldness comes to me now , and brings me heart :
47889 Prince Troilus , I have lov'd you night and day
47890 For many weary months .
47891
47892 Why was my Cressid then so hard to win ?
47893
47894 Hard to seem won ; but I was won , my lord ,
47895 With the first glance that ever pardon me
47896 If I confess much you will play the tyrant .
47897 I love you now ; but , till now , not so much
47898 But I might master it : in faith , I lie ;
47899 My thoughts were like unbridled children , grown
47900 Too headstrong for their mother . See , we fools !
47901 Why have I blabb'd ? who shall be true to us
47902 When we are so unsecret to ourselves ?
47903 But , though I lov'd you well , I woo'd you not ;
47904 And yet , good faith , I wish'd myself a man ,
47905 Or that we women had men's privilege
47906 Of speaking first . Sweet , bid me hold my tongue ;
47907 For in this rapture I shall surely speak
47908 The thing I shall repent . See , see ! your silence ,
47909 Cunning in dumbness , from my weakness draws
47910 My very soul of counsel . Stop my mouth .
47911
47912 And shall , albeit sweet music issues thence .
47913
47914 Pretty , i' faith .
47915
47916 My lord , I do beseech you , pardon me ;
47917 'Twas not my purpose thus to beg a kiss :
47918 I am asham'd : O heavens ! what have I done ?
47919 For this time will I take my leave , my lord .
47920
47921 Your leave , sweet Cressid ?
47922
47923 Leave ! an you take leave till to-morrow morning ,
47924
47925 Pray you , content you .
47926
47927 What offends you , lady ?
47928
47929 Sir , mine own company .
47930
47931 You cannot shun yourself .
47932
47933 Let me go and try :
47934 I have a kind of self resides with you ;
47935 But an unkind self , that itself will leave ,
47936 To be another's fool . I would be gone :
47937 Where is my wit ? I speak I know not what .
47938
47939 Well know they what they speak that speak so wisely .
47940
47941 Perchance , my lord , I show more craft than love ;
47942 And fell so roundly to a large confession ,
47943 To angle for your thoughts : but you are wise ,
47944 Or else you love not , for to be wise , and love ,
47945 Exceeds man's might ; that dwells with gods above .
47946
47947 O ! that I thought it could be in a woman
47948 As if it can I will presume in you
47949 To feed for aye her lamp and flames of love ;
47950 To keep her constancy in plight and youth ,
47951 Outliving beauty's outward , with a mind
47952 That doth renew swifter than blood decays :
47953 Or that persuasion could but thus convince me ,
47954 That my integrity and truth to you
47955 Might be affronted with the match and weight
47956 Of such a winnow'd purity in love ;
47957 How were I then uplifted ! but , alas !
47958 I am as true as truth's simplicity ,
47959 And simpler than the infancy of truth .
47960
47961 In that I'll war with you .
47962
47963 O virtuous fight !
47964 When right with right wars who shall be most right .
47965 True swains in love shall in the world to come
47966 Approve their truths by Troilus : when their rimes ,
47967 Full of protest , of oath , and big compare ,
47968 Want similes , truth tir'd with iteration ,
47969 As true as steel , as plantage to the moon ,
47970 As sun to day , as turtle to her mate ,
47971 As iron to adamant , as earth to the centre ,
47972 Yet , after all comparisons of truth ,
47973 As truth's authentic author to be cited ,
47974 'As true as Troilus' shall crown up the verse
47975 And sanctify the numbers .
47976
47977 Prophet may you be !
47978 If I be false , or swerve a hair from truth ,
47979 When time is old and hath forgot itself ,
47980 When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy ,
47981 And blind oblivion swallow'd cities up ,
47982 And mighty states characterless are grated
47983 To dusty nothing , yet let memory ,
47984 From false to false , among false maids in love
47985 Upbraid my falsehood ! when they have said 'as false
47986 As air , as water , wind , or sandy earth ,
47987 As fox to lamb , as wolf to heifer's calf ,
47988 Pard to the hind , or stepdame to her son ;'
47989 Yea , let them say , to stick the heart of falsehood ,
47990 'As false as Cressid .'
47991
47992 Go to , a bargain made ; seal it , seal it : I'll be the witness . Here I hold your hand , here my cousin's . If ever you prove false one to another , since I have taken such pains to bring you together , let all pitiful goers-between be called to the world's end after my name ; call them all Pandars ; let all constant men be Troiluses , all false women Cressids , and all brokers-between Pandars ! say , Amen .
47993
47994 Amen .
47995
47996 Amen .
47997
47998 Amen . Whereupon I will show you a chamber and a bed ; which bed , because it shall not speak of your pretty encounters , press it to death : away !
47999 And Cupid grant all tongue-tied maidens here
48000 Bed , chamber , Pandar to provide this gear !
48001
48002
48003 Now , princes , for the service I have done you ,
48004 The advantage of the time prompts me aloud
48005 To call for recompense . Appear it to your mind
48006 That through the sight I bear in things to come ,
48007 I have abandon'd Troy , left my possession ,
48008 Incurr'd a traitor's name ; expos'd myself ,
48009 From certain and possess'd conveniences ,
48010 To doubtful fortunes ; sequestering from me all
48011 That time , acquaintance , custom , and condition
48012 Made tame and most familiar to my nature ;
48013 And here , to do you service , have become
48014 As new into the world , strange , unacquainted :
48015 I do beseech you , as in way of taste ,
48016 To give me now a little benefit ,
48017 Out of those many register'd in promise ,
48018 Which , you say , live to come in my behalf .
48019
48020 What wouldst thou of us , Trojan ? make demand .
48021
48022 You have a Trojan prisoner , call'd Antenor ,
48023 Yesterday took : Troy holds him very dear .
48024 Oft have you often have you thanks therefore
48025 Desir'd my Cressid in right great exchange ,
48026 Whom Troy hath still denied ; but this Antenor
48027 I know is such a wrest in their affairs
48028 That their negociations all must slack ,
48029 Wanting his manage ; and they will almost
48030 Give us a prince of blood , a son of Priam ,
48031 In change of him : let him be sent , great princes ,
48032 And he shall buy my daughter ; and her presence
48033 Shall quite strike off all service I have done ,
48034 In most accepted pain .
48035
48036 Let Diomedes bear him ,
48037 And bring us Cressid hither : Calchas shall have
48038 What he requests of us . Good Diomed ,
48039 Furnish you fairly for this interchange :
48040 Withal bring word if Hector will to-morrow
48041 Be answer'd in his challenge : Ajax is ready .
48042
48043 This shall I undertake ; and 'tis a burden
48044 Which I am proud to bear .
48045
48046 Achilles stands in the entrance of his tent :
48047 Please it our general to pass strangely by him ,
48048 As if he were forgot ; and , princes all ,
48049 Lay negligent and loose regard upon him :
48050 I will come last . 'Tis like he'll question me
48051 Why such unplausive eyes are bent on him :
48052 If so , I have derision med'cinable
48053 To use between your strangeness and his pride ,
48054 Which his own will shall have desire to drink .
48055 It may do good : pride hath no other glass
48056 To show itself but pride , for supple knees
48057 Feed arrogance and are the poor man's fees .
48058
48059 We'll execute your purpose , and put on
48060 A form of strangeness as we pass along :
48061 So do each lord , and either greet him not ,
48062 Or else disdainfully , which shall shake him more
48063 Than if not look'd on . I will lead the way .
48064
48065 What ! comes the general to speak with me ?
48066 You know my mind ; I'll fight no more 'gainst Troy .
48067
48068 What says Achilles ? would he aught with us ?
48069
48070 Would you , my lord , aught with the general ?
48071
48072 No .
48073
48074 Nothing , my lord .
48075
48076 The better .
48077
48078
48079 Good day , good day .
48080
48081 How do you ? how do you ?
48082
48083
48084 What ! does the cuckold scorn me ?
48085
48086 How now , Patroclus ?
48087
48088 Good morrow , Ajax .
48089
48090 Ha ?
48091
48092 Good morrow .
48093
48094 Ay , and good next day too .
48095
48096
48097 What mean these fellows ? Know they not Achilles ?
48098
48099 They pass by strangely : they were us'd to bend ,
48100 To send their smiles before them to Achilles ;
48101 To come as humbly as they us'd to creep
48102 To holy altars .
48103
48104 What ! am I poor of late ?
48105 'Tis certain , greatness , once fall'n out with fortune ,
48106 Must fall out with men too : what the declin'd is
48107 He shall as soon read in the eyes of others
48108 As feel in his own fall ; for men , like butterflies ,
48109 Show not their mealy wings but to the summer ,
48110 And not a man , for being simply man ,
48111 Hath any honour , but honour for those honours
48112 That are without him , as places , riches , and favour ,
48113 Prizes of accident as oft as merit :
48114 Which when they fall , as being slippery standers ,
48115 The love that lean'd on them as slippery too ,
48116 Do one pluck down another , and together
48117 Die in the fall . But 'tis not so with me :
48118 Fortune and I are friends : I do enjoy
48119 At ample point all that I did possess ,
48120 Save these men's looks ; who do , methinks , find out
48121 Something not worth in me such rich beholding
48122 As they have often given . Here is Ulysses :
48123 I'll interrupt his reading .
48124 How now , Ulysses !
48125
48126 Now , great Thetis' son !
48127
48128 What are you reading ?
48129
48130 A strange fellow here
48131 Writes me ,
48132 That man , how dearly ever parted ,
48133 How much in having , or without or in ,
48134 Cannot make boast to have that which he hath ,
48135 Nor feels not what he owes but by reflection ;
48136 As when his virtues shining upon others
48137 Heat them , and they retort that heat again
48138 To the first giver .
48139
48140 This is not strange , Ulysses !
48141 The beauty that is borne here in the face
48142 The bearer knows not , but commends itself
48143 To others' eyes : nor doth the eye itself
48144 That most pure spirit of sense behold itself ,
48145 Not going from itself ; but eye to eye oppos'd
48146 Salutes each other with each other's form ;
48147 For speculation turns not to itself
48148 Till it hath travell'd and is mirror'd there
48149 Where it may see itself . This is not strange at all .
48150
48151 I do not strain at the position ,
48152 It is familiar , but at the author s drift ;
48153 Who in his circumstance expressly proves
48154 That no man is the lord of any thing
48155 Though in and of him there be much consisting
48156 Till he communicate his parts to others :
48157 Nor doth he of himself know them for aught
48158 Till he behold them form'd in the applause
48159 Where they're extended ; who , like an arch , reverberates
48160 The voice again , or , like a gate of steel
48161 Fronting the sun , receives and renders back
48162 His figure and his heat . I was much rapt in this ;
48163 And apprehended here immediately
48164 The unknown Ajax .
48165 Heavens , what a man is there ! a very horse ,
48166 That has he knows not what . Nature , what things there are ,
48167 Most abject in regard , and dear in use !
48168 What things again most dear in the esteem
48169 And poor in worth ! Now shall we see to-morrow ,
48170 An act that very chance doth throw upon him ,
48171 Ajax renown'd . O heavens ! what some men do ;
48172 While some men leave to do .
48173 How some men creep in skittish Fortune's hall ,
48174 Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes !
48175 How one man eats into another's pride ,
48176 While pride is fasting in his wantonness !
48177 To see these Grecian lords ! why , even already
48178 They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder ,
48179 As if his foot were on brave Hector's breast ,
48180 And great Troy shrinking .
48181
48182 I do believe it ; for they pass'd by me
48183 As misers do by beggars , neither gave to me
48184 Good word or look : what ! are my deeds forgot ?
48185
48186 Time hath , my lord , a wallet at his back ,
48187 Wherein he puts alms for oblivion ,
48188 A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes :
48189 Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd
48190 As fast as they are made , forgot as soon
48191 As done : perseverance , dear my lord ,
48192 Keeps honour bright : to have done , is to hang
48193 Quite out of fashion , like a rusty mail
48194 In monumental mockery . Take the instant way ;
48195 For honour travels in a strait so narrow
48196 Where one but goes abreast : keep , then , the path ;
48197 For emulation hath a thousand sons
48198 That one by one pursue : if you give way ,
48199 Or hedge aside from the direct forthright ,
48200 Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by
48201 And leave you hindmost ;
48202 Or , like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank ,
48203 Lie there for pavement to the abject rear ,
48204 O'errun and trampled on : then what they do in present ,
48205 Though less than yours in past , must o'ertop yours ;
48206 For time is like a fashionable host ,
48207 That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand ,
48208 And with his arms outstretch'd , as he would fly ,
48209 Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles ,
48210 And farewell goes out sighing . O ! let not virtue seek
48211 Remuneration for the thing it was ;
48212 For beauty , wit ,
48213 High birth , vigour of bone , desert in service ,
48214 Love , friendship , charity , are subjects all
48215 To envious and calumniating time .
48216 One touch of nature makes the whole world kin ,
48217 That all with one consent praise new-born gawds ,
48218 Though they are made and moulded of things past ,
48219 And give to dust that is a little gilt
48220 More laud than gilt o'er-dusted .
48221 The present eye praises the present object :
48222 Then marvel not , thou great and complete man ,
48223 That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax ;
48224 Since things in motion sooner catch the eye
48225 Than what not stirs . The cry went once on thee ,
48226 And still it might , and yet it may again ,
48227 If thou wouldst not entomb thyself alive ,
48228 And case thy reputation in thy tent ;
48229 Whose glorious deeds , but in these fields of late ,
48230 Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves ,
48231 And drave great Mars to faction .
48232
48233 Of this my privacy
48234 I have strong reasons .
48235
48236 But 'gainst your privacy
48237 The reasons are more potent and heroical .
48238 'Tis known , Achilles , that you are in love
48239 With one of Priam's daughters .
48240
48241 Ha ! known !
48242
48243 Is that a wonder ?
48244 The providence that's in a watchful state
48245 Knows almost every grain of Plutus' gold ,
48246 Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps ,
48247 Keeps place with thought , and almost , like the gods ,
48248 Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles .
48249 There is a mystery with whom relation
48250 Durst never meddle in the soul of state ,
48251 Which hath an operation more divine
48252 Than breath or pen can give expressure to .
48253 All the commerce that you have had with Troy
48254 As perfectly is ours as yours , my lord ;
48255 And better would it fit Achilles much
48256 To throw down Hector than Polyxena ;
48257 But it must grieve young Pyrrhus now at home ,
48258 When fame shall in our islands sound her trump ,
48259 And all the Greekish girls shall tripping sing ,
48260 'Great Hector's sister did Achilles win ,
48261 But our great Ajax bravely beat down him .'
48262 Farewell , my lord : I as your lover speak ;
48263 The fool slides o'er the ice that you should break .
48264
48265
48266 To this effect , Achilles , have I mov'd you .
48267 A woman impudent and mannish grown
48268 Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man
48269 In time of action . I stand condemn'd for this :
48270 They think my little stomach to the war
48271 And your great love to me restrains you thus .
48272 Sweet , rouse yourself ; and the weak wanton Cupid
48273 Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold ,
48274 And , like a dew-drop from the lion's mane ,
48275 Be shook to air .
48276
48277 Shall Ajax fight with Hector ?
48278
48279 Ay ; and perhaps receive much honour by him .
48280
48281 I see my reputation is at stake ;
48282 My fame is shrewdly gor'd .
48283
48284 O ! then , beware ;
48285 Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves :
48286 Omission to do what is necessary
48287 Seals a commission to a blank of danger ;
48288 And danger , like an ague , subtly taints
48289 Even then when we sit idly in the sun .
48290
48291 Go call Thersites hither , sweet Patroclus :
48292 I'll send the fool to Ajax and desire him
48293 T' invite the Trojan lords after the combat
48294 To see us here unarmed . I have a woman's longing ,
48295 An appetite that I am sick withal ,
48296 To see great Hector in his weeds of peace ;
48297 To talk with him and to behold his visage ,
48298 Even to my full of view . A labour sav'd !
48299
48300
48301 A wonder !
48302
48303 What ?
48304
48305 Ajax goes up and down the field , asking for himself .
48306
48307 How so ?
48308
48309 He must fight singly to-morrow with Hector , and is so prophetically proud of an heroical cudgelling that he raves in saying nothing .
48310
48311 How can that be ?
48312
48313 Why , he stalks up and down like a peacock , a stride and a stand ; ruminates like a hostess that hath no arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning ; bites his lip with a politic regard , as who should say 'There were wit in this head , an 'twould out ;' and so there is , but it lies as coldly in him as fire in a flint , which will not show without knocking . The man's undone for ever ; for if Hector break not his neck i' the combat , he'll break't himself in vainglory . He knows not me : I said , 'Good morrow , Ajax ;' and he replies , 'Thanks , Agamemnon .' What think you of this man that takes me for the general ? He's grown a very land-fish , languageless , a monster . A plague of opinion ! a man may wear it on both sides , like a leather jerkin .
48314
48315 Thou must be my ambassador to him , Thersites .
48316
48317 Who , I ? why , he'll answer nobody ; he professes not answering ; speaking is for beggars ; he wears his tongue in his arms . I will put on his presence : let Patroclus make demands to me , you shall see the pageant of Ajax .
48318
48319 To him , Patroclus : tell him , I humbly desire the valiant Ajax to invite the most valorous Hector to come unarmed to my tent ; and to procure safe-conduct for his person of the magnanimous and most illustrious , six-or-seven-times-honoured captain-general of the Grecian army , Agamemnon , et c tera . Do this .
48320
48321 Jove bless great Ajax !
48322
48323 Hum !
48324
48325 I come from the worthy Achilles ,
48326
48327 Ha !
48328
48329 Who most humbly desires you to invite Hector to his tent ,
48330
48331 Hum !
48332
48333 And to procure safe-conduct from Agamemnon .
48334
48335 Agamemnon !
48336
48337 Ay , my lord .
48338
48339 Ha !
48340
48341 What say you to't ?
48342
48343 God be wi' you , with all my heart .
48344
48345 Your answer , sir .
48346
48347 If to-morrow be a fair day , by eleven o'clock it will go one way or other ; howsoever , he shall pay for me ere he has me .
48348
48349 Your answer , sir .
48350
48351 Fare you well , with all my heart .
48352
48353 Why , but he is not in this tune , is he ?
48354
48355 No , but he's out o' tune thus . What music will be in him when Hector has knocked out his brains , I know not ; but , I am sure , none , unless the fiddler Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on .
48356
48357 Come , thou shalt bear a letter to him straight .
48358
48359 Let me bear another to his horse , for that's the more capable creature .
48360
48361 My mind is troubled , like a fountain stirr'd ;
48362 And I myself see not the bottom of it .
48363
48364
48365 Would the fountain of your mind were clear again , that I might water an ass at it ! I had rather be a tick in a sheep than such a valiant ignorance .
48366
48367 See , ho ! who is that there ?
48368
48369 It is the Lord neas .
48370
48371 Is the prince there in person ?
48372 Had I so good occasion to lie long
48373 As you , Prince Paris , nothing but heavenly business
48374 Should rob my bed-mate of my company .
48375
48376 That's my mind too . Good morrow , Lord neas .
48377
48378 A valiant Greek , neas ; take his hand :
48379 Witness the process of your speech , wherein
48380 You told how Diomed , a whole week by days ,
48381 Did haunt you in the field .
48382
48383 Health to you , valiant sir ,
48384 During all question of the gentle truce ;
48385 But when I meet you arm'd , as black defiance
48386 As heart can think or courage execute .
48387
48388 The one and other Diomed embraces .
48389 Our bloods are now in calm , and , so long , health !
48390 But when contention and occasion meet ,
48391 By Jove , I'll play the hunter for thy life
48392 With all my force , pursuit , and policy .
48393
48394 And thou shalt hunt a lion , that will fly
48395 With his face backward . In humane gentleness ,
48396 Welcome to Troy ! now , by Anchises' life ,
48397 Welcome , indeed ! By Venus' hand I swear ,
48398 No man alive can love in such a sort
48399 The thing he means to kill more excellently .
48400
48401 We sympathize . Jove , let neas live ,
48402 If to my sword his fate be not the glory ,
48403 A thousand complete courses of the sun !
48404 But , in mine emulous honour , let him die ,
48405 With every joint a wound , and that to-morrow !
48406
48407 We know each other well .
48408
48409 We do ; and long to know each other worse .
48410
48411 This is the most despiteful gentle greeting ,
48412 The noblest hateful love , that e'er I heard of .
48413 What business , lord , so early ?
48414
48415 I was sent for to the king ; but why , I know not .
48416
48417 His purpose meets you : 'twas to bring this Greek
48418 To Calchas' house , and there to render him ,
48419 For the enfreed Antenor , the fair Cressid .
48420 Let's have your company ; or , if you please ,
48421 Haste there before us . I constantly do think
48422 Or rather , call my thought a certain knowledge
48423 My brother Troilus lodges there to-night :
48424 Rouse him and give him note of our approach ,
48425 With the whole quality wherefore : I fear
48426 We shall be much unwelcome .
48427
48428 That I assure you :
48429 Troilus had rather Troy were borne to Greece
48430 Than Cressid borne from Troy .
48431
48432 There is no help ;
48433 The bitter disposition of the time
48434 Will have it so . On , lord ; we'll follow you .
48435
48436 Good morrow , all .
48437
48438
48439 And tell me , noble Diomed ; faith , tell me true ,
48440 Even in the soul of sound good-fellowship ,
48441 Who , in your thoughts , merits fair Helen best
48442 Myself or Menelaus ?
48443
48444 Both alike :
48445 He merits well to have her that doth seek her
48446 Not making any scruple of her soilure
48447 With such a hell of pain and world of charge ,
48448 And you as well to keep her that defend her
48449 Not palating the taste of her dishonour
48450 With such a costly loss of wealth and friends :
48451 He , like a puling cuckold , would drink up
48452 The lees and dregs of a flat tamed piece ;
48453 You , like a lecher , out of whorish loins
48454 Are pleas'd to breed out your inheritors :
48455 Both merits pois'd , each weighs nor less nor more ;
48456 But he as he , the heavier for a whore .
48457
48458 You are too bitter to your country-woman .
48459
48460 She's bitter to her country . Hear me , Paris :
48461 For every false drop in her bawdy veins
48462 A Grecian's life hath sunk ; for every scruple
48463 Of her contaminated carrion weight
48464 A Trojan hath been slain . Since she could speak ,
48465 She hath not given so many good words breath
48466 As for her Greeks and Trojans suffer'd death .
48467
48468 Fair Diomed , you do as chapmen do ,
48469 Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy ;
48470 But we in silence hold this virtue well ,
48471 We'll not commend what we intend to sell .
48472 Here lies our way .
48473
48474
48475 Dear , trouble not yourself : the morn is cold .
48476
48477 Then , sweet my lord , I'll call mine uncle down :
48478 He shall unbolt the gates .
48479
48480 Trouble him not ;
48481 To bed , to bed : sleep kill those pretty eyes ,
48482 And give as soft attachment to thy senses
48483 As infants' empty of all thought !
48484
48485 Good morrow then .
48486
48487 I prithee now , to bed .
48488
48489 Are you aweary of me ?
48490
48491 O Cressida ! but that the busy day ,
48492 Wak'd by the lark , hath rous'd the ribald crows ,
48493 And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer ,
48494 I would not from thee .
48495
48496 Night hath been too brief .
48497
48498 Beshrew the witch ! with venomous wights she stays
48499 As tediously as hell , but flies the grasps of love
48500 With wings more momentary-swift than thought .
48501 You will catch cold , and curse me .
48502
48503 Prithee , tarry :
48504 You men will never tarry .
48505 O foolish Cressid ! I might have still held off ,
48506 And then you would have tarried . Hark ! there's one up .
48507
48508 What ! are all the doors open here ?
48509
48510 It is your uncle .
48511
48512 A pestilence on him ! now will he be mocking : I shall have such a life !
48513
48514
48515 How now , how now ! how go maiden-heads ?
48516 Here , you maid ! where's my cousin Cressid ?
48517
48518 Go hang yourself , you naughty mocking uncle !
48519 You bring me to do and then you flout me too .
48520
48521 To do what ? to do what ? let her say what : what have I brought you to do ?
48522
48523 Come , come ; beshrew your heart ! you'll ne'er be good ,
48524 Nor suffer others .
48525
48526 Ha , ha ! Alas , poor wretch ! a poor capocchia ! hast not slept to-night ? would he not , a naughty man , let it sleep ? a bugbear take him !
48527
48528 Did not I tell you ? 'would he were knock'd o' the head !
48529
48530 Who's that at door ? good uncle , go and see .
48531 My lord , come you again into my chamber :
48532 You smile , and mock me , as if I meant naughtily .
48533
48534 Ha , ha !
48535
48536 Come , you are deceiv'd , I think of no such thing .
48537
48538 How earnestly they knock ! Pray you , come in :
48539 I would not for half Troy have you seen here .
48540
48541
48542 Who's there ? what's the matter ? will you beat down the door ? How now ! what's the matter ?
48543
48544
48545 Good morrow , lord , good morrow .
48546
48547 Who's there ? my Lord neas ! By my troth ,
48548 I knew you not : what news with you so early ?
48549
48550 Is not Prince Troilus here ?
48551
48552 Here ! what should he do here ?
48553
48554 Come , he is here , my lord : do not deny him : it doth import him much to speak with me .
48555
48556 Is he here , say you ? 'tis more than I know , I'll be sworn : for my own part , I came in late . What should he do here ?
48557
48558 Who ! nay , then : come , come , you'll do him wrong ere you're 'ware . You'll be so true to him , to be false to him . Do not you know of him , but yet go fetch him hither ; go .
48559
48560
48561 How now ! what's the matter ?
48562
48563 My lord , I scarce have leisure to salute you ,
48564 My matter is so rash : there is at hand
48565 Paris your brother , and Deiphobus ,
48566 The Grecian Diomed , and our Antenor
48567 Deliver'd to us ; and for him forthwith ,
48568 Ere the first sacrifice , within this hour ,
48569 We must give up to Diomedes' hand
48570 The Lady Cressida .
48571
48572 Is it so concluded ?
48573
48574 By Priam , and the general state of Troy :
48575 They are at hand and ready to effect it .
48576
48577 How my achievements mock me !
48578 I will go meet them : and , my Lord neas ,
48579 We met by chance ; you did not find me here .
48580
48581 Good , good , my lord ; the secrets of nature
48582 Have not more gift in taciturnity .
48583
48584
48585 Is't possible ? no sooner got but lost ?
48586 The devil take Antenor ! the young prince will go mad : a plague upon Antenor ! I would they had broke's neck !
48587
48588
48589 How now ! What is the matter ? Who was here ?
48590
48591 Ah ! ah !
48592
48593 Why sigh you so profoundly ? where's my lord ? gone ! Tell me , sweet uncle , what's the matter ?
48594
48595 Would I were as deep under the earth as I am above !
48596
48597 O the gods ! what's the matter ?
48598
48599 Prithee , get thee in . Would thou hadst ne'er been born ! I knew thou wouldst be his death . O poor gentleman ! A plague upon Antenor !
48600
48601 Good uncle , I beseech you , on my knees I beseech you , what's the matter ?
48602
48603 Thou must be gone , wench , thou must be gone ; thou art changed for Antenor . Thou must to thy father , and be gone from Troilus : 'twill be his death ; 'twill be his bane ; he cannot bear it .
48604
48605 O you immortal gods ! I will not go .
48606
48607 Thou must .
48608
48609 I will not , uncle : I have forgot my father ;
48610 I know no touch of consanguinity ;
48611 No kin , no love , no blood , no soul so near me
48612 As the sweet Troilus . O you gods divine !
48613 Make Cressid's name the very crown of falsehood
48614 If ever she leave Troilus ! Time , force , and death ,
48615 Do to this body what extremes you can ;
48616 But the strong base and building of my love
48617 Is as the very centre of the earth ,
48618 Drawing all things to it . I'll go in and weep ,
48619
48620 Do , do .
48621
48622 Tear my bright hair , and scratch my praised cheeks ,
48623 Crack my clear voice with sobs , and break my heart
48624 With sounding Troilus . I will not go from Troy .
48625
48626
48627 It is great morning , and the hour prefix'd
48628 Of her delivery to this valiant Greek
48629 Comes fast upon . Good my brother Troilus ,
48630 Tell you the lady what she is to do ,
48631 And haste her to the purpose .
48632
48633 Walk into her house ;
48634 I'll bring her to the Grecian presently :
48635 And to his hand when I deliver her ,
48636 Think it an altar , and thy brother Troilus
48637 A priest , there offering to it his own heart .
48638
48639
48640 I know what 'tis to love ;
48641 And would , as I shall pity , I could help !
48642 Please you walk in , my lords .
48643
48644
48645 Be moderate , be moderate .
48646
48647 Why tell you me of moderation ?
48648 The grief is fine , full , perfect , that I taste ,
48649 And violenteth in a sense as strong
48650 As that which causeth it : how can I moderate it ?
48651 If I could temporize with my affection ,
48652 Or brew it to a weak and colder palate ,
48653 The like allayment could I give my grief :
48654 My love admits no qualifying dross ;
48655 No more my grief , in such a precious loss .
48656
48657
48658 Here , here , here he comes . Ah ! sweet ducks .
48659
48660 O Troilus ! Troilus !
48661
48662 What a pair of spectacles is here ! Let me embrace too . 'O heart ,' as the goodly saying is ,
48663
48664 O heart , heavy heart ,
48665 Why sigh'st thou without breaking ?
48666
48667 when he answers again ,
48668
48669 Because thou canst not ease thy smart
48670 By friendship nor by speaking .
48671
48672 There was never a truer rime . Let us cast away nothing , for we may live to have need of such a verse : we see it , we see it . How now , lambs !
48673
48674 Cressid , I love thee in so strain'd a purity ,
48675 That the bless'd gods , as angry with my fancy ,
48676 More bright in zeal than the devotion which
48677 Cold lips blow to their deities , take thee from me .
48678
48679 Have the gods envy ?
48680
48681 Ay , ay , ay , ay ; 'tis too plain a case .
48682
48683 And is it true that I must go from Troy ?
48684
48685 A hateful truth .
48686
48687 What ! and from Troilus too ?
48688
48689 From Troy and Troilus .
48690
48691 Is it possible ?
48692
48693 And suddenly ; where injury of chance
48694 Puts back leave-taking , justles roughly by
48695 All time of pause , rudely beguiles our lips
48696 Of all rejoindure , forcibly prevents
48697 Our lock'd embrasures , strangles our dear vows
48698 Even in the birth of our own labouring breath .
48699 We two , that with so many thousand sighs
48700 Did buy each other , must poorly sell ourselves
48701 With the rude brevity and discharge of one .
48702 Injurious time now with a robber's haste
48703 Crams his rich thievery up , he knows not how :
48704 As many farewells as be stars in heaven ,
48705 With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them ,
48706 He fumbles up into a loose adieu ,
48707 And scants us with a single famish'd kiss ,
48708 Distasted with the salt of broken tears .
48709
48710 My lord , is the lady ready ?
48711
48712 Hark ! you are call'd : some say the Genius so
48713 Cries 'Come !' to him that instantly must die .
48714 Bid them have patience ; she shall come anon .
48715
48716 Where are my tears ? rain , to lay this wind , or my heart will be blown up by the root !
48717
48718
48719 I must then to the Grecians ?
48720
48721 No remedy .
48722
48723 A woeful Cressid 'mongst the merry Greeks !
48724 When shall we see again ?
48725
48726 Hear me , my love . Be thou but true of heart ,
48727
48728 I true ! how now ! what wicked deem is this ?
48729
48730 Nay , we must use expostulation kindly ,
48731 For it is parting from us :
48732 I speak not 'be thou true ,' as fearing thee ,
48733 For I will throw my glove to Death himself ,
48734 That there's no maculation in thy heart ;
48735 But , 'be thou true ,' say I , to fashion in
48736 My sequent protestation ; be thou true ,
48737 And I will see thee .
48738
48739 O ! you shall be expos'd , my lord , to dangers
48740 As infinite as imminent ; but I'll be true .
48741
48742 And I'll grow friend with danger . Wear this sleeve .
48743
48744 And you this glove . When shall I see you ?
48745
48746 I will corrupt the Grecian sentinels ,
48747 To give thee nightly visitation .
48748 But yet , be true .
48749
48750 O heavens ! 'be true' again !
48751
48752 Hear why I speak it , love :
48753 The Grecian youths are full of quality ;
48754 They're loving , well compos'd , with gifts of nature ,
48755 Flowing and swelling o'er with arts and exercise :
48756 How novelty may move , and parts with person ,
48757 Alas ! a kind of godly jealousy ,
48758 Which , I beseech you , call a virtuous sin ,
48759 Makes me afear'd .
48760
48761 O heavens ! you love me not .
48762
48763 Die I a villain , then !
48764 In this I do not call your faith in question
48765 So mainly as my merit : I cannot sing ,
48766 Nor heel the high lavolt , nor sweeten talk ,
48767 Nor play at subtle games ; fair virtues all ,
48768 To which the Grecians are most prompt and pregnant :
48769 But I can tell that in each grace of these
48770 There lurks a still and dumb-discoursive devil
48771 That tempts most cunningly . But be not tempted .
48772
48773 Do you think I will ?
48774
48775 No .
48776 But something may be done that we will not :
48777 And sometimes we are devils to ourselves
48778 When we will tempt the frailty of our powers ,
48779 Presuming on their changeful potency .
48780
48781 Nay , good my lord ,
48782
48783 Come , kiss ; and let us part .
48784
48785 Brother Troilus !
48786
48787 Good brother , come you hither ;
48788 And bring neas and the Grecian with you .
48789
48790 My lord , will you be true ?
48791
48792 Who , I ? alas , it is my vice , my fault :
48793 While others fish with craft for great opinion ,
48794 I with great truth catch mere simplicity ;
48795 Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns ,
48796 With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare .
48797 Fear not my truth ; the moral of my wit
48798 Is plain , and true ; there's all the reach of it .
48799
48800
48801 Welcome , Sir Diomed ! Here is the lady
48802 Which for Antenor we deliver you :
48803 At the port , lord , I'll give her to thy hand ,
48804 And by the way possess thee what she is .
48805 Entreat her fair ; and , by my soul , fair Greek ,
48806 If e'er thou stand at mercy of my sword ,
48807 Name Cressid , and thy life shall be as safe
48808
48809 As Priam is in Ilion .
48810
48811 Fair Lady Cressid ,
48812 So please you , save the thanks this prince expects :
48813 The lustre in your eye , heaven in your cheek ,
48814 Pleads your fair usage ; and to Diomed
48815 You shall be mistress , and command him wholly .
48816
48817 Grecian , thou dost not use me courteously ,
48818 To shame the zeal of my petition to thee
48819 In praising her : I tell thee , lord of Greece ,
48820 She is as far high-soaring o'er thy praises
48821 As thou unworthy to be call'd her servant .
48822 I charge thee use her well , even for my charge ;
48823 For , by the dreadful Pluto , if thou dost not ,
48824 Though the great bulk Achilles be thy guard ,
48825 I'll cut thy throat .
48826
48827 O ! be not mov'd , Prince Troilus :
48828 Let me be privileg'd by my place and message
48829 To be a speaker free ; when I am hence ,
48830 I'll answer to my lust ; and know you , lord ,
48831 I'll nothing do on charge : to her own worth
48832 She shall be priz'd ; but that you say 'be't so ,'
48833 I'll speak it in my spirit and honour , 'no .'
48834
48835 Come , to the port . I'll tell thee , Diomed ,
48836 This brave shall oft make thee to hide thy head .
48837 Lady , give me your hand , and , as you walk ,
48838 To our own selves bend we our needful talk .
48839
48840
48841 Hark ! Hector's trumpet .
48842
48843 How have we spent this morning !
48844 The prince must think me tardy and remiss ,
48845 That swore to ride before him to the field .
48846
48847 'Tis Troilus' fault . Come , come , to field with him .
48848
48849 Let us make ready straight .
48850
48851 Yea , with a bridegroom's fresh alacrity ,
48852 Let us address to tend on Hector's heels :
48853 The glory of our Troy doth this day lie
48854 On his fair worth and single chivalry .
48855
48856
48857 Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair ,
48858 Anticipating time with starting courage .
48859 Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy ,
48860 Thou dreadful Ajax ; that the appalled air
48861 May pierce the head of the great combatant
48862 And hale him hither .
48863
48864 Thou , trumpet , there's my purse .
48865 Now crack thy lungs , and split thy brazen pipe :
48866 Blow , villain , till thy sphered bias cheek
48867 Outswell the colic of puff'd Aquilon .
48868 Come , stretch thy chest , and let thy eyes spout blood ;
48869 Thou blow'st for Hector .
48870
48871
48872 No trumpet answers .
48873
48874 'Tis but early days .
48875
48876 Is not yond Diomed with Calchas' daughter ?
48877
48878 'Tis he , I ken the manner of his gait ;
48879 He rises on the toe : that spirit of his
48880 In aspiration lifts him from the earth .
48881
48882
48883 Is this the Lady Cressid ?
48884
48885 Even she .
48886
48887 Most dearly welcome to the Greeks , sweet lady .
48888
48889 Our general doth salute you with a kiss .
48890
48891 Yet is the kindness but particular ;
48892 'Twere better she were kiss'd in general .
48893
48894 And very courtly counsel : I'll begin .
48895 So much for Nestor .
48896
48897 I'll take that winter from your lips , fair lady :
48898 Achilles bids you welcome .
48899
48900 I had good argument for kissing once .
48901
48902 But that's no argument for kissing now ;
48903 For thus popp'd Paris in his hardiment ,
48904 And parted thus you and your argument .
48905
48906 O , deadly gall , and theme of all our scorns !
48907 For which we lose our heads to gild his horns .
48908
48909 The first was Menelaus' kiss ; this , mine :
48910 Patroclus kisses you .
48911
48912 O ! this is trim .
48913
48914 Paris and I , kiss evermore for him .
48915
48916 I'll have my kiss , sir . Lady , by your leave .
48917
48918 In kissing , do you render or receive ?
48919
48920 Both take and give .
48921
48922 I'll make my match to live ,
48923 The kiss you take is better than you give ;
48924 Therefore no kiss .
48925
48926 I'll give you boot ; I'll give you three for one .
48927
48928 You're an odd man ; give even , or give none .
48929
48930 An odd man , lady ! every man is odd .
48931
48932 No , Paris is not ; for , you know 'tis true ,
48933 That you are odd , and he is even with you .
48934
48935 You fillip me o' the head .
48936
48937 No , I'll be sworn .
48938
48939 It were no match , your nail against his horn .
48940 May I , sweet lady , beg a kiss of you ?
48941
48942 You may .
48943
48944 I do desire it .
48945
48946 Why , beg , then .
48947
48948 Why , then , for Venus' sake , give me a kiss ,
48949 When Helen is a maid again , and his .
48950
48951 I am your debtor ; claim it when 'tis due .
48952
48953 Never's my day , and then a kiss of you .
48954
48955 Lady , a word : I'll bring you to your father .
48956
48957
48958 A woman of quick sense .
48959
48960 Fie , fie upon her !
48961 There's language in her eye , her cheek , her lip ,
48962 Nay , her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out
48963 At every joint and motive of her body .
48964 O ! these encounterers , so glib of tongue ,
48965 That give a coasting welcome ere it comes ,
48966 And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts
48967 To every tickling reader , set them down
48968 For sluttish spoils of opportunity
48969 And daughters of the game .
48970
48971
48972 The Trojans' trumpet .
48973
48974 Yonder comes the troop .
48975
48976
48977 Hail , all you state of Greece ! what shall be done
48978 To him that victory commands ? or do you purpose
48979 A victor shall be known ? will you the knights
48980 Shall to the edge of all extremity
48981 Pursue each other , or shall be divided
48982 By any voice or order of the field ?
48983 Hector bade ask .
48984
48985 Which way would Hector have it ?
48986
48987 He cares not ; he'll obey conditions .
48988
48989 'Tis done like Hector ; but securely done ,
48990 A little proudly , and great deal misprising
48991 The knight oppos'd .
48992
48993 If not Achilles , sir .
48994 What is your name ?
48995
48996 If not Achilles , nothing .
48997
48998 Therefore Achilles ; but , whate'er , know this :
48999 In the extremity of great and little ,
49000 Valour and pride excel themselves in Hector ;
49001 The one almost as infinite as all ,
49002 The other blank as nothing . Weigh him well ,
49003 And that which looks like pride is courtesy .
49004 This Ajax is half made of Hector's blood :
49005 In love whereof half Hector stays at home ;
49006 Half heart , half hand , half Hector comes to seek
49007 This blended knight , half Trojan , and half Greek .
49008
49009 A maiden battle , then ? O ! I perceive you .
49010
49011
49012 Here is Sir Diomed . Go , gentle knight ,
49013 Stand by our Ajax : as you and Lord neas
49014 Consent upon the order of their fight ,
49015 So be it ; either to the uttermost ,
49016 Or else a breath : the combatants being kin
49017 Half stints their strife before their strokes begin .
49018
49019
49020 They are oppos'd already .
49021
49022 What Trojan is that same that looks so heavy ?
49023
49024 The youngest son of Priam , a true knight :
49025 Not yet mature , yet matchless ; firm of word ,
49026 Speaking in deeds and deedless in his tongue ;
49027 Not soon provok'd , nor being provok'd soon calm'd :
49028 His heart and hand both open and both free ;
49029 For what he has he gives , what thinks he shows ;
49030 Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty ,
49031 Nor dignifies an impure thought with breath .
49032 Manly as Hector , but more dangerous ;
49033 For Hector , in his blaze of wrath , subscribes
49034 To tender objects ; but he in heat of action
49035 Is more vindicative than jealous love .
49036 They call him Troilus , and on him erect
49037 A second hope , as fairly built as Hector .
49038 Thus says neas ; one that knows the youth
49039 Even to his inches , and with private soul
49040 Did in great Ilion thus translate him to me .
49041
49042
49043 They are in action .
49044
49045 Now , Ajax , hold thine own !
49046
49047 Hector , thou sleep'st ; awake thee !
49048
49049 His blows are well dispos'd : there , Ajax !
49050
49051 You must no more .
49052
49053
49054 Princes , enough , so please you .
49055
49056 I am not warm yet ; let us fight again .
49057
49058 As Hector pleases .
49059
49060 Why , then will I no more :
49061 Thou art , great lord , my father's sister's son ,
49062 A cousin-german to great Priam's seed ;
49063 The obligation of our blood forbids
49064 A gory emulation 'twixt us twain .
49065 Were thy commixtion Greek and Trojan so
49066 That thou couldst say , 'This hand is Grecian all ,
49067 And this is Trojan ; the sinews of this leg
49068 All Greek , and this all Troy ; my mother's blood
49069 Runs on the dexter cheek , and this sinister
49070 Bounds in my father's ,' by Jove multipotent ,
49071 Thou shouldst not bear from me a Greekish member
49072 Wherein my sword had not impressure made
49073 Of our rank feud . But the just gods gainsay
49074 That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother ,
49075 My sacred aunt , should by my mortal sword
49076 Be drain'd ! Let me embrace thee , Ajax ;
49077 By him that thunders , thou hast lusty arms ;
49078 Hector would have them fall upon him thus :
49079 Cousin , all honour to thee !
49080
49081 I thank thee , Hector :
49082 Thou art too gentle and too free a man :
49083 I came to kill thee , cousin , and bear hence
49084 A great addition earned in thy death .
49085
49086 Not Neoptolemus so mirable ,
49087 On whose bright crest Fame with her loud'st byes
49088 Cries , 'This is he !' could promise to himself
49089 A thought of added honour torn from Hector .
49090
49091 There is expectance here from both the sides ,
49092 What further you will do .
49093
49094 We'll answer it ;
49095 The issue is embracement : Ajax , farewell .
49096
49097 If I might in entreaties find success ,
49098 As seld I have the chance ,I would desire
49099 My famous cousin to our Grecian tents .
49100
49101 'Tis Agamemnon's wish , and great Achilles
49102 Doth long to see unarm'd the valiant Hector .
49103
49104 neas , call my brother Troilus to me ,
49105 And signify this loving interview
49106 To the expecters of our Trojan part ;
49107 Desire them home . Give me thy hand , my cousin ;
49108 I will go eat with thee and see your knights .
49109
49110 Great Agamemnon comes to meet us here .
49111
49112 The worthiest of them tell me name by name ;
49113 But for Achilles , mine own searching eyes
49114 Shall find him by his large and portly size .
49115
49116 Worthy of arms ! as welcome as to one
49117 That would be rid of such an enemy ;
49118 But that's no welcome ; understand more clear ,
49119 What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks
49120 And formless ruin of oblivion ;
49121 But in this extant moment , faith and troth ,
49122 Strain'd purely from all hollow bias-drawing ,
49123 Bids thee , with most divine integrity ,
49124 From heart of very heart , great Hector , welcome .
49125
49126 I thank thee , most imperious Agamemnon .
49127
49128 My well-fam'd Lord of Troy , no less to you .
49129
49130 Let me confirm my princely brother's greeting :
49131 You brace of war-like brothers , welcome hither .
49132
49133 Whom must we answer ?
49134
49135 The noble Menelaus .
49136
49137 O ! you , my lord ? by Mars his gauntlet , thanks !
49138 Mock not that I affect the untraded oath ;
49139 Your quondam wife swears still by Venus' glove :
49140 She's well , but bade me not commend her to you .
49141
49142 Name her not now , sir ; she's a deadly theme .
49143
49144 O ! pardon ; I offend .
49145
49146 I have , thou gallant Trojan , seen thee oft ,
49147 Labouring for destiny , make cruel way
49148 Through ranks of Greekish youth : and I have seen thee ,
49149 As hot as Perseus , spur thy Phrygian steed ,
49150 Despising many forfeits and subduements ,
49151 When thou hast hung thy advanc'd sword i' th' air ,
49152 Not letting it decline on the declin'd ;
49153 That I have said to some my standers-by ,
49154 'Lo ! Jupiter is yonder , dealing life !'
49155 And I have seen thee pause and take thy breath ,
49156 When that a ring of Greeks have hemm'd thee in ,
49157 Like an Olympian wrestling : this have I seen ;
49158 But this thy countenance , still lock'd in steel ,
49159 I never saw till now . I knew thy grandsire ,
49160 And once fought with him : he was a soldier good ;
49161 But , by great Mars , the captain of us all ,
49162 Never like thee . Let an old man embrace thee ;
49163 And , worthy warrior , welcome to our tents .
49164
49165 'Tis the old Nestor .
49166
49167 Let me embrace thee , good old chronicle ,
49168 That hast so long walk'd hand in hand with time :
49169 Most reverend Nestor , I am glad to clasp thee .
49170
49171 I would my arms could match thee in contention ,
49172 As they contend with thee in courtesy .
49173
49174 I would they could .
49175
49176 Ha !
49177 By this white beard , I'd fight with thee to-morrow .
49178 Well , welcome , welcome ! I have seen the time .
49179
49180 I wonder now how yonder city stands ,
49181 When we have here her base and pillar by us .
49182
49183 I know your favour , Lord Ulysses , well .
49184 Ah ! sir , there's many a Greek and Trojan dead ,
49185 Since first I saw yourself and Diomed
49186 In Ilion , on your Greekish embassy .
49187
49188 Sir , I foretold you then what would ensue :
49189 My prophecy is but half his journey yet ;
49190 For yonder walls , that pertly front your town ,
49191 Yond towers , whose wanton tops do buss the clouds ,
49192 Must kiss their own feet .
49193
49194 I must not believe you :
49195 There they stand yet , and modestly I think ,
49196 The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost
49197 A drop of Grecian blood : the end crowns all ,
49198 And that old common arbitrator , Time ,
49199 Will one day end it .
49200
49201 So to him we leave it .
49202 Most gentle and most valiant Hector , welcome .
49203 After the general , I beseech you next
49204 To feast with me and see me at my tent .
49205
49206 I shall forestall thee , Lord Ulysses , thou !
49207 Now , Hector , I have fed mine eyes on thee ;
49208 I have with exact view perus'd thee , Hector ,
49209 And quoted joint by joint .
49210
49211 Is this Achilles ?
49212
49213 I am Achilles .
49214
49215 Stand fair , I pray thee : let me look on thee .
49216
49217 Behold thy fill .
49218
49219 Nay , I have done already .
49220
49221 Thou art too brief : I will the second time ,
49222 As I would buy thee , view thee limb by limb .
49223
49224 O ! like a book of sport thou'lt read me o'er ;
49225 But there's more in me than thou understand'st .
49226 Why dost thou so oppress me with thine eye ?
49227
49228 Tell me , you heavens , in which part of his body
49229 Shall I destroy him ? whether there , or there , or there ?
49230 That I may give the local wound a name ,
49231 And make distinct the very breach whereout
49232 Hector's great spirit flew . Answer me , heavens !
49233
49234 It would discredit the bless'd gods , proud man ,
49235 To answer such a question . Stand again :
49236 Think'st thou to catch my life so pleasantly
49237 As to prenominate in nice conjecture
49238 Where thou wilt hit me dead ?
49239
49240 I tell thee , yea .
49241
49242 Wert thou an oracle to tell me so ,
49243 I'd not believe thee . Henceforth guard thee well ,
49244 For I'll not kill thee there , nor there , nor there ;
49245 But , by the forge that stithied Mars his helm ,
49246 I'll kill thee every where , yea , o'er and o'er .
49247 You wisest Grecians , pardon me this brag ;
49248 His insolence draws folly from my lips ;
49249 But I'll endeavour deeds to match these words ,
49250 Or may I never
49251
49252 Do not chafe thee , cousin :
49253 And you , Achilles , let these threats alone ,
49254 Till accident or purpose bring you to't :
49255 You may have every day enough of Hector ,
49256 If you have stomach . The general state , I fear ,
49257 Can scarce entreat you to be odd with him .
49258
49259 I pray you , let us see you in the field ;
49260 We have had pelting wars since you refus'd
49261 The Grecians' cause .
49262
49263 Dost thou entreat me , Hector ?
49264 To-morrow do I meet thee , fell as death ;
49265 To-night all friends .
49266
49267 Thy hand upon that match .
49268
49269 First , all you peers of Greece , go to my tent ;
49270 There in the full convive we afterwards ,
49271 As Hector's leisure and your bounties shall
49272 Concur together , severally entreat him .
49273 Beat loud the tabourines , let the trumpets blow ,
49274 That this great soldier may his welcome know .
49275
49276
49277 My Lord Ulysses , tell me , I beseech you ,
49278 In what place of the field doth Calchas keep ?
49279
49280 At Menelaus' tent , most princely Troilus :
49281 There Diomed doth feast with him to-night ;
49282 Who neither looks upon the heaven nor earth ,
49283 But gives all gaze and bent of amorous view
49284 On the fair Cressid .
49285
49286 Shall I , sweet lord , be bound to thee so much ,
49287 After we part from Agamemnon's tent ,
49288 To bring me thither ?
49289
49290 You shall command me , sir .
49291 As gentle tell me , of what honour was
49292 This Cressida in Troy ? Had she no lover there
49293 That wails her absence ?
49294
49295 O , sir ! to such as boasting show their scars
49296 A mock is due . Will you walk on , my lord ?
49297 She was belov'd , she lov'd ; she is , and doth :
49298 But still sweet love is food for fortune's tooth .
49299
49300
49301 I'll heat his blood with Greekish wine to-night ,
49302 Which with my scimitar I'll cool to-morrow .
49303 Patroclus , let us feast him to the height .
49304
49305 Here comes Thersites .
49306
49307
49308 How now , thou core of envy !
49309 Thou crusty batch of nature , what's the news ?
49310
49311 Why , thou picture of what thou seemest , and idol of idiot-worshippers , here's a letter for thee .
49312
49313 From whence , fragment ?
49314
49315 Why , thou full dish of fool , from Troy .
49316
49317 Who keeps the tent now ?
49318
49319 The surgeon's box , or the patient's wound .
49320
49321 Well said , adversity ! and what need these tricks ?
49322
49323 Prithee , be silent , boy : I profit not by thy talk : thou art thought to be Achilles' male varlet .
49324
49325 Male varlet , you rogue ! what's that ?
49326
49327 Why , his masculine whore . Now , the rotten diseases of the south , the guts-griping , ruptures , catarrhs , loads o' gravel i' the back , lethargies , cold palsies , raw eyes , dirt-rotten livers , wheezing lungs , bladders full of imposthume , sciaticas , lime-kilns i' the palm , incurable bone-ache , and the rivelled fee-simple of the tetter , take and take again such preposterous discoveries !
49328
49329 Why , thou damnable box of envy , thou , what meanest thou to curse thus ?
49330
49331 Do I curse thee ?
49332
49333 Why , no , you ruinous butt , you whoreson indistinguishable cur , no .
49334
49335 No ! why art thou then exasperate , thou idle immaterial skein of sleave silk , thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye , thou tassel of a prodigal's purse , thou ? Ah ! how the poor world is pestered with such water-flies , diminutives of nature .
49336
49337 Out , gall !
49338
49339 Finch egg !
49340
49341 My sweet Patroclus , I am thwarted quite
49342 From my great purpose in to-morrow's battle .
49343 Here is a letter from Queen Hecuba ,
49344 A token from her daughter , my fair love ,
49345 Both taxing me and gaging me to keep
49346 An oath that I have sworn . I will not break it :
49347 Fall Greeks ; fail fame ; honour or go or stay ;
49348 My major vow lies here , this I'll obey .
49349 Come , come , Thersites , help to trim my tent ;
49350 This night in banqueting must all be spent .
49351 Away , Patroclus !
49352
49353
49354 With too much blood and too little brain , these two may run mad ; but if with too much brain , and too little blood they do , I'll be a curer of madmen . Here's Agamemnon , an honest fellow enough , and one that loves quails , but he has not so much brain as ear-wax : and the goodly transformation of Jupiter there , his brother , the bull , the primitive statue , and oblique memorial of cuckolds ; a thrifty shoeing-horn in a chain , hanging at his brother's leg , to what form but that he is should wit larded with malice and malice forced with wit turn him to ? To an ass , were nothing : he is both ass and ox ; to an ox , were nothing : he is both ox and ass . To be a dog , a mule , a cat , a fitchew , a toad , a lizard , an owl , a puttock , or a herring without a roe , I would not care ; but to be Menelaus ! I would conspire against destiny . Ask me not what I would be , if I were not Thersites , for I care not to be the louse of a lazar , so I were not Menelaus . Hey-day ! spirits and fires !
49355
49356
49357 We go wrong , we go wrong .
49358
49359 No , yonder 'tis ;
49360 There , where we see the lights .
49361
49362 I trouble you .
49363
49364 No , not a whit .
49365
49366 Here comes himself to guide you .
49367
49368
49369 Welcome , brave Hector ; welcome , princes all .
49370
49371 So now , fair prince of Troy , I bid good-night .
49372 Ajax commands the guard to tend on you .
49373
49374 Thanks and good-night to the Greeks' general .
49375
49376 Good-night , my lord .
49377
49378 Good-night , sweet Lord Menelaus .
49379
49380 Sweet draught : 'sweet ,' quoth a' ! sweet sink , sweet sewer .
49381
49382 Good-night and welcome both at once , to those
49383 That go or tarry .
49384
49385 Good-night .
49386
49387
49388 Old Nestor tarries ; and you too , Diomed ,
49389 Keep Hector company an hour or two .
49390
49391 I cannot , lord ; I have important business ,
49392 The tide whereof is now . Good-night , great Hector .
49393
49394 Give me your hand .
49395
49396 Follow his torch ; he goes to Calchas' tent .
49397 I'll keep you company .
49398
49399 Sweet sir , you honour me .
49400
49401 And so , good-night .
49402
49403
49404 Come , come , enter my tent .
49405
49406
49407 That same Diomed's a false-hearted rogue , a most unjust knave ; I will no more trust him when he leers than I will a serpent when he hisses . He will spend his mouth , and promise , like Brabbler the hound ; but when he performs , astronomers foretell it : it is prodigious , there will come some change : the sun borrows of the moon when Diomed keeps his word . I will rather leave to see Hector , than not to dog him : they say he keeps a Trojan drab , and uses the traitor Calchas' tent . I'll after . Nothing but lechery ! all incontinent varlets .
49408
49409
49410 What , are you up here , ho ! speak .
49411
49412 Who calls ?
49413
49414 Diomed . Calchas , I think . Where's your daughter ?
49415
49416 She comes to you .
49417
49418
49419 Stand where the torch may not discover us .
49420
49421
49422 Cressid comes forth to him .
49423
49424 How now , my charge !
49425
49426 Now , my sweet guardian ! Hark ! a word with you .
49427
49428
49429 Yea , so familiar !
49430
49431 She will sing any man at first sight .
49432
49433 And any man may sing her , if he can take her cliff ; she's noted .
49434
49435 Will you remember ?
49436
49437 Remember ! yes .
49438
49439 Nay , but do , then ;
49440 And let your mind be coupled with your words .
49441
49442 What should she remember ?
49443
49444 List !
49445
49446 Sweet honey Greek , tempt me no more to folly .
49447
49448 Roguery !
49449
49450 Nay , then ,
49451
49452 I'll tell you what ,
49453
49454 Foh , foh ! come , tell a pin : you are forsworn .
49455
49456 In faith , I cannot . What would you have me do ?
49457
49458 A juggling trick ,to be secretly open .
49459
49460 What did you swear you would bestow on me ?
49461
49462 I prithee , do not hold me to mine oath ;
49463 Bid me do anything but that , sweet Greek .
49464
49465 Good-night .
49466
49467 Hold , patience !
49468
49469 How now , Trojan ?
49470
49471 Diomed ,
49472
49473 No , no , good-night ; I'll be your fool no more .
49474
49475 Thy better must .
49476
49477 Hark ! one word in your ear .
49478
49479 O plague and madness !
49480
49481 You are mov'd , prince ; let us depart , I pray you ,
49482 Lest your displeasure should enlarge itself
49483 To wrathful terms . This place is dangerous ;
49484 The time right deadly . I beseech you , go .
49485
49486 Behold , I pray you !
49487
49488 Nay , good my lord , go off :
49489 You flow to great distraction ; come , my lord .
49490
49491 I pray thee , stay .
49492
49493 You have not patience ; come .
49494
49495 I pray you , stay . By hell , and all hell's torments ,
49496 I will not speak a word !
49497
49498 And so , good-night .
49499
49500 Nay , but you part in anger .
49501
49502 Doth that grieve thee ?
49503 O wither'd truth !
49504
49505 Why , how now , lord !
49506
49507 By Jove ,
49508 I will be patient .
49509
49510 Guardian !why , Greek !
49511
49512 Foh , foh ! adieu ; you palter .
49513
49514 In faith , I do not : come hither once again .
49515
49516 You shake , my lord , at something : will you go ?
49517 You will break out .
49518
49519 She strokes his cheek !
49520
49521 Come , come .
49522
49523 Nay , stay ; by Jove , I will not speak a word :
49524 There is between my will and all offences
49525 A guard of patience : stay a little while .
49526
49527 How the devil Luxury , with his fat rump and potato finger , tickles these together ! Fry , lechery , fry !
49528
49529 But will you , then ?
49530
49531 In faith , I will , la ; never trust me else .
49532
49533 Give me some token for the surety of it .
49534
49535 I'll fetch you one .
49536
49537
49538 You have sworn patience .
49539
49540 Fear me not , sweet lord ;
49541 I will not be myself , nor have cognition
49542 Of what I feel : I am all patience .
49543
49544
49545 Now the pledge ! now , now , now !
49546
49547 Here , Diomed , keep this sleeve .
49548
49549 O beauty ! where is thy faith ?
49550
49551 My lord ,
49552
49553 I will be patient ; outwardly I will .
49554
49555 You look upon that sleeve ; behold it well .
49556 He lov'd me O false wench !Give't to me again .
49557
49558 Whose was't ?
49559
49560 It is no matter , now I have't again .
49561 I will not meet with you to-morrow night .
49562 I prithee , Diomed , visit me no more .
49563
49564 Now she sharpens : well said , whetstone !
49565
49566 I shall have it .
49567
49568 What , this ?
49569
49570 Ay , that .
49571
49572 O ! all you gods . O pretty , pretty pledge !
49573 Thy master now lies thinking in his bed
49574 Of thee and me ; and sighs , and takes my glove ,
49575 And gives me norial dainty kisses to it ,
49576 As I kiss thee . Nay , do not snatch it from me ;
49577 He that takes that doth take my heart withal .
49578
49579 I had your heart before ; this follows it .
49580
49581 I did swear patience .
49582
49583 You shall not have it , Diomed ; faith you shall not ;
49584 I'll give you something else .
49585
49586 I will have this . Whose was it ?
49587
49588 'Tis no matter .
49589
49590 Come , tell me whose it was .
49591
49592 'Twas one's that loved me better than you will .
49593 But , now you have it , take it .
49594
49595 Whose was it ?
49596
49597 By all Diana's waiting-women yond ,
49598 And by herself , I will not tell you whose .
49599
49600 To-morrow will I wear it on my helm ,
49601 And grieve his spirit that dares not challenge it .
49602
49603 Wert thou the devil , and wor'st it on thy horn ,
49604 It should be challeng'd .
49605
49606 Well , well , 'tis done , 'tis past : and yet it is not :
49607 I will not keep my word .
49608
49609 Why then , farewell ;
49610 Thou never shalt mock Diomed again .
49611
49612 You shall not go : one cannot speak a word ,
49613 But it straight starts you .
49614
49615 I do not like this fooling .
49616
49617 Nor I , by Pluto : but that that likes not me
49618 Pleases me best .
49619
49620 What , shall I come ? the hour ?
49621
49622 Ay , come :O Jove !
49623 Do come :I shall be plagu'd .
49624
49625 Farewell till then .
49626
49627 Good-night : I prithee , come .
49628
49629 Troilus , farewell ! one eye yet looks on thee ,
49630 But with my heart the other eye doth see .
49631 Ah ! poor our sex ; this fault in us I find ,
49632 The error of our eye directs our mind .
49633 What error leads must err . O ! then conclude
49634 Minds sway'd by eyes are full of turpitude .
49635
49636
49637 A proof of strength she could not publish more ,
49638 Unless she said , 'My mind is now turn'd whore .'
49639
49640 All's done , my lord .
49641
49642 It is .
49643
49644 Why stay we , then ?
49645
49646 To make a recordation to my soul
49647 Of every syllable that here was spoke .
49648 But if I tell how these two did co-act ,
49649 Shall I not lie in publishing a truth ?
49650 Sith yet there is a credence in my heart ,
49651 An esperance so obstinately strong ,
49652 That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears ,
49653 As if those organs had deceptions functions ,
49654 Created only to calumniate .
49655 Was Cressid here ?
49656
49657 I cannot conjure , Trojan .
49658
49659 She was not , sure .
49660
49661 Most sure she was .
49662
49663 Why , my negation hath no taste of madness .
49664
49665 Nor mine , my lord : Cressid was here but now .
49666
49667 Let it not be believ'd for womanhood !
49668 Think we had mothers ; do not give advantage
49669 To stubborn critics , apt , without a theme ,
49670 For depravation , to square the general sex
49671 By Cressid's rule : rather think this not Cressid .
49672
49673 What hath she done , prince , that can soil our mothers ?
49674
49675 Nothing at all , unless that this were she .
49676
49677 Will he swagger himself out on's own eyes ?
49678
49679 This she ? no , this is Diomed's Cressida .
49680 If beauty have a soul , this is not she ;
49681 If souls guide vows , if vows be sanctimony ,
49682 If sanctimony be the gods' delight ,
49683 If there be rule in unity itself ,
49684 This is not she . O madness of discourse ,
49685 That cause sets up with and against itself ;
49686 Bi-fold authority ! where reason can revolt
49687 Without perdition , and loss assume all reason
49688 Without revolt : this is , and is not , Cressid .
49689 Within my soul there doth conduce a fight
49690 Of this strange nature that a thing inseparate
49691 Divides more wider than the sky and earth ;
49692 And yet the spacious breadth of this division
49693 Admits no orifice for a point as subtle
49694 As Ariachne's broken woof to enter .
49695 Instance , O instance ! strong as Pluto's gates ;
49696 Cressid is mine , tied with the bonds of heaven :
49697 Instance , O instance ! strong as heaven itself ;
49698 The bonds of heaven are slipp'd , dissolv'd , and loos'd ;
49699 And with another knot , five-finger-tied ,
49700 The fractions of her faith , orts of her love ,
49701 The fragments , scraps , the bits , and greasy reliques
49702 Of her o'er-eaten faith , are bound to Diomed .
49703
49704 May worthy Troilus be half attach'd
49705 With that which here his passion doth express ?
49706
49707 Ay , Greek ; and that shall be divulged well
49708 In characters as red as Mars his heart
49709 Inflam'd with Venus : never did young man fancy
49710 With so eternal and so fix'd a soul .
49711 Hark , Greek : as much as I do Cressid love ,
49712 So much by weight hate I her Diomed ;
49713 That sleeve is mine that he'll bear on his helm ;
49714 Were it a casque compos'd by Vulcan's skill ,
49715 My sword should bite it . Not the dreadful spout
49716 Which shipmen do the hurricano call ,
49717 Constring'd in mass by the almighty sun ,
49718 Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune's ear
49719 In his descent than shall my prompted sword
49720 Falling on Diomed .
49721
49722 He'll tickle it for his concupy .
49723
49724 O Cressid ! O false Cressid ! false , false , false !
49725 Let all untruths stand by thy stained name ,
49726 And they'll seem glorious .
49727
49728 O ! contain yourself ;
49729 Your passion draws ears hither .
49730
49731
49732 I have been seeking you this hour , my lord .
49733 Hector , by this , is arming him in Troy :
49734 Ajax , your guard , stays to conduct you home .
49735
49736 Have with you , prince . My courteous lord , adieu .
49737 Farewell , revolted fair ! and Diomed ,
49738 Stand fast , and wear a castle on thy head !
49739
49740 I'll bring you to the gates .
49741
49742 Accept distracted thanks .
49743
49744
49745 Would I could meet that rogue Diomed ! I would croak like a raven ; I would bode , I would bode . Patroclus would give me any thing for the intelligence of this whore : the parrot will not do more for an almond than he for a commodious drab . Lechery , lechery ; still , wars and lechery : nothing else holds fashion . A burning devil take them !
49746
49747
49748 When was my lord so much ungently temper'd ,
49749 To stop his ears against admonishment ?
49750 Unarm , unarm , and do not fight to-day .
49751
49752 You train me to offend you ; get you in :
49753 By all the everlasting gods , I'll go .
49754
49755 My dreams will , sure , prove ominous to the day .
49756
49757 No more , I say .
49758
49759
49760 Where is my brother Hector ?
49761
49762 Here , sister ; arm'd , and bloody in intent .
49763 Consort with me in loud and dear petition ;
49764 Pursue we him on knees ; for I have dream'd
49765 Of bloody turbulence , and this whole night
49766 Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter .
49767
49768 O ! 'tis true .
49769
49770 Ho ! bid my trumpet sound .
49771
49772 No notes of sally , for the heavens , sweet brother .
49773
49774 Be gone , I say : the gods have heard me swear .
49775
49776 The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows :
49777 They are polluted offerings , more abhorr'd
49778 Than spotted livers in the sacrifice .
49779
49780 O ! be persuaded : do not count it holy
49781 To hurt by being just : it is as lawful ,
49782 For we would give much , to use violent thefts ,
49783 And rob in the behalf of charity .
49784
49785 It is the purpose that makes strong the vow ;
49786 But vows to every purpose must not hold .
49787 Unarm , sweet Hector .
49788
49789 Hold you still , I say ;
49790 Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate :
49791 Life every man holds dear ; but the dear man
49792 Holds honour far more precious-dear than life .
49793
49794 How now , young man ! mean'st thou to fight to-day ?
49795
49796 Cassandra , call my father to persuade .
49797
49798
49799 No , faith , young Troilus ; doff thy harness , youth ;
49800 I am to-day i' the vein of chivalry :
49801 Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong ,
49802 And tempt not yet the brushes of the war .
49803 Unarm thee , go , and doubt thou not , brave boy ,
49804 I'll stand to-day for thee and me and Troy .
49805
49806 Brother , you have a vice of mercy in you ,
49807 Which better fits a lion than a man .
49808
49809 What vice is that , good Troilus ? chide me for it .
49810
49811 When many times the captive Grecian falls ,
49812 Even in the fan and wind of your fair sword ,
49813 You bid them rise , and live .
49814
49815 O ! 'tis fair play .
49816
49817 Fool's play , by heaven , Hector .
49818
49819 How now ! how now !
49820
49821 For the love of all the gods ,
49822 Let's leave the hermit pity with our mothers ,
49823 And when we have our armours buckled on ,
49824 The venom'd vengeance ride upon our swords ,
49825 Spur them to ruthful work , rein them from ruth .
49826
49827 Fie , savage , fie !
49828
49829 Hector , then 'tis wars .
49830
49831 Troilus , I would not have you fight to-day .
49832
49833 Who should withhold me ?
49834 Not fate , obedience , nor the hand of Mars
49835 Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire ;
49836 Not Priamus and Hecuba on knees ,
49837 Their eyes o'ergalled with recourse of tears ;
49838 Nor you , my brother , with your true sword drawn ,
49839 Oppos'd to hinder me , should stop my way ,
49840 But by my ruin .
49841
49842
49843 Lay hold upon him , Priam , hold him fast :
49844 He is thy crutch ; now if thou lose thy stay ,
49845 Thou on him leaning , and all Troy on thee ,
49846 Fall all together .
49847
49848 Come , Hector , come ; go back :
49849 Thy wife hath dream'd ; thy mother hath had visions ;
49850 Cassandra doth foresee ; and I myself
49851 Am like a prophet suddenly enrapt ,
49852 To tell thee that this day is ominous :
49853 Therefore , come back .
49854
49855 neas is a-field ;
49856 And I do stand engag'd to many Greeks ,
49857 Even in the faith of valour , to appear
49858 This morning to them .
49859
49860 Ay , but thou shalt not go .
49861
49862 I must not break my faith .
49863 You know me dutiful ; therefore , dear sir ,
49864 Let me not shame respect , but give me leave
49865 To take that course by your consent and voice ,
49866 Which you do here forbid me , royal Priam .
49867
49868 O Priam ! yield not to him .
49869
49870 Do not , dear father .
49871
49872 Andromache , I am offended with you :
49873 Upon the love you bear me , get you in .
49874
49875
49876 This foolish , dreaming , superstitious girl
49877 Makes all these bodements .
49878
49879 O farewell ! dear Hector .
49880 Look ! how thou diest ; look ! how thy eye turns pale ;
49881 Look ! how thy wounds do bleed at many vents :
49882 Hark ! how Troy roars : how Hecuba cries out !
49883 How poor Andromache shrills her dolours forth !
49884 Behold , distraction , frenzy , and amazement ,
49885 Like witless anticks , one another meet ,
49886 And all cry Hector ! Hector's dead ! O Hector !
49887
49888 Away ! Away !
49889
49890 Farewell . Yet , soft ! Hector , I take my leave :
49891 Thou dost thyself and all our Troy deceive .
49892
49893
49894 You are amaz'd , my liege , at her exclaim .
49895 Go in and cheer the town : we'll forth and fight ;
49896 Do deeds worth praise and tell you them at night .
49897
49898 Farewell : the gods with safety stand about thee !
49899
49900
49901 They are at it , hark ! Proud Diomed , believe ,
49902 I come to lose my arm , or win my sleeve .
49903
49904
49905 Do you hear , my lord ? do you hear ?
49906
49907 What now ?
49908
49909 Here's a letter come from yond poor girl .
49910
49911 Let me read .
49912
49913 A whoreson tisick , a whoreson rascally tisick so troubles me , and the foolish fortune of this girl ; and what one thing , what another , that I shall leave you one o' these days : and I have a rheum in mine eyes too , and such an ache in my bones that , unless a man were cursed , I cannot tell what to think on't . What says she there ?
49914
49915 Words , words , mere words , no matter from the heart ;
49916 The effect doth operate another way .
49917
49918 Go , wind to wind , there turn and change together .
49919 My love with words and errors still she feeds ,
49920 But edifies another with her deeds .
49921
49922
49923 Now they are clapper-clawing one another ; I'll go look on . That dissembling abominable varlet , Diomed , has got that same scurvy doting foolish young knave's sleeve of Troy there in his helm : I would fain see them meet ; that that same young Trojan ass , that loves the whore there , might send that Greekish whoremasterly villain , with the sleeve , back to the dissembling luxurious drab , on a sleeveless errand . O' the other side , the policy of those crafty swearing rascals ,that stale old mouse-eaten dry cheese , Nestor , and that same dog-fox , Ulysses , is not proved worth a blackberry : they set me up , in policy , that mongrel cur , Ajax , against that dog of as bad a kind , Achilles ; and now is the cur Ajax prouder than the cur Achilles , and will not arm to-day ; whereupon the Grecians begin to proclaim barbarism , and policy grows into an ill opinion . Soft ! here comes sleeve , and t' other .
49924
49925
49926 Fly not ; for shouldst thou take the river Styx ,
49927 I would swim after .
49928
49929 Thou dost miscall retire :
49930 I do not fly ; but advantageous care
49931 Withdrew me from the odds of multitude .
49932 Have at thee !
49933
49934 Hold thy whore , Grecian ! now for thy whore , Trojan ! now the sleeve , now the sleeve !
49935
49936 What art thou , Greek ? art thou for Hector's match ?
49937 Art thou of blood and honour ?
49938
49939 No , no , I am a rascal ; a scurvy railing knave ; a very filthy rogue .
49940
49941 I do believe thee : live .
49942
49943
49944 God-a-mercy , that thou wilt believe me ; but a plague break thy neck for frighting me ! What's become of the wenching rogues ? I think they have swallowed one another : I would laugh at that miracle ; yet , in a sort , lechery eats itself . I'll seek them .
49945
49946
49947 Go , go , my servant , take thou Troilus' horse ;
49948 Present the fair steed to my Lady Cressid :
49949 Fellow , commend my service to her beauty :
49950 Tell her I have chastis'd the amorous Trojan ,
49951 And am her knight by proof .
49952
49953 I go , my lord .
49954
49955 Renew , renew ! The fierce Polydamas
49956 Hath beat down Menon ; bastard Margarelon
49957 Hath Doreus prisoner ,
49958 And stands colossus-wise , waving his beam ,
49959 Upon the pashed corses of the kings
49960 Epistrophus and Cedius ; Polixenes is slain ;
49961 Amphimachus , and Thoas , deadly hurt ;
49962 Patroclus ta'en , or slain ; and Palamedes
49963 Sore hurt and bruis'd ; the dreadful Sagittary
49964 Appals our numbers : haste we , Diomed ,
49965 To reinforcement , or we perish all .
49966
49967
49968 Go , bear Patroclus' body to Achilles ;
49969 And bid the snail-pac'd Ajax arm for shame .
49970 There is a thousand Hectors in the field :
49971 Now here he fights on Galathe his horse ,
49972 And there lacks work ; anon he's there afoot ,
49973 And there they fly or die , like scaled sculls
49974 Before the belching whale ; then is he yonder ,
49975 And there the strawy Greeks , ripe for his edge ,
49976 Fall down before him , like the mower's swath :
49977 Here , there , and everywhere , he leaves and takes ,
49978 Dexterity so obeying appetite
49979 That what he will he does ; and does so much
49980 That proof is called impossibility .
49981
49982
49983 O ! courage , courage , princes ; great Achilles
49984 Is arming , weeping , cursing , vowing vengeance :
49985 Patroclus' wounds have rous'd his drowsy blood ,
49986 Together with his mangled Myrmidons ,
49987 That noseless , handless , hack'd and chipp'd , come to him ,
49988 Crying on Hector . Ajax hath lost a friend ,
49989 And foams at mouth , and he is arm'd and at it ,
49990 Roaring for Troilus , who hath done to-day
49991 Mad and fantastic execution ,
49992 Engaging and redeeming of himself
49993 With such a careless force and forceless care
49994 As if that luck , in very spite of cunning ,
49995 Bade him win all .
49996
49997
49998 Troilus ! thou coward Troilus !
49999
50000
50001 Ay , there , there .
50002
50003 So , so , we draw together .
50004
50005
50006 Where is this Hector ?
50007 Come , come , thou boy-queller , show thy face ;
50008 Know what it is to meet Achilles angry :
50009 Hector ! where's Hector ? I will none but Hector .
50010
50011
50012 Troilus , thou coward Troilus , show thy head !
50013
50014
50015 Troilus , I say ! where's Troilus ?
50016
50017 What wouldst thou ?
50018
50019 I would correct him .
50020
50021 Were I the general , thou shouldst have my office
50022 Ere that correction . Troilus , I say ! what , Troilus !
50023
50024
50025 O traitor Diomed ! Turn thy false face , thou traitor !
50026 And pay thy life thou ow'st me for my horse !
50027
50028 Ha ! art thou there ?
50029
50030 I'll fight with him alone : stand , Diomed .
50031
50032 He is my prize ; I will not look upon .
50033
50034 Come , both you cogging Greeks ; have at you both !
50035
50036 Yea , Troilus ? O , well fought , my youngest brother !
50037
50038
50039 Now I do see thee . Ha ! have at thee , Hector !
50040
50041 Pause , if thou wilt .
50042
50043 I do disdain thy courtesy , proud Trojan .
50044 Be happy that my arms are out of use :
50045 My rest and negligence befriend thee now ,
50046 But thou anon shalt hear of me again ;
50047 Till when , go seek thy fortune .
50048
50049
50050 Fare thee well :
50051 I would have been much more a fresher man ,
50052 Had I expected thee . How now , my brother !
50053
50054
50055 Ajax hath ta'en neas : shall it be ?
50056 No , by the flame of yonder glorious heaven ,
50057 He shall not carry him : I'll be ta'en too ,
50058 Or bring him off . Fate , hear me what I say !
50059 I reck not though I end my life to-day .
50060
50061 Stand , stand , thou Greek ; thou art a goodly mark .
50062 No ? wilt thou not ? I like thy armour well ;
50063 I'll frush it , and unlock the rivets all ,
50064 But I'll be master of it . Wilt thou not , beast , abide ?
50065 Why then , fly on , I'll hunt thee for thy hide .
50066
50067
50068 Come here about me , you my Myrmidons ;
50069 Mark what I say . Attend me where I wheel :
50070 Strike not a stroke , but keep yourselves in breath :
50071 And when I have the bloody Hector found ,
50072 Empale him with your weapons round about ;
50073 In fellest manner execute your aims .
50074 Follow me , sirs , and my proceedings eye :
50075 It is decreed , Hector the great must die .
50076
50077 The cuckold and the cuckold-maker are at it . Now , bull ! now , dog ! 'Loo , Paris , 'loo ! now , my double-henned sparrow ! 'loo , Paris , 'loo ! The bull has the game : 'ware horns , ho !
50078
50079 Turn , slave , and fight .
50080
50081 What art thou ?
50082
50083 A bastard son of Priam's .
50084
50085 I am a bastard too ; I love bastards : I am a bastard begot , bastard instructed , bastard in mind , bastard in valour , in every thing illegitimate . One bear will not bite another , and wherefore should one bastard ? Take heed , the quarrel's most ominous to us : if the son of a whore fight for a whore , he tempts judgment . Farewell , bastard .
50086
50087
50088 The devil take thee , coward !
50089
50090
50091 Most putrefied core , so fair without ,
50092 Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life .
50093 Now is my day's work done ; I'll take good breath :
50094 Rest , sword ; thou hast thy fill of blood and death .
50095
50096 Look , Hector , how the sun begins to set ;
50097 How ugly night comes breathing at his heels :
50098 Even with the vail and darking of the sun ,
50099 To close the day up , Hector's life is done .
50100
50101 I am unarm'd ; forego this vantage , Greek .
50102
50103 Strike , fellows , strike ! this is the man I seek .
50104
50105 So , Ilion , fall thou next ! now , Troy , sink down !
50106 Here lies thy heart , thy sinews , and thy bone .
50107 On ! Myrmidons , and cry you all amain ,
50108 'Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain .'
50109
50110 Hark ! a retreat upon our Grecian part .
50111
50112 The Trojan trumpets sound the like , my lord .
50113
50114 The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth ,
50115 And , stickler-like , the armies separates .
50116 My half-supp'd sword , that frankly would have fed ,
50117 Pleas'd with this dainty bait , thus goes to bed .
50118
50119 Come , tie his body to my horse's tail ;
50120 Along the field I will the Trojan trail .
50121
50122
50123 Hark ! hark ! what shout is that ?
50124
50125 Peace , drums !
50126
50127
50128 Achilles !
50129 Achilles ! Hector's slain ! Achilles !
50130
50131 The bruit is , Hector's slain , and by Achilles .
50132
50133 If it be so , yet bragless let it be ;
50134 Great Hector was a man as good as he .
50135
50136 March patiently along . Let one be sent
50137 To pray Achilles see us at our tent .
50138 If in his death the gods have us befriended ,
50139 Great Troy is ours , and our sharp wars are ended .
50140
50141 Stand , ho ! yet are we masters of the field .
50142 Never go home ; here starve we out the night .
50143
50144
50145 Hector is slain .
50146
50147 Hector ! the gods forbid !
50148
50149 He's dead ; and at the murderer's horse's tail ,
50150 In beastly sort , dragg'd through the shameful field .
50151 Frown on , you heavens , effect your rage with speed !
50152 Sit , gods , upon your thrones , and smile at Troy !
50153 I say , at once let your brief plagues be mercy ,
50154 And linger not our sure destructions on !
50155
50156 My lord , you do discomfort all the host .
50157
50158 You understand me not that tell me so .
50159 I do not speak of flight , of fear , of death ;
50160 But dare all imminence that gods and men
50161 Address their dangers in . Hector is gone :
50162 Who shall tell Priam so , or Hecuba ?
50163 Let him that will a screech-owl aye be call'd
50164 Go in to Troy , and say there Hector's dead :
50165 There is a word will Priam turn to stone ,
50166 Make wells and Niobes of the maids and wives ,
50167 Cold statues of the youth ; and , in a word ,
50168 Scare Troy out of itself . But march away :
50169 Hector is dead ; there is no more to say .
50170 Stay yet . You vile abominable tents ,
50171 Thus proudly pight upon our Phrygian plains ,
50172 Let Titan rise as early as he dare ,
50173 I'll through and through you ! And , thou great-siz'd coward ,
50174 No space of earth shall sunder our two hates :
50175 I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still ,
50176 That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy's thoughts .
50177 Strike a free march to Troy ! with comfort go :
50178 Hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe .
50179
50180 But hear you , hear you !
50181
50182 Hence , broker lackey ! ignomy and shame
50183 Pursue thy life , and live aye with thy name !
50184
50185
50186 A goodly medicine for my aching bones ! O world ! world ! world ! thus is the poor agent despised . O traitors and bawds , how earnestly are you set a-work , and how ill requited ! why should our endeavour be so loved , and the performance so loathed ? what verse for it ? what instance for it ?Let me see !
50187
50188 Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing ,
50189 Till he hath lost his honey and his sting ;
50190 And being once subdu'd in armed tail ,
50191 Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail .
50192
50193 Good traders in the flesh , set this in your painted cloths .
50194
50195 As many as be here of pander's hall ,
50196 Your eyes , half out , weep out at Pandar's fall ;
50197 Or if you cannot weep , yet give some groans ,
50198 Though not for me , yet for your aching bones .
50199 Brethren and sisters of the hold-door trade ,
50200 Some two months hence my will shall here be made .
50201 It should be now , but that my fear is this ,
50202 Some galled goose of Winchester would hiss .
50203 Till then I'll sweat , and seek about for eases ;
50204 And at that time bequeath you my diseases
50205
50206 TWELFTH-NIGHT; OR WHAT YOU WILL
50207
50208
50209 If music be the food of love , play on ;
50210 Give me excess of it , that , surfeiting ,
50211 The appetite may sicken , and so die .
50212 That strain again ! it had a dying fall :
50213 O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
50214 That breathes upon a bank of violets ,
50215 Stealing and giving odour . Enough ! no more :
50216 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before .
50217 O spirit of love ! how quick and fresh art thou ,
50218 That , notwithstanding thy capacity
50219 Receiveth as the sea , nought enters there ,
50220 Of what validity and pitch soe'er ,
50221 But falls into abatement and low price ,
50222 Even in a minute : so full of shapes is fancy ,
50223 That it alone is high fantastical .
50224
50225 Will you go hunt , my lord ?
50226
50227 What , Curio ?
50228
50229 The hart .
50230
50231 Why , so I do , the noblest that I have .
50232 O ! when mine eyes did see Olivia first ,
50233 Methought she purg'd the air of pestilence .
50234 That instant was I turn'd into a hart ,
50235 And my desires , like fell and cruel hounds ,
50236 E'er since pursue me .
50237
50238 How now ! what news from her ?
50239
50240 So please my lord , I might not be admitted ;
50241 But from her handmaid do return this answer :
50242 The element itself , till seven years' heat ,
50243 Shall not behold her face at ample view ;
50244 But , like a cloistress , she will veiled walk ,
50245 And water once a day her chamber round
50246 With eve-offending brine : all this , to season
50247 A brother's dead love , which she would keep fresh
50248 And lasting in her sad remembrance .
50249
50250 O ! she that hath a heart of that fine frame
50251 To pay this debt of love but to a brother ,
50252 How will she love , when the rich golden shaft
50253 Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else
50254 That live in her ; when liver , brain , and heart ,
50255 These sovereign thrones , are all supplied , and fill'd
50256 Her sweet perfections with one self king .
50257 Away before me to sweet beds of flowers ;
50258 Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers .
50259
50260
50261 What country , friends , is this ?
50262
50263 This is Illyria , lady .
50264
50265 And what should I do in Illyria ?
50266 My brother he is in Elysium .
50267 Perchance he is not drown'd : what think you sailors ?
50268
50269 It is perchance that you yourself were sav'd .
50270
50271 O my poor brother ! and so perchance may he be .
50272
50273 True , madam : and , to comfort you with chance ,
50274 Assure yourself , after our ship did split ,
50275 When you and those poor number sav'd with you
50276 Hung on our driving boat , I saw your brother ,
50277 Most provident in peril , bind himself ,
50278 Courage and hope both teaching him the practice ,
50279 To a strong mast that liv'd upon the sea ;
50280 Where , like Arion on the dolphin's back ,
50281 I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves
50282 So long as I could see .
50283
50284 For saying so there's gold .
50285 Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope ,
50286 Whereto thy speech serves for authority ,
50287 The like of him . Know'st thou this country ?
50288
50289 Ay , madam , well ; for I was bred and born
50290 Not three hours' travel from this very place .
50291
50292 Who governs here ?
50293
50294 A noble duke , in nature as in name .
50295
50296 What is his name ?
50297
50298 Orsino .
50299
50300 Orsino ! I have heard my father name him :
50301 He was a bachelor then .
50302
50303 And so is now , or was so very late ;
50304 For but a month ago I went from hence ,
50305 And then 'twas fresh in murmur ,as , you know ,
50306 What great ones do the less will prattle of ,
50307 That he did seek the love of fair Olivia .
50308
50309 What's she ?
50310
50311 A virtuous maid , the daughter of a count
50312 That died some twelvemonth since ; then leaving her
50313 In the protection of his son , her brother ,
50314 Who shortly also died : for whose dear love ,
50315 They say she hath abjur'd the company
50316 And sight of men .
50317
50318 O ! that I serv'd that lady ,
50319 And might not be deliver'd to the world ,
50320 Till I had made mine own occasion mellow ,
50321 What my estate is .
50322
50323 That were hard to compass ,
50324 Because she will admit no kind of suit ,
50325 No , not the duke's .
50326
50327 There is a fair behaviour in thee , captain ;
50328 And though that nature with a beauteous wall
50329 Doth oft close in pollution , yet of thee
50330 I will believe thou hast a mind that suits
50331 With this thy fair and outward character .
50332 I prithee ,and I'll pay thee bounteously ,
50333 Conceal me what I am , and be my aid
50334 For such disguise as haply shall become
50335 The form of my intent . I'll serve this duke :
50336 Thou shalt present me as a eunuch to him :
50337 It may be worth thy pains ; for I can sing
50338 And speak to him in many sorts of music
50339 That will allow me very worth his service .
50340 What else may hap to time I will commit ;
50341 Only shape thou thy silence to my wit .
50342
50343 Be you his eunuch , and your mute I'll be :
50344 When my tongue blabs , then let mine eyes not see .
50345
50346 I thank thee : lead me on .
50347
50348
50349 What a plague means my niece , to take the death of her brother thus ? I am sure care's an enemy to life .
50350
50351 By my troth , Sir Toby , you must come in earlier o' nights : your cousin , my lady , takes great exceptions to your ill hours .
50352
50353 Why , let her except before excepted .
50354
50355 Ay , but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order .
50356
50357 Confine ! I'll confine myself no finer than I am . These clothes are good enough to drink in , and so be these boots too : an they be not , let them hang themselves in their own straps .
50358
50359 That quaffing and drinking will undo you : I heard my lady talk of it yesterday ; and of a foolish knight that you brought in one night here to be her wooer .
50360
50361 Who ? Sir Andrew Aguecheek ?
50362
50363 Ay , he .
50364
50365 He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria .
50366
50367 What's that to the purpose ?
50368
50369 Why , he has three thousand ducats a year .
50370
50371 Ay , but he'll have but a year in all these ducats : he's a very fool and a prodigal .
50372
50373 Fie , that you'll say so ! he plays o' the viol-de-gamboys , and speaks three or four languages word for word without book , and hath all the good gifts of nature .
50374
50375 He hath indeed , almost natural ; for , besides that he's a fool , he's a great quarreller ; and but that he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling , 'tis thought among the prudent he would quickly have the gift of a grave .
50376
50377 By this hand , they are scoundrels and substractors that say so of him . Who are they ?
50378
50379 They that add , moreover , he's drunk nightly in your company .
50380
50381 With drinking healths to my niece . I'll drink to her as long as there is a passage in my throat and drink in Illyria . He's a coward and a coystril , that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn o' the toe like a parish-top . What , wench ! Castiliano vulgo ! for here comes Sir Andrew Agueface .
50382
50383
50384 Sir Toby Belch ! how now , Sir Toby Belch !
50385
50386 Sweet Sir Andrew !
50387
50388 Bless you , fair shrew .
50389
50390 And you too , sir .
50391
50392 Accost , Sir Andrew , accost .
50393
50394 What's that ?
50395
50396 My niece's chambermaid .
50397
50398 Good Mistress Accost , I desire better acquaintance .
50399
50400 My name is Mary , sir .
50401
50402 Good Mistress Mary Accost ,
50403
50404 You mistake , knight : 'accost' is , front her , board her , woo her , assail her .
50405
50406 By my troth , I would not undertake her in this company . Is that the meaning of 'accost ?'
50407
50408 Fare you well , gentlemen .
50409
50410 An thou let her part so , Sir Andrew , would thou mightst never draw sword again !
50411
50412 An you part so , mistress , I would I might never draw sword again . Fair lady , do you think you have fools in hand ?
50413
50414 Sir , I have not you by the hand .
50415
50416 Marry , but you shall have ; and here's my hand .
50417
50418 Now , sir , 'thought is free :' I pray you , bring your hand to the buttery-bar and let it drink .
50419
50420 Wherefore , sweetheart ? what's your metaphor ?
50421
50422 It's dry , sir .
50423
50424 Why , I think so : I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry . But what's your jest ?
50425
50426 A dry jest , sir .
50427
50428 Are you full of them ?
50429
50430 Ay , sir , I have them at my fingers' ends : marry , now I let go your hand , I am barren .
50431
50432
50433 O knight ! thou lackest a cup of canary : when did I see thee so put down ?
50434
50435 Never in your life , I think ; unless you see canary put me down . Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has ; but I am a great eater of beef , and I believe that does harm to my wit .
50436
50437 No question .
50438
50439 An I thought that , I'd forswear it .
50440 I'll ride home to-morrow , Sir Toby .
50441
50442 Pourquoi , my dear knight ?
50443
50444 What is 'pourquoi ?' do or not do ? I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing , dancing , and bear-baiting . O ! had I but followed the arts !
50445
50446 Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair .
50447
50448 Why , would that have mended my hair ?
50449
50450 Past question ; for thou seest it will not curl by nature .
50451
50452 But it becomes me well enough , does't not ?
50453
50454 Excellent ; it hangs like flax on a distaff , and I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs , and spin it off .
50455
50456 Faith , I'll home to-morrow , Sir Toby : your niece will not be seen ; or if she be , it's four to one she'll none of me . The count himself here hard by woos her .
50457
50458 She'll none o' the count ; she'll not match above her degree , neither in estate , years , nor wit ; I have heard her swear it . Tut , there's life in't , man .
50459
50460 I'll stay a month longer . I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world ; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether .
50461
50462 Art thou good at these kickchawses , knight ?
50463
50464 As any man in Illyria , whatsoever he be , under the degree of my betters : and yet I will not compare with an old man .
50465
50466 What is thy excellence in a galliard , knight ?
50467
50468 Faith , I can cut a caper .
50469
50470 And I can cut the mutton to't .
50471
50472 And I think I have the back-trick simply as strong as any man in Illyria .
50473
50474 Wherefore are these things hid ? wherefore have these gifts a curtain before 'em ? are they like to take dust , like Mistress Mall's picture ? why dost thou not go to church in a galliard , and come home in a coranto ? My very walk should be a jig : I would not so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace . What dost thou mean ? is it a world to hide virtues in ? I did think , by the excellent constitution of thy leg , it was formed under the star of a galliard .
50475
50476 Ay , 'tis strong , and it does indifferent well in a flame-coloured stock . Shall we set about some revels ?
50477
50478 What shall we do else ? were we not born under Taurus ?
50479
50480 Taurus ! that's sides and heart .
50481
50482 No , sir , it is legs and thighs . Let me see thee caper . Ha ! higher : ha , ha ! excellent !
50483
50484
50485 If the duke continue these favours towards you , Cesario , you are like to be much advanced : he hath known you but three days , and already you are no stranger .
50486
50487 You either fear his humour or my negligence , that you call in question the continuance of his love . Is he inconstant , sir , in his favours ?
50488
50489 No , believe me .
50490
50491 I thank you . Here comes the count .
50492
50493
50494 Who saw Cesario ? ho !
50495
50496 On your attendance , my lord ; here .
50497
50498 Stand you awhile aloof . Cesario ,
50499 Thou know'st no less but all ; I have unclasp'd
50500 To thee the book even of my secret soul :
50501 Therefore , good youth , address thy gait unto her ,
50502 Be not denied access , stand at her doors ,
50503 And tell them , there thy fixed foot shall grow
50504 Till thou have audience .
50505
50506 Sure , my noble lord ,
50507 If she be so abandon'd to her sorrow
50508 As it is spoke , she never will admit me .
50509
50510 Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds
50511 Rather than make unprofited return .
50512
50513 Say I do speak with her , my lord , what then ?
50514
50515 O ! then unfold the passion of my love ;
50516 Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith :
50517 It shall become thee well to act my woes ;
50518 She will attend it better in thy youth
50519 Than in a nuncio of more grave aspect .
50520
50521 I think not so , my lord .
50522
50523 Dear lad , believe it ;
50524 For they shall yet belie thy happy years
50525 That say thou art a man : Diana's lip
50526 Is not more smooth and rubious ; thy small pipe
50527 Is as the maiden's organ , shrill and sound ;
50528 And all is semblative a woman's part .
50529 I know thy constellation is right apt
50530 For this affair . Some four or five attend him ;
50531 All , if you will ; for I myself am best
50532 When least in company . Prosper well in this ,
50533 And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord ,
50534 To call his fortunes thine .
50535
50536 I'll do my best
50537 To woo your lady :
50538
50539 yet , a barful strife !
50540 Whoe'er I woo , myself would be his wife .
50541
50542
50543 Nay , either tell me where thou hast been , or I will not open my lips so wide as a bristle may enter in way of thy excuse . My lady will hang thee for thy absence .
50544
50545 Let her hang me : he that is well hanged in this world needs to fear no colours .
50546
50547 Make that good .
50548
50549 He shall see none to fear .
50550
50551 A good lenten answer : I can tell thee where that saying was born , of , 'I fear no colours .'
50552
50553 Where , good Mistress Mary ?
50554
50555 In the wars ; and that may you be bold to say in your foolery .
50556
50557 Well , God give them wisdom that have it ; and those that are fools , let them use their talents .
50558
50559 Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent ; or , to be turned away , is not that as good as a hanging to you ?
50560
50561 Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage ; and , for turning away , let summer bear it out .
50562
50563 You are resolute then ?
50564
50565 Not so , neither ; but I am resolved on two points .
50566
50567 That if one break , the other will hold ; or , if both break , your gaskins fall .
50568
50569 Apt , in good faith ; very apt . Well , go thy way : if Sir Toby would leave drinking , thou wert as witty a piece of Eve's flesh as any in Illyria .
50570
50571 Peace , you rogue , no more o' that . Here comes my lady : make your excuse wisely , you were best .
50572
50573
50574 Wit , an't be thy will , put me into good fooling ! Those wits that think they have thee , do very oft prove fools ; and I , that am sure I lack thee , may pass for a wise man : for what says Quinapalus ? 'Better a witty fool than a foolish wit .'
50575
50576 God bless thee , lady !
50577
50578 Take the fool away .
50579
50580 Do you not hear , fellows ? Take away the lady .
50581
50582 Go to , you're a dry fool ; I'll no more of you : besides , you grow dishonest .
50583
50584 Two faults , madonna , that drink and good counsel will amend : for give the dry fool drink , then is the fool not dry ; bid the dishonest man mend himself : if he mend , he is no longer dishonest ; if he cannot , let the botcher mend him . Any thing that's mended is but patched : virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin ; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue . If that this simple syllogism will serve , so ; if it will not , what remedy ? As there is no true cuckold but calamity , so beauty's a flower . The lady bade take away the fool ; therefore , I say again , take her away .
50585
50586 Sir , I bade them take away you .
50587
50588 Misprision in the highest degree ! Lady , cucullus non facit monachum ; that's as much to say as I wear not motley in my brain . Good madonna , give me leave to prove you a fool .
50589
50590 Can you do it ?
50591
50592 Dexteriously , good madonna .
50593
50594 Make your proof .
50595
50596 I must catechise you for it , madonna : good my mouse of virtue , answer me .
50597
50598 Well , sir , for want of other idleness , I'll bide your proof .
50599
50600 Good madonna , why mournest thou ?
50601
50602 Good fool , for my brother's death .
50603
50604 I think his soul is in hell , madonna .
50605
50606 I know his soul is in heaven , fool .
50607
50608 The more fool , madonna , to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven . Take away the fool , gentlemen .
50609
50610 What think you of this fool , Malvolio ? doth he not mend ?
50611
50612 Yes ; and shall do , till the pangs of death shake him : infirmity , that decays the wise , doth ever make the better fool .
50613
50614 God send you , sir , a speedy infirmity , for the better increasing your folly ! Sir Toby will be sworn that I am no fox , but he will not pass his word for two pence that you are no fool .
50615
50616 How say you to that , Malvolio ?
50617
50618 I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal : I saw him put down the other day with an ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone . Look you now , he's out of his guard already ; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him , he is gagged . I protest , I take these wise men , that crow so at these set kind of fools , no better than the fools' zanies .
50619
50620 O ! you are sick of self-love , Malvolio , and taste with a distempered appetite . To be generous , guiltless , and of free disposition , is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets . There is no slander in an allowed fool , though he do nothing but rail ; nor no railing in a known discreet man , though he do nothing but reprove .
50621
50622 Now , Mercury endue thee with leasing , for thou speakest well of fools !
50623
50624
50625 Madam , there is at the gate a young gentleman much desires to speak with you .
50626
50627 From the Count Orsino , is it ?
50628
50629 I know not , madam : 'tis a fair young man , and well attended .
50630
50631 Who of my people hold him in delay ?
50632
50633 Sir Toby , madam , your kinsman .
50634
50635 Fetch him off , I pray you : he speaks nothing but madman . Fie on him !
50636
50637
50638 Now you see , sir , how your fooling grows old , and people dislike it .
50639
50640 Thou hast spoken for us , madonna , as if thy eldest son should be a fool ; whose skull Jove cram with brains ! for here comes one of thy kin has a most weak pia mater .
50641
50642
50643 By mine honour , half drunk . What is he at the gate , cousin ?
50644
50645 A gentleman .
50646
50647 A gentleman ! what gentleman ?
50648
50649 'Tis a gentleman here ,a plague o' these pickle herring ! How now , sot !
50650
50651 Good Sir Toby .
50652
50653 Cousin , cousin , how have you come so early by this lethargy ?
50654
50655 Lechery ! I defy lechery ! There's one at the gate .
50656
50657 Ay , marry , what is he ?
50658
50659 Let him be the devil , an he will , I care not : give me faith , say I . Well , it's all one .
50660
50661
50662 What's a drunken man like , fool ?
50663
50664 Like a drowned man , a fool , and a madman : one draught above heat makes him a fool , the second mads him , and a third drowns him .
50665
50666 Go thou and seek the crowner , and let him sit o' my coz ; for he's in the third degree of drink , he's drowned : go , look after him .
50667
50668 He is but mad yet , madonna ; and the fool shall look to the madman .
50669
50670 Madam , yond young fellow swears he will speak with you . I told him you were sick : he takes on him to understand so much , and therefore comes to speak with you . I told him you were asleep : he seems to have a foreknowledge of that too , and therefore comes to speak with you . What is to be said to him , lady ? he's fortified against any denial .
50671
50672 Tell him he shall not speak with me .
50673
50674 Ha's been told so ; and he says , he'll stand at your door like a sheriff's post , and be the supporter to a bench , but he'll speak with you .
50675
50676 What kind o' man is he ?
50677
50678 Why , of mankind .
50679
50680 What manner of man ?
50681
50682 Of very ill manner : he'll speak with you , will you or no .
50683
50684 Of what personage and years is he ?
50685
50686 Not yet old enough for a man , nor young enough for a boy ; as a squash is before 'tis a peascod , or a codling when 'tis almost an apple : 'tis with him in standing water , between boy and man . He is very well-favoured , and he speaks very shrewishly : one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him .
50687
50688 Let him approach . Call in my gentlewoman .
50689
50690 Gentlewoman , my lady calls .
50691
50692 Give me my veil : come , throw it o'er my face .
50693 We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy .
50694
50695
50696 The honourable lady of the house , which is she ?
50697
50698 Speak to me ; I shall answer for her .
50699 Your will ?
50700
50701 Most radiant , exquisite , and unmatchable beauty ,I pray you tell me if this be the lady of the house , for I never saw her : I would be loath to cast away my speech ; for , besides that it is excellently well penned , I have taken great pains to con it . Good beauties , let me sustain no scorn ; I am very comptible , even to the least sinister usage .
50702
50703 Whence came you , sir ?
50704
50705 I can say little more than I have studied , and that question's out of my part . Good gentle one , give me modest assurance if you be the lady of the house , that I may proceed in my speech .
50706
50707 Are you a comedian ?
50708
50709 No , my profound heart ; and yet , by the very fangs of malice I swear I am not that I play . Are you the lady of the house ?
50710
50711 If I do not usurp myself , I am .
50712
50713 Most certain , if you are she , you do usurp yourself ; for , what is yours to bestow is not yours to reserve . But this is from my commission : I will on with my speech in your praise , and then show you the heart of my message .
50714
50715 Come to what is important in't : I forgive you the praise .
50716
50717 Alas ! I took great pains to study it , and 'tis poetical .
50718
50719 It is the more like to be feigned : I pray you keep it in . I heard you were saucy at my gates , and allowed your approach rather to wonder at you than to hear you . If you be not mad , be gone ; if you have reason , be brief : 'tis not that time of moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue .
50720
50721 Will you hoist sail , sir ? here lies your way .
50722
50723 No , good swabber ; I am to hull here a little longer . Some mollification for your giant , sweet lady .
50724
50725 Tell me your mind .
50726
50727 I am a messenger .
50728
50729 Sure , you have some hideous matter to deliver , when the courtesy of it is so fearful . Speak your office .
50730
50731 It alone concerns your ear . I bring no overture of war , no taxation of homage : I hold the olive in my hand ; my words are as full of peace as matter .
50732
50733 Yet you began rudely . What are you ? what would you ?
50734
50735 The rudeness that hath appear'd in me have I learn'd from my entertainment . What I am , and what I would , are as secret as maiden-head ; to your ears , divinity ; to any other's , profanation .
50736
50737 Give us the place alone : we will hear this divinity .
50738
50739 Now , sir ; what is your text ?
50740
50741 Most sweet lady ,
50742
50743 A comfortable doctrine , and much may be said of it . Where lies your text ?
50744
50745 In Orsino's bosom .
50746
50747 In his bosom ! In what chapter of his bosom ?
50748
50749 To answer by the method , in the first of his heart .
50750
50751 O ! I have read it : it is heresy . Have you no more to say ?
50752
50753 Good madam , let me see your face .
50754
50755 Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate with my face ? you are now out of your text : but we will draw the curtain and show you the picture .
50756
50757 Look you , sir , such a one I was as this present : is't not well done ?
50758
50759 Excellently done , if God did all .
50760
50761 'Tis in grain , sir ; 'twill endure wind and weather .
50762
50763 'Tis beauty truly blent , whose red and white
50764 Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on :
50765 Lady , you are tho cruell'st she alive ,
50766 If you will lead these graces to the grave
50767 And leave the world no copy .
50768
50769 O ! sir , I will not be so hard-hearted ; I will give out divers schedules of my beauty : it shall be inventoried , and every particle and utensil labelled to my will : as Item , Two lips , indifferent red ; Item , Two grey eyes , with lids to them ; Item , One neck , one chin , and so forth . Were you sent hither to praise me ?
50770
50771 I see you what you are : you are too proud ;
50772 But , if you were the devil , you are fair .
50773 My lord and master loves you : O ! such love
50774 Could be but recompens'd , though you were crown'd
50775 The nonpareil of beauty .
50776
50777 How does he love me ?
50778
50779 With adorations , with fertile tears ,
50780 With groans that thunder love , with sighs of fire .
50781
50782 Your lord does know my mind ; I cannot love him ;
50783 Yet I suppose him virtuous , know him noble ,
50784 Of great estate , of fresh and stainless youth ;
50785 In voices well divulg'd , free , learn'd , and valiant ;
50786 And , in dimension and the shape of nature
50787 A gracious person ; but yet I cannot love him :
50788 He might have took his answer long ago .
50789
50790 If I did love you in my master's flame ,
50791 With such a suffering , such a deadly life ,
50792 In your denial I would find no sense ;
50793 I would not understand it .
50794
50795 Why , what would you ?
50796
50797 Make me a willow cabin at your gate ,
50798 And call upon my soul within the house ;
50799 Write loyal cantons of contemned love ,
50800 And sing them loud even in the dead of night ;
50801 Holla your name to the reverberate hills ,
50802 And make the babbling gossip of the air
50803 Cry out , 'Olivia !' O ! you should not rest
50804 Between the elements of air and earth ,
50805 But you should pity me !
50806
50807 You might do much . What is your parentage ?
50808
50809 Above my fortune , yet my state is well :
50810 I am a gentleman .
50811
50812 Get you to your lord :
50813 I cannot love him . Let him send no more ,
50814 Unless , perchance , you come to me again ,
50815 To tell me how he takes it . Fare you well :
50816 I thank you for your pains : spend this for me .
50817
50818 I am no fee'd post , lady ; keep your purse :
50819 My master , not myself , lacks recompense .
50820 Love make his heart of flint that you shall love ,
50821 And let your fervour , like my master's , be
50822 Plac'd in contempt ! Farewell , fair cruelty .
50823
50824
50825 'What is your parentage ?'
50826 'Above my fortunes , yet my state is well :
50827 I am a gentleman .' I'll be sworn thou art :
50828 Thy tongue , thy face , thy limbs , actions , and spirit ,
50829 Do give thee five-fold blazon . Not too fast : soft ! soft !
50830 Unless the master were the man . How now !
50831 Even so quickly may one catch the plague ?
50832 Methinks I feel this youth's perfections
50833 With an invisible and subtle stealth
50834 To creep in at mine eyes . Well , let it be .
50835 What , ho ! Malvolio !
50836
50837
50838 Here , madam , at your service .
50839
50840 Run after that same peevish messenger ,
50841 The county's man : he left this ring behind him ,
50842 Would I , or not : tell him I'll none of it .
50843 Desire him not to flatter with his lord ,
50844 Nor hold him up with hopes : I'm not for him .
50845 If that the youth will come this way to-morrow ,
50846 I'll give him reasons for't . Hie thee , Malvolio .
50847
50848 Madam , I will .
50849
50850
50851 I do I know not what , and fear to find
50852 Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind .
50853 Fate , show thy force : ourselves we do not owe ;
50854 What is decreed must be , and be this so !
50855
50856 Will you stay no longer ? nor will you not that I go with you ?
50857
50858 By your patience , no . My stars shine darkly over me ; the malignancy of my fate might , perhaps , distemper yours ; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone . It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you .
50859
50860 Let me yet know of you whither you are bound .
50861
50862 No , sooth , sir : my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy . But I perceive in you so excellent a touch of modesty that you will not extort from me what I am willing to keep in ; therefore , it charges me in manners the rather to express myself . You must know of me then , Antonio , my name is Sebastian , which I called Roderigo . My father was that Sebastian of Messaline , whom I know you have heard of . He left behind him myself and a sister , both born in an hour : if the heavens had been pleased , would we had so ended ! but you , sir , altered that ; for some hour before you took me from the breach of the sea was my sister drowned .
50863
50864 Alas the day !
50865
50866 A lady , sir , though it was said she much resembled me , was yet of many accounted beautiful : but , though I could not with such estimable wonder overfar believe that , yet thus far I will boldly publish her : she bore a mind that envy could not but call fair . She is drowned already , sir , with salt water , though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more .
50867
50868 Pardon me , sir , your bad entertainment .
50869
50870 O good Antonio ! forgive me your trouble !
50871
50872 If you will not murder me for my love , let me be your servant .
50873
50874 If you will not undo what you have done , that is , kill him whom you have recovered , desire it not . Fare ye well at once : my bosom is full of kindness ; and I am yet so near the manners of my mother , that upon the least occasion more mine eyes will tell tales of me . I am bound to the Count Orsino's court : farewell .
50875
50876
50877 The gentleness of all the gods go with thee !
50878 I have many enemies in Orsino's court ,
50879 Else would I very shortly see thee there ;
50880 But , come what may , I do adore thee so ,
50881 That danger shall seem sport , and I will go .
50882
50883
50884 Were not you even now with the Countess Olivia ?
50885
50886 Even now , sir : on a moderate pace I have since arrived but hither .
50887
50888 She returns this ring to you , sir : you might have saved me my pains , to have taken it away yourself . She adds , moreover , that you should put your lord into a desperate assurance she will none of him . And one thing more ; that you be never so hardy to come again in his affairs , unless it be to report your lord's taking of this . Receive it so .
50889
50890 She took the ring of me ; I'll none of it .
50891
50892 Come , sir , you peevishly threw it to her ; and her will is it should be so returned : if it be worth stooping for , there it lies in your eye ; if not , be it his that finds it .
50893
50894
50895 I left no ring with her : what means this lady ?
50896 Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her !
50897 She made good view of me ; indeed , so much ,
50898 That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue ,
50899 For she did speak in starts distractedly .
50900 She loves me , sure ; the cunning of her passion
50901 Invites me in this churlish messenger .
50902 None of my lord's ring ! why , he sent her none .
50903 I am the man : if it be so , as 'tis ,
50904 Poor lady , she were better love a dream .
50905 Disguise , I see , thou art a wickedness ,
50906 Wherein the pregnant enemy does much .
50907 How easy is it for the proper-false
50908 In women's waxen hearts to set their forms !
50909 Alas ! our frailty is the cause , not we !
50910 For such as we are made of , such we be .
50911 How will this fadge ? My master loves her dearly ;
50912 And I , poor monster , fond as much on him ;
50913 And she , mistaken , seems to dote on me .
50914 What will become of this ? As I am man ,
50915 My state is desperate for my master's love ;
50916 As I am woman ,now alas the day !
50917 What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe !
50918 O time ! thou must untangle this , not I ;
50919 It is too hard a knot for me to untie .
50920
50921
50922 Approach , Sir Andrew : not to be a-bed after midnight is to be up betimes ; and diluculo surgere , thou knowest ,
50923
50924 Nay , by my troth , I know not ; but I know , to be up late is to be up late .
50925
50926 A false conclusion : I hate it as an unfilled can . To be up after midnight and to go to bed then , is early ; so that to go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes . Does not our life consist of the four elements ?
50927
50928 Faith , so they say ; but , I think , it rather consists of eating and drinking .
50929
50930 Thou art a scholar ; let us therefore eat and drink . Marian , I say ! a stoup of wine !
50931
50932
50933 Here comes the fool , i' faith .
50934
50935 How now , my hearts ! Did you never see the picture of 'we three ?'
50936
50937 Welcome , ass . Now let's have a catch .
50938
50939 By my troth , the fool has an excellent breast . I had rather than forty shillings I had such a leg , and so sweet a breath to sing , as the fool has . In sooth , thou wast in very gracious fooling last night , when thou spokest of Pigrogromitus , of the Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus : 'twas very good , i' faith . I sent thee sixpence for thy leman : hadst it ?
50940
50941 I did impeticos thy gratillity ; for Malvolio's nose is no whipstock : my lady has a white hand , and the Myrmidons are no bottleale houses .
50942
50943 Excellent ! Why , this is the best fooling , when all is done . Now , a song .
50944
50945 Come on ; there is sixpence for you : let's have a song .
50946
50947 There's a testril of me too : if one knight give a
50948
50949 Would you have a love-song , or a song of good life ?
50950
50951 A love-song , a love-song .
50952
50953 Ay , ay ; I care not for good life .
50954
50955
50956 O mistress mine ! where are you roaming ?
50957 O ! stay and hear ; your true love's coming ,
50958 That can sing both high and low .
50959 Trip no further , pretty sweeting ;
50960 Journeys end in lovers meeting ,
50961 Every wise man's son doth know .
50962
50963
50964 Excellent good , i' faith .
50965
50966 Good , good .
50967
50968
50969 What is love ? 'tis not hereafter ;
50970 Present mirth hath present laughter ;
50971 What's to come is still unsure :
50972 In delay there lies no plenty ;
50973 Then come kiss me , sweet and twenty ,
50974 Youth's a stuff will not endure .
50975
50976
50977 A mellifluous voice , as I am true knight .
50978
50979 A contagious breath .
50980
50981 Very sweet and contagious , i' faith .
50982
50983 To hear by the nose , it is dulcet in contagion . But shall we make the welkin dance indeed ? Shall we rouse the night-owl in a catch that will draw three souls out of one weaver ? shall we do that ?
50984
50985 An you love me , let's do't : I am dog at a catch .
50986
50987 By'r lady , sir , and some dogs will catch well .
50988
50989 Most certain . Let our catch be , 'Thou knave .'
50990
50991 Hold thy peace , thou knave ,' knight ? I shall be constrain'd in't to call thee knave , knight .
50992
50993 'Tis not the first time I have constrained one to call me knave . Begin , fool : it begins , 'Hold thy peace .'
50994
50995 I shall never begin if I hold my peace .
50996
50997 Good , i' faith . Come , begin .
50998
50999 What a caterwauling do you keep here ! If my lady have not called up her steward Malvolio and bid him turn you out of doors , never trust me .
51000
51001 My lady's a Cataian ; we are politicians ; Malvolio's a Peg-a-Ramsey , and 'Three merry men be we .' Am not I consanguineous ? am I not of her blood ? Tillyvally , lady !
51002 There dwelt a man in Babylon , lady , lady !
51003
51004 Beshrew me , the knight's in admirable fooling .
51005
51006 Ay , he does well enough if he be disposed , and so do I too : he does it with a better grace , but I do it more natural .
51007
51008 O ! the twelfth day of December ,
51009
51010 For the love o' God , peace !
51011
51012
51013 My masters , are you mad ? or what are you ? Have you no wit , manners , nor honesty , but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night ? Do ye make an alehouse of my lady's house , that ye squeak out your coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice ? Is there no respect of place , persons , nor time , in you ?
51014
51015 We did keep time , sir , in our catches . Sneck up !
51016
51017 Sir Toby , I must be round with you . My lady bade me tell you , that , though she harbours you as her kinsman , she's nothing allied to your disorders . If you can separate yourself and your misdemeanours , you are welcome to the house ; if not , an it would please you to take leave of her , she is very willing to bid you farewell .
51018
51019 Farewell , dear heart , since I must needs be gone .
51020
51021 Nay , good Sir Toby .
51022
51023 His eyes do show his days are almost done .
51024
51025 Is't even so ?
51026
51027 But I will never die .
51028
51029 Sir Toby , there you lie .
51030
51031 This is much credit to you .
51032
51033 Shall I bid him go ?
51034
51035 What an if you do ?
51036
51037 Shall I bid him go , and spare not ?
51038
51039 O ! no , no , no , no , you dare not .
51040
51041 'Out o' time !' Sir , ye lie . Art any more than a steward ? Dost thou think , because thou art virtuous , there shall be no more cakes and ale ?
51042
51043 Yes , by Saint Anne ; and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too .
51044
51045 Thou'rt i' the right . Go , sir , rub your chain with crumbs . A stoup of wine , Maria !
51046
51047 Mistress Mary , if you prized my lady's favour at anything more than contempt , you would not give means for this uncivil rule : she shall know of it , by this hand .
51048
51049
51050 Go shake your ears .
51051
51052 'Twere as good a deed as to drink when a man's a-hungry , to challenge him the field , and then to break promise with him and make a fool of him .
51053
51054 Do't , knight : I'll write thee a challenge ; or I'll deliver thy indignation to him by word of mouth .
51055
51056 Sweet Sir Toby , be patient for to-night : since the youth of the count's was to-day with my lady , she is much out of quiet . For Monsieur Malvolio , let me alone with him : if I do not gull him into a nayword , and make him a common recreation , do not think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed . I know I can do it .
51057
51058 Possess us , possess us ; tell us something of him .
51059
51060 Marry , sir , sometimes he is a kind of puritan .
51061
51062 O ! if I thought that , I'd beat him like a dog .
51063
51064 What , for being a puritan ? thy exquisite reason , dear knight ?
51065
51066 I have no exquisite reason for't , but I have reason good enough .
51067
51068 The devil a puritan that he is , or anything constantly but a time-pleaser ; an affectioned ass , that cons state without book , and utters it by great swarths : the best persuaded of himself ; so crammed , as he thinks , with excellences , that it is his ground of faith that all that look on him love him ; and on that vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work .
51069
51070 What wilt thou do ?
51071
51072 I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love ; wherein , by the colour of his beard , the shape of his leg , the manner of his gait , the expressure of his eye , forehead , and complexion , he shall find himself most feelingly personated . I can write very like my lady your niece ; on a forgotten matter we can hardly make distinction of our hands .
51073
51074 Excellent ! I smell a device .
51075
51076 I have't in my nose too .
51077
51078 He shall think , by the letters that thou wilt drop , that they come from my niece , and that she is in love with him .
51079
51080 My purpose is , indeed , a horse of that colour .
51081
51082 And your horse now would make him an ass .
51083
51084 Ass , I doubt not .
51085
51086 O ! 'twill be admirable .
51087
51088 Sport royal , I warrant you : I know my physic will work with him . I will plant you two , and let the fool make a third , where he shall find the letter : observe his construction of it . For this night , to bed , and dream on the event . Farewell .
51089
51090
51091 Good night , Penthesilea .
51092
51093 Before me , she's a good wench .
51094
51095 She's a beagle , true-bred , and one that adores me : what o' that ?
51096
51097 I was adored once too .
51098
51099 Let's to bed , knight . Thou hadst need send for more money .
51100
51101 If I cannot recover your niece , I am a foul way out .
51102
51103 Send for money , knight : if thou hast her not i' the end , call me cut .
51104
51105 If I do not , never trust me , take it how you will .
51106
51107 Come , come : I'll go burn some sack ; 'tis too late to go to bed now . Come , knight ; come , knight .
51108
51109
51110 Give me some music . Now , good morrow , friends :
51111 Now , good Cesario , but that piece of song ,
51112 That old and antique song we heard last night ;
51113 Methought it did relieve my passion much ,
51114 More than light airs and recollected terms
51115 Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times :
51116 Come ; but one verse .
51117
51118 He is not here , so please your lordship , that should sing it .
51119
51120 Who was it ?
51121
51122 Feste , the jester , my lord ; a fool that the Lady Olivia's father took much delight in . He is about the house .
51123
51124 Seek him out , and play the tune the while .
51125
51126 Come hither , boy : if ever thou shalt love ,
51127 In the sweet pangs of it remember me ;
51128 For such as I am all true lovers are :
51129 Unstaid and skittish in all motions else
51130 Save in the constant image of the creature
51131 That is belov'd . How dost thou like this tune ?
51132
51133 It gives a very echo to the seat
51134 Where love is thron'd .
51135
51136 Thou dost speak masterly .
51137 My life upon't , young though thou art , thine eye
51138 Hath stay'd upon some favour that it loves ;
51139 Hath it not , boy ?
51140
51141 A little , by your favour .
51142
51143 What kind of woman is't ?
51144
51145 Of your complexion .
51146
51147 She is not worth thee , then . What years , i' faith ?
51148
51149 About your years , my lord .
51150
51151 Too old , by heaven . Let still the woman take
51152 An elder than herself , so wears she to him ,
51153 So sways she level in her husband's heart :
51154 For , boy , however we do praise ourselves ,
51155 Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm ,
51156 More longing , wavering , sooner lost and worn ,
51157 Than women's are .
51158
51159 I think it well , my lord .
51160
51161 Then , let thy love be younger than thyself ,
51162 Or thy affection cannot hold the bent ;
51163 For women are as roses , whose fair flower
51164 Being once display'd , doth fall that very hour .
51165
51166 And so they are : alas , that they are so ;
51167 To die , even when they to perfection grow !
51168
51169
51170 O , fellow ! come , the song we had last night .
51171 Mark it , Cesario ; it is old and plain ;
51172 The spinsters and the knitters in the sun ,
51173 And the free maids that weave their thread with bones ,
51174 Do use to chant it : it is silly sooth ,
51175 And dallies with the innocence of love ,
51176 Like the old age .
51177
51178 Are you ready , sir ?
51179
51180 Ay ; prithee , sing .
51181
51182
51183 Come away , come away , death ,
51184 And in sad cypress let me be laid ;
51185 Fly away , fly away , breath ;
51186 I am slain by a fair cruel maid .
51187 My shroud of white , stuck all with yew ,
51188 O ! prepare it
51189 My part of death , no one so true
51190 Did share it .
51191
51192
51193 Not a flower , not a flower sweet ,
51194 On my black coffin let there be strown ,
51195 Not a friend , not a friend greet
51196 My poor corse , where my bones shall be thrown .
51197 A thousand thousand sighs to save ,
51198 Lay me , O ! where
51199 Sad true lover never find my grave ,
51200 To weep there .
51201
51202
51203 There's for thy pains .
51204
51205 No pains , sir ; I take pleasure in singing , sir .
51206
51207 I'll pay thy pleasure then .
51208
51209 Truly , sir , and pleasure will be paid , one time or another .
51210
51211 Give me now leave to leave thee .
51212
51213 Now , the melancholy god protect thee , and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta , for thy mind is a very opal ! I would have men of such constancy put to sea , that their business might be everything and their intent everywhere ; for that's it that always makes a good voyage of nothing . Farewell .
51214
51215
51216 Let all the rest give place .
51217
51218 Once more , Cesario ,
51219 Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty :
51220 Tell her , my love , more noble than the world ,
51221 Prizes not quantity of dirty lands ;
51222 The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her ,
51223 Tell her , I hold as giddily as fortune ;
51224 But 'tis that miracle and queen of gems
51225 That nature pranks her in attracts my soul .
51226
51227 But if she cannot love you , sir ?
51228
51229 I cannot be so answer'd .
51230
51231 Sooth , but you must .
51232 Say that some lady , as perhaps , there is ,
51233 Hath for your love as great a pang of heart
51234 As you have for Olivia : you cannot love her ;
51235 You tell her so ; must she not then be answer'd ?
51236
51237 There is no woman's sides
51238 Can bide the beating of so strong a passion
51239 As love doth give my heart ; no woman's heart
51240 So big , to hold so much ; they lack retention .
51241 Alas ! their love may be call'd appetite ,
51242 No motion of the liver , but the palate ,
51243 That suffer surfeit , cloyment , and revolt ;
51244 But mine is all as hungry as the sea ,
51245 And can digest as much . Make no compare
51246 Between that love a woman can bear me
51247 And that I owe Olivia .
51248
51249 Ay , but I know ,
51250
51251 What dost thou know ?
51252
51253 Too well what love women to men may owe :
51254 In faith , they are as true of heart as we .
51255 My father had a daughter lov'd a man ,
51256 As it might be , perhaps , were I a woman ,
51257 I should your lordship .
51258
51259 And what's her history ?
51260
51261 A blank , my lord . She never told her love ,
51262 But let concealment , like a worm i' the bud ,
51263 Feed on her damask cheek : she pin'd in thought ,
51264 And with a green and yellow melancholy ,
51265 She sat like Patience on a monument ,
51266 Smiling at grief . Was not this love indeed ?
51267 We men may say more , swear more ; but indeed
51268 Our shows are more than will , for still we prove
51269 Much in our vows , but little in our love .
51270
51271 But died thy sister of her love , my boy ?
51272
51273 I am all the daughters of my father's house ,
51274 And all the brothers too ; and yet I know not .
51275 Sir , shall I to this lady ?
51276
51277 Ay , that's the theme .
51278 To her in haste ; give her this jewel ; say
51279 My love can give no place , bide no denay .
51280
51281
51282 Come thy ways , Signior Fabian .
51283
51284 Nay , I'll come : if I lose a scruple of this sport , let me be boiled to death with melancholy .
51285
51286 Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly rascally sheep-biter come by some notable shame ?
51287
51288 I would exult , man : you know he brought me out o' favour with my lady about a bear-baiting here .
51289
51290 To anger him we'll have the bear again ; and we will fool him black and blue ; shall we not , Sir Andrew ?
51291
51292 An we do not , it is pity of our lives .
51293
51294 Here comes the little villain .
51295
51296 How now , my metal of India !
51297
51298 Get ye all three into the box-tree . Malvolio's coming down this walk : he has been yonder i' the sun practising behaviour to his own shadow this half-hour . Observe him , for the love of mockery ; for I know this letter will make a contemplative idiot of him . Close , in the name of jesting ! Lie thou there :
51299
51300 for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling .
51301
51302 'Tis but fortune ; all is fortune . Maria once told me she did affect me ; and I have heard herself come thus near , that should she fancy , it should be one of my complexion . Besides , she uses me with a more exalted respect than anyone else that follows her . What should I think on't ?
51303
51304 Here's an over-weening rogue !
51305
51306 O , peace ! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him : how he jets under his advanced plumes !
51307
51308 'Slight , I could so beat the rogue !
51309
51310 Peace ! I say .
51311
51312 To be Count Malvolio !
51313
51314 Ah , rogue !
51315
51316 Pistol him , pistol him .
51317
51318 Peace ! peace !
51319
51320 There is example for't : the lady of the Strachy married the yeoman of the wardrobe .
51321
51322 Fie on him , Jezebel !
51323
51324 O , peace ! now he's deeply in ; look how imagination blows him .
51325
51326 Having been three months married to her , sitting in my state ,
51327
51328 O ! for a stone-bow , to hit him in the eye !
51329
51330 Calling my officers about me , in my branched velvet gown ; having come from a daybed , where I have left Olivia sleeping ,
51331
51332 Fire and brimstone !
51333
51334 O , peace ! peace !
51335
51336 And then to have the humour of state : and after a demure travel of regard , telling them I know my place , as I would they should do theirs , to ask for my kinsman Toby ,
51337
51338 Bolts and shackles !
51339
51340 O , peace , peace , peace ! now , now .
51341
51342 Seven of my people , with an obedient start , make out for him . I frown the while ; and perchance wind up my watch , or play with my some rich jewel . Toby approaches ; curtsies there to me ,
51343
51344 Shall this fellow live ?
51345
51346 Though our silence be drawn from us with cars , yet peace !
51347
51348 I extend my hand to him thus , quenching my familiar smile with an austere regard of control ,
51349
51350 And does not Toby take you a blow o' the lips then ?
51351
51352 Saying , 'Cousin Toby , my fortunes having cast me on your niece give me this prerogative of speech ,'
51353
51354 What , what ?
51355
51356 'You must amend your drunkenness .'
51357
51358 Out , scab !
51359
51360 Nay , patience , or we break the sinews of our plot .
51361
51362 'Besides , you waste the treasure of your time with a foolish knight ,'
51363
51364 That's me , I warrant you .
51365
51366 'One Sir Andrew ,'
51367
51368 I knew 'twas I ; for many do call me fool .
51369
51370 What employment have we here ?
51371
51372 Now is the woodcock near the gin .
51373
51374 O , peace ! and the spirit of humours intimate reading aloud to him !
51375
51376 By my life , this is my lady's hand ! these be her very C's , her U's , and her T's ; and thus makes she her great P's . It is , in contempt of question , her hand .
51377
51378 Her C's , her U's , and her T's : why that
51379
51380 To the unknown beloved , this and my good wishes : her very phrases ! By your leave , wax . Soft ! and the impressure her Lucrece , with which she uses to seal : 'tis my lady . To whom should this be ?
51381
51382 This wins him , liver and all .
51383
51384
51385 Jove knows I love ;
51386 But who ?
51387 Lips , do not move
51388 No man must know .
51389
51390 'No man must know .' What follows ? the numbers altered ! 'No man must know :' if this should be thee , Malvolio !
51391
51392 Marry , hang thee , brock !
51393
51394
51395 I may command where I adore ;
51396 But silence , like a Lucrece knife ,
51397 With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore :
51398 M , O , A , I , doth sway my life .
51399
51400
51401 A fustian riddle !
51402
51403 Excellent wench , say I .
51404
51405 'M , O , A , I , doth sway my life .' Nay , but first , let me see , let me see , let me see .
51406
51407 What dish o' poison has she dressed him !
51408
51409 And with what wing the staniel checks at it !
51410
51411 'I may command where I adore .' Why , she may command me : I serve her ; she is my lady . Why , this is evident to any formal capacity ; there is no obstruction in this . And the end , what should that alphabetical position portend ? if I could make that resemble something in me ,Softly !M , O , A , I ,
51412
51413 O ! ay , make up that : he is now at a cold scent .
51414
51415 Sowter will cry upon 't , for all this , though it be as rank as a fox .
51416
51417 M , Malvolio ; M , why , that begins my name .
51418
51419 Did not I say he would work it out ? the cur is excellent at faults .
51420
51421 M ,But then there is no consonancy in the sequel ; that suffers under probation : A should follow , but O does .
51422
51423 And O shall end , I hope .
51424
51425 Ay , or I'll cudgel him , and make him cry , O !
51426
51427 And then I comes behind .
51428
51429 Ay , an you had any eye behind you , you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you .
51430
51431 M , O , A , I ; this simulation is not as the former ; and yet , to crush this a little , it would bow to me , for every one of these letters are in my name . Soft ! here follows prose .
51432
51433 If this fall into thy hand , revolve . In my stars I am above thee ; but be not afraid of greatness : some are born great , some achieve greatness , and some have greatness thrust upon them . Thy Fates open their hands ; let thy blood and spirit embrace them ; and to inure thyself to what thou art like to be , cast thy humble slough , and appear fresh . Be opposite with a kinsman , surly with servants ; let thy tongue tang arguments of state ; put thyself into the trick of singularity She thus advises thee that sighs for thee . Remember who commended thy yellow stockings , and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered : I say , remember . Go to , thou art made , if thou desirest to be so ; if not , let me see thee a steward still , the fellow of servants , and not worthy to touch Fortune's fingers . Farewell . She that would alter services with thee . THE FORTUNATE-UNHAPPY .
51434
51435 Daylight and champian discovers not more : this is open . I will be proud , I will read politic authors , I will baffle Sir Toby , I will wash off gross acquaintance , I will be point-devise the very man . I do not now fool myself , to let imagination jade me , for every reason excites to this , that my lady loves me . She did commend my yellow stockings of late , she did praise my leg being cross-gartered ; and in this she manifests herself to my love , and , with a kind of injunction drives me to these habits of her liking . I thank my stars I am happy . I will be strange , stout , in yellow stockings , and cross-gartered , even with the swiftness of putting on . Jove and my stars be praised ! Here is yet a postscript .
51436
51437 Thou canst not choose but know who I am . If thou entertainest my love , let it appear in thy smiling ; thy smiles become thee well ; therefore in my presence still smile , dear my sweet , I prithee .
51438
51439 Jove , I thank thee . I will smile : I will do everything that thou wilt have me .
51440
51441
51442 I will not give my part of this sport for a pension of thousands to be paid from the Sophy .
51443
51444 I could marry this wench for this device .
51445
51446 So could I too .
51447
51448 And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest .
51449
51450 Nor I neither .
51451
51452 Here comes my noble gull-catcher .
51453
51454
51455 Wilt thou set thy foot o' my neck ?
51456
51457 Or o' mine either ?
51458
51459 Shall I play my freedom at tray-trip , and become thy bond-slave ?
51460
51461 I' faith , or I either ?
51462
51463 Why , thou hast put him in such a dream , that when the image of it leaves him he must run mad .
51464
51465 Nay , but say true ; does it work upon him ?
51466
51467 Like aqua-vit with a midwife .
51468
51469 If you will , then see the fruits of the sport , mark his first approach before my lady ; he will come to her in yellow stockings , and 'tis a colour she abhors ; and cross-gartered , a fashion she detests ; and he will smile upon her , which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition , being addicted to a melancholy as she is , that it cannot but turn him into a notable contempt . If you will see it , follow me .
51470
51471 To the gates of Tartar , thou most excellent devil of wit !
51472
51473 I'll make one too .
51474
51475 Save thee , friend , and thy music . Dost thou live by thy tabor ?
51476
51477 No , sir , I live by the church .
51478
51479 Art thou a churchman ?
51480
51481 No such matter , sir : I do live by the church ; for I do live at my house , and my house doth stand by the church .
51482
51483 So thou mayst say , the king lies by a beggar , if a beggar dwell near him ; or , the church stands by thy tabor , if thy tabor stand by the church .
51484
51485 You have said , sir . To see this age !
51486 A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit : how quickly the wrong side may be turned outward !
51487
51488 Nay , that's certain : they that dally nicely with words may quickly make them wanton .
51489
51490 I would therefore my sister had had no name , sir .
51491
51492 Why , man ?
51493
51494 Why , sir , her name's a word ; and to dally with that word might make my sister wanton . But indeed , words are very rascals since bonds disgraced them .
51495
51496 Thy reason , man ?
51497
51498 Troth , sir , I can yield you none without words ; and words are grown so false , I am loath to prove reason with them .
51499
51500 I warrant thou art a merry fellow , and carest for nothing .
51501
51502 Not so , sir , I do care for something ; but in my conscience , sir , I do not care for you : if that be to care for nothing , sir , I would it would make you invisible .
51503
51504 Art not thou the Lady Olivia's fool ?
51505
51506 No , indeed , sir ; the Lady Olivia has no folly : she will keep no fool , sir , till she be married ; and fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings the husband's the bigger . I am indeed not her fool , but her corrupter of words .
51507
51508 I saw thee late at the Count Orsino's .
51509
51510 Foolery , sir , does walk about the orb like the sun ; it shines every where . I would be sorry , sir , but the fool should be as oft with your master as with my mistress . I think I saw your wisdom there .
51511
51512 Nay , an thou pass upon me , I'll no more with thee . Hold , there's sixpence for thee .
51513
51514
51515 Now Jove , in his next commodity of hair , send thee a beard !
51516
51517 By my troth , I'll tell thee , I am almost sick for one , though I would not have it grow on my chin . Is thy lady within ?
51518
51519 Would not a pair of these have bred , sir ?
51520
51521 Yes , being kept together and put to use .
51522
51523 I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia , sir , to bring a Cressida to this Troilus .
51524
51525 I understand you , sir ; 'tis well begg'd .
51526
51527 The matter , I hope , is not great , sir , begging but a beggar : Cressida was a beggar . My lady is within , sir . I will conster to them whence you come ; who you are and what you would are out of my welkin ; I might say 'element ,' but the word is overworn .
51528
51529
51530 This fellow's wise enough to play the fool ,
51531 And to do that well craves a kind of wit :
51532 He must observe their mood on whom he jests ,
51533 The quality of persons , and the time ,
51534 And , like the haggard , check at every feather
51535 That comes before his eye . This is a practice
51536 As full of labour as a wise man's art ;
51537 For folly that he wisely shows is fit ;
51538 But wise men folly-fall'n , quite taint their wit .
51539
51540
51541 Save you , gentleman .
51542
51543 And you , sir .
51544
51545 Dieu vous garde , monsieur .
51546
51547 Et vous aussi ; votre serviteur .
51548
51549 I hope , sir , you are ; and I am yours .
51550
51551 Will you encounter the house ? my niece is desirous you should enter , if your trade be to her .
51552
51553 I am bound to your niece , sir : I mean , she is the list of my voyage .
51554
51555 Taste your legs , sir : put them to motion .
51556
51557 My legs do better understand me , sir , than I understand what you mean by bidding me taste my legs .
51558
51559 I mean , to go , sir , to enter .
51560
51561 I will answer you with gait and entrance . But we are prevented .
51562
51563 Most excellent accomplished lady , the heavens rain odours on you !
51564
51565 That youth's a rare courtier . 'Rain odours !' well .
51566
51567 My matter hath no voice , lady , but to your own most pregnant and vouchsafed ear .
51568
51569 'Odours ,' 'pregnant ,' and 'vouchsafed .' I'll get 'em all three all ready .
51570
51571 Let the garden door be shut , and leave me to my hearing .
51572
51573 Give me your hand , sir .
51574
51575 My duty , madam , and most humble service .
51576
51577 What is your name ?
51578
51579 Cesario is your servant's name , fair princess .
51580
51581 My servant , sir ! 'Twas never merry world
51582 Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment .
51583 You're servant to the Count Orsino , youth .
51584
51585 And he is yours , and his must needs be yours :
51586 Your servant's servant is your servant , madam .
51587
51588 For him , I think not on him : for his thoughts ,
51589 Would they were blanks rather than fill'd with me !
51590
51591 Madam , I come to whet your gentle thoughts
51592 On his behalf .
51593
51594 O ! by your leave , I pray you ,
51595 I bade you never speak again of him :
51596 But , would you undertake another suit ,
51597 I had rather hear you to solicit that
51598 Than music from the spheres .
51599
51600 Dear lady ,
51601
51602 Give me leave , beseech you . I did send ,
51603 After the last enchantment you did here ,
51604 A ring in chase of you : so did I abuse
51605 Myself , my servant , and , I fear me , you :
51606 Under your hard construction must I sit ,
51607 To force that on you , in a shameful cunning ,
51608 Which you knew none of yours : what might you think ?
51609 Have you not set mine honour at the stake ,
51610 And baited it with all th' unmuzzled thoughts
51611 That tyrannous heart can think ? To one of your receiving
51612 Enough is shown ; a cypress , not a bosom ,
51613 Hideth my heart . So , let me hear you speak .
51614
51615 I pity you .
51616
51617 That's a degree to love .
51618
51619 No , not a grize ; for 'tis a vulgar proof
51620 That very oft we pity enemies .
51621
51622 Why , then methinks 'tis time to smile again .
51623 O world ! how apt the poor are to be proud .
51624 If one should be a prey , how much the better
51625 To fall before the lion than the wolf !
51626
51627 The clock upbraids me with the waste of time .
51628 Be not afraid , good youth , I will not have you :
51629 And yet , when wit and youth is come to harvest ,
51630 Your wife is like to reap a proper man :
51631 There lies your way , due west .
51632
51633 Then westward-ho !
51634 Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship !
51635 You'll nothing , madam , to my lord by me ?
51636
51637 Stay :
51638 I prithee , tell me what thou think'st of me .
51639
51640 That you do think you are not what you are .
51641
51642 If I think so , I think the same of you .
51643
51644 Then think you right : I am not what I am .
51645
51646 I would you were as I would have you be !
51647
51648 Would it be better , madam , than I am ?
51649 I wish it might , for now I am your fool .
51650
51651 O ! what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
51652 In the contempt and anger of his lip .
51653 A murderous guilt shows not itself more soon
51654 Than love that would seem hid ; love's night is noon .
51655 Cesario , by the roses of the spring ,
51656 By maidhood , honour , truth , and every thing ,
51657 I love thee so , that , maugre all thy pride ,
51658 Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide .
51659 Do not extort thy reasons from this clause ,
51660 For that I woo , thou therefore hast no cause ;
51661 But rather reason thus with reason fetter ,
51662 Love sought is good , but giv'n unsought is better .
51663
51664 By innocence I swear , and by my youth ,
51665 I have one heart , one bosom , and one truth ,
51666 And that no woman has ; nor never none
51667 Shall mistress be of it , save I alone .
51668 And so adieu , good madam : never more
51669 Will I my master's tears to you deplore .
51670
51671 Yet come again , for thou perhaps mayst move
51672 That heart , which now abhors , to like his love .
51673
51674
51675 No , faith , I'll not stay a jot longer .
51676
51677 Thy reason , dear venom ; give thy reason .
51678
51679 You must needs yield your reason , Sir Andrew .
51680
51681 Marry , I saw your niece do more favours to the count's serving-man than ever she bestowed upon me ; I saw't i' the orchard .
51682
51683 Did she see thee the while , old boy ? tell me that .
51684
51685 As plain as I see you now .
51686
51687 This was a great argument of love in her toward you .
51688
51689 'Slight ! will you make an ass o' me ?
51690
51691 I will prove it legitimate , sir , upon the oaths of judgment and reason .
51692
51693 And they have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor .
51694
51695 She did show favour to the youth in your sight only to exasperate you , to awake your dormouse valour , to put fire in your heart , and brimstone in your liver . You should then have accosted her , and with some excellent jests , firenew from the mint , you should have banged the youth into dumbness . This was looked for at your hand , and this was balked : the double gilt of this opportunity you let time wash off , and you are now sailed into the north of my lady's opinion ; where you will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard , unless you do redeem it by some laudable attempt , either of valour or policy .
51696
51697 An't be any way , it must be with valour , for policy I hate : I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician .
51698
51699 Why , then , build me thy fortunes upon the basis of valour : challenge me the count's youth to fight with him ; hurt him in eleven places : my niece shall take note of it ; and assure thyself , there is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valour .
51700
51701 There is no way but this , Sir Andrew .
51702
51703 Will either of you bear me a challenge to him ?
51704
51705 Go , write it in a martial hand ; be curst and brief ; it is no matter how witty , so it be eloquent , and full of invention : taunt him with the licence of ink : if thou thou'st him some thrice , it shall not be amiss ; and as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of paper , although the sheet were big enough for the bed of Ware in England , set 'em down : go , about it . Let there be gall enough in thy ink , though thou write with a goose-pen , no matter : about it .
51706
51707 Where shall I find you ?
51708
51709 We'll call thee at the cubiculo : go .
51710
51711
51712 This is a dear manakin to you , Sir Toby .
51713
51714 I have been dear to him , lad , some two thousand strong , or so .
51715
51716 We shall have a rare letter from him ; but you'll not deliver it .
51717
51718 Never trust me , then ; and by all means stir on the youth to an answer . I think oxen and wainropes cannot hale them together . For Andrew , if he were opened , and you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea , I'll eat the rest of the anatomy .
51719
51720 And his opposite , the youth , bears in his visage no great presage of cruelty .
51721
51722 Look , where the youngest wren of nine comes .
51723
51724
51725 If you desire the spleen , and will laugh yourselves into stitches , follow me . Yond gull Malvolio is turned heathen , a very renegado ; for there is no Christian , that means to be saved by believing rightly , can ever believe such impossible passages of grossness . He's in yellow stockings .
51726
51727 And cross-gartered ?
51728
51729 Most villanously ; like a pedant that keeps a school i' the church . I have dogged him like his murderer . He does obey every point of the letter that I dropped to betray him : he does smile his face into more lines than are in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies . You have not seen such a thing as 'tis ; I can hardly forbear hurling things at him . I know my lady will strike him : if she do , he'll smile and take't for a great favour .
51730
51731 Come , bring us , bring us where he is .
51732
51733
51734 I would not by my will have troubled you ;
51735 But since you make your pleasure of your pains ,
51736 I will no further chide you .
51737
51738 I could not stay behind you : my desire ,
51739 More sharp than filed steel , did spur me forth ;
51740 And not all love to see you ,though so much
51741 As might have drawn one to a longer voyage ,
51742 But jealousy what might befall your travel ,
51743 Being skilless in these parts ; which to a stranger ,
51744 Unguided and unfriended , often prove
51745 Rough and unhospitable : my willing love ,
51746 The rather by these arguments of fear ,
51747 Set forth in your pursuit .
51748
51749 My kind Antonio ,
51750 I can no other answer make but thanks ,
51751 And thanks , and ever thanks ; for oft good turns
51752 Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay :
51753 But , were my worth , as is my conscience , firm ,
51754 You should find better dealing . What's to do ?
51755 Shall we go see the reliques of this town ?
51756
51757 To-morrow , sir : best first go see your lodging .
51758
51759 I am not weary , and 'tis long to night :
51760 I pray you , let us satisfy our eyes
51761 With the memorials and the things of fame
51762 That do renown this city .
51763
51764 Would you'd pardon me ;
51765 I do not without danger walk these streets :
51766 Once , in a sea-fight 'gainst the Count his galleys ,
51767 I did some service ; of such note indeed ,
51768 That were I ta'en here it would scarce be answer'd .
51769
51770 Belike you slew great number of his people ?
51771
51772 The offence is not of such a bloody nature ,
51773 Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel
51774 Might well have given us bloody argument .
51775 It might have since been answer'd in repaying
51776 What we took from them ; which , for traffic's sake ,
51777 Most of our city did : only myself stood out ;
51778 For which , if I be lapsed in this place ,
51779 I shall pay dear .
51780
51781 Do not then walk too open .
51782
51783 It doth not fit me . Hold , sir ; here's my purse .
51784 In the south suburbs , at the Elephant ,
51785 Is best to lodge : I will bespeak our diet ,
51786 Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge
51787 With viewing of the town : there shall you have me .
51788
51789 Why I your purse ?
51790
51791 Haply your eye shall light upon some toy
51792 You have desire to purchase ; and your store ,
51793 I think , is not for idle markets , sir .
51794
51795 I'll be your purse-bearer and leave you for an hour .
51796
51797 To the Elephant .
51798
51799 I do remember .
51800
51801
51802 I have sent after him : he says he'll come ;
51803 How shall I feast him ? what bestow of him ?
51804 For youth is bought more oft than begg'd or borrow'd .
51805 I speak too loud .
51806 Where is Malvolio ? he is sad , and civil ,
51807 And suits well for a servant with my fortunes :
51808 Where is Malvolio ?
51809
51810 He's coming , madam ; but in very strange manner . He is sure possess'd , madam .
51811
51812 Why , what's the matter ? does he rave ?
51813
51814 No , madam ; he does nothing but smile : your ladyship were best to have some guard about you if he come , for sure the man is tainted in's wits .
51815
51816 Go call him hither .
51817
51818 I am as mad as he ,
51819 If sad and merry madness equal be .
51820
51821 How now , Malvolio !
51822
51823 Sweet lady , ho , ho .
51824
51825 Smil'st thou ?
51826 I sent for thee upon a sad occasion .
51827
51828 Sad , lady ! I could be sad : this does make some obstruction in the blood , this crossgartering ; but what of that ? if it please the eye of one , it is with me as the very true sonnet is , 'Please one and please all .'
51829
51830 Why , how dost thou , man ? what is the matter with thee ?
51831
51832 Not black in my mind , though yellow in my legs . It did come to his hands , and commands shall be executed : I think we do know the sweet Roman hand .
51833
51834 Wilt thou go to bed , Malvolio ?
51835
51836 To bed ! ay , sweetheart ; and I'll come to thee .
51837
51838 God comfort thee ! Why dost thou smile so and kiss thy hand so oft ?
51839
51840 How do you , Malvolio ?
51841
51842 At your request ! Yes ; nightingales answer daws .
51843
51844 Why appear you with this ridiculous boldness before my lady ?
51845
51846 'Be not afraid of greatness :' 'Twas well writ .
51847
51848 What meanest thou by that , Malvolio ?
51849
51850 'Some are born great ,'
51851
51852 Ha !
51853
51854 'Some achieve greatness ,'
51855
51856 What sayst thou ?
51857
51858 'And some have greatness thrust upon them .'
51859
51860 Heaven restore thee !
51861
51862 'Remember who commended thy yellow stockings ,'
51863
51864 Thy yellow stockings !
51865
51866 'And wished to see thee cross-gartered .'
51867
51868 Cross-gartered !
51869
51870 'Go to , thou art made , if thou desirest to be so ,'
51871
51872 Am I made ?
51873
51874 'If not , let me see thee a servant still .'
51875
51876 Why , this is very midsummer madness .
51877
51878
51879 Madam , the young gentleman of the Count Orsino's is returned . I could hardly entreat him back : he attends your ladyship's pleasure .
51880
51881 I'll come to him .
51882
51883 Good Maria , let this fellow be looked to . Where's my cousin Toby ? Let some of my people have a special care of him : I would not have him miscarry for the half of my dowry .
51884
51885
51886 Oh , ho ! do you come near me now ? no worse man than Sir Toby to look to me ! This concurs directly with the letter : she sends him on purpose , that I may appear stubborn to him ; for she incites me to that in the letter . 'Cast thy humble slough ,' says she ; 'be opposite with a kinsman , surly with servants ; let thy tongue tang with arguments of state ; put thyself into the trick of singularity ;' and consequently sets down the manner how ; as , a sad face , a reverend carriage , a slow tongue , in the habit of some sir of note , and so forth . I have limed her ; but it is Jove's doing , and Jove make me thankful ! And when she went away now , 'Let this fellow be looked to ;' fellow ! not Malvolio , nor after my degree , but fellow . Why , everything adheres together , that no dram of a scruple , no scruple of a scruple , no obstacle , no incredulous or unsafe circumstance What can be said ? Nothing that can be can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes . Well , Jove , not I , is the doer of this , and he is to be thanked .
51887
51888
51889 Which way is he , in the name of sanctity ? If all the devils in hell be drawn in little , and Legion himself possess'd him , yet I'll speak to him .
51890
51891 Here he is , here he is . How is't with you , sir ? how is't with you , man ?
51892
51893 Go off ; I discard you : let me enjoy my private ; go off .
51894
51895 Lo , how hollow the fiend speaks within him ! did not I tell you ? Sir Toby , my lady prays you to have a care of him .
51896
51897 Ah , ha ! does she so ?
51898
51899 Go to , go to : peace ! peace ! we must deal gently with him ; let me alone . How do you , Malvolio ? how is't with you ? What , man ! defy the devil : consider , he's an enemy to mankind .
51900
51901 Do you know what you say ?
51902
51903 La you ! an you speak ill of the devil , how he takes it at heart . Pray God , he be not bewitched !
51904
51905 Carry his water to the wise-woman .
51906
51907 Marry , and it shall be done to-morrow morning , if I live . My lady would not lose him for more than I'll say .
51908
51909 How now , mistress !
51910
51911 O Lord !
51912
51913 Prithee , hold thy peace ; this is not the way : do you not see you move him ? let me alone with him .
51914
51915 No way but gentleness ; gently , gently : the fiend is rough , and will not be roughly used .
51916
51917 Why , how now , my bawcock ! how dost thou , chuck ?
51918
51919 Sir !
51920
51921 Ay , Biddy , come with me . What , man ! 'tis not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan : hang him , foul collier !
51922
51923 Get him to say his prayers , good Sir Toby , get him to pray .
51924
51925 My prayers , minx !
51926
51927 No , I warrant you , he will not hear of godliness .
51928
51929 Go , hang yourselves all ! you are idle shallow things : I am not of your element . You shall know more hereafter .
51930
51931
51932 Is't possible ?
51933
51934 If this were played upon a stage now , I could condemn it as an improbable fiction .
51935
51936 His very genius hath taken the infection of the device , man .
51937
51938 Nay , pursue him now , lest the device take air , and taint .
51939
51940 Why , we shall make him mad indeed .
51941
51942 The house will be the quieter .
51943
51944 Come , we'll have him in a dark room , and bound . My niece is already in the belief that he's mad : we may carry it thus , for our pleasure and his penance , till our very pastime , tired out of breath , prompt us to have mercy on him ; at which time we will bring the device to the bar , and crown thee for a finder of madmen . But see , but see .
51945
51946
51947 More matter for a May morning .
51948
51949 Here's the challenge ; read it : I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't .
51950
51951 Is't so saucy ?
51952
51953 Ay , is't , I warrant him : do but read .
51954
51955 Give me . Youth , whatsoever thou art , thou art but a scurvy fellow .
51956
51957 Good , and valiant .
51958
51959 Wonder not , nor admire not in thy mind , why I do call thee so , for I will show thee no reason for't ,
51960
51961 A good note , that keeps you from the blow of the law .
51962
51963 Thou comest to the Lady Olivia , and in my sight she uses thee kindly : but thou liest in thy throat ; that is not the matter I challenge thee for .
51964
51965 Very brief , and to exceeding good sense less .
51966
51967 I will waylay thee going home ; where , if it be thy chance to kill me ,
51968
51969 Good .
51970
51971 Thou killest me like a rogue and a villain .
51972
51973 Still you keep o' the windy side of the law : good .
51974
51975 Fare thee well ; and God have mercy upon one of our souls ! He may have mercy upon mine , but my hope is better ; and so look to thyself . Thy friend , as thou usest him , and thy sworn enemy ,
51976 If this letter move him not , his legs cannot .
51977 I'll give't him .
51978
51979 You may have very fit occasion for for't : he is now in some commerce with my lady , and will by and by depart .
51980
51981 Go , Sir Andrew ; scout me for him at the corner of the orchard like a bum-baily : so soon as ever thou seest him , draw ; and , as thou drawest , swear horrible ; for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath , with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off , gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him . Away !
51982
51983 Nay , let me alone for swearing .
51984
51985
51986 Now will not I deliver his letter : for the behaviour of the young gentleman gives him out to be of good capacity and breeding ; his employment between his lord and my niece confirms no less : therefore this letter , being so excellently ignorant , will breed no terror in the youth : he will find it comes from a clodpole . But , sir , I will deliver his challenge by word of mouth ; set upon Aguecheek a notable report of valour ; and drive the gentleman ,as I know his youth will aptly receive it ,into a most hideous opinion of his rage , skill , fury , and impetuosity . This will so fright them both that they will kill one another by the look , like cockatrices .
51987
51988 Here he comes with your niece : give them way till he take leave , and presently after him .
51989
51990 I will meditate the while upon some horrid message for a challenge .
51991
51992 I have said too much unto a heart of stone ,
51993 And laid mine honour too unchary out :
51994 There's something in me that reproves my fault ,
51995 But such a headstrong potent fault it is
51996 That it but mocks reproof .
51997
51998 With the same haviour that your passion bears
51999 Goes on my master's griefs .
52000
52001 Here ; wear this jewel for me , 'tis my picture ;
52002 Refuse it not ; it hath no tongue to vex you ;
52003 And I beseech you come again to-morrow .
52004 What shall you ask of me that I'll deny ,
52005 That honour sav'd may upon asking give ?
52006
52007 Nothing but this ; your true love for my master .
52008
52009 How with mine honour may I give him that
52010 Which I have given to you ?
52011
52012 I will acquit you .
52013
52014 Well , come again to-morrow : fare thee well :
52015 A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell .
52016
52017 Gentleman , God save thee .
52018
52019 And you , sir .
52020
52021 That defence thou hast , betake thee to't : of what nature the wrongs are thou hast done him , I know not ; but thy intercepter , full of despite , bloody as the hunter , attends thee at the orchard-end . Dismount thy tuck , be yare in thy preparation , for thy assailant is quick , skilful , and deadly .
52022
52023 You mistake , sir : I am sure no man hath any quarrel to me : my remembrance is very free and clear from any image of offence done to any man .
52024
52025 You'll find it otherwise , I assure you : therefore , if you hold your life at any price , betake you to your guard ; for your opposite hath in him what youth , strength , skill , and wrath , can furnish man withal .
52026
52027 I pray you , sir , what is he ?
52028
52029 He is knight dubbed with unhatched rapier , and on carpet consideration ; but he is a devil in private brawl : souls and bodies hath he divorced three , and his incensement at this moment is so implacable that satisfaction can be none but by pangs of death and sepulchre . Hob , nob , is his word : give't or take't .
52030
52031 I will return again into the house and desire some conduct of the lady : I am no fighter . I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others to taste their valour ; belike this is a man of that quirk .
52032
52033 Sir , no ; his indignation derives itself out of a very competent injury : therefore get you on and give him his desire . Back you shall not to the house , unless you undertake that with me which with as much safety you might answer him : therefore , on , or strip your sword stark naked ; for meddle you must , that's certain , or forswear to wear iron about you .
52034
52035 This is as uncivil as strange . I beseech you , do me this courteous office , as to know of the knight what my offence to him is : it is something of my negligence , nothing of my purpose .
52036
52037 I will do so . Signior Fabian , stay you by this gentleman till my return .
52038
52039
52040 Pray you , sir , do you know of this matter ?
52041
52042 I know the knight is incensed against you , even to a mortal arbitrement , but nothing of the circumstance more .
52043
52044 I beseech you , what manner of man is he ?
52045
52046 Nothing of that wonderful promise , to read him by his form , as you are like to find him in the proof of his valour . He is , indeed , sir , the most skilful , bloody , and fatal opposite that you could possibly have found in any part of Illyria . Will you walk towards him ? I will make your peace with him if I can .
52047
52048 I shall be much bound to you for't : I am one that had rather go with sir priest than sir knight ; I care not who knows so much of my mettle .
52049
52050 Why , man , he's a very devil ; I have not seen such a firago . I had a pass with him , rapier , scabbard and all , and he gives me the stuck in with such a mortal motion that it is inevitable ; and on the answer , he pays you as surely as your feet hit the ground they step on . They say he has been fencer to the Sophy .
52051
52052 Pox on't , I'll not meddle with him .
52053
52054 Ay , but he will not now be pacified : Fabian can scarce hold him yonder .
52055
52056 Plague on't ; an I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him . Let him let the matter slip , and I'll give him my horse , grey Capilet .
52057
52058 I'll make the motion . Stand here ; make a good show on't : this shall end without the perdition of souls .
52059
52060 Marry , I'll ride your horse as well as I ride you .
52061
52062 I have his horse to take up the quarrel . I have persuaded him the youth's a devil .
52063
52064 He is as horribly conceited of him ; and pants and looks pale , as if a bear were at his heels .
52065
52066 There's no remedy , sir : he will fight with you for his oath's sake . Marry , he hath better bethought him of his quarrel , and he finds that now scarce to be worth talking of : therefore draw for the supportance of his vow : he protests he will not hurt you .
52067
52068 Pray God defend me ! A little thing would make me tell them how much I lack of a man .
52069
52070 Give ground , if you see him furious .
52071
52072 Come , Sir Andrew , there's no remedy : the gentleman will , for his honour's sake , have one bout with you ; he cannot by the duello avoid it : but he has promised me , as he is a gentleman and a soldier , he will not hurt you . Come on ; to't .
52073
52074 Pray God , he keep his oath !
52075
52076
52077 I do assure you , 'tis against my will .
52078
52079 Put up your sword . If this young gentleman
52080 Have done offence , I take the fault on me :
52081 If you offend him , I for him defy you .
52082
52083
52084 You , sir ! why , what are you ?
52085
52086 One , sir , that for his love dares yet do more
52087 Than you have heard him brag to you he will .
52088
52089 Nay , if you be an undertaker , I am for you .
52090
52091
52092 O , good sir Toby , hold ! here come the officers .
52093
52094 I'll be with you anon .
52095
52096 Pray , sir , put your sword up , if you please .
52097
52098 Marry , will I , sir ; and , for that I promised you , I'll be as good as my word . He will bear you easily and reins well .
52099
52100
52101 This is the man ; do thy office .
52102
52103 Antonio , I arrest thee at the suit
52104 Of Count Orsino .
52105
52106 You do mistake me , sir .
52107
52108 No , sir , no jot : I know your favour well ,
52109 Though now you have no sea-cap on your head .
52110 Take him away : he knows I know him well .
52111
52112 I must obey .
52113
52114 This comes with seeking you :
52115 But there's no remedy : I shall answer it .
52116 What will you do , now my necessity
52117 Makes me to ask you for my purse ? It grieves me
52118 Much more for what I cannot do for you
52119 Than what befalls myself . You stand amaz'd :
52120 But be of comfort .
52121
52122 Come , sir , away .
52123
52124 I must entreat of you some of that money .
52125
52126 What money , sir ?
52127 For the fair kindness you have show'd me here ,
52128 And part , being prompted by your present trouble ,
52129 Out of my lean and low ability
52130 I'll lend you something : my having is not much :
52131 I'll make division of my present with you .
52132 Hold , there is half my coffer .
52133
52134 Will you deny me now ?
52135 Is't possible that my deserts to you
52136 Can lack persuasion ? Do not tempt my misery ,
52137 Lest that it make me so unsound a man
52138 As to upbraid you with those kindnesses
52139 That I have done for you .
52140
52141 I know of none ;
52142 Nor know I you by voice or any feature .
52143 I hate ingratitude more in a man
52144 Than lying , vainness , babbling drunkenness ,
52145 Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
52146 Inhabits our frail blood .
52147
52148 O heavens themselves !
52149
52150 Come , sir : I pray you , go .
52151
52152 Let me speak a little . This youth that you see here
52153 I snatch'd one-half out of the jaws of death ,
52154 Reliev'd him with such sanctity of love ,
52155 And to his image , which methought did promise
52156 Most venerable worth , did I devotion .
52157
52158 What's that to us ? The time goes by : away !
52159
52160 But O ! how vile an idol proves this god .
52161 Thou hast , Sebastian , done good feature shame .
52162 In nature there's no blemish but the mind ;
52163 None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind :
52164 Virtue is beauty , but the beauteous evil
52165 Are empty trunks o'erflourish'd by the devil .
52166
52167 The man grows mad : away with him ! Come , come , sir .
52168
52169 Lead me on .
52170
52171
52172 Methinks his words do from such passion fly ,
52173 That he believes himself ; so do not I .
52174 Prove true , imagination , O , prove true ,
52175 That I , dear brother , be now ta'en for you !
52176
52177 Come hither , knight ; come hither ,
52178 Fabian : we'll whisper o'er a couplet or two of most sage saws .
52179
52180 He nam'd Sebastian : I my brother know
52181 Yet living in my glass ; even such and so
52182 In favour was my brother ; and he went
52183 Still in this fashion , colour , ornament ,
52184 For him I imitate . O ! if it prove ,
52185 Tempests are kind , and salt waves fresh in love !
52186
52187
52188 A very dishonest paltry boy , and more a coward than a hare . His dishonesty appears in leaving his friend here in necessity , and denying him ; and for his cowardship , ask Fabian .
52189
52190 A coward , a most devout coward , religious in it .
52191
52192 'Slid , I'll after him again and beat him .
52193
52194 Do ; cuff him soundly , but never draw thy sword .
52195
52196 An I do not ,
52197
52198
52199 Come , let's see the event .
52200
52201 I dare lay any money 'twill be nothing yet .
52202
52203 Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you ?
52204
52205 Go to , go to ; thou art a foolish fellow :
52206 Let me be clear of thee .
52207
52208 Well held out , i' faith ! No , I do not know you ; nor I am not sent to you by my lady to bid you come speak with her ; nor your name is not Master Cesario ; nor this is not my nose neither . Nothing that is so is so .
52209
52210 I prithee , vent thy folly somewhere else :
52211 Thou know'st not me .
52212
52213 Vent my folly ! He has heard that word of some great man , and now applies it to a fool . Vent my folly ! I am afraid this great lubber , the world , will prove a cockney . I prithee now , ungird thy strangeness and tell me what I shall vent to my lady . Shall I vent to her that thou art coming ?
52214
52215 I prithee , foolish Greek , depart from me :
52216 There's money for thee : if you tarry longer
52217 I shall give worse payment .
52218
52219 By my troth , thou hast an open hand .
52220 These wise men that give fools money get themselves a good report after fourteen years' purchase .
52221
52222
52223 Now , sir , have I met you again ? there's for you .
52224
52225
52226 Why , there's for thee , and there , and there , and there !
52227
52228 Are all the people mad ?
52229
52230
52231 Hold , sir , or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house .
52232
52233 This will I tell my lady straight . I would not be in some of your coats for twopence .
52234
52235
52236 Come on , sir : hold .
52237
52238 Nay , let him alone ; I'll go another way to work with him : I'll have an action of battery against him if there be any law in Illyria . Though I struck him first , yet it's no matter for that .
52239
52240 Let go thy hand .
52241
52242 Come , sir , I will not let you go . Come , my young soldier , put up your iron : you are well fleshed ; come on .
52243
52244 I will be free from thee .
52245
52246 What wouldst thou now ?
52247 If thou dar'st tempt me further , draw thy sword .
52248
52249 What , what ! Nay then , I must have an ounce or two of this malapert blood from you .
52250
52251 Hold , Toby ! on thy life I charge thee , hold !
52252
52253 Madam !
52254
52255 Will it be ever thus ? Ungracious wretch !
52256 Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves ,
52257 Where manners ne'er were preach'd . Out of my sight !
52258 Be not offended , dear Cesario .
52259 Rudesby , be gone !
52260
52261 I prithee , gentle friend ,
52262 Let thy fair wisdom , not thy passion , sway
52263 In this uncivil and unjust extent
52264 Against thy peace . Go with me to my house ,
52265 And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks
52266 This ruffian hath botch'd up , that thou thereby
52267 Mayst smile at this . Thou shalt not choose but go :
52268 Do not deny . Beshrew his soul for me ,
52269 He started one poor heart of mine in thee .
52270
52271 What relish is in this ? how runs the stream ?
52272 Or I am mad , or else this is a dream :
52273 Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep ;
52274 If it be thus to dream , still let me sleep !
52275
52276 Nay ; come , I prithee . Would thou'dst be rul'd by me !
52277
52278 Madam , I will .
52279
52280 O ! say so , and so be !
52281
52282
52283 Nay , I prithee , put on this gown and this beard ; make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate : do it quickly ; I'll call Sir Toby the whilst .
52284
52285
52286 Well , I'll put it on and I will dissemble myself in't : and I would I were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown . I am not tall enough to become the function well , nor lean enough to be thought a good student ; but to be said an honest man and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say a careful man and a great scholar . The competitors enter .
52287
52288
52289 God bless thee , Master parson .
52290
52291 Bonos dies , Sir Toby : for , as the old hermit of Prague , that never saw pen and ink , very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc , 'That , that is , is ;' so I , being Master parson , am Master parson ; for , what is 'that ,' but 'that ,' and 'is ,' but 'is ?'
52292
52293 To him , Sir Topas .
52294
52295 What ho ! I say . Peace in this prison !
52296
52297 The knave counterfeits well ; a good knave .
52298
52299 Who calls there ?
52300
52301 Sir Topas , the curate , who comes to visit Malvolio the lunatic .
52302
52303 Sir Topas , Sir Topas , good Sir Topas , go to my lady .
52304
52305 Out , hyperbolical fiend ! how vexest thou this man ! Talkest thou nothing but of ladies ?
52306
52307 Well said , Master Parson .
52308
52309 Sir Topas , never was man thus wronged . Good Sir Topas , do not think I am mad : they have laid me here in hideous darkness .
52310
52311 Fie , thou dishonest Satan ! I call thee by the most modest terms ; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy . Sayst thou that house is dark ?
52312
52313 As hell , Sir Topas .
52314
52315 Why , it hath bay-windows transparent as barricadoes , and the clerestories toward the south-north are as lustrous as ebony ; and yet complainest thou of obstruction ?
52316
52317 I am not mad , Sir Topas . I say to you , this house is dark .
52318
52319 Madman , thou errest : I say , there is no darkness but ignorance , in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog .
52320
52321 I say this house is as dark as ignorance , though ignorance were as dark as hell ; and I say , there was never man thus abused . I am no more mad than you are : make the trial of it in any constant question .
52322
52323 What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl ?
52324
52325 That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird .
52326
52327 What thinkest thou of his opinion ?
52328
52329 I think nobly of the soul , and no way approve his opinion .
52330
52331 Fare thee well : remain thou still in darkness : thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits , and fear to kill a woodcock , lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam . Fare thee well .
52332
52333 Sir Topas ! Sir Topas !
52334
52335 My most exquisite Sir Topas !
52336
52337 Nay , I am for all waters .
52338
52339 Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and gown : he sees thee not .
52340
52341 To him in thine own voice , and bring me word how thou findest him : I would we were well rid of this knavery . If he may be conveniently delivered , I would he were ; for I am now so far in offence with my niece that I cannot pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot . Come by and by to my chamber .
52342
52343 Hey Robin , jolly Robin ,
52344 Tell me how thy lady does .
52345
52346
52347 Fool !
52348
52349 My lady is unkind , perdy !
52350
52351 Fool !
52352
52353 Alas , why is she so ?
52354
52355 Fool , I say !
52356
52357 She loves another .
52358 Who calls , ha ?
52359
52360 Good fool , as ever thou wilt deserve well at my hand , help me to a candle , and pen , ink , and paper . As I am a gentleman , I will live to be thankful to thee for't .
52361
52362 Master Malvoliol
52363
52364 Ay , good fool .
52365
52366 Alas , sir , how fell you beside your five wits ?
52367
52368 Fool , there was never man so notoriously abused : I am as well in my wits , fool , as thou art .
52369
52370 But as well ? then you are mad indeed , if you be no better in your wits than a fool .
52371
52372 They have here propertied me ; keep me in darkness , send ministers to me , asses ! and do all they can to face me out of my wits .
52373
52374 Advise you what you say : the minister is here . Malvolio , Malvolio , thy wits the heavens restore ! endeavour thyself to sleep , and leave thy vain bibble-babble .
52375
52376 Sir Topas !
52377
52378 Maintain no words with him , good fellow .Who , I , sir ? not I , sir . God be wi' you , good Sir Topas . Marry , amen . I will , sir , I will .
52379
52380 Fool , fool , fool , I say !
52381
52382 Alas , sir , be patient . What say you , sir ? I am shent for speaking to you .
52383
52384 Good fool , help me to some light and some paper : I tell thee I am as well in my wits as any man in Illyria .
52385
52386 Well-a-day , that you were , sir !
52387
52388 By this hand , I am . Good fool , some ink , paper , and light ; and convey what I will set down to my lady : it shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing of letter did .
52389
52390 I will help you to't . But tell me true , are you not mad indeed ? or do you but counterfeit ?
52391
52392 Believe me , I am not : I tell thee true .
52393
52394 Nay , I'll ne'er believe a madman till I see his brains . I will fetch you light and paper and ink .
52395
52396 Fool , I'll requite it in the highest degree : I prithee , be gone .
52397
52398
52399 I am gone , sir ,
52400 And anon , sir ,
52401 I'll be with you again
52402 In a trice ,
52403 Like to the old Vice ,
52404 Your need to sustain ;
52405 Who with dagger of lath ,
52406 In his rage and his wrath ,
52407 Cries , Ah , ah ! to the devil :
52408 Like a mad lad ,
52409 Pare thy nails , dad ;
52410 Adieu , goodman drivel .
52411
52412 This is the air ; that is the glorious sun ; This pearl she gave me , I do feel't and see't ;
52413 And though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus ,
52414 Yet 'tis not madness . Where's Antonio then ?
52415 I could not find him at the Elephant ;
52416 Yet there he was , and there I found this credit ,
52417 That he did range the town to seek me out .
52418 His counsel now might do me golden service ;
52419 For though my soul disputes well with my sense
52420 That this may be some error , but no madness ,
52421 Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune
52422 So far exceed all instance , all discourse ,
52423 That I am ready to distrust mine eyes ,
52424 And wrangle with my reason that persuades me
52425 To any other trust but that I am mad
52426 Or else the lady's mad : yet , if 'twere so ,
52427 She could not sway her house , command her followers ,
52428 Take and give back affairs and their dispatch
52429 With such a smooth , discreet , and stable bearing
52430 As I perceive she does . There's something in't
52431 That is deceivable . But here the lady comes .
52432
52433
52434 Blame not this haste of mine . If you mean well ,
52435 Now go with me and with this holy man
52436 Into the chantry by ; there , before him ,
52437 And underneath that consecrated roof ,
52438 Plight me the full assurance of your faith ;
52439 That my most jealous and too doubtful soul
52440 May live at peace . He shall conceal it
52441 Whiles you are willing it shall come to note ,
52442 What time we will our celebration keep
52443 According to my birth . What do you say ?
52444
52445 I'll follow this good man , and go with you ;
52446 And , having sworn truth , ever will be true .
52447
52448 Then lead the way , good father ; and heavens so shine
52449 That they may fairly note this act of mine !
52450
52451
52452 Now , as thou lovest me , let me see his letter .
52453
52454 Good Master Fabian , grant me another request .
52455
52456 Anything .
52457
52458 Do not desire to see this letter .
52459
52460 This is , to give a dog , and , in recompense desire my dog again .
52461
52462
52463 Belong you to the Lady Olivia , friends ?
52464
52465 Ay , sir ; we are some of her trappings .
52466
52467 I know thee well : how dost thou , my good fellow ?
52468
52469 Truly , sir , the better for my foes and the worse for my friends .
52470
52471 Just the contrary ; the better for thy friends .
52472
52473 No , sir , the worse .
52474
52475 How can that be ?
52476
52477 Marry , sir , they praise me and make an ass of me ; now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass : so that by my foes , sir , I profit in the knowledge of myself , and by my friends I am abused : so that , conclusions to be as kisses , if your four negatives make your two affirmatives , why then , the worse for my friends and the better for my foes .
52478
52479 Why , this is excellent .
52480
52481 By my troth , sir , no ; though it please you to be one of my friends .
52482
52483 Thou shalt not be the worse for me : there's gold .
52484
52485 But that it would be double-dealing , sir , I would you could make it another .
52486
52487 O , you give me ill counsel .
52488
52489 Put your grace in your pocket , sir , for this once , and let your flesh and blood obey it .
52490
52491 Well , I will be so much a sinner to be a double-dealer : there's another .
52492
52493 Primo , secundo , tertio , is a good play ; and the old saying is , 'the third pays for all :' the triplex , sir , is a good tripping measure ; or the bells of Saint Bennet , sir , may put you in mind ; one , two , three .
52494
52495 You can fool no more money out of me at this throw : if you will let your lady know I am here to speak with her , and bring her along with you , it may awake my bounty further .
52496
52497 Marry , sir , lullaby to your bounty till I come again . I go , sir ; but I would not have you to think that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness ; but as you say , sir , let your bounty take a nap , I will awake it anon .
52498
52499
52500 Here comes the man , sir , that did rescue me .
52501
52502
52503 That face of his I do remember well ;
52504 Yet when I saw it last , it was besmear'd
52505 As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war .
52506 A bawbling vessel was he captain of ,
52507 For shallow draught and hulk unprizable ;
52508 With which such scathful grapple did he make
52509 With the most noble bottom of our fleet ,
52510 That very envy and the tongue of loss
52511 Cried fame and honour on him . What's the matter ?
52512
52513 Orsino , this is that Antonio
52514 That took the Ph nix and her fraught from Candy ;
52515 And this is he that did the Tiger board ,
52516 When your young nephew Titus lost his leg .
52517 Here in the streets , desperate of shame and state ,
52518 In private brabble did we apprehend him .
52519
52520 He did me kindness , sir , drew on my side ;
52521 But in conclusion put strange speech upon me :
52522 I know not what 'twas but distraction .
52523
52524 Notable pirate ! thou salt-water thief !
52525 What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies
52526 Whom thou , in terms so bloody and so dear ,
52527 Hast made thine enemies ?
52528
52529 Orsino , noble sir ,
52530 Be pleas'd that I shake off these names you give me :
52531 Antonio never yet was thief or pirate ,
52532 Though I confess , on base and ground enough ,
52533 Orsino's enemy . A witchcraft drew me hither :
52534 That most ingrateful boy there by your side ,
52535 From the rude sea's enrag'd and foamy mouth
52536 Did I redeem ; a wrack past hope he was :
52537 His life I gave him , and did thereto add
52538 My love , without retention or restraint ,
52539 All his in dedication ; for his sake
52540 Did I expose myself , pure for his love ,
52541 Into the danger of this adverse town ;
52542 Drew to defend him when he was beset :
52543 Where being apprehended , his false cunning ,
52544 Not meaning to partake with me in danger ,
52545 Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance ,
52546 And grew a twenty years removed thing
52547 While one would wink , denied me mine own purse ,
52548 Which I had recommended to his use
52549 Not half an hour before .
52550
52551 How can this be ?
52552
52553 When came he to this town ?
52554
52555 To-day , my lord ; and for three months before ,
52556 No interim , not a minute's vacancy ,
52557 Both day and night did we keep company .
52558
52559
52560 Here comes the countess : now heaven walks on earth !
52561 But for thee , fellow ; fellow , thy words are madness :
52562 Three months this youth hath tended upon me ;
52563 But more of that anon . Take him aside .
52564
52565 What would my lord , but that he may not have ,
52566 Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable ?
52567 Cesario , you do not keep promise with me .
52568
52569 Madam !
52570
52571 Gracious Olivia .
52572
52573 What do you say , Cesario ? Good my lord ,
52574
52575 My lord would speak ; my duty hushes me .
52576
52577 If it be aught to the old tune , my lord ,
52578 It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear
52579 As howling after music .
52580
52581 Still so cruel ?
52582
52583 Still so constant , lord .
52584
52585 What , to perverseness ? you uncivil lady ,
52586 To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars
52587 My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breath'd out
52588 That e'er devotion tender'd ! What shall I do ?
52589
52590 Even what it please my lord , that shall become him .
52591
52592 Why should I not , had I the heart to do it ,
52593 Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death ,
52594 Kill what I love ? a savage jealousy
52595 That sometimes savours nobly . But hear me this :
52596 Since you to non-regardance cast my faith ,
52597 And that I partly know the instrument
52598 That screws me from my true place in your favour ,
52599 Live you , the marble-breasted tyrant still ;
52600 But this your minion , whom I know you love ,
52601 And whom , by heaven I swear , I tender dearly ,
52602 Him will I tear out of that cruel eye ,
52603 Where he sits crowned in his master's spite .
52604 Come , boy , with me ; my thoughts are ripe in mischief ;
52605 I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love ,
52606 To spite a raven's heart within a dove .
52607
52608
52609 And I , most jocund , apt , and willingly ,
52610 To do you rest , a thousand deaths would die .
52611
52612
52613 Where goes Cesario ?
52614
52615 After him I love
52616 More than I love these eyes , more than my life ,
52617 More , by all mores , than e'er I shall love wife .
52618 If I do feign , you witnesses above
52619 Punish my life for tainting of my love !
52620
52621 Ah me , detested ! how am I beguil'd !
52622
52623 Who does beguile you ? who does do you wrong ?
52624
52625 Hast thou forgot thyself ? Is it so long ?
52626 Call forth the holy father .
52627
52628
52629 Come away .
52630
52631 Whither , my lord ? Cesario , husband , stay .
52632
52633 Husband ?
52634
52635 Ay , husband : can he that deny ?
52636
52637 Her husband , sirrah ?
52638
52639 No , my lord , not I .
52640
52641 Alas ! it is the baseness of thy fear
52642 That makes thee strangle thy propriety .
52643 Fear not , Cesario ; take thy fortunes up ;
52644 Be that thou know'st thou art , and then thou art
52645 As great as that thou fear'st .
52646
52647
52648 O , welcome , father !
52649 Father , I charge thee , by thy reverence ,
52650 Here to unfold ,though lately we intended
52651 To keep in darkness what occasion now
52652 Reveals before 'tis ripe ,what thou dost know
52653
52654 Hath newly pass'd between this youth and me .
52655
52656 A contract of eternal bond of love ,
52657 Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands ,
52658 Attested by the holy close of lips ,
52659 Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings ;
52660 And all the ceremony of this compact
52661 Seal'd in my function , by my testimony :
52662 Since when , my watch hath told me , toward my grave
52663 I have travell'd but two hours .
52664
52665 O , thou dissembling cub ! what wilt thou be
52666 When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case ?
52667 Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow
52668 That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow ?
52669 Farewell , and take her ; but direct thy feet
52670 Where thou and I henceforth may never meet .
52671
52672 My lord , I do protest ,
52673
52674 O ! do not swear :
52675 Hold little faith , though thou hast too much fear .
52676
52677
52678 For the love of God , a surgeon ! send one presently to Sir Toby .
52679
52680 What's the matter ?
52681
52682 He has broke my head across , and has given Sir Toby a bloody coxcomb too . For the love of God , your help ! I had rather than forty pound I were at home .
52683
52684 Who has done this , Sir Andrew ?
52685
52686 The count's gentleman , one Cesario : we took him for a coward , but he's the very devil incardinate .
52687
52688 My gentleman , Cesario ?
52689
52690 Od's lifelings ! here he is . You broke my head for nothing ! and that that I did , I was set on to do't by Sir Toby .
52691
52692 Why do you speak to me ? I never hurt you :
52693 You drew your sword upon me without cause ;
52694 But I bespake you fair , and hurt you not .
52695
52696 If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt , you have hurt me : I think you set nothing by a bloody coxcomb . Here comes Sir Toby halting ;
52697
52698 you shall hear more : but if he had not been in drink he would have tickled you othergates than he did .
52699
52700 How now , gentleman ! how is't with you ?
52701
52702 That's all one : he has hurt me , and there's the end on't . Sot , didst see Dick surgeon , sot ?
52703
52704 O ! he's drunk , Sir Toby , an hour agone : his eyes were set at eight i' the morning .
52705
52706 Then he's a rogue , and a passy-measures pavin . I hate a drunken rogue .
52707
52708 Away with him ! Who hath made this havoc with them ?
52709
52710 I'll help you , Sir Toby , because we'll be dressed together .
52711
52712 Will you help ? an ass-head and a coxcomb and a knave , a thin-faced knave , a gull !
52713
52714 Get him to bed , and let his hurt be look'd to .
52715
52716 I am sorry , madam , I have hurt your kinsman ;
52717 But , had it been the brother of my blood ,
52718 I must have done no less with wit and safety .
52719 You throw a strange regard upon me , and by that
52720 I do perceive it hath offended you :
52721 Pardon me , sweet one , even for the vows
52722 We made each other but so late ago .
52723
52724 One face , one voice , one habit , and two persons ;
52725 A natural perspective , that is , and is not !
52726
52727 Antonio ! O my dear Antonio !
52728 How have the hours rack'd and tortur'd me
52729 Since I have lost thee !
52730
52731 Sebastian are you ?
52732
52733 Fear'st thou that , Antonio ?
52734
52735 How have you made division of yourself ?
52736 An apple cleft in two is not more twin
52737 Than these two creatures . Which is Sebastian ?
52738
52739 Most wonderful !
52740
52741 Do I stand there ? I never had a brother ;
52742 Nor can there be that deity in my nature ,
52743 Of here and every where . I had a sister ,
52744 Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd .
52745 Of charity , what kin are you to me ?
52746 What countryman ? what name ? what parentage ?
52747
52748 Of Messaline : Sebastian was my father ;
52749 Such a Sebastian was my brother too ,
52750 So went he suited to his watery tomb .
52751 If spirits can assume both form and suit
52752 You come to fright us .
52753
52754 A spirit I am indeed ;
52755 But am in that dimension grossly clad
52756 Which from the womb I did participate .
52757 Were you a woman , as the rest goes even ,
52758 I should my tears let fall upon your cheek ,
52759 And say , 'Thrice welcome , drowned Viola !'
52760
52761 My father had a mole upon his brow .
52762
52763 And so had mine .
52764
52765 And died that day when Viola from her birth
52766 Had number'd thirteen years .
52767
52768 O ! that record is lively in my soul .
52769 He finished indeed his mortal act
52770 That day that made my sister thirteen years .
52771
52772 If nothing lets to make us happy both
52773 But this my masculine usurp'd attire ,
52774 Do not embrace me till each circumstance
52775 Of place , time , fortune , do cohere and jump
52776 That I am Viola : which to confirm ,
52777 I'll bring you to a captain in this town ,
52778 Where lie my maiden weeds : by whose gentle help
52779 I was preserv'd to serve this noble count .
52780 All the occurrence of my fortune since
52781 Hath been between this lady and this lord .
52782
52783 So comes it , lady , you have been mistook :
52784 But nature to her bias drew in that .
52785 You would have been contracted to a maid ;
52786 Nor are you therein , by my life , deceiv'd ,
52787 You are betroth'd both to a maid and man .
52788
52789 Be not amaz'd ; right noble is his blood .
52790 If this be so , as yet the glass seems true ,
52791 I shall have share in this most happy wrack .
52792
52793
52794 Boy , thou hast said to me a thousand times
52795 Thou never shouldst love woman like to me .
52796
52797 And all those sayings will I over-swear ,
52798 And all those swearings keep as true in soul
52799 As doth that orbed continent the fire
52800 That severs day from night .
52801
52802 Give me thy hand ;
52803 And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds .
52804
52805 The captain that did bring me first on shore
52806 Hath my maid's garments : he upon some action
52807 Is now in durance at Malvolio's suit ,
52808 A gentleman and follower of my lady's .
52809
52810 He shall enlarge him . Fetch Malvolio hither .
52811 And yet , alas , now I remember me ,
52812 They say , poor gentleman , he's much distract .
52813 A most extracting frenzy of mine own
52814 From my remembrance clearly banish'd his .
52815
52816 How does he , sirrah ?
52817
52818 Truly , madam , he holds Belzebub at the stave's end as well as a man in his case may do . He has here writ a letter to you : I should have given it to you to-day morning ; but as a madman's epistles are no gospels , so it skills not much when they are delivered .
52819
52820 Open it , and read it .
52821
52822 Look then to be well edified , when the fool delivers the madman .
52823 By the Lord , madam ,
52824
52825 How now ! art thou mad ?
52826
52827 No , madam , I do but read madness : an your ladyship will have it as it ought to be , you must allow vox .
52828
52829 Prithee , read i' thy right wits .
52830
52831 So I do , madonna ; but to read his right wits is to read thus : therefore perpend , my princess , and give ear .
52832
52833 Read it you , sirrah .
52834
52835
52836 By the Lord , madam , you wrong me , and the world shall know it : though you have put me into darkness , and given your drunken cousin rule over me , yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as your ladyship . I have your own letter that induced me to the semblance I put on ; with the which I doubt not but to do myself much right , or you much shame . Think of me as you please . I leave my duty a little unthought of , and speak out of my injury . THE MADLY-USED MALVOLIO .
52837
52838 Did he write this ?
52839
52840 Ay , madam .
52841
52842 This savours not much of distraction .
52843
52844 See him deliver'd , Fabian ; bring him hither .
52845
52846 My lord , so please you , these things further thought on ,
52847 To think me as well a sister as a wife ,
52848 One day shall crown the alliance on't , so please you ,
52849 Here at my house and at my proper cost .
52850
52851 Madam , I am most apt to embrace your offer .
52852
52853
52854 Your master quits you ; and , for your service done him ,
52855 So much against the mettle of your sex ,
52856 So far beneath your soft and tender breeding ;
52857 And since you call'd me master for so long ,
52858 Here is my hand : you shall from this time be
52859 Your master's mistress .
52860
52861 A sister ! you are she .
52862
52863
52864 Is this the madman ?
52865
52866 Ay , my lord , this same .
52867 How now , Malvolio !
52868
52869 Madam , you have done me wrong ,
52870 Notorious wrong .
52871
52872 Have I , Malvolio ? no .
52873
52874 Lady , you have . Pray you peruse that letter .
52875 You must not now deny it is your hand :
52876 Write from it , if you can , in hand or phrase ,
52877 Or say 'tis not your seal nor your invention :
52878 You can say none of this . Well , grant it then ,
52879 And tell me , in the modesty of honour ,
52880 Why you have given me such clear lights of favour ,
52881 Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you ,
52882 To put on yellow stockings , and to frown
52883 Upon Sir Toby and the lighter people ;
52884 And , acting this in an obedient hope ,
52885 Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd ,
52886 Kept in a dark house , visited by the priest ,
52887 And made the most notorious geck and gull
52888 That e'er invention play'd on ? tell me why .
52889
52890 Alas ! Malvolio , this is not my writing ,
52891 Though , I confess , much like the character ;
52892 But , out of question , 'tis Maria's hand :
52893 And now I do bethink me , it was she
52894 First told me thou wast mad ; then cam'st in smiling ,
52895 And in such forms which here were presuppos'd
52896 Upon thee in the letter . Prithee , be content :
52897 This practice hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee ;
52898 But when we know the grounds and authors of it ,
52899 Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge
52900 Of thine own cause .
52901
52902 Good madam , hear me speak ,
52903 And let no quarrel nor no brawl to come
52904 Taint the condition of this present hour ,
52905 Which I have wonder'd at . In hope it shall not ,
52906 Most freely I confess , myself and Toby
52907 Set this device against Malvolio here ,
52908 Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts
52909 We had conceiv'd against him . Maria writ
52910 The letter at Sir Toby's great importance ;
52911 In recompense whereof he hath married her .
52912 How with a sportful malice it was follow'd ,
52913 May rather pluck on laughter than revenge ,
52914 If that the injuries be justly weigh'd
52915 That have on both sides past .
52916
52917 Alas , poor fool , how have they baffled thee !
52918
52919 Why , 'some are born great , some achieve greatness , and some have greatness thrown upon them .' I was one , sir , in this interlude ; one Sir Topas , sir ; but that's all one . 'By the Lord , fool , I am not mad :' But do you remember ? 'Madam , why laugh you at such a barren rascal ? an you smile not , he's gagged :' and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges .
52920
52921 I'll be reveng'd on the whole pack of you .
52922
52923
52924 He hath been most notoriously abus'd .
52925
52926 Pursue him , and entreat him to a peace ;
52927 He hath not told us of the captain yet :
52928 When that is known and golden time convents ,
52929 A solemn combination shall be made
52930 Of our dear souls . Meantime , sweet sister ,
52931 We will not part from hence . Cesario , come ;
52932 For so you shall be , while you are a man ;
52933 But when in other habits you are seen ,
52934 Orsino's mistress , and his fancy's queen .
52935
52936 When that I was and a little tiny boy ,
52937 With hey , ho , the wind and the rain ;
52938 A foolish thing was but a toy ,
52939 For the rain it raineth every day .
52940
52941
52942 But when I came to man's estate ,
52943 With hey , ho , the wind and the rain ;
52944 'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gates ,
52945 For the rain it raineth every day .
52946
52947
52948 But when I came , alas ! to wive ,
52949 With hey , ho , the wind and the rain ;
52950 By swaggering could I never thrive ,
52951 For the rain it raineth every day .
52952
52953
52954 But when I came unto my beds ,
52955 With hey , ho , the wind and the rain ;
52956 With toss-pots still had drunken heads ,
52957 For the rain it raineth every day .
52958
52959
52960 A great while ago the world begun ,
52961 With hey , ho , the wind and the rain ;
52962 But that's all one , our play is done ,
52963 And we'll strive to please you every day .
52964
52965 THE FAMOUS HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF KING HENRY VIII
52966
52967
52968 I come no more to make you laugh : things now ,
52969 That bear a weighty and a serious brow ,
52970 Sad , high , and working , full of state and woe ,
52971 Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow ,
52972 We now present . Those that can pity , here
52973 May , if they think it well , let fall a tear ;
52974 The subject will deserve it . Such as give
52975 Their money out of hope they may believe ,
52976 May here find truth too . Those that come to see
52977 Only a show or two , and so agree
52978 The play may pass , if they be still and willing ,
52979 I'll undertake may see away their shilling
52980 Richly in two short hours . Only they
52981 That come to hear a merry , bawdy play ,
52982 A noise of targets , or to see a fellow
52983 In a long molley coat guarded with yellow ,
52984 Will be deceiv'd ; for , gentle hearers , know ,
52985 To rank our chosen truth with such a show
52986 As fool and fight is , besides forfeiting
52987 Our own brains , and the opinion that we bring ,
52988 To make that only true we now intend ,
52989 Will leave us never an understanding friend .
52990 Therefore , for goodness' sake , and as you are known
52991 The first and happiest hearers of the town ,
52992 Be sad , as we would make ye : think ye see
52993 The very persons of our noble story
52994 As they were living ; think you see them great ,
52995 And follow'd with the general throng and sweat
52996 Of thousand friends ; then , in a moment see
52997 How soon this mightiness meets misery :
52998 And if you can be merry then , I'll say
52999 A man may weep upon his wedding day .
53000
53001
53002 Good morrow , and well met . How have you done ,
53003 Since last we saw in France ?
53004
53005 I thank your Grace ,
53006 Healthful ; and ever since a fresh admirer
53007 Of what I saw there .
53008
53009 An untimely ague
53010 Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber , when
53011 Those suns of glory , those two lights of men ,
53012 Met in the vale of Andren .
53013
53014 'Twixt Guynes and Arde :
53015 I was then present , saw them salute on horseback ;
53016 Beheld them , when they lighted , how they clung
53017 In their embracement , as they grew together ;
53018 Which had they , what four thron'd ones could have weigh'd
53019 Such a compounded one ?
53020
53021 All the whole time
53022 I was my chamber's prisoner .
53023
53024 Then you lost
53025 The view of earthly glory : men might say ,
53026 Till this time , pomp was single , but now married
53027 To one above itself . Each following day
53028 Became the next day's master , till the last
53029 Made former wonders its . To-day the French
53030 All clinquant , all in gold , like heathen gods ,
53031 Shone down the English ; and to-morrow they
53032 Made Britain India : every man that stood
53033 Show'd like a mine . Their dwarfish pages were
53034 As cherubins , all gilt : the madams , too ,
53035 Not us'd to toil , did almost sweat to bear
53036 The pride upon them , that their very labour
53037 Was to them as a painting . Now this masque
53038 Was cried incomparable ; and the ensuing night
53039 Made it a fool , and beggar . The two kings ,
53040 Equal in lustre , were now best , now worst ,
53041 As presence did present them ; him in eye ,
53042 Still him in praise ; and , being present both ,
53043 'Twas said they saw but one ; and no discerner
53044 Durst wag his tongue in censure . When these suns
53045 For so they phrase 'em by their heralds challeng'd
53046 The noble spirits to arms , they did perform
53047 Beyond thought's compass ; that former fabulous story ,
53048 Being now seen possible enough , got credit ,
53049 That Bevis was believ'd .
53050
53051 O ! you go far .
53052
53053 As I belong to worship , and affect
53054 In honour honesty , the tract of every thing
53055 Would by a good discourser lose some life ,
53056 Which action's self was tongue to . All was royal ;
53057 To the disposing of it nought rebell'd ,
53058 Order gave each thing view ; the office did
53059 Distinctly his full function .
53060
53061 Who did guide ,
53062 I mean , who set the body and the limbs
53063 Of this great sport together , as you guess ?
53064
53065 One certes , that promises no element
53066 In such a business .
53067
53068 I pray you , who , my lord ?
53069
53070 All this was order'd by the good discretion
53071 Of the right reverend Cardinal of York .
53072
53073 The devil speed him ! no man's pie is freed
53074 From his ambitious finger . What had he
53075 To do in these fierce vanities ? I wonder
53076 That such a keech can with his very bulk
53077 Take up the rays o' the beneficial sun ,
53078 And keep it from the earth .
53079
53080 Surely , sir ,
53081 There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends ;
53082 For , being not propp'd by ancestry , whose grace
53083 Chalks successors their way , nor call'd upon
53084 For high feats done to the crown ; neither allied
53085 To eminent assistants ; but , spider-like ,
53086 Out of his self-drawing web , he gives us note ,
53087 The force of his own merit makes his way ;
53088 A gift that heaven gives for him , which buys
53089 A place next to the king .
53090
53091 I cannot tell
53092 What heaven hath given him : let some graver eye
53093 Pierce into that ; but I can see his pride
53094 Peep through each part of him : whence has he that ?
53095 If not from hell , the devil is a niggard ,
53096 Or has given all before , and he begins
53097 A new hell in himself .
53098
53099 Why the devil ,
53100 Upon this French going-out , took he upon him ,
53101 Without the privity o' the king , to appoint
53102 Who should attend on him ? He makes up the file
53103 Of all the gentry ; for the most part such
53104 To whom as great a charge as little honour
53105 He meant to lay upon : and his own letter ,
53106 The honourable board of council out ,
53107 Must fetch him in he papers .
53108
53109 I do know
53110 Kinsmen of mine , three at the least , that have
53111 By this so sicken'd their estates , that never
53112 They shall abound as formerly .
53113
53114 O ! many
53115 Have broke their backs with laying manors on 'em
53116 For this great journey . What did this vanity
53117 But minister communication of
53118 A most poor issue ?
53119
53120 Grievingly I think ,
53121 The peace between the French and us not values
53122 The cost that did conclude it .
53123
53124 Every man ,
53125 After the hideous storm that follow'd , was
53126 A thing inspir'd ; and , not consulting , broke
53127 Into a general prophecy : That this tempest ,
53128 Dashing the garment of this peace , aboded
53129 The sudden breach on't .
53130
53131 Which is budded out ;
53132 For France hath flaw'd the league , and hath attach'd
53133 Our merchants' goods at Bourdeaux .
53134
53135 Is it therefore
53136 The ambassador is silenc'd ?
53137
53138 Marry , is't .
53139
53140 A proper title of a peace ; and purchas'd
53141 At a superfluous rate !
53142
53143 Why , all this business
53144 Our reverend cardinal carried .
53145
53146 Like it your Grace ,
53147 The state takes notice of the private difference
53148 Betwixt you and the cardinal . I advise you ,
53149 And take it from a heart that wishes towards you
53150 Honour and plenteous safety ,that you read
53151 The cardinal's malice and his potency
53152 Together ; to consider further that
53153 What his high hatred would effect wants not
53154 A minister in his power . You know his nature ,
53155 That he's revengeful ; and I know his sword
53156 Hath a sharp edge : it's long , and 't may be said ,
53157 It reaches far ; and where 'twill not extend ,
53158 Thither he darts it . Bosom up my counsel ,
53159 You'll find it wholesome . Lo where comes that rock
53160 That I advise your shunning .
53161
53162 The Duke of Buckingham's surveyor , ha ?
53163 Where's his examination ?
53164
53165 Here , so please you .
53166
53167 Is he in person ready ?
53168
53169 Ay , please your Grace .
53170
53171 Well , we shall then know more ; and Buckingham
53172 Shall lessen this big look .
53173
53174
53175 This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd , and I
53176 Have not the power to muzzle him ; therefore best
53177 Not wake him in his slumber . A beggar's book
53178 Outworths a noble's blood .
53179
53180 What ! are you chaf'd ?
53181 Ask God for temperance ; that's the appliance only
53182 Which your disease requires .
53183
53184 I read in's looks
53185 Matter against me ; and his eye revil'd
53186 Me , as his abject object : at this instant
53187 He bores me with some trick : he's gone to the king ;
53188 I'll follow , and out-stare him .
53189
53190 Stay , my lord ,
53191 And let your reason with your choler question
53192 What 'tis you go about . To climb steep hills
53193 Requires slow pace at first : anger is like
53194 A full-hot horse , who being allow'd his way ,
53195 Self-mettle tires him . Not a man in England
53196 Can advise me like you : be to yourself
53197 As you would to your friend .
53198
53199 I'll to the king ;
53200 And from a mouth of honour quite cry down
53201 This Ipswich fellow's insolence , or proclaim
53202 There's difference in no persons .
53203
53204 Be advis'd ;
53205 Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
53206 That it do singe yourself . We may outrun
53207 By violent swiftness that which we run at ,
53208 And lose by overrunning . Know you not ,
53209 The fire that mounts the liquor till it run o'er ,
53210 In seeming to augment it wastes it ? Be advis'd :
53211 I say again , there is no English soul
53212 More stronger to direct you than yourself ,
53213 If with the sap of reason you would quench ,
53214 Or but allay , the fire of passion .
53215
53216 Sir ,
53217 I am thankful to you , and I'll go along
53218 By your prescription : but this top-proud fellow
53219 Whom from the flow of gall I name not , but
53220 From sincere motions ,by intelligence ,
53221 And proofs as clear as founts in July , when
53222 We see each grain of gravel ,I do know
53223 To be corrupt and treasonous .
53224
53225 Say not , 'treasonous .'
53226
53227 To the king I'll say't ; and make my vouch as strong
53228 As shore of rock . Attend . This holy fox ,
53229 Or wolf , or both ,for he is equal ravenous
53230 As he is subtle , and as prone to mischief
53231 As able to perform 't , his mind and place
53232 Infecting one another , yea , reciprocally ,
53233 Only to show his pomp as well in France
53234 As here at home , suggests the king our master
53235 To this last costly treaty , the interview ,
53236 That swallow'd so much treasure , and like a glass
53237 Did break i' the rinsing .
53238
53239 Faith , and so it did .
53240
53241 Praygive me favour , sir . This cunning cardinal
53242 The articles o' the combination drew
53243 As himself pleas'd ; and they were ratified
53244 As he cried , 'Thus let be ,' to as much end
53245 As give a crutch to the dead . But our count-cardinal
53246 Has done this , and 'tis well ; for worthy Wolsey ,
53247 Who cannot err , he did it . Now this follows ,
53248 Which , as I take it , is a kind of puppy
53249 To the old dam , treason , Charles the emperor ,
53250 Under pretence to see the queen his aunt ,
53251 For 'twas indeed his colour , but he came
53252 To whisper Wolsey ,here makes visitation :
53253 His fears were , that the interview betwixt
53254 England and France might , through their amity ,
53255 Breed him some prejudice ; for from this league
53256 Peep'd harms that menac'd him . He privily
53257 Deals with our cardinal , and , as I trow ,
53258 Which I do well ; for , I am sure the emperor
53259 Paid ere he promis'd ; whereby his suit was granted
53260 Ere it was ask'd ; but when the way was made ,
53261 And pav'd with gold , the emperor thus desir'd :
53262 That he would please to alter the king's course ,
53263 And break the foresaid peace . Let the king know
53264 As soon he shall by me that thus the cardinal
53265 Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases ,
53266 And for his own advantage .
53267
53268 I am sorry
53269 To hear this of him ; and could wish he were
53270 Something mistaken in 't .
53271
53272 No , not a syllable :
53273 I do pronounce him in that very shape
53274 He shall appear in proof .
53275
53276
53277 Your office , sergeant ; execute it .
53278
53279 Sir ,
53280 My Lord the Duke of Buckingham , and Earl
53281 Of Hereford , Stafford , and Northampton , I
53282 Arrest thee of high treason , in the name
53283 Of our most sovereign king .
53284
53285 Lo you , my lord ,
53286 The net has fall'n upon me ! I shall perish
53287 Under device and practice .
53288
53289 I am sorry
53290 To see you ta'en from liberty , to look on
53291 The business present . 'Tis his highness' pleasure
53292 You shall to the Tower .
53293
53294 It will help me nothing
53295 To plead mine innocence , for that dye is on me
53296 Which makes my whit'st part black . The will of heaven
53297 Be done in this and all things ! I obey .
53298 O ! my Lord Abergavenny , fare you well !
53299
53300 Nay , he must bear you company .
53301
53302 The king
53303 Is pleas'd you shall to the Tower , till you know
53304 How he determines further .
53305
53306 As the duke said ,
53307 The will of heaven be done , and the king's pleasure
53308 By me obey'd !
53309
53310 Here is a warrant from
53311 The king to attach Lord Montacute ; and the bodies
53312 Of the duke's confessor , John de la Car ,
53313 One Gilbert Peck , his chancellor ,
53314
53315 So , so ;
53316 These are the limbs o' the plot : no more , I hope .
53317
53318 A monk o' the Chartreux .
53319
53320 O ! Nicholas Hopkins ?
53321
53322 He .
53323
53324 My surveyor is false ; the o'er-great cardinal
53325 Hath show'd him gold . My life is spann'd already :
53326 I am the shadow of poor Buckingham ,
53327 Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on ,
53328 By dark'ning my clear sun . My lord , farewell .
53329
53330
53331 My life itself , and the best heart of it ,
53332 Thanks you for this great care : I stood i' the level
53333 Of a full-charg'd confederacy , and give thanks
53334 To you that chok'd it . Let be call'd before us
53335 That gentleman of Buckingham's ; in person
53336 I'll hear him his confessions justify ;
53337 And point by point the treasons of his master
53338 He shall again relate .
53339
53340 Nay , we must longer kneel : I am a suitor .
53341
53342 Arise , and take place by us : half your suit
53343 Never name to us ; you have half our power :
53344 The other moiety , ere you ask , is given ;
53345 Repeat your will , and take it .
53346
53347 Thank your majesty .
53348 That you would love yourself , and in that love
53349 Not unconsider'd leave your honour , nor
53350 The dignity of your office , is the point
53351 Of my petition .
53352
53353 Lady mine , proceed .
53354
53355 I am solicited , not by a few ,
53356 And those of true condition , that your subjects
53357 Are in great grievance : there have been commissions
53358 Sent down among 'em , which hath flaw'd the heart
53359 Of all their loyalties : wherein , although ,
53360 My good Lord Cardinal , they vent reproaches
53361 Most bitterly on you , as putter-on
53362 Of these exactions , yet the king our master ,
53363 Whose honour heaven shield from soil !even he escapes not
53364 Language unmannerly ; yea , such which breaks
53365 The sides of loyalty , and almost appears
53366 In loud rebellion .
53367
53368 Not almost appears ,
53369 It doth appear ; for , upon these taxations ,
53370 The clothiers all , not able to maintain
53371 The many to them 'longing , have put off
53372 The spinsters , carders , fullers , weavers , who ,
53373 Unfit for other life , compell'd by hunger
53374 And lack of other means , in desperate manner
53375 Daring the event to the teeth , are all in uproar ,
53376 And danger serves among them .
53377
53378 Taxation !
53379 Wherein ? and what taxation ? My Lord Cardinal ,
53380 You that are blam'd for it alike with us ,
53381 Know you of this taxation ?
53382
53383 Please you , sir ,
53384 I know but of a single part in aught
53385 Pertains to the state ; and front but in that file
53386 Where others tell steps with me .
53387
53388 No , my lord ,
53389 You know no more than others ; but you frame
53390 Things that are known alike ; which are not wholesome
53391 To those which would not know them , and yet must
53392 Perforce be their acquaintance . These exactions ,
53393 Whereof my sov'reign would have note , they are
53394 Most pestilent to the hearing ; and to bear 'em ,
53395 The back is sacrifice to the load . They say
53396 They are devis'd by you , or else you suffer
53397 Too hard an exclamation .
53398
53399 Still exaction !
53400 The nature of it ? In what kind , let's know ,
53401 Is this exaction ?
53402
53403 I am much too venturous
53404 In tempting of your patience ; but am bolden'd
53405 Under your promis'd pardon . The subjects' grief
53406 Comes through commissions , which compel from each
53407 The sixth part of his substance , to be levied
53408 Without delay ; and the pretence for this
53409 Is nam'd , your wars in France . This makes bold mouths :
53410 Tongues spit their duties out , and cold hearts freeze
53411 Allegiance in them ; their curses now
53412 Live where their prayers did ; and it's come to pass ,
53413 This tractable obedience is a slave
53414 To each incensed will . I would your highness
53415 Would give it quick consideration , for
53416 There is no primer business .
53417
53418 By my life ,
53419 This is against our pleasure .
53420
53421 And for me ,
53422 I have no further gone in this than by
53423 A single voice , and that not pass'd me but
53424 By learned approbation of the judges . If I am
53425 Traduc'd by ignorant tongues , which neither know
53426 My faculties nor person , yet will be
53427 The chronicles of my doing , let me say
53428 'Tis but the fate of place , and the rough brake
53429 That virtue must go through . We must not stint
53430 Our necessary actions , in the fear
53431 To cope malicious censurers ; which ever ,
53432 As rav'nous fishes , do a vessel follow
53433 That is new-trimm'd , but benefit no further
53434 Than vainly longing . What we oft do best ,
53435 By sick interpreters , once weak ones , is
53436 Not ours , or not allow'd ; what worst , as oft ,
53437 Hitting a grosser quality , is cried up
53438 For our best act . If we shall stand still ,
53439 In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at ,
53440 We should take root here where we sit , or sit
53441 State-statues only .
53442
53443 Things done well ,
53444 And with a care , exempt themselves from fear ;
53445 Things done without example , in their issue
53446 Are to be fear'd . Have you a precedent
53447 Of this commission ? I believe , not any .
53448 We must not rend our subjects from our laws ,
53449 And stick them in our will . Sixth part of each ?
53450 A trembling contribution ! Why , we take
53451 From every tree , lop , bark , and part o' the timber ;
53452 And , though we leave it with a root , thus hack'd ,
53453 The air will drink the sap . To every county
53454 Where this is question'd , send our letters , with
53455 Free pardon to each man that has denied
53456 The force of this commission . Pray , look to 't ;
53457 I put it to your care .
53458
53459 A word with you .
53460 Let there be letters writ to every shire ,
53461 Of the king's grace and pardon . The griev'd commons
53462 Hardly conceive of me ; let it be nois'd
53463 That through our intercession this revokement
53464 And pardon comes : I shall anon advise you
53465 Further in the proceeding .
53466
53467 I am sorry that the Duke of Buckingham
53468 Is run in your displeasure .
53469
53470 It grieves many :
53471 The gentleman is learn'd , and a most rare speaker ,
53472 To nature none more bound ; his training such
53473 That he may furnish and instruct great teachers ,
53474 And never seek for aid out of himself . Yet see ,
53475 When these so noble benefits shall prove
53476 Not well dispos'd , the mind growing once corrupt ,
53477 They turn to vicious forms , ten times more ugly
53478 Than ever they were fair . This man so complete ,
53479 Who was enroll'd 'mongst wonders , and when we ,
53480 Almost with ravish'd listening , could not find
53481 His hour of speech a minute ; he , my lady ,
53482 Hath into monstrous habits put the graces
53483 That once were his , and is become as black
53484 As if besmear'd in hell . Sit by us ; you shall hear
53485 This was his gentleman in trust of him
53486 Things to strike honour sad . Bid him recount
53487 The fore-recited practices ; whereof
53488 We cannot feel too little , hear too much .
53489
53490 Stand forth ; and with bold spirit relate what you ,
53491 Most like a careful subject , have collected
53492 Out of the Duke of Buckingham .
53493
53494 Speak freely .
53495
53496 First , it was usual with him , every day
53497 It would infect his speech , that if the king
53498 Should without issue die , he'd carry it so
53499 To make the sceptre his . These very words
53500 I've heard him utter to his son-in-law ,
53501 Lord Abergavenny , to whom by oath he menac'd
53502 Revenge upon the cardinal .
53503
53504 Please your highness , note
53505 This dangerous conception in this point .
53506 Not friended by his wish , to your high person
53507 His will is most malignant ; and it stretches
53508 Beyond you , to your friends .
53509
53510 My learn'd Lord Cardinal ,
53511 Deliver all with charity .
53512
53513 Speak on :
53514 How grounded he his title to the crown
53515 Upon our fail ? to this point hast thou heard him
53516 At any time speak aught ?
53517
53518 He was brought to this
53519 By a vain prophecy of Nicholas Hopkins .
53520
53521 What was that Hopkins ?
53522
53523 Sir , a Chartreux friar ,
53524 His confessor , who fed him every minute
53525 With words of sovereignty .
53526
53527 How know'st thou this ?
53528
53529 Not long before your highness sped to France ,
53530 The duke being at the Rose , within the parish
53531 Saint Lawrence Poultney , did of me demand
53532 What was the speech among the Londoners
53533 Concerning the French journey : I replied ,
53534 Men fear'd the French would prove perfidious ,
53535 To the king's danger . Presently the duke
53536 Said , 'twas the fear , indeed ; and that he doubted
53537 'Twould prove the verity of certain words
53538 Spoke by a holy monk ; 'that oft ,' says he ,
53539 'Hath sent to me , wishing me to permit
53540 John de la Car , my chaplain , a choice hour
53541 To hear from him a matter of some moment :
53542 Whom after under the confession's seal
53543 He solemnly had sworn , that what he spoke ,
53544 My chaplain to no creature living but
53545 To me should utter , with demure confidence
53546 This pausingly ensu'd : neither the king nor 's heirs
53547 Tell you the duke shall prosper : bid him strive
53548 To gain the love o' the commonalty : the duke
53549 Shall govern England .'
53550
53551 If I know you well ,
53552 You were the duke's surveyor , and lost your office
53553 On the complaint o' the tenants : take good heed
53554 You charge not in your spleen a noble person ,
53555 And spoil your nobler soul . I say , take heed ;
53556 Yes , heartily beseech you .
53557
53558 Let him on .
53559 Go forward .
53560
53561 On my soul , I'll speak but truth .
53562 I told my lord the duke , by the devil's illusions
53563 The monk might be deceiv'd ; and that 'twas dangerous for him
53564 To ruminate on this so far , until
53565 It forg'd him some design , which , being believ'd ,
53566 It was much like to do . He answer'd , 'Tush !
53567 It can do me no damage ;' adding further ,
53568 That had the king in his last sickness fail'd ,
53569 The cardinal's and Sir Thomas Lovell's heads
53570 Should have gone off .
53571
53572 Ha ! what , so rank ? Ah , ha !
53573 There's mischief in this man . Canst thou say further ?
53574
53575 I can , my liege .
53576
53577 Proceed .
53578
53579 Being at Greenwich ,
53580 After your highness had reprov'd the duke
53581 About Sir William Blomer ,
53582
53583 I remember
53584 Of such a time : being my sworn servant ,
53585 The duke retain'd him his . But on ; what hence ?
53586
53587 'If ,' quoth he , 'I for this had been committed ,
53588 As , to the Tower , I thought , I would have play'd
53589 The part my father meant to act upon
53590 The usurper Richard ; who , being at Salisbury ,
53591 Made suit to come in 's presence ; which if granted ,
53592 As he made semblance of his duty , would
53593 Have put his knife into him .'
53594
53595 A giant traitor !
53596
53597 Now , madam , may his highness live in freedom ,
53598 And this man out of prison ?
53599
53600 God mend all !
53601
53602 There's something more would out of thee ? what sayst ?
53603
53604 After 'the duke his father ,' with 'the knife ,'
53605 He stretch'd him , and , with one hand on his dagger ,
53606 Another spread on's breast , mounting his eyes ,
53607 He did discharge a horrible oath ; whose tenour
53608 Was , were he evil us'd , he would outgo
53609 His father by as much as a performance
53610 Does an irresolute purpose .
53611
53612 There's his period ;
53613 To sheathe his knife in us . He is attach'd ;
53614 Call him to present trial : if he may
53615 Find mercy in the law , 'tis his ; if none ,
53616 Let him not seek't of us : by day and night !
53617 He's traitor to the height .
53618
53619
53620 Is't possible the spells of France should juggle
53621 Men into such strange mysteries ?
53622
53623 New customs ,
53624 Though they be never so ridiculous ,
53625 Nay , let 'em be unmanly , yet are follow'd .
53626
53627 As far as I see , all the good our English
53628 Have got by the late voyage is but merely
53629 A fit or two o' the face ; but they are shrewd ones ;
53630 For when they hold 'em , you would swear directly
53631 Their very noses had been counsellors
53632 To Pepin or Clotharius , they keep state so .
53633
53634 They have all new legs , and lame ones : one would take it ,
53635 That never saw 'em pace before , the spavin
53636 Or springhalt reign'd among 'em .
53637
53638 Death ! my lord ,
53639 Their clothes are after such a pagan cut too ,
53640 That , sure , they've worn out Christendom .
53641
53642
53643 How now !
53644
53645 What news , Sir Thomas Lovell ?
53646
53647 Faith , my lord ,
53648 I hear of none , but the new proclamation
53649 That's clapp'd upon the court-gate .
53650
53651 What is't for ?
53652
53653 The reformation of our travell'd gallants ,
53654 That fill the court with quarrels , talk , and tailors .
53655
53656 I am glad 'tis there : now I would pray our monsieurs
53657 To think an English courtier may be wise ,
53658 And never see the Louvre .
53659
53660 They must either
53661 For so run the conditions leave those remnants
53662 Of fool and feather that they got in France ,
53663 With all their honourable points of ignorance
53664 Pertaining thereunto ,as fights and fireworks ;
53665 Abusing better men than they can be ,
53666 Out of a foreign wisdom ;renouncing clean
53667 The faith they have in tennis and tall stockings ,
53668 Short blister'd breeches , and those types of travel ,
53669 And understand again like honest men ;
53670 Or pack to their old playfellows : there , I take it ,
53671 They may , cum privilegio , wear away
53672 The lag end of their lewdness , and be laugh'd at .
53673
53674 'Tis time to give 'em physic , their diseases
53675 Are grown so catching .
53676
53677 What a loss our ladies
53678 Will have of these trim vanities !
53679
53680 Ay , marry ,
53681 There will be woe indeed , lords : the sly whoresons
53682 Have got a speeding trick to lay down ladies ;
53683 A French song and a fiddle has no fellow .
53684
53685 The devil fiddle 'em ! I am glad they're going :
53686 For , sure , there's no converting of 'em : now
53687 An honest country lord , as I am , beaten
53688 A long time out of play , may bring his plainsong
53689 And have an hour of hearing ; and , by'r lady ,
53690 Held current music too .
53691
53692 Well said , Lord Sands ;
53693 Your colt's tooth is not cast yet .
53694
53695 No , my lord ;
53696 Nor shall not , while I have a stump .
53697
53698 Sir Thomas ,
53699 Whither were you a-going ?
53700
53701 To the cardinal's :
53702 Your lordship is a guest too .
53703
53704 O ! 'tis true :
53705 This night he makes a supper , and a great one ,
53706 To many lords and ladies ; there will be
53707 The beauty of this kingdom , I'll assure you .
53708
53709 That churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed ,
53710 A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us ;
53711 His dews fall everywhere .
53712
53713 No doubt he's noble ;
53714 He had a black mouth that said other of him .
53715
53716 He may , my lord ; he has wherewithal : in him
53717 Sparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine :
53718 Men of his way should be most liberal ;
53719 They are set here for examples .
53720
53721 True , they are so ;
53722 But few now give so great ones . My barge stays ;
53723 Your lordship shall along . Come , good Sir Thomas ,
53724 We shall be late else ; which I would not be ,
53725 For I was spoke to , with Sir Henry Guildford ,
53726 This night to be comptrollers .
53727
53728 I am your lordship's .
53729
53730 Ladies , a general welcome from his Grace
53731 Salutes ye all ; this night he dedicates
53732 To fair content and you . None here , he hopes ,
53733 In all this noble bevy , has brought with her
53734 One care abroad ; he would have all as merry
53735 As , first , good company , good wine , good welcome
53736 Can make good people .
53737
53738 O , my lord ! you're tardy :
53739 The very thought of this fair company
53740 Clapp'd wings to me .
53741
53742 You are young , Sir Harry Guildford .
53743
53744 Sir Thomas Lovell , had the cardinal
53745 But half my lay-thoughts in him , some of these
53746 Should find a running banquet ere they rested ,
53747 I think would better please 'em : by my life ,
53748 They are a sweet society of fair ones .
53749
53750 O ! that your lordship were but now confessor
53751 To one or two of these !
53752
53753 I would I were ;
53754 They should find easy penance .
53755
53756 Faith , how easy ?
53757
53758 As easy as a down-bed would afford it .
53759
53760 Sweet ladies , will it please you sit ? Sir Harry ,
53761 Place you that side , I'll take the charge of this ;
53762 His Grace is ent'ring . Nay you must not freeze ;
53763 Two women plac'd together makes cold weather :
53764 My Lord Sands , you are one will keep 'em waking ;
53765 Pray , sit between these ladies .
53766
53767 By my faith ,
53768 And thank your lordship . By your leave , sweet ladies :
53769
53770 If I chance to talk a little wild , forgive me ;
53771 I had it from my father .
53772
53773 Was he mad , sir ?
53774
53775 O ! very mad , exceeding mad ; in love too :
53776 But he would bite none ; just as I do now ,
53777 He would kiss you twenty with a breath .
53778
53779
53780 Well said , my lord .
53781 So , now you're fairly seated . Gentlemen ,
53782 The penance lies on you , if these fair ladies
53783 Pass away frowning .
53784
53785 For my little cure ,
53786 Let me alone .
53787
53788
53789 You're welcome , my fair guests : that noble lady ,
53790 Or gentleman , that is not freely merry ,
53791 Is not my friend : this , to confirm my welcome ;
53792 And to you all , good health .
53793
53794
53795 Your Grace is noble :
53796 Let me have such a bowl may hold my thanks ,
53797 And save me so much talking .
53798
53799 My Lord Sands ,
53800 I am beholding to you : cheer your neighbours .
53801 Ladies , you are not merry : gentlemen ,
53802 Whose fault is this ?
53803
53804 The red wine first must rise
53805 In their fair cheeks , my lord ; then , we shall have 'em
53806 Talk us to silence .
53807
53808 You are a merry gamester ,
53809 My Lord Sands .
53810
53811 Yes , if I make my play .
53812 Here's to your ladyship ; and pledge it , madam ,
53813 For 'tis to such a thing ,
53814
53815 You cannot show me .
53816
53817 I told your Grace they would talk anon .
53818
53819
53820 What's that ?
53821
53822 Look out there , some of ye .
53823
53824
53825 What war-like voice ,
53826 And to what end , is this ? Nay , ladies , fear not ;
53827 By all the laws of war you're privileg'd .
53828
53829
53830 How now , what is't ?
53831
53832 A noble troop of strangers ;
53833 For so they seem : they've left their barge and landed ;
53834 And hither make , as great ambassadors
53835 From foreign princes .
53836
53837 Good Lord Chamberlain ,
53838 Go , give 'em welcome ; you can speak the French tongue ;
53839 And , pray , receive 'em nobly , and conduct 'em
53840 Into our presence , where this heaven of beauty
53841 Shall shine at full upon them . Some attend him .
53842
53843 You have now a broken banquet ; but we'll mend it .
53844 A good digestion to you all ; and once more
53845 I shower a welcome on ye ; welcome all .
53846
53847 A noble company ! what are their pleasures ?
53848
53849 Because they speak no English , thus they pray'd
53850 To tell your Grace : that , having heard by fame
53851 Of this so noble and so fair assembly
53852 This night to meet here , they could do no less ,
53853 Out of the great respect they bear to beauty ,
53854 But leave their flocks ; and , under your fair conduct ,
53855 Crave leave to view these ladies , and entreat
53856 An hour of revels with 'em .
53857
53858 Say , Lord Chamberlain ,
53859 They have done my poor house grace ; for which I pay 'em
53860 A thousand thanks , and pray 'em take their pleasures .
53861
53862
53863 The fairest hand I ever touch'd ! O beauty ,
53864 Till now I never knew thee !
53865
53866
53867 My lord .
53868
53869 Your Grace ?
53870
53871 Pray tell them thus much from me :
53872 There should be one amongst 'em , by his person ,
53873 More worthy this place than myself ; to whom ,
53874 If I but knew him , with my love and duty
53875 I would surrender it .
53876
53877 I will , my lord .
53878
53879
53880 What say they ?
53881
53882 Such a one , they all confess ,
53883 There is , indeed ; which they would have your Grace
53884 Find out , and he will take it .
53885
53886 Let me see then .
53887
53888 By all your good leaves , gentlemen , here I'll make
53889 My royal choice .
53890
53891 You have found him , cardinal .
53892 You hold a fair assembly ; you do well , lord :
53893 You are a churchman , or , I'll tell you , cardinal ,
53894 I should judge now unhappily .
53895
53896 I am glad
53897 Your Grace is grown so pleasant .
53898
53899 My Lord Chamberlain ,
53900 Prithee , come hither . What fair lady's that ?
53901
53902 An't please your Grace , Sir Thomas Bullen's daughter ,
53903 The Viscount Rochford , one of her highness' women .
53904
53905 By heaven , she is a dainty one . Sweetheart ,
53906 I were unmannerly to take you out ,
53907 And not to kiss you . A health , gentlemen !
53908 Let it go round .
53909
53910 Sir Thomas Lovell , is the banquest ready
53911 I' the privy chamber ?
53912
53913 Yes , my lord .
53914
53915 Your Grace ,
53916 I fear , with dancing is a little heated .
53917
53918 I fear , too much .
53919
53920 There's fresher air , my lord ,
53921 In the next chamber .
53922
53923 Lead in your ladies , every one . Sweet partner ,
53924 I must not yet forsake you . Let's be merry :
53925 Good my Lord Cardinal , I have half a dozen healths
53926 To drink to these fair ladies , and a measure
53927 To lead 'em once again ; and then let's dream
53928 Who's best in favour . Let the music knock it .
53929
53930
53931 Whither away so fast ?
53932
53933 O ! God save ye .
53934 E'en to the hall , to hear what shall become
53935 Of the great Duke of Buckingham .
53936
53937 I'll save you
53938 That labour , sir . All's now done but the ceremony
53939 Of bringing back the prisoner .
53940
53941 Were you there ?
53942
53943 Yes , indeed , was I .
53944
53945 Pray speak what has happen'd .
53946
53947 You may guess quickly what .
53948
53949 Is he found guilty ?
53950
53951 Yes , truly is he , and condemn'd upon't .
53952
53953 I am sorry for 't .
53954
53955 So are a number more .
53956
53957 But , pray , how pass'd it ?
53958
53959 I'll tell you in a little . The great duke
53960 Came to the bar ; where , to his accusations
53961 He pleaded still not guilty , and alleg'd
53962 Many sharp reasons to defeat the law .
53963 The king's attorney on the contrary
53964 Urg'd on the examinations , proofs , confessions
53965 Of divers witnesses , which the duke desir'd
53966 To have brought , viv voce , to his face :
53967 At which appear'd against him his surveyor ;
53968 Sir Gilbert Peck his chancellor ; and John Car ,
53969 Confessor to him ; with that devil-monk ,
53970 Hopkins , that made this mischief .
53971
53972 That was he
53973 That fed him with his prophecies ?
53974
53975 The same .
53976 All these accus'd him strongly ; which he fain
53977 Would have flung from him , but , indeed , he could not :
53978 And so his peers , upon this evidence ,
53979 Have found him guilty of high treason . Much
53980 He spoke , and learnedly , for life ; but all
53981 Was either pitied in him or forgotten .
53982
53983 After all this how did he bear himself ?
53984
53985 When he was brought again to the bar , to hear
53986 His knell rung out , his judgment , he was stirr'd
53987 With such an agony , he sweat extremely ,
53988 And something spoke in choler , ill , and hasty :
53989 But he fell to himself again , and sweetly
53990 In all the rest show'd a most noble patience .
53991
53992 I do not think he fears death .
53993
53994 Sure , he does not ;
53995 He never was so womanish ; the cause
53996 He may a little grieve at .
53997
53998 Certainly
53999 The cardinal is the end of this .
54000
54001 'Tis likely
54002 By all conjectures : first , Kildare's attainder ,
54003 Then deputy of Ireland ; who , remov'd ,
54004 Earl Surrey was sent thither , and in haste too ,
54005 Lest he should help his father .
54006
54007 That trick of state
54008 Was a deep envious one .
54009
54010 At his return ,
54011 No doubt he will requite it . This is noted ,
54012 And generally , whoever the king favours ,
54013 The cardinal instantly will find employment ,
54014 And far enough from court too .
54015
54016 All the commons
54017 Hate him perniciously , and o' my conscience ,
54018 Wish him ten fathom deep : this duke as much
54019 They love and dote on ; call him bounteous Buckingham ,
54020 The mirror of all courtesy ;
54021
54022 Stay there , sir ,
54023 And see the noble ruin'd man you speak of .
54024
54025 Let's stand close , and behold him .
54026
54027 All good people ,
54028 You that thus far have come to pity me ,
54029 Hear what I say , and then go home and lose me .
54030 I have this day receiv'd a traitor's judgment ,
54031 And by that name must die : yet , heaven bear witness ,
54032 And if I have a conscience , let it sink me ,
54033 Even as the axe falls , if I be not faithful !
54034 The law I bear no malice for my death ,
54035 'T has done upon the premises but justice ;
54036 But those that sought it I could wish more Christians :
54037 Be what they will , I heartily forgive 'em .
54038 Yet let 'em look they glory not in mischief ,
54039 Nor build their evils on the graves of great men ;
54040 For then my guiltless blood must cry against 'em .
54041 For further life in this world I ne'er hope ,
54042 Nor will I sue , although the king have mercies
54043 More than I dare make faults . You few that lov'd me ,
54044 And dare be bold to weep for Buckingham ,
54045 His noble friends and fellows , whom to leave
54046 Is only bitter to him , only dying ,
54047 Go with me , like good angels , to my end ;
54048 And , as the long divorce of steel falls on me ,
54049 Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice ,
54050 And lift my soul to heaven . Lead on , o' God's name .
54051
54052 I do beseech your Grace , for charity ,
54053 If ever any malice in your heart
54054 Were hid against me , now to forgive me frankly .
54055
54056 Sir Thomas Lovell , I as free forgive you
54057 As I would be forgiven : I forgive all .
54058 There cannot be those numberless offences
54059 'Gainst me that I cannot take peace with : no black envy
54060 Shall mark my grave . Commend me to his Grace ;
54061 And , if he speak of Buckingham , pray , tell him
54062 You met him half in heaven . My vows and prayers
54063 Yet are the king's ; and , till my soul forsake ,
54064 Shall cry for blessings on him : may he live
54065 Longer than I have time to tell his years !
54066 Ever belov'd and loving may his rule be !
54067 And when old time shall lead him to his end ,
54068 Goodness and he fill up one monument !
54069
54070 To the water side I must conduct your Grace ;
54071 Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux ,
54072 Who undertakes you to your end .
54073
54074 Prepare there !
54075 The duke is coming : see the barge be ready ;
54076 And fit it with such furniture as suits
54077 The greatness of his person .
54078
54079 Nay , Sir Nicholas ,
54080 Let it alone ; my state now will but mock me .
54081 When I came hither , I was Lord High Constable ,
54082 And Duke of Buckingham ; now , poor Edward Bohun :
54083 Yet I am richer than my base accusers ,
54084 That never knew what truth meant : I now seal it ;
54085 And with that blood will make them one day groan for't .
54086 My noble father , Henry of Buckingham ,
54087 Who first rais'd head against usurping Richard ,
54088 Flying for succour to his servant Banister ,
54089 Being distress'd , was by that wretch betray'd ,
54090 And without trial fell : God's peace be with him !
54091 Henry the Seventh succeeding , truly pitying
54092 My father's loss , like a most royal prince ,
54093 Restor'd me to my honours , and , out of ruins ,
54094 Made my name once more noble . Now his son ,
54095 Henry the Eighth , life , honour , name , and all
54096 That made me happy , at one stroke has taken
54097 For ever from the world . I had my trial ,
54098 And , must needs say , a noble one ; which makes me
54099 A little happier than my wretched father :
54100 Yet thus far we are one in fortunes ; both
54101 Fell by our servants , by those men welov'd most :
54102 A most unnatural and faithless service !
54103 Heaven has an end in all ; yet , you that hear me ,
54104 This from a dying man receive as certain :
54105 Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels
54106 Be sure you be not loose ; for those you make friends
54107 And give your hearts to , when they once perceive
54108 The least rub in your fortunes , fall away
54109 Like water from ye , never found again
54110 But where they mean to sink ye . All good people ,
54111 Pray for me ! I must now forsake ye : the last hour
54112 Of my long weary life is come upon me .
54113 Farewell :
54114 And when you would say something that is sad ,
54115 Speak how I fell . I have done ; and God forgive me !
54116
54117
54118 O ! this is full of pity ! Sir , it calls ,
54119 I fear , too many curses on their heads
54120 That were the authors .
54121
54122 If the duke be guiltless ,
54123 'Tis full of woe ; yet I can give you inkling
54124 Of an ensuing evil , if it fall ,
54125 Greater than this .
54126
54127 Good angels keep it from us !
54128 What may it be ? You do not doubt my faith , sir ?
54129
54130 This secret is so weighty , 'twill require
54131 A strong faith to conceal it .
54132
54133 Let me have it ;
54134 I do not talk much .
54135
54136 I am confident :
54137 You shall , sir . Did you not of late days hear
54138 A buzzing of a separation
54139 Between the king and Katharine ?
54140
54141 Yes , but it held not ;
54142 For when the king once heard it , out of anger
54143 He sent command to the lord mayor straight
54144 To stop the rumour , and allay those tongues
54145 That durst disperse it .
54146
54147 But that slander , sir ,
54148 Is found a truth now ; for it grows again
54149 Fresher than e'er it was ; and held for certain
54150 The king will venture at it . Either the cardinal ,
54151 Or some about him near , have , out of malice
54152 To the good queen , possess'd him with a scruple
54153 That will undo her : to confirm this too ,
54154 Cardinal Campeius is arriv'd , and lately ;
54155 As all think , for this business .
54156
54157 'Tis the cardinal ;
54158 And merely to revenge him on the emperor
54159 For not bestowing on him , at his asking ,
54160 The archbishopric of Toledo , this is purpos'd .
54161
54162 I think you have hit the mark : but is't not cruel
54163 That she should feel the smart of this ? The cardinal
54164 Will have his will , and she must fall .
54165
54166 'Tis woeful .
54167 We are too open here to argue this ;
54168 Let's think in private more .
54169
54170
54171 My lord , The horses your lordship sent for , with all the care I had , I saw well chosen , ridden , and furnished . They were young and handsome , and of the best breed in the north . When they were ready to set out for London , a man of my Lord Cardinal's , by commission and main power , took them from me ; with this reason : His master would be served before a subject , if not before the king ; which stopped our mouths , sir .
54172 I fear he will indeed . Well , let him have them :
54173 He will have all , I think .
54174
54175
54176 Well met , my Lord Chamberlain .
54177
54178 Good day to both your Graces .
54179
54180 How is the king employ'd ?
54181
54182 I left him private ,
54183 Full of sad thoughts and troubles .
54184
54185 What's the cause ?
54186
54187 It seems the marriage with his brother's wife
54188 Has crept too near his conscience .
54189
54190 No ; his conscience
54191 Has crept too near another lady .
54192
54193 'Tis so :
54194 This is the cardinal's doing , the king-cardinal :
54195 That blind priest , like the eldest son of Fortune ,
54196 Turns what he list . The king will know him one day .
54197
54198 Pray God he do ! he'll never know himself else .
54199
54200 How holily he works in all his business ,
54201 And with what zeal ! for , now he has crack'd the league
54202 Between us and the emperor , the queen's great nephew ,
54203 He dives into the king's soul , and there scatters
54204 Dangers , doubts , wringing of the conscience ,
54205 Fears , and despairs ; and all these for his marriage :
54206 And out of all these , to restore the king ,
54207 He counsels a divorce ; a loss of her ,
54208 That like a jewel has hung twenty years
54209 About his neck , yet never lost her lustre ;
54210 Of her , that loves him with that excellence
54211 That angels love good men with ; even of her ,
54212 That , when the greatest stroke of fortune falls ,
54213 Will bless the king : and is not this course pious ?
54214
54215 Heaven keep me from such counsel ! 'Tis most true
54216 These news are every where ; every tongue speaks 'em ,
54217 And every true heart weeps for't . All that dare
54218 Look into these affairs , see this main end ,
54219 The French king's sister . Heaven will one day open
54220 The king's eyes , that so long have slept upon
54221 This bold bad man .
54222
54223 And free us from his slavery .
54224
54225 We had need pray ,
54226 And heartily , for our deliverance ;
54227 Or this imperious man will work us all
54228 From princes into pages . All men's honours
54229 Lie like one lump before him , to be fashion'd
54230 Into what pitch he please .
54231
54232 For me , my lords ,
54233 I love him not , nor fear him ; there's my creed .
54234 As I am made without him , so I'll stand ,
54235 If the king please ; his curses and his blessings
54236 Touch me alike , they're breath I not believe in .
54237 I knew him , and I know him ; so I leave him
54238 To him that made him proud , the pope .
54239
54240 Let's in ;
54241 And with some other business put the king
54242 From these sad thoughts , that work too much upon him .
54243 My lord , you'll bear us company ?
54244
54245 Excuse me ;
54246 The king hath sent me otherwhere : besides ,
54247 You'll find a most unfit time to disturb him :
54248 Health to your lordships .
54249
54250 Thanks , my good Lord Chamberlain .
54251
54252 How sad he looks ! sure , he is much afflicted .
54253
54254 Who is there , ha ?
54255
54256 Pray God he be not angry .
54257
54258 Who's there , I say ? How dare you thrust yourselves
54259 Into my private meditations ?
54260 Who am I , ha ?
54261
54262 A gracious king that pardons all offences
54263 Malice ne'er meant : our breach of duty this way
54264 Is business of estate ; in which we come
54265 To know your royal pleasure .
54266
54267 Ye are too bold .
54268 Go to ; I'll make ye know your times of business :
54269 Is this an hour for temporal affairs , ha ?
54270
54271
54272 Who's there ? my good Lord Cardinal ? O ! my Wolsey ,
54273 The quiet of my wounded conscience ;
54274 Thou art a cure fit for a king .
54275
54276 You're welcome ,
54277 Most learned reverend sir , into our kingdom :
54278 Use us , and it .
54279
54280 My good lord , have great care
54281
54282 I be not found a talker .
54283
54284 Sir , you cannot .
54285 I would your Grace would give us but an hour
54286 Of private conference .
54287
54288 We are busy : go .
54289
54290 This priest has no pride in him !
54291
54292 Not to speak of ;
54293 I would not be so sick though for his place :
54294 But this cannot continue .
54295
54296 If it do ,
54297 I'll venture one have-at-him .
54298
54299 I another .
54300
54301
54302 Your Grace has given a precedent of wisdom
54303 Above all princes , in committing freely
54304 Your scruple to the voice of Christendom .
54305 Who can be angry now ? what envy reach you ?
54306 The Spaniard , tied by blood and favour to her ,
54307 Must now confess , if they have any goodness ,
54308 The trial just and noble . All the clerks ,
54309 I mean the learned ones , in Christian kingdoms
54310 Have their free voices : Rome , the nurse of judgment ,
54311 Invited by your noble self , hath sent
54312 One general tongue unto us , this good man ,
54313 This just and learned priest , Cardinal Campeius ;
54314 Whom once more I present unto your highness .
54315
54316 And once more in my arms I bid him welcome ,
54317 And thank the holy conclave for their loves :
54318 They have sent me such a man I would have wish'd for .
54319
54320 Your Grace must needs deserve all strangers' loves ,
54321 You are so noble . To your highness' hand
54322 I tender my commission , by whose virtue ,
54323 The court of Rome commanding ,you , my Lord
54324 Cardinal of York , are join'd with me , their servant ,
54325 In the impartial judging of this business .
54326
54327 Two equal men . The queen shall be acquainted
54328 Forthwith for what you come . Where's Gardiner ?
54329
54330 I know your majesty has always lov'd her
54331 So dear in heart , not to deny her that
54332 A woman of less place might ask by law ,
54333 Scholars , allow'd freely to argue for her .
54334
54335 Ay , and the best , she shall have ; and my favour
54336 To him that does best : God forbid else . Cardinal ,
54337 Prithee , call Gardiner to me , my new secretary :
54338 I find him a fit fellow .
54339
54340 Give me your hand ; much joy and favour to you ;
54341 You are the king's now .
54342
54343 But to be commanded
54344 For ever by your Grace , whose hand has rais'd me .
54345
54346 Come hither , Gardiner .
54347
54348
54349 My Lord of York , was not one Doctor Pace
54350 In this man's place before him ?
54351
54352 Yes , he was .
54353
54354 Was he not held a learned man ?
54355
54356 Yes , surely .
54357
54358 Believe me , there's an ill opinion spread then
54359 Even of yourself , Lord Cardinal .
54360
54361 How ! of me ?
54362
54363 They will not stick to say , you envied him ,
54364 And fearing he would rise , he was so virtuous ,
54365 Kept him a foreign man still ; which so griev'd him
54366 That he ran mad and died .
54367
54368 Heaven's peace be with him !
54369 That's Christian care enough : for living murmurers
54370 There's places of rebuke . He was a fool ,
54371 For he would needs be virtuous : that good fellow ,
54372 If I command him , follows my appointment :
54373 I will have none so near else . Learn this , brother ,
54374 We live not to be grip'd by meaner persons .
54375
54376 Deliver this with modesty to the queen .
54377
54378 The most convenient place that I can think of
54379 For such receipt of learning , is Black-Friars ;
54380 There ye shall meet about this weighty business .
54381 My Wolsey , see it furnish'd . O my lord !
54382 Would it not grieve an able man to leave
54383 So sweet a bedfellow ? But , conscience , conscience !
54384 O ! 'tis a tender place , and I must leave her .
54385
54386
54387 Not for that neither : here's the pang that pinches :
54388 His highness having liv'd so long with her , and she
54389 So good a lady that no tongue could ever
54390 Pronounce dishonour of her ; by my life ,
54391 She never knew harm-doing ; O ! now , after
54392 So many courses of the sun enthron'd ,
54393 Still growing in a majesty and pomp , the which
54394 To leave a thousand-fold more bitter than
54395 'Tis sweet at first to acquire , after this process
54396 To give her the avaunt ! it is a pity
54397 Would move a monster .
54398
54399 Hearts of most hard temper
54400 Melt and lament for her .
54401
54402 O ! God's will ; much better
54403 She ne'er had known pomp : though 't be temporal ,
54404 Yet , if that quarrel , Fortune , do divorce
54405 It from the bearer , 'tis a sufferance panging
54406 As soul and body's severing .
54407
54408 Alas ! poor lady ,
54409 She's a stranger now again .
54410
54411 So much the more
54412 Must pity drop upon her . Verily ,
54413 I swear , 'tis better to be lowly born ,
54414 And range with humble livers in content ,
54415 Than to be perk'd up in a glist'ring grief
54416 And wear a golden sorrow .
54417
54418 Our content
54419 Is our best having .
54420
54421 By my troth and maidenhead
54422 I would not be a queen .
54423
54424 Beshrew me , I would ,
54425 And venture maidenhead for't ; and so would you ,
54426 For all this spice of your hypocrisy .
54427 You , that have so fair parts of woman on you ,
54428 Have too a woman's heart ; which ever yet
54429 Affected eminence , wealth , sovereignty :
54430 Which , to say sooth , are blessings , and which gifts
54431 Saving your mincing the capacity
54432 Of your soft cheveril conscience would receive ,
54433 If you might please to stretch it .
54434
54435 Nay , good troth .
54436
54437 Yes , troth , and troth ; you would not be a queen ?
54438
54439 No , not for all the riches under heaven .
54440
54441 'Tis strange : a three-pence bow'd would hire me ,
54442 Old as I am , to queen it . But , I pray you ,
54443 What think you of a duchess ? have you limbs
54444 To bear that load of title ?
54445
54446 No , in truth .
54447
54448 Then you are weakly made . Pluck off a little :
54449 I would not be a young count in your way ,
54450 For more than blushing comes to : if your back
54451 Cannot vouchsafe this burden , 'tis too weak
54452 Ever to get a boy .
54453
54454 How you do talk !
54455 I swear again , I would not be a queen
54456 For all the world .
54457
54458 In faith , for little England
54459 You'd venture an emballing : I myself
54460 Would for Carnarvonshire , although there 'long'd
54461 No more to the crown but that . Lo ! who comes here ?
54462
54463
54464 Good morrow , ladies . What were't worth to know
54465 The secret of your conference ?
54466
54467 My good lord ,
54468 Not your demand ; it values not your asking :
54469 Our mistress' sorrows we were pitying .
54470
54471 It was a gentle business , and becoming
54472 The action of good women : there is hope
54473 All will be well .
54474
54475 Now , I pray God , amen !
54476
54477 You bear a gentle mind , and heavenly blessings
54478 Follow such creatures . That you may , fair lady ,
54479 Perceive I speak sincerely , and high note's
54480 Ta'en of your many virtues , the king's majesty
54481 Commends his good opinion of you , and
54482 Does purpose honour to you no less flowing
54483 Than Marchioness of Pembroke ; to which title
54484 A thousand pound a year , annual support ,
54485 Out of his grace he adds .
54486
54487 I do not know
54488 What kind of my obedience I should tender ;
54489 More than my all is nothing , nor my prayers
54490 Are not words duly hallow'd , nor my wishes
54491 More worth than empty vanities ; yet prayers and wishes
54492 Are all I can return . Beseech your lordship ,
54493 Vouchsafe to speak my thanks and my obedience ,
54494 As from a blushing handmaid , to his highness ,
54495 Whose health and royalty I pray for .
54496
54497 Lady ,
54498 I shall not fail to approve the fair conceit
54499 The king hath of you .
54500
54501 I have perus'd her well ;
54502 Beauty and honour in her are so mingled
54503 That they have caught the king ; and who knows yet
54504 But from this lady may proceed a gem
54505 To lighten all this isle ?
54506
54507 I'll to the king ,
54508 And say , I spoke with you .
54509
54510 My honour'd lord .
54511
54512
54513 Why , this it is ; see , see !
54514 I have been begging sixteen years in court ,
54515 Am yet a courtier beggarly , nor could
54516 Come pat betwixt too early and too late ;
54517 For any suit of pounds ; and you , O fate !
54518 A very fresh-fish here ,fie , fie , upon
54519 This compell'd fortune !have your mouth fill'd up
54520 Before you open it .
54521
54522 This is strange to me .
54523
54524 How tastes it ? is it bitter ? forty pence , no .
54525 There was a lady once ,'tis an old story ,
54526 That would not be a queen , that would she not ,
54527 For all the mud in Egypt : have you heard it ?
54528
54529 Come , you are pleasant .
54530
54531 With your theme I could
54532 O'ermount the lark . The Marchioness of Pembroke !
54533 A thousand pounds a year , for pure respect !
54534 No other obligation ! By my life
54535 That promises more thousands : honour's train
54536 Is longer than his foreskirt . By this time
54537 I know your back will bear a duchess : say ,
54538 Are you not stronger than you were ?
54539
54540 Good lady ,
54541 Make yourself mirth with your particular fancy ,
54542 And leave me out on't . Would I had no being ,
54543 If this salute my blood a jot : it faints me ,
54544 To think what follows .
54545 The queen is comfortless , and we forgetful
54546 In our long absence . Pray , do not deliver
54547 What here you've heard to her .
54548
54549 What do you think me ?
54550
54551
54552 Whilst our commission from Rome is read ,
54553 Let silence be commanded .
54554
54555 What's the need ?
54556 It hath already publicly been read ,
54557 And on all sides the authority allow'd ;
54558 You may then spare that time .
54559
54560 Be't so . Proceed .
54561
54562 Say , Henry King of England , come into the court .
54563
54564 Henry King of England , come into the court .
54565
54566 Here .
54567
54568 Say , Katharine Queen of England , come into the court .
54569
54570 Katharine Queen of England , come into the court .
54571
54572 Sir , I desire you do me right and justice ;
54573 And to bestow your pity on me ; for
54574 I am a most poor woman , and a stranger ,
54575 Born out of your dominions ; having here
54576 No judge indifferent , nor no more assurance
54577 Of equal friendship and proceeding . Alas ! sir ,
54578 In what have I offended you ? what cause
54579 Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure ,
54580 That thus you should proceed to put me off
54581 And take your good grace from me ? Heaven witness ,
54582 I have been to you a true and humble wife ,
54583 At all times to your will conformable ;
54584 Ever in fear to kindle your dislike ,
54585 Yea , subject to your countenance , glad or sorry
54586 As I saw it inclin'd . When was the hour
54587 I ever contradicted your desire ,
54588 Or made it not mine too ? Or which of your friends
54589 Have I not strove to love , although I knew
54590 He were mine enemy ? what friend of mine
54591 That had to him deriv'd your anger , did I
54592 Continue in my liking ? nay , gave notice
54593 He was from thence discharg'd . Sir , call to mind
54594 That I have been your wife , in this obedience
54595 Upward of twenty years , and have been blest
54596 With many children by you : if , in the course
54597 And process of this time , you can report ,
54598 And prove it too , against mine honour aught ,
54599 My bond to wedlock , or my love and duty ,
54600 Against your sacred person , in God's name
54601 Turn me away ; and let the foul'st contempt
54602 Shut door upon me , and so give me up
54603 To the sharp'st kind of justice . Please you , sir ,
54604 The king , your father , was reputed for
54605 A prince most prudent , of an excellent
54606 And unmatch'd wit and judgment : Ferdinand ,
54607 My father , King of Spain , was reckon'd one
54608 The wisest prince that there had reign'd by many
54609 A year before : it is not to be question'd
54610 That they had gather'd a wise council to them
54611 Of every realm , that did debate this business ,
54612 Who deem'd our marriage lawful . Wherefore I humbly
54613 Beseech you , sir , to spare me , till I may
54614 Be by my friends in Spain advis'd , whose counsel
54615 I will implore : if not , i' the name of God ,
54616 Your pleasure be fulfill'd !
54617
54618 You have here , lady ,
54619 And of your choice ,these reverend fathers ; men
54620 Of singular integrity and learning ,
54621 Yea , the elect o' the land , who are assembled
54622 To plead your cause . It shall be therefore bootless
54623 That longer you desire the court , as well
54624 For your own quiet , as to rectify
54625 What is unsettled in the king .
54626
54627 His Grace
54628 Hath spoken well and justly : therefore , madam ,
54629 It's fit this royal session do proceed ,
54630 And that , without delay , their arguments
54631 Be now produc'd and heard .
54632
54633 Lord Cardinal ,
54634 To you I speak .
54635
54636 Your pleasure , madam ?
54637
54638 Sir ,
54639 I am about to weep ; but , thinking that
54640 We are a queen ,or long have dream'd so ,certain
54641 The daughter of a king , my drops of tears
54642 I'll turn to sparks of fire .
54643
54644 Be patient yet .
54645
54646 I will , when you are humble ; nay , before ,
54647 Or God will punish me . I do believe ,
54648 Induc'd by potent circumstances , that
54649 You are mine enemy ; and make my challenge
54650 You shall not be my judge ; for it is you
54651 Have blown this coal betwixt my lord and me ,
54652 Which God's dew quench ! Therefore I say again ,
54653 I utterly abhor , yea , from my soul
54654 Refuse you for my judge , whom , yet once more ,
54655 I hold my most malicious foe , and think not
54656 At all a friend to truth .
54657
54658 I do profess
54659 You speak not like yourself ; who ever yet
54660 Have stood to charity , and display'd the effects
54661 Of disposition gentle , and of wisdom
54662 O'ertopping woman's power . Madam , you do me wrong :
54663 I have no spleen against you ; nor injustice
54664 For you or any : how far I have proceeded ,
54665 Or how far further shall , is warranted
54666 By a commission from the consistory ,
54667 Yea , the whole consistory of Rome . You charge me
54668 That I have blown this coal : I do deny it .
54669 The king is present : if it be known to him
54670 That I gainsay my deed , how may he wound ,
54671 And worthily , my falsehood ; yea , as much
54672 As you have done my truth . If he know
54673 That I am free of your report , he knows
54674 I am not of your wrong . Therefore in him
54675 It lies to cure me ; and the cure is , to
54676 Remove these thoughts from you : the which before
54677 His highness shall speak in , I do beseech
54678 You , gracious madam , to unthink your speaking ,
54679 And to say so no more .
54680
54681 My lord , my lord ,
54682 I am a simple woman , much too weak
54683 To oppose your cunning . You're meek and humble-mouth'd ;
54684 You sign your place and calling , in full seeming ,
54685 With meekness and humility ; but your heart
54686 Is cramm'd with arrogancy , spleen , and pride .
54687 You have , by fortune and his highness' favours ,
54688 Gone slightly o'er low steps , and now are mounted
54689 Where powers are your retainers , and your words ,
54690 Domestics to you , serve your will as't please
54691 Yourself pronounce their office . I must tell you ,
54692 You tender more your person's honour than
54693 Your high profession spiritual ; that again
54694 I do refuse you for my judge ; and here ,
54695 Before you all , appeal unto the pope ,
54696 To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness ,
54697 And to be judg'd by him .
54698
54699
54700 The queen is obstinate ,
54701 Stubborn to justice , apt to accuse it , and
54702 Disdainful to be tried by't : 'tis not well .
54703 She's going away .
54704
54705 Call her again .
54706
54707 Katharine Queen of England , come into the court .
54708
54709 Madam , you are call'd back .
54710
54711 What need you note it ? pray you , keep your way :
54712 When you are call'd , return . Now , the Lord help !
54713 They vex me past my patience . Pray you , pass on :
54714 I will not tarry ; no , nor ever more
54715 Upon this business my appearance make
54716 In any of their courts .
54717
54718
54719 Go thy ways , Kate :
54720 That man i' the world who shall report he has
54721 A better wife , let him in nought be trusted ,
54722 For speaking false in that : thou art , alone ,
54723 If thy rare qualities , sweet gentleness ,
54724 Thy meekness saint-like , wife-like government ,
54725 Obeying in commanding , and thy parts
54726 Sovereign and pious else , could speak thee out ,
54727 The queen of earthly queens . She's noble born ;
54728 And , like her true nobility , she has
54729 Carried herself towards me .
54730
54731 Most gracious sir ,
54732 In humblest manner I require your highness ,
54733 That it shall please you to declare , in hearing
54734 Of all these ears ,for where I am robb'd and bound
54735 There must I be unloos'd , although not there
54736 At once , and fully satisfied ,whether ever I
54737 Did broach this business to your highness , or
54738 Laid any scruple in your way , which might
54739 Induce you to the question on't ? or ever
54740 Have to you , but with thanks to God for such
54741 A royal lady , spake one the least word that might
54742 Be to the prejudice of her present state ,
54743 Or touch of her good person ?
54744
54745 My Lord Cardinal ,
54746 I do excuse you ; yea , upon mine honour ,
54747 I free you from't . You are not to be taught
54748 That you have many enemies , that know not
54749 Why they are so , but , like to village curs ,
54750 Bark when their fellows do : by some of these
54751 The queen is put in anger . You're excus'd :
54752 But will you be more justified ? you ever
54753 Have wish'd the sleeping of this business ; never
54754 Desir'd it to be stirr'd ; but oft have hinder'd , oft ,
54755 The passages made toward it . On my honour ,
54756 I speak my good Lord Cardinal to this point ,
54757 And thus far clear him . Now , what mov'd me to't ,
54758 I will be bold with time and your attention :
54759 Then mark the inducement . Thus it came ; give heed to't :
54760 My conscience first receiv'd a tenderness ,
54761 Scruple , and prick , on certain speeches utter'd
54762 By the Bishop of Bayonne , then French ambassador ,
54763 Who had been hither sent on the debating
54764 A marriage 'twixt the Duke of Orleans and
54765 Our daughter Mary . I' the progress of this business ,
54766 Ere a determinate resolution , he
54767 I mean , the bishop did require a respite ;
54768 Wherein he might the king his lord advertise
54769 Whether our daughter were legitimate ,
54770 Respecting this our marriage with the dowager ,
54771 Sometimes our brother's wife . This respite shook
54772 The bosom of my conscience , enter'd me ,
54773 Yea , with a splitting power , and made to tremble
54774 The region of my breast ; which forc'd such way ,
54775 That many maz'd considerings did throng ,
54776 And press'd in with this caution . First , methought
54777 I stood not in the smile of heaven , who had
54778 Commanded nature , that my lady's womb ,
54779 If it conceiv'd a male child by me , should
54780 Do no more offices of life to't than
54781 The grave does to the dead ; for her male issue
54782 Or died where they were made , or shortly after
54783 This world had air'd them . Hence I took a thought
54784 This was a judgment on me ; that my kingdom ,
54785 Well worthy the best heir o' the world , should not
54786 Be gladded in't by me . Then follows that
54787 I weigh'd the danger which my realms stood in
54788 By this my issue's fail ; and that gave to me
54789 Many a groaning throe . Thus hulling in
54790 The wild sea of my conscience , I did steer
54791 Toward this remedy , whereupon we are
54792 Now present here together ; that's to say ,
54793 I meant to rectify my conscience , which
54794 I then did feel full sick , and yet not well ,
54795 By all the rev'rend fathers of the land
54796 And doctors learn'd . First , I began in private
54797 With you , my Lord of Lincoln ; you remember
54798 How under my oppression I did reek ,
54799 When I first mov'd you .
54800
54801 Very well , my liege .
54802
54803 I have spoke long : be pleas'd yourself to say
54804 How far you satisfied me .
54805
54806 So please your highness ,
54807 The question did at first so stagger me ,
54808 Bearing a state of mighty moment in't ,
54809 And consequence of dread , that I committed
54810 The daring'st counsel that I had to doubt ;
54811 And did entreat your highness to this course
54812 Which you are running here .
54813
54814 Then I mov'd you ,
54815 My Lord of Canterbury , and got your leave
54816 To make this present summons . Unsolicited
54817 I left no reverend person in this court ;
54818 But by particular consent proceeded
54819 Under your hands and seals : therefore , go on ;
54820 For no dislike i' the world against the person
54821 Of the good queen , but the sharp thorny points
54822 Of my alleged reasons drive this forward .
54823 Prove but our marriage lawful , by my life
54824 And kingly dignity , we are contented
54825 To wear our mortal state to come with her ,
54826 Katharine our queen , before the primest creature
54827 That's paragon'd o' the world .
54828
54829 So please your highness ,
54830 The queen being absent , 'tis a needful fitness
54831 That we adjourn this court till further day :
54832 Mean while must be an earnest motion
54833 Made to the queen , to call back her appeal
54834 She intends unto his holiness .
54835
54836
54837 I may perceive
54838 These cardinals trifle with me : I abhor
54839 This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome .
54840 My learn'd and well-beloved servant Cranmer ,
54841 Prithee , return : with thy approach , I know ,
54842 My comfort comes along . Break up the court :
54843 I say , set on .
54844
54845
54846 Take thy lute , wench : my soul grows sad with troubles ;
54847 Sing and disperse 'em , if thou canst . Leave working .
54848
54849 Orpheus with his lute made trees ,
54850 And the mountain tops that freeze ,
54851 Bow themselves , when he did sing :
54852 To his music plants and flowers
54853 Ever sprung ; as sun and showers
54854 There had made a lasting spring .
54855 Every thing that heard him play ,
54856 Even the billows of the sea ,
54857 Hung their heads , and then lay by .
54858 In sweet music is such art ,
54859 Killing care and grief of heart
54860 Fall asleep , or hearing , die .
54861
54862
54863 How now !
54864
54865 An't please your Grace , the two great cardinals
54866 Wait in the presence .
54867
54868 Would they speak with me ?
54869
54870 They will'd me say so , madam .
54871
54872 Pray their Graces
54873 To come near .
54874
54875 What can be their business
54876 With me , a poor weak woman , fall'n from favour ?
54877 I do not like their coming , now I think on't .
54878 They should be good men , their affairs as righteous ;
54879 But all hoods make not monks .
54880
54881
54882 Peace to your highness !
54883
54884 Your Graces find me here part of a housewife ,
54885 I would be all , against the worst may happen .
54886 What are your pleasures with me , reverend lords ?
54887
54888 May it please you , noble madam , to withdraw
54889 Into your private chamber , we shall give you
54890 The full cause of our coming .
54891
54892 Speak it here ;
54893 There's nothing I have done yet , o' my conscience ,
54894 Deserves a corner : would all other women
54895 Could speak this with as free a soul as I do !
54896 My lords , I care not so much I am happy
54897 Above a number if my actions
54898 Were tried by every tongue , every eye saw 'em ,
54899 Envy and base opinion set against 'em ,
54900 I know my life so even . If your business
54901 Seek me out , and that way I am wife in ,
54902 Out with it boldly : truth loves open dealing .
54903
54904 Tanta est erga te mentis integritas , regina serenissima ,
54905
54906 O , good my lord , no Latin ;
54907 I am not such a truant since my coming
54908 As not to know the language I have liv'd in :
54909 A strange tongue makes my cause more strange , suspicious ;
54910 Pray , speak in English : here are some will thank you ,
54911 If you speak truth , for their poor mistress' sake :
54912 Believe me , she has had much wrong . Lord Cardinal ,
54913 The willing'st sin I ever yet committed
54914 May be absolv'd in English .
54915
54916 Noble lady ,
54917 I am sorry my integrity should breed ,
54918 And service to his majesty and you ,
54919 So deep suspicion , where all faith was meant .
54920 We come not by the way of accusation ,
54921 To taint that honour every good tongue blesses ,
54922 Nor to betray you any way to sorrow ,
54923 You have too much , good lady ; but to know
54924 How you stand minded in the weighty difference
54925 Between the king and you ; and to deliver ,
54926 Like free and honest men , our just opinions
54927 And comforts to your cause .
54928
54929 Most honour'd madam ,
54930 My Lord of York , out of his noble nature ,
54931 Zeal and obedience he still bore your Grace ,
54932 Forgetting , like a good man , your late censure
54933 Both of his truth and him ,which was too far ,
54934 Offers , as I do , in sign of peace ,
54935 His service and his counsel .
54936
54937 To betray me .
54938 My lords , I thank you both for your good wills ;
54939 Ye speak like honest men ,pray God , ye prove so !
54940 But how to make ye suddenly an answer ,
54941 In such a point of weight , so near mine honour ,
54942 More near my life , I fear ,with my weak wit ,
54943 And to such men of gravity and learning ,
54944 In truth , I know not . I was set at work
54945 Among my maids ; full little , God knows , looking
54946 Either for such men or such business .
54947 For her sake that I have been ,for I feel
54948 The last fit of my greatness ,good your Graces
54949 Let me have time and counsel for my cause :
54950 Alas ! I am a woman , friendless , hopeless .
54951
54952 Madam , you wrong the king's love with these fears :
54953 Your hopes and friends are infinite .
54954
54955 In England
54956 But little for my profit . Can you think , lords ,
54957 That any Englishman dare give me counsel ?
54958 Or be a known friend , 'gainst his highness' pleasure ,
54959 Though he be grown so desperate to be honest ,
54960 And live a subject ? Nay , forsooth , my friends ,
54961 They that must weigh out my afflictions ,
54962 They that my trust must grow to , live not here :
54963 They are , as all my other comforts , far hence
54964 In mine own country , lords .
54965
54966 I would your Grace
54967 Would leave your griefs , and take my counsel .
54968
54969 How , sir ?
54970
54971 Put your main cause into the king's protection ;
54972 He's loving and most gracious : 'twill be much
54973 Both for your honour better and your cause ;
54974 For if the trial of the law o'ertake ye ,
54975 You'll part away disgrac'd .
54976
54977 He tells you rightly .
54978
54979 Ye tell me what ye wish for both ; my ruin .
54980 Is this your Christian counsel ? out upon ye !
54981 Heaven is above all yet ; there sits a judge
54982 That no king can corrupt .
54983
54984 Your rage mistakes us .
54985
54986 The more shame for ye ! holy men I thought ye ,
54987 Upon my soul , two reverend cardinal virtues ;
54988 But cardinal sins and hollow hearts I fear ye .
54989 Mend 'em , for shame , my lords . Is this your comfort ?
54990 The cordial that ye bring a wretched lady ,
54991 A woman lost among ye , laugh'd at , scorn'd ?
54992 I will not wish ye half my miseries ,
54993 I have more charity ; but say , I warn'd ye :
54994 Take heed , for heaven's sake , take heed , lest at once
54995 The burden of my sorrows fall upon ye .
54996
54997 Madam , this is a mere distraction ;
54998 You turn the good we offer into envy .
54999
55000 Ye turn me into nothing : woe upon ye ,
55001 And all such false professors ! Would ye have me ,
55002 If ye have any justice , any pity ;
55003 If ye be anything but churchmen's habits ,
55004 Put my sick cause into his hands that hates me ?
55005 Alas ! he has banish'd me his bed already ,
55006 His love , too long ago ! I am old , my lords ,
55007 And all the fellowship I hold now with him
55008 Is only my obedience . What can happen
55009 To me above this wretchedness ? all your studies
55010 Make me a curse like this .
55011
55012 Your fears are worse .
55013
55014 Have I liv'd thus long let me speak myself ,
55015 Since virtue finds no friends a wife , a true one ?
55016 A woman , I dare say without vain-glory ,
55017 Never yet branded with suspicion ?
55018 Have I with all my full affections
55019 Still met the king ? lov'd him next heaven ? obey'd him ?
55020 Been , out of fondness , superstitious to him ?
55021 Almost forgot my prayers to content him ?
55022 And am I thus rewarded ? 'tis not well , lords .
55023 Bring me a constant woman to her husband ,
55024 One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure ,
55025 And to that woman , when she has done most ,
55026 Yet will I add an honour , a great patience .
55027
55028 Madam , you wander from the good we aim at .
55029
55030 My lord , I dare not make myself so guilty ,
55031 To give up willingly that noble title
55032 Your master wed me to : nothing but death
55033 Shall e'er divorce my dignities .
55034
55035 Pray hear me .
55036
55037 Would I had never trod this English earth ,
55038 Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it !
55039 Ye have angels' faces , but heaven knows your hearts .
55040 What will become of me now , wretched lady ?
55041 I am the most unhappy woman living .
55042
55043
55044 Alas ! poor wenches , where are now your fortunes ?
55045 Shipwrack'd upon a kingdom , where no pity ,
55046 No friends , no hope ; no kindred weep for me ;
55047 Almost no grave allow'd me . Like the lily ,
55048 That once was mistress of the field and flourish'd ,
55049 I'll hang my head and perish .
55050
55051 If your Grace
55052 Could but be brought to know our ends are honest ,
55053 You'd feel more comfort . Why should we , good lady ,
55054 Upon what cause , wrong you ? alas ! our places ,
55055 The way of our profession is against it :
55056 We are to cure such sorrows , not to sow them .
55057 For goodness' sake , consider what you do ;
55058 How you may hurt yourself , ay , utterly
55059 Grow from the king's acquaintance , by this carriage .
55060 The hearts of princes kiss obedience ,
55061 So much they love it ; but to stubborn spirits
55062 They swell , and grow as terrible as storms .
55063 I know you have a gentle , noble temper ,
55064 A soul as even as a calm : pray think us
55065 Those we profess , peace-makers , friends , and servants .
55066
55067 Madam , you'll find it so . You wrong your virtues
55068 With these weak women's fears : a noble spirit ,
55069 As yours was put into you , ever casts
55070 Such doubts , as false coin , from it . The king loves you ;
55071 Beware you lose it not : for us , if you please
55072 To trust us in your business , we are ready
55073 To use our utmost studies in your service .
55074
55075 Do what ye will , my lords : and , pray , forgive me
55076 If I have us'd myself unmannerly .
55077 You know I am a woman , lacking wit
55078 To make a seemly answer to such persons .
55079 Pray do my service to his majesty :
55080 He has my heart yet ; and shall have my prayers
55081 While I shall have my life . Come , reverend fathers ,
55082 Bestow your counsels on me : she now begs
55083 That little thought , when she set footing here ,
55084 She should have bought her dignities so dear .
55085
55086
55087 If you will now unite in your complaints ,
55088 And force them with a constancy , the cardinal
55089 Cannot stand under them : if you omit
55090 The offer of this time , I cannot promise
55091 But that you shall sustain moe new disgraces
55092 With these you bear already .
55093
55094 I am joyful
55095 To meet the least occasion that may give me
55096 Remembrance of my father-in-law , the duke ,
55097 To be reveng'd on him .
55098
55099 Which of the peers
55100 Have uncontemn'd gone by him , or at least
55101 Strangely neglected ? when did he regard
55102 The stamp of nobleness in any person ,
55103 Out of himself ?
55104
55105 My lords , you speak your pleasures :
55106 What he deserves of you and me , I know ;
55107 What we can do to him ,though now the time
55108 Gives way to us ,I much fear . If you cannot
55109 Bar his access to the king , never attempt
55110 Any thing on him , for he hath a witchcraft
55111 Over the king in's tongue .
55112
55113 O ! fear him not ;
55114 His spell in that is out : the king hath found
55115 Matter against him that for ever mars
55116 The honey of his language . No , he's settled ,
55117 Not to come off , in his displeasure .
55118
55119 Sir ,
55120 I should be glad to hear such news as this
55121 Once every hour .
55122
55123 Believe it , this is true :
55124 In the divorce his contrary proceedings
55125 Are all unfolded ; wherein he appears
55126 As I would wish mine enemy .
55127
55128 How came
55129 His practices to light ?
55130
55131 Most strangely .
55132
55133 O ! how ? how ?
55134
55135 The cardinal's letter to the pope miscarried ,
55136 And came to the eye o' the king ; wherein was read ,
55137 That the cardinal did entreat his holiness
55138 To stay the judgment o' the divorce ; for if
55139 It did take place , 'I do ,' quoth he , 'perceive
55140 My king is tangled in affection to
55141 A creature of the queen's , Lady Anne Bullen .'
55142
55143 Has the king this ?
55144
55145 Believe it .
55146
55147 Will this work ?
55148
55149 The king in this perceives him , how he coasts
55150 And hedges his own way . But in this point
55151 All his tricks founder , and he brings his physic
55152 After his patient's death : the king already
55153 Hath married the fair lady .
55154
55155 Would he had !
55156
55157 May you be happy in your wish , my lord !
55158 For I profess , you have it .
55159
55160 Now all my joy
55161 Trace the conjunction !
55162
55163 My amen to't !
55164
55165 All men's .
55166
55167 There's order given for her coronation :
55168 Marry , this is yet but young , and may be left
55169 To some ears unrecounted . But , my lords ,
55170 She is a gallant creature , and complete
55171 In mind and feature : I persuade me , from her
55172 Will fall some blessing to this land , which shall
55173 In it be memoriz'd .
55174
55175 But will the king
55176 Digest this letter of the cardinal's ?
55177 The Lord forbid !
55178
55179 Marry , amen !
55180
55181 No , no ;
55182 There be moe wasps that buzz about his nose
55183 Will make this sting the sooner . Cardinal Campeius
55184 Is stol'n away to Rome ; hath ta'en no leave ;
55185 Has left the cause o' the king unhandled ; and
55186 Is posted , as the agent of our cardinal ,
55187 To second all his plot . I do assure you
55188 The king cried Ha ! at this .
55189
55190 Now , God incense him ,
55191 And let him cry Ha ! louder .
55192
55193 But , my lord ,
55194 When returns Cranmer ?
55195
55196 He is return'd in his opinions , which
55197 Have satisfied the king for his divorce ,
55198 Together with all famous colleges
55199 Almost in Christendom . Shortly , I believe ,
55200 His second marriage shall be publish'd , and
55201 Her coronation . Katharine no more
55202 Shall be call'd queen , but princess dowager ,
55203 And widow to Prince Arthur .
55204
55205 This same Cranmer's
55206 A worthy fellow , and hath ta'en much pain
55207 In the king's business .
55208
55209 He has ; and we shall see him
55210 For it an archbishop .
55211
55212 So I hear .
55213
55214 'Tis so .
55215 The cardinal !
55216
55217
55218 Observe , observe ; he's moody .
55219
55220 The packet , Cromwell ,
55221 Gave't you the king ?
55222
55223 To his own hand , in his bedchamber .
55224
55225 Look'd he o' the inside of the paper ?
55226
55227 Presently
55228 He did unseal them ; and the first he view'd ,
55229 He did it with a serious mind ; a heed
55230 Was in his countenance . You he bade
55231 Attend him here this morning .
55232
55233 Is he ready
55234 To come abroad ?
55235
55236 I think , by this he is .
55237
55238 Leave me awhile .
55239
55240 It shall be to the Duchess of Alen on ,
55241 The French King's sister ; he shall marry her .
55242 Anne Bullen ! No ; I'll no Anne Bullens for him :
55243 There's more in't than fair visage . Bullen !
55244 No , we'll no Bullens . Speedily I wish
55245 To hear from Rome . The Marchioness of Pembroke !
55246
55247 He's discontented .
55248
55249 May be he hears the king
55250 Does whet his anger to him .
55251
55252 Sharp enough ,
55253 Lord , for thy justice !
55254
55255 The late queen's gentlewoman , a knight's daughter ,
55256 To be her mistress' mistress ! the queen's queen !
55257 This candle burns not clear : 'tis I must snuff it ;
55258 Then , out it goes . What though I know her virtuous
55259 And well deserving ? yet I know her for
55260 A spleeny Lutheran ; and not wholesome to
55261 Our cause , that she should lie i' the bosom of
55262 Our hard-rul'd king . Again , there is sprung up
55263 A heretic , an arch one , Cranmer ; one
55264 Hath crawl'd into the favour of the king ,
55265 And is his oracle .
55266
55267 He is vex'd at something .
55268
55269 I would 'twere something that would fret the string ,
55270 The master-cord on's heart !
55271
55272
55273 The king , the king !
55274
55275 What piles of wealth hath he accumulated
55276 To his own portion ! and what expense by the hour
55277 Seems to flow from him ! How , i' the name of thrift ,
55278 Does he rake this together ? Now , my lords ,
55279 Saw you the cardinal ?
55280
55281 My lord , we have
55282 Stood here observing him ; some strange commotion
55283 Is in his brain : he bites his lip , and starts ;
55284 Stops on a sudden , looks upon the ground ,
55285 Then lays his finger on his temple ; straight
55286 Springs out into fast gait ; then stops again ,
55287 Strikes his breast hard ; and anon he casts
55288 His eye against the moon : in most strange postures
55289 We have seen him set himself .
55290
55291 It may well be :
55292 There is a mutiny in 's mind . This morning
55293 Papers of state he sent me to peruse ,
55294 As I requir'd ; and wot you what I found
55295 There , on my conscience , put unwittingly ?
55296 Forsooth , an inventory , thus importing ;
55297 The several parcels of his plate , his treasure ,
55298 Rich stuffs and ornaments of household , which
55299 I find at such a proud rate that it out-speaks
55300 Possession of a subject .
55301
55302 It's heaven's will :
55303 Some spirit put this paper in the packet
55304 To bless your eye withal .
55305
55306 If we did think
55307 His contemplation were above the earth ,
55308 And fix'd on spiritual object , he should still
55309 Dwell in his musings : but I am afraid
55310 His thinkings are below the moon , not worth
55311 His serious considering .
55312
55313
55314 Heaven forgive me !
55315 Ever God bless your highness !
55316
55317 Good my lord ,
55318 You are full of heavenly stuff , and bear the inventory
55319 Of your best graces in your mind , the which
55320 You were now running o'er : you have scarce time
55321 To steal from spiritual leisure a brief span
55322 To keep your earthly audit : sure , in that
55323 I deem you an ill husband , and am glad
55324 To have you therein my companion .
55325
55326 Sir ,
55327 For holy offices I have a time ; a time
55328 To think upon the part of business which
55329 I bear i' the state ; and nature does require
55330 Her times of preservation , which perforce
55331 I , her frail son , amongst my brethren mortal ,
55332 Must give my tendance to .
55333
55334 You have said well .
55335
55336 And ever may your highness yoke together ,
55337 As I will lend you cause , my doing well
55338 With my well saying !
55339
55340 'Tis well said again ;
55341 And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well :
55342 And yet words are no deeds . My father lov'd you :
55343 He said he did ; and with his deed did crown
55344 His word upon you . Since I had my office ,
55345 I have kept you next my heart ; have not alone
55346 Employ'd you where high profits might come home ,
55347 But par'd my present havings , to bestow
55348 My bounties upon you .
55349
55350 What should this mean ?
55351
55352 The Lord increase this business !
55353
55354 Have I not made you
55355 The prime man of the state ? I pray you , tell me
55356 If what I now pronounce you have found true ;
55357 And if you may confess it , say withal ,
55358 If you are bound to us or no . What say you ?
55359
55360 My sovereign , I confess your royal graces ,
55361 Shower'd on me daily , have been more than could
55362 My studied purposes requite ; which went
55363 Beyond all man's endeavours : my endeavours
55364 Have ever come too short of my desires ,
55365 Yet fil'd with my abilities . Mine own ends
55366 Have been mine so , that evermore they pointed
55367 To the good of your most sacred person and
55368 The profit of the state . For your great graces
55369 Heap'd upon me , poor undeserver , I
55370 Can nothing render but allegiant thanks ,
55371 My prayers to heaven for you , my loyalty ,
55372 Which ever has and ever shall be growing ,
55373 Till death , that winter , kill it .
55374
55375 Fairly answer'd ;
55376 A loyal and obedient subject is
55377 Therein illustrated ; the honour of it
55378 Does pay the act of it , as , i' the contrary ,
55379 The foulness is the punishment . I presume
55380 That as my hand has open'd bounty to you ,
55381 My heart dropp'd love , my power rain'd honour , more
55382 On you than any ; so your hand and heart ,
55383 Your brain , and every function of your power ,
55384 Should , notwithstanding that your bond of duty ,
55385 As 'twere in love's particular , be more
55386 To me , your friend , than any .
55387
55388 I do profess ,
55389 That for your highness' good I ever labour'd
55390 More than mine own ; that am , have , and will be .
55391 Though all the world should crack their duty to you ,
55392 And throw it from their soul ; though perils did
55393 Abound as thick as thought could make 'em , and
55394 Appear in forms more horrid , yet my duty ,
55395 As doth a rock against the chiding flood ,
55396 Should the approach of this wild river break ,
55397 And stand unshaken yours .
55398
55399 'Tis nobly spoken .
55400 Take notice , lords , he has a loyal breast ,
55401 For you have seen him open't . Read o'er this ;
55402
55403 And after , this : and then to breakfast with
55404 What appetite you have .
55405
55406
55407 What should this mean ?
55408 What sudden anger's this ? how have I reap'd it ?
55409 He parted frowning from me , as if ruin
55410 Leap'd from his eyes : so looks the chafed lion
55411 Upon the daring huntsman that has gall'd him ;
55412 Then makes him nothing . I must read this paper ;
55413 I fear , the story of his anger . 'Tis so ;
55414 This paper has undone me ! 'Tis the account
55415 Of all that world of wealth I have drawn together
55416 For mine own ends ; indeed , to gain the popedom ,
55417 And fee my friends in Rome . O negligence !
55418 Fit for a fool to fall by : what cross devil
55419 Made me put this main secret in the packet
55420 I sent the king ? Is there no way to cure this ?
55421 No new device to beat this from his brains ?
55422 I know 'twill stir him strongly ; yet I know
55423 A way , if it take right , in spite of fortune
55424 Will bring me off again . What's this ?'To the Pope !'
55425 The letter , as I live , with all the business
55426 I writ to's holiness . Nay then , farewell !
55427 I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness ;
55428 And from that full meridian of my glory ,
55429 I haste now to my setting : I shall fall
55430 Like a bright exhalation in the evening ,
55431 And no man see me more .
55432
55433
55434 Hear the king's pleasure , cardinal : who commands you
55435 To render up the great seal presently
55436 Into our hands ; and to confine yourself
55437 To Asher-house , my Lord of Winchester's ,
55438 Till you hear further from his highness .
55439
55440 Stay ,
55441 Where's your commission , lord ? words cannot carry
55442 Authority so weighty .
55443
55444 Who dare cross 'em ,
55445 Bearing the king's will from his mouth expressly ?
55446
55447 Till I find more than will or words to do it ,
55448 I mean your malice , know , officious lords ,
55449 I dare and must deny it . Now I feel
55450 Of what coarse metal ye are moulded , envy :
55451 How eagerly ye follow my disgraces ,
55452 As if it fed ye ! and how sleek and wanton
55453 Ye appear in every thing may bring my ruin
55454 Follow your envious courses , men of malice ;
55455 You have Christian warrant for 'em , and , no doubt ,
55456 In time will find their fit rewards . That seal
55457 You ask with such a violence , the king
55458 Mine and your master with his own hand gave me ;
55459 Bade me enjoy it with the place and honours
55460 During my life ; and to confirm his goodness ,
55461 Tied it by letters-patents : now who'll take it ?
55462
55463 The king , that gave it .
55464
55465 It must be himself then .
55466
55467 Thou art a proud traitor , priest .
55468
55469 Proud lord , thou liest :
55470 Within these forty hours Surrey durst better
55471 Have burnt that tongue than said so .
55472
55473 Thy ambition ,
55474 Thou scarlet sin , robb'd this bewailing land
55475 Of noble Buckingham , my father-in-law :
55476 The heads of all thy brother cardinals
55477 With thee and all thy best parts bound together
55478 Weigh'd not a hair of his . Plague of your policy !
55479 You sent me deputy for Ireland ,
55480 Far from his succour , from the king , from all
55481 That might have mercy on the fault thou gav'st him ;
55482 Whilst your great goodness , out of holy pity ,
55483 Absolv'd him with an axe .
55484
55485 This and all else
55486 This talking lord can lay upon my credit ,
55487 I answer is most false . The duke by law
55488 Found his deserts : how innocent I was
55489 From any private malice in his end ,
55490 His noble jury and foul cause can witness .
55491 If I lov'd many words , lord , I should tell you ,
55492 You have as little honesty as honour ,
55493 That in the way of loyalty and truth
55494 Toward the king , my ever royal master ,
55495 Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be ,
55496 And all that love his follies .
55497
55498 By my soul ,
55499 Your long coat , priest , protects you ; thou shouldst feel
55500 My sword i' the life-blood of thee else . My lords ,
55501 Can ye endure to hear this arrogance ?
55502 And from this fellow ? If we live thus tamely ,
55503 To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet ,
55504 Farewell nobility ; let his Grace go forward ,
55505 And dare us with his cap like larks .
55506
55507 All goodness
55508 Is poison to thy stomach .
55509
55510 Yes , that goodness
55511 Of gleaning all the land's wealth into one ,
55512 Into your own hands , cardinal , by extortion ;
55513 The goodness of your intercepted packets ,
55514 You writ to the pope against the king ; your goodness ,
55515 Since you provoke me , shall be most notorious .
55516 My Lord of Norfolk , as you are truly noble ,
55517 As you respect the common good , the state
55518 Of our despis'd nobility , our issues ,
55519 Who , if he live , will scarce be gentlemen ,
55520 Produce the grand sum of his sins , the articles
55521 Collected from his life ; I'll startle you
55522 Worse than the sacring bell , when the brown wench
55523 Lay kissing in your arms , Lord Cardinal .
55524
55525 How much , methinks , I could despise this man ,
55526 But that I am bound in charity against it !
55527
55528 Those articles , my lord , are in the king's hand ;
55529 But , thus much , they are foul ones .
55530
55531 So much fairer
55532 And spotless shall mine innocence arise
55533 When the king knows my truth .
55534
55535 This cannot save you :
55536 I thank my memory , I yet remember
55537 Some of these articles ; and out they shall .
55538 Now , if you can blush , and cry 'guilty ,' cardinal ,
55539 You'll show a little honesty .
55540
55541 Speak on , sir ;
55542 I dare your worst objections ; if I blush ,
55543 It is to see a nobleman want manners .
55544
55545 I had rather want those than my head . Have at you !
55546 First , that , without the king's assent or know ledge ,
55547 You wrought to be a legate ; by which power
55548 You maim'd the jurisdiction of all bishops .
55549
55550 Then , that in all you writ to Rome , or else
55551 To foreign princes , Ego et Rex meus
55552 Was still inscrib'd ; in which you brought the king
55553 To be your servant .
55554
55555 Then , that without the knowledge
55556 Either of king or council , when you went
55557 Ambassador to the emperor , you made bold
55558 To carry into Flanders the great seal .
55559
55560 Item , you sent a large commission
55561 To Gregory de Cassado , to conclude ,
55562 Without the king's will or the state's allowance ,
55563 A league between his highness and Ferrara .
55564
55565 That , out of mere ambition , you have caus'd
55566 Your holy hat to be stamp'd on the king's coin .
55567
55568 Then , that you have sent innumerable substance ,
55569 By what means got I leave to your own conscience ,
55570 To furnish Rome , and to prepare the ways
55571 You have for dignities ; to the mere undoing
55572 Of all the kingdom . Many more there are ;
55573 Which , since they are of you , and odious ,
55574 I will not taint my mouth with .
55575
55576 O my lord !
55577 Press not a falling man too far ; 'tis virtue :
55578 His faults lie open to the laws ; let them ,
55579 Not you , correct him . My heart weeps to see him
55580 So little of his great self .
55581
55582 I forgive him .
55583
55584 Lord Cardinal , the king's further pleasure is ,
55585 Because all those things you have done of late ,
55586 By your power legatine , within this kingdom ,
55587 Fall into the compass of a pr munire ,
55588 That therefore such a writ be su'd against you ;
55589 To forfeit all your goods , lands , tenements ,
55590 Chattels , and whatsoever , and to be
55591 Out of the king's protection . This is my charge .
55592
55593 And so we'll leave you to your meditations
55594 How to live better . For your stubborn answer
55595 About the giving back the great seal to us ,
55596 The king shall know it , and , no doubt , shall thank you .
55597 So fare you well , my little good Lord Cardinal .
55598
55599
55600 So farewell to the little good you bear me .
55601 Farewell ! a long farewell , to all my greatness !
55602 This is the state of man : to-day be puts forth
55603 The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blossoms ,
55604 And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ;
55605 The third day comes a frost , a killing frost ;
55606 And , when he thinks , good easy man , full surely
55607 His greatness is a-ripening , nips his root ,
55608 And then he falls , as I do . I have ventur'd ,
55609 Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders ,
55610 This many summers in a sea of glory ,
55611 But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride
55612 At length broke under me , and now has left me ,
55613 Weary and old with service , to the mercy
55614 Of a rude stream , that must for ever hide me .
55615 Vain pomp and glory of this world , I hate yo :
55616 I feel my heart new open'd . O ! how wretched
55617 Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours !
55618 There is , betwixt that smile we would aspire to ,
55619 That sweet aspect of princes , and their ruin ,
55620 More pangs and fears than wars or women have ;
55621 And when he falls , he falls like Lucifer ,
55622 Never to hope again .
55623
55624 Why , how now , Cromwell !
55625
55626 I have no power to speak , sir .
55627
55628 What ! amaz'd
55629 At my misfortunes ? can thy spirit wonder
55630 A great man should decline ? Nay , an you weep ,
55631 I am fall'n indeed .
55632
55633 How does your Grace ?
55634
55635 Why , well ;
55636 Never so truly happy , my good Cromwell .
55637 I know myself now ; and I feel within me
55638 A peace above all earthly dignities ,
55639 A still and quiet conscience . The king has cur'd me ,
55640 I humbly thank his Grace ; and from these shoulders ,
55641 These ruin'd pillars , out of pity taken
55642 A load would sink a navy , too much honour :
55643 O ! 'tis a burden , Cromwell , 'tis a burden
55644 Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven .
55645
55646 I am glad your Grace has made that right use of it .
55647
55648 I hope I have : I am able now , methinks ,
55649 Out of a fortitude of soul I feel ,
55650 To endure more miseries and greater far
55651 Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer .
55652 What news abroad ?
55653
55654 The heaviest and the worst ,
55655 Is your displeasure with the king .
55656
55657 God bless him !
55658
55659 The next is , that Sir Thomas More is chosen
55660 Lord Chancellor in your place .
55661
55662 That's somewhat sudden :
55663 But he's a learned man . May he continue
55664 Long in his highness' favour , and do justice
55665 For truth's sake and his conscience ; that his bones ,
55666 When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings ,
55667 May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on 'em !
55668 What more ?
55669
55670 That Cranmer is return'd with welcome ,
55671 Install'd Lord Archbishop of Canterbury .
55672
55673 That's news indeed .
55674
55675 Last , that the Lady Anne ,
55676 Whom the king hath in secrecy long married ,
55677 This day was view'd in open , as his queen ,
55678 Going to chapel ; and the voice is now
55679 Only about her coronation .
55680
55681 There was the weight that pull'd me down . O Cromwell !
55682 The king has gone beyond me : all my glories
55683 In that one woman I have lost for ever .
55684 No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours ,
55685 Or gild again the noble troops that waited
55686 Upon my smiles . Go , get thee from me , Cromwell ;
55687 I am a poor fall'n man , unworthy now
55688 To be thy lord and master : seek the king ;
55689 That sun , I pray , may never set !I have told him
55690 What , and how true thou art : he will advance thee ;
55691 Some little memory of me will stir him
55692 I know his noble nature not to let
55693 Thy hopeful service perish too . Good Cromwell ,
55694 Neglect him not ; make use now , and provide
55695 For thine own future safety .
55696
55697 O my lord !
55698 Must I then , leave you ? must I needs forego
55699 So good , so noble , and so true a master ?
55700 Bear witness all that have not hearts of iron ,
55701 With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord .
55702 The king shall have my service ; but my prayers
55703 For ever and for ever , shall be yours .
55704
55705 Cromwell , I did not think to shed a tear
55706 In all my miseries ; but thou hast forc'd me ,
55707 Out of thy honest truth , to play the woman .
55708 Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me , Cromwell ;
55709 And , when I am forgotten , as I shall be ,
55710 And sleep in dull cold marble , where no mention
55711 Of me more must be heard of , say , I taught thee ,
55712 Say , Wolsey , that once trod the ways of glory ,
55713 And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour ,
55714 Found thee a way , out of his wrack , to rise in ;
55715 A sure and safe one , though thy master miss'd it .
55716 Mark but my fall , and that that ruin'd me .
55717 Cromwell , I charge thee , fling away ambition :
55718 By that sin fell the angels ; how can man then ,
55719 The image of his Maker , hope to win by't ?
55720 Love thyself last : cherish those hearts that hate thee ;
55721 Corruption wins not more than honesty .
55722 Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace ,
55723 To silence envious tongues : be just , and fear not .
55724 Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's ,
55725 Thy God's , and truth's ; then if thou fall'st , O Cromwell !
55726 Thou fall'st a blessed martyr . Serve the king ;
55727 And ,prithee , lead me in :
55728 There take an inventory of all I have ,
55729 To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe ,
55730 And my integrity to heaven is all
55731 I dare now call mine own . O Cromwell , Cromwell !
55732 Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal
55733 I serv'd my king , he would not in mine age
55734 Have left me naked to mine enemies .
55735
55736 Good sir , have patience .
55737
55738 So I have . Farewell
55739 The hopes of court ! my hopes in heaven do dwell .
55740
55741
55742 You're well met once again .
55743
55744 So are you .
55745
55746 You come to take your stand here , and behold
55747 The Lady Anne pass from her coronation ?
55748
55749 'Tis all my business . At our last encounter
55750 The Duke of Buckingham came from his trial .
55751
55752 'Tis very true : but that time offer'd sorrow ;
55753 This , general joy .
55754
55755 'Tis well : the citizens ,
55756 I am sure , have shown at full their royal minds ,
55757 As , let 'em have their rights , they are ever forward ,
55758 In celebration of this day with shows ,
55759 Pageants , and sights of honour .
55760
55761 Never greater ;
55762 Nor , I'll assure you , better taken , sir .
55763
55764 May I be bold to ask what that contains ,
55765 That paper in your hand ?
55766
55767 Yes ; 'tis the list
55768 Of those that claim their offices this day
55769 By custom of the coronation .
55770 The Duke of Suffolk is the first , and claims
55771 To be high-steward ; next , the Duke of Norfolk ,
55772 He to be earl marshal : you may read the rest .
55773
55774 I thank you , sir : had I not known those customs ,
55775 I should have been beholding to your paper .
55776 But , I beseech you , what's become of Katharine ,
55777 The princess dowager ? how goes her business ?
55778
55779 That I can tell you too . The Archbishop
55780 Of Canterbury , accompanied with other
55781 Learned and reverend fathers of his order ,
55782 Held a late court at Dunstable , six miles off
55783 From Ampthill , where the princess lay ; to which
55784 She was often cited by them , but appear'd not :
55785 And , to be short , for not appearance and
55786 The king's late scruple , by the main assent
55787 Of all these learned men she was divorc'd ,
55788 And the late marriage made of none effect :
55789 Since which she was remov'd to Kimbolton ,
55790 Where she remains now sick .
55791
55792 Alas ! good lady !
55793
55794 The trumpets sound : stand close , the queen is coming .
55795
55796 A lively flourish of trumpets .
55797
55798
55799 1. Two Judges .
55800 2 Lord Chancellor , with the purse and mace before him .
55801 3. Choristers , singing .
55802
55803
55804 4. Mayor of London , bearing the mace . Then Garter , in his coat of arms , and on his head a gilt copper crown .
55805 5.
55806
55807 6.
55808
55809 7. A canopy borne by four of the Cinque-ports ; under it , the
55810
55811 8. The old
55812 9. Certain Ladies or Countesses , with plain circlets of gold without flowers .
55813 They pass over the stage in order and state .
55814
55815
55816 A royal train , believe me . These I know ;
55817 Who's that that bears the sceptre ?
55818
55819 Marquess Dorset :
55820 And that the Earl of Surrey with the rod .
55821
55822 A bold brave gentleman . That should be
55823 The Duke of Suffolk ?
55824
55825 'Tis the same ; high-steward .
55826
55827 And that my Lord of Norfolk ?
55828
55829 Yes .
55830
55831 Heaven bless thee !
55832 Thou hast the sweetest face I ever look'd on .
55833 Sir , as I have a soul , she is an angel ;
55834 Our king has all the Indies in his arms ,
55835 And more and richer , when he strains that lady :
55836 I cannot blame his conscience .
55837
55838 They that bear
55839 The cloth of honour over her , are four barons
55840 Of the Cinque-ports .
55841
55842 Those men are happy ; and so are all are near her .
55843 I take it , she that carries up the train
55844 Is that old noble lady , Duchess of Norfolk .
55845
55846 It is ; and all the rest are countesses .
55847
55848 Their coronets say so . These are stars indeed ;
55849 And sometimes falling ones .
55850
55851 No more of that .
55852
55853
55854 God save you , sir ! Where have you been broiling ?
55855
55856 Among the crowd i' the Abbey ; where a finger
55857 Could not be wedg'd in more : I am stifled
55858 With the mere rankness of their joy .
55859
55860 You saw
55861 The ceremony ?
55862
55863 That I did .
55864
55865 How was it ?
55866
55867 Well worth the seeing .
55868
55869 Good sir , speak it to us .
55870
55871 As well as I am able . The rich stream
55872 Of lords and ladies , having brought the queen
55873 To a prepar'd place in the choir , fell off
55874 A distance from her ; while her Grace sat down
55875 To rest awhile , some half an hour or so ,
55876 In a rich chair of state , opposing freely
55877 The beauty of her person to the people .
55878 Believe me , sir , she is the goodliest woman
55879 That ever lay by man : which when the people
55880 Had the full view of , such a noise arose
55881 As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest ,
55882 As loud , and to as many tunes : hats , cloaks ,
55883 Doublets , I think ,flew up ; and had their faces
55884 Been loose , this day they had been lost . Such joy
55885 I never saw before . Great-bellied women ,
55886 That had not half a week to go , like rams
55887 In the old time of war , would shake the press ,
55888 And make 'em reel before them . No man living
55889 Could say , 'This is my wife ,' there ; all were woven
55890 So strangely in one piece .
55891
55892 But , what follow'd ?
55893
55894 At length her Grace rose , and with modest paces
55895 Came to the altar ; where she kneel'd , and , saint-like ,
55896 Cast her fair eyes to heaven and pray'd devoutly .
55897 Then rose again and bow'd her to the people :
55898 When by the Archbishop of Canterbury
55899 She had all the royal makings of a queen ;
55900 As holy oil , Edward Confessor's crown ,
55901 The rod , and bird of peace , and all such emblems
55902 Laid nobly on her : which perform'd , the choir ,
55903 With all the choicest music of the kingdom ,
55904 Together sung Te Deum . So she parted ,
55905 And with the same full state pac'd back again
55906 To York-place , where the feast is held .
55907
55908 Sir ,
55909 You must no more call it York-place , that's past ;
55910 For , since the cardinal fell , that title's lost :
55911 'Tis now the king's , and call'd Whitehall .
55912
55913 I know it ;
55914 But 'tis so lately alter'd that the old name
55915 Is fresh about me .
55916
55917 What two reverend bishops
55918 Were those that went on each side of the queen ?
55919
55920 Stokesly and Gardiner ; the one of Winchester ,
55921 Newly preferr'd from the king's secretary ,
55922 The other , London .
55923
55924 He of Winchester
55925 Is held no great good lover of the archbishop's ,
55926 The virtuous Cranmer .
55927
55928 All the land knows that :
55929 However , yet there's no great breach ; when it comes ,
55930 Cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him .
55931
55932 Who may that be , I pray you ?
55933
55934 Thomas Cromwell :
55935 A man in much esteem with the king , and truly
55936 A worthy friend . The king
55937 Has made him master o' the jewel house ,
55938 And one , already , of the privy-council .
55939
55940 He will deserve more .
55941
55942 Yes , without all doubt .
55943 Come , gentlemen , ye shall go my way , which
55944 Is to the court , and there ye shall be my guests :
55945 Something I can command . As I walk thither ,
55946 I'll tell ye more .
55947
55948 You may command us , sir .
55949
55950
55951 How does your Grace ?
55952
55953 O Griffith ! sick to death !
55954 My legs , like loaden branches , bow to the earth ,
55955 Willing to leave their burden . Reach a chair :
55956 So ; now , methinks , I feel a little ease .
55957 Didst thou not tell me , Griffith , as thou ledd'st me ,
55958 That the great child of honour , Cardinal Wolsey ,
55959 Was dead ?
55960
55961 Yes , madam ; but I think your Grace ,
55962 Out of the pain you suffer'd , gave no ear to't .
55963
55964 Prithee , good Griffith , tell me how he died :
55965 If well , he stepp'd before me , happily ,
55966 For my example .
55967
55968 Well , the voice goes , madam :
55969 For after the stout Earl Northumberland
55970 Arrested him at York , and brought him forward ,
55971 As a man sorely tainted , to his answer ,
55972 He fell sick suddenly , and grew so ill
55973 He could not sit his mule .
55974
55975 Alas ! poor man .
55976
55977 At last , with easy roads , he came to Leicester ;
55978 Lodg'd in the abbey , where the reverend abbot ,
55979 With all his covent , honourably receiv'd him :
55980 To whom he gave these words : 'O ! father abbot ,
55981 An old man , broken with the storms of state ,
55982 Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ;
55983 Give him a little earth for charity .'
55984 So went to bed , where eagerly his sickness
55985 Pursu'd him still ; and three nights after this ,
55986 About the hour of eight ,which he himself
55987 Foretold should be his last ,full of repentance ,
55988 Continual meditations , tears , and sorrows ,
55989 He gave his honours to the world again ,
55990 His blessed part to heaven , and slept in peace .
55991
55992 So may he rest ; his faults lie gently on him !
55993 Yet thus far , Griffith , give me leave to speak him ,
55994 And yet with charity . He was a man
55995 Of an unbounded stomach , ever ranking
55996 Himself with princes ; one , that by suggestion
55997 Tied all the kingdom ; simony was fair-play ;
55998 His own opinion was his law ; i' the presence
55999 He would say untruths , and be ever double
56000 Both in his words and meaning . He was never ,
56001 But where he meant to ruin , pitiful ;
56002 His promises were , as he then was , mighty ;
56003 But his performance , as he is now , nothing :
56004 Of his own body he was ill , and gave
56005 The clergy ill example .
56006
56007 Noble madam ,
56008 Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues
56009 We write in water . May it please your highness
56010 To hear me speak his good now ?
56011
56012 Yes , good Griffith ,
56013 I were malicious else .
56014
56015 This cardinal ,
56016 Though from a humble stock , undoubtedly
56017 Was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle .
56018 He was a scholar , and a ripe and good one ;
56019 Exceeding wise , fair-spoken , and persuading ;
56020 Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not ;
56021 But , to those men that sought him sweet as summer .
56022 And though he were unsatisfied in getting ,
56023 Which was a sin ,yet in bestowing , madam ,
56024 He was most princely . Ever witness for him
56025 Those twins of learning that he rais'd in you ,
56026 Ipswich , and Oxford ! one of which fell with him ,
56027 Unwilling to outlive the good that did it ;
56028 The other , though unfinish'd , yet so famous ,
56029 So excellent in art , and still so rising ,
56030 That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue .
56031 His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him ;
56032 For then , and not till then , he felt himself ,
56033 And found the blessedness of being little :
56034 And , to add greater honours to his age
56035 Than man could give him , he died fearing God .
56036
56037 After my death I wish no other herald ,
56038 No other speaker of my living actions ,
56039 To keep mine honour from corruption ,
56040 But such an honest chronicler as Griffith .
56041 Whom I most hated living , thou hast made me ,
56042 With thy religious truth and modesty ,
56043 Now in his ashes honour . Peace be with him !
56044 Patience , be near me still ; and set me lower :
56045 I have not long to trouble thee . Good Griffith ,
56046 Cause the musicians play me that sad note
56047 I nam'd my knell , whilst I sit meditating
56048 On that celestial harmony I go to .
56049
56050
56051 She is asleep : good wench , let's sit down quiet ,
56052 For fear we wake her : softly , gentle Patience .
56053
56054
56055 Spirits of peace , where are ye ? Are ye all gone ,
56056 And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye ?
56057
56058 Madam , we are here .
56059
56060 It is not you I call for :
56061 Saw ye none enter since I slept ?
56062
56063 None , madam .
56064
56065 No ? Saw you not , even now , a blessed troop
56066 Invite me to a banquet ; whose bright faces
56067 Cast thousand beams upon me , like the sun ?
56068 They promis'd me eternal happiness ,
56069 And brought me garlands , Griffith , which I feel
56070 I am not worthy yet to wear : I shall assuredly .
56071
56072 I am most joyful , madam , such good dreams
56073 Possess your fancy .
56074
56075 Bid the music leave ,
56076 They are harsh and heavy to me .
56077
56078
56079 Do you note
56080 How much her Grace is alter'd on the sudden ?
56081 How long her face is drawn ? How pale she looks ,
56082 And of an earthy cold ? Mark her eyes !
56083
56084 She is going , wench . Pray , pray .
56085
56086 Heaven comfort her !
56087
56088
56089 An't like your Grace ,
56090
56091 You are a saucy fellow :
56092 Deserve we no more reverence ?
56093
56094 You are to blame ,
56095 Knowing she will not lose her wonted greatness ,
56096 To use so rude behaviour ; go to , kneel .
56097
56098 I humbly do entreat your highness pardon ;
56099 My haste made me unmannerly . There is staying
56100 A gentleman , sent from the king , to see you .
56101
56102 Admit him entrance , Griffith : but this fellow
56103 Let me ne'er see again .
56104
56105 If my sight fail not ,
56106 You should be lord ambassador from the emperor ,
56107
56108 My royal nephew , and your name Capucius .
56109
56110 Madam , the same ; your servant .
56111
56112 O my lord !
56113 The times and titles now are alter'd strangely
56114 With me since first you knew me . But , I pray you ,
56115 What is your pleasure with me ?
56116
56117 Noble lady ,
56118 First , mine own service to your Grace ; the next ,
56119 The king's request that I would visit you ;
56120 Who grieves much for your weakness , and by me
56121 Sends you his princely commendations ,
56122 And heartily entreats you take good comfort .
56123
56124 O ! my good lord , that comfort comes too late ;
56125 'Tis like a pardon after execution :
56126 That gentle physic , given in time , had cur'd me ;
56127 But now I am past all comforts here but prayers .
56128 How does his highness ?
56129
56130 Madam , in good health .
56131
56132 So may he ever do ! and ever flourish ,
56133 When I shall dwell with worms , and my poor name
56134 Banish'd the kingdom . Patience , is that letter
56135 I caus'd you write , yet sent away ?
56136
56137 No , madam .
56138
56139
56140 Sir , I most humbly pray you to deliver
56141 This to my lord the king .
56142
56143 Most willing , madam .
56144
56145 In which I have commended to his goodness
56146 The model of our chaste loves , his young daughter :
56147 The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her !
56148 Beseeching him to give her virtuous breeding ,
56149 She is young , and of a noble modest nature ,
56150 I hope she will deserve well ,and a little
56151 To love her for her mother's sake , that lov'd him ,
56152 Heaven knows how dearly . My next poor petition
56153 Is , that his noble Grace would have some pity
56154 Upon my wretched women , that so long
56155 Have follow'd both my fortunes faithfully :
56156 Of which there is not one , I dare avow ,
56157 And now I should not lie ,but will deserve ,
56158 For virtue , and true beauty of the soul ,
56159 For honesty and decent carriage ,
56160 A right good husband , let him be a noble ;
56161 And , sure , those men are happy that shall have 'em .
56162 The last is , for my men : they are the poorest ,
56163 But poverty could never draw 'em from me ;
56164 That they may have their wages duly paid 'em ,
56165 And something over to remember me by :
56166 If heaven had pleas'd to have given me longer life
56167 And able means , we had not parted thus .
56168 These are the whole contents : and , good my lord ,
56169 By that you love the dearest in this world ,
56170 As you wish Christian peace to souls departed ,
56171 Stand these poor people's friend , and urge the king
56172 To do me this last right .
56173
56174 By heaven , I will ,
56175 Or let me lose the fashion of a man !
56176
56177 I thank you , honest lord . Remember me
56178 In all humility unto his highness :
56179 Say his long trouble now is passing
56180 Out of this world ; tell him , in death I bless'd him ;
56181 For so I will . Mine eyes grow dim . Farewell ,
56182 My lord . Griffith , farewell . Nay , Patience ,
56183 You must not leave me yet : I must to bed ;
56184 Call in more women . When I am dead , good wench ,
56185 Let me be us'd with honour : strew me over
56186 With maiden flowers , that all the world may know
56187 I was a chaste wife to my grave : embalm me ,
56188 Then lay me forth : although unqueen'd , yet like
56189 A queen , and daughter to a king , inter me .
56190 I can no more .
56191
56192
56193 It's one o'clock , boy , is't not ?
56194
56195 It hath struck .
56196
56197 These should be hours for necessities ,
56198 Not for delights ; times to repair our nature
56199 With comforting repose , and not for us
56200 To waste these times . Good hour of night , Sir Thomas !
56201 Whither so late ?
56202
56203 Came you from the king , my lord ?
56204
56205 I did , Sir Thomas ; and left him at primero
56206 With the Duke of Suffolk .
56207
56208 I must to him too ,
56209 Before he go to bed . I'll take my leave .
56210
56211 Not yet , Sir Thomas Lovell . What 's the matter ?
56212 It seems you are in haste : an if there be
56213 No great offence belongs to't , give your friend
56214 Some touch of your late business : affairs , that walk
56215 As they say spirits do at midnight , have
56216 In them a wilder nature than the business
56217 That seeks dispatch by day .
56218
56219 My lord , I love you ,
56220 And durst commend a secret to your ear
56221 Much weightier than this work . The queen's in labour ,
56222 They say , in great extremity ; and fear'd
56223 She'll with the labour end .
56224
56225 The fruit she goes with
56226 I pray for heartily , that it may find
56227 Good time , and live : but for the stock , Sir Thomas ,
56228 I wish it grubb'd up now .
56229
56230 Methinks I could
56231 Cry the amen ; and yet my conscience says
56232 She's a good creature , and , sweet lady , does
56233 Deserve our better wishes .
56234
56235 But , sir , sir ,
56236 Hear me , Sir Thomas : you're a gentleman
56237 Of mine own way ; I know you wise , religious ;
56238 And , let me tell you , it will ne'er be well ,
56239 'Twill not , Sir Thomas Lovell , take 't of me ,
56240 Till Cranmer , Cromwell , her two hands , and she ,
56241 Sleep in their graves .
56242
56243 Now , sir , you speak of two
56244 The most remark'd i' the kingdom . As for Cromwell ,
56245 Beside that of the jewel-house , is made master
56246 O' the rolls , and the king's secretary ; further , sir ,
56247 Stands in the gap and trade of moe preferments ,
56248 With which the time will load him . The archbishop
56249 Is the king's hand and tongue ; and who dare speak
56250 One syllable against him ?
56251
56252 Yes , yes , Sir Thomas ,
56253 There are that dare ; and I myself have ventur'd
56254 To speak my mind of him : and indeed this day ,
56255 Sir ,I may tell it you ,I think I have
56256 Incens'd the lords o' the council that he is
56257 For so I know he is , they know he is
56258 A most arch heretic , a pestilence
56259 That does infect the land : with which they mov'd
56260 Have broken with the king ; who hath so far
56261 Given ear to our complaint ,of his great grace
56262 And princely care , foreseeing those fell mischiefs
56263 Our reasons laid before him ,hath commanded
56264 To-morrow morning to the council-board
56265 He be convented . He's a rank weed , Sir Thomas ,
56266 And we must root him out . From your affairs
56267 I hinder you too long : good-night , Sir Thomas !
56268
56269 Many good-nights , my lord . I rest your servant .
56270
56271 Charles , I will play no more to-night ;
56272 My mind's not on't ; you are too hard for me .
56273
56274 Sir , I did never win of you before .
56275
56276 But little , Charles ;
56277 Nor shall not when my fancy's on my play .
56278 Now , Lovell , from the queen what is the news ?
56279
56280 I could not personally deliver to her
56281 What you commanded me , but by her woman
56282 I sent your message ; who return'd her thanks
56283 In the great'st humbleness , and desir'd your highness
56284 Most heartily to pray for her .
56285
56286 What sayst thou , ha ?
56287 To pray for her ? what ! is she crying out ?
56288
56289 So said her woman ; and that her sufferance made
56290 Almost each pang a death .
56291
56292 Alas ! good lady .
56293
56294 God safely quit her of her burden , and
56295 With gentle travail , to the gladding of
56296 Your highness with an heir !
56297
56298 'Tis midnight , Charles ;
56299 Prithee , to bed ; and in thy prayers remember
56300 The estate of my poor queen . Leave me alone ;
56301 For I must think of that which company
56302 Would not be friendly to .
56303
56304 I wish your highness
56305 A quiet night ; and my good mistress will
56306 Remember in my prayers .
56307
56308 Charles , good-night .
56309
56310
56311 Well , Sir , what follows ?
56312
56313 Sir , I have brought my lord the archbishop ,
56314 As you commanded me .
56315
56316 Ha ! Canterbury ?
56317
56318 Ay , my good lord .
56319
56320 'Tis true : where is he , Denny ?
56321
56322 He attends your highness' pleasure .
56323
56324 Bring him to us .
56325
56326
56327 This is about that which the bishop spake :
56328 I am happily come hither .
56329
56330
56331 Avoid the gallery .
56332
56333 Ha ! I have said . Begone .
56334 What !
56335
56336
56337 I am fearful . Wherefore frowns he thus ?
56338 'Tis his aspect of terror : all's not well .
56339
56340 How now , my lord ! You do desire to know
56341 Wherefore I sent for you .
56342
56343 It is my duty
56344 To attend your highness' pleasure .
56345
56346 Pray you , arise ,
56347 My good and gracious Lord of Canterbury .
56348 Come , you and I must walk a turn together ;
56349 I have news to tell you : come , come , give me your hand .
56350 Ah ! my good lord , I grieve at what I speak ,
56351 And am right sorry to repeat what follows .
56352 I have , and most unwillingly , of late
56353 Heard many grievous , I do say , my lord ,
56354 Grievous complaints of you ; which , being consider'd ,
56355 Have mov'd us and our council , that you shall
56356 This morning come before us ; where , I know ,
56357 You cannot with such freedom purge yourself ,
56358 But that , till further trial in those charges
56359 Which will require your answer , you must take
56360 Your patience to you , and be well contented
56361 To make your house our Tower : you a brother of us ,
56362 It fits we thus proceed , or else no witness
56363 Would come against you .
56364
56365 I humbly thank your highness ;
56366 And am right glad to catch this good occasion
56367 Most throughly to be winnow'd , where my chaff
56368 And corn shall fly asunder ; for I know
56369 There's none stands under more calumnious tongues
56370 Than I myself , poor man .
56371
56372 Stand up , good Canterbury :
56373 Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted
56374 In us , thy friend : give me thy hand , stand up :
56375 Prithee , let's walk . Now , by my holidame ,
56376 What manner of man are you ? My lord , I look'd
56377 You would have given me your petition , that
56378 I should have ta'en some pains to bring together
56379 Yourself and your accusers ; and to have heard you ,
56380 Without indurance , further .
56381
56382 Most dread liege ,
56383 The good I stand on is my truth and honesty :
56384 If they shall fail , I , with mine enemies ,
56385 Will triumph o'er my person ; which I weigh not ,
56386 Being of those virtues vacant . I fear nothing
56387 What can be said against me .
56388
56389 Know you not
56390 How your state stands i' the world , with the whole world ?
56391 Your enemies are many , and not small ; their practices
56392 Must bear the same proportion ; and not ever
56393 The justice and the truth o' the question carries
56394 The due o' the verdict with it . At what ease
56395 Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
56396 To swear against you ? such things have been done .
56397 You are potently oppos'd , and with a malice
56398 Of as great size . Ween you of better luck ,
56399 I mean in perjur'd witness , than your master ,
56400 Whose minister you are , whiles here he liv'd
56401 Upon this naughty earth ? Go to , go to ;
56402 You take a precipice for no leap of danger ,
56403 And woo your own destruction .
56404
56405 God and your majesty
56406 Protect mine innocence ! or I fall into
56407 The trap is laid for me !
56408
56409 Be of good cheer ;
56410 They shall no more prevail than we give way to .
56411 Keep comfort to you ; and this morning see
56412 You do appear before them . If they shall chance ,
56413 In charging you with matters , to commit you ,
56414 The best persuasions to the contrary
56415 Fail not to use , and with what vehemency
56416 The occasion shall instruct you : if entreaties
56417 Will render you no remedy , this ring
56418 Deliver them , and your appeal to us
56419 There make before them . Look ! the good man weeps ;
56420 He's honest , on mine honour . God's blest mother !
56421 I swear he is true-hearted ; and a soul
56422 None better in my kingdom . Get you gone ,
56423 And do as I have bid you .
56424
56425 He has strangled
56426 His language in his tears .
56427
56428
56429 Come back : what mean you ?
56430
56431 I'll not come back ; the tidings that I bring
56432 Will make my boldness manners . Now , good angels
56433 Fly o'er thy royal head , and shade thy person
56434 Under their blessed wings !
56435
56436 Now , by thy looks
56437 I guess thy message . Is the queen deliver'd ?
56438 Say , ay ; and of a boy .
56439
56440 Ay , ay , my liege ;
56441 And of a lovely boy : the God of heaven
56442 Both now and ever bless her ! 'tis a girl ,
56443 Promises boys hereafter . Sir , your queen
56444 Desires your visitation , and to be
56445 Acquainted with this stranger : 'tis as like you
56446 As cherry is to cherry .
56447
56448 Lovell !
56449
56450
56451 Sir !
56452
56453 Give her a hundred marks . I'll to the queen .
56454
56455
56456 A hundred marks ! By this light , I'll ha' more .
56457 An ordinary groom is for such payment :
56458 I will have more , or scold it out of him .
56459 Said I for this the girl was like to him ?
56460 I will have more , or else unsay't ; and now ,
56461 While it is hot , I'll put it to the issue .
56462
56463
56464 I hope I am not too late ; and yet the gentleman ,
56465 That was sent to me from the council , pray'd me
56466 To make great haste . All fast ? what means this ? Ho !
56467 Who waits there ?
56468
56469 Sure , you know me ?
56470
56471 Yes , my lord ;
56472 But yet I cannot help you .
56473
56474 Why ?
56475
56476 Your Grace must wait till you be call'd for .
56477
56478
56479 So .
56480
56481 This is a piece of malice . I am glad
56482 I came this way so happily : the king
56483 Shall understand it presently .
56484
56485 'Tis Butts ,
56486 The king's physician . As he past along ,
56487 How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me .
56488 Pray heaven he sound not my disgrace ! For certain ,
56489 This is of purpose laid by some that hate me ,
56490 God turn their hearts ! I never sought their malice ,
56491 To quench mine honour : they would shame to make me
56492 Wait else at door , a fellow-counsellor ,
56493 'Mong boys , grooms , and lackeys . But their pleasures
56494 Must be fulfill'd , and I attend with patience .
56495
56496
56497 I'll show your Grace the strangest sight ,
56498
56499 What's that , Butts ?
56500
56501 I think your highness saw this many a day .
56502
56503 Body o' me , where is it ?
56504
56505 There , my lord ,
56506 The high promotion of his Grace of Canterbury ;
56507 Who holds his state at door , 'mongst pursuivants ,
56508 Pages , and footboys .
56509
56510 Ha ! 'Tis he , indeed :
56511 Is this the honour they do one another ?
56512 'Tis well there's one above 'em yet . I had thought
56513 They had parted so much honesty among 'em ,
56514 At least , good manners ,as not thus to suffer
56515 A man of his place , and so near our favour ,
56516 To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures ,
56517 And at the door too , like a post with packets .
56518 By holy Mary , Butts , there's knavery :
56519 Let 'em alone , and draw the curtain close ;
56520 We shall hear more anon .
56521
56522
56523 Speak to the business , Master secretary :
56524 Why are we met in council ?
56525
56526 Please your honours ,
56527 The chief cause concerns his Grace of Canterbury .
56528
56529 Has he had knowledge of it ?
56530
56531 Yes .
56532
56533 Who waits there ?
56534
56535 Without , my noble lords ?
56536
56537 Yes .
56538
56539 My lord archbishop :
56540 And has done half-an-hour , to know your pleasures .
56541
56542 Let him come in .
56543
56544 Your Grace may enter now .
56545
56546
56547 My good lord archbishop , I'm very sorry
56548 To sit here at this present and behold
56549 That chair stand empty : but we all are men ,
56550 In our own natures frail , and capable
56551 Of our flesh ; few are angels : out of which frailty
56552 And want of wisdom , you , that best should teach us ,
56553 Have misdemean'd yourself , and not a little ,
56554 Toward the king first , then his laws , in filling
56555 The whole realm , by your teaching and your chaplains ,
56556 For so we are inform'd ,with new opinions ,
56557 Divers and dangerous ; which are heresies ,
56558 And , not reform'd , may prove pernicious .
56559
56560 Which reformation must be sudden too ,
56561 My noble lords ; for those that tame wild horses
56562 Pace 'em not in their hands to make 'em gentle ,
56563 But stop their mouths with stubborn bits , and spur 'em ,
56564 Till they obey the manage . If we suffer
56565 Out of our easiness and childish pity
56566 To one man's honour this contagious sickness ,
56567 Farewell all physic : and what follows then ?
56568 Commotions , uproars , with a general taint
56569 Of the whole state : as , of late days , our neighbours ,
56570 The upper Germany , can dearly witness ,
56571 Yet freshly pitied in our memories .
56572
56573 My good lords , hitherto in all the progress
56574 Both of my life and office , I have labour'd ,
56575 And with no little study , that my teaching
56576 And the strong course of my authority
56577 Might go one way , and safely ; and the end
56578 Was ever , to do well : nor is there living ,
56579 I speak it with a single heart , my lords ,
56580 A man that more detests , more stirs against ,
56581 Both in his private conscience and his place ,
56582 Defacers of a public peace , than I do .
56583 Pray heaven the king may never find a heart
56584 With less allegiance in it ! Men , that make
56585 Envy and crooked malice nourishment
56586 Dare bite the best . I do beseech your lordships
56587 That , in this case of justice , my accusers ,
56588 Be what they will , may stand forth face to face ,
56589 And freely urge against me .
56590
56591 Nay , my lord ,
56592 That cannot be : you are a counsellor ,
56593 And by that virtue no man dare accuse you .
56594
56595 My lord , because we have business of more moment ,
56596 We will be short with you . 'Tis his highness' pleasure ,
56597 And our consent , for better trial of you ,
56598 From hence you be committed to the Tower ;
56599 Where , being but a private man again ,
56600 You shall know many dare accuse you boldly ,
56601 More than , I fear , you are provided for .
56602
56603 Ah ! my good Lord of Winchester , I thank you ;
56604 You are always my good friend : if your will pass ,
56605 I shall both find your lordship judge and juror ,
56606 You are so merciful . I see your end ;
56607 'Tis my undoing : love and meekness , lord ,
56608 Become a churchman better than ambition :
56609 Win straying souls with modesty again ,
56610 Cast none away . That I shall clear myself ,
56611 Lay all the weight ye can upon my patience ,
56612 I make as little doubt , as you do conscience ,
56613 In doing daily wrongs . I could say more ,
56614 But reverence to your calling makes me modest .
56615
56616 My lord , my lord , you are a sectary ;
56617 That's the plain truth : your painted gloss discovers ,
56618 To men that understand you , words and weakness .
56619
56620 My Lord of Winchester , you are a little ,
56621 By your good favour , too sharp ; men so noble ,
56622 However faulty , yet should find respect
56623 For what they have been : 'tis a cruelty
56624 To load a falling man .
56625
56626 Good Master secretary ,
56627 I cry your honour mercy , you may , worst
56628 Of all this table , say so .
56629
56630 Why , my lord ?
56631
56632 Do not I know you for a favourer
56633 Of this new sect ? ye are not sound .
56634
56635 Not sound ?
56636
56637 Not sound , I say .
56638
56639 Would you were half so honest !
56640 Men's prayers then would seek you , not their fears .
56641
56642 I shall remember this bold language .
56643
56644 Do .
56645 Remember your bold life too .
56646
56647 This is too much ;
56648 Forbear , for shame , my lords .
56649
56650 I have done .
56651
56652 And I .
56653
56654 Then thus for you , my lord : it stands agreed ,
56655 I take it , by all voices , that forthwith
56656 You be convey'd to the Tower a prisoner ;
56657 There to remain till the king's further pleasure
56658 Be known unto us . Are you all agreed , lords ?
56659
56660 We are .
56661
56662 Is there no other way of mercy ,
56663 But I must needs to the Tower , my lords ?
56664
56665 What other
56666 Would you expect ? You are strangely troublesome .
56667 Let some o' the guard be ready there .
56668
56669
56670 For me ?
56671 Must I go like a traitor thither ?
56672
56673 Receive him ,
56674 And see him safe i' the Tower .
56675
56676 Stay , good my lords ;
56677 I have a little yet to say . Look there , my lords ;
56678 By virtue of that ring I take my cause
56679 Out of the gripes of cruel men , and give it
56680 To a most noble judge , the king my master .
56681
56682 This is the king's ring .
56683
56684 'Tis no counterfeit .
56685
56686 'Tis the right ring , by heaven ! I told ye all ,
56687 When we first put this dangerous stone a-rolling ,
56688 'Twould fall upon ourselves .
56689
56690 Do you think , my lords ,
56691 The king will suffer but the little finger
56692 Of this man to be vex'd ?
56693
56694 'Tis now too certain :
56695 How much more is his life in value with him ?
56696 Would I were fairly out on't .
56697
56698 My mind gave me ,
56699 In seeking tales and informations
56700 Against this man whose honesty the devil
56701 And his disciples only envy at
56702 Ye blew the fire that burns ye : now have at ye !
56703
56704
56705 Dread sovereign , how much are we bound to heaven
56706 In daily thanks , that gave us such a prince ;
56707 Not only good and wise , but most religious :
56708 One that in all obedience makes the Church
56709 The chief aim of his honour ; and , to strengthen
56710 That holy duty , out of dear respect ,
56711 His royal self in judgment comes to hear
56712 The cause betwixt her and this great offender .
56713
56714 You were ever good at sudden commendations ,
56715 Bishop of Winchester ; but know , I come not
56716 To hear such flattery now , and in my presence ;
56717 They are too thin and bare to hide offences .
56718 To me you cannot reach ; you play the spaniel ,
56719 And think with wagging of your tongue to win me ;
56720 But , whatsoe'er thou tak'st me for , I'm sure
56721 Thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody .
56722
56723
56724 Good man , sit down . Now let me see the proudest
56725 He , that dares most , but wag his finger at thee :
56726 By all that's holy , he had better starve
56727 Than but once think this place becomes thee not .
56728
56729 May it please your Grace ,
56730
56731 No , sir , it does not please me .
56732 I had thought I had had men of some understanding
56733 And wisdom of my council ; but I find none .
56734 Was it discretion , lords , to let this man ,
56735 This good man ,few of you deserve that title ,
56736 This honest man , wait like a lousy footboy
56737 At chamber-door ? and one as great as you are ?
56738 Why , what a shame was this ! Did my commission
56739 Bid ye so far forget yourselves ? I gave ye
56740 Power as he was a counsellor to try him ,
56741 Not as a groom . There's some of ye , I see ,
56742 More out of malice than integrity ,
56743 Would try him to the utmost , had ye mean ;
56744 Which ye shall never have while I live .
56745
56746 Thus far ,
56747 My most dread sov'reign , may it like your Grace
56748 To let my tongue excuse all . What was purpos'd
56749 Concerning his imprisonment , was rather
56750 If there be faith in men meant for his trial
56751 And fair purgation to the world , than malice ,
56752 I'm sure , in me .
56753
56754 Well , well , my lords , respect him ;
56755 Take him , and use him well ; he's worthy of it .
56756 I will say thus much for him , if a prince
56757 May be beholding to a subject , I
56758 Am , for his love and service , so to him .
56759 Make me no more ado , but all embrace him :
56760 Be friends , for shame , my lords ! My Lord of Canterbury ,
56761 I have a suit which you must not deny me ;
56762 That is , a fair young maid that yet wants baptism ,
56763 You must be godfather , and answer for her .
56764
56765 The greatest monarch now alive may glory
56766 In such an honour : how may I deserve it ,
56767 That am a poor and humble subject to you ?
56768
56769 Come , come , my lord , you'd spare your spoons : you shall have two noble partners with you ; the old Duchess of Norfolk , and Lady Marquess Dorset : will these please you ?
56770 Once more , my Lord of Winchester , I charge you ,
56771 Embrace and love this man .
56772
56773 With a true heart
56774 And brother-love I do it .
56775
56776 And let heaven
56777 Witness , how dear I hold this confirmation .
56778
56779 Good man ! those joyful tears show thy true heart :
56780 The common voice , I see , is verified
56781 Of thee , which says thus , 'Do my Lord of Canterbury
56782 A shrewd turn , and he is your friend for ever .'
56783 Come , lords , we trifle time away ; I long
56784 To have this young one made a Christian .
56785 As I have made ye one , lords , one remain ;
56786 So I grow stronger , you more honour gain .
56787
56788
56789 You'll leave your noise anon , ye rascals .
56790 Do you take the court for Paris-garden ? ye rude slaves , leave your gaping .
56791
56792
56793 Good Master porter , I belong to the larder .
56794
56795 Belong to the gallows , and be hanged , you rogue ! Is this a place to roar in ? Fetch me a dozen crab-tree staves , and strong ones : these are but switches to 'em . I'll scratch your heads : you must be seeing christenings ! Do you look for ale and cakes here , you rude rascals ?
56796
56797 Pray , sir , be patient : 'tis as much impossible
56798 Unless we sweep 'em from the door with cannons
56799 To scatter 'em , as 'tis to make 'em sleep
56800 On May-day morning ; which will never be .
56801 We may as well push against Paul's as stir 'em .
56802
56803 How got they in , and be hang'd ?
56804
56805 Alas , I know not ; how gets the tide in ?
56806 As much as one sound cudgel of four foot
56807 You see the poor remainder could distribute ,
56808 I made no spare , sir .
56809
56810 You did nothing , sir .
56811
56812 I am not Samson , nor Sir Guy , nor Colbrand ,
56813 To mow 'em down before me ; but if I spar'd any
56814 That had a head to hit , either young or old ,
56815 He or she , cuckold or cuckold-maker ,
56816 Let me ne'er hope to see a chine again ;
56817 And that I would not for a cow , God save her !
56818
56819
56820 Do you hear , Master porter ?
56821
56822 I shall be with you presently , good
56823 Master puppy . Keep the door close , sirrah .
56824
56825 What would you have me do ?
56826
56827 What should you do , but knock 'em down by the dozens ? Is this Moorfields to muster in ? or have we some strange Indian with the great tool come to court , the women so besiege us ? Bless me , what a fry of fornication is at door ! On my Christian conscience , this one christening will beget a thousand : here will be father , godfather , and all together .
56828
56829 The spoons will be the bigger , sir . There is a fellow somewhat near the door , he should be a brazier by his face , for , o' my conscience , twenty of the dog days now reign in's nose : all that stand about him are under the line , they need no other penance . That fire-drake did I hit three times on the head , and three times was his nose discharged against me : he stands there , like a mortar-piece , to blow us . There was a haberdasher's wife of small wit near him , that railed upon me till her pinked porringer fell off her head , for kindling such a combustion in the state . I missed the meteor once , and hit that woman , who cried out , 'Clubs !' when I might see from far some forty truncheoners draw to her succour , which were the hope o' the Strand , where she was quartered . They fell on ; I made good my place ; at length they came to the broomstaff to me ; I defied 'em still ; when suddenly a file of boys behind 'em , loose shot , delivered such a shower of pebbles , that I was fain to draw mine honour in , and let 'em win the work . The devil was amongst 'em , I think , surely .
56830
56831 These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse , and fight for bitten apples ; that no audience , but the Tribulation of Tower-hill , or the Limbs of Limehouse , their dear brothers , are able to endure . I have some of 'em in Limbo Patrum , and there they are like to dance these three days ; besides the running banquet of two beadles , that is to come .
56832
56833
56834 Mercy o' me , what a multitude are here !
56835 They grow still too , from all parts they are coming ,
56836 As if we kept a fair here ! Where are these porters ,
56837 These lazy knaves ? Ye have made a fine hand , fellows :
56838 There's a trim rabble let in . Are all these
56839 Your faithful friends o' the suburbs ? We shall have
56840 Great store of room , no doubt , left for the ladies ,
56841 When they pass back from the christening .
56842
56843 An't please your honour ,
56844 We are but men ; and what so many may do ,
56845 Not being torn a-pieces , we have done :
56846 An army cannot rule 'em .
56847
56848 As I live ,
56849 If the king blame me for't , I'll lay ye all
56850 By the heels , and suddenly ; and on your heads
56851 Clap round fines for neglect : ye're lazy knaves ;
56852 And here ye lie baiting of bombards , when
56853 Ye should do service . Hark ! the trumpets sound ;
56854 They're come already from the christening .
56855 Go , break among the press , and find a way out
56856 To let the troop pass fairly , or I'll find
56857 A Marshalsea shall hold ye play these two months .
56858
56859 Make way there for the princess .
56860
56861 You great fellow ,
56862 Stand close up , or I'll make your head ache .
56863
56864 You i' the camlet , get up o' the rail :
56865 I'll pick you o'er the pales else .
56866
56867 Heaven , from thy endless goodness , send prosperous life , long , and ever happy , to the high and mighty Princess of England , Elizabeth !
56868
56869
56870 And to your royal Grace , and the good queen ,
56871 My noble partners , and myself , thus pray :
56872 All comfort , joy , in this most gracious lady ,
56873 Heaven ever laid up to make parents happy ,
56874 May hourly fall upon ye !
56875
56876 Thank you , good lord archbishop :
56877 What is her name ?
56878
56879 Elizabeth .
56880
56881 Stand up , lord .
56882
56883 With this kiss take my blessing ; God protect thee !
56884 Into whose hand I give thy life .
56885
56886 Amen .
56887
56888 My noble gossips , ye have been too prodigal :
56889 I thank ye heartily : so shall this lady
56890 When she has so much English .
56891
56892 Let me speak , sir ,
56893 For heaven now bids me ; and the words I utter
56894 Let none think flattery , for they'll find 'em truth .
56895 This royal infant ,heaven still move about her !
56896 Though in her cradle , yet now promises
56897 Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings ,
56898 Which time shall bring to ripeness : she shall be
56899 But few now living can behold that goodness
56900 A pattern to all princes living with her ,
56901 And all that shall succeed : Saba was never
56902 More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue
56903 Than this pure soul shall be : all princely graces ,
56904 That mould up such a mighty piece as this is ,
56905 With all the virtues that attend the good ,
56906 Shall still be doubled on her ; truth shall nurse her ;
56907 Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her ;
56908 She shall be lov'd and fear'd ; her own shall bless her ;
56909 Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn ,
56910 And hang their heads with sorrow ; good grows with her .
56911 In her days every man shall eat in safety
56912 Under his own vine what he plants ; and sing
56913 The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours .
56914 God shall be truly known ; and those about her
56915 From her shall read the perfect ways of honour ,
56916 And by those claim their greatness , not by blood .
56917 Nor shall this peace sleep with her ; but as when
56918 The bird of wonder dies , the maiden ph nix ,
56919 Her ashes new-create another heir
56920 As great in admiration as herself ,
56921 So shall she leave her blessedness to one ,
56922 When heaven shall call her from this cloud of darkness ,
56923 Who , from the sacred ashes of her honour ,
56924 Shall star-like rise , as great in fame as she was ,
56925 And so stand fix'd . Peace , plenty , love , truth , terror ,
56926 That were the servants to this chosen infant ,
56927 Shall then be his , and like a vine grow to him :
56928 Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine ,
56929 His honour and the greatness of his name
56930 Shall be , and make new nations ; he shall flourish ,
56931 And , like a mountain cedar , reach his branches
56932 To all the plains about him ; our children's children
56933 Shall see this , and bless heaven .
56934
56935 Thou speakest wonders .
56936
56937 She shall be , to the happiness of England ,
56938 An aged princess ; many days shall see her ,
56939 And yet no day without a deed to crown it .
56940 Would I had known no more ! but she must die ,
56941 She must , the saints must have her , yet a virgin ;
56942 A most unspotted lily shall she pass
56943 To the ground , and all the world shall mourn her .
56944
56945 O lord archbishop !
56946 Thou hast made me now a man : never , before
56947 This happy child , did I get any thing .
56948 This oracle of comfort has so pleas'd me ,
56949 That when I am in heaven , I shall desire
56950 To see what this child does , and praise my Maker .
56951 I thank ye all . To you , my good Lord Mayor ,
56952 And your good brethren , I am much beholding ;
56953 I have receiv'd much honour by your presence ,
56954 And ye shall find me thankful . Lead the way , lords :
56955 Ye must all see the queen , and she must thank ye ;
56956 She will be sick else . This day , no man think
56957 He has business at his house ; for all shall stay :
56958 This little one shall make it holiday .
56959
56960
56961 'Tis ten to one , this play can never please
56962 All that are here : some come to take their ease
56963 And sleep an act or two ; but those , we fear ,
56964 We've frighted with our trumpets ; so , 'tis clear
56965 They'll say 'tis naught : others , to hear the city
56966 Abus'd extremely , and to cry , 'That's witty !'
56967 Which we have not done neither : that , I fear ,
56968 All the expected good we're like to hear
56969 For this play at this time , is only in
56970 The merciful construction of good women ;
56971 For such a one we show'd 'em : if they smile ,
56972 And say 'twill do , I know , within a while
56973 All the best men are ours ; for 'tis ill hap
56974 If they hold when their ladies bid 'em clap .
56975
56976 THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV
56977
56978 So shaken as we are , so wan with care ,
56979 Find we a time for frighted peace to pant ,
56980 And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
56981 To be commenc'd in stronds afar remote .
56982 No more the thirsty entrance of this soil
56983 Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood ;
56984 No more shall trenching war channel her fields ,
56985 Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs
56986 Of hostile paces : those opposed eyes ,
56987 Which , like the meteors of a troubled heaven ,
56988 All of one nature , of one substance bred ,
56989 Did lately meet in the intestine shock
56990 And furious close of civil butchery ,
56991 Shall now , in mutual well-beseeming ranks ,
56992 March all one way , and be no more oppos'd
56993 Against acquaintance , kindred , and allies :
56994 The edge of war , like an ill-sheathed knife ,
56995 No more shall cut his master . Therefore , friends ,
56996 As far as to the sepulchre of Christ ,
56997 Whose soldier now , under whose blessed cross
56998 We are impressed and engag'd to fight ,
56999 Forthwith a power of English shall we levy ,
57000 Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb
57001 To chase these pagans in those holy fields
57002 Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet
57003 Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd
57004 For our advantage on the bitter cross .
57005 But this our purpose is a twelvemonth old ,
57006 And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go :
57007 Therefore we meet not now . Then let me hear
57008 Of you , my gentle cousin Westmoreland ,
57009 What yesternight our council did decree
57010 In forwarding this dear expedience .
57011
57012 My liege , this haste was hot in question ,
57013 And many limits of the charge set down
57014 But yesternight ; when all athwart there came
57015 A post from Wales loaden with heavy news ;
57016 Whose worst was , that the noble Mortimer ,
57017 Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight
57018 Against the irregular and wild Glendower ,
57019 Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken ,
57020 And a thousand of his people butchered ;
57021 Upon whose dead corpse' there was such misuse ,
57022 Such beastly shameless transformation
57023 By those Welshwomen done , as may not be
57024 Without much shame re-told or spoken of .
57025
57026 It seems then that the tidings of this broil
57027 Brake off our business for the Holy Land .
57028
57029 This match'd with other like , my gracious lord ;
57030 For more uneven and unwelcome news
57031 Came from the north and thus it did import :
57032 On Holy-rood day , the gallant Hotspur there ,
57033 Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald ,
57034 That ever-valiant and approved Scot ,
57035 At Holmedon met ,
57036 Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour ;
57037 As by discharge of their artillery ,
57038 And shape of likelihood , the news was told ;
57039 For he that brought them , in the very heat
57040 And pride of their contention did take horse ,
57041 Uncertain of the issue any way .
57042
57043 Here is a dear and true industrious friend ,
57044 Sir Walter Blunt , new lighted from his horse ,
57045 Stain'd with the variation of each soil
57046 Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours ;
57047 And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news .
57048 The Earl of Douglas is discomfited ;
57049 Ten thousand bold Scots , two and twenty knights ,
57050 Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see
57051 On Holmedon's plains : of prisoners Hotspur took
57052 Mordake the Earl of Fife , and eldest son
57053 To beaten Douglas , and the Earls of Athol ,
57054 Of Murray , Angus , and Menteith .
57055 And is not this an honourable spoil ?
57056 A gallant prize ? ha , cousin , is it not ?
57057
57058 In faith ,
57059 It is a conquest for a prince to boast of .
57060
57061 Yea , there thou mak'st me sad and mak'st me sin
57062 In envy that my Lord Northumberland
57063 Should be the father to so blest a son ,
57064 A son who is the theme of honour's tongue ;
57065 Amongst a grove the very straightest plant ;
57066 Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride :
57067 Whilst I , by looking on the praise of him ,
57068 See riot and dishonour stain the brow
57069 Of my young Harry . O ! that it could be prov'd
57070 That some night-tripping fairy had exchang'd
57071 In cradle-clothes our children where they lay ,
57072 And call'd mine Percy , his Plantagenet .
57073 Then would I have his Harry , and he mine .
57074 But let him from my thoughts . What think you , coz ,
57075 Of this young Percy's pride ? the prisoners ,
57076 Which he in this adventure hath surpris'd ,
57077 To his own use he keeps , and sends me word ,
57078 I shall have none but Mordake Earl of Fife .
57079
57080 This is his uncle's teaching , this is Worcester ,
57081 Malevolent to you in all aspects ;
57082 Which makes him prune himself , and bristle up
57083 The crest of youth against your dignity .
57084
57085 But I have sent for him to answer this ;
57086 And for this cause a while we must neglect
57087 Our holy purpose to Jerusalem .
57088 Cousin , on Wednesday next our council we
57089 Will hold at Windsor ; so inform the lords :
57090 But come yourself with speed to us again ;
57091 For more is to be said and to be done
57092 Than out of anger can be uttered .
57093
57094 I will , my hege .
57095
57096
57097 Now , Hal , what time of day is it , lad ?
57098
57099 Thou art so fat-witted , with drinking of old sack , and unbuttoning thee after supper , and sleeping upon benches after noon , that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know . What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day ? unless hours were cups of sack , and minutes capons , and clocks the tongues of bawds , and dials the signs of leaping-houses , and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colour'd taffeta , I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day .
57100
57101 Indeed , you come near me now , Hal ; for we that take purses go by the moon and the seven stars , and not by Ph bus , he , 'that wandering knight so fair .' And , I prithee , sweet wag , when thou art king ,as , God save thy Grace ,majesty , I should say , for grace thou wilt have none ,
57102
57103 What ! none ?
57104
57105 No , by my troth ; not so much as will serve to be prologue to an egg and butter .
57106
57107 Well , how then ? come , roundly , roundly .
57108
57109 Marry , then , sweet wag , when thou art king , let not us that are squires of the night's body be called thieves of the day's beauty : let us be Diana's foresters , gentlemen of the shade , minions of the moon ; and let men say , we be men of good government , being governed as the sea is , by our noble and chaste mistress the moon , under whose countenance we steal .
57110
57111 Thou sayest well , and it holds well too ; for the fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea , being governed as the sea is , by the moon . As for proof now : a purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning ; got with swearing 'Lay by ;' and spent with crying 'Bring in :' now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder , and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows .
57112
57113 By the Lord , thou sayest true , lad . And is not my hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench ?
57114
57115 As the honey of Hybla , my old lad of the castle . And is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance ?
57116
57117 How now , how now , mad wag ! what , in thy quips and thy quiddities ? what a plague have I to do with a buff jerkin ?
57118
57119 Why , what a pox have I to do with my hostess of the tavern ?
57120
57121 Well , thou hast called her to a reckoning many a time and oft .
57122
57123 Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part ?
57124
57125 No ; I'll give thee thy due , thou hast paid all there .
57126
57127 Yea , and elsewhere , so far as my coin would stretch ; and where it would not , I have used my credit .
57128
57129 Yea , and so used it that , were it not here apparent that thou art their apparent .But , I prithee , sweet wag , shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art king , and resolution thus fobbed as it is with the rusty curb of old father antick the law ? Do not thou , when thou art king , hang a thief .
57130
57131 No ; thou shalt .
57132
57133 Shall I ? O rare ! By the Lord , I'll be a brave judge .
57134
57135 Thou judgest false already ; I mean , thou shalt have the hanging of the thieves and so become a rare hangman .
57136
57137 Well , Hal , well ; and in some sort it jumps with my humour as well as waiting in the court , I can tell you .
57138
57139 For obtaining of suits ?
57140
57141 Yea , for obtaining of suits , whereof the hangman hath no lean wardrobe . 'Sblood , I am as melancholy as a gib cat , or a lugged bear .
57142
57143 Or an old lion , or a lover's lute .
57144
57145 Yea , or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe .
57146
57147 What sayest thou to a hare , or the melancholy of Moor-ditch ?
57148
57149 Thou hast the most unsavory similes , and art , indeed , the most comparative , rascalliest , sweet young prince ; but , Hal , I prithee , trouble me no more with vanity . I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought . An old lord of the council rated me the other day in the street about you , sir , but I marked him not ; and yet he talked very wisely , but I regarded him not ; and yet he talked wisely , and in the street too .
57150
57151 Thou didst well ; for wisdom cries out in the streets , and no man regards it .
57152
57153 O ! thou hast damnable iteration , and art indeed able to corrupt a saint . Thou hast done much harm upon me , Hal ; God forgive thee for it ! Before I knew thee , Hal , I knew nothing ; and now am I , if a man should speak truly , little better than one of the wicked . I must give over this life , and I will give it over ; by the Lord , an I do not , I am a villain : I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom .
57154
57155 Where shall we take a purse to-morrow , Jack ?
57156
57157 Zounds ! where thou wilt , lad , I'll make one ; an I do not , call me a villain and baffle me .
57158
57159 I see a good amendment of life in thee ; from praying to purse-taking .
57160
57161
57162 Why , Hal , 'tis my vocation , Hal ; 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation . Poins ! Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a match . O ! if men were to be saved by merit , what hole in hell were hot enough for him ? This is the most omnipotent villain that ever cried 'Stand !' to a true man .
57163
57164 Good morrow , Ned .
57165
57166 Good morrow , sweet Hal . What says Monsieur Remorse ? What says Sir John Sack-and-Sugar ? Jack ! how agrees the devil and thee about thy soul , that thou soldest him on Good-Friday last for a cup of Madeira and a cold capon's leg ?
57167
57168 Sir John stands to his word , the devil shall have his bargain ; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs : he will give the devil his due .
57169
57170 Then art thou damned for keeping thy word with the devil .
57171
57172 Else he had been damned for cozening the devil .
57173
57174 But my lads , my lads , to-morrow morning , by four o'clock , early at Gadshill ! There are pilgrims going to Canterbury with rich offerings , and traders riding to London with fat purses : I have vizards for you all ; you have horses for yourselves . Gadshill lies to night in Rochester ; I have bespoke supper to-morrow night in Eastcheap : we may do it as secure as sleep . If you will go I will stuff your purses full of crowns ; if you will not , tarry at home and be hanged .
57175
57176 Hear ye , Yedward : if I tarry at home and go not , I'll hang you for going .
57177
57178 You will , chops ?
57179
57180 Hal , wilt thou make one ?
57181
57182 Who , I rob ? I a thief ? not I , by my faith .
57183
57184 There's neither honesty , manhood , nor good fellowship in thee , nor thou camest not of the blood royal , if thou darest not stand for ten shillings .
57185
57186 Well , then , once in my days I'll be a madcap .
57187
57188 Why , that's well said .
57189
57190 Well , come what will , I'll tarry at home .
57191
57192 By the Lord , I'll be a traitor then , when thou art king .
57193
57194 I care not .
57195
57196 Sir John , I prithee , leave the prince and me alone : I will lay him down such reasons for this adventure that he shall go .
57197
57198 Well , God give thee the spirit of persuasion and him the ears of profiting , that what thou speakest may move , and what he hears may be believed , that the true prince may , for recreation sake , prove a false thief ; for the poor abuses of the time want countenance . Farewell : you shall find me in Eastcheap .
57199
57200 Farewell , thou latter spring ! Farewell , All-hallown summer !
57201
57202
57203 Now , my good sweet honey lord , ride with us to-morrow : I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage alone . Falstaff , Bardolph , Peto , and Gadshill shall rob those men that we have already waylaid ; yourself and I will not be there ; and when they have the booty , if you and I do not rob them , cut this head from my shoulders .
57204
57205 But how shall we part with them in setting forth ?
57206
57207 Why , we will set forth before or after them , and appoint them a place of meeting , wherein it is at our pleasure to fail ; and then will they adventure upon the exploit themselves , which they shall have no sooner achieved but we'll set upon them .
57208
57209 Yea , but 'tis like that they will know us by our horses , by our habits , and by every other appointment , to be ourselves .
57210
57211 Tut ! our horses they shall not see , I'll tie them in the wood ; our vizards we will change after we leave them ; and , sirrah , I have cases of buckram for the nonce , to inmask our noted outward garments .
57212
57213 Yea , but I doubt they will be too hard for us .
57214
57215 Well , for two of them , I know them to be as true-bred cowards as ever turned back ; and for the third , if he fight longer than he sees reason , I'll forswear arms . The virtue of this jest will be , the incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue will tell us when we meet at supper : how thirty , at least , he fought with ; what wards , what blows , what extremities he endured ; and in the reproof of this lies the jest .
57216
57217 Well , I'll go with thee : provide us all things necessary and meet me to-morrow night in Eastcheap ; there I'll sup . Farewell .
57218
57219 Farewell , my lord .
57220
57221
57222 I know you all , and will awhile uphold
57223 The unyok'd humour of your idleness :
57224 Yet herein will I imitate the sun ,
57225 Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
57226 To smother up his beauty from the world ,
57227 That when he please again to be himself ,
57228 Being wanted , he may be more wonder'd at ,
57229 By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
57230 Of vapours that did seem to strangle him .
57231 If all the year were playing holidays ,
57232 To sport would be as tedious as to work ;
57233 But when they seldom come , they wish'd for come ,
57234 And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents .
57235 So , when this loose behaviour I throw off ,
57236 And pay the debt I never promised ,
57237 By how much better than my word I am
57238 By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ;
57239 And like bright metal on a sullen ground ,
57240 My reformation , glittering o'er my fault ,
57241 Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
57242 Than that which hath no foil to set it off .
57243 I'll so offend to make offence a skill ;
57244 Redeeming time when men think least I will .
57245
57246
57247 My blood hath been too cold and temperate ,
57248 Unapt to stir at these indignities ,
57249 And you have found me ; for accordingly
57250 You tread upon my patience : but , be sure ,
57251 I will from henceforth rather be myself ,
57252 Mighty , and to be fear'd , than my condition ,
57253 Which hath been smooth as oil , soft as young down ,
57254 And therefore lost that title of respect
57255 Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud .
57256
57257 Our house , my sovereign liege , little deserves
57258 The scourge of greatness to be us'd on it ;
57259 And that same greatness too which our own hands
57260 Have holp to make so portly .
57261
57262 My lord ,
57263
57264 Worcester , get thee gone ; for I do see
57265 Danger and disobedience in thine eye .
57266 O , sir , your presence is too bold and peremptory ,
57267 And majesty might never yet endure
57268 The moody frontier of a servant brow .
57269 You have good leave to leave us ; when we need
57270 Your use and counsel we shall send for you .
57271
57272 You were about to speak .
57273
57274 Yea , my good lord .
57275 Those prisoners in your highness' name demanded ,
57276 Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took ,
57277 Were , as he says , not with such strength denied
57278 As is deliver'd to your majesty :
57279 Either envy , therefore , or misprision
57280 Is guilty of this fault and not my son .
57281
57282 My liege , I did deny no prisoners :
57283 But I remember , when the fight was done ,
57284 When I was dry with rage and extreme toil ,
57285 Breathless and faint , leaning upon my sword ,
57286 Came there a certain lord , neat , and trimly dress'd ,
57287 Fresh as a bridegroom ; and his chin , new reap'd ,
57288 Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home :
57289 He was perfumed like a milliner ,
57290 And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
57291 A pouncet-box , which ever and anon
57292 He gave his nose and took't away again ;
57293 Who therewith angry , when it next came there ,
57294 Took it in snuff : and still he smil'd and talk'd ;
57295 And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by ,
57296 He call'd them untaught knaves , unmannerly ,
57297 To bring a slovenly unhandsome corpse
57298 Betwixt the wind and his nobility .
57299 With many holiday and lady terms
57300 He question'd me ; among the rest , demanded
57301 My prisoners in your majesty's behalf .
57302 I then all smarting with my wounds being cold ,
57303 To be so pester'd with a popinjay ,
57304 Out of my grief and my impatience
57305 Answer'd neglectingly , I know not what ,
57306 He should , or he should not ; for he made me mad
57307 To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet
57308 And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman
57309 Of guns , and drums , and wounds ,God save the mark !
57310 And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth
57311 Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ;
57312 And that it was great pity , so it was ,
57313 This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd
57314 Out of the bowels of the harmless earth ,
57315 Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd
57316 So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns ,
57317 He would himself have been a soldier .
57318 This bald unjointed chat of his , my lord ,
57319 I answer'd indirectly , as I said ;
57320 And I beseech you , let not his report
57321 Come current for an accusation
57322 Betwixt my love and your high majesty .
57323
57324 The circumstance consider'd , good my lord ,
57325 Whatever Harry Percy then had said
57326 To such a person and in such a place ,
57327 At such a time , with all the rest re-told ,
57328 May reasonably die and never rise
57329 To do him wrong , or any way impeach
57330 What then he said , so he unsay it now .
57331
57332 Why , yet he doth deny his prisoners ,
57333 But with proviso and exception ,
57334 That we at our own charge shall ransom straight
57335 His brother-in-law , the foolish Mortimer ;
57336 Who , on my soul , hath wilfully betray'd
57337 The lives of those that he did lead to fight
57338 Against the great magician , damn'd Glendower ,
57339 Whose daughter , as we hear , the Earl of March
57340 Hath lately married . Shall our coffers then
57341 Be emptied to redeem a traitor home ?
57342 Shall we buy treason , and indent with fears ,
57343 When they have lost and forfeited themselves ?
57344 No , on the barren mountains let him starve ;
57345 For I shall never hold that man my friend
57346 Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost
57347 To ransom home revolted Mortimer .
57348
57349 Revolted Mortimer !
57350 He never did fall off , my sovereign liege ,
57351 But by the chance of war : to prove that true
57352 Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds ,
57353 Those mouthed wounds , which valiantly he took ,
57354 When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank ,
57355 In single opposition , hand to hand ,
57356 He did confound the best part of an hour
57357 In changing hardiment with great Glendower .
57358 Three times they breath'd and three times did they drink ,
57359 Upon agreement , of swift Severn's flood ,
57360 Who then , affrighted with their bloody looks ,
57361 Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds ,
57362 And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank
57363 Blood-stained with these valiant combatants .
57364 Never did base and rotten policy
57365 Colour her working with such deadly wounds ;
57366 Nor never could the noble Mortimer
57367 Receive so many , and all willingly :
57368 Then let him not be slander'd with revolt .
57369
57370 Thou dost belie him , Percy , thou dost belie him :
57371 He never did encounter with Glendower :
57372 I tell thee ,
57373 He durst as well have met the devil alone
57374 As Owen Glendower for an enemy .
57375 Art thou not asham'd ? But , sirrah , henceforth
57376 Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer :
57377 Send me your prisoners with the speediest means ,
57378 Or you shall hear in such a kind from me
57379 As will displease you . My Lord Northumberland ,
57380 We license your departure with your son .
57381 Send us your prisoners , or you'll hear of it .
57382
57383
57384 An if the devil come and roar for them ,
57385 I will not send them : I will after straight
57386 And tell him so ; for I will ease my heart ,
57387 Albeit I make a hazard of my head .
57388
57389 What ! drunk with choler ? stay , and pause awhile :
57390 Here comes your uncle .
57391
57392
57393 Speak of Mortimer !
57394 'Zounds ! I will speak of him ; and let my soul
57395 Want mercy if I do not join with him :
57396 In his behalf I'll empty all these veins ,
57397 And shed my dear blood drop by drop i' the dust ,
57398 But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer
57399 As high i' the air as this unthankful king ,
57400 As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke .
57401
57402 Brother , the king hath made your nephew mad .
57403
57404 Who struck this heat up after I was gone ?
57405
57406 He will , forsooth , have all my prisoners ;
57407 And when I urg'd the ransom once again
57408 Of my wife's brother , then his cheek look'd pale ,
57409 And on my face he turn'd an eye of death ,
57410 Trembling even at the name of Mortimer .
57411
57412 I cannot blame him : was he not proclaim'd
57413 By Richard that dead is the next of blood ?
57414
57415 He was ; I heard the proclamation :
57416 And then it was when the unhappy king ,
57417 Whose wrongs in us God pardon !did set forth
57418 Upon his Irish expedition ;
57419 From whence he , intercepted , did return
57420 To be depos'd , and shortly murdered .
57421
57422 And for whose death we in the world's wide mouth
57423 Live scandaliz'd and foully spoken of .
57424
57425 But , soft ! I pray you , did King Richard then
57426 Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer
57427 Heir to the crown ?
57428
57429 He did ; myself did hear it .
57430
57431 Nay , then I cannot blame his cousin king ,
57432 That wish'd him on the barren mountains starve .
57433 But shall it be that you , that set the crown
57434 Upon the head of this forgetful man ,
57435 And for his sake wear the detested blot
57436 Of murd'rous subornation , shall it be ,
57437 That you a world of curses undergo ,
57438 Being the agents , or base second means ,
57439 The cords , the ladder , or the hangman rather ?
57440 O ! pardon me that I descend so low ,
57441 To show the line and the predicament
57442 Wherein you range under this subtle king .
57443 Shall it for shame be spoken in these days ,
57444 Or fill up chronicles in time to come ,
57445 That men of your nobility and power ,
57446 Did gage them both in'an unjust behalf ,
57447 As both of you God pardon it !have done ,
57448 To put down Richard , that sweet lovely rose ,
57449 And plant this thorn , this canker , Bolingbroke ?
57450 And shall it in more shame be further spoken ,
57451 That you are fool'd , discarded , and shook off
57452 By him for whom these shames ye underwent ?
57453 No ; yet time serves wherein you may redeem
57454 Your banish'd honours , and restore yourselves
57455 Into the good thoughts of the world again ;
57456 Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt
57457 Of this proud king , who studies day and night
57458 To answer all the debt he owes to you ,
57459 Even with the bloody payment of your deaths .
57460 Therefore , I say ,
57461
57462 Peace , cousin ! say no more :
57463 And now I will unclasp a secret book ,
57464 And to your quick-conceiving discontents
57465 I'll read you matter deep and dangerous ,
57466 As full of peril and adventurous spirit
57467 As to o'er-walk a current roaring loud ,
57468 On the unsteadfast footing of a spear .
57469
57470 If he fall in , good night ! or sink or swim :
57471 Send danger from the east unto the west ,
57472 So honour cross it from the north to south ,
57473 And let them grapple : O ! the blood more stirs
57474 To rouse a lion than to start a hare .
57475
57476 Imagination of some great exploit
57477 Drives him beyond the bounds of patience .
57478
57479 By heaven methinks it were an easy leap
57480 To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ,
57481 Or dive into the bottom of the deep ,
57482 Where fathom-line could never touch the ground ,
57483 And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ;
57484 So he that doth redeem her thence might wear
57485 Without corrival all her dignities :
57486 But out upon this half-fac'd fellowship !
57487
57488 He apprehends a world of figures here ,
57489 But not the form of what he should attend .
57490 Good cousin , give me audience for a while .
57491
57492 I cry you mercy .
57493
57494 Those same noble Scots
57495 That are your prisoners ,
57496
57497 I'll keep them all ;
57498 By God , he shall not have a Scot of them :
57499 No , if a Scot would save his soul , he shall not :
57500 I'll keep them , by this hand .
57501
57502 You start away ,
57503 And lend no ear unto my purposes .
57504 Those prisoners you shall keep .
57505
57506 Nay , I will ; that's flat :
57507 He said he would not ransom Mortimer ;
57508 Forbade my tongue to speak of Mortimer ;
57509 But I will find him when he lies asleep ,
57510 And in his ear I'll holla 'Mortimer !'
57511 Nay ,
57512 I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak
57513 Nothing but 'Mortimer ,' and give it him ,
57514 To keep his anger still in motion .
57515
57516 Hear you , cousin ; a word .
57517
57518 All studies here I solemnly defy ,
57519 Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke :
57520 And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales ,
57521 But that I think his father loves him not ,
57522 And would be glad he met with some mischance ,
57523 I would have him poison'd with a pot of ale .
57524
57525 Farewell , kinsman : I will talk to you
57526 When you are better temper'd to attend .
57527
57528 Why , what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
57529 Art thou to break into this woman's mood ,
57530 Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own !
57531
57532 Why , look you , I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods ,
57533 Nettled , and stung with pismires , when I hear
57534 Of this vile politician , Bolingbroke .
57535 In Richard's time ,what do ye call the place ?
57536 A plague upon't it is in Gloucestershire ;
57537 'Twas where the madcap duke his uncle kept ,
57538 His uncle York ; where I first bow'd my knee
57539 Unto this king of smiles , this Bolingbroke ,
57540 'Sblood !
57541 When you and he came back from Ravenspurgh .
57542
57543 At Berkeley Castle .
57544
57545 You say true .
57546 Why , what a candy deal of courtesy
57547 This fawning greyhound then did proffer me !
57548 Look , 'when his infant fortune came to age ,'
57549 And 'gentle Harry Percy ,' and 'kind cousin .'
57550 O ! the devil take such cozeners . God forgive me !
57551 Good uncle , tell your tale , for I have done .
57552
57553 Nay , if you have not , to't again ;
57554 We'll stay your leisure .
57555
57556 I have done , i' faith .
57557
57558 Then once more to your Scottish prisoners .
57559 Deliver them up without their ransom straight ,
57560 And make the Douglas' son your only mean
57561 For powers in Scotland ; which , for divers reasons
57562 Which I shall send you written , be assur'd ,
57563 Will easily be granted .
57564
57565 You , my lord ,
57566 Your son in Scotland being thus employ'd ,
57567 Shall secretly into the bosom creep
57568 Of that same noble prelate well belov'd ,
57569 The Archbishop .
57570
57571 Of York , is it not ?
57572
57573 True ; who bears hard
57574 His brother's death at Bristol , the Lord Scroop .
57575 I speak not this in estimation ,
57576 As what I think might be , but what I know
57577 Is ruminated , plotted and set down ;
57578 And only stays but to behold the face
57579 Of that occasion that shall bring it on .
57580
57581 I smell it .
57582 Upon my life it will do wondrous well .
57583
57584 Before the game's afoot thou still lett'st slip .
57585
57586 Why , it cannot choose but be a noble plot :
57587 And then the power of Scotland and of York ,
57588 To join with Mortimer , ha ?
57589
57590 And so they shall .
57591
57592 In faith , it is exceedingly well aim'd .
57593
57594 And 'tis no little reason bids us speed ,
57595 To save our heads by raising of a head ;
57596 For , bear ourselves as even as we can ,
57597 The king will always think him in our debt ,
57598 And think we think ourselves unsatisfied ,
57599 Till he hath found a time to pay us home .
57600 And see already how he doth begin
57601 To make us strangers to his looks of love .
57602
57603 He does , he does : we'll be reveng'd on him .
57604
57605 Cousin , farewell : no further go in this ,
57606 Than I by letters shall direct your course .
57607 When time is ripe ,which will be suddenly ,
57608 I'll steal to Glendower and Lord Mortimer ;
57609 Where you and Douglas and our powers at once ,
57610 As I will fashion it ,shall happily meet ,
57611 To bear our fortunes in our own strong arms ,
57612 Which now we hold at much uncertainty .
57613
57614 Farewell , good brother : we shall thrive , I trust .
57615
57616 Uncle , adieu : O ! let the hours be short ,
57617 Till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport !
57618
57619 Heigh-ho ! An't be not four by the day I'll be hanged : Charles' Wain is over the new chimney , and yet our horse not packed . What , ostler !
57620
57621 Anon , anon .
57622
57623 I prithee , Tom , beat Cut's saddle , put a few flocks in the point ; the poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess .
57624
57625
57626 Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog , and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots ; this house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died .
57627
57628 Poor fellow ! never joyed since the price of oats rose ; it was the death of him .
57629
57630 I think this be the most villanous house in all London road for fleas : I am stung like a tench .
57631
57632 Like a tench ! by the mass , there is ne'er a king christen could be better bit than I have been since the first cock .
57633
57634 Why , they will allow us ne'er a jordan , and then we leak in the chimney ; and your chamber-lie breeds fleas like a loach .
57635
57636 What , ostler ! come away and be hanged , come away .
57637
57638 I have a gammon of bacon and two razes of ginger , to be delivered as far as Charing-cross .
57639
57640 Godsbody ! the turkeys in my pannier are quite starved . What , ostler ! A plague on thee ! hast thou never an eye in thy head ? canst not hear ? An 'twere not as good a deed as drink to break the pate on thee , I am a very villain . Come , and be hanged ! hast no faith in thee ?
57641
57642
57643 Good morrow , carriers . What's o'clock ?
57644
57645 I think it be two o'clock .
57646
57647 I prithee , lend me thy lanthorn , to see my gelding in the stable .
57648
57649 Nay , by God , soft : I know a trick worth two of that , i' faith .
57650
57651 I prithee , lend me thine .
57652
57653 Ay , when ? canst tell ? Lend me thy lanthorn , quoth a' ? marry , I'll see thee hanged first .
57654
57655 Sirrah carrier , what time do you mean to come to London ?
57656
57657 Time enough to go to bed with a candle , I warrant thee . Come , neighbour Mugs , we'll call up the gentlemen : they will along with company , for they have great charge .
57658
57659
57660 What , ho ! chamberlain !
57661
57662 'At hand , quoth pick-purse .'
57663
57664 That's even as fair as , 'at hand , quoth the chamberlain' ; for thou variest no more from picking of purses than giving direction doth from labouring ; thou layest the plot how .
57665
57666
57667 Good morrow , Master Gadshill . It holds current that I told you yesternight : there's a franklin in the wild of Kent hath brought three hundred marks with him in gold : I heard him tell it to one of his company last night at supper ; a kind of auditor ; one that hath abundance of charge too , God knows what . They are up already and call for eggs and butter : they will away presently .
57668
57669 Sirrah , if they meet not with Saint Nicholas' clerks , I'll give thee this neck .
57670
57671 No , I'll none of it : I prithee , keep that for the hangman ; for I know thou worship'st Saint Nicholas as truly as a man of falsehood may .
57672
57673 What talkest thou to me of the hangman ? If I hang I'll make a fat pair of gallows ; for if I hang , old Sir John hangs with me , and thou knowest he's no starveling . Tut ! there are other Troyans that thou dreamest not of , the which for sport sake are content to do the profession some grace ; that would , if matters should be looked into , for their own credit sake make all whole . I am joined with no foot-land-rakers , no long-staff sixpenny strikers , none of these mad mustachio-purple-hued malt worms ; but with nobility and tranquillity , burgomasters and great oneyers such as can hold in , such as will strike sooner than speak , and speak sooner than drink , and drink sooner than pray : and yet I lie ; for they pray continually to their saint , the commonwealth ; or , rather , not pray to her , but prey on her , for they ride up and down on her and make her their boots .
57674
57675 What ! the commonwealth their boots ? will she hold out water in foul way ?
57676
57677 She will , she will ; justice hath liquored her . We steal as in a castle , cock-sure ; we have the receipt of fern-seed , we walk invisible .
57678
57679 Nay , by my faith , I think you are more beholding to the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible .
57680
57681 Give me thy hand : thou shalt have a share in our purchase , as I am a true man .
57682
57683 Nay , rather let me have it , as you are a false thief .
57684
57685 Go to ; homo is a common name to all men . Bid the ostler bring my gelding out of the stable . Farewell , you muddy knave .
57686
57687
57688 Come , shelter , shelter : I have removed Falstaff's horse , and he frets like a gummed velvet .
57689
57690 Stand close .
57691
57692
57693 Poins ! Poins , and be hanged ! Poins !
57694
57695 Peace , ye fat-kidneyed rascal ! What a brawling dost thou keep !
57696
57697 Where's Poins , Hal ?
57698
57699 He is walked up to the top of the hill : I'll go seek him .
57700
57701
57702 I am accursed to rob in that thief's company ; the rascal hath removed my horse and tied him I know not where . If I travel but four foot by the squire further afoot I shall break my wind . Well , I doubt not but to die a fair death for all this , if I 'scape hanging for killing that rogue . I have forsworn his company hourly any time this two-and-twenty years , and yet I am bewitched with the rogue's company . If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him , I'll be hanged : it could not be else : I have drunk medicines . Poins ! Hal ! a plague upon you both ! Bardolph ! Peto ! I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further . An 'twere not as good a deed as drink to turn true man and leave these rogues , I am the veriest varlet that ever chewed with a tooth . Eight yards of uneven ground is threescore and ten miles afoot with me , and the stony-hearted villains know it well enough . A plague upon't when thieves cannot be true one to another !
57703
57704 Whew ! A plague upon you all ! Give me my horse , you rogues ; give me my horse and be hanged .
57705
57706 Peace , ye fatguts ! lie down : lay thine ear close to the ground , and list if thou canst hear the tread of travellers .
57707
57708 Have you any levers to lift me up again , being down ? 'Sblood ! I'll not bear mine own flesh so far afoot again for all the coin in thy father's exchequer . What a plague mean ye to colt me thus ?
57709
57710 Thou liest : thou art not colted ; thou art uncolted .
57711
57712 I prithee , good Prince Hal , help me to my horse , good king's son .
57713
57714 Out , you rogue ! shall I be your ostler ?
57715
57716 Go , hang thyself in thine own heir apparent garters ! If I be ta'en I'll peach for this . An I have not ballads made on you all , and sung to filthy tunes , let a cup of sack be my poison : when a jest is so forward , and afoot too ! I hate it .
57717
57718
57719 Stand .
57720
57721 So I do , against my will .
57722
57723 O ! 'tis our setter : I know his voice .
57724
57725
57726 What news ?
57727
57728 Case ye , case ye ; on with your vizards : there's money of the king's coming down the hill ; 'tis going to the king's exchequer .
57729
57730 You lie , you rogue ; 'tis going to the king's tavern .
57731
57732 There's enough to make us all .
57733
57734 To be hanged .
57735
57736 Sirs , you four shall front them in the narrow lane ; Ned Poins and I will walk lower : if they 'scape from your encounter then they light on us .
57737
57738 How many be there of them ?
57739
57740 Some eight or ten .
57741
57742 'Zounds ! will they not rob us ?
57743
57744 What ! a coward , Sir John Paunch ?
57745
57746 Indeed , I am not John of Gaunt , your grandfather ; but yet no coward , Hal .
57747
57748 Well , we leave that to the proof .
57749
57750 Sirrah Jack , thy horse stands behind the hedge : when thou needst him there thou shalt find him . Farewell , and stand fast .
57751
57752 Now cannot I strike him if I should be hanged .
57753
57754 Ned , where are our disguises ?
57755
57756 Here , hard by ; stand close .
57757
57758
57759 Now my masters , happy man be his dole , say I : every man to his business .
57760
57761
57762 Come , neighbour ; the boy shall lead our horses down the hill ; we'll walk afoot awhile , and ease our legs .
57763
57764 Stand !
57765
57766 Jesu bless us !
57767
57768 Strike ; down with them ; cut the villains' throats : ah ! whoreson caterpillars ! bacon-fed knaves ! they hate us youth : down with them ; fleece them .
57769
57770 O ! we are undone , both we and ours for ever .
57771
57772 Hang ye , gorbellied knaves , are ye undone ? No , ye fat chuffs ; I would your store were here ! On , bacons , on ! What ! ye knaves , young men must live . You are grand-jurors are ye ? We'll jure ye , i' faith .
57773
57774 The thieves have bound the true men . Now could thou and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London , it would be argument for a week , laughter for a month , and a good jest for ever .
57775
57776 Stand close ; I hear them coming .
57777
57778
57779 Come , my masters ; let us share , and then to horse before day . An the Prince and Poins be not two arrant cowards , there's no equity stirring : there's no more valour in that Poins than in a wild duck .
57780
57781 Your money !
57782
57783 Villains !
57784
57785
57786 Got with much ease . Now merrily to horse :
57787 The thieves are scatter'd and possess'd with fear
57788 So strongly that they dare not meet each other ;
57789 Each takes his fellow for an officer .
57790 Away , good Ned . Falstaff sweats to death
57791 And lards the lean earth as he walks along :
57792 Were't not for laughing I should pity him .
57793
57794 How the rogue roar'd !
57795
57796
57797 But for mine own part , my lord , I could be well contented to be there , in respect of the love I bear your house .
57798
57799 He could be contented ; why is he not then ? In respect of the love he bears our house : he shows in this he loves his own barn better than he loves our house . Let me see some more .
57800
57801 The purpose you undertake is dangerous ;
57802
57803 Why , that's certain : 'tis dangerous to take a cold , to sleep , to drink ; but I tell you , my lord fool , out of this nettle , danger , we pluck this flower , safety .
57804
57805 The purpose you undertake is dangerous ; the friends you have named uncertain ; the time itself unsorted ; and your whole plot too light for the counterpoise of so great an opposition .
57806
57807 Say you so , say you so ? I say unto you again , you are a shallow cowardly hind , and you lie . What a lack-brain is this ! By the Lord , our plot is a good plot as ever was laid ; our friends true and constant : a good plot , good friends , and full of expectation ; an excellent plot , very good friends . What a frosty-spirited rogue is this ! Why , my Lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action . 'Zounds ! an I were now by this rascal , I could brain him with his lady's fan . Is there not my father , my uncle , and myself ? Lord Edmund Mortimer , my Lord of York , and Owen Glendower ? Is there not besides the Douglas ? Have I not all their letters to meet me in arms by the ninth of the next month , and are they not some of them set forward already ? What a pagan rascal is this ! an infidel ! Ha ! you shall see now in very sincerity of fear and cold heart , will he to the king and lay open all our proceedings . O ! I could divide myself and go to buffets , for moving such a dish of skim milk with so honourable an action . Hang him ! let him tell the king ; we are prepared . I will set forward to-night .
57808
57809 How now , Kate ! I must leave you within these two hours .
57810
57811 O , my good lord ! why are you thus alone ?
57812 For what offence have I this fortnight been
57813 A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed ?
57814 Tell me , sweet lord , what is't that takes from thee
57815 Thy stomach , pleasure , and thy golden sleep ?
57816 Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth ,
57817 And start so often when thou sitt'st alone ?
57818 Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks ,
57819 And given my treasures and my rights of thee
57820 To thick-eyed musing and curst melancholy ?
57821 In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch'd ,
57822 And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars ,
57823 Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed ,
57824 Cry , 'Courage ! to the field !' And thou hast talk'd
57825 Of sallies and retires , of trenches , tents ,
57826 Of palisadoes , frontiers , parapets ,
57827 Of basilisks , of cannon , culverin ,
57828 Of prisoners' ransom , and of soldiers slain ,
57829 And all the currents of a heady fight .
57830 Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war ,
57831 And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep ,
57832 That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow ,
57833 Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream ;
57834 And in thy face strange motions have appear'd ,
57835 Such as we see when men restrain their breath
57836 On some great sudden hest . O ! what portents are these ?
57837 Some heavy business hath my lord in hand ,
57838 And I must know it , else he loves me not .
57839
57840 What , ho !
57841
57842 Is Gilliams with the packet gone ?
57843
57844 He is , my lord , an hour ago .
57845
57846 Hath Butler brought those horses from the sheriff ?
57847
57848 One horse , my lord , he brought even now .
57849
57850 What horse ? a roan , a crop-ear , is it not ?
57851
57852 It is , my lord .
57853
57854 That roan shall be my throne .
57855 Well , I will back him straight : O , Esperance !
57856 Bid Butler lead him forth into the park .
57857
57858
57859 But hear you , my lord .
57860
57861 What sayst thou , my lady ?
57862
57863 What is it carries you away ?
57864
57865 Why , my horse , my love , my horse .
57866
57867 Out , you mad-headed ape !
57868 A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen
57869 As you are toss'd with . In faith ,
57870 I'll know your business , Harry , that I will .
57871 I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir
57872 About his title , and hath sent for you
57873 To line his enterprise . But if you go
57874
57875 So far afoot , I shall be weary , love .
57876
57877 Come , come , you paraquito , answer me
57878 Directly unto this question that I ask .
57879 In faith , I'll break thy little finger , Harry ,
57880 An if thou wilt not tell me all things true .
57881
57882 Away ,
57883 Away , you trifler ! Love ! I love thee not ,
57884 I care not for thee , Kate : this is no world
57885 To play with mammets and to tilt with lips :
57886 We must have bloody noses and crack'd crowns ,
57887 And pass them current too . God's me , my horse !
57888 What sayst thou , Kate ? what wouldst thou have with me ?
57889
57890 Do you not love me ? do you not , indeed ?
57891 Well , do not , then ; for since you love me not ,
57892 I will not love myself . Do you not love me ?
57893 Nay , tell me if you speak in jest or no .
57894
57895 Come , wilt thou see me ride ?
57896 And when I am o' horseback , I will swear
57897 I love thee infinitely . But hark you , Kate ;
57898 I must not have you henceforth question me
57899 Whither I go , nor reason whereabout .
57900 Whither I must , I must ; and , to conclude ,
57901 This evening must I leave you , gentle Kate .
57902 I know you wise ; but yet no further wise
57903 Than Harry Percy's wife : constant you are ,
57904 But yet a woman : and for secrecy ,
57905 No lady closer ; for I well believe
57906 Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know ;
57907 And so far will I trust thee , gentle Kate .
57908
57909 How ! so far ?
57910
57911 Not an inch further . But , hark you , Kate ;
57912 Whither I go , thither shall you go too ;
57913 To-day will I set forth , to-morrow you .
57914 Will this content you , Kate ?
57915
57916 It must , of force .
57917
57918
57919 Ned , prithee , come out of that fat room , and lend me thy hand to laugh a little .
57920
57921 Where hast been , Hal ?
57922
57923 With three or four loggerheads amongst three or four score hogsheads . I have sounded the very base string of humility . Sirrah , I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers , and can call them all by their christen names , as Tom , Dick , and Francis . They take it already upon their salvation , that though I be but Prince of Wales , yet I am the king of courtesy ; and tell me flatly I am no proud Jack , like Falstaff , but a Corinthian , a lad of mettle , a good boy ,by the Lord , so they call me ,and when I am king of England , I shall command all the good lads in Eastcheap . They call drinking deep , dyeing scarlet ; and when you breathe in your watering , they cry 'hem !' and bid you play it off . To conclude , I am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour , that I can drink with any tinker in his own language during my life . I tell thee , Ned , thou hast lost much honour that thou wert not with me in this action . But , sweet Ned ,to sweeten which name of Ned , I give thee this pennyworth of sugar , clapped even now into my hand by an underskinker , one that never spake other English in his life than 'Eight shillings and sixpence ,' and 'You are welcome ,' with this shrill addition ,'Anon , anon , sir ! Score a pint of bastard in the Half-moon ,' or so . But , Ned , to drive away the time till Falstaff come , I prithee do thou stand in some by-room , while I question my puny drawer to what end he gave me the sugar ; and do thou never leave calling 'Francis !' that his tale to me may be nothing but 'Anon .' Step aside , and I'll show thee a precedent .
57924
57925 Francis !
57926
57927 Thou art perfect .
57928
57929 Francis !
57930
57931 Anon , anon , sir . Look down into the Pomgarnet , Ralph .
57932
57933 Come hither , Francis .
57934
57935 My lord .
57936
57937 How long hast thou to serve , Francis ?
57938
57939 Forsooth , five years , and as much as to
57940
57941 Francis !
57942
57943 Anon , anon , sir .
57944
57945 Five years ! by'r lady a long lease for the clinking of pewter . But , Francis , darest thou be so valiant as to play the coward with thy indenture and show it a fair pair of heels and run from it ?
57946
57947 O Lord , sir ! I'll be sworn upon all the books in England , I could find in my heart
57948
57949 Francis !
57950
57951 Anon , sir .
57952
57953 How old art thou , Francis ?
57954
57955 Let me see about Michaelmas next I shall be
57956
57957 Francis !
57958
57959 Anon , sir . Pray you , stay a little , my lord .
57960
57961 Nay , but hark you , Francis . For the sugar thou gavest me , 'twas a pennyworth , was't not ?
57962
57963 O Lord , sir ! I would it had been two .
57964
57965 I will give thee for it a thousand pound : ask me when thou wilt and thou shalt have it .
57966
57967 Francis !
57968
57969 Anon , anon .
57970
57971 Anon , Francis ? No , Francis ; but to-morrow , Francis ; or , Francis , o' Thursday ; or , indeed , Francis , when thou wilt . But , Francis !
57972
57973 My lord ?
57974
57975 Wilt thou rob this leathern-jerkin , crystal-button , knot-pated , agate-ring , pukestocking , caddis-garter , smooth-tongue , Spanish-pouch ,
57976
57977 O Lord , sir , who do you mean ?
57978
57979 Why then , your brown bastard is your only drink ; for , look you , Francis , your white canvas doublet will sully . In Barbary , sir , it cannot come to so much .
57980
57981 What , sir ?
57982
57983 Francis !
57984
57985 Away , you rogue ! Dost thou not hear them call ?
57986
57987 What ! standest thou still , and hearest such a calling ? Look to the guests within .
57988
57989 My lord , old Sir John , with half a dozen more , are at the door : shall I let them in ?
57990
57991 Let them alone awhile , and then open the door .
57992
57993 Poins !
57994
57995
57996 Anon , anon , sir .
57997
57998 Sirrah , Falstaff and the rest of the thieves are at the door : shall we be merry ?
57999
58000 As merry as crickets , my lad . But hark ye ; what cunning match have you made with this jest of the drawer ? come , what's the issue ?
58001
58002 I am now of all humours that have show'd themselves humours since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight .
58003
58004 What's o'clock , Francis ?
58005
58006 Anon , anon , sir .
58007
58008
58009 That ever this fellow should have fewer words than a parrot , and yet the son of a woman ! His industry is up-stairs and down-stairs ; his eloquence the parcel of a reckoning . I am not yet of Percy's mind , the Hotspur of the North ; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast , washes his hands , and says to his wife , 'Fie upon this quiet life ! I want work .' 'O my sweet Harry ,' says she , 'how many hast thou killed to-day ?' 'Give my roan horse a drench ,' says he , and answers , 'Some fourteen ,' an hour after , 'a trifle , a trifle .' I prithee call in Falstaff : I'll play Percy , and that damned brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his wife . 'Rivo !' says the drunkard . Call in ribs , call in tallow .
58010
58011
58012 Welcome , Jack : where hast thou been ?
58013
58014 A plague of all cowards , I say , and a vengeance too ! marry , and amen ! Give me a cup of sack , boy . Ere I lead this life long , I'll sew nether-stocks and mend them and foot them too . A plague of all cowards ! Give me a cup of sack , rogue .Is there no virtue extant ?
58015
58016
58017 Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of butter pitiful-hearted Titan , that melted at the sweet tale of the sun ? if thou didst then behold that compound .
58018
58019 You rogue , here's lime in this sack too : there is nothing but roguery to be found in villanous man : yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it , a villanous coward ! Go thy ways , old Jack ; die when thou wilt . If manhood , good manhood , be not forgot upon the face of the earth , then am I a shotten herring . There live not three good men unhanged in England , and one of them is fat and grows old : God help the while ! a bad world , I say . I would I were a weaver ; I could sing psalms or anything . A plague of all cowards , I say still .
58020
58021 How now , wool-sack ! what mutter you ?
58022
58023 A king's son ! If I do not beat thee out of thy kingdom with a dagger of lath , and drive all thy subjects afore thee like a flock of wild geese , I'll never wear hair on my face more . You Prince of Wales !
58024
58025 Why , you whoreson round man , what's the matter ?
58026
58027 Are you not a coward ? answer me to that ; and Poins there ?
58028
58029 'Zounds ! ye fat paunch , an ye call me coward , I'll stab thee .
58030
58031 I call thee coward ! I'll see thee damned ere I call thee coward ; but I would give a thousand pound I could run as fast as thou canst . You are straight enough in the shoulders ; you care not who sees your back : call you that backing of your friends ? A plague upon such backing ! give me them that will face me . Give me a cup of sack : I am a rogue if I drunk to-day .
58032
58033 O villain ! thy lips are scarce wiped since thou drunkest last .
58034
58035 All's one for that .
58036
58037 A plague of all cowards , still say I .
58038
58039 What's the matter ?
58040
58041 What's the matter ? there be four of us here have ta'en a thousand pound this day morning .
58042
58043 Where is it , Jack ? where is it ?
58044
58045 Where is it ! taken from us it is : a hundred upon poor four of us .
58046
58047 What , a hundred , man ?
58048
58049 I am a rogue , if I were not at half-sword with a dozen of them two hours together . I have 'scap'd by miracle . I am eight times thrust through the doublet , four through the hose ; my buckler out through and through ; my sword hacked like a hand-saw : ecce signum ! I never dealt better since I was a man : all would not do . A plague of all cowards ! Let them speak : if they speak more or less than truth , they are villains and the sons of darkness .
58050
58051 Speak , sirs ; how was it ?
58052
58053 We four set upon some dozen ,
58054
58055 Sixteen , at least , my lord .
58056
58057 And bound them .
58058
58059 No , no , they were not bound .
58060
58061 You rogue , they were bound , every man of them ; or I am a Jew else , an Ebrew Jew .
58062
58063 As we were sharing , some six or seven fresh men set upon us ,
58064
58065 And unbound the rest , and then come in the other .
58066
58067 What , fought ye with them all ?
58068
58069 All ! I know not what ye call all ; but if I fought not with fifty of them , I am a bunch of radish : if there were not two or three and fifty upon poor old Jack , then am I no two-legged creature .
58070
58071 Pray God you have not murdered some of them .
58072
58073 Nay , that's past praying for : I have peppered two of them : two I am sure I have paid , two rogues in buckram suits . I tell thee what , Hal , if I tell thee a lie , spit in my face , call me horse . Thou knowest my old ward ; here I lay , and thus I bore my point . Four rogues in buckram let drive at me ,
58074
58075 What , four ? thou saidst but two even now .
58076
58077 Four , Hal ; I told thee four .
58078
58079 Ay , ay , he said four .
58080
58081 These four came all a-front , and mainly thrust at me . I made me no more ado but took all their seven points in my target , thus .
58082
58083 Seven ? why , there were but four even now .
58084
58085 In buckram .
58086
58087 Ay , four , in buckram suits .
58088
58089 Seven , by these hilts , or I am a villain else .
58090
58091 Prithee , let him alone ; we shall have more anon .
58092
58093 Dost thou hear me , Hal ?
58094
58095 Ay , and mark thee too , Jack .
58096
58097 Do so , for it is worth the listening to .
58098 These nine in buckram that I told thee of ,
58099
58100 So , two more already .
58101
58102 Their points being broken ,
58103
58104 Down fell their hose .
58105
58106 Began to give me ground ; but I followed me close , came in foot and hand and with a thought seven of the eleven I paid .
58107
58108 O monstrous ! eleven buckram men grown out of two .
58109
58110 But , as the devil would have it , three misbegotten knaves in Kendal-green came at my back and let drive at me ; for it was so dark , Hal , that thou couldst not see thy hand .
58111
58112 These lies are like the father that begets them ; gross as a mountain , open , palpable . Why , thou clay-brained guts , thou knotty-pated fool , thou whoreson , obscene , greasy tallowketch ,
58113
58114 What , art thou mad ? art thou mad ? is not the truth the truth ?
58115
58116 Why , how couldst thou know these men in Kendal-green , when it was so dark thou couldst not see thy hand ? come , tell us your reason : what sayest thou to this ?
58117
58118 Come , your reason , Jack , your reason .
58119
58120 What , upon compulsion ? 'Zounds ! an I were at the strappado , or all the racks in the world , I would not tell you on compulsion . Give you a reason on compulsion ! If reasons were as plenty as blackberries I would give no man a reason upon compulsion , I .
58121
58122 I'll be no longer guilty of this sin : this sanguine coward , this bed-presser , this horseback-breaker , this huge hill of flesh ;
58123
58124 'Sblood , you starveling , you elf-skin , you dried neat's-tongue , you bull's pizzle , you stock-fish ! O ! for breath to utter what is like thee ; you tailor's yard , you sheath , you bow-case , you vile standing-tuck ;
58125
58126 Well , breathe awhile , and then to it again ; and when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons , hear me speak but this .
58127
58128 Mark , Jack .
58129
58130 We two saw you four set on four and you bound them , and were masters of their wealth . Mark now , how a plain tale shall put you down . Then did we two set on you four , and , with a word , out-faced you from your prize , and have it ; yea , and can show it you here in the house . And , Falstaff , you carried your guts away as nimbly , with as quick dexterity , and roared for mercy , and still ran and roared , as ever I heard bull-calf . What a slave art thou , to hack thy sword as thou hast done , and then say it was in fight ! What trick , what device , what starting-hole canst thou now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent shame ?
58131
58132 Come , let's hear , Jack ; what trick hast thou now ?
58133
58134 By the Lord , I knew ye as well as he that made ye . Why , hear you , my masters : was it for me to kill the heir-apparent ? Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why , thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules ; but beware instinct ; the lion will not touch the true prince . Instinct is a great matter , I was a coward on instinct . I shall think the better of myself and thee during my life ; I for a valiant lion , and thou for a true prince . But , by the Lord , lads , I am glad you have the money . Hostess , clap to the doors : watch to-night , pray to-morrow . Gallants , lads , boys , hearts of gold , all the titles of good fellowship come to you ! What ! shall we be merry ? shall we have a play extempore ?
58135
58136 Content ; and the argument shall be thy running away .
58137
58138 Ah ! no more of that , Hal , an thou lovest me !
58139
58140
58141 O Jesu ! my lord the prince !
58142
58143 How now , my lady the hostess ! what sayest thou to me ?
58144
58145 Marry , my lord , there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you : he says he comes from your father .
58146
58147 Give him as much as will make him a royal man , and send him back again to my mother .
58148
58149 What manner of man is he ?
58150
58151 An old man .
58152
58153 What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight ? Shall I give him his answer ?
58154
58155 Prithee , do , Jack .
58156
58157 Faith , and I'll send him packing .
58158
58159
58160 Now , sirs : by'r lady , you fought fair ; so did you , Peto ; so did you , Bardolph : you are lions too , you ran away upon instinct , you will not touch the true prince ; no , fie !
58161
58162 Faith , I ran when I saw others run .
58163
58164 Faith , tell me now in earnest , how came Falstaff's sword so hacked ?
58165
58166 Why he hacked it with his dagger , and said he would swear truth out of England but he would make you believe it was done in fight , and persuaded us to do the like .
58167
58168 Yea , and to tickle our noses with spear-grass to make them bleed , and then to beslubber our garments with it and swear it was the blood of true men . I did that I did not this seven year before ; I blushed to hear his monstrous devices .
58169
58170 O villain ! thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years ago , and wert taken with the manner , and ever since thou hast blushed extempore . Thou hadst fire and sword on thy side , and yet thou rannest away . What instinct hadst thou for it ?
58171
58172 My lord , do you see these meteors ? do you behold these exhalations ?
58173
58174 I do .
58175
58176 What think you they portend ?
58177
58178 Hot livers and cold purses .
58179
58180 Choler , my lord , if rightly taken .
58181
58182 No , if rightly taken , halter .
58183
58184 Here comes lean Jack , here comes bare-bone .How now , my sweet creature of bombast ! How long is't ago , Jack , since thou sawest thine own knee ?
58185
58186 My own knee ! when I was about thy years , Hal , I was not an eagle's talon in the waist ; I could have crept into any alderman's thumb-ring . A plague of sighing and grief ! it blows a man up like a bladder . There's villanous news abroad : here was Sir John Bracy from your father : you must to the court in the morning . That same mad fellow of the north , Percy , and he of Wales , that gave Amaimon the bastinado and made Lucifer cuckold , and swore the devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh hook what a plague call you him ?
58187
58188 Owen Glendower .
58189
58190 Owen , Owen , the same ; and his son-in-law Mortimer and old Northumberland ; and that sprightly Scot of Scots , Douglas , that runs o' horseback up a hill perpendicular .
58191
58192 He that rides at high speed and with his pistol kills a sparrow flying .
58193
58194 You have hit it .
58195
58196 So did he never the sparrow .
58197
58198 Well , that rascal hath good mettle in him ; he will not run .
58199
58200 Why , what a rascal art thou then to praise him so for running !
58201
58202 O' horseback , ye cuckoo ! but , afoot he will not budge a foot .
58203
58204 Yes , Jack , upon instinct .
58205
58206 I grant ye , upon instinct . Well , he is there too , and one Mordake , and a thousand blue-caps more . Worcester is stolen away to-night ; thy father's beard is turned white with the news : you may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackerel .
58207
58208 Why then , it is like , if there come a hot June and this civil buffeting hold , we shall buy maidenheads as they buy hob-nails , by the hundreds .
58209
58210 By the mass , lad , thou sayest true ; it is like we shall have good trading that way . But tell me , Hal , art thou not horribly afeard ? thou being heir apparent , could the world pick thee out three such enemies again as that fiend Douglas , that spirit Percy , and that devil Glendower ? Art thou not horribly afraid ? doth not thy blood thrill at it ?
58211
58212 Not a whit , i' faith ; I lack some of thy instinct .
58213
58214 Well , thou wilt be horribly chid to-morrow when thou comest to thy father : if thou love me , practise an answer .
58215
58216 Do thou stand for my father , and examine me upon the particulars of my life .
58217
58218 Shall I ? content : this chair shall be my state , this dagger my sceptre , and this cushion my crown .
58219
58220 Thy state is taken for a joint-stool , thy golden sceptre for a leaden dagger , and thy precious rich crown for a pitiful bald crown !
58221
58222 Well , an the fire of grace be not quite out of thee , now shalt thou be moved . Give me a cup of sack to make mine eyes look red , that it may be thought I have wept ; for I must speak in passion , and I will do it in King Cambyses' vein .
58223
58224
58225 Well , here is my leg .
58226
58227
58228 And here is my speech . Stand aside , nobility .
58229
58230 O Jesu ! This is excellent sport , i' faith !
58231
58232 Weep not , sweet queen , for trickling tears are vain .
58233
58234 O , the father ! how he holds his countenance .
58235
58236 For God's sake , lords , convey my tristful queen ,
58237 For tears do stop the flood-gates of her eyes .
58238
58239 O Jesu ! he doth it as like one of these harlotry players as ever I see !
58240
58241 Peace , good pint-pot ! peace , good tickle-brain ! Harry , I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time , but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile , the more it is trodden on the faster it grows , yet youth , the more it is wasted the sooner it wears . That thou art my son , I have partly thy mother's word , partly my own opinion ; but chiefly , a villanous trick of thine eye and a foolish hanging of thy nether lip , that doth warrant me . If then thou be son to me , here lies the point ; why , being son to me , art thou so pointed at ? Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries ? a question not to be asked . Shall the son of England prove a thief and take purses ? a question to be asked . There is a thing , Harry , which thou hast often heard of , and it is known to many in our land by the name of pitch : this pitch , as ancient writers do report , doth defile ; so doth the company thou keepest ; for , Harry , now I do not speak to thee in drink , but in tears , not in pleasure but in passion , not in words only , but in woes also . And yet there is a virtuous man whom I have often noted in thy company , but I know not his name .
58242
58243 What manner of man , an it like your majesty ?
58244
58245 A goodly portly man , i' faith , and a corpulent ; of a cheerful look , a pleasing eye , and a most noble carriage ; and , as I think , his age some fifty , or by'r lady , inclining to threescore ; and now I remember me , his name is Falstaff : if that man should be lewdly given , he deceiveth me ; for , Harry , I see virtue in his looks . If then the tree may be known by the fruit , as the fruit by the tree , then , peremptorily I speak it , there is virtue in that Falstaff : him keep with , the rest banish . And tell me now , thou naughty varlet , tell me , where hast thou been this month ?
58246
58247 Dost thou speak like a king ? Do thou stand for me , and I'll play my father .
58248
58249 Depose me ? if thou dost it half so gravely , so majestically , both in word and matter , hang me up by the heels for a rabbit-sucker or a poulter's hare .
58250
58251 Well , here I am set .
58252
58253 And here I stand . Judge , my masters .
58254
58255 Now , Harry ! whence come you ?
58256
58257 My noble lord , from Eastcheap .
58258
58259 The complaints I hear of thee are grievous .
58260
58261 'Sblood , my lord , they are false : nay ,
58262 I'll tickle ye for a young prince , i' faith .
58263
58264 Swearest thou , ungracious boy ? henceforth ne'er look on me . Thou art violently carried away from grace : there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of a fat old man ; a tun of man is thy companion . Why dost thou converse with that trunk of humours , that bolting-hutch of beastliness , that swoln parcel of dropsies , that huge bombard of sack , that stuffed cloak-bag of guts , that roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly , that reverend vice , that grey iniquity , that father ruffian , that vanity in years ? Wherein is he good but to taste sack and drink it ? wherein neat and cleanly but to carve a capon and eat it ? wherein cunning but in craft ? wherein crafty but in villany ? wherein villanous but in all things ? wherein worthy but in nothing ?
58265
58266 I would your Grace would take me with you : whom means your Grace ?
58267
58268 That villanous abominable misleader of youth , Falstaff , that old white-bearded Satan .
58269
58270 My lord , the man I know .
58271
58272 I know thou dost .
58273
58274 But to say I know more harm in him than in myself were to say more than I know . That he is old , the more the pity , his white hairs do witness it ; but that he is , saving your reverence , a whoremaster , that I utterly deny . If sack and sugar be a fault , God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin , then many an old host that I know is damned : if to be fat be to be hated , then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved . No , my good lord ; banish Peto , banish Bardolph , banish Poins ; but for sweet Jack Falstaff , kind Jack Falstaff , true Jack Falstaff , valiant Jack Falstaff , and therefore more valiant , being , as he is , old Jack Falstaff , banish not him thy Harry's company : banish not him thy Harry's company : banish plump Jack , and banish all the world .
58275
58276 I do , I will .
58277
58278
58279 O ! my lord , my lord , the sheriff with a most monstrous watch is at the door .
58280
58281 Out , ye rogue ! Play out the play : I have much to say in the behalf of that Falstaff .
58282
58283
58284 O Jesu ! my lord , my lord !
58285
58286 Heigh , heigh ! the devil rides upon a fiddle-stick : what's the matter ?
58287
58288 The sheriff and all the watch are at the door : they are come to search the house . Shall I let them in ?
58289
58290 Dost thou hear , Hal ? never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit : thou art essentially mad without seeming so .
58291
58292 And thou a natural coward without instinct .
58293
58294 I deny your major . If you will deny the sheriff , so ; if not , let him enter : if I become not a cart as well as another man , a plague on my bringing up ! I hope I shall as soon be strangled with a halter as another .
58295
58296 Go , hide thee behind the arras : the rest walk up above . Now , my masters , for a true face and good conscience .
58297
58298 Both which I have had ; but their date is out , and therefore I'll hide me .
58299
58300
58301 Call in the sheriff .
58302
58303 Now , master sheriff , what's your will with me ?
58304
58305 First , pardon me , my lord . A hue and cry
58306 Hath follow'd certain men unto this house .
58307
58308 What men ?
58309
58310 One of them is well known , my gracious lord ,
58311 A gross fat man .
58312
58313 As fat as butter .
58314
58315 The man , I do assure you , is not here ,
58316 For I myself at this time have employ'd him .
58317 And , sheriff , I will engage my word to thee ,
58318 That I will , by to-morrow dinner-time ,
58319 Send him to answer thee , or any man ,
58320 For anything he shall be charg'd withal :
58321 And so let me entreat you leave the house .
58322
58323 I will , my lord . There are two gentlemen
58324 Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks .
58325
58326 It may be so : if he have robb'd these men ,
58327 He shall be answerable ; and so farewell .
58328
58329 Good night , my noble lord .
58330
58331 I think it is good morrow , is it not ?
58332
58333 Indeed , my lord , I think it be two o'clock .
58334
58335
58336 This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's .
58337 Go , call him forth .
58338
58339 Falstaff ! fast asleep behind the arras , and snorting like a horse .
58340
58341 Hark , how hard he fetches breath .
58342 Search his pockets .
58343
58344 What hast thou found ?
58345
58346 Nothing but papers , my lord .
58347
58348 Let's see what they be : read them .
58349
58350
58351 O monstrous ! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack ! What there is else , keep close ; we'll read it at more advantage . There let him sleep till day . I'll to the court in the morning . We must all to the wars , and thy place shall be honourable . I'll procure this fat rogue a charge of foot ; and , I know , his death will be a march of twelve-score . The money shall be paid back again with advantage . Be with me betimes in the morning ; and so good morrow , Peto .
58352
58353 Good morrow , good my lord .
58354
58355 These promises are fair , the parties sure ,
58356 And our induction full of prosperous hope .
58357
58358 Lord Mortimer , and cousin Glendower ,
58359 Will you sit down ?
58360 And uncle Worcester : a plague upon it !
58361 I have forgot the map .
58362
58363 No , here it is .
58364 Sit , cousin Percy ; sit , good cousin Hotspur ;
58365 For by that name as oft as Lancaster
58366 Doth speak of you , his cheek looks pale and with
58367 A rising sigh he wishes you in heaven .
58368
58369 And you in hell , as often as he hears
58370 Owen Glendower spoke of .
58371
58372 I cannot blame him : at my nativity
58373 The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes ,
58374 Of burning cressets ; and at my birth
58375 The frame and huge foundation of the earth
58376 Shak'd like a coward .
58377
58378 Why , so it would have done at the same season , if your mother's cat had but kittened , though yourself had never been born .
58379
58380 I say the earth did shake when I was born .
58381
58382 And I say the earth was not of my mind ,
58383 If you suppose as fearing you it shook .
58384
58385 The heavens were all on fire , the earth did tremble .
58386
58387 O ! then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire ,
58388 And not in fear of your nativity .
58389 Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
58390 In strange eruptions ; oft the teeming earth
58391 Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd
58392 By the imprisoning of unruly wind
58393 Within her womb ; which , for enlargement striving ,
58394 Shakes the old beldam earth , and topples down
58395 Steeples and moss-grown towers . At your birth
58396 Our grandam earth , having this distemperature ,
58397 In passion shook .
58398
58399 Cousin , of many men
58400 I do not bear these crossings . Give me leave
58401 To tell you once again that at my birth
58402 The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes ,
58403 The goats ran from the mountains , and the herds
58404 Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields .
58405 These signs have mark'd me extraordinary ;
58406 And all the courses of my life do show
58407 I am not in the roll of common men .
58408 Where is he living , clipp'd in with the sea
58409 That chides the banks of England , Scotland , Wales ,
58410 Which calls me pupil , or hath read to me ?
58411 And bring him out that is but woman's son
58412 Can trace me in the tedious ways of art
58413 And hold me pace in deep experiments .
58414
58415 I think there's no man speaks better Welsh .
58416 I'll to dinner .
58417
58418 Peace , cousin Percy ! you will make him mad .
58419
58420 I can call spirits from the vasty deep .
58421
58422 Why , so can I , or so can any man ;
58423 But will they come when you do call for them ?
58424
58425 Why , I can teach thee , cousin , to command
58426 The devil .
58427
58428 And I can teach thee , coz , to shame the devil
58429 By telling truth : tell truth and shame the devil .
58430 If thou have power to raise him , bring him hither ,
58431 And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence .
58432 O ! while you live , tell truth and shame the devil !
58433
58434 Come , come ;
58435 No more of this unprofitable chat .
58436
58437 Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head
58438 Against my power ; thrice from the banks of Wye
58439 And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him
58440 Bootless home and weather-beaten back .
58441
58442 Home without boots , and in foul weather too !
58443 How 'scapes he agues , in the devil's name ?
58444
58445 Come , here's the map : shall we divide our right
58446 According to our threefold order ta'en ?
58447
58448 The archdeacon hath divided it
58449 Into three limits very equally .
58450 England , from Trent and Severn hitherto ,
58451 By south and east , is to my part assign'd :
58452 All westward , Wales beyond the Severn shore ,
58453 And all the fertile land within that bound ,
58454 To Owen Glendower : and , dear coz , to you
58455 The remnant northward , lying off from Trent .
58456 And our indentures tripartite are drawn ,
58457 Which being sealed interchangeably ,
58458 A business that this night may execute ,
58459 To-morrow , cousin Percy , you and I
58460 And my good Lord of Worcester will set forth
58461 To meet your father and the Scottish power ,
58462 As is appointed us , at Shrewsbury .
58463 My father Glendower is not ready yet ,
58464 Nor shall we need his help these fourteen days .
58465
58466
58467 Within that space you may have drawn together
58468 Your tenants , friends , and neighbouring gentlemen .
58469
58470 A shorter time shall send me to you , lords ;
58471 And in my conduct shall your ladies come ,
58472 From whom you now must steal and take no leave ;
58473 For there will be a world of water shed
58474 Upon the parting of your wives and you .
58475
58476 Methinks my moiety , north from Burton here ,
58477 In quantity equals not one of yours :
58478 See how this river comes me cranking in ,
58479 And cuts me from the best of all my land
58480 A huge half-moon , a monstrous cantle out .
58481 I'll have the current in this place damm'd up ,
58482 And here the smug and silver Trent shall run
58483 In a new channel , fair and evenly :
58484 It shall not wind with such a deep indent ,
58485 To rob me of so rich a bottom here .
58486
58487 Not wind ! it shall , it must ; you see it doth .
58488
58489 Yea , but
58490 Mark how he bears his course , and runs me up
58491 With like advantage on the other side ;
58492 Gelding the opposed continent as much ,
58493 As on the other side it takes from you .
58494
58495 Yea , but a little charge will trench him here ,
58496 And on this north side win this cape of land ;
58497 And then he runs straight and even .
58498
58499 I'll have it so ; a little charge will do it .
58500
58501 I will not have it alter'd .
58502
58503 Will not you ?
58504
58505 No , nor you shall not .
58506
58507 Who shall say me nay ?
58508
58509 Why , that will I .
58510
58511 Let me not understand you then :
58512 Speak it in Welsh .
58513
58514 I can speak English , lord , as well as you ,
58515 For I was train'd up in the English court ;
58516 Where , being but young , I framed to the harp
58517 Many an English ditty lovely well ,
58518 And gave the tongue an helpful ornament ;
58519 A virtue that was never seen in you .
58520
58521 Marry , and I'm glad of it with all my heart .
58522 I had rather be a kitten , and cry mew
58523 Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ;
58524 I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd ,
58525 Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ;
58526 And that would set my teeth nothing on edge ,
58527 Nothing so much as mincing poetry :
58528 'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag .
58529
58530 Come , you shall have Trent turn'd .
58531
58532 I do not care : I'll give thrice so much land
58533 To any well-deserving friend ;
58534 But in the way of bargain , mark you me ,
58535 I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair .
58536 Are the indentures drawn ? shall we be gone ?
58537
58538 The moon shines fair , you may away by night :
58539 I'll haste the writer and withal
58540 Break with your wives of your departure hence :
58541 I am afraid my daughter will run mad ,
58542 So much she doteth on her Mortimer .
58543
58544
58545 Fie , cousin Percy ! how you cross my father !
58546
58547 I cannot choose : sometimes he angers me
58548 With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant ,
58549 Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies ,
58550 And of a dragon , and a finless fish ,
58551 A clip-wing'd griffin , and a moulten raven ,
58552 A couching lion , and a ramping cat ,
58553 And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff
58554 As puts me from my faith . I'll tell thee what ;
58555 He held me last night at least nine hours
58556 In reckoning up the several devils' names
58557 That were his lackeys : I cried 'hum !' and 'well , go to .'
58558 But mark'd him not a word . O ! he's as tedious
58559 As a tired horse , a railing wife ;
58560 Worse than a smoky house . I had rather live
58561 With cheese and garlick in a windmill , far ,
58562 Than feed on cates and have him talk to me
58563 In any summer-house in Christendom .
58564
58565 In faith , he is a worthy gentleman ,
58566 Exceedingly well read , and profited
58567 In strange concealments , valiant as a lion
58568 And wondrous affable , and as bountiful
58569 As mines of India . Shall I tell you , cousin ?
58570 He holds your temper in a high respect ,
58571 And curbs himself even of his natural scope
58572 When you do cross his humour ; faith , he does .
58573 I warrant you , that man is not alive
58574 Might so have tempted him as you have done ,
58575 Without the taste of danger and reproof :
58576 But do not use it oft , let me entreat you .
58577
58578 In faith , my lord , you are too wilfulblame ;
58579 And since your coming hither have done enough
58580 To put him quite beside his patience .
58581 You must needs learn , lord , to amend this fault :
58582 Though sometimes it show greatness , courage , blood ,
58583 And that's the dearest grace it renders you ,
58584 Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage ,
58585 Defect of manners , want of government ,
58586 Pride , haughtiness , opinion , and disdain :
58587 The least of which haunting a nobleman
58588 Loseth men's hearts and leaves behind a stain
58589 Upon the beauty of all parts besides ,
58590 Beguiling them of commendation .
58591
58592 Well , I am school'd ; good manners be your speed !
58593 Here come our wives , and let us take our leave .
58594
58595
58596 This is the deadly spite that angers me ,
58597 My wife can speak no English , I no Welsh .
58598
58599 My daughter weeps ; she will not part with you :
58600 She'll be a soldier too : she'll to the wars .
58601
58602 Good father , tell her that she and my aunt Percy ,
58603 Shall follow in your conduct speedily .
58604
58605
58606 She's desperate here ; a peevish self-will'd harlotry , one that no persuasion can do good upon .
58607
58608
58609 I understand thy looks : that pretty Welsh
58610 Which thou pour'st down from these swelling heavens
58611 I am too perfect in ; and , but for shame ,
58612 In such a parley would I answer thee .
58613
58614 I understand thy kisses and thou mine ,
58615 And that's a feeling disputation :
58616 But I will never be a truant , love ,
58617 Till I have learn'd thy language ; for thy tongue
58618 Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd ,
58619 Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower ,
58620 With ravishing division , to her lute .
58621
58622 Nay , if you melt , then will she run mad .
58623
58624
58625 O ! I am ignorance itself in this .
58626
58627 She bids you
58628 Upon the wanton rushes lay you down
58629 And rest your gentle head upon her lap ,
58630 And she will sing the song that pleaseth you ,
58631 And on your eye-lids crown the god of sleep ,
58632 Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness ,
58633 Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep
58634 As is the difference between day and night
58635 The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team
58636 Begins his golden progress in the east .
58637
58638 With all my heart I'll sit and hear her sing :
58639 By that time will our book , I think , be drawn .
58640
58641 Do so ;
58642 And those musicians that shall play to you
58643 Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence ,
58644 And straight they shall be here : sit , and attend .
58645
58646 Come , Kate , thou art perfect in lying down : come , quick , quick , that I may lay my head in thy lap .
58647
58648 Go , ye giddy goose .
58649
58650
58651 Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh ;
58652 And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous .
58653 By'r lady , he's a good musician .
58654
58655 Then should you be nothing but musical for you are altogether governed by humours . Lie still , ye thief , and hear the lady sing in Welsh .
58656
58657 I had rather hear Lady , my brach , how ! in Irish .
58658
58659 Wouldst thou have thy head broken ?
58660
58661 No .
58662
58663 Then be still .
58664
58665 Neither ; 'tis a woman's fault .
58666
58667 Now , God help thee !
58668
58669 To the Welsh lady's bed .
58670
58671 What's that ?
58672
58673 Peace ! she sings .
58674
58675
58676 Come , Kate , I'll have your song too .
58677
58678 Not mine , in good sooth .
58679
58680 Not yours , 'in good sooth !' Heart ! you swear like a comfit-maker's wife ! Not you , 'in good sooth ;' and , 'as true as I live ;' and , 'as God shall mend me ;' and , 'as sure as day :'
58681 And giv'st such sarcenet surety for thy oaths ,
58682 As if thou never walk'dst further than Finsbury .
58683 Swear me , Kate , like a lady as thou art ,
58684 A good mouth-filling oath ; and leave 'in sooth ,'
58685 And such protest of pepper-gingerbread ,
58686 To velvet-guards and Sunday-citizens .
58687 Come , sing .
58688
58689 I will not sing .
58690
58691 'Tis the next way to turn tailor or be red-breast teacher . An the indentures be drawn , I'll away within these two hours ; and so , come in when ye will .
58692
58693
58694 Come , come , Lord Mortimer ; you are as slow
58695 As hot Lord Percy is on fire to go .
58696 By this our book is drawn ; we will but seal ,
58697 And then to horse immediately .
58698
58699 With all my heart .
58700
58701
58702 Lords , give us leave ; the Prince of Wales and I
58703 Must have some private conference : but be near at hand ,
58704 For we shall presently have need of you .
58705
58706 I know not whether God will have it so ,
58707 For some displeasing service I have done ,
58708 That , in his secret doom , out of my blood
58709 He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me ;
58710 But thou dost in thy passages of life
58711 Make me believe that thou art only mark'd
58712 For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven
58713 To punish my mistreadings . Tell me else ,
58714 Could such inordinate and low desires ,
58715 Such poor , such bare , such lewd , such mean attempts ,
58716 Such barren pleasures , rude society ,
58717 As thou art match'd withal and grafted to ,
58718 Accompany the greatness of thy blood
58719 And hold their level with thy princely heart ?
58720
58721 So please your majesty , I would I could
58722 Quit all offences with as clear excuse
58723 As well as I am doubtless I can purge
58724 Myself of many I am charg'd withal :
58725 Yet such extenuation let me beg ,
58726 As , in reproof of many tales devis'd ,
58727 Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear ,
58728 By smiling pick-thanks and base newsmongers ,
58729 I may , for some things true , wherein my youth
58730 Hath faulty wander'd and irregular ,
58731 Find pardon on my true submission .
58732
58733 God pardon thee ! yet let me wonder , Harry ,
58734 At thy affections , which do hold a wing
58735 Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors .
58736 Thy place in council thou hast rudely lost ,
58737 Which by thy younger brother is supplied ,
58738 And art almost an alien to the hearts
58739 Of all the court and princes of my blood .
58740 The hope and expectation of thy time
58741 Is ruin'd , and the soul of every man
58742 Prophetically do forethink thy fall .
58743 Had I so lavish of my presence been ,
58744 So common-hackney'd in the eyes of men ,
58745 So stale and cheap to vulgar company ,
58746 Opinion , that did help me to the crown ,
58747 Had still kept loyal to possession
58748 And left me in reputeless banishment ,
58749 A fellow of no mark nor likelihood .
58750 By being seldom seen , I could not stir ,
58751 But like a comet I was wonder'd at ;
58752 That men would tell their children , 'This is he ;'
58753 Others would say , 'Where ? which is Bolingbroke ?'
58754 And then I stole all courtesy from heaven ,
58755 And dress'd myself in such humility
58756 That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts ,
58757 Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths ,
58758 Even in the presence of the crowned king .
58759 Thus did I keep my person fresh and new ;
58760 My presence , like a robe pontifical ,
58761 Ne'er seen but wonder'd at : and so my state ,
58762 Seldom but sumptuous , showed like a feast ,
58763 And won by rareness such solemnity .
58764 The skipping king , he ambled up and down
58765 With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits ,
58766 Soon kindled and soon burnt ; carded his state ,
58767 Mingled his royalty with capering fools ,
58768 Had his great name profaned with their scorns ,
58769 And gave his countenance , against his name ,
58770 To laugh at gibing boys and stand the push
58771 Of every beardless vain comparative ;
58772 Grew a companion to the common streets ,
58773 Enfeoff'd himself to popularity ;
58774 That , being daily swallow'd by men's eyes ,
58775 They surfeited with honey and began
58776 To loathe the taste of sweetness , whereof a little
58777 More than a little is by much too much .
58778 So , when he had occasion to be seen ,
58779 He was but as the cuckoo is in June ,
58780 Heard , not regarded ; seen , but with such eyes
58781 As , sick and blunted with community ,
58782 Afford no extraordinary gaze ,
58783 Such as is bent on sun-like majesty
58784 When it shines seldom in admiring eyes ;
58785 But rather drows'd and hung their eyelids down ,
58786 Slept in his face , and render'd such aspect
58787 As cloudy men use to their adversaries ,
58788 Being with his presence glutted , gorg'd , and full .
58789 And in that very line , Harry , stand'st thou ;
58790 For thou hast lost thy princely privilege
58791 With vile participation : not an eye
58792 But is aweary of thy common sight ,
58793 Save mine , which hath desir'd to see thee more ;
58794 Which now doth that I would not have it do ,
58795 Make blind itself with foolish tenderness .
58796
58797 I shall hereafter , my thrice gracious lord ,
58798 Be more myself .
58799
58800 For all the world ,
58801 As thou art to this hour was Richard then
58802 When I from France set foot at Ravenspurgh ;
58803 And even as I was then is Percy now .
58804 Now , by my sceptre and my soul to boot ,
58805 He hath more worthy interest to the state
58806 Than thou the shadow of succession ;
58807 For of no right , nor colour like to right ,
58808 He doth fill fields with harness in the realm ,
58809 Turns head against the lion's armed jaws ,
58810 And , being no more in debt to years than thou ,
58811 Leads ancient lords and reverend bishops on
58812 To bloody battles and to bruising arms .
58813 What never-dying honour hath he got
58814 Against renowned Douglas ! whose high deeds ,
58815 Whose hot incursions and great name in arms ,
58816 Holds from all soldiers chief majority ,
58817 And military title capital ,
58818 Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ .
58819 Thrice hath this Hotspur , Mars in swathling clothes ,
58820 This infant warrior , in his enterprises
58821 Discomfited great Douglas ; ta'en him once ,
58822 Enlarged him and made a friend of him ,
58823 To fill the mouth of deep defiance up
58824 And shake the peace and safety of our throne .
58825 And what say you to this ? Percy , Northumberland ,
58826 The Archbishop's Grace of York , Douglas , Mortimer ,
58827 Capitulate against us and are up .
58828 But wherefore do I tell these news to thee ?
58829 Why , Harry , do I tell thee of my foes ,
58830 Which art my near'st and dearest enemy ?
58831 Thou that art like enough , through vassal fear ,
58832 Base inclination , and the start of spleen ,
58833 To fight against me under Percy's pay ,
58834 To dog his heels , and curtsy at his frowns ,
58835 To show how much thou art degenerate .
58836
58837 Do not think so ; you shall not find it so :
58838 And God forgive them , that so much have sway'd
58839 Your majesty's good thoughts away from me !
58840 I will redeem all this on Percy's head ,
58841 And in the closing of some glorious day
58842 Be bold to tell you that I am your son ;
58843 When I will wear a garment all of blood
58844 And stain my favours in a bloody mask ,
58845 Which , wash'd away , shall scour my shame with it :
58846 And that shall be the day , whene'er it lights ,
58847 That this same child of honour and renown ,
58848 This gallant Hotspur , this all-praised knight ,
58849 And your unthought of Harry chance to meet .
58850 For every honour sitting on his helm ,
58851 Would they were multitudes , and on my head
58852 My shames redoubled !for the time will come
58853 That I shall make this northern youth exchange
58854 His glorious deeds for my indignities .
58855 Percy is but my factor , good my lord ,
58856 To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf ;
58857 And I will call him to so strict account
58858 That he shall render every glory up ,
58859 Yea , even the slightest worship of his time ,
58860 Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart .
58861 This , in the name of God , I promise here :
58862 The which , if he be pleas'd I shall perform ,
58863 I do beseech your majesty may salve
58864 The long-grown wounds of my intemperance :
58865 If not , the end of life cancels all bands ,
58866 And I will die a hundred thousand deaths
58867 Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow .
58868
58869 A hundred thousand rebels die in this :
58870 Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein .
58871
58872 How now , good Blunt ! thy looks are full of speed .
58873
58874 So hath the business that I come to speak of .
58875 Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word
58876 That Douglas and the English rebels met ,
58877 The eleventh of this month at Shrewsbury .
58878 A mighty and a fearful head they are ,
58879 If promises be kept on every hand ,
58880 As ever offer'd foul play in a state .
58881
58882 The Earl of Westmoreland set forth to-day ,
58883 With him my son , Lord John of Lancaster ;
58884 For this advertisement is five days old .
58885 On Wednesday next , Harry , you shall set forward ;
58886 On Thursday we ourselves will march : our meeting
58887 Is Bridgenorth ; and Harry , you shall march
58888 Through Gloucestershire ; by which account ,
58889 Our business valued , some twelve days hence
58890 Our general forces at Bridgenorth shall meet .
58891 Our hands are full of business : let's away ;
58892 Advantage feeds him fat while men delay .
58893
58894
58895 Bardolph , am I not fallen away vilely since this last action ? do I not bate ? do I not dwindle ? Why , my skin hangs about me like an old lady's loose gown ; I am withered like an old apple-john . Well , I'll repent , and that suddenly , while I am in some liking ; I shall be out of heart shortly , and then I shall have no strength to repent . An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of , I am a peppercorn , a brewer's horse : the inside of a church ! Company , villanous company , hath been the spoil of me .
58896
58897 Sir John , you are so fretful , you cannot live long .
58898
58899 Why , there is it : come , sing me a bawdy song ; make me merry . I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be ; virtuous enough : swore little ; diced not above seven times a week ; went to a bawdy-house not above once in a quarter of an hour ; paid money that I borrowed three or four times ; lived well and in good compass ; and now I live out of all order , out of all compass .
58900
58901 Why , you are so fat , Sir John , that you must needs be out of all compass , out of all reasonable compass , Sir John .
58902
58903 Do thou amend thy face , and I'll amend my life : thou art our admiral , thou bearest the lanthorn in the poop , but 'tis in the nose of thee : thou art the Knight of the Burning Lamp .
58904
58905 Why , Sir John , my face does you no harm .
58906
58907 No , I'll be sworn ; I make as good use of it as many a man doth of a Death's head , or a memento mori : I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire and Dives that lived in purple ; for there he is in his robes , burning , burning . If thou wert any way given to virtue , I would swear by thy face ; my oath should be , 'By this fire , that's God's angel :' but thou art altogether given over , and wert indeed , but for the light in thy face , the son of utter darkness . When thou rannest up Gadshill in the night to catch my horse , if I did not think thou hadst been an igius fatuus or a ball of wildfire , there's no purchase in money . O ! thou art a perpetual triumph , an everlasting bonfire-light . Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and torches , walking with thee in the night betwixt tavern and tavern : but the sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe . I have maintained that salamander of yours with fire any time this two-and-thirty years ; God reward me for it !
58908
58909 'Sblood , I would my face were in your belly .
58910
58911 God-a-mercy ! so should I be sure to be heart-burned .
58912
58913 How now , Dame Partlet the hen ! have you inquired yet who picked my pocket ?
58914
58915 Why , Sir John , what do you think , Sir John ? Do you think I keep thieves in my house ? I have searched , I have inquired , so has my husband , man by man , boy by boy , servant by servant : the tithe of a hair was never lost in my house before .
58916
58917 You lie , hostess : Bardolph was shaved and lost many a hair ; and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked . Go to , you are a woman ; go .
58918
58919 Who , I ? No ; I defy thee : God's light !
58920 I was never called so in my own house before .
58921
58922 Go to , I know you well enough .
58923
58924 No , Sir John ; you do not know me , Sir John : I know you , Sir John : you owe me money , Sir John , and now you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it : I bought you a dozen of shirts to your back .
58925
58926 Dowlas , filthy dowlas : I have given them away to bakers' wives , and they have made bolters of them .
58927
58928 Now , as I am true woman , holland of eight shillings an ell . You owe money here besides , Sir John , for your diet and by-drinkings , and money lent you , four-and-twenty pound .
58929
58930 He had his part of it ; let him pay .
58931
58932 He ! alas ! he is poor ; he hath nothing .
58933
58934 How ! poor ? look upon his face ; what call you rich ? let them coin his nose , let them coin his cheeks . I'll not pay a denier . What ! will you make a younker of me ? shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked ? I have lost a seal-ring of my grandfather's worth forty mark .
58935
58936 O Jesu ! I have heard the prince tell him , I know not how oft , that that ring was copper .
58937
58938 How ! the prince is a Jack , a sneak-cup ; 'sblood ! an he were here , I would cudgel him like a dog , if he would say so .
58939
58940
58941 How now , lad ! is the wind in that door , i' faith ? must we all march ?
58942
58943 Yea , two and two , Newgate fashion .
58944
58945 My lord , I pray you , hear me .
58946
58947 What sayest thou , Mistress Quickly ?
58948 How does thy husband ? I love him well , he is an honest man .
58949
58950 Good my lord , hear me .
58951
58952 Prithee , let her alone , and list to me .
58953
58954 What sayest thou , Jack ?
58955
58956 The other night I fell asleep here behind the arras and had my pocket picked : this house is turned bawdy-house ; they pick pockets .
58957
58958 What didst thou lose , Jack ?
58959
58960 Wilt thou believe me , Hal ? three or four bonds of forty pound a-piece , and a seal-ring of my grandfather's .
58961
58962 A trifle ; some eight-penny matter .
58963
58964 So I told him , my lord ; and I said I heard your Grace say so : and , my lord , he speaks most vilely of you , like a foul-mouthed man as he is , and said he would cudgel you .
58965
58966 What ! he did not ?
58967
58968 There's neither faith , truth , nor womanhood in me else .
58969
58970 There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune ; nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn fox ; and for womanhood , Maid Marian may be the deputy's wife of the ward to thee . Go , you thing , go .
58971
58972 Say , what thing ? what thing ?
58973
58974 What thing ! why , a thing to thank God on .
58975
58976 I am no thing to thank God on , I would thou shouldst know it ; I am an honest man's wife ; and , setting thy knighthood aside , thou art a knave to call me so .
58977
58978 Setting thy womanhood aside , thou art a beast to say otherwise .
58979
58980 Say , what beast , thou knave thou ?
58981
58982 What beast ! why , an otter .
58983
58984 An otter , Sir John ! why , an otter ?
58985
58986 Why ? she's neither fish nor flesh ; a man knows not where to have her .
58987
58988 Thou art an unjust man in saying so : thou or any man knows where to have me , thou knave thou !
58989
58990 Thou sayest true , hostess ; and he slanders thee most grossly .
58991
58992 So he doth you , my lord ; and said this other day you ought him a thousand pound .
58993
58994 Sirrah ! do I owe you a thousand pound ?
58995
58996 A thousand pound , Hal ! a million : thy love is worth a million ; thou owest me thy love .
58997
58998 Nay , my lord , he called you Jack , and said he would cudgel you .
58999
59000 Did I , Bardolph ?
59001
59002 Indeed , Sir John , you said so .
59003
59004 Yea ; if he said my ring was copper .
59005
59006 I say 'tis copper : darest thou be as good as thy word now ?
59007
59008 Why , Hal , thou knowest , as thou art but man , I dare ; but as thou art prince , I fear thee as I fear the roaring of the lion s whelp .
59009
59010 And why not as the lion ?
59011
59012 The king himself is to be feared as the lion : dost thou think I'll fear thee as I fear thy father ? nay , an I do , I pray God my girdle break !
59013
59014 O ! if it should , how would thy guts fall about thy knees . But , sirrah , there's no room for faith , truth , or honesty in this bosom of thine ; it is all filled up with guts and midriff . Charge an honest woman with picking thy pocket ! Why , thou whoreson , impudent , embossed rascal , if there were any thing in thy pocket but tavern reckonings , memorandums of bawdy-houses , and one poor pennyworth of sugar-candy to make thee long-winded ; if thy pocket were enriched with any other injuries but these , I am a villain . And yet you will stand to it , you will not pocket up wrong . Art thou not ashamed ?
59015
59016 Dost thou hear , Hal ? thou knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell ; and what should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days of villany ? Thou seest I have more flesh than another man , and therefore more frailty . You confess then , you picked my pocket ?
59017
59018 It appears so by the story .
59019
59020 Hostess , I forgive thee . Go make ready breakfast ; love thy husband , look to thy servants , cherish thy guests : thou shalt find me tractable to any honest reason : thou seest I am pacified . Still ! Nay prithee , be gone .
59021
59022 Now , Hal , to the news at court : for the robbery , lad , how is that answered ?
59023
59024 O ! my sweet beef , I must still be good angel to thee : the money is paid back again .
59025
59026 O ! I do not like that paying back ; 'tis a double labour .
59027
59028 I am good friends with my father and may do anything .
59029
59030 Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou dost , and do it with unwashed hands too .
59031
59032 Do , my lord .
59033
59034 I have procured thee , Jack , a charge of foot .
59035
59036 I would it had been of horse . Where shall I find one that can steal well ? O ! for a fine thief , of the age of two-and-twenty , or thereabouts ; I am heinously unprovided . Well , God be thanked for these rebels ; they offend none but the virtuous : I laud them , I praise them .
59037
59038 Bardolph !
59039
59040 My lord ?
59041
59042 Go bear this letter to Lord John of Lancaster ,
59043 To my brother John ; this to my Lord of Westmoreland .
59044 Go , Poins , to horse , to horse ! for thou and I
59045 Have thirty miles to ride ere dinner-time .
59046 Jack , meet me to-morrow in the Temple-hall
59047 At two o'clock in the afternoon :
59048 There shalt thou know thy charge , and there receive
59049 Money and order for their furniture .
59050 The land is burning ; Percy stands on high ;
59051 And either we or they must lower lie .
59052
59053
59054 Rare words ! brave world ! Hostess , my breakfast ; come !
59055 O ! I could wish this tavern were my drum .
59056
59057 Well said , my noble Scot : if speaking truth
59058 In this fine age were not thought flattery ,
59059 Such attribution should the Douglas have ,
59060 As not a soldier of this season's stamp
59061 Should go so general current through the world .
59062 By God , I cannot flatter ; do defy
59063 The tongues of soothers ; but a braver place
59064 In my heart's love hath no man than yourself .
59065 Nay , task me to my word ; approve me , lord .
59066
59067 Thou art the king of honour :
59068 No man so potent breathes upon the ground
59069 But I will beard him .
59070
59071 Do so , and 'tis well .
59072
59073
59074 What letters hast thou there ?
59075
59076
59077 I can but thank you .
59078
59079 These letters come from your father .
59080
59081 Letters from him ! why comes he not himself ?
59082
59083 He cannot come , my lord : he's grievous sick .
59084
59085 'Zounds ! how has he the leisure to be sick
59086 In such a justling time ? Who leads his power ?
59087 Under whose government come they along ?
59088
59089 His letters bear his mind , not I , my lord .
59090
59091 I prithee , tell me , doth he keep his bed ?
59092
59093 He did , my lord , four days ere I set forth ;
59094 And at the time of my departure thence
59095 He was much fear'd by his physicians .
59096
59097 I would the state of time had first been whole
59098 Ere he by sickness had been visited :
59099 His health was never better worth than now .
59100
59101 Sick now ! droop now ! this sickness doth infect
59102 The very life-blood of our enterprise ;
59103 'Tis catching hither , even to our camp ,
59104 He writes me here , that inward sickness
59105 And that his friends by deputation could not
59106 So soon be drawn ; nor did he think it meet
59107 To lay so dangerous and dear a trust
59108 On any soul remov'd but on his own .
59109 Yet doth he give us bold advertisement ,
59110 That with our small conjunction we should on ,
59111 To see how fortune is dispos'd to us ;
59112 For , as he writes , there is no quailing now ,
59113 Because the king is certainly possess'd
59114 Of all our purposes . What say you to it ?
59115
59116 Your father's sickness is a maim to us .
59117
59118 A perilous gash , a very limb lopp'd off :
59119 And yet , in faith , 'tis not ; his present want
59120 Seems more than we shall find it . Were it good
59121 To set the exact wealth of all our states
59122 All at one cast ? to set so rich a main
59123 On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour ?
59124 It were not good ; for therein should we read
59125 The very bottom and the soul of hope ,
59126 The very list , the very utmost bound
59127 Of all our fortunes .
59128
59129 Faith , and so we should ;
59130 Where now remains a sweet reversion :
59131 We may boldly spend upon the hope of what
59132 Is to come in :
59133 A comfort of retirement lives in this .
59134
59135 A rendezvous , a home to fly unto ,
59136 If that the devil and mischance look big
59137 Upon the maidenhead of our affairs .
59138
59139 But yet , I would your father had been here .
59140 The quality and hair of our attempt
59141 Brooks no division . It will be thought
59142 By some , that know not why he is away ,
59143 That wisdom , loyalty , and mere dislike
59144 Of our proceedings , kept the earl from hence .
59145 And think how such an apprehension
59146 May turn the tide of fearful faction
59147 And breed a kind of question in our cause ;
59148 For well you know we of the offering side
59149 Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement ,
59150 And stop all sight-holes , every loop from whence
59151 The eye of reason may pry in upon us :
59152 This absence of your father's draws a curtain ,
59153 That shows the ignorant a kind of fear
59154 Before not dreamt of .
59155
59156 You strain too far .
59157 I rather of his absence make this use :
59158 It lends a lustre and more great opinion ,
59159 A larger dare to our great enterprise ,
59160 Than if the earl were here ; for men must think ,
59161 If we without his help , can make a head
59162 To push against the kingdom , with his help
59163 We shall o'erturn it topsy-turvy down .
59164 Yet all goes well , yet all our joints are whole .
59165
59166 As heart can think : there is not such a word
59167 Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear .
59168
59169
59170 My cousin Vernon ! welcome , by my soul .
59171
59172 Pray God my news be worth a welcome , lord .
59173 The Earl of Westmoreland , seven thousand strong ,
59174 Is marching hitherwards ; with him Prince John .
59175
59176 No harm : what more ?
59177
59178 And further , I have learn'd ,
59179 The king himself in person is set forth ,
59180 Or hitherwards intended speedily ,
59181 With strong and mighty preparation .
59182
59183 He shall be welcome too . Where is his son ,
59184 The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales ,
59185 And his comrades , that daff'd the world aside ,
59186 And bid it pass ?
59187
59188 All furnish'd , all in arms ,
59189 All plum'd like estridges that wing the wind ,
59190 Baited like eagles having lately bath'd ,
59191 Glittering in golden coats , like images ,
59192 As full of spirit as the month of May ,
59193 And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer ,
59194 Wanton as youthful goats , wild as young bulls .
59195 I saw young Harry , with his beaver on ,
59196 His cushes on his thighs , gallantly arm'd ,
59197 Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury ,
59198 And vaulted with such ease into his seat ,
59199 As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds ,
59200 To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus
59201 And witch the world with noble horsemanship .
59202
59203 No more , no more : worse than the sun in March
59204 This praise doth nourish agues . Let them come ;
59205 They come like sacrifices in their trim ,
59206 And to the fire-ey'd maid of smoky war
59207 All hot and bleeding will we offer them :
59208 The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit
59209 Up to the ears in blood . I am on fire
59210 To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh
59211 And yet not ours . Come , let me taste my horse ,
59212 Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt
59213 Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales :
59214 Harry to Harry shall , hot horse to horse ,
59215 Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corse .
59216 O ! that Glendower were come .
59217
59218 There is more news :
59219 I learn'd in Worcester , as I rode along ,
59220 He cannot draw his power these fourteen days .
59221
59222 That's the worst tidings that I hear of yet .
59223
59224 Ay , by my faith , that bears a frosty sound .
59225
59226 What may the king's whole battle reach unto ?
59227
59228 To thirty thousand .
59229
59230 Forty let it be :
59231 My father and Glendower being both away ,
59232 The powers of us may serve so great a day .
59233 Come , let us take a muster speedily :
59234 Doomsday is near ; die all , die merrily .
59235
59236 Talk not of dying : I am out of fear
59237 Of death or death's hand for this one half year .
59238
59239
59240 Bardolph , get thee before to Coventry ; fill me a bottle of sack : our soldiers shall march through : we'll to Sutton-Co'fil' to-night .
59241
59242 Will you give me money , captain ?
59243
59244 Lay out , lay out .
59245
59246 This bottle makes an angel .
59247
59248 An if it do , take it for thy labour ; and if it make twenty , take them all , I'll answer the coinage . Bid my Lieutenant Peto meet me at the town's end .
59249
59250 I will , captain : farewell .
59251
59252
59253 If I be not ashamed of my soldiers , I am a soused gurnet . I have misused the king's press damnably . I have got , in exchange of a hundred and fifty soldiers , three hundred and odd pounds . I press me none but good householders , yeomen's sons ; inquire me out contracted bachelors , such as had been asked twice on the banns ; such a commodity of warm slaves , as had as lief hear the devil as a drum ; such as fear the report of a caliver worse than a struck fowl or a hurt wild-duck . I pressed me none but such toasts-and-butter , with hearts in their bellies no bigger than pins' heads , and they have bought out their services ; and now my whole charge consists of ancients , corporals , lieutenants , gentlemen of companies , slaves as ragged as Lazarus in the painted cloth , where the glutton's dogs licked his sores ; and such as indeed were never soldiers , but discarded unjust serving-men , younger sons to younger brothers , revolted tapsters and ostlers trade-fallen , the cankers of a calm world and a long peace ; ten times more dishonourable ragged than an old faced ancient : and such have I , to fill up the rooms of them that have bought out their services , that you would think that I had a hundred and fifty tattered prodigals , lately come from swine-keeping , from eating draff and husks . A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies . No eye hath seen such scarecrows . I'll not march through Coventry with them , that's flat : nay , and the villains march wide betwixt the legs , as if they had gyves on ; for , indeed I had the most of them out of prison . There's but a shirt and a half in all my company ; and the half shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves ; and the shirt , to say the truth , stolen from my host at Saint Alban's , or the red-nose inn-keeper of Daventry . But that's all one ; they'll find linen enough on every hedge .
59254
59255
59256 How now , blown Jack ! how now , quilt !
59257
59258 What , Hal ! How now , mad wag ! what a devil dost thou in Warwickshire ? My good Lord of Westmoreland , I cry you mercy : I thought your honour had already been at Shrewsbury .
59259
59260 Faith , Sir John , 'tis more than time that I were there , and you too ; but my powers are there already . The king , I can tell you , looks for us all : we must away all night .
59261
59262 Tut , never fear me : I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream .
59263
59264 I think to steal cream indeed , for thy theft hath already made thee butter . But tell me , Jack , whose fellows are these that come after ?
59265
59266 Mine , Hal , mine .
59267
59268 I did never see such pitiful rascals .
59269
59270 Tut , tut ; good enough to toss ; food for powder , food for powder ; they'll fill a pit as well as better : tush , man , mortal men , mortal men .
59271
59272 Ay , but , Sir John , methinks they are exceeding poor and bare ; too beggarly .
59273
59274 Faith , for their poverty , I know not where they had that ; and for their bareness , I am sure they never learned that of me .
59275
59276 No , I'll be sworn ; unless you call three fingers on the ribs bare . But sirrah , make haste : Percy is already in the field .
59277
59278 What , is the king encamped ?
59279
59280 He is , Sir John : I fear we shall stay too long .
59281
59282 Well ,
59283 To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast
59284 Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest .
59285
59286
59287 We'll fight with him to-night .
59288
59289 It may not be .
59290
59291 You give him then advantage .
59292
59293 Not a whit .
59294
59295 Why say you so ? looks he not for supply ?
59296
59297 So do we .
59298
59299 His is certain , ours is doubtful .
59300
59301 Good cousin , be advis'd : stir not to-night .
59302
59303 Do not , my lord .
59304
59305 You do not counsel well :
59306 You speak it out of fear and cold heart .
59307
59308 Do me no slander , Douglas : by my life ,
59309 And I dare well maintain it with my life ,
59310 If well-respected honour bid me on ,
59311 I hold as little counsel with weak fear
59312 As you , my lord , or any Scot that this day lives :
59313 Let it be seen to-morrow in the battle
59314 Which of us fears .
59315
59316 Yea , or to-night .
59317
59318 Content .
59319
59320 To-night , say I .
59321
59322 Come , come , it may not be . I wonder much ,
59323 Being men of such great leading as you are ,
59324 That you foresee not what impediments
59325 Drag back our expedition : certain horse
59326 Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up :
59327 Your uncle Worcester's horse came but to-day ;
59328 And now their pride and mettle is asleep ,
59329 Their courage with hard labour tame and dull ,
59330 That not a horse is half the half of himself .
59331
59332 So are the horses of the enemy
59333 In general , journey-bated and brought low :
59334 The better part of ours are full of rest .
59335
59336 The number of the king exceedeth ours :
59337 For God's sake , cousin , stay till all come in .
59338
59339 I come with gracious offers from the king ,
59340 If you vouchsafe me hearing and respect .
59341
59342 Welcome , Sir Walter Blunt ; and would to God
59343 You were of our determination !
59344 Some of us love you well ; and even those some
59345 Envy your great deservings and good name ,
59346 Because you are not of our quality ,
59347 But stand against us like an enemy .
59348
59349 And God defend but still I should stand so ,
59350 So long as out of limit and true rule
59351 You stand against anointed majesty .
59352 But , to my charge . The king hath sent to know
59353 The nature of your griefs , and whereupon
59354 You conjure from the breast of civil peace
59355 Such bold hostility , teaching his duteous land
59356 Audacious cruelty . If that the king
59357 Have any way your good deserts forgot ,
59358 Which he confesseth to be manifold ,
59359 He bids you name your griefs ; and with all speed
59360 You shall have your desires with interest ,
59361 And pardon absolute for yourself and these
59362 Herein misled by your suggestion .
59363
59364 The king is kind ; and well we know the king
59365 Knows at what time to promise , when to pay .
59366 My father and my uncle and myself
59367 Did give him that same royalty he wears ;
59368 And when he was not six-and-twenty strong ,
59369 Sick in the world's regard , wretched and low ,
59370 A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home ,
59371 My father gave him welcome to the shore ;
59372 And when he heard him swear and vow to God
59373 He came but to be Duke of Lancaster ,
59374 To sue his livery and beg his peace ,
59375 With tears of innocency and terms of zeal ,
59376 My father , in kind heart and pity mov'd ,
59377 Swore him assistance and perform'd it too .
59378 Now when the lords and barons of the realm
59379 Perceiv'd Northumberland did lean to him ,
59380 The more and less came in with cap and knee ;
59381 Met him in boroughs , cities , villages ,
59382 Attended him on bridges , stood in lanes ,
59383 Laid gifts before him , proffer'd him their oaths ,
59384 Gave him their heirs as pages , follow'd him
59385 Even at the heels in golden multitudes .
59386 He presently , as greatness knows itself ,
59387 Steps me a little higher than his vow
59388 Made to my father , while his blood was poor ,
59389 Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh ;
59390 And now , forsooth , takes on him to reform
59391 Some certain edicts and some strait decrees
59392 That lie too heavy on the commonwealth ,
59393 Cries out upon abuses , seems to weep
59394 Over his country's wrongs ; and by this face ,
59395 This seeming brow of justice , did he win
59396 The hearts of all that he did angle for ;
59397 Proceeded further ; cut me off the heads
59398 Of all the favourites that the absent king
59399 In deputation left behind him here ,
59400 When he was personal in the Irish war .
59401
59402 Tut , I came not to hear this .
59403
59404 Then to the point .
59405 In short time after , he depos'd the king ;
59406 Soon after that , depriv'd him of his life ;
59407 And , in the neck of that , task'd the whole state ;
59408 To make that worse , suffer'd his kinsman March
59409 Who is , if every owner were well plac'd ,
59410 Indeed his king to be engag'd in Wales ,
59411 There without ransom to lie forfeited ;
59412 Disgrac'd me in my happy victories ;
59413 Sought to entrap me by intelligence ;
59414 Rated my uncle from the council-board ;
59415 In rage dismiss'd my father from the court ;
59416 Broke oath on oath , committed wrong on wrong ;
59417 And in conclusion drove us to seek out
59418 This head of safety ; and withal to pry
59419 Into his title , the which we find
59420 Too indirect for long continuance .
59421
59422 Shall I return this answer to the king ?
59423
59424 Not so , Sir Walter : we'll withdraw awhile .
59425 Go to the king ; and let there be impawn'd
59426 Some surety for a safe return again ,
59427 And in the morning early shall my uncle
59428 Bring him our purposes ; and so farewell .
59429
59430 I would you would accept of grace and love .
59431
59432 And may be so we shall .
59433
59434 Pray God , you do !
59435
59436
59437 Hie , good Sir Michael ; bear this sealed brief
59438 With winged haste to the lord marshal ;
59439 This to my cousin Scroop , and all the rest
59440 To whom they are directed . If you knew
59441 How much they do import , you would make haste .
59442
59443 My good lord ,
59444 I guess their tenour .
59445
59446 Like enough you do .
59447 To-morrow , good Sir Michael , is a day
59448 Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men
59449 Must bide the touch ; for , sir , at Shrewsbury ,
59450 As I am truly given to understand ,
59451 The king with mighty and quick-raised power
59452 Meets with Lord Harry : and , I fear , Sir Michael ,
59453 What with the sickness of Northumberland ,
59454 Whose power was in the first proportion ,
59455 And what with Owen Glendower's absence thence ,
59456 Who with them was a rated sinew too ,
59457 And comes not in , o'er-rul'd by prophecies ,
59458 I fear the power of Percy is too weak
59459 To wage an instant trial with the king .
59460
59461 Why , my good lord , you need not fear :
59462 There is the Douglas and Lord Mortimer .
59463
59464 No , Mortimer is not there .
59465
59466 But there is Mordake , Vernon , Lord Harry Percy ,
59467 And there's my Lord of Worcester , and a head
59468 Of gallant warriors , noble gentlemen .
59469
59470 And so there is ; but yet the king hath drawn
59471 The special head of all the land together :
59472 The Prince of Wales , Lord John of Lancaster ,
59473 The noble Westmoreland , and war-like Blunt ;
59474 And many moe corrivals and dear men
59475 Of estimation and command in arms .
59476
59477 Doubt not , my lord , they shall be well oppos'd .
59478
59479 I hope no less , yet needful 'tis to fear ;
59480 And , to prevent the worse , Sir Michael , speed :
59481 For if Lord Percy thrive not , ere the king
59482 Dismiss his power , he means to visit us ,
59483 For he hath heard of our confederacy ,
59484 And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him :
59485 Therefore make haste . I must go write again
59486 To other friends ; and so farewell , Sir Michael .
59487
59488 How bloodily the sun begins to peer
59489 Above yon busky hill ! the day looks pale
59490 At his distemperature .
59491
59492 The southern wind
59493 Doth play the trumpet to his purposes ,
59494 And by his hollow whistling in the leaves
59495 Foretells a tempest and a blustering day .
59496
59497 Then with the losers let it sympathize ,
59498 For nothing can seem foul to those that win .
59499
59500 How now , my Lord of Worcester ! 'tis not well
59501 That you and I should meet upon such terms
59502 As now we meet . You have deceiv'd our trust ,
59503 And made us doff our easy robes of peace ,
59504 To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel :
59505 This is not well , my lord ; this is not well .
59506 What say you to it ? will you again unknit
59507 This churlish knot of all-abhorred war ,
59508 And move in that obedient orb again
59509 Where you did give a fair and natural light ,
59510 And be no more an exhal'd meteor ,
59511 A prodigy of fear and a portent
59512
59513 Of broached mischief to the unborn times ?
59514
59515 Hear me , my liege .
59516 For mine own part , I could be well content
59517 To entertain the lag-end of my life
59518 With quiet hours ; for I do protest
59519 I have not sought the day of this dislike .
59520
59521 You have not sought it ! how comes it then ?
59522
59523 Rebellion lay in his way , and he found it .
59524
59525 Peace , chewet , peace !
59526
59527 It pleas'd your majesty to turn your looks
59528 Of favour from myself and all our house ;
59529 And yet I must remember you , my lord ,
59530 We were the first and dearest of your friends .
59531 For you my staff of office did I break
59532 In Richard's time ; and posted day and night
59533 To meet you on the way , and kiss your hand ,
59534 When yet you were in place and in account
59535 Nothing so strong and fortunate as I .
59536 It was myself , my brother , and his son ,
59537 That brought you home and boldly did outdare
59538 The dangers of the time . You swore to us ,
59539 And you did swear that oath at Doncaster ,
59540 That you did nothing purpose 'gainst the state ,
59541 Nor claim no further than your new-fall'n right ,
59542 The seat of Gaunt , dukedom of Lancaster .
59543 To this we swore our aid : but , in short space
59544 It rain'd down fortune showering on your head ,
59545 And such a flood of greatness fell on you ,
59546 What with our help , what with the absent king ,
59547 What with the injuries of a wanton time ,
59548 The seeming sufferances that you had borne ,
59549 And the contrarious winds that held the king
59550 So long in his unlucky Irish wars ,
59551 That all in England did repute him dead :
59552 And from this swarm of fair advantages
59553 You took occasion to be quickly woo'd
59554 To gripe the general sway into your hand ;
59555 Forgot your oath to us at Doncaster ;
59556 And being fed by us you us'd us so
59557 As that ungentle gull , the cuckoo's bird ,
59558 Useth the sparrow : did oppress our nest ,
59559 Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk
59560 That even our love durst not come near your sight
59561 For fear of swallowing ; but with nimble wing
59562 We were enforc'd , for safety's sake , to fly
59563 Out of your sight and raise this present head ;
59564 Whereby we stand opposed by such means
59565 As you yourself have forg'd against yourself
59566 By unkind usage , dangerous countenance ,
59567 And violation of all faith and troth
59568 Sworn to us in your younger enterprise .
59569
59570 These things indeed , you have articulate ,
59571 Proclaim'd at market-crosses , read in churches ,
59572 To face the garment of rebellion
59573 With some fine colour that may please the eye
59574 Of fickle changelings and poor discontents ,
59575 Which gape and rub the elbow at the news
59576 Of hurlyburly innovation :
59577 And never yet did insurrection want
59578 Such water-colours to impaint his cause ;
59579 Nor moody beggars , starving for a time
59580 Of pell-mell havoc and confusion .
59581
59582 In both our armies there is many a soul
59583 Shall pay full dearly for this encounter ,
59584 If once they join in trial . Tell your nephew ,
59585 The Prince of Wales doth join with all the world
59586 In praise of Henry Percy : by my hopes ,
59587 This present enterprise set off his head ,
59588 I do not think a braver gentleman ,
59589 More active-valiant or more valiant-young ,
59590 More daring or more bold , is now alive
59591 To grace this latter age with noble deeds .
59592 For my part , I may speak it to my shame ,
59593 I have a truant been to chivalry ;
59594 And so I hear he doth account me too ;
59595 Yet this before my father's majesty
59596 I am content that he shall take the odds
59597 Of his great name and estimation ,
59598 And will , to save the blood on either side ,
59599 Try fortune with him in a single fight .
59600
59601 And , Prince of Wales , so dare we venture thee ,
59602 Albeit considerations infinite
59603 Do make against it . No , good Worcester , no ,
59604 We love our people well ; even those we love
59605 That are misled upon your cousin's part ;
59606 And , will they take the offer of our grace ,
59607 Both he and they and you , yea , every man
59608 Shall be my friend again , and I'll be his .
59609 So tell your cousin , and bring me word
59610 What he will do ; but if he will not yield ,
59611 Rebuke and dread correction wait on us ,
59612 And they shall do their office . So , be gone :
59613 We will not now be troubled with reply ;
59614 We offer fair , take it advisedly .
59615
59616
59617 It will not be accepted , on my life .
59618 The Douglas and the Hotspur both together
59619 Are confident against the world in arms .
59620
59621 Hence , therefore , every leader to his charge ;
59622 For , on their answer , will we set on them ;
59623 And God befriend us , as our cause is just !
59624
59625
59626 Hal , if thou see me down in the battle , and bestride me , so ; 'tis a point of friendship .
59627
59628 Nothing but a colossus can do thee that friendship . Say thy prayers , and farewell .
59629
59630 I would it were bed-time , Hal , and all well .
59631
59632 Why , thou owest God a death .
59633
59634
59635 'Tis not due yet : I would be loath to pay him before his day . What need I be so forward with him that calls not on me ? Well , 'tis no matter ; honour pricks me on . Yea , but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No . Or an arm ? No . Or take away the grief of a wound ? No . Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No . What is honour ? a word . What is that word , honour ? Air . A trim reckoning ! Who hath it ? he that died o' Wednesday . Doth he feel it ? No . Doth he hear it ? No . It is insensible then ? Yea , to the dead . But will it not live with the living ? No . Why ? Detraction will not suffer it . Therefore I'll none of it : honour is a mere scutcheon ; and so ends my catechism .
59636
59637
59638 O , no ! my nephew must not know , Sir Richard ,
59639 The liberal kind offer of the king .
59640
59641 'Twere best he did .
59642
59643 Then are we all undone .
59644 It is not possible , it cannot be ,
59645 The king should keep his word in loving us ;
59646 He will suspect us still , and find a time
59647 To punish this offence in other faults :
59648 Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes ;
59649 For treason is but trusted like the fox ,
59650 Who , ne'er so tame , so cherish'd , and lock'd up ,
59651 Will have a wild trick of his ancestors .
59652 Look how we can , or sad or merrily ,
59653 Interpretation will misquote our looks ,
59654 And we shall feed like oxen at a stall ,
59655 The better cherish'd , still the nearer death .
59656 My nephew's trespass may be well forgot ,
59657 It hath the excuse of youth and heat of blood ;
59658 And an adopted name of privilege ,
59659 A hare-brain'd Hotspur , govern'd by a spleen .
59660 All his offences live upon my head
59661 And on his father's : we did train him on ;
59662 And , his corruption being ta'en from us ,
59663 We , as the spring of all , shall pay for all .
59664 Therefore , good cousin , let not Harry know
59665 In any case the offer of the king .
59666
59667 Deliver what you will , I'll say 'tis so .
59668 Here comes your cousin .
59669
59670
59671 My uncle is return'd : deliver up
59672 My Lord of Westmoreland . Uncle , what news ?
59673
59674 The king will bid you battle presently .
59675
59676 Defy him by the Lord of Westmoreland .
59677
59678 Lord Douglas , go you and tell him so .
59679
59680 Marry , and shall , and very willingly .
59681
59682
59683 There is no seeming mercy in the king .
59684
59685 Did you beg any ? God forbid !
59686
59687 I told him gently of our grievances ,
59688 Of his oath-breaking ; which he mended thus ,
59689 By now forswearing that he is forsworn :
59690 He calls us rebels , traitors ; and will scourge
59691 With haughty arms this hateful name in us .
59692
59693
59694 Arm , gentlemen ! to arms ! for I have thrown
59695 A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth ,
59696 And Westmoreland , that was engag'd , did bear it ;
59697 Which cannot choose but bring him quickly on .
59698
59699 The Prince of Wales stepp'd forth before the king ,
59700 And , nephew , challeng'd you to single fight .
59701
59702 O ! would the quarrel lay upon our heads ,
59703 And that no man might draw short breath to-day
59704 But I and Harry Monmouth . Tell me , tell me ,
59705 How show'd his tasking ? seem'd it in contempt ?
59706
59707 No , by my soul ; I never in my life
59708 Did hear a challenge urg'd more modestly ,
59709 Unless a brother should a brother dare
59710 To gentle exercise and proof of arms .
59711 He gave you all the duties of a man ,
59712 Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue ,
59713 Spoke your deservings like a chronicle ,
59714 Making you ever better than his praise ,
59715 By still dispraising praise valu'd with you ;
59716 And , which became him like a prince indeed ,
59717 He made a blushing cital of himself ,
59718 And chid his truant youth with such a grace
59719 As if he master'd there a double spirit
59720 Of teaching and of learning instantly .
59721 There did he pause . But let me tell the world ,
59722 If he outlive the envy of this day ,
59723 England did never owe so sweet a hope ,
59724 So much misconstru'd in his wantonness .
59725
59726 Cousin , I think thou art enamoured
59727 On his follies : never did I hear
59728 Of any prince so wild a libertine .
59729 But be he as he will , yet once ere night
59730 I will embrace him with a soldier's arm ,
59731 That he shall shrink under my courtesy .
59732 Arm , arm , with speed ! And , fellows , soldiers , friends ,
59733 Better consider what you have to do ,
59734 Than I , that have not well the gift of tongue ,
59735 Can lift your blood up with persuasion .
59736
59737
59738 My lord , here are letters for you .
59739
59740 I cannot read them now .
59741 O gentlemen ! the time of life is short ;
59742 To spend that shortness basely were too long ,
59743 If life did ride upon a dial's point ,
59744 Still ending at the arrival of an hour .
59745 An if we live , we live to tread on kings ;
59746 If die , brave death , when princes die with us !
59747 Now , for our consciences , the arms are fair ,
59748 When the intent of bearing them is just .
59749
59750
59751 My lord , prepare ; the king comes on apace .
59752
59753 I thank him that he cuts me from my tale ,
59754 For I profess not talking . Only this ,
59755 Let each man do his best : and here draw I
59756 A sword , whose temper I intend to stain
59757 With the best blood that I can meet withal
59758 In the adventure of this perilous day .
59759 Now , Esperance ! Percy ! and set on .
59760 Sound all the lofty instruments of war ,
59761 And by that music let us all embrace ;
59762 For , heaven to earth , some of us never shall
59763 A second time do such a courtesy .
59764
59765 What is thy name , that in the battle thus
59766 Thou crossest me ? what honour dost thou seek
59767 Upon my head ?
59768
59769 Know then , my name is Douglas ;
59770 And I do haunt thee in the battle thus
59771 Because some tell me that thou art a king .
59772
59773 They tell thee true .
59774
59775 The Lord of Stafford dear to-day hath bought
59776 Thy likeness ; for , instead of thee , King Harry ,
59777 This sword hath ended him : so shall it thee ,
59778 Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner .
59779
59780 I was not born a yielder , thou proud Scot ;
59781 And thou shalt find a king that will revenge
59782 Lord Stafford's death .
59783
59784 O , Douglas ! hadst thou fought at Holmedon thus ,
59785 I never had triumph'd upon a Scot .
59786
59787 All's done , all's won : here breathless lies the king .
59788
59789 Where ?
59790
59791 Here .
59792
59793 This , Douglas ! no ; I know this face full well ;
59794 A gallant knight he was , his name was Blunt ;
59795 Semblably furnish'd like the king himself .
59796
59797 A fool go with thy soul , whither it goes !
59798 A borrow'd title hast thou bought too dear :
59799 Why didst thou tell me that thou wert a king ?
59800
59801 The king hath many marching in his coats .
59802
59803 Now , by my sword , I will kill all his coats ;
59804 I'll murder all his wardrobe , piece by piece ,
59805 Until I meet the king .
59806
59807 Up , and away !
59808 Our soldiers stand full fairly for the day .
59809
59810 Though I could 'scape shot-free at London , I fear the shot here ; here's no scoring but upon the pate . Soft ! who art thou ? Sir Walter Blunt : there's honour for you ! here's no vanity ! I am as hot as molten lead , and as heavy too : God keep lead out of me ! I need no more weight than mine own bowels . I have led my ragamuffins where they are peppered : there's not three of my hundred and fifty left alive , and they are for the town's end , to beg during life . But who comes here ?
59811
59812
59813 What ! stand'st thou idle here ? lend me thy sword :
59814 Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff
59815 Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies ,
59816 Whose deaths are unreveng'd : prithee , lend me thy sword .
59817
59818 O Hal ! I prithee , give me leave to breathe awhile . Turk Gregory never did such deeds in arms as I have done this day . I have paid Percy , I have made him sure .
59819
59820 He is , indeed ; and living to kill thee .
59821 I prithee , lend me thy sword .
59822
59823 Nay , before God , Hal , if Percy be alive , thou gett'st not my sword ; but take my pistol , if thou wilt .
59824
59825 Give it me . What ! is it in the case ?
59826
59827 Ay , Hal ; 'tis hot , 'tis hot : there's that will sack a city .
59828
59829
59830 What ! is't a time to jest and dally now ?
59831
59832
59833 Well , if Percy be alive , I'll pierce him . If he do come in my way , so : if he do not , if I come in his , willingly , let him make a carbonado of me . I like not such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath : give me life ; which if I can save , so ; if not , honour comes unlooked for , and there's an end .
59834
59835
59836 I prithee ,
59837 Harry , withdraw thyself ; thou bleed'st too much .
59838 Lord John of Lancaster , go you with him .
59839
59840 Not I , my lord , unless I did bleed too .
59841
59842 I beseech your majesty , make up ,
59843 Lest your retirement do amaze your friends .
59844
59845 I will do so .
59846 My Lord of Westmoreland , lead him to his tent .
59847
59848 Come , my lord , I'll lead you to your tent .
59849
59850 Lead me , my lord ? I do not need your help :
59851 And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive
59852 The Prince of Wales from such a field as this ,
59853 Where stain'd nobility lies trodden on ,
59854 And rebels' arms triumph in massacres !
59855
59856 We breathe too long : come , cousin Westmoreland ,
59857 Our duty this way lies : for God's sake , come .
59858
59859
59860 By God , thou hast deceiv'd me , Lancaster ;
59861 I did not think thee lord of such a spirit :
59862 Before , I lov'd thee as a brother , John ;
59863 But now , I do respect thee as my soul .
59864
59865 I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point
59866 With lustier maintenance than I did look for
59867 Of such an ungrown warrior .
59868
59869 O ! this boy
59870 Lends mettle to us all .
59871
59872 Another king ! they grow like Hydra's heads :
59873 I am the Douglas , fatal to all those
59874 That wear those colours on them : what art thou ,
59875 That counterfeit'st the person of a king ?
59876
59877 The king himself ; who , Douglas , grieves at heart
59878 So many of his shadows thou hast met
59879 And not the very king . I have two boys
59880 Seek Percy and thyself about the field :
59881 But , seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily ,
59882 I will assay thee ; so defend thyself .
59883
59884 I fear thou art another counterfeit ;
59885 And yet , in faith , thou bear'st thee like a king :
59886 But mine I am sure thou art , whoe'er thou be ,
59887 And thus I win thee .
59888
59889
59890 Hold up thy head , vile Scot , or thou art like
59891 Never to hold it up again ! the spirits
59892 Of valiant Shirley , Stafford , Blunt , are in my arms :
59893 It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee ,
59894 Who never promiseth but he means to pay .
59895
59896 Cheerly , my lord : how fares your Grace ?
59897 Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succour sent ,
59898 And so hath Clifton : I'll to Clifton straight .
59899
59900 Stay , and breathe awhile .
59901 Thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion ,
59902 And show'd thou mak'st some tender of my life ,
59903 In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me .
59904
59905 O God ! they did me too much injury
59906 That ever said I hearken'd for your death .
59907 If it were so , I might have let alone
59908 The insulting hand of Douglas over you ;
59909 Which would have been as speedy in your end
59910 As all the poisonous potions in the world ,
59911 And sav'd the treacherous labour of your son .
59912
59913 Make up to Clifton : I'll to Sir Nicholas Gawsey .
59914
59915 If I mistake not , thou art Harry Monmouth .
59916
59917 Thou speak'st as if I would deny my name .
59918
59919 My name is Harry Percy .
59920
59921 Why , then , I see
59922 A very valiant rebel of that name .
59923 I am the Prince of Wales ; and think not , Percy ,
59924 To share with me in glory any more :
59925 Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere ;
59926 Nor can one England brook a double reign ,
59927 Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales .
59928
59929 Nor shall it , Harry ; for the hour is come
59930 To end the one of us ; and would to God
59931 Thy name in arms were now as great as mine !
59932
59933 I'll make it greater ere I part from thee ;
59934 And all the budding honours on thy crest
59935 I'll crop , to make a garland for my head .
59936
59937 I can no longer brook thy vanities .
59938
59939 Well said , Hal ! to it , Hal ! Nay , you shall find no boy's play here , I can tell you .
59940
59941 O , Harry ! thou hast robb'd me of my youth .
59942 I better brook the loss of brittle life
59943 Than those proud titles thou hast won of me ;
59944 They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh :
59945 But thought's the slave of life , and life time's fool ;
59946 And time , that takes survey of all the world ,
59947 Must have a stop . O ! I could prophesy ,
59948 But that the earthy and cold hand of death
59949 Lies on my tongue . No , Percy , thou art dust ,
59950 And food for
59951
59952
59953 For worms , brave Percy . Fare thee well , great heart !
59954 Ill-weav'd ambition , how much art thou shrunk !
59955 When that this body did contain a spirit ,
59956 A kingdom for it was too small a bound ;
59957 But now , two paces of the vilest earth
59958 Is room enough : this earth , that bears thee dead ,
59959 Bears not alive so stout a gentleman .
59960 If thou wert sensible of courtesy ,
59961 I should not make so dear a show of zeal :
59962 But let my favours hide thy mangled face ,
59963 And , even in thy behalf , I'll thank myself
59964 For doing these fair rites of tenderness .
59965 Adieu , and take thy praise with thee to heaven !
59966 Thy ignomy sleep with thee in the grave ,
59967 But not remember'd in thy epitaph !
59968
59969 What ! old acquaintance ! could not all this flesh
59970 Keep in a little life ? Poor Jack , farewell !
59971 I could have better spar'd a better man .
59972 O ! I should have a heavy miss of thee
59973 If I were much in love with vanity .
59974 Death hath not struck so fat a deer to-day ,
59975 Though many dearer , in this bloody fray .
59976 Embowell'd will I see thee by and by :
59977 Till then in blood by noble Percy lie .
59978
59979
59980 Embowelled ! if thou embowel me to-day , I'll give you leave to powder me and eat me too , to-morrow . 'Sblood ! 'twas time to counterfeit , or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too . Counterfeit ? I lie , I am no counterfeit : to die , is to be a counterfeit ; for he is but the counterfeit of a man , who hath not the life of a man ; but to counterfeit dying , when a man thereby liveth , is to be no counterfeit , but the true and perfect image of life indeed . The better part of valour is discretion ; in the which better part , I have saved my life . 'Zounds ! I am afraid of this gunpowder Percy though he be dead : how , if he should counterfeit too and rise ? By my faith I am afraid he would prove the better counterfeit . Therefore I'll make him sure ; yea , and I'll swear I killed him . Why may not he rise as well as I ? Nothing confutes me but eyes , and nobody sees me : therefore , sirrah [stabbing him] , with a new wound in your thigh come you along with me .
59981
59982 Come , brother John ; full bravely hast thou flesh'd
59983 Thy maiden sword .
59984
59985 But , soft ! whom have we here ?
59986 Did you not tell me this fat man was dead ?
59987
59988 I did ; I saw him dead ,
59989 Breathless and bleeding on the ground .
59990 Art thou alive ? or is it fantasy
59991 That plays upon our eyesight ? I prithee , speak ;
59992 We will not trust our eyes without our ears :
59993 Thou art not what thou seem'st .
59994
59995 No , that's certain ; I am not a double man : but if I be not Jack Falstaff , then am I a Jack . There is Percy
59996
59997 : if your father will do me any honour , so ; if not , let him kill the next Percy himself . I look to be either earl or duke , I can assure you .
59998
59999 Why , Percy I killed myself , and saw thee dead .
60000
60001 Didst thou ? Lord , Lord ! how this world is given to lying . I grant you I was down and out of breath , and so was he ; but we rose both at an instant , and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock . If I may be believed , so ; if not , let them that should reward valour bear the sin upon their own heads . I'll take it upon my death , I gave him this wound in the thigh : if the man were alive and would deny it , 'zounds , I would make him eat a piece of my sword .
60002
60003 This is the strangest tale that e'er I heard .
60004
60005 This is the strangest fellow , brother John .
60006 Come , bring your luggage nobly on your back :
60007 For my part , if a lie may do thee grace ,
60008 I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have .
60009
60010 The trumpet sounds retreat ; the day is ours .
60011 Come , brother , let us to the highest of the field ,
60012 To see what friends are living , who are dead .
60013
60014
60015 I'll follow , as they say , for reward . He that rewards me , God reward him ! If I do grow great , I'll grow less ; for I'll purge , and leave sack , and live cleanly , as a nobleman should do .
60016
60017 Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke .
60018 Ill-spirited Worcester ! did we not send grace ,
60019 Pardon , and terms of love to all of you ?
60020 And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary ?
60021 Misuse the tenour of thy kinsman's trust ?
60022 Three knights upon our party slain to-day ,
60023 A noble earl and many a creature else
60024 Had been alive this hour ,
60025 If like a Christian , thou hadst truly borne
60026 Betwixt our armies true intelligence .
60027
60028 What I have done my safety urg'd me to ;
60029 And I embrace this fortune patiently ,
60030 Since not to be avoided it falls on me .
60031
60032 Bear Worcester to the death and Vernon too :
60033 Other offenders we will pause upon .
60034
60035 How goes the field ?
60036
60037 The noble Scot , Lord Douglas , when he saw
60038 The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him ,
60039 The noble Percy slain , and all his men
60040 Upon the foot of fear , fled with the rest ;
60041 And falling from a hill he was so bruis'd
60042 That the pursuers took him . At my tent
60043 The Douglas is , and I beseech your Grace
60044 I may dispose of him .
60045
60046 With all my heart .
60047
60048 Then , brother John of Lancaster , to you
60049 This honourable bounty shall belong .
60050 Go to the Douglas , and deliver him
60051 Up to his pleasure , ransomless , and free :
60052 His valour shown upon our crests to-day
60053 Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds ,
60054 Even in the bosom of our adversaries .
60055
60056 I thank your Grace for this high courtesy ,
60057 Which I shall give away immediately .
60058
60059 Then this remains , that we divide our power .
60060 You , son John , and my cousin Westmoreland
60061 Towards York shall bend you , with your dearest speed ,
60062 To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scroop ,
60063 Who , as we hear , are busily in arms :
60064 Myself and you , son Harry , will towards Wales ,
60065 To fight with Glendower and the Earl of March .
60066 Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway ,
60067 Meeting the check of such another day :
60068 And since this business so fair is done ,
60069 Let us not leave till all our own be won .
60070
60071 THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY VI
60072
60073 Fiends appearing to La Pucelle .
60074
60075
60076 Hung be the heavens with black , yield day to night !
60077 Comets , importing change of times and states ,
60078 Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky ,
60079 And with them scourge the bad revolting stars ,
60080 That have consented unto Henry's death !
60081 King Henry the Fifth , too famous to live long !
60082 England ne'er lost a king of so much worth .
60083
60084 England ne'er had a king until his time .
60085 Virtue he had , deserving to command :
60086 His brandish'd sword did blind men with his beams ;
60087 His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings ;
60088 His sparkling eyes , replete with wrathful fire ,
60089 More dazzled and drove back his enemies
60090 Than mid-day sun fierce bent against their faces .
60091 What should I say ? his deeds exceed all speech :
60092 He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered .
60093
60094 We mourn in black : why mourn we not in blood ?
60095 Henry is dead and never shall revive .
60096 Upon a wooden coffin we attend ,
60097 And death's dishonourable victory
60098 We with our stately presence glorify ,
60099 Like captives bound to a triumphant car .
60100 What ! shall we curse the planets of mishap
60101 That plotted thus our glory's overthrow ?
60102 Or shall we think the subtle-witted French
60103 Conjurers and sorcerers , that , afraid of him ,
60104 By magic verses have contriv'd his end ?
60105
60106 He was a king bless'd of the King of kings .
60107 Unto the French the dreadful judgment-day
60108 So dreadful will not be as was his sight .
60109 The battles of the Lord of hosts he fought :
60110 The church's prayers made him so prosperous .
60111
60112 The church ! where is it ? Had not churchmen pray'd
60113 His thread of life had not so soon decay'd :
60114 None do you like but an effeminate prince ,
60115 Whom like a school-boy you may over-awe .
60116
60117 Gloucester , whate'er we like thou art protector ,
60118 And lookest to command the prince and realm .
60119 Thy wife is proud ; she holdeth thee in awe ,
60120 More than God or religious churchmen may .
60121
60122 Name not religion , for thou lov'st the flesh ,
60123 And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st ,
60124 Except it be to pray against thy foes .
60125
60126 Cease , cease these jars and rest your minds in peace !
60127 Let's to the altar : heralds , wait on us :
60128 Instead of gold we'll offer up our arms ,
60129 Since arms avail not , now that Henry's dead .
60130 Posterity , await for wretched years ,
60131 When at their mothers' moist eyes babes shall suck ,
60132 Our isle be made a marish of salt tears ,
60133 And none but women left to wail the dead .
60134 Henry the Fifth ! thy ghost I invocate :
60135 Prosper this realm , keep it from civil broils !
60136 Combat with adverse planets in the heavens !
60137 A far more glorious star thy soul will make ,
60138 Than Julius C sar , or bright
60139
60140
60141 My honourable lords , health to you all !
60142 Sad tidings bring I to you out of France ,
60143 Of loss , of slaughter , and discomfiture :
60144 Guienne , Champaigne , Rheims , Orleans ,
60145 Paris , Guysors , Poictiers , are all quite lost .
60146
60147 What sayst thou , man , before dead Henry's corse ?
60148 Speak softly ; or the loss of those great towns
60149 Will make him burst his lead and rise from death .
60150
60151 Is Paris lost ? is Roan yielded up ?
60152 If Henry were recall'd to life again
60153 These news would cause him once more yield the ghost .
60154
60155 How were they lost ? what treachery was us'd ?
60156
60157 No treachery ; but want of men and money .
60158 Among the soldiers this is muttered ,
60159 That here you maintain several factions ;
60160 And , whilst a field should be dispatch'd and fought ,
60161 You are disputing of your generals .
60162 One would have lingering wars with little cost ;
60163 Another would fly swift , but wanteth wings ;
60164 A third thinks , without expense at all ,
60165 By guileful fair words peace may be obtain'd .
60166 Awake , awake , English nobility !
60167 Let not sloth dim your honours new-begot :
60168 Cropp'd are the flower-de-luces in your arms ;
60169 Of England's coat one half is cut away .
60170
60171 Were our tears wanting to this funeral
60172 These tidings would call forth their flowing tides .
60173
60174 Me they concern ; Regent I am of France .
60175 Give me my steeled coat : I'll fight for France .
60176 Away with these disgraceful wailing robes !
60177 Wounds will I lend the French instead of eyes ,
60178 To weep their intermissive miseries .
60179
60180
60181 Lords , view these letters , full of bad mischance .
60182 France is revolted from the English quite ,
60183 Except some petty towns of no import :
60184 The Dauphin Charles is crowned king in Rheims ;
60185 The Bastard of Orleans with him is join'd ;
60186 Reignier , Duke of Anjou , doth take his part ;
60187 The Duke of Alen on flieth to his side .
60188
60189 The Dauphin crowned king ! all fly to him !
60190 O ! whither shall we fly from this reproach ?
60191
60192 We will not fly , but to our enemies' throats .
60193 Bedford , if thou be slack , I'll fight it out .
60194
60195 Gloucester , why doubt'st thou of my forwardness ?
60196 An army have I muster'd in my thoughts ,
60197 Wherewith already France is overrun .
60198
60199
60200 My gracious lords , to add to your laments ,
60201 Wherewith you now bedew King Henry's hearse ,
60202 I must inform you of a dismal fight
60203 Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot and the French .
60204
60205 What ! wherein Talbot overcame ? is't so ?
60206
60207 O , no ! wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown :
60208 The circumstance I'll tell you more at large .
60209 The tenth of August last this dreadful lord ,
60210 Retiring from the siege of Orleans ,
60211 Having full scarce six thousand in his troop ,
60212 By three-and-twenty thousand of the French
60213 Was round encompassed and set upon .
60214 No leisure had he to enrank his men ;
60215 He wanted pikes to set before his archers ;
60216 Instead whereof sharp stakes pluck'd out of hedges
60217 They pitched in the ground confusedly ,
60218 To keep the horsemen off from breaking in .
60219 More than three hours the fight continued ;
60220 Where valiant Talbot above human thought
60221 Enacted wonders with his sword and lance .
60222 Hundreds he sent to hell , and none durst stand him ;
60223 Here , there , and every where , enrag'd he flew :
60224 The French exclaim'd the devil was in arms ;
60225 All the whole army stood agaz'd on him .
60226 His soldiers , spying his undaunted spirit ,
60227 A Talbot ! A Talbot ! cried out amain ,
60228 And rush'd into the bowels of the battle .
60229 Here had the conquest fully been seal'd up ,
60230 If Sir John Fastolfe had not play'd the coward .
60231 He , being in the vaward ,plac'd behind ,
60232 With purpose to relieve and follow them ,
60233 Cowardly fled , not having struck one stroke .
60234 Hence grew the general wrack and massacre ;
60235 Enclosed were they with their enemies .
60236 A base Walloon , to win the Dauphin's grace ,
60237 Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back ;
60238 Whom all France , with their chief assembled strength ,
60239 Durst not presume to look once in the face .
60240
60241 Is Talbot slain ? then I will slay myself ,
60242 For living idly here in pomp and ease
60243 Whilst such a worthy leader , wanting aid ,
60244 Unto his dastard foemen is betray'd .
60245
60246 O no ! he lives ; but is took prisoner ,
60247 And Lord Scales with him , and Lord Hungerford :
60248 Most of the rest slaughter'd or took likewise .
60249
60250 His ransom there is none but I shall pay :
60251 I'll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne ;
60252 His crown shall be the ransom of my friend ;
60253 Four of their lords I'll change for one of ours .
60254 Farewell , my masters ; to my task will I ;
60255 Bonfires in France forthwith I am to make ,
60256 To keep our great Saint George's feast withal :
60257 Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take ,
60258 Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake .
60259
60260 So you had need ; for Orleans is besieg'd ;
60261 The English army is grown weak and faint ;
60262 The Earl of Salisbury craveth supply ,
60263 And hardly keeps his men from mutiny ,
60264 Since they , so few , watch such a multitude .
60265
60266 Remember , lords , your oaths to Henry sworn ,
60267 Either to quell the Dauphin utterly ,
60268 Or bring him in obedience to your yoke .
60269
60270 I do remember it ; and here take my leave ,
60271 To go about my preparation .
60272
60273
60274 I'll to the Tower with all the haste I can ,
60275 To view the artillery and munition ;
60276 And then I will proclaim young Henry king .
60277
60278
60279 To Eltham will I , where the young king is ,
60280 Being ordain'd his special governor ;
60281 And for his safety there I'll best devise .
60282
60283
60284 Each hath his place and function to attend :
60285 I am left out ; for me nothing remains .
60286 But long I will not be Jack-out-of-office .
60287 The king from Eltham I intend to steal ,
60288 And sit at chiefest stern of public weal .
60289
60290
60291 Mars his true moving , even as in the heavens
60292 So in the earth , to this day is not known .
60293 Late did he shine upon the English side ;
60294 Now we are victors ; upon us he smiles .
60295 What towns of any moment but we have ?
60296 At pleasure here we lie near Orleans ;
60297 Otherwhiles the famish'd English , like pale ghosts ,
60298 Faintly besiege us one hour in a month .
60299
60300 They want their porridge and their fat bull-beeves :
60301 Either they must be dieted like mules
60302 And have their provender tied to their mouths ,
60303 Or piteous they will look , like drowned mice .
60304
60305 Let's raise the siege : why live we idly here ?
60306 Talbot is taken , whom we wont to fear :
60307 Remaineth none but mad-brain'd Salisbury ,
60308 And he may well in fretting spend his gall ;
60309 Nor men nor money hath he to make war .
60310
60311 Sound , sound alarum ! we will rush on them .
60312 Now for the honour of the forlorn French !
60313 Him I forgive my death that killeth me
60314 When he sees me go back one foot or fly .
60315
60316 Who ever saw the like ? what men have I !
60317 Dogs ! cowards ! dastards ! I would ne'er have fled
60318 But that they left me 'midst my enemies .
60319
60320 Salisbury is a desperate homicide ;
60321 He fighteth as one weary of his life :
60322 The other lords , like lions wanting food ,
60323 Do rush upon us as their hungry prey .
60324
60325 Froissart , a countryman of ours , records ,
60326 England all Olivers and Rowlands bred
60327 During the time Edward the Third did reign .
60328 More truly now may this be verified ;
60329 For none but Samsons and Goliases ,
60330 It sendeth forth to skirmish . One to ten !
60331 Lean raw-bon'd rascals ! who would e'er suppose
60332 They had such courage and audacity ?
60333
60334 Let's leave this town ; for they are hare-brain'd slaves ,
60335 And hunger will enforce them to be more eager :
60336 Of old I know them ; rather with their teeth
60337 The walls they'll tear down than forsake the siege .
60338
60339 I think , by some odd gimmals or device ,
60340 Their arms are set like clocks , still to strike on ;
60341 Else ne'er could they hold out so as they do .
60342 By my consent , we'll e'en let them alone .
60343
60344 Be it so .
60345
60346
60347 Where's the prince Dauphin ? I have news for him .
60348
60349 Bastard of Orleans , thrice welcome to us .
60350
60351 Methinks your looks are sad , your cheer appall'd :
60352 Hath the late overthrow wrought this offence ?
60353 Be not dismay'd , for succour is at hand :
60354 A holy maid hither with me I bring ,
60355 Which by a vision sent to her from heaven
60356 Ordained is to raise this tedious siege ,
60357 And drive the English forth the bounds of France .
60358 The spirit of deep prophecy she hath ,
60359 Exceeding the nine sibyls of old Rome ;
60360 What's past and what's to come she can descry .
60361 Speak , shall I call her in ? Believe my words ,
60362 For they are certain and unfallible .
60363
60364 Go , call her in .
60365
60366 But first , to try her skill ,
60367 Reignier , stand thou as Dauphin in my place :
60368 Question her proudly ; let thy looks be stern :
60369 By this means shall we sound what skill she hath .
60370
60371 Fair maid , is't thou wilt do these wondrous feats ?
60372
60373 Reignier , is't thou that thinkest to beguile me ?
60374 Where is the Dauphin ? Come , come from behind ;
60375 I know thee well , though never seen before .
60376 Be not amaz'd , there's nothing hid from me :
60377 In private will I talk with thee apart .
60378 Stand back , you lords , and give us leave a while .
60379
60380 She takes upon her bravely at first dash .
60381
60382 Dauphin , I am by birth a shepherd's daughter ,
60383 My wit untrain'd in any kind of art .
60384 Heaven and our Lady gracious hath it pleas'd
60385 To shine on my contemptible estate :
60386 Lo ! whilst I waited on my tender lambs ,
60387 And to sun's parching heat display'd my cheeks ,
60388 God's mother deigned to appear to me ,
60389 And in a vision full of majesty
60390 Will'd me to leave my base vocation
60391 And free my country from calamity :
60392 Her aid she promis'd and assur'd success ;
60393 In complete glory she reveal'd herself ;
60394 And , whereas I was black and swart before ,
60395 With those clear rays which she infus'd on me ,
60396 That beauty am I bless'd with which you see .
60397 Ask me what question thou canst possible
60398 And I will answer unpremeditated :
60399 My courage try by combat , if thou dar'st ,
60400 And thou shalt find that I exceed my sex .
60401 Resolve on this , thou shalt be fortunate
60402 If thou receive me for thy war-like mate .
60403
60404 Thou hast astonish'd me with thy high terms .
60405 Only this proof I'll of thy valour make ,
60406 In single combat thou shalt buckle with me ,
60407 And if thou vanquishest , thy words are true ;
60408 Otherwise I renounce all confidence .
60409
60410 I am prepar'd : here is my keen-edg'd sword ,
60411 Deck'd with five flower-de-luces on each side ;
60412 The which at Touraine , in Saint Katharine's churchyard ,
60413 Out of a great deal of old iron I chose forth .
60414
60415 Then come , o' God's name ; I fear no woman .
60416
60417 And , while I live , I'll ne'er fly from a man .
60418
60419
60420 Stay , stay thy hands ! thou art an Amazon ,
60421 And fightest with the sword of Deborah .
60422
60423 Christ's mother helps me , else I were too weak .
60424
60425 Whoe'er helps thee , 'tis thou that must help me :
60426 Impatiently I burn with thy desire ;
60427 My heart and hands thou hast at once subdu'd .
60428 Excellent Pucelle , if thy name be so ,
60429 Let me thy servant and not sovereign be ;
60430 'Tis the French Dauphin sueth to thee thus .
60431
60432 I must not yield to any rites of love ,
60433 For my profession's sacred from above :
60434 When I have chased all thy foes from hence ,
60435 Then will I think upon a recompense .
60436
60437 Meantime look gracious on thy prostrate thrall .
60438
60439 My lord , methinks , is very long in talk .
60440
60441 Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock ;
60442 Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech .
60443
60444 Shall we disturb him , since he keeps no mean ?
60445
60446 He may mean more than we poor men do know :
60447 These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues .
60448
60449 My lord , where are you ? what devise you on ?
60450 Shall we give over Orleans , or no ?
60451
60452 Why , no , I say , distrustful recreants !
60453 Fight till the last gasp ; I will be your guard .
60454
60455 What she says , I'll confirm : we'll fight it out .
60456
60457 Assign'd am I to be the English scourge .
60458 This night the siege assuredly I'll raise :
60459 Expect Saint Martin's summer , halcyon days ,
60460 Since I have entered into these wars .
60461 Glory is like a circle in the water ,
60462 Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself ,
60463 Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought .
60464 With Henry's death the English circle ends ;
60465 Dispersed are the glories it included .
60466 Now am I like that proud insulting ship
60467 Which C sar and his fortune bare at once .
60468
60469 Was Mahomet inspired with a dove ?
60470 Thou with an eagle art inspired then .
60471 Helen , the mother of great Constantine ,
60472 Nor yet Saint Philip's daughters were like thee .
60473 Bright star of Venus , fall'n down on the earth ,
60474 How may I reverently worship thee enough ?
60475
60476 Leave off delays and let us raise the siege .
60477
60478 Woman , do what thou canst to save our honours ;
60479 Drive them from Orleans and be immortalis'd .
60480
60481 Presently we'll try . Come , let's away about it :
60482 No prophet will I trust if she prove false .
60483
60484
60485 I am come to survey the Tower this day ;
60486 Since Henry's death , I fear , there is conveyance .
60487 Where be these warders that they wait not here ?
60488 Open the gates ! 'Tis Gloucester that calls .
60489
60490
60491 Who's there that knocks so imperiously ?
60492
60493 It is the noble Duke of Gloucester .
60494
60495 Whoe'er he be , you may not be let in .
60496
60497 Villains , answer you so the Lord Protector ?
60498
60499 The Lord protect him ! so we answer him :
60500 We do not otherwise than we are will'd .
60501
60502 Who willed you ? or whose will stands but mine ?
60503 There's none protector of the realm but I .
60504 Break up the gates , I'll be your warrantize :
60505 Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms ?
60506
60507 Lieutenant , is it you whose voice I hear ?
60508 Open the gates ! here's Gloucester that would enter .
60509
60510 Have patience , noble Duke ; I may not open ;
60511 The Cardinal of Winchester forbids :
60512 From him I have express commandment
60513 That thou nor none of thine shall be let in .
60514
60515 Faint-hearted Woodvile , prizest him 'fore me ?
60516 Arrogant Winchester , that haughty prelate ,
60517 Whom Henry , our late sovereign , ne'er could brook ?
60518 Thou art no friend to God or to the king :
60519 Open the gates , or I'll shut thee out shortly .
60520
60521 Open the gates unto the Lord Protector ;
60522 Or we'll burst them open , if that you come not quickly .
60523
60524
60525 How now , ambitious Humphrey ! what means this ?
60526
60527 Peel'd priest , dost thou command me to be shut out ?
60528
60529 I do , thou most usurping proditor ,
60530 And not protector , of the king or realm .
60531
60532 Stand back , thou manifest conspirator ,
60533 Thou that contriv'dst to murder our dead lord ;
60534 Thou that giv'st whores indulgences to sin :
60535 I'll canvass thee in thy broad cardinal's hat ,
60536 If thou proceed in this thy insolence .
60537
60538 Nay , stand thou back ; I will not budge a foot :
60539 This be Damascus , be thou cursed Cam ,
60540 To slay thy brother Abel , if thou wilt .
60541
60542 I will not slay thee , but I'll drive thee back :
60543 Thy scarlet robes as a child's bearing-cloth
60544 I'll use to carry thee out of this place .
60545
60546 Do what thou dar'st ; I'll beard thee to thy face .
60547
60548 What ! am I dar'd and bearded to my face ?
60549 Draw , men , for all this privileged place ;
60550 Blue coats to tawny-coats . Priest , beware your beard ;
60551
60552 I mean to tug it and to cuff you soundly .
60553 Under my feet I stamp thy cardinal's hat ,
60554 In spite of pope or dignities of church ,
60555 Here by the cheeks I'll drag thee up and down .
60556
60557 Gloucester , thou'lt answer this before the pope .
60558
60559 Winchester goose ! I cry a rope ! a rope !
60560 Now beat them hence ; why do you let them stay ?
60561 Thee I'll chase hence , thou wolf in sheep's array .
60562 Out , tawny coats ! out , scarlet hypocrite !
60563
60564 Fie , lords ! that you , being supreme magistrates ,
60565 Thus contumeliously should break the peace !
60566
60567 Peace , mayor ! thou know'st little of my wrongs :
60568 Here's Beaufort , that regards nor God nor King ,
60569 Hath here distrain'd the Tower to his use .
60570
60571 Here's Gloucester , a foe to citizens ;
60572 One that still motions war and never peace ,
60573 O'ercharging your free purses with large fines ,
60574 That seeks to overthrow religion
60575 Because he is protector of the realm ,
60576 And would have armour here out of the Tower ,
60577 To crown himself king and suppress the prince .
60578
60579 I will not answer thee with words , but blows .
60580
60581
60582 Nought rests for me , in this tumultuous strife
60583 But to make open proclamation .
60584 Come , officer : as loud as e'er thou canst ;
60585 Cry .
60586
60587 All manner of men , assembled here in arms this day , against God's peace and the king's , we charge and command you , in his highness' name , to repair to your several dwelling-places ; and not to wear , handle , or use , any sword , weapon , or dagger , henceforward , upon pain of death .
60588
60589 Cardinal , I'll be no breaker of the law ;
60590 But we shall meet and break our minds at large .
60591
60592 Gloucester , we will meet ; to thy cost , be sure :
60593 Thy heart-blood I will have for this day's work .
60594
60595 I'll call for clubs if you will not away .
60596 This cardinal's more haughty than the devil .
60597
60598 Mayor , farewell : thou dost but what thou mayst .
60599
60600 Abominable Gloucester ! guard thy head ;
60601 For I intend to have it ere long .
60602
60603
60604 See the coast clear'd , and then we will depart .
60605 Good God ! these nobles should such stomachs bear ;
60606 I myself fight not once in forty year .
60607
60608
60609 Sirrah , thou know'st how Orleans is besieg'd ,
60610 And how the English have the suburbs won .
60611
60612 Father , I know ; and oft have shot at them ,
60613 Howe'er unfortunate I miss'd my aim .
60614
60615 But now thou shalt not . Be thou rul'd by me :
60616 Chief master-gunner am I of this town ;
60617 Something I must do to procure me grace .
60618 The prince's espials have informed me
60619 How the English , in the suburbs close entrench'd ,
60620 Wont through a secret gate of iron bars
60621 In yonder tower to overpeer the city ,
60622 And thence discover how with most advantage
60623 They may vex us with shot or with assault .
60624 To intercept this inconvenience ,
60625 A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have plac'd ;
60626 And fully even these three days have I watch'd
60627 If I could see them . Now , boy , do thou watch ,
60628 For I can stay no longer .
60629 If thou spy'st any , run and bring me word ;
60630 And thou shalt find me at the Governor's .
60631
60632
60633 Father , I warrant you ; take you no care ;
60634 I'll never trouble you if I may spy them .
60635
60636
60637 Talbot , my life , my joy ! again return'd !
60638 How wert thou handled being prisoner ?
60639 Or by what means got'st thou to be releas'd ,
60640 Discourse , I prithee , on this turret's top .
60641
60642 The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner
60643 Called the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles ;
60644 For him I was exchang'd and ransomed .
60645 But with a baser man at arms by far
60646 Once in contempt they would have barter'd me :
60647 Which I disdaining scorn'd , and craved death
60648 Rather than I would be so vile-esteem'd .
60649 In fine , redeem'd I was as I desir'd .
60650 But , O ! the treacherous Fastolfe wounds my heart :
60651 Whom with my bare fists I would execute
60652 If I now had him brought into my power .
60653
60654 Yet tell'st thou not how thou wert entertain'd .
60655
60656 With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts .
60657 In open market-place produc'd they me ,
60658 To be a public spectacle to all :
60659 Here , said they , is the terror of the French ,
60660 The scarecrow that affrights our children so .
60661 Then broke I from the officers that led me ,
60662 And with my nails digg'd stones out of the ground
60663 To hurl at the beholders of my shame .
60664 My grisly countenance made others fly .
60665 None durst come near for fear of sudden death .
60666 In iron walls they deem'd me not secure ;
60667 So great fear of my name 'mongst them was spread
60668 That they suppos'd I could rend bars of steel
60669 And spurn in pieces posts of adamant :
60670 Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had ,
60671 That walk'd about me every minute-while ;
60672 And if I did but stir out of my bed
60673 Ready they were to shoot me to the heart .
60674
60675
60676 I grieve to hear what torments you endur'd ;
60677 But we will be reveng'd sufficiently .
60678 Now it is supper-time in Orleans :
60679 Here , through this grate , I count each one ,
60680 And view the Frenchmen how they fortify :
60681 Let us look in ; the sight will much delight thee .
60682 Sir Thomas Gargrave , and Sir William Glansdale ,
60683 Let me have your express opinions
60684 Where is best place to make our battery next .
60685
60686 I think at the North gate ; for there stand lords .
60687
60688 And I , here , at the bulwark of the bridge .
60689
60690 For aught I see , this city must be famish'd ,
60691 Or with light skirmishes enfeebled .
60692
60693
60694 O Lord ! have mercy on us , wretched sinners .
60695
60696 O Lord ! have mercy on me , woeful man .
60697
60698 What chance is this that suddenly hath cross'd us ?
60699 Speak , Salisbury ; at least , if thou canst speak :
60700 How far'st thou , mirror of all martial men ?
60701 One of thy eyes and thy cheek's side struck off !
60702 Accursed tower ! accursed fatal hand
60703 That hath contriv'd this woeful tragedy !
60704 In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame ;
60705 Henry the Fifth he first train'd to the wars ;
60706 Whilst any trump did sound or drum struck up ,
60707 His sword did ne'er leave striking in the field .
60708 Yet liv'st thou , Salisbury ? though thy speech doth fail ,
60709 One eye thou hast to look to heaven for grace :
60710 The sun with one eye vieweth all the world .
60711 Heaven , be thou gracious to none alive ,
60712 If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands !
60713 Bear hence his body ; I will help to bury it .
60714 Sir Thomas Gargrave , hast thou any life ?
60715 Speak unto Talbot ; nay , look up to him .
60716 Salisbury , cheer thy spirit with this comfort ;
60717 Thou shalt not die , whiles
60718 He beckons with his hand and smiles on me ,
60719 As who should say , 'When I am dead and gone ,
60720 Remember to avenge me on the French .'
60721 Plantagenet , I will ; and like thee , Nero ,
60722 Play on the lute , beholding the towns burn :
60723 Wretched shall France be only in my name .
60724
60725 What stir is this ? What tumult's in the heavens ?
60726 Whence cometh this alarum and the noise ?
60727
60728
60729 My lord , my lord ! the French have gather'd head :
60730 The Dauphin , with one Joan la Pucelle join'd ,
60731 A holy prophetess new risen up
60732 Is come with a great power to raise the siege .
60733
60734
60735 Hear , hear how dying Salisbury doth groan !
60736 It irks his heart he cannot be reveng'd .
60737 Frenchmen , I'll be a Salisbury to you :
60738 Pucelle or puzzel , dolphin or dogfish ,
60739 Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels
60740 And make a quagmire of your mingled brains .
60741 Convey me Salisbury into his tent ,
60742 And then we'll try what these dastard Frenchmen dare .
60743
60744
60745 Where is my strength , my valour , and my force ?
60746 Our English troops retire , I cannot stay them ;
60747 A woman clad in armour chaseth them .
60748
60749
60750 Here , here she comes . I'll have a bout with thee :
60751 Devil , or devil's dam , I'll conjure thee :
60752 Blood will I draw on thee , thou art a witch ,
60753
60754 And straightway give thy soul to him thou serv'st .
60755
60756 Come , come ; 'tis only I that must disgrace thee .
60757
60758
60759 Heavens , can you suffer hell so to prevail ?
60760 My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage ,
60761 And from my shoulders crack my arms asunder ,
60762 But I will chastise this high-minded strumpet .
60763
60764
60765 Talbot , farewell ; thy hour is not yet come :
60766 I must go victual Orleans forthwith .
60767
60768 O'ertake me if thou canst ; I scorn thy strength .
60769 Go , go , cheer up thy hunger-starved men ;
60770 Help Salisbury to make his testament :
60771 This day is ours , as many more shall be .
60772
60773
60774 My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel ;
60775 I know not where I am , nor what I do :
60776 A witch , by fear , not force , like Hannibal ,
60777 Drives back our troops and conquers as she lists :
60778 So bees with smoke , and doves with noisome stench ,
60779 Are from their hives and houses driven away .
60780 They call'd us for our fierceness English dogs ;
60781 Now , like to whelps , we crying run away .
60782
60783 Hark , countrymen ! either renew the fight ,
60784 Or tear the lions out of England's coat ;
60785 Renounce your soil , give sheep in lions' stead :
60786 Sheep run not half so treacherous from the wolf ,
60787 Or horse or oxen from the leopard ,
60788 As you fly from your oft-subdued slaves .
60789
60790 It will not be : retire into your trenches :
60791 You all consented unto Salisbury's death ,
60792 For none would strike a stroke in his revenge .
60793 Pucelle is entered into Orleans
60794 In spite of us or aught that we could do .
60795 O ! would I were to die with Salisbury .
60796 The shame hereof will make me hide my head .
60797
60798
60799 Advance our waving colours on the walls ;
60800 Rescu'd is Orleans from the English :
60801 Thus Joan la Pucelle hath perform'd her word .
60802
60803 Divinest creature , Astr a's daughter ,
60804 How shall I honour thee for this success ?
60805 Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens ,
60806 That one day bloom'd and fruitful were the next .
60807 France , triumph in thy glorious prophetess !
60808 Recover'd is the town of Orleans :
60809 More blessed hap did ne'er befall our state .
60810
60811 Why ring not out the bells throughout the town ?
60812 Dauphin , command the citizens make bonfires
60813 And feast and banquet in the open streets ,
60814 To celebrate the joy that God hath given us .
60815
60816 All France will be replete with mirth and joy ,
60817 When they shall hear how we have play'd the men .
60818
60819 'Tis Joan , not we , by whom the day is won ;
60820 For which I will divide my crown with her ;
60821 And all the priests and friars in my realm
60822 Shall in procession sing her endless praise .
60823 A statelier pyramis to her I'll rear
60824 Than Rhodope's or Memphis ever was :
60825 In memory of her when she is dead ,
60826 Her ashes , in an urn more precious
60827 Than the rich-jewell'd coffer of Darius ,
60828 Transported shall be at high festivals
60829 Before the kings and queens of France .
60830 No longer on Saint Denis will we cry ,
60831 But Joan la Pucelle shall be France's saint .
60832 Come in , and let us banquet royally ,
60833 After this golden day of victory .
60834
60835 Sirs , take your places and be vigilant .
60836 If any noise or soldier you perceive
60837 Near to the walls , by some apparent sign
60838 Let us have knowledge at the court of guard .
60839
60840 Sergeant , you shall .
60841
60842 Thus are poor servitors
60843 When others sleep upon their quiet beds
60844 Constrain'd to watch in darkness , rain , and cold .
60845
60846
60847 Lord regent , and redoubted Burgundy ,
60848 By whose approach the regions of Artois ,
60849 Walloon , and Picardy , are friends to us ,
60850 This happy night the Frenchmen are secure ,
60851 Having all day carous'd and banqueted :
60852 Embrace we then this opportunity ,
60853 As fitting best to quittance their deceit
60854 Contriv'd by art and baleful sorcery .
60855
60856 Coward of France ! how much he wrongs his fame ,
60857 Despairing of his own arm's fortitude ,
60858 To join with witches and the help of hell !
60859
60860 Traitors have never other company .
60861 But what's that Pucelle whom they term so pure ?
60862
60863 A maid , they say .
60864
60865 A maid , and be so martial !
60866
60867 Pray God she prove not masculine ere long ;
60868 If underneath the standard of the French
60869 She carry armour , as she hath begun .
60870
60871 Well , let them practise and converse with spirits ;
60872 God is our fortress , in whose conquering name
60873 Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks .
60874
60875 Ascend , brave Talbot ; we will follow thee .
60876
60877 Not all together : better far , I guess ,
60878 That we do make our entrance several ways ,
60879 That if it chance the one of us do fail ,
60880 The other yet may rise against their force .
60881
60882 Agreed . I'll to yond corner .
60883
60884 And I to this .
60885
60886 And here will Talbot mount , or make his grave .
60887 Now , Salisbury , for thee , and for the right
60888 Of English Henry , shall this night appear
60889 How much in duty I am bound to both .
60890
60891
60892 Arm , arm ! the enemy doth make assault !
60893
60894 How now , my lords ! what ! all unready so ?
60895
60896 Unready ! ay , and glad we 'scap'd so well .
60897
60898 'Twas time , I trow , to wake and leave our beds ,
60899 Hearing alarums at our chamber-doors .
60900
60901 Of all exploits since first I follow'd arms ,
60902 Ne'er heard I of a war-like enterprise
60903 More venturous or desperate than this .
60904
60905 I think this Talbot be a fiend of hell .
60906
60907 If not of hell , the heavens , sure , favour him .
60908
60909 Here cometh Charles : I marvel how he sped .
60910
60911 Tut ! holy Joan was his defensive guard .
60912
60913
60914 Is this thy cunning , thou deceitful dame ?
60915 Didst thou at first , to flatter us withal ,
60916 Make us partakers of a little gain ,
60917 That now our loss might be ten times so much ?
60918
60919 Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend ?
60920 At all times will you have my power alike ?
60921 Sleeping or waking must I still prevail ,
60922 Or will you blame and lay the fault on me ?
60923 Improvident soldiers ! had your watch been good ,
60924 This sudden mischief never could have fall'n .
60925
60926 Duke of Alen on , this was your default ,
60927 That , being captain of the watch to-night ,
60928 Did look no better to that weighty charge .
60929
60930 Had all your quarters been so safely kept
60931 As that whereof I had the government ,
60932 We had not been thus shamefully surpris'd .
60933
60934 Mine was secure .
60935
60936 And so was mine , my lord .
60937
60938 And for myself , most part of all this night ,
60939 Within her quarter and mine own precinct
60940 I was employ'd in passing to and fro ,
60941 About relieving of the sentinels :
60942 Then how or which way should they first break in ?
60943
60944 Question , my lords , no further of the case ,
60945 How or which way : 'tis sure they found some place
60946 But weakly guarded , where the breach was made .
60947 And now there rests no other shift but this ;
60948 To gather our soldiers , scatter'd and dispers'd ,
60949 And lay new platforms to endamage them .
60950
60951 I'll be so bold to take what they have left .
60952 The cry of Talbot serves me for a sword ;
60953 For I have loaden me with many spoils ,
60954 Using no other weapon but his name .
60955
60956
60957 The day begins to break , and night is fled ,
60958 Whose pitchy mantle over-veil'd the earth .
60959 Here sound retreat , and cease our hot pursuit .
60960
60961
60962 Bring forth the body of old Salisbury ,
60963 And here advance it in the market-place ,
60964 The middle centre of this cursed town .
60965 Now have I paid my vow unto his soul ;
60966 For every drop of blood was drawn from him
60967 There hath at least five Frenchmen died to-night .
60968 And that hereafter ages may behold
60969 What ruin happen'd in revenge of him ,
60970 Within their chiefest temple I'll erect
60971 A tomb wherein his corse shall be interr'd :
60972 Upon the which , that every one may read ,
60973 Shall be engrav'd the sack of Orleans ,
60974 The treacherous manner of his mournful death ,
60975 And what a terror he had been to France .
60976 But , lords , in all our bloody massacre ,
60977 I muse we met not with the Dauphin's grace ,
60978 His new-come champion , virtuous Joan of Arc ,
60979 Nor any of his false confederates .
60980
60981 'Tis thought , Lord Talbot , when the fight began ,
60982 Rous'd on the sudden from their drowsy beds ,
60983 They did amongst the troops of armed men
60984 Leap o'er the walls for refuge in the field .
60985
60986 Myself as far as I could well discern
60987 For smoke and dusky vapours of the night
60988 Am sure I scar'd the Dauphin and his trull ,
60989 When arm in arm they both came swiftly running ,
60990 Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves
60991 That could not live asunder day or night .
60992 After that things are set in order here ,
60993 We'll follow them with all the power we have .
60994
60995
60996 All hail , my lords ! Which of this princely train
60997 Call ye the war-like Talbot , for his acts
60998 So much applauded through the realm of France ?
60999
61000 Here is the Talbot : who would speak with him ?
61001
61002 The virtuous lady , Countess of Auvergne ,
61003 With modesty admiring thy renown ,
61004 By me entreats , great lord , thou wouldst vouchsafe
61005 To visit her poor castle where she lies ,
61006 That she may boast she hath beheld the man
61007 Whose glory fills the world with loud report .
61008
61009 Is it even so ? Nay , then , I see our wars
61010 Will turn into a peaceful comic sport ,
61011 When ladies crave to be encounter'd with .
61012 You may not , my lord , despise her gentle suit .
61013
61014 Ne'er trust me then ; for when a world of men
61015 Could not prevail with all their oratory ,
61016 Yet hath a woman's kindness over-rul'd :
61017 And therefore tell her I return great thanks ,
61018 And in submission will attend on her .
61019 Will not your honours bear me company ?
61020
61021 No , truly ; it is more than manners will ;
61022 And I have heard it said , unbidden guests
61023 Are often welcomest when they are gone .
61024
61025 Well then , alone ,since there's no remedy ,
61026 I mean to prove this lady's courtesy .
61027 Come hither , captain .
61028
61029 You perceive my mind .
61030
61031 I do , my lord , and mean accordingly .
61032
61033
61034 Porter , remember what I gave in charge ;
61035 And when you have done so , bring the keys to me .
61036
61037 Madam , I will .
61038
61039
61040 The plot is laid : if all things fall out right ,
61041 I shall as famous be by this exploit
61042 As Scythian Tomyris by Cyrus' death .
61043 Great is the rumour of this dreadful knight ,
61044 And his achievements of no less account :
61045 Fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears ,
61046 To give their censure of these rare reports .
61047
61048
61049 Madam ,
61050 According as your ladyship desir'd ,
61051 By message crav'd , so is Lord Talbot come .
61052
61053 And he is welcome . What ! is this the man ?
61054
61055 Madam , it is .
61056
61057 Is this the scourge of France ?
61058 Is this the Talbot , so much fear'd abroad ,
61059 That with his name the mothers still their babes ?
61060 I see report is fabulous and false :
61061 I thought I should have seen some Hercules ,
61062 A second Hector , for his grim aspect ,
61063 And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs .
61064 Alas ! this is a child , a silly dwarf :
61065 It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp
61066 Should strike such terror to his enemies .
61067
61068 Madam , I have been bold to trouble you ;
61069 But since your ladyship is not at leisure ,
61070 I'll sort some other time to visit you .
61071
61072 What means he now ? Go ask him whither he goes .
61073
61074 Stay , my Lord Talbot ; for my lady craves
61075 To know the cause of your abrupt departure .
61076
61077 Marry , for that she's in a wrong belief ,
61078 I go to certify her Talbot's here .
61079
61080
61081 If thou be he , then art thou prisoner .
61082
61083 Prisoner ! to whom ?
61084
61085 To me , blood-thirsty lord ;
61086 And for that cause I train'd thee to my house .
61087 Long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me ,
61088 For in my gallery thy picture hangs :
61089 But now the substance shall endure the like ,
61090 And I will chain these legs and arms of thine ,
61091 That hast by tyranny , these many years
61092 Wasted our country , slain our citizens ,
61093 And sent our sons and husbands captivate .
61094
61095 Ha , ha , ha !
61096
61097 Laughest thou , wretch ? thy mirth shall turn to moan .
61098
61099 I laugh to see your ladyship so fond
61100 To think that you have aught but Talbot's shadow ,
61101 Whereon to practise your severity .
61102
61103 Why , art not thou the man ?
61104
61105 I am , indeed .
61106
61107 Then have I substance too .
61108
61109 No , no , I am but shadow of myself :
61110 You are deceiv'd , my substance is not here ;
61111 For what you see is but the smallest part
61112 And least proportion of humanity .
61113 I tell you , madam , were the whole frame here ,
61114 It is of such a spacious lofty pitch ,
61115 Your roof were not sufficient to contain it .
61116
61117 This is a riddling merchant for the nonce ;
61118 He will be here , and yet he is not here :
61119 How can these contrarieties agree ?
61120
61121 That will I show you presently .
61122
61123
61124 How say you , madam ? are you now persuaded
61125 That Talbot is but shadow of himself ?
61126 These are his substance , sinews , arms , and strength ,
61127 With which he yoketh your rebellious necks ,
61128 Razeth your cities , and subverts your towns ,
61129
61130 And in a moment makes them desolate .
61131
61132 Victorious Talbot ! pardon my abuse :
61133 I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited ,
61134 And more than may be gather'd by thy shape .
61135 Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath ;
61136 For I am sorry that with reverence
61137 I did not entertain thee as thou art .
61138
61139 Be not dismay'd , fair lady ; nor misconster
61140 The mind of Talbot as you did mistake
61141 The outward composition of his body .
61142 What you have done hath not offended me ;
61143 Nor other satisfaction do I crave ,
61144 But only , with your patience , that we may
61145 Taste of your wine and see what cates you have ;
61146 For soldiers' stomachs always serve them well .
61147
61148 With all my heart , and think me honoured
61149 To feast so great a warrior in my house .
61150
61151
61152 Great lords , and gentlemen , what means this silence ?
61153 Dare no man answer in a case of truth ?
61154
61155 Within the Temple hall we were too loud ;
61156 The garden here is more convenient .
61157
61158 Then say at once if I maintain'd the truth ,
61159 Or else was wrangling Somerset in the error ?
61160
61161 Faith , I have been a truant in the law ,
61162 And never yet could frame my will to it ;
61163 And therefore frame the law unto my will .
61164
61165 Judge you , my Lord of Warwick , then , between us .
61166
61167 Between two hawks , which flies the higher pitch ;
61168 Between two dogs , which hath the deeper mouth ;
61169 Between two blades , which bears the better temper ;
61170 Between two horses , which doth bear him best ;
61171 Between two girls , which hath the merriest eye ;
61172 I have perhaps , some shallow spirit of judgment ;
61173 But in these nice sharp quillets of the law ,
61174 Good faith , I am no wiser than a daw .
61175
61176 Tut , tut ! here is a mannerly forbearance :
61177 The truth appears so naked on my side ,
61178 That any purblind eye may find it out .
61179
61180 And on my side it is so well apparell'd ,
61181 So clear , so shining , and so evident ,
61182 That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye .
61183
61184 Since you are tongue-tied , and so loath to speak ,
61185 In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts :
61186 Let him that is a true-born gentleman ,
61187 And stands upon the honour of his birth ,
61188 If he suppose that I have pleaded truth ,
61189 From off this brier pluck a white rose with me .
61190
61191 Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer ,
61192 But dare maintain the party of the truth ,
61193 Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me .
61194
61195 I love no colours , and , without all colour
61196 Of base insinuating flattery
61197 I pluck this white rose with Plantagenet .
61198
61199 I pluck this red rose with young Somerset :
61200 And say withal I think he held the right .
61201
61202 Stay , lords and gentlemen , and pluck no more ,
61203 Till you conclude that he , upon whose side
61204 The fewest roses are cropp'd from the tree ,
61205 Shall yield the other in the right opinion .
61206
61207 Good Master Vernon , it is well objected :
61208 If I have fewest I subscribe in silence .
61209
61210 And I .
61211
61212 Then for the truth and plainness of the case ,
61213 I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here ,
61214 Giving my verdict on the white rose side .
61215
61216 Prick not your finger as you pluck it off ,
61217 Lest bleeding you do paint the white rose red ,
61218 And fall on my side so , against your will .
61219
61220 If I , my lord , for my opinion bleed ,
61221 Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt ,
61222 And keep me on the side where still I am .
61223
61224 Well , well , come on : who else ?
61225
61226 Unless my study and my books be false ,
61227 The argument you held was wrong in you ,
61228 In sign whereof I pluck a white rose too .
61229
61230 Now , Somerset , where is your argument ?
61231
61232 Here , in my scabbard ; meditating that
61233 Shall dye your white rose in a bloody red .
61234
61235 Meantime , your cheeks do counterfeit our roses ;
61236 For pale they look with fear , as witnessing
61237 The truth on our side .
61238
61239 No , Plantagenet ,
61240 'Tis not for fear but anger that thy cheeks
61241 Blush for pure shame to counterfeit our roses ,
61242 And yet thy tongue will not confess thy error .
61243
61244 Hath not thy rose a canker , Somerset ?
61245
61246 Hath not thy rose a thorn , Plantagenet ?
61247
61248 Ay , sharp and piercing , to maintain his truth ;
61249 Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood .
61250
61251 Well , I'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses ,
61252 That shall maintain what I have said is true ,
61253 Where false Plantagenet dare not be seen .
61254
61255 Now , by this maiden blossom in my hand ,
61256 I scorn thee and thy faction , peevish boy .
61257
61258 Turn not thy scorns this way , Plantagenet .
61259
61260 Proud Pole , I will , and scorn both him and thee .
61261
61262 I'll turn my part thereof into thy throat .
61263
61264 Away , away ! good William de la Pole :
61265 We grace the yeoman by conversing with him .
61266
61267 Now , by God's will , thou wrong'st him , Somerset :
61268 His grandfather was Lionel , Duke of Clarence ,
61269 Third son to the third Edward , King of England .
61270 Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root ?
61271
61272 He bears him on the place's privilege ,
61273 Or durst not , for his craven heart , say thus .
61274
61275 By Him that made me , I'll maintain my words
61276 On any plot of ground in Christendom .
61277 Was not thy father , Richard Earl of Cambridge ,
61278 For treason executed in our late king's days ?
61279 And , by his treason stand'st not thou attainted ,
61280 Corrupted , and exempt from ancient gentry ?
61281 His trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood ;
61282 And , till thou be restor'd , thou art a yeoman .
61283
61284 My father was attached , not attained ;
61285 Condemn'd to die for treason , but no traitor ;
61286 And that I'll prove on better men than Somerset ,
61287 Were growing time once ripen'd to my will .
61288 For your partaker Pole and you yourself ,
61289 I'll note you in my book of memory ,
61290 To scourge you for this apprehension :
61291 Look to it well and say you are well warn'd .
61292
61293 Ah , thou shalt find us ready for thee still ,
61294 And know us by these colours for thy foes ;
61295 For these my friends in spite of thee shall wear .
61296
61297 And , by my soul , this pale and angry rose ,
61298 As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate ,
61299 Will I for ever and my faction wear ,
61300 Until it wither with me to my grave
61301 Or flourish to the height of my degree .
61302
61303 Go forward , and be chok'd with thy ambition :
61304 And so farewell until I meet thee next .
61305
61306
61307 Have with thee , Pole . Farewell , ambitious Richard .
61308
61309
61310 How I am brav'd and must perforce endure it !
61311
61312 This blot that they object against your house
61313 Shall be wip'd out in the next parliament ,
61314 Call'd for the truce of Winchester and Gloucester ;
61315 And if thou be not then created York ,
61316 I will not live to be accounted Warwick .
61317 Meantime in signal of my love to thee ,
61318 Against proud Somerset and William Pole ,
61319 Will I upon thy party wear this rose .
61320 And here I prophesy : this brawl to-day ,
61321 Grown to this faction in the Temple garden ,
61322 Shall send between the red rose and the white
61323 A thousand souls to death and deadly night .
61324
61325 Good Master Vernon , I am bound to you ,
61326 That you on my behalf would pluck a flower .
61327
61328 In your behalf still would I wear the same .
61329
61330 And so will I .
61331
61332 Thanks , gentle sir .
61333 Come , let us four to dinner : I dare say
61334 This quarrel will drink blood another day .
61335
61336
61337 Kind keepers of my weak decaying age ,
61338 Let dying Mortimer here rest himself .
61339 Even like a man new haled from the rack ,
61340 So fare my limbs with long imprisonment ;
61341 And these gray locks , the pursuivants of death ,
61342 Nestor-like aged , in an age of care ,
61343 Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer .
61344 These eyes , like lamps whose wasting oil is spent ,
61345 Wax dim , as drawing to their exigent ;
61346 Weak shoulders , overborne with burdening grief ,
61347 And pithless arms , like to a wither'd vine
61348 That droops his sapless branches to the ground :
61349 Yet are these feet , whose strengthless stay is numb ,
61350 Unable to support this lump of clay ,
61351 Swift-winged with desire to get a grave ,
61352 As witting I no other comfort have .
61353 But tell me , keeper , will my nephew come ?
61354
61355 Richard Plantagenet , my lord , will come :
61356 We sent unto the Temple , unto his chamber .
61357 And answer was return'd that he will come .
61358
61359 Enough : my soul shall then be satisfied .
61360 Poor gentleman ! his wrong doth equal mine .
61361 Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign ,
61362 Before whose glory I was great in arms ,
61363 This loathsome sequestration have I had ;
61364 And even since then hath Richard been obscur'd ,
61365 Depriv'd of honour and inheritance .
61366 But now the arbitrator of despairs ,
61367 Just death , kind umpire of men's miseries ,
61368 With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence :
61369 I would his troubles likewise were expir'd ,
61370 That so he might recover what was lost .
61371
61372
61373 My lord , your loving nephew now is come .
61374
61375 Richard Plantagenet , my friend , is he come ?
61376
61377 Ay , noble uncle , thus ignobly us'd ,
61378 Your nephew , late despised Richard , comes .
61379
61380 Direct mine arms I may embrace his neck ,
61381 And in his bosom spend my latter gasp :
61382 O ! tell me when my lips do touch his cheeks ,
61383 That I may kindly give one fainting kiss .
61384 And now declare , sweet stem from York's great stock ,
61385 Why didst thou say of late thou wert despis'd ?
61386
61387 First , lean thine aged back against mine arm ;
61388 And in that ease , I'll tell thee my disease .
61389 This day , in argument upon a case ,
61390 Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me ;
61391 Among which terms he us'd a lavish tongue
61392 And did upbraid me with my father's death :
61393 Which obloquy set bars before my tongue ,
61394 Else with the like I had requited him .
61395 Therefore , good uncle , for my father's sake ,
61396 In honour of a true Plantagenet ,
61397 And for alliance sake , declare the cause
61398 My father , Earl of Cambridge , lost his head .
61399
61400 That cause , fair nephew , that imprison'd me ,
61401 And hath detain'd me all my flow'ring youth
61402 Within a loathsome dungeon , there to pine ,
61403 Was cursed instrument of his decease .
61404
61405 Discover more at large what cause that was ,
61406 For I am ignorant and cannot guess .
61407
61408 I will , if that my fading breath permit ,
61409 And death approach not ere my tale be done .
61410 Henry the Fourth , grandfather to this king ,
61411 Depos'd his nephew Richard , Edward's son ,
61412 The first-begotten , and the lawful heir
61413 Of Edward king , the third of that descent :
61414 During whose reign the Percies of the North ,
61415 Finding his usurpation most unjust ,
61416 Endeavour'd my advancement to the throne .
61417 The reason mov'd these warlike lords to this
61418 Was , for that young King Richard thus remov'd ,
61419 Leaving no heir begotten of his body
61420 I was the next by birth and parentage ;
61421 For by my mother I derived am
61422 From Lionel Duke of Clarence , the third son
61423 To King Edward the Third ; whereas he
61424 From John of Gaunt doth bring his pedigree ,
61425 Being but fourth of that heroic line .
61426 But mark : as , in this haughty great attempt
61427 They laboured to plant the rightful heir ,
61428 I lost my liberty , and they their lives .
61429 Long after this , when Henry the Fifth
61430 Succeeding his father Bolingbroke , did reign ,
61431 Thy father , Earl of Cambridge , then deriv'd
61432 From famous Edmund Langley , Duke of York ,
61433 Marrying my sister that thy mother was ,
61434 Again in pity of my hard distress
61435 Levied an army , weening to redeem
61436 And have install'd me in the diadem ;
61437 But , as the rest , so fell that noble earl ,
61438 And was beheaded . Thus the Mortimers ,
61439 In whom the title rested , were suppress'd .
61440
61441 Of which , my lord , your honour is the last .
61442
61443 True ; and thou seest that I no issue have ,
61444 And that my fainting words do warrant death :
61445 Thou art my heir ; the rest I wish thee gather :
61446 But yet be wary in thy studious care .
61447
61448 Thy grave admonishments prevail with me .
61449 But yet methinks my father's execution
61450 Was nothing less than bloody tyranny .
61451
61452 With silence , nephew , be thou politic :
61453 Strong-fixed is the house of Lancaster ,
61454 And like a mountain , not to be remov'd .
61455 But now thy uncle is removing hence ,
61456 As princes do their courts , when they are cloy'd
61457 With long continuance in a settled place .
61458
61459 O uncle ! would some part of my young years
61460 Might but redeem the passage of your age .
61461
61462 Thou dost then wrong me ,as the slaughterer doth ,
61463 Which giveth many wounds when one will kill .
61464 Mourn not , except thou sorrow for my good ;
61465 Only give order for my funeral :
61466 And so farewell ; and fair be all thy hopes ,
61467 And prosperous be thy life in peace and war !
61468
61469
61470 And peace , no war , befall thy parting soul !
61471 In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage ,
61472 And like a hermit overpass'd thy days .
61473 Well , I will lock his counsel in my breast ;
61474 And what I do imagine let that rest .
61475 Keepers , convey him hence ; and I myself
61476 Will see his burial better than his life .
61477
61478 Here dies the dusky torch of Mortimer ,
61479 Chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort :
61480 And , for those wrongs , those bitter injuries ,
61481 Which Somerset hath offer'd to my house ,
61482 I doubt not but with honour to redress ;
61483 And therefore haste I to the parliament ,
61484 Either to be restored to my blood ,
61485 Or make my ill the advantage of my good .
61486
61487
61488 Com'st thou with deep premeditated lines ,
61489 With written pamphlets studiously devis'd ,
61490 Humphrey of Gloucester ? If thou canst accuse ,
61491 Or aught intend'st to lay unto my charge ,
61492 Do it without invention , suddenly ;
61493 As I , with sudden and extemporal speech
61494 Purpose to answer what thou canst object .
61495
61496 Presumptuous priest ! this place commands my patience
61497 Or thou shouldst find thou hast dishonour'd me .
61498 Think not , although in writing I preferr'd
61499 The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes ,
61500 That therefore I have forg'd , or am not able
61501 Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen :
61502 No , prelate ; such is thy audacious wickedness ,
61503 Thy lewd , pestiferous , and dissentious pranks ,
61504 As very infants prattle of thy pride .
61505 Thou art a most pernicious usurer ,
61506 Froward by nature , enemy to peace ;
61507 Lascivious , wanton , more than well beseems
61508 A man of thy profession and degree ;
61509 And for thy treachery , what's more manifest ?
61510 In that thou laid'st a trap to take my life
61511 As well at London Bridge as at the Tower .
61512 Beside , I fear me , if thy thoughts were sifted ,
61513 The king , thy sov'reign , is not quite exempt
61514 From envious malice of thy swelling heart .
61515
61516 Gloucester , I do defy thee . Lords , vouchsafe
61517 To give me hearing what I shall reply .
61518 If I were covetous , ambitious , or perverse ,
61519 As he will have me , how am I so poor ?
61520 Or how haps it I seek not to advance
61521 Or raise myself , but keep my wonted calling ?
61522 And for dissension , who preferreth peace
61523 More than I do , except I be provok'd ?
61524 No , my good lords , it is not that offends ;
61525 It is not that that hath incens'd the duke :
61526 It is , because no one should sway but he ;
61527 No one but he should be about the king ;
61528 And that engenders thunder in his breast ,
61529 And makes him roar these accusations forth .
61530 But he shall know I am as good
61531
61532 As good !
61533 Thou bastard of my grandfather !
61534
61535 Ay , lordly sir ; for what are you , I pray ,
61536 But one imperious in another's throne ?
61537
61538 Am I not protector , saucy priest ?
61539
61540 And am not I a prelate of the church ?
61541
61542 Yes , as an outlaw in a castle keeps ,
61543 And useth it to patronage his theft .
61544
61545 Unreverent Gloucester !
61546
61547 Thou art reverent ,
61548 Touching thy spiritual function , not thy life .
61549
61550 Rome shall remedy this .
61551
61552 Roam thither then .
61553
61554 My lord , it were your duty to forbear .
61555
61556 Ay , see the bishop be not overborne .
61557
61558 Methinks my lord should be religious ,
61559 And know the office that belongs to such .
61560
61561 Methinks his lordship should be humbler ;
61562 It fitteth not a prelate so to plead .
61563
61564 Yes , when his holy state is touch'd so near .
61565
61566 State holy , or unhallow'd , what of that ?
61567 Is not his Grace protector to the king ?
61568
61569 Plantagenet , I see , must hold his tongue ,
61570 Lest it be said , 'Speak , sirrah , when you should ;
61571 Must your bold verdict enter talk with lords ?'
61572 Else would I have a fling at Winchester .
61573
61574 Uncles of Gloucester and of Winchester ,
61575 The special watchmen of our English weal ,
61576 I would prevail , if prayers might prevail ,
61577 To join your hearts in love and amity .
61578 O ! what a scandal is it to our crown ,
61579 That two such noble peers as ye should jar .
61580 Believe me , lords , my tender years can tell
61581 Civil dissension is a viperous worm ,
61582 That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth .
61583
61584 What tumult's this ?
61585
61586 An uproar , I dare warrant ,
61587 Begun through malice of the bishop's men .
61588
61589 O , my good lords , and virtuous Henry ,
61590 Pity the city of London , pity us !
61591 The bishop and the Duke of Gloucester's men ,
61592 Forbidden late to carry any weapon ,
61593 Have fill'd their pockets full of pebble stones ,
61594 And banding themselves in contrary parts
61595 Do pelt so fast at one another's pate ,
61596 That many have their giddy brains knock'd out :
61597 Our windows are broke down in every street ,
61598 And we for fear compell'd to shut our shops .
61599
61600
61601 We charge you , on allegiance to ourself ,
61602 To hold your slaught'ring hands , and keep the peace .
61603 Pray , uncle Gloucester , mitigate this strife .
61604
61605 Nay , if we be forbidden stones , we'll fall to it with our teeth .
61606
61607 Do what ye dare , we are as resolute .
61608
61609
61610 You of my household , leave this peevish broil ,
61611 And set this unaccustom'd fight aside .
61612
61613 My lord , we know your Grace to be a man
61614 Just and upright , and , for your royal birth ,
61615 Inferior to none but to his majesty ;
61616 And ere that we will suffer such a prince ,
61617 So kind a father of the commonweal ,
61618 To be disgraced by an inkhorn mate ,
61619 We and our wives and children all will fight ,
61620 And have our bodies slaught'red by thy foes .
61621
61622 Ay , and the very parings of our nails
61623 Shall pitch a field when we are dead .
61624
61625
61626 Stay , stay , I say !
61627 And , if you love me , as you say you do ,
61628 Let me persuade you to forbear a while .
61629
61630 O ! how this discord doth afflict my soul !
61631 Can you , my Lord of Winchester , behold
61632 My sighs and tears and will not once relent ?
61633 Who should be pitiful if you be not ?
61634 Or who should study to prefer a peace
61635 If holy churchmen take delight in broils ?
61636
61637 Yield , my Lord Protector ; yield , Winchester ;
61638 Except you mean with obstinate repulse
61639 To slay your sov'reign and destroy the realm .
61640 You see what mischief and what murder too
61641 Hath been enacted through your enmity :
61642 Then be at peace , except ye thirst for blood .
61643
61644 He shall submit or I will never yield .
61645
61646 Compassion on the king commands me stoop ;
61647 Or I would see his heart out ere the priest
61648 Should ever get that privilege of me .
61649
61650 Behold , my Lord of Winchester , the duke
61651 Hath banish'd moody discontented fury ,
61652 As by his smoothed brows it doth appear :
61653 Why look you still so stern and tragical ?
61654
61655 Here , Winchester , I offer thee my hand .
61656
61657 Fie , uncle Beaufort ! I have heard you preach ,
61658 That malice was a great and grievous sin ;
61659 And will not you maintain the thing you teach ,
61660 But prove a chief offender in the same ?
61661
61662 Sweet king ! the bishop hath a kindly gird .
61663 For shame , my Lord of Winchester , relent !
61664 What ! shall a child instruct you what to do ?
61665
61666 Well , Duke of Gloucester , I will yield to thee ;
61667 Love for thy love and hand for hand I give .
61668
61669 Ay ; but I fear me , with a hollow heart .
61670 See here , my friends and loving countrymen ,
61671 This token serveth for a flag of truce ,
61672 Betwixt ourselves and all our followers .
61673 So help me God , as I dissemble not !
61674
61675 So help me God , as I intend it not !
61676
61677 O loving uncle , kind Duke of Gloucester ,
61678 How joyful am I made by this contract !
61679 Away , my masters ! trouble us no more ;
61680 But join in friendship , as your lords have done .
61681
61682 Content : I'll to the surgeon's .
61683
61684 And so will I .
61685
61686 And I will see what physic the tavern affords .
61687
61688
61689 Accept this scroll , most gracious sovereign ,
61690 Which in the right of Richard Plantagenet
61691 We do exhibit to your majesty .
61692
61693 Well urg'd , my Lord of Warwick : for , sweet prince ,
61694 An if your Grace mark every circumstance ,
61695 You have great reason to do Richard right ;
61696 Especially for those occasions
61697 At Eltham-place I told your majesty .
61698
61699 And those occasions , uncle , were of force :
61700 Therefore , my loving lords , our pleasure is
61701 That Richard be restored to his blood .
61702
61703 Let Richard be restored to his blood ;
61704 So shall his father's wrongs be recompens'd .
61705
61706 As will the rest , so willeth Winchester .
61707
61708 If Richard will be true , not that alone ,
61709 But all the whole inheritance I give
61710 That doth belong unto the house of York ,
61711 From whence you spring by lineal descent .
61712
61713 Thy humble servant vows obedience ,
61714 And humble service till the point of death .
61715
61716 Stoop then and set your knee against my foot ;
61717 And , in reguerdon of that duty done ,
61718 I girt thee with the valiant sword of York :
61719 Rise , Richard , like a true Plantagenet ,
61720 And rise created princely Duke of York .
61721
61722 And so thrive Richard as thy foes may fall !
61723 And as my duty springs , so perish they
61724 That grudge one thought against your majesty !
61725
61726 Welcome , high prince , the mighty Duke of York !
61727
61728 Perish , base prince , ignoble Duke of York !
61729
61730 Now , will it best avail your majesty
61731 To cross the seas and to be crown'd in France .
61732 The presence of a king engenders love
61733 Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends ,
61734 As it disanimates his enemies .
61735
61736 When Gloucester says the word , King Henry goes ;
61737 For friendly counsel cuts off many foes .
61738
61739 Your ships already are in readiness .
61740
61741
61742 Ay , we may march in England or in France ,
61743 Not seeing what is likely to ensue .
61744 This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
61745 Burns under feigned ashes of forg'd love ,
61746 And will at last break out into a flame :
61747 As fester'd members rot but by degree ,
61748 Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away ,
61749 So will this base and envious discord breed .
61750 And now I fear that fatal prophecy
61751 Which in the time of Henry , nam'd the Fifth ,
61752 Was in the mouth of every sucking babe ;
61753 That Henry born at Monmouth should win all ;
61754 And Henry born at Windsor should lose all :
61755 Which is so plain that Exeter doth wish
61756 His days may finish ere that hapless time .
61757
61758 These are the city gates , the gates of Roan ,
61759 Through which our policy must make a breach :
61760 Take heed , be wary how you place your words ;
61761 Talk like the vulgar sort of market-men
61762 That come to gather money for their corn .
61763 If we have entrance ,as I hope we shall ,
61764 And that we find the slothful watch but weak ,
61765 I'll by a sign give notice to our friends ,
61766 That Charles the Dauphin may encounter them .
61767
61768 Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city ,
61769 And we be lords and rulers over Roan ;
61770 Therefore we'll knock .
61771
61772
61773 Qui est l ?
61774
61775 Paisans , pauvres gens de France :
61776 Poor market-folks that come to sell their corn .
61777
61778 Enter , go in ; the market-bell is rung .
61779
61780 Now , Roan , I'll shake thy bulwarks to the ground .
61781
61782 Saint Denis bless this happy stratagem !
61783 And once again we'll sleep secure in Roan .
61784
61785 Here enter'd Pucelle and her practisants ;
61786 Now she is there how will she specify
61787 Where is the best and safest passage in ?
61788
61789 By thrusting out a torch from yonder tower ;
61790 Which , once discern'd , shows that her meaning is ,
61791 No way to that , for weakness , which she enter'd .
61792
61793
61794 Behold ! this is the happy wedding torch
61795 That joineth Roan unto her countrymen ,
61796 But burning fatal to the Talbotites !
61797
61798
61799 See , noble Charles , the beacon of our friend ,
61800 The burning torch in yonder turret stands .
61801
61802 Now shine it like a comet of revenge ,
61803 A prophet to the fall of all our foes !
61804
61805 Defer no time , delays have dangerous ends ;
61806 Enter , and cry 'The Dauphin !' presently ,
61807 And then do execution on the watch .
61808
61809 France , thou shalt rue this treason with thy tears ,
61810 If Talbot but survive thy treachery .
61811 Pucelle , that witch , that damned sorceress ,
61812 Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares ,
61813 That hardly we escap'd the pride of France .
61814
61815
61816 Good morrow , gallants ! Want ye corn for bread ?
61817 I think the Duke of Burgundy will fast
61818 Before he'll buy again at such a rate .
61819 'Twas full of darnel ; do you like the taste ?
61820
61821 Scoff on , vile fiend and shameless courtezan !
61822 I trust ere long to choke thee with thine own ,
61823 And make thee curse the harvest of that corn .
61824
61825 Your Grace may starve perhaps , before that time .
61826
61827 O ! let no words , but deeds , revenge this treason !
61828
61829 What will you do , good grey-beard ? break a lance ,
61830 And run a tilt at death within a chair ?
61831
61832 Foul fiend of France , and hag of all despite ,
61833 Encompass'd with thy lustful paramours !
61834 Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
61835 And twit with cowardice a man half dead ?
61836 Damsel , I'll have a bout with you again ,
61837 Or else let Talbot perish with this shame .
61838
61839 Are you so hot , sir ? Yet , Pucelle , hold thy peace ;
61840 If Talbot do but thunder , rain will follow .
61841
61842 God speed the parliament ! who shall be the speaker ?
61843
61844 Dare ye come forth and meet us in the field ?
61845
61846 Belike your lordship takes us then for fools ,
61847 To try if that our own be ours or no .
61848
61849 I speak not to that railing Hecate ,
61850 But unto thee , Alen on , and the rest ;
61851 Will ye , like soldiers , come and fight it out ?
61852
61853 Signior , no .
61854
61855 Signior , hang ! base muleters of France !
61856 Like peasant foot-boys do they keep the walls ,
61857 And dare not take up arms like gentlemen .
61858
61859 Away , captains ! let's get us from the walls ;
61860 For Talbot means no-goodness , by his looks .
61861 God be wi' you , my lord ! we came but to tell you
61862 That we are here .
61863
61864
61865 And there will we be too , ere it be long ,
61866 Or else reproach be Talbot's greatest fame !
61867 Vow , Burgundy , by honour of thy house ,
61868 Prick'd on by public wrongs sustain'd in France ,
61869 Either to get the town again , or die ;
61870 And I , as sure as English Henry lives ,
61871 And as his father here was conqueror ,
61872 As sure as in this late-betrayed town
61873 Great C ur-de-lion's heart was buried ,
61874 So sure I swear to get the town or die .
61875
61876 My vows are equal partners with thy vows .
61877
61878 But , ere we go , regard this dying prince ,
61879 The valiant Duke of Bedford . Come , my lord ,
61880 We will bestow you in some better place ,
61881 Fitter for sickness and for crazy age .
61882
61883 Lord Talbot , do not so dishonour me :
61884 Here will I sit before the walls of Roan ,
61885 And will be partner of your weal or woe .
61886
61887 Courageous Bedford , let us now persuade you .
61888
61889 Not to be gone from hence ; for once I read ,
61890 That stout Pendragon in his litter , sick ,
61891 Came to the field and vanquished his foes :
61892 Methinks I should revive the soldiers' hearts ,
61893 Because I ever found them as myself .
61894
61895 Undaunted spirit in a dying breast !
61896 Then be it so : heavens keep old Bedford safe !
61897 And now no more ado , brave Burgundy ,
61898 But gather we our forces out of hand ,
61899 And set upon our boasting enemy .
61900
61901 Whither away , Sir John Fastolfe , in such haste ?
61902
61903 Whither away ! to save myself by flight :
61904 We are like to have the overthrow again .
61905
61906 What ! will you fly , and leave Lord Talbot ?
61907
61908 Ay ,
61909 All the Talbots in the world , to save my life .
61910
61911
61912 Cowardly knight ! ill fortune follow thee !
61913
61914
61915 Now , quiet soul , depart when Heaven please ,
61916 For I have seen our enemies' overthrow .
61917 What is the trust or strength of foolish man ?
61918 They , that of late were daring with their scoffs
61919 Are glad and fain by flight to save themselves .
61920
61921 Lost , and recover'd in a day again !
61922 This is a double honour , Burgundy :
61923 Yet heavens have glory for this victory !
61924
61925 Warlike and martial Talbot , Burgundy
61926 Enshrines thee in his heart , and there erects
61927 Thy noble deeds as valour's monument .
61928
61929 Thanks , gentle duke . But where is Pucelle now ?
61930 I think her old familiar is asleep .
61931 Now where's the Bastard's braves , and Charles his gleeks ?
61932 What ! all amort ? Roan hangs her head for grief ,
61933 That such a valiant company are fled .
61934 Now will we take some order in the town ,
61935 Placing therein some expert officers ,
61936 And then depart to Paris to the king ;
61937 For there young Henry with his nobles lie .
61938
61939 What wills Lord Talbot pleaseth Burgundy .
61940
61941 But yet , before we go , let's not forget
61942 The noble Duke of Bedford late deceas'd ,
61943 But see his exequies fulfill'd in Roan :
61944 A braver soldier never couched lance ,
61945 A gentler heart did never sway in court ;
61946 But kings and mightiest potentates must die ,
61947 For that's the end of human misery .
61948
61949
61950 Dismay not , princes , at this accident ,
61951 Nor grieve that Roan is so recovered :
61952 Care is no cure , but rather corrosive ,
61953 For things that are not to be remedied .
61954 Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while ,
61955 And like a peacock sweep along his tail ;
61956 We'll pull his plumes and take away his train ,
61957 If Dauphin and the rest will be but rul'd .
61958
61959 We have been guided by thee hitherto ,
61960 And of thy cunning had no diffidence :
61961 One sudden foil shall never breed distrust .
61962
61963 Search out thy wit for secret policies ,
61964 And we will make thee famous through the world .
61965
61966 We'll set thy statue in some holy place
61967 And have thee reverenc'd like a blessed saint :
61968 Employ thee , then , sweet virgin , for our good .
61969
61970 Then thus it must be ; this doth Joan devise :
61971 By fair persuasions , mix'd with sugar'd words ,
61972 We will entice the Duke of Burgundy
61973 To leave the Talbot and to follow us .
61974
61975 Ay , marry , sweeting , if we could do that ,
61976 France were no place for Henry's warriors ;
61977 Nor should that nation boast it so with us ,
61978 But be extirped from our provinces .
61979
61980 For ever should they be expuls'd from France ,
61981 And not have title of an earldom here .
61982
61983 Your honours shall perceive how I will work
61984 To bring this matter to the wished end .
61985
61986 Hark ! by the sound of drum you may perceive
61987 Their powers are marching unto Paris-ward .
61988
61989
61990 There goes the Talbot , with his colours spread ,
61991 And all the troops of English after him .
61992
61993 Now in the rearward comes the duke and his :
61994 Fortune in favour makes him lag behind .
61995 Summon a parley ; we will talk with him .
61996
61997 A parley with the Duke of Burgundy !
61998
61999 Who craves a parley with the Burgundy ?
62000
62001 The princely Charles of France , thy countryman .
62002
62003 What sayst thou , Charles ? for I am marching hence .
62004
62005 Speak , Pucelle , and enchant him with thy words .
62006
62007 Brave Burgundy , undoubted hope of France !
62008 Stay , let thy humble handmaid speak to thee .
62009
62010 Speak on ; but be not over-tedious .
62011
62012 Look on thy country , look on fertile France ,
62013 And see the cities and the towns defac'd
62014 By wasting ruin of the cruel foe .
62015 As looks the mother on her lowly babe
62016 When death doth close his tender dying eyes ,
62017 See , see the pining malady of France ;
62018 Behold the wounds , the most unnatural wounds ,
62019 Which thou thyself hast giv'n her woeful breast .
62020 O ! turn thy edged sword another way ;
62021 Strike those that hurt , and hurt not those that help .
62022 One drop of blood drawn from thy country's bosom ,
62023 Should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore :
62024 Return thee therefore , with a flood of tears ,
62025 And wash away thy country's stained spots .
62026
62027 Either she hath bewitch'd me with her words ,
62028 Or nature makes me suddenly relent .
62029
62030 Besides , all French and France exclaims on thee ,
62031 Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny .
62032 Who join'st thou with but with a lordly nation
62033 That will not trust thee but for profit's sake ?
62034 When Talbot hath set footing once in France ,
62035 And fashion'd thee that instrument of ill ,
62036 Who then but English Henry will be lord ,
62037 And thou be thrust out like a fugitive ?
62038 Call we to mind , and mark but this for proof ,
62039 Was not the Duke of Orleans thy foe ,
62040 And was he not in England prisoner ?
62041 But when they heard he was thine enemy ,
62042 They set him free , without his ransom paid ,
62043 In spite of Burgundy and all his friends .
62044 See then , thou fight'st against thy countrymen !
62045 And join'st with them will be thy slaughtermen .
62046 Come , come , return ; return thou wand'ring lord ;
62047 Charles and the rest will take thee in their arms .
62048
62049 I am vanquished ; these haughty words of hers
62050 Have batter'd me like roaring cannon-shot ,
62051 And made me almost yield upon my knees .
62052 Forgive me , country , and sweet countrymen !
62053 And , lords , accept this hearty kind embrace :
62054 My forces and my power of men are yours .
62055 So , farewell , Talbot ; I'll no longer trust thee .
62056
62057 Done like a Frenchman : turn , and turn again !
62058
62059 Welcome , brave duke ! thy friendship makes us fresh .
62060
62061 And doth beget new courage in our breasts .
62062
62063 Pucelle hath bravely play'd her part in this ,
62064 And doth deserve a coronet of gold .
62065
62066 Now let us on , my lords , and join our powers :
62067 And seek how we may prejudice the foe .
62068
62069
62070 My gracious prince , and honourable peers ,
62071 Hearing of your arrival in this realm ,
62072 I have a while giv'n truce unto my wars ,
62073 To do my duty to my sovereign :
62074 In sign whereof , this arm ,that hath reclaim'd
62075 To your obedience fifty fortresses ,
62076 Twelve cities , and seven walled towns of strength ,
62077 Beside five hundred prisoners of esteem ,
62078 Lets fall his sword before your highness' feet ,
62079
62080 And with submissive loyalty of heart ,
62081 Ascribes the glory of his conquest got ,
62082 First to my God , and next unto your Grace .
62083
62084 Is this the Lord Talbot , uncle Gloucester ,
62085 That hath so long been resident in France ?
62086
62087 Yes , if it please your majesty , my liege .
62088
62089 Welcome , brave captain and victorious lord !
62090 When I was young ,as yet I am not old ,
62091 I do remember how my father said ,
62092 A stouter champion never handled sword .
62093 Long since we were resolved of your truth ,
62094 Your faithful service and your toil in war ;
62095 Yet never have you tasted our reward ,
62096 Or been reguerdon'd with so much as thanks ,
62097 Because till now we never saw your face :
62098 Therefore , stand up ; and for these good deserts ,
62099 We here create you Earl of Shrewsbury ;
62100 And in our coronation take your place .
62101
62102
62103 Now , sir , to you , that were so hot at sea ,
62104 Disgracing of these colours that I wear
62105 In honour of my noble Lord of York ,
62106 Dar'st thou maintain the former words thou spak'st ?
62107
62108 Yes , sir : as well as you dare patronage
62109 The envious barking of your saucy tongue
62110 Against my lord the Duke of Somerset .
62111
62112 Sirrah , thy lord I honour as he is .
62113
62114 Why , what is he ? as good a man as York .
62115
62116 Hark ye ; not so : in witness , take ye that .
62117
62118
62119 Villain , thou know'st the law of arms is such
62120 That , whoso draws a sword , 'tis present death ,
62121 Or else this blow should broach thy dearest blood .
62122 But I'll unto his majesty , and crave
62123 I may have liberty to venge this wrong ;
62124 When thou shalt see I'll meet thee to thy cost .
62125
62126 Well , miscreant , I'll be there as soon as you ;
62127 And , after , meet you sooner than you would .
62128
62129
62130 Lord bishop , set the crown upon his head .
62131
62132 God save King Henry , of that name the sixth .
62133
62134 Now , Governor of Paris , take your oath ,
62135
62136 That you elect no other king but him ,
62137 Esteem none friends but such as are his friends ,
62138 And none your foes but such as shall pretend
62139 Malicious practices against his state :
62140 This shall ye do , so help you righteous God !
62141
62142 My gracious sovereign ; as I rode from Calais ,
62143 To haste unto your coronation ,
62144 A letter was deliver'd to my hands ,
62145 Writ to your Grace from the Duke of Burgundy .
62146
62147 Shame to the Duke of Burgundy and thee !
62148 I vow'd , base knight , when I did meet thee next ,
62149 To tear the garter from thy craven's leg ;
62150
62151 Which I have done , because unworthily
62152 Thou wast installed in that high degree .
62153 Pardon me , princely Henry , and the rest :
62154 This dastard , at the battle of Patay ,
62155 When but in all I was six thousand strong ,
62156 And that the French were almost ten to one ,
62157 Before we met or that a stroke was given ,
62158 Like to a trusty squire did run away :
62159 In which assault we lost twelve hundred men ;
62160 Myself , and divers gentlemen beside ,
62161 Were there surpris'd and taken prisoners .
62162 Then judge , great lords , if I have done amiss ;
62163 Or whether that such cowards ought to wear
62164 This ornament of knighthood , yea , or no ?
62165
62166 To say the truth , this fact was infamous
62167 And ill beseeming any common man ,
62168 Much more a knight , a captain and a leader .
62169
62170 When first this order was ordain'd , my lords ,
62171 Knights of the garter were of noble birth ,
62172 Valiant and virtuous , full of haughty courage ,
62173 Such as were grown to credit by the wars ;
62174 Not fearing death , nor shrinking for distress ,
62175 But always resolute in most extremes .
62176 He then that is not furnish'd in this sort
62177 Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight ,
62178 Profaning this most honourable order ;
62179 And should if I were worthy to be judge
62180 Be quite degraded , like a hedge-born swain
62181 That doth presume to boast of gentle blood .
62182
62183 Stain to thy countrymen ! thou hear'st thy doom .
62184 Be packing therefore , thou that wast a knight ;
62185 Henceforth we banish thee on pain of death .
62186
62187 And now , my Lord Protector , view the letter
62188 Sent from our uncle Duke of Burgundy .
62189
62190 What means his Grace , that he hath chang'd his style ?
62191 No more , but plain and bluntly , To the King !
62192 Hath he forgot he is his sovereign ?
62193 Or doth this churlish superscription
62194 Pretend some alteration in good will ?
62195 What's here ? I have , upon especial cause ,
62196 Mov'd with compassion of my country's wrack ,
62197 Together with the pitiful complaints
62198 Of such as your oppression feeds upon ,
62199 Forsaken your pernicious faction ,
62200 And join'd with Charles , the rightful King of France .
62201 O , monstrous treachery ! Can this be so ,
62202 That in alliance , amity , and oaths ,
62203 There should be found such false dissembling guile ?
62204
62205 What ! doth my uncle Burgundy revolt ?
62206
62207 He doth , my lord , and is become your foe .
62208
62209 Is that the worst this letter doth contain ?
62210
62211 It is the worst , and all , my lord , he writes .
62212
62213 Why then , Lord Talbot there shall talk with him ,
62214 And give him chastisement for this abuse .
62215 How say you , my lord ? are you not content ?
62216
62217 Content , my liege ! Yes : but that I am prevented ,
62218 I should have begg'd I might have been employ'd .
62219
62220 Then gather strength , and march unto him straight :
62221 Let him perceive how ill we brook his treason ,
62222 And what offence it is to flout his friends .
62223
62224 I go , my lord ; in heart desiring still
62225 You may behold confusion of your foes .
62226
62227 Grant me the combat , gracious sovereign !
62228
62229 And me , my lord ; grant me the combat too !
62230
62231 This is my servant : hear him , noble prince !
62232
62233 And this is mine : sweet Henry , favour him !
62234
62235 Be patient , lords ; and give them leave to speak .
62236 Say , gentlemen , what makes you thus exclaim ?
62237 And wherefore crave you combat ? or with whom ?
62238
62239 With him , my lord ; for he hath done me wrong .
62240
62241 And I with him ; for he hath done me wrong .
62242
62243 What is that wrong whereof you both complain ?
62244 First let me know , and then I'll answer you .
62245
62246 Crossing the sea from England into France ,
62247 This fellow here , with envious carping tongue ,
62248 Upbraided me about the rose I wear ;
62249 Saying , the sanguine colour of the leaves
62250 Did represent my master's blushing cheeks ,
62251 When stubbornly he did repugn the truth
62252 About a certain question in the law
62253 Argu'd betwixt the Duke of York and him ;
62254 With other vile and ignominious terms :
62255 In confutation of which rude reproach ,
62256 And in defence of my lord's worthiness ,
62257 I crave the benefit of law of arms .
62258
62259 And that is my petition , noble lord :
62260 For though he seem with forged quaint conceit ,
62261 To set a gloss upon his bold intent ,
62262 Yet know , my lord , I was provok'd by him ;
62263 And he first took exceptions at this badge ,
62264 Pronouncing , that the paleness of this flower
62265 Bewray'd the faintness of my master's heart .
62266
62267 Will not this malice , Somerset , be left ?
62268
62269 Your private grudge , my Lord of York , will out ,
62270 Though ne'er so cunningly you smother it .
62271
62272 Good Lord ! what madness rules in brain-sick men ,
62273 When , for so slight and frivolous a cause ,
62274 Such factious emulations shall arise !
62275 Good cousins both , of York and Somerset ,
62276 Quiet yourselves , I pray , and be at peace .
62277
62278 Let this dissension first be tried by fight ,
62279 And then your highness shall command a peace .
62280
62281 The quarrel toucheth none but us alone ;
62282 Betwixt ourselves let us decide it , then .
62283
62284 There is my pledge ; accept it , Somerset .
62285
62286 Nay , let it rest where it began at first .
62287
62288 Confirm it so , mine honourable lord .
62289
62290 Confirm it so ! Confounded be your strife !
62291 And perish ye , with your audacious prate !
62292 Presumptuous vassals ! are you not asham'd ,
62293 With this immodest clamorous outrage
62294 To trouble and disturb the king and us ?
62295 And you , my lords , methinks you do not well
62296 To bear with their perverse objections ;
62297 Much less to take occasion from their mouths
62298 To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves :
62299 Let me persuade you take a better course .
62300
62301 It grieves his highness : good my lords , be friends .
62302
62303 Come hither , you that would be combatants .
62304 Henceforth I charge you , as you love our favour ,
62305 Quite to forget this quarrel and the cause .
62306 And you , my lords , remember where we are ;
62307 In France , amongst a fickle wav'ring nation .
62308 If they perceive dissension in our looks ,
62309 And that within ourselves we disagree ,
62310 How will their grudging stomachs be provok'd
62311 To wilful disobedience , and rebel !
62312 Beside , what infamy will there arise ,
62313 When foreign princes shall be certified
62314 That for a toy , a thing of no regard ,
62315 King Henry's peers and chief nobility
62316 Destroy'd themselves , and lost the realm of France !
62317 O ! think upon the conquest of my father ,
62318 My tender years , and let us not forego
62319 That for a trifle that was bought with blood !
62320 Let me be umpire in this doubtful strife .
62321 I see no reason , if I wear this rose ,
62322
62323 That any one should therefore be suspicious
62324 I more incline to Somerset than York :
62325 Both are my kinsmen , and I love them both .
62326 As well they may upbraid me with my crown ,
62327 Because , forsooth , the King of Scots is crown'd .
62328 But your discretions better can persuade
62329 Than I am able to instruct or teach :
62330 And therefore , as we hither came in peace ,
62331 So let us still continue peace and love .
62332 Cousin of York , we institute your Grace
62333 To be our regent in these parts of France :
62334 And , good my Lord of Somerset , unite
62335 Your troops of horsemen with his bands of foot ;
62336 And like true subjects , sons of your progenitors ,
62337 Go cheerfully together and digest
62338 Your angry choler on your enemies .
62339 Ourself , my Lord Protector , and the rest ,
62340 After some respite will return to Calais ;
62341 From thence to England ; where I hope ere long
62342 To be presented by your victories ,
62343 With Charles , Alen on , and that traitorous rout .
62344
62345
62346 My Lord of York , I promise you , the king Prettily , methought , did play the orator .
62347
62348 And so he did ; but yet I like it not ,
62349 In that he wears the badge of Somerset .
62350
62351 Tush ! that was but his fancy , blame him not ;
62352 I dare presume , sweet prince , he thought no harm .
62353
62354 An if I wist he did ,But let it rest ;
62355 Other affairs must now be managed .
62356
62357
62358 Well didst thou , Richard , to suppress thy voice ;
62359 For had the passions of thy heart burst out ,
62360 I fear we should have seen decipher'd there
62361 More rancorous spite , more furious raging broils ,
62362 Than yet can be imagin'd or suppos'd .
62363 But howsoe'er , no simple man that sees
62364 This jarring discord of nobility ,
62365 This shouldering of each other in the court ,
62366 This factious bandying of their favourites ,
62367 But that it doth presage some ill event .
62368 'Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands ;
62369 But more , when envy breeds unkind division :
62370 There comes the ruin , there begins confusion .
62371
62372
62373 Go to the gates of Bourdeaux , trumpeter ;
62374 Summon their general unto the wall .
62375
62376
62377 English John Talbot , captains , calls you forth ,
62378 Servant in arms to Harry King of England ;
62379 And thus he would : Open your city gates ,
62380 Be humble to us , call my sov'reign yours ,
62381 And do him homage as obedient subjects ,
62382 And I'll withdraw me and my bloody power ;
62383 But , if you frown upon this proffer'd peace ,
62384 You tempt the fury of my three attendants ,
62385 Lean famine , quartering steel , and climbing fire ;
62386 Who in a moment even with the earth
62387 Shall lay your stately and air-braving towers ,
62388
62389 If you forsake the offer of their love .
62390
62391 Thou ominous and fearful owl of death ,
62392 Our nation's terror and their bloody scourge !
62393 The period of thy tyranny approacheth .
62394 On us thou canst not enter but by death ;
62395 For , I protest , we are well fortified ,
62396 And strong enough to issue out and fight :
62397 If thou retire , the Dauphin , well appointed ,
62398 Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee :
62399 On either hand thee there are squadrons pitch'd ,
62400 To wall thee from the liberty of flight ;
62401 And no way canst thou turn thee for redress
62402 But death doth front thee with apparent spoil ,
62403 And pale destruction meets thee in the face .
62404 Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament ,
62405 To rive their dangerous artillery
62406 Upon no Christian soul but English Talbot .
62407 Lo ! there thou stand'st , a breathing valiant man ,
62408 Of an invincible unconquer'd spirit :
62409 This is the latest glory of thy praise ,
62410 That I , thy enemy , 'due thee withal ;
62411 For ere the glass , that now begins to run ,
62412 Finish the process of his sandy hour ,
62413 These eyes , that see thee now well coloured ,
62414 Shall see thee wither'd , bloody , pale , and dead .
62415
62416 Hark ! hark ! the Dauphin's drum , a warning bell ,
62417 Sings heavy music to thy timorous soul ;
62418 And mine shall ring thy dire departure out .
62419
62420
62421 He fables not ; I hear the enemy :
62422 Out , some light horsemen , and peruse their wings .
62423 O ! negligent and heedless discipline ;
62424 How are we park'd and bounded in a pale ,
62425 A little herd of England's timorous deer ,
62426 Maz'd with a yelping kennel of French curs !
62427 If we be English deer , be then , in blood ;
62428 Not rascal-like , to fall down with a pinch ,
62429 But rather moody-mad and desperate stags ,
62430 Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel ,
62431 And make the cowards stand aloof at bay :
62432 Sell every man his life as dear as mine ,
62433 And they shall find dear deer of us , my friends .
62434 God and Saint George , Talbot and England's right ,
62435 Prosper our colours in this dangerous fight !
62436
62437
62438 Are not the speedy scouts return'd again ,
62439 That dogg'd the mighty army of the Dauphin ?
62440
62441 They are return'd , my lord ; and give it out ,
62442 That he is march'd to Bourdeaux with his power ,
62443 To fight with Talbot . As he march'd along ,
62444 By your espials were discovered
62445 Two mightier troops than that the Dauphin led ,
62446 Which join'd with him and made their march for Bourdeaux .
62447
62448 A plague upon that villain Somerset ,
62449 That thus delays my promised supply
62450 Of horsemen that were levied for this siege !
62451 Renowned Talbot doth expect my aid ,
62452 And I am louted by a traitor villain ,
62453 And cannot help the noble chevalier .
62454 God comfort him in this necessity !
62455 If he miscarry , farewell wars in France .
62456
62457
62458 Thou princely leader of our English strength ,
62459 Never so needful on the earth of France ,
62460 Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot ,
62461 Who now is girdled with a waist of iron
62462 And hemm'd about with grim destruction .
62463 To Bourdeaux , war-like duke ! To Bourdeaux , York !
62464 Else , farewell Talbot , France , and England's honour .
62465
62466 O God ! that Somerset , who in proud heart
62467 Doth stop my cornets , were in Talbot's place !
62468 So should we save a valiant gentleman
62469 By forfeiting a traitor and a coward .
62470 Mad ire and wrathful fury , make me weep
62471 That thus we die , while remiss traitors sleep .
62472
62473 O ! send some succour to the distress'd lord .
62474
62475 He dies , we lose ; I break my war-like word ;
62476 We mourn , France smiles ; we lose , they daily get ;
62477 All 'long of this vile traitor Somerset .
62478
62479 Then God take mercy on brave Talbot's soul ;
62480 And on his son young John , whom two hours since
62481 I met in travel toward his war-like father .
62482 This seven years did not Talbot see his son ;
62483 And now they meet where both their lives are done .
62484
62485 Alas ! what joy shall noble Talbot have ,
62486 To bid his young son welcome to his grave ?
62487 Away ! vexation almost stops my breath
62488 That sunder'd friends greet in the hour of death .
62489 Lucy , farewell : no more my fortune can ,
62490 But curse the cause I cannot aid the man .
62491 Maine , Blois , Poictiers , and Tours , are won away ,
62492 'Long all of Somerset and his delay .
62493
62494
62495 Thus , while the vulture of sedition
62496 Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders ,
62497 Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss
62498 The conquest of our scarce cold conqueror ,
62499 That ever living man of memory ,
62500 Henry the Fifth : Whiles they each other cross ,
62501 Lives , honours , lands , and all hurry to loss .
62502
62503
62504 It is too late ; I cannot send them now :
62505 This expedition was by York and Talbot
62506 Too rashly plotted : all our general force
62507 Might with a sally of the very town
62508 Be buckled with : the over-daring Talbot
62509 Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour
62510 By this unheedful , desperate , wild adventure :
62511 York set him on to fight and die in shame ,
62512 That , Talbot dead , great York might bear the name .
62513
62514 Here is Sir William Lucy , who with me
62515 Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid .
62516
62517
62518 How now , Sir William ! whither were you sent ?
62519
62520 Whither , my lord ? from bought and sold Lord Talbot ;
62521 Who , ring'd about with bold adversity ,
62522 Cries out for noble York and Somerset ,
62523 To beat assailing death from his weak legions :
62524 And whiles the honourable captain there
62525 Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs ,
62526 And , in advantage lingering , looks for rescue ,
62527 You , his false hopes , the trust of England's honour ,
62528 Keep off aloof with worthless emulation .
62529 Let not your private discord keep away
62530 The levied succours that should lend him aid ,
62531 While he , renowned noble gentleman ,
62532 Yields up his life unto a world of odds :
62533 Orleans the Bastard , Charles , Burgundy ,
62534 Alen on , Reignier , compass him about ,
62535 And Talbot perisheth by your default .
62536
62537 York set him on ; York should have sent him aid .
62538
62539 And York as fast upon your Grace exclaims ;
62540 Swearing that you withhold his levied host
62541 Collected for this expedition .
62542
62543 York lies ; he might have sent and had the horse :
62544 I owe him little duty , and less love ;
62545 And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending .
62546
62547 The fraud of England , not the force of France ,
62548 Hath now entrapp'd the noble-minded Talbot .
62549 Never to England shall he bear his life ,
62550 But dies , betray'd to fortune by your strife .
62551
62552 Come , go ; I will dispatch the horsemen straight :
62553 Within six hours they will be at his aid .
62554
62555 Too late comes rescue : he is ta'en or slain ,
62556 For fly he could not if he would have fled ;
62557 And fly would Talbot never , though he might .
62558
62559 If he be dead , brave Talbot , then adieu !
62560
62561 His fame lives in the world , his shame in you .
62562
62563
62564 O young John Talbot ! I did send for thee
62565 To tutor thee in stratagems of war ,
62566 That Talbot's name might be in thee reviv'd
62567 When sapless age , and weak unable limbs
62568 Should bring thy father to his drooping chair .
62569 But ,O malignant and ill-boding stars !
62570 Now thou art come unto a feast of death ,
62571 A terrible and unavoided danger :
62572 Therefore , dear boy , mount on my swiftest horse ,
62573 And I'll direct thee how thou shalt escape
62574 By sudden flight : come , dally not , be gone .
62575
62576 Is my name Talbot ? and am I your son ?
62577 And shall I fly ? O ! if you love my mother ,
62578 Dishonour not her honourable name ,
62579 To make a bastard and a slave of me :
62580 The world will say he is not Talbot's blood
62581 That basely fled when noble Talbot stood .
62582
62583 Fly , to revenge my death , if I be slain .
62584
62585 He that flies so will ne'er return again .
62586
62587 If we both stay , we both are sure to die .
62588
62589 Then let me stay ; and , father , do you fly :
62590 Your loss is great , so your regard should be ;
62591 My worth unknown , no loss is known in me .
62592 Upon my death the French can little boast ;
62593 In yours they will , in you all hopes are lost .
62594 Flight cannot stain the honour you have won ;
62595 But mine it will that no exploit have done :
62596 You fled for vantage everyone will swear ;
62597 But if I bow , they'll say it was for fear .
62598 There is no hope that ever I will stay
62599 If the first hour I shrink and run away .
62600 Here , on my knee , I beg mortality ,
62601 Rather than life preserv'd with infamy .
62602
62603 Shall all thy mother's hopes lie in one tomb ?
62604
62605 Ay , rather than I'll shame my mother's womb .
62606
62607 Upon my blessing I command thee go .
62608
62609 To fight I will , but not to fly the foe .
62610
62611 Part of thy father may be sav'd in thee .
62612
62613 No part of him but will be shame in me .
62614
62615 Thou never hadst renown , nor canst not lose it .
62616
62617 Yes , your renowned name : shall flight abuse it ?
62618
62619 Thy father's charge shall clear thee from that stain .
62620
62621 You cannot witness for me , being slain .
62622 If death be so apparent , then both fly .
62623
62624 And leave my followers here to fight and die ?
62625 My age was never tainted with such shame .
62626
62627 And shall my youth be guilty of such blame ?
62628 No more can I be sever'd from your side
62629 Than can yourself yourself in twain divide .
62630 Stay , go , do what you will , the like do I ;
62631 For live I will not if my father die .
62632
62633 Then here I take my leave of thee , fair son ,
62634 Born to eclipse thy life this afternoon .
62635 Come , side by side together live and die ,
62636 And soul with soul from France to heaven fly .
62637
62638 Saint George and victory ! fight , soldiers , fight !
62639 The regent hath with Talbot broke his word ,
62640 And left us to the rage of France his sword .
62641 Where is John Talbot ? Pause , and take thy breath :
62642 I gave thee life and rescu'd thee from death .
62643
62644 O ! twice my father , twice am I thy son :
62645 The life thou gav'st me first was lost and done ,
62646 Till with thy war-like sword , despite of fate ,
62647 To my determin'd time thou gav'st new date .
62648
62649 When from the Dauphin's crest thy sword struck fire ,
62650 It warm'd thy father's heart with proud desire
62651 Of bold-fac'd victory . Then leaden age ,
62652 Quicken'd with youthful spleen and war-like rage ,
62653 Beat down Alen on , Orleans , Burgundy ,
62654 And from the pride of Gallia rescu'd thee .
62655 The ireful bastard Orleans ,that drew blood
62656 From thee , my boy , and had the maidenhood
62657 Of thy first fight ,I soon encountered
62658 And , interchanging blows , I quickly shed
62659 Some of his bastard blood ; and , in disgrace ,
62660 Bespoke him thus , 'Contaminated , base ,
62661 And misbegotten blood I spill of thine ,
62662 Mean and right poor , for that pure blood of mine
62663 Which thou didst force from Talbot , my brave boy :'
62664 Here , purposing the Bastard to destroy ,
62665 Came in strong rescue . Speak , thy father's care ,
62666 Art thou not weary , John ? How dost thou fare ?
62667 Wilt thou yet leave the battle , boy , and fly ,
62668 Now thou art seal'd the son of chivalry ?
62669 Fly , to revenge my death when I am dead ;
62670 The help of one stands me in little stead .
62671 O ! too much folly is it , well I wot ,
62672 To hazard all our lives in one small boat .
62673 If I to-day die not with Frenchmen's rage ,
62674 To-morrow I shall die with mickle age :
62675 By me they nothing gain an if I stay ;
62676 'Tis but the short'ning of my life one day .
62677 In thee thy mother dies , our household's name ,
62678 My death's revenge , thy youth , and England's fame .
62679 All these and more we hazard by thy stay ;
62680 All these are sav'd if thou wilt fly away .
62681
62682 The sword of Orleans hath not made me smart ;
62683 These words of yours draw life-blood from my heart .
62684 On that advantage , bought with such a shame ,
62685 To save a paltry life and slay bright fame ,
62686 Before young Talbot from old Talbot fly ,
62687 The coward horse that bears me fall and die !
62688 And like me to the peasant boys of France ,
62689 To be shame's scorn and subject of mischance !
62690 Surely , by all the glory you have won ,
62691 An if I fly , I am not Talbot's son :
62692 Then talk no more of flight , it is no boot ;
62693 If son to Talbot , die at Talbot's foot .
62694
62695 Then follow thou thy desperate sire of Crete ,
62696 Thou Icarus . Thy life to me is sweet :
62697 If thou wilt fight , fight by thy father's side ,
62698 And , commendable prov'd , let's die in pride .
62699
62700
62701 Where is my other life ?mine own is gone ;
62702 O ! where's young Talbot ? where is valiant John ?
62703 Triumphant death , smear'd with captivity ,
62704 Young Talbot's valour makes me smile at thee .
62705 When he perceiv'd me shrink and on my knee ,
62706 His bloody sword he brandish'd over me ,
62707 And like a hungry lion did commence
62708 Rough deeds of rage and stern impatience ;
62709 But when my angry guardant stood alone ,
62710 Tendering my ruin and assail'd of none ,
62711 Dizzy-ey'd fury and great rage of heart
62712 Suddenly made him from my side to start
62713 Into the clust'ring battle of the French ;
62714 And in that sea of blood my boy did drench
62715 His overmounting spirit ; and there died
62716 My Icarus , my blossom , in his pride .
62717
62718
62719 O , my dear lord ! lo , where your son is borne !
62720
62721 Thou antick , death , which laugh'st us here to scorn ,
62722 Anon , from thy insulting tyranny ,
62723 Coupled in bonds of perpetuity ,
62724 Two Talbots , winged through the lither sky ,
62725 In thy despite shall 'scape mortality .
62726 O ! thou , whose wounds become hard-favour'd death ,
62727 Speak to thy father ere thou yield thy breath ;
62728 Brave death by speaking whe'r he will or no ;
62729 Imagine him a Frenchman and thy foe .
62730 Poor boy ! he smiles , methinks , as who should say ,
62731 Had death been French , then death had died to-day .
62732 Come , come , and lay him in his father's arms :
62733 My spirit can no longer bear these harms .
62734 Soldiers , adieu ! I have what I would have ,
62735 Now my old arms are young John Talbot's grave .
62736
62737 Had York and Somerset brought rescue in
62738 We should have found a bloody day of this .
62739
62740 How the young whelp of Talbot's , raging-wood ,
62741 Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen's blood !
62742
62743 Once I encounter'd him , and thus I said :
62744 'Thou maiden youth , be vanquish'd by a maid :'
62745 But with a proud majestical high scorn ,
62746 He answer'd thus : 'Young Talbot was not born
62747 To be the pillage of a giglot wench .'
62748 So , rushing in the bowels of the French ,
62749 He left me proudly , as unworthy fight .
62750
62751 Doubtless he would have made a noble knight ;
62752 See , where he lies inhearsed in the arms
62753 Of the most bloody nurser of his harms .
62754
62755 Hew them to pieces , hack their bones asunder ,
62756 Whose life was England's glory , Gallia's wonder .
62757
62758 O , no ! forbear ; for that which we have fled
62759 During the life , let us not wrong it dead .
62760
62761
62762 Herald , conduct me to the Dauphin's tent ,
62763 To know who hath obtain'd the glory of the day .
62764
62765 On what submissive message art thou sent ?
62766
62767 Submission , Dauphin ! 'tis a mere French word ;
62768 We English warriors wot not what it means .
62769 I come to know what prisoners thou hast ta'en ,
62770 And to survey the bodies of the dead .
62771
62772 For prisoners ask'st thou ? hell our prison is .
62773 But tell me whom thou seek'st .
62774
62775 Where is the great Alcides of the field ,
62776 Valiant Lord Talbot , Earl of Shrewsbury ?
62777 Created , for his rare success in arms ,
62778 Great Earl of Washford , Waterford , and Valence ;
62779 Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Urchinfield ,
62780 Lord Strange of Blackmere , Lord Vordun of Alton ,
62781 Lord Cromwell of Wingfield , Lord Furnival of Sheffield ,
62782 The thrice-victorious Lord of Falconbridge ;
62783 Knight of the noble order of Saint George ,
62784 Worthy Saint Michael and the Golden Fleece ;
62785 Great mareschal to Henry the Sixth
62786 Of all his wars within the realm of France ?
62787
62788 Here is a silly stately style indeed !
62789 The Turk , that two-and-fifty kingdoms hath ,
62790 Writes not so tedious a style as this .
62791 Him that thou magnifiest with all these titles ,
62792 Stinking and fly-blown lies here at our feet .
62793
62794 Is Talbot slain , the Frenchmen's only scourge ,
62795 Your kingdom's terror and black Nemesis ?
62796 O ! were mine eye-balls into bullets turn'd ,
62797 That I in rage might shoot them at your faces !
62798 O ! that I could but call these dead to life !
62799 It were enough to fright the realm of France .
62800 Were but his picture left among you here
62801 It would amaze the proudest of you all .
62802 Give me their bodies , that I may bear them hence ,
62803 And give them burial as beseems their worth .
62804
62805 I think this upstart is old Talbot's ghost ,
62806 He speaks with such a proud commanding spirit .
62807 For God's sake , let him have 'em ; to keep them here
62808 They would but stink and putrefy the air .
62809
62810 Go , take their bodies hence .
62811
62812 I'll bear them hence :
62813 But from their ashes shall be rear'd
62814 A ph nix that shall make all France afeard .
62815
62816 So we be rid of them , do with 'em what thou wilt .
62817 And now to Paris , in this conquering vein :
62818 All will be ours now bloody Talbot's slain .
62819
62820 Have you perus'd the letters from the pope ,
62821 The emperor , and the Earl of Armagnac ?
62822
62823 I have , my lord ; and their intent is this :
62824 They humbly sue unto your excellence
62825 To have a godly peace concluded of
62826 Between the realms of England and of France .
62827
62828 How doth your Grace affect their motion ?
62829
62830 Well , my good lord ; and as the only means
62831 To stop effusion of our Christian blood ,
62832 And stablish quietness on every side .
62833
62834 Ay , marry , uncle ; for I always thought
62835 It was both impious and unnatural
62836 That such immanity and bloody strife
62837 Should reign among professors of one faith .
62838
62839 Beside , my lord , the sooner to effect
62840 And surer bind this knot of amity ,
62841 The Earl of Armagnac , near knit to Charles ,
62842 A man of great authority in France ,
62843 Proffers his only daughter to your Grace
62844 In marriage , with a large and sumptuous dowry .
62845
62846 Marriage , uncle ! alas ! my years are young ,
62847 And fitter is my study and my books
62848 Than wanton dalliance with a paramour .
62849 Yet call the ambassadors ; and , as you please ,
62850 So let them have their answers every one :
62851 I shall be well content with any choice
62852 Tends to God's glory and my country's weal .
62853
62854 What ! is my Lord of Winchester install'd ,
62855 And call'd unto a cardinal's degree ?
62856 Then , I perceive that will be verified
62857 Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy ,
62858 'If once he come to be a cardinal ,
62859 He'll make his cap co-equal with the crown .'
62860
62861 My lords ambassadors , your several suits
62862 Have been consider'd , and debated on .
62863 Your purpose is both good and reasonable ;
62864 And therefore are we certainly resolv'd
62865 To draw conditions of a friendly peace ;
62866 Which by my Lord of Winchester we mean
62867 Shall be transported presently to France .
62868
62869 And for the proffer of my lord your master ,
62870 I have inform'd his highness so at large ,
62871 As ,liking of the lady's virtuous gifts ,
62872 Her beauty , and the value of her dower ,
62873 He doth intend she shall be England's queen .
62874
62875 In argument and proof of which contract ,
62876 Bear her this jewel , pledge of my affection .
62877 And so , my lord protector , see them guarded ,
62878 And safely brought to Dover ; where inshipp'd
62879 Commit them to the fortune of the sea .
62880
62881
62882 Stay , my lord legate : you shall first receive
62883 The sum of money which I promised
62884 Should be deliver'd to his holiness
62885 For clothing me in these grave ornaments .
62886
62887 I will attend upon your lordship's leisure .
62888
62889 Now Winchester will not submit , I trow ,
62890 Or be inferior to the proudest peer .
62891 Humphrey of Gloucester , thou shalt well perceive
62892 That neither in birth or for authority
62893 The bishop will be overborne by thee :
62894 I'll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee ,
62895 Or sack this country with a mutiny .
62896
62897
62898 These news , my lord , may cheer our drooping spirits ;
62899 'Tis said the stout Parisians do revolt ,
62900 And turn again unto the war-like French .
62901
62902 Then , march to Paris , royal Charles of France ,
62903 And keep not back your powers in dalliance .
62904
62905 Peace be amongst them if they turn to us ;
62906 Else , ruin combat with their palaces !
62907
62908
62909 Success unto our valiant general ,
62910 And happiness to his accomplices !
62911
62912 What tidings send our scouts ? I prithee speak .
62913
62914 The English army , that divided was
62915 Into two parties , is now conjoin'd in one ,
62916 And means to give you battle presently .
62917
62918 Somewhat too sudden , sirs , the warning is :
62919 But we will presently provide for them .
62920
62921 I trust the ghost of Talbot is not there :
62922 Now he is gone , my lord , you need not fear .
62923
62924 Of all base passions , fear is most accurs'd .
62925 Command the conquest , Charles , it shall be thine ;
62926 Let Henry fret and all the world repine .
62927
62928 Then on , my lords ; and France be fortunate !
62929
62930
62931 The regent conquers and the Frenchmen fly .
62932 Now help , ye charming spells and periapts ;
62933 And ye choice spirits that admonish me
62934 And give me signs of future accidents :
62935
62936 You speedy helpers , that are substitutes
62937 Under the lordly monarch of the north ,
62938 Appear , and aid me in this enterprise !
62939
62940
62941 This speedy and quick appearance argues proof
62942 Of your accustom'd diligence to me .
62943 Now , ye familiar spirits , that are cull'd
62944 Out of the powerful regions under earth ,
62945 Help me this once , that France may get the field .
62946
62947 O ! hold me not with silence over-long .
62948 Where I was wont to feed you with my blood ,
62949 I'll lop a member off and give it you ,
62950 In earnest of a further benefit ,
62951 So you do condescend to help me now .
62952
62953 No hope to have redress ? My body shall
62954 Pay recompense , if you will grant my suit .
62955
62956 Cannot my body nor blood-sacrifice
62957 Entreat you to your wonted furtherance ?
62958 Then take my soul ; my body , soul , and all ,
62959 Before that England give the French the foil .
62960
62961 See ! they forsake me . Now the time is come ,
62962 That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest ,
62963 And let her head fall into England's lap .
62964 My ancient incantations are too weak ,
62965 And hell too strong for me to buckle with :
62966 Now , France , thy glory droopeth to the dust .
62967
62968 Damsel of France , I think I have you fast :
62969 Unchain your spirits now with spelling charms ,
62970 And try if they can gain your liberty .
62971 A goodly prize , fit for the devil's grace !
62972 See how the ugly witch doth bend her brows ,
62973 As if with Circe she would change my shape .
62974
62975 Chang'd to a worser shape thou canst not be .
62976
62977 O ! Charles the Dauphin is a proper man ;
62978 No shape but his can please your dainty eye .
62979
62980 A plaguing mischief light on Charles and thee !
62981 And may ye both be suddenly surpris'd
62982 By bloody hands , in sleeping on your beds !
62983
62984 Fell banning hag , enchantress , hold thy tongue !
62985
62986 I prithee , give me leave to curse a while .
62987
62988 Curse , miscreant , when thou comest to the stake .
62989
62990 Be what thou wilt , thou art my prisoner .
62991
62992 O fairest beauty ! do not fear nor fly ,
62993 For I will touch thee but with reverent hands .
62994 I kiss these fingers for eternal peace ,
62995 And lay them gently on thy tender side .
62996 What art thou ? say , that I may honour thee .
62997
62998 Margaret my name , and daughter to a king ,
62999 The King of Naples , whosoe'er thou art .
63000
63001 An earl I am , and Suffolk am I call'd .
63002 Be not offended , nature's miracle ,
63003 Thou art allotted to be ta'en by me :
63004 So doth the swan her downy cygnets save ,
63005 Keeping them prisoners underneath her wings .
63006 Yet if this servile usage once offend ,
63007 Go and be free again , as Suffolk's friend .
63008
63009 O stay ! I have no power to let her pass ;
63010 My hand would free her , but my heart says no .
63011 As plays the sun upon the glassy streams ,
63012 Twinkling another counterfeited beam ,
63013 So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes .
63014 Fain would I woo her , yet I dare not speak :
63015 I'll call for pen and ink and write my mind .
63016 Fie , De la Pole ! disable not thyself ;
63017 Hast not a tongue ? is she not here thy prisoner ?
63018 Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight ?
63019 Ay ; beauty's princely majesty is such
63020 Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough .
63021
63022 Say , Earl of Suffolk ,if thy name be so ,
63023 What ransom must I pay before I pass ?
63024 For I perceive , I am thy prisoner .
63025
63026 How canst thou tell she will deny thy suit ,
63027 Before thou make a trial of her love ?
63028
63029 Why speak'st thou not ? what ransom must I pay ?
63030
63031 She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd ,
63032 She is a woman , therefore to be won .
63033
63034 Wilt thou accept of ransom , yea or no ?
63035
63036 Fond man ! remember that thou hast a wife ;
63037 Then how can Margaret be thy paramour ?
63038
63039 I were best to leave him , for he will not hear .
63040
63041 There all is marr'd ; there lies a cooling card .
63042
63043 He talks at random ; sure , the man is mad .
63044
63045 And yet a dispensation may be had .
63046
63047 And yet I would that you would answer me .
63048
63049 I'll win this Lady Margaret . For whom ?
63050 Why , for my king : tush ! that's a wooden thing .
63051
63052 He talks of wood : it is some carpenter .
63053
63054 Yet so my fancy may be satisfied ,
63055 And peace established between these realms .
63056 But there remains a scruple in that too ;
63057 For though her father be the King of Naples ,
63058 Duke of Anjou and Maine , yet is he poor ,
63059 And our nobility will scorn the match .
63060
63061 Hear ye , captain ? Are you not at leisure ?
63062
63063 It shall be so , disdain they ne'er so much :
63064 Henry is youthful and will quickly yield .
63065 Madam , I have a secret to reveal .
63066
63067 What though I be enthrall'd ? he seems a knight ,
63068 And will not any way dishonour me .
63069
63070 Lady , vouchsafe to listen what I say .
63071
63072 Perhaps I shall be rescu'd by the French ;
63073 And then I need not crave his courtesy .
63074
63075 Sweet madam , give me hearing in a cause
63076
63077 Tush , women have been captivate ere now .
63078
63079 Lady , wherefore talk you so ?
63080
63081 I cry you mercy , 'tis but quid for quo .
63082
63083 Say , gentle princess , would you not suppose
63084 Your bondage happy to be made a queen ?
63085
63086 To be a queen in bondage is more vile
63087 Than is a slave in base servility ;
63088 For princes should be free .
63089
63090 And so shall you ,
63091 If happy England's royal king be free .
63092
63093 Why , what concerns his freedom unto me ?
63094
63095 I'll undertake to make thee Henry's queen ,
63096 To put a golden sceptre in thy hand
63097 And set a precious crown upon thy head ,
63098 If thou wilt condescend to be my
63099
63100 What ?
63101
63102 His love .
63103
63104 I am unworthy to be Henry's wife .
63105
63106 No , gentle madam ; I unworthy am
63107 To woo so fair a dame to be his wife
63108 And have no portion in the choice myself .
63109 How say you , madam , are you so content ?
63110
63111 An if my father please , I am content .
63112
63113 Then call our captains and our colours forth !
63114 And , madam , at your father's castle walls
63115 We'll crave a parley , to confer with him .
63116
63117 See , Reignier , see thy daughter prisoner !
63118
63119 To whom ?
63120
63121 To me .
63122
63123 Suffolk , what remedy ?
63124 I am a soldier , and unapt to weep ,
63125 Or to exclaim on Fortune's fickleness .
63126
63127 Yes , there is remedy enough ; my lord :
63128 Consent , and for thy honour , give consent ,
63129 Thy daughter shall be wedded to my king ,
63130 Whom I with pain have woo'd and won thereto ;
63131 And this her easy-held imprisonment
63132 Hath gain'd thy daughter princely liberty .
63133
63134 Speaks Suffolk as he thinks ?
63135
63136 Fair Margaret knows
63137 That Suffolk doth not flatter , face , or feign .
63138
63139 Upon thy princely warrant , I descend
63140 To give thee answer of thy just demand .
63141
63142
63143 And here I will expect thy coming .
63144
63145
63146 Welcome , brave earl , into our territories :
63147 Command in Anjou what your honour pleases .
63148
63149 Thanks , Reignier , happy for so sweet a child ,
63150 Fit to be made companion with a king .
63151 What answer makes your Grace unto my suit ?
63152
63153 Since thou dost deign to woo her little worth
63154 To be the princely bride of such a lord ,
63155 Upon condition I may quietly
63156 Enjoy mine own , the county Maine and Anjou ,
63157 Free from oppression or the stroke of war ,
63158 My daughter shall be Henry's if he please .
63159
63160 That is her ransom ; I deliver her ;
63161 And those two counties I will undertake
63162 Your Grace shall well and quietly enjoy .
63163
63164 And I again , in Henry's royal name ,
63165 As deputy unto that gracious king ,
63166 Give thee her hand for sign of plighted faith .
63167
63168 Reignier of France , I give thee kingly thanks ,
63169 Because this is in traffic of a king :
63170
63171
63172 And yet , methinks , I could be well content
63173 To be mine own attorney in this case .
63174 I'll over then , to England with this news ,
63175 And make this marriage to be solemniz'd .
63176 So farewell , Reignier : set this diamond safe ,
63177 In golden palaces , as it becomes .
63178
63179 I do embrace thee , as I would embrace
63180 The Christian prince , King Henry , were he here .
63181
63182 Farewell , my lord . Good wishes , praise , and prayers
63183 Shall Suffolk ever have of Margaret .
63184
63185
63186 Farewell , sweet madam ! but hark you , Margaret ;
63187 No princely commendations to my king ?
63188
63189 Such commendations as become a maid ,
63190 A virgin , and his servant , say to him .
63191
63192 Words sweetly plac'd and modestly directed .
63193 But madam , I must trouble you again ,
63194 No loving token to his majesty ?
63195
63196 Yes , my good lord ; a pure unspotted heart ,
63197 Never yet taint with love , I send the king .
63198
63199 And this withal .
63200
63201
63202 That for thyself : I will not so presume ,
63203 To send such peevish tokens to a king .
63204
63205
63206 O ! wert thou for myself ! But Suffolk , stay ;
63207 Thou mayst not wander in that labyrinth ;
63208 There Minotaurs and ugly treasons lurk .
63209 Solicit Henry with her wondrous praise :
63210 Bethink thee on her virtues that surmount
63211 And natural graces that extinguish art ;
63212 Repeat their semblance often on the seas ,
63213 That , when thou com'st to kneel at Henry's feet ,
63214 Thou mayst bereave him of his wits with wonder .
63215
63216
63217 Bring forth that sorceress , condemn'd to burn .
63218
63219
63220 Ah , Joan ! this kills thy father's heart outright .
63221 Have I sought every country far and near ,
63222 And , now it is my chance to find thee out ,
63223 Must I behold thy timeless cruel death ?
63224 Ah , Joan ! sweet daughter Joan , I'll die with thee .
63225
63226 Decrepit miser ! base ignoble wretch !
63227 I am descended of a gentler blood :
63228 Thou art no father nor no friend of mine .
63229
63230 Out , out ! My lords , an please you , 'tis not so ;
63231 I did beget her all the parish knows :
63232 Her mother liveth yet , can testify
63233 She was the first fruit of my bachelorship .
63234
63235 Graceless ! wilt thou deny thy parentage ?
63236
63237 This argues what her kind of life hath been :
63238 Wicked and vile ; and so her death concludes .
63239
63240 Fie , Joan , that thou wilt be so obstacle !
63241 God knows , thou art a collop of my flesh ;
63242 And for thy sake have I shed many a tear :
63243 Deny me not , I prithee , gentle Joan .
63244
63245 Peasant , avaunt ! You have suborn'd this man ,
63246 Of purpose to obscure my noble birth .
63247
63248 'Tis true , I gave a noble to the priest ,
63249 The morn that I was wedded to her mother .
63250 Kneel down and take my blessing , good my girl .
63251 Wilt thou not stoop ? Now cursed be the time
63252 Of thy nativity ! I would the milk
63253 Thy mother gave thee , when thou suck'dst her breast ,
63254 Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake !
63255 Or else , when thou didst keep my lambs a-field
63256 I wish some ravenous wolf had eaten thee !
63257 Dost thou deny thy father , cursed drab ?
63258 O ! burn her , burn her ! hanging is too good .
63259
63260
63261 Take her away ; for she hath liv'd too long ,
63262 To fill the world with vicious qualities .
63263
63264 First , let me tell you whom you have condemn'd :
63265 Not me begotten of a shepherd swain ,
63266 But issu'd from the progeny of kings ;
63267 Virtuous and holy ; chosen from above ,
63268 By inspiration of celestial grace ,
63269 To work exceeding miracles on earth .
63270 I never had to do with wicked spirits :
63271 But you ,that are polluted with your lusts ,
63272 Stain'd with the guiltless blood of innocents ,
63273 Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices ,
63274 Because you want the grace that others have ,
63275 You judge it straight a thing impossible
63276 To compass wonders but by help of devils .
63277 No misconceived ! Joan of Arc hath been
63278 A virgin from her tender infancy ,
63279 Chaste and immaculate in very thought ;
63280 Whose maiden blood , thus rigorously effus'd ,
63281 Will cry for vengeance at the gates of heaven .
63282
63283 Ay , ay : away with her to execution !
63284
63285 And hark ye , sirs ; because she is a maid ,
63286 Spare for no fagots , let there be enow :
63287 Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake ,
63288 That so her torture may be shortened .
63289
63290 Will nothing turn your unrelenting hearts ?
63291 Then , Joan , discover thine infirmity ;
63292 That warranteth by law to be thy privilege .
63293 I am with child , ye bloody homicides :
63294 Murder not then the fruit within my womb ,
63295 Although ye hale me to a violent death .
63296
63297 Now , heaven forefend ! the holy maid with child !
63298
63299 The greatest miracle that e'er ye wrought !
63300 Is all your strict preciseness come to this ?
63301
63302 She and the Dauphin have been juggling :
63303 I did imagine what would be her refuge .
63304
63305 Well , go to ; we will have no bastards live ;
63306 Especially since Charles must father it .
63307
63308 You are deceiv'd ; my child is none of his :
63309 It was Alen on that enjoy'd my love .
63310
63311 Alen on ! that notorious Machiavel !
63312 It dies an if it had a thousand lives .
63313
63314 O ! give me leave , I have deluded you :
63315 'Twas neither Charles , nor yet the duke I nam'd ,
63316 But Reignier , King of Naples , that prevail'd .
63317
63318 A married man : that's most intolerable .
63319
63320 Why , here's a girl ! I think she knows not well ,
63321 There were so many , whom she may accuse .
63322
63323 It's sign she hath been liberal and free .
63324
63325 And yet , forsooth , she is a virgin pure .
63326 Strumpet , thy words condemn thy brat and thee :
63327 Use no entreaty , for it is in vain .
63328
63329 Then lead me hence ; with whom I leave my curse :
63330 May never glorious sun reflex his beams
63331 Upon the country where you make abode ;
63332 But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
63333 Environ you , till mischief and despair
63334 Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves !
63335
63336
63337 Break thou in pieces and consume to ashes ,
63338 Thou foul accursed minister of hell !
63339
63340
63341 Lord regent , I do greet your excellence
63342 With letters of commission from the king .
63343 For know , my lords , the states of Christendom ,
63344 Mov'd with remorse of these outrageous broils ,
63345 Have earnestly implor'd a general peace
63346 Betwixt our nation and the aspiring French ;
63347 And here at hand the Dauphin , and his train ,
63348 Approacheth to confer about some matter .
63349
63350 Is all our travail turn'd to this effect ?
63351 After the slaughter of so many peers ,
63352 So many captains , gentlemen , and soldiers ,
63353 That in this quarrel have been overthrown ,
63354 And sold their bodies for their country's benefit ,
63355 Shall we at last conclude effeminate peace ?
63356 Have we not lost most part of all the towns ,
63357 By treason , falsehood , and by treachery ,
63358 Our great progenitors had conquered ?
63359 O ! Warwick , Warwick ! I foresee with grief
63360 The utter loss of all the realm of France .
63361
63362 Be patient , York : if we conclude a peace ,
63363 It shall be with such strict and severe covenants
63364 As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby .
63365
63366
63367 Since , lords of England , it is thus agreed ,
63368 That peaceful truce shall be proclaim'd in France ,
63369 We come to be informed by yourselves
63370 What the conditions of that league must be .
63371
63372 Speak , Winchester ; for boiling choler chokes
63373 The hollow passage of my poison'd voice ,
63374 By sight of these our baleful enemies .
63375
63376 Charles , and the rest , it is enacted thus :
63377 That , in regard King Henry gives consent ,
63378 Of mere compassion and of lenity ,
63379 To ease your country of distressful war ,
63380 And suffer you to breathe in fruitful peace ,
63381 You shall become true liegemen to his crown :
63382 And , Charles , upon-condition thou wilt swear
63383 To pay him tribute , and submit thyself ,
63384 Thou shalt be plac'd as viceroy under him ,
63385 And still enjoy thy regal dignity .
63386
63387 Must he be then , as shadow of himself ?
63388 Adorn his temples with a coronet ,
63389 And yet , in substance and authority ,
63390 Retain but privilege of a private man ?
63391 This proffer is absurd and reasonless .
63392
63393 'Tis known already that I am possess'd
63394 With more than half the Gallian territories ,
63395 And therein reverenc'd for their lawful king :
63396 Shall I , for lucre of the rest unvanquish'd ,
63397 Detract so much from that prerogative
63398 As to be call'd but viceroy of the whole ?
63399 No , lord ambassador ; I'll rather keep
63400 That which I have than , coveting for more ,
63401 Be cast from possibility of all .
63402
63403 Insulting Charles ! hast thou by secret means
63404 Us'd intercession to obtain a league ,
63405 And now the matter grows to compromise ,
63406 Stand'st thou aloof upon comparison ?
63407 Either accept the title thou usurp'st ,
63408 Of benefit proceeding from our king
63409 And not of any challenge of desert ,
63410 Or we will plague thee with incessant wars .
63411
63412 My lord , you do not well in obstinacy
63413 To cavil in the course of this contract :
63414 If once it be neglected , ten to one ,
63415 We shall not find like opportunity .
63416
63417 To say the truth , it is your policy
63418 To save your subjects from such massacre
63419 And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen
63420 By our proceeding in hostility ;
63421 And therefore take this compact of a truce ,
63422 Although you break it when your pleasure serves .
63423
63424 How sayst thou , Charles ? shall our condition stand ?
63425
63426 It shall ;
63427 Only reserv'd , you claim no interest
63428 In any of our towns of garrison .
63429
63430 Then swear allegiance to his majesty ;
63431 As thou art knight , never to disobey
63432 Nor be rebellious to the crown of England ,
63433 Thou , nor thy nobles , to the crown of England .
63434
63435 So , now dismiss your army when ye please ;
63436 Hang up your ensigns , let your drums be still ,
63437 For here we entertain a solemn peace .
63438
63439
63440 Your wondrous rare description , noble earl ,
63441 Of beauteous Margaret hath astonish'd me :
63442 Her virtues , graced with external gifts
63443 Do breed love's settled passions in my heart :
63444 And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts
63445 Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide ,
63446 So am I driven by breath of her renown
63447 Either to suffer shipwrack , or arrive
63448 Where I may have fruition of her love .
63449
63450 Tush ! my good lord , this superficial tale
63451 Is but a preface of her worthy praise :
63452 The chief perfections of that lovely dame
63453 Had I sufficient skill to utter them
63454 Would make a volume of enticing lines ,
63455 Able to ravish any dull conceit :
63456 And , which is more , she is not so divine ,
63457 So full replete with choice of all delights ,
63458 But with as humble lowliness of mind
63459 She is content to be at your command ;
63460 Command , I mean , of virtuous chaste intents ,
63461 To love and honour Henry as her lord .
63462
63463 And otherwise will Henry ne'er presume .
63464 Therefore , my Lord Protector , give consent
63465 That Margaret may be England's royal queen .
63466
63467 So should I give consent to flatter sin .
63468 You know , my lord , your highness is betroth'd
63469 Unto another lady of esteem ;
63470 How shall we then dispense with that contract ,
63471 And not deface your honour with reproach ?
63472
63473 As doth a ruler with unlawful oaths ;
63474 Or one that , at a triumph having vow'd
63475 To try his strength , forsaketh yet the lists
63476 By reason of his adversary's odds .
63477 A poor earl's daughter is unequal odds ,
63478 And therefore may be broke without offence .
63479
63480 Why , what , I pray , is Margaret more than that ?
63481 Her father is no better than an earl ,
63482 Although in glorious titles he excel .
63483
63484 Yes , my good lord , her father is a king ,
63485 The King of Naples and Jerusalem ;
63486 And of such great authority in France
63487 As his alliance will confirm our peace ,
63488 And keep the Frenchmen in allegiance .
63489
63490 And so the Earl of Armagnac may do ,
63491 Because he is near kinsman unto Charles .
63492
63493 Beside , his wealth doth warrant liberal dower ,
63494 Where Reignier sooner will receive than give .
63495
63496 A dower , my lords ! disgrace not so your king ,
63497 That he should be so abject , base , and poor ,
63498 To choose for wealth and not for perfect love .
63499 Henry is able to enrich his queen ,
63500 And not to seek a queen to make him rich :
63501 So worthless peasants bargain for their wives ,
63502 As market-men for oxen , sheep , or horse .
63503 Marriage is a matter of more worth
63504 Than to be dealt in by attorneyship :
63505 Not whom we will , but whom his Grace affects ,
63506 Must be companion of his nuptial bed ;
63507 And therefore , lords , since he affects her most
63508 It most of all these reasons bindeth us ,
63509 In our opinions she should be preferr'd .
63510 For what is wedlock forced , but a hell ,
63511 An age of discord and continual strife ?
63512 Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss ,
63513 And is a pattern of celestial peace .
63514 Whom should we match with Henry , being a king ,
63515 But Margaret , that is daughter to a king ?
63516 Her peerless feature , joined with her birth ,
63517 Approves her fit for none but for a king :
63518 Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit
63519 More than in women commonly is seen
63520 Will answer our hope in issue of a king ;
63521 For Henry , son unto a conqueror ,
63522 Is likely to beget more conquerors ,
63523 If with a lady of so high resolve
63524 As is fair Margaret he be link'd in love .
63525 Then yield , my lords ; and here conclude with me
63526 That Margaret shall be queen , and none but she .
63527
63528 Whether it be through force of your report ,
63529 My noble lord of Suffolk , or for that
63530 My tender youth was never yet attaint
63531 With any passion of inflaming love ,
63532 I cannot tell ; but this I am assur'd ,
63533 I feel such sharp dissension in my breast ,
63534 Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear ,
63535 As I am sick with working of my thoughts .
63536 Take , therefore , shipping ; post , my lord , to France ;
63537 Agree to any covenants , and procure
63538 That Lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come
63539 To cross the seas to England and be crown'd
63540 King Henry's faithful and anointed queen :
63541 For your expenses and sufficient charge ,
63542 Among the people gather up a tenth .
63543 Be gone , I say ; for till you do return
63544 I rest perplexed with a thousand cares .
63545 And you , good uncle , banish all offence :
63546 If you do censure me by what you were ,
63547 Not what you are , I know it will excuse
63548 This sudden execution of my will .
63549 And so , conduct me , where , from company
63550 I may revolve and ruminate my grief .
63551
63552
63553 Ay , grief , I fear me , both at first and last .
63554
63555
63556 Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd ; and thus he goes ,
63557 As did the youthful Paris once to Greece ;
63558 With hope to find the like event in love ,
63559 But prosper better than the Trojan did .
63560 Margaret shall now be queen , and rule the king ;
63561 But I will rule both her , the king , and realm .
63562
63563 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN
63564
63565 Now , say , Chatillon , what would France with us ?
63566
63567 Thus , after greeting , speaks the King of France ,
63568 In my behaviour , to the majesty ,
63569 The borrow'd majesty of England here .
63570
63571 A strange beginning ; 'borrow'd majesty !'
63572
63573 Silence , good mother ; hear the embassy .
63574
63575 Philip of France , in right and true behalf
63576 Of thy deceased brother Geffrey's son ,
63577 Arthur Plantagenet , lays most lawful claim
63578 To this fair island and the territories ,
63579 To Ireland , Poictiers , Anjou , Touraine , Maine ;
63580 Desiring thee to lay aside the sword
63581 Which sways usurpingly these several titles ,
63582 And put the same into young Arthur's hand ,
63583 Thy nephew and right royal sovereign .
63584
63585 What follows if we disallow of this ?
63586
63587 The proud control of fierce and bloody war ,
63588 To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld .
63589
63590 Here have we war for war , and blood for blood ,
63591 Controlment for controlment : so answer France .
63592
63593 Then take my king's defiance from my mouth ,
63594 The furthest limit of my embassy .
63595
63596 Bear mine to him , and so depart in peace :
63597 Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France ;
63598 For ere thou canst report I will be there ,
63599 The thunder of my cannon shall be heard .
63600 So , hence ! Be thou the trumpet of our wrath
63601 And sullen presage of your own decay .
63602 An honourable conduct let him have :
63603 Pembroke , look to't . Farewell , Chatillon .
63604
63605
63606 What now , my son ! have I not ever said
63607 How that ambitious Constance would not cease
63608 Till she had kindled France and all the world
63609 Upon the right and party of her son ?
63610 This might have been prevented and made whole
63611 With very easy arguments of love ,
63612 Which now the manage of two kingdoms must
63613 With fearful bloody issue arbitrate .
63614
63615 Our strong possession and our right for us .
63616
63617 Your strong possession much more than your right ,
63618 Or else it must go wrong , with you and me :
63619 So much my conscience whispers in your ear ,
63620 Which none but heaven and you and I shall hear .
63621
63622
63623 My liege , here is the strangest controversy ,
63624 Come from the country to be judg'd by you ,
63625 That e'er I heard : shall I produce the men ?
63626
63627 Let them approach .
63628
63629 Our abbeys and our priories shall pay
63630 This expedition's charge .
63631
63632 What men are you ?
63633
63634 Your faithful subject I , a gentleman
63635 Born in Northamptonshire , and eldest son ,
63636 As I suppose , to Robert Faulconbridge ,
63637 A soldier , by the honour-giving hand
63638 Of C ur-de-Lion knighted in the field .
63639
63640 What art thou ?
63641
63642 The son and heir to that same Faulconbridge .
63643
63644 Is that the elder , and art thou the heir ?
63645 You came not of one mother then , it seems .
63646
63647 Most certain of one mother , mighty king ,
63648 That is well known : and , as I think , one father :
63649 But for the certain knowledge of that truth
63650 I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother :
63651 Of that I doubt , as all men's children may .
63652
63653 Out on thee , rude man ! thou dost shame thy mother
63654 And wound her honour with this diffidence .
63655
63656 I , madam ? no , I have no reason for it ;
63657 That is my brother's plea and none of mine ;
63658 The which if he can prove , a' pops me out
63659 At least from fair five hundred pound a year :
63660 Heaven guard my mother's honour and my land !
63661
63662 A good blunt fellow . Why , being younger born ,
63663 Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance ?
63664
63665 I know not why , except to get the land .
63666 But once he slander'd me with bastardy :
63667 But whe'r I be as true-begot or no ,
63668 That still I lay upon my mother's head ;
63669 But that I am as well-begot , my liege ,
63670 Fair fall the bones that took the pains for me !
63671 Compare our faces and be judge yourself .
63672 If old Sir Robert did beget us both ,
63673 And were our father , and this son like him ;
63674 O old Sir Robert , father , on my knee
63675 I give heaven thanks I was not like to thee !
63676
63677 Why , what a madcap hath heaven lent us here !
63678
63679 He hath a trick of C ur-de-Lion's face ;
63680 The accent of his tongue affecteth him .
63681 Do you not read some tokens of my son
63682 In the large composition of this man ?
63683
63684 Mine eye hath well examined his parts ,
63685 And finds them perfect Richard . Sirrah , speak :
63686 What doth move you to claim your brother's land ?
63687
63688 Because he hath a half-face , like my father .
63689 With half that face would he have all my land ;
63690 A half-fac'd groat five hundred pound a year !
63691
63692 My gracious liege , when that my father liv'd ,
63693 Your brother did employ my father much ,
63694
63695 Well , sir , by this you cannot get my land :
63696 Your tale must be how he employ'd my mother .
63697
63698 And once dispatch'd him in an embassy
63699 To Germany , there with the emperor
63700 To treat of high affairs touching that time .
63701 The advantage of his absence took the king ,
63702 And in the mean time sojourn'd at my father's ;
63703 Where how he did prevail I shame to speak ,
63704 But truth is truth : large lengths of seas and shores
63705 Between my father and my mother lay ,
63706 As I have heard my father speak himself ,
63707 When this same lusty gentleman was got .
63708 Upon his death-bed he by will bequeath'd
63709 His lands to me , and took it on his death
63710 That this my mother's son was none of his ;
63711 An if he were , he came into the world
63712 Full fourteen weeks before the course of time .
63713 Then , good my liege , let me have what is mine ,
63714 My father's land , as was my father's will .
63715
63716 Sirrah , your brother is legitimate ;
63717 Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him ,
63718 And if she did play false , the fault was hers ;
63719 Which fault lies on the hazards of all husbands
63720 That marry wives . Tell me , how if my brother ,
63721 Who , as you say , took pains to get this son ,
63722 Had of your father claim'd this son for his ?
63723 In sooth , good friend , your father might have kept
63724 This calf bred from his cow from all the world ;
63725 In sooth he might : then , if he were my brother's ,
63726 My brother might not claim him ; nor your father ,
63727 Being none of his , refuse him : this concludes ;
63728 My mother's son did get your father's heir ;
63729 Your father's heir must have your father's land .
63730
63731 Shall then my father's will be of no force
63732 To dispossess that child which is not his ?
63733
63734 Of no more force to dispossess me , sir ,
63735 Than was his will to get me , as I think .
63736
63737 Whe'r hadst thou rather be a Faulconbridge
63738 And like thy brother , to enjoy thy land ,
63739 Or the reputed son of C ur-de-Lion ,
63740 Lord of thy presence and no land beside ?
63741
63742 Madam , an if my brother had my shape ,
63743 And I had his , Sir Robert his , like him ;
63744 And if my legs were two such riding-rods ,
63745 My arms such eel-skins stuff'd , my face so thin
63746 That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose
63747 Lest men should say , 'Look , where three-far-things goes !'
63748 And , to his shape , were heir to all this land ,
63749 Would I might never stir from off this place ,
63750 I'd give it every foot to have this face :
63751 I would not be Sir Nob in any case .
63752
63753 I like thee well : wilt thou forsake thy fortune ,
63754 Bequeath thy land to him , and follow me ?
63755 I am a soldier and now bound to France .
63756
63757 Brother , take you my land , I'll take my chance .
63758 Your face hath got five hundred pounds a year ,
63759 Yet sell your face for five pence and 'tis dear .
63760 Madam , I'll follow you unto the death .
63761
63762 Nay , I would have you go before me thither .
63763
63764 Our country manners give our betters way .
63765
63766 What is thy name ?
63767
63768 Philip , my liege , so is my name begun ;
63769 Philip , good old Sir Robert's wife's eldest son .
63770
63771 From henceforth bear his name whose form thou bearest :
63772 Kneel thou down Philip , but arise more great ;
63773 Arise Sir Richard , and Plantagenet .
63774
63775 Brother by the mother's side , give me your hand :
63776 My father gave me honour , yours gave land .
63777 Now blessed be the hour , by night or day ,
63778 When I was got , Sir Robert was away !
63779
63780 The very spirit of Plantagenet !
63781 I am thy grandam , Richard : call me so .
63782
63783 Madam , by chance but not by truth ; what though ?
63784 Something about , a little from the right ,
63785 In at the window , or else o'er the hatch :
63786 Who dares not stir by day must walk by night ,
63787 And have is have , however men do catch .
63788 Near or far off , well won is still well shot ,
63789 And I am I , howe'er I was begot .
63790
63791 Go , Faulconbridge : now hast thou thy desire ;
63792 A landless knight makes thee a landed squire .
63793 Come , madam , and come , Richard : we must speed
63794 For France , for France , for it is more than need .
63795
63796 Brother , adieu : good fortune come to thee !
63797 For thou wast got i' the way of honesty .
63798
63799 A foot of honour better than I was ,
63800 But many a many foot of land the worse .
63801 Well , now can I make any Joan a lady .
63802 'Good den , Sir Richard !' 'God-a-mercy , fellow !'
63803 And if his name be George , I'll call him Peter ;
63804 For new-made honour doth forget men's names :
63805 'Tis too respective and too sociable
63806 For your conversion . Now your traveller ,
63807 He and his toothpick at my worship's mess ,
63808 And when my knightly stomach is suffic'd ,
63809 Why then I suck my teeth , and catechize
63810 My picked man of countries : 'My dear sir ,'
63811 Thus , leaning on mine elbow , I begin ,
63812 'I shall beseech you ,' that is question now ;
63813 And then comes answer like an absey-book :
63814 'O , sir ,' says answer , 'at your best command ;
63815 At your employment ; at your service , sir :'
63816 'No , sir ,' says question , 'I , sweet sir , at yours :'
63817 And so , ere answer knows what question would ,
63818 Saving in dialogue of compliment ,
63819 And talking of the Alps and Apennines ,
63820 The Pyrenean and the river Po ,
63821 It draws toward supper in conclusion so .
63822 But this is worshipful society
63823 And fits the mounting spirit like myself ;
63824 For he is but a bastard to the time ,
63825 That doth not smack of observation ;
63826 And so am I , whether I smack or no ;
63827 And not alone in habit and device ,
63828 Exterior form , outward accoutrement ,
63829 But from the inward motion to deliver
63830 Sweet , sweet , sweet poison for the age's tooth :
63831 Which , though I will not practise to deceive ,
63832 Yet , to avoid deceit , I mean to learn ;
63833 For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising .
63834 But who comes in such haste in riding-robes ?
63835 What woman-post is this ? hath she no husband
63836 That will take pains to blow a horn before her ?
63837
63838
63839 O me ! it is my mother . How now , good lady !
63840
63841 What brings you here to court so hastily ?
63842
63843 Where is that slave , thy brother ? where is he ,
63844 That holds in chase mine honour up and down ?
63845
63846 My brother Robert ? old Sir Robert's son ?
63847 Colbrand the giant , that same mighty man ?
63848 Is it Sir Robert's son that you seek so ?
63849
63850 Sir Robert's son ! Ay , thou unreverend boy ,
63851 Sir Robert's son : why scorn'st thou at Sir Robert ?
63852 He is Sir Robert's son , and so art thou .
63853
63854 James Gurney , wilt thou give us leave awhile ?
63855
63856 Good leave , good Philip .
63857
63858 Philip ! sparrow ! James ,
63859 There's toys abroad : anon I'll tell thee more .
63860
63861 Madam , I was not old Sir Robert's son :
63862 Sir Robert might have eat his part in me
63863 Upon Good-Friday and ne'er broke his fast .
63864 Sir Robert could do well : marry , to confess ,
63865 Could he get me ? Sir Robert could not do it :
63866 We know his handiwork : therefore , good mother ,
63867 To whom am I beholding for these limbs ?
63868 Sir Robert never holp to make this leg .
63869
63870 Hast thou conspired with thy brother too ,
63871 That for thine own gain shouldst defend mine honour ?
63872 What means this scorn , thou most untoward knave ?
63873
63874 Knight , knight , good mother , Basilisco-like .
63875 What ! I am dubb'd ; I have it on my shoulder .
63876 But , mother , I am not Sir Robert's son ;
63877 I have disclaim'd Sir Robert and my land ;
63878 Legitimation , name , and all is gone .
63879 Then , good my mother , let me know my father ;
63880 Some proper man , I hope ; who was it , mother ?
63881
63882 Hast thou denied thyself a Faulconbridge ?
63883
63884 As faithfully as I deny the devil .
63885
63886 King Richard C ur-de-Lion was thy father :
63887 By long and vehement suit I was seduc'd
63888 To make room for him in my husband's bed .
63889 Heaven lay not my transgression to my charge !
63890 Thou art the issue of my dear offence ,
63891 Which was so strongly urg'd past my defence .
63892
63893 Now , by this light , were I to get again ,
63894 Madam , I would not wish a better father .
63895 Some sins do bear their privilege on earth ,
63896 And so doth yours ; your fault was not your folly :
63897 Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose ,
63898 Subjected tribute to commanding love ,
63899 Against whose fury and unmatched force
63900 The aweless lion could not wage the fight ,
63901 Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand .
63902 He that perforce robs lions of their hearts
63903 May easily win a woman's . Ay , my mother ,
63904 With all my heart I thank thee for my father !
63905 Who lives and dares but say thou didst not well
63906 When I was got , I'll send his soul to hell .
63907 Come , lady , I will show thee to my kin ;
63908 And they shall say , when Richard me begot ,
63909 If thou hadst said him nay , it had been sin :
63910 Who says it was , he lies : I say , 'twas not .
63911
63912
63913 Before Angiers well met , brave Austria .
63914 Arthur , that great forerunner of thy blood ,
63915 Richard , that robb'd the lion of his heart
63916 And fought the holy wars in Palestine ,
63917 By this brave duke came early to his grave :
63918 And , for amends to his posterity ,
63919 At our importance hither is he come ,
63920 To spread his colours , boy , in thy behalf ,
63921 And to rebuke the usurpation
63922 Of thy unnatural uncle , English John :
63923 Embrace him , love him , give him welcome hither .
63924
63925 God shall forgive you C ur-de-Lion's death
63926 The rather that you give his offspring life ,
63927 Shadowing their right under your wings of war .
63928 I give you welcome with a powerless hand ,
63929 But with a heart full of unstained love :
63930 Welcome before the gates of Angiers , duke .
63931
63932 A noble boy ! Who would not do thee right ?
63933
63934 Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss ,
63935 As seal to this indenture of my love ,
63936 That to my home I will no more return
63937 Till Angiers , and the right thou hast in France ,
63938 Together with that pale , that white-fac'd shore ,
63939 Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides
63940 And coops from other lands her islanders ,
63941 Even till that England , hedg'd in with the main ,
63942 That water-walled bulwark , still secure
63943 And confident from foreign purposes ,
63944 Even till that utmost corner of the west
63945 Salute thee for her king : till then , fair boy ,
63946 Will I not think of home , but follow arms .
63947
63948 O ! take his mother's thanks , a widow's thanks ,
63949 Till your strong hand shall help to give him strength
63950 To make a more requital to your love .
63951
63952 The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords
63953 In such a just and charitable war .
63954
63955 Well then , to work : our cannon shall be bent
63956 Against the brows of this resisting town .
63957 Call for our chiefest men of discipline ,
63958 To cull the plots of best advantages :
63959 We'll lay before this town our royal bones ,
63960 Wade to the market-place in Frenchmen's blood ,
63961 But we will make it subject to this boy .
63962
63963 Stay for an answer to your embassy ,
63964 Lest unadvis'd you stain your swords with blood .
63965 My Lord Chatillon may from England bring
63966 That right in peace which here we urge in war ;
63967 And then we shall repent each drop of blood
63968 That hot rash haste so indirectly shed .
63969
63970
63971 A wonder , lady ! lo , upon thy wish ,
63972 Our messenger , Chatillon , is arriv'd !
63973 What England says , say briefly , gentle lord ;
63974 We coldly pause for thee ; Chatillon , speak .
63975
63976 Then turn your forces from this paltry siege
63977 And stir them up against a mightier task .
63978 England , impatient of your just demands ,
63979 Hath put himself in arms : the adverse winds ,
63980 Whose leisure I have stay'd , have given him time
63981 To land his legions all as soon as I ;
63982 His marches are expedient to this town ,
63983 His forces strong , his soldiers confident .
63984 With him along is come the mother-queen ,
63985 An Ate , stirring him to blood and strife ;
63986 With her her niece , the Lady Blanch of Spain ;
63987 With them a bastard of the king's deceas'd ;
63988 And all the unsettled humours of the land ,
63989 Rash , inconsiderate , fiery voluntaries ,
63990 With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens ,
63991 Have sold their fortunes at their native homes ,
63992 Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs ,
63993 To make a hazard of new fortunes here .
63994 In brief , a braver choice of dauntless spirits
63995 Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er
63996 Did never float upon the swelling tide ,
63997 To do offence and scathe in Christendom .
63998
63999 The interruption of their churlish drums
64000 Cuts off more circumstance : they are at hand ,
64001 To parley or to fight ; therefore prepare .
64002
64003 How much unlook'd for is this expedition !
64004
64005 By how much unexpected , by so much
64006 We must awake endeavour for defence ,
64007 For courage mounteth with occasion :
64008 Let them be welcome then , we are prepar'd .
64009
64010
64011 Peace be to France , if France in peace permit
64012 Our just and lineal entrance to our own ;
64013 If not , bleed France , and peace ascend to heaven ,
64014 Whiles we , God's wrathful agent , do correct
64015 Their proud contempt that beats his peace to heaven .
64016
64017 Peace be to England , if that war return
64018 From France to England , there to live in peace .
64019 England we love ; and , for that England's sake
64020 With burden of our armour here we sweat :
64021 This toil of ours should be a work of thine ;
64022 But thou from loving England art so far
64023 That thou hast under-wrought his lawful king ,
64024 Cut off the sequence of posterity ,
64025 Out-faced infant state , and done a rape
64026 Upon the maiden virtue of the crown .
64027 Look here upon thy brother Geffrey's face :
64028 These eyes , these brows , were moulded out of his ;
64029 This little abstract doth contain that large
64030 Which died in Geffrey , and the hand of time
64031 Shall draw this brief into as huge a volume .
64032 That Geffrey was thy elder brother born ,
64033 And this his son ; England was Geffrey's right
64034 And this is Geffrey's . In the name of God
64035 How comes it then that thou art call'd a king ,
64036 When living blood doth in these temples beat ,
64037 Which owe the crown that thou o'ermasterest ?
64038
64039 From whom hast thou this great commission , France ,
64040 To draw my answer from thy articles ?
64041
64042 From that supernal judge , that stirs good thoughts
64043 In any breast of strong authority ,
64044 To look into the blots and stains of right :
64045 That judge hath made me guardian to this boy :
64046 Under whose warrant I impeach thy wrong ,
64047 And by whose help I mean to chastise it .
64048
64049 Alack ! thou dost usurp authority .
64050
64051 Excuse ; it is to beat usurping down .
64052
64053 Who is it thou dost call usurper , France ?
64054
64055 Let me make answer ; thy usurping son .
64056
64057 Out , insolent ! thy bastard shall be king ,
64058 That thou mayst be a queen , and check the world !
64059
64060 My bed was ever to thy son as true
64061 As thine was to thy husband , and this boy
64062 Liker in feature to his father Geffrey
64063 Than thou and John in manners ; being as like
64064 As rain to water , or devil to his dam .
64065 My boy a bastard ! By my soul I think
64066 His father never was so true begot :
64067 It cannot be an if thou wert his mother .
64068
64069 There's a good mother , boy , that blots thy father .
64070
64071 There's a good grandam , boy , that would blot thee .
64072
64073 Peace !
64074
64075 Hear the crier .
64076
64077 What the devil art thou ?
64078
64079 One that will play the devil , sir , with you ,
64080 An a' may catch your hide and you alone .
64081 You are the hare of whom the proverb goes ,
64082 Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard .
64083 I'll smoke your skin coat , an I catch you right .
64084 Sirrah , look to't ; i' faith , I will , i' faith .
64085
64086 O ! well did he become that lion's robe ,
64087 That did disrobe the lion of that robe .
64088
64089 It lies as sightly on the back of him
64090 As great Alcides' shows upon an ass :
64091 But , ass , I'll take that burden from your back ,
64092 Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack .
64093
64094 What cracker is this same that deafs our ears
64095 With this abundance of superfluous breath ?
64096 King ,Lewis , determine what we shall do straight .
64097
64098 Women and fools , break off your conference .
64099 King John , this is the very sum of all :
64100 England and Ireland , Anjou , Touraine , Maine ,
64101 In right of Arthur do I claim of thee .
64102 Wilt thou resign them and lay down thy arms ?
64103
64104 My life as soon : I do defy thee , France .
64105 Arthur of Britaine , yield thee to my hand ;
64106 And out of my dear love I'll give thee more
64107 Than e'er the coward hand of France can win .
64108 Submit thee , boy .
64109
64110 Come to thy grandam , child .
64111
64112 Do , child , go to it grandam , child ;
64113 Give grandam kingdom , and it grandam will
64114 Give it a plum , a cherry , and a fig :
64115 There's a good grandam .
64116
64117 Good my mother , peace !
64118 I would that I were low laid in my grave :
64119 I am not worth this coil that's made for me .
64120
64121 His mother shames him so , poor boy , he weeps .
64122
64123 Now shame upon you , whe'r she does or no !
64124 His grandam's wrongs , and not his mother's shames ,
64125 Draw those heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes ,
64126 Which heaven shall take in nature of a fee ;
64127 Ay , with these crystal beads heaven shall be brib'd
64128 To do him justice and revenge on you .
64129
64130 Thou monstrous slanderer of heaven and earth !
64131
64132 Thou monstrous injurer of heaven and earth !
64133 Call not me slanderer ; thou and thine usurp
64134 The dominations , royalties , and rights
64135 Of this oppressed boy : this is thy eld'st son's son ,
64136 Infortunate in nothing but in thee :
64137 Thy sins are visited in this poor child ;
64138 The canon of the law is laid on him ,
64139 Being but the second generation
64140 Removed from thy sin-conceiving womb .
64141
64142 Bedlam , have done .
64143
64144 I have but this to say ,
64145 That he's not only plagued for her sin ,
64146 But God hath made her sin and her the plague
64147 On this removed issue , plagu'd for her ,
64148 And with her plague , her sin ; his injury
64149 Her injury , the beadle to her sin ,
64150 All punish'd in the person of this child ,
64151 And all for her . A plague upon her !
64152
64153 Thou unadvised scold , I can produce
64154 A will that bars the title of thy son .
64155
64156 Ay , who doubts that ? a will ! a wicked will ;
64157 A woman's will ; a canker'd grandam's will !
64158
64159 Peace , lady ! pause , or be more temperate :
64160 It ill beseems this presence to cry aim
64161 To these ill-tuned repetitions .
64162 Some trumpet summon hither to the walls
64163 These men of Angiers : let us hear them speak
64164 Whose title they admit , Arthur's or John's .
64165
64166
64167 Who is it that hath warn'd us to the walls ?
64168
64169 'Tis France , for England .
64170
64171 England for itself .
64172 You men of Angiers , and my loving subjects ,
64173
64174 You loving men of Angiers , Arthur's subjects ,
64175 Our trumpet call'd you to this gentle parle ,
64176
64177 For our advantage ; therefore hear us first .
64178 These flags of France , that are advanced here
64179 Before the eye and prospect of your town ,
64180 Have hither march'd to your endamagement :
64181 The cannons have their bowels full of wrath ,
64182 And ready mounted are they to spit forth
64183 Their iron indignation 'gainst your walls :
64184 All preparation for a bloody siege
64185 And merciless proceeding by these French
64186 Confronts your city's eyes , your winking gates ;
64187 And but for our approach those sleeping stones ,
64188 That as a waist do girdle you about ,
64189 By the compulsion of their ordinance
64190 By this time from their fixed beds of lime
64191 Had been dishabited , and wide havoc made
64192 For bloody power to rush upon your peace .
64193 But on the sight of us your lawful king ,
64194 Who painfully with much expedient march
64195 Have brought a countercheck before your gates ,
64196 To save unscratch'd your city's threaten'd cheeks ,
64197 Behold , the French amaz'd vouchsafe a parle ;
64198 And now , instead of bullets wrapp'd in fire ,
64199 To make a shaking fever in your walls ,
64200 They shoot but calm words folded up in smoke ,
64201 To make a faithless error in your ears :
64202 Which trust accordingly , kind citizens ,
64203 And let us in , your king , whose labour'd spirits ,
64204 Forwearied in this action of swift speed ,
64205 Crave harbourage within your city walls .
64206
64207 When I have said , make answer to us both .
64208 Lo ! in this right hand , whose protection
64209 Is most divinely vow'd upon the right
64210 Of him it holds , stands young Plantagenet ,
64211 Son to the elder brother of this man ,
64212 And king o'er him and all that he enjoys :
64213 For this down-trodden equity , we tread
64214 In war-like march these greens before your town ,
64215 Being no further enemy to you
64216 Than the constraint of hospitable zeal ,
64217 In the relief of this oppressed child ,
64218 Religiously provokes . Be pleased then
64219 To pay that duty which you truly owe
64220 To him that owes it , namely , this young prince ;
64221 And then our arms , like to a muzzled bear ,
64222 Save in aspect , have all offence seal'd up ;
64223 Our cannons' malice vainly shall be spent
64224 Against the invulnerable clouds of heaven ;
64225 And with a blessed and unvex'd retire ,
64226 With unhack'd swords and helmets all unbruis'd ,
64227 We will bear home that lusty blood again
64228 Which here we came to spout against your town ,
64229 And leave your children , wives , and you , in peace .
64230 But if you fondly pass our proffer'd offer ,
64231 'Tis not the roundure of your old-fac'd walls
64232 Can hide you from our messengers of war ,
64233 Though all these English and their discipline
64234 Were harbour'd in their rude circumference .
64235 Then tell us , shall your city call us lord ,
64236 In that behalf which we have challeng'd it ?
64237 Or shall we give the signal to our rage
64238 And stalk in blood to our possession ?
64239
64240 In brief , we are the King of England's subjects :
64241 For him , and in his right , we hold this town .
64242
64243 Acknowledge then the king , and let me in .
64244
64245 That can we not ; but he that proves the king ,
64246 To him will we prove loyal : till that time
64247 Have we ramm'd up our gates against the world .
64248
64249 Doth not the crown of England prove the king ?
64250 And if not that , I bring you witnesses ,
64251 Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed ,
64252
64253 Bastards , and else .
64254
64255 To verify our title with their lives .
64256
64257 As many and as well-born bloods as those ,
64258
64259 Some bastards too .
64260
64261 Stand in his face to contradict his claim .
64262
64263 Till thou compound whose right is worthiest ,
64264 We for the worthiest hold the right from both .
64265
64266 Then God forgive the sins of all those souls
64267 That to their everlasting residence ,
64268 Before the dew of evening fall , shall fleet ,
64269 In dreadful trial of our kingdom's king !
64270
64271 Amen , Amen ! Mount , chevaliers ! to arms !
64272
64273 Saint George , that swing'd the dragon , and e'er since
64274 Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door ,
64275 Teach us some fence !
64276
64277 Sirrah , were I at home ,
64278 At your den , sirrah , with your lioness ,
64279 I would set an ox-head to your lion's hide ,
64280 And make a monster of you .
64281
64282 Peace ! no more .
64283
64284 O ! tremble , for you hear the lion roar .
64285
64286 Up higher to the plain ; where we'll set forth
64287 In best appointment all our regiments .
64288
64289 Speed then , to take advantage of the field .
64290
64291 It shall be so ;
64292
64293 and at the other hill
64294 Command the rest to stand . God , and our right !
64295
64296 You men of Angiers , open wide your gates ,
64297 And let young Arthur , Duke of Britaine , in ,
64298 Who , by the hand of France this day hath made
64299 Much work for tears in many an English mother ,
64300 Whose sons he scatter'd on the bleeding ground ;
64301 Many a widow's husband grovelling lies ,
64302 Coldly embracing the discolour'd earth ;
64303 And victory , with little loss , doth play
64304 Upon the dancing banners of the French ,
64305 Who are at hand , triumphantly display'd ,
64306 To enter conquerors and to proclaim
64307 Arthur of Britaine England's king and yours .
64308
64309
64310 Rejoice , you men of Angiers , ring your bells ;
64311 King John , your king and England's , doth approach ,
64312 Commander of this hot malicious day .
64313 Their armours , that march'd hence so silver-bright ,
64314 Hither return all gilt with Frenchmen's blood ;
64315 There stuck no plume in any English crest
64316 That is removed by a staff of France ;
64317 Our colours do return in those same hands
64318 That did display them when we first march'd forth ;
64319 And , like a jolly troop of huntsmen , come
64320 Our lusty English , all with purpled hands
64321 Dy'd in the dying slaughter of their foes .
64322 Open your gates and give the victors way .
64323
64324 Heralds , from off our towers we might behold ,
64325 From first to last , the onset and retire
64326 Of both your armies ; whose equality
64327 By our best eyes cannot be censured :
64328 Blood hath bought blood , and blows have answer'd blows ;
64329 Strength match'd with strength , and power confronted power :
64330 Both are alike ; and both alike we like .
64331 One must prove greatest : while they weigh so even ,
64332 We hold our town for neither , yet for both .
64333
64334
64335 France , hast thou yet more blood to cast away ?
64336 Say , shall the current of our right run on ?
64337 Whose passage , vex'd with thy impediment ,
64338 Shall leave his native channel and o'erswell
64339 With course disturb'd even thy conflning shores ,
64340 Unless thou let his silver water keep
64341 A peaceful progress to the ocean .
64342
64343 England , thou hast not sav'd one drop of blood ,
64344 In this hot trial , more than we of France ;
64345 Rather , lost more : and by this hand I swear ,
64346 That sways the earth this climate overlooks ,
64347 Before we will lay down our just-borne arms ,
64348 We'll put thee down , 'gainst whom these arms we bear ,
64349 Or add a royal number to the dead ,
64350 Gracing the scroll that tells of this war's loss
64351 With slaughter coupled to the name of kings .
64352
64353 Ha , majesty ! how high thy glory towers
64354 When the rich blood of kings is set on fire !
64355 O ! now doth Death line his dead chaps with steel ;
64356 The swords of soldiers are his teeth , his fangs ;
64357 And now he feasts , mousing the flesh of men ,
64358 In undetermin'd differences of kings .
64359 Why stand these royal fronts amazed thus ?
64360 Cry 'havoc !' kings ; back to the stained field ,
64361 You equal-potents , fiery-kindled spirits !
64362 Then let confusion of one part confirm
64363 The other's peace ; till then , blows , blood , and death !
64364
64365 Whose party do the townsmen yet admit ?
64366
64367 Speak , citizens , for England ; who's your king ?
64368
64369 The King of England , when we know the king .
64370
64371 Know him in us , that here hold up his right .
64372
64373 In us , that are our own great deputy ,
64374 And bear possession of our person here ,
64375 Lord of our presence , Angiers , and of you .
64376
64377 A greater power than we denies all this ;
64378 And , till it be undoubted , we do lock
64379 Our former scruple in our strong-barr'd gates ,
64380 Kings of ourselves ; until our fears , resolv'd ,
64381 Be by some certain king purg'd and depos'd .
64382
64383 By heaven , these scroyles of Angiers flout you , kings ,
64384 And stand securely on their battlements
64385 As in a theatre , whence they gape and point
64386 At your industrious scenes and acts of death .
64387 Your royal presences be rul'd by me :
64388 Do like the mutines of Jerusalem ,
64389 Be friends awhile and both conjointly bend
64390 Your sharpest deeds of malice on this town .
64391 By east and west let France and England mount
64392 Their battering cannon charged to the mouths ,
64393 Till their soul-fearing clamours have brawl'd down
64394 The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city :
64395 I'd play incessantly upon these jades ,
64396 Even till unfenced desolation
64397 Leave them as naked as the vulgar air .
64398 That done , dissever your united strengths ,
64399 And part your mingled colours once again ;
64400 Turn face to face and bloody point to point ;
64401 Then , in a moment , Fortune shall cull forth
64402 Out of one side her happy minion ,
64403 To whom in favour she shall give the day ,
64404 And kiss him with a glorious victory .
64405 How like you this wild counsel , mighty states ?
64406 Smacks it not something of the policy ?
64407
64408 Now , by the sky that hangs above our heads ,
64409 I like it well . France , shall we knit our powers
64410 And lay this Angiers even with the ground ;
64411 Then after fight who shall be king of it ?
64412
64413 An if thou hast the mettle of a king ,
64414 Being wrong'd as we are by this peevish town ,
64415 Turn thou the mouth of thy artillery ,
64416 As we will ours , against these saucy walls ;
64417 And when that we have dash'd them to the ground ,
64418 Why then defy each other , and , pell-mell ,
64419 Make work upon ourselves , for heaven or hell .
64420
64421 Let it be so . Say , where will you assault ?
64422
64423 We from the west will send destruction
64424 Into this city's bosom .
64425
64426 I from the north .
64427
64428 Our thunder from the south
64429 Shall rain their drift of bullets on this town .
64430
64431 O , prudent discipline ! From north to south
64432 Austria and France shoot in each other's mouth :
64433 I'll stir them to it . Come , away , away !
64434
64435 Hear us , great kings : vouchsafe a while to stay ,
64436 And I shall show you peace and fair-fac'd league ;
64437 Win you this city without stroke or wound ;
64438 Rescue those breathing lives to die in beds ,
64439 That here come sacrifices for the field .
64440 Persever not , but hear me , mighty kings .
64441
64442 Speak on with favour : we are bent to hear .
64443
64444 That daughter there of Spain , the Lady Blanch ,
64445 Is near to England : look upon the years
64446 Of Lewis the Dauphin and that lovely maid .
64447 If lusty love should go in quest of beauty ,
64448 Where should he find it fairer than in Blanch ?
64449 If zealous love should go in search of virtue ,
64450 Where should he find it purer than in Blanch ?
64451 If love ambitious sought a match of birth ,
64452 Whose veins bound richer blood than Lady Blanch ?
64453 Such as she is , in beauty , virtue , birth ,
64454 Is the young Dauphin every way complete :
64455 If not complete of , say he is not she ;
64456 And she again wants nothing , to name want ,
64457 If want it be not that she is not he :
64458 He is the half part of a blessed man ,
64459 Left to be finished by such a she ;
64460 And she a fair divided excellence ,
64461 Whose fulness of perfection lies in him .
64462 O ! two such silver currents , when they join ,
64463 Do glorify the banks that bound them in ;
64464 And two such shores to two such streams made one ,
64465 Two such controlling bounds shall you be , kings ,
64466 To these two princes , if you marry them .
64467 This union shall do more than battery can
64468 To our fast-closed gates ; for at this match ,
64469 With swifter spleen than powder can enforce ,
64470 The mouth of passage shall we fling wide ope ,
64471 And give you entrance ; but without this match ,
64472 The sea enraged is not half so deaf ,
64473 Lions more confident , mountains and rocks
64474 More free from motion , no , not death himself
64475 In mortal fury half so peremptory ,
64476 As we to keep this city .
64477
64478 Here's a stay ,
64479 That shakes the rotten carcase of old Death
64480 Out of his rags ! Here's a large mouth , indeed ,
64481 That spits forth death and mountains , rocks and seas ,
64482 Talks as familiarly of roaring lions
64483 As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs .
64484 What cannoneer begot this lusty blood ?
64485 He speaks plain cannon fire , and smoke and bounce ;
64486 He gives the bastinado with his tongue ;
64487 Our ears are cudgell'd ; not a word of his
64488 But buffets better than a fist of France .
64489 'Zounds ! I was never so bethump'd with words
64490 Since I first call'd my brother's father dad .
64491
64492 Son , list to this conjunction , make this match ;
64493 Give with our niece a dowry large enough ;
64494 For by this knot thou shalt so surely tie
64495 Thy now unsur'd assurance to the crown ,
64496 That yon green boy shall have no sun to ripe
64497 The bloom that promiseth a mighty fruit .
64498 I see a yielding in the looks of France ;
64499 Mark how they whisper : urge them while their souls
64500 Are capable of this ambition ,
64501 Lest zeal , now melted by the windy breath
64502 Of soft petitions , pity and remorse ,
64503 Cool and congeal again to what it was .
64504
64505 Why answer not the double majesties
64506 This friendly treaty of our threaten'd town ?
64507
64508 Speak England first , that hath been forward first
64509 To speak unto this city : what say you ?
64510
64511 If that the Dauphin there , thy princely son ,
64512 Can in this book of beauty read 'I love ,'
64513 Her dowry shall weigh equal with a queen :
64514 For Anjou , and fair Touraine , Maine , Poictiers ,
64515 And all that we upon this side the sea ,
64516 Except this city now by us besieg'd ,
64517 Find liable to our crown and dignity ,
64518 Shall gild her bridal bed and make her rich
64519 In titles , honours , and promotions ,
64520 As she in beauty , education , blood ,
64521 Holds hand with any princess of the world .
64522
64523 What sayst thou , boy ? look in the lady's face .
64524
64525 I do , my lord ; and in her eye I find
64526 A wonder , or a wondrous miracle ,
64527 The shadow of myself form'd in her eye ;
64528 Which , being but the shadow of your son
64529 Becomes a sun , and makes your son a shadow :
64530 I do protest I never lov'd myself
64531 Till now infixed I beheld myself ,
64532 Drawn in the flattering table of her eye .
64533
64534
64535 Drawn in the flattering table of her eye !
64536 Hang'd in the frowning wrinkle of her brow !
64537 And quarter'd in her heart ! he doth espy
64538 Himself love's traitor : this is pity now ,
64539 That hang'd and drawn and quarter'd , there should be
64540 In such a love so vile a lout as he .
64541
64542 My uncle's will in this respect is mine :
64543 If he see aught in you that makes him like ,
64544 That anything he sees , which moves his liking ,
64545 I can with ease translate it to my will ;
64546 Or if you will , to speak more properly ,
64547 I will enforce it easily to my love .
64548 Further I will not flatter you , my lord ,
64549 That all I see in you is worthy love ,
64550 Than this : that nothing do I see in you ,
64551 Though churlish thoughts themselves should be your judge ,
64552 That I can find should merit any hate .
64553
64554 What say these young ones ? What say you , my niece ?
64555
64556 That she is bound in honour still to do
64557 What you in wisdom still vouchsafe to say .
64558
64559 Speak then , Prince Dauphin ; can you love this lady ?
64560
64561 Nay , ask me if I can refrain from love ;
64562 For I do love her most unfeignedly .
64563
64564 Then do I give Volquessen , Touraine , Maine ,
64565 Poictiers , and Anjou , these five provinces ,
64566 With her to thee ; and this addition more ,
64567 Full thirty thousand marks of English coin .
64568 Philip of France , if thou be pleas'd withal ,
64569 Command thy son and daughter to join hands .
64570
64571 It likes us well . Young princes , close your hands .
64572
64573 And your lips too ; for I am well assur'd
64574 That I did so when I was first assur'd .
64575
64576 Now , citizens of Angiers , ope your gates ,
64577 Let in that amity which you have made ;
64578 For at Saint Mary's chapel presently
64579 The rites of marriage shall be solemniz'd .
64580 Is not the Lady Constance in this troop ?
64581 I know she is not ; for this match made up
64582 Her presence would have interrupted much :
64583 Where is she and her son ? tell me , who knows .
64584
64585 She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent .
64586
64587 And , by my faith , this league that we have made
64588 Will give her sadness very little cure .
64589 Brother of England , how may we content
64590 This widow lady ? In her right we came ;
64591 Which we , God knows , have turn'd another way ,
64592 To our own vantage .
64593
64594 We will heal up all ;
64595 For we'll create young Arthur Duke of Britaine
64596 And Earl of Richmond ; and this rich fair town
64597 We make him lord of . Call the Lady Constance :
64598 Some speedy messenger bid her repair
64599 To our solemnity : I trust we shall ,
64600 If not fill up the measure of her will ,
64601 Yet in some measure satisfy her so ,
64602 That we shall stop her exclamation .
64603 Go we , as well as haste will suffer us ,
64604 To this unlook'd-for unprepared pomp .
64605
64606
64607 Mad world ! mad kings ! mad composition !
64608 John , to stop Arthur's title in the whole ,
64609 Hath willingly departed with a part ;
64610 And France , whose armour conscience buckled on ,
64611 Whom zeal and charity brought to the field
64612 As God's own soldier , rounded in the ear
64613 With that same purpose-changer , that sly devil ,
64614 That broker , that still breaks the pate of faith ,
64615 That daily break-vow , he that wins of all ,
64616 Of kings , of beggars , old men , young men , maids ,
64617 Who having no external thing to lose
64618 But the word 'maid ,' cheats the poor maid of that ,
64619 That smooth-fac'd gentleman , tickling Commodity ,
64620 Commodity , the bias of the world ;
64621 The world , who of itself is peized well ,
64622 Made to run even upon even ground ,
64623 Till this advantage , this vile-drawing bias ,
64624 This sway of motion , this Commodity ,
64625 Makes it take head from all indifferency ,
64626 From all direction , purpose , course , intent :
64627 And this same bias , this Commodity ,
64628 This bawd , this broker , this all-changing word ,
64629 Clapp'd on the outward eye of fickle France ,
64630 Hath drawn him from his own determin'd aid ,
64631 From a resolv'd and honourable war ,
64632 To a most base and vile-concluded peace .
64633 And why rail I on this Commodity ?
64634 But for because he hath not woo'd me yet .
64635 Not that I have the power to clutch my hand
64636 When his fair angels would salute my palm ;
64637 But for my hand , as unattempted yet ,
64638 Like a poor beggar , raileth on the rich .
64639 Well , whiles I am a beggar , I will rail ,
64640 And say there is no sin but to be rich ;
64641 And being rich , my virtue then shall be
64642 To say there is no vice but beggary .
64643 Since kings break faith upon Commodity ,
64644 Gain , be my lord , for I will worship thee !
64645
64646 Gone to be married ! gone to swear a peace !
64647 False blood to false blood join'd ! gone to be friends !
64648 Shall Lewis have Blanch , and Blanch those provinces ?
64649 It is not so ; thou hast misspoke , misheard ;
64650 Be well advis'd , tell o'er thy tale again :
64651 It cannot be ; thou dost but say 'tis so .
64652 I trust I may not trust thee , for thy word
64653 Is but the vain breath of a common man :
64654 Believe me , I do not believe thee , man ;
64655 I have a king's oath to the contrary .
64656 Thou shalt be punish'd for thus frighting me ,
64657 For I am sick and capable of fears ;
64658 Oppress'd with wrongs , and therefore full of fears ;
64659 A widow , husbandless , subject to fears ;
64660 A woman , naturally born to fears ;
64661 And though thou now confess thou didst but jest ,
64662 With my vex'd spirits I cannot take a truce ,
64663 But they will quake and tremble all this day .
64664 What dost thou mean by shaking of thy head ?
64665 Why dost thou look so sadly on my son ?
64666 What means that hand upon that breast of thine ?
64667 Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum ,
64668 Like a proud river peering o'er his bounds ?
64669 Be these sad signs confirmers of thy words ?
64670 Then speak again ; not all thy former tale ,
64671 But this one word , whether thy tale be true .
64672
64673 As true as I believe you think them false
64674 That give you cause to prove my saying true .
64675
64676 O ! if thou teach me to believe this sorrow ,
64677 Teach thou this sorrow how to make me die ;
64678 And let belief and life encounter so
64679 As doth the fury of two desperate men
64680 Which in the very meeting fall and die .
64681 Lewis marry Blanch ! O boy ! then where art thou ?
64682 France friend with England what becomes of me ?
64683 Fellow , be gone ! I cannot brook thy sight :
64684 This news hath made thee a most ugly man .
64685
64686 What other harm have I , good lady , done ,
64687 But spoke the harm that is by others done ?
64688
64689 Which harm within itself so heinous is
64690 As it makes harmful all that speak of it .
64691
64692 I do beseech you , madam , be content .
64693
64694 If thou , that bidd'st me be content , wert grim ,
64695 Ugly and slanderous to thy mother's womb ,
64696 Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains ,
64697 Lame , foolish , crooked , swart , prodigious ,
64698 Patch'd with foul moles and eye-offending marks ,
64699 I would not care , I then would be content ;
64700 For then I should not love thee , no , nor thou
64701 Become thy great birth , nor deserve a crown .
64702 But thou art fair ; and at thy birth , dear boy ,
64703 Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great :
64704 Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast
64705 And with the half-blown rose . But Fortune , O !
64706 She is corrupted , chang'd , and won from thee :
64707 She adulterates hourly with thine uncle John ,
64708 And with her golden hand hath pluck'd on France
64709 To tread down fair respect of sovereignty ,
64710 And made his majesty the bawd to theirs .
64711 France is a bawd to Fortune and King John ,
64712 That strumpet Fortune , that usurping John !
64713 Tell me , thou fellow , is not France forsworn ?
64714 Envenom him with words , or get thee gone
64715 And leave those woes alone which I alone
64716 Am bound to underbear .
64717
64718 Pardon me , madam ,
64719 I may not go without you to the kings .
64720
64721 Thou mayst , thou shalt : I will not go with thee .
64722 I will instruct my sorrows to be proud ;
64723 For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop .
64724 To me and to the state of my great grief
64725 Let kings assemble ; for my grief's so great
64726 That no supporter but the huge firm earth
64727 Can hold it up : here I and sorrows sit ;
64728 Here is my throne , bid kings come bow to it .
64729
64730 'Tis true , fair daughter ; and this blessed day
64731 Ever in France shall be kept festival :
64732 To solemnize this day the glorious sun
64733 Stays in his course and plays the alchemist ,
64734 Turning with splendour of his precious eye
64735 The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold :
64736 The yearly course that brings this day about
64737 Shall never see it but a holiday .
64738
64739 A wicked day , and not a holy day !
64740 What hath this day deserv'd ? what hath it done
64741 That it in golden letters should be set
64742 Among the high tides in the calendar ?
64743 Nay , rather turn this day out of the week ,
64744 This day of shame , oppression , perjury :
64745 Or , if it must stand still , let wives with child
64746 Pray that their burdens may not fall this day ,
64747 Lest that their hopes prodigiously be cross'd :
64748 But on this day let seamen fear no wrack ;
64749 No bargains break that are not this day made ;
64750 This day all things begun come to ill end ;
64751 Yea , faith itself to hollow falsehood change !
64752
64753 By heaven , lady , you shall have no cause
64754 To curse the fair proceedings of this day :
64755 Have I not pawn'd to you my majesty ?
64756
64757 You have beguil'd me with a counterfeit
64758 Resembling majesty , which , being touch'd and tried ,
64759 Proves valueless : you are forsworn , forsworn ;
64760 You came in arms to spill mine enemies' blood ,
64761 But now in arms you strengthen it with yours :
64762 The grappling vigour and rough frown of war
64763 Is cold in amity and painted peace ,
64764 And our oppression hath made up this league .
64765 Arm , arm , you heavens , against these perjur'd kings !
64766 A widow cries ; be husband to me , heavens !
64767 Let not the hours of this ungodly day
64768 Wear out the day in peace ; but , ere sunset ,
64769 Set armed discord 'twixt these perjur'd kings !
64770 Hear me ! O , hear me !
64771
64772 Lady Constance , peace !
64773
64774 War ! war ! no peace ! peace is to me a war .
64775 O , Lymoges ! O , Austria ! thou dost shame
64776 That bloody spoil . thou slave , thou wretch , thou coward !
64777 Thou little valiant , great in villany !
64778 Thou ever strong upon the stronger side !
64779 Thou Fortune's champion , that dost never fight
64780 But when her humorous ladyship is by
64781 To teach thee safety ! thou art perjur'd too ,
64782 And sooth'st up greatness . What a fool art thou ,
64783 A ramping fool , to brag , and stamp and swear
64784 Upon my party ! Thou cold-blooded slave ,
64785 Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side ?
64786 Been sworn my soldier ? bidding me depend
64787 Upon thy stars , thy fortune , and thy strength ?
64788 And dost thou now fall over to my foes ?
64789 Thou wear a hon's hide ! doff it for shame ,
64790 And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs .
64791
64792 O ! that a man should speak those words to me .
64793
64794 And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs .
64795
64796 Thou dar'st not say so , villain , for thy life .
64797
64798 And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs .
64799
64800 We like not this ; thou dost forget thyself .
64801
64802
64803 Here comes the holy legate of the pope .
64804
64805 Hail , you anointed deputies of heaven !
64806 To thee , King John , my holy errand is .
64807 I Pandulph , of fair Milan cardinal ,
64808 And from Pope Innocent the legate here ,
64809 Do in his name religiously demand
64810 Why thou against the church , our holy mother ,
64811 So wilfully dost spurn ; and , force perforce ,
64812 Keep Stephen Langton , chosen Archbishop
64813 Of Canterbury , from that holy see ?
64814 This , in our foresaid holy father's name ,
64815 Pope Innocent , I do demand of thee .
64816
64817 What earthly name to interrogatories
64818 Can task the free breath of a sacred king ?
64819 Thou canst not , cardinal , devise a name
64820 So slight , unworthy and ridiculous ,
64821 To charge me to an answer , as the pope .
64822 Tell him this tale ; and from the mouth of England
64823 Add thus much more : that no Italian priest
64824 Shall tithe or toll in our dominions ;
64825 But as we under heaven are supreme head ,
64826 So under him that great supremacy ,
64827 Where we do reign , we will alone uphold ,
64828 Without the assistance of a mortal hand :
64829 So tell the pope ; all reverence set apart
64830 To him , and his usurp'd authority .
64831
64832 Brother of England , you blaspheme in this .
64833
64834 Though you and all the kings of Christendom
64835 Are led so grossly by this meddling priest ,
64836 Dreading the curse that money may buy out ;
64837 And , by the merit of vile gold , dross , dust ,
64838 Purchase corrupted pardon of a man ,
64839 Who in that sale sells pardon from himself ;
64840 Though you and all the rest so grossly led
64841 This juggling witchcraft with revenue cherish ;
64842 Yet I alone , alone do me oppose
64843 Against the pope , and count his friends my foes .
64844
64845 Then , by the lawful power that I have ,
64846 Thou shalt stand curs'd and excommunicate :
64847 And blessed shall he be that doth revolt
64848 From his allegiance to a heretic ;
64849 And meritorious shall that hand be call'd ,
64850 Canonized and worshipp'd as a saint ,
64851 That takes away by any secret course
64852 Thy hateful life .
64853
64854 O ! lawful let it be
64855 That I have room with Rome to curse awhile .
64856 Good father cardinal , cry thou amen
64857 To my keen curses ; for without my wrong
64858 There is no tongue hath power to curse him right .
64859
64860 There's law and warrant , lady , for my curse .
64861
64862 And for mine too : when law can do no right ,
64863 Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong .
64864 Law cannot give my child his kingdom here ,
64865 For he that holds his kingdom holds the law :
64866 Therefore , since law itself is perfect wrong ,
64867 How can the law forbid my tongue to curse ?
64868
64869 Philip of France , on peril of a curse ,
64870 Let go the hand of that arch-heretic ,
64871 And raise the power of France upon his head ,
64872 Unless he do submit himself to Rome .
64873
64874 Look'st thou pale , France ? do not let go thy hand .
64875
64876 Look to that , devil , lest that France repent ,
64877 And by disjoining hands , hell lose a soul .
64878
64879 King Philip , listen to the cardinal .
64880
64881 And hang a calf's-skin on his recreant limbs .
64882
64883 Well , ruffian , I must pocket up these wrongs ,
64884 Because
64885
64886 Your breeches best may carry them .
64887
64888 Philip , what sayst thou to the cardinal ?
64889
64890 What should he say , but as the cardinal ?
64891
64892 Bethink you , father ; for the difference
64893 Is purchase of a heavy curse from Rome ,
64894 Or the light loss of England for a friend :
64895 Forego the easier .
64896
64897 That's the curse of Rome .
64898
64899 O Lewis , stand fast ! the devil tempts thee here ,
64900 In likeness of a new untrimmed bride .
64901
64902 The Lady Constance speaks not from her faith ,
64903 But from her need .
64904
64905 O ! if thou grant my need ,
64906 Which only lives but by the death of faith ,
64907 That need must needs infer this principle ,
64908 That faith would live again by death of need :
64909 O ! then , tread down my need , and faith mounts up ;
64910 Keep my need up , and faith is trodden down .
64911
64912 The king is mov'd , and answers not to this .
64913
64914 O ! be remov'd from him , and answer well .
64915
64916 Do so , King Philip : hang no more in doubt .
64917
64918 Hang nothing but a calf's-skin , most sweet lout .
64919
64920 I am perplex'd , and know not what to say .
64921
64922 What canst thou say but will perplex thee more ,
64923 If thou stand excommunicate and curs'd ?
64924
64925 Good reverend father , make my person yours ,
64926 And tell me how you would bestow yourself .
64927 This royal hand and mine are newly knit ,
64928 And the conjunction of our inward souls
64929 Married in league , coupled and link'd together
64930 With all religious strength of sacred vows ;
64931 The latest breath that gave the sound of words
64932 Was deep-sworn faith , peace , amity , true love ,
64933 Between our kingdoms and our royal selves ;
64934 And even before this truce , but new before ,
64935 No longer than we well could wash our hands
64936 To clap this royal bargain up of peace ,
64937 Heaven knows , they were besmear'd and overstain'd
64938 With slaughter's pencil , where revenge did paint
64939 The fearful difference of incensed kings :
64940 And shall these hands , so lately purg'd of blood ,
64941 So newly join'd in love , so strong in both ,
64942 Unyoke this seizure and this kind regreet ?
64943 Play fast and loose with faith ? so jest with heaven ,
64944 Make such unconstant children of ourselves ,
64945 As now again to snatch our palm from palm ,
64946 Unswear faith sworn , and on the marriage-bed
64947 Of smiling peace to march a bloody host ,
64948 And make a riot on the gentle brow
64949 Of true sincerity ? O ! holy sir ,
64950 My reverend father , let it not be so !
64951 Out of your grace , devise , ordain , impose
64952 Some gentle order , and then we shall be bless'd
64953 To do your pleasure and continue friends .
64954
64955 All form is formless , order orderless ,
64956 Save what is opposite to England's love .
64957 Therefore to arms ! be champion of our church ,
64958 Or let the church , our mother , breathe her curse ,
64959 A mother's curse , on her revolting son .
64960 France , thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue ,
64961 A chafed lion by the mortal paw ,
64962 A fasting tiger safer by the tooth ,
64963 Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold .
64964
64965 I may disjoin my hand , but not my faith .
64966
64967 So mak'st thou faith an enemy to faith :
64968 And like a civil war sett'st oath to oath ,
64969 Thy tongue against thy tongue . O ! let thy vow
64970 First made to heaven , first be to heaven perform'd ;
64971 That is , to be the champion of our church .
64972 What since thou swor'st is sworn against thyself
64973 And may not be performed by thyself ;
64974 For that which thou hast sworn to do amiss
64975 Is not amiss when it is truly done ;
64976 And being not done , where doing tends to ill ,
64977 The truth is then most done not doing it .
64978 The better act of purposes mistook
64979 Is to mistake again ; though indirect ,
64980 Yet indirection thereby grows direct ,
64981 And falsehood falsehood cures , as fire cools fire
64982 Within the scorched veins of one new-burn'd .
64983 It is religion that doth make vows kept ;
64984 But thou hast sworn against religion
64985 By what thou swear'st , against the thing thou swear'st ,
64986 And mak'st an oath the surety for thy truth
64987 Against an oath : the truth thou art unsure
64988 To swear , swears only not to be forsworn ;
64989 Else what a mockery should it be to swear !
64990 But thou dost swear only to be forsworn ;
64991 And most forsworn , to keep what thou dost swear .
64992 Therefore thy later vows against thy first
64993 Is in thyself rebellion to thyself ;
64994 And better conquest never canst thou make
64995 Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts
64996 Against these giddy loose suggestions :
64997 Upon which better part our prayers come in ,
64998 If thou vouchsafe them ; but , if not , then know
64999 The peril of our curses light on thee
65000 So heavy as thou shalt not shake them off ,
65001 But in despair die under their black weight .
65002
65003 Rebellion , flat rebellion !
65004
65005 Will't not be ?
65006 Will not a calf's-skin stop that mouth of thine ?
65007
65008 Father , to arms !
65009
65010 Upon thy wedding-day ?
65011 Against the blood that thou hast married ?
65012 What ! shall our feast be kept with slaughter'd men ?
65013 Shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums ,
65014 Clamours of hell , be measures to our pomp ?
65015 O husband , hear me ! ay , alack ! how new
65016 Is husband in my mouth ; even for that name ,
65017 Which till this time my tongue did ne'er pronounce ,
65018 Upon my knee I beg , go not to arms
65019 Against mine uncle .
65020
65021 O ! upon my knee ,
65022 Made hard with kneeling , I do pray to thee ,
65023 Thou virtuous Dauphin , alter not the doom
65024 Forethought by heaven .
65025
65026 Now shall I see thy love : what motive may
65027 Be stronger with thee than the name of wife ?
65028
65029 That which upholdeth him that thee upholds ,
65030 His honour : O ! thine honour , Lewis , thine honour .
65031
65032 I muse your majesty doth seem so cold ,
65033 When such profound respects do pull you on .
65034
65035 I will denounce a curse upon his head .
65036
65037 Thou shalt not need . England , I'll fall from thee .
65038
65039 O fair return of banish'd majesty !
65040
65041 O foul revolt of French inconstancy !
65042
65043 France , thou shalt rue this hour within this hour .
65044
65045 Old Time the clock-setter , that bald sexton Time ,
65046 Is it as he will ? well then , France shall rue .
65047
65048 The sun's o'ercast with blood : fair day , adieu !
65049 Which is the side that I must go withal ?
65050 I am with both : each army hath a hand ;
65051 And in their rage , I having hold of both ,
65052 They whirl asunder and dismember me .
65053 Husband , I cannot pray that thou mayst win ;
65054 Uncle , I needs must pray that thou mayst lose ;
65055 Father , I may not wish the fortune thine ;
65056 Grandam , I will not wish thy wishes thrive :
65057 Whoever wins , on that side shall I lose ;
65058 Assured loss before the match be play'd .
65059
65060 Lady , with me ; with me thy fortune lies .
65061
65062 There where my fortune lives , there my life dies .
65063
65064 Cousin , go draw our puissance together .
65065
65066 France , I am burn'd up with inflaming wrath ;
65067 A rage whose heat hath this condition ,
65068 That nothing can allay , nothing but blood ,
65069 The blood , and dearest-valu'd blood of France .
65070
65071 Thy rage shall burn thee up , and thou shalt turn
65072 To ashes , ere our blood shall quench that fire :
65073 Look to thyself , thou art in jeopardy .
65074
65075 No more than he that threats . To arms let's hie !
65076
65077
65078 Now , by my life , this day grows wondrous hot ;
65079 Some airy devil hovers in the sky
65080 And pours down mischief . Austria's head lie there ,
65081 While Philip breathes .
65082
65083
65084 Hubert , keep this boy . Philip , make up ,
65085 My mother is assailed in our tent ,
65086 And ta'en , I fear .
65087
65088 My lord , I rescu'd her ;
65089 Her highness is in safety , fear you not :
65090 But on , my liege ; for very little pains
65091 Will bring this labour to a happy end .
65092
65093
65094 So shall it be ; your grace shall stay behind
65095 So strongly guarded .
65096
65097 Cousin , look not sad :
65098 Thy grandam loves thee ; and thy uncle will
65099 As dear be to thee as thy father was .
65100
65101 O ! this will make my mother die with grief .
65102
65103 Cousin , away for England ! haste before ;
65104 And , ere our coming , see thou shake the bags
65105 Of hoarding abbots ; set at liberty
65106 Imprison'd angels : the fat ribs of peace
65107 Must by the hungry now be fed upon :
65108 Use our commission in his utmost force .
65109
65110 Bell , book , and candle shall not drive me back
65111 When gold and silver becks me to come on .
65112 I leave your highness . Grandam , I will pray ,
65113 If ever I remember to be holy ,
65114 For your fair safety ; so I kiss your hand .
65115
65116 Farewell , gentle cousin .
65117
65118 Coz , farewell .
65119
65120
65121 Come hither , little kinsman ; hark , a word .
65122
65123
65124 Come hither , Hubert . O my gentle Hubert ,
65125 We owe thee much : within this wall of flesh
65126 There is a soul counts thee her creditor ,
65127 And with advantage means to pay thy love :
65128 And , my good friend , thy voluntary oath
65129 Lives in this bosom , dearly cherished .
65130 Give me thy hand . I had a thing to say ,
65131 But I will fit it with some better time .
65132 By heaven , Hubert , I am almost asham'd
65133 To say what good respect I have of thee .
65134
65135 I am much bounden to your majesty .
65136
65137 Good friend , thou hast no cause to say so yet ;
65138 But thou shalt have ; and creep time ne'er so slow ,
65139 Yet it shall come for me to do thee good .
65140 I had a thing to say , but let it go :
65141 The sun is in the heaven , and the proud day ,
65142 Attended with the pleasures of the world ,
65143 Is all too wanton and too full of gawds
65144 To give me audience : if the midnight bell
65145 Did , with his iron tongue and brazen mouth ,
65146 Sound one into the drowsy race of night ;
65147 If this same were a churchyard where we stand ,
65148 And thou possessed with a thousand wrongs ;
65149 Or if that surly spirit , melancholy ,
65150 Had bak'd thy blood and made it heavy-thick ,
65151 Which else runs tickling up and down the veins ,
65152 Making that idiot , laughter , keep men's eyes
65153 And strain their cheeks to idle merriment ,
65154 A passion hateful to my purposes ;
65155 Or if that thou couldst see me without eyes ,
65156 Hear me without thine ears , and make reply
65157 Without a tongue , using conceit alone ,
65158 Without eyes , ears , and harmful sound of words ;
65159 Then , in despite of brooded watchful day ,
65160 I would into thy bosom pour my thoughts :
65161 But ah ! I will not : yet I love thee well ;
65162 And , by my troth , I think thou lov'st me well .
65163
65164 So well , that what you bid me undertake ,
65165 Though that my death were adjunct to my act ,
65166 By heaven , I would do it .
65167
65168 Do not I know thou wouldst ?
65169 Good Hubert ! Hubert , Hubert , throw thine eye
65170 On yon young boy : I'll tell thee what , my friend ,
65171 He is a very serpent in my way ;
65172 And wheresoe'er this foot of mine doth tread
65173 He lies before me : dost thou understand me ?
65174 Thou art his keeper .
65175
65176 And I'll keep him so
65177 That he shall not offend your majesty .
65178
65179 Death .
65180
65181 My lord ?
65182
65183 A grave .
65184
65185 He shall not live .
65186
65187 Enough .
65188 I could be merry now . Hubert , I love thee ;
65189 Well , I'll not say what I intend for thee :
65190 Remember . Madam , fare you well :
65191 I'll send those powers o'er to your majesty .
65192
65193 My blessing go with thee !
65194
65195 For England , cousin ; go :
65196 Hubert shall be your man , attend on you
65197 With all true duty . On toward Calais , ho !
65198
65199
65200 So , by a roaring tempest on the flood ,
65201 A whole armado of convicted sail
65202 Is scatter'd and disjoin'd from fellowship .
65203
65204 Courage and comfort ! all shall yet go well .
65205
65206 What can go well when we have run so ill ?
65207 Are we not beaten ? Is not Angiers lost ?
65208 Arthur ta'en prisoner ? divers dear friends slain ?
65209 And bloody England into England gone ,
65210 O'erbearing interruption , spite of France ?
65211
65212 What he hath won that hath he fortified :
65213 So hot a speed with such advice dispos'd ,
65214 Such temperate order in so fierce a cause ,
65215 Doth want example : who hath read or heard
65216 Of any kindred action like to this ?
65217
65218 Well could I bear that England had this praise ,
65219 So we could find some pattern of our shame .
65220
65221
65222 Look , who comes here ! a grave unto a soul ;
65223 Holding the eternal spirit , against her will ,
65224 In the vile prison of afflicted breath .
65225
65226 I prithee lady , go away with me .
65227
65228 Lo now ! now see the issue of your peace .
65229
65230 Patience , good lady ! comfort , gentle Constance !
65231
65232 No , I defy all counsel , all redress ,
65233 But that which ends all counsel , true redress ,
65234 Death , death : O , amiable lovely death !
65235 Thou odoriferous stench ! sound rottenness !
65236 Arise forth from the couch of lasting night ,
65237 Thou hate and terror to prosperity ,
65238 And I will kiss thy detestable bones ,
65239 And put my eyeballs in thy vaulty brows ,
65240 And ring these fingers with thy household worms ,
65241 And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust ,
65242 And be a carrion monster like thyself :
65243 Come , grin on me ; and I will think thou smil'st
65244 And buss thee as thy wife ! Misery's love ,
65245 O ! come to me .
65246
65247 O fair affliction , peace !
65248
65249 No , no , I will not , having breath to cry :
65250 O ! that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth !
65251 Then with a passion would I shake the world ,
65252 And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy
65253 Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice ,
65254 Which scorns a modern invocation .
65255
65256 Lady , you utter madness , and not sorrow .
65257
65258 Thou art not holy to belie me so ;
65259 I am not mad : this hair I tear is mine ;
65260 My name is Constance ; I was Geffrey's wife ;
65261 Young Arthur is my son , and he is lost !
65262 I am not mad : I would to heaven I were !
65263 For then 'tis like I should forget myself :
65264 O ! if I could , what grief should I forget .
65265 Preach some philosophy to make me mad ,
65266 And thou shalt be canoniz'd , cardinal ;
65267 For being not mad but sensible of grief ,
65268 My reasonable part produces reason
65269 How I may be deliver'd of these woes ,
65270 And teaches me to kill or hang myself :
65271 If I were mad , I should forget my son ,
65272 Or madly think a babe of clouts were he .
65273 I am not mad : too well , too well I feel
65274 The different plague of each calamity .
65275
65276 Bind up those tresses . O ! what love I note
65277 In the fair multitude of those her hairs :
65278 Where but by chance a silver drop hath fallen ,
65279 Even to that drop ten thousand wiry friends
65280 Do glue themselves in sociable grief ;
65281 Like true , inseparable , faithful loves ,
65282 Sticking together in calamity .
65283
65284 To England , if you will .
65285
65286 Bind up your hairs .
65287
65288 Yes , that I will ; and wherefore will I do it ?
65289 I tore them from their bonds , and cried aloud
65290 'O ! that these hands could so redeem my son ,
65291 As they have given these hairs their liberty !'
65292 But now I envy at their liberty ,
65293 And will again commit them to their bonds ,
65294 Because my poor child is a prisoner .
65295 And , father cardinal , I have heard you say
65296 That we shall see and know our friends in heaven .
65297 If that be true , I shall see my boy again ;
65298 For since the birth of Cain , the first male child ,
65299 To him that did but yesterday suspire ,
65300 There was not such a gracious creature born .
65301 But now will canker-sorrow eat my bud
65302 And chase the native beauty from his cheek ,
65303 And he will look as hollow as a ghost ,
65304 As dim and meagre as an ague's fit ,
65305 And so he'll die ; and , rising so again ,
65306 When I shall meet him in the court of heaven
65307 I shall not know him : therefore never , never
65308 Must I behold my pretty Arthur more .
65309
65310 You hold too heinous a respect of grief .
65311
65312 He talks to me , that never had a son .
65313
65314 You are as fond of grief as of your child .
65315
65316 Grief fills the room up of my absent child ,
65317 Lies in his bed , walks up and down with me ,
65318 Puts on his pretty looks , repeats his words ,
65319 Remembers me of all his gracious parts ,
65320 Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form :
65321 Then have I reason to be fond of grief .
65322 Fare you well : had you such a loss as I ,
65323 I could give better comfort than you do .
65324 I will not keep this form upon my head
65325 When there is such disorder in my wit .
65326 O Lord ! my boy , my Arthur , my fair son !
65327 My life , my joy , my food , my all the world !
65328 My widow-comfort , and my sorrows' cure !
65329
65330
65331 I fear some outrage , and I'll follow her .
65332
65333
65334 There's nothing in this world can make me joy :
65335 Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale ,
65336 Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ;
65337 And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste ,
65338 That it yields nought but shame and bitterness .
65339
65340 Before the curing of a strong disease ,
65341 Even in the instant of repair and health ,
65342 The fit is strongest : evils that take leave ,
65343 On their departure most of all show evil .
65344 What have you lost by losing of this day ?
65345
65346 All days of glory , joy , and happiness .
65347
65348 If you had won it , certainly you had .
65349 No , no ; when Fortune means to men most good ,
65350 She looks upon them with a threatening eye .
65351 'Tis strange to think how much King John hath lost
65352 In this which he accounts so clearly won .
65353 Are not you griev'd that Arthur is his prisoner ?
65354
65355 As heartily as he is glad he hath him .
65356
65357 Your mind is all as youthful as your blood .
65358 Now hear me speak with a prophetic spirit ;
65359 For even the breath of what I mean to speak
65360 Shall blow each dust , each straw , each little rub ,
65361 Out of the path which shall directly lead
65362 Thy foot to England's throne ; and therefore mark .
65363 John hath seiz'd Arthur ; and it cannot be ,
65364 That whiles warm life plays in that infant's veins
65365 The misplac'd John should entertain an hour ,
65366 One minute , nay , one quiet breath of rest .
65367 A sceptre snatch'd with an unruly hand
65368 Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd ;
65369 And he that stands upon a slippery place
65370 Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up :
65371 That John may stand , then Arthur needs must fall ;
65372 So be it , for it cannot be but so .
65373
65374 But what shall I gain by young Arthur's fall ?
65375
65376 You , in the right of Lady Blanch your wife ,
65377 May then make all the claim that Arthur did .
65378
65379 And lose it , life and all , as Arthur did .
65380
65381 How green you are and fresh in this old world !
65382 John lays you plots ; the times conspire with you ;
65383 For he that steeps his safety in true blood
65384 Shall find but bloody safety and untrue .
65385 This act so evilly borne shall cool the hearts
65386 Of all his people and freeze up their zeal ,
65387 That none so small advantage shall step forth
65388 To check his reign , but they will cherish it ;
65389 No natural exhalation in the sky ,
65390 No scope of nature , no distemper'd day ,
65391 No common wind , no customed event ,
65392 But they will pluck away his natural cause
65393 And call them meteors , prodigies , and signs ,
65394 Abortives , presages , and tongues of heaven ,
65395 Plainly denouncing vengeance upon John .
65396
65397 May be he will not touch young Arthur's life ,
65398 But hold himself safe in his prisonment .
65399
65400 O ! sir , when he shall hear of your approach ,
65401 If that young Arthur be not gone already ,
65402 Even at that news he dies ; and then the hearts
65403 Of all his people shall revolt from him
65404 And kiss the lips of unacquainted change ,
65405 And pick strong matter of revolt and wrath
65406 Out of the bloody fingers' ends of John .
65407 Methinks I see this hurly all on foot :
65408 And , O ! what better matter breeds for you
65409 Than I have nam'd . The bastard Faulconbridge
65410 Is now in England ransacking the church ,
65411 Offending charity : if but a dozen French
65412 Were there in arms , they would be as a call
65413 To train ten thousand English to their side ;
65414 Or as a little snow , tumbled about ,
65415 Anon becomes a mountain . O noble Dauphin !
65416 Go with me to the king . 'Tis wonderful
65417 What may be wrought out of their discontent
65418 Now that their souls are topful of offence .
65419 For England go ; I will whet on the king .
65420
65421 Strong reasons make strong actions . Let us go :
65422 If you say ay , the king will not say no .
65423
65424 Heat me these irons hot ; and look thou stand
65425 Within the arras : when I strike my foot
65426 Upon the bosom of the ground , rush forth ,
65427 And bind the boy which you shall find with me
65428 Fast to the chair : be heedful . Hence , and watch .
65429
65430 I hope your warrant will bear out the deed .
65431
65432 Uncleanly scruples ! fear not you : look to't .
65433
65434 Young lad , come forth ; I have to say with you .
65435
65436
65437 Good morrow , Hubert .
65438
65439 Good morrow , little prince .
65440
65441 As little prince ,having so great a title
65442 To be more prince ,as may be . You are sad .
65443
65444 Indeed , I have been merrier .
65445
65446 Mercy on me !
65447 Methinks nobody should be sad but I :
65448 Yet I remember , when I was in France ,
65449 Young gentlemen would be as sad as night ,
65450 Only for wantonness . By my christendom ,
65451 So I were out of prison and kept sheep ,
65452 I should be as merry as the day is long ;
65453 And so I would be here , but that I doubt
65454 My uncle practises more harm to me :
65455 He is afraid of me , and I of him .
65456 Is it my fault that I was Geffrey's son ?
65457 No , indeed , is't not ; and I would to heaven
65458 I were your son , so you would love me , Hubert .
65459
65460 If I talk to him with his innocent prate
65461 He will awake my mercy which lies dead :
65462 Therefore I will be sudden and dispatch .
65463
65464 Are you sick , Hubert ? you look pale to-day :
65465 In sooth , I would you were a little sick ,
65466 That I might sit all night and watch with you :
65467 I warrant I love you more than you do me .
65468
65469 His words do take possession of my bosom .
65470 Read here , young Arthur .
65471
65472 How now , foolish rheum !
65473 Turning dispiteous torture out of door !
65474 I must be brief , lest resolution drop
65475 Out at mine eyes in tender womanish tears .
65476 Can you not read it ? is it not fair writ ?
65477
65478 Too fairly , Hubert , for so foul effect .
65479 Must you with hot irons burn out both mine eyes ?
65480
65481 Young boy , I must .
65482
65483 And will you ?
65484
65485 And I will .
65486
65487 Have you the heart ? When your head did but ache ,
65488 I knit my handkercher about your brows ,
65489 The best I had , a princess wrought it me ,
65490 And I did never ask it you again ;
65491 And with my hand at midnight held your head ,
65492 And like the watchful minutes to the hour ,
65493 Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time ,
65494 Saying , 'What lack you ?' and , 'Where lies your grief ?'
65495 Or , 'What good love may I perform for you ?'
65496 Many a poor man's son would have lain still ,
65497 And ne'er have spoke a loving word to you ;
65498 But you at your sick-service had a prince .
65499 Nay , you may think my love was crafty love ,
65500 And call it cunning : do an if you will .
65501 If heaven be pleas'd that you must use me ill ,
65502 Why then you must . Will you put out mine eyes ?
65503 These eyes that never did nor never shall
65504 So much as frown on you ?
65505
65506 I have sworn to do it ;
65507 And with hot irons must I burn them out .
65508
65509 Ah ! none but in this iron age would do it !
65510 The iron of itself , though heat red-hot ,
65511 Approaching near these eyes , would drink my tears
65512 And quench this fiery indignation
65513 Even in the matter of mine innocence ;
65514 Nay , after that , consume away in rust ,
65515 But for containing fire to harm mine eye .
65516 Are you more stubborn-hard than hammer'd iron ?
65517 An if an angel should have come to me
65518 And told me Hubert should put out mine eyes ,
65519 I would not have believ'd him ; no tongue but Hubert's .
65520
65521 Come forth .
65522
65523 Do as I bid you do .
65524
65525 O ! save me , Hubert , save me ! my eyes are out
65526 Even with the fierce looks of these bloody men .
65527
65528 Give me the iron , I say , and bind him here .
65529
65530 Alas ! what need you be so boisterousrough ?
65531 I will not struggle ; I will stand stone-still .
65532 For heaven's sake , Hubert , let me not be bound !
65533 Nay , hear me , Hubert : drive these men away ,
65534 And I will sit as quiet as a lamb ;
65535 I will not stir , nor wince , nor speak a word ,
65536 Nor look upon the iron angerly .
65537 Thrust but these men away , and I'll forgive you ,
65538 Whatever torment you do put me to .
65539
65540 Go , stand within : let me alone with him .
65541
65542 I am best pleas'd to be from such a deed .
65543
65544
65545 Alas ! I then have chid away my friend :
65546 He hath a stern look , but a gentle heart .
65547 Let him come back , that his compassion may
65548 Give life to yours .
65549
65550 Come , boy , prepare yourself .
65551
65552 Is there no remedy ?
65553
65554 None , but to lose your eyes .
65555
65556 O heaven ! that there were but a mote in yours ,
65557 A grain , a dust , a gnat , a wandering hair ,
65558 Any annoyance in that precious sense ;
65559 Then feeling what small things are boisterous there ,
65560 Your vile intent must needs seem horrible .
65561
65562 Is this your promise ? go to , hold your tongue .
65563
65564 Hubert , the utterance of a brace of tongues
65565 Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes :
65566 Let me not hold my tongue ; let me not , Hubert :
65567 Or Hubert , if you will , cut out my tongue ,
65568 So I may keep mine eyes : O ! spare mine eyes ,
65569 Though to no use but still to look on you :
65570 Lo ! by my troth , the instrument is cold
65571 And would not harm me .
65572
65573 I can heat it , boy .
65574
65575 No , in good sooth ; the fire is dead with grief ,
65576 Being create for comfort , to be us'd
65577 In undeserv'd extremes : see else yourself ;
65578 There is no malice in this burning coal ;
65579 The breath of heaven hath blown his spirit out
65580 And strew'd repentant ashes on his head .
65581
65582 But with my breath I can revive it , boy .
65583
65584 An if you do you will but make it blush
65585 And glow with shame of your proceedings , Hubert :
65586 Nay , it perchance will sparkle in your eyes ;
65587 And like a dog that is compell'd to fight ,
65588 Snatch at his master that doth tarre him on .
65589 All things that you should use to do me wrong
65590 Deny their office : only you do lack
65591 That mercy which fierce fire and iron extends ,
65592 Creatures of note for mercy-lacking uses .
65593
65594 Well , see to live ; I will not touch thine eyes
65595 For all the treasure that thine uncle owes :
65596 Yet am I sworn and I did purpose , boy ,
65597 With this same very iron to burn them out .
65598
65599 O ! now you look like Hubert , all this while
65600 You were disguised .
65601
65602 Peace ! no more . Adieu .
65603 Your uncle must not know but you are dead ;
65604 I'll fill these dogged spies with false reports :
65605 And , pretty child , sleep doubtless and secure ,
65606 That Hubert for the wealth of all the world
65607 Will not offend thee .
65608
65609 O heaven ! I thank you , Hubert .
65610
65611 Silence ! no more , go closely in with me :
65612 Much danger do I undergo for thee .
65613
65614
65615 Here once again we sit , once again crown'd ,
65616 And look'd upon , I hope , with cheerful eyes .
65617
65618 This 'once again ,' but that your highness pleas'd ,
65619 Was once superfluous : you were crown'd before ,
65620 And that high royalty was ne'er pluck'd off ,
65621 The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt ;
65622 Fresh expectation troubled not the land
65623 With any long'd-for change or better state .
65624
65625 Therefore , to be possess'd with double pomp ,
65626 To guard a title that was rich before ,
65627 To gild refined gold , to paint the lily ,
65628 To throw a perfume on the violet ,
65629 To smooth the ice , or add another hue
65630 Unto the rainbow , or with taper-light
65631 To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish ,
65632 Is wasteful and ridiculous excess .
65633
65634 But that your royal pleasure must be done ,
65635 This act is as an ancient tale new told ,
65636 And in the last repeating troublesome ,
65637 Being urged at a time unseasonable .
65638
65639 In this the antique and well-noted face
65640 Of plain old form is much disfigured ;
65641 And , like a shifted wind unto a sail ,
65642 It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about ,
65643 Startles and frights consideration ,
65644 Makes sound opinion sick and truth suspected ,
65645 For putting on so new a fashion'd robe .
65646
65647 When workmen strive to do better than well
65648 They do confound their skill in covetousness ;
65649 And oftentimes excusing of a fault
65650 Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse :
65651 As patches set upon a little breach
65652 Discredit more in hiding of the fault
65653 Than did the fault before it was so patch'd .
65654
65655 To this effect , before you were newcrown'd ,
65656 We breath'd our counsel : but it pleas'd your highness
65657 To overbear it , and we are all well pleas'd ;
65658 Since all and every part of what we would
65659 Doth make a stand at what your highness will .
65660
65661 Some reasons of this double coronation
65662 I have possess'd you with and think them strong ;
65663 And more , more strong ,when lesser is my fear ,
65664 I shall indue you with : meantime but ask
65665 What you would have reform'd that is not well ;
65666 And well shall you perceive how willingly
65667 I will both hear and grant you your requests .
65668
65669 Then I ,as one that am the tongue of these
65670 To sound the purposes of all their hearts ,
65671 Both for myself and them ,but , chief of all ,
65672 Your safety , for the which myself and them
65673 Bend their best studies ,heartily request
65674 The enfranchisement of Arthur ; whose restraint
65675 Doth move the murmuring lips of discontent
65676 To break into this dangerous argument :
65677 If what in rest you have in right you hold ,
65678 Why then your fears ,which , as they say , attend
65679 The steps of wrong ,should move you to mew up
65680 Your tender kinsman , and to choke his days
65681 With barbarous ignorance , and deny his youth
65682 The rich advantage of good exercise ?
65683 That the time's enemies may not have this
65684 To grace occasions , let it be our suit
65685 That you have bid us ask , his liberty ;
65686 Which for our goods we do no further ask
65687 Than whereupon our weal , on you depending ,
65688 Counts it your weal he have his liberty .
65689
65690
65691 Let it be so : I do commit his youth
65692 To your direction . Hubert , what news with you ?
65693
65694
65695 This is the man should do the bloody deed ;
65696 He show'd his warrant to a friend of mine :
65697 The image of a wicked hemous fault
65698 Lives in his eye ; that close aspect of his
65699 Does show the mood of a much troubled breast ;
65700 And I do fearfully believe 'tis done ,
65701 What we so fear'd he had a charge to do .
65702
65703 The colour of the king doth come and go
65704 Between his purpose and his conscience ,
65705 Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set :
65706 His passion is so ripe it needs must break .
65707
65708 And when it breaks , I fear will issue thence
65709 The foul corruption of a sweet child's death .
65710
65711 We cannot hold mortality's strong hand :
65712 Good lords , although my will to give is living ,
65713 The suit which you demand is gone and dead :
65714 He tells us Arthur is deceas'd to-night .
65715
65716 Indeed we fear'd his sickness was past cure .
65717
65718 Indeed we heard how near his death he was
65719 Before the child himself felt he was sick :
65720 This must be answer'd , either here or hence .
65721
65722 Why do you bend such solemn brows on me ?
65723 Think you I bear the shears of destiny ?
65724 Have I commandment on the pulse of life ?
65725
65726 It is apparent foul play ; and 'tis shame
65727 That greatness should so grossly offer it :
65728 So thrive it in your game ! and so , farewell .
65729
65730 Stay yet , Lord Salisbury ; I'll go with thee ,
65731 And find the inheritance of this poor child ,
65732 His little kingdom of a forced grave .
65733 That blood which ow'd the breadth of all this isle ,
65734 Three foot of it doth hold : bad world the while !
65735 This must not be thus borne : this will break out
65736 To all our sorrows , and ere long I doubt .
65737
65738
65739 They burn in indignation . I repent :
65740 There is no sure foundation set on blood ,
65741 No certain life achiev'd by others' death .
65742
65743
65744 A fearful eye thou hast : where is that blood
65745 That I have seen inhabit in those cheeks ?
65746 So foul a sky clears not without a storm :
65747
65748 Pour down thy weather : how goes all in France ?
65749
65750 From France to England . Never such a power
65751 For any foreign preparation
65752 Was levied in the body of a land .
65753 The copy of your speed is learn'd by them ;
65754 For when you should be told they do prepare ,
65755 The tidings come that they are all arriv'd .
65756
65757 O ! where hath our intelligence been drunk ?
65758 Where hath it slept ? Where is my mother's care
65759 That such an army could be drawn in France ,
65760 And she not hear of it ?
65761
65762 My liege , her ear
65763 Is stopp'd with dust : the first of April died
65764 Your noble mother ; and , as I hear , my lord ,
65765 The Lady Constance in a frenzy died
65766 Three days before : but this from rumour's tongue
65767 I idly heard ; if true or false I know not .
65768
65769 Withhold thy speed , dreadful occasion !
65770 O ! make a league with me , till I have pleas'd
65771 My discontented peers . What ! mother dead !
65772 How wildly then walks my estate in France !
65773 Under whose conduct came those powers of France
65774 That thou for truth giv'st out are landed here ?
65775
65776 Under the Dauphin .
65777
65778 Thou hast made me giddy
65779 With these ill tidings .
65780
65781
65782 Now , what says the world
65783 To your proceedings ? do not seek to stuff
65784
65785 My head with more ill news , for it is full .
65786
65787 But if you be afeard to hear the worst ,
65788 Then let the worst unheard fall on your head .
65789
65790 Bear with me , cousin , for I was amaz'd
65791 Under the tide ; but now I breathe again
65792 Aloft the flood , and can give audience
65793 To any tongue , speak it of what it will .
65794
65795 How I have sped among the clergymen ,
65796 The sums I have collected shall express .
65797 But as I travell'd hither through the land ,
65798 I find the people strangely fantasied ,
65799 Possess'd with rumours , full of idle dreams ,
65800 Not knowing what they fear , but full of fear .
65801 And here's a prophet that I brought with me
65802 From forth the streets of Pomfret , whom I found
65803 With many hundreds treading on his heels ;
65804 To whom he sung , in rude harsh-sounding rimes ,
65805 That , ere the next Ascension-day at noon ,
65806 Your highness should deliver up your crown .
65807
65808 Thou idle dreamer , wherefore didst thou so ?
65809
65810 Foreknowing that the truth will fall out so .
65811
65812 Hubert , away with him ; imprison him :
65813 And on that day at noon , whereon , he says ,
65814 I shall yield up my crown , let him be hang'd .
65815 Deliver him to safety , and return ,
65816 For I must use thee .
65817
65818 O my gentle cousin ,
65819 Hear'st thou the news abroad , who are arriv'd ?
65820
65821 The French , my lord ; men's mouths are full of it :
65822 Besides , I met Lord Bigot and Lord Salisbury ,
65823 With eyes as red as new-enkindled fire ,
65824 And others more , going to seek the grave
65825 Of Arthur , whom they say is kill'd to-night
65826 On your suggestion .
65827
65828 Gentle kinsman , go ,
65829 And thrust thyself into their companies .
65830 I have a way to win their loves again ;
65831 Bring them before me .
65832
65833 I will seek them out .
65834
65835 Nay , but make haste ; the better foot before .
65836 O ! let me have no subject enemies
65837 When adverse foreigners affright my towns
65838 With dreadful pomp of stout invasion .
65839 Be Mercury , set feathers to thy heels ,
65840 And fly like thought from them to me again .
65841
65842 The spirit of the time shall teach me speed .
65843
65844 Spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman .
65845
65846 Go after him ; for he perhaps shall need
65847 Some messenger betwixt me and the peers ;
65848 And be thou he .
65849
65850 With all my heart , my liege .
65851
65852
65853 My mother dead !
65854
65855
65856 My lord , they say five moons were seen to-night :
65857 Four fixed , and the fifth did whirl about
65858 The other four in wondrous motion .
65859
65860 Five moons !
65861
65862 Old men and beldams in the streets
65863 Do prophesy upon it dangerously :
65864 Young Arthur's death is common in their mouths ;
65865 And when they talk of him , they shake their heads
65866 And whisper one another in the ear ;
65867 And he that speaks , doth gripe the hearer's wrist
65868 Whilst he that hears makes fearful action ,
65869 With wrinkled brows , with nods , with rolling eyes .
65870 I saw a smith stand with his hammer , thus ,
65871 The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool ,
65872 With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ;
65873 Who , with his shears and measure in his hand ,
65874 Standing on slippers ,which his nimble haste
65875 Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet ,
65876 Told of a many thousand warlike French ,
65877 That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent .
65878 Another lean unwash'd artificer
65879 Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death .
65880
65881 Why seek'st thou to possess me with these fears ?
65882 Why urgest thou so oft young Arthur's death ?
65883 Thy hand hath murder'd him : I had a mighty cause
65884 To wish him dead , but thou hadst none to kill him .
65885
65886 No had , my lord ! why , did you not provoke me ?
65887
65888 It is the curse of kings to be attended
65889 By slaves that take their humours for a warrant
65890 To break within the bloody house of life ,
65891 And on the winking of authority
65892 To understand a law , to know the meaning
65893 Of dangerous majesty , when , perchance , it frowns
65894 More upon humour than advis'd respect .
65895
65896 Here is your hand and seal for what I did .
65897
65898 O ! when the last account 'twixt heaven and earth
65899 Is to be made , then shall this hand and seal
65900 Witness against us to damnation .
65901 How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
65902 Makes ill deeds done ! Hadst not thou been by ,
65903 A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd ,
65904 Quoted and sign'd to do a deed of shame ,
65905 This murder had not come into my mind ;
65906 But taking note of thy abhorr'd aspect ,
65907 Finding thee fit for bloody villany ,
65908 Apt , liable to be employ'd in danger ,
65909 I faintly broke with thee of Arthur's death ;
65910 And thou , to be endeared to a king ,
65911 Made it no conscience to destroy a prince .
65912
65913 My lord ,
65914
65915 Hadst thou but shook thy head or made a pause
65916 When I spake darkly what I purposed ,
65917 Or turn'd an eye of doubt upon my face ,
65918 As bid me tell my tale in express words ,
65919 Deep shame had struck me dumb , made me break off ,
65920 And those thy fears might have wrought fears in me :
65921 But thou didst understand me by my signs
65922 And didst in signs again parley with sin ;
65923 Yea , without stop , didst let thy heart consent ,
65924 And consequently thy rude hand to act
65925 The deed which both our tongues held vile to name .
65926 Out of my sight , and never see me more !
65927 My nobles leave me ; and my state is brav'd ,
65928 Even at my gates , with ranks of foreign powers :
65929 Nay , in the body of this fleshly land ,
65930 This kingdom , this confine of blood and breath ,
65931 Hostility and civil tumult reigns
65932 Between my conscience and my cousin's death .
65933
65934 Arm you against your other enemies ,
65935 I'll make a peace between your soul and you .
65936 Young Arthur is alive : this hand of mine
65937 Is yet a maiden and an innocent hand ,
65938 Not painted with the crimson spots of blood .
65939 Within this bosom never enter'd yet
65940 The dreadful motion of a murderous thought ;
65941 And you have slander'd nature in my form ,
65942 Which , howsoever rude exteriorly ,
65943 Is yet the cover of a fairer mind
65944 Than to be butcher of an innocent child .
65945
65946 Doth Arthur live ? O ! haste thee to the peers ,
65947 Throw this report on their incensed rage ,
65948 And make them tame to their obedience .
65949 Forgive the comment that my passion made
65950 Upon thy feature ; for my rage was blind ,
65951 And foul imaginary eyes of blood
65952 Presented thee more hideous than thou art .
65953 O ! answer not ; but to my closet bring
65954 The angry lords , with all expedient haste .
65955 I conjure thee but slowly ; run more fast .
65956
65957
65958 The wall is high ; and yet will I leap down
65959 Good ground , be pitiful and hurt me not !
65960 There's few or none do know me ; if they did ,
65961 This ship-boy's semblance hath disguis'd me quite .
65962 I am afraid ; and yet I'll venture it .
65963 If I get down , and do not break my limbs ,
65964 I'll find a thousand shifts to get away :
65965 As good to die and go , as die and stay .
65966
65967 O me ! my uncle's spirit is in these stones :
65968 Heaven take my soul , and England keep my bones !
65969
65970 Lords , I will meet him at Saint Edmundsbury .
65971 It is our safety , and we must embrace
65972 This gentle offer of the perilous time .
65973
65974 Who brought that letter from the cardinal ?
65975
65976 The Count Melun , a noble lord of France ;
65977 Whose private with me of the Dauphin's love ,
65978 Is much more general than these lines import .
65979
65980 To-morrow morning let us meet him then .
65981
65982 Or rather then set forward ; for 'twill be
65983 Two long days' journey , lords , or e'er we meet .
65984
65985
65986 Once more to-day well met , distemper'd lords !
65987 The king by me requests your presence straight .
65988
65989 The king hath dispossess'd himself of us :
65990 We will not line his thin bestained cloak
65991 With our pure honours , nor attend the foot
65992 That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks .
65993 Return and tell him so : we know the worst .
65994
65995 Whate'er you think , good words , I think , were best .
65996
65997 Our griefs , and not our manners , reason now .
65998
65999 But there is little reason in your grief ;
66000 Therefore 'twere reason you had manners now .
66001
66002 Sir , sir , impatience hath his privilege .
66003
66004 'Tis true ; to hurt his master , no man else .
66005
66006 This is the prison .
66007
66008 What is he lies here ?
66009
66010 O death , made proud with pure and princely beauty !
66011 The earth had not a hole to hide this deed .
66012
66013 Murder , as hating what himself hath done ,
66014 Doth lay it open to urge on revenge .
66015
66016 Or when he doom'd this beauty to a grave ,
66017 Found it too precious-princely for a grave .
66018
66019 Sir Richard , what think you ? Have you beheld ,
66020 Or have you read , or heard ? or could you think ?
66021 Or do you almost think , although you see ,
66022 That you do see ? could thought , without this object ,
66023 Form such another ? This is the very top ,
66024 The height , the crest , or crest unto the crest ,
66025 Of murder's arms : this is the bloodiest shame ,
66026 The wildest savagery , the vilest stroke ,
66027 That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
66028 Presented to the tears of soft remorse .
66029
66030 All murders past do stand excus'd in this :
66031 And this , so sole and so unmatchable ,
66032 Shall give a holiness , a purity ,
66033 To the yet unbegotten sin of times ;
66034 And prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest ,
66035 Exampled by this heinous spectacle .
66036
66037 It is a damned and a bloody work ;
66038 The graceless action of a heavy hand ,
66039 If that it be the work of any hand .
66040
66041 If that it be the work of any hand !
66042 We had a kind of light what would ensue :
66043 It is the shameful work of Hubert's hand ;
66044 The practice and the purpose of the king :
66045 From whose obedience I forbid my soul ,
66046 Kneeling before this ruin of sweet life ,
66047 And breathing to his breathless excellence
66048 The incense of a vow , a holy vow ,
66049 Never to taste the pleasures of the world ,
66050 Never to be infected with delight ,
66051 Nor conversant with ease and idleness ,
66052 Till I have set a glory to this hand ,
66053 By giving it the worship of revenge .
66054
66055 Our souls religiously confirm thy words .
66056
66057 Our souls religiously confirm thy words .
66058
66059
66060 Lords , I am hot with haste in seeking you :
66061 Arthur doth live : the king hath sent for you .
66062
66063 O ! he is bold and blushes not at death .
66064 Avaunt , thou hateful villain ! get thee gone .
66065
66066 I am no villain .
66067
66068 Must I rob the law ?
66069
66070 Your sword is bright , sir ; put it up again .
66071
66072 Not till I sheathe it in a murderer's skin .
66073
66074 Stand back , Lord Salisbury , stand back , I say :
66075 By heaven , I think my sword's as sharp as yours .
66076 I would not have you , lord , forget yourself ,
66077 Nor tempt the danger of my true defence ;
66078 Lest I , by marking of your rage , forget
66079 Your worth , your greatness , and nobility .
66080
66081 Out , dunghill ! dar'st thou brave a nobleman ?
66082
66083 Not for my life ; but yet I dare defend
66084 My innocent life against an emperor .
66085
66086 Thou art a murderer .
66087
66088 Do not prove me so ;
66089 Yet I am none . Whose tongue soe'er speaks false ,
66090 Not truly speaks ; who speaks not truly , lies .
66091
66092 Cut him to pieces .
66093
66094 Keep the peace , I say .
66095
66096 Stand by , or I shall gall you , Faulconbridge .
66097
66098 Thou wert better gall the devil , Salisbury :
66099 If thou but frown on me , or stir thy foot ,
66100 Or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame ,
66101 I'll strike thee dead . Put up thy sword betime :
66102 Or I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron ,
66103 That you shall think the devil is come from hell .
66104
66105 What wilt thou do , renowned Faulconbridge ?
66106 Second a villain and a murderer ?
66107
66108 Lord Bigot , I am none .
66109
66110 Who kill'd this prince ?
66111
66112 'Tis not an hour since I left him well :
66113 I honour'd him , I lov'd him ; and will weep
66114 My date of life out for his sweet life's loss .
66115
66116 Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes ,
66117 For villany is not without such rheum ;
66118 And he , long traded in it , makes it seem
66119 Like rivers of remorse and innocency .
66120 Away with me , all you whose souls abhor
66121 The uncleanly savours of a slaughter-house ;
66122 For I am stifled with this smell of sin .
66123
66124 Away toward Bury ; to the Dauphin there !
66125
66126 There tell the king he may inquire us out .
66127
66128
66129 Here's a good world ! Knew you of this fair work ?
66130 Beyond the infinite and boundless reach
66131 Of mercy , if thou didst this deed of death ,
66132 Art thou damn'd , Hubert .
66133
66134 Do but hear me , sir .
66135
66136 Ha ! I'll tell thee what ;
66137 Thou art damn'd as black nay , nothing is so black ;
66138 Thou art more deep damn'd than Prince Lucifer :
66139 There is not yet so ugly a fiend of hell
66140 As thou shalt be , if thou didst kill this child .
66141
66142 Upon my soul ,
66143
66144 If thou didst but consent
66145 To this most cruel act , do but despair ;
66146 And if thou want'st a cord , the smallest thread
66147 That ever spider twisted from her womb
66148 Will serve to strangle thee ; a rush will be a beam
66149 To hang thee on ; or wouldst thou drown thyself ,
66150 Put but a little water in a spoon ,
66151 And it shall be as all the ocean ,
66152 Enough to stifle such a villain up .
66153 I do suspect thee very grievously .
66154
66155 If I in act , consent , or sin of thought ,
66156 Be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath
66157 Which was embounded in this beauteous clay ,
66158 Let hell want pains enough to torture me .
66159 I left him well .
66160
66161 Go , bear him in thine arms .
66162 I am amaz'd , methinks , and lose my way
66163 Among the thorns and dangers of this world .
66164 How easy dost thou take all England up !
66165 From forth this morsel of dead royalty ,
66166 The life , the right and truth of all this realm
66167 Is fled to heaven ; and England now is left
66168 To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth
66169 The unow'd interest of proud swelling state .
66170 Now for the bare-pick'd bone of majesty
66171 Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest ,
66172 And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace :
66173 Now powers from home and discontents at home
66174 Meet in one line ; and vast confusion waits ,
66175 As doth a raven on a sick-fallen beast ,
66176 The imminent decay of wrested pomp .
66177 Now happy he whose cloak and ceinture can
66178 Hold out this tempest . Bear away that child
66179 And follow me with speed : I'll to the king :
66180 A thousand businesses are brief in hand ,
66181 And heaven itself doth frown upon the land .
66182
66183 Thus have I yielded up into your hand
66184 The circle of my glory .
66185
66186 Take again
66187 From this my hand , as holding of the pope ,
66188 Your sovereign greatness and authority .
66189
66190 Now keep your holy word : go meet the French ,
66191 And from his holiness use all your power
66192 To stop their marches 'fore we are inflam'd .
66193 Our discontented counties do revolt ,
66194 Our people quarrel with obedience ,
66195 Swearing allegiance and the love of soul
66196 To stranger blood , to foreign royalty .
66197 This inundation of mistemper'd humour
66198 Rests by you only to be qualified :
66199 Then pause not ; for the present time's so sick ,
66200 That present medicine must be minister'd ,
66201 Or overthrow incurable ensues .
66202
66203 It was my breath that blew this tempest up
66204 Upon your stubborn usage of the pope ;
66205 But since you are a gentle convertite ,
66206 My tongue shall hush again this storm of war
66207 And make fair weather in your blustering land .
66208 On this Ascension-day , remember well ,
66209 Upon your oath of service to the pope ,
66210 Go I to make the French lay down their arms .
66211
66212
66213 Is this Ascension-day ? Did not the prophet
66214 Say that before Ascension-day at noon
66215 My crown I should give off ? Even so I have :
66216 I did suppose it should be on constraint ;
66217 But , heaven be thank'd , it is but voluntary .
66218
66219
66220 All Kent hath yielded ; nothing there holds out
66221 But Dover Castle : London hath receiv'd ,
66222 Like a kind host , the Dauphin and his powers :
66223 Your nobles will not hear you , but are gone
66224 To offer service to your enemy ;
66225 And wild amazement hurries up and down
66226 The little number of your doubtful friends .
66227
66228 Would not my lords return to me again
66229 After they heard young Arthur was alive ?
66230
66231 They found him dead and cast into the streets ,
66232 An empty casket , where the jewel of life
66233 By some damn'd hand was robb'd and ta'en away .
66234
66235 That villain Hubert told me he did live .
66236
66237 So , on my soul , he did , for aught he knew .
66238 But wherefore do you droop ? why look you sad ?
66239 Be great in act , as you have been in thought ;
66240 Let not the world see fear and sad distrust
66241 Govern the motion of a kingly eye :
66242 Be stirring as the time ; be fire with fire ;
66243 Threaten the threatener , and outface the brow
66244 Of bragging horror : so shall inferior eyes ,
66245 That borrow their behaviours from the great ,
66246 Grow great by your example and put on
66247 The dauntless spirit of resolution .
66248 Away ! and glister like the god of war
66249 When he intendeth to become the field :
66250 Show boldness and aspiring confidence .
66251 What ! shall they seek the lion in his den
66252 And fright him there ? and make him tremble there ?
66253 O ! let it not be said . Forage , and run
66254 To meet displeasure further from the doors ,
66255 And grapple with him ere he comes so nigh .
66256
66257 The legate of the pope hath been with me ,
66258 And I have made a happy peace with him ;
66259 And he hath promis'd to dismiss the powers
66260 Led by the Dauphin .
66261
66262 O inglorious league !
66263 Shall we , upon the footing of our land ,
66264 Send fair-play orders and make compromise ,
66265 Insinuation , parley and base truce
66266 To arms invasive ? shall a beardless boy ,
66267 A cocker'd silken wanton , brave our fields ,
66268 And flesh his spirit in a war-like soul ,
66269 Mocking the air with colours idly spread ,
66270 And find no check ? Let us , my liege , to arms :
66271 Perchance the cardinal cannot make your peace ;
66272 Or if he do , let it at least be said
66273 They saw we had a purpose of defence .
66274
66275 Have thou the ordering of this present time .
66276
66277 Away then , with good courage ! yet , I know ,
66278 Our party may well meet a prouder foe .
66279
66280
66281 My Lord Melun , let this be copied out ,
66282 And keep it safe for our remembrance .
66283 Return the precedent to these lords again ;
66284 That , having our fair order written down ,
66285 Both they and we , perusing o'er these notes ,
66286 May know wherefore we took the sacrament ,
66287 And keep our faiths firm and inviolable .
66288
66289 Upon our sides it never shall be broken .
66290 And , noble Dauphin , albeit we swear
66291 A voluntary zeal , an unurg'd faith
66292 To your proceedings ; yet , believe me , prince ,
66293 I am not glad that such a sore of time
66294 Should seek a plaster by contemn'd revolt ,
66295 And heal the inveterate canker of one wound
66296 By making many . O ! it grieves my soul
66297 That I must draw this metal from my side
66298 To be a widow-maker ! O ! and there
66299 Where honourable rescue and defence
66300 Cries out upon the name of Salisbury .
66301 But such is the infection of the time ,
66302 That , for the health and physic of our right ,
66303 We cannot deal but with the very hand
66304 Of stern injustice and confused wrong .
66305 And is't not pity , O my grieved friends !
66306 That we , the sons and children of this isle ,
66307 Were born to see so sad an hour as this ;
66308 Wherein we step after a stranger march
66309 Upon her gentle bosom , and fill up
66310 Her enemies' ranks ,I must withdraw and weep
66311 Upon the spot of this enforced cause ,
66312 To grace the gentry of a land remote ,
66313 And follow unacquainted colours here ?
66314 What , here ? O nation ! that thou couldst remove ;
66315 That Neptune's arms , who clippeth thee about ,
66316 Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself ,
66317 And gripple thee unto a pagan shore ;
66318 Where these two Christian armies might combine
66319 The blood of malice in a vein of league ,
66320 And not to spend it so unneighbourly !
66321
66322 A noble temper dost thou show in this ;
66323 And great affections wrestling in thy bosom
66324 Do make an earthquake of nobility .
66325 O ! what a noble combat hast thou fought
66326 Between compulsion and a brave respect .
66327 Let me wipe off this honourable dew ,
66328 That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks :
66329 My heart hath melted at a lady's tears ,
66330 Being an ordinary inundation ;
66331 But this effusion of such manly drops ,
66332 This shower , blown up by tempest of the soul ,
66333 Startles mine eyes , and makes me more amaz'd
66334 Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven
66335 Figur'd quite o'er with burning meteors .
66336 Lift up thy brow , renowned Salisbury ,
66337 And with a great heart heave away this storm :
66338 Commend these waters to those baby eyes
66339 That never saw the giant world enrag'd ;
66340 Nor met with fortune other than at feasts ,
66341 Full warm of blood , of mirth , of gossiping .
66342 Come , come ; for thou shalt thrust thy hand as deep
66343 Into the purse of rich prosperity
66344 As Lewis himself : so , nobles , shall you all ,
66345 That knit your sinews to the strength of mine .
66346
66347
66348 And even there , methinks , an angel spake :
66349 Look , where the holy legate comes apace ,
66350 To give us warrant from the hand of heaven ,
66351 And on our actions set the name of right
66352
66353 With holy breath .
66354
66355 Hail , noble prince of France !
66356 The next is this : King John hath reconcil'd
66357 Himself to Rome ; his spirit is come in
66358 That so stood out against the holy church ,
66359 The great metropolis and see of Rome .
66360 Therefore thy threat'ning colours now wind up ,
66361 And tame the savage spirit of wild war ,
66362 That , like a lion foster'd up at hand ,
66363 It may lie gently at the foot of peace ,
66364 And be no further harmful than in show .
66365
66366 Your grace shall pardon me ; I will not back :
66367 I am too high-born to be propertied ,
66368 To be a secondary at control ,
66369 Or useful serving-man and instrument
66370 To any sovereign state throughout the world .
66371 Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars
66372 Between this chastis'd kingdom and myself ,
66373 And brought in matter that should feed this fire ;
66374 And now 'tis far too huge to be blown out
66375 With that same weak wind which enkindled it .
66376 You taught me how to know the face of right ,
66377 Acquainted me with interest to this land ,
66378 Yea , thrust this enterprise into my heart ;
66379 And come you now to tell me John hath made
66380 His peace with Rome ? What is that peace to me ?
66381 I , by the honour of my marriage-bed ,
66382 After young Arthur , claim this land for mine ;
66383 And , now it is half-conquer'd , must I back
66384 Because that John hath made his peace with Rome ?
66385 Am I Rome's slave ? What penny hath Rome borne ,
66386 What men provided , what munition sent ,
66387 To underprop this action ? is't not I
66388 That undergo this charge ? who else but I ,
66389 And such as to my claim are liable ,
66390 Sweat in this business and maintain this war ?
66391 Have I not heard these islanders shout out ,
66392 Vive le roy ! as I have bank'd their towns ?
66393 Have I not here the best cards for the game
66394 To win this easy match play'd for a crown ?
66395 And shall I now give o'er the yielded set ?
66396 No , no , on my soul , it never shall be said .
66397
66398 You look but on the outside of this work .
66399
66400 Outside or inside , I will not return
66401 Till my attempt so much be glorified
66402 As to my ample hope was promised
66403 Before I drew this gallant head of war ,
66404 And cull'd these fiery spirits from the world ,
66405 To outlook conquest and to win renown
66406 Even in the jaws of danger and of death .
66407
66408 What lusty trumpet thus doth summon us ?
66409
66410
66411 According to the fair play of the world ,
66412 Let me have audience ; I am sent to speak :
66413 My holy Lord of Milan , from the king
66414 I come , to learn how you have dealt for him ;
66415 And , as you answer , I do know the scope
66416 And warrant limited unto my tongue .
66417
66418 The Dauphin is too wilful-opposite ,
66419 And will not temporize with my entreaties :
66420 He flatly says he'll not lay down his arms .
66421
66422 By all the blood that ever fury breath'd ,
66423 The youth says well . Now hear our English king ;
66424 For thus his royalty doth speak in me .
66425 He is prepar'd ; and reason too he should :
66426 This apish and unmannerly approach ,
66427 This harness'd masque and unadvised revel ,
66428 This unhair'd sauciness and boyish troops ,
66429 The king doth smile at ; and is well prepar'd
66430 To whip this dwarfish war , these pigmy arms ,
66431 From out the circle of his territories .
66432 That hand which had the strength , even at your door ,
66433 To cudgel you and make you take the hatch ;
66434 To dive , like buckets , in concealed wells ;
66435 To crouch in litter of your stable planks :
66436 To lie like pawns lock'd up in chests and trunks ;
66437 To hug with swine ; to seek sweet safety out
66438 In vaults and prisons ; and to thrill and shake ,
66439 Even at the crying of your nation's crow ,
66440 Thinking this voice an armed Englishman :
66441 Shall that victorious hand be feebled here
66442 That in your chambers gave you chastisement ?
66443 No ! Know , the gallant monarch is in arms ,
66444 And like an eagle o'er his aiery towers ,
66445 To souse annoyance that comes near his nest .
66446 And you degenerate , you ingrate revolts ,
66447 You bloody Neroes , ripping up the womb
66448 Of your dear mother England , blush for shame :
66449 For your own ladies and pale-visag'd maids
66450 Like Amazons come tripping after drums ,
66451 Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change ,
66452 Their neelds to lances , and their gentle hearts
66453 To fierce and bloody inclination .
66454
66455 There end thy brave , and turn thy face in peace ;
66456 We grant thou canst outscold us : fare thee well ;
66457 We hold our time too precious to be spent
66458 With such a brabbler .
66459
66460 Give me leave to speak .
66461
66462 No , I will speak .
66463
66464 We will attend to neither .
66465 Strike up the drums ; and let the tongue of war
66466 Plead for our interest and our being here .
66467
66468 Indeed , your drums , being beaten , will cry out ;
66469 And so shall you , being beaten . Do but start
66470 An echo with the clamour of thy drum ,
66471 And even at hand a drum is ready brac'd
66472 That shall reverberate all as loud as thine ;
66473 Sound but another , and another shall
66474 As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear
66475 And mock the deep-mouth'd thunder : for at hand ,
66476 Not trusting to this halting legate here ,
66477 Whom he hath us'd rather for sport than need ,
66478 Is warlike John ; and in his forehead sits
66479 A bare-ribb'd death , whose office is this day
66480 To feast upon whole thousands of the French .
66481
66482 Strike up our drums , to find this danger out .
66483
66484 And thou shalt find it , Dauphin , do not doubt .
66485
66486
66487 How goes the day with us ? O ! tell me , Hubert .
66488
66489 Badly , I fear . How fares your majesty ?
66490
66491 This fever , that hath troubled me so long ,
66492 Lies heavy on me : O ! my heart is sick .
66493
66494
66495 My lord , your valiant kinsman , Faulconbridge ,
66496 Desires your majesty to leave the field ,
66497 And send him word by me which way you go .
66498
66499 Tell him , toward Swinstead , to the abbey there .
66500
66501 Be of good comfort : for the great supply
66502 That was expected by the Dauphin here ,
66503 Are wrack'd three nights ago on Goodwin sands .
66504 This news was brought to Richard but even now .
66505 The French fight coldly , and retire themselves .
66506
66507 Ay me ! this tyrant fever burns me up ,
66508 And will not let me welcome this good news .
66509 Set on toward Swinstead : to my litter straight ;
66510 Weakness possesseth me , and I am faint .
66511
66512
66513 I did not think the king so stor'd with friends .
66514
66515 Up once again ; put spirit in the French :
66516 If they miscarry we miscarry too .
66517
66518 That misbegotten devil , Faulconbridge ,
66519 In spite of spite , alone upholds the day .
66520
66521 They say King John , sore sick , hath left the field .
66522
66523
66524 Lead me to the revolts of England here .
66525
66526 When we were happy we had other names .
66527
66528 It is the Count Melun .
66529
66530 Wounded to death .
66531
66532 Fly , noble English ; you are bought and sold ;
66533 Unthread the rude eye of rebellion ,
66534 And welcome home again discarded faith .
66535 Seek out King John and fall before his feet ;
66536 For if the French be lords of this loud day ,
66537 He means to recompense the pains you take
66538 By cutting off your heads . Thus hath he sworn ,
66539 And I with him , and many moe with me ,
66540 Upon the altar at Saint Edmundsbury ;
66541 Even on that altar where we swore to you
66542 Dear amity and everlasting love .
66543
66544 May this be possible ? may this be true ?
66545
66546 Have I not hideous death within my view ,
66547 Retaining but a quantity of life ,
66548 Which bleeds away , even as a form of wax
66549 Resolveth from his figure 'gainst the fire ?
66550 What in the world should make me now deceive ,
66551 Since I must lose the use of all deceit ?
66552 Why should I then be false , since it is true
66553 That I must die here and live hence by truth ?
66554 I say again , if Lewis do win the day ,
66555 He is forsworn , if e'er those eyes of yours
66556 Behold another day break in the east :
66557 But even this night , whose black contagious breath
66558 Already smokes about the burning crest
66559 Of the old , feeble , and day-wearied sun ,
66560 Even this ill night , your breathing shall expire ,
66561 Paying the fine of rated treachery
66562 Even with a treacherous fine of all your lives ,
66563 If Lewis by your assistance win the day .
66564 Commend me to one Hubert with your king ;
66565 The love of him , and this respect besides ,
66566 For that my grandsire was an Englishman ,
66567 Awakes my conscience to confess all this .
66568 In lieu whereof , I pray you , bear me hence
66569 From forth the noise and rumour of the field ,
66570 Where I may think the remnant of my thoughts
66571 In peace , and part this body and my soul
66572 With contemplation and devout desires .
66573
66574 We do believe thee : and beshrew my soul
66575 But I do love the favour and the form
66576 Of this most fair occasion , by the which
66577 We will untread the steps of damned flight ,
66578 And like a bated and retired flood ,
66579 Leaving our rankness and irregular course ,
66580 Stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlook'd ,
66581 And calmly run on in obedience ,
66582 Even to our ocean , to our great King John .
66583 My arm shall give thee help to bear thee hence ,
66584 For I do see the cruel pangs of death
66585 Right in thine eye . Away , my friends ! New flight ;
66586 And happy newness , that intends old right .
66587
66588
66589 The sun of heaven methought was loath to set ,
66590 But stay'd and made the western welkin blush ,
66591 When the English measur'd backward their own ground
66592 In faint retire . O ! bravely came we off ,
66593 When with a volley of our needless shot ,
66594 After such bloody toil , we bid good night ,
66595 And wound our tottering colours clearly up ,
66596 Last in the field , and almost lords of it !
66597
66598
66599 Where is my prince , the Dauphin ?
66600
66601 Here : what news ?
66602
66603 The Count Melun is slain ; the English lords ,
66604 By his persuasion , are again fall'n off ;
66605 And your supply , which you have wish'd so long ,
66606 Are cast away and sunk , on Goodwin sands .
66607
66608 Ah , foul shrewd news ! Beshrew thy very heart !
66609 I did not think to be so sad to-night
66610 As this hath made me . Who was he that said
66611 King John did fly an hour or two before
66612 The stumbling night did part our weary powers ?
66613
66614 Whoever spoke it , it is true , my lord .
66615
66616 Well ; keep good quarter and good care to-night :
66617 The day shall not be up so soon as I ,
66618 To try the fair adventure of to-morrow .
66619
66620
66621 Who's there ? speak , ho ! speak quickly , or I shoot .
66622
66623 A friend . What art thou ?
66624
66625 Of the part of England .
66626
66627 Whither dost thou go ?
66628
66629 What's that to thee ? Why may not I demand
66630 Of thine affairs as well as thou of mine ?
66631
66632 Hubert , I think ?
66633
66634 Thou hast a perfect thought :
66635 I will upon all hazards well believe
66636 Thou art my friend , that know'st my tongue so well .
66637 Who art thou ?
66638
66639 Who thou wilt : and if thou please ,
66640 Thou mayst befriend me so much as to think
66641 I come one way of the Plantagenets .
66642
66643 Unkind remembrance ! thou and eyeless night
66644 Have done me shame : brave soldier , pardon me ,
66645 That any accent breaking from thy tongue
66646 Should 'scape the true acquaintance of mine ear .
66647
66648 Come , come ; sans compliment , what news abroad ?
66649
66650 Why , here walk I in the black brow of night ,
66651 To find you out .
66652
66653 Brief , then ; and what's the news ?
66654
66655 O ! my sweet sir , news fitting to the night ,
66656 Black , fearful , comfortless , and horrible .
66657
66658 Show me the very wound of this ill news :
66659 I am no woman ; I'll not swound at it .
66660
66661 The king , I fear , is poison'd by a monk :
66662 I left him almost speechless ; and broke out
66663 To acquaint you with this evil , that you might
66664 The better arm you to the sudden time
66665 Than if you had at leisure known of this .
66666
66667 How did he take it ? who did taste to him ?
66668
66669 A monk , I tell you ; a resolved villain ,
66670 Whose bowels suddenly burst out : the king
66671 Yet speaks , and peradventure may recover .
66672
66673 Whom didst thou leave to tend his majesty ?
66674
66675 Why , know you not ? the lords are all come back ,
66676 And brought Prince Henry in their company ;
66677 At whose request the king hath pardon'd them ,
66678 And they are all about his majesty .
66679
66680 Withhold thine indignation , mighty heaven ,
66681 And tempt us not to bear above our power !
66682 I'll tell thee , Hubert , half my power this night ,
66683 Passing these flats , are taken by the tide ;
66684 These Lincoln Washes have devoured them :
66685 Myself , well-mounted , hardly have escap'd .
66686 Away before ! conduct me to the king ;
66687 I doubt he will be dead or ere I come .
66688
66689
66690 It is too late : the life of all his blood
66691 Is touch'd corruptibly ; and his pure brain ,
66692 Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling-house ,
66693 Doth , by the idle comments that it makes ,
66694 Foretell the ending of mortality .
66695
66696
66697 His highness yet doth speak ; and holds belief
66698 That , being brought into the open air ,
66699 It would allay the burning quality
66700 Of that fell poison which assaileth him .
66701
66702 Let him be brought into the orchard here .
66703 Doth he still rage ?
66704
66705
66706 He is more patient
66707 Than when you left him : even now he sung .
66708
66709 O , vanity of sickness ! fierce extremes
66710 In their continuance will not feel themselves .
66711 Death , having prey'd upon the outward parts ,
66712 Leaves them invisible ; and his siege is now
66713 Against the mind , the which he pricks and wounds
66714 With many legions of strange fantasies ,
66715 Which , in their throng and press to that last hold ,
66716 Confound themselves . 'Tis strange that death should sing .
66717 I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan ,
66718 Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death ,
66719 And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
66720 His soul and body to their lasting rest
66721
66722 Be of good comfort , prince ; for you are born
66723 To set a form upon that indigest
66724 Which he hath left so shapeless and so rude .
66725
66726
66727 Ay , marry , now my soul hath elbow-room ;
66728 It would not out at windows , nor at doors .
66729 There is so hot a summer in my bosom
66730 That all my bowels crumble up to dust :
66731 I am a scribbled form , drawn with a pen
66732 Upon a parchment , and against this fire
66733 Do I shrink up .
66734
66735 How fares your majesty ?
66736
66737 Poison'd , ill-fare ; dead , forsook , cast off ;
66738 And none of you will bid the winter come
66739 To thrust his icy fingers in my maw ;
66740 Nor let my kingdom's rivers take their course
66741 Through my burn'd bosom ; nor entreat the north
66742 To make his bleak winds kiss my parched lips
66743 And comfort me with cold . I do not ask you much :
66744 I beg cold comfort ; and you are so strait
66745 And so ingrateful you deny me that .
66746
66747 O ! that there were some virtue in my tears ,
66748 That might relieve you .
66749
66750 The salt in them is hot .
66751 Within me is a hell ; and there the poison
66752 Is as a fiend confin'd to tyrannize
66753 On unreprievable condemned blood .
66754
66755
66756 O ! I am scalded with my violent motion
66757 And spleen of speed to see your majesty .
66758
66759 O cousin ! thou art come to set mine eye :
66760 The tackle of my heart is crack'd and burn'd ,
66761 And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail
66762 Are turned to one thread , one little hair ;
66763 My heart hath one poor string to stay it by ,
66764 Which holds but till thy news be uttered ;
66765 And then all this thou seest is but a clod
66766 And module of confounded royalty .
66767
66768 The Dauphin is preparing hitherward ,
66769 Where heaven he knows how we shall answer him :
66770 For in a night the best part of my power ,
66771 As I upon advantage did remove ,
66772 Were in the Washes all unwarily
66773 Devoured by the unexpected flood .
66774
66775
66776 You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear .
66777 My liege ! my lord ! But now a king , now thus .
66778
66779 Even so must I run on , and even so stop .
66780 What surety of the world , what hope , what stay ,
66781 When this was now a king , and now is clay ?
66782
66783 Art thou gone so ? I do but stay behind
66784 To do the office for thee of revenge ,
66785 And then my soul shall wait on thee to heaven ,
66786 As it on earth hath been thy servant still .
66787 Now , now , you stars , that move in your right spheres ,
66788 Where be your powers ? Show now your mended faiths ,
66789 And instantly return with me again ,
66790 To push destruction and perpetual shame
66791 Out of the weak door of our fainting land .
66792 Straight let us seek , or straight we shall be sought :
66793 The Dauphin rages at our very heels .
66794
66795 It seems you know not then so much as we .
66796 The Cardinal Pandulph is within at rest ,
66797 Who half an hour since came from the Dauphin ,
66798 And brings from him such offers of our peace
66799 As we with honour and respect may take ,
66800 With purpose presently to leave this war .
66801
66802 He will the rather do it when he sees
66803 Ourselves well sinewed to our defence .
66804
66805 Nay , it is in a manner done already ;
66806 For many carriages he hath dispatch'd
66807 To the sea-side , and put his cause and quarrel
66808 To the disposing of the cardinal :
66809 With whom yourself , myself , and other lords ,
66810 If you think meet , this afternoon will post
66811 To consummate this business happily .
66812
66813 Let it be so . And you , my noble prince ,
66814 With other princes that may best be spar'd ,
66815 Shall wait upon your father's funeral .
66816
66817 At Worcester must his body be interr'd ;
66818 For so he will'd it .
66819
66820 Thither shall it then .
66821 And happily may your sweet self put on
66822 The lineal state and glory of the land !
66823 To whom , with all submission , on my knee ,
66824 I do bequeath my faithful services
66825 And true subjection everlastingly .
66826
66827 And the like tender of our love we make ,
66828 To rest without a spot for evermore .
66829
66830 I have a kind soul that would give you thanks ,
66831 And knows not how to do it but with tears .
66832
66833 O ! let us pay the time but needful woe
66834 Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs .
66835 This England never did , nor never shall ,
66836 Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror ,
66837 But when it first did help to wound itself .
66838 Now these her princes are come home again ,
66839 Come the three corners of the world in arms ,
66840 And we shall shock them . Nought shall make us rue ,
66841 If England to itself do rest but true .
66842
66843 THE LIFE OF KING HENRY V
66844
66845 Chorus .
66846
66847 O ! for a Muse of fire , that would ascend
66848 The brightest heaven of invention ;
66849 A kingdom for a stage , princes to act
66850 And monarchs to behold the swelling scene .
66851 Then should the war-like Harry , like himself ,
66852 Assume the port of Mars ; and at his heels ,
66853 Leash'd in like hounds , should famine , sword , and fire
66854 Crouch for employment . But pardon , gentles all ,
66855 The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd
66856 On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
66857 So great an object : can this cockpit hold
66858 The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram
66859 Within this wooden O the very casques
66860 That did affright the air at Agincourt ?
66861 O , pardon ! since a crooked figure may
66862 Attest in little place a million ;
66863 And let us , ciphers to this great accompt ,
66864 On your imaginary forces work .
66865 Suppose within the girdle of these walls
66866 Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies ,
66867 Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
66868 The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder :
66869 Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts :
66870 Into a thousand parts divide one man ,
66871 And make imaginary puissance ;
66872 Think when we talk of horses that you see them
66873 Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth ;
66874 For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings ,
66875 Carry them here and there , jumping o'er times ,
66876 Turning the accomplishment of many years
66877 Into an hour-glass : for the which supply ,
66878 Admit me Chorus to this history ;
66879 Who prologue-like your humble patience pray ,
66880 Gently to hear , kindly to judge , our play .
66881
66882
66883 My lord , I'll tell you ; that self bill is urg'd ,
66884 Which in th' eleventh year of the last king's reign
66885 Was like , and had indeed against us pass'd ,
66886 But that the scambling and unquiet time
66887 Did push it out of further question .
66888
66889 But how , my lord , shall we resist it now ?
66890
66891 It must be thought on . If it pass against us ,
66892 We lose the better half of our possession ;
66893 For all the temporal lands which men devout
66894 By testament have given to the church
66895 Would they strip from us ; being valu'd thus :
66896 As much as would maintain , to the king's honour ,
66897 Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights ,
66898 Six thousand and two hundred good esquires ;
66899 And , to relief of lazars and weak age ,
66900 Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil ,
66901 A hundred almshouses right well supplied ;
66902 And to the coffers of the king beside ,
66903 A thousand pounds by the year . Thus runs the bill .
66904
66905 This would drink deep .
66906
66907 'Twould drink the cup and all .
66908
66909 But what prevention ?
66910
66911 The king is full of grace and fair regard .
66912
66913 And a true lover of the holy church .
66914
66915 The courses of his youth promis'd it not .
66916 The breath no sooner left his father's body
66917 But that his wildness , mortified in him ,
66918 Seem'd to die too ; yea , at that very moment ,
66919 Consideration like an angel came ,
66920 And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him ,
66921 Leaving his body as a paradise ,
66922 To envelop and contain celestial spirits .
66923 Never was such a sudden scholar made ;
66924 Never came reformation in a flood ,
66925 With such a heady currance , scouring faults ;
66926 Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness
66927 So soon did lose his seat and all at once
66928 As in this king .
66929
66930 We are blessed in the change .
66931
66932 Hear him but reason in divinity ,
66933 And , all-admiring , with an inward wish
66934 You would desire the king were made a prelate :
66935 Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs ,
66936 You would say it hath been all in all his study :
66937 List his discourse of war , and you shall hear
66938 A fearful battle render'd you in music :
66939 Turn him to any cause of policy ,
66940 The Gordian knot of it he will unloose ,
66941 Familiar as his garter ; that , when he speaks ,
66942 The air , a charter'd libertine , is still ,
66943 And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears ,
66944 To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences ;
66945 So that the art and practic part of life
66946 Must be the mistress to this theoric :
66947 Which is a wonder how his Grace should glean it ,
66948 Since his addiction was to courses vain ;
66949 His companies unletter'd , rude , and shallow ;
66950 His hours fill'd up with riots , banquets , sports ;
66951 And never noted in him any study ,
66952 Any retirement , any sequestration
66953 From open haunts and popularity .
66954
66955 The strawberry grows underneath the nettle ,
66956 And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
66957 Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality :
66958 And so the prince obscur'd his contemplation
66959 Under the veil of wildness ; which , no doubt ,
66960 Grew like the summer grass , fastest by night ,
66961 Unseen , yet crescive in his faculty .
66962
66963 It must be so ; for miracles are ceas'd ;
66964 And therefore we must needs admit the means
66965 How things are perfected .
66966
66967 But , my good lord ,
66968 How now for mitigation of this bill
66969 Urg'd by the commons ? Doth his majesty
66970 Incline to it , or no ?
66971
66972 He seems indifferent ,
66973 Or rather swaying more upon our part
66974 Than cherishing the exhibiters against us ;
66975 For I have made an offer to his majesty ,
66976 Upon our spiritual convocation ,
66977 And in regard of causes now in hand ,
66978 Which I have open'd to his Grace at large ,
66979 As touching France , to give a greater sum
66980 Than ever at one time the clergy yet
66981 Did to his predecessors part withal .
66982
66983 How did this offer seem receiv'd , my lord ?
66984
66985 With good acceptance of his majesty ;
66986 Save that there was not time enough to hear ,
66987 As I perceiv'd his Grace would fain have done ,
66988 The severals and unhidden passages
66989 Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms ,
66990 And generally to the crown and seat of France ,
66991 Deriv'd from Edward , his great-grandfather .
66992
66993 What was the impediment that broke this off ?
66994
66995 The French ambassador upon that instant
66996 Crav'd audience ; and the hour I think is come
66997 To give him hearing : is it four o'clock ?
66998
66999 It is .
67000
67001 Then go we in to know his embassy ;
67002 Which I could with a ready guess declare
67003 Before the Frenchman speak a word of it .
67004
67005 I'll wait upon you , and I long to hear it .
67006
67007
67008 Where is my gracious lord of Canterbury ?
67009
67010 Not here in presence .
67011
67012 Send for him , good uncle .
67013
67014 Shall we call in the ambassador , my liege ?
67015
67016 Not yet , my cousin : we would be resolv'd ,
67017 Before we hear him , of some things of weight
67018 That task our thoughts , concerning us and France .
67019
67020
67021 God and his angels guard your sacred throne ,
67022 And make you long become it !
67023
67024 Sure , we thank you .
67025 My learned lord , we pray you to proceed ,
67026 And justly and religiously unfold
67027 Why the law Salique that they have in France
67028 Or should , or should not , bar us in our claim .
67029 And God forbid , my dear and faithful lord ,
67030 That you should fashion , wrest , or bow your reading ,
67031 Or nicely charge your understanding soul
67032 With opening titles miscreate , whose right
67033 Suits not in native colours with the truth ;
67034 For God doth know how many now in health
67035 Shall drop their blood in approbation
67036 Of what your reverence shall incite us to .
67037 Therefore take heed how you impawn our person ,
67038 How you awake the sleeping sword of war :
67039 We charge you in the name of God , take heed ;
67040 For never two such kingdoms did contend
67041 Without much fall of blood ; whose guiltless drops
67042 Are every one a woe , a sore complaint ,
67043 'Gainst him whose wrongs give edge unto the swords
67044 That make such waste in brief mortality .
67045 Under this conjuration speak , my lord ,
67046 And we will hear , note , and believe in heart ,
67047 That what you speak is in your conscience wash'd
67048 As pure as sin with baptism .
67049
67050 Then hear me , gracious sovereign , and you peers ,
67051 That owe yourselves , your lives , and services
67052 To this imperial throne . There is no bar
67053 To make against your highness' claim to France
67054 But this , which they produce from Pharamond ,
67055 In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant ,
67056 'No woman shall succeed in Salique land :'
67057 Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze
67058 To be the realm of France , and Pharamond
67059 The founder of this law and female bar .
67060 Yet their own authors faithfully affirm
67061 That the land Salique is in Germany ,
67062 Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe ;
67063 Where Charles the Great , having subdu'd the Saxons ,
67064 There left behind and settled certain French ;
67065 Who , holding in disdain the German women
67066 For some dishonest manners of their life ,
67067 Establish'd then this law ; to wit , no female
67068 Should be inheritrix in Salique land :
67069 Which Salique , as I said , 'twixt Elbe and Sala ,
67070 Is at this day in Germany call'd Meisen .
67071 Then doth it well appear the Salique law
67072 Was not devised for the realm of France ;
67073 Nor did the French possess the Salique land
67074 Until four hundred one-and-twenty years
67075 After defunction of King Pharamond ,
67076 Idly suppos'd the founder of this law ;
67077 Who died within the year of our redemption
67078 Four hundred twenty-six ; and Charles the Great
67079 Subdu'd the Saxons , and did seat the French
67080 Beyond the river Sala , in the year
67081 Eight hundred five . Besides , their writers say ,
67082 King Pepin , which deposed Childeric ,
67083 Did , as heir general , being descended
67084 Of Blithild , which was daughter to King Clothair ,
67085 Make claim and title to the crown of France .
67086 Hugh Capet also , who usurp'd the crown
67087 Of Charles the Duke of Loraine , sole heir male
67088 Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great ,
67089 To find his title with some shows of truth ,
67090 Though in pure truth , it was corrupt and naught ,
67091 Convey'd himself as heir to the Lady Lingare ,
67092 Daughter to Charlemain , who was the son
67093 To Lewis the emperor , and Lewis the son
67094 Of Charles the Great . Also King Lewis the Tenth ,
67095 Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet ,
67096 Could not keep quiet in his conscience ,
67097 Wearing the crown of France , till satisfied
67098 That fair Queen Isabel , his grandmother ,
67099 Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare ,
67100 Daughter to Charles the aforesaid Duke of Loraine :
67101 By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great
67102 Was re-united to the crown of France .
67103 So that , as clear as is the summer's sun ,
67104 King Pepin's title , and Hugh Capet's claim ,
67105 King Lewis his satisfaction , all appear
67106 To hold in right and title of the female :
67107 So do the kings of France unto this day ;
67108 Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law
67109 To bar your highness claiming from the female ;
67110 And rather choose to hide them in a net
67111 Than amply to imbar their crooked titles
67112 Usurp'd from you and your progenitors .
67113
67114 May I with right and conscience make this claim ?
67115
67116 The sin upon my head , dread sovereign !
67117 For in the book of Numbers is it writ :
67118 'When the son dies , let the inheritance
67119 Descend unto the daughter .' Gracious lord ,
67120 Stand for your own ; unwind your bloody flag ;
67121 Look back into your mighty ancestors :
67122 Go , my dread lord , to your great-grandsire's tomb ,
67123 From whom you claim ; invoke his war-like spirit ,
67124 And your great-uncle's , Edward the Black Prince ,
67125 Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy ,
67126 Making defeat on the full power of France ;
67127 Whiles his most mighty father on a hill
67128 Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp
67129 Forage in blood of French nobility .
67130 O noble English ! that could entertain
67131 With half their forces the full pride of France ,
67132 And let another half stand laughing by ,
67133 All out of work , and cold for action .
67134
67135 Awake remembrance of these valiant dead ,
67136 And with your puissant arm renew their feats :
67137 You are their heir , you sit upon their throne ,
67138 The blood and courage that renowned them
67139 Runs in your veins ; and my thrice-puissantliege
67140 Is in the very May-morn of his youth ,
67141 Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises .
67142
67143 Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth
67144 Do all expect that you should rouse yourself ,
67145 As did the former lions of your blood .
67146
67147 They know your Grace hath cause and means and might ;
67148 So hath your highness ; never King of England
67149 Had nobles richer , and more loyal subjects ,
67150 Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England
67151 And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France .
67152
67153 O ! let their bodies follow , my dear liege ,
67154 With blood and sword and fire to win your right ;
67155 In aid whereof we of the spiritualty
67156 Will raise your highness such a mighty sum
67157 As never did the clergy at one time
67158 Bring in to any of your ancestors .
67159
67160 We must not only arm to invade the French ,
67161 But lay down our proportions to defend
67162 Against the Scot , who will make road upon us
67163 With all advantages .
67164
67165 They of those marches , gracious sovereign ,
67166 Shall be a wall sufficient to defend
67167 Our inland from the pilfering borderers .
67168
67169 We do not mean the coursing snatchers only ,
67170 But fear the main intendment of the Scot ,
67171 Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us ;
67172 For you shall read that my great-grandfather
67173 Never went with his forces into France
67174 But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom
67175 Came pouring , like the tide into a breach ,
67176 With ample and brim fulness of his force ,
67177 Galling the gleaned land with hot essays ,
67178 Girding with grievous siege castles and towns ;
67179 That England , being empty of defence ,
67180 Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood .
67181
67182 She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd , my liege ;
67183 For hear her but exampled by herself :
67184 When all her chivalry hath been in France
67185 And she a mourning widow of her nobles ,
67186 She hath herself not only well defended ,
67187 But taken and impounded as a stray
67188 The King of Scots ; whom she did send to France ,
67189 To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings ,
67190 And make your chronicle as rich with praise
67191 As is the owse and bottom of the sea
67192 With sunken wrack and sumless treasuries .
67193
67194 But there's a saying very old and true ;
67195
67196 If that you will France win ,
67197 Then with Scotland first begin :
67198
67199 For once the eagle England being in prey ,
67200 To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot
67201 Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs ,
67202 Playing the mouse in absence of the cat ,
67203 To tear and havoc more than she can eat .
67204
67205 It follows then the cat must stay at home :
67206 Yet that is but a crush'd necessity ;
67207 Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries
67208 And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves .
67209 While that the armed hand doth fight abroad
67210 The advised head defends itself at home :
67211 For government , though high and low and lower ,
67212 Put into parts , doth keep in one consent ,
67213 Congreeing in a full and natural close ,
67214 Like music .
67215
67216 Therefore doth heaven divide
67217 The state of man in divers functions ,
67218 Setting endeavour in continual motion ;
67219 To which is fixed , as an aim or butt ,
67220 Obedience : for so work the honey-bees ,
67221 Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
67222 The act of order to a peopled kingdom .
67223 They have a king and officers of sorts ;
67224 Where some , like magistrates , correct at home ,
67225 Others , like merchants , venture trade abroad ,
67226 Others , like soldiers , armed in their stings ,
67227 Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ;
67228 Which pillage they with merry march bring home
67229 To the tent-royal of their emperor :
67230 Who , busied in his majesty , surveys
67231 The singing masons building roofs of gold ,
67232 The civil citizens kneading up the honey ,
67233 The poor mechanic porters crowding in
67234 Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate ,
67235 The sad-ey'd justice , with his surly hum ,
67236 Delivering o'er to executors pale
67237 The lazy yawning drone . I this infer ,
67238 That many things , having full reference
67239 To one consent , may work contrariously ;
67240 As many arrows , loosed several ways ,
67241 Fly to one mark ; as many ways meet in one town ;
67242 As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea ;
67243 As many lines close in the dial's centre ;
67244 So may a thousand actions , once afoot ,
67245 End in one purpose , and be all well borne
67246 Without defeat . Therefore to France , my liege .
67247 Divide your happy England into four ;
67248 Whereof take you one quarter into France ,
67249 And you withal shall make all Gallia shake .
67250 If we , with thrice such powers left at home ,
67251 Cannot defend our own doors from the dog ,
67252 Let us be worried and our nation lose
67253 The name of hardiness and policy .
67254
67255 Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin .
67256
67257 Now are we well resolv'd ; and by God's help ,
67258 And yours , the noble sinews of our power ,
67259 France being ours , we'll bend it to our awe
67260 Or break it all to pieces : or there we'll sit ,
67261 Ruling in large and ample empery
67262 O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms ,
67263 Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn ,
67264 Tombless , with no remembrance over them :
67265 Either our history shall with full mouth
67266 Speak freely of our acts , or else our grave ,
67267 Like Turkish mute , shall have a tongueless mouth ,
67268 Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph .
67269
67270
67271 Now are we well prepar'd to know the pleasure
67272 Of our fair cousin Dauphin ; for we hear
67273
67274 Your greeting is from him , not from the king .
67275
67276 May't please your majesty to give us leave
67277 Freely to render what we have in charge ;
67278 Or shall we sparingly show you far off
67279 The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy ?
67280
67281 We are no tyrant , but a Christian king ;
67282 Unto whose grace our passion is as subject
67283 As are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons :
67284 Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness
67285 Tell us the Dauphin's mind .
67286
67287 Thus then , in few .
67288 Your highness , lately sending into France ,
67289 Did claim some certain dukedoms , in the right
67290 Of your great predecessor , King Edward the Third .
67291 In answer of which claim , the prince our master
67292 Says that you savour too much of your youth ,
67293 And bids you be advis'd there's nought in France
67294 That can be with a nimble galliard won ;
67295 You cannot revel into dukedoms there .
67296 He therefore sends you , meeter for your spirit ,
67297 This tun of treasure ; and , in lieu of this ,
67298 Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim
67299 Hear no more of you . This the Dauphin speaks .
67300
67301 What treasure , uncle ?
67302
67303 Tennis-balls , my liege .
67304
67305 We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us :
67306 His present and your pains we thank you for :
67307 When we have match'd our rackets to these balls ,
67308 We will in France , by God's grace , play a set
67309 Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard .
67310 Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler
67311 That all the courts of France will be disturb'd
67312 With chaces . And we understand him well ,
67313 How he comes o'er us with our wilder days ,
67314 Not measuring what use we made of them .
67315 We never valu'd this poor seat of England ;
67316 And therefore , living hence , did give ourself
67317 To barbarous licence ; as 'tis ever common
67318 That men are merriest when they are from home .
67319 But tell the Dauphin I will keep my state ,
67320 Be like a king and show my sail of greatness
67321 When I do rouse me in my throne of France :
67322 For that I have laid by my majesty
67323 And plodded like a man for working-days ,
67324 But I will rise there with so full a glory
67325 That I will dazzle all the eyes of France ,
67326 Yea , strike the Dauphin blind to look on us .
67327 And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his
67328 Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones ; and his soul
67329 Shall stand sore-charged for the wasteful vengeance
67330 That shall fly with them : for many a thousand widows
67331 Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands ;
67332 Mock mothers from their sons , mock castles down ;
67333 And some are yet ungotten and unborn
67334 That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn .
67335 But this lies all within the will of God ,
67336 To whom I do appeal ; and in whose name
67337 Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on ,
67338 To venge me as I may and to put forth
67339 My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause .
67340 So get you hence in peace ; and tell the Dauphin
67341 His jest will savour but of shallow wit
67342 When thousands weep more than did laugh at it .
67343 Convey them with safe conduct . Fare you well .
67344
67345
67346 This was a merry message .
67347
67348 We hope to make the sender blush at it .
67349 Therefore , my lords , omit no happy hour
67350 That may give furtherance to our expedition ;
67351 For we have now no thought in us but France ,
67352 Save those to God , that run before our business .
67353 Therefore let our proportions for these wars
67354 Be soon collected , and all things thought upon
67355 That may with reasonable swiftness add
67356 More feathers to our wings ; for , God before ,
67357 We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door .
67358 Therefore let every man now task his thought ,
67359 That this fair action may on foot be brought .
67360
67361 Now all the youth of England are on fire ,
67362 And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies ;
67363 Now thrive the armourers , and honour's thought
67364 Reigns solely in the breast of every man :
67365 They sell the pasture now to buy the horse ,
67366 Following the mirror of all Christian kings ,
67367 With winged heels , as English Mercuries .
67368 For now sits Expectation in the air
67369 And hides a sword from hilts unto the point
67370 With crowns imperial , crowns and coronets ,
67371 Promis'd to Harry and his followers .
67372 The French , advis'd by good intelligence
67373 Of this most dreadful preparation ,
67374 Shake in their fear , and with pale policy
67375 Seek to divert the English purposes .
67376 O England ! model to thy inward greatness ,
67377 Like little body with a mighty heart ,
67378 What mightst thou do , that honour would thee do ,
67379 Were all thy children kind and natural !
67380 But see thy fault ! France hath in thee found out
67381 A nest of hollow bosoms , which he fills
67382 With treacherous crowns ; and three corrupted men ,
67383 One , Richard Earl of Cambridge , and the second ,
67384 Henry Lord Scroop of Masham , and the third ,
67385 Sir Thomas Grey , knight , of Northumberland ,
67386 Have , for the gilt of France ,O guilt , indeed !
67387 Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France ;
67388 And by their hands this grace of kings must die ,
67389 If hell and treason hold their promises ,
67390 Ere he take ship for France , and in Southampton .
67391 Linger your patience on ; and well digest
67392 The abuse of distance while we force a play .
67393 The sum is paid ; the traitors are agreed ;
67394 The king is set from London ; and the scene
67395 Is now transported , gentles , to Southampton :
67396 There is the playhouse now , there must you sit :
67397 And thence to France shall we convey you safe ,
67398 And bring you back , charming the narrow seas
67399 To give you gentle pass ; for , if we may ,
67400 We'll not offend one stomach with our play .
67401 But , till the king come forth and not till then ,
67402 Unto Southampton do we shift our scene .
67403
67404 Well met , Corporal Nym .
67405
67406 Good morrow , Lieutenant Bardolph .
67407
67408 What , are Ancient Pistol and you friends yet ?
67409
67410 For my part , I care not : I say little ; but when time shall serve , there shall be smiles ; but that shall be as it may . I dare not fight ; but I will wink and hold out mine iron . It is a simple one ; but what though ? it will toast cheese , and it will endure cold as another man's sword will : and there's an end .
67411
67412 I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends , and we'll be all three sworn brothers to France : let it be so , good Corporal Nym .
67413
67414 Faith , I will live so long as I may , that's the certain of it ; and when I cannot live any longer , I will do as I may : that is my rest , that is the rendezvous of it .
67415
67416 It is certain , corporal , that he is married to Nell Quickly ; and , certainly she did you wrong , for you were troth-plight to her .
67417
67418 I cannot tell ; things must be as they may : men may sleep , and they may have their throats about them at that time ; and , some say , knives have edges . It must be as it may : though patience be a tired mare , yet she will plod . There must be conclusions . Well , I cannot tell .
67419
67420
67421 Here comes Ancient Pistol and his wife . Good corporal , be patient here . How now , mine host Pistol !
67422
67423 Base tike , call'st thou me host ?
67424 Now , by this hand , I swear , I scorn the term ;
67425 Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers .
67426
67427 No , by my troth , not long ; for we cannot lodge and board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that live honestly by the prick of their needles , but it will be thought we keep a bawdy-house straight . [
67428
67429 Good lieutenant ! good corporal ! offer nothing here .
67430
67431 Pish !
67432
67433 Pish for thee , Iceland dog ! thou prickeared cur of Iceland !
67434
67435 Good Corporal Nym , show thy valour and put up your sword .
67436
67437 Will you shog off ? I would have you solus .
67438
67439
67440 Solus , egregious dog ? O viper vile !
67441 The solus in thy most mervailous face ;
67442 The solus in thy teeth , and in thy throat ,
67443 And in thy hateful lungs , yea , in thy maw , perdy ;
67444 And , which is worse , within thy nasty mouth !
67445 I do retort the solus in thy bowels ;
67446 For I can take , and Pistol's cock is up ,
67447 And flashing fire will follow .
67448
67449 I am not Barbason ; you cannot conjure me . I have an humour to knock you indifferently well . If you grow foul with me , Pistol , I will scour you with my rapier , as I may , in fair terms : if you would walk off , I would prick your guts a little , in good terms , as I may ; and that's the humour of it .
67450
67451 O braggart vile and damned furious wight !
67452 The grave doth gape , and doting death is near ;
67453 Therefore exhale .
67454
67455 Hear me , hear me what I say : he that strikes the first stroke , I'll run him up to the hilts , as I am a soldier .
67456
67457
67458 An oath of mickle might , and fury shall abate .
67459 Give me thy fist , thy fore-foot to me give ;
67460 Thy spirits are most tall .
67461
67462 I will cut thy throat , one time or other , in fair terms ; that is the humour of it .
67463
67464 Coupe le gorge !
67465 That is the word . I thee defy again .
67466 O hound of Crete , think'st thou my spouse to get ?
67467 No ; to the spital go ,
67468 And from the powdering-tub of infamy
67469 Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind ,
67470 Doll Tearsheet she by name , and her espouse :
67471 I have , and I will hold , the quondam Quickly
67472 For the only she ; and pauca , there's enough .
67473 Go to
67474
67475
67476 Mine host Pistol , you must come to my master , and your hostess : he is very sick , and would to bed . Good Bardolph , put thy face between his sheets and do the office of a warming-pan . Faith , he's very ill .
67477
67478 Away , you rogue !
67479
67480 By my troth , he'll yield the crow a pudding one of these days . The king has killed his heart . Good husband , come home presently .
67481
67482
67483 Come , shall I make you two friends ? We must to France together . Why the devil should we keep knives to cut one another's throats ?
67484
67485 Let floods o'erswell , and fiends for food howl on !
67486
67487 You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting ?
67488
67489 Base is the slave that pays .
67490
67491 That now I will have ; that's the humour of it .
67492
67493 As manhood shall compound : push home .
67494
67495
67496 By this sword , he that makes the first thrust , I'll kill him ; by this sword , I will .
67497
67498 Sword is an oath , and oaths must have their course .
67499
67500 Corporal Nym , an thou wilt be friends , be friends : an thou wilt not , why then , be enemies with me too . Prithee , put up .
67501
67502 I shall have my eight shillings I won of you at betting ?
67503
67504 A noble shalt thou have , and present pay ;
67505 And liquor likewise will I give to thee ,
67506 And friendship shall combine , and brotherhood :
67507 I'll live by Nym , and Nym shall live by me .
67508 Is not this just ? for I shall sutler be
67509 Unto the camp , and profits will accrue .
67510 Give me thy hand .
67511
67512 I shall have my noble ?
67513
67514 In cash most justly paid .
67515
67516
67517 Well then , that's the humour of it .
67518
67519
67520 As ever you came of women , come in quickly to Sir John . Ah , poor heart ! he is so shaked of a burning quotidian tertian , that it is most lamentable to behold . Sweet men , come to him .
67521
67522 The king hath run bad humours on the knight ; that's the even of it .
67523
67524 Nym , thou hast spoke the right ;
67525 His heart is fracted and corroborate .
67526
67527 The king is a good king : but it must be as it may ; he passes some humours and careers .
67528
67529 Let us condole the knight ; for , lambkins , we will live .
67530
67531
67532 'Fore God , his Grace is bold to trust these traitors .
67533
67534 They shall be apprehended by and by .
67535
67536 How smooth and even they do bear themselves !
67537 As if allegiance in their bosoms sat ,
67538 Crowned with faith and constant loyalty .
67539
67540 The king hath note of all that they intend ,
67541 By interception which they dream not of .
67542
67543 Nay , but the man that was his bedfellow ,
67544 Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours ,
67545 That he should , for a foreign purse , so sell
67546 His sovereign's life to death and treachery !
67547
67548
67549 Now sits the wind fair , and we will aboard .
67550 My Lord of Cambridge , and my kind Lord of Masham ,
67551 And you , my gentle knight , give me your thoughts :
67552 Think you not that the powers we bear with us
67553 Will cut their passage through the force of France ,
67554 Doing the execution and the act
67555 For which we have in head assembled them ?
67556
67557 No doubt , my liege , if each man do his best .
67558
67559 I doubt not that ; since we are well persuaded
67560 We carry not a heart with us from hence
67561 That grows not in a fair consent with ours ;
67562 Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish
67563 Success and conquest to attend on us .
67564
67565 Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd
67566 Than is your majesty : there's not , I think , a subject
67567 That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness
67568 Under the sweet shade of your government .
67569
67570 True : those that were your father's enemies
67571 Have steep'd their galls in honey , and do serve you
67572 With hearts create of duty and of zeal .
67573
67574 We therefore have great cause of thankfulness ,
67575 And shall forget the office of our hand ,
67576 Sooner than quittance of desert and merit
67577 According to the weight and worthiness .
67578
67579 So service shall with steeled sinews toil ,
67580 And labour shall refresh itself with hope ,
67581 To do your Grace incessant services .
67582
67583 We judge no less . Uncle of Exeter ,
67584 Enlarge the man committed yesterday
67585 That rail'd against our person : we consider
67586 It was excess of wine that set him on ;
67587 And on his more advice we pardon him .
67588
67589 That's mercy , but too much security :
67590 Let him be punish'd , sovereign , lest example
67591 Breed , by his sufference , more of such a kind .
67592
67593 O ! let us yet be merciful .
67594
67595 So may your highness , and yet punish too .
67596
67597 Sir ,
67598 You show great mercy , if you give him life
67599 After the taste of much correction .
67600
67601 Alas ! your too much love and care of me
67602 Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch .
67603 If little faults , proceeding on distemper ,
67604 Shall not be wink'd at , how shall we stretch our eye
67605 When capital crimes , chew'd , swallow'd , and digested ,
67606 Appear before us ? We'll yet enlarge that man ,
67607 Though Cambridge , Scroop , and Grey , in their dear care ,
67608 And tender preservation of our person ,
67609 Would have him punish'd . And now to our French causes :
67610 Who are the late commissioners ?
67611
67612 I one , my lord :
67613 Your highness bade me ask for it to-day .
67614
67615 So did you me , my liege .
67616
67617 And I , my royal sovereign .
67618
67619 Then , Richard , Earl of Cambridge , there is yours ;
67620 There yours , Lord Scroop of Masham ; and , sir knight ,
67621 Grey of Northumberland , this same is yours :
67622 Read them ; and know , I know your worthiness .
67623 My Lord of Westmoreland , and uncle Exeter ,
67624 We will aboard to-night . Why , how now , gentlemen !
67625 What see you in those papers that you lose
67626 So much complexion ? Look ye , how they change !
67627 Their cheeks are paper . Why , what read you there ,
67628 That hath so cowarded and chas'd your blood
67629 Out of appearance ?
67630
67631 I do confess my fault ,
67632 And do submit me to your highness' mercy .
67633
67634 To which we all appeal .
67635
67636 To which we all appeal .
67637
67638 The mercy that was quick in us but late
67639 By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd :
67640 You must not dare , for shame , to talk of mercy ;
67641 For your own reasons turn into your bosoms ,
67642 As dogs upon their masters , worrying you .
67643 See you , my princes and my noble peers ,
67644 These English monsters ! My Lord of Cambridge here ,
67645 You know how apt our love was to accord
67646 To furnish him with all appertinents
67647 Belonging to his honour ; and this man
67648 Hath , for a few light crowns , lightly conspir'd ,
67649 And sworn unto the practices of France ,
67650 To kill us here in Hampton : to the which
67651 This knight , no less for bounty bound to us
67652 Than Cambridge is , hath likewise sworn . But O !
67653 What shall I say to thee , Lord Scroop ? thou cruel ,
67654 Ingrateful , savage and inhuman creature !
67655 Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels ,
67656 That knew'st the very bottom of my soul ,
67657 That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold
67658 Wouldst thou have practis'd on me for thy use !
67659 May it be possible that foreign hire
67660 Could out of thee extract one spark of evil
67661 That might annoy my finger ? 'tis so strange
67662 That , though the truth of it stands off as gross
67663 As black from white , my eye will scarcely see it .
67664 Treason and murder ever kept together ,
67665 As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose ,
67666 Working so grossly in a natural cause
67667 That admiration did not whoop at them :
67668 But thou , 'gainst all proportion , didst bring in
67669 Wonder to wait on treason and on murder :
67670 And whatsoever cunning fiend it was
67671 That wrought upon thee so preposterously
67672 Hath got the voice in hell for excellence :
67673 And other devils that suggest by treasons
67674 Do botch and bungle up damnation
67675 With patches , colours , and with forms , being fetch'd
67676 From glistering semblances of piety ;
67677 But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up ,
67678 Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason ,
67679 Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor .
67680 If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus
67681 Should with his lion gait walk the whole world ,
67682 He might return to vasty Tartar back ,
67683 And tell the legions , 'I can never win
67684 A soul so easy as that Englishman's .'
67685 O ! how hast thou with jealousy infected
67686 The sweetness of affiance . Show men dutiful ?
67687 Why , so didst thou : seem they grave and learned ?
67688 Why , so didst thou : come they of noble family ?
67689 Why , so didst thou : seem they religious ?
67690 Why , so didst thou : or are they spare in diet ,
67691 Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger ,
67692 Constant in spirit , not swerving with the blood ,
67693 Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement ,
67694 Not working with the eye without the ear ,
67695 And but in purged judgment trusting neither ?
67696 Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem :
67697 And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot ,
67698 To mark the full-fraught man and best indu'd
67699 With some suspicion . I will weep for thee ;
67700 For this revolt of thine , methinks , is like
67701 Another fall of man . Their faults are open :
67702 Arrest them to the answer of the law ;
67703 And God acquit them of their practices !
67704
67705 I arrest thee of high treason , by the name of Richard Earl of Cambridge .
67706 I arrest thee of high treason , by the name of Henry Lord Scroop of Masham .
67707 I arrest thee of high treason , by the name of Thomas Grey , knight , of Northumberland .
67708
67709 Our purposes God justly hath discover'd ,
67710 And I repent my fault more than my death ;
67711 Which I beseech your highness to forgive ,
67712 Although my body pay the price of it .
67713
67714 For me , the gold of France did not seduce ,
67715 Although I did admit it as a motive
67716 The sooner to effect what I intended :
67717 But God be thanked for prevention ;
67718 Which I in sufference heartily will rejoice ,
67719 Beseeching God and you to pardon me .
67720
67721 Never did faithful subject more rejoice
67722 At the discovery of most dangerous treason
67723 Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself ,
67724 Prevented from a damned enterprise .
67725 My fault , but not my body ; pardon , sovereign .
67726
67727 God quit you in his mercy ! Hear your sentence .
67728 You have conspir'd against our royal person ,
67729 Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd , and from his coffers
67730 Receiv'd the golden earnest of our death ;
67731 Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter ,
67732 His princes and his peers to servitude ,
67733 His subjects to oppression and contempt ,
67734 And his whole kingdom into desolation .
67735 Touching our person seek we no revenge ;
67736 But we our kingdom's safety must so tender ,
67737 Whose ruin you have sought , that to her laws
67738 We do deliver you . Get you therefore hence ,
67739 Poor miserable wretches , to your death ;
67740 The taste whereof , God of his mercy give you
67741 Patience to endure , and true repentance
67742 Of all your dear offences ! Bear them hence .
67743
67744 Now , lords , for France ! the enterprise whereof
67745 Shall be to you , as us , like glorious .
67746 We doubt not of a fair and lucky war ,
67747 Since God so graciously hath brought to light
67748 This dangerous treason lurking in our way
67749 To hinder our beginnings . We doubt not now
67750 But every rub is smoothed on our way .
67751 Then forth , dear countrymen : let us deliver
67752 Our puissance into the hand of God ,
67753 Putting it straight in expedition .
67754 Cheerly to sea ! the signs of war advance :
67755 No king of England , if not king of France .
67756
67757
67758 Prithee , honey-sweet husband , let me bring thee to Staines .
67759
67760 No ; for my manly heart doth yearn .
67761 Bardolph , be blithe ; Nym , rouse thy vaunting veins ;
67762 Boy , bristle thy courage up ; for Falstaff he is dead ,
67763 And we must yearn therefore .
67764
67765 Would I were with him , wheresome'er he is , either in heaven or in hell !
67766
67767 Nay , sure , he's not in hell : he's in Arthur's bosom , if ever man went to Arthur's bosom . A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child ; a' parted even just between twelve and one , even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers' ends , I knew there was but one way ; for his nose was as sharp as a pen , and a' babbled of green fields . 'How now , Sir John !' quoth I : 'what man ! be of good cheer .' So a' cried out 'God , God , God !' three or four times : now I , to comfort him , bid him a' should not think of God , I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet . So a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet : I put my hand into the bed and felt them , and they were as cold as any stone ; then I felt to his knees , and so upward , and upward , and all was as cold as any stone .
67768
67769 They say he cried out of sack .
67770
67771 Ay , that a' did .
67772
67773 And of women .
67774
67775 Nay , that a' did not .
67776
67777 Yes , that a' did ; and said they were devils incarnate .
67778
67779 A' could never abide carnation ; 'twas a colour he never liked .
67780
67781 A' said once , the devil would have him about women .
67782
67783 A' did in some sort , indeed , handle women ; but then he was rheumatic , and talked of the whore of Babylon .
67784
67785 Do you not remember a' saw a flea stick upon Bardolph's nose , and a' said it was a black soul burning in hell-fire ?
67786
67787 Well , the fuel is gone that maintained that fire : that's all the riches I got in his service .
67788
67789 Shall we shog ? the king will be gone from Southampton .
67790
67791 Come , let's away . My love , give me thy lips .
67792 Look to my chattels and my moveables :
67793 Let senses rule , the word is , 'Pitch and pay ;'
67794 Trust none ;
67795 For oaths are straws , men's faiths are wafercakes ,
67796 And hold-fast is the only dog , my duck :
67797 Therefore , caveto be thy counsellor .
67798 Go , clear thy crystals . Yoke-fellows in arms ,
67799 Let us to France ; like horse-leeches , my boys ,
67800 To suck , to suck , the very blood to suck !
67801
67802 And that's but unwholesome food , they say .
67803
67804 Touch her soft mouth , and march .
67805
67806 Farewell , hostess .
67807
67808
67809 I cannot kiss , that is the humour of it ; but , adieu .
67810
67811 Let housewifery appear : keep close , I thee command .
67812
67813 Farewell ; adieu .
67814
67815 Thus come the English with full power upon us ;
67816 And more than carefully it us concerns
67817 To answer royally in our defences .
67818 Therefore the Dukes of Berri and Britaine ,
67819 Of Brabant and of Orleans , shall make forth ,
67820 And you , Prince Dauphin , with all swift dispatch ,
67821 To line and new repair our towns of war
67822 With men of courage and with means defendant :
67823 For England his approaches makes as fierce
67824 As waters to the sucking of a gulf .
67825 It fits us then to be as provident
67826 As fear may teach us , out of late examples
67827 Left by the fatal and neglected English
67828 Upon our fields .
67829
67830 My most redoubted father ,
67831 It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe ;
67832 For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom ,
67833 Though war nor no known quarrel were in question ,
67834 But that defences , musters , preparations ,
67835 Should be maintain'd , assembled , and collected ,
67836 As were a war in expectation .
67837 Therefore , I say 'tis meet we all go forth
67838 To view the sick and feeble parts of France :
67839 And let us do it with no show of fear ;
67840 No , with no more than if we heard that England
67841 Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance :
67842 For , my good liege , she is so idly king'd ,
67843 Her sceptre so fantastically borne
67844 By a vain , giddy , shallow , humorous youth ,
67845 That fear attends her not .
67846
67847 O peace , Prince Dauphin !
67848 You are too much mistaken in this king .
67849 Question your Grace the late ambassadors ,
67850 With what great state he heard their embassy ,
67851 How well supplied with noble counsellors ,
67852 How modest in exception , and , withal
67853 How terrible in constant resolution ,
67854 And you shall find his vanities forespent
67855 Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus ,
67856 Covering discretion with a coat of folly ;
67857 As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots
67858 That shall first spring and be most delicate .
67859
67860 Well , 'tis not so , my lord high constable ;
67861 But though we think it so , it is no matter :
67862 In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh
67863 The enemy more mighty than he seems :
67864 So the proportions of defence are fill'd ;
67865 Which of a weak and niggardly projection
67866 Doth like a miser spoil his coat with scanting
67867 A little cloth .
67868
67869 Think we King Harry strong ;
67870 And , princes , look you strongly arm to meet him .
67871 The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us ,
67872 And he is bred out of that bloody strain
67873 That haunted us in our familiar paths :
67874 Witness our too much memorable shame
67875 When Cressy battle fatally was struck
67876 And all our princes captiv'd by the hand
67877 Of that black name , Edward Black Prince of Wales ;
67878 Whiles that his mounting sire , on mountain standing ,
67879 Up in the air , crown'd with the golden sun ,
67880 Saw his heroical seed , and smil'd to see him
67881 Mangle the work of nature , and deface
67882 The patterns that by God and by French fathers
67883 Had twenty years been made . This is a stem
67884 Of that victorious stock ; and let us fear
67885 The native mightiness and fate of him .
67886
67887
67888 Ambassadors from Harry King of England
67889 Do crave admittance to your majesty .
67890
67891 We'll give them present audience . Go , and bring them .
67892
67893 You see this chase is hotly follow'd , friends .
67894
67895 Turn head , and stop pursuit ; for coward dogs
67896 Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten
67897 Runs far before them . Good my sovereign ,
67898 Take up the English short , and let them know
67899 Of what a monarchy you are the head :
67900 Self-love , my liege , is not so vile a sin
67901 As self-neglecting .
67902
67903
67904 From our brother England ?
67905
67906 From him ; and thus he greets your majesty .
67907 He wills you , in the name of God Almighty ,
67908 That you divest yourself , and lay apart
67909 The borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven ,
67910 By law of nature and of nations 'long
67911 To him and to his heirs ; namely , the crown
67912 And all wide-stretched honours that pertain
67913 By custom and the ordinance of times
67914 Unto the crown of France . That you may know
67915 'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim ,
67916 Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days ,
67917 Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak'd ,
67918 He sends you this most memorable line ,
67919
67920 In every branch truly demonstrative ;
67921 Willing you overlook this pedigree ;
67922 And when you find him evenly deriv'd
67923 From his most fam'd of famous ancestors ,
67924 Edward the Third , he bids you then resign
67925 Your crown and kingdom , indirectly held
67926 From him the native and true challenger .
67927
67928 Or else what follows ?
67929
67930 Bloody constraint ; for if you hide the crown
67931 Even in your hearts , there will he rake for it :
67932 Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming ,
67933 In thunder and in earthquake like a Jove ,
67934 That , if requiring fail , he will compel ;
67935 And bids you , in the bowels of the Lord ,
67936 Deliver up the crown , and to take mercy
67937 On the poor souls for whom this hungry war
67938 Opens his vasty jaws ; and on your head
67939 Turning the widows' tears , the orphans' cries ,
67940 The dead men's blood , the pining maidens' groans ,
67941 For husbands , fathers , and betrothed lovers ,
67942 That shall be swallow'd in this controversy .
67943 This is his claim , his threat'ning , and my message ;
67944 Unless the Dauphin be in presence here ,
67945 To whom expressly I bring greeting too .
67946
67947 For us , we will consider of this further :
67948 To-morrow shall you bear our full intent
67949 Back to our brother England .
67950
67951 For the Dauphin ,
67952 I stand here for him : what to him from England ?
67953
67954 Scorn and defiance , slight regard , contempt ,
67955 And anything that may not misbecome
67956 The mighty sender , doth he prize you at .
67957 Thus says my king : an if your father's highness
67958 Do not , in grant of all demands at large ,
67959 Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty ,
67960 He'll call you to so hot an answer of it ,
67961 That caves and womby vaultages of France
67962 Shall chide your trespass and return your mock
67963 In second accent of his ordinance .
67964
67965 Say , if my father render fair return ,
67966 It is against my will ; for I desire
67967 Nothing but odds with England : to that end ,
67968 As matching to his youth and vanity ,
67969 I did present him with the Paris balls .
67970
67971 He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it ,
67972 Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe :
67973 And , be assur'd , you'll find a difference
67974 As we his subjects have in wonder found
67975 Between the promise of his greener days
67976 And these he masters now . Now he weighs time
67977 Even to the utmost grain ; that you shall read
67978 In your own losses , if he stay in France .
67979
67980 To-morrow shall you know our mind at full .
67981
67982 Dispatch us with all speed , lest that our king
67983 Come here himself to question our delay ;
67984 For he is footed in this land already .
67985
67986 You shall be soon dispatch'd with fair conditions :
67987 A night is but small breath and little pause
67988 To answer matters of this consequence .
67989
67990 Thus with imagin'd wing our swift scene flies
67991 In motion of no less celerity
67992 Than that of thought . Suppose that you have seen
67993 The well-appointed king at Hampton pier
67994 Embark his royalty ; and his brave fleet
67995 With silken streamers the young Ph bus fanning :
67996 Play with your fancies , and in them behold
67997 Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing ;
67998 Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
67999 To sounds confus'd ; behold the threaden sails ,
68000 Borne with the invisible and creeping wind ,
68001 Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea ,
68002 Breasting the lofty surge . O ! do but think
68003 You stand upon the rivage and behold
68004 A city on the inconstant billows dancing ;
68005 For so appears this fleet majestical ,
68006 Holding due course to Harfleur . Follow , follow !
68007 Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy ,
68008 And leave your England , as dead midnight still ,
68009 Guarded with grandsires , babies , and old women ,
68010 Either past or not arriv'd to pith and puissance :
68011 For who is he , whose chin is but enrich'd
68012 With one appearing hair , that will not follow
68013 Those call'd and choice-drawn cavaliers to France ?
68014 Work , work your thoughts , and therein see a siege ;
68015 Behold the ordenance on their carriages ,
68016 With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur .
68017 Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back ;
68018 Tells Harry that the king doth offer him
68019 Katharine his daughter ; and with her , to dowry ,
68020 Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms :
68021 The offer likes not : and the nimble gunner
68022 With linstock now the devilish cannon touches ,
68023
68024 And down goes all before them . Still be kind ,
68025 And eke out our performance with your mind .
68026
68027 Once more unto the breach , dear friends , once more ;
68028 Or close the wall up with our English dead !
68029 In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
68030 As modest stillness and humility :
68031 But when the blast of war blows in our ears ,
68032 Then imitate the action of the tiger ;
68033 Stiffen the sinews , summon up the blood ,
68034 Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ;
68035 Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ;
68036 Let it pry through the portage of the head
68037 Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it
68038 As fearfully as doth a galled rock
68039 O'erhang and jutty his confounded base ,
68040 Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean .
68041 Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide ,
68042 Hold hard the breath , and bend up every spirit
68043 To his full height ! On , on , you noblest English !
68044 Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof ;
68045 Fathers that , like so many Alexanders ,
68046 Have in these parts from morn till even fought ,
68047 And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument .
68048 Dishonour not your mothers ; now attest
68049 That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you .
68050 Be copy now to men of grosser blood ,
68051 And teach them how to war . And you , good yeomen ,
68052 Whose limbs were made in England , show us here
68053 The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear
68054 That you are worth your breeding ; which I doubt not ;
68055 For there is none of you so mean and base
68056 That hath not noble lustre in your eyes .
68057 I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips ,
68058 Straining upon the start . The game's afoot :
68059 Follow your spirit ; and , upon this charge
68060 Cry 'God for Harry ! England and Saint George !'
68061
68062
68063 On , on , on , on , on ! to the breach , to the breach !
68064
68065 Pray thee , corporal , stay : the knocks are too hot ; and for mine own part , I have not a case of lives : the humour of it is too hot , that is the very plain-song of it .
68066
68067 The plain-song is most just , for humours do abound :
68068
68069 Knocks go and come : God's vassals drop and die ;
68070 And sword and shield
68071 In bloody field
68072 Doth win immortal fame .
68073
68074
68075 Would I were in an alehouse in London ! I would give all my fame for a pot of ale , and safety .
68076
68077 And I :
68078
68079 If wishes would prevail with me ,
68080 My purpose should not fail with me ,
68081 But thither would I hie .
68082
68083 As duly ,
68084 But not as truly ,
68085 As bird doth sing on bough .
68086
68087 Up to the breach , you dogs ! avaunt , you cullions !
68088
68089
68090 Be merciful , great duke , to men of mould !
68091 Abate thy rage , abate thy manly rage !
68092 Abate thy rage , great duke !
68093 Good bawcock , bate thy rage ; use lenity , sweet chuck !
68094
68095 These be good humours ! your honour wins bad humours .
68096
68097
68098 As young as I am , I have observed these three swashers . I am boy to them all three , but all they three , though they would serve me , could not be man to me ; for , indeed three such antiques do not amount to a man . For Bardolph , he is white-livered and red-faced ; by the means whereof , a' faces it out , but fights not . For Pistol , he hath a killing tongue and a quiet sword ; by the means whereof a' breaks words , and keeps whole weapons . For Nym , he hath heard that men of few words are the best men ; and therefore he scorns to say his prayers , lest a' should be thought a coward : but his few bad words are matched with as few good deeds ; for a' never broke any man's head but his own , and that was against a post when he was drunk . They will steal any thing and call it purchase . Bardolph stole a lute-case , bore it twelve leagues , and sold it for three half-pence . Nym and Bardolph are sworn brothers in filching , and in Calais they stole a fire-shovel ;I knew by that piece of service the men would carry coals ,they would have me as familiar with men's pockets as their gloves or their handkerchers : which makes much against my manhood if I should take from another's pocket to put into mine ; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs . I must leave them and seek some better service : their villany goes against my weak stomach , and therefore I must cast it up .
68099
68100 Captain Fluellen , you must come presently to the mines : the Duke of Gloucester would speak with you .
68101
68102 To the mines ! tell you the duke it is not so good to come to the mines . For look you , the mines is not according to the disciplines of the war ; the concavities of it is not sufficient ; for , look you , th' athversary you may discuss unto the duke , look you is digt himself four yards under the countermines ; by Cheshu , I think , a' will plow up all if there is not better directions .
68103
68104 The Duke of Gloucester , to whom the order of the siege is given , is altogether directed by an Irishman , a very valiant gentleman , i' faith .
68105
68106 It is Captain Macmorris , is it not ?
68107
68108 I think it be .
68109
68110 By Cheshu , he is an ass , as in the world :
68111 I will verify as much in his peard : he has no more directions in the true disciplines of the wars , look you , of the Roman disciplines , than is a puppy-dog .
68112
68113
68114 Here a' comes ; and the Scots captain , Captain Jamy , with him .
68115
68116 Captain Jamy is a marvellous falorous gentleman , that is certain ; and of great expedition and knowledge in th' aunchient wars , upon my particular knowledge of his directions : by Cheshu , he will maintain his argument as well as any military man in the world , in the disciplines of the pristine wars of the Romans .
68117
68118 I say gud day , Captain Fluellen .
68119
68120 God-den to your worship , good Captain James .
68121
68122 How now , Captain Macmorris ! have you quit the mines ? have the pioners given o'er ?
68123
68124 By Chrish , la ! tish ill done : the work ish give over , the trumpet sound the retreat . By my hand , I swear , and my father's soul , the work ish ill done ; it ish give over : I would have blowed up the town , so Chrish save me , la ! in an hour : O ! tish ill done , tish ill done ; by my hand , tish ill done !
68125
68126 Captain Macmorris , I beseech you now , will you voutsafe me , look you , a few disputations with you , as partly touching or concerning the disciplines of the war , the Roman wars , in the way of argument , look you , and friendly communication ; partly to satisfy my opinion , and partly for the satisfaction , look you , of my mind , as touching the direction of the military discipline : that is the point .
68127
68128 It sall be vary gud , gud feith , gud captains bath :
68129
68130 and I sall quit you with gud leve , as I may pick occasion ; that sall I , marry .
68131
68132 It is no time to discourse , so Chrish save me : the day is hot , and the weather , and the wars , and the king , and the dukes : it is no time to discourse . The town is beseeched , and the trumpet calls us to the breach ; and we talk , and be Chrish , do nothing : 'tis shame for us all ; so God sa' me , 'tis shame to stand still ; it is shame , by my hand ; and there is throats to be cut , and works to be done ; and there ish nothing done , so Chrish sa' me , la !
68133
68134 By the mess , ere theise eyes of mine take themselves to slumber , aile do gud service , or aile lig i' the grund for it ; ay , or go to death ; and aile pay it as valorously as I may , that sal I suerly do , that is the breff and the long . Marry , I wad full fain heard some question 'tween you tway .
68135
68136 Captain Macmorris , I think , look you , under your correction , there is not many of your nation
68137
68138 Of my nation ! What ish my nation ? ish a villain , and a bastard , and a knave , and a rascal ? What ish my nation ? Who talks of my nation ?
68139
68140 Look you , if you take the matter otherwise than is meant , Captain Macmorris , peradventure I shall think you do not use me with that affability as in discretion you ought to use me , look you ; being as good a man as yourself , both in the disciplines of wars , and in the derivation of my birth , and in other particularities .
68141
68142 I do not know you so good a man as myself : so Chrish save me , I will cut off your head .
68143
68144 Gentlemen both , you will mistake each other .
68145
68146 A ! that's a foul fault .
68147
68148
68149 The town sounds a parley .
68150
68151 Captain Macmorris , when there is more better opportunity to be required , look you , I will be so bold as to tell you I know the disciplines of wars ; and there is an end .
68152
68153 How yet resolves the governor of the town ?
68154 This is the latest parle we will admit :
68155 Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves ;
68156 Or like to men proud of destruction
68157 Defy us to our worst : for , as I am a soldier ,
68158 A name that in my thoughts , becomes me best ,
68159 If I begin the battery once again ,
68160 I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
68161 Till in her ashes she lie buried .
68162 The gates of mercy shall be all shut up ,
68163 And the flesh'd soldier , rough and hard of heart ,
68164 In liberty of bloody hand shall range
68165 With conscience wide as hell , mowing like grass
68166 Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants .
68167 What is it then to me , if impious war ,
68168 Array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends ,
68169 Do , with his smirch'd complexion , all fell feats
68170 Enlink'd to waste and desolation ?
68171 What is't to me , when you yourselves are cause ,
68172 If your pure maidens fall into the hand
68173 Of hot and forcing violation ?
68174 What rein can hold licentious wickedness
68175 When down the hill he holds his fierce career ?
68176 We may as bootless spend our vain command
68177 Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil
68178 As send precepts to the leviathan
68179 To come ashore . Therefore , you men of Harfleur ,
68180 Take pity of your town and of your people ,
68181 Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command ;
68182 Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
68183 O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
68184 Of heady murder , spoil , and villany .
68185 If not , why , in a moment , look to see
68186 The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand
68187 Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters ;
68188 Your fathers taken by the silver beards ,
68189 And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls ;
68190 Your naked infants spitted upon pikes ,
68191 Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confus'd
68192 Do break the clouds , as did the wives of Jewry
68193 At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen .
68194 What say you ? will you yield , and this avoid ?
68195 Or , guilty in defence , be thus destroy'd ?
68196
68197 Our expectation hath this day an end .
68198 The Dauphin , whom of succour we entreated ,
68199 Returns us that his powers are yet not ready
68200 To raise so great a siege . Therefore , great king ,
68201 We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy .
68202 Enter our gates ; dispose of us and ours ;
68203 For we no longer are defensible .
68204
68205 Open your gates ! Come , uncle Exeter ,
68206 Go you and enter Harfleur ; there remain ,
68207 And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French :
68208 Use mercy to them all . For us , dear uncle ,
68209 The winter coming on and sickness growing
68210 Upon our soldiers , we will retire to Calais .
68211 To-night in Harfleur will we be your guest ;
68212 To-morrow for the march are we addrest .
68213
68214
68215 Alice , tu as est en Angleterre , et tu parles bien le langage .
68216
68217 Un peu , madame .
68218
68219 Je te prie , m'enseignez ; il faut que j'apprenne parler . Comment appellez vous la main en Anglois ?
68220
68221 La main ? elle est appell e , de hand .
68222
68223 De hand . Et les doigts ?
68224
68225 Les doigts ? ma foy , je oublie les doigts ; mais je me souviendray . Les doigts ? je pense qu'ils sont appell s de fingres ; ouy , de fingres .
68226
68227 La main , de hand ; les doigts , de fingres . Je pense que je suis le bon escolier . J'ai gagn deux mots d'Anglois vistement . Comment appellez vous les ongles ?
68228
68229 Lesongles ? nous les appellons , de nails .
68230
68231 De nails . Escoutez ; dites moy , si je parle bien : de hands , de fingres , et de nails .
68232
68233 C'est bien dict , madame ; il est fort bon Anglois .
68234
68235 Dites moy l'Anglois pour le bras .
68236
68237 De arm , madame .
68238
68239 Et le coude ?
68240
68241 De elbow .
68242
68243 De elbow . Je m'en fais la r p tition de tous les mots que vous m'avez appris d s pr sent .
68244
68245 Il est trop difficile , madame , comme je pense .
68246
68247 Excusez moy , Alice ; escoutez : de hand , de fingres , de nails , de arma , de bilbow .
68248
68249 De elbow , madame .
68250
68251 O Seigneur Dieu ! je m'en oublie ; de elbow . Comment appellez vous le col ?
68252
68253 De nick , madame .
68254
68255 De nick . Et le menton ?
68256
68257 De chin .
68258
68259 De sin . Le col , de nick : le menton , de sin .
68260
68261 Ouy . Sauf vostre honneur , en v rit vous prononcez les mots aussi droict que les natifs d'Angleterre .
68262
68263 Je ne doute point d'apprendre par la grace de Dieu , et en peu de temps .
68264
68265 N'avez vous d j oubli ce que je vous ay enseign e ?
68266
68267 Non , je reciteray vous promptement .
68268 De hand , de fingre , de mails ,
68269
68270 De nails , madame .
68271
68272 De nails , de arme , de ilbow .
68273
68274 Sauf vostre honneur , d'elbow .
68275
68276 Ainsi dis je ; d'elbow , de nick , et de sin . Comment appellez vous le pied et la robe ?
68277
68278 De foot , madame ; et de coun .
68279
68280 De foot , et de coun ? O Seigneur Dieu ! ces sont mots de son mauvais , corruptible , gros , et impudique , et non pour les dames d'honneur d'user . Je ne voudrois prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France , pour tout le monde . Foh ! le foot , et le coun . N antmoins je reciterai une autre fois ma le on ensemble : de hand , de fingre , de nails , d'arm , d'elbow , de nick , de sin , de foot , de coun .
68281
68282 Excellent , madame !
68283
68284 C'est assez pour une fois : allons nous diner .
68285
68286
68287 'Tis certain , he hath pass'd the river Somme .
68288
68289 And if he be not fought withal , my lord ,
68290 Let us not live in France ; let us quit all ,
68291 And give our vineyards to a barbarous people .
68292
68293 O Dieu vivant ! shall a few sprays of us ,
68294 The emptying of our fathers' luxury ,
68295 Our scions , put in wild and savage stock ,
68296 Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds ,
68297 And overlook their grafters ?
68298
68299 Normans , but bastard Normans , Norman bastards !
68300 Mort de ma vie ! if they march along
68301 Unfought withal , but I will sell my dukedom ,
68302 To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm
68303 In that nook-shotten isle of Albion .
68304
68305 Dieu de battailes ! where have they this mettle ?
68306 Is not their climate foggy , raw , and dull ,
68307 On whom , as in despite , the sun looks pale ,
68308 Killing their fruit with frowns ? Can sodden water ,
68309 A drench for sur-rein'd jades , their barley-broth ,
68310 Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat ?
68311 And shall our quick blood , spirited with wine ,
68312 Seem frosty ? O ! for honour of our land ,
68313 Let us not hang like roping icicles
68314 Upon our houses' thatch , whiles a more frosty people
68315 Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields ;
68316 Poor we may call them in their native lords .
68317
68318 By faith and honour ,
68319 Our madams mock at us , and plainly say
68320 Our mettle is bred out ; and they will give
68321 Their bodies to the lust of English youth
68322 To new-store France with bastard warriors .
68323
68324 They bid us to the English dancing-schools ,
68325 And teach lavoltas high and swift corantos ;
68326 Saying our grace is only in our heels ,
68327 And that we are most lofty runaways .
68328
68329 Where is Montjoy the herald ? speed him hence :
68330 Let him greet England with our sharp defiance .
68331 Up , princes ! and , with spirit of honour edg'd
68332 More sharper than your swords , hie to the field :
68333 Charles Delabreth , High Constable of France ;
68334 You Dukes of Orleans , Bourbon , and Berri ,
68335 Alen on , Brabant , Bar , and Burgundy ;
68336 Jaques Chatillon , Rambures , Vaudemont ,
68337 Beaumont , Grandpr , Roussi , and Fauconberg ,
68338 Foix , Lestrale , Bouciqualt , and Charolois ;
68339 High dukes , great princes , barons , lords , and knights ,
68340 For your great seats now quit you of great shames .
68341 Bar Harry England , that sweeps through our land
68342 With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur :
68343 Rush on his host , as doth the melted snow
68344 Upon the valleys , whose low vassal seat
68345 The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon :
68346 Go down upon him , you have power enough ,
68347 And in a captive chariot into Roan
68348 Bring him our prisoner .
68349
68350 This becomes the great .
68351 Sorry am I his numbers are so few ,
68352 His soldiers sick and famish'd in their march ,
68353 For I am sure when he shall see our army
68354 He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear ,
68355 And for achievement offer us his ransom .
68356
68357 Therefore , lord constable , haste on Montjoy ,
68358 And let him say to England that we send
68359 To know what willing ransom he will give .
68360 Prince Dauphin , you shall stay with us in Roan .
68361
68362 Not so , I do beseech your majesty .
68363
68364 Be patient , for you shall remain with us .
68365 Now forth , lord constable and princes all ,
68366 And quickly bring us word of England's fall .
68367
68368
68369 How now , Captain Fluellen ! come you from the bridge ?
68370
68371 I assure you , there is very excellent services committed at the pridge .
68372
68373 Is the Duke of Exeter safe ?
68374
68375 The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon ; and a man that I love and honour with my soul , and my heart , and my duty , and my life , and my living , and my uttermost power : he is not God be praised and plessed !any hurt in the world ; but keeps the pridge most valiantly , with excellent discipline . There is an aunchient lieutenant there at the pridge , I think , in my very conscience , he is as valiant a man as Mark Antony ; and he is a man of no estimation in the world ; but I did see him do as gallant service .
68376
68377 What do you call him ?
68378
68379 He is called Aunchient Pistol .
68380
68381 I know him not .
68382
68383
68384 Here is the man .
68385
68386 Captain , I thee beseech to do me favours :
68387 The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well .
68388
68389 Ay , I praise God ; and I have merited some love at his hands .
68390
68391 Bardolph , a soldier firm and sound of heart ,
68392 And of buxom valour , hath , by cruel fate
68393 And giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel ,
68394 That goddess blind ,
68395 That stands upon the rolling restless stone ,
68396
68397 By your patience , Aunchient Pistol . Fortune is painted plind , with a muffler afore her eyes , to signify to you that Fortune is plind : and she is painted also with a wheel , to signify to you , which is the moral of it , that she is turning , and inconstant , and mutability , and variation : and her foot , look you , is fixed upon a spherical stone , which rolls , and rolls , and rolls : in good truth , the poet makes a most excellent description of it : Fortune is an excellent moral .
68398
68399 Fortune is Bardolph's foe , and frowns on him ;
68400 For he hath stol'n a pax , and hanged must a' be ,
68401 A damned death !
68402 Let gallows gape for dog , let man go free
68403 And let not hemp his wind-pipe suffocate .
68404 But Exeter hath given the doom of death
68405 For pax of little price .
68406 Therefore , go speak ; the duke will hear thy voice ;
68407 And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut
68408 With edge of penny cord and vile reproach :
68409 Speak , captain , for his life , and I will thee requite .
68410
68411 Aunchient Pistol , I do partly understand your meaning .
68412
68413 Why then , rejoice therefore .
68414
68415 Certainly , aunchient , it is not a thing to rejoice at ; for , if , look you , he were my brother , I would desire the duke to use his good pleasure and put him to execution ; for discipline ought to be used .
68416
68417 Die and be damn'd ; and figo for thy friendship !
68418
68419 It is well .
68420
68421 The fig of Spain !
68422
68423
68424 Very good .
68425
68426 Why , this is an arrant counterfeit rascal : I remember him now ; a bawd , a cutpurse .
68427
68428 I'll assure you a' uttered as prave words at the pridge as you shall see in a summer's day . But it is very well ; what he has spoke to me , that is well , I warrant you , when time is serve .
68429
68430 Why , 'tis a gull , a fool , a rogue , that now and then goes to the wars to grace himself at his return into London under the form of a soldier . And such fellows are perfect in the great commanders' names , and they will learn you by rote where services were done ; at such and such a sconce , at such a breach , at such a convoy ; who came off bravely , who was shot , who disgraced , what terms the enemy stood on ; and this they con perfectly in the phrase of war , which they trick up with new-tuned oaths : and what a beard of the general's cut and a horrid suit of the camp will do among foaming bottles and ale-washed wits , is wonderful to be thought on . But you must learn to know such slanders of the age , or else you may be marvellously mistook .
68431
68432 I tell you what , Captain Gower ; I do perceive , he is not the man that he would gladly make show to the world he is : if I find a hole in his coat I will tell him my mind .
68433
68434 Hark you , the king is coming ; and I must speak with him from the pridgo .
68435
68436
68437 God pless your majesty !
68438
68439 How now , Fluellen ! cam'st thou from the bridge ?
68440
68441 Ay , so please your majesty . The Duke of Exeter hath very gallantly maintained the pridge : the French is gone off , look you , and there is gallant and most prave passages . Marry , th' athversary was have possession of the pridge , but he is enforced to retire , and the Duke of Exeter is master of the pridge . I can tell your majesty the duke is a prave man .
68442
68443 What men have you lost , Fluellen ?
68444
68445 The perdition of th' athversary hath been very great , reasonable great : marry , for my part , I think the duke hath lost never a man but one that is like to be executed for robbing a church ; one Bardolph , if your majesty know the man : his face is all bubukles , and whelks , and knobs , and flames o' fire ; and his lips blows at his nose , and it is like a coal of fire , sometimes plue and sometimes red ; but his nose is executed , and his fire's out .
68446
68447 We would have all such offenders so cut off : and we give express charge that in our marches through the country there be nothing compelled from the villages , nothing taken but paid for , none of the French upbraided or abused in disdainful language ; for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom , the gentler gamester is the soonest winner .
68448
68449
68450 You know me by my habit .
68451
68452 Well then I know thee : what shall I know of thee ?
68453
68454 My master's mind .
68455
68456 Unfold it .
68457
68458 Thus says my king : Say thou to Harry of England : Though we seemed dead , we did but sleep : advantage is a better soldier than rashness . Tell him , we could have rebuked him at Harfleur , but that we thought not good to bruise an injury till it were full ripe : now we speak upon our cue , and our voice is imperial : England shall repent his folly , see his weakness , and admire our sufferance . Bid him therefore consider of his ransom ; which must proportion the losses we have borne , the subjects we have lost , the disgrace we have digested ; which , in weight to re-answer , his pettiness would bow under . For our losses , his exchequer is too poor ; for the effusion of our blood , the muster of his kingdom too faint a number ; and for our disgrace , his own person , kneeling at our feet , but a weak and worthless satisfaction . To this add defiance : and tell him , for conclusion , he hath betrayed his followers , whose condemnation is pronounced . So far my king and master , so much my office .
68459
68460 What is thy name ? I know thy quality .
68461
68462 Montjoy .
68463
68464 Thou dost thy office fairly . Turn thee back ,
68465 And tell thy king I do not seek him now ,
68466 But could be willing to march on to Calais
68467 Without impeachment ; for , to say the sooth ,
68468 Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much
68469 Unto an enemy of craft and vantage ,
68470 My people are with sickness much enfeebled ,
68471 My numbers lessen'd , and those few I have
68472 Almost no better than so many French :
68473 Who , when they were in health , I tell thee , herald ,
68474 I thought upon one pair of English legs
68475 Did march three Frenchmen . Yet , forgive me , God ,
68476 That I do brag thus ! this your air of France
68477 Hath blown that vice in me ; I must repent .
68478 Go therefore , tell thy master here I am :
68479 My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk ,
68480 My army but a weak and sickly guard ;
68481 Yet , God before , tell him we will come on ,
68482 Though France himself and such another neighbour
68483 Stand in our way . There's for thy labour , Montjoy .
68484 Go , bid thy master well advise himself :
68485 If we may pass , we will ; if we be hinder'd ,
68486 We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
68487 Discolour : and so , Montjoy , fare you well .
68488 The sum of all our answer is but this :
68489 We would not seek a battle as we are ;
68490 Nor , as we are , we say we will not shun it :
68491 So tell your master .
68492
68493 I shall deliver so . Thanks to your highness .
68494
68495
68496 I hope they will not come upon us now .
68497
68498 We are in God's hand , brother , not in theirs .
68499 March to the bridge ; it now draws toward night :
68500 Beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves ,
68501 And on to-morrow bid them march away .
68502
68503
68504 Tut ! I have the best armour of the world . Would it were day !
68505
68506 You have an excellent armour ; but let my horse have his due .
68507
68508 It is the best horse of Europe .
68509
68510 Will it never be morning ?
68511
68512 My Lord of Orleans , and my lord high constable , you talk of horse and armour
68513
68514 You are as well provided of both as any prince in the world .
68515
68516 What a long night is this ! I will not change my horse with any that treads but on four pasterns . a , ha ! He bounds from the earth as if his entrails were hairs : le cheval volant , the Pegasus , qui a les narines de feu ! When I bestride him , I soar , I am a hawk : he trots the air ; the earth sings when he touches it ; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes .
68517
68518 He's of the colour of the nutmeg .
68519
68520 And of the heat of the ginger . It is a beast for Perseus : he is pure air and fire ; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him : he is indeed a horse ; and all other jades you may call beasts .
68521
68522 Indeed , my lord , it is a most absolute and excellent horse .
68523
68524 It is the prince of palfreys ; his neigh is like the bidding of a monarch and his countenance enforces homage .
68525
68526 No more , cousin .
68527
68528 Nay , the man hath no wit that cannot , from the rising of the lark to the lodging of the lamb , vary deserved praise on my palfrey : it is a theme as fluent as the sea ; turn the sands into eloquent tongues , and my horse is argument for them all . 'Tis a subject for a sovereign to reason on , and for a sovereign's sovereign to ride on ; and for the world familiar to us , and unknown to lay apart their particular functions and wonder at him . I once writ a sonnet in his praise and began thus : 'Wonder of nature !'
68529
68530 I have heard a sonnet begin so to one's mistress .
68531
68532 Then did they imitate that which I composed to my courser ; for my horse is my mistress .
68533
68534 Your mistress bears well .
68535
68536 Me well ; which is the prescript praise and perfection of a good and particular mistress .
68537
68538 Ma foi , methought yesterday your mistress shrewdly shook your back .
68539
68540 So perhaps did yours .
68541
68542 Mine was not bridled .
68543
68544 O ! then belike she was old and gentle ; and you rode , like a kern of Ireland , your French hose off and in your straight strossers .
68545
68546 You have good judgment in horsemanship .
68547
68548 Be warned by me , then : they that ride so , and ride not warily , fall into foul bogs . I had rather have my horse to my mistress .
68549
68550 I had as lief have my mistress a jade .
68551
68552 I tell thee , constable , my mistress wears his own hair .
68553
68554 I could make as true a boast as that if I had a sow to my mistress .
68555
68556 Le chien est retourn son propre vomissement , et la truie lav e au bourbier : thou makest use of any thing .
68557
68558 Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress : or any such proverb so little kin to the purpose .
68559
68560 My lord constable , the armour that I saw in your tent to-night , are those stars or suns upon it ?
68561
68562 Stars , my lord .
68563
68564 Some of them will fall to-morrow , I hope .
68565
68566 And yet my sky shall not want .
68567
68568 That may be , for you bear a many superfluously , and 'twere more honour some were away .
68569
68570 Even as your horse bears your praises ; who would trot as well were some of your brags dismounted .
68571
68572 Would I were able to load him with his desert ! Will it never be day ? I will trot to-morrow a mile , and my way shall be paved with English faces .
68573
68574 I will not say so for fear I should be faced out of my way . But I would it were morning , for I would fain be about the ears of the English .
68575
68576 Who will go to hazard with me for twenty prisoners ?
68577
68578 You must first go yourself to hazard , ere you have them .
68579
68580 'Tis midnight : I'll go arm myself .
68581
68582
68583 The Dauphin longs for morning .
68584
68585 He longs to eat the English .
68586
68587 I think he will eat all he kills .
68588
68589 By the white hand of my lady , he's a gallant prince .
68590
68591 Swear by her foot , that she may tread out the oath .
68592
68593 He is simply the most active gentleman of France .
68594
68595 Doing is activity , and he will still be doing .
68596
68597 He never did harm , that I heard of .
68598
68599 Nor will do none to-morrow : he will keep that good name still .
68600
68601 I know him to be valiant .
68602
68603 I was told that by one that knows him better than you .
68604
68605 What's he ?
68606
68607 Marry , he told me so himself ; and he said he cared not who knew it .
68608
68609 He needs not ; it is no hidden virtue in him .
68610
68611 By my faith , sir , but it is ; never any body saw it but his lackey : 'tis a hooded valour ; and when it appears , it will bate .
68612
68613 'Ill will never said well .'
68614
68615 I will cap that proverb with 'There is flattery in friendship .'
68616
68617 And I will take up that with 'Give the devil his due .'
68618
68619 Well placed : there stands your friend for the devil : have at the very eye of that proverb , with 'A pox of the devil .'
68620
68621 You are the better at proverbs , by how much 'A fool's bolt is soon shot .'
68622
68623 You have shot over .
68624
68625 'Tis not the first time you were overshot .
68626
68627
68628 My lord high constable , the English lie within fifteen hundred paces of your tents .
68629
68630 Who hath measured the ground ?
68631
68632 The Lord Grandpr .
68633
68634 A valiant and most expert gentleman . Would it were day ! Alas ! poor Harry of England , he longs not for the dawning as we do .
68635
68636 What a wretched and peevish fellow is this King of England , to mope with his fatbrained followers so far out of his knowledge !
68637
68638 If the English had any apprehension they would run away .
68639
68640 That they lack ; for if their heads had any intellectual armour they could never wear such heavy head-pieces .
68641
68642 That island of England breeds very valiant creatures : their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage .
68643
68644 Foolish curs ! that run winking into the mouth of a Russian bear and have their heads crushed like rotten apples . You may as well say that's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion .
68645
68646 Just , just ; and the men do sympathize with the mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on , leaving their wits with their wives : and then give them great meals of beef and iron and steel , they will eat like wolves and fight like devils .
68647
68648 Ay , but these English are shrewdly out of beef .
68649
68650 Then shall we find to-morrow they have only stomachs to eat and none to fight . Now is it time to arm ; come , shall we about it ?
68651
68652 It is now two o'clock : but , let me see , by ten
68653 We shall have each a hundred Englishmen .
68654
68655
68656 Now entertain conjecture of a time
68657 When creeping murmur and the poring dark
68658 Fills the wide vessel of the universe .
68659 From camp to camp , through the foul womb of night ,
68660 The hum of either army stilly sounds ,
68661 That the fix'd sentinels almost receive
68662 The secret whispers of each other's watch :
68663 Fire answers fire , and through their paly flames
68664 Each battle sees the other's umber'd face :
68665 Steed threatens steed , in high and boastful neighs
68666 Piercing the night's dull ear ; and from the tents
68667 The armourers , accomplishing the knights ,
68668 With busy hammers closing rivets up ,
68669 Give dreadful note of preparation .
68670 The country cocks do crow , the clocks do toll ,
68671 And the third hour of drowsy morning name .
68672 Proud of their numbers , and secure in soul ,
68673 The confident and over-lusty French
68674 Do the low-rated English play at dice ;
68675 And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night
68676 Who , like a foul and ugly witch , doth limp
68677 So tediously away . The poor condemned English ,
68678 Like sacrifices , by their watchful fires
68679 Sit patiently , and inly ruminate
68680 The morning's danger , and their gesture sad
68681 Investing lank-lean cheeks and war-worn coats
68682 Presenteth them unto the gazing moon
68683 So many horrid ghosts . O ! now , who will behold
68684 The royal captain of this ruin'd band
68685 Walking from watch to watch , from tent to tent ,
68686 Let him cry 'Praise and glory on his head !'
68687 For forth he goes and visits all his host ,
68688 Bids them good morrow with a modest smile ,
68689 And calls them brothers , friends , and countrymen .
68690 Upon his royal face there is no note
68691 How dread an army hath enrounded him ;
68692 Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour
68693 Unto the weary and all-watched night :
68694 But freshly looks and overbears attaint
68695 With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty ;
68696 That every wretch , pining and pale before ,
68697 Beholding him , plucks comfort from his looks ,
68698 A largess universal , like the sun
68699 His liberal eye doth give to every one ,
68700 Thawing cold fear . Then mean and gentle all ,
68701 Behold , as may unworthiness define ,
68702 A little touch of Harry in the night .
68703 And so our scene must to the battle fly ;
68704 Where ,O for pity ,we shall much disgrace ,
68705 With four or five most vile and ragged foils ,
68706 Right ill dispos'd in brawl ridiculous ,
68707 The name of Agincourt . Yet sit and see ;
68708 Minding true things by what their mockeries be .
68709
68710 Gloucester , 'tis true that we are in great danger ;
68711 The greater therefore should our courage be .
68712 Good morrow , brother Bedford . God Almighty !
68713 There is some soul of goodness in things evil ,
68714 Would men observingly distil it out ;
68715 For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers ,
68716 Which is both healthful , and good husbandry :
68717 Besides , they are our outward consciences ,
68718 And preachers to us all ; admonishing
68719 That we should dress us fairly for our end .
68720 Thus may we gather honey from the weed ,
68721 And make a moral of the devil himself .
68722
68723
68724 Good morrow , old Sir Thomas Erpingham :
68725 A good soft pillow for that good white head
68726
68727 Were better than a churlish turf of France .
68728
68729 Not so , my liege : this lodging likes me better ,
68730 Since I may say , 'Now lie I like a king .'
68731
68732 'Tis good for men to love their present pains
68733 Upon example ; so the spirit is eas'd :
68734 And when the mind is quicken'd , out of doubt ,
68735 The organs , though defunct and dead before ,
68736 Break up their drowsy grave , and newly move
68737 With casted slough and fresh legerity .
68738 Lend me thy cloak , Sir Thomas . Brothers both ,
68739 Commend me to the princes in our camp ;
68740 Do my good morrow to them ; and anon
68741 Desire them all to my pavilion .
68742
68743 We shall , my liege .
68744
68745
68746 Shall I attend your Grace ?
68747
68748 No , my good knight ;
68749 Go with my brothers to my lords of England :
68750 I and my bosom must debate awhile ,
68751 And then I would no other company .
68752
68753 The Lord in heaven bless thee , noble Harry !
68754
68755
68756 God-a-mercy , old heart ! thou speak'st cheerfully .
68757
68758
68759 Qui va l ?
68760
68761 A friend .
68762
68763 Discuss unto me ; art thou officer ?
68764 Or art thou base , common and popular ?
68765
68766 I am a gentleman of a company .
68767
68768 Trail'st thou the puissant pike ?
68769
68770 Even so . What are you ?
68771
68772 As good a gentleman as the emperor .
68773
68774 Then you are a better than the king .
68775
68776 The king's a bawcock , and a heart of gold ,
68777 A lad of life , an imp of fame :
68778 Of parents good , of fist most valiant :
68779 I kiss his dirty shoe , and from my heart-string
68780 I love the lovely bully . What's thy name ?
68781
68782 Harry le Roy .
68783
68784 Le Roy ! a Cornish name : art thou of Cornish crew ?
68785
68786 No , I am a Welshman .
68787
68788 Know'st thou Fluellen ?
68789
68790 Yes .
68791
68792 Tell him , I'll knock his leek about his pate
68793 Upon Saint Davy's day .
68794
68795 Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day , lest he knock that about yours .
68796
68797 Art thou his friend ?
68798
68799 And his kinsman too .
68800
68801 The figo for thee then !
68802
68803 I thank you . God be with you !
68804
68805 My name is Pistol called .
68806
68807
68808 It sorts well with your fierceness .
68809
68810 Captain Fluellen !
68811
68812 Sol in the name of Cheshu Christ , speak lower . It is the greatest admiration in the universal world , when the true and auncient prerogatifes and laws of the wars is not kept . If you would take the pains but to examine the wars of Pompey the Great , you shall find , I warrant you , that there is no tiddle-taddle nor pibble-pabble in Pompey's camp ; I warrant you , you shall find the ceremonies of the wars , and the cares of it , and the forms of it , and the sobriety of it , and the modesty of it , to be otherwise .
68813
68814 Why , the enemy is loud ; you heard him all night .
68815
68816 If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb , is it meet , think you , that we should also , look you , be an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb , in your own conscience now ?
68817
68818 I will speak lower .
68819
68820 I pray you and peseech you that you will .
68821
68822
68823 Though it appear a little out of fashion ,
68824 There is much care and valour in this Welshman .
68825
68826
68827 Brother John Bates , is not that the morning which breaks yonder ?
68828
68829 I think it be ; but we have no great cause to desire the approach of day .
68830
68831 We see yonder the beginning of the day , but I think we shall never see the end of it . Who goes there ?
68832
68833 A friend .
68834
68835 Under what captain serve you ?
68836
68837 Under Sir Thomas Erpingham .
68838
68839 A good old commander and a most kind gentleman : I pray you , what thinks he of our estate ?
68840
68841 Even as men wracked upon a sand , that look to be washed off the next tide .
68842
68843 He hath not told his thought to the king ?
68844
68845 No ; nor it is not meet he should . For , though I speak it to you , I think the king is but a man , as I am : the violet smells to him as it doth to me ; the element shows to him as it doth to me ; all his senses have but human conditions : his ceremonies laid by , in his nakedness he appears but a man ; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours , yet when they stoop , they stoop with the like wing . Therefore when he sees reason of fears , as we do , his fears , out of doubt , be of the same relish as ours are : yet , in reason , no man should possess him with any appearance of fear , lest he , by showing it , should dishearten his army .
68846
68847 He may show what outward courage he will , but I believe , as cold a night as 'tis , he could wish himself in Thames up to the neck , and so I would he were , and I by him , at all adventures , so we were quit here .
68848
68849 By my troth , I will speak my conscience of the king : I think he would not wish himself any where but where he is .
68850
68851 Then I would he were here alone ; so should he be sure to be ransomed , and a many poor men's lives saved .
68852
68853 I dare say you love him not so ill to wish him here alone , howsoever you speak this to feel other men's minds . Methinks I could not die any where so contented as in the king's company , his cause being just and his quarrel honourable .
68854
68855 That's more than we know .
68856
68857 Ay , or more than we should seek after ; for we know enough if we know we are the king's subjects . If his cause be wrong , our obedience to the king wipes the crime of it out of us .
68858
68859 But if the cause be not good , the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make ; when all those legs and arms and heads , chopped off in a battle , shall join together at the latter day , and cry all , 'We died at such a place ;' some swearing , some crying for a surgeon , some upon their wives left poor behind them , some upon the debts they owe , some upon their children rawly left . I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle ; for how can they charitably dispose of any thing when blood is their argument ? Now , if these men do not die well , it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it , whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection .
68860
68861 So , if a son that is by his father sent about merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea , the imputation of his wickedness , by your rule , should be imposed upon his father that sent him : or if a servant , under his master's command transporting a sum of money , be assailed by robbers and die in many irreconciled iniquities , you may call the business of the master the author of the servant's damnation . But this is not so : the king is not bound to answer the particular endings of his soldiers , the father of his son , nor the master of his servant ; for they purpose not their death when they purpose their services . Besides , there is no king , be his cause never so spotless , if it come to the arbitrement of swords , can try it out with all unspotted soldiers . Some , peradventure , have on them the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder ; some , of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of perjury ; some , making the wars their bulwark , that have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with pillage and robbery . Now , if these men have defeated the law and outrun native punishment , though they can outstrip men , they have no wings to fly from God : war is his beadle , war is his vengeance ; so that here men are punished for before-breach of the king's laws in now the king's quarrel : where they feared the death they have borne life away , and where they would be safe they perish . Then , if they die unprovided , no more is the king guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited . Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's soul is his own . Therefore should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed , wash every mote out of his conscience ; and dying so , death is to him advantage ; or not dying , the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained : and in him that escapes , it were not sin to think , that making God so free an offer , he let him outlive that day to see his greatness , and to teach others how they should prepare .
68862
68863 'Tis certain , every man that dies ill , the ill upon his own head : the king is not to answer it .
68864
68865 I do not desire he should answer for me ; and yet I determine to fight lustily for him .
68866
68867 I myself heard the king say he would not be ransomed .
68868
68869 Ay , he said so , to make us fight cheerfully ; but when our throats are cut he may be ransomed , and we ne'er the wiser .
68870
68871 If I live to see it , I will never trust his word after .
68872
68873 You pay him then . That's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun , that a poor and a private displeasure can do against a monarch . You may as well go about to turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a peacock's feather . You'll never trust his word after ! come , 'tis a foolish saying .
68874
68875 Your reproof is something too round ; I should be angry with you if the time were convenient .
68876
68877 Let it be a quarrel between us , if you live .
68878
68879 I embrace it .
68880
68881 How shall I know thee again ?
68882
68883 Give me any gage of thine , and I will wear it in my bonnet : then , if ever thou darest acknowledge it , I will make it my quarrel .
68884
68885 Here's my glove : give me another of thine .
68886
68887 There .
68888
68889 This will I also wear in my cap : if ever thou come to me and say after to-morrow , 'This is my glove ,' by this hand I will take thee a box on the ear .
68890
68891 If ever I live to see it , I will challenge it .
68892
68893 Thou darest as well be hanged .
68894
68895 Well , I will do it , though I take thee in the king's company .
68896
68897 Keep thy word : fare thee well .
68898
68899 Be friends , you English fools , be friends : we have French quarrels enow , if you could tell how to reckon .
68900
68901 Indeed , the French may lay twenty French crowns to one , they will beat us ; for they bear them on their shoulders : but it is no English treason to cut French crowns , and to-morrow the king himself will be a clipper .
68902
68903 Upon the king ! let us our lives , our souls ,
68904 Our debts , our careful wives ,
68905 Our children , and our sins lay on the king !
68906 We must bear all . O hard condition !
68907 Twin-born with greatness , subject to the breath
68908 Of every fool , whose sense no more can feel
68909 But his own wringing . What infinite heart's ease
68910 Must kings neglect that private men enjoy !
68911 And what have kings that privates have not too ,
68912 Save ceremony , save general ceremony ?
68913 And what art thou , thou idle ceremony ?
68914 What kind of god art thou , that suffer'st more
68915 Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers ?
68916 What are thy rents ? what are thy comings-in ?
68917 O ceremony ! show me but thy worth :
68918 What is thy soul of adoration ?
68919 Art thou aught else but place , degree , and form ,
68920 Creating awe and fear in other men ?
68921 Wherein thou art less happy , being fear'd ,
68922 Than they in fearing .
68923 What drink'st thou oft , instead of homage sweet ,
68924 But poison'd flattery ? O ! be sick , great greatness ,
68925 And bid thy ceremony give thee cure .
68926 Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out
68927 With titles blown from adulation ?
68928 Will it give place to flexure and low-bending ?
68929 Canst thou , when thou command'st the beggar's knee ,
68930 Command the health of it ? No , thou proud dream ,
68931 That play'st so subtly with a king's repose ;
68932 I am a king that find thee ; and I know
68933 'Tis not the balm , the sceptre and the ball ,
68934 The sword , the mace , the crown imperial ,
68935 The intertissued robe of gold and pearl ,
68936 The farced title running 'fore the king ,
68937 The throne he sits on , nor the tide of pomp
68938 That beats upon the high shore of this world ,
68939 No , not all these , thrice-gorgeous ceremony ,
68940 Not all these , laid in bed majestical ,
68941 Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave ,
68942 Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind
68943 Gets him to rest , cramm'd with distressful bread ;
68944 Never sees horrid night , the child of hell ,
68945 But , like a lackey , from the rise to set
68946 Sweats in the eye of Ph bus , and all night
68947 Sleeps in Elysium ; next day after dawn ,
68948 Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse ,
68949 And follows so the ever-running year
68950 With profitable labour to his grave :
68951 And , but for ceremony , such a wretch ,
68952 Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep ,
68953 Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king .
68954 The slave , a member of the country's peace ,
68955 Enjoys it ; but in gross brain little wots
68956 What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace ,
68957 Whose hours the peasant best advantages .
68958
68959
68960 My lord , your nobles , jealous of your absence ,
68961 Seek through your camp to find you .
68962
68963 Good old knight ,
68964 Collect them all together at my tent :
68965 I'll be before thee .
68966
68967 I shall do't , my lord .
68968
68969
68970 O God of battles ! steel my soldiers' hearts ;
68971 Possess them not with fear ; take from them now
68972 The sense of reckoning , if the opposed numbers
68973 Pluck their hearts from them . Not to-day , O Lord !
68974 O ! not to-day , think not upon the fault
68975 My father made in compassing the crown .
68976 I Richard's body have interr'd anew ,
68977 And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears
68978 Than from it issu'd forced drops of blood .
68979 Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay ,
68980 Who twice a day their wither'd hands hold up
68981 Toward heaven , to pardon blood ; and I have built
68982 Two chantries , where the sad and solemn priests
68983 Sing still for Richard's soul . More will I do ;
68984 Though all that I can do is nothing worth ,
68985 Since that my penitence comes after all ,
68986 Imploring pardon .
68987
68988
68989 My liege !
68990
68991 My brother Gloucester's voice ! Ay ;
68992 I know thy errand , I will go with thee :
68993 The day , my friends , and all things stay for me .
68994
68995
68996 The sun doth gild our armour : up , my lords !
68997
68998 Montez cheval ! My horse ! varlet ! lacquais ! ha !
68999
69000 O brave spirit !
69001
69002 Via ! les eaux et la terre !
69003
69004 Rien puis ? l'air et le feu .
69005
69006 Ciel ! cousin Orleans .
69007
69008 Now , my lord constable !
69009
69010 Hark how our steeds for present service neigh !
69011
69012 Mount them , and make incision in their hides ,
69013 That their hot blood may spin in English eyes ,
69014 And dout them with superfluous courage : ha !
69015
69016 What ! will you have them weep our horses' blood ?
69017 How shall we then behold their natural tears ?
69018
69019
69020 The English are embattail'd , you French peers .
69021
69022 To horse , you gallant princes ! straight to horse !
69023 Do but behold yon poor and starved band ,
69024 And your fair show shall suck away their souls ,
69025 Leaving them but the shales and husks of men .
69026 There is not work enough for all our hands ;
69027 Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins
69028 To give each naked curtal-axe a stain ,
69029 That our French gallants shall to-day draw out ,
69030 And sheathe for lack of sport : let us but blow on them ,
69031 The vapour of our valour will o'erturn them .
69032 'Tis positive 'gainst all exceptions , lords ,
69033 That our superfluous lackeys and our peasants ,
69034 Who in unnecessary action swarm
69035 About our squares of battle , were enow
69036 To purge this field of such a hilding foe ,
69037 Though we upon this mountain's basis by
69038 Took stand for idle speculation :
69039 But that our honours must not . What's to say ?
69040 A very little little let us do ,
69041 And all is done . Then let the trumpets sound
69042 The tucket sonance and the note to mount :
69043 For our approach shall so much dare the field ,
69044 That England shall couch down in fear and yield .
69045
69046
69047 Why do you stay so long , my lords of France ?
69048 Yon island carrions desperate of their bones ,
69049 Ill-favour'dly become the morning field :
69050 Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose ,
69051 And our air shakes them passing scornfully :
69052 Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host ,
69053 And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps :
69054 The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks ,
69055 With torch-staves in their hand ; and their poor jades
69056 Lob down their heads , dropping the hides and hips ,
69057 The gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes ,
69058 And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit
69059 Lies foul with chew'd grass , still and motionless ;
69060 And their executors , the knavish crows ,
69061 Fly o'er them , all impatient for their hour .
69062 Description cannot suit itself in words
69063 To demonstrate the life of such a battle
69064 In life so lifeless as it shows itself .
69065
69066 They have said their prayers , and they stay for death .
69067
69068 Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits ,
69069 And give their fasting horses provender ,
69070 And after fight with them ?
69071
69072 I stay but for my guard : on , to the field !
69073 I will the banner from a trumpet take ,
69074 And use it for my haste . Come , come , away !
69075 The sun is high , and we outwear the day .
69076
69077
69078 Where is the king ?
69079
69080 The king himself is rode to view their battle .
69081
69082 Of fighting men they have full three-score thousand .
69083
69084 There's five to one ; besides , they all are fresh .
69085
69086 God's arm strike with us ! 'tis a fearful odds .
69087 God be wi' you , princes all ; I'll to my charge :
69088 If we no more meet till we meet in heaven ,
69089 Then , joyfully , my noble Lord of Bedford ,
69090 My dear Lord Gloucester , and my good Lord Exeter ,
69091 And my kind kinsman , warriors all , adieu !
69092
69093 Farewell , good Salisbury ; and good luck go with thee !
69094
69095 Farewell , kind lord . Fight valiantly to-day :
69096 And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it ,
69097 For thou art fram'd of the firm truth of valour .
69098
69099
69100 He is as full of valour as of kindness ;
69101 Princely in both .
69102
69103
69104 O ! that we now had here
69105 But one ten thousand of those men in England
69106 That do no work to-day .
69107
69108 What's he that wishes so ?
69109 My cousin Westmoreland ? No , my fair cousin :
69110 If we are mark'd to die , we are enow
69111 To do our country loss ; and if to live ,
69112 The fewer men , the greater share of honour .
69113 God's will ! I pray thee , wish not one man more .
69114 By Jove , I am not covetous for gold ,
69115 Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ;
69116 It yearns me not if men my garments wear ;
69117 Such outward things dwell not in my desires :
69118 But if it be a sin to covet honour ,
69119 I am the most offending soul alive .
69120 No , faith , my coz , wish not a man from England :
69121 God's peace ! I would not lose so great an honour
69122 As one man more , methinks , would share from me ,
69123 For the best hope I have . O ! do not wish one more :
69124 Rather proclaim it , Westmoreland , through my host ,
69125 That he which hath no stomach to this fight ,
69126 Let him depart ; his passport shall be made ,
69127 And crowns for convoy put into his purse :
69128 We would not die in that man's company
69129 That fears his fellowship to die with us .
69130 This day is call'd the feast of Crispian :
69131 He that outlives this day , and comes safe home ,
69132 Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd ,
69133 And rouse him at the name of Crispian .
69134 He that shall live this day , and see old age ,
69135 Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours ,
69136 And say , 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian :'
69137 Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars ,
69138 And say , 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day .'
69139 Old men forget : yet all shall be forgot ,
69140 But he'll remember with advantages
69141 What feats he did that day . Then shall our names ,
69142 Familiar in his mouth as household words ,
69143 Harry the king , Bedford and Exeter ,
69144 Warwick and Talbot , Salisbury and Gloucester ,
69145 Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd .
69146 This story shall the good man teach his son ;
69147 And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by ,
69148 From this day to the ending of the world ,
69149 But we in it shall be remembered ;
69150 We few , we happy few , we band of brothers ;
69151 For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
69152 Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile
69153 This day shall gentle his condition :
69154 And gentlemen in England , now a-bed
69155 Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here ,
69156 And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
69157 That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day .
69158
69159
69160 My sov'reign lord , bestow yourself with speed :
69161 The French are bravely in their battles set ,
69162 And will with all expedience charge on us .
69163
69164 All things are ready , if our minds be so .
69165
69166 Perish the man whose mind is backward now !
69167
69168 Thou dost not wish more help from England , coz ?
69169
69170 God's will ! my liege , would you and I alone ,
69171 Without more help , could fight this royal battle !
69172
69173 Why , now thou hast unwish'd five thousand men ;
69174 Which likes me better than to wish us one .
69175 You know your places : God be with you all !
69176
69177
69178 Once more I come to know of thee , King Harry ,
69179 If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound ,
69180 Before thy most assured overthrow :
69181 For certainly thou art so near the gulf
69182 Thou needs must be englutted . Besides , in mercy ,
69183 The constable desires thee thou wilt mind
69184 Thy followers of repentance ; that their souls
69185 May make a peaceful and a sweet retire
69186 From off these fields , where , wretches , their poor bodies
69187 Must lie and fester .
69188
69189 Who hath sent thee now ?
69190
69191 The Constable of France .
69192
69193 I pray thee , bear my former answer back :
69194 Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones .
69195 Good God ! why should they mock poor fellows thus ?
69196 The man that once did sell the lion's skin
69197 While the beast liv'd , was kill'd with hunting him .
69198 A many of our bodies shall no doubt
69199 Find native graves ; upon the which , I trust ,
69200 Shall witness live in brass of this day's work ;
69201 And those that leave their valiant bones in France ,
69202 Dying like men , though buried in your dung-hills ,
69203 They shall be fam'd ; for there the sun shall greet them ,
69204 And draw their honours reeking up to heaven ,
69205 Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime ,
69206 The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France .
69207 Mark then abounding valour in our English ,
69208 That being dead , like to the bullet's grazing ,
69209 Break out into a second course of mischief ,
69210 Killing in relapse of mortality .
69211 Let me speak proudly : tell the constable ,
69212 We are but warriors for the working-day ;
69213 Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd
69214 With rainy marching in the painful field ;
69215 There's not a piece of feather in our host
69216 Good argument , I hope , we will not fly
69217 And time hath worn us into slovenry :
69218 But , by the mass , our hearts are in the trim ;
69219 And my poor soldiers tell me , yet ere night
69220 They'll be in fresher robes , or they will pluck
69221 The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads ,
69222 And turn them out of service . If they do this ,
69223 As , if God please , they shall ,my ransom then
69224 Will soon be levied . Herald , save thou thy labour ;
69225 Come thou no more for ransom , gentle herald :
69226 They shall have none , I swear , but these my joints ;
69227 Which if they have as I will leave 'em them ,
69228 Shall yield them little , tell the constable .
69229
69230 I shall , King Harry . And so , fare thee well :
69231 Thou never shalt hear herald any more .
69232
69233
69234 I fear thou'lt once more come again for ransom .
69235
69236
69237 My lord , most humbly on my knee I beg
69238 The leading of the vaward .
69239
69240 Take it , brave York . Now , soldiers , march away :
69241 And how thou pleasest , God , dispose the day !
69242
69243
69244 Yield , cur !
69245
69246 Je pense que vous estes le gentilhomme de bonne qualit .
69247
69248 Quality ? Calen O custure me ! Art thou a gentleman ?
69249 What is thy name ? discuss .
69250
69251 O Seigneur Dieu !
69252
69253 O Signieur Dew should be a gentleman :
69254 Perpend my words , O Signieur Dew , and mark :
69255 O Signieur Dew , thou diest on point of fox
69256 Except , O signieur , thou do give to me
69257 Egregious ransom .
69258
69259 O , prenez misericorde ! ayez piti de moy !
69260
69261 Moy shall not serve ; I will have forty moys ;
69262 Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat
69263 In drops of crimson blood .
69264
69265 Est-il impossible d'eschapper la force de ton bras ?
69266
69267 Brass , cur !
69268 Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat ,
69269 Offer'st me brass ?
69270
69271 O pardonnez moy !
69272
69273 Sayst thou me so ? is that a ton of moys ?
69274 Come hither , boy : ask me this slave in French
69275 What is his name .
69276
69277 Escoutez : comment estes vous appell ?
69278
69279 Monsieur le Fer .
69280
69281 He says his name is Master Fer .
69282
69283 Master Fer ! I'll fer him , and firk him , and ferret him . Discuss the same in French unto him .
69284
69285 I do not know the French for fer , and ferret , and firk .
69286
69287 Bid him prepare , for I will cut his throat .
69288
69289 Que dit-il , monsieur ?
69290
69291 Il me commande vous dire que vous faites vous prest ; car ce soldat icy est dispos tout cette heure de couper vostre gorge .
69292
69293 Ouy , cuppele gorge , permafoy .
69294 Peasant , unless thou give me crowns , brave crowns ;
69295 Or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword .
69296
69297 O ! je vous supplie pour l'amour de
69298 Dieu , me pardonner ! Je suis le gentilhomme de bonne maison : gardez ma vie , et je vous donneray deux cents escus .
69299
69300 What are his words ?
69301
69302 He prays you to save his life : he is a gentleman of a good house ; and , for his ransom he will give you two hundred crowns .
69303
69304 Tell him , my fury shall abate , and I
69305 The crowns will take .
69306
69307 Petit monsieur , que dit-il ?
69308
69309 Encore qu'il est contre son jurement de pardonner aucan prisonnier ; neant-moins , pour les escus que vous l'avez promis , il est content de vous donner la liberte , le franchisement .
69310
69311 Sur mes genoux , je vous donne mille remerciemens ; et je m'estime heureux que je suis tomb entre les mains d'un chevalier , je pense , le plus brave , valiant , et tr s distingu seigneur d'Angleterre .
69312
69313 Expound unto me , boy .
69314
69315 He gives you , upon his knees , a thousand thanks ; and he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into the hands of one as he thinks the most brave , valorous , and thrice-worthy signieur of England .
69316
69317 As I suck blood , I will some mercy show .
69318 Follow me !
69319
69320
69321 Suivez vous le grand capitaine . I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart : but the saying is true , 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound .' Bardolph and Nym had ten times more valour than this roaring devil i' the old play , that every one may pare his nails with a wooden dagger ; and they are both hanged ; and so would this be if he durst steal anything adventurously . I must stay with the lackeys , with the luggage of our camp : the French might have a good prey of us , if he knew of it ; for there is none to guard it but boys .
69322
69323
69324 O seigneur ! le jour est perdu ! tout est perdu !
69325
69326 Mort de ma vie ! all is confounded , all !
69327 Reproach and everlasting shame
69328 Sit mocking in our plumes . O meschante fortune !
69329 Do not run away .
69330
69331
69332 Why , all our ranks are broke .
69333
69334 O perdurable shame ! let's stab ourselves .
69335 Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for ?
69336
69337 Is this the king we sent to for his ransom ?
69338
69339 Shame , and eternal shame , nothing but shame !
69340 Let's die in honour ! once more back again ;
69341 And he that will not follow Bourbon now ,
69342 Let him go hence , and with his cap in hand ,
69343 Like a base pander , hold the chamber-door
69344 Whilst by a slave , no gentler than my dog ,
69345 His fairest daughter is contaminated .
69346
69347 Disorder , that hath spoil'd us , friend us now !
69348 Let us on heaps go offer up our lives .
69349
69350 We are enough yet living in the field
69351 To smother up the English in our throngs ,
69352 If any order might be thought upon .
69353
69354 The devil take order now ! I'll to the throng :
69355 Let life be short , else shame will be too long .
69356
69357
69358 Well have we done , thrice-valiant countrymen :
69359 But all's not done ; yet keep the French the field .
69360
69361 The Duke of York commends him to your majesty .
69362
69363 Lives he , good uncle ? thrice within this hour
69364 I saw him down ; thrice up again , and fighting ;
69365 From helmet to the spur all blood he was .
69366
69367 In which array , brave soldier , doth he lie ,
69368 Larding the plain ; and by his bloody side ,
69369 Yoke-fellow to his honour-owing wounds ,
69370 The noble Earl of Suffolk also lies .
69371 Suffolk first died : and York , all haggled over ,
69372 Comes to him , where in gore he lay insteep'd ,
69373 And takes him by the beard , kisses the gashes
69374 That bloodily did yawn upon his face ;
69375 And cries aloud , 'Tarry , dear cousin Suffolk !
69376 My soul shall thine keep company to heaven ;
69377 Tarry , sweet soul , for mine , then fly abreast ,
69378 As in this glorious and well-foughten field ,
69379 We kept together in our chivalry !'
69380 Upon these words I came and cheer'd him up :
69381 He smil'd me in the face , raught me his hand ,
69382 And with a feeble gripe says , 'Dear my lord ,
69383 Commend my service to my sovereign .'
69384 So did he turn , and over Suffolk's neck
69385 He threw his wounded arm , and kiss'd his lips ;
69386 And so espous'd to death , with blood he seal'd
69387 A testament of noble-ending love .
69388 The pretty and sweet manner of it forc'd
69389 Those waters from me which I would have stopp'd ;
69390 But I had not so much of man in me ,
69391 And all my mother came into mine eyes
69392 And gave me up to tears .
69393
69394 I blame you not ;
69395 For , hearing this , I must perforce compound
69396 With mistful eyes , or they will issue too .
69397
69398 But hark ! what new alarum is this same ?
69399 The French have reinforc'd their scatter'd men :
69400 Then every soldier kill his prisoners !
69401 Give the word through .
69402
69403
69404 Kill the poys and the luggage ! 'tis expressly against the law of arms : 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery , mark you now , as can be offer't : in your conscience now , is it not ?
69405
69406 'Tis certain , there's not a boy left alive ; and the cowardly rascals that ran from the battle have done this slaughter : besides , they have burned and carried away all that was in the king's tent ; wherefore the king most worthily hath caused every soldier to cut his prisoner's throat . O ! 'tis a gallant king .
69407
69408 Ay , he was porn at Monmouth , Captain Gower . What call you the town's name where Alexander the Pig was born ?
69409
69410 Alexander the Great .
69411
69412 Why , I pray you , is not pig great ? The pig , or the great , or the mighty , or the huge , or the magnanimous , are all one reckonings , save the phrase is a little variations .
69413
69414 I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon : his father was called Philip of Macedon , as I take it .
69415
69416 I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn . I tell you , captain , if you look in the maps of the 'orld , I warrant you sall find , in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth , that the situations , look you , is both alike . There is a river in Macedon , and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth : it is called Wye at Monmouth ; but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river ; but 'tis all one , 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers , and there is salmons in both . If you mark Alexander's life well , Harry of Monmouth's life is come after it indifferent well ; for there is figures in all things . Alexander ,God knows , and you know ,in his rages , and his furies , and his wraths , and his cholers , and his moods , and his displeasures , and his indignations , and also being a little intoxicates in his prains , did , in his ales and his angers , look you , kill his pest friend , Cleitus .
69417
69418 Our king is not like him in that : he never killed any of his friends .
69419
69420 It is not well done , mark you now , to take the tales out of my mouth , ere it is made and finished . I speak but in the figures and comparisons of it : as Alexander killed his friend Cleitus , being in his ales and his cups , so also Harry Monmouth , being in his right wits and his good judgments , turned away the fat knight with the great belly-doublet : he was full of jests , and gipes , and knaveries , and mocks ; I have forgot his name .
69421
69422 Sir John Falstaff .
69423
69424 That is he . I'll tell you , there is goot men porn at Monmouth .
69425
69426 Here comes his majesty .
69427
69428 I was not angry since I came to France
69429 Until this instant . Take a trumpet , herald ;
69430 Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill :
69431 If they will fight with us , bid them come down ,
69432 Or void the field ; they do offend our sight .
69433 If they'll do neither , we will come to them ,
69434 And make them skirr away , as swift as stones
69435 Enforced from the old Assyrian slings .
69436 Besides , we'll cut the throats of those we have ,
69437 And not a man of them that we shall take
69438 Shall taste our mercy . Go and tell them so .
69439
69440
69441 Here comes the herald of the French , my liege .
69442
69443 His eyes are humbler than they us'd to be .
69444
69445 How now ! what means this , herald ? know'st thou not
69446 That I have fin'd these bones of mine for ransom ?
69447 Com'st thou again for ransom ?
69448
69449 No , great king .
69450 I come to thee for charitable licence ,
69451 That we may wander o'er this bloody field
69452 To book our dead , and then to bury them ;
69453 To sort our nobles from our common men ;
69454 For many of our princes woe the while !
69455 Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood ;
69456 So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs
69457 In blood of princes ; and their wounded steeds
69458 Fret fetlock-deep in gore , and with wild rage
69459 Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters ,
69460 Killing them twice . O ! give us leave , great king ,
69461 To view the field in safety and dispose
69462 Of their dead bodies .
69463
69464 I tell thee truly , herald ,
69465 I know not if the day be ours or no ;
69466 For yet a many of your horsemen peer
69467 And gallop o'er the field .
69468
69469 The day is yours .
69470
69471 Praised be God , and not our strength , for it !
69472 What is this castle call'd that stands hard by ?
69473
69474 They call it Agincourt .
69475
69476 Then call we this the field of Agincourt ,
69477 Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus .
69478
69479 Your grandfather of famous memory , an't please your majesty , and your great-uncle Edward the Plack Prince of Wales , as I have read in the chronicles , fought a most prave pattle here in France .
69480
69481 They did , Fluellen .
69482
69483 Your majesty says very true . If your majesties is remembered of it , the Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow , wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps ; which , your majesty know , to this hour is an honourable badge of the service ; and I do believe , your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy's day .
69484
69485 I wear it for a memorable honour ; For I am Welsh , you know , good countryman .
69486
69487 All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty's Welsh plood out of your pody , I can tell you that : Got pless it and preserve it , as long as it pleases his grace , and his majesty too !
69488
69489 Thanks , good my countryman .
69490
69491 By Jeshu , I am your majesty's countryman , I care not who know it ; I will confess it to all the 'orld : I need not be ashamed of your majesty , praised be God , so long as your majesty is an honest man .
69492
69493 God keep me so ! Our heralds go with him :
69494 Bring me just notice of the numbers dead
69495 On both our parts . Call yonder fellow hither .
69496
69497
69498 Soldier , you must come to the king .
69499
69500 Soldier , why wear'st thou that glove in thy cap ?
69501
69502 An't please your majesty , 'tis the gage of one that I should fight withal , if he be alive .
69503
69504 An Englishman ?
69505
69506 An't please your majesty , a rascal that swaggered with me last night ; who , if a' live and ever dare to challenge this glove , I have sworn to take him a box o' the ear : or , if I can see my glove in his cap ,which he swore as he was a soldier he would wear if alive ,I will strike it out soundly .
69507
69508 What think you , Captain Fluellen ? is it fit this soldier keep his oath ?
69509
69510 He is a craven and a villain else , an't please your majesty , in my conscience .
69511
69512 It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort , quite from the answer of his degree .
69513
69514 Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is , as Lucifer and Belzebub himself , it is necessary , look your Grace , that he keep his vow and his oath . If he be perjured , see you now , his reputation is as arrant a villain and a Jack-sauce as ever his black shoe trod upon God's ground and his earth , in my conscience , la !
69515
69516 Then keep thy vow , sirrah , when thou meetest the fellow .
69517
69518 So I will , my liege , as I live .
69519
69520 Who servest thou under ?
69521
69522 Under Captain Gower , my liege .
69523
69524 Gower is a goot captain , and is good knowledge and literatured in the wars .
69525
69526 Call him hither to me , soldier .
69527
69528 I will , my liege .
69529
69530
69531 Here , Fluellen ; wear thou this favour for me and stick it in thy cap . When Alen on and myself were down together I plucked this glove from his helm : if any man challenge this , he is a friend to Alen on , and an enemy to our person ; if thou encounter any such , apprehend him , an thou dost me love .
69532
69533 Your Grace does me as great honours as can be desired in the hearts of his subjects : I would fain see the man that has but two legs that shall find himself aggriefed at this glove , that is all ; but I would fain see it once , and please God of his grace that I might see .
69534
69535 Knowest thou Gower ?
69536
69537 He is my dear friend , an't please you .
69538
69539 Pray thee , go seek him , and bring him to my tent .
69540
69541 I will fetch him .
69542
69543
69544 My Lord of Warwick , and my brother Gloucester ,
69545 Follow Fluellen closely at the heels .
69546 The glove which I have given him for a favour ,
69547 May haply purchase him a box o' the ear ;
69548 It is the soldier's ; I by bargain should
69549 Wear it myself . Follow , good cousin Warwick :
69550 If that the soldier strike him ,as , I judge
69551 By his blunt bearing he will keep his word ,
69552 Some sudden mischief may arise of it ;
69553 For I do know Fluellen valiant ,
69554 And touch'd with choler , hot as gunpowder ,
69555 And quickly will return an injury :
69556 Follow and see there be no harm between them .
69557 Go you with me , uncle of Exeter .
69558
69559
69560 I warrant it is to knight you , captain .
69561
69562
69563 God's will and his pleasure , captain , I peseech you now come apace to the king : there is more good toward you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of .
69564
69565 Sir , know you this glove ?
69566
69567 Know the glove ! I know the glove is a glove .
69568
69569 I know this ; and thus I challenge it .
69570
69571
69572 'Sblood ! an arrant traitor as any's in the universal 'orld , or in France , or in England
69573
69574 How now , sir ! you villain !
69575
69576 Do you think I'll be forsworn ?
69577
69578 Stand away , Captain Gower ; I will give treason his payment into plows , I warrant you .
69579
69580 I am no traitor .
69581
69582 That's a lie in thy throat . I charge you in his majesty's name , apprehend him : he is a friend of the Duke Alen on's .
69583
69584
69585 How now , how now ! what's the matter ?
69586
69587 My Lord of Warwick , here is ,praised be God for it !a most contagious treason come to light , look you , as you shall desire in a summer's day . Here is his majesty .
69588
69589
69590 How now ! what's the matter ?
69591
69592 My liege , here is a villain and a traitor , that , look your Grace , has struck the glove which your majesty is take out of the helmet of Alen on .
69593
69594 My liege , this was my glove ; here is the fellow of it ; and he that I gave it to in change promised to wear it in his cap : I promised to strike him , if he did : I met this man with my glove in his cap , and I have been as good as my word .
69595
69596 Your majesty hear now ,saving your majesty's manhood ,what an arrant , rascally , beggarly , lousy knave it is . I hope your majesty is pear me testimony and witness , and avouchments , that this is the glove of Alen on that your majesty is give me ; in your conscience now .
69597
69598 Give me thy glove , soldier : look , here is the fellow of it .
69599 'Twas I , indeed , thou promisedst to strike ;
69600 And thou hast given me most bitter terms .
69601
69602 An't please your majesty , let his neck answer for it , if there is any martial law in the 'orld .
69603
69604 How canst thou make me satisfaction ?
69605
69606 All offences , my lord , come from the heart : never came any from mine that might offend your majesty .
69607
69608 It was ourself thou didst abuse .
69609
69610 Your majesty came not like yourself : you appeared to me but as a common man ; witness the night , your garments , your lowliness ; and what your highness suffered under that shape , I beseech you , take it for your own fault and not mine : for had you been as I took you for I made no offence ; therefore , I beseech your highness , pardon me .
69611
69612 Here , uncle Exeter , fill this glove with crowns ,
69613 And give it to this fellow . Keep it , fellow ;
69614 And wear it for an honour in thy cap
69615 Till I do challenge it . Give him the crowns :
69616 And , captain , you must needs be friends with him .
69617
69618 By this day and this light , the fellow has mettle enough in his belly . Hold , there is twelve pence for you , and I pray you to serve God , and keep you out of prawls , and prabbles , and quarrels , and dissensions , and , I warrant you , it is the better for you .
69619
69620 I will none of your money .
69621
69622 It is with a good will ; I can tell you it will serve you to mend your shoes : come , wherefore should you be so pashful ? your shoes is not so good : 'tis a good shilling , I warrant you , or I will change it .
69623
69624
69625 Now , herald , are the dead number'd ?
69626
69627 Here is the number of the slaughter'd French .
69628
69629
69630 What prisoners of good sort are taken , uncle ?
69631
69632 Charles Duke of Orleans , nephew to the king ;
69633 John Duke of Bourbon , and Lord Bouciqualt :
69634 Of other lords and barons , knights and squires ,
69635 Full fifteen hundred , besides common men .
69636
69637 This note doth tell me of ten thousand French
69638 That in the field lie slain : of princes , in this number ,
69639 And nobles bearing banners , there lie dead
69640 One hundred twenty-six : added to these ,
69641 Of knights , esquires , and gallant gentlemen ,
69642 Eight thousand and four hundred ; of the which
69643 Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights :
69644 So that , in these ten thousand they have lost ,
69645 There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries ;
69646 The rest are princes , barons , lords , knights , squires ,
69647 And gentlemen of blood and quality .
69648 The names of those their nobles that lie dead :
69649 Charles Delabreth , High Constable of France ;
69650 Jaques of Chatillon , Admiral of France ;
69651 The master of the cross-bows , Lord Rambures ;
69652 Great-master of France , the brave Sir Guischard Dauphin ;
69653 John Duke of Alen on ; Antony Duke of Brabant ,
69654 The brother to the Duke of Burgundy ,
69655 And Edward Duke of Bar : of lusty earls ,
69656 Grandpr and Roussi , Fauconberg and Foix ,
69657 Beaumont and Marle , Vaudemont and Lestrale .
69658 Here was a royal fellowship of death !
69659 Where is the number of our English dead ?
69660
69661 Edward the Duke of York , the Earl of Suffolk ,
69662 Sir Richard Ketly , Davy Gam , esquire :
69663 None else of name : and of all other men
69664 But five and twenty . O God ! thy arm was here ;
69665 And not to us , but to thy arm alone ,
69666 Ascribe we all . When , without stratagem ,
69667 But in plain shock and even play of battle ,
69668 Was ever known so great and little loss
69669 On one part and on the other ? Take it , God ,
69670 For it is none but thine !
69671
69672 'Tis wonderful !
69673
69674 Come , go we in procession to the village :
69675 And be it death proclaimed through our host
69676 To boast of this or take the praise from God
69677 Which is his only .
69678
69679 Is it not lawful , an please your majesty , to tell how many is killed ?
69680
69681 Yes , captain ; but with this acknowledgment ,
69682 That God fought for us .
69683
69684 Yes , my conscience , he did us great good .
69685
69686 Do we all holy rites :
69687 Let there be sung Non nobis and Te Deum ;
69688 The dead with charity enclos'd in clay .
69689 We'll then to Calais ; and to England then ,
69690 Where ne'er from France arriv'd more happy men .
69691
69692 Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story ,
69693 That I may prompt them : and of such as have ,
69694 I humbly pray them to admit the excuse
69695 Of time , of numbers , and due course of things ,
69696 Which cannot in their huge and proper life
69697 Be here presented . Now we bear the king
69698 Toward Calais : grant him there ; there seen ,
69699 Heave him away upon your winged thoughts
69700 Athwart the sea . Behold , the English beach
69701 Pales in the flood with men , with wives , and boys ,
69702 Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouth'd sea ,
69703 Which , like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king ,
69704 Seems to prepare his way : so let him land
69705 And solemnly see him set on to London .
69706 So swift a pace hath thought that even now
69707 You may imagine him upon Blackheath ;
69708 Where that his lords desire him to have borne
69709 His bruised helmet and his bended sword
69710 Before him through the city : he forbids it ,
69711 Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride ;
69712 Giving full trophy , signal and ostent ,
69713 Quite from himself , to God . But now behold ,
69714 In the quick forge and working-house of thought ,
69715 How London doth pour out her citizens .
69716 The mayor and all his brethren in best sort ,
69717 Like to the senators of the antique Rome ,
69718 With the plebeians swarming at their heels ,
69719 Go forth and fetch their conquering C sar in :
69720 As , by a lower but loving likelihood ,
69721 Were now the general of our gracious empress ,
69722 As in good time he may ,from Ireland coming ,
69723 Bringing rebellion broached on his sword ,
69724 How many would the peaceful city quit
69725 To welcome him ! much more , and much more cause ,
69726 Did they this Harry . Now in London place him ;
69727 As yet the lamentation of the French
69728 Invites the King of England's stay at home ,
69729 The emperor's coming in behalf of France ,
69730 To order peace between them ;and omit
69731 All the occurrences , whatever chanc'd ,
69732 Till Harry's back-return again to France :
69733 There must we bring him ; and myself have play'd
69734 The interim , by remembering you 'tis past .
69735 Then brook abridgment , and your eyes advance ,
69736 After your thoughts , straight back again to France .
69737
69738 Nay , that's right ; but why wear you your leek to-day ? Saint Davy's day is past .
69739
69740 There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things : I will tell you , asse my friend , Captain Gower . The rascally , scald , beggarly , lousy , pragging knave , Pistol ,which you and yourself and all the 'orld know to be no petter than a fellow ,look you now , of no merits , he is come to me and prings me pread and salt yesterday , look you , and pid me eat my leek . It was in a place where I could not preed no contention with him ; but I will be so pold as to wear it in my cap till I see him once again , and then I will tell him a little piece of my desires .
69741
69742 Why , here he comes , swelling like a turkey-cock .
69743
69744
69745 'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his turkey-cocks . God pless you , Aunchient Pistol ! you scurvy , lousy knave , God pless you !
69746
69747 Ha ! art thou bedlam ? dost thou thirst , base Troyan ,
69748 To have me fold up Parca's fatal web ?
69749 Hence ! I am qualmish at the smell of leek .
69750
69751 I peseech you heartily , scurvy lousy knave , at my desires and my requests and my petitions to eat , look you , this leek ; pecause , look you , you do not love it , nor your affections and your appetites and your digestions does not agree with it , I would desire you to eat it .
69752
69753 Not for Cadwallader and all his goats .
69754
69755 There is one goat for you .
69756 Will you be so good , scald knave , as eat it ?
69757
69758 Base Troyan , thou shalt die .
69759
69760 You say very true , scald knave , when
69761 God's will is . I will desire you to live in the mean time and eat your victuals ; come , there is sauce for it .
69762
69763 You called me yesterday mountain-squire , but I will make you to-day a squire of low degree . I pray you , fall to : if you can mock a leek you can eat a leek .
69764
69765 Enough , captain : you have astonished him .
69766
69767 I say , I will make him eat some part of my leek , or I will peat his pate four days . Bite , I pray you ; it is good for your green wound and your ploody coxcomb .
69768
69769 Must I bite ?
69770
69771 Yes , certainly , and out of doubt and out of question too and ambiguities .
69772
69773 By this leek , I will most horribly revenge . I eat and eat , I swear
69774
69775 Eat , I pray you : will you have some more sauce to your leek ? there is not enough leek to swear by .
69776
69777 Quiet thy cudgel : thou dost see I eat .
69778
69779 Much good do you , scald knave , heartily . Nay , pray you , throw none away ; the skin is good for your broken coxcomb . When you take occasions to see leeks hereafter , I pray you , mock at 'em ; that is all .
69780
69781 Good .
69782
69783 Ay , leeks is good . Hold you , there is a groat to heal your pate .
69784
69785 Me a groat !
69786
69787 Yes , verily and in truth , you shall take it ; or I have another leek in my pocket , which you shall eat .
69788
69789 I take thy groat in earnest of revenge .
69790
69791 If I owe you anything I will pay you in cudgels : you shall be a woodmonger , and buy nothing of me but cudgels . God be wi' you , and keep you , and heal your pate .
69792
69793
69794 All hell shall stir for this .
69795
69796 Go , go ; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave . Will you mock at an ancient tradition , begun upon an honourable respect , and worn as a memorable trophy of predeceased valour , and dare not a vouch in your deeds any of your words ? I have seen you gleeking and galling at this gentleman twice or thrice . You thought , because he could not speak English in the native garb , he could not therefore handle an English cudgel : you find it otherwise ; and henceforth let a Welsh correction teach you a good English condition . Fare ye well .
69797
69798
69799 Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now ?
69800 News have I that my Nell is dead i' the spital
69801 Of malady of France :
69802 And there my rendezvous is quite cut off .
69803 Old I do wax , and from my weary limbs
69804 Honour is cudgelled . Well , bawd I'll turn ,
69805 And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand .
69806 To England will I steal , and there I'll steal :
69807 And patches will I get unto these cudgell'd scars ,
69808 And swear I got them in the Gallia wars .
69809
69810 Peace to this meeting , wherefore we are met !
69811 Unto our brother France , and to our sister ,
69812 Health and fair time of day ; joy and good wishes
69813 To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine ;
69814 And , as a branch and member of this royalty ,
69815 By whom this great assembly is contriv'd ,
69816 We do salute you , Duke of Burgundy ;
69817 And , princes French , and peers , health to you all !
69818
69819 Right joyous are we to behold your face ,
69820 Most worthy brother England ; fairly met :
69821 So are you , princes English , every one .
69822
69823 So happy be the issue , brother England ,
69824 Of this good day and of this gracious meeting ,
69825 As we are now glad to behold your eyes ;
69826 Your eyes , which hitherto have borne in them
69827 Against the French , that met them in their bent ,
69828 The fatal balls of murdering basilisks :
69829 The venom of such looks , we fairly hope ,
69830 Have lost their quality , and that this day
69831 Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love .
69832
69833 To cry amen to that , thus we appear .
69834
69835 You English princes all , I do salute you .
69836
69837 My duty to you both , on equal love ,
69838 Great Kings of France and England ! That I have labour'd
69839 With all my wits , my pains , and strong endeavours ,
69840 To bring your most imperial majesties
69841 Unto this bar and royal interview ,
69842 Your mightiness on both parts best can witness .
69843 Since then my office hath so far prevail'd
69844 That face to face , and royal eye to eye ,
69845 You have congreeted , let it not disgrace me
69846 If I demand before this royal view ,
69847 What rub or what impediment there is ,
69848 Why that the naked , poor , and mangled Peace ,
69849 Dear nurse of arts , plenties , and joyful births ,
69850 Should not in this best garden of the world ,
69851 Our fertile France , put up her lovely visage ?
69852 Alas ! she hath from France too long been chas'd ,
69853 And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps ,
69854 Corrupting in its own fertility .
69855 Her vine , the merry cheerer of the heart ,
69856 Unpruned dies ; her hedges even-pleach'd ,
69857 Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair ,
69858 Put forth disorder'd twigs ; her fallow leas
69859 The darnel , hemlock and rank fumitory
69860 Doth root upon , while that the coulter rusts
69861 That should deracinate such savagery ;
69862 The even mead , that erst brought sweetly forth
69863 The freckled cowslip , burnet , and green clover ,
69864 Wanting the scythe , all uncorrected , rank ,
69865 Conceives by idleness , and nothing teems
69866 But hateful docks , rough thistles , kecksies , burs ,
69867 Losing both beauty and utility ;
69868 And as our vineyards , fallows , meads , and hedges ,
69869 Defective in their natures , grow to wildness ,
69870 Even so our houses and ourselves and children
69871 Have lost , or do not learn for want of time ,
69872 The sciences that should become our country ,
69873 But grow like savages ,as soldiers will ,
69874 That nothing do but meditate on blood ,
69875 To swearing and stern looks , diffus'd attire ,
69876 And every thing that seems unnatural .
69877 Which to reduce into our former favour
69878 You are assembled ; and my speech entreats
69879 That I may know the let why gentle Peace
69880 Should not expel these inconveniences ,
69881 And bless us with her former qualities .
69882
69883 If , Duke of Burgundy , you would the peace ,
69884 Whose want gives growth to the imperfections
69885 Which you have cited , you must buy that peace
69886 With full accord to all our just demands ;
69887 Whose tenours and particular effects
69888 You have , enschedul'd briefly , in your hands .
69889
69890 The king hath heard them ; to the which as yet ,
69891 There is no answer made .
69892
69893 Well then the peace ,
69894 Which you before so urg'd , lies in his answer .
69895
69896 I have but with a cursorary eye
69897 O'erglanc'd the articles : pleaseth your Grace
69898 To appoint some of your council presently
69899 To sit with us once more , with better heed
69900 To re-survey them , we will suddenly
69901 Pass our accept and peremptory answer .
69902
69903 Brother , we shall . Go , uncle Exeter ,
69904 And brother Clarence , and you , brother Gloucester ,
69905 Warwick and Huntingdon , go with the king ;
69906 And take with you free power to ratify ,
69907 Augment , or alter , as your wisdoms best
69908 Shall see advantageable for our dignity ,
69909 Anything in or out of our demands ,
69910 And we'll consign thereto . Will you , fair sister ,
69911 Go with the princes , or stay here with us ?
69912
69913 Our gracious brother , I will go with them .
69914 Haply a woman's voice may do some good
69915 When articles too nicely urg'd be stood on .
69916
69917 Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us :
69918 She is our capital demand , compris'd
69919 Within the fore-rank of our articles .
69920
69921 She hath good leave .
69922
69923
69924 Fair Katharine , and most fair !
69925 Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms ,
69926 Such as will enter at a lady's ear ,
69927 And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart ?
69928
69929 Your majesty sall mock at me ; I cannot speak your England .
69930
69931 O fair Katharine ! if you will love me soundly with your French heart , I will be glad to hear you confess it brokenly with your English tongue . Do you like me , Kate ?
69932
69933 Pardonnez moy , I cannot tell vat is 'like me .'
69934
69935 An angel is like you , Kate ; and you are like an angel .
69936
69937 Que dit-il ? que je suis semblable les anges ?
69938
69939 Ouy , vrayment , sauf vostre grace , ainsi dit-il .
69940
69941 I said so , dear Katharine ; and I must not blush to affirm it .
69942
69943 O bon Dieu ! les langues des hommes sont pleines des tromperies .
69944
69945 What says she , fair one ? that the tongues of men are full of deceits ?
69946
69947 Ouy , dat de tongues of de mans is be full of deceits : dat is de princess .
69948
69949 The princess is the better Englishwoman . I' faith , Kate , my wooing is fit for thy understanding : I am glad thou canst speak no better English ; for , if thou couldst , thou wouldst find me such a plain king that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my crown . I know no ways to mince it in love , but directly to say 'I love you :' then , if you urge me further than to say 'Do you in faith ?' I wear out my suit . Give me your answer ; i' faith do : and so clap hands and a bargain . How say you , lady ?
69950
69951 Sauf vostre honneur , me understand vell .
69952
69953 Marry , if you would put me to verses , or to dance for your sake , Kate , why you undid me : for the one , I have neither words nor measure , and for the other , I have no strength in measure , yet a reasonable measure in strength . If I could win a lady at leap-frog , or by vaulting into my saddle with my armour on my back , under the correction of bragging be it spoken , I should quickly leap into a wife . Or if I might buffet for my love , or bound my horse for her favours , I could lay on like a butcher and sit like a jack-an-apes , never off . But before God , Kate , I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my eloquence , nor I have no cunning in protestation ; only downright oaths , which I never use till urged , nor never break for urging . If thou caust love a fellow of this temper , Kate . whose face is not worth sun-burning , that never looks in his glass for love of anything he sees there , let thine eye be thy cook . I speak to thee plain soldier : if thou canst love me for this , take me ; if not , to say to thee that I shall die , is true ; but for thy love , by the Lord , no ; yet I love thee too . And while thou livest , dear Kate , take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy , for he perforce must do thee right , because he hath not the gift to woo in other places ; for these fellows of infinite tongue , that can rime themselves into ladies' favours , they do always reason themselves out again . What ! a speaker is but a prater ; a rime is but a ballad . A good leg will fall , a straight back will stoop , a black beard will turn white , a curled pate will grow bald , a fair face will wither , a full eye will wax hollow , but a good heart , Kate , is the sun and the moon ; or , rather , the sun , and not the moon ; for it shines bright and never changes , but keeps his course truly . If thou would have such a one , take me ; and take me , take a soldier ; take a soldier , take a king . And what sayest thou then to my love ? speak , my fair , and fairly , I pray thee .
69954
69955 Is it possible dat I sould love de enemy of France ?
69956
69957 No ; it is not possible you should love the enemy of France , Kate ; but , in loving me , you should love the friend of France ; for I love France so well , that I will not part with a village of it ; I will have it all mine : and , Kate , when France is mine and I am yours , then yours is France and you are mine .
69958
69959 I cannot tell vat is dat .
69960
69961 No , Kate ? I will tell thee in French , which I am sure will hang upon my tongue like a new-married wife about her husband's neck , hardly to be shook off . Je quand sur le possession de France , et quand vous avez le possession de moy ,let me see , what then ? Saint Denis be my speed !donc vostre est France , et vous estes mienne . It is as easy for me , Kate , to conquer the kingdom , as to speak so much more French : I shall never move thee in French , unless it be to laugh at me .
69962
69963 Sauf vostre honneur , le Fran ois que vous parlez est meilleur que l'Anglois lequel je parle .
69964
69965 No , faith , is't not , Kate ; but thy speaking of my tongue , and I thine , most truly falsely , must needs be granted to be much at one . But , Kate , dost thou understand thus much English , Canst thou love me ?
69966
69967 I cannot tell .
69968
69969 Can any of your neighbours tell , Kate ? I'll ask them . Come , I know thou lovest me ; and at night when you come into your closet you'll question this gentlewoman about me ; and I know , Kate , you will to her dispraise those parts in me that you love with your heart : but , good Kate , mock me mercifully ; the rather , gentle princess , because I love thee cruelly . If ever thou be'st mine , Kate ,as I have a saving faith within me tells me thou shalt ,I get thee with scambling , and thou must therefore needs prove a good soldier-breeder . Shall not thou and I , between Saint Denis and Saint George , compound a boy , half French , half English , that shall go to Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard ? shall we not ? what sayest thou , my fair flower-de-luce ?
69970
69971 I do not know dat .
69972
69973 No ; 'tis hereafter to know , but now to promise : do but now promise , Kate , you will endeavour for your French part of such a boy , and for my English moiety take the word of a king and a bachelor . How answer you , la plus belle Katharine du monde , mon tr s cher et divine d esse ?
69974
69975 Your majest ave fausse French enough to deceive de most sage demoiselle dat is en France .
69976
69977 Now , fie upon my false French ! By mine honour , in true English I love thee , Kate : by which honour I dare not swear thou lovest me ; yet my blood begins to flatter me that thou dost , notwithstanding the poor and untempering effect of my visage . Now beshrew my father's ambition ! he was thinking of civil wars when he got me : therefore was I created with a stubborn outside , with an aspect of iron , that , when I come to woo ladies I fright them . But , in faith , Kate , the elder I wax the better I shall appear : my comfort is , that old age , that ill layer-up of beauty , can do no more spoil upon my face : thou hast me , if thou hast me , at the worst ; and thou shalt wear me , if thou wear me , better and better . And therefore tell me , most fair Katharine , will you have me ? Put off your maiden blushes ; avouch the thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress ; take me by the hand , and say 'Harry of England , I am thine :' which word thou shalt no sooner bless mine ear withal , but I will tell thee aloud 'England is thine , Ireland is thine , France is thine , and Henry Plantagenet is thine ;' who , though I speak it before his face , if he be not fellow with the best king , thou shalt find the best king of good fellows . Come , your answer in broken music ; for thy voice is music , and thy English broken ; therefore , queen of all , Katharine , break thy mind to me in broken English : wilt thou have me ?
69978
69979 Dat is as it sall please de roy mon p re .
69980
69981 Nay , it will please him well , Kate ; it shall please him , Kate .
69982
69983 Den it sall also content me .
69984
69985 Upon that I kiss your hand , and I call you my queen .
69986
69987 Laissez , mon seigneur , laissez , laissez ! Ma foy , je ne veux point que vous abaissez vostre grandeur , en baisant la main d'une vostre indigne serviteure : excusez moy , je vous supplie , mon tr s puissant seigneur .
69988
69989 Then I will kiss your lips , Kate .
69990
69991 Les dames , et demoiselles , pour estre bais es devant leur noces , il n'est pas la coutume de France .
69992
69993 Madam my interpreter , what says she ?
69994
69995 Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies of France ,I cannot tell what is baiser in English .
69996
69997 To kiss .
69998
69999 Your majesty entendre bettre que moy .
70000
70001 It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss before they are married , would she say ?
70002
70003 Ouy , vrayment .
70004
70005 O Kate ! nice customs curtsy to great kings . Dear Kate , you and I cannot be confined within the weak list of a country's fashion : we are the makers of manners , Kate ; and the liberty that follows our places stops the mouths of all find-faults , as I will do yours , for upholding the nice fashion of your country in denying me a kiss : therefore , patiently , and yielding
70006
70007 . You have witchcraft in your lips , Kate : there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them , than in the tongues of the French council ; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs . Here comes your father .
70008
70009 God save your majesty ! My royal cousin , teach you our princess English ?
70010
70011 I would have her learn , my fair cousin , how perfectly I love her ; and that is good English .
70012
70013 Is she not apt ?
70014
70015 Our tongue is rough , coz , and my condition is not smooth ; so that , having neither the voice nor the heart of flattery about me , I cannot so conjure up the spirit of love in her , that he will appear in his true likeness .
70016
70017 Pardon the frankness of my mirth if I answer you for that . If you would conjure in her , you must make a circle ; if conjure up Love in her in his true likeness , he must appear naked and blind . Can you blame her then , being a maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty , if she deny the appearance of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing self ? It were , my lord , a hard condition for a maid to consign to .
70018
70019 Yet they do wink and yield , as love is blind and enforces .
70020
70021 They are then excused , my lord , when they see not what they do .
70022
70023 Then , good my lord , teach your cousin to consent winking .
70024
70025 I will wink on her to consent , my lord , if you will teach her to know my meaning : for maids , well summered and warm kept , are like flies at Bartholomew-tide , blind , though they have their eyes ; and then they will endure handling , which before would not abide looking on .
70026
70027 This moral ties me over to time and a hot summer ; and so I shall catch the fly , your cousin , in the latter end , and she must be blind too .
70028
70029 As love is , my lord , before it loves .
70030
70031 It is so : and you may , some of you , thank love for my blindness , who cannot see many a fair French city for one fair French maid that stands in my way .
70032
70033 Yes , my lord , you see them perspectively , the cities turned into a maid ; for they are all girdled with maiden walls that war hath never entered .
70034
70035 Shall Kate be my wife ?
70036
70037 So please you .
70038
70039 I am content ; so the maiden cities you talk of may wait on her : so the maid that stood in the way for my wish shall show me the way to my will .
70040
70041 We have consented to all terms of reason .
70042
70043 Is't so , my lords of England ?
70044
70045 The king hath granted every article :
70046 His daughter first , and then in sequel all ,
70047 According to their firm proposed natures .
70048
70049 Only he hath not yet subscribed this :
70050 Where your majesty demands , that the King of France , having any occasion to write for matter of grant , shall name your highness in this form , and with this addition , in French , Notre tr s cher filz Henry roy d'Angleterre , H retier de France ; and thus in Latin , Pr clarissimus filius noster Henricus , Rex Angli , et H res Franci .
70051
70052 Nor this I have not , brother , so denied ,
70053 But your request shall make me let it pass .
70054
70055 I pray you then , in love and dear alliance ,
70056 Let that one article rank with the rest ;
70057 And thereupon give me your daughter .
70058
70059 Take her , fair son ; and from her blood raise up
70060 Issue to me ; that the contending kingdoms
70061 Of France and England , whose very shores look pale
70062 With envy of each other's happiness ,
70063 May cease their hatred , and this dear conjunction
70064 Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord
70065 In their sweet bosoms , that never war advance
70066 His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France .
70067
70068 Amen !
70069
70070 Now , welcome , Kate : and bear me witness all ,
70071 That here I kiss her as my sovereign queen .
70072
70073
70074 God , the best maker of all marriages ,
70075 Combine your hearts in one , your realms in one !
70076 As man and wife , being two , are one in love ,
70077 So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a spousal
70078 That never may ill office , or fell jealousy ,
70079 Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage ,
70080 Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms ,
70081 To make divorce of their incorporate league ;
70082 That English may as French , French Englishmen ,
70083 Receive each other ! God speak this Amen !
70084
70085 Amen !
70086
70087 Prepare we for our marriage : on which day ,
70088 My Lord of Burgundy , we'll take your oath ,
70089 And all the peers' , for surety of our leagues .
70090 Then shall I swear to Kate , and you to me ;
70091 And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be !
70092
70093 Thus far , with rough and all-unable pen ,
70094 Our bending author hath pursu'd the story ;
70095 In little room confining mighty men ,
70096 Mangling by starts the full course of their glory .
70097 Small time , but in that small most greatly liv'd
70098 This star of England : Fortune made his sword ,
70099 By which the world's best garden he achiev'd ,
70100 And of it left his son imperial lord .
70101 Henry the Sixth , in infant bands crown'd King
70102 Of France and England , did this king succeed ;
70103 Whose state so many had the managing ,
70104 That they lost France and made his England bleed :
70105 Which oft our stage hath shown ; and , for their sake ,
70106 In your fair minds let this acceptance take .
70107
70108 THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV
70109
70110
70111 Open your ears ; for which of you will stop
70112 The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks ?
70113 I , from the orient to the drooping west ,
70114 Making the wind my post-horse , still unfold
70115 The acts commenced on this ball of earth :
70116 Upon my tongues continual slanders ride ,
70117 The which in every language I pronounce ,
70118 Stuffing the ears of men with false reports .
70119 I speak of peace , while covert enmity
70120 Under the smile of safety wounds the world :
70121 And who but Rumour , who but only I ,
70122 Make fearful musters and prepar'd defence ,
70123 Whilst the big year , swoln with some other grief ,
70124 Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war ,
70125 And no such matter ? Rumour is a pipe
70126 Blown by surmises , jealousies , conjectures ,
70127 And of so easy and so plain a stop
70128 That the blunt monster with uncounted heads ,
70129 The still-discordant wavering multitude ,
70130 Can play upon it . But what need I thus
70131 My well-known body to anatomize
70132 Among my household ? Why is Rumour here ?
70133 I run before King Harry's victory ;
70134 Who in a bloody field by Shrewsbury
70135 Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops ,
70136 Quenching the flame of bold rebellion
70137 Even with the rebels' blood . But what mean I
70138 To speak so true at first ? my office is
70139 To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell
70140 Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword ,
70141 And that the king before the Douglas' rage
70142 Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death .
70143 This have I rumour'd through the peasant towns
70144 Between the royal field of Shrewsbury
70145 And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone ,
70146 Where Hotspur's father , old Northumberland ,
70147 Lies crafty-sick . The posts come tiring on ,
70148 And not a man of them brings other news
70149 Than they have learn'd of me : from Rumour's tongues
70150 They bring smooth comforts false , worse than true wrongs .
70151
70152
70153 Who keeps the gate here ? ho !
70154
70155 Where is the earl ?
70156
70157 What shall I say you are ?
70158
70159 Tell thou the earl
70160 That the Lord Bardolph doth attend him here .
70161
70162 His Lordship is walk'd forth into the orchard :
70163 Please it your honour knock but at the gate ,
70164 And he himself will answer .
70165
70166
70167 Here comes the earl .
70168
70169
70170 What news , Lord Bardolph ? every minute now
70171 Should be the father of some stratagem .
70172 The times are wild ; contention , like a horse
70173 Full of high feeding , madly hath broke loose
70174 And bears down all before him .
70175
70176 Noble earl ,
70177 I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury .
70178
70179 Good , an God will !
70180
70181 As good as heart can wish .
70182 The king is almost wounded to the death ;
70183 And , in the fortune of my lord your son ,
70184 Prince Harry slain outright ; and both the Blunts
70185 Kill'd by the hand of Douglas ; young Prince John
70186 And Westmoreland and Stafford fled the field .
70187 And Harry Monmouth's brawn , the hulk Sir John ,
70188 Is prisoner to your son : O ! such a day ,
70189 So fought , so follow'd , and so fairly won ,
70190 Came not till now to dignify the times
70191 Since C sar's fortunes .
70192
70193 How is this deriv'd ?
70194 Saw you the field ? came you from Shrewsbury ?
70195
70196 I spake with one , my lord , that came from thence ;
70197 A gentleman well bred and of good name ,
70198 That freely render'd me these news for true .
70199
70200 Here comes my servant Travers , whom I sent
70201 On Tuesday last to listen after news .
70202
70203 My lord , I over-rode him on the way ;
70204 And he is furnish'd with no certainties
70205 More than he haply may retail from me .
70206
70207
70208 Now , Travers , what good tidings come with you ?
70209
70210 My lord , Sir John Umfrevile turn'd me back
70211 With joyful tidings ; and , being better hors'd ,
70212 Out-rode me . After him came spurring hard
70213 A gentleman , almost forspent with speed ,
70214 That stopp'd by me to breathe his bloodied horse .
70215 He ask'd the way to Chester ; and of him
70216 I did demand what news from Shrewsbury .
70217 He told me that rebellion had bad luck ,
70218 And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold .
70219 With that he gave his able horse the head ,
70220 And , bending forward struck his armed heels
70221 Against the panting sides of his poor jade
70222 Up to the rowel-head , and , starting so ,
70223 He seem'd in running to devour the way ,
70224 Staying no longer question .
70225
70226 Ha ! Again :
70227 Said he young Harry Percy's spur was cold ?
70228 Of Hotspur , Coldspur ? that rebellion
70229 Had met ill luck ?
70230
70231 My lord , I'll tell you what :
70232 If my young lord your son have not the day ,
70233 Upon mine honour , for a silken point
70234 I'll give my barony : never talk of it .
70235
70236 Why should the gentleman that rode by Travers
70237 Give then such instances of loss ?
70238
70239 Who , he ?
70240 He was some hilding fellow that had stolen
70241 The horse he rode on , and , upon my life ,
70242 Spoke at a venture . Look , here comes more news .
70243
70244
70245 Yea , this man's brow , like to a title-leaf ,
70246 Foretells the nature of a tragic volume :
70247 So looks the strond , whereon the imperious flood
70248 Hath left a witness'd usurpation .
70249 Say , Morton , didst thou come from Shrewsbury ?
70250
70251 I ran from Shrewsbury , my noble lord ;
70252 Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask
70253 To fright our party .
70254
70255 How doth my son and brother ?
70256 Thou tremblest , and the whiteness in thy cheek
70257 Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand .
70258 Even such a man , so faint , so spiritless ,
70259 So dull , so dead in look , so woe-begone ,
70260 Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night ,
70261 And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd ;
70262 But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue ,
70263 And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it .
70264 This thou wouldst say , 'Your son did thus and thus ;
70265 Your brother thus ; so fought the noble Douglas ;'
70266 Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds :
70267 But in the end , to stop mine ear indeed ,
70268 Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise ,
70269 Ending with 'Brother , son , and all are dead .'
70270
70271 Douglas is living , and your brother , yet ;
70272 But , for my lord your son ,
70273
70274 Why , he is dead .
70275 See , what a ready tongue suspicion hath !
70276 He that but fears the thing he would not know
70277 Hath by instinct knowledge from others' eyes
70278 That what he fear'd is chanced . Yet speak , Morton :
70279 Tell thou thy earl his divination lies ,
70280 And I will take it as a sweet disgrace
70281 And make thee rich for doing me such wrong .
70282
70283 You are too great to be by me gainsaid ;
70284 Your spirit is too true , your fears too certain .
70285
70286 Yet , for all this , say not that Percy's dead .
70287 I see a strange confession in thine eye :
70288 Thou shak'st thy head , and hold'st it fear or sin
70289 To speak a truth . If he be slain , say so ;
70290 The tongue offends not that reports his death :
70291 And he doth sin that doth belie the dead ,
70292 Not he which says the dead is not alive .
70293 Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
70294 Hath but a losing office , and his tongue
70295 Sounds ever after as a sullen bell ,
70296 Remember'd knolling a departing friend .
70297
70298 I cannot think , my lord , your son is dead .
70299
70300 I am sorry I should force you to believe
70301 That which I would to God I had not seen ;
70302 But these mine eyes saw him in bloody state ,
70303 Rendering faint quittance , wearied and outbreath'd ,
70304 To Harry Monmouth ; whose swift wrath beat down
70305 The never-daunted Percy to the earth ,
70306 From whence with life he never more sprung up .
70307 In few , his death ,whose spirit lent a fire
70308 Even to the dullest peasant in his camp ,
70309 Being bruited once , took fire and heat away
70310 From the best-temper'd courage in his troops ;
70311 For from his metal was his party steel'd ;
70312 Which once in him abated , all the rest
70313 Turn'd on themselves , like dull and heavy lead :
70314 And as the thing that's heavy in itself ,
70315 Upon enforcement flies with greatest speed ,
70316 So did our men , heavy in Hotspur's loss ,
70317 Lend to this weight such lightness with their fear
70318 That arrows fled not swifter toward their aim
70319 Than did our soldiers , aiming at their safety ,
70320 Fly from the field . Then was that noble Worcester
70321 Too soon ta'en prisoner ; and that furious Scot ,
70322 The bloody Douglas , whose well-labouring sword
70323 Had three times slain the appearance of the king ,
70324 'Gan vail his stomach , and did grace the shame
70325 Of those that turn'd their backs ; and in his flight ,
70326 Stumbling in fear , was took . The sum of all
70327 Is , that the king hath won , and hath sent out
70328 A speedy power to encounter you , my lord ,
70329 Under the conduct of young Lancaster
70330 And Westmoreland . This is the news at full .
70331
70332 For this I shall have time enough to mourn .
70333 In poison there is physic ; and these news ,
70334 Having been well , that would have made me sick ,
70335 Being sick , have in some measure made me well :
70336 And as the wretch , whose fever-weaken'd joints ,
70337 Like strengthless hinges , buckle under life ,
70338 Impatient of his fit , breaks like a fire
70339 Out of his keeper's arms , even so my limbs ,
70340 Weaken'd with grief , being now enrag'd with grief ,
70341 Are thrice themselves . Hence , therefore , thou nice crutch !
70342 A scaly gauntlet now , with joints of steel
70343 Must glove this hand : and hence , thou sickly quoif !
70344 Thou art a guard too wanton for the head
70345 Which princes , flesh'd with conquest , aim to hit .
70346 Now bind my brows with iron ; and approach
70347 The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring
70348 To frown upon the enrag'd Northumberland !
70349 Let heaven kiss earth ! now let not nature's hand
70350 Keep the wild flood confin'd ! let order die !
70351 And let this world no longer be a stage
70352 To feed contention in a lingering act ;
70353 But let one spirit of the first-born Cain
70354 Reign in all bosoms , that , each heart being set
70355 On bloody courses , the rude scene may end ,
70356 And darkness be the burier of the dead !
70357
70358 This strained passion doth you wrong , my lord .
70359
70360 Sweet earl , divorce not wisdom from your honour .
70361
70362 The lives of all your loving complices
70363 Lean on your health ; the which , if you give o'er
70364 To stormy passion must perforce decay .
70365 You cast the event of war , my noble lord ,
70366 And summ'd the account of chance , before you said ,
70367 'Let us make head .' It was your presurmise
70368 That in the dole of blows your son might drop :
70369 You knew he walk'd o'er perils , on an edge ,
70370 More likely to fall in than to get o'er ;
70371 You were advis'd his flesh was capable
70372 Of wounds and scars , and that his forward spirit
70373 Would lift him where most trade of danger rang'd :
70374 Yet did you say , 'Go forth ;' and none of this ,
70375 Though strongly apprehended , could restrain
70376 The stiff-borne action : what hath then befallen ,
70377 Or what hath this bold enterprise brought forth ,
70378 More than that being which was like to be ?
70379
70380 We all that are engaged to this loss
70381 Knew that we ventur'd on such dangerous seas
70382 That if we wrought out life 'twas ten to one ;
70383 And yet we ventur'd , for the gain propos'd
70384 Chok'd the respect of likely peril fear'd ;
70385 And since we are o'erset , venture again .
70386 Come , we will all put forth , body and goods .
70387
70388 'Tis more than time : and , my most noble lord ,
70389 I hear for certain , and do speak the truth ,
70390 The gentle Archbishop of York is up ,
70391 With well-appointed powers : he is a man
70392 Who with a double surety binds his followers .
70393 My lord your son had only but the corpse' ,
70394 But shadows and the shows of men to fight ;
70395 For that same word , rebellion , did divide
70396 The action of their bodies from their souls ;
70397 And they did fight with queasiness , constrain'd ,
70398 As men drink potions , that their weapons only
70399 Seem'd on our side : but , for their spirits and souls ,
70400 This word , rebellion , it had froze them up ,
70401 As fish are in a pond . But now the bishop
70402 Turns insurrection to religion :
70403 Suppos'd sincere and holy in his thoughts ,
70404 He's follow'd both with body and with mind ,
70405 And doth enlarge his rising with the blood
70406 Of fair King Richard , scrap'd from Pomfret stones ;
70407 Derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause ;
70408 Tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land ,
70409 Gasping for life under great Bolingbroke ;
70410 And more and less do flock to follow him .
70411
70412 I knew of this before ; but , to speak truth ,
70413 This present grief had wip'd it from my mind .
70414 Go in with me ; and counsel every man
70415 The aptest way for safety and revenge :
70416 Get posts and letters , and make friends with speed :
70417 Never so few , and never yet more need .
70418
70419
70420 Sirrah , you giant , what says the doctor to my water ?
70421
70422 He said , sir , the water itself was a good healthy water ; but , for the party that owed it , he might have more diseases than he knew for .
70423
70424 Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay , man , is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter , more than I invent or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself , but the cause that wit is in other men . I do here walk before thee like a sow that hath overwhelmed all her litter but one . If the prince put thee into my service for any other reason than to set me off , why then I have no judgment . Thou whoreson mandrake , thou art fitter to be worn in my cap than to wait at my heels . I was never manned with an agate till now ; but I will set you neither in gold nor silver , but in vile apparel , and send you back again to your master , for a jewel ; the juvenal , the prince your master , whose chin is not yet fledged . I will sooner have a beard grow in the palm of my hand than he shall get one on his cheek ; and yet he will not stick to say , his face is a face-royal : God may finish it when he will , it is not a hair amiss yet : he may keep it still as a face-royal , for a barber shall never earn sixpence out of it ; and yet he will be crowing as if he had writ man ever since his father was a bachelor . He may keep his own grace , but he is almost out of mine , I can assure him . What said Master Dombledon about the satin for my short cloak and my slops ?
70425
70426 He said , sir , you should procure him better assurance than Bardolph ; he would not take his bond and yours : he liked not the security .
70427
70428 Let him be damned like the glutton ! may his tongue be hotter ! A whoreson Achitophel ! a rascally yea-forsooth knave ! to bear a gentleman in hand , and then stand upon security . The whoreson smooth-pates do now wear nothing but high shoes , and bunches of keys at their girdles ; and if a man is thorough with them in honest taking up , then they must stand upon security . I had as lief they would put ratsbane in my mouth as offer to stop it with security . I looked a' should have sent me two and twenty yards of satin , as I am a true knight , and he sends me security . Well , he may sleep in security ; for he hath the horn of abundance , and the lightness of his wife shines through it : and yet cannot he see , though he have his own lanthorn to light him . Where's Bardolph ?
70429
70430 He's gone into Smithfield to buy your worship a horse .
70431
70432 I bought him in Paul's , and he'll buy me a horse in Smithfield : an I could get me but a wife in the stews , I were manned , horsed , and wived .
70433
70434
70435 Sir , here comes the nobleman that committed the prince for striking him about Bardolph .
70436
70437 Wait close ; I will not see him .
70438
70439 What's he that goes there ?
70440
70441 Falstaff , an't please your lordship .
70442
70443 He that was in question for the robbery ?
70444
70445 He , my lord ; but he hath since done good service at Shrewsbury , and , as I hear , is now going with some charge to the Lord John of Lancaster .
70446
70447 What , to York ? Call him back again .
70448
70449 Sir John Falstaff !
70450
70451 Boy , tell him I am deaf .
70452
70453 You must speak louder , my master is deaf .
70454
70455 I am sure he is , to the hearing of anything good . Go , pluck him by the elbow ; I must speak with him .
70456
70457 Sir John !
70458
70459 What ! a young knave , and beg ! Is there not wars ? is there not employment ? doth not the king lack subjects ? do not the rebels want soldiers ? Though it be a shame to be on any side but one , it is worse shame to beg than to be on the worst side , were it worse than the name of rebellion can tell how to make it .
70460
70461 You mistake me , sir .
70462
70463 Why , sir , did I say you were an honest man ? setting my knighthood and my soldiership aside , I had lied in my throat if I had said so .
70464
70465 I pray you , sir , then set your knighthood and your soldiership aside , and give me leave to tell you you lie in your throat if you say I am any other than an honest man .
70466
70467 I give thee leave to tell me so ! I lay aside that which grows to me ! If thou gett'st any leave of me , hang me : if thou takest leave , thou wert better be hanged . You hunt-counter : hence ! avaunt !
70468
70469 Sir , my lord would speak with you .
70470
70471 Sir John Falstaff , a word with you .
70472
70473 My good lord ! God give your lordship good time of day . I am glad to see your lordship abroad ; I heard say your lordship was sick : I hope your lordship goes abroad by advice . Your lordship , though not clean past your youth , hath yet some smack of age in you , some relish of the saltness of time ; and I most humbly beseech your lordship to have a reverend care of your health .
70474
70475 Sir John , I sent for you before your expedition to Shrewsbury .
70476
70477 An't please your lordship , I hear his majesty is returned with some discomfort from Wales .
70478
70479 I talk not of his majesty . You would not come when I sent for you .
70480
70481 And I hear , moreover , his highness is fallen into this same whoreson apoplexy .
70482
70483 Well , heaven mend him ! I pray you , let me speak with you .
70484
70485 This apoplexy is , as I take it , a kind of lethargy , an't please your lordship ; a kind of sleeping in the blood , a whoreson tingling .
70486
70487 What tell you me of it ? be it as it is .
70488
70489 It hath its original from much grief , from study and perturbation of the brain . I have read the cause of his effects in Galen : it is a kind of deafness .
70490
70491 I think you are fallen into the disease , for you hear not what I say to you .
70492
70493 Very well , my lord , very well : rather , an't please you , it is the disease of not listening , the malady of not marking , that I am troubled withal .
70494
70495 To punish you by the heels would amend the attention of your ears ; and I care not if I do become your physician .
70496
70497 I am as poor as Job , my lord , but not so patient : your lordship may minister the potion of imprisonment to me in respect of poverty ; but how I should be your patient to follow your prescriptions , the wise may make some dram of a scruple , or indeed a scruple itself .
70498
70499 I sent for you , when there were matters against you for your life , to come speak with me .
70500
70501 As I was then advised by my learned counsel in the laws of this land-service , I did not come .
70502
70503 Well , the truth is , Sir John , you live in great infamy .
70504
70505 He that buckles him in my belt cannot live in less .
70506
70507 Your means are very slender , and your waste is great .
70508
70509 I would it were otherwise : I would my means were greater and my waist slenderer .
70510
70511 You have misled the youthful prince .
70512
70513 The young prince hath misled me : I am the fellow with the great belly , and he my dog .
70514
70515 Well , I am loath to gall a new-healed wound : your day's service at Shrewsbury hath a little gilded over your night's exploit on Gadshill : you may thank the unquiet time for your quiet o'er-posting that action .
70516
70517 My lord !
70518
70519 But since all is well , keep it so : wake not a sleeping wolf .
70520
70521 To wake a wolf is as bad as to smell a fox .
70522
70523 What ! you are as a candle , the better part burnt out .
70524
70525 A wassail candle , my lord ; all tallow : if I did say of wax , my growth would approve the truth .
70526
70527 There is not a white hair on your face but should have his effect of gravity .
70528
70529 His effect of gravy , gravy , gravy .
70530
70531 You follow the young prince up and down , like his ill angel .
70532
70533 Not so , my lord ; your ill angel is light , but I hope he that looks upon me will take me without weighing : and yet , in some respects , I grant , I cannot go , I cannot tell . Virtue is of so little regard in these costermonger times that true valour is turned bear-herd : pregnancy is made a tapster , and hath his quick wit wasted in giving reckonings : all the other gifts appertinent to man , as the malice of this age shapes them , are not worth a gooseberry . You that are old consider not the capacities of us that are young ; you measure the heat of our livers with the bitterness of your galls ; and we that are in the vaward of our youth , I must confess , are wags too .
70534
70535 Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth , that are written down old with all the characters of age ? Have you not a moist eye , a dry hand , a yellow cheek , a white beard , a decreasing leg , an increasing belly ? Is not your voice broken , your wind short , your chin double , your wit single , and every part about you blasted with antiquity , and will you yet call yourself young ? Fie , fie , fie , Sir John !
70536
70537 My lord , I was born about three of the clock in the afternoon , with a white head , and something a round belly . For my voice , I have lost it with hollaing , and singing of anthems . To approve my youth further , I will not : the truth is , I am only old in judgment and understanding ; and he that will caper with me for a thousand marks , let him lend me the money , and have at him ! For the box o' the ear that the prince gave you , he gave it like a rude prince , and you took it like a sensible lord . I have checked him for it , and the young lion repents ; marry , not in ashes and sackcloth , but in new silk and old sack .
70538
70539 Well , God send the prince a better companion !
70540
70541 God send the companion a better prince ! I cannot rid my hands of him .
70542
70543 Well , the king hath severed you and Prince Harry . I hear you are going with Lord John of Lancaster against the archbishop and the Earl of Northumberland .
70544
70545 Yea ; I thank your pretty sweet wit for it . But look you pray , all you that kiss my lady Peace at home , that our armies join not in a hot day ; for , by the Lord , I take but two shirts out with me , and I mean not to sweat extraordinarily : if it be a hot day , and I brandish anything but my bottle , I would I might never spit white again . There is not a dangerous action can peep out his head but I am thrust upon it . Well , I cannot last ever . But it was always yet the trick of our English nation , if they have a good thing , to make it too common . If you will needs say I am an old man , you should give me rest . I would to God my name were not so terrible to the enemy as it is : I were better to be eaten to death with rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion .
70546
70547 Well , be honest , be honest ; and God bless your expedition .
70548
70549 Will your lordship lend me a thousand pound to furnish me forth ?
70550
70551 Not a penny ; not a penny ; you are too impatient to bear crosses . Fare you well : commend me to my cousin Westmoreland .
70552
70553
70554 If I do , fillip me with a three-man beetle . A man can no more separate age and covetousness than he can part young limbs and lechery ; but the gout galls the one , and the pox pinches the other ; and so both the degrees prevent my curses . Boy !
70555
70556 Sir !
70557
70558 What money is in my purse ?
70559
70560 Seven groats and twopence .
70561
70562 I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse : borrowing only lingers and lingers it out , but the disease is incurable . Go bear this letter to my Lord of Lancaster ; this to the prince ; this to the Earl of Westmoreland ; and this to old Mistress Ursula , whom I have weekly sworn to marry since I perceived the first white hair on my chin . About it : you know where to find me .
70563
70564 A pox of this gout ! or , a gout of this pox ! for the one or the other plays the rogue with my great toe . 'Tis no matter if I do halt ; I have the wars for my colour , and my pension shall seem the more reasonable . A good wit will make use of anything ; I will turn diseases to commodity .
70565
70566
70567 Thus have you heard our cause and known our means ;
70568 And , my most noble friends , I pray you all ,
70569 Speak plainly your opinions of our hopes :
70570 And first , Lord Marshal , what say you to it ?
70571
70572 I well allow the occasion of our arms ;
70573 But gladly would be better satisfied
70574 How in our means we should advance ourselves
70575 To look with forehead bold and big enough
70576 Upon the power and puissance of the king .
70577
70578 Our present musters grow upon the file
70579 To five-and-twenty thousand men of choice ;
70580 And our supplies live largely in the hope
70581 Of great Northumberland , whose bosom burns
70582 With an incensed fire of injuries .
70583
70584 The question , then , Lord Hastings , standeth thus :
70585 Whether our present five-and-twenty thousand
70586 May hold up head without Northumberland .
70587
70588 With him , we may .
70589
70590 Ay , marry , there's the point :
70591 But if without him we be thought too feeble ,
70592 My judgment is , we should not step too far
70593 Till we had his assistance by the hand ;
70594 For in a theme so bloody-fao'd as this ,
70595 Conjecture , expectation , and surmise
70596 Of aids incertain should not be admitted .
70597
70598 'Tis very true , Lord Bardolph ; for , indeed
70599 It was young Hotspur's case at Shrewsbury .
70600
70601 It was , my lord ; who lin'd himself with hope ,
70602 Eating the air on promise of supply ,
70603 Flattering himself with project of a power
70604 Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts ;
70605 And so , with great imagination
70606 Proper to madmen , led his powers to death ,
70607 And winking leap'd into destruction .
70608
70609 But , by your leave , it never yet did hurt
70610 To lay down likelihoods and forms of hope .
70611
70612 Yes , if this present quality of war ,
70613 Indeed the instant action ,a cause on foot ,
70614 Lives so in hope , as in an early spring
70615 We see the appearing buds ; which , to prove fruit ,
70616 Hope gives not so much warrant as despair
70617 That frosts will bite them . When we mean to build ,
70618 We first survey the plot , then draw the model ;
70619 And when we see the figure of the house ,
70620 Then must we rate the cost of the erection ;
70621 Which if we find outweighs ability ,
70622 What do we then but draw anew the model
70623 In fewer offices , or at last desist
70624 To build at all ? Much more , in this great work ,
70625 Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down
70626 And set another up ,should we survey
70627 The plot of situation and the model ,
70628 Consent upon a sure foundation ,
70629 Question surveyors , know our own estate ,
70630 How able such a work to undergo ,
70631 To weigh against his opposite ; or else ,
70632 We fortify in paper , and in figures ,
70633 Using the names of men instead of men :
70634 Like one that draws the model of a house
70635 Beyond his power to build it ; who , half through ,
70636 Gives o'er and leaves his part-created cost
70637 A naked-subject to the weeping clouds ,
70638 And waste for churlish winter's tyranny .
70639
70640 Grant that our hopes , yet likely of fair birth ,
70641 Should be still-born , and that we now possess'd
70642 The utmost man of expectation ;
70643 I think we are a body strong enough ,
70644 Even as we are , to equal with the king .
70645
70646 What ! is the king but five-and-twenty thousand ?
70647
70648 To us no more ; nay , not so much , Lord Bardolph .
70649 For his divisions , as the times do brawl ,
70650 Are in three heads : one power against the French ,
70651 And one against Glendower ; perforce , a third
70652 Must take up us : so is the unfirm king
70653 In three divided , and his coffers sound
70654 With hollow poverty and emptiness .
70655
70656 That he should draw his several strengths together
70657 And come against us in full puissance ,
70658 Need not be dreaded .
70659
70660 If he should do so ,
70661 He leaves his back unarm'd , the French and Welsh
70662 Baying him at the heels : never fear that .
70663
70664 Who is it like should lead his forces hither ?
70665
70666 The Duke of Lancaster and Westmoreland ;
70667 Against the Welsh , himself and Harry Monmouth :
70668 But who is substituted 'gainst the French
70669 I have no certain notice .
70670
70671 Let us on
70672 And publish the occasion of our arms .
70673 The commonwealth is sick of their own choice ;
70674 Their over-greedy love hath surfeited .
70675 A habitation giddy and unsure
70676 Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart .
70677 O thou fond many ! with what loud applause
70678 Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke
70679 Before he was what thou wouldst have him be :
70680 And being now trimm'd in thine own desires ,
70681 Thou , beastly feeder , art so full of him
70682 That thou provok'st thyself to cast him up .
70683 So , so , thou common dog , didst thou disgorge
70684 Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard ,
70685 And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up ,
70686 And howl'st to find it . What trust is in these times ?
70687 They that , when Richard liv'd , would have him die ,
70688 Are now become enamour'd on his grave :
70689 Thou , that threw'st dust upon his goodly head ,
70690 When through proud London he came sighing on
70691 After the admired heels of Bolingbroke ,
70692 Cry'st now , 'O earth ! yield us that king again ,
70693 And take thou this !' O , thoughts of men accurst !
70694 Past and to come seem best ; things present worst .
70695
70696 Shall we go draw our numbers and set on ?
70697
70698 We are time's subjects , and time bids be gone .
70699
70700 Master Fang , have you entered the exion ?
70701
70702 It is entered .
70703
70704 Where's your yeoman ? Is it a lusty yeoman ? will a' stand to't ?
70705
70706 Sirrah , where's Snare ?
70707
70708 O Lord , ay ! good Master Snare .
70709
70710 Here , here .
70711
70712 Snare , we must arrest Sir John Falstaff .
70713
70714 Yea , good Master Snare ; I have entered him and all .
70715
70716 It may chance cost some of us our lives , for he will stab .
70717
70718 Alas the day ! take heed of him : he stabbed me in mine own house , and that most beastly . In good faith , he cares not what mischief he doth if his weapon be out : he will foin like any devil , he will spare neither man , woman , nor child .
70719
70720 If I can close with him I care not for his thrust .
70721
70722 No , nor I neither : I'll be at your elbow .
70723
70724 An I but fist him once ; an a' come but within my vice ,
70725
70726 I am undone by his going ; I warrant you , he's an infinitive thing upon my score . Good Master Fang , hold him sure : good Master Snare , let him not 'scape . A' comes continuantly to Pie-corner saving your manhoods to buy a saddle , and he's indited to dinner to the Lubber's Head in Lumbert-Street , to Master Smooth's the silkman : I pray ye , since my exion is entered , and my case so openly known to the world , let him be brought in to his answer . A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear ; and I have borne , and borne , and borne ; and have been fubbed off , and fubbed off , and fubbed off , from this day to that day , that it is a shame to be thought on . There is no honesty in such dealing ; unless a woman should be made an ass , and a beast , to bear every knave's wrong . Yonder he comes ; and that arrant malmseynose knave , Bardolph , with him . Do your offices , do your offices , Master Fang and Master Snare ; do me , do me , do me your offices .
70727
70728
70729 How now ! whose mare's dead ? what's the matter ?
70730
70731 Sir John , I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly .
70732
70733 Away , varlets ! Draw , Bardolph : cut me off the villain's head ; throw the quean in the channel .
70734
70735 Throw me in the channel ! I'll throw thee in the channel . Wilt thou ? wilt thou ? thou bastardly rogue ! Murder , murder ! Ah , thou honey-suckle villain ! wilt thou kill God's officers and the king's ? Ah , thou honey-seed rogue ! thou art a honey-seed , a man-queller , and a woman-queller .
70736
70737 Keep them off , Bardolph .
70738
70739 A rescue ! a rescue !
70740
70741 Good people , bring a rescue or two ! Thou wo't , wo't thou ? thou wo't , wo't ta ? do , do , thou rogue ! do , thou hemp-seed !
70742
70743 Away , you scullion ! you rampallian ! you fustilarian ! I'll tickle your catastrophe .
70744
70745
70746 What is the matter ? keep the peace here , ho !
70747
70748 Good my lord , be good to me ! I beseech you , stand to me !
70749
70750 How now , Sir John ! what ! are you brawling here ?
70751 Doth this become your place , your time and business ?
70752 You should have been well on your way to York .
70753 Stand from him , fellow : wherefore hang'st upon him ?
70754
70755 O , my most worshipful lord , an't please your grace , I am a poor widow of Eastcheap , and he is arrested at my suit .
70756
70757 For what sum ?
70758
70759 It is more than for some , my lord ; it is for all , all I have . He hath eaten me out of house and home ; he hath put all my substance into that fat belly of his : but I will have some of it out again , or I will ride thee o' nights like the mare .
70760
70761 I think I am as like to ride the mare if I have any vantage of ground to get up .
70762
70763 How comes this , Sir John ? Fie ! what man of good temper would endure this tempest of exclamation ? Are you not ashamed to enforce a poor widow to so rough a course to come by her own ?
70764
70765 What is the gross sum that I owe thee ?
70766
70767 Marry , if thou wert an honest man , thyself and the money too . Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet , sitting in my Dolphin-chamber , at the round table , by a seacoal fire , upon Wednesday in Wheeson week , when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor , thou didst swear to me then , as I was washing thy wound , to marry me and make me my lady thy wife . Canst thou deny it ? Did not goodwife Keech , the butcher's wife , come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some , whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound ? And didst thou not , when she was gone down-stairs , desire me to be no more so familiarity with such poor people ; saying that ere long they should call me madam ? And didst thou not kiss me and bid me fetch thee thirty shillings ? I put thee now to thy book-oath : deny it if thou canst .
70768
70769 My lord , this is a poor mad soul ; and she says up and down the town that her eldest son is like you . She hath been in good case , and the truth is , poverty hath distracted her . But for these foolish officers , I beseech you I may have redress against them .
70770
70771 Sir John , Sir John , I am well acquainted with your manner of wrenching the true cause the false way . It is not a confident brow , nor the throng of words that come with such more than impudent sauciness from you , can thrust me from a level consideration ; you have , as it appears to me , practised upon the easy-yielding spirit of this woman , and made her serve your uses both in purse and in person .
70772
70773 Yea , in troth , my lord .
70774
70775 Prithee , peace . Pay her the debt you owe her , and unpay the villany you have done her : the one you may do with sterling money , and the other with current repentance .
70776
70777 My lord , I will not undergo this sneap without reply . You call honourable boldness impudent sauciness : if a man will make curtsy , and say nothing , he is virtuous . No , my lord , my humble duty remembered , I will not be your suitor : I say to you , I do desire deliverance from these officers , being upon hasty employment in the king's affairs .
70778
70779 You speak as having power to do wrong : but answer in the effect of your reputation , and satisfy the poor woman .
70780
70781 Come hither , hostess .
70782
70783 Now , Master Gower ! what news ?
70784
70785 The king , my lord , and Harry Prince of Wales
70786 Are near at hand : the rest the paper tells .
70787
70788
70789 As I am a gentleman .
70790
70791 Nay , you said so before .
70792
70793 As I am a gentleman . Come , no more words of it .
70794
70795 By this heavenly ground I tread on , I must be fain to pawn both my plate and the tapestry of my dining-chambers .
70796
70797 Glasses , glasses , is the only drinking : and for thy walls , a pretty slight drollery , or the story of the Prodigal , or the German hunting in water-work , is worth a thousand of these bed-hangings and these fly-bitten tapestries . Let it be ten pound if thou canst . Come , an it were not for thy humours , there is not a better wench in England . Go , wash thy face , and draw thy action . Come , thou must not be in this humour with me ; dost not know me ? Come , come , I know thou wast set on to this .
70798
70799 Prithee , Sir John , let it be but twenty nobles : i' faith , I am loath to pawn my plate , so God save me , la !
70800
70801 Let it alone ; I'll make other shift : you'll be a fool still .
70802
70803 Well , you shall have it , though I pawn my gown . I hope you'll come to supper . You'll pay me all together ?
70804
70805 Will I live ?
70806
70807 Go , with her , with her ; hook on , hook on .
70808
70809 Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet you at supper ?
70810
70811 No more words ; let's have her .
70812
70813
70814 I have heard better news .
70815
70816 What's the news , my good lord ?
70817
70818 Where lay the king last night ?
70819
70820 At Basingstoke , my lord .
70821
70822 I hope , my lord , all's well : what is the news , my lord ?
70823
70824 Come all his forces back ?
70825
70826 No ; fifteen hundred foot , five hundred horse ,
70827 Are march'd up to my Lord of Lancaster ,
70828 Against Northumberland and the archbishop .
70829
70830 Comes the king back from Wales , my noble lord ?
70831
70832 You shall have letters of me presently .
70833 Come , go along with me , good Master Gower .
70834
70835 My lord !
70836
70837 What's the matter ?
70838
70839 Master Gower , shall I entreat you with me to dinner ?
70840
70841 I must wait upon my good lord here ;
70842 I thank you , good Sir John .
70843
70844 Sir John , you loiter here too long , being you are to take soldiers up in counties as you go .
70845
70846 Will you sup with me , Master Gower ?
70847
70848 What foolish master taught you these manners , Sir John ?
70849
70850 Master Gower , if they become me not , he was a fool that taught them me . This is the right fencing grace , my lord ; tap for tap , and so part fair .
70851
70852 Now the Lord lighten thee ! thou art a great fool .
70853
70854
70855 Before God , I am exceeding weary .
70856
70857 Is it come to that ? I had thought weariness durst not have attached one of so high blood .
70858
70859 Faith , it does me , though it discolours the complexion of my greatness to acknowledge it . Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer ?
70860
70861 Why , a prince should not be so loosely studied as to remember so weak a composition .
70862
70863 Belike then my appetite was not princely got ; for , by my troth , I do now remember the poor creature , small beer . But , indeed , these humble considerations make me out of love with my greatness . What a disgrace is it to me to remember thy name , or to know thy face to-morrow ! or to take note how many pair of silk stockings thou hast ; viz . these , and those that were thy peach-coloured ones ! or to bear the inventory of thy shirts ; as , one for superfluity , and one other for use ! But that the tennis-court-keeper knows better than I , for it is a low ebb of linen with thee when thou keepest not racket there ; as thou hast not done a great while , because the rest of thy low-countries have made a shift to eat up thy holland : and God knows whether those that bawl out the ruins of thy linen shall inherit his kingdom ; but the midwives say the children are not in the fault ; whereupon the world increases , and kindreds are mightily strengthened .
70864
70865 How ill it follows , after you have laboured so hard , you should talk so idly ! Tell me , how many good young princes would do so , their fathers being so sick as yours at this time is ?
70866
70867 Shall I tell thee one thing , Poins ?
70868
70869 Yes , faith , and let it be an excellent good thing .
70870
70871 It shall serve among wits of no higher breeding than thine .
70872
70873 Go to ; I stand the push of your one thing that you will tell .
70874
70875 Marry , I tell thee , it is not meet that I should be sad , now my father is sick : albeit I could tell to thee ,as to one it pleases me , for fault of a better , to call my friend ,I could be sad , and sad indeed too .
70876
70877 Very hardly upon such a subject .
70878
70879 By this hand , thou thinkest me as far in the devil's book as thou and Falstaff for obduracy and persistency : let the end try the man . But I tell thee my heart bleeds inwardly that my father is so sick ; and keeping such vile company as thou art hath in reason taken from me all ostentation of sorrow .
70880
70881 The reason ?
70882
70883 What wouldst thou think of me if I should weep ?
70884
70885 I would think thee a most princely hypocrite .
70886
70887 It would be every man's thought ; and thou art a blessed fellow to think as every man thinks : never a man's thought in the world keeps the road-way better than thine : every man would think me a hypocrite indeed . And what accites your most worshipful thought to think so ?
70888
70889 Why , because you have been so lewd and so much engraffed to Falstaff .
70890
70891 And to thee .
70892
70893 By this light , I am well spoke on ; I can hear it with mine own ears : the worst that they can say of me is that I am a second brother and that I am a proper fellow of my hands ; and these two things I confess I cannot help . By the mass , here comes Bardolph .
70894
70895
70896 And the boy that I gave Falstaff : a' had him from me Christian ; and look , if the fat villain have not transformed him ape .
70897
70898 God save your Grace !
70899
70900 And yours , most noble Bardolph .
70901
70902 Come , you virtuous ass , you bashful fool , must you be blushing ? wherefore blush you now ? What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become ! Is it such a matter to get a pottle-pot's maidenhead ?
70903
70904 A' calls me even now , my lord , through a red lattice , and I could discern no part of his face from the window : at last , I spied his eyes , and methought he had made two holes in the ale-wife's new petticoat , and peeped through .
70905
70906 Hath not the boy profited ?
70907
70908 Away , you whoreson upright rabbit , away !
70909
70910 Away , you rascally Althea's dream , away !
70911
70912 Instruct us , boy ; what dream , boy ?
70913
70914 Marry , my lord , Althea dreamed she was delivered of a firebrand ; and therefore I call him her dream .
70915
70916 A crown's worth of good interpretation . There it is , boy .
70917
70918
70919 O ! that this good blossom could be kept from cankers . Well , there is sixpence to preserve thee .
70920
70921 An you do not make him be hanged among you , the gallows shall have wrong .
70922
70923 And how doth thy master , Bardolph ?
70924
70925 Well , my lord . He heard of your Grace's coming to town : there's a letter for you .
70926
70927 Delivered with good respect . And how doth the martlemas , your master ?
70928
70929 In bodily health , sir .
70930
70931 Marry , the immortal part needs a physician ; but that moves not him : though that be sick , it dies not .
70932
70933 I do allow this wen to be as familiar with me as my dog ; and he holds his place , for look you how he writes .
70934
70935 'John Falstaff , knight ,' every man must know that , as oft as he has occasion to name himself : even like those that are akin to the king , for they never prick their finger but they say , 'There is some of the king's blood spilt .' 'How comes that ?' says he that takes upon him not to conceive . The answer is as ready as a borrower's cap , 'I am the king's poor cousin , sir .'
70936
70937 Nay , they will be kin to us , or they will fetch it from Japhet . But to the letter :
70938
70939 Sir John Falstaff , knight , to the son of the king nearest his father , Harry Prince of Wales , greeting . Why , this is a certificate .
70940
70941 Peace !
70942
70943 I will imitate the honourable Romans in brevity : sure he means brevity in breath , short-winded .I commend me to thee , I commend thee , and I leave thee . Be not too familiar with Poins ; for he misuses thy favours so much that he swears thou art to marry his sister Nell . Repent at idle times as thou mayest , and so farewell .
70944
70945 My lord , I'll steep this letter in sack and make him eat it .
70946
70947 That's to make him eat twenty of his words . But do you use me thus , Ned ? must I marry your sister ?
70948
70949 God send the wench no worse fortune ! but I never said so .
70950
70951 Well , thus we play the fools with the time , and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us . Is your master here in London ?
70952
70953 Yes , my lord .
70954
70955 Where sups he ? doth the old boar feed in the old frank ?
70956
70957 At the old place , my lord , in Eastcheap .
70958
70959 What company ?
70960
70961 Ephesians , my lord , of the old church .
70962
70963 Sup any women with him ?
70964
70965 None , my lord , but old Mistress Quickly and Mistress Doll Tearsheet .
70966
70967 What pagan may that be ?
70968
70969 A proper gentlewoman , sir , and a kinswoman of my master's .
70970
70971 Even such kin as the parish heifers are to the town bull . Shall we steal upon them , Ned , at supper ?
70972
70973 I am your shadow , my lord ; I'll follow you .
70974
70975 Sirrah , you boy , and Bardolph ; no word to your master that I am yet come to town : there's for your silence .
70976
70977
70978 I have no tongue , sir .
70979
70980 And for mine , sir , I will govern it .
70981
70982 Fare ye well ; go .
70983
70984 This Doll Tearsheet should be some road .
70985
70986 I warrant you , as common as the way between Saint Alban's and London .
70987
70988 How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colours , and not ourselves be seen ?
70989
70990 Put on two leathern jerkins and aprons , and wait upon him at his table as drawers .
70991
70992 From a god to a bull ! a heavy descension ! it was Jove's case . From a prince to a prentice ! a low transformation ! that shall be mine ; for in every thing the purpose must weigh with the folly . Follow me , Ned .
70993
70994
70995 I pray thee , loving wife , and gentle daughter ,
70996 Give even way unto my rough affairs :
70997 Put not you on the visage of the times ,
70998 And be like them to Percy troublesome .
70999
71000 I have given over , I will speak no more :
71001 Do what you will ; your wisdom be your guide .
71002
71003 Alas ! sweet wife , my honour is at pawn ;
71004 And , but my going , nothing can redeem it .
71005
71006 O ! yet for God's sake , go not to these wars .
71007 The time was , father , that you broke your word
71008 When you were more endear'd to it than now ;
71009 When your own Percy , when my heart's dear Harry ,
71010 Threw many a northward look to see his father
71011 Bring up his powers ; but he did long in vain .
71012 Who then persuaded you to stay at home ?
71013 There were two honours lost , yours and your son's :
71014 For yours , the God of heaven brighten it !
71015 For his , it stuck upon him as the sun
71016 In the grey vault of heaven ; and by his light
71017 Did all the chivalry of England move
71018 To do brave acts : he was indeed the glass
71019 Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves :
71020 He had no legs , that practis'd not his gait ;
71021 And speaking thick , which nature made his blemish ,
71022 Became the accents of the valiant ;
71023 For those that could speak low and tardily ,
71024 Would turn their own perfection to abuse ,
71025 To seem like him : so that , in speech , in gait ,
71026 In diet , in affections of delight ,
71027 In military rules , humours of blood ,
71028 He was the mark and glass , copy and book ,
71029 That fashion'd others . And him , O wondrous him !
71030 O miracle of men ! him did you leave ,
71031 Second to none , unseconded by you ,
71032 To look upon the hideous god of war
71033 In disadvantage ; to abide a field
71034 Where nothing but the sound of Hotspur's name
71035 Did seem defensible : so you left him .
71036 Never , O ! never , do his ghost the wrong
71037 To hold your honour more precise and nice
71038 With others than with him : let them alone .
71039 The marshal and the archbishop are strong :
71040 Had my sweet Harry had but half their numbers ,
71041 To-day might I , hanging on Hotspur's neck ,
71042 Have talk'd of Monmouth's grave .
71043
71044 Beshrew your heart ,
71045 Fair daughter ! you do draw my spirits from me
71046 With new lamenting ancient oversights .
71047 But I must go and meet with danger there ,
71048 Or it will seek me in another place ,
71049 And find me worse provided .
71050
71051 O ! fly to Scotland ,
71052 Till that the nobles and the armed commons
71053 Have of their puissance made a little taste .
71054
71055 If they get ground and vantage of the king ,
71056 Then join you with them , like a rib of steel ,
71057 To make strength stronger ; but , for all our loves ,
71058 First let them try themselves . So did your son ;
71059 He was so suffer'd : so came I a widow ;
71060 And never shall have length of life enough
71061 To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes ,
71062 That it may grow and sprout as high as heaven ,
71063 For recordation to my noble husband .
71064
71065 Come , come , go in with me . 'Tis with my mind
71066 As with the tide swell'd up unto its height ,
71067 That makes a still-stand , running neither way :
71068 Fain would I go to meet the archbishop ,
71069 But many thousand reasons hold me back .
71070 I will resolve for Scotland : there am I ,
71071 Till time and vantage crave my company .
71072
71073
71074 What the devil hast thou brought there ? apple-johns ? thou knowest Sir John cannot endure an apple-john .
71075
71076 Mass , thou sayst true . The prince once set a dish of apple-johns before him , and told him there were five more Sir Johns ; and , putting off his hat , said , 'I will now take my leave of these six dry , round , old withered knights .' It angered him to the heart ; but he hath forgot that .
71077
71078 Why then , cover , and set them down : and see if thou canst find out Sneak's noise ; Mistress Tearsheet would fain hear some music . Dispatch : the room where they supped is too hot ; they'll come in straight .
71079
71080 Sirrah , here will be the prince and Master Poins anon ; and they will put on two of our jerkins and aprons ; and Sir John must not know of it : Bardolph hath brought word .
71081
71082 By the mass , here will be old utis : it will be an excellent stratagem .
71083
71084 I'll see if I can find out Sneak .
71085
71086 I'faith , sweetheart , methinks now you are in an excellent good temperality : your pulsidge beats as extraordinarily as heart would desire ; and your colour , I warrant you , is as red as any rose ; in good truth , la ! But , i' faith , you have drunk too much canaries , and that's a marvellous searching wine , and it perfumes the blood ere one can say , What's this ? How do you now ?
71087
71088 Better than I was : hem !
71089
71090 Why , that's well said ; a good heart's worth gold . Lo ! here comes Sir John .
71091
71092
71093 When Arthur first in court Empty the jordan .
71094
71095 And was a worthy king . How now , Mistress Doll !
71096
71097 Sick of a calm : yea , good sooth .
71098
71099 So is all her sect ; an they be once in a calm they are sick .
71100
71101 You muddy rascal , is that all the comfort you give me ?
71102
71103 You make fat rascals , Mistress Doll .
71104
71105 I make them ! gluttony and diseases make them ; I make them not .
71106
71107 If the cook help to make the gluttony , you help to make the diseases , Doll : we catch of you , Doll , we catch of you ; grant that , my poor virtue , grant that .
71108
71109 Ay , marry ; our chains and our jewels .
71110
71111 'Your brooches , pearls , and owches :' for to serve bravely is to come halting off you know : to come off the breach with his pike bent bravely , and to surgery bravely ; to venture upon the charged chambers bravely ,
71112
71113 Hang yourself , you muddy conger , hang yourself !
71114
71115 By my troth , this is the old fashion ; you two never meet but you fall to some discord : you are both , in good troth , as rheumatic as two dry toasts ; you cannot one bear with another's confirmities . What the good-year ! one must bear , and that must be you : you are the weaker vessel , as they say , the emptier vessel .
71116
71117 Can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full hogshead ? there's a whole merchant's venture of Bourdeaux stuff in him : you have not seen a hulk better stuffed in the hold . Come , I'll be friends with thee , Jack : thou art going to the wars ; and whether I shall ever see thee again or no , there is nobody cares .
71118
71119
71120 Sir , Ancient Pistol's below , and would speak with you .
71121
71122 Hang him , swaggering rascal ! let him not come hither : it is the foul-mouthedest rogue in England .
71123
71124 If he swagger , let him not come here : no , by my faith ; I must live amongst my neighbours ; I'll no swaggerers : I am in good name and fame with the very best . Shut the door ; there comes no swaggerers here : I have not lived all this while to have swaggering now : shut the door , I pray you .
71125
71126 Dost thou hear , hostess ?
71127
71128 Pray you , pacify yourself , Sir John : there comes no swaggerers here .
71129
71130 Dost thou hear ? it is mine ancient .
71131
71132 Tilly-fally , Sir John , never tell me : your ancient swaggerer comes not in my doors . I was before Master Tisick , the deputy , t'other day ; and , as he said to me ,'twas no longer ago than Wednesday last ,'Neighbour Quickly ,' says he ;Master Dumbe , our minister , was by then ;'Neighbour Quickly ,' says he , 'receive those that are civil , for ,' said he , 'you are in an ill name ;' now , a' said so , I can tell whereupon ; 'for ,' says he , 'you are an honest woman , and well thought on ; therefore take heed what guests you receive : receive ,' says he , 'no swaggering companions .' There comes none here :you would bless you to hear what he said . No , I'll no swaggerers .
71133
71134 He's no swaggerer , hostess ; a tame cheater , i' faith ; you may stroke him as gently as a puppy greyhound : he will not swagger with a Barbary hen if her feathers turn back in any show of resistance . Call him up , drawer .
71135
71136
71137 Cheater , call you him ? I will bar no honest man my house , nor no cheater ; but I do not love swaggering , by my troth ; I am the worse , when one says swagger . Feel , masters , how I shake ; look you , I warrant you .
71138
71139 So you do , hostess .
71140
71141 Do I ? yea , in very truth , do I , an 'twere an aspen leaf : I cannot abide swaggerers .
71142
71143
71144 God save you , Sir John !
71145
71146 Welcome , Ancient Pistol . Here , Pistol , I charge you with a cup of sack : do you discharge upon mine hostess .
71147
71148 I will discharge upon her , Sir John , with two bullets .
71149
71150 She is pistol-proof , sir ; you shall hardly offend her .
71151
71152 Come , I'll drink no proofs nor no bullets : I'll drink no more than will do me good , for no man's pleasure , I .
71153
71154 Then to you , Mistress Dorothy ; I will charge you .
71155
71156 Charge me ! I scorn you , scurvy companion . What ! you poor , base , rascally , cheating , lack-linen mate ! Away , you mouldy rogue , away ! I am meat for your master .
71157
71158 I know you , Mistress Dorothy .
71159
71160 Away , you cut-purse rascal ! you filthy bung , away ! By this wine , I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps an you play the saucy cuttle with me . Away , you bottle-ale rascal ! you basket-hilt stale juggler , you ! Since when , I pray you , sir ? God's light ! with two points on your shoulder ? much !
71161
71162 God let me not live . I will murder your ruff for this !
71163
71164 No more , Pistol : I would not have you go off here . Discharge yourself of our company , Pistol .
71165
71166 No , good captain Pistol ; not here , sweet captain .
71167
71168 Captain ! thou abominable damned cheater , art thou not ashamed to be called captain ? An captains were of my mind , they would truncheon you out for taking their names upon you before you have earned them . You a captain , you slave ! for what ? for tearing a poor whore's ruff in a bawdy-house ? He a captain ! Hang him , rogue ! He lives upon mouldy stewed prunes and dried cakes . A captain ! God's light , these villains will make the word captain as odious as the word 'occupy ,' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted : therefore captains had need look to it .
71169
71170 Pray thee , go down , good ancient .
71171
71172 Hark thee hither , Mistress Doll .
71173
71174 Not I ; I tell thee what , Corporal Bardolph ; I could tear her . I'll be revenged of her .
71175
71176 Pray thee , go down .
71177
71178 I'll see her damned first ; to Pluto's damned lake , by this hand , to the infernal deep , with Erebus and tortures vile also . Hold hook and line , say I . Down , down , dogs ! down fates ! Have we not Hiren here ?
71179
71180 Good Captain Peesel , be quiet ; it is very late , i' faith . I beseek you now , aggravate your choler .
71181
71182 These be good humours , indeed ! Shall pack-horses ,
71183 And hollow pamper'd jades of Asia ,
71184 Which cannot go but thirty miles a day ,
71185 Compare with C sars , and with Cannibals ,
71186 And Trojan Greeks ? nay , rather damn them with
71187 King Cerberus ; and let the welkin roar .
71188 Shall we fall foul for toys ?
71189
71190 By my troth , captain , these are very bitter words .
71191
71192 Be gone , good ancient : this will grow to a brawl anon .
71193
71194 Dio men like dogs ! give crowns like pins ! Have we not Hiren here ?
71195
71196 O' my word , captain , there's none such here . What the good-year ! do you think I would deny her ? for God's sake ! be quiet .
71197
71198 Then feed , and be fat , my fair Calipolis .
71199 Come , give's some sack .
71200 Si fortuna me tormente , sperato me contento .
71201 Fear we broadsides ? no , let the fiend give fire :
71202 Give me some sack ; and , sweetheart , lie thou there .
71203
71204 Come we to full points here , and are et ceteras nothing ?
71205
71206 Pistol , I would be quiet .
71207
71208 Sweet knight , I kiss thy neif . What ! we have seen the seven stars .
71209
71210 For God's sake , thrust him down stairs ! I cannot endure such a fustian rascal .
71211
71212 'Thrust him down stairs !' know we not Galloway nags ?
71213
71214 Quoit him down , Bardolph , like a shovegroat shilling : nay , an a' do nothing but speak nothing , a' shall be nothing here .
71215
71216 Come , get you down stairs .
71217
71218 What ! shall we have incision ? Shall we imbrue ?
71219
71220 Then death rock me asleep , abridge my doleful days !
71221 Why then , let grievous , ghastly , gaping wounds
71222 Untwine the Sisters Three ! Come , Atropos , I say !
71223
71224 Here's goodly stuff toward !
71225
71226 Give me my rapier , boy .
71227
71228 I pray thee , Jack , I pray thee , do not draw .
71229
71230 Get you down stairs .
71231
71232
71233 Here's a goodly tumult ! I'll forswear keeping house , afore I'll be in these tirrits and frights . So ; murder , I warrant now . Alas , alas ! put up your naked weapons ; put up your naked weapons .
71234
71235
71236 I pray thee , Jack , be quiet ; the rascal's gone . Ah ! you whoreson little valiant villain , you !
71237
71238 Are you not hurt i' the groin ? methought a' made a shrewd thrust at your belly .
71239
71240
71241 Have you turned him out o' doors ?
71242
71243 Yes , sir : the rascal's drunk . You have hurt him , sir , i' the shoulder .
71244
71245 A rascal , to brave me !
71246
71247 Ah , you sweet little rogue , you ! Alas , poor ape , how thou sweatest ! Come , let me wipe thy face ; come on , you whoreson chops . Ah , rogue ! i' faith , I love thee . Thou art as valorous as Hector of Troy , worth five of Agamemnon , and ten times better than the Nine Worthies . Ah , villain !
71248
71249 A rascally slave ! I will toss the rogue in a blanket .
71250
71251 Do , an thou darest for thy heart : an thou dost , I'll canvass thee between a pair of sheets .
71252
71253
71254 The music is come , sir .
71255
71256 Let them play . Play , sirs . Sit on my knee , Doll . A rascal bragging slave ! the rogue fled from me like quicksilver .
71257
71258 I' faith , and thou followedst him like a church . Thou whoreson little tidy Bartholomew boar-pig , when wilt thou leave fighting o' days , and foining o' nights , and begin to patch up thine old body for heaven ?
71259
71260
71261 Peace , good Doll ! do not speak like a death's head : do not bid me remember mine end .
71262
71263 Sirrah , what humour is the prince of ?
71264
71265 A good shallow young fellow : a' would have made a good pantler , a' would have chipped bread well .
71266
71267 They say , Poins has a good wit .
71268
71269 He a good wit ! hang him , baboon ! his wit is as thick as Tewksbury mustard : there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet .
71270
71271 Why does the prince love him so , then ?
71272
71273 Because their legs are both of a bigness , and he plays at quoits well , and eats conger and fennel , and drinks off candles' ends for flapdragons , and rides the wild mare with the boys , and jumps upon joint-stools , and swears with a good grace , and wears his boots very smooth , like unto the sign of the leg , and breeds no bate with telling of discreet stories ; and such other gambol faculties a' has , that show a weak mind and an able body , for the which the prince admits him : for the prince himself is such another ; the weight of a hair will turn the scales between their avoirdupois .
71274
71275 Would not this nave of a wheel have his ears cut off ?
71276
71277 Let's beat him before his whore .
71278
71279 Look , whether the withered elder hath not his poll clawed like a parrot .
71280
71281 Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance ?
71282
71283 Kiss me , Doll .
71284
71285 Saturn and Venus this year in conjunction ! what says the almanack to that ?
71286
71287 And , look , whether the fiery Trigon , his man , be not lisping to his master's old tables , his note-book , his counsel-keeper .
71288
71289 Thou dost give me flattering busses .
71290
71291 By my troth , I kiss thee with a most constant heart .
71292
71293 I am old , I am old .
71294
71295 I love thee better than I love e'er a scurvy young boy of them all .
71296
71297 What stuff wilt have a kirtle of ? I shall receive money o' Thursday ; thou shalt have a cap to-morrow . A merry song ! come : it grows late ; we'll to bed . Thou'lt forget me when I am gone .
71298
71299 By my troth , thou'lt set me a-weeping an thou sayst so : prove that ever I dress myself handsome till thy return . Well , hearken at the end .
71300
71301 Some sack , Francis !
71302
71303 Anon , anon , sir .
71304
71305 Anon , anon , sir .
71306
71307 Ha ! a bastard son of the king's ? And art not thou Poins his brother ?
71308
71309 Why , thou globe of sinful cntinents , what a life dost thou lead !
71310
71311 A better than thou : I am a gentleman ; thou art a drawer .
71312
71313 Very true , sir ; and I come to draw you out by the ears .
71314
71315 O ! the Lord preserve thy good Grace ; by my troth , welcome to London . Now , the Lord bless that sweet face of thine ! O Jesu ! are you come from Wales ?
71316
71317 Thou whoreson mad compound of majesty , by this light flesh and corrupt blood
71318
71319 thou art welcome .
71320
71321 How , you fat fool ! I scorn you .
71322
71323 My lord , he will drive you out of your revenge and turn all to a merriment , if you take not the heat .
71324
71325 You whoreson candle-mine , you , how vilely did you speak of me even now before this honest , virtuous , civil gentlewoman !
71326
71327 Blessing on your good heart ! and so she is , by my troth .
71328
71329 Didst thou hear me ?
71330
71331 Yea ; and you knew me , as you did when you ran away by Gadshill : you knew I was at your back , and spoke it on purpose to try my patience .
71332
71333 No , no , no ; not so ; I did not think thou wast within hearing .
71334
71335 I shall drive you then to confess the wilful abuse ; and then I know how to handle you .
71336
71337 No abuse , Hal , o' mine honour ; no abuse .
71338
71339 Not to dispraise me , and call me pantler and bread-chipper and I know not what ?
71340
71341 No abuse , Hal .
71342
71343 No abuse !
71344
71345 No abuse , Ned , in the world ; honest Ned , none . I dispraised him before the wicked , that the wicked might not fall in love with him ; in which doing I have done the part of a careful friend and a true subject , and thy father is to give me thanks for it . No abuse , Hal ; none , Ned , none : no , faith , boys , none .
71346
71347 See now , whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us ? Is she of the wicked ? Is thine hostess here of the wicked ? Or is thy boy of the wicked ? Or honest Bardolph , whose zeal burns in his nose , of the wicked ?
71348
71349 Answer , thou dead elm , answer .
71350
71351 The fiend hath pricked down Bardolph irrecoverable ; and his face is Lucifer's privykitchen , where he doth nothing but roast maltworms . For the boy , there is a good angel about him ; but the devil outbids him too .
71352
71353 For the women ?
71354
71355 For one of them , she is in hell already , and burns poor souls . For the other , I owe her money ; and whether she be damned for that , I know not .
71356
71357 No , I warrant you .
71358
71359 No , I think thou art not ; I think thou art quit for that . Marry , there is another indictment upon thee , for suffering flesh to be eaten in thy house , contrary to the law ; for the which I think thou wilt howl .
71360
71361 All victuallers do so : what's a joint of mutton or two in a whole Lent ?
71362
71363 You , gentlewoman ,
71364
71365 What says your Grace ?
71366
71367 His Grace says that which his flesh rebels against .
71368
71369
71370 Who knocks so loud at door ? Look to the door there , Francis .
71371
71372
71373 Peto , how now ! what news ?
71374
71375 The king your father is at Westminster ;
71376 And there are twenty weak and wearied posts
71377 Come from the north : and as I came along ,
71378 I met and overtook a dozen captains ,
71379 Bare-headed , sweating , knocking at the taverns ,
71380 And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff .
71381
71382 By heaven , Poins , I feel me much to blame ,
71383 So idly to profane the precious time ,
71384 When tempest of commotion , like the south ,
71385 Borne with black vapour , doth begin to melt
71386 And drop upon our bare unarmed heads .
71387 Give me my sword and cloak . Falstaff , good night .
71388
71389
71390 Now comes in the sweetest morsel of the night , and we must hence and leave it unpicked .
71391
71392 More knocking at the door !
71393
71394 How now ! what's the matter ?
71395
71396 You must away to court , sir , presently ;
71397 A dozen captains stay at door for you .
71398
71399 Pay the musicians , sirrah . Farewell , hostess ; farewell , Doll . You see , my good wenches , how men of merit are sought after : the undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on . Farewell , good wenches . If I be not sent away post , I will see you again ere I go .
71400
71401 I cannot speak ; if my heart be not ready to burst ,well , sweet Jack , have a care of thyself .
71402
71403 Farewell , farewell .
71404
71405
71406 Well , fare thee well : I have known thee these twenty-nine years , come peascod-time ; but an honester , and truer-hearted man ,well , fare thee well .
71407
71408 Mistress Tearsheet !
71409
71410 What's the matter ?
71411
71412 Bid Mistress Tearsheet come to my master .
71413
71414 O ! run , Doll , run ; run , good Doll .
71415
71416 Go , call the Earls of Surrey and of Warwick ;
71417 But , ere they come , bid them o'er-read these letters ,
71418 And well consider of them . Make good speed .
71419
71420 How many thousand of my poorest subjects
71421 Are at this hour asleep ! O sleep ! O gentle sleep !
71422 Nature's soft nurse , how have I frighted thee ,
71423 That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
71424 And steep my senses in forgetfulness ?
71425 Why rather , sleep , liest thou in smoky cribs ,
71426 Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee ,
71427 And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ,
71428 Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great ,
71429 Under the canopies of costly state ,
71430 And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody ?
71431 O thou dull god ! why liest thou with the vile
71432 In loathsome beds , and leav'st the kingly couch
71433 A watch-case or a common 'larum bell ?
71434 Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
71435 Seel up the ship-boy's eyes , and rock his brains
71436 In cradle of the rude imperious surge ,
71437 And in the visitation of the winds ,
71438 Who take the ruffian billows by the top ,
71439 Curling their monstrous heads , and hanging them
71440 With deaf'ning clamour in the slippery clouds ,
71441 That with the hurly death itself awakes ?
71442 Canst thou , O partial sleep ! give thy repose
71443 To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ,
71444 And in the calmest and most stillest night ,
71445 With all appliances and means to boot ,
71446 Deny it to a king ? Then , happy low , lie down !
71447 Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown .
71448
71449
71450 Many good morrows to your majesty !
71451
71452 Is it good morrow , lords ?
71453
71454 'Tis one o'clock , and past .
71455
71456 Why then , good morrow to you all , my lords .
71457 Have you read o'er the letters that I sent you ?
71458
71459 We have , my liege .
71460
71461 Then you perceive the body of our kingdom ,
71462 How foul it is ; what rank diseases grow ,
71463 And with what danger , near the heart of it .
71464
71465 It is but as a body , yet , distemper'd ,
71466 Which to his former strength may be restor'd
71467 With good advice and little medicine :
71468 My Lord Northumberland will soon be cool'd .
71469
71470 O God ! that one might read the book of fate ,
71471 And see the revolution of the times
71472 Make mountains level , and the continent ,
71473 Weary of solid firmness ,melt itself
71474 Into the sea ! and , other times , to see
71475 The beachy girdle of the ocean
71476 Too wide for Neptune's hips ; how chances mock ,
71477 And changes fill the cup of alteration
71478 With divers liquors ! O ! if this were seen ,
71479 The happiest youth , viewing his progress through ,
71480 What perils past , what crosses to ensue ,
71481 Would shut the book , and sit him down and die .
71482 'Tis not ten years gone
71483 Since Richard and Northumberland , great friends ,
71484 Did feast together , and in two years after
71485 Were they at wars : it is but eight years since
71486 This Percy was the man nearest my soul ,
71487 Who like a brother toil'd in my affairs
71488 And laid his love and life under my foot ;
71489 Yea , for my sake , even to the eyes of Richard
71490 Gave him defiance . But which of you was by ,
71491
71492
71493 You , cousin Nevil , as I may remember ,
71494 When Richard , with his eye brimful of tears ,
71495 Then check'd and rated by Northumberland ,
71496 Did speak these words , now prov'd a prophecy ?
71497 'Northumberland , thou ladder , by the which
71498 My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne ;'
71499 Though then , God knows , I had no such intent ,
71500 But that necessity so bow'd the state
71501 That I and greatness were compelled to kiss :
71502 'The time shall come ,' thus did he follow it ,
71503 'The time will come , that foul sin , gathering head ,
71504 Shall break into corruption :' so went on ,
71505 Foretelling this same time's condition
71506 And the division of our amity .
71507
71508 There is a history in all men's lives ,
71509 Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd ;
71510 The which observ'd , a man may prophesy ,
71511 With a near aim , of the main chance of things
71512 As yet not come to life , which in their seeds
71513 And weak leginnings lie intreasured .
71514 Such things become the hatch and brood of time ;
71515 And by the necessary form of this
71516 King Richard might create a perfect guess
71517 That great Northumberland , then false to him ,
71518 Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness ,
71519 Which should not find a ground to root upon ,
71520 Unless on you .
71521
71522 Are these things then necessities ?
71523 Then let us meet them like necessities ;
71524 And that same word even now cries out on us .
71525 They say the bishop and Northumberland
71526 Are fifty thousand strong .
71527
71528 It cannot be , my lord !
71529 Rumour doth double , like the voice and echo ,
71530 The numbers of the fear'd . Please it your Grace
71531 To go to bed : upon my soul , my lord ,
71532 The powers that you already have sent forth
71533 Shall bring this prize in very easily .
71534 To comfort you the more , I have receiv'd
71535 A certain instance that Glendower is dead .
71536 Your majesty hath been this fortnight ill ,
71537 And these unseason'd hours perforce must add
71538 Unto your sickness .
71539
71540 I will take your counsel :
71541 And were these inward wars once out of hand ,
71542 We would , dear lords , unto the Holy Land .
71543
71544
71545 Come on , come on , come on , sir ; give me your hand , sir , give me your hand , sir : an early stirrer , by the rood ! And how doth my good cousin Silence ?
71546
71547 Good morrow , good cousin Shallow .
71548
71549 And how doth my cousin , your bed-fellow ? and your fairest daughter and mine , my god-daughter Ellen ?
71550
71551 Alas ! a black ousel , cousin Shallow !
71552
71553 By yea and nay , sir , I dare say my cousin William is become a good scholar . He is at Oxford still , is he not ?
71554
71555 Indeed , sir , to my cost .
71556
71557 A' must , then , to the inns o' court shortly . I was once of Clement's Inn ; where I think they will talk of mad Shallow yet .
71558
71559 You were called 'lusty Shallow' then , cousin .
71560
71561 By the mass , I was called any thing ; and I would have done any thing indeed too , and roundly too . There was I , and Little John Doit of Staffordshire , and black George Barnes , and Francis Pickbone , and Will Squele a Cotswold man ; you had not four such swinge-bucklers in all the inns of court again : and , I may say to you , we knew where the bona-robas were , and had the best of them all at commandment . Then was Jack Falstaff , now Sir John , a boy , and page to Thomas Mowbray , Duke of Norfolk .
71562
71563 This Sir John , cousin , that comes hither anon about soldiers ?
71564
71565 The same Sir John , the very same . I saw him break Skogan's head at the court gate , when a' was a crack not thus high : and the very same day did I fight with one Sampson Stockfish , a fruiterer , behind Gray's Inn . Jesu ! Jesu ! the mad days that I have spent ; and to see how many of mine old acquaintance are dead !
71566
71567 We shall all follow , cousin .
71568
71569 Certain , 'tis certain ; very sure , very sure : death , as the Psalmist saith , is certain to all ; all shall die . How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair ?
71570
71571 Truly , cousin , I was not there .
71572
71573 Death is certain . Is old Double of your town living yet ?
71574
71575 Dead , sir .
71576
71577 Jesu ! Jesu ! dead ! a' drew a good bow ; and dead ! a' shot a fine shoot : John a Gaunt loved him well , and betted much money on his head . Dead ! a' would have clapped i' the clout at twelve score ; and carried you a forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half , that it would have done a man's heart good to see . How a score of ewes now ?
71578
71579 Thereafter as they be : a score of good ewes may be worth ten pounds .
71580
71581 And is old Double dead ?
71582
71583 Here come two of Sir John Falstaff's men , as I think .
71584
71585
71586 Good morrow , honest gentlemen : I beseech you , which is Justice Shallow ?
71587
71588 I am Robert Shallow , sir ; a poor esquire of this county , and one of the king's justices of the peace : what is your good pleasure with me ?
71589
71590 My captain , sir , commends him to you ; my captain , Sir John Falstaff : a tall gentleman , by heaven , and a most gallant leader .
71591
71592 He greets me well , sir . I knew him a good backsword man . How doth the good knight ? may I ask how my lady his wife doth ?
71593
71594 Sir , pardon ; a soldier is better accommodated than with a wife .
71595
71596 It is well said , in faith , sir ; and it is well said indeed too . 'Better accommodated !' it is good ; yea indeed , is it : good phrases are surely and ever were , very commendable . Accommodated ! it comes of accommodo : very good ; a good phrase .
71597
71598 Pardon me , sir ; I have heard the word . 'Phrase ,' call you it ? By this good day , I know not the phrase ; but I will maintain the word with my sword to be a soldier-like word , and a word of exceeding good command , by heaven . Accommodated ; that is , when a man is , as they say , accommodated ; or , when a man is , being , whereby , a' may be thought to be accommodated , which is an excellent thing .
71599
71600
71601 It is very just . Look , here comes good Sir John . Give me your good hand , give me your worship's good hand . By my troth , you look well and bear your years very well : welcome , good Sir John .
71602
71603 I am glad to see you well , good Master Robert Shallow . Master Surecard , as I think .
71604
71605 No , Sir John ; it is my cousin , Silence , in commission with me .
71606
71607 Good Master Silence , it well befits you should be of the peace .
71608
71609 Your good worship is welcome .
71610
71611 Fie ! this is hot weather , gentlemen .
71612 Have you provided me here half a dozen sufficient men ?
71613
71614 Marry , have we , sir . Will you sit ?
71615
71616 Let me see them , I beseech you .
71617
71618 Where's the roll ? where's the roll ? where's the roll ? Let me see , let me see , let me see . So , so , so , so , so , so , so : yea , marry , sir : Ralph Mouldy ! let them appear as I call ; let them do so , let them do so . Let me see ; where is Mouldy ?
71619
71620 Here , an't please you .
71621
71622 What think you , Sir John ? a goodlimbed fellow ; young , strong , and of good friends .
71623
71624 Is thy name Mouldy ?
71625
71626 Yea , an't please you .
71627
71628 'Tis the more time thou wert used .
71629
71630 Ha , ha , ha ! most excellent , i' faith ! things that are mouldy lack use : very singular good . In faith , well said , Sir John ; very well said .
71631
71632 Prick him .
71633
71634 I was pricked well enough before , an you could have let me alone : my old dame will be undone now for one to do her husbandry and her drudgery : you need not to have pricked me ; there are other men fitter to go out than I .
71635
71636 Go to : peace , Mouldy ! you shall go . Mouldy , it is time you were spent .
71637
71638 Spent !
71639
71640 Peace , fellow , peace ! stand aside : know you where you are ? For the other , Sir John : let me see . Simon Shadow !
71641
71642 Yea , marry , let me have him to sit under : he's like to be a cold soldier .
71643
71644 Where's Shadow ?
71645
71646 Here , sir .
71647
71648 Shadow , whose son art thou ?
71649
71650 My mother's son , sir .
71651
71652 Thy mother's son ! like enough , and thy father's shadow : so the son of the female is the shadow of the male : it is often so , indeed ; but not of the father's substance .
71653
71654 Do you like him , Sir John ?
71655
71656 Shadow will serve for summer ; prick him , for we have a number of shadows to fill up the muster-book .
71657
71658 Thomas Wart ?
71659
71660 Where's he ?
71661
71662 Here , sir .
71663
71664 Is thy name Wart ?
71665
71666 Yea , sir .
71667
71668 Thou art a very ragged wart .
71669
71670 Shall I prick him , Sir John ?
71671
71672 It were superfluous ; for his apparel is built upon his back , and the whole frame stands upon pins : prick him no more .
71673
71674 Ha , ha , ha ! you can do it , sir ; you can do it : I commend you well . Francis Feeble !
71675
71676 Here , sir .
71677
71678 What trade art thou , Feeble ?
71679
71680 A woman's tailor , sir .
71681
71682 Shall I prick him , sir ?
71683
71684 You may ; but if he had been a man's tailor he'd have pricked you . Wilt thou make as many holes in an enemy's battle as thou hast done in a woman's petticoat ?
71685
71686 I will do my good will , sir : you can have no more .
71687
71688 Well said , good woman's tailor ! well said , courageous Feeble ! Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse . Prick the woman's tailor ; well , Master Shallow ; deep , Master Shallow .
71689
71690 I would Wart might have gone , sir .
71691
71692 I would thou wert a man's tailor , that thou mightst mend him , and make him fit to go . I cannot put him to a private soldier that is the leader of so many thousands : let that suffice , most forcible Feeble .
71693
71694 It shall suffice , sir .
71695
71696 I am bound to thee , reverend Feeble .
71697 Who is next ?
71698
71699 Peter Bullcalf o' the green !
71700
71701 Yea , marry , let's see Bullcalf .
71702
71703 Here , sir .
71704
71705 'Fore God , a likely fellow ! Come , prick me Bullcalf till he roar again .
71706
71707 O Lord ! good my lord captain ,
71708
71709 What ! dost thou roar before thou art pricked ?
71710
71711 O Lord , sir ! I am a diseased man .
71712
71713 What disease hast thou ?
71714
71715 A whoreson cold , sir ; a cough , sir , which I caught with ringing in the king's affairs upon his coronation day , sir .
71716
71717 Come , thou shalt go to the wars in a gown ; we will have away thy cold ; and I will take such order that thy friends shall ring for thee . Is here all ?
71718
71719 Here is two more called than your number ; you must have but four here , sir : and so , I pray you , go in with me to dinner .
71720
71721 Come , I will go drink with you , but I cannot tarry dinner . I am glad to see you , by my troth , Master Shallow .
71722
71723 O , Sir John , do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in Saint George's fields ?
71724
71725 No more of that , good Master Shallow , no more of that .
71726
71727 Ha ! it was a merry night . And is Jane Nightwork alive ?
71728
71729 She lives , Master Shallow .
71730
71731 She never could away with me .
71732
71733 Never , never ; she would always say she could not abide Master Shallow .
71734
71735 By the mass , I could anger her to the heart . She was then a bona-roba . Doth she hold her own well ?
71736
71737 Old , old , Master Shallow .
71738
71739 Nay she must be old ; she cannot choose but be old ; certain she's old ; and had Robin Nightwork by old Nightwork before I came to Clement's Inn .
71740
71741 That's fifty-five year ago .
71742
71743 Ha ! cousin Silence , that thou hadst seen that that this knight and I have seen . Ha ! Sir John , said I well ?
71744
71745 We have heard the chimes at midnight , Master Shallow .
71746
71747 That we have , that we have , that we have ; in faith , Sir John , we have . Our watchword was , 'Hem , boys !' Come , let's to dinner ; come , let's to dinner . Jesus , the days that we have seen ! Come , come .
71748
71749
71750 Good Master Corporate Bardolph , stand my friend , and here's four Harry ten shillings in French crowns for you . In very truth , sir , I had as lief be hanged , sir , as go : and yet , for mine own part , sir , I do not care ; but rather , because I am unwilling , and , for mine own part , have a desire to stay with my friends : else , sir , I did not care , for mine own part , so much .
71751
71752 Go to ; stand aside .
71753
71754 And , good Master corporal captain , for my old dame's sake , stand my friend : she has nobody to do any thing about her , when I am gone ; and she is old , and cannot help herself . You shall have forty , sir .
71755
71756 Go to ; stand aside .
71757
71758 By my troth , I care not ; a man can die but once ; we owe God a death . I'll ne'er bear a base mind : an't be my destiny , so ; an't be not , so . No man's too good to serve's prince ; and let it go which way it will , he that dies this year is quit for the next .
71759
71760 Well said ; thou'rt a good fellow .
71761
71762 Faith , I'll bear no base mind .
71763
71764
71765 Come , sir , which men shall I have ?
71766
71767 Four , of which you please .
71768
71769 Sir , a word with you . I have three pound to free Mouldy and Bullcalf .
71770
71771 Go to ; well .
71772
71773 Come , Sir John , which four will you have ?
71774
71775 Do you choose for me .
71776
71777 Marry , then , Mouldy , Bullcalf , Feeble , and Shadow .
71778
71779 Mouldy , and Bullcalf : for you , Mouldy , stay at home till you are past service : and for your part , Bullcalf , grow till you come unto it : I will none of you .
71780
71781 Sir John , Sir John , do not yourself wrong : they are your likeliest men , and I would have you served with the best .
71782
71783 Will you tell me , Master Shallow , how to choose a man ? Care I for the limb , the thewes , the stature , bulk , and big assemblance of a man ! Give me the spirit , Master Shallow . Here's Wart ; you see what a ragged appearance it is : a' shall charge you and discharge you with the motion of a pewterer's hammer , come off and on swifter than he that gibbets on the brewer's bucket . And this same half-faced fellow , Shadow , give me this man : he presents no mark to the enemy ; the foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife . And , for a retreat ; how swiftly will this Feeble the woman's tailor run off ! O ! give me the spare men , and spare me the great ones . Put me a caliver into Wart's hand , Bardolph .
71784
71785 Hold , Wart , traverse ; thus , thus , thus .
71786
71787 Come , manage me your caliver . So : very well : go to : very good : exceeding good . O , give me always a little , lean , old , chopp'd , bald shot . Well said , i' faith , Wart ; thou'rt a good scab : hold , there's a tester for thee .
71788
71789 He is not his craft's master , he doth not do it right . I remember at Mile-end Green , when I lay at Clement's Inn ,I was then Sir Dagonet in Arthur's show ,there was a little quiver fellow , and a' would manage you his piece thus : and a' would about and about , and come you in , and come you in ; 'rah , tah , tah ,' would a' say ; 'bounce ,' would a' say ; and away again would a' go , and again would a' come : I shall never see such a fellow .
71790
71791 These fellows will do well , Master Shallow . God keep you , Master Silence : I will not use many words with you . Fare you well , gentlemen both : I thank you : I must a dozen mile to-night . Bardolph , give the soldiers coats .
71792
71793 Sir John , the Lord bless you ! and prosper your affairs ! God send us peace ! At your return visit our house ; let our old acquaintance be renewed : peradventure I will with ye to the court .
71794
71795 'Fore God I would you would , Master Shallow .
71796
71797 Go to ; I have spoke at a word . God keep you .
71798
71799 Fare you well , gentle gentlemen .
71800
71801 As I return , I will fetch off these justices : I do see the bottom of Justice Shallow . Lord , Lord ! how subject we old men are to this vice of lying . This same starved justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of his youth and the feats he hath done about Turnbull Street ; and every third word a lie , duer paid to the hearer than the Turk's tribute . I do remember him at Clement's Inn like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring : when a' was naked he was for all the world like a forked radish , with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife : a' was so forlorn that his dimensions to any thick sight were invincible : a' was the very genius of famine ; yet lecherous as a monkey , and the whores called him mandrake : a' came ever in the rearward of the fashion and sung those tunes to the over-scutched huswives that he heard the carmen whistle , and sware they were his fancies or his good-nights . And now is this Vice's dagger become a squire , and talks as familiarly of John a Gaunt as if he had been sworn brother to him ; and I'll be sworn a' never saw him but once in the Tilt-yard , and then he burst his head for crowding among the marshal's men . I saw it and told John a Gaunt he beat his own name ; for you might have thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin ; the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him , a court ; and now has he land and beefs . Well , I will be acquainted with him , if I return ; and it shall go hard but I will make him a philosopher's two stones to me . If the young dace be a bait for the old pike , I see no reason in the law of nature but I may snap at him . Let time shape , and there an end .
71802
71803 What is this forest call'd ?
71804
71805 'Tis Gaultree Forest , an't shall please your Grace .
71806
71807 Here stand , my lords , and send discovers forth ,
71808 To know the numbers of our enemies .
71809
71810 We have sent forth already .
71811
71812 'Tis well done .
71813 My friends and brethren in these great affairs ,
71814 I must acquaint you that I have receiv'd
71815 New-dated letters from Northumberland ;
71816 Their cold intent , tenour and substance , thus :
71817 Here doth he wish his person , with such powers
71818 As might hold sortance with his quality ;
71819 The which he could not levy ; whereupon
71820 He is retir'd , to ripe his growing fortunes ,
71821 To Scotland ; and concludes in hearty prayers
71822 That your attempts may overlive the hazard
71823 And fearful meeting of their opposite .
71824
71825 Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground
71826 And dash themselves to pieces .
71827
71828
71829 Now , what news ?
71830
71831 West of this forest , scarcely off a mile ,
71832 In goodly form comes on the enemy ;
71833 And , by the ground they hide , I judge their number
71834 Upon or near the rate of thirty thousand .
71835
71836 The just proportion that we gave them out .
71837 Let us sway on and face them in the field .
71838
71839
71840 What well-appointed leader fronts us here ?
71841
71842 I think it is my Lord of Westmoreland .
71843
71844 Health and fair greeting from our general .
71845 The Prince , Lord John and Duke of Lancaster .
71846
71847 Say on , my Lord of Westmoreland , in peace ,
71848 What doth concern your coming .
71849
71850 Then , my lord ,
71851 Unto your Grace do I in chief address
71852 The substance of my speech . If that rebellion
71853 Came like itself , in base and abject routs ,
71854 Led on by bloody youth , guarded with rags ,
71855 And countenanc'd by boys and beggary ;
71856 I say , if damn'd commotion so appear'd ,
71857 In his true , native , and most proper shape ,
71858 You , reverend father , and these noble lords
71859 Had not been here , to dress the ugly form
71860 Of base and bloody insurrection
71861 With your fair honours . You , lord archbishop ,
71862 Whose see is by a civil peace maintain'd ,
71863 Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd ,
71864 Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd ,
71865 Whose white investments figure innocence ,
71866 The dove and very blessed spirit of peace ,
71867 Wherefore do you so ill translate yourself
71868 Out of the speech of peace that bears such grace
71869 Into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war ;
71870 Turning your books to greaves , your ink to blood ,
71871 Your pens to lances , and your tongue divine
71872 To a loud trumpet and a point of war ?
71873
71874 Wherefore do I this ? so the question stands .
71875 Briefly to this end : we are all diseas'd ;
71876 And , with our surfeiting and wanton hours
71877 Have brought ourselves into a burning fever ,
71878 And we must bleed for it : of which disease
71879 Our late king , Richard , being infected , died .
71880 But , my most noble Lord of Westmoreland ,
71881 I take not on me here as a physician ,
71882 Nor do I as an enemy to peace
71883 Troop in the throngs of military men ;
71884 But rather show a while like fearful war ,
71885 To diet rank minds sick of happiness
71886 And purge the obstructions which begin to stop
71887 Our very veins of life . Hear me more plainly :
71888 I have in equal balance justly weigh'd
71889 What wrongs our arms may do , what wrongs we suffer ,
71890 And find our griefs heavier than our offences .
71891 We see which way the stream of time doth run
71892 And are enforc'd from our most quiet sphere
71893 By the rough torrent of occasion ;
71894 And have the summary of all our griefs ,
71895 When time shall serve , to show in articles ,
71896 Which long ere this we offer'd to the king ,
71897 And might by no suit gain our audience .
71898 When we are wrong'd and would unfold our griefs ,
71899 We are denied access unto his person
71900 Even by those men that most have done us wrong .
71901 The dangers of the days but newly gone ,
71902 Whose memory is written on the earth
71903 With yet appearing blood ,and the examples
71904 Of every minute's instance , present now ,
71905 Have put us in these ill-beseeming arms ;
71906 Not to break peace , or any branch of it ,
71907 But to establish here a peace indeed ,
71908 Concurring both in name and quality .
71909
71910 When ever yet was your appeal denied ?
71911 Wherein have you been galled by the king ?
71912 What peer hath been suborn'd to grate on you ,
71913 That you should seal this lawless bloody book
71914 Of forg'd rebellion with a seal divine ,
71915 And consecrate commotion's bitter edge ?
71916
71917 My brother general , the commonwealth ,
71918 To brother born an household cruelty ,
71919 I make my quarrel in particular .
71920
71921 There is no need of any such redress ;
71922 Or if there were , it not belongs to you .
71923
71924 Why not to him in part , and to us all
71925 That feel the bruises of the days before ,
71926 And suffer the condition of these times
71927 To lay a heavy and unequal hand
71928 Upon our honours ?
71929
71930 O ! my good Lord Mowbray ,
71931 Construe the times to their necessities ,
71932 And you shall say indeed , it is the time ,
71933 And not the king , that doth you injuries .
71934 Yet , for your part , it not appears to me
71935 Either from the king or in the present time
71936 That you should have an inch of any ground
71937 To build a grief on : were you not restor'd
71938 To all the Duke of Norfolk's signories ,
71939 Your noble and right well-remember'd father's ?
71940
71941 What thing , in honour , had my father lost ,
71942 That need to be reviv'd and breath'd in me ?
71943 The king that lov'd him as the state stood then ,
71944 Was force perforce compell'd to banish him :
71945 And then that Harry Bolingbroke and he ,
71946 Being mounted and both roused in their seats ,
71947 Their neighing coursers daring of the spur ,
71948 Their armed staves in charge , their beavers down ,
71949 Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights of steel ,
71950 And the loud trumpet blowing them together ,
71951 Then , then , when there was nothing could have stay'd
71952 My father from the breast of Bolingbroke ,
71953 O ! when the king did throw his warder down ,
71954 His own life hung upon the staff he threw ;
71955 Then threw he down himself and all their lives
71956 That by indictment and by dint of sword
71957 Have since miscarried under Bolingbroke .
71958
71959 You speak , Lord Mowbray , now you know not what .
71960 The Earl of Hereford was reputed then
71961 In England the most valiant gentleman :
71962 Who knows on whom Fortune would then have smil'd ?
71963 But if your father had been victor there ,
71964 He ne'er had borne it out of Coventry ;
71965 For all the country in a general voice
71966 Cried hate upon him ; and all their prayers and love
71967 Were set on Hereford , whom they doted on
71968 And bless'd and grac'd indeed , more than the king .
71969 But this is mere digression from my purpose .
71970 Here come I from our princely general
71971 To know your griefs ; to tell you from his Grace
71972 That he will give you audience ; and wherein
71973 It shall appear that your demands are just ,
71974 You shall enjoy them ; every thing set off
71975 That might so much as think you enemies .
71976
71977 But he hath forc'd us to compel this offer ,
71978 And it proceeds from policy , not love .
71979
71980 Mowbray , you overween to take it so .
71981 This offer comes from mercy , not from fear :
71982 For , lo ! within a ken our army lies
71983 Upon mine honour , all too confident
71984 To give admittance to a thought of fear .
71985 Our battle is more full of names than yours ,
71986 Our men more perfect in the use of arms ,
71987 Our armour all as strong , our cause the best ;
71988 Then reason will our hearts should be as good :
71989 Say you not then our offer is compell'd .
71990
71991 Well , by my will we shall admit no parley .
71992
71993 That argues but the shame of your offence :
71994 A rotten case abides no handling .
71995
71996 Hath the Prince John a full commission ,
71997 In very ample virtue of his father ,
71998 To hear and absolutely to determine
71999 Of what conditions we shall stand upon ?
72000
72001 That is intended in the general's name .
72002 I muse you make so slight a question .
72003
72004 Then take , my Lord of Westmoreland , this schedule ,
72005 For this contains our general grievances :
72006 Each several article herein redress'd ;
72007 All members of our cause , both here and hence ,
72008 That are insinew'd to this action ,
72009 Acquitted by a true substantial form
72010 And present execution of our wills
72011 To us and to our purposes consign'd ;
72012 We come within our awful banks again
72013 And knit our powers to the arm of peace .
72014
72015 This will I show the general . Please you , lords ,
72016 In sight of both our battles we may meet ;
72017 And either end in peace , which God so frame !
72018 Or to the place of difference call the swords
72019 Which must decide it .
72020
72021 My lord , we will do so .
72022
72023
72024 There is a thing within my bosom tells me
72025 That no conditions of our peace can stand .
72026
72027 Fear you not that : if we can make our peace
72028 Upon such large terms , and so absolute
72029 As our condition shall consist upon ,
72030 Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains .
72031
72032 Yea , but our valuation shall be such
72033 That every slight and false-derived cause ,
72034 Yea , every idle , nice , and wanton reason
72035 Shall to the king taste of this action ;
72036 That , were our royal faiths martyrs in love ,
72037 We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind
72038 That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff
72039 And good from bad find no partition .
72040
72041 No , no , my lord . Note this ; the king is weary
72042 Of dainty and such picking grievances :
72043 For he hath found to end one doubt by death
72044 Revives two greater in the heirs of life ;
72045 And therefore will he wipe his tables clean ,
72046 And keep no tell-tale to his memory
72047 That may repeat and history his loss
72048 To new remembrance ; for full well he knows
72049 He cannot so precisely weed this land
72050 As his misdoubts present occasion :
72051 His foes are so enrooted with his friends
72052 That , plucking to unfix an enemy ,
72053 He doth unfasten so and shake a friend .
72054 So that this land , like an offensive wife ,
72055 That hath enrag'd him on to offer strokes ,
72056 As he is striking , holds his infant up
72057 And hangs resolv'd correction in the arm
72058 That was uprear'd to execution .
72059
72060 Besides , the king hath wasted all his rods
72061 On late offenders , that he now doth lack
72062 The very instruments of chastisement ;
72063 So that his power , like to a fangless lion ,
72064 May offer , but not hold .
72065
72066 'Tis very true :
72067 And therefore be assur'd , my good lord marshal ,
72068 If we do now make our atonement well ,
72069 Our peace will , like a broken limb united ,
72070 Grow stronger for the breaking .
72071
72072 Be it so .
72073 Here is return'd my Lord of Westmoreland .
72074
72075
72076 The prince is here at hand : pleaseth your lordship ,
72077 To meet his Grace just distance 'tween our armies ?
72078
72079 Your Grace of York , in God's name then , set forward .
72080
72081 Before , and greet his Grace : my lord , we come .
72082
72083 You are well encounter'd here , my cousin Mowbray :
72084 Good day to you , gentle lord archbishop ;
72085 And so to you , Lord Hastings , and to all .
72086 My Lord of York , it better show'd with you ,
72087 When that your flock , assembled by the bell ,
72088 Encircled you to hear with reverence
72089 Your exposition on the holy text
72090 Than now to see you here an iron man ,
72091 Cheering a rout of rebels with your drum ,
72092 Turning the word to sword and life to death .
72093 That man that sits within a monarch's heart
72094 And ripens in the sunshine of his favour ,
72095 Would he abuse the countenance of the king ,
72096 Alack ! what mischief might he set abroach
72097 In shadow of such greatness . With you , lord bishop ,
72098 It is even so . Who hath not heard it spoken
72099 How deep you were within the books of God ?
72100 To us , the speaker in his parliament ;
72101 To us the imagin'd voice of God himself ;
72102 The very opener and intelligencer
72103 Between the grace , the sanctities of heaven ,
72104 And our dull workings . O ! who shall believe
72105 But you misuse the reverence of your place ,
72106 Employ the countenance and grace of heaven ,
72107 As a false favourite doth his prince's name ,
72108 In deeds dishonourable ? You have taken up ,
72109 Under the counterfeited zeal of God ,
72110 The subjects of his substitute , my father ;
72111 And both against the peace of heaven and him
72112 Have here upswarm'd them .
72113
72114 Good my Lord of Lancaster ,
72115 I am not here against your father's peace ;
72116 But , as I told my Lord of Westmoreland ,
72117 The time misorder'd doth , in common sense ,
72118 Crowd us and crush us to this monstrous form ,
72119 To hold our safety up . I sent your Grace
72120 The parcels and particulars of our grief ,
72121 The which hath been with scorn shov'd from the court ,
72122 Whereon this Hydra son of war is born ;
72123 Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm'd asleep
72124 With grant of our most just and right desires ,
72125 And true obedience , of this madness cur'd ,
72126 Stoop tamely to the foot of majesty .
72127
72128 If not , we ready are to try our fortunes
72129 To the last man .
72130
72131 And though we here fall down ,
72132 We have supplies to second our attempt :
72133 If they miscarry , theirs shall second them ;
72134 And so success of mischief shall be born ,
72135 And heir from heir shall hold this quarrel up
72136 Whiles England shall have generation .
72137
72138 You are too shallow , Hastings , much too shallow ,
72139 To sound the bottom of the after-times .
72140
72141 Pleaseth your Grace , to answer them directly
72142 How far forth you do like their articles .
72143
72144 I like them all , and do allow them well ;
72145 And swear here , by the honour of my blood ,
72146 My father's purposes have been mistook ,
72147 And some about him have too lavishly
72148 Wrested his meaning and authority .
72149 My lord , these griefs shall be with speed redress'd ;
72150 Upon my soul , they shall . If this may please you ,
72151 Discharge your powers unto their several counties ,
72152 As we will ours : and here between the armies
72153 Let's drink together friendly and embrace ,
72154 That all their eyes may bear those tokens home
72155 Of our restored love and amity .
72156
72157 I take your princely word for these redresses .
72158
72159 I give it you , and will maintain my word :
72160 And thereupon I drink unto your Grace .
72161
72162 Go , captain , and deliver to the army
72163 This news of peace : let them have pay , and part :
72164 I know it will well please them : hie thee , captain .
72165
72166
72167 To you , my noble Lord of Westmoreland .
72168
72169 I pledge your Grace : and , if you knew what pains
72170 I have bestow'd to breed this present peace ,
72171 You would drink freely ; but my love to you
72172 Shall show itself more openly hereafter .
72173
72174 I do not doubt you .
72175
72176 I am glad of it .
72177 Health to my lord and gentle cousin , Mowbray .
72178
72179 You wish me health in very happy season ;
72180 For I am , on the sudden , something ill .
72181
72182 Against ill chances men are ever merry ,
72183 But heaviness foreruns the good event .
72184
72185 Therefore be merry , coz ; since sudden sorrow
72186 Serves to say thus , Some good thing comes to morrow .
72187
72188 Believe me , I am passing light in spirit .
72189
72190 So much the worse if your own rule be true .
72191
72192
72193 The word of peace is render'd : hark , how they shout !
72194
72195 This had been cheerful , after victory .
72196
72197 A peace is of the nature of a conquest ;
72198 For then both parties nobly are subdu'd ,
72199 And neither party loser .
72200
72201 Go , my lord ,
72202 And let our army be discharged too .
72203
72204 And , good my lord , so please you , let our trains
72205 March by us , that we may peruse the men
72206 We should have cop'd withal .
72207
72208 Go , good Lord Hastings ,
72209 And , ere they be dismiss'd , let them march by .
72210
72211
72212 I trust , lords , we shall lie to-night together .
72213
72214 Now , cousin , wherefore stands our army still ?
72215
72216 The leaders , having charge from you to stand ,
72217 Will not go off until they hear you speak .
72218
72219 They know their duties .
72220
72221
72222 My lord , our army is dispers'd already :
72223 Like youthful steers unyok'd , they take their courses
72224 East , west , north , south ; or , like a school broke up ,
72225 Each hurries toward his home and sporting-place .
72226
72227 Good tidings , my Lord Hastings ; for the which
72228 I do arrest thee , traitor , of high treason :
72229 And you , lord archbishop , and you , Lord Mowbray ,
72230 Of capital treason I attach you both .
72231
72232 Is this proceeding just and honourable ?
72233
72234 Is your assembly so ?
72235
72236 Will you thus break your faith ?
72237
72238 I pawn'd thee none .
72239 I promis'd you redress of these same grievances
72240 Whereof you did complain ; which , by mine honour ,
72241 I will perform with a most Christian care .
72242 But for you , rebels , look to taste the due
72243 Meet for rebellion and such acts as yours .
72244 Most shallowly did you these arms commence ,
72245 Fondly brought here and foolishly sent hence .
72246 Strike up our drums ! pursue the scatter'd stray :
72247 God , and not we , hath safely fought to-day .
72248 Some guard these traitors to the block of death ;
72249 Treason's true bed , and yielder up of breath .
72250
72251
72252 What's your name , sir ? of what condition are you , and of what place , I pray ?
72253
72254 I am a knight , sir ; and my name is Colevile of the dale .
72255
72256 Well then , Colevile is your name , a knight is your degree , and your place the dale : Colevile shall still be your name , a traitor your degree , and the dungeon your place , a place deep enough ; so shall you be still Colevile of the dale .
72257
72258 Are not you Sir John Falstaff ?
72259
72260 As good a man as he , sir , whoe'er I am . Do ye yield , sir , or shall I sweat for you ? If I do sweat , they are the drops of thy lovers , and they weep for thy death : therefore rouse up fear and trembling , and do observance to my mercy .
72261
72262 I think you are Sir John Falstaff , and in that thought yield me .
72263
72264 I have a whole school of tongues in this belly of mine , and not a tongue of them all speaks any other word but my name . An I had but a belly of any indifferency , I were simply the most active fellow in Europe : my womb , my womb , my womb undoes me . Here comes our general .
72265
72266
72267 The heat is past , follow no further now .
72268 Call in the powers , good cousin Westmoreland .
72269
72270 Now , Falstaff , where have you been all this while ?
72271 When everything is ended , then you come :
72272 These tardy tricks of yours will , on my life ,
72273 One time or other break some gallows' back .
72274
72275 I would be sorry , my lord , but it should be thus : I never knew yet but rebuke and check was the reward of valour . Do you think me a swallow , an arrow , or a bullet ? have I , in my poor and old motion , the expedition of thought ? I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility ; I have foundered nine score and odd posts ; and here , travel-tainted as I am , have , in my pure and immaculate valour , taken Sir John Colevile of the dale , a most furious knight and valorous enemy . But what of that ? he saw me , and yielded ; that I may justly say with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome , 'I came , saw , and overcame .'
72276
72277 It was more of his courtesy than your deserving .
72278
72279 I know not : here he is , and here I yield him ; and I beseech your Grace , let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds ; or , by the Lord , I will have it in a particular ballad else , with mine own picture on the top on't , Colevile kissing my foot . To the which course if I be enforced , if you do not all show like gilt two-pences to me , and I in the clear sky of fame o'ershine you as much as the full moon doth the cinders of the element , which show like pins' heads to her , believe not the word of the noble . Therefore let me have right , and let desert mount .
72280
72281 Thine's too heavy to mount .
72282
72283 Let it shine then .
72284
72285 Thine's too thick to shine .
72286
72287 Let it do something , my good lord , that may do me good , and call it what you will .
72288
72289 Is thy name Colevile ?
72290
72291 It is , my lord .
72292
72293 A famous rebel art thou , Colevile .
72294
72295 And a famous true subject took him .
72296
72297 I am , my lord , but as my betters are
72298 That led me hither : had they been rul'd by me
72299 You should have won them dearer than you have .
72300
72301 I know not how they sold themselves : but thou , like a kind fellow , gavest thyself away gratis , and I thank thee for thee .
72302
72303
72304 Have you left pursuit ?
72305
72306 Retreat is made and execution stay'd .
72307
72308 Send Colevile with his confederates
72309 To York , to present execution .
72310 Blunt , lead him hence , and see you guard him sure .
72311
72312 And now dispatch we toward the court , my lords :
72313 I hear , the king my father is sore sick :
72314 Our news shall go before us to his majesty ,
72315 Which , cousin
72316
72317 , you shall bear , to comfort him ;
72318 And we with sober speed will follow you .
72319
72320 My lord , I beseech you , give me leave to go ,
72321 Through Gloucestershire , and when you come to court
72322 Stand my good lord , pray , in your good report .
72323
72324 Fare you well , Falstaff : I , in my condition ,
72325 Shall better speak of you than you deserve .
72326
72327
72328 I would you had but the wit : 'twere better than your dukedom . Good faith , this same young sober-blooded boy doth not love me ; nor a man cannot make him laugh ; but that's no marvel , he drinks no wine . There's never none of these demure boys come to any proof ; for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood , and making many fish-meals , that they fall into a kind of male green-sickness ; and then , when they marry , they get wenches . They are generally fools and cowards , which some of us should be too but for inflammation . A good sherris-sack hath a two-fold operation in it . It ascends me into the brain ; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it ; makes it apprehensive , quick , forgetive , full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes ; which , deliver'd o'er to the voice , the tongue , which is the birth , becomes excellent wit . The second property of your excellent sherris is , the warming of the blood ; which , before cold and settled , left the liver white and pale , which is the badge of pusillanimity and cowardice : but the sherris warms it and makes it course from the inwards to the parts extreme . It illumineth the face , which , as a beacon , gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom , man , to arm ; and then the vital commoners and inland petty spirits muster me all to their captain , the heart , who , great and puffed up with this retinue , doth any deed of courage ; and this valour comes of sherris . So that skill in the weapon is nothing without sack , for that sets it a-work ; and leaining , a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil till sack commences it and sets it in act and use . Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant ; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father , he hath , like lean , sterile , and bare land , manured , husbanded , and tilled , with excellent endeavour of drinking good and good store of fertile sherris , that he is become very hot and valiant . If I had a thousand sons , the first human principle I would teach them should be , to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack .
72329
72330 How now , Bardolph ?
72331
72332 The army is discharged all and gone .
72333
72334 Let them go . I'll through Gloucestershire ; and there will I visit Master Robert Shallow , esquire : I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb , and shortly will I seal with him . Come away .
72335
72336
72337 Now , lords , if God doth give successful end
72338 To this debate that bleedeth at our doors ,
72339 We will our youth lead on to higher fields
72340 And draw no swords but what are sanctified .
72341 Our navy is address'd , our power collected ,
72342 Our substitutes in absence well invested ,
72343 And everything lies level to our wish :
72344 Only , we want a little personal strength ;
72345 And pause us , till these rebels , now afoot ,
72346 Come underneath the yoke of government .
72347
72348 Both which we doubt not but your majesty
72349 Shall soon enjoy .
72350
72351 Humphrey , my son of Gloucester ,
72352 Where is the prince your brother ?
72353
72354 I think he's gone to hunt , my lord , at Windsor .
72355
72356 And how accompanied ?
72357
72358 I do not know , my lord .
72359
72360 Is not his brother Thomas of Clarence with him ?
72361
72362 No , my good lord ; he is in presence here .
72363
72364 What would my lord and father ?
72365
72366 Nothing but well to thee , Thomas of Clarence .
72367 How chance thou art not with the prince thy brother ?
72368 He loves thee , and thou dost neglect him , Thomas ;
72369 Thou hast a better place in his affection
72370 Than all thy brothers : cherish it , my boy ,
72371 And noble offices thou mayst effect
72372 Of mediation , after I am dead ,
72373 Between his greatness and thy other brethren :
72374 Therefore omit him not ; blunt not his love ,
72375 Nor lose the good advantage of his grace
72376 By seeming cold or careless of his will ;
72377 For he is gracious , if he be observ'd :
72378 He hath a tear for pity and a hand
72379 Open as day for melting charity ;
72380 Yet , notwithstanding , being incens'd , he's flint ;
72381 As humorous as winter , and as sudden
72382 As flaws congealed in the spring of day .
72383 His temper therefore must be well observ'd :
72384 Chide him for faults , and do it reverently ,
72385 When you perceive his blood inclin'd to mirth ;
72386 But , being moody , give him line and scope ,
72387 Till that his passions , like a whale on ground ,
72388 Confound themselves with working . Learn this , Thomas ,
72389 And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends ,
72390 A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in ,
72391 That the united vessel of their blood ,
72392 Mingled with venom of suggestion
72393 As , force perforce , the age will pour it in
72394 Shall never leak , though it do work as strong
72395 As aconitum or rash gunpowder .
72396
72397 I shall observe him with all care and love .
72398
72399 Why art thou not at Windsor with him , Thomas ?
72400
72401 He is not there to-day ; he dines in London .
72402
72403 And how accompanied ? canst thou tell that ?
72404
72405 With Poins and other his continual followers .
72406
72407 Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds ;
72408 And he , the noble image of my youth ,
72409 Is overspread with them : therefore my grief
72410 Stretches itself beyond the hour of death :
72411 The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape
72412 In forms imaginary the unguided days
72413 And rotten times that you shall look upon
72414 When I am sleeping with my ancestors .
72415 For when his headstrong riot hath no curb ,
72416 When rage and hot blood are his counsellors ,
72417 When means and lavish manners meet together ,
72418 O ! with what wings shall his affections fly
72419 Towards fronting peril and oppos'd decay .
72420
72421 My gracious lord , you look beyond him quite :
72422 The prince but studies his companions
72423 Like a strange tongue , wherein , to gain the language ,
72424 'Tis needful that the most immodest word
72425 Be look'd upon , and learn'd ; which once attain'd ,
72426 Your highness knows , comes to no further use
72427 But to be known and hated . So , like gross terms ,
72428 The prince will in the perfectness of time
72429 Cast off his followers ; and their memory
72430 Shall as a pattern or a measure live ,
72431 By which his Grace must mete the lives of others ,
72432 Turning past evils to advantages .
72433
72434 'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb
72435 In the dead carrion .
72436
72437 Who's here ? Westmoreland !
72438
72439 Health to my sovereign , and new happiness
72440 Added to that that I am to deliver !
72441 Prince John your son doth kiss your Grace's hand :
72442 Mowbray , the Bishop Scroop , Hastings and all
72443 Are brought to the correction of your law .
72444 There is not now a rebel's sword unsheath'd ,
72445 But Peace puts forth her olive everywhere .
72446 The manner how this action hath been borne
72447 Here at more leisure may your highness read ,
72448 With every course in his particular .
72449
72450 O Westmoreland ! thou art a summer bird ,
72451 Which ever in the haunch of winter sings
72452 The lifting up of day .
72453
72454 Look ! here's more news .
72455
72456 From enemies heaven keep your majesty ;
72457 And , when they stand against you , may they fall
72458 As those that I am come to tell you of !
72459 The Earl Northumberland , and the Lord Bardolph ,
72460 With a great power of English and of Scots ,
72461 Are by the sheriff of Yorkshire overthrown .
72462 The manner and true order of the fight
72463 This packet , please it you , contains at large .
72464
72465 And wherefore should these good news make me sick ?
72466 Will Fortune never come with both hands full
72467 But write her fair words still in foulest letters ?
72468 She either gives a stomach and no food ;
72469 Such are the poor , in health ; or else a feast
72470 And takes away the stomach ; such are the rich ,
72471 That have abundance and enjoy it not .
72472 I should rejoice now at this happy news ,
72473 And now my sight fails , and my brain is giddy .
72474 O me ! come near me , now I am much ill .
72475
72476 Comfort , your majesty !
72477
72478 O my royal father !
72479
72480 My sovereign lord , cheer up yourself : look up !
72481
72482 Be patient , princes : you do know these fits
72483 Are with his highness very ordinary :
72484 Stand from him , give him air ; he'll straight be well .
72485
72486 No , no ; he cannot long hold out these pangs :
72487 The incessant care and labour of his mind
72488 Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
72489 So thin , that life looks through and will break out .
72490
72491 The people fear me ; for they do observe
72492 Unfather'd heirs and loathly births of nature :
72493 The seasons change their manners , as the year
72494 Had found some months asleep and leap'd them over .
72495
72496 The river hath thrice flow'd , no ebb between ;
72497 And the old folk , time's doting chronicles ,
72498 Say it did so a little time before
72499 That our great-grandsire , Edward , sick'd and died .
72500
72501 Speak lower , princes , for the king recovers .
72502
72503 This apoplexy will certain be his end .
72504
72505 I pray you take me up , and bear me hence
72506 Into some other chamber : softly , pray .
72507
72508 Let there be no noise made , my gentle friends ;
72509 Unless some dull and favourable hand
72510 Will whisper music to my weary spirit .
72511
72512 Call for the music in the other room .
72513
72514 Set me the crown upon my pillow here .
72515
72516 His eye is hollow , and he changes much .
72517
72518 Less noise , less noise !
72519
72520
72521 Who saw the Duke of Clarence ?
72522
72523 I am here , brother , full of heaviness .
72524
72525 How now ! rain within doors , and none abroad !
72526 How doth the king ?
72527
72528 Exceeding ill .
72529
72530 Heard he the good news yet ?
72531 Tell it him .
72532
72533 He alter'd much upon the hearing it .
72534
72535 If he be sick with joy , he will recover without physic .
72536
72537 Not so much noise , my lords . Sweet prince , speak low ;
72538 The king your father is dispos'd to sleep .
72539
72540 Let us withdraw into the other room .
72541
72542 Will't please your Grace to go along with us ?
72543
72544 No ; I will sit and watch here by the king .
72545
72546 Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow ,
72547 Being so troublesome a bedfellow ?
72548 O polish'd perturbation ! golden care !
72549 That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide
72550 To many a watchful night ! Sleep with it now !
72551 Yet not so sound , and half so deeply sweet
72552 As he whose brow with homely biggin bound
72553 Snores out the watch of night . O majesty !
72554 When thou dost pinch thy bearer , thou dost sit
72555 Like a rich armour worn in heat of day ,
72556 That scalds with safety . By his gates of breath
72557 There lies a downy feather which stirs not :
72558 Did he suspire , that light and weightless down
72559 Perforce must move . My gracious lord ! my father !
72560 This sleep is sound indeed ; this is a sleep
72561 That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd
72562 So many English kings . Thy due from me
72563 Is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood ,
72564 Which nature , love , and filial tenderness
72565 Shall , O dear father ! pay thee plenteously :
72566 My due from thee is this imperial crown ,
72567 Which , as immediate from thy place and blood ,
72568 Derives itself to me . Lo ! here it sits ,
72569
72570 Which heaven shall guard ; and put the world's whole strength
72571 Into one giant arm , it shall not force
72572 This lineal honour from me . This from thee
72573 Will I to mine leave , as 'tis left to me .
72574
72575
72576 Warwick ! Gloucester ! Clarence !
72577
72578
72579 Doth the king call ?
72580
72581 What would your majesty ? How fares your Grace ?
72582
72583 Why did you leave me here alone , my lords ?
72584
72585 We left the prince my brother here , my liege ,
72586 Who undertook to sit and watch by you .
72587
72588 The Prince of Wales ! Where is he ? let me see him :
72589 He is not here .
72590
72591 This door is open ; he is gone this way .
72592
72593 He came not through the chamber where we stay'd .
72594
72595 Where is the crown ? who took it from my pillow ?
72596
72597 When we withdrew , my liege , we left it here .
72598
72599 The prince hath ta'en it hence : go , seek him out .
72600 Is he so hasty that he doth suppose
72601 My sleep my death ?
72602 Find him , my Lord of Warwick ; chide him hither .
72603
72604 This part of his conjoins with my disease ,
72605 And helps to end me . See , sons , what things you are !
72606 How quickly nature falls into revolt
72607 When gold becomes her object !
72608 For this the foolish over-careful fathers
72609 Have broke their sleeps with thoughts ,
72610 Their brains with care , their bones with industry ;
72611 For this they have engrossed and pil'd up
72612 The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved gold ;
72613 For this they have been thoughtful to invest
72614 Their sons with arts and martial exercises :
72615 When , like the bee , culling from every flower
72616 The virtuous sweets ,
72617 Our thighs packed with wax , our mouths with honey ,
72618 We bring it to the hive , and like the bees ,
72619 Are murder'd for our pains . This bitter taste
72620 Yield his engrossments to the ending father .
72621
72622
72623 Now , where is he that will not stay so long
72624
72625 Till his friend sickness hath determin'd me ?
72626
72627 My lord , I found the prince in the next room ,
72628 Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks ,
72629 With such a deep demeanour in great sorrow
72630 That tyranny , which never quaff'd but blood ,
72631 Would , by beholding him , have wash'd his knife
72632 With gentle eye-drops . He is coming hither .
72633
72634 But wherefore did he take away the crown ?
72635
72636
72637 Lo , where he comes . Come hither to me , Harry .
72638 Depart the chamber , leave us here alone .
72639
72640 I never thought to hear you speak again .
72641
72642 Thy wish was father , Harry , to that thought :
72643 I stay too long by thee , I weary thee .
72644 Dost thou so hunger for my empty chair
72645 That thou wilt needs invest thee with mine honours
72646 Before thy hour be ripe ? O foolish youth !
72647 Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee .
72648 Stay but a little ; for my cloud of dignity
72649 Is held from falling with so weak a wind
72650 That it will quickly drop : my day is dim .
72651 Thou hast stol'n that which after some few hours
72652 Were thine without offence ; and at my death
72653 Thou hast seal'd up my expectation :
72654 Thy life did manifest thou lov'dst me not ,
72655 And thou wilt have me die assur'd of it .
72656 Thou hid'st a thousand daggers in thy thoughts ,
72657 Which thou hast whetted on thy stony heart ,
72658 To stab at half an hour of my life .
72659 What ! canst thou not forbear me half an hour ?
72660 Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself ,
72661 And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear
72662 That thou art crowned , not that I am dead .
72663 Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse
72664 Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head :
72665 Only compound me with forgotten dust ;
72666 Give that which gave thee life unto the worms .
72667 Pluck down my officers , break my decrees ;
72668 For now a time is come to mock at form .
72669 Harry the Fifth is crown'd ! Up , vanity !
72670 Down , royal state ! all you sage counsellors , hence !
72671 And to the English court assemble now ,
72672 From every region , apes of idleness !
72673 Now , neighbour confines , purge you of your scum :
72674 Have you a ruffian that will swear , drink , dance ,
72675 Revel the night , rob , murder , and commit
72676 The oldest sins the newest kind of ways ?
72677 Be happy , he will trouble you no more :
72678 England shall double gild his treble guilt .
72679 England shall give him office , honour , might ;
72680 For the fifth Harry from curb'd licence plucks
72681 The muzzle of restraint , and the wild dog
72682 Shall flesh his tooth in every innocent .
72683 O my poor kingdom ! sick with civil blows .
72684 When that my care could not withhold thy riots ,
72685 What wilt thou do when riot is thy care ?
72686 O ! thou wilt be a wilderness again ,
72687 Peopled with wolves , thy old inhabitants .
72688
72689 O ! pardon me , my liege ; but for my tears ,
72690 The moist impediments unto my speech ,
72691 I had forestall'd this dear and deep rebuke
72692 Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard
72693 The course of it so far . There is your crown ;
72694 And he that wears the crown immortally
72695 Long guard it yours ! If I affect it more
72696 Than as your honour and as your renown ,
72697 Let me no more from this obedience rise ,
72698 Which my most true and inward duteous spirit
72699 Teacheth ,this prostrate and exterior bending .
72700 God witness with me , when I here came in ,
72701 And found no course of breath within your majesty ,
72702 How cold it struck my heart ! if I do feign ,
72703 O ! let me in my present wildness die
72704 And never live to show the incredulous world
72705 The noble change that I have purposed .
72706 Coming to look on you , thinking you dead ,
72707 And dead almost , my liege , to think you were ,
72708 I spake unto the crown as having sense ,
72709 And thus upbraided it : 'The care on thee depending
72710 Hath fed upon the body of my father ;
72711 Therefore , thou best of gold art worst of gold :
72712 Other , less fine in carat , is more precious ,
72713 Preserving life in medicine potable :
72714 But thou most fine , most honour'd , most renown'd ,
72715 Hast eat thy bearer up .' Thus , my most royal liege ,
72716 Accusing it , I put it on my head ,
72717 To try with it , as with an enemy
72718 That had before my face murder'd my father ,
72719 The quarrel of a true inheritor .
72720 But if it did infect my blood with joy ,
72721 Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride ;
72722 If any rebel or vain spirit of mine
72723 Did with the least affection of a welcome
72724 Give entertainment to the might of it ,
72725 Let God for ever keep it from my head ,
72726 And make me as the poorest vassal is
72727 That doth with awe and terror kneel to it !
72728
72729 O my son !
72730 God put it in thy mind to take it hence ,
72731 That thou mightst win the more thy father's love ,
72732 Pleading so wisely in excuse of it .
72733 Come hither , Harry : sit thou by my bed ;
72734 And hear , I think , the very latest counsel
72735 That ever I shall breathe . God knows , my son ,
72736 By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways
72737 I met this crown ; and I myself know well
72738 How troublesome it sat upon my head :
72739 To thee it shall descend with better quiet ,
72740 Better opinion , better confirmation ;
72741 For all the soil of the achievement goes
72742 With me into the earth . It seem'd in me
72743 But as an honour snatch'd with boisterous hand ,
72744 And I had many living to upbraid
72745 My gain of it by their assistances ;
72746 Which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed ,
72747 Wounding supposed peace . All these bold fears
72748 Thou seest with peril I have answered ;
72749 For all my reign hath been but as a scene
72750 Acting that argument ; and now my death
72751 Changes the mode : for what in me was purchas'd ,
72752 Falls upon thee in a more fairer sort ;
72753 So thou the garment wear'st successively .
72754 Yet , though thou stand'st more sure than I could do ,
72755 Thou art not firm enough , since griefs are green ;
72756 And all my friends , which thou must make thy friends ,
72757 Have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out ;
72758 By whose fell working I was first advanc'd ,
72759 And by whose power I well might lodge a fear
72760 To be again displac'd : which to avoid ,
72761 I cut them off ; and had a purpose now
72762 To lead out many to the Holy Land ,
72763 Lest rest and lying still might make them look
72764 Too near unto my state . Therefore , my Harry ,
72765 Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
72766 With foreign quarrels ; that action , hence borne out ,
72767 May waste the memory of the former days .
72768 More would I , but my lungs are wasted so
72769 That strength of speech is utterly denied me .
72770 How I came by the crown , O God , forgive !
72771 And grant it may with thee in true peace live .
72772
72773 My gracious liege ,
72774 You won it , wore it , kept it , gave it me ;
72775 Then plain and right must my possession be :
72776 Which I with more than with a common pain
72777 'Gainst all the world will rightfully maintain .
72778
72779
72780 Look , look , here comes my John of Lancaster .
72781
72782 Health , peace , and happiness to my royal father !
72783
72784 Thou bring'st me happiness and peace , son John ;
72785 But health , alack , with youthful wings is flown
72786 From this bare wither'd trunk : upon thy sight
72787 My worldly business makes a period .
72788 Where is my Lord of Warwick ?
72789
72790 My Lord of Warwick !
72791
72792
72793 Doth any name particular belong
72794 Unto the lodging where I first did swound ?
72795
72796 'Tis call'd Jerusalem , my noble lord .
72797
72798 Laud be to God ! even there my life must end .
72799 It hath been prophesied to me many years
72800 I should not die but in Jerusalem ,
72801 Which vainly I suppos'd the Holy Land .
72802 But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie :
72803 In that Jerusalem shall Harry die .
72804
72805 By cock and pie , sir , you shall not away to-night . What ! Davy , I say .
72806
72807 You must excuse me , Master Robert Shallow .
72808
72809 I will not excuse you ; you shall not be excused ; excuses shall not be admitted ; there is no excuse shall serve ; you shall not be excused . Why , Davy !
72810
72811
72812 Here , sir .
72813
72814 Davy , Davy , Davy , Davy , let me see , Davy ; let me see : yea , marry , William cook , bid him come hither . Sir John , you shall not be excused .
72815
72816 Marry , sir , thus ; those precepts cannot be served : and again , sir , shall we sow the headland with wheat ?
72817
72818 With red wheat , Davy . But for William cook : are there no young pigeons ?
72819
72820 Yes , sir . Here is now the smith's note for shoeing and plough-irons .
72821
72822 Let it be cast and paid . Sir John , you shall not be excused .
72823
72824 Now , sir , a new link to the bucket must needs be had : and , sir , do you mean to stop any of William's wages , about the sack he lost the other day at Hinckley fair ?
72825
72826 A' shall answer it . Some pigeons , Davy , a couple of short-legged hens , a joint of mutton , and any pretty little tiny kickshaws , tell William cook .
72827
72828 Doth the man of war stay all night , sir ?
72829
72830 Yea , Davy . I will use him well . A friend i' the court is better than a penny in purse . Use his men well , Davy , for they are arrant knaves , and will backbite .
72831
72832 No worse than they are back-bitten , sir ; for they have marvellous foul linen .
72833
72834 Well conceited , Davy : about thy business , Davy .
72835
72836 I beseech you , sir , to countenance William Visor of Wincot against Clement Perkes of the hill .
72837
72838 There are many complaints , Davy , against that Visor : that Visor is an arrant knave , on my knowledge .
72839
72840 I grant your worship that he is a knave , sir ; but yet , God forbid , sir , but a knave should have some countenance at his friend's request . An honest man , sir , is able to speak for himself , when a knave is not . I have served your worship truly , sir , this eight years ; and if I cannot once or twice in a quarter bear out a knave against an honest man , I have but a very little credit with your worship . The knave is mine honest friend , sir ; therefore , I beseech your worship , let him be countenanced .
72841
72842 Go to ; I say he shall have no wrong . Look about , Davy .
72843
72844 Where are you , Sir John ? Come , come , come ; off with your boots . Give me your hand , Master Bardolph .
72845
72846 I am glad to see your worship .
72847
72848 I thank thee with all my heart , kind Master Bardolph :
72849
72850 and welcome , my tall fellow . Come , Sir John .
72851
72852 I'll follow you , good Master Robert Shallow .
72853
72854 If I were sawed into quantities , I should make four dozen of such bearded hermit's staves as Master Shallow . It is a wonderful thing to see the semblable coherence of his men's spirits and his : they , by observing him , do bear themselves like foolish justices ; he , by conversing with them , is turned into a justice-like serving-man . Their spirits are so married in conjunction with the participation of society that they flock together in consent , like so many wild-geese . If I had a suit to Master Shallow , I would humour his men with the imputation of being near their master : if to his men , I would curry with Master Shallow that no man could better command his servants . It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught , as men take diseases , one of another : therefore let men take heed of their company . I will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to keep Prince Harry in continual laughter the wearing out of six fashions ,which is four terms , or two actions ,and a' shall laugh without intervallums . O ! it is much that a lie with a slight oath and a jest with a sad brow will do with a fellow that never had the ache in his shoulders . O ! you shall see him laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up !
72855
72856 Sir John !
72857
72858 I come , Master Shallow : I come , Master Shallow .
72859
72860
72861 How now , my Lord Chief Justice ! whither away ?
72862
72863 How doth the king ?
72864
72865 Exceeding well : his cares are now all ended .
72866
72867 I hope not dead .
72868
72869 He's walk'd the way of nature ;
72870 And to our purposes he lives no more .
72871
72872 I would his majesty had call'd me with him :
72873 The service that I truly did his life
72874 Hath left me open to all injuries .
72875
72876 Indeed I think the young king loves you not .
72877
72878 I know he doth not , and do arm myself ,
72879 To welcome the condition of the time ;
72880 Which cannot look more hideously upon me
72881 Than I have drawn it in my fantasy .
72882
72883
72884 Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry :
72885 O ! that the living Harry had the temper
72886 Of him , the worst of these three gentlemen .
72887 How many nobles then should hold their places ,
72888 That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort !
72889
72890 O God ! I fear all will be overturn'd .
72891
72892 Good morrow , cousin Warwick , good morrow .
72893
72894 Good morrow , cousin .
72895
72896 Good morrow , cousin .
72897
72898 We meet like men that had forgot to speak .
72899
72900 We do remember ; but our argument
72901 Is all too heavy to admit much talk .
72902
72903 Well , peace be with him that hath made us heavy !
72904
72905 Peace be with us , lest we be heavier !
72906
72907 O ! good my lord , you have lost a friend indeed ;
72908 And I dare swear you borrow not that face
72909 Of seeming sorrow ; it is sure your own .
72910
72911 Though no man be assur'd what grace to find ,
72912 You stand in coldest expectation .
72913 I am the sorrier ; would 'twere otherwise .
72914
72915 Well , you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair ,
72916 Which swims against your stream of quality .
72917
72918 Sweet princes , what I did , I did in honour ,
72919 Led by the impartial conduct of my soul ;
72920 And never shall you see that I will beg
72921 A ragged and forestall'd remission .
72922 If truth and upright innocency fail me ,
72923 I'll to the king my master that is dead ,
72924 And tell him who hath sent me after him .
72925
72926 Here comes the prince .
72927
72928
72929 Good morrow , and God save your majesty !
72930
72931 This new and gorgeous garment , majesty ,
72932 Sits not so easy on me as you think .
72933 Brothers , you mix your sadness with some fear :
72934 This is the English , not the Turkish court ;
72935 Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds ,
72936 But Harry Harry . Yet be sad , good brothers ,
72937 For , to speak truth , it very well becomes you :
72938 Sorrow so royally in you appears
72939 That I will deeply put the fashion on
72940 And wear it in my heart . Why then , be sad ;
72941 But entertain no more of it , good brothers ,
72942 Than a joint burden laid upon us all .
72943 For me , by heaven , I bid you be assur'd ,
72944 I'll be your father and your brother too ;
72945 Let me but bear your love , I'll bear your cares :
72946 Yet weep that Harry's dead , and so will I ;
72947 But Harry lives that shall convert those tears
72948 By number into hours of happiness .
72949
72950 We hope no other from your majesty .
72951
72952 You all look strangely on me :
72953
72954 and you most ;
72955 You are , I think , assur'd I love you not .
72956
72957 I am assur'd , if I be measur'd rightly ,
72958 Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me .
72959
72960 No !
72961 How might a prince of my great hopes forget
72962 So great indignities you laid upon me ?
72963 What ! rate , rebuke , and roughly send to prison
72964 The immediate heir of England ! Was this easy ?
72965 May this be wash'd in Lethe , and forgotten ?
72966
72967 I then did use the person of your father ;
72968 The image of his power lay then in me :
72969 And , in the administration of his law ,
72970 Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth ,
72971 Your highness pleased to forget my place ,
72972 The majesty and power of law and justice ,
72973 The image of the king whom I presented ,
72974 And struck me in my very seat of judgment ;
72975 Whereon , as an offender to your father ,
72976 I gave bold way to my authority ,
72977 And did commit you . If the deed were ill ,
72978 Be you contented , wearing now the garland ,
72979 To have a son set your decrees at nought ,
72980 To pluck down justice from your awful bench ,
72981 To trip the course of law , and blunt the sword
72982 That guards the peace and safety of your person :
72983 Nay , more , to spurn at your most royal image
72984 And mock your workings in a second body .
72985 Question your royal thoughts , make the case yours ;
72986 Be now the father and propose a son ,
72987 Hear your own dignity so much profan'd ,
72988 See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted ,
72989 Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd ;
72990 And then imagine me taking your part ,
72991 And in your power soft silencing your son :
72992 After this cold considerance , sentence me ;
72993 And , as you are a king , speak in your state
72994 What I have done that misbecame my place ,
72995 My person , or my liege's sov'reignty .
72996
72997 You are right , justice ; and you weigh this well ;
72998 Therefore still bear the balance and the sword :
72999 And I do wish your honours may increase
73000 Till you do live to see a son of mine
73001 Offend you and obey you , as I did .
73002 So shall I live to speak my father's words :
73003 'Happy am I , that have a man so bold
73004 That dares do justice on my proper son ;
73005 And not less happy , having such a son ,
73006 That would deliver up his greatness so
73007 Into the hands of justice .' You did commit me :
73008 For which , I do commit into your hand
73009 The unstained sword that you have us'd to bear ;
73010 With this remembrance , that you use the same
73011 With the like bold , just , and impartial spirit
73012 As you have done 'gainst me . There is my hand :
73013 You shall be as a father to my youth ;
73014 My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear ,
73015 And I will stoop and humble my intents
73016 To your well-practis'd wise directions .
73017 And , princes all , believe me , I beseech you ;
73018 My father is gone wild into his grave ,
73019 For in his tomb lie my affections ;
73020 And with his spirit sadly I survive ,
73021 To mock the expectation of the world ,
73022 To frustrate prophecies , and to raze out
73023 Rotten opinion , who hath writ me down
73024 After my seeming . The tide of blood in me
73025 Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now :
73026 Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea ,
73027 Where it shall mingle with the state of floods
73028 And flow henceforth in formal majesty .
73029 Now call we our high court of parliament ;
73030 And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel ,
73031 That the great body of our state may go
73032 In equal rank with the best govern'd nation ;
73033 That war or peace , or both at once , may be
73034 As things acquainted and familiar to us ;
73035 In which you , father , shall have foremost hand .
73036 Our coronation done , we will accite ,
73037 As I before remember'd , all our state :
73038 And , God consigning to my good intents ,
73039 No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say ,
73040 God shorten Harry's happy life one day .
73041
73042
73043 Nay , you shall see mine orchard , where , in an arbour , we will eat a last year's pippin of my own graffing , with a dish of caraways , and so forth ; come , cousin Silence ; and then to bed .
73044
73045 'Fore God , you have here a goodly dwelling , and a rich .
73046
73047 Barren , barren , barren ; beggars all , beggars all , Sir John : marry , good air . Spread , Davy ; spread , Davy : well said , Davy .
73048
73049 This Davy serves you for good uses ; he is your serving-man and your husband .
73050
73051 A good varlet , a good varlet , a very good varlet , Sir John : by the mass , I have drunk too much sack at supper : a good varlet . Now sit down , now sit down . Come , cousin .
73052
73053 Ah , sirrah ! quoth a' , we shall
73054
73055 Do nothing but eat , and make good cheer ,
73056 And praise God for the merry year ;
73057 When flesh is cheap and females dear ,
73058 And lusty lads roam here and there ,
73059 So merrily
73060 And ever among so merrily .
73061
73062
73063 There's a merry heart ! Good Master Silence , I'll give you a health for that anon .
73064
73065 Give Master Bardolph some wine , Davy .
73066
73067 Sweet sir , sit ; I'll be with you anon : most sweet sir , sit . Master page , good master page , sit . Proface ! What you want in meat we'll have in drink : but you must bear : the heart's all .
73068
73069
73070 Be merry , Master Bardolph ; and my little soldier there , be merry .
73071
73072
73073 Be merry , be merry , my wife has all ;
73074 For women are shrews , both short and tall :
73075 'Tis merry in hall when beards wag all ,
73076 And welcome merry Shrove-tide .
73077 Be merry , be merry .
73078
73079
73080 I did not think Master Silence had been a man of this mettle .
73081
73082 Who , I ? I have been merry twice and once ere now .
73083
73084
73085 There's a dish of leather-coats for you .
73086
73087
73088 Davy !
73089
73090 Your worship ! I'll be with you straight . A cup of wine , sir ?
73091
73092
73093 A cup of wine that's brisk and fine
73094 And drink unto the leman mine ;
73095 And a merry heart lives long-a .
73096
73097
73098 Well said , Master Silence .
73099
73100 And we shall be merry , now comes in the sweet o' the night .
73101
73102 Health and long life to you , Master Silence .
73103
73104
73105 Fill the cup , and let it come ;
73106 I'll pledge you a mile to the bottom .
73107
73108
73109 Honest Bardolph , welcome : if thou wantest anything and wilt not call , beshrew thy heart .
73110
73111 Welcome , my little tiny thief ; and welcome indeed too . I'll drink to Master Bardolph and to all the cavaleiroes about London .
73112
73113 I hope to see London once ere I die .
73114
73115 An I might see you there , Davy ,
73116
73117 By the mass , you'll crack a quart together : ha ! will you not , Master Bardolph ?
73118
73119 Yea , sir , in a pottle-pot .
73120
73121 By God's liggens , I thank thee . The knave will stick by thee , I can assure thee that : a' will not out ; he is true bred .
73122
73123 And I'll stick by him , sir .
73124
73125 Why , there spoke a king . Lack nothing : be merry .
73126
73127 Look who's at door there . Ho ! who knocks ?
73128
73129 Why , now you have done me right .
73130
73131
73132 Do me right ,
73133 And dub me knight :
73134 Samingo
73135
73136 Is't not so ?
73137
73138 'Tis so .
73139
73140 Is't so ? Why , then , say an old man can do somewhat .
73141
73142
73143 An't please your worship , there's one Pistol come from the court with news .
73144
73145 From the court ! let him come in .
73146
73147 How now , Pistol !
73148
73149 Sir John , God save you , sir !
73150
73151 What wind blew you hither , Pistol ?
73152
73153 Not the ill wind which blows no man to good .
73154 Sweet knight , thou art now one of the greatest men in this realm .
73155
73156 By'r lady , I think a' be , but goodman Puff of Barson .
73157
73158 Puff !
73159 Puff in thy teeth , most recreant coward base !
73160 Sir John , I am thy Pistol and thy friend ,
73161 And helter-skelter have I rode to thee ,
73162 And tidings do I bring and lucky joys
73163 And golden times and happy news of price .
73164
73165 I prithee now , deliver them like a man of this world .
73166
73167 A foutra for the world and worldlings base !
73168 I speak of Africa and golden joys .
73169
73170 O base Assyrian knight , what is thy news ?
73171 Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof .
73172
73173
73174 And Robin Hood , Scarlet , and John .
73175
73176
73177 Shall dunghill curs confront the Helicons ?
73178 And shall good news be baffled ?
73179 Then , Pistol , lay thy head in Furies' lap .
73180
73181 Honest gentleman , I know not your breeding .
73182
73183 Why then , lament therefore .
73184
73185 Give me pardon , sir : if , sir , you come with news from the court , I take it there is but two ways : either to utter them , or to conceal them . I am , sir , under the king , in some authority .
73186
73187 Under which king , Bezonian ? speak , or die .
73188
73189 Under King Harry .
73190
73191 Harry the Fourth ? or Fifth ?
73192
73193 Harry the Fourth .
73194
73195 A foutra for thine office !
73196 Sir John , thy tender lambkin now is king ;
73197 Harry the Fifth's the man . I speak the truth :
73198 When Pistol lies , do this ; and fig me , like
73199 The bragging Spaniard .
73200
73201 What ! is the old king dead ?
73202
73203 As nail in door : the things I speak are just .
73204
73205 Away , Bardolph ! saddle my horse . Master Robert Shallow , choose what office thou wilt in the land , 'tis thine . Pistol , I will double-charge thee with dignities .
73206
73207 O joyful day !
73208 I would not take a knighthood for my fortune .
73209
73210 What ! I do bring good news .
73211
73212 Carry Master Silence to bed . Master Shallow , my Lord Shallow , be what thou wilt , I am Fortune's steward . Get on thy boots : we'll ride all night . O sweet Pistol ! Away , Bardolph !
73213
73214 Come , Pistol , utter more to me ; and , withal devise something to do thyself good . Boot , boot , Master Shallow : I know the young king is sick for me . Let us take any man's horses ; the laws of England are at my commandment . Happy are they which have been my friends , and woe unto my lord chief justice !
73215
73216 Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also !
73217 'Where is the life that late I led ?' say they :
73218 Why , here it is : welcome these pleasant days !
73219
73220
73221 No , thou arrant knave : I would to God I might die that I might have thee hanged ; thou hast drawn my shoulder out of joint .
73222
73223 The constables have delivered her over to me , and she shall have whipping-cheer enough , I warrant her : there hath been a man or two lately killed about her .
73224
73225 Nut-hook , nut-hook , you lie . Come on ; I'll tell thee what , thou damned tripe-visaged rascal , an the child I now go with do miscarry , thou hadst better thou hadst struck thy mother , thou paper-faced villain .
73226
73227 O the Lord ! that Sir John were come ; he would make this a bloody day to somebody . But I pray God the fruit of her womb miscarry !
73228
73229 If it do , you shall have a dozen of cushions again ; you have but eleven now . Come , I charge you both go with me ; for the man is dead that you and Pistol beat among you .
73230
73231 I'll tell thee what , thou thin man in a censer , I will have you as soundly swinged for this , you blue-bottle rogue ! you filthy famished correctioner ! if you be not swinged , I'll forswear half-kirtles .
73232
73233 Come , come , you she knighterrant , come .
73234
73235 O , that right should thus overcome might ! Well , of sufferance comes ease .
73236
73237 Come , you rogue , come : bring me to a justice .
73238
73239 Ay ; come , you starved blood-hound .
73240
73241 Goodman death ! goodman bones !
73242
73243 Thou atomy , thou !
73244
73245 Come , you thin thing ; come , you rascal !
73246
73247 Very well .
73248
73249
73250 More rushes , more rushes .
73251
73252 The trumpets have sounded twice .
73253
73254 It will be two o'clock ere they come from the coronation . Dispatch , dispatch .
73255
73256 Stand here by me , Master Robert Shallow ; I will make the king do you grace . I will leer upon him , as a' comes by ; and do but mark the countenance that he will give me .
73257
73258 God bless thy lungs , good knight .
73259
73260 Come here , Pistol ; stand behind me . O ! if I had had time to have made new liveries , I would have bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you . But 'tis no matter ; this poor show doth better : this doth infer the zeal I had to see him .
73261
73262 It doth so .
73263
73264 It shows my earnestness of affection .
73265
73266 It doth so .
73267
73268 My devotion .
73269
73270 It doth , it doth , it doth .
73271
73272 As it were , to ride day and night ; and not to deliberate , not to remember , not to have patience to shift me .
73273
73274 It is most certain .
73275
73276 But to stand stained with travel , and sweating with desire to see him ; thinking of nothing else ; putting all affairs else in oblivion , as if there were nothing else to be done but to see him .
73277
73278 'Tis semper idem , for absque hoc nihil est :
73279 'Tis all in every part .
73280
73281 'Tis so , indeed .
73282
73283 My knight , I will inflame thy noble liver ,
73284 And make thee rage .
73285 Thy Doll , and Helen of thy noble thoughts ,
73286 Is in base durance and contagious prison ;
73287 Hal'd thither
73288 By most mechanical and dirty hand :
73289 Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell Alecto's snake ,
73290 For Doll is in : Pistol speaks nought but truth .
73291
73292 I will deliver her .
73293
73294
73295 There roar'd the sea , and trumpetclangor sounds .
73296
73297
73298 God save thy grace , King Hal ! my royal Hal !
73299
73300 The heavens thee guard and keep , most royal imp of fame !
73301
73302 God save thee , my sweet boy !
73303
73304 My lord chief justice , speak to that vain man .
73305
73306 Have you your wits ? know you what 'tis you speak ?
73307
73308 My king ! my Jove ! I speak to thee , my heart !
73309
73310 I know thee not , old man : fall to thy prayers ;
73311 How ill white hairs become a fool and jester !
73312 I have long dream'd of such a kind of man ,
73313 So surfeit-swell'd , so old , and so profane ;
73314 But , being awak'd , I do despise my dream .
73315 Make less thy body hence , and more thy grace ;
73316 Leave gormandising ; know the grave doth gape
73317 For thee thrice wider than for other men .
73318 Reply not to me with a fool-born jest :
73319 Presume not that I am the thing I was ;
73320 For God doth know , so shall the world perceive ,
73321 That I have turn'd away my former self ;
73322 So will I those that kept me company .
73323 When thou dost hear I am as I have been ,
73324 Approach me , and thou shalt be as thou wast ,
73325 The tutor and the feeder of my riots :
73326 Till then , I banish thee , on pain of death ,
73327 As I have done the rest of my misleaders ,
73328 Not to come near our person by ten mile .
73329 For competence of life I will allow you ,
73330 That lack of means enforce you not to evil :
73331 And , as we hear you do reform yourselves ,
73332 We will , according to your strength and qualities ,
73333 Give you advancement . Be it your charge , my lord ,
73334 To see perform'd the tenour of our word .
73335 Set on .
73336
73337
73338 Master Shallow , I owe you a thousand pound .
73339
73340 Ay , marry , Sir John ; which I beseech you to let me have home with me .
73341
73342 That can hardly be , Master Shallow . Do not you grieve at this : I shall be sent for in private to him . Look you , he must seem thus to the world . Fear not your advancements ; I will be the man yet that shall make you great .
73343
73344 I cannot perceive how , unless you should give me your doublet and stuff me out with straw . I beseech you , good Sir John , let me have five hundred of my thousand .
73345
73346 Sir , I will be as good as my word : this that you heard was but a colour .
73347
73348 A colour that I fear you will die in , Sir John .
73349
73350 Fear no colours : go with me to dinner . Come , Lieutenant Pistol ; come , Bardolph : I shall be sent for soon at night .
73351
73352
73353 Go , carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet ;
73354 Take all his company along with him .
73355
73356 My lord , my lord !
73357
73358 I cannot now speak : I will hear you soon .
73359 Take them away .
73360
73361 Si fortuna me tormenta , spero contenta .
73362
73363
73364 I like this fair proceeding of the king's .
73365 He hath intent his wonted followers
73366 Shall all be very well provided for ;
73367 But all are banish'd till their conversations
73368 Appear more wise and modest to the world .
73369
73370 And so they are .
73371
73372 The king hath call'd his parliament , my lord .
73373
73374 He hath .
73375
73376 I will lay odds , that , ere this year expire ,
73377 We bear our civil swords and native fire
73378 As far as France . I heard a bird so sing ,
73379 Whose music , to my thinking , pleas'd the king .
73380 Come , will you hence ?
73381
73382
73383 First , my fear ; then , my curtsy ; last my speech . My fear is , your displeasure , my curtsy , my duty , and my speech , to beg your pardon . If you look for a good speech now , you undo me ; for what I have to say is of mine own making ; and what indeed I should say will , I doubt , prove mine own marring . But to the purpose , and so to the venture . Be it known to you ,as it is very well ,I was lately here in the end of a displeasing play , to pray your patience for it and to promise you a better . I did mean indeed to pay you with this ; which , if like an ill venture it come unluckily home , I break , and you , my gentle creditors , lose . Here , I promised you I would be , and here I commit my body to your mercies : bate me some and I will pay you some ; and , as most debtors do , promise you infinitely .
73384 If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me , will you command me to use my legs ? and yet that were but light payment , to dance out of your debt . But a good conscience will make any possible satisfaction , and so will I . All the gentlewomen here have forgiven me : if the gentlemen will not , then the gentlemen do not agree with the gentlewomen , which was never seen before in such an assembly .
73385 One word more , I beseech you . If you be not too much cloyed with fat meat , our humble author will continue the story , with Sir John in it , and make you merry with fair Katharine of France : where , for anything I know , Falstaff shall die of a sweat , unless already a' be killed with your hard opinions ; for Oldcastle died a martyr , and this is not the man . My tongue is weary ; when my legs are too , I will bid you good night : and so kneel down before you ; but , indeed , to pray for the queen .
73386
73387 THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY VI
73388
73389
73390 As by your high imperial majesty
73391 I had in charge at my depart for France ,
73392 As procurator to your excellence ,
73393 To marry Princess Margaret for your Grace ;
73394 So , in the famous ancient city , Tours ,
73395 In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil ,
73396 The Dukes of Orleans , Calaber , Britaine , and Alen on ,
73397 Seven earls , twelve barons , and twenty reverend bishops ,
73398 I have perform'd my task , and was espous'd :
73399 And humbly now upon my bended knee ,
73400 In sight of England and her lordly peers ,
73401 Deliver up my title in the queen
73402 To your most gracious hands , that are the substance
73403 Of that great shadow I did represent ;
73404 The happiest gift that ever marquess gave ,
73405 The fairest queen that ever king receiv'd .
73406
73407 Suffolk , arise . Welcome , Queen Margaret :
73408 I can express no kinder sign of love
73409 Than this kind kiss . O Lord ! that lends me life ,
73410 Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness !
73411 For thou hast given me in this beauteous face
73412 A world of earthly blessings to my soul ,
73413 If sympathy of love unite our thoughts .
73414
73415 Great King of England and my gracious lord ,
73416 The mutual conference that my mind hath had
73417 By day , by night , waking , and in my dreams ,
73418 In courtly company , or at my beads ,
73419 With you , mine alderliefest sovereign ,
73420 Makes me the bolder to salute my king
73421 With ruder terms , such as my wit affords ,
73422 And over-joy of heart doth minister .
73423
73424 Her sight did ravish , but her grace in speech ,
73425 Her words y-clad with wisdom's majesty ,
73426 Makes me from wondering fall to weeping joys ;
73427 Such is the fulness of my heart's content .
73428 Lords , with one cheerful voice welcome my love .
73429
73430 Long live Queen Margaret , England's happiness !
73431
73432 We thank you all .
73433
73434
73435 My Lord Protector , so it please your Grace ,
73436 Here are the articles of contracted peace
73437 Between our sovereign and the French King Charles ,
73438 For eighteen months concluded by consent .
73439
73440 Imprimis , It is agreed between the French king , Charles , and William De la Pole , Marquess of Suffolk , ambassador for Henry King of England , that the said Henry shall espouse the Lady Margaret , daughter unto Reignier King of Naples , Sicilia , and Jerusalem , and crown her Queen of England ere the thirtieth of May next ensuing .
73441 Item , That the duchy of Anjou and the county of Maine shall be released and delivered to the king her father .
73442
73443
73444 Uncle , how now !
73445
73446 Pardon me , gracious lord ;
73447 Some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart
73448 And dimm'd mine eyes , that I can read no further .
73449
73450 Uncle of Winchester , I pray , read on .
73451
73452 Item , It is further agreed between them , that the duchies of Anjou and Maine shall be released and delivered over to the king her father ; and she sent over of the King of England's own proper cost and charges , without having any dowry .
73453
73454 They please us well . Lord marquess , kneel down :
73455 We here create thee the first Duke of Suffolk ,
73456 And girt thee with the sword . Cousin of York ,
73457 We here discharge your Grace from being regent
73458 I' the parts of France , till term of eighteen months
73459 Be full expir'd . Thanks , uncle Winchester ,
73460 Gloucester , York , Buckingham , Somerset ,
73461 Salisbury , and Warwick ;
73462 We thank you all for this great favour done ,
73463 In entertainment to my princely queen .
73464 Come , let us in , and with all speed provide
73465 To see her coronation be perform'd .
73466
73467
73468 Brave peers of England , pillars of the state ,
73469 To you Duke Humphrey must unload his grief ,
73470 Your grief , the common grief of all the land .
73471 What ! did my brother Henry spend his youth ,
73472 His valour , coin , and people , in the wars ?
73473 Did he so often lodge in open field ,
73474 In winter's cold , and summer's parching heat ,
73475 To conquer France , his true inheritance ?
73476 And did my brother Bedford toil his wits ,
73477 To keep by policy what Henry got ?
73478 Have you yourselves , Somerset , Buckingham ,
73479 Brave York , Salisbury , and victorious Warwick ,
73480 Receiv'd deep scars in France and Normandy ?
73481 Or hath mine uncle Beaufort and myself ,
73482 With all the learned council of the realm ,
73483 Studied so long , sat in the council-house
73484 Early and late , debating to and fro
73485 How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe ?
73486 And hath his highness in his infancy
73487 Been crown'd in Paris , in despite of foes ?
73488 And shall these labours and these honours die ?
73489 Shall Henry's conquest , Bedford's vigilance ,
73490 Your deeds of war and all our counsel die ?
73491 O peers of England ! shameful is this league ,
73492 Fatal this marriage , cancelling your fame ,
73493 Blotting your names from books of memory ,
73494 Razing the characters of your renown ,
73495 Defacing monuments of conquer'd France ,
73496 Undoing all , as all had never been .
73497
73498 Nephew , what means this passionate discourse ,
73499 This peroration with such circumstance ?
73500 For France , 'tis ours ; and we will keep it still .
73501
73502 Ay , uncle ; we will keep it , if we can ;
73503 But now it is impossible we should .
73504 Suffolk , the new-made duke that rules the roast ,
73505 Hath given the duchies of Anjou and Maine
73506 Unto the poor King Reignier , whose large style
73507 Agrees not with the leanness of his purse .
73508
73509 Now , by the death of him who died for all ,
73510 These counties were the keys of Normandy .
73511 But wherefore weeps Warwick , my valiant son ?
73512
73513 For grief that they are past recovery :
73514 For , were there hope to conquer them again ,
73515 My sword should shed hot blood , mine eyes no tears .
73516 Anjou and Maine ! myself did win them both ;
73517 Those provinces these arms of mine did conquer :
73518 And are the cities , that I got with wounds ,
73519 Deliver'd up again with peaceful words ?
73520 Mort Dieu !
73521
73522 For Suffolk's duke , may he be suffocate ,
73523 That dims the honour of this war-like isle !
73524 France should have torn and rent my very heart
73525 Before I would have yielded to this league .
73526 I never read but England's kings have had
73527 Large sums of gold and dowries with their wives ;
73528 And our King Henry gives away his own ,
73529 To match with her that brings no vantages .
73530
73531 A proper jest , and never heard before ,
73532 That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth
73533 For costs and charges in transporting her !
73534 She should have stay'd in France , and starv'd in France ,
73535 Before
73536
73537 My Lord of Gloucester , now you grow too hot :
73538 It was the pleasure of my lord the king .
73539
73540 My Lord of Winchester , I know your mind :
73541 'Tis not my speeches that you do mislike ,
73542 But 'tis my presence that doth trouble ye .
73543 Rancour will out : proud prelate , in thy face
73544 I see thy fury . If I longer stay
73545 We shall begin our ancient bickerings .
73546 Lordings , farewell ; and say , when I am gone ,
73547 I prophesied France will be lost ere long .
73548
73549
73550 So , there goes our protector in a rage .
73551 'Tis known to you he is mine enemy ,
73552 Nay , more , an enemy unto you all ,
73553 And no great friend , I fear me , to the king .
73554 Consider lords , he is the next of blood ,
73555 And heir apparent to the English crown :
73556 Had Henry got an empire by his marriage ,
73557 And all the wealthy kingdoms of the west ,
73558 There's reason he should be displeas'd at it .
73559 Look to it , lords ; let not his smoothing words
73560 Bewitch your hearts ; be wise and circumspect .
73561 What though the common people favour him ,
73562 Calling him , 'Humphrey , the good Duke of Gloucester ;'
73563 Clapping their hands , and crying with loud voice ,
73564 'Jesu maintain your royal excellence !'
73565 With 'God preserve the good Duke Humphrey !'
73566 I fear me , lords , for all this flattering gloss ,
73567 He will be found a dangerous protector .
73568
73569 Why should he then protect our sovereign ,
73570 He being of age to govern of himself ?
73571 Cousin of Somerset , join you with me ,
73572 And all together , with the Duke of Suffolk ,
73573 We'll quickly hoise Duke Humphrey from his seat .
73574
73575 This weighty business will not brook delay ;
73576 I'll to the Duke of Suffolk presently .
73577
73578
73579 Cousin of Buckingham , though Humphrey's pride
73580 And greatness of his place be grief to us ,
73581 Yet let us watch the haughty cardinal :
73582 His insolence is more intolerable
73583 Than all the princes in the land beside :
73584 If Gloucester be displac'd , he'll be protector .
73585
73586 Or thou , or I , Somerset , will be protector ,
73587 Despite Duke Humphrey or the cardinal .
73588
73589
73590 Pride went before , ambition follows him .
73591 While these do labour for their own preferment ,
73592 Behoves it us to labour for the realm .
73593 I never saw but Humphrey , Duke of Gloucester ,
73594 Did bear him like a noble gentleman .
73595 Oft have I seen the haughty cardinal
73596 More like a soldier than a man o' the church ,
73597 As stout and proud as he were lord of all ,
73598 Swear like a ruffian and demean himself
73599 Unlike the ruler of a commonweal .
73600 Warwick , my son , the comfort of my age ,
73601 Thy deeds , thy plainness , and thy house-keeping ,
73602 Have won the greatest favour of the commons ,
73603 Excepting none but good Duke Humphrey :
73604 And , brother York , thy acts in Ireland ,
73605 In bringing them to civil discipline ,
73606 Thy late exploits done in the heart of France ,
73607 When thou wert regent for our sovereign ,
73608 Have made thee fear'd and honour'd of the people .
73609 Join we together for the public good ,
73610 In what we can to bridle and suppress
73611 The pride of Suffolk and the cardinal ,
73612 With Somerset's and Buckingham's ambition ;
73613 And , as we may , cherish Duke Humphrey's deeds ,
73614 While they do tend the profit of the land .
73615
73616 So God help Warwick , as he loves the land ,
73617 And common profit of his country !
73618
73619 And so says York , for he hath greatest cause .
73620
73621 Then let's make haste away , and look unto the main .
73622
73623 Unto the main ! O father , Maine is lost !
73624 That Maine which by main force Warwick did win ,
73625 And would have kept so long as breath did last :
73626 Main chance , father , you meant ; but I meant Maine ,
73627 Which I will win from France , or else be slain .
73628
73629
73630 Anjou and Maine are given to the French ;
73631 Paris is lost ; the state of Normandy
73632 Stands on a tickle point now they are gone .
73633 Suffolk concluded on the articles ,
73634 The peers agreed , and Henry was well pleas'd
73635 To change two dukedoms for a duke's fair daughter .
73636 I cannot blame them all : what is't to them ?
73637 'Tis thine they give away , and not their own .
73638 Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage ,
73639 And purchase friends , and give to courtezans ,
73640 Still revelling like lords till all be gone ;
73641 While as the silly owner of the goods
73642 Weeps over them , and wrings his hapless hands ,
73643 And shakes his head , and trembling stands aloof ,
73644 While all is shar'd and all is borne away ,
73645 Ready to starve and dare not touch his own :
73646 So York must sit and fret and bite his tongue
73647 While his own lands are bargain'd for and sold .
73648 Methinks the realms of England , France , and Ireland
73649 Bear that proportion to my flesh and blood
73650 As did the fatal brand Alth a burn'd
73651 Unto the prince's heart of Calydon .
73652 Anjou and Maine both given unto the French !
73653 Cold news for me , for I had hope of France ,
73654 Even as I have of fertile England's soil .
73655 A day will come when York shall claim his own ;
73656 And therefore I will take the Nevils' parts
73657 And make a show of love to proud Duke Humphrey ,
73658 And , when I spy advantage , claim the crown ,
73659 For that's the golden mark I seek to hit .
73660 Nor shall proud Lancaster usurp my right .
73661 Nor hold the sceptre in his childish fist ,
73662 Nor wear the diadem upon his head ,
73663 Whose church-like humours fit not for a crown .
73664 Then , York , be still awhile , till time do serve :
73665 Watch thou and wake when others be asleep ,
73666 To pry into the secrets of the state ;
73667 Till Henry , surfeiting in joys of love ,
73668 With his new bride and England's dear-bought queen ,
73669 And Humphrey with the peers be fall'n at jars :
73670 Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose ,
73671 With whose sweet smell the air shall be perfum'd ,
73672 And in my standard bear the arms of York ,
73673 To grapple with the house of Lancaster ;
73674 And , force perforce , I'll make him yield the crown ,
73675 Whose bookish rule hath pull'd fair England down .
73676
73677
73678 Why droops my lord , like over-ripen'd corn
73679 Hanging the head at Ceres' plenteous load ?
73680 Why doth the great Duke Humphrey knit his brows ,
73681 As frowning at the favours of the world ?
73682 Why are thine eyes fix'd to the sullen earth ,
73683 Gazing on that which seems to dim thy sight ?
73684 What seest thou there ? King Henry's diadem
73685 Enchas'd with all the honours of the world ?
73686 If so , gaze on , and grovel on thy face ,
73687 Until thy head be circled with the same .
73688 Put forth thy hand , reach at the glorious gold :
73689 What ! is't too short ? I'll lengthen it with mine ;
73690 And having both together heav'd it up ,
73691 We'll both together lift our heads to heaven ,
73692 And never more abase our sight so low
73693 As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground .
73694
73695 O Nell , sweet Nell , if thou dost love thy lord ,
73696 Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts :
73697 And may that thought , when I imagine ill
73698 Against my king and nephew , virtuous Henry ,
73699 Be my last breathing in this mortal world !
73700 My troublous dream this night doth make me sad .
73701
73702 What dream'd my lord ? tell me , and I'll requite it
73703 With sweet rehearsal of my morning's dream .
73704
73705 Methought this staff , mine office-badge in court ,
73706 Was broke in twain ; by whom I have forgot ,
73707 But , as I think , it was by the cardinal ;
73708 And on the pieces of the broken wand
73709 Were plac'd the heads of Edmund Duke of Somerset ,
73710 And William De la Pole , first Duke of Suffolk .
73711 This was my dream : what it doth bode , God knows .
73712
73713 Tut ! this was nothing but an argument
73714 That he that breaks a stick of Gloucester's grove
73715 Shall lose his head for his presumption .
73716 But list to me , my Humphrey , my sweet duke :
73717 Methought I sat in seat of majesty
73718 In the cathedral church of Westminster ,
73719 And in that chair where kings and queens are crown'd ;
73720 Where Henry and Dame Margaret kneel'd to me ,
73721 And on my head did set the diadem .
73722
73723 Nay , Eleanor , then must I chide outright :
73724 Presumptuous dame ! ill-nurtur'd Eleanor !
73725 Art thou not second woman in the realm ,
73726 And the protector's wife , belov'd of him ?
73727 Hast thou not worldly pleasure at command ,
73728 Above the reach or compass of thy thought ?
73729 And wilt thou still be hammering treachery ,
73730 To tumble down thy husband and thyself
73731 From top of honour to disgrace's feet ?
73732 Away from me , and let me hear no more .
73733
73734 What , what , my lord ! are you so choleric
73735 With Eleanor , for telling but her dream ?
73736 Next time I'll keep my dreams unto myself ,
73737 And not be check'd .
73738
73739 Nay , be not angry ; I am pleas'd again .
73740
73741
73742 My Lord Protector , 'tis his highness' pleasure
73743 You do prepare to ride unto Saint Alban's ,
73744 Whereas the king and queen do mean to hawk .
73745
73746 I go . Come , Nell , thou wilt ride with us ?
73747
73748 Yes , my good lord , I'll follow presently .
73749
73750 Follow I must ; I cannot go before ,
73751 While Gloucester bears this base and humble mind .
73752 Were I a man , a duke , and next of blood ,
73753 I would remove these tedious stumbling-blocks
73754 And smooth my way upon their headless necks ;
73755 And , being a woman , I will not be slack
73756 To play my part in Fortune's pageant .
73757 Where are you there ? Sir John ! nay , fear not , man ,
73758 We are alone ; here's none but thee and I .
73759
73760
73761 Jesus preserve your royal majesty !
73762
73763 What sayst thou ? majesty ! I am but Grace .
73764
73765 But , by the grace of God , and Hume's advice ,
73766 Your Grace's title shall be multiplied .
73767
73768 What sayst thou , man ? hast thou as yet conferr'd
73769 With Margery Jourdain , the cunning witch ,
73770 With Roger Bolingbroke , the conjurer ?
73771 And will they undertake to do me good ?
73772
73773 This they have promised , to show your highness
73774 A spirit rais'd from depth of under ground ,
73775 That shall make answer to such questions
73776 As by your Grace shall be propounded him .
73777
73778 It is enough : I'll think upon the questions .
73779 When from Saint Alban's we do make return
73780 We'll see these things effected to the full .
73781 Here , Hume , take this reward ; make merry , man ,
73782 With thy confed'rates in this weighty cause .
73783
73784
73785 Hume must make merry with the duchess' gold ;
73786 Marry and shall . But how now , Sir John Hume !
73787 Seal up your lips , and give no words but mum :
73788 The business asketh silent secrecy .
73789 Dame Eleanor gives gold to bring the witch :
73790 Gold cannot come amiss , were she a devil .
73791 Yet have I gold flies from another coast :
73792 I dare not say from the rich cardinal
73793 And from the great and new-made Duke of Suffolk ;
73794 Yet I do find it so : for , to be plain ,
73795 They , knowing Dame Eleanor's aspiring humour ,
73796 Have hired me to undermine the duchess
73797 And buzz these conjurations in her brain .
73798 They say , 'A crafty knave does need no broker ;'
73799 Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker .
73800 Hume , if you take not heed , you shall go near
73801 To call them both a pair of crafty knaves .
73802 Well , so it stands ; and thus , I fear , at last
73803 Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wrack ,
73804 And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall .
73805 Sort how it will I shall have gold for all .
73806
73807
73808 My masters , let's stand close : my Lord Protector will come this way by and by , and then we may deliver our supplications in the quill .
73809
73810 Marry , the Lord protect him , for he's a good man ! Jesu bless him !
73811
73812
73813 Here a' comes , methinks , and the queen with him . I'll be the first , sure .
73814
73815 Come back , fool ! this is the Duke of Suffolk and not my Lord Protector .
73816
73817 How now , fellow ! wouldst anything with me ?
73818
73819 I pray , my lord , pardon me : I took ye for my Lord Protector .
73820
73821 To my Lord Protector ! are your supplications to his lordship ? Let me see them : what is thine ?
73822
73823 Mine is , an't please your Grace , against John Goodman , my Lord Cardinal's man , for keeping my house , and lands , my wife and all , from me .
73824
73825 Thy wife too ! that is some wrong indeed . What's yours ? What's here ? Against the Duke of Suffolk , for enclosing the commons of Melford ! How now , sir knave !
73826
73827 Alas ! sir , I am but a poor petitioner of our whole township .
73828
73829 Against my master , Thomas Horner , for saying that the Duke of York was rightful heir to the crown .
73830
73831 What sayst thou ? Did the Duke of York say he was rightful heir to the crown ?
73832
73833 That my master was ? No , forsooth : my master said that he was ; and that the king was an usurper .
73834
73835 Who is there ?
73836
73837
73838 Take this fellow in , and send for his master with a pursuivant presently . We'll hear more of your matter before the king .
73839
73840 And as for you , that love to be protected
73841 Under the wings of our protector's grace ,
73842 Begin your suits anew and sue to him .
73843
73844 Away , base cullions ! Suffolk , let them go .
73845
73846 Come , let's be gone .
73847
73848
73849 My Lord of Suffolk , say , is this the guise ,
73850 Is this the fashion of the court of England ?
73851 Is this the government of Britain's isle ,
73852 And this the royalty of Albion's king ?
73853 What ! shall King Henry be a pupil still
73854 Under the surly Gloucester's governance ?
73855 Am I a queen in title and in style ,
73856 And must be made a subject to a duke ?
73857 I tell thee , Pole , when in the city Tours
73858 Thou ran'st a tilt in honour of my love ,
73859 And stol'st away the ladies' hearts of France ,
73860 I thought King Henry had resembled thee
73861 In courage , courtship , and proportion :
73862 But all his mind is bent to holiness ,
73863 To number Ave-Maries on his beads ;
73864 His champions are the prophets and apostles ;
73865 His weapons holy saws of sacred writ ;
73866 His study is his tilt-yard , and his loves
73867 Are brazen images of canoniz'd saints .
73868 I would the college of the cardinals
73869 Would choose him pope , and carry him to Rome ,
73870 And set the triple crown upon his head :
73871 That were a state fit for his holiness .
73872
73873 Madam , be patient ; as I was cause
73874 Your highness came to England , so will I
73875 In England work your Grace's full content .
73876
73877 Beside the haught protector , have we Beaufort
73878 The imperious churchman , Somerset , Buckingham ,
73879 And grumbling York ; and not the least of these
73880 But can do more in England than the king .
73881
73882 And he of these that can do most of all
73883 Cannot do more in England than the Nevils :
73884 Salisbury and Warwick are no simple peers .
73885
73886 Not all these lords do vex me half so much
73887 As that proud dame , the Lord Protector's wife :
73888 She sweeps it through the court with troops of ladies ,
73889 More like an empress than Duke Humphrey's wife .
73890 Strangers in court do take her for the queen :
73891 She bears a duke's revenues on her back ,
73892 And in her heart she scorns our poverty .
73893 Shall I not live to be aveng'd on her ?
73894 Contemptuous base-born callot as she is ,
73895 She vaunted 'mongst her minions t'other day
73896 The very train of her worst wearing gown
73897 Was better worth than all my father's lands ,
73898 Till Suffolk gave two dukedoms for his daughter .
73899
73900 Madam , myself have lim'd a bush for her ,
73901 And plac'd a quire of such enticing birds
73902 That she will light to listen to the lays ,
73903 And never mount to trouble you again .
73904 So , let her rest : and , madam , list to me ;
73905 For I am bold to counsel you in this .
73906 Although we fancy not the cardinal ,
73907 Yet must we join with him and with the lords
73908 Till we have brought Duke Humphrey in disgrace .
73909 As for the Duke of York , this late complaint
73910 Will make but little for his benefit :
73911 So , one by one , we'll weed them all at last ,
73912 And you yourself shall steer the happy helm .
73913
73914 For my part , noble lords , I care not which ;
73915 Or Somerset or York , all's one to me .
73916
73917 If York have ill demean'd himself in France ,
73918 Then let him be denay'd the regentship .
73919
73920 If Somerset be unworthy of the place ,
73921 Let York be regent ; I will yield to him .
73922
73923 Whether your Grace be worthy , yea or no ,
73924 Dispute not that : York is the worthier .
73925
73926 Ambitious Warwick , let thy betters speak .
73927
73928 The cardinal's not my better in the field .
73929
73930 All in this presence are thy betters , Warwick .
73931
73932 Warwick may live to be the best of all .
73933
73934 Peace , son ! and show some reason , Buckingham ,
73935 Why Somerset should be preferr'd in this .
73936
73937 Because the king , forsooth , will have it so .
73938
73939 Madam , the king is old enough himself
73940 To give his censure : these are no women's matters .
73941
73942 If he be old enough , what needs your Grace
73943 To be protector of his excellence ?
73944
73945 Madam , I am protector of the realm ;
73946 And at his pleasure will resign my place .
73947
73948 Resign it then and leave thine insolence .
73949 Since thou wertking ,as who is king but thou ?
73950 The commonwealth hath daily run to wrack ;
73951 The Dauphin hath prevail'd beyond the seas ;
73952 And all the peers and nobles of the realm
73953 Have been as bondmen to thy sovereignty .
73954
73955 The commons hast thou rack'd ; the clergy's bags
73956 Are lank and lean with thy extortions .
73957
73958 Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire
73959 Have cost a mass of public treasury .
73960
73961 Thy cruelty in execution
73962 Upon offenders hath exceeded law ,
73963 And left thee to the mercy of the law .
73964
73965 Thy sale of offices and towns in France ,
73966 If they were known , as the suspect is great ,
73967 Would make thee quickly hop without thy head .
73968
73969 Give me my fan : what , minion ! can ye not ?
73970
73971 I cry you mercy , madam , was it you ?
73972
73973 Was't I ? yea , I it was , proud Frenchwoman :
73974 Could I come near your beauty with my nails
73975 I'd set my ten commandments in your face .
73976
73977 Sweet aunt , be quiet ; 'twas against her will .
73978
73979 Against her will ! Good king , look to't in time ;
73980 She'll hamper thee and dandle thee like a baby :
73981 Though in this place most master wear no breeches ,
73982 She shall not strike Dame Eleanor unreveng'd .
73983
73984
73985 Lord Cardinal , I will follow Eleanor ,
73986 And listen after Humphrey , how he proceeds :
73987 She's tickled now ; her fume can need no spurs ,
73988 She'll gallop far enough to her destruction .
73989
73990 Now , lords , my choler being over-blown
73991 With walking once about the quadrangle ,
73992 I come to talk of commonwealth affairs .
73993 As for your spiteful false objections ,
73994 Prove them , and I lie open to the law :
73995 But God in mercy so deal with my soul
73996 As I in duty love my king and country !
73997 But to the matter that we have in hand .
73998 I say , my sov'reign , York is meetest man
73999 To be your regent in the realm of France .
74000
74001 Before we make election , give me leave
74002 To show some reason , of no little force ,
74003 That York is most unmeet of any man .
74004
74005 I'll tell thee , Suffolk , why I am unmeet :
74006 First , for I cannot flatter thee in pride ;
74007 Next , if I be appointed for the place ,
74008 My Lord of Somerset will keep me here ,
74009 Without discharge , money , or furniture ,
74010 Till France be won into the Dauphin's hands .
74011 Last time I danc'd attendance on his will
74012 Till Paris was besieg'd , famish'd , and lost .
74013
74014 That can I witness ; and a fouler fact
74015 Did never traitor in the land commit .
74016
74017 Peace , headstrong Warwick !
74018
74019 Image of pride , why should I hold my peace ?
74020
74021
74022 Because here is a man accus'd of treason :
74023 Pray God the Duke of York excuse himself !
74024
74025 Doth any one accuse York for a traitor ?
74026
74027 What mean'st thou , Suffolk ? tell me , what are these ?
74028
74029 Please it your majesty , this is the man
74030 That doth accuse his master of high treason .
74031 His words were these : that Richard , Duke of York ,
74032 Was rightful heir unto the English crown ,
74033 And that your majesty was a usurper .
74034
74035 Say , man , were these thy words ?
74036
74037 An't shall please your majesty , I never said nor thought any such matter : God is my witness , I am falsely accused by the villain .
74038
74039 By these ten bones , my lords , he did speak them to me in the garret one night , as we were scouring my Lord of York's armour .
74040
74041 Base dunghill villain , and mechanical ,
74042 I'll have thy head for this thy traitor's speech .
74043 I do beseech your royal majesty
74044 Let him have all the rigour of the law .
74045
74046 Alas ! my lord , hang me if ever I spake the words . My accuser is my prentice ; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day , he did vow upon his knees he would be even with me : I have good witness of this : therefore I beseech your majesty , do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation .
74047
74048 Uncle , what shall we say to this in law ?
74049
74050 This doom , my lord , if I may judge .
74051 Let Somerset be regent o'er the French ,
74052 Because in York this breeds suspicion ;
74053 And let these have a day appointed them
74054 For single combat in convenient place ;
74055 For he hath witness of his servant's malice .
74056 This is the law , and this Duke Humphrey's doom .
74057
74058 Then be it so . My Lord of Somerset ,
74059 We make your Grace lord regent o'er the French .
74060
74061 I humbly thank your royal majesty .
74062
74063 And I accept the combat willingly .
74064
74065 Alas ! my lord , I cannot fight : for God's sake , pity my case ! the spite of man prevaileth against me . O Lord , have mercy upon me ! I shall never be able to fight a blow . O Lord , my heart !
74066
74067 Sirrah , or you must fight , or else be hang'd .
74068
74069 Away with them to prison ; and the day
74070 Of combat shall be the last of the next month .
74071 Come , Somerset , we'll see thee sent away .
74072
74073
74074 Come , my masters ; the duchess , I tell you , expects performance of your promises .
74075
74076 Master Hume , we are therefore provided . Will her ladyship behold and hear our exorcisms ?
74077
74078 Ay ; what else ? fear you not her courage .
74079
74080 I have heard her reported to be a woman of invincible spirit : but it shall be convenient , Master Hume , that you be by her aloft while we be busy below ; and so , I pray you , go in God's name , and leave us .
74081
74082 Mother Jourdain , be you prostrate , and grovel on the earth ; John Southwell , read you ; and let us to our work .
74083
74084
74085 Well said , my masters , and welcome all .
74086 To this gear the sooner the better .
74087
74088 Patience , good lady ; wizards know their times :
74089 Deep night , dark night , the silent of the night ,
74090 The time of night when Troy was set on fire ;
74091 The time when screech-owls cry , and ban-dogs howl ,
74092 And spirits walk , and ghosts break up their graves ,
74093 That time best fits the work we have in hand .
74094 Madam , sit you , and fear not : whom we raise
74095 We will make fast within a hallow'd verge .
74096
74097
74098 Adsum .
74099
74100 Asmath !
74101 By the eternal God , whose name and power
74102 Thou tremblest at , answer that I shall ask ;
74103 For till thou speak , thou shalt not pass from hence .
74104
74105 Ask what thou wilt . That I had said and done !
74106
74107 First , of the king : what shall of him become ?
74108
74109 The Duke yet lives that Henry shall depose ;
74110 But him outlive , and die a violent death .
74111
74112
74113 What fate awaits the Duke of Suffolk ?
74114
74115 By water shall he die and take his end .
74116
74117 What shall befall the Duke of Somerset ?
74118
74119 Let him shun castles :
74120 Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains
74121 Than where castles mounted stand .
74122 Have done , for more I hardly can endure .
74123
74124 Descend to darkness and the burning lake !
74125 False fiend , avoid !
74126
74127 Lay hands upon these traitors and their trash .
74128 Beldam , I think we watch'd you at an inch .
74129 What ! madam , are you there ? the king and commonweal
74130 Are deeply indebted for this piece of pains :
74131 My Lord Protector will , I doubt it not ,
74132 See you well guerdon'd for these good deserts .
74133
74134 Not half so bad as thine to England's king ,
74135 Injurious duke , that threat'st where is no cause .
74136
74137 True , madam , none at all . What call you this ?
74138
74139 Away with them ! let them be clapp'd up close
74140 And kept asunder . You , madam , shall with us :
74141 Stafford , take her to thee .
74142
74143 We'll see your trinkets here all forthcoming .
74144 All , away !
74145
74146
74147 Lord Buckingham , methinks you watch'd her well :
74148 A pretty plot , well chosen to build upon !
74149 Now , pray , my lord , let's see the devil's writ .
74150 What have we here ?
74151 The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose ;
74152 But him outlive , and die a violent death .
74153 Why , this is just ,
74154 Aio te , acida , Romanos vincere posse .
74155 Well , to the rest :
74156 Tell me what fate awaits the Duke of Suffolk ?
74157 By water shall he die and take his end .
74158 What shall betide the Duke of Somerset ?
74159 Let him shun castles :
74160 Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains
74161 Than where castles mounted stand .
74162 Come , come , my lords ; these oracles
74163 Are hardly attain'd , and hardly understood .
74164 The king is now in progress towards Saint Alban's ;
74165 With him , the husband of this lovely lady :
74166 Thither go these news as fast as horse can carry them ,
74167 A sorry breakfast for my Lord Protector .
74168
74169 Your Grace shall give me leave , my Lord of York ,
74170 To be the post , in hope of his reward .
74171
74172 At your pleasure , my good lord . Who's within there , ho !
74173
74174
74175 Invite my Lords of Salisbury and Warwick
74176 To sup with me to-morrow night . Away !
74177
74178
74179 Believe me , lords , for flying at the brook ,
74180 I saw not better sport these seven years' day :
74181 Yet , by your leave , the wind was very high ,
74182 And , ten to one , old Joan had not gone out .
74183
74184 But what a point , my lord , your falcon made ,
74185 And what a pitch she flew above the rest !
74186 To see how God in all his creatures works !
74187 Yea , man and birds are fain of climbing high .
74188
74189 No marvel , an it like your majesty ,
74190 My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well ;
74191 They know their master loves to be aloft ,
74192 And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch .
74193
74194 My lord , 'tis but a base ignoble mind
74195 That mounts no higher than a bird can soar .
74196
74197 I thought as much ; he'd be above the clouds .
74198
74199 Ay , my Lord Cardinal ; how think you by that ?
74200 Were it not good your Grace could fly to heaven ?
74201
74202 The treasury of everlasting joy .
74203
74204 Thy heaven is on earth ; thine eyes and thoughts
74205 Beat on a crown , the treasure of thy heart ;
74206 Pernicious protector , dangerous peer ,
74207 That smooth'st it so with king and commonweal !
74208
74209 What ! cardinal , is your priesthood grown peremptory ?
74210 Tant ne animis c lestibus ir ?
74211 Churchmen so hot ? good uncle , hide such malice ;
74212 With such holiness can you do it ?
74213
74214 No malice , sir ; no more than well becomes
74215 So good a quarrel and so bad a peer .
74216
74217 As who , my lord ?
74218
74219 Why , as you , my lord ,
74220 An't like your lordly lord-protectorship .
74221
74222 Why , Suffolk , England knows thine insolence .
74223
74224 And thy ambition , Gloucester .
74225
74226 I prithee , peace ,
74227 Good queen , and whet not on these furious peers ;
74228 For blessed are the peacemakers on earth .
74229
74230 Let me be blessed for the peace I make
74231 Against this proud protector with my sword !
74232
74233 Faith , holy uncle , would 'twere come to that !
74234
74235 Marry , when thou dar'st .
74236
74237 Make up no factious numbers for the matter ;
74238 In thine own person answer thy abuse .
74239
74240 Ay , where thou dar'st not peep : an if thou dar'st ,
74241 This evening on the east side of the grove .
74242
74243 How now , my lords !
74244
74245 Believe me , cousin Gloucester ,
74246 Had not your man put up the fowl so suddenly ,
74247 We had had more sport .
74248
74249 Come with thy two-hand sword .
74250
74251 True , uncle .
74252
74253 Are you advis'd ?
74254
74255 the east side of the grove .
74256
74257 Cardinal , I am with you .
74258
74259 Why , how now , uncle Gloucester !
74260
74261 Talking of hawking ; nothing else , my lord .
74262
74263
74264 Now , by God's mother , priest , I'll shave your crown
74265 For this , or all my fence shall fail .
74266
74267 Medice teipsum ;
74268 Protector , see to't well , protect yourself .
74269
74270 The winds grow high ; so do your stomachs , lords .
74271 How irksome is this music to my heart !
74272 When such strings jar , what hope of harmony ?
74273 I pray , my lords , let me compound this strife .
74274
74275
74276 What means this noise ?
74277 Fellow , what miracle dost thou proclaim ?
74278
74279 A miracle ! a miracle !
74280
74281 Come to the king , and tell him what miracle .
74282
74283 Forsooth , a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine ,
74284 Within this half hour hath receiv'd his sight ;
74285 A man that ne'er saw in his life before .
74286
74287 Now , God be prais'd , that to believing souls
74288 Gives light in darkness , comfort in despair !
74289
74290 Here comes the townsmen on procession ,
74291 To present your highness with the man .
74292
74293 Great is his comfort in this earthly vale ,
74294 Although by his sight his sin be multiplied .
74295
74296 Stand by , my masters ; bring him near the king :
74297 His highness' pleasure is to talk with him .
74298
74299 Good fellow , tell us here the circumstance ,
74300 That we for thee may glorify the Lord .
74301 What ! hast thou been long blind , and now restor'd ?
74302
74303 Born blind , an't please your Grace .
74304
74305 Ay , indeed , was he .
74306
74307 What woman is this ?
74308
74309 His wife , an't like your worship .
74310
74311 Hadst thou been his mother , thou couldst have better told .
74312
74313 Where wert thou born ?
74314
74315 At Berwick in the north , an't like your Grace .
74316
74317 Poor soul ! God's goodness hath been great to thee :
74318 Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass ,
74319 But still remember what the Lord hath done .
74320
74321 Tell me , good fellow , cam'st thou here by chance ,
74322 Or of devotion , to this holy shrine ?
74323
74324 God knows , of pure devotion ; being call'd
74325 A hundred times and oft'ner in my sleep ,
74326 By good Saint Alban ; who said , 'Simpcox , come ;
74327 Come , offer at my shrine , and I will help thee .'
74328
74329 Most true , forsooth ; and many time and oft
74330 Myself have heard a voice to call him so .
74331
74332 What ! art thou lame ?
74333
74334 Ay , God Almighty help me !
74335
74336 How cam'st thou so ?
74337
74338 A fall off of a tree .
74339
74340 A plum-tree , master .
74341
74342 How long hast thou been blind ?
74343
74344 O ! born so , master .
74345
74346 What ! and wouldst climb a tree ?
74347
74348 But that in all my life , when I was a youth .
74349
74350 Too true ; and bought his climbing very dear .
74351
74352 Mass , thou lov'dst plums well , that wouldst venture so .
74353
74354 Alas ! master , my wife desir'd some damsons ,
74355 And made me climb with danger of my life .
74356
74357 A subtle knave ! but yet it shall not serve .
74358 Let me see thine eyes : wink now : now open them :
74359 In my opinion yet thou seest not well .
74360
74361 Yes , master , clear as day ; I thank God and Saint Alban .
74362
74363 Sayst thou me so ? What colour is this cloak of ?
74364
74365 Red , master ; red as blood .
74366
74367 Why , that's well said . What colour is my gown of ?
74368
74369 Black , forsooth ; coal-black , as jet .
74370
74371 Why then , thou know'st what colour jet is of ?
74372
74373 And yet , I think , jet did he never see .
74374
74375 But cloaks and gowns before this day a many .
74376
74377 Never , before this day , in all his life .
74378
74379 Tell me , sirrah , what's my name ?
74380
74381 Alas ! master , I know not .
74382
74383 What's his name ?
74384
74385 I know not .
74386
74387 Nor his ?
74388
74389 No , indeed , master .
74390
74391 What's thine own name ?
74392
74393 Saunder Simpcox , an if it please you , master .
74394
74395 Then , Saunder , sit there , the lyingest knave in Christendom . If thou hadst been born blind , thou mightst as well have known all our names as thus to name the several colours we do wear . Sight may distinguish of colours , but suddenly to nominate them all , it is impossible . My lords , Saint Alban here hath done a miracle ; and would ye not think that cunning to be great , that could restore this cripple to his legs again ?
74396
74397 O , master , that you could !
74398
74399 My masters of Saint Alban's , have you not beadles in your town , and things called whips ?
74400
74401 Yes , my lord , if it please your Grace .
74402
74403 Then send for one presently .
74404
74405 Sirrah , go fetch the beadle hither straight .
74406
74407
74408 Now fetch me a stool hither by and by .
74409
74410
74411 Now , sirrah , if you mean to save yourself from whipping , leap me over this stool and run away .
74412
74413 Alas ! master , I am not able to stand alone :
74414 You go about to torture me in vain .
74415
74416
74417 Well , sir , we must have you find your legs . Sirrah beadle , whip him till he leap over that same stool .
74418
74419 I will , my lord . Come on , sirrah ; off with your doublet quickly .
74420
74421 Alas ! master , what shall I do ? I am not able to stand .
74422
74423 O God ! seest thou this , and bear'st so long ?
74424
74425 It made me laugh to see the villain run .
74426
74427 Follow the knave ; and take this drab away .
74428
74429 Alas ! sir , we did it for pure need .
74430
74431 Let them be whipp'd through every market town
74432 Till they come to Berwick , from whence they came .
74433
74434
74435 Duke Humphrey has done a miracle to-day .
74436
74437 True ; made the lame to leap and fly away .
74438
74439 But you have done more miracles than I ;
74440 You made in a day , my lord , whole towns to fly .
74441
74442
74443 What tidings with our cousin Buckingham ?
74444
74445 Such as my heart doth tremble to unfold .
74446 A sort of naughty persons , lewdly bent ,
74447 Under the countenance and confederacy
74448 Of Lady Eleanor , the protector's wife ,
74449 The ringleader and head of all this rout ,
74450 Have practis'd dangerously against your state ,
74451 Dealing with witches and with conjurers :
74452 Whom we have apprehended in the fact ;
74453 Raising up wicked spirits from under-ground ,
74454 Demanding of King Henry's life and death ,
74455 And other of your highness' privy council ,
74456 As more at large your Grace shall understand .
74457
74458 And so , my Lord Protector , by this means
74459 Your lady is forthcoming yet at London .
74460 This news , I think , hath turn'd your weapon's edge ;
74461 'Tis like , my lord , you will not keep your hour .
74462
74463 Ambitious churchman , leave to afflict my heart :
74464 Sorrow and grief have vanquish'd all my powers ;
74465 And , vanquish'd as I am , I yield to thee ,
74466 Or to the meanest groom .
74467
74468 O God ! what mischiefs work the wicked ones ,
74469 Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby .
74470
74471 Gloucester , see here the tainture of thy nest ;
74472 And look thyself be faultless , thou wert best .
74473
74474 Madam , for myself , to heaven I do appeal ,
74475 How I have lov'd my king and commonweal ;
74476 And , for my wife , I know not how it stands .
74477 Sorry I am to hear what I have heard :
74478 Noble she is , but if she have forgot
74479 Honour and virtue , and convers'd with such
74480 As , like to pitch , defile nobility ,
74481 I banish her my bed and company ,
74482 And give her , as a prey , to law and shame ,
74483 That hath dishonour'd Gloucester's honest name .
74484
74485 Well , for this night we will repose us here :
74486 To-morrow toward London back again ,
74487 To look into this business thoroughly ,
74488 And call these foul offenders to their answers ;
74489 And poise the cause in justice' equal scales ,
74490 Whose beam stands sure , whose rightful cause prevails .
74491
74492
74493 Now , my good Lords of Salisbury and Warwick ,
74494 Our simple supper ended , give me leave ,
74495 In this close walk to satisfy myself ,
74496 In craving your opinion of my title ,
74497 Which is infallible to England's crown .
74498
74499 My lord , I long to hear it at full .
74500
74501 Sweet York , begin ; and if thy claim be good ,
74502 The Nevils are thy subjects to command .
74503
74504 Then thus :
74505 Edward the Third , my lords , had seven sons :
74506 The first , Edward the Black Prince , Prince of Wales ;
74507 The second , William of Hatfield ; and the third ,
74508 Lionel , Duke of Clarence ; next to whom
74509 Was John of Gaunt , the Duke of Lancaster ;
74510 The fifth was Edmund Langley , Duke of York ;
74511 The sixth was Thomas of Woodstock , Duke of Gloucester ;
74512 William of Windsor was the seventh and last .
74513 Edward the Black Prince died before his father ,
74514 And left behind him Richard , his only son ,
74515 Who after Edward the Third's death , reign'd as king ;
74516 Till Henry Bolingbroke , Duke of Lancaster ,
74517 The eldest son and heir of John of Gaunt ,
74518 Crown'd by the name of Henry the Fourth ,
74519 Seiz'd on the realm , depos'd the rightful king ,
74520 Sent his poor queen to France , from whence she came ,
74521 And him to Pomfret ; where as all you know ,
74522 Harmless Richard was murder'd traitorously .
74523
74524 Father , the duke hath told the truth ;
74525 Thus got the house of Lancaster the crown .
74526
74527 Which now they hold by force and not by right ;
74528 For Richard , the first son's heir , being dead ,
74529 The issue of the next son should have reign'd .
74530
74531 But William of Hatfield died without an heir .
74532
74533 The third son , Duke of Clarence , from whose line
74534 I claim the crown , had issue , Philippe a daughter ,
74535 Who married Edmund Mortimer , Earl of March :
74536 Edmund had issue Roger , Earl of March :
74537 Roger had issue Edmund , Anne , and Eleanor .
74538
74539 This Edmund , in the reign of Bolingbroke ,
74540 As I have read , laid claim unto the crown ;
74541 And but for Owen Glendower , had been king ,
74542 Who kept him in captivity till he died .
74543 But , to the rest .
74544
74545 His eldest sister , Anne ,
74546 My mother , being heir unto the crown ,
74547 Married Richard , Earl of Cambridge , who was son
74548 To Edmund Langley , Edward the Third's fifth son .
74549 By her I claim the kingdom : she was heir
74550 To Roger , Earl of March ; who was the son
74551 Of Edmund Mortimer ; who married Philippe ,
74552 Sole daughter unto Lionel , Duke of Clarence :
74553 So , if the issue of the eldest son
74554 Succeed before the younger , I am king .
74555
74556 What plain proceeding is more plain than this ?
74557 Henry doth claim the crown from John of Gaunt ,
74558 The fourth son ; York claims it from the third .
74559 Till Lionel's issue fails , his should not reign :
74560 It fails not yet , but flourishes in thee ,
74561 And in thy sons , fair slips of such a stock .
74562 Then , father Salisbury , kneel we together ,
74563 And in this private plot be we the first
74564 That shall salute our rightful sovereign
74565 With honour of his birthright to the crown .
74566
74567 Long live our sovereign Richard , England's king !
74568
74569 We thank you , lords ! But I am not your king
74570 Till I be crown'd , and that my sword be stain'd
74571 With heart-blood of the house of Lancaster ;
74572 And that's not suddenly to be perform'd ,
74573 But with advice and silent secrecy .
74574 Do you as I do in these dangerous days ,
74575 Wink at the Duke of Suffolk's insolence ,
74576 At Beaufort's pride , at Somerset's ambition ,
74577 At Buckingham and all the crew of them ,
74578 Till they have snar'd the shepherd of the flock ,
74579 That virtuous prince , the good Duke Humphrey :
74580 'Tis that they seek ; and they , in seeking that
74581 Shall find their deaths , if York can prophesy .
74582
74583 My lord , break we off ; we know your mind at full .
74584
74585 My heart assures me that the Earl of Warwick
74586 Shall one day make the Duke of York a king .
74587
74588 And , Nevil , this I do assure myself ,
74589 Richard shall live to make the Earl of Warwick
74590 The greatest man in England but the king .
74591
74592
74593 Stand forth , Dame Eleanor Cobham , Gloucester's wife .
74594 In sight of God and us , your guilt is great :
74595 Receive the sentence of the law for sins
74596 Such as by God's book are adjudg'd to death .
74597 You four , from hence to prison back again ;
74598 From thence , unto the place of execution :
74599 The witch in Smithfield shall be burn'd to ashes ,
74600 And you three shall be strangled on the gallows .
74601 You , madam , for you are more nobly born ,
74602 Despoiled of your honour in your life ,
74603 Shall , after three days' open penance done ,
74604 Live in your country here , in banishment ,
74605 With Sir John Stanley , in the Isle of Man .
74606
74607 Welcome is banishment ; welcome were my death .
74608
74609 Eleanor , the law , thou seest , hath judged thee :
74610 I cannot justify whom the law condemns .
74611
74612 Mine eyes are full of tears , my heart of grief .
74613 Ah , Humphrey ! this dishonour in thine age
74614 Will bring thy head with sorrow to the ground .
74615 I beseech your majesty , give me leave to go ;
74616 Sorrow would solace and mine age would ease .
74617
74618 Stay , Humphrey , Duke of Gloucester : ere thou go ,
74619 Give up thy staff : Henry will to himself
74620 Protector be ; and God shall be my hope ,
74621 My stay , my guide , and lantern to my feet .
74622 And go in peace , Humphrey ; no less belov'd
74623 Than when thou wert protector to thy king .
74624
74625 I see no reason why a king of years
74626 Should be to be protected like a child .
74627 God and King Henry govern England's helm !
74628 Give up your staff , sir , and the king his realm .
74629
74630 My staff ! here , noble Henry , is my staff :
74631 As willingly do I the same resign
74632 As e'er thy father Henry made it mine ;
74633 And even as willingly at thy feet I leave it
74634 As others would ambitiously receive it .
74635 Farewell , good king ! when I am dead and gone ,
74636 May honourable peace attend thy throne .
74637
74638
74639 Why , now is Henry king , and Margaret queen ;
74640 And Humphrey , Duke of Gloucester , scarce himself ,
74641 That bears so shrewd a maim : two pulls at once ;
74642 His lady banish'd , and a limb lopp'd off ;
74643 This staff of honour raught : there let it stand ,
74644 Where it best fits to be , in Henry's hand .
74645
74646 Thus droops this lofty pine and hangs his sprays ;
74647 Thus Eleanor's pride dies in her youngest days .
74648
74649 Lords , let him go . Please it your majesty
74650 This is the day appointed for the combat ;
74651 And ready are the appellant and defendant ,
74652 The armourer and his man , to enter the lists ,
74653 So please your highness to behold the fight .
74654
74655 Ay , good my lord ; for purposely therefore
74656 Left I the court , to see this quarrel tried .
74657
74658 O' God's name , see the lists and all things fit :
74659 Here let them end it ; and God defend the right !
74660
74661 I never saw a fellow worse bested ,
74662 Or more afraid to fight , than is the appellant ,
74663 The servant of this armourer , my lords .
74664
74665
74666 Here , neighbour Horner , I drink to you in a cup of sack : and fear not , neighbour , you shall do well enough .
74667
74668 And here , neighbour , here's a cup of charneco .
74669
74670 And here's a pot of good double beer , neighbour : drink , and fear not your man .
74671
74672 Let it come , i' faith , and I'll pledge you all ; and a fig for Peter !
74673
74674 Here , Peter , I drink to thee ; and be not afraid .
74675
74676 Be merry , Peter , and fear not thy master : fight for credit of the prentices .
74677
74678 I thank you all : drink , and pray for me , I pray you ; for , I think , I have taken my last draught in this world . Here , Robin , an if I die , I give thee my apron : and , Will , thou shalt have my hammer : and here , Tom , take all the money that I have . O Lord bless me ! I pray God , for I am never able to deal with my master , he hath learnt so much fence already .
74679
74680 Come , leave your drinking and fall to blows . Sirrah , what's thy name ?
74681
74682 Peter , forsooth .
74683
74684 Peter ! what more ?
74685
74686 Thump .
74687
74688 Thump ! then see thou thump thy master well .
74689
74690 Masters , I am come hither , as it were , upon my man's instigation , to prove him a knave , and myself an honest man : and touching the Duke of York , I will take my death I never meant him any ill , nor the king , nor the queen ; and therefore , Peter , have at thee with a downright blow !
74691
74692 Dispatch : this knave's tongue begins to double .
74693 Sound , trumpets , alarum to the combatants .
74694
74695
74696 Hold , Peter , hold ! I confess , I confess treason .
74697
74698
74699 Take away his weapon . Fellow , thank
74700 God , and the good wine in thy master's way .
74701
74702 O God ! have I overcome mine enemies in this presence ? O Peter ! thou hast prevailed in right !
74703
74704 Go , take hence that traitor from our sight ;
74705 For by his death we do perceive his guilt :
74706 And God in justice hath reveal'd to us
74707 The truth and innocence of this poor fellow ,
74708 Which he had thought to have murder'd wrongfully .
74709 Come , fellow , follow us for thy reward .
74710
74711
74712 Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud ;
74713 And after summer evermore succeeds
74714 Barren winter , with his wrathful nipping cold :
74715 So cares and joys abound , as seasons fleet .
74716 Sirs , what's o'clock ?
74717
74718 Ten , my lord .
74719
74720 Ten is the hour that was appointed me
74721 To watch the coming of my punish'd duchess :
74722 Uneath may she endure the flinty streets ,
74723 To tread them with her tender-feeling feet .
74724 Sweet Nell , ill can thy noble mind abrook
74725 The abject people , gazing on thy face
74726 With envious looks still laughing at thy shame ,
74727 That erst did follow thy proud chariot wheels
74728 When thou didst ride in triumph through the streets .
74729 But , soft ! I think she comes ; and I'll prepare
74730 My tear-stain'd eyes to see her miseries .
74731
74732
74733 So please your Grace , we'll take her from the sheriff .
74734
74735 No , stir not , for your lives ; let her pass by .
74736
74737 Come you , my lord , to see my open shame ?
74738 Now thou dost penance too . Look ! how they gaze .
74739 See ! how the giddy multitude do point ,
74740 And nod their heads , and throw their eyes on thee .
74741 Ah , Gloucester , hide thee from their hateful looks ,
74742 And , in thy closet pent up , rue my shame ,
74743 And ban thine enemies , both mine and thine !
74744
74745 Be patient , gentle Nell ; forget this grief .
74746
74747 Ay , Gloucester , teach me to forget myself ;
74748 For whilst I think I am thy wedded wife ,
74749 And thou a prince , protector of this land ,
74750 Methinks I should not thus be led along ,
74751 Mail'd up in shame , with papers on my back ,
74752 And follow'd with a rabble that rejoice
74753 To see my tears and hear my deep-fet groans .
74754 The ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet ,
74755 And when I start , the envious people laugh ,
74756 And bid me be advised how I tread .
74757 Ah , Humphrey ! can I bear this shameful yoke ?
74758 Trow'st thou that e'er I'll look upon the world ,
74759 Or count them happy that enjoy the sun ?
74760 No ; dark shall be my light , and night my day ;
74761 To think upon my pomp shall be my hell .
74762 Sometime I'll say , I am Duke Humphrey's wife ;
74763 And he a prince and ruler of the land :
74764 Yet so he rul'd and such a prince he was
74765 As he stood by whilst I , his forlorn duchess ,
74766 Was made a wonder and a pointing-stock
74767 To every idle rascal follower .
74768 But be thou mild and blush not at my shame ;
74769 Nor stir at nothing till the axe of death
74770 Hang over thee , as , sure , it shortly will ;
74771 For Suffolk , he that can do all in all
74772 With her that hateth thee , and hates us all ,
74773 And York , and impious Beaufort , that false priest ,
74774 Have all lim'd bushes to betray thy wings ;
74775 And , fly thou how thou canst , they'll tangle thee :
74776 But fear not thou , until thy foot be snar'd ,
74777 Nor never seek prevention of thy foes .
74778
74779 Ah , Nell ! forbear : thou aimest all awry ;
74780 I must offend before I be attainted ;
74781 And had I twenty times so many foes ,
74782 And each of them had twenty times their power ,
74783 All these could not procure me any scath ,
74784 So long as I am loyal , true , and crimeless .
74785 Wouldst have me rescue thee from this reproach ?
74786 Why , yet thy scandal were not wip'd away ,
74787 But I in danger for the breach of law .
74788 Thy greatest help is quiet , gentle Nell :
74789 I pray thee , sort thy heart to patience ;
74790 These few days' wonder will be quickly worn .
74791
74792
74793 I summon your Grace to his majesty's parliament , holden at Bury the first of this next month .
74794
74795 And my consent ne'er ask'd herein before !
74796 This is close dealing . Well , I will be there .
74797
74798 My Nell , I take my leave : and , master sheriff ,
74799 Let not her penance exceed the king's commission .
74800
74801 An't please your Grace , here my commission stays ;
74802 And Sir John Stanley is appointed now
74803 To take her with him to the Isle of Man .
74804
74805 Must you , Sir John , protect my lady here ?
74806
74807 So am I given in charge , may't please your Grace .
74808
74809 Entreat her not the worse in that I pray
74810 You use her well . The world may laugh again ;
74811 And I may live to do you kindness if
74812 You do it her : and so , Sir John , farewell .
74813
74814 What ! gone , my lord , and bid me not farewell !
74815
74816 Witness my tears , I cannot stay to speak .
74817
74818
74819 Art thou gone too ? All comfort go with thee !
74820 For none abides with me : my joy is death ;
74821 Death , at whose name I oft have been afear'd ,
74822 Because I wish'd this world's eternity .
74823 Stanley , I prithee , go , and take me hence ;
74824 I care not whither , for I beg no favour ,
74825 Only convey me where thou art commanded .
74826
74827 Why , madam , that is to the Isle of Man ;
74828 There to be us'd according to your state .
74829
74830 That's bad enough , for I am but reproach :
74831 And shall I then be us'd reproachfully ?
74832
74833 Like to a duchess , and Duke Humphrey's lady :
74834 According to that state you shall be us'd .
74835
74836 Sheriff , farewell , and better than I fare ,
74837 Although thou hast been conduct of my shame .
74838
74839 It is my office ; and , madam , pardon me .
74840
74841 Ay , ay , farewell ; thy office is discharg'd .
74842 Come , Stanley , shall we go ?
74843
74844 Madam , your penance done , throw off this sheet ,
74845 And go we to attire you for our journey .
74846
74847 My shame will not be shifted with my sheet :
74848 No ; it will hang upon my richest robes ,
74849 And show itself , attire me how I can .
74850 Go , lead the way ; I long to see my prison .
74851
74852
74853 I muse my Lord of Gloucester is not come :
74854 'Tis not his wont to be the hindmost man ,
74855 Whate'er occasion keeps him from us now .
74856
74857 Can you not see ? or will ye not observe
74858 The strangeness of his alter'd countenance ?
74859 With what a majesty he bears himself ,
74860 How insolent of late he is become ,
74861 How proud , how peremptory , and unlike himself ?
74862 We know the time since he was mild and affable ,
74863 An if we did but glance a far-off look ,
74864 Immediately he was upon his knee ,
74865 That all the court admir'd him for submission :
74866 But meet him now , and , be it in the morn ,
74867 When everyone will give the time of day ,
74868 He knits his brow and shows an angry eye ,
74869 And passeth by with stiff unbowed knee ,
74870 Disdaining duty that to us belongs .
74871 Small curs are not regarded when they grin ,
74872 But great men tremble when the lion roars ;
74873 And Humphrey is no little man in England .
74874 First note that he is near you in descent ,
74875 And should you fall , he is the next will mount .
74876 Me seemeth then it is no policy ,
74877 Respecting what a rancorous mind he bears ,
74878 And his advantage following your decease ,
74879 That he should come about your royal person
74880 Or be admitted to your highness' council .
74881 By flattery hath he won the commons' hearts ,
74882 And when he please to make commotion ,
74883 'Tis to be fear'd they all will follow him .
74884 Now 'tis the spring , and weeds are shallow-rooted ;
74885 Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden ,
74886 And choke the herbs for want of husbandry .
74887 The reverent care I bear unto my lord
74888 Made me collect these dangers in the duke .
74889 If it be fond , call it a woman's fear ;
74890 Which fear if better reasons can supplant ,
74891 I will subscribe and say I wrong'd the duke .
74892 My Lord of Suffolk , Buckingham , and York ,
74893 Reprove my allegation if you can
74894 Or else conclude my words effectual .
74895
74896 Well hath your highness seen into this duke ;
74897 And had I first been put to speak my mind ,
74898 I think I should have told your Grace's tale .
74899 The duchess , by his subornation ,
74900 Upon my life , began her devilish practices :
74901 Or if he were not privy to those faults ,
74902 Yet , by reputing of his high descent ,
74903 As , next the king he was successive heir ,
74904 And such high vaunts of his nobility ,
74905 Did instigate the bedlam brain-sick duchess ,
74906 By wicked means to frame our sovereign's fall .
74907 Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep ,
74908 And in his simple show he harbours treason .
74909 The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb :
74910 No , no , my sov'reign ; Gloucester is a man
74911 Unsounded yet , and full of deep deceit .
74912
74913 Did he not , contrary to form of law ,
74914 Devise strange deaths for small offences done ?
74915
74916 And did he not , in his protectorship ,
74917 Levy great sums of money through the realm
74918 For soldiers' pay in France , and never sent it ?
74919 By means whereof the towns each day revolted .
74920
74921 Tut ! these are petty faults to faults unknown ,
74922 Which time will bring to light in smooth Duke Humphrey .
74923
74924 My lords , at once : the care you have of us ,
74925 To mow down thorns that would annoy our foot ,
74926 Is worthy praise ; but shall I speak my conscience ,
74927 Our kinsman Gloucester is as innocent
74928 From meaning treason to our royal person ,
74929 As is the sucking lamb or harmless dove .
74930 The duke is virtuous , mild , and too well given
74931 To dream on evil , or to work my downfall .
74932
74933 Ah ! what's more dangerous than this fond affiance !
74934 Seems he a dove ? his feathers are but borrow'd ,
74935 For he's disposed as the hateful raven :
74936 Is he a lamb ? his skin is surely lent him ,
74937 For he's inclin'd as is the ravenous wolf .
74938 Who cannot steal a shape that means deceit ?
74939 Take heed , my lord ; the welfare of us all
74940 Hangs on the cutting short that fraudful man .
74941
74942
74943 All health unto my gracious sovereign !
74944
74945 Welcome , Lord Somerset . What news from France ?
74946
74947 That all your interest in those territories
74948 Is utterly bereft you ; all is lost .
74949
74950 Cold news , Lord Somerset : but God's will be done !
74951
74952 Cold news for me ; for I had hope of France ,
74953 As firmly as I hope for fertile England .
74954 Thus are my blossoms blasted in the bud ,
74955 And caterpillars eat my leaves away ;
74956 But I will remedy this gear ere long ,
74957 Or sell my title for a glorious grave .
74958
74959
74960 All happiness unto my lord the king !
74961 Pardon , my liege , that I have stay'd so long .
74962
74963 Nay , Gloucester , know that thou art come too soon ,
74964 Unless thou wert more loyal than thou art :
74965 I do arrest thee of high treason here .
74966
74967 Well , Suffolk's duke , thou shalt not see me blush ,
74968 Nor change my countenance for this arrest :
74969 A heart unspotted is not easily daunted .
74970 The purest spring is not so free from mud
74971 As I am clear from treason to my sovereign .
74972 Who can accuse me ? wherein am I guilty ?
74973
74974 'Tis thought , my lord , that you took bribes of France ,
74975 And , being protector , stay'd the soldiers' pay ;
74976 By means whereof his highness hath lost France .
74977
74978 Is it but thought so ? What are they that think it ?
74979 I never robb'd the soldiers of their pay ,
74980 Nor ever had one penny bribe from France .
74981 So help me God , as I have watch'd the night ,
74982 Ay , night by night , in studying good for England ,
74983 That doit that e'er I wrested from the king ,
74984 Or any groat I hoarded to my use ,
74985 Be brought against me at my trial-day !
74986 No ; many a pound of mine own proper store ,
74987 Because I would not tax the needy commons ,
74988 Have I disbursed to the garrisons ,
74989 And never ask'd for restitution .
74990
74991 It serves you well , my lord , to say so much .
74992
74993 I say no more than truth , so help me God !
74994
74995 In your protectorship you did devise
74996 Strange tortures for offenders , never heard of ,
74997 That England was defam'd by tyranny .
74998
74999 Why , 'tis well known that , whiles I was protector ,
75000 Pity was all the fault that was in me ;
75001 For I should melt at an offender's tears ,
75002 And lowly words were ransom for their fault .
75003 Unless it were a bloody murderer ,
75004 Or foul felonious thief that fleec'd poor passengers ,
75005 I never gave them condign punishment :
75006 Murder , indeed , that bloody sin , I tortur'd
75007 Above the felon or what trespass else .
75008
75009 My lord , these faults are easy , quickly answer'd :
75010 But mightier crimes are laid unto your charge ,
75011 Whereof you cannot easily purge yourself .
75012 I do arrest you in his highness' name ;
75013 And here commit you to my Lord Cardinal
75014 To keep until your further time of trial .
75015
75016 My Lord of Gloucester , 'tis my special hope
75017 That you will clear yourself from all suspect :
75018 My conscience tells me you are innocent .
75019
75020 Ah ! gracious lord , these days are dangerous .
75021 Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition ,
75022 And charity chas'd hence by rancour's hand ;
75023 Foul subornation is predominant ,
75024 And equity exil'd your highness' land .
75025 I know their complot is to have my life ;
75026 And if my death might make this island happy ,
75027 And prove the period of their tyranny ,
75028 I would expend it with all willingness ;
75029 But mine is made the prologue to their play ;
75030 For thousands more , that yet suspect no peril ,
75031 Will not conclude their plotted tragedy .
75032 Beaufort's red sparkling eyes blab his heart's malice ,
75033 And Suffolk's cloudy brow his stormy hate ;
75034 Sharp Buckingham unburdens with his tongue
75035 The envious load that lies upon his heart ;
75036 And dogged York , that reaches at the moon ,
75037 Whose overweening arm I have pluck'd back ,
75038 By false accuse doth level at my life :
75039 And you , my sov'reign lady , with the rest ,
75040 Causeless have laid disgraces on my head ,
75041 And with your best endeavour have stirr'd up
75042 My liefest liege to be mine enemy .
75043 Ay , all of you have laid your heads together ;
75044 Myself had notice of your conventicles ;
75045 And all to make away my guiltless life .
75046 I shall not want false witness to condemn me ,
75047 Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt ;
75048 The ancient proverb will be well effected :
75049 'A staff is quickly found to beat a dog .'
75050
75051 My liege , his railing is intolerable .
75052 If those that care to keep your royal person
75053 From treason's secret knife and traitor's rage
75054 Be thus upbraided , chid , and rated at ,
75055 And the offender granted scope of speech ,
75056 'Twill make them cool in zeal unto your Grace .
75057
75058 Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here
75059 With ignominious words , though clerkly couch'd ,
75060 As if she had suborned some to swear
75061 False allegations to o'erthrow his state ?
75062
75063 But I can give the loser leave to chide .
75064
75065 Far truer spoke than meant : I lose , indeed ;
75066 Beshrew the winners , for they play'd me false !
75067 And well such losers may have leave to speak .
75068
75069 He'll wrest the sense and hold us here all day .
75070 Lord Cardinal , he is your prisoner .
75071
75072 Sirs , take away the duke , and guard him sure .
75073
75074 Ah ! thus King Henry throws away his crutch
75075 Before his legs be firm to bear his body :
75076 Thus is the shepherd beaten from thy side ,
75077 And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first .
75078 Ah ! that my fear were false , ah ! that it were ;
75079 For , good King Henry , thy decay I fear .
75080
75081
75082 My lords , what to your wisdoms seemeth best
75083 Do or undo , as if ourself were here .
75084
75085 What ! will your highness leave the parliament ?
75086
75087 Ay , Margaret ; my heart is drown'd with grief ,
75088 Whose flood begins to flow within mine eyes ,
75089 My body round engirt with misery ,
75090 For what's more miserable than discontent ?
75091 Ah ! uncle Humphrey , in thy face I see
75092 The map of honour , truth , and loyalty ;
75093 And yet , good Humphrey , is the hour to come
75094 That e'er I prov'd thee false , or fear'd thy faith .
75095 What low'ring star now envies thy estate ,
75096 That these great lords , and Margaret our queen ,
75097 Do seek subversion of thy harmless life ?
75098 Thou never didst them wrong , nor no man wrong ;
75099 And as the butcher takes away the calf ,
75100 And binds the wretch , and beats it when it strays ,
75101 Bearing it to the bloody slaughter-house ,
75102 Even so , remorseless , have they borne him hence ;
75103 And as the dam runs lowing up and down ,
75104 Looking the way her harmless young one went ,
75105 And can do nought but wail her darling's loss ;
75106 Even so myself bewails good Gloucester's case ,
75107 With sad unhelpful tears , and with dimm'd eyes
75108 Look after him , and cannot do him good ;
75109 So mighty are his vowed enemies .
75110 His fortunes I will weep ; and , 'twixt each groan ,
75111 Say 'Who's a traitor , Gloucester he is none .'
75112
75113
75114 Fair lords , cold snow melts with the sun's hot beams .
75115 Henry my lord is cold in great affairs ,
75116 Too full of foolish pity ; and Gloucester's show
75117 Beguiles him as the mournful crocodile
75118 With sorrow snares relenting passengers ;
75119 Or as the snake , roll'd in a flow'ring bank ,
75120 With shining checker'd slough , doth sting a child
75121 That for the beauty thinks it excellent .
75122 Believe me , lords , were none more wise than I ,
75123 And yet herein I judge mine own wit good ,
75124 This Gloucester should be quickly rid the world ,
75125 To rid us from the fear we have of him .
75126
75127 That he should die is worthy policy ;
75128 And yet we want a colour for his death .
75129 'Tis meet he be condemn'd by course of law .
75130
75131 But in my mind that were no policy :
75132 The king will labour still to save his life ;
75133 The commons haply rise to save his life ;
75134 And yet we have but trivial argument ,
75135 More than mistrust , that shows him worthy death .
75136
75137 So that , by this , you would not have him die .
75138
75139 Ah ! York , no man alive so fain as I .
75140
75141 'Tis York that hath more reason for his death .
75142 But my Lord Cardinal , and you , my Lord of Suffolk ,
75143 Say as you think , and speak it from your souls ,
75144 Were't not all one an empty eagle were set
75145 To guard the chicken from a hungry kite ,
75146 As place Duke Humphrey for the king's protector ?
75147
75148 So the poor chicken should be sure of death .
75149
75150 Madam , 'tis true : and were't not madness , then ,
75151 To make the fox surveyor of the fold ?
75152 Who , being accus'd a crafty murderer ,
75153 His guilt should be but idly posted over
75154 Because his purpose is not executed .
75155 No ; let him die , in that he is a fox ,
75156 By nature prov'd an enemy to the flock ,
75157 Before his chaps be stain'd with crimson blood ,
75158 As Humphrey , prov'd by reasons , to my liege .
75159 And do not stand on quillets how to slay him :
75160 Be it by gins , by snares , by subtilty ,
75161 Sleeping or waking , 'tis no matter how ,
75162 So he be dead ; for that is good deceit
75163 Which mates him first that first intends deceit .
75164
75165 Thrice noble Suffolk , 'tis resolutely spoke .
75166
75167 Not resolute , except so much were done ,
75168 For things are often spoke and seldom meant ;
75169 But , that my heart accordeth with my tongue ,
75170 Seeing the deed is meritorious ,
75171 And to preserve my sovereign from his foe ,
75172 Say but the word and I will be his priest .
75173
75174 But I would have him dead , my Lord of Suffolk ,
75175 Ere you can take due orders for a priest :
75176 Say you consent and censure well the deed ,
75177 And I'll provide his executioner ;
75178 I tender so the safety of my liege .
75179
75180 Here is my hand , the deed is worthy doing .
75181
75182 And so say I .
75183
75184 And I : and now we three have spoke it ,
75185 It skills not greatly who impugns our doom .
75186
75187
75188 Great lords , from Ireland am I come amain ,
75189 To signify that rebels there are up ,
75190 And put the Englishmen unto the sword .
75191 Send succours , lords , and stop the rage betime ,
75192 Before the wound do grow uncurable ;
75193 For , being green , there is great hope of help .
75194
75195 A breach that craves a quick expedient stop !
75196 What counsel give you in this weighty cause ?
75197
75198 That Somerset be sent as regent thither .
75199 'Tis meet that lucky ruler be employ'd ;
75200 Witness the fortune he hath had in France .
75201
75202 If York , with all his far-fet policy ,
75203 Had been the regent there instead of me ,
75204 He never would have stay'd in France so long .
75205
75206 No , not to lose it all , as thou hast done :
75207 I rather would have lost my life betimes
75208 Than bring a burden of dishonour home ,
75209 By staying there so long till all were lost .
75210 Show me one scar character'd on thy skin :
75211 Men's flesh preserv'd so whole do seldom win .
75212
75213 Nay then , this spark will prove a raging fire ,
75214 If wind and fuel be brought to feed it with .
75215 No more , good York ; sweet Somerset , be still :
75216 Thy fortune , York , hadst thou been regent there ,
75217 Might happily have prov'd far worse than his .
75218
75219 What ! worse than nought ? nay , then a shame take all .
75220
75221 And in the number thee , that wishest shame .
75222
75223 My Lord of York , try what your fortune is .
75224 The uncivil kerns of Ireland are in arms
75225 And temper clay with blood of Englishmen :
75226 To Ireland will you lead a band of men ,
75227 Collected choicely , from each county some ,
75228 And try your hap against the Irishmen ?
75229
75230 I will , my lord , so please his majesty .
75231
75232 Why , our authority is his consent ,
75233 And what we do establish he confirms :
75234 Then , noble York , take thou this task in hand .
75235
75236 I am content : provide me soldiers , lords ,
75237 Whiles I take order for mine own affairs .
75238
75239 A charge , Lord York , that I will see perform'd .
75240 But now return we to the false Duke Humphrey .
75241
75242 No more of him ; for I will deal with him
75243 That henceforth he shall trouble us no more .
75244 And so break off ; the day is almost spent .
75245 Lord Suffolk , you and I must talk of that event .
75246
75247 My Lord of Suffolk , within fourteen days
75248 At Bristol I expect my soldiers ;
75249 For there I'll ship them all for Ireland .
75250
75251 I'll see it truly done , my Lord of York .
75252
75253
75254 Now , York , or never , steel thy fearful thoughts ,
75255 And change misdoubt to resolution :
75256 Be that thou hop'st to be , or what thou art
75257 Resign to death ; it is not worth the enjoying .
75258 Let pale-fac'd fear keep with the mean-born man ,
75259 And find no harbour in a royal heart .
75260 Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought ,
75261 And not a thought but thinks on dignity .
75262 My brain , more busy than the labouring spider ,
75263 Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies .
75264 Well , nobles , well ; 'tis politicly done ,
75265 To send me packing with a host of men :
75266 I fear me you but warm the starved snake ,
75267 Who , cherish'd in your breasts , will sting your hearts .
75268 'Twas men I lack'd , and you will give them me :
75269 I take it kindly ; yet be well assur'd
75270 You put sharp weapons in a madman's hands .
75271 Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band ,
75272 I will stir up in England some black storm
75273 Shall blow ten thousand souls to heaven or hell ;
75274 And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage
75275 Until the golden circuit on my head ,
75276 Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams ,
75277 Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw .
75278 And , for a minister of my intent ,
75279 I have seduc'd a headstrong Kentishman ,
75280 John Cade of Ashford ,
75281 To make commotion , as full well he can ,
75282 Under the title of John Mortimer .
75283 In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade
75284 Oppose himself against a troop of kerns ,
75285 And fought so long , till that his thighs with darts
75286 Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine :
75287 And , in the end being rescu'd , I have seen
75288 Him caper upright like a wild Morisco ,
75289 Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells .
75290 Full often , like a shag-hair'd crafty kern ,
75291 Hath he conversed with the enemy ,
75292 And undiscover'd come to me again ,
75293 And given me notice of their villanies .
75294 This devil here shall be my substitute ;
75295 For that John Mortimer , which now is dead ,
75296 In face , in gait , in speech , he doth resemble ;
75297 By this I shall perceive the commons' mind ,
75298 How they affect the house and claim of York .
75299 Say he be taken , rack'd , and tortured ,
75300 I know no pain they can inflict upon him
75301 Will make him say I mov'd him to those arms .
75302 Say that he thrive ,as 'tis great like he will ,
75303 Why , then from Ireland come I with my strength ,
75304 And reap the harvest which that rascal sow'd ;
75305 For , Humphrey being dead , as he shall be ,
75306 And Henry put apart , the next for me .
75307
75308
75309 Run to my Lord of Suffolk ; let him know
75310 We have dispatch'd the duke , as he commanded .
75311
75312 O ! that it were to do . What have we done ?
75313 Didst ever hear a man so penitent ?
75314
75315
75316 Here comes my lord .
75317
75318 Now , sirs , have you dispatch'd this thing ?
75319
75320 Ay , my good lord , he's dead .
75321
75322 Why , that's well said . Go , get you to my house ;
75323 I will reward you for this venturous deed .
75324 The king and all the peers are here at hand .
75325 Have you laid fair the bed ? is all things well ,
75326 According as I gave directions ?
75327
75328 'Tis , my good lord .
75329
75330 Away ! be gone .
75331
75332 Go , call our uncle to our presence straight ;
75333 Say , we intend to try his Grace to-day ,
75334 If he be guilty , as 'tis published .
75335
75336 I'll call him presently , my noble lord .
75337
75338
75339 Lords , take your places ; and , I pray you all ,
75340 Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Gloucester
75341 Than from true evidence , of good esteem ,
75342 He be approv'd in practice culpable .
75343
75344 God forbid any malice should prevail
75345 That faultless may condemn a nobleman !
75346 Pray God , he may acquit him of suspicion !
75347
75348 I thank thee , Meg ; these words content me much .
75349
75350
75351 How now ! why look'st thou pale ? why tremblest thou ?
75352
75353 Where is our uncle ? what's the matter , Suffolk ?
75354
75355 Dead in his bed , my lord ; Gloucester is dead .
75356
75357 Marry , God forfend !
75358
75359 God's secret judgment : I did dream to-night
75360 The duke was dumb , and could not speak a word .
75361
75362
75363 How fares my lord ? Help , lords ! the king is dead .
75364
75365 Rear up his body ; wring him by the nose .
75366
75367 Run , go , help , help ! O Henry , ope thine eyes !
75368
75369 He doth revive again . Madam , be patient .
75370
75371 O heavenly God !
75372
75373 How fares my gracious lord ?
75374
75375 Comfort , my sovereign ! grocious Henry , comfort !
75376
75377 What ! doth my Lord of Suffolk comfort me ?
75378 Came he right now to sing a raven's note ,
75379 Whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers ,
75380 And thinks he that the chirping of a wren ,
75381 By crying comfort from a hollow breast ,
75382 Can chase away the first-conceived sound ?
75383 Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words :
75384 Lay not thy hands on me ; forbear , I say :
75385 Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting .
75386 Thou baleful messenger , out of my sight !
75387 Upon thy eyeballs murderous tyranny
75388 Sits in grim majesty to fright the world .
75389 Look not upon me , for thine eyes are wounding :
75390 Yet do not go away ; come , basilisk ,
75391 And kill the innocent gazer with thy sight ;
75392 For in the shade of death I shall find joy ,
75393 In life but double death , now Gloucester's dead .
75394
75395 Why do you rate my Lord of Suffolk thus ?
75396 Although the duke was enemy to him ,
75397 Yet he , most Christian-like , laments his death :
75398 And for myself , foe as he was to me ,
75399 Might liquid tears or heart-offending groans
75400 Or blood-consuming sighs recall his life ,
75401 I would be blind with weeping , sick with groans ,
75402 Look pale as primrose with blood-drinking sighs ,
75403 And all to have the noble duke alive .
75404 What know I how the world may deem of me ?
75405 For it is known we were but hollow friends :
75406 It may be judg'd I made the duke away :
75407 So shall my name with slander's tongue be wounded ,
75408 And princes' courts be fill'd with my reproach .
75409 This get I by his death . Ay me , unhappy !
75410 To be a queen , and crown'd with infamy !
75411
75412 Ah ! woe is me for Gloucester , wretched man .
75413
75414 Be woe for me , more wretched than he is .
75415 What ! dost thou turn away and hide thy face ?
75416 I am no loathsome leper ; look on me .
75417 What ! art thou , like the adder , waxen deaf ?
75418 Be poisonous too and kill thy forlorn queen .
75419 Is all thy comfort shut in Gloucester's tomb ?
75420 Why , then , Dame Margaret was ne'er thy joy :
75421 Erect his statua and worship it ,
75422 And make my image but an alehouse sign .
75423 Was I for this nigh wrack'd upon the sea ,
75424 And twice by awkward wind from England's bank
75425 Drove back again unto my native clime ?
75426 What boded this , but well forewarning wind
75427 Did seem to say , 'Seek not a scorpion's nest ,
75428 Nor set no footing on this unkind shore ?'
75429 What did I then , but curs'd the gentle gusts
75430 And he that loos'd them forth their brazen caves ;
75431 And bid them blow towards England's blessed shore ,
75432 Or turn our stern upon a dreadful rock ?
75433 Yet olus would not be a murderer ,
75434 But left that hateful office unto thee :
75435 The pretty vaulting sea refus'd to drown me ,
75436 Knowing that thou wouldst have me drown'd on shore
75437 With tears as salt as sea through thy unkindness :
75438 The splitting rocks cower'd in the sinking sands ,
75439 And would not dash me with their ragged sides ,
75440 Because thy flinty heart , more hard than they ,
75441 Might in thy palace perish Margaret .
75442 As far as I could ken thy chalky cliffs ,
75443 When from thy shore the tempest beat us back ,
75444 I stood upon the hatches in the storm ,
75445 And when the dusky sky began to rob
75446 My earnest-gaping sight of thy land's view ,
75447 I took a costly jewel from my neck ,
75448 A heart it was , bound in with diamonds ,
75449 And threw it towards thy land : the sea receiv'd it ,
75450 And so I wish'd thy body might my heart :
75451 And even with this I lost fair England's view ,
75452 And bid mine eyes be packing with my heart ,
75453 And call'd them blind and dusky spectacles
75454 For losing ken of Albion's wished coast .
75455 How often have I tempted Suffolk's tongue
75456 The agent of thy foul inconstancy
75457 To sit and witch me , as Ascanius did
75458 When he to madding Dido would unfold
75459 His father's acts , commenc'd in burning Troy !
75460 Am I not witch'd like her ? or thou not false like him ?
75461 Ay me ! I can no more . Die , Margaret !
75462 For Henry weeps that thou dost live so long .
75463
75464 It is reported , mighty sovereign ,
75465 That good Duke Humphrey trait'rously is murder'd
75466 By Suffolk and the Cardinal Beaufort's means .
75467 The commons , like an angry hive of bees
75468 That want their leader , scatter up and down ,
75469 And care not who they sting in his revenge .
75470 Myself have calm'd their spleenful mutiny ,
75471 Until they hear the order of his death .
75472
75473 That he is dead , good Warwick , 'tis too true ;
75474 But how he died God knows , not Henry .
75475 Enter his chamber , view his breathless corpse ,
75476 And comment then upon his sudden death .
75477
75478 That shall I do , my liege . Stay , Salisbury ,
75479 With the rude multitude till I return .
75480
75481
75482 O ! Thou that judgest all things , stay my thoughts ,
75483 My thoughts that labour to persuade my soul
75484 Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life .
75485 If my suspect be false , forgive me , God ,
75486 For judgment only doth belong to thee .
75487 Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips
75488 With twenty thousand kisses , and to drain
75489 Upon his face an ocean of salt tears ,
75490 To tell my love unto his deaf dumb trunk ,
75491 And with my fingers feel his hand unfeeling :
75492 But all in vain are these mean obsequies ,
75493 And to survey his dead and earthly image
75494 What were it but to make my sorrow greater ?
75495
75496
75497 Come hither , gracious sovereign , view this body .
75498
75499 That is to see how deep my grave is made ;
75500 For with his soul fled all my worldly solace ,
75501 For seeing him I see my life in death .
75502
75503 As surely as my soul intends to live
75504 With that dread King that took our state upon him
75505 To free us from his Father's wrathful curse ,
75506 I do believe that violent hands were laid
75507 Upon the life of this thrice-famed duke .
75508
75509 A dreadful oath , sworn with a solemn tongue !
75510 What instance gives Lord Warwick for his vow ?
75511
75512 See how the blood is settled in his face .
75513 Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost ,
75514 Of ashy semblance , meagre , pale , and bloodless ,
75515 Being all descended to the labouring heart ;
75516 Who , in the conflict that it holds with death ,
75517 Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy ;
75518 Which with the heart there cools , and ne'er returneth
75519 To blush and beautify the cheek again .
75520 But see , his face is black and full of blood ,
75521 His eyeballs further out than when he liv'd ,
75522 Staring full ghastly like a strangled man ;
75523 His hair uprear'd , his nostrils stretch'd with struggling :
75524 His hands abroad display'd , as one that grasp'd
75525 And tugg'd for life , and was by strength subdu'd .
75526 Look on the sheets , his hair , you see , is sticking ;
75527 His well-proportion'd beard made rough and rugged ,
75528 Like to the summer's corn by tempest lodg'd .
75529 It cannot be but he was murder'd here ;
75530 The least of all these signs were probable .
75531
75532 Why , Warwick , who should do the duke to death ?
75533 Myself and Beaufort had him in protection ;
75534 And we , I hope , sir , are no murderers .
75535
75536 But both of you were vow'd Duke Humphrey's foes ,
75537 And you , forsooth , had the good duke to keep :
75538 'Tis like you would not feast him like a friend ,
75539 And 'tis well seen he found an enemy .
75540
75541 Then you , belike , suspect these noblemen
75542 As guilty of Duke Humphrey's timeless death .
75543
75544 Who finds the heifer dead , and bleeding fresh ,
75545 And sees fast by a butcher with an axe ,
75546 But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter ?
75547 Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest ,
75548 But may imagine how the bird was dead ,
75549 Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak ?
75550 Even so suspicious is this tragedy .
75551
75552 Are you the butcher , Suffolk ? where's your knife ?
75553 Is Beaufort term'd a kite ? where are his talons ?
75554
75555 I wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men ;
75556 But here's a vengeful sword , rusted with ease ,
75557 That shall be scoured in his rancorous heart
75558 That slanders me with murder's crimson badge .
75559 Say , if thou dar'st , proud Lord of Warwickshire ,
75560 That I am faulty in Duke Humphrey's death .
75561
75562
75563 What dares not Warwick , if false Suffolk dare him ?
75564
75565 He dares not calm his contumelious spirit ,
75566 Nor cease to be an arrogant controller ,
75567 Though Suffolk dare him twenty thousand times .
75568
75569 Madam , be still , with reverence may I say ;
75570 For every word you speak in his behalf
75571 Is slander to your royal dignity .
75572
75573 Blunt-witted lord , ignoble in demeanour !
75574 If ever lady wrong'd her lord so much ,
75575 Thy mother took into her blameful bed
75576 Some stern untutor'd churl , and noble stock
75577 Was graft with crab-tree slip ; whose fruit thou art ,
75578 And never of the Nevils' noble race .
75579
75580 But that the guilt of murder bucklers thee ,
75581 And I should rob the deathsman of his fee ,
75582 Quitting thee thereby of ten thousand shames ,
75583 And that my sov'reign's presence makes me mild ,
75584 I would , false murd'rous coward , on thy knee
75585 Make thee beg pardon for thy passed speech ,
75586 And say it was thy mother that thou meant'st ;
75587 That thou thyself wast born in bastardy :
75588 And after all this fearful homage done ,
75589 Give thee thy hire , and send thy soul to hell ,
75590 Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men .
75591
75592 Thou shalt be waking while I shed thy blood ,
75593 If from this presence thou dar'st go with me .
75594
75595 Away even now , or I will drag thee hence :
75596 Unworthy though thou art , I'll cope with thee ,
75597 And do some service to Duke Humphrey's ghost .
75598
75599
75600 What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted !
75601 Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just ,
75602 And he but naked , though lock'd up in steel ,
75603 Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted .
75604
75605 What noise is this ?
75606
75607 Why , how now , lords ! your wrathful weapons drawn
75608 Here in our presence ! dare you be so bold ?
75609 Why , what tumultuous clamour have we here ?
75610
75611 The traitorous Warwick , with the men of Bury ,
75612 Set all upon me , mighty sovereign .
75613
75614
75615 Sirs , stand apart ; the king shall know your mind .
75616 Dread lord , the commons send you word by me ,
75617 Unless false Suffolk straight be done to death ,
75618 Or banished fair England's territories ,
75619 They will by violence tear him from your palace
75620 And torture him with grievous lingering death .
75621 They say , by him the good Duke Humphrey died ;
75622 They say , in him they fear your highness' death ;
75623 And mere instinct of love and loyalty ,
75624 Free from a stubborn opposite intent ,
75625 As being thought to contradict your liking ,
75626 Makes them thus forward in his banishment .
75627 They say , in care of your most royal person ,
75628 That if your highness should intend to sleep ,
75629 And charge that no man should disturb your rest
75630 In pain of your dislike or pain of death ,
75631 Yet , notwithstanding such a strait edict ,
75632 Were there a serpent seen , with forked tongue ,
75633 That slily glided towards your majesty ,
75634 It were but necessary you were wak'd ,
75635 Lest , being suffer'd in that harmful slumber ,
75636 The mortal worm might make the sleep eternal :
75637 And therefore do they cry , though you forbid ,
75638 That they will guard you , whe'r you will or no ,
75639 From such fell serpents as false Suffolk is ;
75640 With whose envenomed and fatal sting ,
75641 Your loving uncle , twenty times his worth ,
75642 They say , is shamefully bereft of life .
75643
75644 An answer from the king , my Lord of Salisbury !
75645
75646 'Tis like the commons , rude unpolish'd hinds ,
75647 Could send such message to their sovereign ;
75648 But you , my lord , were glad to be employ'd ,
75649 To show how quaint an orator you are :
75650 But all the honour Salisbury hath won
75651 Is that he was the lord ambassador ,
75652 Sent from a sort of tinkers to the king .
75653
75654 An answer from the king , or we will all break in !
75655
75656 Go , Salisbury , and tell them all from me ,
75657 I thank them for their tender loving care ;
75658 And had I not been cited so by them ,
75659 Yet did I purpose as they do entreat ;
75660 For , sure , my thoughts do hourly prophesy
75661 Mischance unto my state by Suffolk's means :
75662 And therefore , by his majesty I swear ,
75663 Whose far unworthy deputy I am ,
75664 He shall not breathe infection in this air
75665 But three days longer , on the pain of death .
75666
75667
75668 O Henry ! let me plead for gentle Suffolk .
75669
75670 Ungentle queen , to call him gentle Suffolk !
75671 No more , I say ; if thou dost plead for him
75672 Thou wilt but add increase unto my wrath .
75673 Had I but said , I would have kept my word ,
75674 But when I swear , it is irrevocable .
75675
75676
75677 If after three days' space thou here be'st found
75678 On any ground that I am ruler of ,
75679 The world shall not be ransom for thy life .
75680 Come , Warwick , come , good Warwick , go with me ;
75681 I have great matters to impart to thee .
75682
75683
75684 Mischance and sorrow go along with you !
75685 Heart's discontent and sour affliction
75686 Be playfellows to keep you company !
75687 There's two of you ; the devil make a third ,
75688 And threefold vengeance tend upon your steps !
75689
75690 Cease , gentle queen , these execrations ,
75691 And let thy Suffolk take his heavy leave .
75692
75693 Fie , coward woman and soft-hearted wretch !
75694 Hast thou not spirit to curse thine enemy ?
75695
75696 A plague upon them ! Wherefore should I curse them ?
75697 Would curses kill , as doth the mandrake's groan ,
75698 I would invent as bitter-searching terms ,
75699 As curst , as harsh and horrible to hear ,
75700 Deliver'd strongly through my fixed teeth ,
75701 With full as many signs of deadly hate ,
75702 As lean-fac'd Envy in her loathsome cave .
75703 My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words ;
75704 Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten flint ;
75705 My hair be fix'd on end , as one distract ;
75706 Ay , every joint should seem to curse and ban :
75707 And even now my burden'd heart would break
75708 Should I not curse them . Poison be their drink !
75709 Gall , worse than gall , the daintiest that they taste !
75710 Their sweetest shade a grove of cypress trees !
75711 Their chiefest prospect murdering basilisks !
75712 Their softest touch as smart as lizard's stings !
75713 Their music frightful as the serpent's hiss ,
75714 And boding screech-owls make the concert full !
75715 All the foul terrors in dark-seated hell
75716
75717 Enough , sweet Suffolk ; thou torment'st thyself ;
75718 And these dread curses , like the sun 'gainst glass ,
75719 Or like an over-charged gun , recoil ,
75720 And turn the force of them upon thyself .
75721
75722 You bade me ban , and will you bid me leave ?
75723 Now , by the ground that I am banish'd from ,
75724 Well could I curse away a winter's night ,
75725 Though standing naked on a mountain top ,
75726 Where biting cold would never let grass grow ,
75727 And think it but a minute spent in sport .
75728
75729 O ! let me entreat thee , cease ! Give me thy hand ,
75730 That I may dew it with my mournful tears ;
75731 Nor let the rain of heaven wet this place ,
75732 To wash away my woeful monuments .
75733 O ! could this kiss be printed in thy hand ,
75734
75735 That thou mightst think upon these by the seal ,
75736 Through whom a thousand sighs are breath'd for thee .
75737 So , get thee gone , that I may know my grief ;
75738 'Tis but surmis'd whiles thou art standing by ,
75739 As one that surfeits thinking on a want .
75740 I will repeal thee , or , be well assur'd ,
75741 Adventure to be banished myself ;
75742 And banished I am , if but from thee .
75743 Go ; speak not to me ; even now be gone .
75744 O ! go not yet . Even thus two friends condemn'd
75745 Embrace and kiss , and take ten thousand leaves ,
75746 Loather a hundred times to part than die .
75747 Yet now farewell ; and farewell life with thee !
75748
75749 Thus is poor Suffolk ten times banished ,
75750 Once by the king , and three times thrice by thee .
75751 'Tis not the land I care for , wert thou thence ;
75752 A wilderness is populous enough ,
75753 So Suffolk had thy heavenly company :
75754 For where thou art , there is the world itself ,
75755 With every several pleasure in the world ,
75756 And where thou art not , desolation .
75757 I can no more : live thou to joy thy life ;
75758 Myself to joy in nought but that thou liv'st .
75759
75760
75761 Whither goes Vaux so fast ? what news , I prithee ?
75762
75763 To signify unto his majesty
75764 That Cardinal Beaufort is at point of death ;
75765 For suddenly a grievous sickness took him ,
75766 That makes him gasp and stare , and catch the air ,
75767 Blaspheming God , and cursing men on earth .
75768 Sometime he talks as if Duke Humphrey's ghost
75769 Were by his side ; sometime he calls the king ,
75770 And whispers to his pillow , as to him ,
75771 The secrets of his overcharged soul :
75772 And I am sent to tell his majesty
75773 That even now he cries aloud for him .
75774
75775 Go tell this heavy message to the king .
75776
75777 Ay me ! what is this world ! what news are these !
75778 But wherefore grieve I at an hour's poor loss ,
75779 Omitting Suffolk's exile , my soul's treasure ?
75780 Why only , Suffolk , mourn I not for thee ,
75781 And with the southern clouds contend in tears ,
75782 Theirs for the earth's increase , mine for my sorrows ?
75783 Now get thee hence : the king , thou know'st , is coming ;
75784 If thou be found by me thou art but dead .
75785
75786 If I depart from thee I cannot live ;
75787 And in thy sight to die , what were it else
75788 But like a pleasant slumber in thy lap ?
75789 Here could I breathe my soul into the air ,
75790 As mild and gentle as the cradle babe ,
75791 Dying with mother's dug between its lips ;
75792 Where , from thy sight , I should be raging mad ,
75793 And cry out for thee to close up mine eyes ,
75794 To have thee with thy lips to stop my mouth :
75795 So shouldst thou either turn my flying soul ,
75796 Or I should breathe it so into thy body ,
75797 And then it liv'd in sweet Elysium .
75798 To die by thee , were but to die in jest ;
75799 From thee to die were torture more than death .
75800 O ! let me stay , befall what may befall !
75801
75802 Away ! though parting be a fretful corsive ,
75803 It is applied to a deathful wound .
75804 To France , sweet Suffolk : let me hear from thee ;
75805 For wheresoe'er thou art in this world's globe ,
75806 I'll have an Iris that shall find thee out .
75807
75808 I go .
75809
75810 And take my heart with thee .
75811
75812 A jewel , lock'd into the woefull'st cask
75813 That ever did contain a thing of worth .
75814 Even as a splitted bark , so sunder we :
75815 This way fall I to death .
75816
75817 This way for me .
75818
75819
75820 How fares my lord ? speak , Beaufort , to thy sovereign .
75821
75822 If thou be'st death , I'll give thee England's treasure ,
75823 Enough to purchase such another island ,
75824 So thou wilt let me live , and feel no pain .
75825
75826 Ah ! what a sign it is of evil life
75827 Where death's approach is seen so terrible .
75828
75829 Beaufort , it is thy sov'reign speaks to thee .
75830
75831 Bring me unto my trial when you will .
75832 Died he not in his bed ? where should he die ?
75833 Can I make men live whe'r they will or no ?
75834 O ! torture me no more , I will confess .
75835 Alive again ? then show me where he is :
75836 I'll give a thousand pound to look upon him .
75837 He hath no eyes , the dust hath blinded them .
75838 Comb down his hair ; look ! look ! it stands upright ,
75839 Like lime-twigs set to catch my winged soul .
75840 Give me some drink ; and bid the apothecary
75841 Bring the strong poison that I bought of him .
75842
75843 O thou eternal Mover of the heavens !
75844 Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch ;
75845 O ! beat away the busy meddling fiend
75846 That lays strong siege unto this wretch's soul ,
75847 And from his bosom purge this black despair .
75848
75849 See how the pangs of death do make him grin !
75850
75851 Disturb him not ! let him pass peaceably .
75852
75853 Peace to his soul , if God's good pleasure be !
75854 Lord Cardinal , if thou think'st on heaven's bliss ,
75855 Hold up thy hand , make signal of thy hope .
75856 He dies , and makes no sign . O God , forgive him !
75857
75858 So bad a death argues a monstrous life .
75859
75860 Forbear to judge , for we are sinners all .
75861 Close up his eyes , and draw the curtain close ;
75862 And let us all to meditation .
75863
75864 The gaudy , blabbing , and remorseful day
75865 Is crept into the bosom of the sea ,
75866 And now loud-howling wolves arouse the jades
75867 That drag the tragic melancholy night ;
75868 Who with their drowsy , slow , and flagging wings
75869 Clip dead men's graves , and from their misty jaws
75870 Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air .
75871 Therefore bring forth the soldiers of our prize ,
75872 For , whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs
75873 Here shall they make their ransom on the sand ,
75874 Or with their blood stain this discolour'd shore .
75875 Master , this prisoner freely give I thee :
75876 And thou that art his mate make boot of this ;
75877 The other
75878
75879 , Walter Whitmore , is thy share .
75880
75881 What is my ransom , master ? let me know .
75882
75883 A thousand crowns , or else lay down your head .
75884
75885 And so much shall you give , or off goes yours .
75886
75887 What ! think you much to pay two thousand crowns ,
75888 And bear the name and port of gentlemen ?
75889 Cut both the villains' throats ! for die you shall :
75890 The lives of those which we have lost in fight
75891 Cannot be counterpois'd with such a petty sum !
75892
75893 I'll give it , sir ; and therefore spare my life .
75894
75895 And so will I , and write home for it straight .
75896
75897 I lost mine eye in laying the prize aboard ,
75898
75899
75900 And therefore to revenge it shalt thou die ;
75901 And so should these if I might have my will .
75902
75903 Be not so rash : take ransom ; let him live .
75904
75905 Look on my George ; I am a gentleman :
75906 Rate me at what thou wilt , thou shalt be paid .
75907
75908 And so am I ; my name is Walter Whitmore .
75909 How now ! why start'st thou ? what ! doth death affright ?
75910
75911 Thy name affrights me , in whose sound is death .
75912 A cunning man did calculate my birth ,
75913 And told me that by Water I should die :
75914 Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded ;
75915 Thy name is Gaultier , being rightly sounded .
75916
75917 Gaultier , or Walter , which it is I care not ;
75918 Never yet did base dishonour blur our name
75919 But with our sword we wip'd away the blot :
75920 Therefore , when merchant-like I sell revenge ,
75921 Broke be my sword , my arms torn and defac'd ,
75922 And I proclaim'd a coward through the world !
75923
75924
75925 Stay , Whitmore ; for thy prisoner is a prince ,
75926 The Duke of Suffolk , William de la Pole .
75927
75928 The Duke of Suffolk muffled up in rags !
75929
75930 Ay , but these rags are no part of the duke :
75931 Jove sometimes went disguis'd , and why not I ?
75932
75933 But Jove was never slain , as thou shalt be .
75934
75935 Obscure and lowly swain , King Henry's blood ,
75936 The honourable blood of Lancaster ,
75937 Must not be shed by such a jaded groom .
75938 Hast thou not kiss'd thy hand and held my stirrup ?
75939 Bare-headed plodded by my foot-cloth mule ,
75940 And thought thee happy when I shook my head ?
75941 How often hast thou waited at my cup ,
75942 Fed from my trencher , kneel'd down at the board ,
75943 When I have feasted with Queen Margaret ?
75944 Remember it and let it make thee crest-fall'n ;
75945 Ay , and allay this thy abortive pride .
75946 How in our voiding lobby hast thou stood
75947 And duly waited for my coming forth ?
75948 This hand of mine hath writ in thy behalf ,
75949 And therefore shall it charm thy riotous tongue .
75950
75951 Speak , captain , shall I stab the forlorn swain ?
75952
75953 First let my words stab him , as he hath me .
75954
75955 Base slave , thy words are blunt , and so art thou .
75956
75957 Convey him hence , and on our longboat's side
75958 Strike off his head .
75959
75960 Thou dar'st not for thy own .
75961
75962 Yes , Pole .
75963
75964 Pole !
75965
75966 Pool ! Sir Pool ! lord !
75967 Ay , kennel , puddle , sink ; whose filth and dirt
75968 Troubles the silver spring where England drinks .
75969 Now will I dam up this thy yawning mouth
75970 For swallowing the treasure of the realm :
75971 Thy lips , that kiss'd the queen , shall sweep the ground ;
75972 And thou , that smil'dst at good Duke Humphrey's death ,
75973 Against the senseless winds shall grin in vain ,
75974 Who in contempt shall hiss at thee again :
75975 And wedded be thou to the hags of hell ,
75976 For daring to affy a mighty lord
75977 Unto the daughter of a worthless king ,
75978 Having neither subject , wealth , nor diadem .
75979 By devilish policy art thou grown great ,
75980 And , like ambitious Sylla , overgorg'd
75981 With gobbets of thy mother's bleeding heart .
75982 By thee Anjou and Maine were sold to France ,
75983 The false revolting Normans thorough thee
75984 Disdain to call us lord , and Picardy
75985 Hath slain their governors , surpris'd our forts ,
75986 And sent the ragged soldiers wounded home .
75987 The princely Warwick , and the Nevils all ,
75988 Whose dreadful swords were never drawn in vain ,
75989 As hating thee , are rising up in arms :
75990 And now the house of York , thrust from the crown
75991 By shameful murder of a guiltless king ,
75992 And lofty proud encroaching tyranny ,
75993 Burns with revenging fire ; whose hopeful colours
75994 Advance our half-fac'd sun , striving to shine ,
75995 Under the which is writ Invitis nubibus .
75996 The commons here in Kent are up in arms ;
75997 And to conclude , reproach and beggary
75998 Is crept into the palace of our king ,
75999 And all by thee . Away ! convey him hence .
76000
76001 O ! that I were a god , to shoot forth thunder
76002 Upon these paltry , servile , abject drudges .
76003 Small things make base men proud : this villain here ,
76004 Being captain of a pinnace , threatens more
76005 Than Bargulus the strong Illyrian pirate .
76006 Drones suck not eagles' blood , but rob beehives .
76007 It is impossible that I should die
76008 By such a lowly vassal as thyself .
76009 Thy words move rage , and not remorse in me :
76010 I go of message from the queen to France ;
76011 I charge thee , waft me safely cross the Channel .
76012
76013 Walter !
76014
76015 Come , Suffolk , I must waft thee to thy death .
76016
76017 Gelidus timor occupat artus : 'tis thee I fear .
76018
76019 Thou shalt have cause to fear before I leave thee .
76020 What ! are ye daunted now ? now will ye stoop ?
76021
76022 My gracious lord , entreat him , speak him fair .
76023
76024 Suffolk's imperial tongue is stern and rough ,
76025 Us'd to command , untaught to plead for favour .
76026 Far be it we should honour such as these
76027 With humble suit : no , rather let my head
76028 Stoop to the block than these knees bow to any
76029 Save to the God of heaven , and to my king ;
76030 And sooner dance upon a bloody pole
76031 Than stand uncover'd to the vulgar groom .
76032 True nobility is exempt from fear :
76033 More can I bear than you dare execute .
76034
76035 Hale him away , and let him talk no more .
76036
76037 Come , soldiers , show what cruelty ye can ,
76038 That this my death may never be forgot .
76039 Great men oft die by vile bezonians .
76040 A Roman sworder and banditto slave
76041 Murder'd sweet Tully ; Brutus' bastard hand
76042 Stabb'd Julius C sar ; savage islanders
76043 Pompey the Great ; and Suffolk dies by pirates .
76044
76045
76046 And as for these whose ransom we have set ,
76047 It is our pleasure one of them depart :
76048 Therefore come you with us and let him go .
76049
76050 There let his head and lifeless body lie ,
76051 Until the queen his mistress bury it .
76052
76053
76054 O barbarous and bloody spectacle !
76055 His body will I bear unto the king :
76056 If he revenge it not , yet will his friends ;
76057 So will the queen , that living held him dear .
76058
76059
76060 Come , and get thee a sword , though made of a lath : they have been up these two days .
76061
76062 They have the more need to sleep now then .
76063
76064 I tell thee , Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth , and turn it , and set a new nap upon it .
76065
76066 So he had need , for 'tis threadbare . Well , I say it was never merry world in England since gentlemen came up .
76067
76068 O miserable age ! Virtue is not regarded in handicrafts-men .
76069
76070 The nobility think scorn to go in leather aprons .
76071
76072 Nay , more ; the king's council are no good workmen .
76073
76074 True ; and yet it is said , 'Labour in thy vocation :' which is as much to say as , let the magistrates be labouring men ; and therefore should we be magistrates .
76075
76076 Thou hast hit it ; for there's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand .
76077
76078 I see them ! I see them ! There's Best's son , the tanner of Wingham ,
76079
76080 He shall have the skins of our enemies to make dog's-leather of .
76081
76082 And Dick the butcher ,
76083
76084 Then is sin struck down like an ox , and iniquity's throat cut like a calf .
76085
76086 And Smith the weaver ,
76087
76088 Argo , their thread of life is spun .
76089
76090 Come , come , let's fall in with them .
76091
76092
76093 We John Cade , so termed of our supposed father ,
76094
76095 Or rather , of stealing a cade of herrings .
76096
76097 For our enemies shall fall before us , inspired with the spirit of putting down kings and princes ,Command silence .
76098
76099 Silence !
76100
76101 My father was a Mortimer .
76102
76103 He was an honest man , and a good bricklayer .
76104
76105 My mother a Plantagenet ,
76106
76107 I knew her well ; she was a midwife .
76108
76109 My wife descended of the Lacies ,
76110
76111 She was , indeed , a pedlar's daughter , and sold many laces .
76112
76113 But now of late , not able to travel with her furred pack , she washes bucks here at home .
76114
76115 Therefore am I of an honourable house .
76116
76117 Ay , by my faith , the field is honourable ; and there was he born , under a hedge ; for his father had never a house but the cage .
76118
76119 Valiant I am .
76120
76121 A' must needs , for beggary is valiant .
76122
76123 I am able to endure much .
76124
76125 No question of that , for I have seen him whipped three market-days together .
76126
76127 I fear neither sword nor fire .
76128
76129 He need not fear the sword , for his coat is of proof .
76130
76131 But methinks he should stand in fear of fire , being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep .
76132
76133 Be brave , then ; for your captain is brave , and vows reformation . There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny ; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer . All the realm shall be in common , and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass . And when I am king ,as king I will be ,
76134
76135 God save your majesty !
76136
76137 I thank you , good people : there shall be no money ; all shall eat and drink on my score , and I will apparel them all in one livery , that they may agree like brothers , and worship me their lord .
76138
76139 The first thing we do , let's kill all the lawyers .
76140
76141 Nay , that I mean to do . Is not this a lamentable thing , that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment , being scribbled o'er , should undo a man ? Some say the bee stings ; but I say , 'tis the bee's wax , for I did but seal once to a thing , and I was never mine own man since . How now ! who's there ?
76142
76143
76144 The clerk of Chatham : he can write and read and cast accompt .
76145
76146 O monstrous !
76147
76148 We took him setting of boys' copies .
76149
76150 Here's a villain !
76151
76152 Has a book in his pocket with red letters in't .
76153
76154 Nay , then he is a conjurer .
76155
76156 Nay , he can make obligations , and write court-hand .
76157
76158 I am sorry for't : the man is a proper man , of mine honour ; unless I find him guilty , he shall not die . Come hither , sirrah , I must examine thee . What is thy name ?
76159
76160 Emmanuel .
76161
76162 They use to write it on the top of letters . 'Twill go hard with you .
76163
76164 Let me alone . Dost thou use to write thy name , or hast thou a mark to thyself , like an honest plain-dealing man ?
76165
76166 Sir , I thank God , I have been so well brought up , that I can write my name .
76167
76168 He hath confessed : away with him ! he's a villain and a traitor .
76169
76170 Away with him ! I say : hang him with his pen and ink-horn about his neck .
76171
76172 Where's our general ?
76173
76174 Here I am , thou particular fellow .
76175
76176 Fly , fly , fly ! Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother are hard by , with the king's forces .
76177
76178 Stand , villain , stand , or I'll fell thee down . He shall be encountered with a man as good as himself : he is but a knight , is a' ?
76179
76180 No .
76181
76182 To equal him , I will make myself a knight presently .
76183
76184 Rise up Sir John Mortimer . [Rises .] Now have at him .
76185
76186
76187 Rebellious hinds , the filth and scum of Kent ,
76188 Mark'd for the gallows , lay your weapons down ;
76189 Home to your cottages , forsake this groom :
76190 The king is merciful , if you revolt .
76191
76192 But angry , wrathful , and inclin'd to blood ,
76193 If you go forward : therefore yield , or die .
76194
76195 As for these silken-coated slaves , I pass not :
76196 It is to you , good people , that I speak ,
76197 O'er whom , in time to come I hope to reign ;
76198 For I am rightful heir unto the crown .
76199
76200 Villain ! thy father was a plasterer ;
76201 And thou thyself a shearman , art thou not ?
76202
76203 And Adam was a gardener .
76204
76205 And what of that ?
76206
76207 Marry , this : Edmund Mortimer , Earl of March ,
76208 Married the Duke of Clarence' daughter , did he not ?
76209
76210 Ay , sir .
76211
76212 By her he had two children at one birth .
76213
76214 That's false .
76215
76216 Ay , there's the question ; but I say , 'tis true :
76217 The elder of them , being put to nurse ,
76218 Was by a beggar-woman stol'n away ;
76219 And , ignorant of his birth and parentage ,
76220 Became a bricklayer when he came to age :
76221 His son am I ; deny it if you can .
76222
76223 Nay , 'tis too true ; therefore he shall be king .
76224
76225 Sir , he made a chimney in my father's house , and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it ; therefore deny it not .
76226
76227 And will you credit this base drudge's words ,
76228 That speaks he knows not what ?
76229
76230 Ay , marry , will we ; therefore get ye gone .
76231
76232 Jack Cade , the Duke of York hath taught you this .
76233
76234 He lies , for I invented it myself . Go to , sirrah ; tell the king from me , that , for his father's sake , Henry the Fifth , in whose time boys went to span-counter for French crowns , I am content he shall reign ; but I'll be protector over him .
76235
76236 And furthermore , we'll have the Lord Say's head for selling the dukedom of Maine .
76237
76238 And good reason ; for thereby is England mained , and fain to go with a staff , but that my puissance holds it up . Fellow kings , I tell you that that Lord Say hath gelded the commonwealth , and made it a eunuch ; and more than that , he can speak French ; and therefore he is a traitor .
76239
76240 O gross and miserable ignorance !
76241
76242 Nay , answer , if you can : the Frenchmen are our enemies ; go to then , I ask but this , can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counsellor , or no ?
76243
76244 No , no ; and therefore we'll have his head .
76245
76246 Well , seeing gentle words will not prevail ,
76247 Assail them with the army of the king .
76248
76249 Herald , away ; and throughout every town
76250 Proclaim them traitors that are up with Cade ;
76251 That those which fly before the battle ends
76252 May , even in their wives' and children's sight ,
76253 Be hang'd up for example at their doors :
76254 And you , that be the king's friends , follow me .
76255
76256
76257 And you , that love the commons , follow me .
76258 Now show yourselves men ; 'tis for liberty .
76259 We will not leave one lord , one gentleman :
76260 Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon ,
76261 For they are thrifty honest men , and such
76262 As would , but that they dare not take our parts .
76263
76264 They are all in order , and march toward us .
76265
76266 But then are we in order when we are most out of order . Come , march ! forward !
76267
76268
76269 Where's Dick , the butcher of Ashford ?
76270
76271 Here , sir .
76272
76273 They fell before thee like sheep and oxen , and thou behavedst thyself as if thou hadst been in thine own slaughter-house : therefore thus will I reward thee , the Lent shall be as long again as it is ; and thou shalt have a licence to kill for a hundred lacking one .
76274
76275 I desire no more .
76276
76277 And , to speak truth , thou deservest no less . This monument of the victory will I bear ;
76278
76279 and the bodies shall be dragged at my horse' heels , till I do come to London , where we will have the Mayor's sword borne before us .
76280
76281 If we mean to thrive and do good , break open the gaols and let out the prisoners .
76282
76283 Fear not that , I warrant thee . Come ; let's march towards London .
76284
76285
76286 Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind ,
76287 And makes it fearful and degenerate ;
76288 Think therefore on revenge , and cease to weep .
76289 But who can cease to weep and look on this ?
76290 Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast ;
76291 But where's the body that I should embrace ?
76292
76293 What answer makes your Grace to the rebels' supplication ?
76294
76295 I'll send some holy bishop to entreat ;
76296 For God forbid so many simple souls
76297 Should perish by the sword ! And I myself ,
76298 Rather than bloody war shall cut them short ,
76299 Will parley with Jack Cade their general .
76300 But stay , I'll read it over once again .
76301
76302 Ah , barbarous villains ! hath this lovely face
76303 Rul'd like a wandering planet over me ,
76304 And could it not enforce them to relent ,
76305 That were unworthy to behold the same ?
76306
76307 Lord Say , Jack Cade hath sworn to have thy head .
76308
76309 Ay , but I hope your highness shall have his .
76310
76311 How now , madam !
76312 Still lamenting and mourning for Suffolk's death ?
76313 I fear me , love , if that I had been dead ,
76314 Thou wouldest not have mourn'd so much for me .
76315
76316 No , my love ; I should not mourn , but die for thee .
76317
76318
76319 How now ! what news ? why com'st thou in such haste ?
76320
76321 The rebels are in Southwark ; fly , my lord !
76322 Jack Cade proclaims himself Lord Mortimer ,
76323 Descended from the Duke of Clarence' house ,
76324 And calls your Grace usurper openly ,
76325 And vows to crown himself in Westminster .
76326 His army is a ragged multitude
76327 Of hinds and peasants , rude and merciless :
76328 Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother's death
76329 Hath given them heart and courage to proceed .
76330 All scholars , lawyers , courtiers , gentlemen ,
76331 They call false caterpillars , and intend their death .
76332
76333 O graceless men ! they know not what they do .
76334
76335 My gracious lord , retire to Killingworth ,
76336 Until a power be rais'd to put them down .
76337
76338 Ah ! were the Duke of Suffolk now alive ,
76339 These Kentish rebels would be soon appeas'd .
76340
76341 Lord Say , the traitors hate thee ,
76342 Therefore away with us to Killingworth .
76343
76344 So might your Grace's person be in danger .
76345 The sight of me is odious in their eyes ;
76346 And therefore in this city will I stay ,
76347 And live alone as secret as I may .
76348
76349
76350 Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge ;
76351 The citizens fly and forsake their houses ;
76352 The rascal people , thirsting after prey ,
76353 Join with the traitor ; and they jointly swear
76354 To spoil the city and your royal court .
76355
76356 Then linger not , my lord ; away ! take horse .
76357
76358 Come , Margaret ; God , our hope , will succour us .
76359
76360 My hope is gone , now Suffolk is deceas'd .
76361
76362 Farewell , my lord : trust not the Kentish rebels .
76363
76364 Trust nobody , for fear you be betray'd .
76365
76366 The trust I have is in mine innocence ,
76367 And therefore am I bold and resolute .
76368
76369
76370 How now ! is Jack Cade slain ?
76371
76372 No , my lord , nor likely to be slain ; for they have won the bridge , killing all those that withstand them . The Lord Mayor craves aid of your honour from the Tower , to defend the city from the rebels .
76373
76374 Such aid as I can spare you shall command ;
76375 But I am troubled here with them myself ;
76376 The rebels have assay'd to win the Tower .
76377 But get you to Smithfield and gather head ,
76378 And thither I will send you Matthew Goffe :
76379 Fight for your king , your country , and your lives ;
76380 And so , farewell , for I must hence again .
76381
76382
76383 Now is Mortimer lord of this city . And here , sitting upon London-stone , I charge and command that , of the city's cost , the pissing-conduit run nothing but claret wine this first year of our reign . And now , henceforward , it shall be treason for any that calls me other than Lord Mortimer .
76384
76385
76386 Jack Cade ! Jack Cade !
76387
76388 Knock him down there .
76389
76390
76391 If this fellow be wise , he'll never call you Jack Cade more : I think he hath a very fair warning .
76392
76393 My lord , there's an army gathered together in Smithfield .
76394
76395 Come then , let's go fight with them . But first , go and set London-bridge on fire , and , if you can , burn down the Tower too . Come , let's away .
76396
76397
76398 So , sirs :Now go some and pull down the Savoy ; others to the inns of court : down with them all .
76399
76400 I have a suit unto your lordship .
76401
76402 Be it a lordship , thou shalt have it for that word .
76403
76404 Only that the laws of England may come out of your mouth .
76405
76406 Mass , 'twill be sore law then ; for he was thrust in the mouth with a spear , and 'tis not whole yet .
76407
76408 Nay , John , it will be stinking law ; for his breath stinks with eating toasted cheese .
76409
76410 I have thought upon it ; it shall be so . Away ! burn all the records of the realm : my mouth shall be the parliament of England .
76411
76412 Then we are like to have biting statutes , unless his teeth be pulled out .
76413
76414 And henceforward all things shall be in common .
76415
76416
76417 My lord , a prize , a prize ! here's the Lord Say , which sold the towns in France ; he that made us pay one-and-twenty fifteens , and one shilling to the pound , the last subsidy .
76418
76419
76420 Well , he shall be beheaded for it ten times . Ah ! thou say , thou serge , nay , thou buckram lord ; now art thou within pointblank of our jurisdiction regal . What canst thou answer to my majesty for giving up of Normandy unto Monsieur Basimecu , the Dauphin of France ? Be it known unto thee by these presence , even the presence of Lord Mortimer , that I am the besom that must sweep the court clean of such filth as thou art . Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school ; and whereas , before , our fore-fathers had no other books but the score and the tally , thou hast caused printing to be used ; and , contrary to the king , his crown , and dignity , thou hast built a paper-mill . It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb , and such abominable words as no Christian car can endure to hear . Thou hast appointed justices of peace , to call poor men before them about matters they were not able to answer . Moreover , thou hast put them in prison ; and because they could not read , thou hast hanged them ; when indeed only for that cause they have been most worthy to live . Thou dost ride on a foot-cloth , dost thou not ?
76421
76422 What of that ?
76423
76424 Marry , thou oughtest not to let thy horse wear a cloak , when honester men than thou go in their hose and doublets .
76425
76426 And work in their shirt too ; as myself , for example , that am a butcher .
76427
76428 You men of Kent ,
76429
76430 What say you of Kent ?
76431
76432 Nothing but this : 'tis bona terra , mala gens .
76433
76434 Away with him ! away with him ! he speaks Latin .
76435
76436 Hear me but speak , and bear me where you will .
76437 Kent , in the Commentaries C sar writ ,
76438 Is term'd the civil'st place of all this isle :
76439 Sweet is the country , because full of riches ;
76440 The people liberal , valiant , active , wealthy ;
76441 Which makes me hope you are not void of pity .
76442 I sold not Maine , I lost not Normandy ;
76443 Yet , to recover them , would lose my life .
76444 Justice with favour have I always done ;
76445 Prayers and tears have mov'd me , gifts could never .
76446 When have I aught exacted at your hands ,
76447 But to maintain the king , the realm , and you ?
76448 Large gifts have I bestow'd on learned clerks ,
76449 Because my book preferr'd me to the king ,
76450 And seeing ignorance is the curse of God ,
76451 Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven ,
76452 Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits ,
76453 You cannot but forbear to murder me :
76454 This tongue hath parley'd unto foreign kings
76455 For your behoof ,
76456
76457 Tut ! when struck'st thou one blow in the field ?
76458
76459 Great men have reaching hands : oft have I struck
76460 Those that I never saw , and struck them dead .
76461
76462 O monstrous coward ! what , to come behind folks !
76463
76464 These cheeks are pale for watching for your good .
76465
76466 Give him a box o' the ear , and that will make 'em red again .
76467
76468 Long sitting , to determine poor men's causes ,
76469 Hath made me full of sickness and diseases .
76470
76471 Ye shall have a hempen caudle then , and the help of hatchet .
76472
76473 Why dost thou quiver , man ?.
76474
76475 The palsy , and not fear , provokes me .
76476
76477 Nay , he nods at us ; as who should say , I'll be even with you : I'll see if his head will stand steadier on a pole , or no . Take him away and behead him .
76478
76479 Tell me wherein have I offended most ?
76480 Have I affected wealth , or honour ? speak .
76481 Are my chests fill'd up with extorted gold ?
76482 Is my apparel sumptuous to behold ?
76483 Whom have I injur'd , that ye seek my death ?
76484 These hands are free from guiltless bloodshedding ,
76485 This breast from harbouring foul deceitful thoughts .
76486 O ! let me live .
76487
76488 I feel remorse in myself with his words ; but I'll bridle it : he shall die , an it be but for pleading so well for his life . Away with him ! he has a familiar under his tongue ; he speaks not o' God's name . Go , take him away , I say , and strike off his head presently ; and then break into his son-in-law's house , Sir James Cromer , and strike off his head , and bring them both upon two poles hither .
76489
76490 It shall be done .
76491
76492 Ah , countrymen ! if when you make your prayers ,
76493 God should be so obdurate as yourselves ,
76494 How would it fare with your departed souls ?
76495 And therefore yet relent , and save my life .
76496
76497 Away with him ! and do as I command ye .
76498
76499 The proudest peer in the realm shall not wear a head on his shoulders , unless he pay me tribute ; there shall not a maid be married , but she shall pay to me her maidenhead , ere they have it ; men shall hold of me in capite ; and we charge and command that their wives be as free as heart can wish or tongue can tell .
76500
76501 My lord , when shall we go to Cheapside and take up commodities upon our bills ?
76502
76503 Marry , presently .
76504
76505 O ! brave !
76506
76507
76508 But is not this braver ? Let them kiss one another , for they loved well when they were alive . Now part them again , lest they consult about the giving up of some more towns in France . Soldiers , defer the spoil of the city until night : for with these borne before us , instead of maces , will we ride through the streets ; and at every corner have them kiss . Away !
76509
76510
76511 Up Fish Street ! down St . Magnus' corner ! kill and knock down ! throw them into Thames ! [A parley sounded , then a retreat .] What noise is this I hear ? Dare any be so bold to sound retreat or parley , when I command them kill ?
76512
76513
76514 Ay , here they be that dare and will disturb thee .
76515 Know , Cade , we come ambassadors from the king
76516 Unto the commons whom thou hast misled ;
76517 And here pronounce free pardon to them all
76518 That will forsake thee and go home in peace .
76519
76520 What say ye , countrymen ? will ye relent ,
76521 And yield to mercy , whilst 'tis offer'd you ,
76522 Or let a rebel lead you to your deaths ?
76523 Who loves the king , and will embrace his pardon ,
76524 Fling up his cap , and say 'God save his majesty !'
76525 Who hateth him , and honours not his father ,
76526 Henry the Fifth , that made all France to quake ,
76527 Shake he his weapon at us , and pass by .
76528
76529 God save the king ! God save the king !
76530
76531 What ! Buckingham and Clifford , are ye so brave ? And you , base peasants , do ye believe him ? will you needs be hanged with your pardons about your necks ? Hath my sword therefore broke through London Gates , that you should leave me at the White Hart in Southwark ? I thought ye would never have given out these arms till you had recovered your ancient freedom ; but you are all recreants and dastards , and delight to live in slavery to the nobility . Let them break your backs with burdens , take your houses over your heads , ravish your wives and daughters before your faces : for me , I will make shift for one , and so , God's curse light upon you all !
76532
76533 We'll follow Cade , we'll follow Cade !
76534
76535 Is Cade the son of Henry the Fifth ,
76536 That thus you do exclaim you'll go with him ?
76537 Will he conduct you through the heart of France ,
76538 And make the meanest of you earls and dukes ?
76539 Alas ! he hath no home , no place to fly to ;
76540 Nor knows he how to live but by the spoil ,
76541 Unless by robbing of your friends and us .
76542 Were't not a shame , that whilst you live at jar ,
76543 The fearful French , whom you late vanquished ,
76544 Should make a start o'er seas and vanquish you ?
76545 Methinks already in this civil broil
76546 I see them lording it in London streets ,
76547 Crying Villiago ! unto all they meet .
76548 Better ten thousand base-born Cades miscarry ,
76549 Than you should stoop unto a Frenchman's mercy .
76550 To France , to France ! and get what you have lost ;
76551 Spare England , for it is your native coast .
76552 Henry hath money , you are strong and manly ;
76553 God on our side , doubt not of victory .
76554
76555 A Clifford ! a Clifford ! we'll follow the king and Clifford .
76556
76557 Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this multitude ? The name of Henry the Fifth hales them to a hundred mischiefs , and makes them leave me desolate . I see them lay their heads together to surprise me . My sword make way for me , for here is no staying . In despite of the devils and hell , have through the very middest of you ! and heavens and honour be witness , that no want of resolution in me , but only my followers' base and ignominious treasons , makes me betake me to my heels .
76558
76559
76560 What , is he fled ? go some , and follow him ;
76561 And he that brings his head unto the king
76562 Shall have a thousand crowns for his reward .
76563
76564 Follow me , soldiers : we'll devise a mean
76565 To reconcile you all unto the king .
76566
76567
76568 Was ever king that joy'd an earthly throne ,
76569 And could command no more content than I ?
76570 No sooner was I crept out of my cradle
76571 But I was made a king at nine months old :
76572 Was never subject long'd to be a king
76573 As I do long and wish to be a subject .
76574
76575
76576 Health , and glad tidings , to your majesty !
76577
76578 Why , Buckingham , is the traitor Cade surpris'd ?
76579 Or is he but retir'd to make him strong ?
76580
76581
76582 He's fled , my lord , and all his powers do yield ;
76583 And humbly thus , with halters on their necks ,
76584 Expect your highness' doom , of life , or death .
76585
76586 Then , heaven , set ope thy everlasting gates ,
76587 To entertain my vows of thanks and praise !
76588 Soldiers , this day have you redeem'd your lives ,
76589 And show'd how well you love your prince and country :
76590 Continue still in this so good a mind ,
76591 And Henry , though he be infortunate ,
76592 Assure yourselves , will never be unkind :
76593 And so , with thanks and pardon to you all ,
76594 I do dismiss you to your several countries .
76595
76596 God save the king ! God save the king !
76597
76598
76599 Please it your Grace to be advertised ,
76600 The Duke of York is newly come from Ireland ;
76601 And with a puissant and a mighty power
76602 Of Gallowglasses , and stout kerns ,
76603 Is marching hitherward in proud array ;
76604 And still proclaimeth , as he comes along ,
76605 His arms are only to remove from thee
76606 The Duke of Somerset , whom he terms a traitor .
76607
76608 Thus stands my state , 'twixt Cade and York distress'd ;
76609 Like to a ship , that , having scap'd a tempest ,
76610 Is straight way calm'd , and boarded with a pirate .
76611 But now is Cade driven back , his men dispers'd ;
76612 And now is York in arms to second him .
76613 I pray thee , Buckingham , go and meet him ,
76614 And ask him what's the reason of these arms .
76615 Tell him I'll send Duke Edmund to the Tower ;
76616 And , Somerset , we will commit thee thither ,
76617 Until his army be dismiss'd from him .
76618
76619 My lord ,
76620 I'll yield myself to prison willingly ,
76621 Or unto death , to do my country good .
76622
76623 In any case , be not too rough in terms ;
76624 For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language .
76625
76626 I will , my lord ; and doubt not so to deal
76627 As all things shall redound unto your good .
76628
76629 Come , wife , let's in , and learn to govern better ;
76630 For yet may England curse my wretched reign .
76631
76632 Fie on ambition ! fie on myself , that have a sword , and yet am ready to famish ! These five days have I hid me in these woods and durst not peep out , for all the country is laid for me ; but now I am so hungry , that if I might have a lease of my life for a thousand years I could stay no longer . Wherefore , on a brick wall have I climbed into this garden , to see if I can eat grass , or pick a sallet another while , which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather . And I think this word 'sallet' was born to do me good : for many a time , but for a sallet , my brain-pan had been cleft with a brown bill ; and many a time , when I have been dry , and bravely marching , it hath served me instead of a quart-pot to drink in ; and now the word 'sallet' must serve me to feed on .
76633
76634
76635 Lord ! who would live turmoiled in the court ,
76636 And may enjoy such quiet walks as these ?
76637 This small inheritance my father left me
76638 Contenteth me , and worth a monarchy .
76639 I seek not to wax great by others' waning ,
76640 Or gather wealth I care not with what envy :
76641 Sufficeth that I have maintains my state ,
76642 And sends the poor well pleased from my gate .
76643
76644 Here's the lord of the soil come to seize me for a stray , for entering his fee-simple without leave . Ah , villain ! thou wilt betray me , and get a thousand crowns of the king by carrying my head to him ; but I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich , and swallow my sword like a great pin , ere thou and I part .
76645
76646 Why , rude companion , whatsoe'er thou be ,
76647 I know thee not ; why then should I betray thee ?
76648 Is't not enough to break into my garden ,
76649 And like a thief to come to rob my grounds ,
76650 Climbing my walls in spite of me the owner ,
76651 But thou wilt brave me with these saucy terms ?
76652
76653 Brave thee ! ay , by the best blood that ever was broached , and beard thee too . Look on me well : I have eat no meat these five days ; yet , come thou and thy five men , and if I do not leave you all as dead as a door-nail , I pray God I may never eat grass more .
76654
76655 Nay , it shall ne'er be said , while England stands ,
76656 That Alexander Iden , an esquire of Kent ,
76657 Took odds to combat a poor famish'd man .
76658 Oppose thy steadfast-gazing eyes to mine ,
76659 See if thou canst out-face me with thy looks :
76660 Set limb to limb , and thou art far the lesser ;
76661 Thy hand is but a finger to my fist ;
76662 Thy leg a stick compared with this truncheon ;
76663 My foot shall fight with all the strength thou hast ;
76664 And if mine arm be heaved in the air
76665 Thy grave is digg'd already in the earth .
76666 As for more words , whose greatness answers words ,
76667 Let this my sword report what speech forbears .
76668
76669 By my valour , the most complete champion that ever I heard ! Steel , if thou turn the edge , or cut not out the burly-boned clown in chines of beef ere thou sleep in thy sheath , I beseech Jove on my knees , thou mayst be turned to hobnails .
76670
76671 O , I am slain ! Famine and no other hath slain me : let ten thousand devils come against me , and give me but the ten meals I have lost , and I'll defy them all . Wither , garden ; and be henceforth a burying-place to all that do dwell in this house , because the unconquered soul of Cade is fled .
76672
76673 Is't Cade that I have slain , that monstrous traitor ?
76674 Sword , I will hallow thee for this thy deed ,
76675 And hang thee o'er my tomb when I am dead :
76676 Ne'er shall this blood be wiped from thy point ,
76677 But thou shalt wear it as a herald's coat ,
76678 To emblaze the honour that thy master got .
76679
76680 Iden , farewell ; and be proud of thy victory . Tell Kent from me , she hath lost her best man , and exhort all the world to be cowards ; for I , that never feared any , am vanquished by famine , not by valour .
76681
76682
76683 How much thou wrong'st me , heaven be my judge .
76684 Die , damned wretch , the curse of her that bare thee !
76685 And as I thrust thy body in with my sword ,
76686 So wish I I might thrust thy soul to hell .
76687 Hence will I drag thee headlong by the heels
76688 Unto a dunghill which shall be thy grave ,
76689 And there cut off thy most ungracious head ;
76690 Which I will bear in triumph to the king ,
76691 Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon .
76692
76693
76694 From Ireland thus comes York to claim his right ,
76695 And pluck the crown from feeble Henry's head :
76696 Ring , bells , aloud ; burn , bonfires , clear and bright ,
76697 To entertain great England's lawful king .
76698 Ah sancta majestas , who would not buy thee dear ?
76699 Let them obey that know not how to rule ;
76700 This hand was made to handle nought but gold :
76701 I cannot give due action to my words ,
76702 Except a sword , or sceptre balance it .
76703 A sceptre shall it have , have I-a soul ,
76704 On which I'll toss the flower-de-luce of France .
76705
76706
76707 Whom have we here ? Buckingham , to disturb me ?
76708
76709 The king hath sent him , sure : I must dissemble .
76710
76711 York , if thou meanest well , I greet thee well .
76712
76713 Humphrey of Buckingham , I accept thy greeting .
76714 Art thou a messenger , or come of pleasure ?
76715
76716 A messenger from Henry , our dread hege ,
76717 To know the reason of these arms in peace ;
76718 Or why thou ,being a subject as I am ,
76719 Against thy oath and true allegiance sworn ,
76720 Shouldst raise so great a power without his leave ,
76721 Or dare to bring thy force so near the court .
76722
76723 Scarce can I speak , my choler is so great :
76724 O ! I could hew up rocks and fight with flint ,
76725 I am so angry at these abject terms ;
76726 And now , like Ajax Telamonius ,
76727 On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury .
76728 I am far better born than is the king ,
76729 More like a king , more kingly in my thoughts ;
76730 But I must make fair weather yet awhile ,
76731 Till Henry be more weak , and I more strong .
76732
76733
76734 Buckingham , I prithee , pardon me ,
76735 That I have given no answer all this while ;
76736 My mind was troubled with deep melancholy .
76737 The cause why I have brought this army hither
76738 Is to remove proud Somerset from the king ,
76739 Seditious to his Grace and to the state .
76740
76741 That is too much presumption on thy part :
76742 But if thy arms be to no other end ,
76743 The king hath yielded unto thy demand :
76744 The Duke of Somerset is in the Tower .
76745
76746 Upon thine honour , is he a prisoner ?
76747
76748 Upon mine honour , he is a prisoner .
76749
76750 Then , Buckingham , I do dismiss my powers .
76751 Soldiers , I thank you all ; disperse yourselves ;
76752 Meet me to-morrow in Saint George's field ,
76753 You shall have pay , and everything you wish ,
76754 And let my sov'reign , virtuous Henry ,
76755 Command my eldest son , nay , all my sons ,
76756 As pledges of my fealty and love ;
76757 I'll send them all as willing as I live :
76758 Lands , goods , horse , armour , anything I have
76759 Is his to use , so Somerset may die .
76760
76761 York , I commend this kind submission :
76762 We twain will go into his highness' tent .
76763
76764
76765 Buckingham , doth York intend no harm to us ,
76766 That thus he marcheth with thee arm in arm ?
76767
76768 In all submission and humility
76769 York doth present himself unto your highness .
76770
76771 Then what intend these forces thou dost bring ?
76772
76773 To heave the traitor Somerset from hence ,
76774 And fight against that monstrous rebel , Cade ,
76775 Who since I heard to be discomfited .
76776
76777
76778 If one so rude and of so mean condition
76779 May pass into the presence of a king ,
76780 Lo ! I present your Grace a traitor's head ,
76781 The head of Cade , whom I in combat slew .
76782
76783 The head of Cade ! Great God , how just art thou !
76784 O ! let me view his visage , being dead ,
76785 That living wrought me such exceeding trouble .
76786 Tell me , my friend , art thou the man that slew him ?
76787
76788 I was , an't like your majesty .
76789
76790 How art thou call'd , and what is thy degree ?
76791
76792 Alexander Iden , that's my name ;
76793 A poor esquire of Kent , that loves his king .
76794
76795 So please it you , my lord , 'twere not amiss
76796 He were created knight for his good service .
76797
76798 Iden , kneel down .
76799
76800 Rise up a knight .
76801 We give thee for reward a thousand marks ;
76802 And will , that thou henceforth attend on us .
76803
76804 May Iden live to merit such a bounty ,
76805 And never live but true unto his liege !
76806
76807 See ! Buckingham ! Somerset comes with the queen :
76808 Go , bid her hide him quickly from the duke .
76809
76810
76811 For thousand Yorks he shall not hide his head ,
76812 But boldly stand and front him to his face .
76813
76814 How now ! is Somerset at liberty ?
76815 Then , York , unloose thy long-imprison'd thoughts
76816 And let thy tongue be equal with thy heart .
76817 Shall I endure the sight of Somerset ?
76818 False king ! why hast thou broken faith with me ,
76819 Knowing how hardly I can brook abuse ?
76820 King did I call thee ? no , thou art not king ;
76821 Not fit to govern and rule multitudes ,
76822 Which dar'st not , no , nor canst not rule a traitor .
76823 That head of thine doth not become a crown ;
76824 Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff ,
76825 And not to grace an awful princely sceptre .
76826 That gold must round engirt these brows of mine ,
76827 Whose smile and frown , like to Achilles' spear ,
76828 Is able with the change to kill and cure .
76829 Here is a hand to hold a sceptre up ,
76830 And with the same to act controlling laws .
76831 Give place : by heaven , thou shalt rule no more
76832 O'er him whom heaven created for thy ruler .
76833
76834 O monstrous traitor :I arrest thee , York ,
76835 Of capital treason 'gainst the king and crown .
76836 Obey , audacious traitor ; kneel for grace .
76837
76838 Wouldst have me kneel ? first let me ask of these
76839 If they can brook I bow a knee to man .
76840 Sirrah , call in my sons to be my bail :
76841
76842 I know ere they will have me go to ward ,
76843 They'll pawn their swords for my enfranchisement .
76844
76845 Call hither Clifford ; bid him come amain ,
76846 To say if that the bastard boys of York
76847 Shall be the surety for their traitor father .
76848
76849
76850 O blood-bespotted Neapolitan ,
76851 Outcast of Naples , England's bloody scourge !
76852 The sons of York , thy betters in their birth ,
76853 Shall be their father's bail ; and bane to those
76854 That for my surety will refuse the boys !
76855
76856
76857 See where they come : I'll warrant they'll make it good .
76858
76859 And here comes Clifford , to deny their bail .
76860
76861 Health and all happiness to my lord the king !
76862
76863 I thank thee , Clifford : say , what news with thee ?
76864 Nay , do not fright us with an angry look :
76865 We are thy sov'reign , Clifford , kneel again ;
76866 For thy mistaking so , we pardon thee .
76867
76868 This is my king , York , I do not mistake ;
76869 But thou mistak'st me much to think I do .
76870 To Bedlam with him ! is the man grown mad ?
76871
76872 Ay , Clifford ; a bedlam and ambitious humour
76873 Makes him oppose himself against his king .
76874
76875 He is a traitor ; let him to the Tower ,
76876 And chop away that factious pate of his .
76877
76878 He is arrested , but will not obey :
76879 His sons , he says , shall give their words for him .
76880
76881 Will you not , sons ?
76882
76883 Ay , noble father , if our words will serve .
76884
76885 And if words will not , then our weapons shall .
76886
76887 Why , what a brood of traitors have we here !
76888
76889 Look in a glass , and call thy image so :
76890 I am thy king , and thou a false-heart traitor .
76891 Call hither to the stake my two brave bears ,
76892 That with the very shaking of their chains
76893 They may astonish these fell-lurking curs :
76894 Bid Salisbury and Warwick come to me .
76895
76896
76897 Are these thy bears ? we'll bait thy bears to death ,
76898 And manacle the bear-ward in their chains ,
76899 If thou dar'st bring them to the baiting-place .
76900
76901 Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening cur
76902 Run back and bite , because he was withheld ;
76903 Who , being suffer'd with the bear's fell paw ,
76904 Hath clapp'd his tail between his legs , and cried :
76905 And such a piece of service will you do ,
76906 If you oppose yourselves to match Lord Warwick .
76907
76908 Hence , heap of wrath , foul indigested lump ,
76909 As crooked in thy manners as thy shape !
76910
76911 Nay , we shall heat you thoroughly anon .
76912
76913 Take heed , lest by your heat you burn yourselves .
76914
76915 Why , Warwick , hath thy knee forgot to bow ?
76916 Old Salisbury , shame to thy silver hair ,
76917 Thou mad misleader of thy brain-sick son !
76918 What ! wilt thou on thy death-bed play the ruffian ,
76919 And seek for sorrow with thy spectacles ?
76920 O ! where is faith ? O , where is loyalty ?
76921 If it be banish'd from the frosty head ,
76922 Where shall it find a harbour in the earth ?
76923 Wilt thou go dig a grave to find out war ,
76924 And shame thine honourable age with blood ?
76925 Why art thou old , and want'st experience ?
76926 Or wherefore dost abuse it , if thou hast it ?
76927 For shame ! in duty bend thy knee to me ,
76928 That bows unto the grave with mickle age .
76929
76930 My lord , I have consider'd with myself
76931 The title of this most renowned duke ;
76932 And in my conscience do repute his Grace
76933 The rightful heir to England's royal seat .
76934
76935 Hast thou not sworn allegiance unto me ?
76936
76937 I have .
76938
76939 Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath ?
76940
76941 It is great sin to swear unto a sin ,
76942 But greater sin to keep a sinful oath .
76943 Who can be bound by any solemn vow
76944 To do a murderous deed , to rob a man ,
76945 To force a spotless virgin's chastity ,
76946 To reave the orphan of his patrimony ,
76947 To wring the widow from her custom'd right ,
76948 And have no other reason for this wrong
76949 But that he was bound by a solemn oath ?
76950
76951 A subtle traitor needs no sophister .
76952
76953 Call Buckingham , and bid him arm himself .
76954
76955 Call Buckingham , and all the friends thou hast ,
76956 I am resolv'd for death , or dignity .
76957
76958 The first I warrant thee , if dreams prove true .
76959
76960 You were best to go to bed and dream again ,
76961 To keep thee from the tempest of the field .
76962
76963 I am resolv'd to bear a greater storm
76964 Than any thou canst conjure up to-day ;
76965 And that I'll write upon thy burgonet ,
76966 Might I but know thee by thy household badge .
76967
76968 Now , by my father's badge , old Nevil's crest ,
76969 The rampant bear chain'd to the ragged staff ,
76970 This day I'll wear aloft my burgonet ,
76971 As on a mountain-top the cedar shows ,
76972 That keeps his leaves in spite of any storm ,
76973 Even to affright thee with the view thereof .
76974
76975 And from thy burgonet I'll rend thy bear ,
76976 And tread it underfoot with all contempt ,
76977 Despite the bear-ward that protects the bear .
76978
76979 And so to arms , victorious father ,
76980 To quell the rebels and their complices .
76981
76982 Fie ! charity ! for shame ! speak not in spite ,
76983 For you shall sup with Jesu Christ to-night .
76984
76985 Foul stigmatic , that's more than thou canst tell .
76986
76987 If not in heaven , you'll surely sup in hell .
76988
76989
76990 Clifford of Cumberland , 'tis Warwick calls :
76991 And if thou dost not hide thee from the bear ,
76992 Now , when the angry trumpet sounds alarm ,
76993 And dead men's cries do fill the empty air ,
76994 Clifford , I say , come forth , and fight with me !
76995 Proud northern lord , Clifford of Cumberland ,
76996 Warwick is hoarse with calling thee to arms .
76997
76998 How now , my noble lord ! what ! all afoot ?
76999
77000 The deadly-handed Clifford slew my steed ;
77001 But match to match I have encounter'd him ,
77002 And made a prey for carrion kites and crows
77003 Even of the bonny beast he lov'd so well .
77004
77005
77006 Of one or both of us the time is come .
77007
77008 Hold , Warwick ! seek thee out some other chase ,
77009 For I myself must hunt this deer to death .
77010
77011 Then , nobly , York ; 'tis for a crown thou fight'st .
77012 As I intend , Clifford , to thrive to-day ,
77013 It grieves my soul to leave thee unassail'd .
77014
77015
77016 What seest thou in me , York ? why dost thou pause ?
77017
77018 With thy brave bearing should I be in love ,
77019 But that thou art so fast mine enemy .
77020
77021 Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem ,
77022 But that 'tis shown ignobly and in treason .
77023
77024 So let it help me now against thy sword
77025 As I in justice and true right express it .
77026
77027 My soul and body on the action both !
77028
77029 A dreadful lay ! address thee instantly .
77030
77031 La fin couronne les uvres .
77032
77033
77034 Thus war hath given thee peace , for thou art still .
77035 Peace with his soul , heaven , if it be thy will !
77036
77037 Shame and confusion ! all is on the rout :
77038 Fear frames disorder , and disorder wounds
77039 Where it should guard . O war ! thou son of hell ,
77040 Whom angry heavens do make their minister ,
77041 Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part
77042 Hot coals of vengeance ! Let no soldier fly :
77043 He that is truly dedicate to war
77044 Hath no self-love ; nor he that loves himself
77045 Hath not essentially , but by circumstance ,
77046 The name of valour .
77047
77048 O ! let the vile world end ,
77049 And the premised flames of the last day
77050 Knit heaven and earth together ;
77051 Now let the general trumpet blow his blast ,
77052 Particularities and petty sounds
77053 To cease !Wast thou ordain'd , dear father ,
77054 To lose thy youth in peace , and to achieve
77055 The silver livery of advised age ,
77056 And , in thy reverence and thy chair-days thus
77057 To die in ruffian battle ? Even at this sight
77058 My heart is turn'd to stone : and while 'tis mine
77059 It shall be stony . York not our old men spares :
77060 No more will I their babes : tears virginal
77061 Shall be to me even as the dew to fire ;
77062 And beauty , that the tyrant oft reclaims ,
77063 Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax .
77064 Henceforth I will not have to do with pity :
77065 Meet I an infant of the house of York ,
77066 Into as many gobbets will I cut it
77067 As wild Medea young Absyrtus did :
77068 In cruelty will I seek out my fame .
77069 Come , thou new ruin of old Clifford's house :
77070
77071 As did neas old Anchises bear ,
77072 So bear I thee upon my manly shoulders ;
77073 But then neas bare a living load ,
77074 Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine .
77075
77076 So , lie thou there ;
77077 For underneath an alehouse' paltry sign ,
77078 The Castle in Saint Alban's , Somerset
77079 Hath made the wizard famous in his death .
77080 Sword , hold thy temper ; heart , be wrathful still :
77081 Priests pray for enemies , but princes kill .
77082
77083 Away , my lord ! you are slow : for shame , away !
77084
77085 Can we outrun the heavens ? good Margaret , stay .
77086
77087 What are you made of ? you'll nor fight nor fly :
77088 Now is it manhood , wisdom , and defence ,
77089 To give the enemy way , and to secure us
77090 By what we can , which can no more but fly .
77091
77092 If you be ta'en , we then should see the bottom
77093 Of all our fortunes : but if we haply scape ,
77094 As well we may , if not through your neglect ,
77095 We shall to London get , where you are lov'd ,
77096 And where this breach now in our fortunes made
77097 May readily be stopp'd .
77098
77099
77100 But that my heart's on future mischief set ,
77101 I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly ;
77102 But fly you must : uncurable discomfit
77103 Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts .
77104 Away , for your relief ! and we will live
77105 To see their day and them our fortune give .
77106 Away , my lord , away !
77107
77108
77109 Of Salisbury , who can report of him ;
77110 That winter lion , who in rage forgets
77111 Aged contusions and all brush of time ,
77112 And , like a gallant in the brow of youth ,
77113 Repairs him with occasion ? this happy day
77114 Is not itself , nor have we won one foot ,
77115 If Salisbury be lost .
77116
77117 My noble father ,
77118 Three times to-day I holp him to his horse ,
77119 Three times bestrid him ; thrice I led him off ,
77120 Persuaded him from any further act :
77121 But still , where danger was , still there I met him ;
77122 And like rich hangings in a homely house ,
77123 So was his will in his old feeble body .
77124 But , noble as he is , look where he comes .
77125
77126
77127 Now , by my sword , well hast thou fought to-day ;
77128 By the mass , so did we all . I thank you , Richard :
77129 God knows how long it is I have to live ;
77130 And it hath pleas'd him that three times to-day
77131 You have defended me from imminent death .
77132 Well , lords , we have not got that which we have :
77133 'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled ,
77134 Being opposites of such repairing nature .
77135
77136 I know our safety is to follow them ;
77137
77138 For , as I hear , the king is fled to London ,
77139 To call a present court of parliament :
77140 Let us pursue him ere the writs go forth :
77141 What says Lord Warwick ? shall we after them ?
77142
77143 After them ! nay , before them , if we can .
77144 Now , by my hand , lords , 'twas a glorious day :
77145 Saint Alban's battle , won by famous York ,
77146 Shall be eterniz'd in all age to come .
77147 Sound , drums and trumpets , and to London all :
77148 And more such days as these to us befall !
77149
77150 THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY VI
77151
77152 I wonder how the king escap'd our hands .
77153
77154 While we pursu'd the horsemen of the north ,
77155 He slily stole away and left his men :
77156 Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland ,
77157 Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat ,
77158 Cheer'd up the drooping army ; and himself ,
77159 Lord Clifford , and Lord Stafford , all abreast ,
77160 Charg'd our main battle's front , and breaking in
77161 Were by the swords of common soldiers slain .
77162
77163 Lord Stafford's father , Duke of Buckingham ,
77164 Is either slain or wounded dangerously ;
77165 I cleft his beaver with a downright blow :
77166 That this is true , father , behold his blood .
77167
77168
77169 And , brother , here's the Earl of Wiltshire's blood ,
77170
77171 Whom I encounter'd as the battles join'd .
77172
77173 Speak thou for me , and tell them what I did .
77174
77175
77176 Richard hath best deserv'd of all my sons .
77177 But , is your Grace dead , my Lord of Somerset ?
77178
77179 Such hope have all the line of John of Gaunt !
77180
77181 Thus do I hope to shake King Henry's head .
77182
77183 And so do I . Victorious Prince of York ,
77184 Before I see thee seated in that throne
77185 Which now the house of Lancaster usurps ,
77186 I vow by heaven these eyes shall never close .
77187 This is the palace of the fearful king ,
77188 And this the regal seat : possess it , York ;
77189 For this is thine , and not King Henry's heirs' .
77190
77191 Assist me , then , sweet Warwick , and I will ;
77192 For hither we have broken in by force .
77193
77194 We'll all assist you ; he that flies shall die .
77195
77196 Thanks , gentle Norfolk . Stay by me , my lords ;
77197 And , soldiers , stay and lodge by me this night .
77198
77199 And when the king comes , offer him no violence ,
77200 Unless he seek to thrust you out perforce .
77201
77202
77203 The queen this day here holds her parliament ,
77204 But little thinks we shall be of her council :
77205 By words or blows here let us win our right .
77206
77207 Arm'd as we are , let's stay within this house .
77208
77209 The bloody parliament shall this be call'd ,
77210 Unless Plantagenet , Duke of York , be king ,
77211 And bashful Henry depos'd , whose cowardice
77212 Hath made us by-words to our enemies .
77213
77214 Then leave me not , my lords ; be resolute ;
77215 I mean to take possession of my right .
77216
77217 Neither the king , nor he that loves him best ,
77218 The proudest he that holds up Lancaster ,
77219 Dares stir a wing if Warwick shake his bells .
77220 I'll plant Plantagenet , root him up who dares .
77221 Resolve thee , Richard ; claim the English crown .
77222
77223
77224 My lords , look where the sturdy rebel sits ,
77225 Even in the chair of state ! belike he means
77226 Back'd by the power of Warwick , that false peer
77227 To aspire unto the crown and reign as king .
77228 Earl of Northumberland , he slew thy father ,
77229 And thine , Lord Clifford ; and you both have vow'd revenge
77230 On him , his sons , his favourites , and his friends .
77231
77232 If I be not , heavens be reveng'd on me !
77233
77234 The hope thereof makes Clifford mourn in steel .
77235
77236 What ! shall we suffer this ? let's pluck him down :
77237 My heart for anger burns ; I cannot brook it .
77238
77239 Be patient , gentle Earl of Westmoreland .
77240
77241 Patience is for poltroons , such as he :
77242 He durst not sit there had your father liv'd .
77243 My gracious lord , here in the parliament
77244 Let us assail the family of York .
77245
77246 Well hast thou spoken , cousin : be it so .
77247
77248 Ah ! know you not the city favours them ,
77249 And they have troops of soldiers at their beck ?
77250
77251 But when the duke is slain they'll quickly fly .
77252
77253 Far be the thought of this from Henry's heart ,
77254 To make a shambles of the parliament-house !
77255 Cousin of Exeter , frowns , words , and threats ,
77256 Shall be the war that Henry means to use .
77257
77258 Thou factious Duke of York , descend my throne ,
77259 And kneel for grace and mercy at my feet ;
77260 I am thy sovereign .
77261
77262 I am thine .
77263
77264 For shame ! come down : he made thee Duke of York .
77265
77266 'Twas my inheritance , as the earldom was .
77267
77268 Thy father was a traitor to the crown .
77269
77270 Exeter , thou art a traitor to the crown
77271 In following this usurping Henry .
77272
77273 Whom should he follow but his natural king ?
77274
77275 True , Clifford ; and that's Richard , Duke of York .
77276
77277 And shall I stand , and thou sit in my throne ?
77278
77279 It must and shall be so : content thyself .
77280
77281 Be Duke of Lancaster : let him be king .
77282
77283 He is both king and Duke of Lancaster ;
77284 And that the Lord of Westmoreland shall maintain .
77285
77286 And Warwick shall disprove it . You forget
77287 That we are those which chas'd you from the field
77288 And slew your fathers , and with colours spread
77289 March'd through the city to the palace gates .
77290
77291 Yes , Warwick , I remember it to my grief ;
77292 And , by his soul , thou and thy house shall rue it .
77293
77294 Plantagenet , of thee , and these thy sons ,
77295 Thy kinsmen and thy friends , I'll have more lives
77296 Than drops of blood were in my father's veins .
77297
77298 Urge it no more ; lest that instead of words ,
77299 I send thee , Warwick , such a messenger
77300 As shall revenge his death before I stir .
77301
77302 Poor Clifford ! how I scorn his worthless threats .
77303
77304 Will you we show our title to the crown ?
77305 If not , our swords shall plead it in the field .
77306
77307 What title hast thou , traitor , to the crown ?
77308 Thy father was , as thou art , Duke of York ;
77309 Thy grandfather , Roger Mortimer , Earl of March ;
77310 I am the son of Henry the Fifth ,
77311 Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop ,
77312 And seiz'd upon their towns and provinces .
77313
77314 Talk not of France , sith thou hast lost it all .
77315
77316 The Lord Protector lost it , and not I :
77317 When I was crown'd I was but nine months old .
77318
77319 You are old enough now , and yet , methinks , you lose .
77320 Father , tear the crown from the usurper's head .
77321
77322 Sweet father , do so ; set it on your head .
77323
77324 Good brother , as thou lov'st and honour'st arms ,
77325 Let's fight it out and not stand cavilling thus .
77326
77327 Sound drums and trumpets , and the king will fly .
77328
77329 Sons , peace !
77330
77331 Peace thou ! and give King Henry leave to speak .
77332
77333 Plantagenet shall speak first : hear him , lords ;
77334 And be you silent and attentive too ,
77335 For he that interrupts him shall not live .
77336
77337 Think'st thou that I will leave my kingly throne ,
77338 Wherein my grandsire and my father sat ?
77339 No : first shall war unpeople this my realm ;
77340 Ay , and their colours , often borne in France ,
77341 And now in England to our heart's great sorrow ,
77342 Shall be my winding-sheet . Why faint you , lords ?
77343 My title's good , and better far than his .
77344
77345 Prove it , Henry , and thou shalt be king .
77346
77347 Henry the Fourth by conquest got the crown .
77348
77349 'Twas by rebellion against his king .
77350
77351 I know not what to say : my title's weak .
77352
77353
77354 Tell me , may not a king adopt an heir ?
77355
77356 What then ?
77357
77358 An if he may , then am I lawful king ;
77359 For Richard , in the view of many lords ,
77360 Resign'd the crown to Henry the Fourth ,
77361 Whose heir my father was , and I am his .
77362
77363 He rose against him , being his sovereign ,
77364 And made him to resign his crown perforce .
77365
77366 Suppose , my lords , he did it unconstrain'd ,
77367 Think you 'twere prejudicial to his crown ?
77368
77369 No ; for he could not so resign his crown
77370 But that the next heir should succeed and reign .
77371
77372 Art thou against us , Duke of Exeter ?
77373
77374 His is the right , and therefore pardon me .
77375
77376 Why whisper you , my lords , and answer not ?
77377
77378 My conscience tells me he is lawful king .
77379
77380 All will revolt from me , and turn to him .
77381
77382 Plantagenet , for all the claim thou lay'st ,
77383 Think not that Henry shall be so depos'd .
77384
77385 Depos'd he shall be in despite of all .
77386
77387 Thou art deceiv'd : 'tis not thy southern power ,
77388 Of Essex , Norfolk , Suffolk , nor of Kent ,
77389 Which makes thee thus presumptuous and proud ,
77390 Can set the duke up in despite of me .
77391
77392 King Henry , be thy title right or wrong ,
77393 Lord Clifford vows to fight in thy defence :
77394 May that ground gape and swallow me alive ,
77395 Where I shall kneel to him that slew my father !
77396
77397 O Clifford , how thy words revive my heart !
77398
77399 Henry of Lancaster , resign thy crown .
77400 What mutter you , or what conspire you , lords ?
77401
77402 Do right unto this princely Duke of York ,
77403 Or I will fill the house with armed men ,
77404 And o'er the chair of state , where now he sits ,
77405 Write up his title with usurping blood .
77406
77407
77408 My Lord of Warwick , hear me but one word :
77409 Let me for this my life-time reign as king .
77410
77411 Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs ,
77412 And thou shalt reign in quiet while thou liv'st .
77413
77414 I am content : Richard Plantagenet ,
77415 Enjoy the kingdom after my decease .
77416
77417 What wrong is this unto the prince your son !
77418
77419 What good is this to England and himself !
77420
77421 Base , fearful , and despairing Henry !
77422
77423 How hast thou injur'd both thyself and us !
77424
77425 I cannot stay to hear these articles .
77426
77427 Nor I .
77428
77429 Come , cousin , let us tell the queen these news .
77430
77431 Farewell , faint-hearted and degenerate king ,
77432 In whose cold blood no spark of honour bides .
77433
77434 Be thou a prey unto the house of York ,
77435 And die in bands for this unmanly deed !
77436
77437 In dreadful war mayst thou be overcome ,
77438 Or live in peace abandon'd and despis'd !
77439
77440
77441 Turn this way , Henry , and regard them not .
77442
77443 They seek revenge and therefore will not yield .
77444
77445 Ah ! Exeter .
77446
77447 Why should you sigh , my lord ?
77448
77449 Not for myself , Lord Warwick , but my son ,
77450 Whom I unnaturally shall disinherit .
77451 But be it as it may ; I here entail
77452 The crown to thee and to thine heirs for ever ;
77453 Conditionally , that here thou take an oath
77454 To cease this civil war , and , whilst I live ,
77455 To honour me as thy king and sovereign ;
77456 And neither by treason nor hostility
77457 To seek to put me down and reign thyself .
77458
77459 This oath I willingly take and will perform .
77460
77461
77462 Long live King Henry ! Plantagenet , embrace him .
77463
77464 And long live thou and these thy forward sons !
77465
77466 Now York and Lancaster are reconcil'd .
77467
77468 Accurs'd be he that seeks to make them foes !
77469
77470
77471 Farewell , my gracious lord ; I'll to my castle .
77472
77473 And I'll keep London with my soldiers .
77474
77475 And I to Norfolk with my followers .
77476
77477 And I unto the sea from whence I came .
77478
77479
77480 And I , with grief and sorrow , to the court .
77481
77482
77483 Here comes the queen , whose looks bewray her anger :
77484 I'll steal away .
77485
77486
77487 Exeter , so will I .
77488
77489
77490 Nay , go not from me ; I will follow thee .
77491
77492 Be patient , gentle queen , and I will stay .
77493
77494 Who can be patient in such extremes ?
77495 Ah ! wretched man ; would I had died a maid ,
77496 And never seen thee , never borne thee son ,
77497 Seeing thou hast prov'd so unnatural a father .
77498 Hath he deserv'd to lose his birthright thus ?
77499 Hadst thou but lov'd him half so well as I ,
77500 Or felt that pain which I did for him once ,
77501 Or nourish'd him as I did with my blood ,
77502 Thou wouldst have left thy dearest heart-blood there ,
77503 Rather than have made that savage duke thine heir ,
77504 And disinherited thine only son .
77505
77506 Father , you cannot disinherit me :
77507 If you be king , why should not I succeed ?
77508
77509 Pardon me , Margaret ; pardon me , sweet son ;
77510 The Earl of Warwick , and the duke , enforc'd me .
77511
77512 Enforc'd thee ! art thou king , and wilt be forc'd ?
77513 I shame to hear thee speak . Ah ! timorous wretch ;
77514 Thou hast undone thyself , thy son , and me ;
77515 And given unto the house of York such head
77516 As thou shalt reign but by their sufferance .
77517 To entail him and his heirs unto the crown ,
77518 What is it but to make thy sepulchre ,
77519 And creep into it far before thy time ?
77520 Warwick is chancellor and the Lord of Calais ;
77521 Stern Faulconbridge commands the narrow seas ;
77522 The duke is made protector of the realm ;
77523 And yet shalt thou be safe ? such safety finds
77524 The trembling lamb environed with wolves .
77525 Had I been there , which am a silly woman ,
77526 The soldiers should have toss'd me on their pikes
77527 Before I would have granted to that act ;
77528 But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honour :
77529 And seeing thou dost , I here divorce myself ,
77530 Both from thy table , Henry , and thy bed ,
77531 Until that act of parliament be repeal'd
77532 Whereby my son is disinherited .
77533 The northern lords that have forsworn thy colours
77534 Will follow mine , if once they see them spread ;
77535 And spread they shall be , to thy foul disgrace ,
77536 And utter ruin of the house of York .
77537 Thus do I leave thee . Come , son , let's away ;
77538 Our army is ready ; come , we'll after them .
77539
77540 Stay , gentle Margaret , and hear me speak .
77541
77542 Thou hast spoke too much already : get thee gone .
77543
77544 Gentle son Edward , thou wilt stay with me ?
77545
77546 Ay , to be murder'd by his enemies .
77547
77548 When I return with victory from the field
77549 I'll see your Grace : till then , I'll follow her .
77550
77551 Come , son , away ; we may not linger thus .
77552
77553
77554 Poor queen ! how love to me and to her son
77555 Hath made her break out into terms of rage .
77556 Reveng'd may she be on that hateful duke ,
77557 Whose haughty spirit , winged with desire ,
77558 Will cost my crown , and like an empty eagle
77559 Tire on the flesh of me and of my son !
77560 The loss of those three lords torments my heart :
77561 I'll write unto them , and entreat them fair .
77562 Come , cousin ; you shall be the messenger .
77563
77564 And I , I hope , shall reconcile them all .
77565
77566
77567 Brother , though I be youngest , give me leave .
77568
77569 No , I can better play the orator .
77570
77571 But I have reasons strong and forcible .
77572
77573
77574 Why , how now , sons and brother ! at a strife ?
77575 What is your quarrel ? how began it first ?
77576
77577 No quarrel , but a slight contention .
77578
77579 About what ?
77580
77581 About that which concerns your Grace and us ;
77582 The crown of England , father , which is yours .
77583
77584 Mine , boy ? not till King Henry be dead .
77585
77586 Your right depends not on his life or death .
77587
77588 Now you are heir , therefore enjoy it now :
77589 By giving the house of Lancaster leave to breathe ,
77590 It will outrun you , father , in the end .
77591
77592 I took an oath that he should quietly reign .
77593
77594 But for a kingdom any oath may be broken :
77595 I would break a thousand oaths to reign one year .
77596
77597 No ; God forbid your Grace should be forsworn .
77598
77599 I shall be , if I claim by open war .
77600
77601 I'll prove the contrary , if you'll hear me speak .
77602
77603 Thou canst not , son ; it is impossible .
77604
77605 An oath is of no moment , being not took
77606 Before a true and lawful magistrate
77607 That hath authority over him that swears :
77608 Henry had none , but did usurp the place ;
77609 Then , seeing 'twas he that made you to depose ,
77610 Your oath , my lord , is vain and frivolous .
77611 Therefore , to arms ! And , father , do but think
77612 How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown ,
77613 Within whose circuit is Elysium ,
77614 And all that poets feign of bliss and joy .
77615 Why do we linger thus ? I cannot rest
77616 Until the white rose that I wear be dy'd
77617 Even in the lukewarm blood of Henry's heart .
77618
77619 Richard , enough , I will be king , or die .
77620 Brother , thou shalt to London presently ,
77621 And whet on Warwick to this enterprise .
77622 Thou , Richard , shalt unto the Duke of Norfolk ,
77623 And tell him privily of our intent .
77624 You , Edward , shall unto my Lord Cobham ,
77625 With whom the Kentishmen will willingly rise :
77626 In them I trust ; for they are soldiers ,
77627 Witty , courteous , liberal , full of spirit .
77628 While you are thus employ'd , what resteth more ,
77629 But that I seek occasion how to rise ,
77630 And yet the king not privy to my drift ,
77631 Nor any of the house of Lancaster ?
77632
77633 But , stay : what news ? why com'st thou in such post ?
77634
77635 The queen with all the northern earls and lords
77636 Intend here to besiege you in your castle .
77637 She is hard by with twenty thousand men ,
77638 And therefore fortify your hold , my lord .
77639
77640 Ay , with my sword . What ! think'st thou that we fear them ?
77641 Edward and Richard , you shall stay with me ;
77642 My brother Montague shall post to London :
77643 Let noble Warwick , Cobham , and the rest ,
77644 Whom we have left protectors of the king ,
77645 With powerful policy strengthen themselves ,
77646 And trust not simple Henry nor his oaths .
77647
77648 Brother , I go ; I'll win them , fear it not :
77649 And thus most humbly I do take my leave .
77650
77651 Sir John , and Sir Hugh Mortimer , mine uncles !
77652 You are come to Sandal in a happy hour ;
77653 The army of the queen mean to besiege us .
77654
77655 She shall not need , we'll meet her in the field .
77656
77657 What ! with five thousand men ?
77658
77659 Ay , with five hundred , father , for a need :
77660 A woman's general ; what should we fear ?
77661
77662
77663 I hear their drums ; let's set our men in order ,
77664 And issue forth and bid them battle straight .
77665
77666 Five men to twenty ! though the odds be great ,
77667 I doubt not , uncle , of our victory .
77668 Many a battle have I won in France ,
77669 When as the enemy hath been ten to one :
77670 Why should I not now have the like success ?
77671
77672
77673 Ah , whither shall I fly to 'scape their hands ?
77674 Ah ! tutor , look , where bloody Clifford comes !
77675
77676
77677 Chaplain , away ! thy priesthood saves thy life .
77678 As for the brat of this accursed duke ,
77679 Whose father slew my father , he shall die .
77680
77681 And I , my lord , will bear him company .
77682
77683 Soldiers , away with him .
77684
77685 Ah ! Clifford , murder not this innocent child ,
77686 Lest thou be hated both of God and man !
77687
77688
77689 How now ! is he dead already ? Or is it fear
77690 That makes him close his eyes ? I'll open them .
77691
77692 So looks the pent-up lion o'er the wretch
77693 That trembles under his devouring paws ;
77694 And so he walks , insulting o'er his prey ,
77695 And so he comes to rend his limbs asunder .
77696 Ah ! gentle Clifford , kill me with thy sword ,
77697 And not with such a cruel threatening look .
77698 Sweet Clifford ! hear me speak before I die :
77699 I am too mean a subject for thy wrath ;
77700 Be thou reveng'd on men , and let me live .
77701
77702 In vain thou speak'st , poor boy ; my father's blood
77703 Hath stopp'd the passage where thy words should enter .
77704
77705 Then let my father's blood open it again :
77706 He is a man , and , Clifford , cope with him .
77707
77708 Had I thy brethren here , their lives and thine
77709 Were not revenge sufficient for me ;
77710 No , if I digg'd up thy forefathers' graves ,
77711 And hung their rotten coffins up in chains ,
77712 It could not slake mine ire , nor ease my heart .
77713 The sight of any of the house of York
77714 Is as a fury to torment my soul ;
77715 And till I root out their accursed line ,
77716 And leave not one alive , I live in hell .
77717 Therefore
77718
77719
77720 O ! let me pray before I take my death .
77721 To thee I pray ; sweet Clifford , pity me !
77722
77723 Such pity as my rapier's point affords .
77724
77725 I never did thee harm : why wilt thou slay me ?
77726
77727 Thy father hath .
77728
77729 But 'twas ere I was born .
77730 Thou hast one son ; for his sake pity me ,
77731 Lest in revenge thereof , sith God is just ,
77732 He be as miserably slain as I .
77733 Ah ! let me live in prison all my days ;
77734 And when I give occasion of offence ,
77735 Then let me die , for now thou hast no cause .
77736
77737 No cause !
77738 Thy father slew my father ; therefore , die .
77739
77740
77741 Dii faciant laudis summa sit ista tu !
77742
77743
77744 Plantagenet ! I come , Plantagenet !
77745 And this thy son's blood cleaving to my blade
77746 Shall rust upon my weapon , till thy blood ,
77747 Congeal'd with this , do make me wipe off both .
77748
77749
77750 The army of the queen hath got the field :
77751 My uncles both are slain in rescuing me ;
77752 And all my followers to the eager foe
77753 Turn back and fly , like ships before the wind ,
77754 Or lambs pursu'd by hunger-starved wolves .
77755 My sons , God knows what hath bechanced them :
77756 But this I know , they have demean'd themselves
77757 Like men born to renown by life or death .
77758 Three times did Richard make a lane to me ,
77759 And thrice cried , 'Courage , father ! fight it out !'
77760 And full as oft came Edward to my side ,
77761 With purple falchion , painted to the hilt
77762 In blood of those that had encounter'd him :
77763 And when the hardiest warriors did retire ,
77764 Richard cried , 'Charge ! and give no foot of ground !'
77765 And cried , 'A crown , or else a glorious tomb !
77766 A sceptre , or an earthly sepulchre !'
77767 With this , we charg'd again ; but , out , alas !
77768 We bodg'd again : as I have seen a swan
77769 With bootless labour swim against the tide ,
77770 And spend her strength with over-matching waves .
77771
77772 Ah , hark ! the fatal followers do pursue ;
77773 And I am faint and cannot fly their fury ;
77774 And were I strong I would not shun their fury :
77775 The sands are number'd that make up my life ;
77776 Here must I stay , and here my life must end .
77777
77778
77779 Come , bloody Clifford , rough Northumberland ,
77780 I dare your quenchless fury to more rage :
77781
77782 I am your butt , and I abide your shot .
77783
77784 Yield to our mercy , proud Plantagenet .
77785
77786 Ay , to such mercy as his ruthless arm
77787 With downright payment show'd unto my father .
77788 Now Ph thon hath tumbled from his car ,
77789 And made an evening at the noontide prick .
77790
77791 My ashes , as the ph nix , may bring forth
77792 A bird that will revenge upon you all ;
77793 And in that hope I throw mine eyes to heaven ,
77794 Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with .
77795 Why come you not ? what ! multitudes , and fear ?
77796
77797 So cowards fight when they can fly no further ;
77798 So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons ;
77799 So desperate thieves , all hopeless of their lives ,
77800 Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers .
77801
77802 O Clifford ! but bethink thee once again ,
77803 And in thy thought o'er-run my former time ;
77804 And , if thou canst for blushing , view this face ,
77805 And bite thy tongue , that slanders him with cowardice
77806 Whose frown hath made thee faint and fly ere this .
77807
77808 I will not bandy with thee word for word ,
77809 But buckle with thee blows , twice two for one .
77810
77811
77812 Hold , valiant Clifford ! for a thousand causes
77813 I would prolong awhile the traitor's life .
77814 Wrath makes him deaf : speak thou , Northumberland .
77815
77816 Hold , Clifford ! do not honour him so much
77817 To prick thy finger , though to wound his heart .
77818 What valour were it , when a cur doth grin ,
77819 For one to thrust his hand between his teeth ,
77820 When he might spurn him with his foot away ?
77821 It is war's prize to take all vantages ,
77822 And ten to one is no impeach of valour .
77823
77824
77825 Ay , ay ; so strives the woodcock with the gin .
77826
77827 So doth the cony struggle in the net .
77828
77829
77830 So triumph thieves upon their conquer'd booty ;
77831 So true men yield , with robbers so o'er-matched .
77832
77833 What would your Grace have done unto him now ?
77834
77835 Brave warriors , Clifford and Northumberland ,
77836 Come , make him stand upon this molehill here ,
77837 That raught at mountains with outstretched arms ,
77838 Yet parted but the shadow with his hand .
77839 What ! was it you that would be England's king ?
77840 Was't you that revell'd in our parliament ,
77841 And made a preachment of your high descent ?
77842 Where are your mess of sons to back you now ?
77843 The wanton Edward , and the lusty George ?
77844 And where's that valiant crook-back prodigy ,
77845 Dicky your boy , that with his grumbling voice
77846 Was wont to cheer his dad in mutinies ?
77847 Or , with the rest , where is your darling Rutland ?
77848 Look , York : I stain'd this napkin with the blood
77849 That valiant Clifford with his rapier's point
77850 Made issue from the bosom of the boy ;
77851 And if thine eyes can water for his death ,
77852 I give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal .
77853 Alas , poor York ! but that I hate thee deadly ,
77854 I should lament thy miserable state .
77855 I prithee grieve , to make me merry , York .
77856 What ! hath thy fiery heart so parch'd thine entrails
77857 That not a tear can fall for Rutland's death ?
77858 Why art thou patient , man ? thou shouldst be mad ;
77859 And I , to make thee mad , do mock thee thus .
77860 Stamp , rave , and fret , that I may sing and dance .
77861 Thou wouldst be fee'd , I see , to make me sport :
77862 York cannot speak unless he wear a crown .
77863 A crown for York ! and , lords , bow low to him :
77864 Hold you his hands whilst I do set it on .
77865
77866 Ay , marry , sir , now looks he like a king !
77867 Ay , this is he that took King Henry's chair ;
77868 And this is he was his adopted heir .
77869 But how is it that great Plantagenet
77870 Is crown'd so soon , and broke his solemn oath ?
77871 As I bethink me , you should not be king
77872 Till our King Henry had shook hands with death .
77873 And will you pale your head in Henry's glory ,
77874 And rob his temples of the diadem ,
77875 Now in his life , against your holy oath ?
77876 O ! 'tis a fault too-too unpardonable .
77877 Off with the crown ; and , with the crown , his head ;
77878 And , whilst we breathe , take time to do him dead .
77879
77880 That is my office , for my father's sake .
77881
77882 Nay , stay ; let's hear the orisons he makes .
77883
77884 She-wolf of France , but worse than wolves of France ,
77885 Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth !
77886 How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex
77887 To triumph , like an Amazonian trull ,
77888 Upon their woes whom fortune captivates !
77889 But that thy face is , visor-like , unchanging ,
77890 Made impudent with use of evil deeds ,
77891 I would assay , proud queen , to make thee blush :
77892 To tell thee whence thou cam'st , of whom deriv'd ,
77893 Were shame enough to shame thee , wert thou not shameless .
77894 Thy father bears the type of King of Naples ,
77895 Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem ;
77896 Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman .
77897 Hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult ?
77898 It needs not , nor it boots thee not , proud queen ,
77899 Unless the adage must be verified ,
77900 That beggars mounted run their horse to death .
77901 'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud ;
77902 But , God he knows , thy share thereof is small :
77903 'Tis virtue that doth make them most admir'd ;
77904 The contrary doth make thee wonder'd at :
77905 'Tis government that makes them seem divine ;
77906 The want thereof makes thee abominable .
77907 Thou art as opposite to every good
77908 As the Antipodes are unto us ,
77909 Or as the south to the septentrion .
77910 O tiger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's hide !
77911 How couldst thou drain the life-blood of the child ,
77912 To bid the father wipe his eyes withal ,
77913 And yet be seen to bear a woman's face ?
77914 Women are soft , mild , pitiful , and flexible ;
77915 Thou stern , obdurate , flinty , rough , remorseless .
77916 Bidd'st thou me rage ? why , now thou hast thy wish :
77917 Wouldst have me weep ? why , now thou hast thy will ;
77918 For raging wind blows up incessant showers ,
77919 And when the rage allays , the rain begins .
77920 These tears are my sweet Rutland's obsequies ,
77921 And every drop cries vengeance for his death ,
77922 'Gainst thee , fell Clifford , and thee , false Frenchwoman .
77923
77924 Beshrew me , but his passion moves me so
77925 That hardly can I check my eyes from tears .
77926
77927 That face of his the hungry cannibals
77928 Would not have touch'd , would not have stain'd with blood ;
77929 But you are more inhuman , more inexorable ,
77930 O ! ten times more , than tigers of Hyrcania .
77931 See , ruthless queen , a hapless father's tears :
77932 This cloth thou dipp'dst in blood of my sweet boy ,
77933 And I with tears do wash the blood away .
77934 Keep thou the napkin , and go boast of this ;
77935
77936 And if thou tell'st the heavy story right ,
77937 Upon my soul , the hearers will shed tears ;
77938 Yea , even my foes will shed fast-falling tears ,
77939 And say , 'Alas ! it was a piteous deed !'
77940 There , take the crown , and , with the crown my curse ,
77941 And in thy need such comfort come to thee
77942 As now I reap at thy too cruel hand !
77943 Hard-hearted Clifford , take me from the world ;
77944 My soul to heaven , my blood upon your heads !
77945
77946 Had he been slaughter-man to all my kin ,
77947 I should not for my life but weep with him ,
77948 To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul .
77949
77950 What ! weeping-ripe , my Lord Northumberland ?
77951 Think but upon the wrong he did us all ,
77952 And that will quickly dry thy melting tears .
77953
77954 Here's for my oath ; here's for my father's death .
77955
77956
77957 And here's to right our gentlehearted king .
77958
77959
77960 Open thy gate of mercy , gracious God !
77961 My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee .
77962
77963
77964 Off with his head , and set it on York gates ;
77965 So York may overlook the town of York .
77966
77967 I wonder how our princely father 'scap'd ,
77968 Or whether he be 'scap'd away or no
77969 From Clifford's and Northumberland's pursuit .
77970 Had he been ta'en we should have heard the news ;
77971 Had he been slain we should have heard the news ;
77972 Or had he 'scap'd , methinks we should have heard
77973 The happy tidings of his good escape .
77974 How fares my brother ? why is he so sad ?
77975
77976 I cannot joy until I be resolv'd
77977 Where our right valiant father is become .
77978 I saw him in the battle range about ,
77979 And watch'd him how he singled Clifford forth .
77980 Methought he bore him in the thickest troop
77981 As doth a lion in a herd of neat ;
77982 Or as a bear , encompass'd round with dogs ,
77983 Who having pinch'd a few and made them cry ,
77984 The rest stand all aloof and bark at him .
77985 So far'd our father with his enemies ;
77986 So fled his enemies my war-like father :
77987 Methinks , 'tis prize enough to be his son .
77988 See how the morning opes her golden gates ,
77989 And takes her farewell of the glorious sun ;
77990 How well resembles it the prime of youth ,
77991 Trimm'd like a younker prancing to his love .
77992
77993 Dazzle mine eyes , or do I see three suns ?
77994
77995 Three glorious suns , each one a perfect sun ;
77996 Not separated with the racking clouds ,
77997 But sever'd in a pale clear-shining sky .
77998 See , see ! they join , embrace , and seem to kiss ,
77999 As if they vow'd some league inviolable :
78000 Now are they but one lamp , one light , one sun .
78001 In this the heaven figures some event .
78002
78003 'Tis wondrous strange , the like yet never heard of .
78004 I think it cites us , brother , to the field ;
78005 That we , the sons of brave Plantagenet ,
78006 Each one already blazing by our meeds ,
78007 Should notwithstanding join our lights together ,
78008 And over-shine the earth , as this the world .
78009 Whate'er it bodes , henceforward will I bear
78010 Upon my target three fair-shining suns .
78011
78012 Nay , bear three daughters : by your leave I speak it ,
78013 You love the breeder better than the male .
78014
78015
78016 But what art thou , whose heavy looks foretell
78017
78018 Some dreadful story hanging on thy tongue ?
78019
78020 Ah ! one that was a woeful looker-on ,
78021 When as the noble Duke of York was slain ,
78022 Your princely father , and my loving lord .
78023
78024 O ! speak no more , for I have heard too much .
78025
78026 Say how he died , for I will hear it all .
78027
78028 Environed he was with many foes ,
78029 And stood against them , as the hope of Troy
78030 Against the Greeks that would have enter'd Troy .
78031 But Hercules himself must yield to odds ;
78032 And many strokes , though with a little axe ,
78033 Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak .
78034 By many hands your father was subdu'd ;
78035 But only slaughter'd by the ireful arm
78036 Of unrelenting Clifford and the queen ,
78037 Who crown'd the gracious duke in high despite ;
78038 Laugh'd in his face ; and when with grief he wept ,
78039 The ruthless queen gave him to dry his cheeks ,
78040 A napkin steeped in the harmless blood
78041 Of sweet young Rutland , by rough Clifford slain :
78042 And after many scorns , many foul taunts ,
78043 They took his head , and on the gates of York
78044 They set the same ; and there it doth remain ,
78045 The saddest spectacle that e'er I view'd .
78046
78047 Sweet Duke of York ! our prop to lean upon ,
78048 Now thou art gone , we have no staff , no stay !
78049 O Clifford ! boist'rous Clifford ! thou hast slain
78050 The flower of Europe for his chivalry ;
78051 And treacherously hast thou vanquish'd him ,
78052 For hand to hand he would have vanquish'd thee .
78053 Now my soul's palace is become a prison :
78054 Ah ! would she break from hence , that this my body
78055 Might in the ground be closed up in rest ,
78056 For never henceforth shall I joy again ,
78057 Never , O ! never , shall I see more joy .
78058
78059 I cannot weep , for all my body's moisture
78060 Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart :
78061 Nor can my tongue unload my heart's great burden ;
78062 For self-same wind , that I should speak withal
78063 Is kindling coals that fire all my breast ,
78064 And burn me up with flames , that tears would quench .
78065 To weep is to make less the depth of grief :
78066 Tears then , for babes ; blows and revenge for me !
78067 Richard , I bear thy name ; I'll venge thy death ,
78068 Or die renowned by attempting it .
78069
78070 His name that valiant duke hath left with thee ;
78071 His dukedom and his chair with me is left .
78072
78073 Nay , if thou be that princely eagle's bird ,
78074 Show thy descent by gazing 'gainst the sun :
78075 For chair and dukedom , throne and kingdom say ;
78076 Either that is thine , or else thou wert not his .
78077
78078
78079 How now , fair lords ! What fare ? what news abroad ?
78080
78081 Great Lord of Warwick , if we should recount
78082 Our baleful news , and at each word's deliv'rance
78083 Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told ,
78084 The words would add more anguish than the wounds .
78085 O valiant lord ! the Duke of York is slain .
78086
78087 O Warwick ! Warwick ! that Plantagenet
78088 Which held thee dearly as his soul's redemption ,
78089 Is by the stern Lord Clifford done to death .
78090
78091 Ten days ago I drown'd these news in tears ,
78092 And now , to add more measure to your woes ,
78093 I come to tell you things sith then befallen .
78094 After the bloody fray at Wakefield fought ,
78095 Where your brave father breath'd his latest gasp ,
78096 Tidings , as swiftly as the posts could run ,
78097 Were brought me of your loss and his depart .
78098 I , then in London , keeper of the king ,
78099 Muster'd my soldiers , gather'd flocks of friends ,
78100 And very well appointed , as I thought ,
78101 March'd towards Saint Alban's to intercept the queen ,
78102 Bearing the king in my behalf along ;
78103 For by my scouts I was advertised
78104 That she was coming with a full intent
78105 To dash our late decree in parliament ,
78106 Touching King Henry's oath and your succession .
78107 Short tale to make , we at Saint Alban's met ,
78108 Our battles join'd , and both sides fiercely fought :
78109 But whether 'twas the coldness of the king ,
78110 Who look'd full gently on his war-like queen ,
78111 That robb'd my soldiers of their heated spleen ;
78112 Or whether 'twas report of her success ;
78113 Or more than common fear of Clifford's rigour ,
78114 Who thunders to his captives blood and death ,
78115 I cannot judge : but , to conclude with truth ,
78116 Their weapons like to lightning came and went ;
78117 Our soldiers' like the night-owl's lazy flight ,
78118 Or like a lazy thresher with a flail
78119 Fell gently down , as if they struck their friends .
78120 I cheer'd them up with justice of our cause ,
78121 With promise of high pay , and great rewards :
78122 But all in vain ; they had no heart to fight ,
78123 And we in them no hope to win the day ;
78124 So that we fled : the king unto the queen ;
78125 Lord George your brother , Norfolk , and myself ,
78126 In haste , post-haste , are come to join with you ;
78127 For in the marches here we heard you were ,
78128 Making another head to fight again .
78129
78130 Where is the Duke of Norfolk , gentle Warwick ?
78131 And when came George from Burgundy to England ?
78132
78133 Some six miles off the duke is with the soldiers ;
78134 And for your brother , he was lately sent
78135 From your kind aunt , Duchess of Burgundy ,
78136 With aid of soldiers to this needful war .
78137
78138 'Twas odds , belike , when valiant Warwick fled :
78139 Oft have I heard his praises in pursuit ,
78140 But ne'er till now his scandal of retire .
78141
78142 Nor now my scandal , Richard , dost thou hear ;
78143 For thou shalt know , this strong right hand of mine
78144 Can pluck the diadem from faint Henry's head ,
78145 And wring the awful sceptre from his fist ,
78146 Were he as famous , and as bold in war
78147 As he is fam'd for mildness , peace , and prayer .
78148
78149 I know it well , Lord Warwick ; blame me not :
78150 'Tis love I bear thy glories makes me speak .
78151 But , in this troublous time what's to be done ?
78152 Shall we go throw away our coats of steel ,
78153 And wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns ,
78154 Numb'ring our Ave-Maries with our beads ?
78155 Or shall we on the helmets of our foes
78156 Tell our devotion with revengeful arms ?
78157 If for the last , say 'Ay ,' and to it , lords .
78158
78159 Why , therefore Warwick came to seek you out ;
78160 And therefore comes my brother Montague .
78161 Attend me , lords . The proud insulting queen ,
78162 With Clifford and the haught Northumberland ,
78163 And of their feather many more proud birds ,
78164 Have wrought the easy-melting king like wax .
78165 He swore consent to your succession ,
78166 His oath enrolled in the parliament ;
78167 And now to London all the crew are gone ,
78168 To frustrate both his oath and what beside
78169 May make against the house of Lancaster .
78170 Their power , I think , is thirty thousand strong :
78171 Now , if the help of Norfolk and myself ,
78172 With all the friends that thou , brave Earl of March ,
78173 Amongst the loving Welshmen canst procure ,
78174 Will but amount to five and twenty thousand ,
78175 Why , Via ! to London will we march amain ,
78176 And once again bestride our foaming steeds ,
78177 And once again cry , 'Charge upon our foes !'
78178 But never once again turn back and fly .
78179
78180 Ay , now methinks I hear great Warwick speak :
78181 Ne'er may he live to see a sunshine day ,
78182 That cries 'Retire ,' if Warwick bid him stay .
78183
78184 Lord Warwick , on thy shoulder will I lean ;
78185 And when thou fail'st as God forbid the hour !
78186 Must Edward fall , which peril heaven forfend !
78187
78188 No longer Earl of March , but Duke of York :
78189 The next degree is England's royal throne ;
78190 For King of England shalt thou be proclaim'd
78191 In every borough as we pass along ;
78192 And he that throws not up his cap for joy
78193 Shall for the fault make forfeit of his head .
78194 King Edward , valiant Richard , Montague ,
78195 Stay we no longer dreaming of renown ,
78196 But sound the trumpets , and about our task .
78197
78198 Then , Clifford , were thy heart as hard as steel ,
78199 As thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds ,
78200 I come to pierce it , or to give thee mine .
78201
78202 Then strike up , drums ! God , and Saint George for us !
78203
78204
78205 How now ! what news ?
78206
78207 The Duke of Norfolk sends you word by me ,
78208 The queen is coming with a puissant host ;
78209 And craves your company for speedy counsel .
78210
78211 Why then it sorts ; brave warriors , let's away .
78212
78213 Welcome , my lord , to this brave town of York .
78214 Yonder's the head of that arch-enemy ,
78215 That sought to be encompass'd with your crown :
78216 Doth not the object cheer your heart , my lord ?
78217
78218 Ay , as the rocks cheer them that fear their wrack :
78219 To see this sight , it irks my very soul .
78220 Withhold revenge , dear God ! 'tis not my fault ,
78221 Nor wittingly have I infring'd my vow .
78222
78223 My gracious liege , this too much lenity
78224 And harmful pity must be laid aside .
78225 To whom do lions cast their gentle looks ?
78226 Not to the beast that would usurp their den .
78227 Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick ?
78228 Not his that spoils her young before her face .
78229 Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting ?
78230 Not he that sets his foot upon her back .
78231 The smallest worm will turn being trodden on ,
78232 And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood .
78233 Ambitious York did level at thy crown ;
78234 Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows :
78235 He , but a duke , would have his son a king ,
78236 And raise his issue like a loving sire ;
78237 Thou , being a king , bless'd with a goodly son ,
78238 Didst yield consent to disinherit him ,
78239 Which argu'd thee a most unloving father .
78240 Unreasonable creatures feed their young ;
78241 And though man's face be fearful to their eyes ,
78242 Yet , in protection of their tender ones ,
78243 Who hath not seen them , even with those wings
78244 Which sometime they have us'd with fearful flight ,
78245 Make war with him that climb'd unto their nest ,
78246 Offering their own lives in their young's defence ?
78247 For shame , my liege ! make them your precedent .
78248 Were it not pity that this goodly boy
78249 Should lose his birthright by his father's fault ,
78250 And long hereafter say unto his child ,
78251 'What my great grandfather and grandsire got ,
78252 My careless father fondly gave away ?'
78253 Ah ! what a shame were this . Look on the boy ;
78254 And let his manly face , which promiseth
78255 Successful fortune , steel thy melting heart
78256 To hold thine own and leave thine own with him .
78257
78258 Full well hath Clifford play'd the orator ,
78259 Inferring arguments of mighty force .
78260 But , Clifford , tell me , didst thou never hear
78261 That things ill got had ever bad success ?
78262 And happy always was it for that son
78263 Whose father for his hoarding went to hell ?
78264 I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind ;
78265 And would my father had left me no more !
78266 For all the rest is held at such a rate
78267 As brings a thousand-fold more care to keep
78268 Than in possession any jot of pleasure .
78269 Ah ! cousin York , would thy best friends did know
78270 How it doth grieve me that thy head is here !
78271
78272 My lord , cheer up your spirits : our foes are nigh ,
78273 And this soft courage makes your followers faint .
78274 You promis'd knighthood to our forward son :
78275 Unsheathe your sword , and dub him presently .
78276 Edward , kneel down .
78277
78278 Edward Plantagenet , arise a knight ;
78279 And learn this lesson , draw thy sword in right .
78280
78281 My gracious father , by your kingly leave ,
78282 I'll draw it as apparent to the crown ,
78283 And in that quarrel use it to the death .
78284
78285 Why , that is spoken like a toward prince .
78286
78287
78288 Royal commanders , be in readiness :
78289 For with a band of thirty thousand men
78290 Comes Warwick , backing of the Duke of York ;
78291 And in the towns , as they do march along ,
78292 Proclaims him king , and many fly to him :
78293 Darraign your battle , for they are at hand .
78294
78295 I would your highness would depart the field :
78296 The queen hath best success when you are absent .
78297
78298 Ay , good my lord , and leave us to our fortune .
78299
78300 Why , that's my fortune too ; therefore I'll stay .
78301
78302 Be it with resolution then to fight .
78303
78304 My royal father , cheer these noble lords ,
78305 And hearten those that fight in your defence :
78306 Unsheathe your sword , good father : cry , 'Saint George !'
78307
78308
78309 Now , perjur'd Henry , wilt thou kneel for grace ,
78310 And set thy diadem upon my head ;
78311 Or bide the mortal fortune of the field ?
78312
78313 Go , rate thy minions , proud insulting boy !
78314 Becomes it thee to be thus bold in terms
78315 Before thy sovereign and thy lawful king ?
78316
78317 I am his king , and he should bow his knee ;
78318 I was adopted heir by his consent :
78319 Since when , his oath is broke ; for , as I hear ,
78320 You , that are king , though he do wear the crown ,
78321 Have caus'd him , by new act of parliament ,
78322 To blot out me , and put his own son in .
78323
78324 And reason too :
78325 Who should succeed the father but the son ?
78326
78327 Are you there , butcher ? O ! I cannot speak .
78328
78329 Ay , crook-back ; here I stand to answer thee ,
78330 Or any he the proudest of thy sort .
78331
78332 'Twas you that kill'd young Rutland , was it not ?
78333
78334 Ay , and old York , and yet not satisfied .
78335
78336 For God's sake , lords , give signal to the fight .
78337
78338 What sayst thou , Henry , wilt thou yield the crown ?
78339
78340 Why , how now , long-tongu'd Warwick ! dare you speak ?
78341 When you and I met at Saint Alban's last ,
78342 Your legs did better service than your hands .
78343
78344 Then 'twas my turn to fly , and now 'tis thine .
78345
78346 You said so much before , and yet you fled .
78347
78348 'Twas not your valour , Clifford , drove me thence .
78349
78350 No , nor your manhood that durst make you stay .
78351
78352 Northumberland , I hold thee reverently .
78353 Break off the parley ; for scarce I can refrain
78354 The execution of my big-swoln heart
78355 Upon that Clifford , that cruel child-killer .
78356
78357 I slew thy father : call'st thou him a child ?
78358
78359 Ay , like a dastard and a treacherous coward ,
78360 As thou didst kill our tender brother Rutland ;
78361 But ere sun-set I'll make thee curse the deed .
78362
78363 Have done with words , my lords , and hear me speak .
78364
78365 Defy them , then , or else hold close thy lips .
78366
78367 I prithee , give no limits to my tongue :
78368 I am a king , and privileg'd to speak .
78369
78370 My liege , the wound that bred this meeting here
78371 Cannot be cur'd by words ; therefore be still .
78372
78373 Then , executioner , unsheathe thy sword .
78374 By him that made us all , I am resolv'd
78375 That Clifford's manhood lies upon his tongue .
78376
78377 Say , Henry , shall I have my right or no ?
78378 A thousand men have broke their fasts to-day ,
78379 That ne'er shall dine unless thou yield the crown .
78380
78381 If thou deny , their blood upon thy head ;
78382 For York in justice puts his armour on .
78383
78384 If that be right which Warwick says is right ,
78385 There is no wrong , but everything is right .
78386
78387 Whoever got thee , there thy mother stands ;
78388 For well I wot thou hast thy mother's tongue .
78389
78390 But thou art neither like thy sire nor dam ,
78391 But like a foul misshapen stigmatic ,
78392 Mark'd by the destinies to be avoided ,
78393 As venom toads , or lizards' dreadful stings .
78394
78395 Iron of Naples hid with English gilt ,
78396 Whose father bears the title of a king ,
78397 As if a channel should be call'd the sea ,
78398 Sham'st thou not , knowing whence thou art extraught ,
78399 To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart ?
78400
78401 A wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns ,
78402 To make this shameless callet know herself .
78403 Helen of Greece was fairer far than thou ,
78404 Although thy husband may be Menelaus ;
78405 And ne'er was Agamemnon's brother wrong'd
78406 By that false woman as this king by thee .
78407 His father revell'd in the heart of France ,
78408 And tam'd the king , and made the Dauphin stoop ;
78409 And had he match'd according to his state ,
78410 He might have kept that glory to this day ;
78411 But when he took a beggar to his bed ,
78412 And grac'd thy poor sire with his bridal day ,
78413 Even then that sunshine brew'd a shower for him ,
78414 That wash'd his father's fortunes forth of France ,
78415 And heap'd sedition on his crown at home .
78416 For what hath broach'd this tumult but thy pride ?
78417 Hadst thou been meek our title still had slept ,
78418 And we , in pity of the gentle king ,
78419 Had slipp'd our claim until another age .
78420
78421 But when we saw our sunshine made thy spring ,
78422 And that thy summer bred us no increase ,
78423 We set the axe to thy usurping root ;
78424 And though the edge hath something hit ourselves ,
78425 Yet know thou , since we have begun to strike ,
78426 We'll never leave , till we have hewn thee down ,
78427 Or bath'd thy growing with our heated bloods .
78428
78429 And in this resolution I defy thee ;
78430 Not willing any longer conference ,
78431 Since thou deny'st the gentle king to speak .
78432 Sound trumpets !let our bloody colours wave !
78433 And either victory , or else a grave .
78434
78435 Stay , Edward .
78436
78437 No , wrangling woman , we'll no longer stay :
78438 These words will cost ten thousand lives this day
78439
78440
78441 Forspent with toil , as runners with a race ,
78442 I lay me down a little while to breathe ;
78443 For strokes receiv'd , and many blows repaid ,
78444 Have robb'd my strong-knit sinews of their strength ,
78445 And spite of spite needs must I rest a while .
78446
78447
78448 Smile , gentle heaven ! or strike , ungentle death !
78449 For this world frowns , and Edward's sun is clouded .
78450
78451 How now , my lord ! what hap ? what hope of good ?
78452
78453
78454 Our hap is loss , our hope but sad despair ,
78455 Our ranks are broke , and ruin follows us .
78456 What counsel give you ? whither shall we fly ?
78457
78458 Bootless is flight , they follow us with wings ;
78459 And weak we are and cannot shun pursuit .
78460
78461
78462 Ah ! Warwick , why hast thou withdrawn thyself ?
78463 Thy brother's blood the thirsty earth hath drunk ,
78464 Broach'd with the steely point of Clifford's lance ;
78465 And in the very pangs of death he cried ,
78466 Like to a dismal clangor heard from far ,
78467 'Warwick , revenge ! brother , revenge my death !'
78468 So , underneath the belly of their steeds ,
78469 That stain'd their fetlocks in his smoking blood ,
78470 The noble gentleman gave up the ghost .
78471
78472 Then let the earth be drunken with our blood :
78473 I'll kill my horse because I will not fly .
78474 Why stand we like soft-hearted women here ,
78475 Wailing our losses , whiles the foe doth rage ;
78476 And look upon , as if the tragedy
78477 Were play'd in jest by counterfeiting actors ?
78478 Here on my knee I vow to God above ,
78479 I'll never pause again , never stand still
78480 Till either death hath clos'd these eyes of mine ,
78481 Of fortune given me measure of revenge .
78482
78483 O Warwick ! I do bend my knee with thine ;
78484 And in this vow do chain my soul to thine .
78485 And , ere my knee rise from the earth's cold face ,
78486 I throw my hands , mine eyes , my heart to thee ,
78487 Thou setter up and plucker down of kings ,
78488 Beseeching thee , if with thy will it stands
78489 That to my foes this body must be prey ,
78490 Yet that thy brazen gates of heaven may ope ,
78491 And give sweet passage to my sinful soul !
78492 Now , lords , take leave until we meet again ,
78493 Where'er it be , in heaven or in earth .
78494
78495 Brother , give me thy hand ; and , gentle Warwick ,
78496 Let me embrace thee in my weary arms :
78497 I , that did never weep , now melt with woe
78498 That winter should cut off our spring-time so .
78499
78500 Away , away ! Once more , sweet lords , farewell .
78501
78502 Yet let us all together to our troops ,
78503 And give them leave to fly that will not stay ,
78504 And call them pillars that will stand to us ;
78505 And if we thrive , promise them such rewards
78506 As victors wear at the Olympian games .
78507 This may plant courage in their quailing breasts ;
78508 For yet is hope of life and victory .
78509 Forslow no longer ; make we hence amain .
78510
78511
78512 Now , Clifford , I have singled thee alone .
78513 Suppose this arm is for the Duke of York ,
78514 And this for Rutland ; both bound to revenge ,
78515 Wert thou environ'd with a brazen wall .
78516
78517 Now , Richard , I am with thee here alone .
78518 This is the hand that stabb'd thy father York ,
78519 And this the hand that slew thy brother Rutland ;
78520 And here's the heart that triumphs in their death
78521 And cheers these hands that slew thy sire and brother ,
78522 To execute the like upon thyself ;
78523 And so , have at thee !
78524
78525
78526 Nay , Warwick , single out some other chase ;
78527 For I myself will hunt this wolf to death .
78528
78529
78530 This battle fares like to the morning's war ,
78531 When dying clouds contend with growing light ,
78532 What time the shepherd , blowing of his nails ,
78533 Can neither call it perfect day nor night .
78534 Now sways it this way , like a mighty sea
78535 Forc'd by the tide to combat with the wind ;
78536 Now sways it that way , like the self-same sea
78537 Forc'd to retire by fury of the wind :
78538 Sometime the flood prevails , and then the wind ;
78539 Now one the better , then another best ;
78540 Both tugging to be victors , breast to breast ,
78541 Yet neither conqueror nor conquered :
78542 So is the equal poise of this fell war .
78543 Here on this molehill will I sit me down .
78544 To whom God will , there be the victory !
78545 For Margaret my queen , and Clifford too ,
78546 Have chid me from the battle ; swearing both
78547 They prosper best of all when I am thence .
78548 Would I were dead ! if God's good will were so ;
78549 For what is in this world but grief and woe ?
78550 O God ! methinks it were a happy life ,
78551 To be no better than a homely swain ;
78552 To sit upon a hill , as I do now ,
78553 To carve out dials quaintly , point by point ,
78554 Thereby to see the minutes how they run ,
78555 How many make the hour full complete ;
78556 How many hours bring about the day ;
78557 How many days will finish up the year ;
78558 How many years a mortal man may live .
78559 When this is known , then to divide the times :
78560 So many hours must I tend my flock ;
78561 So many hours must I take my rest ;
78562 So many hours must I contemplate ;
78563 So many hours must I sport myself ;
78564 So many days my ewes have been with young ;
78565 So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean ;
78566 So many years ere I shall shear the fleece :
78567 So minutes , hours , days , months , and years ,
78568 Pass'd over to the end they were created ,
78569 Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave .
78570 Ah ! what a life were this ! how sweet ! how lovely !
78571 Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
78572 To shepherds , looking on their silly sheep ,
78573 Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy
78574 To kings , that fear their subjects' treachery ?
78575 O , yes ! it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth .
78576 And to conclude , the shepherd's homely curds ,
78577 His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle ,
78578 His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade ,
78579 All which secure and sweetly he enjoys ,
78580 Is far beyond a prince's delicates ,
78581 His viands sparkling in a golden cup ,
78582 His body couched in a curious bed ,
78583 When care , mistrust , and treason wait on him .
78584
78585
78586 Ill blows the wind that profits nobody .
78587 This man whom hand to hand I slew in fight ,
78588 May be possessed with some store of crowns ;
78589 And I , that haply take them from him now ,
78590 May yet ere night yield both my life and them
78591 To some man else , as this dead man doth me .
78592 Who's this ? O God ! it is my father's face ,
78593 Whom in this conflict I unwares have kill'd .
78594 O heavy times , begetting such events !
78595 From London by the king was I press'd forth ;
78596 My father , being the Earl of Warwick's man ,
78597 Came on the part of York , press'd by his master ;
78598 And I , who at his hands receiv'd my life ,
78599 Have by my hands of life bereaved him .
78600 Pardon me , God , I knew not what I did !
78601 And pardon , father , for I knew not thee !
78602 My tears shall wipe away these bloody marks ;
78603 And no more words till they have flow'd their fill .
78604
78605 O piteous spectacle ! O bloody times !
78606 Whiles lions war and battle for their dens ,
78607 Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity .
78608 Weep , wretched man , I'll aid thee tear for tear ;
78609 And let our hearts and eyes , like civil war ,
78610 Be blind with tears , and break o'ercharg'd with grief .
78611
78612
78613 Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me ,
78614 Give me thy gold , if thou hast any gold ,
78615 For I have bought it with a hundred blows .
78616 But let me see : is this our foeman's face ?
78617 Ah ! no , no , no , it is mine only son .
78618 Ah ! boy , if any life be left in thee ,
78619 Throw up thine eye : see , see ! what showers arise ,
78620 Blown with the windy tempest of my heart ,
78621 Upon thy wounds , that kill mine eye and heart .
78622 O ! pity , God , this miserable age .
78623 What stratagems , how fell , how butcherly ,
78624 Erroneous , mutinous , and unnatural ,
78625 This deadly quarrel daily doth beget !
78626 O boy ! thy father gave thee life too soon ,
78627 And hath bereft thee of thy life too late .
78628
78629 Woe above woe ! grief more than common grief !
78630 O ! that my death would stay these ruthful deeds .
78631 O ! pity , pity ; gentle heaven , pity .
78632 The red rose and the white are on his face ,
78633 The fatal colours of our striving houses :
78634 The one his purple blood right well resembles ;
78635 The other his pale cheeks , methinks , presenteth :
78636 Wither one rose , and let the other flourish !
78637 If you contend , a thousand lives must wither .
78638
78639 How will my mother for a father's death
78640 Take on with me and ne'er be satisfied !
78641
78642 How will my wife for slaughter of my son
78643 Shed seas of tears and ne'er be satisfied !
78644
78645 How will the country for these woeful chances
78646 Misthink the king and not be satisfied !
78647
78648 Was ever son so ru'd a father's death ?
78649
78650 Was ever father so bemoan'd a son ?
78651
78652 Was ever king so griev'd for subjects' woe ?
78653 Much is your sorrow ; mine , ten times so much .
78654
78655 I'll bear thee hence , where I may weep my fill .
78656
78657
78658 These arms of mine shall be thy winding-sheet ;
78659 My heart , sweet boy , shall be thy sepulchre ,
78660 For from my heart thine image ne'er shall go :
78661 My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell ;
78662 And so obsequious will thy father be ,
78663 E'en for the loss of thee , having no more ,
78664 As Priam was for all his valiant sons .
78665 I'll bear thee hence ; and let them fight that will ,
78666 For I have murder'd where I should not kill .
78667
78668
78669 Sad-hearted men ,' much overgone with care ,
78670 Here sits a king more woeful than you are .
78671
78672
78673 Fly , father , fly ! for all your friends are fled ,
78674 And Warwick rages like a chafed bull .
78675 Away ! for death doth hold us in pursuit .
78676
78677 Mount you , my lord ; towards Berwick post amain .
78678 Edward and Richard , like a brace of greyhounds
78679 Having the fearful flying hare in sight ,
78680 With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath ,
78681 And bloody steel grasp'd in their ireful hands ,
78682 Are at our backs ; and therefore hence amain .
78683
78684 Away ! for vengeance comes along with them .
78685 Nay , stay not to expostulate ; make speed ,
78686 Or else come after : I'll away before .
78687
78688 Nay , take me with thee , good sweet Exeter :
78689 Not that I fear to stay , but love to go
78690 Whither the queen intends . Forward ! away !
78691
78692
78693 Here burns my candle out ; ay , here it dies ,
78694 Which , while it lasted , gave King Henry light .
78695 O Lancaster ! I fear thy overthrow
78696 More than my body's parting with my soul .
78697 My love and fear glu'd many friends to thee ;
78698 And , now I fall , thy tough commixtures melt ,
78699 Impairing Henry , strengthening misproud York :
78700 The common people swarm like summer flies ;
78701 And whither fly the gnats but to the sun ?
78702 And who shines now but Henry's enemies ?
78703 O Ph bus ! hadst thou never given consent
78704 That Ph thon should check thy fiery steeds ,
78705 Thy burning car never had scorch'd the earth ;
78706 And , Henry , hadst thou sway'd as kings should do ,
78707 Or as thy father and his father did ,
78708 Giving no ground unto the house of York ,
78709 They never then had sprung like summer flies ;
78710 I and ten thousand in this luckless realm
78711 Had left no mourning widows for our death ,
78712 And thou this day hadst kept thy chair in peace .
78713 For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air ?
78714 And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity ?
78715 Bootless are plaints , and cureless are my wounds ;
78716 No way to fly , nor strength to hold out flight :
78717 The foe is merciless , and will not pity ;
78718 For at their hands I have deserv'd no pity .
78719 The air hath got into my deadly wounds ,
78720 And much effuse of blood doth make me faint .
78721 Come , York and Richard , Warwick and the rest ;
78722 I stabb'd your fathers' bosoms , split my breast .
78723
78724 Now breathe we , lords : good fortune bids us pause ,
78725 And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks .
78726 Some troops pursue the bloody-minded queen ,
78727 That led calm Henry , though he were a king ,
78728 As doth a sail , fill'd with a fretting gust ,
78729 Command an argosy to stern the waves .
78730 But think you , lords , that Clifford fled with them ?
78731
78732 No , 'tis impossible he should escape ;
78733 For , though before his face I speak the words ,
78734 Your brother Richard mark'd him for the grave ;
78735 And wheresoe'er he is , he's surely dead .
78736
78737
78738 Whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave ?
78739
78740 A deadly groan , like life and death's departing .
78741
78742 See who it is : and now the battle's ended ,
78743 If friend or foe let him be gently us'd .
78744
78745 Revoke that doom of mercy , for 'tis Clifford ;
78746 Who not contented that he lopp'd the branch
78747 In hewing Rutland when his leaves put forth ,
78748 But set his murd'ring knife unto the root
78749 From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring ,
78750 I mean our princely father , Duke of York .
78751
78752 From off the gates of York fetch down the head ,
78753 Your father's head , which Clifford placed there ;
78754 Instead whereof let this supply the room :
78755 Measure for measure must be answered .
78756
78757 Bring forth that fatal screech-owl to our house ,
78758 That nothing sung but death to us and ours :
78759 Now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound ,
78760 And his ill-boding tongue no more shall speak .
78761
78762
78763 I think his understanding is bereft .
78764 Speak , Clifford ; dost thou know who speaks to thee ?
78765 Dark cloudy death o'ershades his beams of life ,
78766 And he nor sees , nor hears us what we say .
78767
78768 O ! would he did ; and so perhaps he doth :
78769 'Tis but his policy to counterfeit ,
78770 Because he would avoid such bitter taunts
78771 Which in the time of death he gave our father .
78772
78773 If so thou think'st , vex him with eager words .
78774
78775 Clifford ! ask mercy and obtain no grace .
78776
78777 Clifford , repent in bootless penitence .
78778
78779 Clifford ! devise excuses for thy faults .
78780
78781 While we devise fell tortures for thy faults .
78782
78783 Thou didst love York , and I am son to York .
78784
78785 Thou pitiedst Rutland , I will pity thee .
78786
78787 Where's Captain Margaret , to fence you now ?
78788
78789 They mock thee , Clifford : swear as thou wast wont .
78790
78791 What ! not an oath ? nay , then the world goes hard
78792 When Clifford cannot spare his friends an oath .
78793 I know by that he's dead ; and , by my soul ,
78794 If this right hand would buy two hours' life ,
78795 That I in all despite might rail at him ,
78796 This hand should chop it off , and with the issuing blood
78797 Stifle the villain whose unstaunched thirst
78798 York and young Rutland could not satisfy .
78799
78800 Ay , but he's dead : off with the traitor's head ,
78801 And rear it in the place your father's stands .
78802 And now to London with triumphant march ,
78803 There to be crowned England's royal king :
78804 From whence shall Warwick cut the sea to France ,
78805 And ask the Lady Bona for thy queen .
78806 So shalt thou sinew both these lands together ;
78807 And , having France thy friend , thou shalt not dread
78808 The scatter'd foe that hopes to rise again ;
78809 For though they cannot greatly sting to hurt ,
78810 Yet look to have them buzz to offend thine ears .
78811 First will I see the coronation ;
78812 And then to Brittany I'll cross the sea ,
78813 To effect this marriage , so it please my lord .
78814
78815 Even as thou wilt , sweet Warwick , let it be ;
78816 For on thy shoulder do I build my seat ,
78817 And never will I undertake the thing
78818 Wherein thy counsel and consent is wanting .
78819 Richard , I will create thee Duke of Gloucester ;
78820 And George , of Clarence ; Warwick , as ourself ,
78821 Shall do and undo as him pleaseth best .
78822
78823 Let me be Duke of Clarence , George of Gloucester ,
78824 For Gloucester's dukedom is too ominous .
78825
78826 Tut ! that's a foolish observation :
78827 Richard , be Duke of Gloucester . Now to London ,
78828 To see these honours in possession .
78829
78830 Under this thick-grown hrake we'll shroud ourselves ;
78831 For through this laund anon the deer will come ;
78832 And in this covert will we make our stand ,
78833 Culling the principal of all the deer .
78834
78835 I'll stay above the hill , so both may shoot .
78836
78837 That cannot be ; the noise of thy cross-bow
78838 Will scare the herd , and so my shoot is lost .
78839 Here stand we both , and aim we at the best :
78840 And , for the time shall not seem tedious ,
78841 I'll tell thee what befell me on a day
78842 In this self place where now we mean to stand .
78843
78844 Here comes a man ; let's stay till he be past .
78845
78846
78847 From Scotland am I stol'n , even of pure love ,
78848 To greet mine own land with my wishful sight .
78849 No , Harry , Harry , 'tis no land of thine ;
78850 Thy place is fill'd , thy sceptre wrung from thee ,
78851 Thy balm wash'd off wherewith thou wast anointed :
78852 No bending knee will call thee C sar now ,
78853 No humble suitors press to speak for right ,
78854 No , not a man comes for redress of thee ;
78855 For how can I help them , and not myself ?
78856
78857 Ay , here's a deer whose skin's a keeper's fee :
78858 This is the quondam king ; let's seize upon him .
78859
78860 Let me embrace thee , sour adversity ,
78861 For wise men say it is the wisest course .
78862
78863 Why linger we ? let us lay hands upon him .
78864
78865 Forbear awhile ; we'll hear a little more .
78866
78867 My queen and son are gone to France for aid ;
78868 And , as I hear , the great commanding Warwick
78869 Is thither gone , to crave the French king's sister
78870 To wife for Edward . If this news be true ,
78871 Poor queen and son , your labour is but lost ;
78872 For Warwick is a subtle orator ,
78873 And Lewis a prince soon won with moving words .
78874 By this account then Margaret may win him ,
78875 For she's a woman to be pitied much :
78876 Her sighs will make a battery in his breast ;
78877 Her tears will pierce into a marble heart ;
78878 The tiger will be mild whiles she doth mourn ;
78879 And Nero will be tainted with remorse ,
78880 To hear and see her plaints , her brinish tears .
78881 Ay , but she's come to beg ; Warwick , to give :
78882 She on his left side craving aid for Henry ;
78883 He on his right asking a wife for Edward .
78884 She weeps , and says her Henry is depos'd ;
78885 He smiles , and says his Edward is install'd ;
78886 That she , poor wretch , for grief can speak no more :
78887 Whiles Warwick tells his title , smooths the wrong ,
78888 Inferreth arguments of mighty strength ,
78889 And in conclusion wins the king from her ,
78890 With promise of his sister , and what else ,
78891 To strengthen and support King Edward's place .
78892 O Margaret ! thus 'twill be ; and thou , poor soul ,
78893 Art then forsaken , as thou went'st forlorn .
78894
78895 Say , what art thou , that talk'st of kings and queens ?
78896
78897 More than I seem , and less than I was born to :
78898 A man at least , for less I should not be ;
78899 And men may talk of kings , and why not I ?
78900
78901 Ay , but thou talk'st as if thou wert a king .
78902
78903 Why , so I am , in mind ; and that's enough .
78904
78905 But , if thou be a king , where is thy crown ?
78906
78907 My crown is in my heart , not on my head ;
78908 Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones ,
78909 Nor to be seen : my crown is call'd content ;
78910 A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy .
78911
78912 Well , if you be a king crown'd with content ,
78913 Your crown content and you must be contented
78914 To go along with us ; for , as we think ,
78915 You are the king King Edward hath depos'd ;
78916 And we his subjects , sworn in all allegiance ,
78917 Will apprehend you as his enemy .
78918
78919 But did you never swear , and break an oath ?
78920
78921 No , never such an oath ; nor will not now .
78922
78923 Where did you dwell when I was King of England ?
78924
78925 Here in this country , where we now remain .
78926
78927 I was anointed king at nine months old ;
78928 My father and my grandfather were kings ,
78929 And you were sworn true subjects unto me :
78930 And tell me , then , have you not broke your oaths ?
78931
78932 No ;
78933 For we were subjects but while you were king .
78934
78935 Why , am I dead ? do I not breathe a man ?
78936 Ah ! simple men , you know not what you swear .
78937 Look , as I blow this feather from my face ,
78938 And as the air blows it to me again ,
78939 Obeying with my wind when I do blow ,
78940 And yielding to another when it blows ,
78941 Commanded always by the greater gust ;
78942 Such is the lightness of you common men .
78943 But do not break your oaths ; for of that sin
78944 My mild entreaty shall not make you guilty .
78945 Go where you will , the king shall be commanded ;
78946 And be you kings : command , and I'll obey .
78947
78948 We are true subjects to the king , King Edward .
78949
78950 So would you be again to Henry ,
78951 If he were seated as King Edward is .
78952
78953 We charge you , in God's name , and in the king's ,
78954 To go with us unto the officers .
78955
78956 In God's name , lead ; your king's name be obey'd :
78957 And what God will , that let your king perform ;
78958 And what he will , I humbly yield unto .
78959
78960
78961 Brother of Gloucester , at Saint Alban's field
78962 This lady's husband , Sir John Grey , was slain ,
78963 His lands then seiz'd on by the conqueror :
78964 Her suit is now , to repossess those lands ;
78965 Which we in justice cannot well deny ,
78966 Because in quarrel of the house of York
78967 The worthy gentleman did lose his life .
78968
78969 Your highness shall do well to grant her suit ;
78970 It were dishonour to deny it her .
78971
78972 It were no less : but yet I'll make a pause .
78973
78974 Yea ; is it so ?
78975 I see the lady hath a thing to grant
78976 Before the king will grant her humble suit .
78977
78978 He knows the game : how true he keeps the wind !
78979
78980 Silence !
78981
78982 Widow , we will consider of your suit ,
78983 And come some other time to know our mind .
78984
78985 Right gracious lord , I cannot brook delay :
78986 May it please your highness to resolve me now ,
78987 And what your pleasure is shall satisfy me .
78988
78989 Ay , widow ? then I'll warrant you all your lands ,
78990 An if what pleases him shall pleasure you ,
78991 Fight closer , or , good faith , you'll catch a blow .
78992
78993 I fear her not , unless she chance to fall .
78994
78995 God forbid that ! for he'll take vantages .
78996
78997 How many children hast thou , widow ? tell me .
78998
78999 I think he means to beg a child of her .
79000
79001 Nay , whip me , then ; he'll rather give her two .
79002
79003 Three , my most gracious lord .
79004
79005 You shall have four , if you'll be rul'd by him .
79006
79007 'Twere pity they should lose their father's lands .
79008
79009 Be pitiful , dread lord , and grant it then .
79010
79011 Lords , give us leave : I'll try this widow's wit .
79012
79013 Ay , good leave have you ; for you will have leave ,
79014 Till youth take leave and leave you to the crutch .
79015
79016
79017 Now , tell me , madam , do you love your children ?
79018
79019 Ay , full as dearly as I love myself .
79020
79021 And would you not do much to do them good ?
79022
79023 To do them good I would sustain some harm .
79024
79025 Then get your husband's lands , to do them good .
79026
79027 Therefore I came unto your majesty .
79028
79029 I'll tell you how these lands are to be got .
79030
79031 So shall you bind me to your highness' service .
79032
79033 What service wilt thou do me , if I give them ?
79034
79035 What you command , that rests in me to do .
79036
79037 But you will take exceptions to my boon .
79038
79039 No , gracious lord , except I cannot do it .
79040
79041 Ay , but thou canst do what I mean to ask .
79042
79043 Why , then I will do what your Grace commands .
79044
79045 He plies her hard ; and much rain wears the marble .
79046
79047 As red as fire ! nay , then her wax must melt .
79048
79049 Why stops my lord ? shall I not hear my task ?
79050
79051 An easy task : 'tis but to love a king .
79052
79053 That's soon perform'd , because I am a subject .
79054
79055 Why then , thy husband's lands I freely give thee .
79056
79057 I take my leave with many thousand thanks .
79058
79059 The match is made ; she seals it with a curtsy .
79060
79061 But stay thee ; 'tis the fruits of love I mean .
79062
79063 The fruits of love I mean , my loving liege .
79064
79065 Ay , but , I fear me , in another sense .
79066 What love think'st thou I sue so much to get ?
79067
79068 My love till death , my humble thanks , my prayers :
79069 That love which virtue begs and virtue grants .
79070
79071 No , by my troth , I did not mean such love .
79072
79073 Why , then you mean not as I thought you did .
79074
79075 But now you partly may perceive my mind .
79076
79077 My mind will never grant what I perceive
79078 Your highness aims at , if I aim aright .
79079
79080 To tell thee plain , I aim to lie with thee .
79081
79082 To tell you plain , I had rather lie in prison .
79083
79084 Why , then thou shalt not have thy husband's lands .
79085
79086 Why , then mine honesty shall be my dower ;
79087 For by that loss I will not purchase them .
79088
79089 Therein thou wrong'st thy children mightily .
79090
79091 Herein your highness wrongs both them and me .
79092 But , mighty lord , this merry inclination
79093 Accords not with the sadness of my suit :
79094 Please you dismiss me , either with 'ay ,' or 'no .'
79095
79096 Ay , if thou wilt say 'ay' to my request ;
79097 No , if thou dost say 'no' to my demand .
79098
79099 Then , no , my lord . My suit is at an end .
79100
79101 The widow likes him not , she knits her brows .
79102
79103 He is the bluntest wooer in Christendom .
79104
79105 Her looks do argue her replete with modesty ;
79106 Her words do show her wit incomparable ;
79107 All her perfections challenge sovereignty :
79108 One way or other , she is for a king ;
79109 And she shall be my love , or else my queen .
79110 Say that King Edward take thee for his queen ?
79111
79112 'Tis better said than done , my gracious lord :
79113 I am a subject fit to jest withal ,
79114 But far unfit to be a sovereign .
79115
79116 Sweet widow , by my state I swear to thee ,
79117 I speak no more than what my soul intends ;
79118 And that is , to enjoy thee for my love .
79119
79120 And that is more than I will yield unto .
79121 I know I am too mean to be your queen ,
79122 And yet too good to be your concubine .
79123
79124 You cavil , widow : I did mean , my queen .
79125
79126 'Twill grieve your Grace my sons should call you father .
79127
79128 No more than when my daughters call thee mother .
79129 Thou art a widow , and thou hast some children ;
79130 And , by God's mother , I , being but a bachelor ,
79131 Have other some : why , 'tis a happy thing
79132 To be the father unto many sons .
79133 Answer no more , for thou shalt be my queen .
79134
79135 The ghostly father now hath done his shrift .
79136
79137 When he was made a shriver , 'twas for shift .
79138
79139 Brothers , you muse what chat we two have had .
79140
79141 The widow likes it not , for she looks very sad .
79142
79143 You'd think it strange if I should marry her .
79144
79145 To whom , my lord ?
79146
79147 Why , Clarence , to myself .
79148
79149 That would be ten days' wonder at the least .
79150
79151 That's a day longer than a wonder lasts .
79152
79153 By so much is the wonder in extremes .
79154
79155 Well , jest on , brothers : I can tell you both
79156 Her suit is granted for her husband's lands .
79157
79158
79159 My gracious lord , Henry your foe is taken ,
79160 And brought as prisoner to your palace gate .
79161
79162 See that he be convey'd unto the Tower :
79163 And go we , brothers , to the man that took him ,
79164 To question of his apprehension .
79165 Widow , go you along . Lords , use her honourably .
79166
79167
79168 Ay , Edward will use women honourably .
79169 Would he were wasted , marrow , bones , and all ,
79170 That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring ,
79171 To cross me from the golden time I look for !
79172 And yet , between my soul's desire and me
79173 The lustful Edward's title buried ,
79174 Is Clarence , Henry , and his son young Edward ,
79175 And all the unlook'd for issue of their bodies ,
79176 To take their rooms , ere I can place myself :
79177 A cold premeditation for my purpose !
79178 Why then , I do but dream on sovereignty ;
79179 Like one that stands upon a promontory ,
79180 And spies a far-off shore where he would tread ,
79181 Wishing his foot were equal with his eye ;
79182 And chides the sea that sunders him from thence ,
79183 Saying , he'll lade it dry to have his way :
79184 So do I wish the crown , being so far off ,
79185 And so I chide the means that keep me from it ,
79186 And so I say I'll cut the causes off ,
79187 Flattering me with impossibilities .
79188 My eye's too quick , my heart o'erweens too much ,
79189 Unless my hand and strength could equal them .
79190 Well , say there is no kingdom then for Richard ;
79191 What other pleasure can the world afford ?
79192 I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap ,
79193 And deck my body in gay ornaments ,
79194 And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks .
79195 O miserable thought ! and more unlikely
79196 Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns .
79197 Why , love forswore me in my mother's womb :
79198 And , for I should not deal in her soft laws ,
79199 She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe ,
79200 To shrink mine arm up like a wither'd shrub ;
79201 To make an envious mountain on my back ,
79202 Where sits deformity to mock my body ;
79203 To shape my legs of an unequal size ;
79204 To disproportion me in every part ,
79205 Like to a chaos , or an unlick'd bear-whelp
79206 That carries no impression like the dam .
79207 And am I then a man to be belov'd ?
79208 O monstrous fault ! to harbour such a thought .
79209 Then , since this earth affords no joy to me
79210 But to command , to check , to o'erbear such
79211 As are of better person than myself ,
79212 I'll make my heaven to dream upon the crown ;
79213 And , whiles I live , to account this world but hell ,
79214 Until my mis-shap'd trunk that bears this head
79215 Be round impaled with a glorious crown .
79216 And yet I know not how to get the crown ,
79217 For many lives stand between me and home :
79218 And I , like one lost in a thorny wood ,
79219 That rents the thorns and is rent with the thorns ,
79220 Seeking a way and straying from the way ;
79221 Not knowing how to find the open air ,
79222 But toiling desperately to find it out ,
79223 Torment myself to catch the English crown :
79224 And from that torment I will free myself ,
79225 Or hew my way out with a bloody axe .
79226 Why , I can smile , and murder while I smile ,
79227 And cry , 'Content ,' to that which grieves my heart ,
79228 And wet my cheeks with artificial tears ,
79229 And frame my face to all occasions .
79230 I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall ;
79231 I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk ;
79232 I'll play the orator as well as Nestor ,
79233 Deceive more slily than Ulysses could ,
79234 And , like a Sinon , take another Troy .
79235 I can add colours to the chameleon ,
79236 Change shapes with Proteus for advantages ,
79237 And set the murd'rous Machiavel to school .
79238 Can I do this , and cannot get a crown ?
79239 Tut ! were it further off , I'll pluck it down .
79240
79241 Fair Queen of England , worthy Margaret ,
79242 Sit down with us : it ill befits thy state
79243 And birth , that thou shouldst stand while Lewis doth sit .
79244
79245 No , mighty King of France : now Margaret
79246 Must strike her sail , and learn a while to serve
79247 Where kings command . I was , I must confess ,
79248 Great Albion's queen in former golden days ;
79249 But now mischance hath trod my title down ,
79250 And with dishonour laid me on the ground ,
79251 Where I must take like seat unto my fortune ,
79252 And to my humble seat conform myself .
79253
79254 Why , say , fair queen , whence springs this deep despair ?
79255
79256 From such a cause as fills mine eyes with tears
79257 And stops my tongue , while heart is drown'd in cares .
79258
79259 Whate'er it be , be thou still like thyself ,
79260 And sit thee by our side .
79261
79262 Yield not thy neck
79263 To fortune's yoke , but let thy dauntless mind
79264 Still ride in triumph over all mischance .
79265 Be plain , Queen Margaret , and tell thy grief ;
79266 It shall be eas'd , if France can yield relief .
79267
79268 Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts ,
79269 And give my tongue-tied sorrows leave to speak .
79270 Now , therefore , be it known to noble Lewis ,
79271 That Henry , sole possessor of my love ,
79272 Is of a king become a banish'd man ,
79273 And forc'd to live in Scotland a forlorn ;
79274 While proud ambitious Edward Duke of York
79275 Usurps the regal title and the seat
79276 Of England's true-anointed lawful king .
79277 This is the cause that I , poor Margaret ,
79278 With this my son , Prince Edward , Henry's heir ,
79279 Am come to crave thy just and lawful aid ;
79280 And if thou fail us , all our hope is done .
79281 Scotland hath will to help , but cannot help ;
79282 Our people and our peers are both misled ,
79283 Our treasure seiz'd , our soldiers put to flight ,
79284 And , as thou seest , ourselves in heavy plight .
79285
79286 Renowned queen , with patience calm the storm ,
79287 While we bethink a means to break it off .
79288
79289 The more we stay , the stronger grows our foe .
79290
79291 The more I stay , the more I'll succour thee .
79292
79293 O ! but impatience waiteth on true sorrow :
79294 And see where comes the breeder of my sorrow .
79295
79296
79297 What's he , approacheth boldly to our presence ?
79298
79299 Our Earl of Warwick , Edward's greatest friend .
79300
79301 Welcome , brave Warwick ! What brings thee to France ?
79302
79303
79304 Ay , now begins a second storm to rise ;
79305 For this is he that moves both wind and tide .
79306
79307 From worthy Edward , King of Albion ,
79308 My lord and sovereign , and thy vowed friend ,
79309 I come , in kindness and unfeigned love ,
79310 First , to do greetings to thy royal person ;
79311 And then to crave a league of amity ;
79312 And lastly to confirm that amity
79313 With nuptial knot , if thou vouchsafe to grant
79314 That virtuous Lady Bona , thy fair sister ,
79315 To England's king in lawful marriage .
79316
79317 If that go forward , Henry's hope is done .
79318
79319 And , gracious madam , in our king's behalf ,
79320 I am commanded , with your leave and favour ,
79321 Humbly to kiss your hand , and with my tongue
79322 To tell the passion of my sov'reign's heart ;
79323 Where fame , late entering at his heedful ears ,
79324 Hath plac'd thy beauty's image and thy virtue .
79325
79326 King Lewis and Lady Bona , hear me speak ,
79327 Before you answer Warwick . His demand
79328 Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love ,
79329 But from deceit bred by necessity ;
79330 For how can tyrants safely govern home ,
79331 Unless abroad they purchase great alliance ?
79332 To prove him tyrant this reason may suffice ,
79333 That Henry liveth still ; but were he dead ,
79334 Yet here Prince Edward stands , King Henry's son .
79335 Look , therefore , Lewis , that by this league and marriage
79336 Thou draw not on thy danger and dishonour ;
79337 For though usurpers sway the rule awhile ,
79338 Yet heavens are just , and time suppresseth wrongs .
79339
79340 Injurious Margaret !
79341
79342 And why not queen ?
79343
79344 Because thy father Henry did usurp ,
79345 And thou no more art prince than she is queen .
79346
79347 Then Warwick disannuls great John of Gaunt ,
79348 Which did subdue the greatest part of Spain ;
79349 And , after John of Gaunt , Henry the Fourth ,
79350 Whose wisdom was a mirror to the wisest ;
79351 And , after that wise prince , Henry the Fifth ,
79352 Who by his prowess conquered all France :
79353 From these our Henry lineally descends .
79354
79355 Oxford , how haps it , in this smooth discourse ,
79356 You told not how Henry the Sixth hath lost
79357 All that which Henry the Fifth had gotten ?
79358 Methinks these peers of France should smile at that .
79359 But for the rest , you tell a pedigree
79360 Of threescore and two years ; a silly time
79361 To make prescription for a kingdom's worth .
79362
79363 Why , Warwick , canst thou speak against thy liege ,
79364 Whom thou obeyedst thirty and six years ,
79365 And not bewray thy treason with a blush ?
79366
79367 Can Oxford , that did ever fence the right ,
79368 Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree ?
79369 For shame ! leave Henry , and call Edward king .
79370
79371 Call him my king , by whose injurious doom
79372 My elder brother , the Lord Aubrey Vere ,
79373 Was done to death ? and more than so , my father ,
79374 Even in the downfall of his mellow'd years ,
79375 When nature brought him to the door of death ?
79376 No , Warwick , no ; while life upholds this arm ,
79377 This arm upholds the house of Lancaster .
79378
79379 And I the house of York .
79380
79381 Queen Margaret , Prince Edward , and Oxford ,
79382 Vouchsafe at our request to stand aside ,
79383 While I use further conference with Warwick .
79384
79385
79386 Heaven grant that Warwick's words bewitch him not !
79387
79388 Now , Warwick , tell me , even upon thy conscience ,
79389 Is Edward your true king ? for I were loath
79390 To link with him that were not lawful chosen .
79391
79392 Thereon I pawn my credit and mine honour .
79393
79394 But is he gracious in the people's eye ?
79395
79396 The more that Henry was unfortunate .
79397
79398 Then further , all dissembling set aside ,
79399 Tell me for truth the measure of his love
79400 Unto our sister Bona .
79401
79402 Such it seems
79403 As may beseem a monarch like himself .
79404 Myself have often heard him say and swear
79405 That this his love was an eternal plant ,
79406 Whereof the root was fix'd in virtue's ground ,
79407 The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's sun ,
79408 Exempt from envy , but not from disdain ,
79409 Unless the Lady Bona quit his pain .
79410
79411 Now , sister , let us hear your firm resolve .
79412
79413 Your grant , or your denial , shall be mine :
79414
79415
79416 Yet I confess that often ere this day ,
79417 When I have heard your king's desert recounted ,
79418 Mine ear hath tempted judgment to desire .
79419
79420 Then , Warwick , thus : our sister shall be Edward's ;
79421 And now forthwith shall articles be drawn
79422 Touching the jointure that your king must make ,
79423 Which with her dowry shall be counterpois'd .
79424 Draw near , Queen Margaret , and be a witness
79425 That Bona shall be wife to the English king .
79426
79427 To Edward , but not to the English king .
79428
79429 Deceitful Warwick ! it was thy device
79430 By this alliance to make void my suit :
79431 Before thy coming Lewis was Henry's friend .
79432
79433 And still is friend to him and Margaret :
79434 But if your title to the crown be weak ,
79435 As may appear by Edward's good success ,
79436 Then 'tis but reason that I be releas'd
79437 From giving aid which late I promised .
79438 Yet shall you have all kindness at my hand
79439 That your estate requires and mine can yield .
79440
79441 Henry now lives in Scotland at his ease ,
79442 Where having nothing , nothing can he lose .
79443 And as for you yourself , our quondam queen ,
79444 You have a father able to maintain you ,
79445 And better 'twere you troubled him than France .
79446
79447 Peace ! impudent and shameless Warwick , peace ;
79448 Proud setter up and puller down of kings ;
79449 I will not hence , till , with my talk and tears ,
79450 Both full of truth , I make King Lewis behold
79451 Thy sly conveyance and thy lord's false love ;
79452 For both of you are birds of self-same feather .
79453
79454
79455 Warwick , this is some post to us or thee .
79456
79457
79458 My lord ambassador , these letters are for you ,
79459 Sent from your brother , Marquess Montague :
79460 These from our king unto your majesty ;
79461
79462
79463 And , madam , these for you ; from whom I know not .
79464
79465
79466 I like it well that our fair queen and mistress
79467 Smiles at her news , while Warwick frowns at his .
79468
79469 Nay , mark how Lewis stamps as he were nettled :
79470 I hope all's for the best .
79471
79472 Warwick , what are thy news ? and yours , fair queen ?
79473
79474 Mine , such as fill my heart with unhop'd joys .
79475
79476 Mine , full of sorrow and heart's discontent .
79477
79478 What ! has your king married the Lady Grey ?
79479 And now , to soothe your forgery and his ,
79480 Sends me a paper to persuade me patience ?
79481 Is this the alliance that he seeks with France ?
79482 Dare he presume to scorn us in this manner ?
79483
79484 I told your majesty as much before :
79485 This proveth Edward's love and Warwick's honesty .
79486
79487 King Lewis , I here protest , in sight of heaven ,
79488 And by the hope I have of heavenly bliss ,
79489 That I am clear from this misdeed of Edward's ;
79490 No more my king , for he dishonours me ;
79491 But most himself , if he could see his shame .
79492 Did I forget that by the house of York
79493 My father came untimely to his death ?
79494 Did I let pass the abuse done to my niece ?
79495 Did I impale him with the regal crown ?
79496 Did I put Henry from his native right ?
79497 And am I guerdon'd at the last with shame ?
79498 Shame on himself ! for my desert is honour :
79499 And , to repair my honour , lost for him ,
79500 I here renounce him and return to Henry .
79501 My noble queen , let former grudges pass ,
79502 And henceforth I am thy true servitor .
79503 I will revenge his wrong to Lady Bona ,
79504 And replant Henry in his former state .
79505
79506 Warwick , these words have turn'd my hate to love ;
79507 And I forgive and quite forget old faults ,
79508 And joy that thou becom'st King Henry's friend .
79509
79510 So much his friend , ay , his unfeigned friend ,
79511 That , if King Lewis vouchsafe to furnish us
79512 With some few bands of chosen soldiers ,
79513 I'll undertake to land them on our coast ,
79514 And force the tyrant from his seat by war .
79515 'Tis not his new-made bride shall succour him :
79516 And as for Clarence , as my letters tell me ,
79517 He's very likely now to fall from him ,
79518 For matching more for wanton lust than honour ,
79519 Or than for strength and safety of our country .
79520
79521 Dear brother , how shall Bona be reveng'd ,
79522 But by thy help to this distressed queen ?
79523
79524 Renowned prince , how shall poor Henry live ,
79525 Unless thou rescue him from foul despair ?
79526
79527 My quarrel and this English queen's are one .
79528
79529 And mine , fair Lady Bona , joins with yours .
79530
79531 And mine with hers , and thine and Margaret's .
79532 Therefore , at last , I firmly am resolv'd
79533 You shall have aid .
79534
79535 Let me give humble thanks for all at once .
79536
79537 Then , England's messenger , return in post ,
79538 And tell false Edward , thy supposed king ,
79539 That Lewis of France is sending over masquers ,
79540 To revel it with him and his new bride .
79541 Thou seest what's past ; go fear thy king withal .
79542
79543 Tell him , in hope he'll prove a widower shortly ,
79544 I'll wear the willow garland for his sake .
79545
79546 Tell him , my mourning weeds are laid aside ,
79547 And I am ready to put armour on .
79548
79549 Tell him from me , that he hath done me wrong ,
79550 And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long .
79551 There's thy reward : be gone .
79552
79553
79554 But , Warwick ,
79555 Thou and Oxford , with five thousand men ,
79556 Shall cross the seas , and bid false Edward battle ;
79557 And , as occasion serves , this noble queen
79558 And prince shall follow with a fresh supply .
79559 Yet ere thou go , but answer me one doubt :
79560 What pledge have we of thy firm loyalty ?
79561
79562 This shall assure my constant loyalty :
79563 That if our queen and this young prince agree ,
79564 I'll join mine eldest daughter and my joy
79565 To him forthwith in holy wedlock bands .
79566
79567 Yes , I agree , and thank you for your motion .
79568 Son Edward , she is fair and virtuous ,
79569 Therefore delay not , give thy hand to Warwick ;
79570 And , with thy hand , thy faith irrevocable ,
79571 That only Warwick's daughter shall be thine .
79572
79573 Yes , I accept her , for she well deserves it ;
79574 And here , to pledge my vow , I give my hand .
79575
79576
79577 Why stay we now ? These soldiers shall be levied ,
79578 And thou , Lord Bourbon , our high admiral ,
79579 Shall waft them over with our royal fleet .
79580 I long till Edward fall by war's mischance ,
79581 For mocking marriage with a dame of France .
79582
79583
79584 I came from Edward as ambassador ,
79585 But I return his sworn and mortal foe :
79586 Matter of marriage was the charge he gave me ,
79587 But dreadful war shall answer his demand .
79588 Had he none else to make a stale but me ?
79589 Then none but I shall turn his jest to sorrow .
79590 I was the chief that rais'd him to the crown ,
79591 And I'll be chief to bring him down again :
79592 Not that I pity Henry's misery ,
79593 But seek revenge on Edward's mockery .
79594
79595 Now tell me , brother Clarence , what think you
79596 Of this new marriage with the Lady Grey ?
79597 Hath not our brother made a worthy choice ?
79598
79599 Alas ! you know , 'tis far from hence to France ;
79600 How could he stay till Warwick made return ?
79601
79602 My lords , forbear this talk ; here comes the king .
79603
79604 And his well-chosen bride .
79605
79606 I mind to tell him plainly what I think .
79607
79608 Now , brother Clarence , how like you our choice ,
79609 That you stand pensive , as half malcontent ?
79610
79611 As well as Lewis of France , or the Earl of Warwick ;
79612 Which are so weak of courage and in judgment
79613 That they'll take no offence at our abuse .
79614
79615 Suppose they take offence without a cause ,
79616 They are but Lewis and Warwick : I am Edward ,
79617 Your king and Warwick's , and must have my will .
79618
79619 And you shall have your will , because our king :
79620 Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well .
79621
79622 Yea , brother Richard , are you offended too ?
79623
79624 Not I :
79625 No , God forbid , that I should wish them sever'd
79626 Whom God hath join'd together ; ay , and 'twere pity
79627 To sunder them that yoke so well together .
79628
79629 Setting your scorns and your mislike aside ,
79630 Tell me some reason why the Lady Grey
79631 Should not become my wife and England's queen :
79632 And you too , Somerset and Montague ,
79633 Speak freely what you think .
79634
79635 Then this is mine opinion : that King Lewis
79636 Becomes your enemy for mocking him
79637 About the marriage of the Lady Bona .
79638
79639 And Warwick , doing what you gave in charge ,
79640 Is now dishonoured by this new marriage .
79641
79642 What if both Lewis and Warwick be appeas'd
79643 By such invention as I can devise ?
79644
79645 Yet to have join'd with France in such alliance
79646 Would more have strengthen'd this our commonwealth
79647 'Gainst foreign storms , than any home-bred marriage .
79648
79649 Why , knows not Montague , that of itself
79650 England is safe , if true within itself ?
79651
79652 Yes ; but the safer when 'tis back'd with France .
79653
79654 'Tis better using France than trusting France :
79655 Let us be back'd with God and with the seas
79656 Which he hath given for fence impregnable ,
79657 And with their helps only defend ourselves :
79658 In them and in ourselves our safety lies .
79659
79660 For this one speech Lord Hastings well deserves
79661 To have the heir of the Lord Hungerford .
79662
79663 Ay , what of that ? it was my will and grant ;
79664 And for this once my will shall stand for law .
79665
79666 And yet methinks your Grace hath not done well ,
79667 To give the heir and daughter of Lord Scales
79668 Unto the brother of your loving bride :
79669 She better would have fitted me or Clarence :
79670 But in your bride you bury brotherhood .
79671
79672 Or else you would not have bestow'd the heir
79673 Of the Lord Bonville on your new wife's son ,
79674 And leave your brothers to go speed elsewhere .
79675
79676 Alas , poor Clarence , is it for a wife
79677 That thou art malcontent ? I will provide thee .
79678
79679 In choosing for yourself you show'd your judgment ,
79680 Which being shallow , you shall give me leave
79681 To play the broker on mine own behalf ;
79682 And to that end I shortly mind to leave you .
79683
79684 Leave me , or tarry , Edward will be king ,
79685 And not be tied unto his brother's will .
79686
79687 My lords , before it pleas'd his majesty
79688 To raise my state to title of a queen ,
79689 Do me but right , and you must all-confess
79690 That I was not ignoble of descent ;
79691 And meaner than myself have had like fortune .
79692 But as this title honours me and mine ,
79693 So your dislikes , to whom I would be pleasing ,
79694 Do cloud my joys with danger and with sorrow .
79695
79696 My love , forbear to fawn upon their frowns :
79697 What danger or what sorrow can befall thee ,
79698 So long as Edward is thy constant friend ,
79699 And their true sovereign , whom they must obey ?
79700 Nay , whom they shall obey , and love thee too ,
79701 Unless they seek for hatred at my hands ;
79702 Which if they do , yet will I keep thee safe ,
79703 And they shall feel the vengeance of my wrath .
79704
79705 I hear , yet say not much , but think the more .
79706
79707
79708 Now , messenger , what letters or what news
79709 From France ?
79710
79711 My sovereign liege , no letters ; and few words ;
79712 But such as I , without your special pardon ,
79713 Dare not relate .
79714
79715 Go to , we pardon thee : therefore , in brief ,
79716 Tell me their words as near as thou canst guess them .
79717 What answer makes King Lewis unto our letters ?
79718
79719 At my depart these were his very words :
79720 'Go tell false Edward , thy supposed king ,
79721 That Lewis of France is sending over masquers ,
79722 To revel it with him and his new bride .'
79723
79724 Is Lewis so brave ? belike he thinks me Henry .
79725 But what said Lady Bona to my marriage ?
79726
79727 These were her words , utter'd with mild disdain :
79728 'Tell him , in hope he'll prove a widower shortly ,
79729 I'll wear the willow garland for his sake .'
79730
79731 I blame not her , she could say little less ;
79732 She had the wrong . But what said Henry's queen ?
79733 For I have heard that she was there in place .
79734
79735 'Tell him ,' quoth she , 'my mourning weeds are done ,
79736 And I am ready to put armour on .'
79737
79738 Belike she minds to play the Amazon .
79739 But what said Warwick to these injuries ?
79740
79741 He , more incens'd against your majesty
79742 Than all the rest , discharg'd me with these words :
79743 'Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong ,
79744 And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long .'
79745
79746 Ha ! durst the traitor breathe out so proud words ?
79747 Well , I will arm me , being thus forewarn'd :
79748 They shall have wars , and pay for their presumption .
79749 But say , is Warwick friends with Margaret ?
79750
79751 Ay , gracious sovereign ; they are so link'd in friendship ,
79752 That young Prince Edward marries Warwick's daughter .
79753
79754 Belike the elder ; Clarence will have the younger .
79755 Now , brother king , farewell , and sit you fast ,
79756 For I will hence to Warwick's other daughter ;
79757 That , though I want a kingdom , yet in marriage
79758 I may not prove inferior to yourself .
79759 You , that love me and Warwick , follow me .
79760
79761
79762 Not I .
79763 My thoughts aim at a further matter ; I
79764 Stay not for love of Edward , but the crown .
79765
79766 Clarence and Somerset both gone to Warwick !
79767 Yet am I arm'd against the worst can happen ,
79768 And haste is needful in this desperate case .
79769 Pembroke and Stafford , you in our behalf
79770 Go levy men , and make prepare for war :
79771 They are already , or quickly will be landed :
79772 Myself in person will straight follow you ,
79773
79774 But ere I go , Hastings and Montague ,
79775 Resolve my doubt . You twain , of all the rest ,
79776 Are near to Warwick by blood , and by alliance :
79777 Tell me if you love Warwick more than me ?
79778 If it be so , then both depart to him ;
79779 I rather wish you foes than hollow friends :
79780 But if you mind to hold your true obedience ,
79781 Give me assurance with some friendly vow
79782 That I may never have you in suspect .
79783
79784 So God help Montague as he proves true !
79785
79786 And Hastings as he favours Edward's cause !
79787
79788 Now , brother Richard , will you stand by us ?
79789
79790 Ay , in despite of all that shall withstand you .
79791
79792 Why , so ! then am I sure of victory .
79793 Now therefore let us hence ; and lose no hour
79794 Till we meet Warwick with his foreign power .
79795
79796
79797 Trust me , my lord , all hitherto goes well ;
79798 The common people by numbers swarm to us .
79799
79800
79801 But see where Somerset and Clarence come !
79802
79803 Speak suddenly , my lords , are we all friends ?
79804
79805 Fear not that , my lord .
79806
79807 Then , gentle Clarence , welcome unto Warwick ;
79808 And welcome , Somerset : I hold it cowardice ,
79809 To rest mistrustful where a noble heart
79810 Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love ;
79811 Else might I think that Clarence , Edward's brother ,
79812 Were but a feigned friend to our proceedings :
79813 But welcome , sweet Clarence ; my daughter shall be thine .
79814 And now what rests , but in night's coverture ,
79815 Thy brother being carelessly encamp'd ,
79816 His soldiers lurking in the towns about ,
79817 And but attended by a simple guard ,
79818 We may surprise and take him at our pleasure ?
79819 Our scouts have found the adventure very easy .
79820 That as Ulysses , and stout Diomede ,
79821 With sleight and manhood stole to Rhesus' tents ,
79822 And brought from thence the Thracian fatal steeds ;
79823 So we , well cover'd with the night's black mantle ,
79824 At unawares may beat down Edward's guard ,
79825 And seize himself ; I say not , slaughter him ,
79826 For I intend but only to surprise him .
79827 You , that will follow me to this attempt ,
79828 Applaud the name of Henry with your leader .
79829
79830 Why , then , let's on our way in silent sort .
79831 For Warwick and his friends , God and Saint George !
79832
79833
79834 Come on , my masters , each man take his stand ;
79835 The king , by this , is set him down to sleep .
79836
79837 What , will he not to bed ?
79838
79839 Why , no : for he hath made a solemn vow
79840 Never to lie and take his natural rest
79841 Till Warwick or himself be quite suppress'd .
79842
79843 To-morrow then belike shall be the day ,
79844 If Warwick be so near as men report .
79845
79846 But say , I pray , what nobleman is that
79847 That with the king here resteth in his tent ?
79848
79849 'Tis the Lord Hastings , the king's chiefest friend .
79850
79851 O ! is it so ? But why commands the king
79852 That his chief followers lodge in towns about him ,
79853 While he himself keeps in the cold field ?
79854
79855 'Tis the more honour , because the more dangerous .
79856
79857 Ay , but give me worship and quietness ;
79858 I like it better than a dangerous honour .
79859 If Warwick knew in what estate he stands ,
79860 'Tis to be doubted he would waken him .
79861
79862 Unless our halberds did shut up his passage .
79863
79864 Ay ; wherefore else guard we his royal tent ,
79865 But to defend his person from night-foes ?
79866
79867
79868 This is his tent ; and see where stand his guard .
79869 Courage , my masters ! honour now or never !
79870 But follow me , and Edward shall be ours .
79871
79872 Who goes there ?
79873
79874 Stay , or thou diest .
79875
79876
79877 What are they that fly there ?
79878
79879 Richard and Hastings : let them go ; here's the duke .
79880
79881 The duke ! Why , Warwick , when we parted last ,
79882 Thou call'dst me king !
79883
79884 Ay , but the case is alter'd :
79885 When you disgrac'd me in my embassade ,
79886 Then I degraded you from being king ,
79887 And come now to create you Duke of York .
79888 Alas ! how should you govern any kingdom ,
79889 That know not how to use ambassadors ,
79890 Nor how to be contented with one wife ,
79891 Nor how to use your brothers brotherly ,
79892 Nor how to study for the people's welfare ,
79893 Nor how to shroud yourself from enemies ?
79894
79895 Yea , brother of Clarence , art thou here too ?
79896 Nay , then , I see that Edward needs must down .
79897 Yet , Warwick , in despite of all mischance ,
79898 Of thee thyself , and all thy complices ,
79899 Edward will always bear himself as king :
79900 Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state ,
79901 My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel .
79902
79903 Then , for his mind , be Edward England's king :
79904
79905 But Henry now shall wear the English crown ,
79906 And be true king indeed , thou but the shadow .
79907 My Lord of Somerset , at my request ,
79908 See that forthwith Duke Edward be convey'd
79909 Unto my brother , Archbishop of York .
79910 When I have fought with Pembroke and his fellows ,
79911 I'll follow you , and tell what answer
79912 Lewis and the Lady Bona send to him :
79913 Now , for a while farewell , good Duke of York .
79914
79915 What fates impose , that men must needs abide ;
79916 It boots not to resist both wind and tide .
79917
79918
79919 What now remains , my lords , for us to do ,
79920 But march to London with our soldiers ?
79921
79922 Ay , that's the first thing that we have to do ;
79923 To free King Henry from imprisonment ,
79924 And see him seated in the regal throne .
79925
79926
79927 Madam , what makes you in this sudden change ?
79928
79929 Why , brother Rivers , are you yet to learn ,
79930 What late misfortune is befall'n King Edward ?
79931
79932 What ! loss of some pitch'd battle against Warwick ?
79933
79934 No , but the loss of his own royal person .
79935
79936 Then is my sovereign slain ?
79937
79938 Ay , almost slain , for he is taken prisoner ;
79939 Either betray'd by falsehood of his guard
79940 Or by his foe surpris'd at unawares :
79941 And , as I further have to understand ,
79942 Is new committed to the Bishop of York ,
79943 Fell Warwick's brother , and by that our foe .
79944
79945 These news , I must confess , are full of grief ;
79946 Yet , gracious madam , bear it as you may :
79947 Warwick may lose , that now hath won the day .
79948
79949 Till then fair hope must hinder life's decay .
79950 And I the rather wean me from despair
79951 For love of Edward's offspring in my womb :
79952 This is it that makes me bridle passion ,
79953 And bear with mildness my misfortune's cross ;
79954 Ay , ay , for this I draw in many a tear ,
79955 And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighs ,
79956 Lest with my sighs or tears I blast or drown
79957 King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown .
79958
79959 But , madam , where is Warwick then become ?
79960
79961 I am inform'd that he comes towards London ,
79962 To set the crown once more on Henry's head :
79963 Guess thou the rest ; King Edward's friends must down .
79964 But , to prevent the tyrant's violence ,
79965 For trust not him that hath once broken faith ,
79966 I'll hence forthwith unto the sanctuary ,
79967 To save at least the heir of Edward's right :
79968 There shall I rest secure from force and fraud .
79969 Come , therefore ; let us fly while we may fly :
79970 If Warwick take us we are sure to die .
79971
79972
79973 Now , my Lord Hastings and Sir William Stanley ,
79974 Leave off to wonder why I drew you hither ,
79975 Into this chiefest thicket of the park .
79976 Thus stands the case . You know , our king , my brother ,
79977 Is prisoner to the bishop here , at whose hands
79978 He hath good usage and great liberty ,
79979 And often but attended with weak guard ,
79980 Comes hunting this way to disport himself .
79981 I have advertis'd him by secret means ,
79982 That if about this hour he make this way ,
79983 Under the colour of his usual game ,
79984 He shall here find his friends , with horse and men
79985 To set him free from his captivity .
79986
79987
79988 This way , my lord , for this way lies the game .
79989
79990 Nay , this way , man : see where the huntsmen stand .
79991 Now , brother of Gloucester , Lord Hastings , and the rest ,
79992 Stand you thus close , to steal the bishop's deer ?
79993
79994 Brother , the time and case requireth haste .
79995 Your horse stands ready at the park corner .
79996
79997 But whither shall we then ?
79998
79999 To Lynn , my lord ; and ship from thence to Flanders .
80000
80001 Well guess'd , believe me ; for that was my meaning .
80002
80003 Stanley , I will requite thy forwardness .
80004
80005 But wherefore stay we ? 'tis no time to talk .
80006
80007 Huntsman , what sayst thou ? wilt thou go along ?
80008
80009 Better do so than tarry and be hang'd .
80010
80011 Come then , away ; let's ha' no more ado .
80012
80013 Bishop , farewell : shield thee from Warwick's frown ,
80014 And pray that I may repossess the crown .
80015
80016 Master lieutenant , now that God and friends
80017 Have shaken Edward from the regal seat ,
80018 And turn'd my captive state to liberty ,
80019 My fear to hope , my sorrows unto joys ,
80020 At our enlargement what are thy due fees ?
80021
80022 Subjects may challenge nothing of their sovereigns ;
80023 But if a humble prayer may prevail ,
80024 I then crave pardon of your majesty .
80025
80026 For what , lieutenant ? for well using me ?
80027 Nay , be thou sure , I'll well requite thy kindness ,
80028 For that it made my imprisonment a pleasure ;
80029 Ay , such a pleasure as encaged birds
80030 Conceive , when , after many moody thoughts
80031 At last by notes of household harmony
80032 They quite forget their loss of liberty .
80033 But , Warwick , after God , thou set'st me free ,
80034 And chiefly therefore I thank God and thee ;
80035 He was the author , thou the instrument .
80036 Therefore , that I may conquer Fortune's spite
80037 By living low , where Fortune cannot hurt me ,
80038 And that the people of this blessed land
80039 May not be punish'd with my thwarting stars ,
80040 Warwick , although my head still wear the crown ,
80041 I here resign my government to thee ,
80042 For thou art fortunate in all thy deeds .
80043
80044 Your Grace hath still been fam'd for virtuous ;
80045 And now may seem as wise as virtuous ,
80046 By spying and avoiding Fortune's malice ;
80047 For few men rightly temper with the stars :
80048 Yet in this one thing let me blame your Grace ,
80049 For choosing me when Clarence is in place .
80050
80051 No , Warwick , thou art worthy of the sway ,
80052 To whom the heavens , in thy nativity
80053 Adjudg'd an olive branch and laurel crown ,
80054 As likely to be blest in peace , and war ;
80055 And therefore I yield thee my free consent .
80056
80057 And I choose Clarence only for protector .
80058
80059 Warwick and Clarence , give me both your hands :
80060 Now join your hands , and with your hands your hearts ,
80061 That no dissension hinder government :
80062 I make you both protectors of this land ,
80063 While I myself will lead a private life ,
80064 And in devotion spend my latter days ,
80065 To sin's rebuke and my Creator's praise .
80066
80067 What answers Clarence to his sovereign's will ?
80068
80069 That he consents , if Warwick yield consent ;
80070 For on thy fortune I repose myself .
80071
80072 Why then , though loath , yet must I be content :
80073 We'll yoke together , like a double shadow
80074 To Henry's body , and supply his place ;
80075 I mean , in bearing weight of government ,
80076 While he enjoys the honour and his ease .
80077 And , Clarence , now then it is more than needful
80078 Forthwith that Edward be pronounc'd a traitor ,
80079 And all his lands and goods be confiscate .
80080
80081 What else ? and that succession be determin'd .
80082
80083 Ay , therein Clarence shall not want his part .
80084
80085 But , with the first of all your chief affairs ,
80086 Let me entreat , for I command no more ,
80087 That Margaret your queen , and my son Edward ,
80088 Be sent for , to return from France with speed :
80089 For , till I see them here , by doubtful fear
80090 My joy of liberty is half eclips'd .
80091
80092 It shall be done , my sov'reign , with all speed .
80093
80094 My Lord of Somerset , what youth is that
80095 Of whom you seem to have so tender care ?
80096
80097 My liege , it is young Henry , Earl of Richmond .
80098
80099 Come hither , England's hope :
80100
80101 If secret powers
80102 Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts ,
80103 This pretty lad will prove our country's bliss .
80104 His looks are full of peaceful majesty ,
80105 His head by nature fram'd to wear a crown ,
80106 His hand to wield a sceptre , and himself
80107 Likely in time to bless a regal throne .
80108 Make much of him , my lords ; for this is he
80109 Must help you more than you are hurt by me .
80110
80111
80112 What news , my friend ?
80113
80114 That Edward is escaped from your brother ,
80115 And fled , as he hears since , to Burgundy .
80116
80117 Unsavoury news ! but how made he escape ?
80118
80119 He was convey'd by Richard Duke of Gloucester ,
80120 And the Lord Hastings , who attended him
80121 In secret ambush on the forest side ,
80122 And from the bishop's huntsmen rescu'd him :
80123 For hunting was his daily exercise .
80124
80125 My brother was too careless of his charge .
80126 But let us hence , my sovereign , to provide
80127 A salve for any sore that may betide .
80128
80129
80130 My lord , I like not of this flight of Edward's ;
80131 For doubtless Burgundy will yield him help ,
80132 And we shall have more wars before't be long .
80133 As Henry's late presaging prophecy
80134 Did glad my heart with hope of this young Richmond ,
80135 So doth my heart misgive me , in these conflicts
80136 What may befall him to his harm and ours :
80137 Therefore , Lord Oxford , to prevent the worst ,
80138 Forthwith we'll send him hence to Brittany ,
80139 Till storms be past of civil enmity .
80140
80141 Ay , for if Edward repossess the crown ,
80142 'Tis like that Richmond with the rest shall down .
80143
80144 It shall be so ; he shall to Brittany .
80145 Come , therefore , let's about it speedily .
80146
80147
80148 Now , brother Richard , Lord Hastings , and the rest ,
80149 Yet thus far Fortune maketh us amends ,
80150 And says , that once more I shall interchange
80151 My waned state for Henry's regal crown .
80152 Well have we pass'd , and now repass'd the seas ,
80153 And brought desired help from Burgundy :
80154 What then remains , we being thus arriv'd
80155 From Ravenspurgh haven before the gates of York ,
80156 But that we enter , as into our dukedom ?
80157
80158 The gates made fast ! Brother , I like not this ;
80159 For many men that stumble at the threshold
80160 Are well foretold that danger lurks within .
80161
80162 Tush , man ! abodements must not now affright us .
80163 By fair or foul means we must enter in ,
80164 For hither will our friends repair to us .
80165
80166 My liege , I'll knock once more to summon them .
80167
80168
80169 My lords , we were forewarned of your coming ,
80170 And shut the gates for safety of ourselves ;
80171 For now we owe allegiance unto Henry .
80172
80173 But , Master Mayor , if Henry be your king ,
80174 Yet Edward , at the least , is Duke of York .
80175
80176 True , my good lord , I know you for no less .
80177
80178 Why , and I challenge nothing but my dukedom ,
80179 As being well content with that alone .
80180
80181 But when the fox hath once got in his nose ,
80182 He'll soon find means to make the body follow .
80183
80184 Why , Master Mayor , why stand you in a doubt ?
80185 Open the gates ; we are King Henry's friends .
80186
80187 Ay , say you so ? the gates shall then be open'd .
80188
80189
80190 A wise stout captain , and soon persuaded .
80191
80192 The good old man would fain that all were well ,
80193 So 'twere not 'long of him ; but being enter'd ,
80194 I doubt not , I , but we shall soon persuade
80195 Both him and all his brothers unto reason .
80196
80197
80198 So , Master Mayor : these gates must not be shut
80199 But in the night , or in the time of war .
80200 What ! fear not , man , but yield me up the keys ;
80201
80202 For Edward will defend the town and thee ,
80203 And all those friends that deign to follow me .
80204
80205
80206 Brother , this is Sir John Montgomery ,
80207 Our trusty friend , unless I be deceiv'd .
80208
80209 Welcome , Sir John ! but why come you in arms ?
80210
80211 To help King Edward in his time of storm ,
80212 As every loyal subject ought to do .
80213
80214 Thanks , good Montgomery ; but we now forget
80215 Our title to the crown , and only claim
80216 Our dukedom till God please to send the rest .
80217
80218 Then fare you well , for I will hence again :
80219 I came to serve a king and not a duke .
80220 Drummer , strike up , and let us march away .
80221
80222
80223 Nay , stay , Sir John , awhile ; and we'll debate
80224 By what safe means the crown may be recover'd .
80225
80226 What talk you of debating ? in few words ,
80227 If you'll not here proclaim yourself our king .
80228 I'll leave you to your fortune , and be gone
80229 To keep them back that come to succour you .
80230 Why shall we fight , if you pretend no title ?
80231
80232 Why , brother , wherefore stand you on nice points ?
80233
80234 When we grow stronger then we'll make our claim ;
80235 Till then , 'tis wisdom to conceal our meaning .
80236
80237 Away with scrupulous wit ! now arms must rule .
80238
80239 And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns .
80240 Brother , we will proclaim you out of hand ;
80241 The bruit thereof will bring you many friends .
80242
80243 Then be it as you will ; for 'tis my right ,
80244 And Henry but usurps the diadem .
80245
80246 Ay , now my sov'reign speaketh like himself ;
80247 And now will I be Edward's champion .
80248
80249 Sound , trumpet ! Edward shall be here proclaim'd ;
80250 Come , fellow soldier , make thou proclamation .
80251
80252
80253 Edward the Fourth , by the grace of God , King of England and France , and Lord of Ireland , &c .
80254
80255 And whosoe'er gainsays King Edward's right ,
80256 By this I challenge him to single fight .
80257
80258
80259 Long live Edward the Fourth !
80260
80261 Thanks , brave Montgomery ;and thanks unto you all :
80262 If Fortune serve me , I'll requite this kindness .
80263 Now , for this night , let's harbour here in York ;
80264 And when the morning sun shall raise his car
80265 Above the border of this horizon ,
80266 We'll forward towards Warwick , and his mates ;
80267 For well I wot that Henry is no soldier .
80268 Ah , froward Clarence , how evil it beseems thee
80269 To flatter Henry , and forsake thy brother !
80270 Yet , as we may , we'll meet both thee and Warwick .
80271 Come on , brave soldiers : doubt not of the day ;
80272 And , that once gotten , doubt not of large pay .
80273
80274
80275 What counsel , lords ? Edward from Belgia ,
80276 With hasty Germans and blunt Hollanders ,
80277 Hath pass'd in safety through the narrow seas ,
80278 And with his troops doth march amain to London ;
80279 And many giddy people flock to him .
80280
80281 Let's levy men , and beat him back again .
80282
80283 A little fire is quickly trodden out ,
80284 Which , being suffer'd , rivers cannot quench .
80285
80286 In Warwickshire I have true-hearted friends ,
80287 Not mutinous in peace , yet bold in war ;
80288 Those will I muster up : and thou , son Clarence ,
80289 Shalt stir up in Suffolk , Norfolk , and in Kent ,
80290 The knights and gentlemen to come with thee :
80291 Thou , brother Montague , in Buckingham ,
80292 Northampton , and in Leicestershire , shalt find
80293 Men well inclin'd to hear what thou command'st :
80294 And thou , brave Oxford , wondrous well belov'd
80295 In Oxfordshire , shalt muster up thy friends .
80296 My sov'reign , with the loving citizens ,
80297 Like to his island girt in with the ocean ,
80298 Or modest Dian circled with her nymphs ,
80299 Shall rest in London till we come to him .
80300 Fair lords , take leave , and stand not to reply .
80301 Farewell , my sovereign .
80302
80303 Farewell , my Hector , and my Troy's true hope .
80304
80305 In sign of truth , I kiss your highness' hand .
80306
80307 Well-minded Clarence , be thou fortunate !
80308
80309 Comfort , my lord ; and so , I take my leave .
80310
80311 And thus I seal my truth , and bid adieu .
80312
80313 Sweet Oxford , and my loving Montague ,
80314 And all at once , once more a happy farewell .
80315
80316 Farewell , sweet lords : let's meet at Coventry .
80317
80318
80319 Here at the palace will I rest awhile .
80320 Cousin of Exeter , what thinks your lordship ?
80321 Methinks the power that Edward hath in field
80322 Should not be able to encounter mine .
80323
80324 The doubt is that he will seduce the rest .
80325
80326 That's not my fear ; my meed hath got me fame :
80327 I have not stopp'd mine ears to their demands ,
80328 Nor posted off their suits with slow delays ;
80329 My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds ,
80330 My mildness hath allay'd their swelling griefs ,
80331 My mercy dried their water-flowing tears ;
80332 I have not been desirous of their wealth ;
80333 Nor much oppress'd them with great subsidies ,
80334 Nor forward of revenge , though they much err'd .
80335 Then why should they love Edward more than me ?
80336 No , Exeter , these graces challenge grace :
80337 And , when the lion fawns upon the lamb ,
80338 The lamb will never cease to follow him .
80339
80340
80341 Hark , hark , my lord ! what shouts are these ?
80342
80343
80344 Seize on the shame-fac'd Henry ! bear him hence :
80345 And once again proclaim us King of England .
80346 You are the fount that makes small brooks to flow :
80347 Now stops thy spring ; my sea shall suck them dry ,
80348 And swell so much the higher by their ebb .
80349 Hence with him to the Tower ! let him not speak .
80350
80351 And , lords , towards Coventry bend we our course ,
80352 Where peremptory Warwick now remains :
80353 The sun shines hot ; and , if we use delay ,
80354 Cold biting winter mars our hop'd-for hay .
80355
80356 Away betimes , before his forces join ,
80357 And take the great-grown traitor unawares :
80358 Brave warriors , march amain towards Coventry .
80359
80360 Where is the post that came from valiant Oxford ?
80361 How far hence is thy lord , mine honest fellow ?
80362
80363 By this at Dunsmore , marching hitherward .
80364
80365 How far off is our brother Montague ?
80366 Where is the post that came from Montague ?
80367
80368 By this at Daintry , with a puissant troop .
80369
80370
80371 Say , Somerville , what says my loving son ?
80372 And , by thy guess , how nigh is Clarence now ?
80373
80374 At Southam I did leave him with his forces ,
80375 And do expect him here some two hours hence .
80376
80377
80378 Then Clarence is at hand , I hear his drum .
80379
80380 It is not his , my lord ; here Southam lies :
80381 The drum your honour hears marcheth from Warwick .
80382
80383 Who should that be ? belike , unlook'd for friends .
80384
80385 They are at hand , and you shall quickly know .
80386
80387
80388 Go , trumpet , to the walls , and sound a parle .
80389
80390 See how the surly Warwick mans the wall .
80391
80392 O , unbid spite ! is sportful Edward come ?
80393 Where slept our scouts , or how are they seduc'd ,
80394 That we could hear no news of his repair ?
80395
80396 Now , Warwick , wilt thou ope the city gates ,
80397 Speak gentle words , and humbly bend thy knee ?
80398 Call Edward king , and at his hands beg mercy ?
80399 And he shall pardon thee these outrages .
80400
80401 Nay , rather , wilt thou draw thy forces hence ,
80402 Confess who set thee up and pluck'd thee down ?
80403 Call Warwick patron , and be penitent ;
80404 And thou shalt still remain the Duke of York .
80405
80406 I thought , at least , he would have said the king ;
80407 Or did he make the jest against his will ?
80408
80409 Is not a dukedom , sir , a goodly gift ?
80410
80411 Ay , by my faith , for a poor earl to give :
80412 I'll do thee service for so good a gift .
80413
80414 'Twas I that gave the kingdom to thy brother .
80415
80416 Why then 'tis mine , if but by Warwick's gift .
80417
80418 Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight :
80419 And , weakling , Warwick takes his gift again ;
80420 And Henry is my king , Warwick his subject .
80421
80422 But Warwick's king is Edward's prisoner ;
80423 And , gallant Warwick , do but answer this ,
80424 What is the body , when the head is off ?
80425
80426 Alas ! that Warwick had no more forecast ,
80427 But , whiles he thought to steal the single ten ,
80428 The king was slily finger'd from the deck .
80429 You left poor Henry at the bishop's palace ,
80430 And , ten to one , you'll meet him in the Tower .
80431
80432 'Tis even so : yet you are Warwick still .
80433
80434 Come , Warwick , take the time ; kneel down , kneel down :
80435 Nay , when ? strike now , or else the iron cools .
80436
80437 I had rather chop this hand off at a blow ,
80438 And with the other fling it at thy face ,
80439 Than bear so low a sail to strike to thee .
80440
80441 Sail how thou canst , have wind and tide thy friend ;
80442 This hand , fast wound about thy coal-black hair ,
80443 Shall , whiles thy head is warm and new cut off ,
80444 Write in the dust this sentence with thy blood :
80445 'Wind-changing Warwick now can change no more .'
80446
80447
80448 O cheerful colours ! see where Oxford comes !
80449
80450 Oxford , Oxford , for Lancaster !
80451
80452
80453 The gates are open , let us enter too .
80454
80455 So other foes may set upon our backs .
80456 Stand we in good array ; for they no doubt
80457 Will issue out again and bid us battle :
80458 If not , the city being but of small defence ,
80459 We'll quickly rouse the traitors in the same .
80460
80461 O ! welcome , Oxford ! for we want thy help .
80462
80463
80464 Montague , Montague , for Lancaster !
80465
80466
80467 Thou and thy brother both shall buy this treason
80468 Even with the dearest blood your bodies bear .
80469
80470 The harder match'd , the greater victory :
80471 My mind presageth happy gain , and conquest .
80472
80473
80474 Somerset , Somerset , for Lancaster !
80475
80476
80477 Two of thy name , both Dukes of Somerset ,
80478 Have sold their lives unto the house of York ;
80479 And thou shalt be the third , if this sword hold .
80480
80481
80482 And lo ! where George of Clarence sweeps along ,
80483 Of force enough to bid his brother battle ;
80484 With whom an upright zeal to right prevails
80485 More than the nature of a brother's love .
80486 Come , Clarence , come ; thou wilt , if Warwick call .
80487
80488 Father of Warwick , know you what this means ?
80489
80490 Look here , I throw my infamy at thee :
80491 I will not ruinate my father's house ,
80492 Who gave his blood to lime the stones together ,
80493 And set up Lancaster . Why , trow'st thou , Warwick ,
80494 That Clarence is so harsh , so blunt , unnatural ,
80495 To bend the fatal instruments of war
80496 Against his brother and his lawful king ?
80497 Perhaps thou wilt object my holy oath :
80498 To keep that oath were more impiety
80499 Than Jephthah's , when he sacrific'd his daughter .
80500 I am so sorry for my trespass made
80501 That , to deserve well at my brother's hands ,
80502 I here proclaim myself thy mortal foe ;
80503 With resolution , wheresoe'er I meet thee
80504 As I will meet thee if thou stir abroad
80505 To plague thee for thy foul misleading me .
80506 And so , proud-hearted Warwick , I defy thee ,
80507 And to my brother turn my blushing cheeks .
80508 Pardon me , Edward , I will make amends ;
80509 And , Richard , do not frown upon my faults ,
80510 For I will henceforth be no more unconstant .
80511
80512 Now welcome more , and ten times more belov'd ,
80513 Than if thou never hadst deserv'd our hate .
80514
80515 Welcome , good Clarence ; this is brother-like .
80516
80517 O passing traitor , perjur'd , and unjust !
80518
80519 What , Warwick , wilt thou leave the town , and fight ?
80520 Or shall we beat the stones about thine ears ?
80521
80522 Alas ! I am not coop'd here for defence :
80523 I will away towards Barnet presently ,
80524 And bid thee battle , Edward , if thou dar'st .
80525
80526 Yes , Warwick , Edward dares , and leads the way .
80527 Lords , to the field ; Saint George and victory !
80528
80529
80530 So , lie thou there : die thou , and die our fear ;
80531 For Warwick was a bug that fear'd us all .
80532 Now Montague , sit fast ; I seek for thee ,
80533 That Warwick's bones may keep thine company .
80534
80535
80536 Ah ! who is nigh ? come to me , friend or foe ,
80537 And tell me who is victor , York or Warwick ?
80538 Why ask I that ? my mangled body shows ,
80539 My blood , my want of strength , my sick heart shows ,
80540 That I must yield my body to the earth ,
80541 And , by my fall , the conquest to my foe .
80542 Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge ,
80543 Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle ,
80544 Under whose shade the ramping lion slept ,
80545 Whose top branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree ,
80546 And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind .
80547 These eyes , that now are dimm'd with death's black veil ,
80548 Have been as piercing as the mid-day sun ,
80549 To search the secret treasons of the world :
80550 The wrinkles in my brows , now fill'd with blood ,
80551 Were liken'd oft to kingly sepulchres ;
80552 For who liv'd king , but I could dig his grave ?
80553 And who durst smile when Warwick bent his brow ?
80554 Lo ! now my glory smear'd in dust and blood ;
80555 My parks , my walks , my manors that I had ,
80556 Even now forsake me ; and , of all my lands
80557 Is nothing left me but my body's length .
80558 Why , what is pomp , rule , reign , but earth and dust ?
80559 And , live we how we can , yet die we must .
80560
80561
80562 Ah ! Warwick , Warwick , wert thou as we are ,
80563 We might recover all our loss again .
80564 The queen from France hath brought a puissant power ;
80565 Even now we heard the news . Ah ! couldst thou fly .
80566
80567 Why , then , I would not fly . Ah ! Montague ,
80568 If thou be there , sweet brother , take my hand ,
80569 And with thy lips keep in my soul awhile .
80570 Thou lov'st me not ; for , brother , if thou didst ,
80571 Thy tears would wash this cold congealed blood
80572 That glues my lips and will not let me speak .
80573 Come quickly , Montague , or I am dead .
80574
80575 Ah ! Warwick , Montague hath breath'd his last ;
80576 And to the latest gasp , cried out for Warwick ,
80577 And said , 'Commend me to my valiant brother .'
80578 And more he would have said ; and more he spoke ,
80579 Which sounded like a clamour in a vault ,
80580 That mought not be distinguish'd : but at last
80581 I well might hear , deliver'd with a groan ,
80582 'O ! farewell , Warwick !'
80583
80584 Sweet rest his soul ! Fly , lords , and save yourselves ;
80585 For Warwick bids you all farewell , to meet in heaven .
80586
80587
80588 Away , away , to meet the queen's great power .
80589
80590
80591 Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course ,
80592 And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory .
80593 But in the midst of this bright-shining day ,
80594 I spy a black , suspicious , threat'ning cloud ,
80595 That will encounter with our glorious sun ,
80596 Ere he attain his easeful western bed :
80597 I mean , my lords , those powers that the queen
80598 Hath rais'd in Gallia , have arriv'd our coast ,
80599 And , as we hear , march on to fight with us .
80600
80601 A little gale will soon disperse that cloud ,
80602 And blow it to the source from whence it came :
80603 Thy very beams will dry those vapours up ,
80604 For every cloud engenders not a storm .
80605
80606 The queen is valu'd thirty thousand strong ,
80607 And Somerset , with Oxford , fled to her :
80608 If she have time to breathe , be well assur'd
80609 Her faction will be full as strong as ours .
80610
80611 We are advertis'd by our loving friends
80612 That they do hold their course toward Tewksbury .
80613 We , having now the best at Barnet field ,
80614 Will thither straight , for willingness rids way ;
80615 And , as we march , our strength will be augmented
80616 In every county as we go along .
80617 Strike up the drum ! cry 'Courage !' and away .
80618
80619
80620 Great lords , wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss ,
80621 But cheerly seek how to redress their harms .
80622 What though the mast be now blown over-board ,
80623 The cable broke , the holding anchor lost ,
80624 And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood ?
80625 Yet lives our pilot still : is't meet that he
80626 Should leave the helm and like a fearful lad
80627 With tearful eyes add water to the sea ,
80628 And give more strength to that which hath too much ;
80629 Whiles in his moan the ship splits on the rock ,
80630 Which industry and courage might have sav'd ?
80631 Ah ! what a shame ! ah , what a fault were this .
80632 Say , Warwick was our anchor ; what of that ?
80633 And Montague our top-mast ; what of him ?
80634 Our slaughter'd friends the tackles ; what of these ?
80635 Why , is not Oxford here another anchor ?
80636 And Somerset , another goodly mast ?
80637 The friends of France our shrouds and tacklings ?
80638 And , though unskilful , why not Ned and I
80639 For once allow'd the skilful pilot's charge ?
80640 We will not from the helm , to sit and weep ,
80641 But keep our course , though the rough wind say no ,
80642 From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wrack .
80643 As good to chide the waves as speak them fair .
80644 And what is Edward but a ruthless sea ?
80645 What Clarence but a quicksand of deceit ?
80646 And Richard but a ragged fatal rock ?
80647 All those the enemies to our poor bark .
80648 Say you can swim ; alas ! 'tis but a while :
80649 Tread on the sand ; why , there you quickly sink :
80650 Bestride the rock ; the tide will wash you off ,
80651 Or else you famish ; that's a threefold death .
80652 This speak I , lords , to let you understand ,
80653 In case some one of you would fly from us ,
80654 That there's no hop'd-for mercy with the brothers
80655 More than with ruthless waves , with sands and rocks .
80656 Why , courage , then ! what cannot be avoided
80657 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear .
80658
80659 Methinks a woman of this valiant spirit
80660 Should , if a coward heard her speak these words ,
80661 Infuse his breast with magnanimity ,
80662 And make him , naked , foil a man at arms .
80663 I speak not this , as doubting any here ;
80664 For did I but suspect a fearful man ,
80665 He should have leave to go away betimes ,
80666 Lest in our need he might infect another ,
80667 And make him of like spirit to himself .
80668 If any such be here , as God forbid !
80669 Let him depart before we need his help .
80670
80671 Women and children of so high a courage ,
80672 And warriors faint ! why , 'twere perpetual shame .
80673 O brave young prince ! thy famous grandfather
80674 Doth live again in thee : long mayst thou live
80675 To bear his image and renew his glories !
80676
80677 And he , that will not fight for such a hope ,
80678 Go home to bed , and , like the owl by day ,
80679 If he arise , be mock'd and wonder'd at .
80680
80681 Thanks , gentle Somerset : sweet Oxford , thanks .
80682
80683 And take his thanks that yet hath nothing else .
80684
80685
80686 Prepare you , lords , for Edward is at hand ,
80687 Ready to fight ; therefore be resolute .
80688
80689 I thought no less : it is his policy
80690 To haste thus fast , to find us unprovided .
80691
80692 But he's deceiv'd ; we are in readiness .
80693
80694 This cheers my heart to see your forwardness .
80695
80696 Here pitch our battle ; hence we will not budge .
80697
80698
80699 Brave followers , yonder stands the thorny wood ,
80700 Which , by the heavens' assistance , and your strength ,
80701 Must by the roots be hewn up yet ere night .
80702 I need not add more fuel to your fire ,
80703 For well I wot ye blaze to burn them out :
80704 Give signal to the fight , and to it , lords .
80705
80706 Lords , knights , and gentlemen , what I should say
80707 My tears gainsay ; for every word I speak ,
80708 Ye see , I drink the water of mine eyes .
80709 Therefore , no more but this : Henry , your sovereign ,
80710 Is prisoner to the foe ; his state usurp'd ,
80711 His realm a slaughter house , his subjects slain ,
80712 His statutes cancell'd , and his treasure spent ;
80713 And yonder is the wolf that makes this spoil .
80714 You fight in justice : then , in God's name , lords ,
80715 Be valiant , and give signal to the fight .
80716
80717
80718 Now , here a period of tumultuous broils .
80719 Away with Oxford to Hames Castle straight :
80720 For Somerset , off with his guilty head .
80721 Go , bear them hence ; I will not hear them speak .
80722
80723 For my part , I'll not trouble thee with words .
80724
80725 Nor I , but stoop with patience to my fortune .
80726
80727
80728 So part we sadly in this troublous world ,
80729 To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem .
80730
80731 Is proclamation made , that who finds Edward
80732 Shall have a high reward , and he his life ?
80733
80734 It is : and lo , where youthful Edward comes .
80735
80736
80737 Bring forth the gallant : let us hear him speak .
80738 What ! can so young a thorn begin to prick ?
80739 Edward , what satisfaction canst thou make ,
80740 For bearing arms , for stirring up my subjects ,
80741 And all the trouble thou hast turn'd me to ?
80742
80743 Speak like a subject , proud ambitious York !
80744 Suppose that I am now my father's mouth :
80745 Resign thy chair , and where I stand kneel thou ,
80746 Whilst I propose the self-same words to thee ,
80747 Which , traitor , thou wouldst have me answer to .
80748
80749 Ah ! that thy father had been so resolv'd .
80750
80751 That you might still have worn the petticoat ,
80752 And ne'er have stol'n the breech from Lancaster .
80753
80754 Let sop fable in a winter's night ;
80755 His currish riddles sort not with this place .
80756
80757 By heaven , brat , I'll plague you for that word .
80758
80759 Ay , thou wast born to be a plague to men .
80760
80761 For God's sake , take away this captive scold .
80762
80763 Nay , take away this scolding crookback rather .
80764
80765 Peace , wilful boy , or I will charm your tongue .
80766
80767 Untutor'd lad , thou art too malapert .
80768
80769 I know my duty ; you are all undutiful :
80770 Lascivious Edward , and thou perjur'd George ,
80771 And thou mis-shapen Dick , I tell ye all ,
80772 I am your better , traitors as ye are ;
80773 And thou usurp'st my father's right and mine .
80774
80775 Take that , the likeness of this railer here .
80776
80777
80778 Sprawl'st thou ? take that , to end thy agony .
80779
80780
80781 And there's for twitting me with perjury .
80782
80783
80784 O , kill me too !
80785
80786 Marry , and shall .
80787
80788
80789 Hold , Richard , hold ! for we have done too much .
80790
80791 Why should she live , to fill the world with words ?
80792
80793 What ! doth she swoon ? use means for her recovery .
80794
80795 Clarence , excuse me to the king , my brother ;
80796 I'll hence to London on a serious matter :
80797 Ere ye come there , be sure to hear some news .
80798
80799 What ? what ?
80800
80801 The Tower ! the Tower !
80802
80803
80804 O Ned , sweet Ned ! speak to thy mother , boy !
80805 Canst thou not speak ? O traitors ! murderers !
80806 They that stabb'd C sar shed no blood at all ,
80807 Did not offend , nor were not worthy blame ,
80808 If this foul deed were by , to equal it :
80809 He was a man ; this , in respect , a child ;
80810 And men ne'er spend their fury on a child .
80811 What's worse than murderer , that I may name it ?
80812 No , no , my heart will burst , an if I speak :
80813 And I will speak , that so my heart may burst .
80814 Butchers and villains ! bloody cannibals !
80815 How sweet a plant have you untimely cropp'd !
80816 You have no children , butchers ! if you had ,
80817 The thought of them would have stirr'd up remorse :
80818 But if you ever chance to have a child ,
80819 Look in his youth to have him so cut off
80820 As , deathsmen , you have rid this sweet young prince !
80821
80822 Away with her ! go , bear her hence perforce .
80823
80824 Nay , never bear me hence , dispatch me here :
80825 Here sheathe thy sword , I'll pardon thee my death .
80826 What ! wilt thou not ? then , Clarence , do it thou .
80827
80828 By heaven , I will not do thee so much ease .
80829
80830 Good Clarence , do ; sweet Clarence , do thou do it .
80831
80832 Didst thou not hear me swear I would not do it ?
80833
80834 Ay , but thou usest to forswear thyself :
80835 'Twas sin before , but now 'tis charity .
80836 What ! wilt thou not ? Where is that devil's butcher ,
80837 Hard-favour'd Richard ? Richard , where art thou ?
80838 Thou art not here : murder is thy alms-deed ;
80839 Petitioners for blood thou ne'er put'st back .
80840
80841 Away , I say ! I charge ye , bear her hence .
80842
80843 So come to you and yours , as to this prince !
80844
80845
80846 Where's Richard gone ?
80847
80848 To London , all in post ; and , as I guess ,
80849 To make a bloody supper in the Tower .
80850
80851 He's sudden if a thing comes in his head .
80852 Now march we hence : discharge the common sort
80853 With pay and thanks , and let's away to London
80854 And see our gentle queen how well she fares ;
80855 By this , I hope , she hath a son for me .
80856
80857 Good day , my lord . What ! at your book so hard ?
80858
80859 Ay , my good lord :my lord , I should say rather ;
80860 'Tis sin to flatter , 'good' was little better :
80861 'Good Gloucester' and 'good devil' were alike ,
80862 And both preposterous ; therefore , not 'good lord .'
80863
80864 Sirrah , leave us to ourselves : we must confer .
80865
80866
80867 So flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf ;
80868 So first the harmless sheep doth yield his fleece ,
80869 And next his throat unto the butcher's knife .
80870 What scene of death hath Roscius now to act ?
80871
80872 Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ;
80873 The thief doth fear each bush an officer .
80874
80875 The bird that hath been limed in a bush ,
80876 With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush ;
80877 And I , the hapless male to one sweet bird ,
80878 Have now the fatal object in my eye
80879 Where my poor young was lim'd , was caught , and kill'd .
80880
80881 Why , what a peevish fool was that of Crete ,
80882 That taught his son the office of a fowl !
80883 And yet , for all his wings , the fool was drown'd .
80884
80885 I , D dalus ; my poor boy , Icarus ;
80886 Thy father , Minos , that denied our course ;
80887 The sun , that sear'd the wings of my sweet boy ,
80888 Thy brother Edward , and thyself the sea ,
80889 Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life .
80890 Ah ! kill me with thy weapon , not with words .
80891 My breast can better brook thy dagger's point
80892 Than can my ears that tragic history .
80893 But wherefore dost thou come ? is't for my life ?
80894
80895 Think'st thou I am an executioner ?
80896
80897 A persecutor , I am sure , thou art :
80898 If murd'ring innocents be executing ,
80899 Why , then thou art an executioner .
80900
80901 Thy son I kill'd for his presumption .
80902
80903 Hadst thou been kill'd , when first thou didst presume ,
80904 Thou hadst not liv'd to kill a son of mine .
80905 And thus I prophesy : that many a thousand ,
80906 Which now mistrust no parcel of my fear ,
80907 And many an old man's sigh , and many a widow's ,
80908 And many an orphan's water-standing eye ,
80909 Men for their sons' , wives for their husbands' ,
80910 And orphans for their parents' timeless death ,
80911 Shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born .
80912 The owl shriek'd at thy birth , an evil sign ;
80913 The night-crow cried , aboding luckless time ;
80914 Dogs howl'd , and hideous tempest shook down trees !
80915 The raven rook'd her on the chimney's top ,
80916 And chattering pies in dismal discords sung .
80917 Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain ,
80918 And yet brought forth less than a mother's hope ;
80919 To wit an indigest deformed lump ,
80920 Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree .
80921 Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born ,
80922 To signify thou cam'st to bite the world :
80923 And , if the rest be true which I have heard ,
80924 Thou cam'st
80925
80926 I'll hear no more : die , prophet , in thy speech :
80927
80928 For this , amongst the rest , was I ordain'd .
80929
80930 Ay , and for much more slaughter after this .
80931 O , God forgive my sins , and pardon thee !
80932
80933
80934 What ! will the aspiring blood of Lancaster
80935 Sink in the ground ? I thought it would have mounted .
80936 See how my sword weeps for the poor king's death !
80937 O ! may such purple tears be always shed
80938 From those that wish the downfall of our house .
80939 If any spark of life be yet remaining ,
80940 Down , down to hell ; and say I sent thee thither ,
80941
80942 I , that have neither pity , love , nor fear .
80943 Indeed , 'tis true , that Henry told me of ;
80944 For I have often heard my mother say
80945 I came into the world with my legs forward .
80946 Had I not reason , think ye , to make haste ,
80947 And seek their ruin that usurp'd our right ?
80948 The midwife wonder'd , and the women cried
80949 'O ! Jesus bless us , he is born with teeth .'
80950 And so I was ; which plainly signified
80951 That I should snarl and bite and play the dog .
80952 Then , since the heavens have shap'd my body so ,
80953 Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it .
80954 I have no brother , I am like no brother ;
80955 And this word 'love ,' which greybeards call divine ,
80956 Be resident in men like one another
80957 And not in me : I am myself alone .
80958 Clarence , beware ; thou keep'st me from the light :
80959 But I will sort a pitchy day for thee ;
80960 For I will buzz abroad such prophecies
80961 That Edward shall be fearful of his life ;
80962 And then , to purge his fear , I'll be thy death .
80963 King Henry and the prince his son are gone :
80964 Clarence , thy turn is next , and then the rest ,
80965 Counting myself but bad till I be best .
80966 I'll throw thy body in another room ,
80967 And triumph , Henry , in thy day of doom .
80968
80969 Once more we sit in England's royal throne ,
80970 Re-purchas'd with the blood of enemies .
80971 What valiant foemen like to autumn's corn ,
80972 Have we mow'd down , in tops of all their pride !
80973 Three Dukes of Somerset , threefold renown'd
80974 For hardy and undoubted champions ;
80975 Two Cliffords , as the father and the son ;
80976 And two Northumberlands : two braver men
80977 Ne'er spurr'd their coursers at the trumpet's sound ;
80978 With them , the two brave bears , Warwick and Montague ,
80979 That in their chains fetter'd the kingly lion ,
80980 And made the forest tremble when they roar'd .
80981 Thus have we swept suspicion from our seat ,
80982 And made our footstool of security .
80983 Come hither , Bess , and let me kiss my boy .
80984 Young Ned , for thee thine uncles and myself
80985 Have in our armours watch'd the winter's night ;
80986 Went all a-foot in summer's scalding heat ,
80987 That thou might'st repossess the crown in peace ;
80988 And of our labours thou shalt reap the gain .
80989
80990 I'll blast his harvest , if your head were laid ;
80991 For yet I am not look'd on in the world .
80992 This shoulder was ordain'd so thick to heave ;
80993 And heave it shall some weight , or break my back :
80994 Work thou the way , and thou shalt execute .
80995
80996 Clarence and Gloucester , love my lovely queen ;
80997 And kiss your princely nephew , brothers both .
80998
80999 The duty , that I owe unto your majesty ,
81000 I seal upon the lips of this sweet babe .
81001
81002 Thanks , noble Clarence ; worthy brother , thanks .
81003
81004 And , that I love the tree from whence thou sprang'st ,
81005 Witness the loving kiss I give the fruit .
81006
81007
81008 To say the truth , so Judas kiss'd his master ,
81009 And cried 'all hail !' when as he meant all harm .
81010
81011 Now am I seated as my soul delights ,
81012 Having my country's peace and brothers' loves .
81013
81014 What will your Grace have done with Margaret ?
81015 Reignier , her father , to the King of France
81016 Hath pawn'd the Sicils and Jerusalem ,
81017 And hither have they sent it for her ransom .
81018
81019 Away with her , and waft her hence to France .
81020 And now what rests but that we spend the time
81021 With stately triumphs , mirthful comic shows ,
81022 Such as befit the pleasure of the court ?
81023 Sound , drums and trumpets ! farewell , sour annoy !
81024 For here , I hope , begins our lasting joy .
81025
81026 THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD II
81027
81028 Old John of Gaunt , time-honour'd Lancaster ,
81029 Hast thou , according to thy oath and band ,
81030 Brought hither Henry Hereford thy bold son ,
81031 Here to make good the boisterous late appeal ,
81032 Which then our leisure would not let us hear ,
81033 Against the Duke of Norfolk , Thomas Mowbray ?
81034
81035 I have , my liege .
81036
81037 Tell me , moreover , hast thou sounded him ,
81038 If he appeal the duke on ancient malice ,
81039 Or worthily , as a good subject should ,
81040 On some known ground of treachery in him ?
81041
81042 As near as I could sift him on that argument ,
81043 On some apparent danger seen in him
81044 Aim'd at your highness , no inveterate malice .
81045
81046 Then call them to our presence : face to face ,
81047 And frowning brow to brow , ourselves will hear
81048 The accuser and the accused freely speak :
81049
81050 High-stomach'd are they both , and full of ire ,
81051 In rage deaf as the sea , hasty as fire .
81052
81053
81054 Many years of happy days befall
81055 My gracious sovereign , my most loving liege !
81056
81057 Each day still better other's happiness ;
81058 Until the heavens , envying earth's good hap ,
81059 Add an immortal title to your crown !
81060
81061 We thank you both : yet one but flatters us ,
81062 As well appeareth by the cause you come ;
81063 Namely , to appeal each other of high treason .
81064 Cousin of Hereford , what dost thou object
81065 Against the Duke of Norfolk , Thomas Mowbray ?
81066
81067 First ,heaven be the record to my speech !
81068 In the devotion of a subject's love ,
81069 Tendering the precious safety of my prince ,
81070 And free from other misbegotten hate ,
81071 Come I appellant to this princely presence .
81072 Now , Thomas Mowbray , do I turn to thee ,
81073 And mark my greeting well ; for what I speak
81074 My body shall make good upon this earth ,
81075 Or my divine soul answer it in heaven .
81076 Thou art a traitor and a miscreant ;
81077 Too good to be so and too bad to live ,
81078 Since the more fair and crystal is the sky ,
81079 The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly .
81080 Once more , the more to aggravate the note ,
81081 With a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat ;
81082 And wish , so please my sovereign , ere I move ,
81083 What my tongue speaks , my right drawn sword may prove .
81084
81085 Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal :
81086 'Tis not the trial of a woman's war ,
81087 The bitter clamour of two eager tongues ,
81088 Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain ;
81089 The blood is hot that must be cool'd for this :
81090 Yet can I not of such tame patience boast
81091 As to be hush'd and nought at all to say .
81092 First , the fair reverence of your highness curbs me
81093 From giving reins and spurs to my free speech ;
81094 Which else would post until it had return'd
81095 These terms of treason doubled down his throat .
81096 Setting aside his high blood's royalty ,
81097 And let him be no kinsman to my liege ,
81098 I do defy him , and I spit at him ;
81099 Call him a slanderous coward and a villain :
81100 Which to maintain I would allow him odds ,
81101 And meet him , were I tied to run afoot
81102 Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps ,
81103 Or any other ground inhabitable ,
81104 Wherever Englishman durst set his foot .
81105 Meantime let this defend my loyalty :
81106 By all my hopes , most falsely doth he lie .
81107
81108 Pale trembling coward , there I throw my gage ,
81109 Disclaiming here the kindred of the king ;
81110 And lay aside my high blood's royalty ,
81111 Which fear , not reverence , makes thee to except :
81112 If guilty dread have left thee so much strength
81113 As to take up mine honour's pawn , then stoop :
81114 By that , and all the rites of knighthood else ,
81115 Will I make good against thee , arm to arm ,
81116 What I have spoke , or thou canst worse devise .
81117
81118 I take it up ; and by that sword I swear ,
81119 Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder ,
81120 I'll answer thee in any fair degree ,
81121 Or chivalrous design of knightly trial :
81122 And when I mount , alive may I not light ,
81123 If I be traitor or unjustly fight !
81124
81125 What doth our cousin lay to Mowbray's charge ?
81126 It must be great that can inherit us
81127 So much as of a thought of ill in him .
81128
81129 Look , what I speak , my life shall prove it true ;
81130 That Mowbray hath receiv'd eight thousand nobles
81131 In name of lendings for your highness' soldiers ,
81132 The which he hath detain'd for lewd employments ,
81133 Like a false traitor and injurious villain .
81134 Besides I say and will in battle prove ,
81135 Or here or elsewhere to the furthest verge
81136 That ever was survey'd by English eye ,
81137 That all the treasons for these eighteen years
81138 Complotted and contrived in this land ,
81139 Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring .
81140 Further I say and further will maintain
81141 Upon his bad life to make all this good ,
81142 That he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death ,
81143 Suggest his soon believing adversaries ,
81144 And consequently , like a traitor coward ,
81145 Sluic'd out his innocent soul through streams of blood :
81146 Which blood , like sacrificing Abel's , cries ,
81147 Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth ,
81148 To me for justice and rough chastisement ;
81149 And , by the glorious worth of my descent ,
81150 This arm shall do it , or this life be spent .
81151
81152 How high a pitch his resolution soars !
81153 Thomas of Norfolk , what sayst thou to this ?
81154
81155 O ! let my sovereign turn away his face
81156 And bid his ears a little while be deaf ,
81157 Till I have told this slander of his blood
81158 How God and good men hate so foul a liar .
81159
81160 Mowbray , impartial are our eyes and ears :
81161 Were he my brother , nay , my kingdom's heir ,
81162 As he is but my father's brother's son ,
81163 Now , by my sceptre's awe I make a vow ,
81164 Such neighbour nearness to our sacred blood
81165 Should nothing privilege him , nor partialize
81166 The unstooping firmness of my upright soul .
81167 He is our subject , Mowbray ; so art thou :
81168 Free speech and fearless I to thee allow .
81169
81170 Then , Bolingbroke , as low as to thy heart ,
81171 Through the false passage of thy throat , thou liest .
81172 Three parts of that receipt I had for Calais
81173 Disburs'd I duly to his highness' soldiers ;
81174 The other part reserv'd I by consent ,
81175 For that my sovereign liege was in my debt
81176 Upon remainder of a dear account ,
81177 Since last I went to France to fetch his queen .
81178 Now swallow down that lie . For Gloucester's death ,
81179 I slew him not ; but to mine own disgrace
81180 Neglected my sworn duty in that case .
81181 For you , my noble Lord of Lancaster ,
81182 The honourable father to my foe ,
81183 Once did I lay an ambush for your life ,
81184 A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul ;
81185 But ere I last receiv'd the sacrament
81186 I did confess it , and exactly begg'd
81187 Your Grace's pardon , and I hope I had it .
81188 This is my fault : as for the rest appeal'd ,
81189 It issues from the rancour of a villain ,
81190 A recreant and most degenerate traitor ;
81191 Which in myself I boldly will defend ,
81192 And interchangeably hurl down my gage
81193 Upon this overweening traitor's foot ,
81194 To prove myself a loyal gentleman
81195 Even in the best blood chamber'd in his bosom .
81196 In haste whereof , most heartily I pray
81197 Your highness to assign our trial day .
81198
81199 Wrath-kindled gentlemen , be rul'd by me ;
81200 Let's purge this choler without letting blood :
81201 This we prescribe , though no physician ;
81202 Deep malice makes too deep incision :
81203 Forget , forgive ; conclude and be agreed ,
81204 Our doctors say this is no month to bleed .
81205 Good uncle , let this end where it begun ;
81206 We'll calm the Duke of Norfolk , you your son .
81207
81208 To be a make-peace shall become my age :
81209 Throw down , my son , the Duke of Norfolk's gage .
81210
81211 And , Norfolk , throw down his .
81212
81213 When , Harry , when ?
81214 Obedience bids I should not bid again .
81215
81216 Norfolk , throw down , we bid ; there is no boot .
81217
81218 Myself I throw , dread sovereign , at thy foot .
81219 My life thou shalt command , but not my shame :
81220 The one my duty owes ; but my fair name ,
81221 Despite of death that lives upon my grave ,
81222 To dark dishonour's use thou shalt not have .
81223 I am disgrac'd , impeach'd , and baffled here ,
81224 Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear ,
81225 The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood
81226 Which breath'd this poison .
81227
81228 Rage must be withstood :
81229 Give me his gage : lions make leopards tame .
81230
81231 Yea , but not change his spots : take but my shame ,
81232 And I resign my gage . My dear dear lord ,
81233 The purest treasure mortal times afford
81234 Is spotless reputation ; that away ,
81235 Men are but gilded loam or painted clay .
81236 A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest
81237 Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast .
81238 Mine honour is my life ; both grow in one ;
81239 Take honour from me , and my life is done :
81240 Then , dear my liege , mine honour let me try ;
81241 In that I live and for that will I die .
81242
81243 Cousin , throw down your gage : do you begin .
81244
81245 O ! God defend my soul from such deep sin .
81246 Shall I seem crest fall'n in my father's sight ,
81247 Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height
81248 Before this out-dar'd dastard ? Ere my tongue
81249 Shall wound mine honour with such feeble wrong ,
81250 Or sound so base a parle , my teeth shall tear
81251 The slavish motive of recanting fear ,
81252 And spit it bleeding in his high disgrace ,
81253 Where shame doth harbour , even in Mowbray's face .
81254
81255
81256 We were not born to sue , but to command :
81257 Which since we cannot do to make you friends ,
81258 Be ready , as your lives shall answer it ,
81259 At Coventry , upon Saint Lambert's day :
81260 There shall your swords and lances arbitrate
81261 The swelling difference of your settled hate :
81262 Since we cannot atone you , we shall see
81263 Justice design the victor's chivalry .
81264 Marshal , command our officers-at-arms
81265 Be ready to direct these home alarms .
81266
81267
81268 Alas ! the part I had in Woodstock's blood
81269 Doth more solicit me than your exclaims ,
81270 To stir against the butchers of his life .
81271 But since correction lieth in those hands
81272 Which made the fault that we cannot correct ,
81273 Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven ;
81274 Who , when they see the hours ripe on earth ,
81275 Will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads .
81276
81277 Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur ?
81278 Hath love in thy old blood no living fire ?
81279 Edward's seven sons , whereof thyself art one ,
81280 Were as seven vials of his sacred blood ,
81281 Or seven fair branches springing from one root :
81282 Some of those seven are dried by nature's course ,
81283 Some of those branches by the Destinies cut ;
81284 But Thomas , my dear lord , my life , my Gloucester ,
81285 One vial full of Edward's sacred blood ,
81286 One flourishing branch of his most royal root ,
81287 Is crack'd , and all the precious liquor spilt ;
81288 Is hack'd down , and his summer leaves all vaded ,
81289 By envy's hand and murder's bloody axe .
81290 Ah , Gaunt ! his blood was thine : that bed , that womb ,
81291 That metal , that self-mould , that fashion'd thee
81292 Made him a man ; and though thou liv'st and breath'st ,
81293 Yet art thou slain in him : thou dost consent
81294 In some large measure to thy father's death
81295 In that thou seest thy wretched brother die ,
81296 Who was the model of thy father's life .
81297 Call it not patience , Gaunt ; it is despair :
81298 In suffering thus thy brother to be slaughter'd
81299 Thou show'st the naked pathway to thy life ,
81300 Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee :
81301 That which in mean men we entitle patience
81302 Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts .
81303 What shall I say ? to safeguard thine own life ,
81304 The best way is to venge my Gloucester's death .
81305
81306 God's is the quarrel ; for God's substitute ,
81307 His deputy anointed in his sight ,
81308 Hath caus'd his death ; the which if wrongfully ,
81309 Let heaven revenge , for I may never lift
81310 An angry arm against his minister .
81311
81312 Where then , alas ! may I complain myself ?
81313
81314 To God , the widow's champion and defence .
81315
81316 Why then , I will . Farewell , old Gaunt .
81317 Thou go'st to Coventry , there to behold
81318 Our cousin Hereford and fell Mowbray fight :
81319 O ! sit my husband's wrongs on Hereford's spear ,
81320 That it may enter butcher Mowbray's breast .
81321 Or if misfortune miss the first career ,
81322 Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom
81323 That they may break his foaming courser's back ,
81324 And throw the rider headlong in the lists ,
81325 A caitiff recreant to my cousin Hereford !
81326 Farewell , old Gaunt : thy sometimes brother's wife
81327 With her companion grief must end her life .
81328
81329 Sister , farewell ; I must to Coventry .
81330 As much good stay with thee as go with me !
81331
81332 Yet one word more . Grief boundeth where it falls ,
81333 Not with the empty hollowness , but weight :
81334 I take my leave before I have begun ,
81335 For sorrow ends not when it seemeth done .
81336 Commend me to my brother , Edmund York .
81337 Lo ! this is all : nay , yet depart not so ;
81338 Though this be all , do not so quickly go ;
81339 I shall remember more . Bid him ah , what ?
81340 With all good speed at Plashy visit me .
81341 Alack ! and what shall good old York there see
81342 But empty lodgings and unfurnish'd walls ,
81343 Unpeopled offices , untrodden stones ?
81344 And what hear there for welcome but my groans ?
81345 Therefore commend me ; let him not come there ,
81346 To seek out sorrow that dwells every where .
81347 Desolate , desolate will I hence , and die :
81348 The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye .
81349
81350
81351 My Lord Aumerle , is Harry Hereford arm'd ?
81352
81353 Yea , at all points , and longs to enter in .
81354
81355 The Duke of Norfolk , sprightfully and bold ,
81356 Stays but the summons of the appellant's trumpet .
81357
81358 Why then , the champions are prepar'd , and stay
81359 For nothing but his majesty's approach .
81360
81361
81362 Marshal , demand of yonder champion
81363 The cause of his arrival here in arms :
81364 Ask him his name , and orderly proceed
81365 To swear him in the justice of his cause .
81366
81367 In God's name , and the king's , say who thou art ,
81368 And why thou com'st thus knightly clad in arms ,
81369 Against what man thou com'st , and what thy quarrel .
81370 Speak truly , on thy knighthood and thine oath :
81371 As so defend thee heaven and thy valour !
81372
81373 My name is Thomas Mowbray , Duke of Norfolk ,
81374 Who hither come engaged by my oath ,
81375 Which God defend a knight should violate !
81376 Both to defend my loyalty and truth
81377 To God , my king , and his succeeding issue ,
81378 Against the Duke of Hereford that appeals me ;
81379 And , by the grace of God and this mine arm ,
81380 To prove him , in defending of myself ,
81381 A traitor to my God , my king , and me :
81382 And as I truly fight , defend me heaven !
81383
81384 Marshal , ask yonder knight in arms ,
81385 Both who he is and why he cometh hither
81386 Thus plated in habiliments of war ;
81387 And formally , according to our law ,
81388 Depose him in the justice of his cause .
81389
81390 What is thy name ? and wherefore com'st thou hither ,
81391 Before King Richard in his royal lists ?
81392 Against whom comest thou ? and what's thy quarrel ?
81393 Speak like a true knight , so defend thee heaven !
81394
81395 Harry of Hereford , Lancaster , and Derby ,
81396 Am I ; who ready here do stand in arms ,
81397 To prove by God's grace and my body's valour ,
81398 In lists , on Thomas Mowbray , Duke of Norfolk ,
81399 That he's a traitor foul and dangerous ,
81400 To God of heaven , King Richard , and to me :
81401 And as I truly fight , defend me heaven !
81402
81403 On pain of death , no person be so bold
81404 Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists ,
81405 Except the marshal and such officers
81406 Appointed to direct these fair designs .
81407
81408 Lord marshal , let me kiss my sovereign's hand ,
81409 And bow my knee before his majesty :
81410 For Mowbray and myself are like two men
81411 That vow a long and weary pilgrimage ;
81412 Then let us take a ceremonious leave
81413 And loving farewell of our several friends .
81414
81415 The appellant in all duty greets your highness ,
81416 And craves to kiss your hand and take his leave .
81417
81418 We will descend and fold him in our arms .
81419 Cousin of Hereford , as thy cause is right ,
81420 So be thy fortune in this royal fight !
81421 Farewell , my blood ; which if to-day thou shed ,
81422 Lament we may , but not revenge thee dead .
81423
81424 O ! let no noble eye profane a tear
81425 For me , if I be gor'd with Mowbray's spear .
81426 As confident as is the falcon's flight
81427 Against a bird , do I with Mowbray fight .
81428 My loving lord , I take my leave of you ;
81429 Of you , my noble cousin , Lord Aumerle ;
81430 Not sick , although I have to do with death ,
81431 But lusty , young , and cheerly drawing breath .
81432 Lo ! as at English feasts , so I regreet
81433 The daintiest last , to make the end most sweet :
81434 O thou , the earthly author of my blood ,
81435 Whose youthful spirit , in me regenerate ,
81436 Doth with a two-fold vigour lift me up
81437 To reach at victory above my head ,
81438 Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers ,
81439 And with thy blessings steel my lance's point ,
81440 That it may enter Mowbray's waxen coat ,
81441 And furbish new the name of John a Gaunt ,
81442 Even in the lusty haviour of his son .
81443
81444 God in thy good cause make thee prosperous !
81445 Be swift like lightning in the execution ;
81446 And let thy blows , doubly redoubled ,
81447 Fall like amazing thunder on the casque
81448 Of thy adverse pernicious enemy :
81449 Rouse up thy youthful blood , be valiant and live .
81450
81451 Mine innocency and Saint George to thrive !
81452
81453
81454 However God or fortune cast my lot ,
81455 There lives or dies , true to King Richard's throne ,
81456 A loyal , just , and upright gentleman .
81457 Never did captive with a freer heart
81458 Cast off his chains of bondage and embrace
81459 His golden uncontroll'd enfranchisement ,
81460 More than my dancing soul doth celebrate
81461 This feast of battle with mine adversary .
81462 Most mighty liege , and my companion peers ,
81463 Take from my mouth the wish of happy years .
81464 As gentle and as jocund as to jest ,
81465 Go I to fight : truth has a quiet breast .
81466
81467 Farewell , my lord : securely I espy
81468 Virtue with valour couched in thine eye .
81469 Order the trial , marshal , and begin .
81470
81471
81472 Harry of Hereford , Lancaster , and Derby ,
81473 Receive thy lance ; and God defend the right !
81474
81475 Strong as a tower in hope , I cry 'amen .'
81476
81477 Go bear this lance to Thomas , Duke of Norfolk .
81478
81479 Harry of Hereford , Lancaster , and Derby ,
81480 Stands here for God , his sovereign , and himself ,
81481 On pain to be found false and recreant ,
81482 To prove the Duke of Norfolk , Thomas Mowbray ,
81483 A traitor to his God , his king , and him ;
81484 And dares him to set forward to the fight .
81485
81486 Here standeth Thomas Mowbray , Duke of Norfolk ,
81487 On pain to be found false and recreant ,
81488 Both to defend himself and to approve
81489 Henry of Hereford , Lancaster , and Derby ,
81490 To God , his sovereign , and to him , disloyal ;
81491 Courageously and with a free desire ,
81492 Attending but the signal to begin .
81493
81494 Sound , trumpets ; and set forward , combatants .
81495
81496 Stay , stay , the king hath thrown his warderdown .
81497
81498 Let them lay by their helmets and their spears ,
81499 And both return back to their chairs again :
81500 Withdraw with us ; and let the trumpets sound
81501 While we return these dukes what we decree .
81502
81503 Draw near ,
81504 And list what with our council we have done .
81505 For that our kingdom's earth should not be soil'd
81506 With that dear blood which it hath fostered ;
81507 And for our eyes do hate the dire aspect
81508 Of civil wounds plough'd up with neighbours' swords ;
81509 And for we think the eagle-winged pride
81510 Of sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts ,
81511 With rival-hating envy , set on you
81512 To wake our peace , which in our country's cradle
81513 Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep ;
81514 Which so rous'd up with boist'rous untun'd drums ,
81515 With harsh-resounding trumpets' dreadful bray ,
81516 And grating shock of wrathful iron arms ,
81517 Might from our quiet confines fright fair peace
81518 And make us wade even in our kindred's blood :
81519 Therefore , we banish you our territories :
81520 You , cousin Hereford , upon pain of life ,
81521 Till twice five summers have enrich'd our fields ,
81522 Shall not regreet our fair dominions ,
81523 But tread the stranger paths of banishment .
81524
81525 Your will be done : this must my comfort be ,
81526 That sun that warms you here shall shine on me ;
81527 And those his golden beams to you here lent
81528 Shall point on me and gild my banishment .
81529
81530 Norfolk , for thee remains a heavier doom ,
81531 Which I with some unwillingness pronounce :
81532 The sly slow hours shall not determinate
81533 The dateless limit of thy dear exile ;
81534 The hopeless word of 'never to return'
81535 Breathe I against thee , upon pain of life .
81536
81537 A heavy sentence , my most sovereign liege ,
81538 And all unlook'd for from your highness' mouth :
81539 A dearer merit , not so deep a maim
81540 As to be cast forth in the common air ,
81541 Have I deserved at your highness' hands .
81542 The language I have learn'd these forty years ,
81543 My native English , now I must forego ;
81544 And now my tongue's use is to me no more
81545 Than an unstringed viol or a harp ,
81546 Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up ,
81547 Or , being open , put into his hands
81548 That knows no touch to tune the harmony :
81549 Within my mouth you have engaol'd my tongue ,
81550 Doubly portcullis'd with my teeth and lips ;
81551 And dull , unfeeling , barren ignorance
81552 Is made my gaoler to attend on me .
81553 I am too old to fawn upon a nurse ,
81554 Too far in years to be a pupil now :
81555 What is thy sentence then but speechless death ,
81556 Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath ?
81557
81558 It boots thee not to be compassionate :
81559 After our sentence plaining comes too late .
81560
81561 Then , thus I turn me from my country's light ,
81562 To dwell in solemn shades of endless night .
81563
81564
81565 Return again , and take an oath with thee .
81566 Lay on our royal sword your banish'd hands ;
81567 Swear by the duty that you owe to God
81568 Our part therein we banish with yourselves
81569 To keep the oath that we administer .
81570 You never shall ,so help you truth and God !
81571 Embrace each other's love in banishment ;
81572 Nor never look upon each other's face ;
81573 Nor never write , regreet , nor reconcile
81574 This low'ring tempest of your home-bred hate ;
81575 Nor never by advised purpose meet
81576 To plot , contrive , or complot any ill
81577 'Gainst us , our state , our subjects , or our land .
81578
81579 I swear .
81580
81581 And I , to keep all this .
81582
81583 Norfolk , so far , as to mine enemy :
81584 By this time , had the king permitted us ,
81585 One of our souls had wander'd in the air ,
81586 Banish'd this frail sepulchre of our flesh ,
81587 As now our flesh is banish'd from this land :
81588 Confess thy treasons ere thou fly the realm ;
81589 Since thou hast far to go , bear not along
81590 The clogging burden of a guilty soul .
81591
81592 No , Bolingbroke : if ever I were traitor ,
81593 My name be blotted from the book of life ,
81594 And I from heaven banish'd as from hence !
81595 But what thou art , God , thou , and I do know ;
81596 And all too soon , I fear , the king shall rue .
81597 Farewell , my liege . Now no way can I stray ;
81598 Save back to England , all the world's my way .
81599
81600
81601 Uncle , even in the glasses of thine eyes
81602 I see thy grieved heart : thy sad aspect
81603 Hath from the number of his banish'd years
81604 Pluck'd four away .
81605
81606 Six frozen winters spent ,
81607 Return with welcome home from banishment .
81608
81609 How long a time lies in one little word !
81610 Four lagging winters and four wanton springs
81611 End in a word : such is the breath of kings .
81612
81613 I thank my liege , that in regard of me
81614 He shortens four years of my son's exile ;
81615 But little vantage shall I reap thereby :
81616 For , ere the six years that he hath to spend
81617 Can change their moons and bring their times about ,
81618 My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light
81619 Shall be extinct with age and endless night ;
81620 My inch of taper will be burnt and done ,
81621 And blindfold death not let me see my son .
81622
81623 Why , uncle , thou hast many years to live .
81624
81625 But not a minute , king , that thou canst give :
81626 Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow ,
81627 And pluck nights from me , but not lend a morrow ;
81628 Thou canst help time to furrow me with age .
81629 But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage ;
81630 Thy word is current with him for my death ,
81631 But dead , thy kingdom cannot buy my breath .
81632
81633 Thy son is banish'd upon good advice ,
81634 Whereto thy tongue a party-verdict gave :
81635 Why at our justice seem'st thou then to lower ?
81636
81637 Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour .
81638 You urg'd me as a judge ; but I had rather
81639 You would have bid me argue like a father .
81640 O ! had it been a stranger , not my child ,
81641 To smooth his fault I should have been more mild :
81642 A partial slander sought I to avoid ,
81643 And in the sentence my own life destroy'd .
81644 Alas ! I look'd when some of you should say ,
81645 I was too strict to make mine own away ;
81646 But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue
81647 Against my will to do myself this wrong .
81648
81649 Cousin , farewell ; and , uncle , bid him so :
81650 Six years we banish him , and he shall go .
81651
81652
81653 Cousin , farewell : what presence must not know ,
81654 From where you do remain let paper show .
81655
81656 My lord , no leave take I ; for I will ride ,
81657 As far as land will let me , by your side .
81658
81659 O ! to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words ,
81660 That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends ?
81661
81662 I have too few to take my leave of you ,
81663 When the tongue's office should be prodigal
81664 To breathe the abundant dolour of the heart .
81665
81666 Thy grief is but thy absence for a time .
81667
81668 Joy absent , grief is present for that time .
81669
81670 What is six winters ? they are quickly gone .
81671
81672 To men in joy ; but grief makes one hour ten .
81673
81674 Call it a travel that thou tak'st for pleasure .
81675
81676 My heart will sigh when I miscall it so ,
81677 Which finds it an inforced pilgrimage .
81678
81679 The sullen passage of thy weary steps
81680 Esteem as foil wherein thou art to set
81681 The precious jewel of thy home return .
81682
81683 Nay , rather , every tedious stride I make
81684 Will but remember me what a deal of world
81685 I wander from the jewels that I love .
81686 Must I not serve a long apprenticehood
81687 To foreign passages , and in the end ,
81688 Having my freedom , boast of nothing else
81689 But that I was a journeyman to grief ?
81690
81691 All places that the eye of heaven visits
81692 Are to a wise man ports and happy havens .
81693 Teach thy necessity to reason thus ;
81694 There is no virtue like necessity .
81695 Think not the king did banish thee ,
81696 But thou the king . Woe doth the heavier sit ,
81697 Where it perceives it is but faintly borne .
81698 Go , say I sent thee forth to purchase honour ,
81699 And not the king exil'd thee ; or suppose
81700 Devouring pestilence hangs in our air ,
81701 And thou art flying to a fresher clime .
81702 Look , what thy soul holds dear , imagine it
81703 To lie that way thou go'st , not whence thou com'st .
81704 Suppose the singing birds musicians ,
81705 The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strew'd ,
81706 The flowers fair ladies , and thy steps no more
81707 Than a delightful measure or a dance ;
81708 For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
81709 The man that mocks at it and sets it light .
81710
81711 O ! who can hold a fire in his hand
81712 By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ?
81713 Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
81714 By bare imagination of a feast ?
81715 Or wallow naked in December snow
81716 By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ?
81717 O , no ! the apprehension of the good
81718 Gives but the greater feeling to the worse :
81719 Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more
81720 Than when it bites , but lanceth not the sore .
81721
81722 Come , come , my son , I'll bring thee on thy way .
81723 Had I thy youth and cause , I would not stay .
81724
81725 Then , England's ground , farewell ; sweet soil , adieu :
81726 My mother , and my nurse , that bears me yet !
81727 Where'er I wander , boast of this I can ,
81728 Though banish'd , yet a true-born Englishman .
81729
81730
81731 We did observe . Cousin Aumerle ,
81732 How far brought you high Hereford on his way ?
81733
81734 I brought high Hereford , if you call him so ,
81735 But to the next highway , and there I left him .
81736
81737 And say , what store of parting tears were shed ?
81738
81739 Faith , none for me ; except the northeast wind ,
81740 Which then blew bitterly against our faces ,
81741 Awak'd the sleeping rheum , and so by chance
81742 Did grace our hollow parting with a tear .
81743
81744 What said our cousin when you parted with him ?
81745
81746 'Farewell :'
81747 And , for my heart disdained that my tongue
81748 Should so profane the word , that taught me craft
81749 To counterfeit oppression of such grief
81750 That words seem'd buried in my sorrow's grave .
81751 Marry , would the word 'farewell' have lengthen'd hours
81752 And added years to his short banishment ,
81753 He should have had a volume of farewells ;
81754 But , since it would not , he had none of me .
81755
81756 He is our cousin , cousin ; but 'tis doubt ,
81757 When time shall call him home from banishment ,
81758 Whether our kinsman come to see his friends .
81759 Ourself and Bushy , Bagot here and Green
81760 Observ'd his courtship to the common people ,
81761 How he did seem to dive into their hearts
81762 With humble and familiar courtesy ,
81763 What reverence he did throw away on slaves ,
81764 Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles
81765 And patient underbearing of his fortune ,
81766 As 'twere to banish their affects with him .
81767 Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench ;
81768 A brace of draymen bid God speed him well ,
81769 And had the tribute of his supple knee ,
81770 With 'Thanks , my countrymen , my loving friends ;'
81771 As were our England in reversion his ,
81772 And he our subjects' next degree in hope .
81773
81774 Well , he is gone ; and with him go these thoughts .
81775 Now for the rebels which stand out in Ireland ;
81776 Expedient manage must be made , my liege ,
81777 Ere further leisure yield them further means
81778 For their advantage and your highness' loss .
81779
81780 We will ourself in person to this war .
81781 And , for our coffers with too great a court
81782 And liberal largess are grown somewhat light ,
81783 We are enforc'd to farm our royal realm ;
81784 The revenue whereof shall furnish us
81785 For our affairs in hand . If that come short ,
81786 Our substitutes at home shall have blank charters ;
81787 Whereto , when they shall know what men are rich ,
81788 They shall subscribe them for large sums of gold ,
81789 And send them after to supply our wants ;
81790 For we will make for Ireland presently .
81791
81792 Bushy , what news ?
81793
81794 Old John of Gaunt is grievous sick , my lord ,
81795 Suddenly taken , and hath sent post-haste
81796 To entreat your majesty to visit him .
81797
81798 Where lies he ?
81799
81800 At Ely House .
81801
81802 Now , put it , God . in his physician's mind
81803 To help him to his grave immediately !
81804 The lining of his coffers shall make coats
81805 To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars .
81806 Come , gentlemen , let's all go visit him :
81807 Pray God we may make haste , and come too late .
81808
81809 Amen .
81810
81811 Will the king come , that I may breathe my last
81812 In wholesome counsel to his unstaid youth ?
81813
81814 Vex not yourself , nor strive not with your breath ;
81815 For all in vain comes counsel to his ear .
81816
81817 O ! but they say the tongues of dying men
81818 Enforce attention like deep harmony :
81819 Where words are scarce , they are seldom spent in vain ,
81820 For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain .
81821 He that no more must say is listen'd more
81822 Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose ;
81823 More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before :
81824 The setting sun , and music at the close ,
81825 As the last taste of sweets , is sweetest last ,
81826 Writ in remembrance more than things long past :
81827 Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear ,
81828 My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear .
81829
81830 No ; it is stopp'd with other flattering sounds ,
81831 As praises of his state : then there are fond
81832 Lascivious metres , to whose venom sound
81833 The open ear of youth doth always listen :
81834 Report of fashions in proud Italy ,
81835 Whose manners still our tardy apish nation
81836 Limps after in base imitation .
81837 Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity ,
81838 So it be new there's no respect how vile ,
81839 That is not quickly buzz'd into his ears ?
81840 Then all too late comes counsel to be heard ,
81841 Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard .
81842 Direct not him whose way himself will choose :
81843 'Tis breath thou lack'st , and that breath wilt thou lose .
81844
81845 Methinks I am a prophet new inspir'd ,
81846 And thus expiring do foretell of him :
81847 His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last ,
81848 For violent fires soon burn out themselves ;
81849 Small showers last long , but sudden storms are short ;
81850 He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes ;
81851 With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder :
81852 Light vanity , insatiate cormorant ,
81853 Consuming means , soon preys upon itself .
81854 This royal throne of kings , this scepter'd isle ,
81855 This earth of majesty , this seat of Mars ,
81856 This other Eden , demi-paradise ,
81857 This fortress built by Nature for herself
81858 Against infection and the hand of war ,
81859 This happy breed of men , this little world ,
81860 This precious stone set in the silver sea ,
81861 Which serves it in the office of a wall ,
81862 Or as a moat defensive to a house ,
81863 Against the envy of less happier lands ,
81864 This blessed plot , this earth , this realm , this England ,
81865 This nurse , this teeming womb of royal kings ,
81866 Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth ,
81867 Renowned for their deeds as far from home ,
81868 For Christian service and true chivalry ,
81869 As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry
81870 Of the world's ransom , blessed Mary's Son :
81871 This land of such dear souls , this dear , dear land ,
81872 Dear for her reputation through the world ,
81873 Is now leas'd out ,I die pronouncing it ,
81874 Like to a tenement , or pelting farm :
81875 England , bound in with the triumphant sea ,
81876 Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
81877 Of watery Neptune , is now bound in with shame ,
81878 With inky blots , and rotten parchment bonds :
81879 That England , that was wont to conquer others ,
81880 Hath made a shameful conquest of itself .
81881 Ah ! would the scandal vanish with my life ,
81882 How happy then were my ensuing death .
81883
81884
81885 The king is come : deal mildly with his youth ;
81886 For young hot colts , being rag'd , do rage the more .
81887
81888 How fares our noble uncle , Lancaster ?
81889
81890 What comfort , man ? How is't with aged Gaunt ?
81891
81892 O ! how that name befits my composition ;
81893 Old Gaunt indeed , and gaunt in being old :
81894 Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast ;
81895 And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt ?
81896 For sleeping England long time have I watch'd ;
81897 Watching breeds leanness , leanness is all gaunt .
81898 The pleasure that some fathers feed upon
81899 Is my strict fast , I mean my children's looks ;
81900 And therein fasting hast thou made me gaunt .
81901 Gaunt am I for the grave , gaunt as a grave ,
81902 Whose hollow womb inherits nought but bones .
81903
81904 Can sick men play so nicely with their names ?
81905
81906 No ; misery makes sport to mock itself :
81907 Since thou dost seek to kill my name in me ,
81908 I mock my name , great king , to flatter thee .
81909
81910 Should dying men flatter with those that live ?
81911
81912 No , no ; men living flatter those that die .
81913
81914 Thou , now a-dying , sayst thou flatter'st me .
81915
81916 O , no ! thou diest , though I the sicker be .
81917
81918 I am in health , I breathe , and see thee ill .
81919
81920 Now , he that made me knows I see thee ill ;
81921 Ill in myself to see , and in thee seeing ill .
81922 Thy death-bed is no lesser than thy land
81923 Wherein thou liest in reputation sick :
81924 And thou , too careless patient as thou art ,
81925 Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure
81926 Of those physicians that first wounded thee :
81927 A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown ,
81928 Whose compass is no bigger than thy head ;
81929 And yet , incaged in so small a verge ,
81930 The waste is no whit lesser than thy land .
81931 O ! had thy grandsire , with a prophet's eye ,
81932 Seen how his son's son should destroy his sons ,
81933 From forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame ,
81934 Deposing thee before thou wert possess'd ,
81935 Which art possess'd now to depose thyself .
81936 Why , cousin , wert thou regent of the world ,
81937 It were a shame to let this land by lease ;
81938 But for thy world enjoying but this land ,
81939 Is it not more than shame to shame it so ?
81940 Landlord of England art thou now , not king :
81941 Thy state of law is bond-slave to the law ,
81942 And
81943
81944 And thou a lunatic lean-witted fool ,
81945 Presuming on an ague's privilege ,
81946 Dar'st with thy frozen admonition
81947 Make pale our cheek , chasing the royal blood
81948 With fury from his native residence .
81949 Now , by my seat's right royal majesty ,
81950 Wert thou not brother to great Edward's son ,
81951 This tongue that runs so roundly in thy head
81952 Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders .
81953
81954 O ! spare me not , my brother Edward's son ,
81955 For that I was his father Edward's son .
81956 That blood already , like the pelican ,
81957 Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly carous'd :
81958 My brother Gloucester , plain well-meaning soul ,
81959 Whom fair befall in heaven 'mongst happy souls !
81960 May be a precedent and witness good
81961 That thou respect'st not spilling Edward's blood :
81962 Join with the present sickness that I have ;
81963 And thy unkindness be like crooked age ,
81964 To crop at once a too-long wither'd flower .
81965 Live in thy shame , but die not shame with thee !
81966 These words hereafter thy tormentors be !
81967 Convey me to my bed , then to my grave :
81968 Love they to live that love and honour have .
81969
81970
81971 And let them die that age and sullens have ;
81972 For both hast thou , and both become the grave .
81973
81974 I do beseech your majesty , impute his words
81975 To wayward sickliness and age in him :
81976 He loves you , on my life , and holds you dear
81977 As Harry , Duke of Hereford , were he here .
81978
81979 Right , you say true : as Hereford's love , so his ;
81980 As theirs , so mine ; and all be as it is .
81981
81982
81983 My liege , old Gaunt commends him to your majesty .
81984
81985 What says he ?
81986
81987 Nay , nothing ; all is said :
81988 His tongue is now a stringless instrument ;
81989 Words , life , and all , old Lancaster hath spent .
81990
81991 Be York the next that must be bankrupt so !
81992 Though death be poor , it ends a mortal woe .
81993
81994 The ripest fruit first falls , and so doth he :
81995 His time is spent ; our pilgrimage must be .
81996 So much for that . Now for our Irish wars .
81997 We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns ,
81998 Which live like venom where no venom else
81999 But only they have privilege to live .
82000 And for these great affairs do ask some charge ,
82001 Towards our assistance we do seize to us
82002 The plate , coin , revenues , and moveables ,
82003 Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess'd .
82004
82005 How long shall I be patient ? Ah ! how long
82006 Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong ?
82007 Not Gloucester's death , nor Hereford's banishment ,
82008 Not Gaunt's rebukes , nor England's private wrongs ,
82009 Nor the prevention of poor Bolingbroke
82010 About his marriage , nor my own disgrace ,
82011 Have ever made me sour my patient cheek ,
82012 Or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign's face .
82013 I am the last of noble Edward's sons ,
82014 Of whom thy father , Prince of Wales , was first ;
82015 In war was never lion rag'd more fierce ,
82016 In peace was never gentle lamb more mild ,
82017 Than was that young and princely gentleman .
82018 His face thou hast , for even so look'd he ,
82019 Accomplish'd with the number of thy hours ;
82020 But when he frown'd , it was against the French ,
82021 And not against his friends ; his noble hand
82022 Did win what he did spend , and spent not that
82023 Which his triumphant father's hand had won :
82024 His hands were guilty of no kindred's blood ,
82025 But bloody with the enemies of his kin .
82026 O , Richard ! York is too far gone with grief ,
82027 Or else he never would compare between .
82028
82029 Why , uncle , what's the matter ?
82030
82031 O ! my liege .
82032 Pardon me , if you please ; if not , I , pleas'd
82033 Not to be pardon'd , am content withal .
82034 Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands
82035 The royalties and rights of banish'd Hereford ?
82036 Is not Gaunt dead , and doth not Hereford live ?
82037 Was not Gaunt just , and is not Harry true ?
82038 Did not the one deserve to have an heir ?
82039 Is not his heir a well-deserving son ?
82040 Take Hereford's rights away , and take from Time
82041 His charters and his customary rights ;
82042 Let not to-morrow then ensue to-day ;
82043 Be not thyself ; for how art thou a king
82044 But by fair sequence and succession ?
82045 Now , afore God ,God forbid I say true !
82046 If you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights ,
82047 Call in the letters-patent that he hath
82048 By his attorneys-general to sue
82049 His livery , and deny his offer'd homage ,
82050 You pluck a thousand dangers on your head ,
82051 You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts ,
82052 And prick my tender patience to those thoughts
82053 Which honour and allegiance cannot think .
82054
82055 Think what you will : we seize into our hands
82056 His plate , his goods , his money , and his lands .
82057
82058 I'll not be by the while : my liege , farewell :
82059 What will ensue hereof , there's none can tell ;
82060 But by bad courses may be understood
82061 That their events can never fall out good .
82062
82063
82064 Go , Bushy , to the Earl of Wiltshire straight :
82065 Bid him repair to us to Ely House
82066 To see this business . To-morrow next
82067 We will for Ireland ; and 'tis time , I trow :
82068 And we create , in absence of ourself ,
82069 Our uncle York lord governor of England ;
82070 For he is just , and always lov'd us well .
82071 Come on , our queen : to-morrow must we part ;
82072 Be merry , for our time of stay is short .
82073
82074 Well , lords , the Duke of Lancaster is dead .
82075
82076 And living too ; for now his son is duke .
82077
82078 Barely in title , not in revenue .
82079
82080 Richly in both , if justice had her right .
82081
82082 My heart is great ; but it must break with silence ,
82083 Ere't be disburden'd with a liberal tongue .
82084
82085 Nay , speak thy mind ; and let him ne'er speak more
82086 That speaks thy words again to do thee harm !
82087
82088 Tends that thou'dst speak to the Duke of Hereford ?
82089 If it be so , out with it boldly , man ;
82090 Quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him .
82091
82092 No good at all that I can do for him ,
82093 Unless you call it good to pity him ,
82094 Bereft and gelded of his patrimony .
82095
82096 Now , afore God , 'tis shame such wrongs are borne
82097 In him , a royal prince , and many more
82098 Of noble blood in this declining land .
82099 The king is not himself , but basely led
82100 By flatterers ; and what they will inform ,
82101 Merely in hate , 'gainst any of us all ,
82102 That will the king severely prosecute
82103 'Gainst us , our lives , our children , and our heirs .
82104
82105 The commons hath he pill'd with grievous taxes ,
82106 And quite lost their hearts : the nobles hath he fin'd
82107 For ancient quarrels , and quite lost their hearts .
82108
82109 And daily new exactions are devis'd ;
82110 As blanks , benevolences , and I wot not what :
82111 But what , o' God's name , doth become of this ?
82112
82113 Wars have not wasted it , for warr'd he hath not ,
82114 But basely yielded upon compromise
82115 That which his ancestors achiev'd with blows .
82116 More hath he spent in peace than they in wars .
82117
82118 The Earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm .
82119
82120 The king's grown bankrupt , like a broken man .
82121
82122 Reproach and dissolution hangeth over him .
82123
82124 He hath not money for these Irish wars ,
82125 His burdenous taxations notwithstanding ,
82126 But by the robbing of the banish'd duke .
82127
82128 His noble kinsman : most degenerate king !
82129 But , lords , we hear this fearful tempest sing ,
82130 Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm ;
82131 We see the wind sit sore upon our sails ,
82132 And yet we strike not , but securely perish .
82133
82134 We see the very wrack that we must suffer ;
82135 And unavoided is the danger now ,
82136 For suffering so the causes of our wrack .
82137
82138 Not so : even through the hollow eyes of death
82139 Ispy life peering ; but I dare not say
82140 How near the tidings of our comfort is .
82141
82142 Nay , let us share thy thoughts , as thou dost ours .
82143
82144 Be confident to speak , Northumberland :
82145 We three are but thyself : and , speaking so ,
82146 Thy words are but as thoughts ; therefore , be bold .
82147
82148 Then thus : I have from Port le Blanc , a bay
82149 In Brittany , receiv'd intelligence
82150 That Harry Duke of Hereford , Rainold Lord Cobham ,
82151 That late broke from the Duke of Exeter ,
82152 His brother , Archbishop late of Canterbury ,
82153 Sir Thomas Erpingham , Sir John Ramston ,
82154 Sir John Norbery , Sir Robert Waterton , and Francis Quoint ,
82155 All these well furnish'd by the Duke of Britaine ,
82156 With eight tall ships , three thousand men of war ,
82157 Are making hither with all due expedience ,
82158 And shortly mean to touch our northern shore .
82159 Perhaps they had ere this , but that they stay
82160 The first departing of the king for Ireland .
82161 If then we shall shake off our slavish yoke ,
82162 Imp out our drooping country's broken wing ,
82163 Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown ,
82164 Wipe off the dust that hides our sceptre's gilt ,
82165 And make high majesty look like itself ,
82166 Away with me in post to Ravenspurgh ;
82167 But if you faint , as fearing to do so ,
82168 Stay and be secret , and myself will go .
82169
82170 To horse , to horse ! urge doubts to them that fear .
82171
82172 Hold out my horse , and I will first be there .
82173
82174
82175 Madam , your majesty is too much sad :
82176 You promis'd , when you parted with the king ,
82177 To lay aside life-harming heaviness ,
82178 And entertain a cheerful disposition .
82179
82180 To please the king I did ; to please myself
82181 I cannot do it ; yet I know no cause
82182 Why I should welcome such a guest as grief ,
82183 Save bidding farewell to so sweet a guest
82184 As my sweet Richard : yet , again , methinks ,
82185 Some unborn sorrow , ripe in fortune's womb ,
82186 Is coming towards me , and my inward soul
82187 With nothing trembles ; at some thing it grieves
82188 More than with parting from my lord the king .
82189
82190 Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows ,
82191 Which show like grief itself , but are not so .
82192 For sorrow's eye , glazed with blinding tears ,
82193 Divides one thing entire to many objects ;
82194 Like perspectives , which rightly gaz'd upon
82195 Show nothing but confusion ; ey'd awry
82196 Distinguish form : so your sweet majesty ,
82197 Looking awry upon your lord's departure ,
82198 Finds shapes of grief more than himself to wail ;
82199 Which , look'd on as it is , is nought but shadows
82200 Of what it is not . Then , thrice-gracious queen ,
82201 More than your lord's departure weep not : more's not seen ;
82202 Or if it be , 'tis with false sorrow's eye ,
82203 Which for things true weeps things imaginary .
82204
82205 It may be so ; but yet my inward soul
82206 Persuades me it is otherwise : howe'er it be ,
82207 I cannot but be sad , so heavy sad ,
82208 As , though in thinking on no thought I think ,
82209 Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink .
82210
82211 'Tis nothing but conceit , my gracious lady .
82212
82213 'Tis nothing less : conceit is still deriv'd
82214 From some forefather grief ; mine is not so ,
82215 For nothing hath begot my something grief ;
82216 Or something hath the nothing that I grieve :
82217 'Tis in reversion that I do possess ;
82218 But what it is , that is not yet known ; what
82219 I cannot name ; 'tis nameless woe , I wot .
82220
82221
82222 God save your majesty ! and well met , gentlemen :
82223 I hope the king is not yet shipp'd for Ireland .
82224
82225 Why hop'st thou so ? 'tis better hope he is ,
82226 For his designs crave haste , his haste good hope :
82227 Then wherefore dost thou hope he is not shipp'd ?
82228
82229 That he , our hope , might have retir'd his power ,
82230 And driven into despair an enemy's hope ,
82231 Who strongly hath set footing in this land :
82232 The banish'd Bolingbroke repeals himself ,
82233 And with uplifted arms is safe arriv'd
82234 At Ravenspurgh .
82235
82236 Now God in heaven forbid !
82237
82238 Ah ! madam , 'tis too true : and that is worse ,
82239 The Lord Northumberland , his son young Henry Percy ,
82240 The Lords of Ross , Beaumond , and Willoughby ,
82241 With all their powerful friends , are fled to him .
82242
82243 Why have you not proclaim'd Northumberland
82244 And all the rest of the revolted faction traitors ?
82245
82246 We have : whereupon the Earl of Worcester
82247 Hath broke his staff , resign'd his stewardship ,
82248 And all the household servants fled with him
82249 To Bolingbroke .
82250
82251 So , Green , thou art the midwife to my woe ,
82252 And Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir :
82253 Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy ,
82254 And I , a gasping new-deliver'd mother ,
82255 Have woe to woe , sorrow to sorrow join'd .
82256
82257 Despair not , madam .
82258
82259 Who shall hinder me ?
82260 I will despair , and be at enmity
82261 With cozening hope : he is a flatterer ,
82262 A parasite , a keeper-back of death ,
82263 Who gently would dissolve the bands of life ,
82264 Which false hope lingers in extremity .
82265
82266
82267 Here comes the Duke of York .
82268
82269 With signs of war about his aged neck :
82270 O ! full of careful business are his looks .
82271 Uncle , for God's sake , speak comfortable words .
82272
82273 Should I do so , I should belie my thoughts :
82274 Comfort's in heaven ; and we are on the earth ,
82275 Where nothing lives but crosses , cares , and grief .
82276 Your husband , he is gone to save far off ,
82277 Whilst others come to make him lose at home :
82278 Here am I left to underprop his land ,
82279 Who , weak with age , cannot support myself .
82280 Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made ;
82281 Now shall he try his friends that flatter'd him .
82282
82283
82284 My lord , your son was gone before I came .
82285
82286 He was ? Why , so ! go all which way it will !
82287 The nobles they are fled , the commons they are cold ,
82288 And will , I fear , revolt on Hereford's side .
82289 Sirrah , get thee to Plashy , to my sister Gloucester ;
82290 Bid her send me presently a thousand pound .
82291 Hold , take my ring .
82292
82293 My lord , I had forgot to tell your lordship :
82294 To-day , as I came by , I called there ;
82295 But I shall grieve you to report the rest .
82296
82297 What is't , knave ?
82298
82299 An hour before I came the duchess died .
82300
82301 God for his mercy ! what a tide of woes
82302 Comes rushing on this woeful land at once !
82303 I know not what to do : I would to God ,
82304 So my untruth had not provok'd him to it ,
82305 The king had cut off my head with my brother's .
82306 What ! are there no posts dispatch'd for Ireland ?
82307 How shall we do for money for these wars ?
82308 Come , sister ,cousin , I would say ,pray , pardon me .
82309 Go , fellow , get thee home ; provide some carts
82310 And bring away the armour that is there .
82311
82312 Gentlemen , will you go muster men ? If I know
82313 How or which way to order these affairs
82314 Thus thrust disorderly into my hands ,
82315 Never believe me . Both are my kinsmen :
82316 The one is my sovereign , whom both my oath
82317 And duty bids defend ; the other again
82318 Is my kinsman , whom the king hath wrong'd ,
82319 Whom conscience and my kindred bids to right .
82320 Well , somewhat we must do . Come , cousin ,
82321 I'll dispose of you . Gentlemen , go muster up your men ,
82322 And meet me presently at Berkeley Castle .
82323 I should to Plashy too :
82324 But time will not permit . All is uneven ,
82325 And every thing is left at six and seven .
82326
82327
82328 The wind sits fair for news to go to Ireland ,
82329 But none returns . For us to levy power
82330 Proportionable to the enemy
82331 Is all unpossible .
82332
82333 Besides , our nearness to the king in love
82334 Is near the hate of those love not the king .
82335
82336 And that's the wavering commons ; for their love
82337 Lies in their purses , and whoso empties them ,
82338 By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate .
82339
82340 Wherein the king stands generally condemn'd .
82341
82342 If judgment lie in them , then so do we ,
82343 Because we ever have been near the king .
82344
82345 Well , I'll for refuge straight to Bristol Castle ;
82346 The Earl of Wiltshire is already there .
82347
82348 Thither will I with you ; for little office
82349 Will the hateful commons perform for us ,
82350 Except like curs to tear us all to pieces .
82351 Will you go along with us ?
82352
82353 No ; I will to Ireland to his majesty .
82354 Farewell : if heart's presages be not vain ,
82355 We three here part that ne'er shall meet again .
82356
82357 That's as York thrives to beat back Bolingbroke .
82358
82359 Alas , poor duke ! the task he undertakes
82360 Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry :
82361 Where one on his side fights , thousands will fly .
82362 Farewell at once ; for once , for all , and ever .
82363
82364 Well , we may meet again .
82365
82366 I fear me , never .
82367
82368
82369 How far is it , my lord , to Berkeley now ?
82370
82371 Believe me , noble lord ,
82372 I am a stranger here in Gloucestershire :
82373 These high wild hills and rough uneven ways
82374 Draw out our miles and make them wearisome ;
82375 But yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar ,
82376 Making the hard way sweet and delectable .
82377 But I bethink me what a weary way
82378 From Ravenspurgh to Cotswold will be found
82379 In Ross and Willoughby , wanting your company ,
82380 Which , I protest , hath very much beguil'd
82381 The tediousness and process of my travel :
82382 But theirs is sweeten'd with the hope to have
82383 The present benefit which I possess ;
82384 And hope to joy is little less in joy
82385 Than hope enjoy'd : by this the weary lords
82386 Shall make their way seem short , as mine hath done
82387 By sight of what I have , your noble company .
82388
82389 Of much less value is my company
82390 Than your good words . But who comes here ?
82391
82392
82393 It is my son , young Harry Percy ,
82394 Sent from my brother Worcester , whencesoever .
82395 Harry , how fares your uncle ?
82396
82397 I had thought , my lord , to have learn'd his health of you .
82398
82399 Why , is he not with the queen ?
82400
82401 No , my good lord ; he hath forsook the court ,
82402 Broken his staff of office , and dispers'd
82403 The household of the king .
82404
82405 What was his reason ?
82406 He was not so resolv'd when last we spake together .
82407
82408 Because your lordship was proclaimed traitor .
82409 But he , my lord , is gone to Ravenspurgh ,
82410 To offer service to the Duke of Hereford ,
82411 And sent me over by Berkeley to discover
82412 What power the Duke of York had levied there ;
82413 Then with direction to repair to Ravenspurgh .
82414
82415 Have you forgot the Duke of Hereford , boy ?
82416
82417 No , my good lord ; for that is not forgot
82418 Which ne'er I did remember : to my knowledge
82419 I never in my life did look on him .
82420
82421 Then learn to know him now : this is the duke .
82422
82423 My gracious lord , I tender you my service ,
82424 Such as it is , being tender , raw , and young ,
82425 Which elder days shall ripen and confirm
82426 To more approved service and desert .
82427
82428 I thank thee , gentle Percy ; and be sure
82429 I count myself in nothing else so happy
82430 As in a soul remembering my good friends ;
82431 And as my fortune ripens with thy love ,
82432 It shall be still thy true love's recompense :
82433 My heart this covenant makes , my hand thus seals it .
82434
82435 How far is it to Berkeley ? and what stir
82436 Keeps good old York there with his men of war ?
82437
82438 There stands the castle , by yon tuft of trees ,
82439 Mann'd with three hundred men , as I have heard ;
82440 And in it are the Lords of York , Berkeley , and Seymour ;
82441 None else of name and noble estimate .
82442
82443
82444 Here come the Lords of Ross and Willoughby ,
82445 Bloody with spurring , fiery-red with haste .
82446
82447 Welcome , my lords . I wot your love pursues
82448 A banish'd traitor ; all my treasury
82449 Is yet but unfelt thanks , which , more enrich'd ,
82450 Shall be your love and labour's recompense .
82451
82452 Your presence makes us rich , most noble lord .
82453
82454 And far surmounts our labour to attain it .
82455
82456 Evermore thanks , the exchequer of the poor ;
82457 Which , till my infant fortune comes to years ,
82458 Stands for my bounty . But who comes here ?
82459
82460
82461 It is my Lord of Berkeley , as I guess .
82462
82463 My lord of Hereford , my message is to you .
82464
82465 My lord , my answer is to Lancaster ;
82466 And I am come to seek that name in England ;
82467 And I must find that title in your tongue
82468 Before I make reply to aught you say .
82469
82470 Mistake me not , my lord ; 'tis not my meaning
82471 To raze one title of your honour out :
82472 To you , my lord , I come , what lord you will ,
82473 From the most gracious regent of this land ,
82474 The Duke of York , to know what pricks you on
82475 To take advantage of the absent time
82476 And fright our native peace with self-born arms .
82477
82478
82479 I shall not need transport my words by you :
82480 Here comes his Grace in person .
82481 My noble uncle !
82482
82483
82484 Show me thy humble heart , and not thy knee ,
82485 Whose duty is deceivable and false .
82486
82487 My gracious uncle
82488
82489 Tut , tut !
82490 Grace me no grace , nor uncle me no uncle :
82491 I am no traitor's uncle ; and that word 'grace'
82492 In an ungracious mouth is but profane .
82493 Why have those banish'd and forbidden legs
82494 Dar'd once to touch a dust of England's ground ?
82495 But then , more 'why ?' why have they dar'd to march
82496 So many miles upon her peaceful bosom ,
82497 Frighting her pale-fac'd villages with war
82498 And ostentation of despised arms ?
82499 Com'st thou because the anointed king is hence ?
82500 Why , foolish boy , the king is left behind ,
82501 And in my loyal bosom lies his power .
82502 Were I but now the lord of such hot youth
82503 As when brave Gaunt thy father , and myself ,
82504 Rescu'd the Black Prince , that young Mars of men ,
82505 From forth the ranks of many thousand French ,
82506 O ! then , how quickly should this arm of mine ,
82507 Now prisoner to the palsy , chastise thee
82508 And minister correction to thy fault !
82509
82510 My gracious uncle , let me know my fault :
82511 On what condition stands it and wherein ?
82512
82513 Even in condition of the worst degree ,
82514 In gross rebellion and detested treason :
82515 Thou art a banish'd man , and here art come
82516 Before the expiration of thy time ,
82517 In braving arms against thy sovereign .
82518
82519 As I was banish'd , I was banish'd Hereford ;
82520 But as I come , I come for Lancaster .
82521 And , noble uncle , I beseech your Grace
82522 Look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye :
82523 You are my father , for methinks in you
82524 I see old Gaunt alive : O ! then , my father ,
82525 Will you permit that I shall stand condemn'd
82526 A wandering vagabond ; my rights and royalties
82527 Pluck'd from my arms perforce and given away
82528 To upstart unthrifts ? Wherefore was I born ?
82529 If that my cousin king be King of England ,
82530 It must be granted I am Duke of Lancaster .
82531 You have a son , Aumerle , my noble kinsman ;
82532 Had you first died , and he been thus trod down ,
82533 He should have found his uncle Gaunt a father ,
82534 To rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay .
82535 I am denied to sue my livery here ,
82536 And yet my letters-patent give me leave :
82537 My father's goods are all distrain'd and sold ,
82538 And these and all are all amiss employ'd .
82539 What would you have me do ? I am a subject ,
82540 And challenge law : attorneys are denied me ,
82541 And therefore personally I lay my claim
82542 To my inheritance of free descent .
82543
82544 The noble duke hath been too much abus'd .
82545
82546 It stands your Grace upon to do him right .
82547
82548 Base men by his endowments are made great .
82549
82550 My lords of England , let me tell you this :
82551 I have had feeling of my cousin's wrongs ,
82552 And labour'd all I could to do him right ;
82553 But in this kind to come , in braving arms ,
82554 Be his own carver and cut out his way ,
82555 To find out right with wrong , it may not be ;
82556 And you that do abet him in this kind
82557 Cherish rebellion and are rebels all .
82558
82559 The noble duke hath sworn his coming is
82560 But for his own ; and for the right of that
82561 We all have strongly sworn to give him aid ;
82562 And let him ne'er see joy that breaks that oath !
82563
82564 Well , well , I see the issue of these arms :
82565 I cannot mend it , I must needs confess ,
82566 Because my power is weak and all ill left ;
82567 But if I could , by him that gave me life ,
82568 I would attach you all and make you stoop
82569 Unto the sovereign mercy of the king ;
82570 But since I cannot , be it known to you
82571 I do remain as neuter . So , fare you well ;
82572 Unless you please to enter in the castle
82573 And there repose you for this night .
82574
82575 An offer , uncle , that we will accept :
82576 But we must win your Grace to go with us
82577 To Bristol Castle ; which they say is held
82578 By Bushy , Bagot , and their complices ,
82579 The caterpillars of the commonwealth ,
82580 Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away .
82581
82582 It may be I will go with you ; but yet I'll pause ;
82583 For I am loath to break our country's laws .
82584 Nor friends nor foes , to me welcome you are :
82585 Things past redress are now with me past care .
82586
82587
82588 My Lord of Salisbury , we have stay'd ten days ,
82589 And hardly kept our countrymen together ,
82590 And yet we hear no tidings from the king ;
82591 Therefore we will disperse ourselves : farewell .
82592
82593 Stay yet another day , thou trusty Welshman :
82594 The king reposeth all his confidence in thee .
82595
82596 'Tis thought the king is dead : we will not stay .
82597 The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd
82598 And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven ,
82599 The pale-fac'd moon looks bloody on the earth
82600 And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change ,
82601 Rich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap ,
82602 The one in fear to lose what they enjoy ,
82603 The other to enjoy by rage and war :
82604 These signs forerun the death or fall of kings .
82605 Farewell : our countrymen are gone and fled ,
82606 As well assur'd Richard their king is dead .
82607
82608
82609 Ah , Richard ! with the eyes of heavy mind
82610 I see thy glory like a shooting star
82611 Fall to the base earth from the firmament .
82612 Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west ,
82613 Witnessing storms to come , woe , and unrest .
82614 Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes ,
82615 And crossly to thy good all fortune goes .
82616
82617
82618 Bring forth these men .
82619 Bushy and Green , I will not vex your souls
82620 Since presently your souls must part your bodies
82621 With too much urging your pernicious lives ,
82622 For 'twere no charity ; yet , to wash your blood
82623 From off my hands , here in the view of men
82624 I will unfold some causes of your deaths .
82625 You have misled a prince , a royal king ,
82626 A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments ,
82627 By you unhappied and disfigur'd clean :
82628 You have in manner with your sinful hours
82629 Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him ,
82630 Broke the possession of a royal bed ,
82631 And stain'd the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks
82632 With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs .
82633 Myself , a prince by fortune of my birth ,
82634 Near to the king in blood , and near in love
82635 Till you did make him misinterpret me ,
82636 Have stoop'd my neck under your injuries ,
82637 And sigh'd my English breath in foreign clouds ,
82638 Eating the bitter bread of banishment ;
82639 Whilst you have fed upon my signories ,
82640 Dispark'd my parks , and felled my forest woods ,
82641 From mine own windows torn my household coat ,
82642 Raz'd out my impress , leaving me no sign ,
82643 Save men's opinions and my living blood ,
82644 To show the world I am a gentleman .
82645 This and much more , much more than twice all this ,
82646 Condemns you to the death . See them deliver'd over
82647 To execution and the hand of death .
82648
82649 More welcome is the stroke of death to me
82650 Than Bolingbroke to England . Lords , farewell .
82651
82652 My comfort is , that heaven will take our souls
82653 And plague injustice with the pains of hell .
82654
82655 My Lord Northumberland , see them dispatch'd .
82656
82657 Uncle , you say the queen is at your house ;
82658 For God's sake , fairly let her be entreated :
82659 Tell her I send to her my kind commends ;
82660 Take special care my greetings be deliver'd .
82661
82662 A gentleman of mine I have dispatch'd
82663 With letters of your love to her at large .
82664
82665 Thanks , gentle uncle . Come , lords , away ,
82666 To fight with Glendower and his complices :
82667 Awhile to work , and after holiday .
82668
82669
82670 Barkloughly Castle call they this at hand ?
82671
82672 Yea , my lord . How brooks your Grace the air ,
82673 After your late tossing on the breaking seas ?
82674
82675 Needs must I like it well : I weep for joy
82676 To stand upon my kingdom once again .
82677 Dear earth , I do salute thee with my hand ,
82678 Though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs :
82679 As a long-parted mother with her child
82680 Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting ,
82681 So , weeping , smiling , greet I thee , my earth ,
82682 And do thee favour with my royal hands .
82683 Feed not thy sovereign's foe , my gentle earth ,
82684 Nor with thy sweets comfort his revenous sense ;
82685 But let thy spiders , that suck up thy venom ,
82686 And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way ,
82687 Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet
82688 Which with usurping steps do trample thee .
82689 Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies ;
82690 And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower ,
82691 Guard it , I pray thee , with a lurking adder
82692 Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch
82693 Throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies .
82694 Mock not my senseless conjuration , lords :
82695 This earth shall have a feeling and these stones
82696 Prove armed soldiers , ere her native king
82697 Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms .
82698
82699 Fear not , my lord : that power that made you king
82700 Hath power to keep you king in spite of all .
82701 The means that heaven yields must be embrac'd ,
82702 And not neglected ; else , if heaven would ,
82703 And we will not , heaven's offer we refuse ,
82704 The proffer'd means of succour and redress .
82705
82706 He means , my lord , that we are too remiss ;
82707 Whilst Bolingbroke , through our security ,
82708 Grows strong and great in substance and in friends .
82709
82710 Discomfortable cousin ! know'st thou not
82711 That when the searching eye of heaven is hid
82712 Behind the globe , and lights the lower world ,
82713 Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen ,
82714 In murders and in outrage bloody here ;
82715 But when , from under this terrestrial ball
82716 He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines
82717 And darts his light through every guilty hole ,
82718 Then murders , treasons , and detested sins ,
82719 The cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs ,
82720 Stand bare and naked , trembling at themselves ?
82721 So when this thief , this traitor , Bolingbroke ,
82722 Who all this while hath revell'd in the night
82723 Whilst we were wandering with the antipodes ,
82724 Shall see us rising in our throne , the east ,
82725 His treasons will sit blushing in his face ,
82726 Not able to endure the sight of day ,
82727 But self-affrighted tremble at his sin .
82728 Not all the water in the rough rude sea
82729 Can wash the balm from an anointed king ;
82730 The breath of worldly men cannot depose
82731 The deputy elected by the Lord .
82732 For every man that Bolingbroke hath press'd
82733 To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown ,
82734 God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay
82735 A glorious angel : then , if angels fight ,
82736 Weak men must fall , for heaven still guards the right .
82737
82738 Welcome , my lord : how far off lies your power ?
82739
82740 Nor near nor further off , my gracious lord ,
82741 Than this weak arm : discomfort guides my tongue
82742 And bids me speak of nothing but despair .
82743 One day too late , I fear me , noble lord ,
82744 Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth .
82745 O ! call back yesterday , bid time return ,
82746 And thou shalt have twelve thousand fighting men :
82747 To-day , to-day , unhappy day too late ,
82748 O'erthrows thy joys , friends , fortune , and thy state ;
82749 For all the Welshmen , hearing thou wert dead ,
82750 Are gone to Bolingbroke , dispers'd , and fled .
82751
82752 Comfort , my liege ! why looks your Grace so pale ?
82753
82754 But now , the blood of twenty thousand men
82755 Did triumph in my face , and they are fled ;
82756 And till so much blood thither come again
82757 Have I not reason to look pale and dead ?
82758 All souls that will be safe , fly from my side ;
82759 For time hath set a blot upon my pride .
82760
82761 Comfort , my liege ! remember who you are .
82762
82763 I had forgot myself . Am I not king ?
82764 Awake , thou sluggard majesty ! thou sleepest .
82765 Is not the king's name twenty thousand names ?
82766 Arm , arm , my name ! a puny subject strikes
82767 At thy great glory . Look not to the ground ,
82768 Ye favourites of a king : are we not high ?
82769 High be our thoughts : I know my uncle York
82770 Hath power enough to serve our turn . But who comes here ?
82771
82772
82773 More health and happiness betide my liege
82774 Than can my care-tun'd tongue deliver him !
82775
82776 Mine ear is open and my heart prepar'd :
82777 The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold .
82778 Say , is my kingdom lost ? why , 'twas my care ;
82779 And what loss is it to be rid of care ?
82780 Strives Bolingbroke to be as great as we ?
82781 Greater he shall not be : if he serve God
82782 We'll serve him too , and be his fellow so :
82783 Revolt our subjects ? that we cannot mend ;
82784 They break their faith to God as well as us :
82785 Cry woe , destruction , ruin , loss , decay ;
82786 The worst is death , and death will have his day .
82787
82788 Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd
82789 To bear the tidings of calamity .
82790 Like an unseasonable stormy day
82791 Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores ,
82792 As if the world were all dissolv'd to tears ,
82793 So high above his limits swells the rage
82794 Of Bolingbroke , covering your fearful land
82795 With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel .
82796 White-beards have arm'd their thin and hairless scalps
82797 Against thy majesty ; and boys , with women's voices ,
82798 Strive to speak big , and clap their female joints
82799 In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown ;
82800 Thy very beadsmen learn to bend their bows
82801 Of double-fatal yew against thy state ;
82802 Yea , distaff-women manage rusty bills
82803 Against thy seat : both young and old rebel ,
82804 And all goes worse than I have power to tell .
82805
82806 Too well , too well thou tell'st a tale so ill .
82807 Where is the Earl of Wiltshire ? where is Bagot ?
82808 What is become of Bushy ? where is Green ?
82809 That they have let the dangerous enemy
82810 Measure our confines with such peaceful steps ?
82811 If we prevail , their heads shall pay for it .
82812 I warrant they have made peace with Bolingbroke .
82813
82814 Peace have they made with him , indeed , my lord .
82815
82816 O villains , vipers , damn'd without redemption !
82817 Dogs , easily won to fawn on any man !
82818 Snakes , in my heart-blood warm'd , that sting my heart !
82819 Three Judases , each one thrice worse than Judas !
82820 Would they make peace ? terrible hell make war
82821 Upon their spotted souls for this offence !
82822
82823 Sweet love , I see , changing his property ,
82824 Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate .
82825 Again uncurse their souls ; their peace is made
82826 With heads and not with hands : those whom you curse
82827 Have felt the worst of death's destroying wound
82828 And lie full low , grav'd in the hollow ground .
82829
82830 Is Bushy , Green , and the Earl of Wiltshire dead ?
82831
82832 Yea , all of them at Bristol lost their heads .
82833
82834 Where is the duke my father with his power ?
82835
82836 No matter where . Of comfort no man speak :
82837 Let's talk of graves , of worms , and epitaphs ;
82838 Make dust our paper , and with rainy eyes
82839 Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth ;
82840 Let's choose executors and talk of wills :
82841 And yet not so for what can we bequeath
82842 Save our deposed bodies to the ground ?
82843 Our lands , our lives , and all are Bolingbroke's ,
82844 And nothing can we call our own but death ,
82845 And that small model of the barren earth
82846 Which serves as paste and cover to our bones .
82847 For God's sake , let us sit upon the ground
82848 And tell sad stories of the death of kings :
82849 How some have been depos'd , some slain in war ,
82850 Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd ,
82851 Some poison'd by their wives , some sleeping kill'd ;
82852 All murder'd : for within the hollow crown
82853 That rounds the mortal temples of a king
82854 Keeps Death his court , and there the antick sits ,
82855 Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp ;
82856 Allowing him a breath , a little scene ,
82857 To monarchize , be fear'd , and kill with looks ,
82858 Infusing him with self and vain conceit
82859 As if this flesh which walls about our life
82860 Were brass impregnable ; and humour'd thus
82861 Comes at the last , and with a little pin
82862 Bores through his castle wall , and farewell king !
82863 Cover your heads , and mock not flesh and blood
82864 With solemn reverence : throw away respect ,
82865 Tradition , form , and ceremonious duty ,
82866 For you have but mistook me all this while :
82867 I live with bread like you , feel want ,
82868 Taste grief , need friends : subjected thus ,
82869 How can you say to me I am a king ?
82870
82871 My lord , wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes ,
82872 But presently prevent the ways to wail .
82873 To fear the foe , since fear oppresseth strength ,
82874 Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe ,
82875 And so your follies fight against yourself .
82876 Fear and be slain ; no worse can come to fight :
82877 And fight and die is death destroying death ;
82878 Where fearing dying pays death servile breath .
82879
82880 My father hath a power ; inquire of him
82881 And learn to make a body of a limb .
82882
82883 Thou chid'st me well . Proud Boling broke , I come
82884 To change blows with thee for our day of doom .
82885 This ague-fit of fear is over-blown ;
82886 An easy task it is , to win our own .
82887 Say , Scroop , where lies our uncle with his power ?
82888 Speak sweetly , man , although thy looks be sour .
82889
82890 Men judge by the complexion of the sky
82891 The state and inclination of the day ;
82892 So may you by my dull and heavy eye ,
82893 My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say .
82894 I play the torturer , by small and small
82895 To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken .
82896 Your uncle York is join'd with Bolingbroke ,
82897 And all your northern castles yielded up ,
82898 And all your southern gentlemen in arms
82899 Upon his party .
82900
82901 Thou hast said enough .
82902
82903
82904 Beshrew thee , cousin , which didst lead me forth
82905 Of that sweet way I was in to despair !
82906 What say you now ? What comfort have we now ?
82907 By heaven , I'll hate him everlastingly
82908 That bids me be of comfort any more .
82909 Go to Flint Castle : there I'll pine away ;
82910 A king , woe's slave , shall kingly woe obey .
82911 That power I have , discharge ; and let them go
82912 To ear the land that hath some hope to grow ,
82913 For I have none : let no man speak again
82914 To alter this , for counsel is but vain .
82915
82916 My liege , one word .
82917
82918 He does me double wrong ,
82919 That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue .
82920 Discharge my followers : let them hence away ,
82921 From Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day .
82922
82923
82924 So that by this intelligence we learn
82925 The Welshmen are dispers'd and Salisbury
82926 Is gone to meet the king , who lately landed
82927 With some few private friends upon this coast .
82928
82929 The news is very fair and good , my lord :
82930 Richard not far from hence hath hid his head .
82931
82932 It would beseem the Lord Northumberland
82933 To say , 'King Richard :' alack the heavy day
82934 When such a sacred king should hide his head !
82935
82936 Your Grace mistakes ; only to be brief
82937 Left I his title out .
82938
82939 The time hath been ,
82940 Would you have been so brief with him , he would
82941 Have been so brief with you , to shorten you ,
82942 For taking so the head , your whole head's length .
82943
82944 Mistake not , uncle , further than you should .
82945
82946 Take not , good cousin , further than you should ,
82947 Lest you mistake the heavens are o'er our heads .
82948
82949 I know it , uncle ; and oppose not myself
82950 Against their will . But who comes here ?
82951
82952 Welcome , Harry : what , will not this castle yield ?
82953
82954 The castle royally is mann'd , my lord ,
82955 Against thy entrance .
82956
82957 Royally !
82958 Why , it contains no king ?
82959
82960 Yes , my good lord ,
82961 It doth contain a king : King Richard lies
82962 Within the limits of yon lime and stone ;
82963 And with him are the Lord Aumerle , Lord Salisbury ,
82964 Sir Stephen Scroop ; besides a clergyman
82965 Of holy reverence ; who , I cannot learn .
82966
82967 O ! belike it is the Bishop of Carlisle .
82968
82969 Noble lord ,
82970 Go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle ,
82971 Through brazen trumpet send the breath of parley
82972 Into his ruin'd ears , and thus deliver :
82973 Henry Bolingbroke
82974 On both his knees doth kiss King Richard's hand ,
82975 And sends allegiance and true faith of heart
82976 To his most royal person ; hither come
82977 Even at his feet to lay my arms and power ,
82978 Provided that my banishment repeal'd ,
82979 And lands restor'd again be freely granted .
82980 If not , I'll use the advantage of my power ,
82981 And lay the summer's dust with showers of blood
82982 Rain'd from the wounds of slaughter'd Englishmen :
82983 The which , how far off from the mind of Bolingbroke
82984 It is , such crimson tempest should bedrench
82985 The fresh green lap of fair King Richard's land ,
82986 My stooping duty tenderly shall show .
82987 Go , signify as much , while here we march
82988 Upon the grassy carpet of this plain .
82989 Let's march without the noise of threat'ning drum ,
82990 That from the castle's totter'd battlements
82991 Our fair appointments may be well perus'd .
82992 Methinks King Richard and myself should meet
82993 With no less terror than the elements
82994 Of fire and water , when their thundering shock
82995 At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven .
82996 Be he the fire , I'll be the yielding water :
82997 The rage be his , while on the earth I rain
82998 My waters ; on the earth , and not on him .
82999 March on , and mark King Richard how he looks .
83000
83001
83002 See , see , King Richard doth himself appear ,
83003 As doth the blushing discontented sun
83004 From out the fiery portal of the east ,
83005 When he perceives the envious clouds are bent
83006 To dim his glory and to stain the track
83007 Of his bright passage to the occident .
83008
83009 Yet looks he like a king : behold , his eye ,
83010 As bright as is the eagle's , lightens forth
83011 Controlling majesty : alack , alack , for woe ,
83012 That any harm should stain so fair a show !
83013
83014 We are amaz'd ; and thus long have we stood
83015 To watch the fearful bending of thy knee ,
83016 Because we thought ourself thy lawful king :
83017 And if we be , how dare thy joints forget
83018 To pay their awful duty to our presence ?
83019 If we be not , show us the hand of God
83020 That hath dismiss'd us from our stewardship ;
83021 For well we know , no hand of blood and bone
83022 Can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre ,
83023 Unless he do profane , steal , or usurp .
83024 And though you think that all , as you have done ,
83025 Have torn their souls by turning them from us ,
83026 And we are barren and bereft of friends ;
83027 Yet know , my master , God omnipotent ,
83028 Is mustering in his clouds on our behalf
83029 Armies of pestilence ; and they shall strike
83030 Your children yet unborn and unbegot ,
83031 That lift your vassal hands against my head
83032 And threat the glory of my precious crown .
83033 Tell Bolingbroke ,for yond methinks he is ,
83034 That every stride he makes upon my land
83035 Is dangerous treason : he is come to open
83036 The purple testament of bleeding war ;
83037 But ere the crown he looks for live in peace ,
83038 Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' sons
83039 Shall ill become the flower of England's face ,
83040 Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace
83041 To scarlet indignation , and bedew
83042 Her pastures' grass with faithful English blood .
83043
83044 The king of heaven forbid our lord the king
83045 Should so with civil and uncivil arms
83046 Be rush'd upon ! Thy thrice-noble cousin ,
83047 Harry Bolingbroke , doth humbly kiss thy hand ;
83048 And by the honourable tomb he swears ,
83049 That stands upon your royal grandsire's bones ,
83050 And by the royalties of both your bloods ,
83051 Currents that spring from one most gracious head ,
83052 And by the buried hand of war-like Gaunt ,
83053 And by the worth and honour of himself ,
83054 Comprising all that may be sworn or said ,
83055 His coming hither hath no further scope
83056 Than for his lineal royalties and to beg
83057 Enfranchisement immediate on his knees :
83058 Which on thy royal party granted once ,
83059 His glittering arms he will commend to rust ,
83060 His barbed steeds to stables , and his heart
83061 To faithful service of your majesty .
83062 This swears he , as he is a prince , is just ;
83063 And , as I am a gentleman , I credit him .
83064
83065 Northumberland , say , thus the king returns :
83066 His noble cousin is right welcome hither ;
83067 And all the number of his fair demands
83068 Shall be accomplish'd without contradiction :
83069 With all the gracious utterance thou hast
83070 Speak to his gentle hearing kind commends .
83071
83072 We do debase ourself , cousin , do we not ,
83073 To look so poorly and to speak so fair ?
83074 Shall we call back Northumberland and send
83075 Defiance to the traitor , and so die ?
83076
83077 No , good my lord ; let's fight with gentle words ,
83078 Till time lend friends and friends their helpful swords .
83079
83080 O God ! O God ! that e'er this tongue of mine ,
83081 That laid the sentence of dread banishment
83082 On yond proud man , should take it off again
83083 With words of sooth . O ! that I were as great
83084 As is my grief , or lesser than my name ,
83085 Or that I could forget what I have been ,
83086 Or not remember what I must be now .
83087 Swell'st thou , proud heart ? I'll give thee scope to beat ,
83088 Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me .
83089
83090 Northumberland comes back from Bolingbroke .
83091
83092 What must the king do now ? Must he submit ?
83093 The king shall do it : must he be depos'd ?
83094 The king shall be contented : must he lose
83095 The name of king ? o' God's name , let it go :
83096 I'll give my jewels for a set of beads ,
83097 My gorgeous palace for a hermitage ,
83098 My gay apparel for an almsman's gown ,
83099 My figur'd goblets for a dish of wood ,
83100 My sceptre for a palmer's walking-staff ,
83101 My subjects for a pair of carved saints ,
83102 And my large kingdom for a little grave ,
83103 A little little grave , an obscure grave ;
83104 Or I'll be buried in the king's highway ,
83105 Some way of common trade , where subjects' feet
83106 May hourly trample on their sovereign's head ;
83107 For on my heart they tread now whilst I live ;
83108 And buried once , why not upon my head ?
83109 Aumerle , thou weep'st , my tender-hearted cousin !
83110 We'll make foul weather with despised tears ;
83111 Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn ,
83112 And make a dearth in this revolting land .
83113 Or shall we play the wantons with our woes ,
83114 And make some pretty match with shedding tears ?
83115 As thus ; to drop them still upon one place ,
83116 Till they have fretted us a pair of graves
83117 Within the earth ; and , there inlaid : 'There lies
83118 Two kinsmen digg'd their graves with weeping eyes .'
83119 Would not this ill do well ? Well , well , I see
83120 I talk but idly and you laugh at me .
83121 Most mighty prince , my Lord Northumberland ,
83122 What says King Bolingbroke ? will his majesty
83123 Give Richard leave to live till Richard die ?
83124 You make a leg , and Bolingbroke says ay .
83125
83126 My lord , in the base court he doth attend
83127 To speak with you ; may't please you to come down ?
83128
83129 Down , down , I come ; like glistering Phaethon ,
83130 Wanting the manage of unruly jades .
83131 In the base court ? Base court , where kings grow base ,
83132 To come at traitors' calls and do them grace .
83133 In the base court ? Come down ? Down , court ! down , king !
83134 For night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing .
83135
83136
83137 What says his majesty ?
83138
83139 Sorrow and grief of heart
83140 Makes him speak fondly , like a frantic man :
83141 Yet he is come .
83142
83143
83144 Stand all apart ,
83145 And show fair duty to his majesty .
83146
83147 My gracious lord ,
83148
83149 Fair cousin , you debase your princely knee
83150 To make the base earth proud with kissing it :
83151 Me rather had my heart might feel your love
83152 Than my unpleas'd eye see your courtesy .
83153 Up , cousin , up ; your heart is up , I know ,
83154 Thus high at least , although your knee be low .
83155
83156 My gracious lord , I come but for mine own .
83157
83158 Your own is yours , and I am yours , and all .
83159
83160 So far be mine , my most redoubted lord ,
83161 As my true service shall deserve your love .
83162
83163 Well you deserve : they well deserve to have
83164 That know the strong'st and surest way to get .
83165 Uncle , give me your hand : nay , dry your eyes ;
83166 Tears show their love , but want their remedies .
83167 Cousin , I am too young to be your father ,
83168 Though you are old enough to be my heir .
83169 What you will have I'll give , and willing too ;
83170 For do we must what force will have us do .
83171 Set on towards London . Cousin , is it so ?
83172
83173 Yea , my good lord .
83174
83175 Then I must not say no .
83176
83177
83178 What sport shall we devise here in this garden ,
83179 To drive away the heavy thought of care ?
83180
83181 Madam , we'll play at bowls .
83182
83183 'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs ;
83184 And that my fortune runs against the bias .
83185
83186 Madam , we'll dance .
83187
83188 My legs can keep no measure in delight
83189 When my poor heart no measure keeps in grief :
83190 Therefore , no dancing , girl ; some other sport .
83191
83192 Madam , we'll tell tales .
83193
83194 Of sorrow or of joy ?
83195
83196 Of either , madam .
83197
83198 Of neither , girl :
83199 For if of joy , being altogether wanting ,
83200 It doth remember me the more of sorrow ;
83201 Or if of grief , being altogether had ,
83202 It adds more sorrow to my want of joy :
83203 For what I have I need not to repeat ,
83204 And what I want it boots not to complain .
83205
83206 Madam , I'll sing .
83207
83208 'Tis well that thou hast cause ;
83209 But thou shouldst please me better wouldst thou weep .
83210
83211 I could weep , madam , would it do you good .
83212
83213 And I could sing would weeping do me good ,
83214 And never borrow any tear of thee .
83215 But stay , here come the gardeners :
83216 Let's step into the shadow of these trees .
83217 My wretchedness unto a row of pins ,
83218 They'll talk of state ; for every one doth so
83219 Against a change : woe is forerun with woe .
83220
83221 Go , bind thou up yon dangling apricocks ,
83222 Which , like unruly children , make their sire
83223 Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight :
83224 Give some supportance to the bending twigs .
83225 Go thou , and like an executioner ,
83226 Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays ,
83227 That look too lofty in our commonwealth :
83228 All must be even in our government .
83229 You thus employ'd , I will go root away
83230 The noisome weeds , that without profit suck
83231 The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers .
83232
83233 Why should we in the compass of a pale
83234 Keep law and form and due proportion ,
83235 Showing , as in a model , our firm estate ,
83236 When our sea-walled garden , the whole land ,
83237 Is full of weeds , her fairest flowers chok'd up ,
83238 Her fruit-trees all unprun'd , her hedges ruin'd ,
83239 Her knots disorder'd , and her wholesome herbs
83240 Swarming with caterpillars ?
83241
83242 Hold thy peace :
83243 He that hath suffer'd this disorder'd spring
83244 Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf ;
83245 The weeds that his broad-spreading leaves did shelter ,
83246 That seem'd in eating him to hold him up ,
83247 Are pluck'd up root and all by Bolingbroke ;
83248 I mean the Earl of Wiltshire , Bushy , Green .
83249
83250 What ! are they dead ?
83251
83252 They are ; and Bolingbroke
83253 Hath seiz'd the wasteful king . O ! what pity is it
83254 That he hath not so trimm'd and dress'd his land
83255 As we this garden . We at time of year
83256 Do wound the bark , the skin of our fruit-trees ,
83257 Lest , being over-proud with sap and blood ,
83258 With too much riches it confound itself :
83259 Had he done so to great and growing men ,
83260 They might have liv'd to bear and he to taste
83261 Their fruits of duty : superfluous branches
83262 We lop away that bearing boughs may live :
83263 Had he done so , himself had borne the crown ,
83264 Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down .
83265
83266 What ! think you then the king shall be depos'd ?
83267
83268 Depress'd he is already , and depos'd
83269 'Tis doubt he will be : letters came last night
83270 To a dear friend of the good Duke of York's ,
83271 That tell black tidings .
83272
83273 O ! I am press'd to death through want of speaking .
83274
83275 Thou , old Adam's likeness , set to dress this garden ,
83276 How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news ?
83277 What Eve , what serpent , hath suggested thee
83278 To make a second fall of cursed man ?
83279 Why dost thou say King Richard is depos'd ?
83280 Dar'st thou , thou little better thing than earth ,
83281 Divine his downfall ? Say , where , when , and how
83282 Cam'st thou by these ill tidings ? speak , thou wretch .
83283
83284 Pardon me , madam : little joy have I
83285 To breathe these news , yet what I say is true .
83286 King Richard , he is in the mighty hold
83287 Of Bolingbroke ; their fortunes both are weigh'd :
83288 In your lord's scale is nothing but himself ,
83289 And some few vanities that make him light ;
83290 But in the balance of great Bolingbroke ,
83291 Besides himself , are all the English peers ,
83292 And with that odds he weighs King Richard down .
83293 Post you to London and you'll find it so ;
83294 I speak no more than every one doth know .
83295
83296 Nimble mischance . that art so light of foot ,
83297 Doth not thy embassage belong to me ,
83298 And am I last that knows it ? O ! thou think'st
83299 To serve me last , that I may longest keep
83300 Thy sorrow in my breast . Come , ladies , go ,
83301 To meet at London London's king in woe .
83302 What ! was I born to this , that my sad look
83303 Should grace the triumph of great Bolingbroke ?
83304 Gardener , for telling me these news of woe ,
83305 Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow .
83306
83307
83308 Poor queen ! so that thy state might be no worse ,
83309 I would my skill were subject to thy curse .
83310 Here did she fall a tear ; here , in this place ,
83311 I'll set a bank of rue , sour herb of grace ;
83312 Rue , even for ruth , here shortly shall be seen ,
83313 In the remembrance of a weeping queen .
83314
83315 Call forth Bagot .
83316 Now , Bagot , freely speak thy mind ;
83317 What thou dost know of noble Gloucester's death ,
83318 Who wrought it with the king , and who perform'd
83319 The bloody office of his timeless end .
83320
83321 Then set before my face the Lord Aumerle .
83322
83323 Cousin , stand forth , and look upon that man .
83324
83325 My Lord Aumerle , I know your daring tongue
83326 Scorns to unsay what once it hath deliver'd .
83327 In that dead time when Gloucester's death was plotted ,
83328 I heard you say , 'Is not my arm of length ,
83329 That reacheth from the restful English court
83330 As far as Calais , to my uncle's head ?'
83331 Amongst much other talk , that very time ,
83332 I heard you say that you had rather refuse
83333 The offer of a hundred thousand crowns
83334 Than Bolingbroke's return to England ;
83335 Adding withal , how blest this land would be
83336 In this your cousin's death .
83337
83338 Princes and noble lords ,
83339 What answer shall I make to this base man ?
83340 Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars ,
83341 On equal terms to give him chastisement ?
83342 Either I must , or have mine honour soil'd
83343 With the attainder of his slanderous lips .
83344 There is my gage , the manual seal of death ,
83345 That marks thee out for hell : I say thou liest ,
83346 And will maintain what thou hast said is false
83347 In thy heart-blood , though being all too base
83348 To stain the temper of my knightly sword .
83349
83350 Bagot , forbear ; thou shalt not take it up .
83351
83352 Excepting one , I would he were the best
83353 In all this presence that hath mov'd me so .
83354
83355 If that thy valour stand on sympathies ,
83356 There is my gage , Aumerle , in gage to thine :
83357 By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st ,
83358 I heard thee say , and vauntingly thou spak'st it ,
83359 That thou wert cause of noble Gloucester's death .
83360 If thou deny'st it twenty times , thou liest ;
83361 And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart ,
83362 Where it was forged , with my rapier's point .
83363
83364 Thou dar'st not , coward , live to see that day .
83365
83366 Now , by my soul , I would it were this hour .
83367
83368 Fitzwater , thou art damn'd to hell for this .
83369
83370 Aumerle , thou liest ; his honour is as true
83371 In this appeal as thou art all unjust ;
83372 And that thou art so , there I throw my gage ,
83373 To prove it on thee to the extremest point
83374 Of mortal breathing : seize it if thou dar'st .
83375
83376 And if I do not may my hands rot off
83377 And never brandish more revengeful steel
83378 Over the glittering helmet of my foe !
83379
83380 I task the earth to the like , forsworn Aumerle ;
83381 And spur thee on with full as many lies
83382 As may be holla'd in thy treacherous ear
83383 From sun to sun : there is my honour's pawn ;
83384 Engage it to the trial if thou dar'st .
83385
83386 Who sets me else ? by heaven , I'll throw at all :
83387 I have a thousand spirits in one breast ,
83388 To answer twenty thousand such as you .
83389
83390 My Lord Fitzwater , I do remember well
83391 The very time Aumerle and you did talk .
83392
83393 'Tis very true : you were in presence then ;
83394 And you can witness with me this is true .
83395
83396 As false , by heaven , as heaven itself is true .
83397
83398 Surrey , thou best .
83399
83400 Dishonourable boy !
83401 That he shall lie so heavy on my sword
83402 That it shall render vengeance and revenge ,
83403 Till thou the lie-giver and that lie do lie
83404 In earth as quiet as thy father's skull .
83405 In proof whereof , there is my honour's pawn :
83406 Engage it to the trial if thou dar'st .
83407
83408 How fondly dost thou spur a forward horse !
83409 If I dare eat , or drink , or breathe , or live ,
83410 I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness ,
83411 And spit upon him , whilst I say he lies ,
83412 And lies , and lies : there is my bond of faith
83413 To tie thee to my strong correction .
83414 As I intend to thrive in this new world ,
83415 Aumerle is guilty of my true appeal :
83416 Besides , I heard the banish'd Norfolk say
83417 That thou , Aumerle , didst send two of thy men
83418 To execute the noble duke at Calais .
83419
83420 Some honest Christian trust me with a gage .
83421 That Norfolk lies , here do I throw down this ,
83422 If he may be repeal'd to try his honour .
83423
83424 These differences shall all rest under gage
83425 Till Norfolk be repeal'd : repeal'd he shall be ,
83426 And though mine enemy , restor'd again
83427 To all his lands and signories ; when he's return'd ,
83428 Against Aumerle we will enforce his trial .
83429
83430 That honourable day shall ne'er be seen .
83431 Many a time hath banish'd Norfolk fought
83432 For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field ,
83433 Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross
83434 Against black pagans , Turks , and Saracens ;
83435 And toil'd with works of war , retir'd himself
83436 To Italy ; and there at Venice gave
83437 His body to that pleasant country's earth ,
83438 And his pure soul unto his captain Christ ,
83439 Under whose colours he had fought so long .
83440
83441 Why , bishop , is Norfolk dead ?
83442
83443 As surely as I live , my lord .
83444
83445 Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom
83446 Of good old Abraham ! Lords appellants ,
83447 Your differences shall all rest under gage
83448 Till we assign you to your days of trial .
83449
83450
83451 Great Duke of Lancaster , I come to thee
83452 From plume-pluck'd Richard ; who with willing soul
83453 Adopts thee heir , and his high sceptre yields
83454 To the possession of thy royal hand .
83455 Ascend his throne , descending now from him ;
83456 And long live Henry , of that name the fourth !
83457
83458 In God's name , I'll ascend the regal throne .
83459
83460 Marry , God forbid !
83461 Worst in this royal presence may I speak ,
83462 Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth .
83463 Would God that any in this noble presence
83464 Were enough noble to be upright judge
83465 Of noble Richard ! then , true noblesse would
83466 Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong .
83467 What subject can give sentence on his king ?
83468 And who sits here that is not Richard's subject ?
83469 Thieves are not judg'd but they are by to hear ,
83470 Although apparent guilt be seen in them ;
83471 And shall the figure of God's majesty ,
83472 His captain , steward , deputy elect ,
83473 Anointed , crowned , planted many years ,
83474 Be judg'd by subject and inferior breath ,
83475 And he himself not present ? O ! forfend it , God ,
83476 That in a Christian climate souls refin'd
83477 Should show so heinous , black , obscene a deed .
83478 I speak to subjects , and a subject speaks ,
83479 Stirr'd up by God thus boldly for his king .
83480 My Lord of Hereford here , whom you call king ,
83481 Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford's king ;
83482 And if you crown him , let me prophesy ,
83483 The blood of English shall manure the ground
83484 And future ages groan for this foul act ;
83485 Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels ,
83486 And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars
83487 Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound ;
83488 Disorder , horror , fear and mutiny
83489 Shall here inhabit , and this land be call'd
83490 The field of Golgotha and dead men's skulls .
83491 O ! if you rear this house against this house ,
83492 It will the woefullest division prove
83493 That ever fell upon this cursed earth .
83494 Prevent it , resist it , let it not be so ,
83495 Lest child , child's children , cry against you 'woe !'
83496
83497 Well have you argu'd , sir ; and , for your pains ,
83498 Of capital treason we arrest you here .
83499 My Lord of Westminster , be it your charge
83500 To keep him safely till his day of trial .
83501 May it please you , lords , to grant the commons' suit ?
83502
83503 Fetch hither Richard , that in common view
83504 He may surrender ; so we shall proceed
83505 Without suspicion .
83506
83507 I will be his conduct .
83508
83509
83510 Lords , you that here are under our arrest ,
83511 Procure your sureties for your days of answer .
83512
83513
83514 Little are we beholding to your love ,
83515 And little look'd for at your helping hands .
83516
83517
83518 Alack ! why am I sent for to a king
83519 Before I have shook off the regal thoughts
83520 Wherewith I reign'd ? I hardly yet have learn'd
83521 To insinuate , flatter , bow , and bend my limbs :
83522 Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me
83523 To this submission . Yet I well remember
83524 The favours of these men : were they not mine ?
83525 Did they not sometime cry , 'All haill' to me ?
83526 So Judas did to Christ : but he , in twelve ,
83527 Found truth in all but one ; I , in twelve thousand , none .
83528 God save the king ! Will no man say , amen ?
83529 Am I both priest and clerk ? well then , amen .
83530 God save the king ! although I be not he ;
83531 And yet , amen , if heaven do think him me .
83532 To do what service am I sent for hither ?
83533
83534 To do that office of thine own good will
83535 Which tired majesty did make thee offer ,
83536 The resignation of thy state and crown
83537 To Henry Bolingbroke .
83538
83539 Give me the crown . Here , cousin , seize the crown ;
83540 Here cousin ,
83541 On this side my hand and on that side thine .
83542 Now is this golden crown like a deep well
83543 That owes two buckets filling one another ;
83544 The emptier ever dancing in the air ,
83545 The other down , unseen and full of water :
83546 That bucket down and full of tears am I ,
83547 Drinking my griefs , whilst you mount up on high .
83548
83549 I thought you had been willing to resign .
83550
83551 My crown , I am ; but still my griefs are mine .
83552 You may my glories and my state depose ,
83553 But not my griefs ; still am I king of those .
83554
83555 Part of your cares you give me with your crown .
83556
83557 Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down .
83558 My care is loss of care , by old care done ;
83559 Your care is gain of care , by new care won .
83560 The cares I give I have , though given away ;
83561 They tend the crown , yet still with me they stay .
83562
83563 Are you contented to resign the crown ?
83564
83565 Ay , no ; no , ay ; for I must nothing be ;
83566 Therefore no no , for I resign to thee .
83567 Now mark me how I will undo myself :
83568 I give this heavy weight from off my head ,
83569 And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand ,
83570 The pride of kingly sway from out my heart ;
83571 With mine own tears I wash away my balm ,
83572 With mine own hands I give away my crown ,
83573 With mine own tongue deny my sacred state ,
83574 With mine own breath release all duteous rites :
83575 All pomp and majesty I do forswear ;
83576 My manors , rents , revenues , I forego ;
83577 My acts , decrees , and statutes I deny :
83578 God pardon all oaths that are broke to me !
83579 God keep all vows unbroke are made to thee !
83580 Make me , that nothing have , with nothing griev'd ,
83581 And thou with all pleas'd , that hast all achiev'd !
83582 Long mayst thou live in Richard's seat to sit ,
83583 And soon lie Richard in an earthy pit !
83584 God save King Henry , unking'd Richard says ,
83585 And send him many years of sunshine days !
83586 What more remains ?
83587
83588 No more , but that you read
83589 These accusations and these grievous crimes
83590 Committed by your person and your followers
83591 Against the state and profit of this land ;
83592 That , by confessing them , the souls of men
83593 May deem that you are worthily depos'd .
83594
83595 Must I do so ? and must I ravel out
83596 My weav'd-up follies ? Gentle Northumberland ,
83597 If thy offences were upon record ,
83598 Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop
83599 To read a lecture of them ? If thou wouldst ,
83600 There shouldst thou find one heinous article ,
83601 Containing the deposing of a king ,
83602 And cracking the strong warrant of an oath ,
83603 Mark'd with a blot , damn'd in the book of heaven .
83604 Nay , all of you that stand and look upon me ,
83605 Whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself ,
83606 Though some of you with Pilate wash your hands ,
83607 Showing an outward pity ; yet you Pilates
83608 Have here deliver'd me to my sour cross ,
83609 And water cannot wash away your sin .
83610
83611 My lord , dispatch ; read o'er these articles .
83612
83613 Mine eyes are full of tears , I cannot see :
83614 And yet salt water blinds them not so much
83615 But they can see a sort of traitors here .
83616 Nay , if I turn mine eyes upon myself ,
83617 I find myself a traitor with the rest ;
83618 For I have given here my soul's consent
83619 To undeck the pompous body of a king ;
83620 Made glory base and sovereignty a slave ,
83621 Proud majesty a subject , state a peasant ,
83622
83623 My lord ,
83624
83625 No lord of thine , thou haught insulting man ,
83626 Nor no man's lord ; I have no name , no title ,
83627 No , not that name was given me at the font ,
83628 But 'tis usurp'd : alack the heavy day !
83629 That I have worn so many winters out ,
83630 And know not now what name to call myself .
83631 O ! that I were a mockery king of snow ,
83632 Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke ,
83633 To melt myself away in water-drops .
83634 Good king , great king ,and yet not greatly good ,
83635 An if my word be sterling yet in England ,
83636 Let it command a mirror hither straight ,
83637 That it may show me what a face I have ,
83638 Since it is bankrupt of his majesty .
83639
83640 Go some of you and fetch a looking-glass .
83641
83642
83643 Read o'er this paper while the glass doth come .
83644
83645 Fiend ! thou torment'st me ere I come to hell .
83646
83647 Urge it no more , my Lord Northumberland .
83648
83649 The commons will not then be satisfied .
83650
83651 They shall be satisfied : I'll read enough
83652 When I do see the very book indeed
83653 Where all my sins are writ , and that's myself .
83654
83655
83656 Give me the glass , and therein will I read .
83657 No deeper wrinkles yet ? Hath sorrow struck
83658 So many blows upon this face of mine
83659 And made no deeper wounds ? O , flattering glass !
83660 Like to my followers in prosperity ,
83661 Thou dost beguile me . Was this face the face
83662 That every day under his household roof
83663 Did keep ten thousand men ? Was this the face
83664 That like the sun did make beholders wink ?
83665 Was this the face that fac'd so many follies ,
83666 And was at last out-fac'd by Bolingbroke ?
83667 A brittle glory shineth in this face :
83668 As brittle as the glory is the face ;
83669
83670 For there it is , crack'd in a hundred shivers .
83671 Mark , silent king , the moral of this sport ,
83672
83673 How soon my sorrow hath destroy'd my face .
83674
83675 The shadow of your sorrow hath destroy'd
83676 The shadow of your face .
83677
83678 Say that again .
83679 The shadow of my sorrow ! Ha ! let's see :
83680 'Tis very true , my grief lies all within ;
83681 And these external manners of laments
83682 Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
83683 That swells with silence in the tortur'd soul ;
83684 There lies the substance : and I thank thee , king ,
83685 For thy great bounty , that not only giv'st
83686 Me cause to wail , but teachest me the way
83687 How to lament the cause . I'll beg one boon ,
83688 And then be gone and trouble you no more .
83689 Shall I obtain it ?
83690
83691 Name it , fair cousin .
83692
83693 'Fair cousin !' I am greater than a king ;
83694 For when I was a king , my flatterers
83695 Were then but subjects ; being now a subject ,
83696 I have a king here to my flatterer .
83697 Being so great , I have no need to beg .
83698
83699 Yet ask .
83700
83701 And shall I have ?
83702
83703 You shall .
83704
83705 Then give me leave to go .
83706
83707 Whither ?
83708
83709 Whither you will , so I were from your sights .
83710
83711 Go , some of you convey him to the Tower .
83712
83713 O , good ! convey ? conveyers are you all ,
83714 That rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall .
83715
83716
83717 On Wednesday next we solemnly set down
83718 Our coronation : lords , prepare yourselves .
83719
83720
83721 A woeful pageant have we here beheld .
83722
83723 The woe's to come ; the children yet unborn
83724 Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn .
83725
83726 You holy clergymen , is there no plot
83727 To rid the realm of this pernicious blot ?
83728
83729 My lord ,
83730 Before I freely speak my mind herein ,
83731 You shall not only take the sacrament
83732 To bury mine intents , but also to effect
83733 Whatever I shall happen to devise .
83734 I see your brows are full of discontent ,
83735 Your hearts of sorrow , and your eyes of tears :
83736 Come home with me to supper ; I will lay
83737 A plot shall show us all a merry day .
83738
83739 This way the king will come ; this is the way
83740 To Julius C sar's ill-erected tower ,
83741 To whose flint bosom my condemned lord
83742 Is doom'd a prisoner by proud Bolingbroke .
83743 Here let us rest , if this rebellious earth
83744 Have any resting for her true king's queen .
83745
83746
83747 But soft , but see , or rather do not see ,
83748 My fair rose wither : yet look up , behold ,
83749 That you in pity may dissolve to dew ,
83750 And wash him fresh again with true-love tears .
83751 Ah ! thou , the model where old Troy did stand ,
83752 Thou map of honour , thou King Richard's tomb ,
83753 And not King Richard ; thou most beauteous inn ,
83754 Why should hard-favour'd grief be lodg'd in thee ,
83755
83756 When triumph is become an alehouse guest ?
83757
83758 Join not with grief , fair woman , do not so ,
83759 To make my end too sudden : learn , good soul ,
83760 To think our former state a happy dream ;
83761 From which awak'd , the truth of what we are
83762 Shows us but this . I am sworn brother , sweet ,
83763 To grim Necessity , and he and I
83764 Will keep a league till death . Hie thee to France ,
83765 And cloister thee in some religious house :
83766 Our holy lives must win a new world's crown ,
83767 Which our profane hours here have stricken down .
83768
83769 What ! is my Richard both in shape and mind
83770 Transform'd and weaken'd ! Hath Bolingbroke depos'd
83771 Thine intellect ? hath he been in thy heart ?
83772 The lion dying thrusteth forth his paw
83773 And wounds the earth , if nothing else , with rage
83774 To be o'erpower'd ; and wilt thou , pupil-like ,
83775 Take thy correction mildly , kiss the rod ,
83776 And fawn on rage with base humility ,
83777 Which art a lion and a king of beasts ?
83778
83779 A king of beasts indeed ; if aught but beasts ,
83780 I had been still a happy king of men .
83781 Good sometime queen , prepare thee hence for France ,
83782 Think I am dead , and that even here thou tak'st ,
83783 As from my death-bed , my last living leave .
83784 In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire
83785 With good old folks , and let them tell thee tales
83786 Of woeful ages , long ago betid ;
83787 And ere thou bid good night , to quit their grief ,
83788 Tell thou the lamentable tale of me ,
83789 And send the hearers weeping to their beds :
83790 For why the senseless brands will sympathize
83791 The heavy accent of thy moving tongue ,
83792 And in compassion weep the fire out ;
83793 And some will mourn in ashes , some coal-black ,
83794 For the deposing of a rightful king .
83795
83796
83797 My lord , the mind of Bolingbroke is chang'd ;
83798 You must to Pomfret , not unto the Tower .
83799 And , madam , there is order ta'en for you ;
83800 With all swift speed you must away to France .
83801
83802 Northumberland , thou ladder wherewithal
83803 The mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne ,
83804 The time shall not be many hours of age
83805 More than it is , ere foul sin gathering head
83806 Shall break into corruption . Thou shalt think ,
83807 Though he divide the realm and give thee half ,
83808 It is too little , helping him to all ;
83809 And he shall think that thou , which know'st the way
83810 To plant unrightful kings , wilt know again ,
83811 Being ne'er so little urg'd , another way
83812 To pluck him headlong from the usurped throne .
83813 The love of wicked friends converts to fear ;
83814 That fear to hate , and hate turns one or both
83815 To worthy danger and deserved death .
83816
83817 My guilt be on my head , and there an end .
83818 Take leave and part ; for you must part forthwith .
83819
83820 Doubly divorc'd ! Bad men , ye violate
83821 A two-fold marriage ; 'twixt my crown and me ,
83822 And then , betwixt me and my married wife .
83823 Let me unkiss the oath 'twixt thee and me ;
83824 And yet not so , for with a kiss 'twas made .
83825 Part us , Northumberland : I towards the north ,
83826 Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime ;
83827 My wife to France : from whence , set forth in pomp ,
83828 She came adorned hither like sweet May ,
83829 Sent back like Hallowmas or short'st of day .
83830
83831 And must we be divided ? must we part ?
83832
83833 Ay , hand from hand , my love , and heart from heart .
83834
83835 Banish us both and send the king with me .
83836
83837 That were some love but little policy .
83838
83839 Then whither he goes , thither let me go .
83840
83841 So two , together weeping , make one woe .
83842 Weep thou for me in France , I for thee here ;
83843 Better far off , than near , be ne'er the near .
83844 Go , count thy way with sighs , I mine with groans .
83845
83846 So longest way shall have the longest moans .
83847
83848 Twice for one step I'll groan , the way being short ,
83849 And piece the way out with a heavy heart .
83850 Come , come , in wooing sorrow let's be brief ,
83851 Since , wedding it , thero is such length in grief .
83852 One kiss shall stop our mouths , and dumbly part ;
83853 Thus give I mine , and thus take I thy heart .
83854
83855
83856 Give me mine own again ; 'twere no good part
83857 To take on me to keep and kill thy heart .
83858
83859 So , now I have mine own again , be gone ,
83860 That I may strive to kill it with a groan .
83861
83862 We make woe wanton with this fond delay :
83863 Once more , adieu ; the rest let sorrow say .
83864
83865
83866 My lord , you told me you would tell the rest ,
83867 When weeping made you break the story off ,
83868 Of our two cousins coming into London .
83869
83870 Where did I leave ?
83871
83872 At that sad stop , my lord ,
83873 Where rude misgovern'd hands , from windows' tops ,
83874 Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head .
83875
83876 Then , as I said , the duke , great Bolingbroke ,
83877 Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed ,
83878 Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know ,
83879 With slow but stately pace kept on his course ,
83880 While all tongues cried , 'God save thee , Bolingbroke !'
83881 You would have thought the very windows spake ,
83882 So many greedy looks of young and old
83883 Through casements darted their desiring eyes
83884 Upon his visage , and that all the walls
83885 With painted imagery had said at once
83886 'Jesu preserve thee ! welcome , Bolingbroke !'
83887 Whilst he , from one side to the other turning ,
83888 Bare-headed , lower than his proud steed's neck ,
83889 Bespake them thus , 'I thank you , countrymen :'
83890 And thus still doing , thus he pass'd along .
83891
83892 Alack , poor Richard ! where rode he the whilst ?
83893
83894 As in a theatre , the eyes of men ,
83895 After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage ,
83896 Are idly bent on him that enters next ,
83897 Thinking his prattle to be tedious ;
83898 Even so , or with much more contempt , men's eyes
83899 Did scowl on Richard : no man cried , 'God save him ;'
83900 No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home ;
83901 But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ,
83902 Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off ,
83903 His face still combating with tears and smiles ,
83904 The badges of his grief and patience ,
83905 That had not God , for some strong purpose , steel'd
83906 The hearts of men , they must perforce have melted ,
83907 And barbarism itself have pitied him .
83908 But heaven hath a hand in these events ,
83909 To whose high will we bound our calm contents .
83910 To Bolingbroke are we sworn subjects now ,
83911 Whose state and honour I for aye allow .
83912
83913 Here comes my son Aumerle .
83914
83915 Aumerle that was ;
83916 But that is lost for being Richard's friend ,
83917 And , madam , you must call him Rutland now .
83918 I am in parliament pledge for his truth
83919 And lasting fealty to the new-made king .
83920
83921
83922 Welcome , my son : who are the violets now
83923 That strew the green lap of the new come spring ?
83924
83925 Madam , I know not , nor I greatly care not :
83926 God knows I had as lief be none as one .
83927
83928 Well , bear you well in this new spring of time ,
83929 Lest you be cropp'd before you come to prime .
83930 What news from Oxford ? hold those justs and triumphs ?
83931
83932 For aught I know , my lord , they do .
83933
83934 You will be there , I know .
83935
83936 If God prevent it not , I purpose so .
83937
83938 What seal is that that hangs without thy bosom ?
83939 Yea , look'st thou pale ? let me see the writing .
83940
83941 My lord , 'tis nothing .
83942
83943 No matter then , who sees it :
83944 I will be satisfied ; let me see the writing .
83945
83946 I do beseech your Grace to pardon me :
83947 It is a matter of small consequence ,
83948 Which for some reasons I would not have seen .
83949
83950 Which for some reasons , sir , I mean to see .
83951 I fear , I fear ,
83952
83953 What should you fear ?
83954 'Tis nothing but some bond he's enter'd into
83955 For gay apparel 'gainst the triumph day .
83956
83957 Bound to himself ! what doth he with a bond
83958 That he is bound to ? Wife , thou art a fool .
83959 Boy , let me see the writing .
83960
83961 I do beseech you , pardon me ; I may not show it .
83962
83963 I will be satisfied ; let me see it , I say .
83964
83965 Treason ! foul treason ! villain ! traitor ! slave !
83966
83967 What is the matter , my lord ?
83968
83969 Ho ! who is within there ?
83970
83971
83972 Saddle my horse .
83973
83974 God for his mercy ! what treachery is here !
83975
83976 Why , what is it , my lord ?
83977
83978 Give me my boots , I say ; saddle my horse .
83979 Now , by mine honour , by my life , my troth ,
83980 I will appeach the villain .
83981
83982
83983 What's the matter ?
83984
83985 Peace , foolish woman .
83986
83987 I will not peace . What is the matter , Aumerle ?
83988
83989 Good mother , be content ; it is no more
83990 Than my poor life must answer .
83991
83992 Thy life answer !
83993
83994 Bring me my boots : I will unto the king .
83995
83996
83997 Strike him , Aumerle . Poor boy , thou art amaz'd .
83998
83999
84000 Hence , villain ! never more come in my sight .
84001
84002
84003 Give me my boots , I say .
84004
84005 Why , York , what wilt thou do ?
84006 Wilt thou not hide the trespass of thine own ?
84007 Have we more sons , or are we like to have ?
84008 Is not my teeming date drunk up with time ?
84009 And wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine age ,
84010 And rob me of a happy mother's name ?
84011 Is he not like thee ? is he not thine own ?
84012
84013 Thou fond , mad woman ,
84014 Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy ?
84015 A dozen of them here have ta'en the sacrament ,
84016 And interchangeably set down their hands ,
84017 To kill the king at Oxford .
84018
84019 He shall be none ;
84020 We'll keep him here : then , what is that to him ?
84021
84022 Away , fond woman ! were he twenty times
84023 My son , I would appeach him .
84024
84025 Hadst thou groan'd for him
84026 As I have done , thou'dst be more pitiful .
84027 But now I know thy mind : thou dost suspect
84028 That I have been disloyal to thy bed ,
84029 And that he is a bastard , not thy son :
84030 Sweet York , sweet husband , be not of that mind :
84031 He is as like thee as a man may be ,
84032 Not like to me , nor any of my kin ,
84033 And yet I love him .
84034
84035 Make way , unruly woman !
84036
84037
84038 After , Aumerle ! Mount thee upon his horse ;
84039 Spur post , and get before him to the king ,
84040 And beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee .
84041 I'll not be long behind ; though I be old ,
84042 I doubt not but to ride as fast as York :
84043 And never will I rise up from the ground
84044 Till Bolingbroke have pardon'd thee . Away ! be gone .
84045
84046
84047 Can no man tell of my unthrifty son ?
84048 'Tis full three months since I did see him last .
84049 If any plague hang over us , 'tis he .
84050 I would to God , my lords , he might be found :
84051 Inquire at London , 'mongst the taverns there ,
84052 For there , they say , he daily doth frequent ,
84053 With unrestrained loose companions ,
84054 Even such , they say , as stand in narrow lanes
84055 And beat our watch and rob our passengers ;
84056 While he , young wanton and effeminate boy ,
84057 Takes on the point of honour to support
84058 So dissolute a crew .
84059
84060 My lord , some two days since I saw the prince ,
84061 And told him of these triumphs held at Oxford .
84062
84063 And what said the gallant ?
84064
84065 His answer was : he would unto the stews ,
84066 And from the common'st creature pluck a glove ,
84067 And wear it as a favour ; and with that
84068 He would unhorse the lustiest challenger .
84069
84070 As dissolute as desperate ; yet , through both ,
84071 I see some sparkles of a better hope ,
84072 Which elder days may happily bring forth .
84073 But who comes here ?
84074
84075
84076 Where is the king ?
84077
84078 What means
84079 Our cousin , that he stares and looks so wildly ?
84080
84081 God save your Grace ! I do beseech your majesty ,
84082 To have some conference with your Grace alone .
84083
84084 Withdraw yourselves , and leave us here alone .
84085
84086 What is the matter with our cousin now ?
84087
84088 For ever may my knees grow to the earth ,
84089 My tongue cleave to my roof within my mouth ,
84090 Unless a pardon ere I rise or speak .
84091
84092 Intended or committed was this fault ?
84093 If on the first , how heinous e'er it be ,
84094 To win thy after-love I pardon thee .
84095
84096 Then give me leave that I may turn the key ,
84097 That no man enter till my tale be done .
84098
84099 Have thy desire .
84100
84101
84102 My liege , beware ! look to thyself ;
84103 Thou hast a traitor in thy presence there .
84104
84105 Villain , I'll make thee safe .
84106
84107 Stay thy revengeful hand ; thou hast no cause to fear .
84108
84109 Open the door , secure , foolhardy king :
84110 Shall I for love speak treason to thy face ?
84111 Open the door , or I will break it open .
84112
84113 What is the matter , uncle ? speak ;
84114 Recover breath ; tell us how near is danger ,
84115 That we may arm us to encounter it .
84116
84117 Peruse this writing here , and thou shalt know
84118 The treason that my haste forbids me show .
84119
84120 Remember , as thou read'st , thy promise pass'd :
84121 I do repent me ; read not my name there ;
84122 My heart is not confederate with my hand .
84123
84124 'Twas , villain , ere thy hand did set it down .
84125 I tore it from the traitor's bosom , king ;
84126 Fear , and not love , begets his penitence .
84127 Forget to pity him , lest thy pity prove
84128 A serpent that will sting thee to the heart .
84129
84130 O heinous , strong , and bold conspiracy !
84131 O loyal father of a treacherous son !
84132 Thou sheer , immaculate , and silver fountain ,
84133 From whence this stream through muddy passages
84134 Hath held his current and defil'd himself !
84135 Thy overflow of good converts to bad ,
84136 And thy abundant goodness shall excuse
84137 This deadly blot in thy digressing son .
84138
84139 So shall my virtue be his vice's bawd ,
84140 And he shall spend mine honour with his shame ,
84141 As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold .
84142 Mine honour lives when his dishonour dies ,
84143 Or my sham'd life in his dishonour lies :
84144 Thou kill'st me in his life ; giving him breath ,
84145 The traitor lives , the true man's put to death .
84146
84147 What ho , my liege ! for God's sake let me in .
84148
84149 What shrill-voic'd suppliant makes this eager cry ?
84150
84151 A woman , and thine aunt , great king ; 'tis I .
84152 Speak with me , pity me , open the door :
84153 A beggar begs , that never begg'd before .
84154
84155 Our scene is alter'd from a serious thing ,
84156 And now chang'd to 'The Beggar and the King .'
84157 My dangerous cousin , let your mother in :
84158 I know she's come to pray for your foul sin .
84159
84160
84161 If thou do pardon , whosoever pray ,
84162 More sins , for this forgiveness , prosper may .
84163 This fester'd joint cut off , the rest rests sound ;
84164 This , let alone , will all the rest confound .
84165
84166
84167 O king ! believe not this hard-hearted man :
84168 Love , loving not itself , none other can .
84169
84170 Thou frantic woman , what dost thou make here ?
84171 Shall thy old dugs once more a traitor rear ?
84172
84173 Sweet York , be-patient .
84174
84175 Hear me , gentle liege .
84176
84177 Rise up , good aunt .
84178
84179 Not yet , I thee beseech .
84180 For ever will I walk upon my knees ,
84181 And never see day that the happy sees ,
84182 Till thou give joy ; until thou bid me joy ,
84183 By pardoning Rutland , my transgressing boy .
84184
84185 Unto my mother's prayers I bend my knee .
84186
84187
84188 Against them both my true joints bended be .
84189
84190 Ill mayst thou thrive if thou grant any grace !
84191
84192 Pleads he in earnest ? look upon his face ;
84193 His eyes do drop no tears , his prayers are in jest ;
84194 His words come from his mouth , ours from our breast :
84195 He prays but faintly and would be denied ;
84196 We pray with heart and soul and all beside :
84197 His weary joints would gladly rise , I know ;
84198 Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow :
84199 His prayers are full of false hypocrisy ;
84200 Ours of true zeal and deep integrity .
84201 Our prayers do out-pray his ; then let them have
84202 That mercy which true prayer ought to have .
84203
84204 Good aunt , stand up .
84205
84206 Nay , do not say 'stand up ;'
84207 But 'pardon' first , and afterwards 'stand up .'
84208 An if I were thy nurse , thy tongue to teach ,
84209 'Pardon' should be the first word of thy speech .
84210 I never long'd to hear a word till now ;
84211 Say 'pardon ,' king ; let pity teach thee how :
84212 The word is short , but not so short as sweet ;
84213 No word like 'pardon ,' for kings' mouths so meet .
84214
84215 Speak it in French , king ; say , 'pardonnez moy .'
84216
84217 Dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy ?
84218 Ah ! my sour husband , my hard-hearted lord ,
84219 That sett'st the word itself against the word .
84220 Speak 'pardon' as 'tis current in our land ;
84221 The chopping French we do not understand .
84222 Thine eye begins to speak , set thy tongue there ,
84223 Or in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear ,
84224 That hearing how our plants and prayers do pierce ,
84225 Pity may move thee pardon to rehearse .
84226
84227 Good aunt , stand up .
84228
84229 I do not sue to stand ;
84230 Pardon is all the suit I have in hand .
84231
84232 I pardon him , as God shall pardon me .
84233
84234 O happy vantage of a kneeling knee !
84235 Yet am I sick for fear : speak it again ;
84236 Twice saying 'pardon' doth not pardon twain ,
84237 But makes one pardon strong .
84238
84239 With all my heart
84240 I pardon him .
84241
84242 A god on earth thou art .
84243
84244 But for our trusty brother-in-law and the abbot ,
84245 With all the rest of that consorted crew ,
84246 Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels .
84247 Good uncle , help to order several powers
84248 To Oxford , or where'er these traitors are :
84249 They shall not live within this world , I swear ,
84250 But I will have them , if I once know where .
84251 Uncle , farewell : and cousin too , adieu :
84252 Your mother well hath pray'd , and prove you true .
84253
84254 Come , my old son : I pray God make thee new .
84255
84256
84257 Didst thou not mark the king , what words he spake ?
84258 'Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear ?'
84259 Was it not so ?
84260
84261 Those were his very words .
84262
84263 'Have I no friend ?' quoth he : he spake it twice ,
84264 And urg'd it twice together , did he not ?
84265
84266 He did .
84267
84268 And speaking it , he wistly looked on me ,
84269 As who should say , 'I would thou wert the man
84270 That would divorce this terror from my heart ;'
84271 Meaning the king at Pomfret . Come , let's go :
84272 I am the king's friend , and will rid his foe .
84273
84274
84275 I have been studying how I may compare
84276 This prison where I live unto the world :
84277 And for because the world is populous ,
84278 And here is not a creature but myself ,
84279 I cannot do it ; yet I'll hammer it out .
84280 My brain I'll prove the female to my soul ;
84281 My soul the father : and these two beget
84282 A generation of still-breeding thoughts ,
84283 And these same thoughts people this little world
84284 In humours like the people of this world ,
84285 For no thought is contented . The better sort ,
84286 As thoughts of things divine , are intermix'd
84287 With scruples , and do set the word itself
84288 Against the word :
84289 As thus , 'Come , little ones ;' and then again ,
84290 'It is as hard to come as for a camel
84291 To thread the postern of a needle's eye .'
84292 Thoughts tending to ambition , they do plot
84293 Unlikely wonders ; how these vain weak nails
84294 May tear a passage through the flinty ribs
84295 Of this hard world , my ragged prison walls ;
84296 And , for they cannot , die in their own pride .
84297 Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves
84298 That they are not the first of fortune's slaves ,
84299 Nor shall not be the last ; like silly beggars
84300 Who sitting in the stocks refuge their shame ,
84301 That many have and others must sit there :
84302 And in this thought they find a kind of ease ,
84303 Bearing their own misfortune on the back
84304 Of such as have before endur'd the like .
84305 Thus play I in one person many people ,
84306 And none contented : sometimes am I king ;
84307 Then treason makes me wish myself a beggar ,
84308 And so I am : then crushing penury
84309 Persuades me I was better when a king ;
84310 Then am I king'd again ; and by and by
84311 Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke ,
84312 And straight am nothing : but whate'er I be ,
84313 Nor I nor any man that but man is
84314 With nothing shall be pleas'd , till he be eas'd
84315 With being nothing . Music do I hear ?
84316
84317 Ha , ha ! keep time . How sour sweet music is
84318 When time is broke and no proportion kept !
84319 So is it in the music of men's lives .
84320 And here have I the daintiness of ear
84321 To check time broke in a disorder'd string ;
84322 But for the concord of my state and time
84323 Had not an ear to hear my true time broke .
84324 I wasted time , and now doth time waste me ;
84325 For now hath time made me his numbering clock :
84326 My thoughts are minutes , and with sighs they jar
84327 Their watches on unto mine eyes , the outward watch ,
84328 Whereto my finger , like a dial's point ,
84329 Is pointing still , in cleansing them from tears .
84330 Now sir , the sound that tells what hour it is
84331 Are clamorous groans , that strike upon my heart
84332 Which is the bell : so sighs and tears and groans
84333 Show minutes , times , and hours ; but my time
84334 Runs posting on in Bolingbroke's proud joy ,
84335 While I stand fooling here , his Jack o' the clock .
84336 This music mads me : let it sound no more ;
84337 For though it have holp madmen to their wits ,
84338 In me it seems it will make wise men mad .
84339 Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me !
84340 For 'tis a sign of love , and love to Richard
84341 Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world .
84342
84343
84344 Hail , royal prince !
84345
84346 Thanks , noble peer ;
84347 The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear .
84348 What art thou ? and how comest thou hither , man ,
84349 Where no man never comes but that sad dog
84350 That brings me food to make misfortune live ?
84351
84352 I was a poor groom of thy stable , king ,
84353 When thou wert king ; who , travelling towards York ,
84354 With much ado at length have gotten leave
84355 To look upon my sometimes royal master's face .
84356 O ! how it yearn'd my heart when I beheld
84357 In London streets , that coronation day
84358 When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary ,
84359 That horse that thou so often hast bestrid ,
84360 That horse that I so carefully have dress'd .
84361
84362 Rode he on Barbary ? Tell me , gentle friend ,
84363 How went he under him ?
84364
84365 So proudly as if he disdain'd the ground .
84366
84367 So proud that Bolingbroke was on his back !
84368 That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand ;
84369 This hand hath made him proud with clapping him .
84370 Would he not stumble ? Would he not fall down ,
84371 Since pride must have a fall ,and break the neck
84372 Of that proud man that did usurp his back ?
84373 Forgiveness , horse ! why do I rail on thee ,
84374 Since thou , created to be aw'd by man ,
84375 Wast born to bear ? I was not made a horse ;
84376 And yet I bear a burden like an ass ,
84377 Spur-gall'd and tir'd by jauncing Bolingbroke .
84378
84379
84380 Fellow , give place ; here is no longer stay .
84381
84382 If thou love me , 'tis time thou wert away .
84383
84384 What my tongue dares not , that my heart shall say .
84385
84386
84387 My lord , will't please you to fall to ?
84388
84389 Taste of it first , as thou art wont to do .
84390
84391 My lord , I dare not : Sir Pierce of Exton , who lately came from the king , commands the contrary .
84392
84393 The devil take Henry of Lancaster , and thee !
84394 Patience is stale , and I am weary of it .
84395
84396
84397 Help , help , help !
84398
84399
84400 How now ! what means death in this rude assault ?
84401 Villain , thine own hand yields thy death's instrument .
84402
84403 Go thou and fill another room in hell .
84404
84405 That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire
84406 That staggers thus my person . Exton , thy fierce hand
84407 Hath with the king's blood stain'd the king's own land .
84408 Mount , mount , my soul ! thy seat is up on high ,
84409 Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward , here to die .
84410
84411
84412 As full of valour as of royal blood :
84413 Both have I spilt ; O ! would the deed were good ;
84414 For now the devil , that told me I did well ,
84415 Says that this deed is chronicled in hell .
84416 This dead king to the living king I'll bear .
84417 Take hence the rest and give them burial here .
84418
84419
84420 Kind uncle York , the latest news we hear
84421 Is that the rebels have consum'd with fire
84422 Our town of Cicester in Gloucestershire ;
84423 But whether they be ta'en or slain we hear not .
84424
84425 Welcome , my lord . What is the news ?
84426
84427 First , to thy sacred state wish I all happiness .
84428 The next news is : I have to London sent
84429 The heads of Salisbury , Spencer , Blunt , and Kent .
84430 The manner of their taking may appear
84431 At large discoursed in this paper here .
84432
84433 We thank thee , gentle Percy , for thy pains ,
84434 And to thy worth will add right worthy gains .
84435
84436
84437 My lord , I have from Oxford sent to London
84438 The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely ,
84439 Two of the dangerous consorted traitors
84440 That sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow .
84441
84442 Thy pains , Fitzwater , shall not be forgot ;
84443 Right noble is thy merit , well I wot .
84444
84445
84446 The grand conspirator , Abbot of Westminster ,
84447 With clog of conscience and sour melancholy ,
84448 Hath yielded up his body to the grave ;
84449 But here is Carlisle living , to abide
84450 Thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride .
84451
84452 Carlisle , this is your doom :
84453 Choose out some secret place , some reverend room ,
84454 More than thou hast , and with it joy thy life ;
84455 So , as thou livest in peace , die free from strife :
84456 For though mine enemy thou hast ever been ,
84457 High sparks of honour in thee have I seen .
84458
84459
84460 Great king , within this coffin I present
84461 Thy buried fear : herein all breathless lies
84462 The mightiest of thy greatest enemies ,
84463 Richard of Bordeaux , by me hither brought .
84464
84465 Exton , I thank thee not ; for thou hast wrought
84466 A deed of slander with thy fatal hand
84467 Upon my head and all this famous land .
84468
84469 From your own mouth , my lord , did I this deed .
84470
84471 They love not poison that do poison need ,
84472 Nor do I thee : though I did wish him dead ,
84473 I hate the murderer , love him murdered .
84474 The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour ,
84475 But neither my good word nor princely favour :
84476 With Cain go wander through the shade of night ,
84477 And never show thy head by day nor light .
84478 Lords , I protest , my soul is full of woe ,
84479 That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow :
84480 Come , mourn with me for that I do lament ,
84481 And put on sullen black incontinent .
84482 I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land ,
84483 To wash this blood off from my guilty hand .
84484 March sadly after ; grace my mournings here ,
84485 In weeping after this untimely bier .
84486
84487 THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD III
84488
84489 Now is the winter of our discontent
84490 Made glorious summer by this sun of York ;
84491 And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
84492 In the deep bosom of the ocean buried .
84493 Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths ;
84494 Our bruised arms hung up for monuments ;
84495 Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings ;
84496 Our dreadful marches to delightful measures .
84497 Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front ;
84498 And now ,instead of mounting barbed steeds ,
84499 To fright the souls of fearful adversaries ,
84500 He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
84501 To the lascivious pleasing of a lute .
84502 But I , that am not shap'd for sportive tricks ,
84503 Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass ;
84504 I , that am rudely stamp'd , and want love's majesty
84505 To strut before a wanton ambling nymph ;
84506 I , that am curtail'd of this fair proportion ,
84507 Cheated of feature by dissembling nature ,
84508 Deform'd , unfinish'd , sent before my time
84509 Into this breathing world , scarce half made up ,
84510 And that so lamely and unfashionable
84511 That dogs bark at me , as I halt by them ;
84512 Why , I , in this weak piping time of peace ,
84513 Have no delight to pass away the time ,
84514 Unless to see my shadow in the sun
84515 And descant on mine own deformity :
84516 And therefore , since I cannot prove a lover ,
84517 To entertain these fair well-spoken days ,
84518 I am determined to prove a villain ,
84519 And hate the idle pleasures of these days .
84520 Plots have I laid , inductions dangerous ,
84521 By drunken prophecies , libels , and dreams ,
84522 To set my brother Clarence and the king
84523 In deadly hate the one against the other :
84524 And if King Edward be as true and just
84525 As I am subtle , false , and treacherous ,
84526 This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up ,
84527 About a prophecy , which says , that G
84528 Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be .
84529 Dive , thoughts , down to my soul : here Clarence comes .
84530
84531
84532 Brother , good day : what means this armed guard
84533
84534 That waits upon your Grace ?
84535
84536 His majesty ,
84537 Tendering my person's safety , hath appointed
84538 This conduct to convey me to the Tower .
84539
84540 Upon what cause ?
84541
84542 Because my name is George .
84543
84544 Alack ! my lord , that fault is none of yours ;
84545 He should , for that , commit your godfathers .
84546 O ! belike his majesty hath some intent
84547 That you should be new-christen'd in the Tower .
84548 But what's the matter , Clarence ? may I know ?
84549
84550 Yea , Richard , when I know ; for I protest
84551 As yet I do not : but , as I can learn ,
84552 He hearkens after prophecies and dreams ;
84553 And from the cross-row plucks the letter G ,
84554 And says a wizard told him that by G
84555 His issue disinherited should be ;
84556 And , for my name of George begins with G ,
84557 It follows in his thought that I am he .
84558 These , as I learn , and such like toys as these ,
84559 Have mov'd his highness to commit me now .
84560
84561 Why , this it is , when men are rul'd by women :
84562 'Tis not the king that sends you to the Tower ;
84563 My Lady Grey , his wife , Clarence , 'tis she
84564 That tempers him to this extremity .
84565 Was it not she and that good man of worship ,
84566 Antony Woodville , her brother there ,
84567 That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower ,
84568 From whence this present day he is deliver'd ?
84569 We are not safe , Clarence ; we are not safe .
84570
84571 By heaven , I think there is no man secure
84572 But the queen's kindred and night-walking heralds
84573 That trudge betwixt the king and Mistress Shore .
84574 Heard you not what a humble suppliant
84575 Lord Hastings was to her for his delivery ?
84576
84577 Humbly complaining to her deity
84578 Got my lord chamberlain his liberty .
84579 I'll tell you what ; I think it is our way ,
84580 If we will keep in favour with the king ,
84581 To be her men and wear her livery :
84582 The jealous o'er-worn widow and herself ,
84583 Since that our brother dubb'd them gentlewomen ,
84584 Are mighty gossips in our monarchy .
84585
84586 I beseech your Graces both to pardon me ;
84587 His majesty hath straitly given in charge
84588 That no man shall have private conference ,
84589 Of what degree soever , with your brother .
84590
84591 Even so ; an please your worship , Brakenbury ,
84592 You may partake of anything we say :
84593 We speak no treason , man : we say the king
84594 Is wise and virtuous , and his noble queen
84595 Well struck in years , fair , and not jealous ;
84596 We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot ,
84597 A cherry lip , a bonny eye , a passing pleasing tongue ;
84598 And that the queen's kindred are made gentlefolks .
84599 How say you , sir ? can you deny all this ?
84600
84601 With this , my lord , myself have nought to do .
84602
84603 Naught to do with Mistress Shore ! I tell thee , fellow ,
84604 He that doth naught with her , excepting one ,
84605 Were best to do it secretly , alone .
84606
84607 What one , my lord ?
84608
84609 Her husband , knave . Wouldst thou betray me ?
84610
84611 I beseech your Grace to pardon me ; and withal
84612 Forbear your conference with the noble duke .
84613
84614 We know thy charge , Brakenbury , and will obey .
84615
84616 We are the queen's abjects , and must obey .
84617 Brother , farewell : I will unto the king ;
84618 And whatsoe'er you will employ me in ,
84619 Were it to call King Edward's widow sister ,
84620 I will perform it to enfranchise you .
84621 Meantime , this deep disgrace in brotherhood
84622 Touches me deeper than you can imagine .
84623
84624 I know it pleaseth neither of us well .
84625
84626 Well , your imprisonment shall not be long ;
84627 I will deliver you , or else lie for you :
84628 Meantime , have patience .
84629
84630 I must perforce : farewell .
84631
84632
84633 Go , tread the path that thou shalt ne'er return ,
84634 Simple , plain Clarence ! I do love thee so
84635 That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven ,
84636 If heaven will take the present at our hands .
84637 But who comes here ? the new-deliver'd Hastings !
84638
84639
84640 Good time of day unto my gracious lord !
84641
84642 As much unto my good lord chamberlain !
84643 Well are you welcome to this open air .
84644 How hath your lordship brook'd imprisonment ?
84645
84646 With patience , noble lord , as prisoners must :
84647 But I shall live , my lord , to give them thanks
84648 That were the cause of my imprisonment .
84649
84650 No doubt , no doubt ; and so shall Clarence too ;
84651 For they that were your enemies are his ,
84652 And have prevail'd as much on him as you .
84653
84654 More pity that the eagles should be mew'd ,
84655 While kites and buzzards prey at liberty .
84656
84657 What news abroad ?
84658
84659 No news so bad abroad as this at home ;
84660 The king is sickly , weak , and melancholy ,
84661 And his physicians fear him mightily .
84662
84663 Now by Saint Paul , this news is bad indeed .
84664 O ! he hath kept an evil diet long ,
84665 And over-much consum'd his royal person :
84666 'Tis very grievous to be thought upon .
84667 What , is he in his bed ?
84668
84669 He is .
84670
84671 Go you before , and I will follow you .
84672
84673 He cannot live , I hope ; and must not die
84674 Till George be pack'd with post-horse up to heaven .
84675 I'll in , to urge his hatred more to Clarence ,
84676 With lies well steel'd with weighty arguments ;
84677 And , if I fail not in my deep intent ,
84678 Clarence hath not another day to live :
84679 Which done , God take King Edward to his mercy ,
84680 And leave the world for me to bustle in !
84681 For then I'll marry Warwick's youngest daughter .
84682 What though I kill'd her husband and her father ,
84683 The readiest way to make the wench amends
84684 Is to become her husband and her father :
84685 The which will I ; not all so much for love
84686 As for another secret close intent ,
84687 By marrying her , which I must reach unto .
84688 But yet I run before my horse to market :
84689 Clarence still breathes ; Edward still lives and reigns :
84690 When they are gone , then must I count my gains .
84691
84692 Set down , set down your honourable load ,
84693 If honour may be shrouded in a hearse ,
84694 Whilst I a while obsequiously lament
84695 The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster .
84696 Poor key-cold figure of a holy king !
84697 Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster !
84698 Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood !
84699 Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost ,
84700 To hear the lamentations of poor Anne ,
84701 Wife to thy Edward , to thy slaughter'd son ,
84702 Stabb'd by the self-same hand that made these wounds !
84703 Lo , in these windows that let forth thy life ,
84704 I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes .
84705 O ! cursed be the hand that made these holes ;
84706 Cursed the heart that had the heart to do it !
84707 Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence !
84708 More direful hap betide that hated wretch ,
84709 That makes us wretched by the death of thee ,
84710 Than I can wish to adders , spiders , toads ,
84711 Or any creeping venom'd thing that lives !
84712 If ever he have child , abortive be it ,
84713 Prodigious , and untimely brought to light ,
84714 Whose ugly and unnatural aspect
84715 May fright the hopeful mother at the view ;
84716 And that be heir to his unhappiness !
84717 If ever he have wife , let her be made
84718 More miserable by the death of him
84719 Than I am made by my young lord and thee !
84720 Come , now toward Chertsey with your holy load ,
84721 Taken from Paul's to be interred there ;
84722 And still , as you are weary of the weight ,
84723 Rest you , whiles I lament King Henry's corse .
84724
84725 Stay , you that bear the corse , and set it down .
84726
84727 What black magician conjures up this fiend ,
84728 To stop devoted charitable deeds ?
84729
84730 Villains ! set down the corse ; or , by Saint Paul ,
84731 I'll make a corse of him that disobeys .
84732
84733 My lord , stand back , and let the coffin pass .
84734
84735 Unmanner'd dog ! stand thou when I command :
84736 Advance thy halberd higher than my breast ,
84737 Or , by Saint Paul , I'll strike thee to my foot ,
84738 And spurn upon thee , beggar , for thy boldness .
84739
84740
84741 What ! do you tremble ? are you all afraid ?
84742 Alas ! I blame you not ; for you are mortal ,
84743 And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil .
84744 Avaunt ! thou dreadful minister of hell ,
84745 Thou hadst but power over his mortal body ,
84746 His soul thou canst not have : therefore , be gone .
84747
84748 Sweet saint , for charity , be not so curst .
84749
84750 Foul devil , for God's sake hence , and trouble us not ;
84751 For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell ,
84752 Fill'd it with cursing cries and deep exclaims .
84753 If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds ,
84754 Behold this pattern of thy butcheries .
84755 O ! gentlemen ; see , see ! dead Henry's wounds
84756 Open their congeal'd mouths and bleed afresh .
84757 Blush , blush , thou lump of foul deformity ,
84758 For 'tis thy presence that exhales this blood
84759 From cold and empty veins , where no blood dwells :
84760 Thy deed , inhuman and unnatural ,
84761 Provokes this deluge most unnatural .
84762 O God ! which this blood mad'st , revenge his death ;
84763 O earth ! which this blood drink'st , revenge his death ;
84764 Either heaven with lightning strike the murderer dead ,
84765 Or earth , gape open wide , and eat him quick ,
84766 As thou dost swallow up this good king's blood ,
84767 Which his hell-govern'd arm hath butchered !
84768
84769 Lady , you know no rules of charity ,
84770 Which renders good for bad , blessings for curses .
84771
84772 Villain , thou know'st no law of God nor man :
84773 No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity .
84774
84775 But I know none , and therefore am no beast .
84776
84777 O ! wonderful , when devils tell the truth .
84778
84779 More wonderful when angels are so angry .
84780 Vouchsafe , divine perfection of a woman ,
84781 Of these supposed evils , to give me leave ,
84782 By circumstance , but to acquit myself .
84783
84784 Vouchsafe , diffus'd infection of a man ,
84785 For these known evils , but to give me leave ,
84786 By circumstance , to curse thy cursed self .
84787
84788 Fairer than tongue can name thee , let me have
84789 Some patient leisure to excuse myself .
84790
84791 Fouler than heart can think thee , thou canst make
84792 No excuse current , but to hang thyself .
84793
84794 By such despair I should accuse myself .
84795
84796 And by despairing shouldst thou stand excus'd
84797 For doing worthy vengeance on thyself ,
84798 Which didst unworthy slaughter upon others .
84799
84800 Say that I slew them not .
84801
84802 Then say they were not slain :
84803 But dead they are , and , devilish slave , by thee .
84804
84805 I did not kill your husband .
84806
84807 Why , then he is alive .
84808
84809 Nay , he is dead ; and slain by Edward's hand .
84810
84811 In thy foul throat thou liest : Queen Margaret saw
84812 Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood ;
84813 The which thou once didst bend against her breast ,
84814 But that thy brothers beat aside the point .
84815
84816 I was provoked by her sland'rous tongue ,
84817 That laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders .
84818
84819 Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind ,
84820 That never dreamt on aught but butcheries .
84821 Didst thou not kill this king ?
84822
84823 I grant ye .
84824
84825 Dost grant me , hedge-hog ? Then , God grant me too
84826 Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed !
84827 O ! he was gentle , mild , and virtuous .
84828
84829 The fitter for the King of heaven , that hath him .
84830
84831 He is in heaven , where thou shalt never come .
84832
84833 Let him thank me , that help'd to send him thither ;
84834 For he was fitter for that place than earth .
84835
84836 And thou unfit for any place but hell .
84837
84838 Yes , one place else , if you will bear me name it .
84839
84840 Some dungeon .
84841
84842 Your bed-chamber .
84843
84844 Ill rest betide the chamber where thou liest !
84845
84846 So will it , madam , till I lie with you .
84847
84848 I hope so .
84849
84850 I know so . But , gentle Lady Anne ,
84851 To leave this keen encounter of our wits ,
84852 And fall somewhat into a slower method ,
84853 Is not the causer of the timeless deaths
84854 Of these Plantagenets , Henry and Edward ,
84855 As blameful as the executioner ?
84856
84857 Thou wast the cause , and most accurs'd effect .
84858
84859 Your beauty was the cause of that effect ;
84860 Your beauty , that did haunt me in my sleep
84861 To undertake the death of all the world ,
84862 So might I live one hour in your sweet bosom .
84863
84864 If I thought that , I tell thee , homicide ,
84865 These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks .
84866
84867 These eyes could not endure that beauty's wrack ;
84868 You should not blemish it if I stood by :
84869 As all the world is cheered by the sun ,
84870 So I by that ; it is my day , my life .
84871
84872 Black night o'ershade thy day , and death thy life !
84873
84874 Curse not thyself , fair creature ; thou art both .
84875
84876 I would I were , to be reveng'd on thee .
84877
84878 It is a quarrel most unnatural ,
84879 To be reveng'd on him that loveth thee .
84880
84881 It is a quarrel just and reasonable ,
84882 To be reveng'd on him that kill'd my husband .
84883
84884 He that bereft thee , lady , of thy husband ,
84885 Did it to help thee to a better husband .
84886
84887 His better doth not breathe upon the earth .
84888
84889 He lives that loves thee better than he could .
84890
84891 Name him .
84892
84893 Plantagenet .
84894
84895 Why , that was he .
84896
84897 The self-same name , but one of better nature .
84898
84899 Where is he ?
84900
84901 Here .
84902
84903 Why dost thou spit at me ?
84904
84905 Would it were mortal poison , for thy sake !
84906
84907 Never came poison from so sweet a place .
84908
84909 Never hung poison on a fouler toad .
84910 Out of my sight ! thou dost infect mine eyes .
84911
84912 Thine eyes , sweet lady , have infected mine .
84913
84914 Would they were basilisks , to strike thee dead !
84915
84916 I would they were , that I might die at once ;
84917 For now they kill me with a living death .
84918 Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears ,
84919 Sham'd their aspects with store of childish drops ;
84920 These eyes , which never shed remorseful tear ;
84921 No , when my father York and Edward wept
84922 To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made
84923 When black-fac'd Clifford shook his sword at him ;
84924 Nor when thy war-like father like a child ,
84925 Told the sad story of my father's death ,
84926 And twenty times made pause to sob and weep ,
84927 That all the standers-by had wet their cheeks ,
84928 Like trees bedash'd with rain : in that sad time ,
84929 My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear ;
84930 And what these sorrows could not thence exhale ,
84931 Thy beauty hath , and made them blind with weeping .
84932 I never su'd to friend , nor enemy ;
84933 My tongue could never learn sweet smoothing words ;
84934 But , now thy beauty is propos'd my fee ,
84935 My proud heart sues , and prompts my tongue to speak .
84936
84937 Teach not thy lip such scorn , for it was made
84938 For kissing , lady , not for such contempt .
84939 If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive ,
84940 Lo ! here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword ;
84941 Which if thou please to hide in this true breast ,
84942 And let the soul forth that adoreth thee ,
84943 I lay it open to the deadly stroke ,
84944 And humbly beg the death upon my knee .
84945
84946 Nay , do not pause ; for I did kill King Henry ;
84947 But 'twas thy beauty that provoked me .
84948 Nay , now dispatch ; 'twas I that stabb'd young Edward ;
84949
84950 But 'twas thy heavenly face that set me on .
84951
84952 Take up the sword again , or take up me .
84953
84954 Arise , dissembler : though I wish thy death ,
84955 I will not be thy executioner .
84956
84957 Then bid me kill myself , and I will do it .
84958
84959 I have already .
84960
84961 That was in thy rage :
84962 Speak it again , and , even with the word ,
84963 This hand , which for thy love did kill thy love ,
84964 Shall , for thy love , kill a far truer love :
84965 To both their deaths shalt thou be accessary .
84966
84967 I would I knew thy heart .
84968
84969 'Tis figur'd in my tongue .
84970
84971 I fear me both are false .
84972
84973 Then never man was true .
84974
84975 Well , well , put up your sword .
84976
84977 Say , then , my peace is made .
84978
84979 That shalt thou know hereafter .
84980
84981 But shall I live in hope ?
84982
84983 All men , I hope , live so .
84984
84985 Vouchsafe to wear this ring .
84986
84987 To take is not to give .
84988
84989
84990 Look , how my ring encompasseth thy finger ,
84991 Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart ;
84992 Wear both of them , for both of them are thine .
84993 And if thy poor devoted servant may
84994 But beg one favour at thy gracious hand ,
84995 Thou dost confirm his happiness for ever .
84996
84997 What is it ?
84998
84999 That it may please you leave these sad designs
85000 To him that hath most cause to be a mourner ,
85001 And presently repair to Crosby-place ;
85002 Where , after I have solemnly interr'd
85003 At Chertsey monastery this noble king ,
85004 And wet his grave with my repentant tears ,
85005 I will with all expedient duty see you :
85006 For divers unknown reasons , I beseech you ,
85007 Grant me this boon .
85008
85009 With all my heart ; and much it joys me too
85010 To see you are become so penitent .
85011 Tressel and Berkeley , go along with me .
85012
85013 Bid me farewell .
85014
85015 'Tis more than you deserve ;
85016 But since you teach me how to flatter you ,
85017 Imagine I have said farewell already .
85018
85019
85020 Sirs , take up the corse .
85021
85022 Toward Chertsey , noble lord ?
85023
85024 No , to White-Friars ; there attend my coming .
85025
85026 Was ever woman in this humour woo'd ?
85027 Was ever woman in this humour won ?
85028 I'll have her ; but I will not keep her long .
85029 What ! I , that kill'd her husband , and his father ,
85030 To take her in her heart's extremest hate ;
85031 With curses in her mouth , tears in her eyes ,
85032 The bleeding witness of her hatred by ;
85033 Having God , her conscience , and these bars against me ,
85034 And nothing I to back my suit withal
85035 But the plain devil and dissembling looks ,
85036 And yet to win her , all the world to nothing !
85037 Ha !
85038 Hath she forgot already that brave prince ,
85039 Edward , her lord , whom I , some three months since ,
85040 Stabb'd in my angry mood at Tewksbury ?
85041 A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman ,
85042 Fram'd in the prodigality of nature ,
85043 Young , valiant , wise , and , no doubt , right royal ,
85044 The spacious world cannot again afford :
85045 And will she yet abase her eyes on me ,
85046 That cropp'd the golden prime of this sweet prince ,
85047 And made her widow to a woeful bed ?
85048 On me , whose all not equals Edward's moiety ?
85049 On me , that halt and am misshapen thus ?
85050 My dukedom to a beggarly denier
85051 I do mistake my person all this while :
85052 Upon my life , she finds , although I cannot ,
85053 Myself to be a marvellous proper man .
85054 I'll be at charges for a looking-glass ,
85055 And entertain a score or two of tailors ,
85056 To study fashions to adorn my body :
85057 Since I am crept in favour with myself ,
85058 I will maintain it with some little cost .
85059 But first I'll turn yon fellow in his grave ,
85060 And then return lamenting to my love .
85061 Shine out , fair sun , till I have bought a glass ,
85062 That I may see my shadow as I pass .
85063
85064
85065 Have patience , madam : there's no doubt his majesty
85066 Will soon recover his accustom'd health .
85067
85068 In that you brook it ill , it makes him worse :
85069 Therefore , for God's sake , entertain good comfort ,
85070 And cheer his Grace with quick and merry words .
85071
85072 If he were dead , what would betide on me ?
85073
85074 No other harm but loss of such a lord .
85075
85076 The loss of such a lord includes all harms .
85077
85078 The heavens have bless'd you with a goodly son ,
85079 To be your comforter when he is gone .
85080
85081 Ah ! he is young ; and his minority
85082 Is put into the trust of Richard Gloucester ,
85083 A man that loves not me , nor none of you .
85084
85085 Is it concluded he shall be protector ?
85086
85087 It is determin'd , not concluded yet :
85088 But so it must be if the king miscarry .
85089
85090
85091 Here come the Lords of Buckingham and Stanley .
85092
85093 Good time of day unto your royal Grace !
85094
85095 God make your majesty joyful as you have been !
85096
85097 The Countess Richmond , good my Lord of Stanley ,
85098 To your good prayer will scarcely say amen .
85099 Yet , Stanley , notwithstanding she's your wife ,
85100 And loves not me , be you , good lord , assur'd
85101 I hate not you for her proud arrogance .
85102
85103 I do beseech you , either not believe
85104 The envious slanders of her false accusers ;
85105 Or , if she be accus'd on true report ,
85106 Bear with her weakness , which , I think , proceeds
85107 From wayward sickness , and no grounded malice .
85108
85109 Saw you the king to-day , my Lord of Stanley ?
85110
85111 But now the Duke of Buckingham and I ,
85112 Are come from visiting his majesty .
85113
85114 What likelihood of his amendment , lords ?
85115
85116 Madam , good hope ; his Grace speaks cheerfully .
85117
85118 God grant him health ! did you confer with him ?
85119
85120 Ay , madam : he desires to make atonement
85121 Between the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers ,
85122 And between them and my lord chamberlain ;
85123 And sent to warn them to his royal presence .
85124
85125 Would all were well ! But that will never be .
85126 I fear our happiness is at the highest .
85127
85128
85129 They do me wrong , and I will not endure it :
85130 Who are they that complain unto the king ,
85131 That I , forsooth , am stern and love them not ?
85132 By holy Paul , they love his Grace but lightly
85133 That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours .
85134 Because I cannot flatter and speak fair ,
85135 Smile in men's faces , smooth , deceive , and cog ,
85136 Duck with French nods and apish courtesy ,
85137 I must be held a rancorous enemy .
85138 Cannot a plain man live and think no harm ,
85139 But thus his simple truth must be abus'd
85140 By silken , sly , insinuating Jacks ?
85141
85142 To whom in all this presence speaks your Grace ?
85143
85144 To thee , that hast nor honesty nor grace .
85145 When have I injur'd thee ? when done thee wrong ?
85146 Or thee ? or thee ? or any of your faction ?
85147 A plague upon you all ! His royal person ,
85148 Whom God preserve better than you would wish !
85149 Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing-while ,
85150 But you must trouble him with lewd complaints .
85151
85152 Brother of Gloucester , you mistake the matter .
85153 The king , on his own royal disposition ,
85154 And not provok'd by any suitor else ,
85155 Aiming , belike , at your interior hatred ,
85156 That in your outward action shows itself
85157 Against my children , brothers , and myself ,
85158 Makes him to send ; that thereby he may gather
85159 The ground of your ill-will , and so remove it .
85160
85161 I cannot tell ; the world is grown so bad
85162 That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch :
85163 Since every Jack became a gentleman
85164 There's many a gentle person made a Jack .
85165
85166 Come , come , we know your meaning , brother Gloucester ;
85167 You envy my advancement and my friends' .
85168 God grant we never may have need of you !
85169
85170 Meantime , God grants that we have need of you :
85171 Our brother is imprison'd by your means ,
85172 Myself disgrac'd , and the nobility
85173 Held in contempt ; while great promotions
85174 Are daily given to ennoble those
85175 That scarce , some two days since , were worth a noble .
85176
85177 By him that rais'd me to this careful height
85178 From that contented hap which I enjoy'd ,
85179 I never did incense his majesty
85180 Against the Duke of Clarence , but have been
85181 An earnest advocate to plead for him .
85182 My lord , you do me shameful injury ,
85183 Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects .
85184
85185 You may deny that you were not the mean
85186 Of my Lord Hastings' late imprisonment .
85187
85188 She may , my lord ; for
85189
85190 She may , Lord Rivers ! why , who knows not so ?
85191 She may do more , sir , than denying that :
85192 She may help you to many fair preferments ,
85193 And then deny her aiding hand therein ,
85194 And lay those honours on your high deserts .
85195 What may she not ? She may ,ay , marry , may she ,
85196
85197 What , marry , may she ?
85198
85199 What , marry , may she ! marry with a king ,
85200 A bachelor , a handsome stripling too .
85201 I wis your grandam had a worser match .
85202
85203 My Lord of Gloucester , I have too long borne
85204 Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs ;
85205 By heaven , I will acquaint his majesty
85206 Of those gross taunts that oft I have endur'd .
85207 I had rather be a country servantmaid
85208 Than a great queen , with this condition ,
85209 To be so baited , scorn'd , and stormed at :
85210 Small joy have I in being England's queen .
85211
85212
85213 And lessen'd be that small , God , I beseech him !
85214 Thy honour , state , and seat is due to me .
85215
85216 What ! threat you me with telling of the king ?
85217 Tell him , and spare not : look , what I have said
85218 I will avouch in presence of the king :
85219 I dare adventure to be sent to the Tower .
85220 'Tis time to speak ; my pains are quite forgot .
85221
85222 Out , devil ! I remember them too well :
85223 Thou kill'dst my husband Henry in the Tower ,
85224 And Edward , my poor son , at Tewksbury .
85225
85226 Ere you were queen , ay , or your husband king ,
85227 I was a pack-horse in his great affairs ,
85228 A weeder-out of his proud adversaries ,
85229 A liberal rewarder of his friends ;
85230 To royalize his blood I split mine own .
85231
85232 Ay , and much better blood than his , or thine .
85233
85234 In all which time you and your husband Grey
85235 Were factious for the house of Lancaster ;
85236 And , Rivers , so were you . Was not your husband
85237 In Margaret's battle at Saint Alban's slain ?
85238 Let me put in your minds , if you forget ,
85239 What you have been ere now , and what you are ;
85240 Withal , what I have been , and what I am .
85241
85242 A murderous villain , and so still thou art .
85243
85244 Poor Clarence did forsake his father , Warwick ,
85245 Ay , and forswore himself ,which Jesu pardon !
85246
85247 Which God revenge !
85248
85249 To fight on Edward's party for the crown ;
85250 And for his meed , poor lord , he is mew'd up .
85251 I would to God my heart were flint , like Edward's ;
85252 Or Edward's soft and pitiful , like mine :
85253 I am too childish-foolish for this world .
85254
85255 Hie thee to hell for shame , and leave this world ,
85256 Thou cacodemon ! there thy kingdom is .
85257
85258 My Lord of Gloucester , in those busy days
85259 Which here you urge to prove us enemies ,
85260 We follow'd then our lord , our lawful king ;
85261 So should we you , if you should be our king .
85262
85263 If I should be ! I had rather be a pedlar .
85264 Far be it from my heart the thought thereof !
85265
85266 As little joy , my lord , as you suppose
85267 You should enjoy , were you this country's king ,
85268 As little joy you may suppose in me
85269 That I enjoy , being the queen thereof .
85270
85271 As little joy enjoys the queen thereof ;
85272 For I am she , and altogether joyless .
85273 I can no longer hold me patient .
85274
85275 Hear me , you wrangling pirates , that fall out
85276 In sharing that which you have pill'd from me !
85277 Which of you trembles not that looks on me ?
85278 If not , that , I being queen , you bow like subjects ,
85279 Yet that , by you depos'd , you quake like rebels ?
85280 Ah ! gentle villain , do not turn away .
85281
85282 Foul wrinkled witch , what mak'st thou in my sight ?
85283
85284 But repetition of what thou hast marr'd ;
85285 That will I make before I let thee go .
85286
85287 Wert thou not banished on pain of death ?
85288
85289 I was ; but I do find more pain in banishment
85290 Than death can yield me here by my abode .
85291 A husband and a son thou ow'st to me ;
85292 And thou , a kingdom ; all of you , allegiance :
85293 This sorrow that I have by right is yours ,
85294 And all the pleasures you usurp are mine .
85295
85296 The curse my noble father laid on thee ,
85297 When thou didst crown his war-like brows with paper ,
85298 And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes ;
85299 And then , to dry them , gav'st the duke a clout
85300 Steep'd in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland ;
85301 His curses , then from bitterness of soul
85302 Denounc'd against thee , are all fall'n upon thee ;
85303 And God , not we , hath plagu'd thy bloody deed .
85304
85305 So just is God , to right the innocent
85306
85307 O ! 'twas the foulest deed to slay that babe ,
85308 And the most merciless , that e'er was heard of .
85309
85310 Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported .
85311
85312 No man but prophesied revenge for it .
85313
85314 Northumberland , then present , wept to see it .
85315
85316 What ! were you snarling all before I came ,
85317 Ready to catch each other by the throat ,
85318 And turn you all your hatred now on me ?
85319 Did York's dread curse prevail so much with heaven
85320 That Henry's death , my lovely Edward's death ,
85321 Their kingdom's loss , my woeful banishment ,
85322 Should all but answer for that peevish brat ?
85323 Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven ?
85324 Why then , give way , dull clouds , to my quick curses !
85325 Though not by war , by surfeit die your king ,
85326 As ours by murder , to make him a king !
85327 Edward , thy son , that now is Prince of Wales ,
85328 For Edward , my son , which was Prince of Wales ,
85329 Die in his youth by like untimely violence !
85330 Thyself a queen , for me that was a queen ,
85331 Outlive thy glory , like my wretched self !
85332 Long mayst thou live to wail thy children's loss ,
85333 And see another , as I see thee now ,
85334 Deck'd in thy rights , as thou art stall'd in mine !
85335 Long die thy happy days before thy death ;
85336 And , after many lengthen'd hours of grief ,
85337 Die neither mother , wife , nor England's queen !
85338 Rivers , and Dorset , you were standers by ,
85339 And so wast thou , Lord Hastings ,when my son
85340 Was stabb'd with bloody daggers : God , I pray him ,
85341 That none of you may live your natural age ,
85342 But by some unlook'd accident cut off .
85343
85344 Have done thy charm , thou hateful wither'd hag !
85345
85346 And leave out thee ? stay , dog , for thou shalt hear me .
85347 If heaven have any grievous plague in store
85348 Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee ,
85349 O ! let them keep it till thy sins be ripe ,
85350 And then hurl down their indignation
85351 On thee , the troubler of the poor world's peace .
85352 The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul !
85353 Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou liv'st
85354 And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends !
85355 No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine ,
85356 Unless it be while some tormenting dream
85357 Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils !
85358 Thou elvish-mark'd , abortive , rooting hog !
85359 Thou that wast seal'd in thy nativity
85360 The slave of nature and the son of hell !
85361 Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb !
85362 Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins !
85363 Thou rag of honour ! thou detested
85364
85365 Margaret !
85366
85367 Richard !
85368
85369 Ha !
85370
85371 I call thee not .
85372
85373 I cry thee mercy then , for I did think
85374 That thou hadst call'd me all these bitter names .
85375
85376 Why , so I did ; but look'd for no reply .
85377 O ! let me make the period to my curse .
85378
85379 'Tis done by me , and ends in 'Margaret .'
85380
85381 Thus have you breath'd your curso against yourself .
85382
85383 Poor painted queen , vain flourish of my fortune !
85384 Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider ,
85385 Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about ?
85386 Fool , fool ! thou whet'st a knife to kill thyself .
85387 The day will come that thou shalt wish for me
85388 To help thee curse this pois'nous bunch-back'd toad .
85389
85390 False-boding woman , end thy frantic curse ,
85391 Lest to thy harm thou move our patience .
85392
85393 Foul shame upon you ! you have all mov'd mine .
85394
85395 Were you well serv'd , you would be taught your duty .
85396
85397 To serve me well , you all should do me duty ,
85398 Teach me to be your queen , and you my subjects :
85399 O ! serve me well , and teach yourselves that duty .
85400
85401 Dispute not with her , she is lunatic .
85402
85403 Peace ! Master marquess , you are malapert :
85404 Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current .
85405 O ! that your young nobility could judge
85406 What 'twere to lose it , and be miserable !
85407 They that stand high have many blasts to shake them ,
85408 And if they fall , they dash themselves to pieces .
85409
85410 Good counsel , marry : learn it , learn it , marquess .
85411
85412 It touches you , my lord , as much as me .
85413
85414 Ay , and much more ; but I was born so high ,
85415 Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top ,
85416 And dallies with the wind , and scorns the sun .
85417
85418 And turns the sun to shade ; alas ! alas !
85419 Witness my son , now in the shade of death ;
85420 Whose bright out-shining beams thy cloudy wrath
85421 Hath in eternal darkness folded up .
85422 Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest :
85423 O God ! that seest it , do not suffer it ;
85424 As it was won with blood , lost be it so !
85425
85426 Peace , peace ! for shame , if not for charity .
85427
85428 Urge neither charity nor shame to me :
85429 Uncharitably with me have you dealt ,
85430 And shamefully my hopes by you are butcher'd .
85431 My charity is outrage , life my shame ;
85432 And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage !
85433
85434 Have done , have done .
85435
85436 O princely Buckingham ! I'll kiss thy hand ,
85437 In sign of league and amity with thee :
85438 Now fair befall thee and thy noble house !
85439 Thy garments are not spotted with our blood ,
85440 Nor thou within the compass of my curse .
85441
85442 Nor no one here ; for curses never pass
85443 The lips of those that breathe them in the air .
85444
85445 I will not think but they ascend the sky ,
85446 And there awake God's gentle-sleeping peace .
85447 O Buckingham ! take heed of yonder dog :
85448 Look , when he fawns , he bites ; and when he bites
85449 His venom tooth will rankle to the death :
85450 Have not to do with him , beware of him ;
85451 Sin , death and hell have set their marks on him ,
85452 And all their ministers attend on him .
85453
85454 What doth she say , my Lord of Buckingham ?
85455
85456 Nothing that I respect , my gracious lord .
85457
85458 What ! dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel ,
85459 And soothe the devil that I warn thee from ?
85460 O ! but remember this another day ,
85461 When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow ,
85462 And say poor Margaret was a prophetess .
85463 Live each of you the subject to his hate ,
85464 And he to yours , and all of you to God's !
85465
85466
85467 My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses .
85468
85469 And so doth mine . I muse why she's at liberty .
85470
85471 I cannot blame her : by God's holy mother ,
85472 She hath had too much wrong , and I repent
85473 My part thereof that I have done to her .
85474
85475 I never did her any , to my knowledge .
85476
85477 Yet you have all the vantage of her wrong .
85478 I was too hot to do somebody good ,
85479 That is too cold in thinking of it now .
85480 Marry , as for Clarence , he is well repaid ;
85481 He is frank'd up to fatting for his pains :
85482 God pardon them that are the cause thereof !
85483
85484 A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion ,
85485 To pray for them that have done scath to us .
85486
85487 So do I ever
85488
85489 being well-advis'd ;
85490 For had I curs'd now , I had curs'd myself .
85491
85492
85493 Madam , his majesty doth call for you ;
85494 And for your Grace ; and you , my noble lords .
85495
85496 Catesby , I come . Lords , will you go with me ?
85497
85498 We wait upon your Grace .
85499
85500
85501 I do the wrong , and first begin to brawl .
85502 The secret mischiefs that I set abroach
85503 I lay unto the grievous charge of others .
85504 Clarence , whom I , indeed , have cast in darkness ,
85505 I do beweep to many simple gulls ;
85506 Namely , to Stanley , Hastings , Buckingham ;
85507 And tell them 'tis the queen and her allies
85508 That stir the king against the duke my brother .
85509 Now they believe it ; and withal whet me
85510 To be reveng'd on Rivers , Vaughan , Grey ;
85511 But then I sigh , and , with a piece of scripture ,
85512 Tell them that God bids us do good for evil :
85513 And thus I clothe my naked villany
85514 With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ ,
85515 And seem a saint when most I play the devil .
85516
85517
85518 But soft ! here come my executioners .
85519 How now , my hardy , stout resolved mates !
85520
85521 Are you now going to dispatch this thing ?
85522
85523 We are , my lord ; and come to have the warrant ,
85524 That we may be admitted where he is .
85525
85526 Well thought upon ; I have it here about me :
85527
85528 When you have done , repair to Crosby-place .
85529 But , sirs , be sudden in the execution ,
85530 Withal obdurate , do not hear him plead ;
85531 For Clarence is well-spoken , and perhaps
85532 May move your hearts to pity , if you mark him .
85533
85534 Tut , tut , my lord , we will not stand to prate ;
85535 Talkers are no good doers : be assur'd
85536 We go to use our hands and not our tongues .
85537
85538 Your eyes drop millstones , when fools' eyes fall tears :
85539 I like you , lads ; about your business straight ;
85540 Go , go , dispatch .
85541
85542 We will , my noble lord .
85543
85544
85545 Why looks your Grace so heavily to-day ?
85546
85547 O , I have pass'd a miserable night ,
85548 So full of ugly sights , of ghastly dreams ,
85549 That , as I am a Christian faithful man ,
85550 I would not spend another such a night ,
85551 Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days ,
85552 So full of dismal terror was the time .
85553
85554 What was your dream , my lord ? I pray you , tell me .
85555
85556 Methought that I had broken from the Tower ,
85557 And was embark'd to cross to Burgundy ;
85558 And in my company my brother Gloucester ,
85559 Who from my cabin tempted me to walk
85560 Upon the hatches : thence we look'd toward England ,
85561 And cited up a thousand heavy times ,
85562 During the wars of York and Lancaster ,
85563 That had befall'n us . As we pac'd along
85564 Upon the giddy footing of the hatches ,
85565 Methought that Gloucester stumbled ; and , in falling ,
85566 Struck me , that thought to stay him , overboard ,
85567 Into the tumbling billows of the main .
85568 Lord , Lord ! methought what pain it was to drown :
85569 What dreadful noise of water in mine ears !
85570 What sights of ugly death within mine eyes !
85571 Methought I saw a thousand fearful wracks ;
85572 A thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon ;
85573 Wedges of gold , great anchors , heaps of pearl ,
85574 Inestimable stones , unvalu'd jewels ,
85575 All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea .
85576 Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and in those holes
85577 Where eyes did once inhabit , there were crept ,
85578 As 'twere in scorn of eyes , reflecting gems ,
85579 That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep ,
85580 And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by .
85581
85582 Had you such leisure in the time of death
85583 To gaze upon those secrets of the deep ?
85584
85585 Methought I had ; and often did I strive
85586 To yield the ghost ; but still the envious flood
85587 Stopt in my soul , and would not let it forth
85588 To find the empty , vast , and wandering air ;
85589 But smother'd it within my panting bulk ,
85590 Which almost burst to belch it in the sea .
85591
85592 Awak'd you not with this sore agony ?
85593
85594 No , no , my dream was lengthen'd after life ;
85595 O ! then began the tempest to my soul .
85596 I pass'd , methought , the melancholy flood ,
85597 With that grim ferryman which poets write of ,
85598 Unto the kingdom of perpetual night .
85599 The first that there did greet my stranger soul ,
85600 Was my great father-in-law , renowned Warwick ;
85601 Who cried aloud , 'What scourge for perjury
85602 Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence ?'
85603 And so he vanish'd : then came wandering by
85604 A shadow like an angel , with bright hair
85605 Dabbled in blood ; and he shriek'd out aloud ,
85606 'Clarence is come ,false , fleeting , perjur'd Clarence ,
85607 That stabb'd me in the field by Tewksbury ;
85608 Seize on him ! Furies , take him unto torment .'
85609 With that , methought , a legion of foul fiends
85610 Environ'd me , and howled in mine ears
85611 Such hideous cries , that , with the very noise
85612 I trembling wak'd , and , for a season after
85613 Could not believe but that I was in hell ,
85614 Such terrible impression made my dream .
85615
85616 No marvel , lord , though it affrighted you ;
85617 I am afraid , methinks , to hear you tell it .
85618
85619 O Brakenbury ! I have done these things
85620 That now give evidence against my soul ,
85621 For Edward's sake ; and see how he requites me .
85622 O God ! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee ,
85623 But thou wilt be aveng'd on my misdeeds ,
85624 Yet execute thy wrath on me alone :
85625 O ! spare my guiltless wife and my poor children .
85626 I pray thee , gentle keeper , stay by me ;
85627 My soul is heavy , and I fain would sleep .
85628
85629 I will , my lord . God give your Grace good rest !
85630
85631 Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours ,
85632 Makes the night morning , and the noon-tide night .
85633 Princes have but their titles for their glories ,
85634 An outward honour for an inward toil ;
85635 And , for unfelt imaginations ,
85636 They often feel a world of restless cares :
85637 So that , between their titles and low names ,
85638 There's nothing differs but the outward fame .
85639
85640
85641 Ho ! who's here ?
85642
85643 What wouldst thou , fellow ? and how cam'st thou hither ?
85644
85645 I would speak with Clarence , and I came hither on my legs .
85646
85647 What ! so brief ?
85648
85649 'Tis better , sir , than to be tedious .
85650 Let him see our commission , and talk no more .
85651
85652
85653 I am , in this , commanded to deliver
85654 The noble Duke of Clarence to your hands :
85655 I will not reason what is meant hereby ,
85656 Because I will be guiltless of the meaning .
85657 There lies the duke asleep , and there the keys .
85658 I'll to the king ; and signify to him
85659 That thus I have resign'd to you my charge .
85660
85661 You may , sir ; 'tis a point of wisdom : fare you well .
85662
85663
85664 What ! shall we stab him as he sleeps ?
85665
85666 No ; he'll say 'twas done cowardly , when he wakes .
85667
85668 When he wakes ! why , fool , he shall never wake till the judgment-day .
85669
85670 Why , then he'll say we stabbed him sleeping .
85671
85672 The urging of that word 'judgment' hath bred a kind of remorse in me .
85673
85674 What ! art thou afraid ?
85675
85676 Not to kill him , having a warrant for it ; but to be damn'd for killing him , from the which no warrant can defend me .
85677
85678 I thought thou hadst been resolute .
85679
85680 So I am , to let him live .
85681
85682 I'll back to the Duke of Gloucester , and tell him so .
85683
85684 Nay , I prithee , stay a little : I hope my holy humour will change ; it was wont to hold me but while one tells twenty .
85685
85686 How dost thou feel thyself now ?
85687
85688 Some certain dregs of conscience are yet within me .
85689
85690 Remember our reward when the deed's done .
85691
85692 'Zounds ! he dies : I had forgot the reward .
85693
85694 Where's thy conscience now ?
85695
85696 In the Duke of Gloucester's purse .
85697
85698 So when he opens his purse to give us our reward , thy conscience flies out .
85699
85700 'Tis no matter ; let it go : there's few or none will entertain it .
85701
85702 What if it come to thee again ?
85703
85704 I'll not meddle with it ; it makes a man a coward ; a man cannot steal , but it accuseth him ; a man cannot swear , but it checks him ; a man cannot lie with his neighbour's wife , but it detects him : 'tis a blushing shamefast spirit , that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles ; it made me once restore a purse of gold that I found ; it beggars any man that keeps it ; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing ; and every man that means to live well , endeavours to trust to himself and live without it .
85705
85706 'Zounds ! it is even now at my elbow , persuading me not to kill the duke .
85707
85708 Take the devil in thy mind , and believe him not : he would insinuate with thee but to make thee sigh .
85709
85710 Tut , I am strong-framed ; he cannot prevail with me .
85711
85712 Spoke like a tall fellow that respects his reputation . Come , shall we to this gear ?
85713
85714 Take him over the costard with the hilts of thy sword , and then throw him into the malmsey-butt in the next room .
85715
85716 O , excellent device ! make a sop of him .
85717
85718 Soft ! he wakes .
85719
85720 Strike !
85721
85722 No , we'll reason with him .
85723
85724 Where art thou , keeper ? give me a cup of wine .
85725
85726 You shall have wine enough , my lord , anon .
85727
85728 In God's name , what art thou ?
85729
85730 A man , as you are .
85731
85732 But not , as I am , royal .
85733
85734 Nor you , as we are , loyal .
85735
85736 Thy voice is thunder , but thy looks are humble .
85737
85738 My voice is now the king's , my looks mine own .
85739
85740 How darkly , and how deadly dost thou speak !
85741 Your eyes do menace me : why look you pale ?
85742 Who sent you hither ? Wherefore do you come ?
85743
85744 To , to , to
85745
85746 To murder me ?
85747
85748 Ay , ay .
85749
85750 You scarcely have the hearts to tell me so ,
85751 And therefore cannot have the hearts to do it .
85752 Wherein , my friends , have I offended you ?
85753
85754 Offended us you have not , but the king .
85755
85756 I shall be reconcil'd to him again .
85757
85758 Never , my lord ; therefore prepare to die .
85759
85760 Are you call'd forth from out a world of men
85761 To slay the innocent ? What is my offence ?
85762 Where is the evidence that doth accuse me ?
85763 What lawful quest have given their verdict up
85764 Unto the frowning judge ? or who pronounc'd
85765 The bitter sentence of poor Clarence' death ?
85766 Before I be convict by course of law ,
85767 To threaten me with death is most unlawful .
85768 I charge you , as you hope to have redemption
85769 By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins ,
85770 That you depart and lay no hands on me ;
85771 The deed you undertake is damnable .
85772
85773 What we will do , we do upon command .
85774
85775 And he that hath commanded is our king .
85776
85777 Erroneous vassal ! the great King of kings
85778 Hath in the table of his law commanded
85779 That thou shalt do no murder : will you , then ,
85780 Spurn at his edict and fulfil a man's ?
85781 Take heed ; for he holds vengeance in his hand ,
85782 To hurl upon their heads that break his law .
85783
85784 And that same vengeance doth he hurl on thee ,
85785 For false forswearing and for murder too :
85786 Thou didst receive the sacrament to fight
85787 In quarrel of the house of Lancaster .
85788
85789 And , like a traitor to the name of God ,
85790 Didst break that vow , and , with thy treacherous blade
85791 Unripp'dst the bowels of thy sovereign's son .
85792
85793 Whom thou wast sworn to cherish and defend .
85794
85795 How canst thou urge God's dreadful law to us ,
85796 When thou hast broke it in such dear degree ?
85797
85798 Alas ! for whose sake did I that ill deed ?
85799 For Edward , for my brother , for his sake :
85800 He sends you not to murder me for this ;
85801 For in that sin he is as deep as I .
85802 If God will be avenged for the deed ,
85803 O ! know you yet , he doth it publicly :
85804 Take not the quarrel from his powerful arm ;
85805 He needs no indirect or lawless course
85806 To cut off those that have offended him .
85807
85808 Who made thee then a bloody minister ,
85809 When gallant-springing , brave Plantagenet ,
85810 That princely novice , was struck dead by thee ?
85811
85812 My brother's love , the devil , and my rage .
85813
85814 Thy brother's love , our duty , and thy fault ,
85815 Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee .
85816
85817 If you do love my brother , hate not me ;
85818 I am his brother , and I love him well .
85819 If you are hir'd for meed , go back again ,
85820 And I will send you to my brother Gloucester ,
85821 Who shall reward you better for my life
85822 Than Edward will for tidings of my death .
85823
85824 You are deceiv'd , your brother Gloucester hates you .
85825
85826 O , no ! he loves me , and he holds me dear :
85827 Go you to him from me .
85828
85829 Ay , so we will .
85830
85831 Tell him , when that our princely father York
85832 Bless'd his three sons with his victorious arm ,
85833 And charg'd us from his soul to love each other ,
85834 He little thought of this divided friendship :
85835 Bid Gloucester think on this , and he will weep .
85836
85837 Ay , millstones ; as he lesson'd us to weep .
85838
85839 O ! do not slander him , for he is kind .
85840
85841 Right ;
85842 As snow in harvest . Thou deceiv'st thyself :
85843 'Tis he that sends us to destroy you here .
85844
85845 It cannot be ; for he bewept my fortune ,
85846 And hugg'd me in his arms , and swore , with sobs ,
85847 That he would labour my delivery .
85848
85849 Why , so he doth , when he delivers you
85850 From this earth's thraldom to the joys of heaven .
85851
85852 Make peace with God , for you must die , my lord .
85853
85854 Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul ,
85855 To counsel me to make my peace with God ,
85856 And art thou yet to thy own soul so blind ,
85857 That thou wilt war with God by murdering me ?
85858 O ! sirs , consider , he that set you on
85859 To do this deed , will hate you for the deed .
85860
85861 What shall we do ?
85862
85863 Relent and save your souls .
85864
85865 Relent ! 'tis cowardly , and womanish .
85866
85867 Not to relent , is beastly , savage , devilish .
85868 Which of you , if you were a prince's son ,
85869 Being pent from liberty , as I am now ,
85870 If two such murd'rers as yourselves came to you ,
85871 Would not entreat for life ?
85872 My friend , I spy some pity in thy looks ;
85873 O ! if thine eye be not a flatterer ,
85874 Come thou on my side , and entreat for me ,
85875 As you would beg , were you in my distress :
85876 A begging prince what beggar pities not ?
85877
85878 Look behind you , my lord .
85879
85880 Take that , and that : if all this will not do ,
85881 I'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within .
85882
85883
85884 A bloody deed , and desperately dispatch'd !
85885 How fain , like Pilate , would I wash my hands
85886 Of this most grievous murder .
85887
85888
85889 How now ! what mean'st thou , that thou help'st me not ?
85890 By heaven , the duke shall know how slack you have been .
85891
85892 I would he knew that I had sav'd his brother !
85893 Take thou the fee , and tell him what I say ;
85894 For I repent me that the duke is slain .
85895
85896
85897 So do not I : go , coward as thou art .
85898 Well , I'll go hide the body in some hole ,
85899 Till that the duke give order for his burial :
85900 And when I have my meed , I will away ;
85901 For this will out , and here I must not stay .
85902
85903 Why , so : now have I done a good day's work .
85904 You peers , continue this united league :
85905 I every day expect an embassage
85906 From my Redeemer to redeem me hence ;
85907 And more in peace my soul shall part to heaven ,
85908 Since I have made my friends at peace on earth .
85909 Rivers and Hastings , take each other's hand ;
85910 Dissemble not your hatred , swear your love .
85911
85912 By heaven , my soul is purg'd from grudging hate ;
85913 And with my hand I seal my true heart's love .
85914
85915 So thrive I , as I truly swear the like !
85916
85917 Take heed , you dally not before your king ;
85918 Lest he that is the supreme King of kings
85919 Confound your hidden falsehood , and award
85920 Either of you to be the other's end .
85921
85922 So prosper I , as I swear perfect love !
85923
85924 And I , as I love Hastings with my heart !
85925
85926 Madam , yourself are not exempt in this ,
85927 Nor you , son Dorset , Buckingham , nor you ;
85928 You have been factious one against the other .
85929 Wife , love Lord Hastings , let him kiss your hand ;
85930 And what you do , do it unfeignedly .
85931
85932 There , Hastings ; I will never more remember
85933 Our former hatred , so thrive I and mine !
85934
85935 Dorset , embrace him ; Hastings , love lord marquess .
85936
85937 This interchange of love , I here protest ,
85938 Upon my part shall be inviolable .
85939
85940 And so swear I .
85941
85942
85943 Now , princely Buckingham , seal thou this league
85944 With thy embracements to my wife's allies ,
85945 And make me happy in your unity .
85946
85947 Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate
85948 Upon your Grace , but with all duteous love
85949 Doth cherish you and yours , God punish me
85950 With hate in those where I expect most love !
85951 When I have most need to employ a friend ,
85952 And most assured that he is a friend ,
85953 Deep , hollow , treacherous , and full of guile ,
85954 Be he unto me ! This do I beg of God ,
85955 When I am cold in love to you or yours .
85956
85957
85958 A pleasing cordial , princely Buckingham ,
85959 Is this thy vow unto my sickly heart .
85960 There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here
85961 To make the blessed period of this peace .
85962
85963 And , in good time , here comes the noble duke .
85964
85965
85966 Good morrow to my sovereign king and queen ;
85967 And princely peers , a happy time of day !
85968
85969 Happy , indeed , as we have spent the day .
85970 Gloucester , we have done deeds of charity ;
85971 Made peace of enmity , fair love of hate ,
85972 Between these swelling wrong-incensed peers .
85973
85974 A blessed labour , my most sovereign lord .
85975 Among this princely heap , if any here ,
85976 By false intelligence , or wrong surmise ,
85977 Hold me a foe ;
85978 If I unwittingly , or in my rage ,
85979 Have aught committed that is hardly borne
85980 By any in this presence , I desire
85981 To reconcile me to his friendly peace :
85982 'Tis death to me to be at enmity ;
85983 I hate it , and desire all good men's love .
85984 First , madam , I entreat true peace of you ,
85985 Which I will purchase with my duteous service ;
85986 Of you , my noble cousin Buckingham ,
85987 If ever any grudge were lodg'd between us ;
85988 Of you , Lord Rivers , and Lord Grey , of you ,
85989 That all without desert have frown'd on me ;
85990 Of you , Lord Woodvile , and Lord Scales , of you ;
85991 Dukes , earls , lords , gentlemen ; indeed , of all .
85992 I do not know that Englishman alive
85993 With whom my soul is any jot at odds
85994 More than the infant that is born to-night :
85995 I thank my God for my humility .
85996
85997 A holy day shall this be kept hereafter :
85998 I would to God all strifes were well compounded .
85999 My sov'reign lord , I do beseech your highness
86000 To take our brother Clarence to your grace .
86001
86002 Why , madam , have I offer'd love for this ,
86003 To be so flouted in this royal presence ?
86004 Who knows not that the gentle duke is dead ?
86005
86006 You do him injury to scorn his corse .
86007
86008 Who knows not he is dead ! who knows he is ?
86009
86010 All-seeing heaven , what a world is this !
86011
86012 Look I so pale , Lord Dorset , as the rest ?
86013
86014 Ay , my good lord ; and no man in the presence
86015 But his red colour hath forsook his cheeks .
86016
86017 Is Clarence dead ? the order was revers'd .
86018
86019 But he , poor man , by your first order died ,
86020 And that a winged Mercury did bear ;
86021 Some tardy cripple bore the countermand ,
86022 That came too lag to see him buried .
86023 God grant that some , less noble and less loyal ,
86024 Nearer in bloody thoughts , and not in blood ,
86025 Deserve not worse than wretched Clarence did ,
86026 And yet go current from suspicion .
86027
86028
86029 A boon , my sov'reign , for my service done !
86030
86031 I prithee , peace : my soul is full of sorrow .
86032
86033 I will not rise , unless your highness hear me .
86034
86035 Then say at once , what is it thou request'st .
86036
86037 The forfeit , sovereign , of my servant's life ;
86038 Who slew to-day a riotous gentleman
86039 Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk .
86040
86041 Have I a tongue to doom my brother's death ,
86042 And shall that tongue give pardon to a slave ?
86043 My brother kill'd no man , his fault was thought ;
86044 And yet his punishment was bitter death .
86045 Who su'd to me for him ? who , in my wrath ,
86046 Kneel'd at my feet , and bade me be advis'd ?
86047 Who spoke of brotherhood ? who spoke of love ?
86048 Who told me how the poor soul did forsake
86049 The mighty Warwick , and did fight for me ?
86050 Who told me , in the field at Tewksbury ,
86051 When Oxford had me down , he rescu'd me ,
86052 And said , 'Dear brother , live , and be a king ?'
86053 Who told me , when we both lay in the field
86054 Frozen almost to death , how he did lap me
86055 Even in his garments ; and did give himself ,
86056 All thin and naked , to the numb cold night ?
86057 All this from my remembrance brutish wrath
86058 Sinfully pluck'd , and not a man of you
86059 Had so much grace to put it in my mind .
86060 But when your carters or your waiting-vassals
86061 Have done a drunken slaughter , and defac'd
86062 The precious image of our dear Redeemer ,
86063 You straight are on your knees for pardon , pardon ;
86064 And I , unjustly too , must grant it you ;
86065 But for my brother not a man would speak ,
86066 Nor I , ungracious , speak unto myself
86067 For him , poor soul . The proudest of you all
86068 Have been beholding to him in his life ,
86069 Yet none of you would once beg for his life .
86070 O God ! I fear , thy justice will take hold
86071 On me and you and mine and yours for this .
86072 Come , Hastings , help me to my closet . O ! poor Clarence !
86073
86074
86075 This is the fruit of rashness . Mark'd you not
86076 How that the guilty kindred of the queen
86077 Look'd pale when they did hear of Clarence' death ?
86078 O ! they did urge it still unto the king :
86079 God will revenge it . Come , lords ; will you go
86080 To comfort Edward with our company ?
86081
86082 We wait upon your Grace .
86083
86084
86085 Good grandam , tell us , is our father dead ?
86086
86087 No , boy .
86088
86089 Why do you wring your hands , and beat your breast ,
86090 And cry 'O Clarence , my unhappy son ?'
86091
86092 Why do you look on us , and shake your head ,
86093 And call us orphans , wretches , castaways ,
86094 If that our noble father be alive ?
86095
86096 My pretty cousins , you mistake me much ;
86097 I do lament the sickness of the king ,
86098 As loath to lose him , not your father's death ;
86099 It were lost sorrow to wail one that's lost .
86100
86101 Then , grandam , you conclude that he is dead .
86102 The king mine uncle is to blame for it :
86103 God will revenge it ; whom I will importune
86104 With earnest prayers all to that effect .
86105
86106 And so will I .
86107
86108 Peace , children , peace ! the king doth love you well :
86109 Incapable and shallow innocents ,
86110 You cannot guess who caus'd your father's death .
86111
86112 Grandam , we can ; for my good uncle Gloucester
86113 Told me , the king , provok'd to't by the queen ,
86114 Devis'd impeachments to imprison him :
86115 And when my uncle told me so , he wept ,
86116 And pitied me , and kindly kiss'd my cheek ;
86117 Bade me rely on him , as on my father ,
86118 And he would love me dearly as his child .
86119
86120 Ah ! that deceit should steal such gentle shape ,
86121 And with a virtuous vizard hide deep vice .
86122 He is my son , ay , and therein my shame ,
86123 Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit .
86124
86125 Think you my uncle did dissemble , grandam ?
86126
86127 Ay , boy .
86128
86129 I cannot think it . Hark ! what noise is this ?
86130
86131
86132 Oh ! who shall hinder me to wail and weep ,
86133 To chide my fortune , and torment myself ?
86134 I'll join with black despair against my soul ,
86135 And to myself become an enemy .
86136
86137 What means this scene of rude impatience ?
86138
86139 To make an act of tragic violence :
86140 Edward , my lord , thy son , our king , is dead !
86141 Why grow the branches now the root is wither'd ?
86142 Why wither not the leaves that want their sap ?
86143 If you will live , lament : if die , be brief ,
86144 That our swift-winged souls may catch the king's ;
86145 Or , like obedient subjects , follow him
86146 To his new kingdom of perpetual rest .
86147
86148 Ah ! so much interest have I in thy sorrow
86149 As I had title in thy noble husband .
86150 I have bewept a worthy husband's death ,
86151 And liv'd with looking on his images ;
86152 But now two mirrors of his princely semblance
86153 Are crack'd in pieces by malignant death ,
86154 And I for comfort have but one false glass ,
86155 That grieves me when I see my shame in him .
86156 Thou art a widow ; yet thou art a mother ,
86157 And hast the comfort of thy children left thee :
86158 But death hath snatch'd my husband from mine arms ,
86159 And pluck'd two crutches from my feeble limbs ,
86160 Clarence and Edward . O ! what cause have I
86161 Thine being but a moiety of my grief
86162 To overgo thy plaints , and drown thy cries !
86163
86164 Ah , aunt , you wept not for our father's death ;
86165 How can we aid you with our kindred tears ?
86166
86167 Our fatherless distress was left unmoan'd ;
86168 Your widow-dolour likewise be unwept .
86169
86170 Give me no help in lamentation ;
86171 I am not barren to bring forth complaints :
86172 All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes ,
86173 That I , being govern'd by the wat'ry moon ,
86174 May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world !
86175 Ah ! for my husband , for my dear Lord Edward !
86176
86177 Ah ! for our father , for our dear Lord Clarence !
86178
86179 Alas ! for both , both mine , Edward and Clarence !
86180
86181 What stay had I but Edward ? and he's gone .
86182
86183 What stay had we but Clarence ? and he's gone .
86184
86185 What stays had I but they ? and they are gone .
86186
86187 Was never widow had so dear a loss .
86188
86189 Were never orphans had so dear a loss .
86190
86191 Was never mother had so dear a loss .
86192 Alas ! I am the mother of these griefs :
86193 Their woes are parcell'd , mine are general .
86194 She for an Edward weeps , and so do I ;
86195 I for a Clarence weep , so doth not she :
86196 These babes for Clarence weep , and so do I ;
86197 I for an Edward weep , so do not they :
86198 Alas ! you three , on me , threefold distress'd ,
86199 Pour all your tears ; I am your sorrow's nurse ,
86200 And I will pamper it with lamentation .
86201
86202 Comfort , dear mother : God is much displeas'd
86203 That you take with unthankfulness his doing .
86204 In common worldly things 'tis call'd ungrateful
86205 With dull unwillingness to repay a debt
86206 Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent ;
86207 Much more to be thus opposite with heaven ,
86208 For it requires the royal debt it lent you .
86209
86210 Madam , bethink you , like a careful mother ,
86211 Of the young prince your son : send straight for him ;
86212 Let him be crown'd ; in him your comfort lives .
86213 Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave ,
86214 And plant your joys in living Edward's throne .
86215
86216
86217 Sister , have comfort : all of us have cause
86218 To wail the dimming of our shining star ;
86219 But none can cure their harms by wailing them .
86220 Madam , my mother , I do cry you mercy ;
86221 I did not see your Grace : humbly on my knee
86222 I crave your blessing .
86223
86224 God bless thee ! and put meekness in thy mind ,
86225 Love , charity , obedience , and true duty .
86226
86227 Amen ;
86228
86229 and make me die a good old man !
86230 That is the butt-end of a mother's blessing ;
86231 I marvel that her Grace did leave it out .
86232
86233 You cloudy princes and heart-sorrowing peers ,
86234 That bear this heavy mutual load of moan ,
86235 Now cheer each other in each other's love :
86236 Though we have spent our harvest of this king ,
86237 We are to reap the harvest of his son .
86238 The broken rancour of your high-swoln hearts ,
86239 But lately splinter'd , knit , and join'd together ,
86240 Must gently be preserv'd , cherish'd , and kept :
86241 Me seemeth good , that , with some little train ,
86242 Forthwith from Ludlow the young prince be fetch'd
86243 Hither to London , to be crown'd our king .
86244
86245 Why with some little train , my Lord of Buckingham ?
86246
86247 Marry , my lord , lest , by a multitude ,
86248 The new-heal'd wound of malice should break out ;
86249 Which would be so much the more dangerous ,
86250 By how much the estate is green and yet ungovern'd ;
86251 Where every horse bears his commanding rein ,
86252 And may direct his course as please himself ,
86253 As well the fear of harm , as harm apparent ,
86254 In my opinion , ought to be prevented .
86255
86256 I hope the king made peace with all of us ;
86257 And the compact is firm and true in me .
86258
86259 And so in me ; and so , I think , in all :
86260 Yet , since it is but green , it should be put
86261 To no apparent likelihood of breach ,
86262 Which haply by much company might be urg'd :
86263 Therefore I say with noble Buckingham ,
86264 That it is meet so few should fetch the prince .
86265
86266 And so say I .
86267
86268 Then be it so ; and go we to determine
86269 Who they shall be that straight shall post to Ludlow .
86270 Madam , and you my mother , will you go
86271 To give your censures in this business ?
86272
86273
86274 My lord , whoever journeys to the prince ,
86275 For God's sake , let not us two stay at home :
86276 For by the way I'll sort occasion ,
86277 As index to the story we late talk'd of ,
86278 To part the queen's proud kindred from the prince .
86279
86280 My other self , my counsel's consistory ,
86281 My oracle , my prophet ! My dear cousin ,
86282 I , as a child , will go by thy direction .
86283 Towards Ludlow then , for we'll not stay behind .
86284
86285
86286 Good morrow , neighbour : whither away so fast ?
86287
86288 I promise you , I scarcely know myself :
86289 Hear you the news abroad ?
86290
86291 Ay ; that the king is dead .
86292
86293 Ill news , by'r lady ; seldom comes the better :
86294 I fear , I fear , 'twill prove a giddy world .
86295
86296
86297 Neighbours , God speed !
86298
86299 Give you good morrow , sir .
86300
86301 Doth the news hold of good King Edward's death ?
86302
86303 Ay , sir , it is too true ; God help the while !
86304
86305 Then , masters , look to see a troublous world .
86306
86307 No , no ; by God's good grace , his son shall reign .
86308
86309 Woe to that land that's govern'd by a child !
86310
86311 In him there is a hope of government ,
86312 That in his nonage council under him ,
86313 And in his full and ripen'd years himself ,
86314 No doubt , shall then and till then govern well .
86315
86316 So stood the state when Henry the Sixth
86317 Was crown'd at Paris but at nine months old .
86318
86319 Stood the state so ? no , no , good friends , God wot ;
86320 For then this land was famously enrich'd
86321 With politic grave counsel ; then the king
86322 Had virtuous uncles to protect his Grace .
86323
86324 Why , so hath this , both by his father and mother .
86325
86326 Better it were they all came by his father ,
86327 Or by his father there were none at all ;
86328 For emulation , who shall now be nearest ,
86329 Will touch us all too near , if God prevent not .
86330 O ! full of danger is the Duke of Gloucester !
86331 And the queen's sons and brothers haught and proud ;
86332 And were they to be rul'd , and not to rule ,
86333 This sickly land might solace as before .
86334
86335 Come , come , we fear the worst , all will be well .
86336
86337 When clouds are seen , wise men put on their cloaks ;
86338 When great leaves fall , then winter is at hand ;
86339 When the sun sets , who doth not look for night ?
86340 Untimely storms make men expect a dearth .
86341 All may be well ; but , if God sort it so ,
86342 'Tis more than we deserve , or I expect .
86343
86344 Truly , the hearts of men are full of fear :
86345 You cannot reason almost with a man
86346 That looks not heavily and full of dread .
86347
86348 Before the days of change , still is it so :
86349 By a divine instinct men's minds mistrust
86350 Ensuing danger ; as , by proof , we see
86351 The waters swell before a boisterous storm .
86352 But leave it all to God . Whither away ?
86353
86354 Marry , we were sent for to the justices .
86355
86356 And so was I : I'll bear you company .
86357
86358
86359 Last night , I hear , they lay at Northampton ;
86360 At Stony-Stratford they do rest to-night :
86361 To-morrow , or next day , they will be here .
86362
86363 I long with all my heart to see the prince .
86364 I hope he is much grown since last I saw him .
86365
86366 But I hear , no ; they say my son of York
86367 Hath almost overta'en him in his growth .
86368
86369 Ay , mother , but I would not have it so .
86370
86371 Why , my young cousin , it is good to grow .
86372
86373 Grandam , one night , as we did sit at supper ,
86374 My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow
86375 More than my brother : 'Ay ,' quoth my uncle Gloucester ,
86376 'Small herbs have grace , great weeds do grow apace :'
86377 And since , methinks , I would not grow so fast ,
86378 Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste .
86379
86380 Good faith , good faith , the saying did not hold
86381 In him that did object the same to thee :
86382 He was the wretched'st thing when he was young ,
86383 So long a-growing , and so leisurely ,
86384 That , if his rule were true , he should be gracious .
86385
86386 And so , no doubt , he is , my gracious madam .
86387
86388 I hope he is ; but yet let mothers doubt .
86389
86390 Now , by my troth , if I had been remember'd ,
86391 I could have given my uncle's grace a flout ,
86392 To touch his growth nearer than he touch'd mine .
86393
86394 How , my young York ? I prithee , let me hear it .
86395
86396 Marry , they say my uncle grew so fast ,
86397 That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old :
86398 'Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth .
86399 Grandam , this would have been a biting jest .
86400
86401 I prithee , pretty York , who told thee this ?
86402
86403 Grandam , his nurse .
86404
86405 His nurse ! why , she was dead ere thou wast born .
86406
86407 If 'twere not she , I cannot tell who told me .
86408
86409 A parlous boy : go to , you are too shrewd .
86410
86411 Good madam , be not angry with the child .
86412
86413 Pitchers have ears .
86414
86415
86416 Here comes a messenger . What news ?
86417
86418 Such news , my lord , as grieves me to report .
86419
86420 How doth the prince ?
86421
86422 Well , madam , and in health .
86423
86424 What is thy news ?
86425
86426 Lord Rivers and Lord Grey are sent to Pomfret ,
86427 With them Sir Thomas Vaughan , prisoners .
86428
86429 Who hath committed them ?
86430
86431 The mighty dukes ,
86432 Gloucester and Buckingham .
86433
86434 For what offence ?
86435
86436 The sum of all I can I have disclos'd :
86437 Why or for what the nobles were committed
86438 Is all unknown to me , my gracious lord .
86439
86440 Ah me ! I see the ruin of my house !
86441 The tiger now hath seiz'd the gentle hind ;
86442 Insulting tyranny begins to jet
86443 Upon the innocent and aweless throne :
86444 Welcome , destruction , death , and massacre !
86445 I see , as in a map , the end of all .
86446
86447 Accursed and unquiet wrangling days ,
86448 How many of you have mine eyes beheld !
86449 My husband lost his life to get the crown ,
86450 And often up and down my sons were toss'd ,
86451 For me to joy and weep their gain and loss :
86452 And being seated , and domestic broils
86453 Clean over-blown , themselves , the conquerors ,
86454 Make war upon themselves ; brother to brother ,
86455 Blood to blood , self against self : O ! preposterous
86456 And frantic outrage , end thy damned spleen ;
86457 Or let me die , to look on death no more .
86458
86459 Come , come , my boy ; we will to sanctuary .
86460 Madam , farewell .
86461
86462 Stay , I will go with you .
86463
86464 You have no cause .
86465
86466 My gracious lady , go ;
86467 And thither bear your treasure and your goods .
86468 For my part , I'll resign unto your Grace
86469 The seal I keep : and so betide to me
86470 As well I tender you and all of yours !
86471 Come ; I'll conduct you to the sanctuary .
86472
86473
86474 Welcome , sweet prince , to London , to your chamber .
86475
86476 Welcome , dear cousin , my thoughts' sovereign ;
86477 The weary way hath made you melancholy .
86478
86479 No , uncle ; but our crosses on the way
86480 Have made it tedious , wearisome , and heavy :
86481 I want more uncles here to welcome me .
86482
86483 Sweet prince , the untainted virtue of your years
86484 Hath not yet div'd into the world's deceit :
86485 No more can you distinguish of a man
86486 Than of his outward show ; which , God he knows ,
86487 Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart .
86488 Those uncles which you want were dangerous ;
86489 Your Grace attended to their sugar'd words ,
86490 But look'd not on the poison of their hearts :
86491 God keep you from them , and from such false friends !
86492
86493 God keep me from false friends ! but they were none .
86494
86495 My lord , the Mayor of London comes to greet you .
86496
86497
86498 God bless your Grace with health and happy days !
86499
86500 I thank you , good my lord ; and thank you all .
86501 I thought my mother and my brother York
86502 Would long ere this have met us on the way :
86503 Fie ! what a slug is Hastings , that he comes not
86504 To tell us whether they will come or no .
86505
86506
86507 And in good time here comes the sweating lord .
86508
86509 Welcome , my lord . What , will our mother come ?
86510
86511 On what occasion , God he knows , not I ,
86512 The queen your mother , and your brother York ,
86513 Have taken sanctuary : the tender prince
86514 Would fain have come with me to meet your Grace ,
86515 But by his mother was perforce withheld .
86516
86517 Fie ! what an indirect and peevish course
86518 Is this of hers ! Lord Cardinal , will your Grace
86519 Persuade the queen to send the Duke of York
86520 Unto his princely brother presently ?
86521 If she deny , Lord Hastings , go with him ,
86522 And from her jealous arms pluck him perforce .
86523
86524 My Lord of Buckingham , if my weak oratory
86525 Can from his mother win the Duke of York ,
86526 Anon expect him here ; but if she be obdurate
86527 To mild entreaties , God in heaven forbid
86528 We should infringe the holy privilege
86529 Of blessed sanctuary ! not for all this land
86530 Would I be guilty of so great a sin .
86531
86532 You are too senseless-obstinate , my lord ,
86533 Too ceremonious and traditional :
86534 Weigh it but with the grossness of this age ,
86535 You break not sanctuary in seizing him .
86536 The benefit thereof is always granted
86537 To those whose dealings have deserv'd the place
86538 And those who have the wit to claim the place :
86539 This prince hath neither claim'd it , nor deserv'd it ;
86540 And therefore , in mine opinion , cannot have it :
86541 Then , taking him from thence that is not there ,
86542 You break no privilege nor charter there .
86543 Oft have I heard of sanctuary men ,
86544 But sanctuary children ne'er till now .
86545
86546 My lord , you shall o'er-rule my mind for once .
86547 Come on , Lord Hastings , will you go with me ?
86548
86549 I go , my lord .
86550
86551 Good lords , make all the speedy haste you may .
86552
86553 Say , uncle Gloucester , if our brother come ,
86554 Where shall we sojourn till our coronation ?
86555
86556 Where it seems best unto your royal self .
86557 If I may counsel you , some day or two
86558 Your highness shall repose you at the Tower :
86559 Then where you please , and shall be thought most fit
86560 For your best health and recreation .
86561
86562 I do not like the Tower , of any place :
86563 Did Julius C sar build that place , my lord ?
86564
86565 He did , my gracious lord , begin that place ,
86566 Which , since , succeeding ages have re-edified .
86567
86568 Is it upon record , or else reported
86569 Successively from age to age , he built it ?
86570
86571 Upon record , my gracious lord .
86572
86573 But say , my lord , it were not register'd ,
86574 Methinks the truth should live from age to age ,
86575 As 'twere retail'd to all posterity ,
86576 Even to the general all-ending day .
86577
86578 So wise so young , they say , do never live long .
86579
86580 What say you , uncle ?
86581
86582 I say , without characters , fame lives long .
86583
86584
86585 Thus , like the formal Vice , Iniquity ,
86586 I moralize two meanings in one word .
86587
86588 That Julius C sar was a famous man ;
86589 With what his valour did enrich his wit ,
86590 His wit set down to make his valour live :
86591 Death makes no conquest of this conqueror ,
86592 For now he lives in fame , though not in life .
86593 I'll tell you what , my cousin Buckingham ,
86594
86595 What , my gracious lord ?
86596
86597 An if I live until I be a man ,
86598 I'll win our ancient right in France again ,
86599 Or die a soldier , as I liv'd a king .
86600
86601 Short summers lightly have a forward spring .
86602
86603
86604 Now , in good time , here comes the Duke of York .
86605
86606 Richard of York ! how fares our loving brother ?
86607
86608 Well , my dread lord ; so must I call you now .
86609
86610 Ay , brother , to our grief , as it is yours :
86611 Too late he died that might have kept that title ,
86612 Which by his death hath lost much majesty .
86613
86614 How fares our cousin , noble Lord of York ?
86615
86616 I thank you , gentle uncle . O , my lord ,
86617 You said that idle weeds are fast in growth :
86618 The prince my brother hath outgrown me far .
86619
86620 He hath , my lord .
86621
86622 And therefore is he idle ?
86623
86624 O , my fair cousin , I must not say so .
86625
86626 Then he is more beholding to you than I .
86627
86628 He may command me as my sovereign ;
86629 But you have power in me as in a kinsman .
86630
86631 I pray you , uncle , give me this dagger .
86632
86633 My dagger , little cousin ? with all my heart .
86634
86635 A beggar , brother ?
86636
86637 Of my kind uncle , that I know will give ;
86638 And , being but a toy , which is no grief to give .
86639
86640 A greater gift than that I'll give my cousin .
86641
86642 A greater gift ! O , that's the sword to it .
86643
86644 Ay , gentle cousin , were it light enough .
86645
86646 O , then , I see , you'll part but with light gifts ;
86647 In weightier things you'll say a beggar nay .
86648
86649 It is too weighty for your Grace to wear .
86650
86651 I weigh it lightly , were it heavier .
86652
86653 What ! would you have my weapon , little lord ?
86654
86655 I would , that I might thank you , as you call me .
86656
86657 How ?
86658
86659 Little .
86660
86661 My Lord of York will still be cross in talk .
86662 Uncle , your Grace knows how to bear with him .
86663
86664 You mean , to bear me , not to bear with me :
86665 Uncle , my brother mocks both you and me .
86666 Because that I am little , like an ape ,
86667 He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders .
86668
86669 With what a sharp provided with he reasons !
86670 To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle ,
86671 He prettily and aptly taunts himself :
86672 So cunning and so young is wonderful .
86673
86674 My lord , will't please you pass along ?
86675 Myself and my good cousin Buckingham
86676 Will to your mother , to entreat of her
86677 To meet you at the Tower and welcome you .
86678
86679 What ! will you go unto the Tower , my lord ?
86680
86681 My Lord Protector needs will have it so .
86682
86683 I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower .
86684
86685 Why , what would you fear ?
86686
86687 Marry , my uncle Clarence' angry ghost :
86688 My grandam told me he was murder'd there .
86689
86690 I fear no uncles dead .
86691
86692 Nor none that live , I hope .
86693
86694 An if they live , I hope , I need not fear .
86695 But come , my lord ; and , with a heavy heart ,
86696 Thinking on them , go I unto the Tower .
86697
86698
86699 Think you , my lord , this little prating York
86700 Was not incensed by his subtle mother
86701 To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously ?
86702
86703 No doubt , no doubt : O ! 'tis a parlous boy ;
86704 Bold , quick , ingenious , forward , capable :
86705 He's all the mother's , from the top to toe .
86706
86707 Well , let them rest . Come hither , Catesby ; thou art sworn
86708 As deeply to effect what we intend
86709 As closely to conceal what we impart .
86710 Thou know'st our reasons urg'd upon the way :
86711 What think'st thou ? is it not an easy matter
86712 To make William Lord Hastings of our mind ,
86713 For the instalment of this noble duke
86714 In the seat royal of this famous isle ?
86715
86716 He for his father's sake so loves the prince
86717 That he will not be won to aught against him .
86718
86719 What think'st thou then of Stanley ? what will he ?
86720
86721 He will do all in all as Hastings doth .
86722
86723 Well then , no more but this : go , gentle Catesby ,
86724 And , as it were far off , sound thou Lord Hastings ,
86725 How he doth stand affected to our purpose ;
86726 And summon him to-morrow to the Tower ,
86727 To sit about the coronation .
86728 If thou dost find him tractable to us ,
86729 Encourage him , and tell him all our reasons :
86730 If he be leaden , icy-cold , unwilling ,
86731 Be thou so too , and so break off the talk ,
86732 And give us notice of his inclination ;
86733 For we to-morrow hold divided councils ,
86734 Wherein thyself shalt highly be employ'd .
86735
86736 Commend me to Lord William : tell him , Catesby ,
86737 His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries
86738 To-morrow are let blood at Pomfret Castle ;
86739 And bid my lord , for joy of this good news ,
86740 Give Mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more .
86741
86742 Good Catesby , go , effect this business soundly .
86743
86744 My good lords both , with all the heed I can .
86745
86746 Shall we hear from you , Catesby , ere we sleep ?
86747
86748 You shall , my lord .
86749
86750 At Crosby-place , there shall you find us both .
86751
86752
86753 Now , my lord , what shall we do if we perceive
86754 Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots ?
86755
86756 Chop off his head ; something we will determine :
86757 And , look , when I am king , claim thou of me
86758 The earldom of Hereford , and all the moveables
86759 Whereof the king my brother stood possess'd .
86760
86761 I'll claim that promise at your Grace's hand .
86762
86763 And look to have it yielded with all kindness .
86764 Come , let us sup betimes , that afterwards
86765 We may digest our complots in some form .
86766
86767
86768 My lord ! my lord !
86769
86770 Who knocks ?
86771
86772 One from the Lord Stanley .
86773
86774 What is't o'clock ?
86775
86776 Upon the stroke of four .
86777
86778
86779 Cannot my Lord Stanley sleep these tedious nights ?
86780
86781 So it appears by that I have to say .
86782 First , he commends him to your noble self .
86783
86784 What then ?
86785
86786 Then certifies your lordship , that this night
86787 He dreamt the boar had razed off his helm :
86788 Besides , he says there are two councils held ;
86789 And that may be determin'd at the one
86790 Which may make you and him to rue at the other .
86791 Therefore he sends to know your lordship's pleasure ,
86792 If you will presently take horse with him ,
86793 And with all speed post with him towards the north ,
86794 To shun the danger that his soul divines .
86795
86796 Go , fellow , go , return unto thy lord ;
86797 Bid him not fear the separated councils :
86798 His honour and myself are at the one ,
86799 And at the other is my good friend Catesby ;
86800 Where nothing can proceed that toucheth us
86801 Whereof I shall not have intelligence .
86802 Tell him his fears are shallow , wanting instance :
86803 And for his dreams , I wonder he's so fond
86804 To trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers .
86805 To fly the boar before the boar pursues ,
86806 Were to incense the boar to follow us
86807 And make pursuit where he did mean no chase .
86808 Go , bid thy master rise and come to me ;
86809 And we will both together to the Tower ,
86810 Where , he shall see , the boar will use us kindly .
86811
86812 I'll go , my lord , and tell him what you say .
86813
86814 Many good morrows to my noble lord !
86815
86816 Good morrow , Catesby ; you are early stirring .
86817 What news , what news , in this our tottering state ?
86818
86819 It is a reeling world , indeed , my lord ;
86820 And I believe will never stand upright
86821 Till Richard wear the garland of the realm .
86822
86823 How ! wear the garland ! dost thou mean the crown ?
86824
86825 Ay , my good lord .
86826
86827 I'll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders
86828 Before I'll see the crown so foul misplac'd .
86829 But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it ?
86830
86831 Ay , on my life ; and hopes to find you forward
86832 Upon his party for the gain thereof :
86833 And thereupon he sends you this good news ,
86834 That this same very day your enemies ,
86835 The kindred of the queen , must die at Pomfret .
86836
86837 Indeed , I am no mourner for that news ,
86838 Because they have been still my adversaries ;
86839 But that I'll give my voice on Richard's side ,
86840 To bar my master's heirs in true descent ,
86841 God knows I will not do it , to the death .
86842
86843 God keep your lordship in that gracious mind !
86844
86845 But I shall laugh at this a twelve-month hence ,
86846 That they which brought me in my master's hate ,
86847 I live to look upon their tragedy .
86848 Well , Catesby , ere a fortnight make me older ,
86849 I'll send some packing that yet think not on't .
86850
86851 'Tis a vile thing to die , my gracious lord ,
86852 When men are unprepar'd and look not for it .
86853
86854 O monstrous , monstrous ! and so falls it out
86855 With Rivers , Vaughan , Grey ; and so 'twill do
86856 With some men else , who think themselves as safe
86857 As thou and I ; who , as thou know'st , are dear
86858 To princely Richard and to Buckingham .
86859
86860 The princes both make high account of you ;
86861
86862
86863 For they account his head upon the bridge .
86864
86865 I know they do , and I have well deserv'd it .
86866
86867
86868 Come on , come on ; where is your boar-spear , man ?
86869
86870 Fear you the boar , and go so unprovided ?
86871
86872 My lord , good morrow ; good morrow Catesby :
86873 You may jest on , but by the holy rood ,
86874 I do not like these several councils , I .
86875
86876 My lord , I hold my life as dear as you do yours ;
86877 And never , in my days , I do protest ,
86878 Was it so precious to me as 'tis now .
86879 Think you , but that I know our state secure ,
86880 I would be so triumphant as I am ?
86881
86882 The lords at Pomfret , when they rode from London ,
86883 Were jocund and suppos'd their state was sure ,
86884 And they indeed had no cause to mistrust ;
86885 But yet you see how soon the day o'ercast .
86886 This sudden stab of rancour I misdoubt ;
86887 Pray God , I say , I prove a needless coward !
86888 What , shall we toward the Tower ? the day is spent .
86889
86890 Come , come , have with you . Wot you what , my lord ?
86891 To-day the lords you talk of are beheaded .
86892
86893 They , for their truth , might better wear their heads ,
86894 Than some that have accus'd them wear their hats .
86895 But come , my lord , let's away .
86896
86897
86898 Go on before ; I'll talk with this good fellow .
86899
86900 How now , sirrah ! how goes the world with thee ?
86901
86902 The better that your lordship please to ask .
86903
86904 I tell thee , man , 'tis better with me now
86905 Than when I met thee last where now we meet :
86906 Then was I going prisoner to the Tower ,
86907 By the suggestion of the queen's allies ;
86908 But now , I tell thee ,keep it to thyself ,
86909 This day those enemies are put to death ,
86910 And I in better state than e'er I was .
86911
86912 God hold it to your honour's good content !
86913
86914 Gramercy , fellow : there , drink that for me .
86915
86916
86917 God save your lordship .
86918
86919 Well met , my lord ; I am glad to see your honour .
86920
86921 I thank thee , good Sir John , with all my heart .
86922 I am in your debt for your last exercise ;
86923 Come the next Sabbath , and I will content you .
86924
86925
86926 What , talking with a priest , lord chamberlain ?
86927 Your friends at Pomfret , they do need the priest :
86928 Your honour hath no shriving work in hand .
86929
86930 Good faith , and when I met this holy man ,
86931 The men you talk of came into my mind .
86932 What , go you toward the Tower ?
86933
86934 I do , my lord ; but long I shall not stay :
86935 I shall return before your lordship thence .
86936
86937 Nay , like enough , for I stay dinner there .
86938
86939 And supper too , although thou know'st it not .
86940 Come , will you go ?
86941
86942 I'll wait upon your lordship .
86943
86944
86945 Sir Richard Ratcliff , let me tell thee this :
86946 To-day shalt thou behold a subject die
86947 For truth , for duty , and for loyalty .
86948
86949 God bless the prince from all the pack of you !
86950 A knot you are of damned blood suckers .
86951
86952 You live that shall cry woe for this hereafter .
86953
86954 Dispatch ; the limit of your lives is out .
86955
86956 O Pomfret , Pomfret ! O thou bloody prison !
86957 Fatal and ominous to noble peers !
86958 Within the guilty closure of thy walls
86959 Richard the Second here was hack'd to death ;
86960 And , for more slander to thy dismal seat ,
86961 We give thee up our guitless blood to drink .
86962
86963 Now Margaret's curse is fall'n upon our heads ,
86964 When she exclaim'd on Hastings , you , and I ,
86965 For standing by when Richard stabb'd her son .
86966
86967 Then curs'd she Richard , then curs'd she Buckingham ,
86968 Then curs'd she Hastings : O ! remember , God ,
86969 To hear her prayer for them , as now for us ;
86970 And for my sister and her princely sons ,
86971 Be satisfied , dear God , with our true blood ,
86972 Which , as thou know'st , unjustly must be spilt .
86973
86974 Make haste ; the hour of death is expiate .
86975
86976 Come , Grey , come , Vaughan ; let us here embrace :
86977 And take our leave until we meet in heaven .
86978
86979 My lords , at once : the cause why we are met
86980 Is to determine of the coronation :
86981 In God's name , speak , when is the royal day ?
86982
86983 Are all things ready for that royal time ?
86984
86985 It is ; and wants but nomination .
86986
86987 To-morrow then I judge a happy day .
86988
86989 Who knows the Lord Protector's mind herein ?
86990 Who is most inward with the noble duke ?
86991
86992 Your Grace , we think , should soonest know his mind .
86993
86994 We know each other's faces ; for our hearts ,
86995 He knows no more of mine than I of yours ;
86996 Nor I of his , my lord , than you of mine .
86997 Lord Hastings , you and he are near in love .
86998
86999 I thank his Grace , I know he loves me well ;
87000 But , for his purpose in the coronation ,
87001 I have not sounded him , nor he deliver'd
87002 His gracious pleasure any way therein :
87003 But you , my noble lords , may name the time ;
87004 And in the duke's behalf I'll give my voice ,
87005 Which , I presume , he'll take in gentle part .
87006
87007
87008 In happy time , here comes the duke himself .
87009
87010 My noble lords and cousins all , good morrow .
87011 I have been long a sleeper ; but , I trust ,
87012 My absence doth neglect no great design ,
87013 Which by my presence might have been concluded .
87014
87015 Had you not come upon your cue , my lord ,
87016 William Lord Hastings had pronounc'd your part ,
87017 I mean , your voice , for crowning of the king .
87018
87019 Than my Lord Hastings no man might be bolder :
87020 His lordship knows me well , and loves me well .
87021 My Lord of Ely , when I was last in Holborn ,
87022 I saw good strawberries in your garden there ;
87023 I do beseech you send for some of them .
87024
87025 Marry , and will , my lord , with all my heart .
87026
87027
87028 Cousin of Buckingham , a word with you .
87029
87030 Catesby hath sounded Hastings in our business ,
87031 And finds the testy gentleman so hot ,
87032 That he will lose his head ere give consent
87033 His master's child , as worshipfully he terms it ,
87034 Shall lose the royalty of England's throne .
87035
87036 Withdraw yourself a while ; I'll go with you .
87037
87038
87039 We have not yet set down this day of triumph .
87040 To-morrow , in my judgment , is too sudden ;
87041 For I myself am not so well provided
87042 As else I would be , were the day prolong'd .
87043
87044
87045 Where is my lord , the Duke of Gloucester ?
87046 I have sent for these strawberries .
87047
87048 His Grace looks cheerfully and smooth this morning :
87049 There's some conceit or other likes him well ,
87050 When that he bids good morrow with such spirit .
87051 I think there's never a man in Christendom
87052 Can lesser hide his hate or love than he ;
87053 For by his face straight shall you know his heart .
87054
87055 What of his heart perceiv'd you in his face
87056 By any livelihood he show'd to-day ?
87057
87058 Marry , that with no man here he is offended ;
87059 For , were he , he had shown it in his looks .
87060
87061
87062 I pray you all , tell me what they deserve
87063 That do conspire my death with devilish plots
87064 Of damned witchcraft , and that have prevail'd
87065 Upon my body with their hellish charms ?
87066
87067 The tender love I bear your Grace , my lord ,
87068 Makes me most forward in this princely presence
87069 To doom th' offenders , whosoe'er they be :
87070 I say , my lord , they have deserved death .
87071
87072 Then be your eyes the witness of their evil .
87073 Look how I am bewitch'd ; behold mine arm
87074 Is like a blasted sapling , wither'd up :
87075 And this is Edward's wife , that monstrous witch
87076 Consorted with that harlot strumpet Shore ,
87077 That by their witchcraft thus have marked me .
87078
87079 If they have done this thing , my noble lord ,
87080
87081 If ! thou protector of this damned strumpet ,
87082 Talk'st thou to me of ifs ? Thou art a traitor :
87083 Off with his head ! now , by Saint Paul , I swear ,
87084 I will not dine until I see the same .
87085 Lovel and Ratcliff , look that it be done :
87086 The rest , that love me , rise , and follow me .
87087
87088
87089 Woe , woe , for England ! not a whit for me ;
87090 For I , too fond , might have prevented this .
87091 Stanley did dream the boar did raze his helm ;
87092 And I did scorn it , and disdain'd to fly .
87093 Three times to-day my foot-cloth horse did stumble ,
87094 And startled when he looked upon the Tower ,
87095 As loath to bear me to the slaughter-house .
87096 O ! now I need the priest that spake to me :
87097 I now repent I told the pursuivant ,
87098 As too triumphing , how mine enemies
87099 To-day at Pomfret bloodily were butcher'd
87100 And I myself secure in grace and favour .
87101 O Margaret , Margaret ! now thy heavy curse
87102 Is lighted on poor Hastings' wretched head .
87103
87104 Come , come , dispatch ; the duke would be at dinner :
87105 Make a short shrift , he longs to see your head .
87106
87107 O momentary grace of mortal man ,
87108 Which we more hunt for than the grace of God !
87109 Who builds his hope in air of your good looks ,
87110 Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast ;
87111 Ready with every nod to tumble down
87112 Into the fatal bowels of the deep .
87113
87114 Come , come , dispatch ; 'tis bootless to exclaim .
87115
87116 O bloody Richard ! miserable England !
87117 I prophesy the fearfull'st time to thee
87118 That ever wretched age hath look'd upon .
87119 Come , lead me to the block ; bear him my head :
87120 They smile at me who shortly shall be dead .
87121
87122
87123 Come , cousin , canst thou quake , and change thy colour ,
87124 Murder thy breath in middle of a word ,
87125 And then again begin , and stop again ,
87126 As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror ?
87127
87128 Tut ! I can counterfeit the deep tragedian ,
87129 Speak and look back , and pry on every side ,
87130 Tremble and start at wagging of a straw ,
87131 Intending deep suspicion : ghastly looks
87132 Are at my service , like enforced smiles ;
87133 And both are ready in their offices ,
87134 At any time , to grace my stratagems .
87135 But what ! is Catesby gone ?
87136
87137 He is ; and , see , he brings the mayor along .
87138
87139
87140 Lord Mayor ,
87141
87142 Look to the drawbridge there !
87143
87144 Hark ! a drum .
87145
87146 Catesby , o'erlook the walls .
87147
87148 Lord Mayor , the reason we have sent ,
87149
87150 Look back , defend thee ; here are enemies .
87151
87152 God and our innocency defend and guard us !
87153
87154
87155 Be patient , they are friends , Ratcliff and Lovel .
87156
87157 Here is the head of that ignoble traitor ,
87158 The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings .
87159
87160 So dear I lov'd the man , that I must weep .
87161 I took him for the plainest harmless creature
87162 That breath'd upon the earth a Christian ;
87163 Made him my book , wherein my soul recorded
87164 The history of all her secret thoughts :
87165 So smooth he daub'd his vice with show of virtue ,
87166 That , his apparent open guilt omitted ,
87167 I mean his conversation with Shore's wife ,
87168 He liv'd from all attainder of suspect .
87169
87170 Well , well , he was the covert'st shelter'd traitor
87171 That ever liv'd .
87172 Would you imagine , or almost believe ,
87173 Were't not that by great preservation
87174 We live to tell it , that the subtle traitor
87175 This day had plotted , in the council-house ,
87176 To murder me and my good Lord of Gloucester ?
87177
87178 Had he done so ?
87179
87180 What ! think you we are Turks or infidels ?
87181 Or that we would , against the form of law ,
87182 Proceed thus rashly in the villain's death ,
87183 But that the extreme peril of the case ,
87184 The peace of England and our person's safety ,
87185 Enforc'd us to this execution ?
87186
87187 Now , fair befall you ! he deserv'd his death ;
87188 And your good Graces both have well proceeded ,
87189 To warn false traitors from the like attempts .
87190 I never look'd for better at his hands ,
87191 After he once fell in with Mistress Shore .
87192
87193 Yet had we not determin'd he should die ,
87194 Until your lordship came to see his end ;
87195 Which now the loving haste of these our friends ,
87196 Something against our meaning , hath prevented :
87197 Because , my lord , we would have had you heard
87198 The traitor speak , and timorously confess
87199 The manner and the purpose of his treason ;
87200 That you might well have signified the same
87201 Unto the citizens , who haply may
87202 Misconster us in him , and wail his death .
87203
87204 But , my good lord , your Grace's word shall serve ,
87205 As well as I had seen and heard him speak :
87206 And do not doubt , right noble princes both ,
87207 But I'll acquaint our duteous citizens
87208 With all your just proceedings in this cause .
87209
87210 And to that end we wish'd your lordship here ,
87211 To avoid the censures of the carping world .
87212
87213 But since you come too late of our intent ,
87214 Yet witness what you hear we did intend :
87215 And so , my good Lord Mayor , we bid farewell .
87216
87217
87218 Go , after , after , cousin Buckingham .
87219 The mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post :
87220 There , at your meetest vantage of the time ,
87221 Infer the bastardy of Edward's children :
87222 Tell them how Edward put to death a citizen ,
87223 Only for saying he would make his son
87224 Heir to the crown ; meaning indeed his house ,
87225 Which by the sign thereof was termed so .
87226 Moreover , urge his hateful luxury
87227 And bestial appetite in change of lust ;
87228 Which stretch'd unto their servants , daughters , wives ,
87229 Even where his raging eye or savage heart
87230 Without control lusted to make a prey .
87231 Nay , for a need , thus far come near my person :
87232 Tell them , when that my mother went with child
87233 Of that insatiate Edward , noble York
87234 My princely father then had wars in France ;
87235 And , by true computation of the time ,
87236 Found that the issue was not his begot ;
87237 Which well appeared in his lineaments ,
87238 Being nothing like the noble duke my father .
87239 Yet touch this sparingly , as 'twere far off ;
87240 Because , my lord , you know my mother lives .
87241
87242 Doubt not , my lord , I'll play the orator
87243 As if the golden fee for which I plead
87244 Were for myself : and so , my lord , adieu .
87245
87246 If you thrive well , bring them to Baynard's Castle ;
87247 Where you shall find me well accompanied
87248 With reverend fathers and well-learned bishops .
87249
87250 I go ; and towards three or four o'clock
87251 Look for the news that the Guildhall affords .
87252
87253
87254 Go , Lovel , with all speed to Doctor Shaw ;
87255
87256
87257 Go thou to Friar Penker ; bid them both
87258 Meet me within this hour at Baynard's Castle .
87259
87260 Now will I in , to take some privy order ,
87261 To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight ;
87262 And to give notice that no manner person
87263 Have any time recourse unto the princes .
87264
87265
87266 Here is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings ;
87267 Which in a set hand fairly is engross'd ,
87268 That it may be to-day read o'er in Paul's :
87269 And mark how well the sequel hangs together .
87270 Eleven hours I have spent to write it over ,
87271 For yesternight by Catesby was it sent me .
87272 The precedent was full as long a-doing ;
87273 And yet within these five hours Hastings liv'd ,
87274 Untainted , unexamin'd , free , at liberty .
87275 Here's a good world the while ! Who is so gross
87276 That cannot see this palpable device ?
87277 Yet who so bold but says he sees it not ?
87278 Bad is the world ; and all will come to naught ,
87279 When such ill dealing must be seen in thought .
87280
87281
87282 How , now , how now ! what say the citizens ?
87283
87284 Now , by the holy mother of our Lord ,
87285 The citizens are mum , say not a word .
87286
87287 Touch'd you the bastardy of Edward's children ?
87288
87289 I did ; with his contract with Lady Lucy ,
87290 And his contract by deputy in France ;
87291 The insatiate greediness of his desires ,
87292 And his enforcement of the city wives ;
87293 His tyranny for trifles ; his own bastardy ,
87294 As being got , your father then in France ,
87295 And his resemblance , being not like the duke :
87296 Withal I did infer your lineaments ,
87297 Being the right idea of your father ,
87298 Both in your form and nobleness of mind ;
87299 Laid open all your victories in Scotland ,
87300 Your discipline in war , wisdom in peace ,
87301 Your bounty , virtue , fair humility ;
87302 Indeed , left nothing fitting for your purpose
87303 Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse ;
87304 And when my oratory drew toward end ,
87305 I bade them that did love their country's good
87306 Cry 'God save Richard , England's royal king !'
87307
87308 And did they so ?
87309
87310 No , so God help me , they spake not a word ;
87311 But , like dumb statuas or breathing stones ,
87312 Star'd each on other , and look'd deadly pale .
87313 Which when I saw , I reprehended them ;
87314 And ask'd the mayor what meant this wilful silence :
87315 His answer was , the people were not wont
87316 To be spoke to but by the recorder .
87317 Then he was urg'd to tell my tale again :
87318 'Thus saith the duke , thus hath the duke inferr'd ;'
87319 But nothing spoke in warrant from himself .
87320 When he had done , some followers of mine own ,
87321 At lower end of the hall , hurl'd up their caps ,
87322 And some ten voices cried , 'God save King Richard !'
87323 And thus I took the vantage of those few ,
87324 'Thanks , gentle citizens and friends ,' quoth I ;
87325 'This general applause and cheerful shout
87326 Argues your wisdom and your love to Richard :'
87327 And even here brake off , and came away .
87328
87329 What tongueless blocks were they ! would they not speak ?
87330 Will not the mayor then and his brethren come ?
87331
87332 The mayor is here at hand . Intend some fear ;
87333 Be not you spoke with but by mighty suit :
87334 And look you get a prayer-book in your hand ,
87335 And stand between two churchmen , good my lord :
87336 For on that ground I'll make a holy descant :
87337 And be not easily won to our requests ;
87338 Play the maid's part , still answer nay , and take it .
87339
87340 I go ; and if you plead as well for them
87341 As I can say nay to thee for myself ,
87342 No doubt we bring it to a happy issue .
87343
87344 Go , go , up to the leads ! the Lord Mayor knocks .
87345
87346 Welcome , my lord : I dance attendance here ;
87347 I think the duke will not be spoke withal .
87348
87349
87350 Now , Catesby ! what says your lord to my request ?
87351
87352 He doth entreat your Grace , my noble lord ,
87353 To visit him to-morrow or next day .
87354 He is within , with two right reverend fathers ,
87355 Divinely bent to meditation ;
87356 And in no worldly suit would he be mov'd ,
87357 To draw him from his holy exercise .
87358
87359 Return , good Catesby , to the gracious duke :
87360 Tell him , myself , the mayor and aldermen ,
87361 In deep designs in matter of great moment ,
87362 No less importing than our general good ,
87363 Are come to have some conference with his Grace .
87364
87365 I'll signify so much unto him straight .
87366
87367
87368 Ah , ha , my lord , this prince is not an Edward !
87369 He is not lolling on a lewd day-bed ,
87370 But on his knees at meditation ;
87371 Not dallying with a brace of courtezans ,
87372 But meditating with two deep divines ;
87373 Not sleeping , to engross his idle body ,
87374 But praying , to enrich his watchful soul .
87375 Happy were England , would this virtuous prince
87376 Take on his Grace the sovereignty thereof :
87377 But sore , I fear , we shall not win him to it .
87378
87379 Marry , God defend his Grace should say us nay !
87380
87381 I fear he will . Here Catesby comes again .
87382
87383 Now , Catesby , what says his Grace ?
87384
87385 He wonders to what end you have assembled
87386 Such troops of citizens to come to him ,
87387 His Grace not being warn'd thereof before :
87388 My lord , he fears you mean no good to him .
87389
87390 Sorry I am my noble cousin should
87391 Suspect me that I mean no good to him .
87392 By heaven , we come to him in perfect love ;
87393 And so once more return , and tell his Grace .
87394
87395 When holy and devout religious men
87396 Are at their beads , 'tis much to draw them thence ;
87397 So sweet is zealous contemplation .
87398
87399
87400 See , where his Grace stands 'tween two clergymen !
87401
87402 Two props of virtue for a Christian prince ,
87403 To stay him from the fall of vanity ;
87404 And , see , a book of prayer in his hand ;
87405 True ornament to know a holy man .
87406 Famous Plantagenet , most gracious prince ,
87407 Lend favourable ear to our requests ,
87408 And pardon us the interruption
87409 Of thy devotion , and right Christian zeal .
87410
87411 My lord , there needs no such apology ;
87412 I do beseech your Grace to pardon me ,
87413 Who , earnest in the service of my God ,
87414 Deferr'd the visitation of my friends .
87415 But , leaving this , what is your Grace's pleasure ?
87416
87417 Even that , I hope , which pleaseth God above ,
87418 And all good men of this ungovern'd isle .
87419
87420 I do suspect I have done some offence
87421 That seems disgracious in the city's eye ;
87422 And that you come to reprehend my ignorance .
87423
87424 You have , my lord : would it might please your Grace ,
87425 On our entreaties to amend your fault !
87426
87427 Else wherefore breathe I in a Christian land ?
87428
87429 Know then , it is your fault that you resign
87430 The supreme seat , the throne majestical ,
87431 The sceptred office of your ancestors ,
87432 Your state of fortune and your due of birth ,
87433 The lineal glory of your royal house ,
87434 To the corruption of a blemish'd stock ;
87435 Whiles , in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts ,
87436 Which here we waken to our country's good ,
87437 This noble isle doth want her proper limbs ;
87438 Her face defac'd with scars of infamy ,
87439 Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants ,
87440 And almost shoulder'd in the swallowing gulf
87441 Of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivion .
87442 Which to recure we heartily solicit
87443 Your gracious self to take on you the charge
87444 And kingly government of this your land ;
87445 Not as protector , steward , substitute ,
87446 Or lowly factor for another's gain ;
87447 But as successively from blood to blood ,
87448 Your right of birth , your empery , your own .
87449 For this , consorted with the citizens ,
87450 Your very worshipful and loving friends ,
87451 And by their vehement instigation ,
87452 In this just cause come I to move your Grace .
87453
87454 I cannot tell , if to depart in silence
87455 Or bitterly to speak in your reproof ,
87456 Best fitteth my degree or your condition :
87457 If not to answer , you might haply think
87458 Tongue-tied ambition , not replying , yielded
87459 To bear the golden yoke of sov'reignty ,
87460 Which fondly you would here impose on me ;
87461 If to reprove you for this suit of yours ,
87462 So season'd with your faithful love to me ,
87463 Then , on the other side , I check'd my friends .
87464 Therefore , to speak , and to avoid the first ,
87465 And then , in speaking , not to incur the last ,
87466 Definitively thus I answer you .
87467 Your love deserves my thanks ; but my desert
87468 Unmeritable shuns your high request .
87469 First , if all obstacles were cut away ,
87470 And that my path were even to the crown ,
87471 As the ripe revenue and due of birth ,
87472 Yet so much is my poverty of spirit ,
87473 So mighty and so many my defects ,
87474 That I would rather hide me from my greatness ,
87475 Being a bark to brook no mighty sea ,
87476 Than in my greatness covet to be hid ,
87477 And in the vapour of my glory smother'd .
87478 But , God be thank'd , there is no need of me ;
87479 And much I need to help you , were there need ;
87480 The royal tree hath left us royal fruit ,
87481 Which , mellow'd by the stealing hours of time ,
87482 Will well become the seat of majesty ,
87483 And make , no doubt , us happy by his reign .
87484 On him I lay that you would lay on me ,
87485 The right and fortune of his happy stars ;
87486 Which God defend that I should wring from him !
87487
87488 My lord , this argues conscience in your Grace ;
87489 But the respects thereof are nice and trivial ,
87490 All circumstances well considered .
87491 You say that Edward is your brother's son :
87492 So say we too , but not by Edward's wife ;
87493 For first was he contract to Lady Lucy ,
87494 Your mother lives a witness to his vow ,
87495 And afterward by substitute betroth'd
87496 To Bona , sister to the King of France .
87497 These both put by , a poor petitioner ,
87498 A care-craz'd mother to a many sons ,
87499 A beauty-waning and distressed widow ,
87500 Even in the afternoon of her best days ,
87501 Made prize and purchase of his wanton eye ,
87502 Seduc'd the pitch and height of his degree
87503 To base declension and loath'd bigamy :
87504 By her , in his unlawful bed , he got
87505 This Edward , whom our manners call the prince .
87506 More bitterly could I expostulate ,
87507 Save that , for reverence to some alive ,
87508 I give a sparing limit to my tongue .
87509 Then , good my lord , take to your royal self
87510 This proffer'd benefit of dignity ;
87511 If not to bless us and the land withal ,
87512 Yet to draw forth your noble ancestry
87513 From the corruption of abusing times ,
87514 Unto a lineal true-derived course .
87515
87516 Do , good my lord ; your citizens entreat you .
87517
87518 Refuse not , mighty lord , this proffer'd love .
87519
87520 O ! make them joyful : grant their lawful suit :
87521
87522 Alas ! why would you heap those cares on me ?
87523 I am unfit for state and majesty :
87524 I do beseech you , take it not amiss ,
87525 I cannot nor I will not yield to you .
87526
87527 If you refuse it , as , in love and zeal ,
87528 Loath to depose the child , your brother's son ;
87529 As well we know your tenderness of heart
87530 And gentle , kind , effeminate remorse ,
87531 Which we have noted in you to your kindred ,
87532 And egally , indeed , to all estates ,
87533 Yet whether you accept our suit or no ,
87534 Your brother's son shall never reign our king ;
87535 But we will plant some other in the throne ,
87536 To the disgrace and downfall of your house :
87537 And in this resolution here we leave you .
87538 Come , citizens , we will entreat no more .
87539
87540
87541 Call them again , sweet prince ; accept their suit :
87542 If you deny them , all the land will rue it .
87543
87544 Will you enforce me to a world of cares ?
87545 Call them again : I am not made of stone ,
87546 But penetrable to your kind entreats ,
87547
87548 Albeit against my conscience and my soul .
87549
87550
87551 Cousin of Buckingham , and sage , grave men ,
87552 Since you will buckle fortune on my back ,
87553 To bear her burden , whe'r I will or no ,
87554 I must have patience to endure the load :
87555 But if black scandal or foul-fac'd reproach
87556 Attend the sequel of your imposition ,
87557 Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me
87558 From all the impure blots and stains thereof ;
87559 For God doth know , and you may partly see ,
87560
87561 How far I am from the desire of this .
87562
87563 God bless your Grace ! we see it , and will say it .
87564
87565 In saying so , you shall but say the truth .
87566
87567 Then I salute you with this royal title :
87568 Long live King Richard , England's worthy king !
87569
87570 Amen .
87571
87572 To-morrow may it please you to be crown'd ?
87573
87574 Even when you please , for you will have it so .
87575
87576 To-morrow then we will attend your Grace :
87577 And so most joyfully we take our leave .
87578
87579 Come , let us to our holy work again .
87580 Farewell , my cousin ;farewell , gentle friends .
87581
87582 Who meets us here ? my niece Plantagenet ,
87583 Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Gloucester ?
87584 Now , for my life , she's wand'ring to the Tower ,
87585 On pure heart's love , to greet the tender princes .
87586 Daughter , well met .
87587
87588 God give your Graces both
87589 A happy and a joyful time of day !
87590
87591 As much to you , good sister ! whither away ?
87592
87593 No further than the Tower ; and , as I guess ,
87594 Upon the like devotion as yourselves ,
87595 To gratulate the gentle princes there .
87596
87597 Kind sister , thanks : we'll enter all together :
87598
87599
87600 And , in good time , here the lieutenant comes .
87601 Master lieutenant , pray you , by your leave ,
87602
87603 How doth the prince , and my young son of York ?
87604
87605 Right well , dear madam . By your patience ,
87606 I may not suffer you to visit them :
87607 The king hath strictly charg'd the contrary .
87608
87609 The king ! who's that ?
87610
87611 I mean the Lord Protector .
87612
87613 The Lord protect him from that kingly title !
87614 Hath he set bounds between their love and me ?
87615 I am their mother ; who shall bar me from them ?
87616
87617 I am their father's mother ; I will see them .
87618
87619 Their aunt I am in law , in love their mother :
87620 Then bring me to their sights ; I'll bear thy blame ,
87621 And take thy office from thee , on my peril .
87622
87623 No , madam , no , I may not leave it so :
87624 I am bound by oath , and therefore pardon me .
87625
87626 Let me but meet you , ladies , one hour hence ,
87627 And I'll salute your Grace of York as mother ,
87628 And reverend looker-on of two fair queens .
87629
87630
87631 Come , madam , you must straight to Westminster ,
87632 There to be crowned Richard's royal queen .
87633
87634 Ah ! cut my lace asunder ,
87635 That my pent heart may have some scope to beat ,
87636 Or else I swoon with this dead-killing news .
87637
87638 Despiteful tidings ! O ! unpleasing news !
87639
87640 Be of good cheer : mother , how fares your Grace ?
87641
87642 O , Dorset ! speak not to me , get thee gone ;
87643 Death and destruction dog thee at the heels :
87644 Thy mother's name is ominous to children .
87645 If thou wilt outstrip death , go cross the seas ,
87646 And live with Richmond , from the reach of hell :
87647 Go , hie thee , hie thee , from this slaughter-house ,
87648 Lest thou increase the number of the dead ,
87649 And make me die the thrall of Margaret's curse ,
87650 Nor mother , wife , nor England's counted queen .
87651
87652 Full of wise care is this your counsel , madam .
87653
87654
87655 Take all the swift advantage of the hours ;
87656 You shall have letters from me to my son
87657 In your behalf , to meet you on the way :
87658 Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay .
87659
87660 O ill-dispersing wind of misery !
87661 O ! my accursed womb , the bed of death ,
87662 A cockatrice hast thou hatch'd to the world ,
87663 Whose unavoided eye is murderous !
87664
87665 Come , madam , come ; I in all haste was sent .
87666
87667 And I with all unwillingness will go .
87668 O ! would to God that the inclusive verge
87669 Of golden metal that must round my brow
87670 Were red-hot steel to sear me to the brain .
87671 Anointed let me be with deadly venom ;
87672 And die , ere men can say 'God save the queen !'
87673
87674 Go , go , poor soul , I envy not thy glory ;
87675 To feed my humour , wish thyself no harm .
87676
87677 No ! why ? When he , that is my husband now
87678 Came to me , as I follow'd Henry's corse ;
87679 When scarce the blood was well wash'd from his hands ,
87680 Which issu'd from my other angel husband ,
87681 And that dead saint which then I weeping follow'd ;
87682 O ! when I say , I look'd on Richard's face ,
87683 This was my wish , 'Be thou ,' quoth I , 'accurs'd ,
87684 For making me so young , so old a widow !
87685 And , when thou wedd'st , let sorrow haunt thy bed ;
87686 And be thy wife if any be so mad
87687 More miserable by the life of thee
87688 Than thou hast made me by my dear lord's death !'
87689 Lo ! ere I can repeat this curse again ,
87690 Within so small a time , my woman's heart
87691 Grossly grew captive to his honey words ,
87692 And prov'd the subject of mine own soul's curse :
87693 Which hitherto hath held mine eyes from rest ;
87694 For never yet one hour in his bed
87695 Did I enjoy the golden dew of sleep ,
87696 But with his timorous dreams was still awak'd .
87697 Besides , he hates me for my father Warwick ,
87698 And will , no doubt , shortly be rid of me .
87699
87700 Poor heart , adieu ! I pity thy complaining .
87701
87702 No more than with my soul I mourn for yours .
87703
87704 Farewell ! thou woeful welcomer of glory !
87705
87706 Adieu , poor soul , that tak'st thy leave of it !
87707
87708 Go thou to Richmond , and good fortune guide thee !
87709
87710
87711 Go thou to Richard , and good angels tend thee !
87712
87713
87714 Go thou to sanctuary , and good thoughts possess thee !
87715 I to my grave , where peace and rest lie with me !
87716 Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen ,
87717 And each hour's joy wrack'd with a week of teen .
87718
87719 Stay yet , look back with me unto the Tower .
87720 Pity , you ancient stones , those tender babes
87721 Whom envy hath immur'd within your walls ,
87722 Rough cradle for such little pretty ones !
87723 Rude ragged nurse , old sullen playfellow
87724 For tender princes , use my babies well .
87725 So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell .
87726
87727
87728 Stand all apart . Cousin of Buckingham .
87729
87730 My gracious sovereign !
87731
87732 Give me thy hand .
87733
87734 Thus high , by thy advice ,
87735 And thy assistance , is King Richard seated :
87736 But shall we wear these glories for a day ?
87737 Or shall they last , and we rejoice in them ?
87738
87739 Still live they , and for ever let them last !
87740
87741 Ah ! Buckingham , now do I play the touch ,
87742 To try if thou be current gold indeed :
87743 Young Edward lives : think now what I would speak .
87744
87745 Say on , my loving lord .
87746
87747 Why , Buckingham , I say , I would be king .
87748
87749 Why , so you are , my thrice-renowned liege .
87750
87751 Ha ! am I king ? 'Tis so : but Edward lives .
87752
87753 True , noble prince .
87754
87755 O bitter consequence ,
87756 That Edward still should live ! 'True , noble prince !'
87757 Cousin , thou wast not wont to be so dull :
87758 Shall I be plain ? I wish the bastards dead ;
87759 And I would have it suddenly perform'd .
87760 What sayst thou now ? speak suddenly , be brief .
87761
87762 Your Grace may do your pleasure .
87763
87764 Tut , tut ! thou art all ice , thy kindness freezes :
87765 Say , have I thy consent that they shall die ?
87766
87767 Give me some little breath , some pause , dear lord ,
87768 Before I positively speak in this :
87769 I will resolve you herein presently .
87770
87771
87772 The king is angry : see , he gnaws his lip .
87773
87774 I will converse with iron-witted fools
87775 And unrespective boys : none are for me
87776 That look into me with considerate eyes .
87777 High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect .
87778 Boy !
87779
87780 My lord !
87781
87782 Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold
87783 Will tempt unto a close exploit of death ?
87784
87785 I know a discontented gentleman ,
87786 Whose humble means match not his haughty spirit :
87787 Gold were as good as twenty orators ,
87788 And will , no doubt , tempt him to anything .
87789
87790 What is his name ?
87791
87792 His name , my lord , is Tyrrell .
87793
87794 I partly know the man : go , call him hither .
87795
87796 The deep-revolving witty Buckingham
87797 No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel .
87798 Hath he so long held out with me untir'd ,
87799 And stops he now for breath ? well , be it so .
87800
87801 How now , Lord Stanley ! what's the news ?
87802
87803 Know , my loving lord ,
87804 The Marquess Dorset , as I hear , is fled
87805 To Richmond , in the parts where he abides .
87806
87807 Come hither , Catesby : rumour it abroad ,
87808 That Anne my wife is very grievous sick ;
87809 I will take order for her keeping close .
87810 Inquire me out some mean poor gentleman ,
87811 Whom I will marry straight to Clarence' daughter :
87812 The boy is foolish , and I fear not him .
87813 Look , how thou dream'st ! I say again , give out
87814 That Anne my queen is sick , and like to die :
87815 About it ; for it stands me much upon ,
87816 To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me .
87817
87818 I must be married to my brother's daughter ,
87819 Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass .
87820 Murder her brothers , and then marry her !
87821 Uncertain way of gain ! But I am in
87822 So far in blood , that sin will pluck on sin :
87823 Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye .
87824
87825 Is thy name Tyrrell ?
87826
87827 James Tyrrell , and your most obedient subject .
87828
87829 Art thou , indeed ?
87830
87831 Prove me , my gracious lord .
87832
87833 Dar'st thou resolve to kill a friend of mine ?
87834
87835 Please you ; but I had rather kill two enemies .
87836
87837 Why , then thou hast it : two deep enemies ,
87838 Foes to my rest , and my sweet sleep's disturbers ,
87839 Are they that I would have thee deal upon .
87840 Tyrrell , I mean those bastards in the Tower .
87841
87842 Let me have open means to come to them ,
87843 And soon I'll rid you from the fear of them .
87844
87845 Thou sing'st sweet music . Hark , come hither , Tyrrell :
87846 Go , by this token : rise , and lend thine ear .
87847
87848 There is no more but so : say it is done ,
87849 And I will love thee , and prefer thee for it .
87850
87851 I will dispatch it straight .
87852
87853 My lord , I have consider'd in my mind
87854 The late demand that you did sound me in .
87855
87856 Well , let that rest . Dorset is fled to Richmond .
87857
87858 I hear the news , my lord .
87859
87860 Stanley , he is your wife's son : well , look to it .
87861
87862 My lord , I claim the gift , my due by promise ,
87863 For which your honour and your faith is pawn'd ;
87864 The earldom of Hereford and the moveables
87865 Which you have promised I shall possess .
87866
87867 Stanley , look to your wife : if she convey
87868 Letters to Richmond , you shall answer it .
87869
87870 What says your highness to my just request ?
87871
87872 I do remember me , Henry the Sixth
87873 Did prophesy that Richmond should be king ,
87874 When Richmond was a little peevish boy .
87875 A king ! perhaps
87876
87877 My lord !
87878
87879 How chance the prophet could not at that time
87880 Have told me , I being by , that I should kill him ?
87881
87882 My lord , your promise for the earldom ,
87883
87884 Richmond ! When last I was at Exeter ,
87885 The mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle ,
87886 And call'd it Rougemont : at which name I started ,
87887 Because a bard of Ireland told me once
87888 I should not live long after I saw Richmond .
87889
87890 My lord !
87891
87892 Ay , what's o'clock ?
87893
87894 I am thus bold to put your Grace in mind
87895 Of what you promis'd me .
87896
87897 Well , but what is't o'clock ?
87898
87899 Upon the stroke of ten .
87900
87901 Well , let it strike .
87902
87903 Why let it strike ?
87904
87905 Because that , like a Jack , thou keep'st the stroke
87906 Betwixt thy begging and my meditation .
87907 I am not in the giving vein to-day .
87908
87909 Why , then resolve me whe'r you will , or no .
87910
87911 Thou troublest me : I am not in the vein .
87912
87913
87914 And is it thus ? repays he my deep service
87915 With such contempt ? made I him king for this ?
87916 O , let me think on Hastings , and be gone
87917 To Brecknock , while my fearful head is on .
87918
87919
87920 The tyrannous and bloody act is done ;
87921 The most arch deed of piteous massacre
87922 That ever yet this land was guilty of .
87923 Dighton and Forrest , whom I did suborn
87924 To do this piece of ruthless butchery ,
87925 Albeit they were flesh'd villains , bloody dogs ,
87926 Melting with tenderness and mild compassion ,
87927 Wept like to children in their death's sad story .
87928 'Oh ! thus ,' quoth Dighton , 'lay the gentle babes :'
87929 'Thus , thus ,' quoth Forrest , 'girdling one another
87930 Within their alabaster innocent arms :
87931 Their lips were four red roses on a stalk ,
87932 Which in their summer beauty kiss'd each other .
87933 A book of prayers on their pillow lay ;
87934 Which once ,' quoth Forrest , 'almost chang'd my mind ;
87935 But , O , the devil' there the villain stopp'd ;
87936 When Dighton thus told on : 'We smothered
87937 The most replenished sweet work of nature ,
87938 That from the prime creation e'er she fram'd .'
87939 Hence both are gone with conscience and remorse ;
87940 They could not speak ; and so I left them both ,
87941 To bear this tidings to the bloody king :
87942 And here he comes .
87943
87944 All health , my sovereign lord !
87945
87946 Kind Tyrrell , am I happy in thy news ?
87947
87948 If to have done the thing you gave in charge
87949 Beget your happiness , be happy then ,
87950 For it is done .
87951
87952 But didst thou see them dead ?
87953
87954 I did , my lord .
87955
87956 And buried , gentle Tyrrell ?
87957
87958 The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them ;
87959 But how or in what place I do not know .
87960
87961 Come to me , Tyrrell , soon at after-supper ,
87962 When thou shalt tell the process of their death .
87963 Meantime , but think how I may do thee good ,
87964 And be inheritor of thy desire .
87965 Farewell till then .
87966
87967 I humbly take my leave .
87968
87969
87970 The son of Clarence have I pent up close ;
87971 His daughter meanly have I match'd in marriage ;
87972 The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom ,
87973 And Anne my wife hath bid the world good night .
87974 Now , for I know the Breton Richmond aims
87975 At young Elizabeth , my brother's daughter ,
87976 And , by that knot , looks proudly on the crown ,
87977 To her go I , a jolly thriving wooer .
87978
87979
87980 My lord !
87981
87982 Good or bad news , that thou com'st in so bluntly ?
87983
87984 Bad news , my lord : Morton is fled to Richmond ;
87985 And Buckingham , back'd with the hardy Welshmen ,
87986 Is in the field , and still his power increaseth .
87987
87988 Ely with Richmond troubles me more near
87989 Than Buckingham and his rash-levied strength .
87990 Come ; I have learn'd that fearful commenting
87991 Is leaden servitor to dull delay :
87992 Delay leads impotent and snail-pac'd beggary :
87993 Then fiery expedition be my wing ,
87994 Jove's Mercury , and herald for a king !
87995 Go , muster men : my counsel is my shield ;
87996 We must be brief when traitors brave the field .
87997
87998
87999 So , now prosperity begins to mellow
88000 And drop into the rotten mouth of death .
88001 Here in these confines slily have I lurk'd
88002 To watch the waning of mine enemies .
88003 A dire induction am I witness to ,
88004 And will to France , hoping the consequence
88005 Will prove as bitter , black , and tragical .
88006 Withdraw thee , wretched Margaret : who comes here ?
88007
88008
88009 Ah ! my poor princes ! ah , my tender babes ,
88010 My unblown flowers , new-appearing sweets ,
88011 If yet your gentle souls fly in the air
88012 And be not fix'd in doom perpetual ,
88013 Hover about me with your airy wings ,
88014 And hear your mother's lamentation .
88015
88016 Hover about her ; say , that right for right
88017 Hath dimm'd your infant morn to aged night .
88018
88019 So many miseries have craz'd my voice ,
88020 That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute .
88021 Edward Plantagenet , why art thou dead ?
88022
88023 Plantagenet doth quit Plantagenet ;
88024 Edward for Edward pays a dying debt .
88025
88026 Wilt thou , O God ! fly from such gentle lambs ,
88027 And throw them in the entrails of the wolf ?
88028 When didst thou sleep when such a deed was done ?
88029
88030 When holy Harry died , and my sweet son .
88031
88032 Dead life , blind sight , poor mortal living ghost ,
88033 Woe's scene , world's shame , grave's due by life usurp'd ,
88034 Brief abstract and record of tedious days ,
88035 Rest thy unrest on England's lawful earth ,
88036
88037 Unlawfully made drunk with innocent blood !
88038
88039 Ah ! that thou wouldst as soon afford a grave
88040 As thou canst yield a melancholy seat ;
88041 Then would I hide my bones , not rest them here .
88042 Ah ! who hath any cause to mourn but I ?
88043
88044
88045 If ancient sorrow be most reverend ,
88046 Give mine the benefit of seniory ,
88047 And let my griefs frown on the upper hand ,
88048 If sorrow can admit society .
88049
88050 Tell o'er your woes again by viewing mine :
88051 I had an Edward , till a Richard kill'd him ;
88052 I had a Harry , till a Richard kill'd him :
88053 Thou hadst an Edward , till a Richard kill'd him ;
88054 Thou hadst a Richard , till a Richard kill'd him .
88055
88056 I had a Richard too , and thou didst kill him ;
88057 I had a Rutland too , thou holp'st to kill him .
88058
88059 Thou hadst a Clarence too , and Richard kill'd him .
88060 From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept
88061 A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death :
88062 That dog , that had his teeth before his eyes ,
88063 To worry lambs , and lap their gentle blood ,
88064 That foul defacer of God's handiwork ,
88065 That excellent grand-tyrant of the earth ,
88066 That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls ,
88067 Thy womb let loose , to chase us to our graves .
88068 O ! upright , just , and true-disposing God ,
88069 How do I thank thee that this carnal cur
88070 Preys on the issue of his mother's body ,
88071 And makes her pew-fellow with others' moan .
88072
88073 O ! Harry's wife , triumph not in my woes :
88074 God witness with me , I have wept for thine .
88075
88076 Bear with me ; I am hungry for revenge ,
88077 And now I cloy me with beholding it .
88078 Thy Edward he is dead , that kill'd my Edward ;
88079 Thy other Edward dead , to quit my Edward ;
88080 Young York he is but boot , because both they
88081 Match not the high perfection of my loss :
88082 Thy Clarence he is dead that stabb'd my Edward ;
88083 And the beholders of this tragic play ,
88084 The adulterate Hastings , Rivers , Vaughan , Grey ,
88085 Untimely smother'd in their dusky graves .
88086 Richard yet lives , hell's black intelligencer ,
88087 Only reserv'd their factor , to buy souls
88088 And send them thither ; but at hand , at hand ,
88089 Ensues his piteous and unpitied end :
88090 Earth gapes , hell burns , fiends roar , saints pray ,
88091 To have him suddenly convey'd from hence .
88092 Cancel his bond of life , dear God ! I pray ,
88093 That I may live to say , The dog is dead .
88094
88095 O ! thou didst prophesy the time would come
88096 That I should wish for thee to help me curse
88097 That bottled spider , that foul bunchback'd toad .
88098
88099 I call'd thee then vain flourish of my fortune ;
88100 I call'd thee then poor shadow , painted queen ;
88101 The presentation of but what I was ;
88102 The flattering index of a direful pageant ;
88103 One heav'd a-high to be hurl'd down below ;
88104 A mother only mock'd with two fair babes ;
88105 A dream of what thou wert , a breath , a bubble ,
88106 A sign of dignity , a garish flag ,
88107 To be the aim of every dangerous shot ;
88108 A queen in jest , only to fill the scene .
88109 Where is thy husband now ? where be thy brothers ?
88110 Where are thy children ? wherein dost thou joy ?
88111 Who sues and kneels and cries God save the queen ?
88112 Where be the bending peers that flatter'd thee ?
88113 Where be the thronging troops that follow'd thee ?
88114 Decline all this , and see what now thou art :
88115 For happy wife , a most distressed widow ;
88116 For joyful mother , one that wails the name ;
88117 For one being su'd to , one that humbly sues ;
88118 For queen , a very caitiff crown'd with care ;
88119 For one that scorn'd at me , now scorn'd of me ;
88120 For one being fear'd of all , now fearing one ;
88121 For one commanding all , obey'd of none .
88122 Thus hath the course of justice whirl'd about ,
88123 And left thee but a very prey to time ;
88124 Having no more but thought of what thou wert ,
88125 To torture thee the more , being what thou art .
88126 Thou didst usurp my place , and dost thou not
88127 Usurp the just proportion of my sorrow ?
88128 Now thy proud neck bears half my burden'd yoke ;
88129 From which even here , I slip my wearied head ,
88130 And leave the burden of it all on thee .
88131 Farewell , York's wife , and queen of sad mischance :
88132 These English woes shall make me smile in France .
88133
88134 O thou , well skill'd in curses , stay awhile ,
88135 And teach me how to curse mine enemies .
88136
88137 Forbear to sleep the night , and fast the day ;
88138 Compare dead happiness with living woe ;
88139 Think that thy babes were fairer than they were ,
88140 And he that slew them fouler than he is :
88141 Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse :
88142 Revolving this will teach thee how to curse .
88143
88144 My words are dull ; O ! quicken them with thine !
88145
88146 Thy woes will make them sharp , and pierce like mine .
88147
88148
88149 Why should calamity be full of words ?
88150
88151 Windy attorneys to their client woes ,
88152 Airy succeeders of intestate joys ,
88153 Poor breathing orators of miseries !
88154 Let them have scope : though what they do impart
88155 Help nothing else , yet do they ease the heart .
88156
88157 If so , then be not tongue-tied : go with me ,
88158 And in the breath of bitter words let's smother
88159 My damned son , that thy two sweet sons smother'd .
88160
88161 The trumpet sounds : be copious in exclaims .
88162
88163
88164 Who intercepts me in my expedition ?
88165
88166 O ! she that might have intercepted thee ,
88167 By strangling thee in her accursed womb ,
88168 From all the slaughters , wretch , that thou hast done !
88169
88170 Hid'st thou that forehead with a golden crown ,
88171 Where should be branded , if that right were right ,
88172 The slaughter of the prince that ow'd that crown ,
88173 And the dire death of my poor sons and brothers ?
88174 Tell me , thou villain slave , where are my children ?
88175
88176 Thou toad , thou toad , where is thy brother Clarence
88177 And little Ned Plantagenet , his son ?
88178
88179 Where is the gentle Rivers , Vaughan , Grey ?
88180
88181 Where is kind Hastings ?
88182
88183 A flourish , trumpets ! strike alarum , drums !
88184 Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women
88185 Rail on the Lord's anointed . Strike , I say !
88186
88187 Either be patient , and entreat me fair ,
88188 Or with the clamorous report of war
88189 Thus will I drown your exclamations .
88190
88191 Art thou my son ?
88192
88193 Ay ; I thank God , my father , and yourself .
88194
88195 Then patiently hear my impatience .
88196
88197 Madam , I have a touch of your condition ,
88198 That cannot brook the accent of reproof .
88199
88200 O , let me speak !
88201
88202 Do , then ; but I'll not hear .
88203
88204 I will be mild and gentle in my words .
88205
88206 And brief , good mother ; for I am in haste .
88207
88208 Art thou so hasty ? I have stay'd for thee ,
88209 God knows , in torment and in agony .
88210
88211 And came I not at last to comfort you ?
88212
88213 No , by the holy rood , thou know'st it well ,
88214 Thou cam'st on earth to make the earth my hell .
88215 A grievous burden was thy birth to me ;
88216 Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy ;
88217 Thy school-days frightful , desperate , wild and furious ;
88218 Thy prime of manhood daring , bold , and venturous ;
88219 Thy age confirm'd , proud , subtle , sly , and bloody ,
88220 More mild , but yet more harmful , kind in hatred :
88221 What comfortable hour canst thou name
88222 That ever grac'd me in thy company ?
88223
88224 Faith , none , but Humphrey Hour , that call'd your Grace
88225 To breakfast once forth of my company .
88226 If I be so disgracious in your eye ,
88227 Let me march on , and not offend you , madam .
88228 Strike up the drum !
88229
88230 I prithee , hear me speak .
88231
88232 You speak too bitterly .
88233
88234 Hear me a word ;
88235 For I shall never speak to thee again .
88236
88237 So !
88238
88239 Either thou wilt die by God's just ordinance ,
88240 Ere from this war thou turn a conqueror ;
88241 Or I with grief and extreme age shall perish
88242 And never look upon thy face again .
88243 Therefore take with thee my most grievous curse ,
88244 Which , in the day of battle , tire thee more
88245 Than all the complete armour that thou wear'st !
88246 My prayers on the adverse party fight ;
88247 And there the little souls of Edward's children
88248 Whisper the spirits of thine enemies
88249 And promise them success and victory .
88250 Bloody thou art , bloody will be thy end ;
88251 Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend .
88252
88253
88254 Though far more cause , yet much less spirit to curse
88255 Abides in me : I say amen to her .
88256
88257
88258 Stay , madam ; I must talk a word with you .
88259
88260 I have no moe sons of the royal blood
88261 For thee to slaughter : for my daughters , Richard ,
88262 They shall be praying nuns , not weeping queens ;
88263 And therefore level not to hit their lives .
88264
88265 You have a daughter call'd Elizabeth ,
88266 Virtuous and fair , royal and gracious .
88267
88268 And must she die for this ? O ! let her live ,
88269 And I'll corrupt her manners , stain her beauty ;
88270 Slander myself as false to Edward's bed ;
88271 Throw over her the veil of infamy :
88272 So she may live unscarr'd of bleeding slaughter ,
88273 I will confess she was not Edward's daughter .
88274
88275 Wrong not her birth ; she is of royal blood .
88276
88277 To save her life , I'll say she is not so .
88278
88279 Her life is safest only in her birth .
88280
88281 And only in that safety died her brothers .
88282
88283 Lo ! at their births good stars were opposite !
88284
88285 No , to their lives ill friends were contrary .
88286
88287 All unavoided is the doom of destiny .
88288
88289 True , when avoided grace makes destiny .
88290 My babes were destin'd to a fairer death ,
88291 If grace had bless'd thee with a fairer life .
88292
88293 You speak as if that I had slain my cousins .
88294
88295 Cousins , indeed ; and by their uncle cozen'd
88296 Of comfort , kingdom , kindred , freedom , life .
88297 Whose hands soever lanc'd their tender hearts
88298 Thy head , all indirectly , gave direction :
88299 No doubt the murderous knife was dull and blunt
88300 Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart ,
88301 To revel in the entrails of my lambs .
88302 But that still use of grief makes wild grief tame ,
88303 My tongue should to thy ears not name my boys
88304 Till that my nails were anchor'd in thine eyes ;
88305 And I , in such a desperate bay of death ,
88306 Like a poor bark , of sails and tackling reft ,
88307 Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom .
88308
88309 Madam , so thrive I in my enterprise
88310 And dangerous success of bloody wars ,
88311 As I intend more good to you and yours
88312 Than ever you or yours by me were harm'd .
88313
88314 What good is cover'd with the face of heaven ,
88315 To be discover'd , that can do me good ?
88316
88317 The advancement of your children , gentle lady .
88318
88319 Up to some scaffold , there to lose their heads ?
88320
88321 No , to the dignity and height of fortune ,
88322 The high imperial type of this earth's glory .
88323
88324 Flatter my sorrow with report of it :
88325 Tell me what state , what dignity , what honour ,
88326 Canst thou demise to any child of mine ?
88327
88328 Even all I have ; ay , and myself and all ,
88329 Will I withal endow a child of thine ;
88330 So in the Lethe of thy angry soul
88331 Thou drown the sad remembrance of those wrongs
88332 Which thou supposest I have done to thee .
88333
88334 Be brief , lest that the process of thy kindness
88335 Last longer telling than thy kindness' date .
88336
88337 Then know , that from my soul I love thy daughter .
88338
88339 My daughter's mother thinks it with her soul .
88340
88341 What do you think ?
88342
88343 That thou dost love my daughter from thy soul :
88344 So from thy soul's love didst thou love her brothers ;
88345 And from my heart's love I do thank thee for it .
88346
88347 Be not too hasty to confound my meaning :
88348 I mean , that with my soul I love thy daughter ,
88349 And do intend to make her Queen of England .
88350
88351 Well then , who dost thou mean shall be her king ?
88352
88353 Even he that makes her queen : who else should be ?
88354
88355 What ! thou ?
88356
88357 Even so : what think you of it ?
88358
88359 How canst thou woo her ?
88360
88361 That I would learn of you ,
88362 As one being best acquainted with her humour .
88363
88364 And wilt thou learn of me ?
88365
88366 Madam , with all my heart .
88367
88368 Send to her , by the man that slew her brothers ,
88369 A pair of bleeding hearts ; thereon engrave
88370 Edward and York ; then haply will she weep :
88371 Therefore present to her , as sometime Margaret
88372 Did to thy father , steep'd in Rutland's blood ,
88373 A handkerchief , which , say to her , did drain
88374 The purple sap from her sweet brother's body ,
88375 And bid her wipe her weeping eyes withal .
88376 If this inducement move her not to love ,
88377 Send her a letter of thy noble deeds ;
88378 Tell her thou mad'st away her uncle Clarence ,
88379 Her uncle Rivers ; ay , and for her sake ,
88380 Mad'st quick conveyance with her good aunt Anne .
88381
88382 You mock me , madam ; this is not the way
88383 To win your daughter .
88384
88385 There is no other way
88386 Unless thou couldst put on some other shape ,
88387 And not be Richard that hath done all this .
88388
88389 Say , that I did all this for love of her ?
88390
88391 Nay , then indeed , she cannot choose but hate thee ,
88392 Having bought love with such a bloody spoil .
88393
88394 Look , what is done cannot be now amended :
88395 Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes ,
88396 Which after-hours give leisure to repent .
88397 If I did take the kingdom from your sons ,
88398 To make amends I'll give it to your daughter .
88399 If I have kill'd the issue of your womb ,
88400 To quicken your increase , I will beget
88401 Mine issue of your blood upon your daughter :
88402 A grandam's name is little less in love
88403 Than is the doting title of a mother ;
88404 They are as children but one step below ,
88405 Even of your mettle , of your very blood ;
88406 Of all one pain , save for a night of groans
88407 Endur'd of her for whom you bid like sorrow .
88408 Your children were vexation to your youth ,
88409 But mine shall be a comfort to your age .
88410 The loss you have is but a son being king ,
88411 And by that loss your daughter is made queen .
88412 I cannot make you what amends I would ,
88413 Therefore accept such kindness as I can .
88414 Dorset your son , that with a fearful soul
88415 Leads discontented steps in foreign soil ,
88416 This fair alliance quickly shall call home
88417 To high promotions and great dignity :
88418 The king that calls your beauteous daughter wife ,
88419 Familiarly shall call thy Dorset brother ;
88420 Again shall you be mother to a king ,
88421 And all the ruins of distressful times
88422 Repair'd with double riches of content .
88423 What ! we have many goodly days to see :
88424 The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
88425 Shall come again , transform'd to orient pearl ,
88426 Advantaging their loan with interest
88427 Of ten times double gain of happiness .
88428 Go then , my mother ; to thy daughter go :
88429 Make bold her bashful years with your experience ;
88430 Prepare her ears to hear a wooer's tale ;
88431 Put in her tender heart the aspiring flame
88432 Of golden sovereignty ; acquaint the princess
88433 With the sweet silent hours of marriage joys :
88434 And when this arm of mine hath chastised
88435 The petty rebel , dull-brain'd Buckingham ,
88436 Bound with triumphant garlands will I come ,
88437 And lead thy daughter to a conqueror's bed ;
88438 To whom I will retail my conquest won ,
88439 And she shall be sole victress , C sar's C sar .
88440
88441 What were I best to say ? her father's brother
88442 Would be her lord ? Or shall I say , her uncle ?
88443 Or , he that slew her brothers and her uncles ?
88444 Under what title shall I woo for thee ,
88445 That God , the law , my honour , and her love
88446 Can make seem pleasing to her tender years ?
88447
88448 Infer fair England's peace by this alliance .
88449
88450 Which she shall purchase with still lasting war .
88451
88452 Tell her , the king , that may command , entreats .
88453
88454 That at her hands which the king's King forbids .
88455
88456 Say , she shall be a high and mighty queen .
88457
88458 To wail the title , as her mother doth .
88459
88460 Say , I will love her everlastingly .
88461
88462 But how long shall that title 'ever' last ?
88463
88464 Sweetly in force unto her fair life's end .
88465
88466 But how long fairly shall her sweet life last ?
88467
88468 As long as heaven and nature lengthens it .
88469
88470 As long as hell and Richard likes of it .
88471
88472 Say , I , her sovereign , am her subject low .
88473
88474 But she , your subject , loathes such sovereignty .
88475
88476 Be eloquent in my behalf to her .
88477
88478 An honest tale speeds best being plainly told .
88479
88480 Then plainly to her tell my loving tale .
88481
88482 Plain and not honest is too harsh a style .
88483
88484 Your reasons are too shallow and too quick .
88485
88486 O , no ! my reasons are too deep and dead ;
88487 Too deep and dead , poor infants , in their graves .
88488
88489 Harp not on that string , madam ; that is past .
88490
88491 Harp on it still shall I till heart-strings break .
88492
88493 Now , by my George , my garter , and my crown ,
88494
88495 Profan'd , dishonour'd , and the third usurp'd .
88496
88497 I swear ,
88498
88499 By nothing ; for this is no oath .
88500 Thy George , profan'd , hath lost his holy honour ;
88501 Thy garter , blemish'd , pawn'd his knightly virtue ;
88502 Thy crown , usurp'd , disgrac'd his kingly glory .
88503 If something thou wouldst swear to be believ'd ,
88504 Swear , then , by something that thou hast not wrong'd .
88505
88506 Now , by the world ,
88507
88508 'Tis full of thy foul wrongs .
88509
88510 My father's death ,
88511
88512 Thy life hath that dishonour'd .
88513
88514 Then , by myself ,
88515
88516 Thyself is self-misus'd .
88517
88518 Why , then , by God ,
88519
88520 God's wrong is most of all .
88521 If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by him ,
88522 The unity the king my husband made
88523 Had not been broken , nor my brothers died :
88524 If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by him ,
88525 The imperial metal , circling now thy head ,
88526 Had grac'd the tender temples of my child ,
88527 And both the princes had been breathing here ,
88528 Which now , too tender bed-fellows for dust ,
88529 Thy broken faith hath made a prey for worms .
88530 What canst thou swear by now ?
88531
88532 The time to come .
88533
88534 That thou hast wronged in the time o'erpast ;
88535 For I myself have many tears to wash
88536 Hereafter time for time past wrong'd by thee .
88537 The children live , whose parents thou hast slaughter'd ,
88538 Ungovern'd youth , to wail it in their age :
88539 The parents live , whose children thou hast butcher'd ,
88540 Old barren plants , to wail it with their age .
88541 Swear not by time to come ; for that thou hast
88542 Misus'd ere us'd , by times ill-us'd o'erpast .
88543
88544 As I intend to prosper , and repent ,
88545 So thrive I in my dangerous affairs
88546 Of hostile arms ! myself myself confound !
88547 Heaven and fortune bar me happy hours !
88548 Day , yield me not thy light ; nor , night , thy rest !
88549 Be opposite all planets of good luck
88550 To my proceeding , if , with pure heart's love ,
88551 Immaculate devotion , holy thoughts ,
88552 I tender not thy beauteous princely daughter !
88553 In her consists my happiness and thine ;
88554 Without her , follows to myself , and thee ,
88555 Herself , the land , and many a Christian soul ,
88556 Death , desolation , ruin , and decay :
88557 It cannot be avoided but by this ;
88558 It will not be avoided but by this .
88559 Therefore , dear mother ,I must call you so ,
88560 Be the attorney of my love to her :
88561 Plead what I will be , not what I have been ;
88562 Not my deserts , but what I will deserve :
88563 Urge the necessity and state of times ,
88564 And be not peevish-fond in great designs .
88565
88566 Shall I be tempted of the devil thus ?
88567
88568 Ay , if the devil tempt thee to do good .
88569
88570 Shall I forget myself to be myself ?
88571
88572 Ay , if your self's remembrance wrong yourself .
88573
88574 Yet thou didst kill my children .
88575
88576 But in your daughter's womb I bury them :
88577 Where , in that nest of spicery , they shall breed
88578 Selves of themselves , to your recomforture .
88579
88580 Shall I go win my daughter to thy will ?
88581
88582 And be a happy mother by the deed .
88583
88584 I go . Write to me very shortly ,
88585 And you shall understand from me her mind .
88586
88587 Bear her my true love's kiss ; and so farewell .
88588
88589 Relenting fool , and shallow changing woman !
88590
88591 How now ! what news ?
88592
88593 Most mighty sovereign , on the western coast
88594 Rideth a puissant navy ; to the shores
88595 Throng many doubtful hollow-hearted friends ,
88596 Unarm'd , and unresolv'd to beat them back .
88597 'Tis thought that Richmond is their admiral ;
88598 And there they hull , expecting but the aid
88599 Of Buckingham to welcome them ashore .
88600
88601 Some light-foot friend post to the Duke of Norfolk :
88602 Ratcliff , thyself , or Catesby ; where is he ?
88603
88604 Here , my good lord .
88605
88606 Catesby , fly to the duke .
88607
88608 I will , my lord , with all convenient haste .
88609
88610 Ratcliff , come hither . Post to Salisbury :
88611 When thou com'st thither ,
88612
88613 Dull , unmindful villain ,
88614 Why stay'st thou here , and go'st not to the duke ?
88615
88616 First , mighty liege , tell me your highness' pleasure ,
88617 What from your Grace I shall deliver to him .
88618
88619 O ! true , good Catesby : bid him levy straight
88620 The greatest strength and power he can make ,
88621 And meet me suddenly at Salisbury .
88622
88623 I go .
88624
88625
88626 What , may it please you , shall I do at Salisbury ?
88627
88628 Why , what wouldst thou do there before I go ?
88629
88630 Your highness told me I should post before .
88631
88632
88633 My mind is chang'd . Stanley , what news with you ?
88634
88635 None good , my liege , to please you with the hearing ;
88636 Nor none so bad but well may be reported .
88637
88638 Hoyday , a riddle ! neither good nor bad !
88639 What need'st thou run so many miles about ,
88640 When thou mayst tell thy tale the nearest way ?
88641 Once more , what news ?
88642
88643 Richmond is on the seas .
88644
88645 There let him sink , and be the seas on him !
88646 White-liver'd runagate ! what doth he there ?
88647
88648 I know not , mighty sovereign , but by guess .
88649
88650 Well , as you guess ?
88651
88652 Stirr'd up by Dorset , Buckingham , and Morton ,
88653 He makes for England , here to claim the crown .
88654
88655 Is the chair empty ? is the sword unsway'd ?
88656 Is the king dead ? the empire unpossess'd ?
88657 What heir of York is there alive but we ?
88658 And who is England's king but great York's heir ?
88659 Then , tell me , what makes he upon the seas ?
88660
88661 Unless for that , my liege , I cannot guess .
88662
88663 Unless for that he comes to be your liege ,
88664 You cannot guess wherefore the Welshman comes .
88665 Thou wilt revolt and fly to him I fear .
88666
88667 No , my good lord ; therefore mistrust me not .
88668
88669 Where is thy power then to beat him back ?
88670 Where be thy tenants and thy followers ?
88671 Are they not now upon the western shore ,
88672 Safe-conducting the rebels from their ships ?
88673
88674 No , my good lord , my friends are in the north .
88675
88676 Cold friends to me : what do they in the north
88677 When they should serve their sovereign in the west ?
88678
88679 They have not been commanded , mighty king :
88680 Pleaseth your majesty to give me leave ,
88681 I'll muster up my friends , and meet your Grace ,
88682 Where and what time your majesty shall please .
88683
88684 Ay , ay , thou wouldst be gone to join with Richmond :
88685 But I'll not trust thee .
88686
88687 Most mighty sovereign ,
88688 You have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful .
88689 I never was nor never will be false .
88690
88691 Go then and muster men : but leave behind
88692 Your son , George Stanley : look your heart be firm ,
88693 Or else his head's assurance is but frail .
88694
88695 So deal with him as I prove true to you .
88696
88697 My gracious sovereign , now in Devonshire ,
88698 As I by friends am well advertised ,
88699 Sir Edward Courtney , and the haughty prelate ,
88700 Bishop of Exeter , his brother there ,
88701 With many moe confederates are in arms .
88702
88703
88704 In Kent , my liege , the Guildfords are in arms ;
88705 And every hour more competitors
88706 Flock to the rebels , and their power grows strong .
88707
88708
88709 My lord , the army of great Buckingham
88710
88711 Out on ye , owls ! nothing but songs of death ?
88712
88713 There , take thou that , till thou bring better news .
88714
88715 The news I have to tell your majesty
88716 Is , that by sudden floods and fall of waters ,
88717 Buckingham's army is dispers'd and scatter'd ;
88718 And he himself wander'd away alone ,
88719 No man knows whither .
88720
88721 I cry thee mercy :
88722 There is my purse , to cure that blow of thine .
88723 Hath any well-advised friend proclaim'd
88724 Reward to him that brings the traitor in ?
88725
88726 Such proclamation hath been made , my liege .
88727
88728
88729 Sir Thomas Lovel , and Lord Marquess Dorset ,
88730 'Tis said , my liege , in Yorkshire are in arms :
88731 But this good comfort bring I to your highness ,
88732 The Breton navy is dispers'd by tempest .
88733 Richmond , in Dorsetshire , sent out a boat
88734 Unto the shore to ask those on the banks
88735 If they were his assistants , yea or no ;
88736 Who answer'd him , they came from Buckingham
88737 Upon his party : he , mistrusting them ,
88738 Hois'd sail , and made away for Brittany .
88739
88740 March on , march on , since we are up in arms ;
88741 If not to fight with foreign enemies ,
88742 Yet to beat down these rebels here at home .
88743
88744
88745 My liege , the Duke of Buckingham is taken ,
88746 That is the best news : that the Earl of Richmond
88747 Is with a mighty power landed at Milford
88748 Is colder news , but yet they must be told .
88749
88750 Away towards Salisbury ! while we reason here ,
88751 A royal battle might be won and lost .
88752 Some one take order Buckingham be brought
88753 To Salisbury ; the rest march on with me .
88754
88755
88756 Sir Christopher , tell Richmond this from me :
88757 That in the sty of this most bloody boar
88758 My son George Stanley is frank'd up in hold :
88759 If I revolt , off goes young George's head ;
88760 The fear of that holds off my present aid .
88761 So , get thee gone : commend me to thy lord .
88762 Withal , say that the queen hath heartily consented
88763 He should espouse Elizabeth her daughter .
88764 But , tell me , where is princely Richmond now ?
88765
88766 At Pembroke , or at Ha'rford-west , in Wales .
88767
88768 What men of name resort to him ?
88769
88770 Sir Walter Herbert , a renowned soldier ,
88771 Sir Gilbert Talbot , Sir William Stanley ,
88772 Oxford , redoubted Pembroke , Sir James Blunt ,
88773 And Rice ap Thomas , with a valiant crew ;
88774 And many other of great name and worth :
88775 And towards London do they bend their power ,
88776 If by the way they be not fought withal .
88777
88778 Well , hie thee to thy lord ; I kiss his hand :
88779 My letter will resolve him of my mind .
88780 Farewell .
88781
88782 Will not King Richard let me speak with him ?
88783
88784 No , my good lord ; therefore be patient .
88785
88786 Hastings , and Edward's children , Grey and Rivers ,
88787 Holy King Henry , and thy fair son Edward ,
88788 Vaughan , and all that have miscarried
88789 By underhand corrupted foul injustice ,
88790 If that your moody discontented souls
88791 Do through the clouds behold this present hour ,
88792 Even for revenge mock my destruction !
88793 This is All-Souls' day , fellows , is it not ?
88794
88795 It is , my lord .
88796
88797 Why , then All-Souls' day is my body's doomsday .
88798 This is the day that , in King Edward's time ,
88799 I wish'd might fall on me , when I was found
88800 False to his children or his wife's allies ;
88801 This is the day wherein I wish'd to fall
88802 By the false faith of him whom most I trusted ;
88803 This , this All-Souls' day to my fearful soul
88804 Is the determin'd respite of my wrongs .
88805 That high All-Seer which I dallied with
88806 Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head ,
88807 And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest .
88808 Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men
88809 To turn their own points on their masters' bosoms :
88810 Thus Margaret's curse falls heavy on my neck :
88811 'When he ,' quoth she , 'shall split thy heart with sorrow ,
88812 Remember Margaret was a prophetess .'
88813 Come , lead me , officers , to the block of shame :
88814 Wrong hath but wrong , and blame the due of blame .
88815
88816 Fellows in arms , and my most loving friends ,
88817 Bruis'd underneath the yoke of tyranny ,
88818 Thus far into the bowels of the land
88819 Have we march'd on without impediment :
88820 And here receive we from our father Stanley
88821 Lines of fair comfort and encouragement .
88822 The wretched , bloody , and usurping boar ,
88823 That spoil'd your summer fields and fruitful vines ,
88824 Swills your warm blood like wash , and makes his trough
88825 In your embowell'd bosoms , this foul swine
88826 Is now even in the centre of this isle ,
88827 Near to the town of Leicester , as we learn :
88828 From Tamworth thither is but one day's march .
88829 In God's name , cheerly on , courageous friends ,
88830 To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
88831 By this one bloody trial of sharp war .
88832
88833 Every man's conscience is a thousand men ,
88834 To fight against this guilty homicide .
88835
88836 I doubt not but his friends will turn to us .
88837
88838 He hath no friends but what are friends for fear ,
88839 Which in his dearest need will fly from him .
88840
88841 All for our vantage : then , in God's name , march :
88842 True hope is swift , and flies with swallow's wings ;
88843 Kings it makes gods , and meaner creatures kings .
88844
88845
88846 Here pitch our tent , even here in Bosworth field .
88847 My Lord of Surrey , why look you so sad ?
88848
88849 My heart is ten times lighter than my looks .
88850
88851 My Lord of Norfolk ,
88852
88853 Here , most gracious liege .
88854
88855 Norfolk , we must have knocks ; ha ! must we not ?
88856
88857 We must both give and take , my loving lord .
88858
88859 Up with my tent ! here will I lie to-night ;
88860
88861 But where to-morrow ? Well , all's one for that .
88862 Who hath descried the number of the traitors ?
88863
88864 Six or seven thousand is their utmost power .
88865
88866 Why , our battalia trebles that account ;
88867 Besides , the king's name is a tower of strength ,
88868 Which they upon the adverse faction want .
88869 Up with the tent ! Come , noble gentlemen ,
88870 Let us survey the vantage of the ground ;
88871 Call for some men of sound direction :
88872 Let's lack no discipline , make no delay ;
88873 For , lords , to-morrow is a busy day .
88874
88875
88876 The weary sun hath made a golden set ,
88877 And , by the bright track of his fiery car ,
88878 Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow .
88879 Sir William Brandon , you shall bear my standard .
88880 Give me some ink and paper in my tent :
88881 I'll draw the form and model of our battle ,
88882 Limit each leader to his several charge ,
88883 And part in just proportion our small power .
88884 My Lord of Oxford , you , Sir William Brandon ,
88885 And you , Sir Walter Herbert , stay with me .
88886 The Earl of Pembroke keeps his regiment :
88887 Good Captain Blunt , bear my good-night to him ,
88888 And by the second hour in the morning
88889 Desire the earl to see me in my tent .
88890 Yet one thing more , good captain , do for me ;
88891 Where is Lord Stanley quarter'd , do you know ?
88892
88893 Unless I have mista'en his colours much ,
88894 Which , well I am assur'd , I have not done ,
88895 His regiment lies half a mile at least
88896 South from the mighty power of the king .
88897
88898 If without peril it be possible ,
88899 Good Captain Blunt , bear my good-night to him ,
88900 And give him from me this most needful note .
88901
88902 Upon my life , my lord , I'll undertake it ;
88903 And so , God give you quiet rest to-night !
88904
88905 Good-night , good Captain Blunt . Come , gentlemen ,
88906 Let us consult upon to-morrow's business ;
88907 In to my tent , the air is raw and cold .
88908
88909 What is 't o'clock ?
88910
88911 It's supper-time , my lord ;
88912 It's nine o'clock .
88913
88914 I will not sup to-night .
88915 Give me some ink and paper .
88916 What , is my beaver easier than it was ,
88917 And all my armour laid into my tent ?
88918
88919 It is , my liege ; and all things are in readiness .
88920
88921 Good Norfolk , hie thee to thy charge ;
88922 Use careful watch ; choose trusty sentinels .
88923
88924 I go , my lord .
88925
88926 Stir with the lark to-morrow , gentle Norfolk .
88927
88928 I warrant you , my lord .
88929
88930
88931 Ratcliff !
88932
88933 My lord ?
88934
88935 Send out a pursuivant at arms
88936 To Stanley's regiment ; bid him bring his power
88937 Before sun-rising , lest his son George fall
88938 Into the blind cave of eternal night .
88939 Fill me a bowl of wine . Give me a watch .
88940 Saddle white Surrey for the field to-morrow .
88941 Look that my staves be sound , and not too heavy .
88942 Ratcliff !
88943
88944 My lord !
88945
88946 Saw'st thou the melancholy Lord Northumberland ?
88947
88948 Thomas the Earl of Surrey , and himself ,
88949 Much about cock-shut time , from troop to troop
88950 Went through the army , cheering up the soldiers .
88951
88952 So , I am satisfied . Give me a bowl of wine :
88953 I have not that alacrity of spirit ,
88954 Nor cheer of mind , that I was wont to have .
88955 Set it down . Is ink and paper ready ?
88956
88957 It is , my lord .
88958
88959 Bid my guard watch ; leave me .
88960 Ratcliff , about the mid of night come to my tent
88961 And help to arm me . Leave me , I say .
88962
88963
88964 Fortune and victory sit on thy helm !
88965
88966 All comfort that the dark night can afford
88967 Be to thy person , noble father-in-law !
88968 Tell me , how fares our loving mother ?
88969
88970 I , by attorney , bless thee from thy mother ,
88971 Who prays continually for Richmond's good :
88972 So much for that . The silent hours steal on ,
88973 And flaky darkness breaks within the east .
88974 In brief , for so the season bids us be ,
88975 Prepare thy battle early in the morning ,
88976 And put thy fortune to the arbitrement
88977 Of bloody strokes and mortal-staring war .
88978 I , as I may ,that which I would I cannot ,
88979 With best advantage will deceive the time ,
88980 And aid thee in this doubtful shock of arms :
88981 But on thy side I may not be too forward ,
88982 Lest , being seen , thy brother , tender George ,
88983 Be executed in his father's sight .
88984 Farewell : the leisure and the fearful time
88985 Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love
88986 And ample interchange of sweet discourse ,
88987 Which so long sunder'd friends should dwell upon :
88988 God give us leisure for these rites of love !
88989 Once more , adieu : be valiant , and speed well !
88990
88991 Good lords , conduct him to his regiment .
88992 I'll strive , with troubled thoughts , to take a nap ,
88993 Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow ,
88994 When I should mount with wings of victory .
88995 Once more , good-night , kind lords and gentlemen .
88996
88997 O ! thou , whose captain I account myself ,
88998 Look on my forces with a gracious eye ;
88999 Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath ,
89000 That they may crush down with a heavy fall
89001 The usurping helmets of our adversaries !
89002 Make us thy ministers of chastisement ,
89003 That we may praise thee in thy victory !
89004 To thee I do commend my watchful soul ,
89005 Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes :
89006 Sleeping and waking , O ! defend me still !
89007
89008 Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow !
89009 Think how thou stab'dst me in my prime of youth
89010 At Tewksbury : despair , therefore , and die !
89011 Be cheerful , Richmond ; for the wronged souls
89012 Of butcher'd princes fight in thy behalf :
89013 King Henry's issue , Richmond , comforts thee .
89014
89015
89016 When I was mortal , my anointed body
89017 By thee was punched full of deadly holes :
89018 Think on the Tower and me ; despair and die !
89019 Henry the Sixth bids thee despair and die .
89020
89021
89022 Virtuous and holy , be thou conqueror !
89023 Harry , that prophesied thou shouldst be the king ,
89024 Doth comfort thee in thy sleep : live thou and flourish !
89025
89026
89027 Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow !
89028 I , that was wash'd to death with fulsome wine ,
89029 Poor Clarence , by thy guile betray'd to death !
89030 To-morrow in the battle think on me ,
89031 And fall thy edgeless sword : despair , and die !
89032
89033
89034 Thou offspring of the house of Lancaster ,
89035 The wronged heirs of York do pray for thee :
89036 Good angels guard thy battle ! live , and flourish !
89037
89038
89039 Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow !
89040 Rivers , that died at Pomfret ! despair , and die !
89041
89042 Think upon Grey , and let thy soul despair .
89043
89044 Think upon Vaughan , and with guilty fear
89045 Let fall thy pointless lance : despair , and die !
89046
89047 Awake ! and think our wrongs in Richard's bosom
89048 Will conquer him : awake , and win the day !
89049
89050
89051 Bloody and guilty , guiltily awake ;
89052 And in a bloody battle end thy days !
89053 Think on Lord Hastings , so despair , and die !
89054
89055
89056 Quiet , untroubled soul , awake , awake !
89057 Arm , fight , and conquer , for fair England's sake !
89058
89059
89060 Dream on thy cousins smother'd in the Tower :
89061 Let us be lead within thy bosom , Richard ,
89062 And weigh thee down to ruin , shame , and death !
89063 Thy nephews' souls bid thee despair , and die !
89064
89065
89066 Sleep , Richmond , sleep in peace , and wake in joy ;
89067 Good angels guard thee from the boar's annoy !
89068 Live , and beget a happy race of kings !
89069 Edward's unhappy sons do bid thee flourish .
89070
89071
89072 Richard , thy wife , that wretched Anne thy wife ,
89073 That never slept a quiet hour with thee ,
89074 Now fills thy sleep with perturbations :
89075 To-morrow in the battle think on me ,
89076 And fall thy edgeless sword : despair , and die !
89077
89078
89079 Thou quiet soul , sleep thou a quiet sleep ;
89080 Dream of success and happy victory !
89081 Thy adversary's wife doth pray for thee .
89082
89083
89084 The first was I that help'd thee to the crown ;
89085 The last was I that felt thy tyranny .
89086 O ! in the battle think on Buckingham ,
89087 And die in terror of thy guiltiness !
89088 Dream on , dream on , of bloody deeds and death :
89089 Fainting , despair ; despairing , yield thy breath !
89090
89091
89092 I died for hope ere I could lend thee aid :
89093 But cheer thy heart , and be thou not dismay'd :
89094 God and good angels fight on Richmond's side ;
89095 And Richard falls in height of all his pride .
89096
89097
89098 Give me another horse ! bind up my wounds !
89099 Have mercy , Jesu ! Soft ! I did but dream .
89100 O coward conscience , how dost thou afflict me !
89101 The lights burn blue . It is now dead midnight .
89102 Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh .
89103 What ! do I fear myself ? there's none else by :
89104 Richard loves Richard , that is , I am I .
89105 Is there a murderer here ? No . Yes , I am :
89106 Then fly : what ! from myself ? Great reason why :
89107 Lest I revenge . What ! myself upon myself ?
89108 Alack ! I love myself . Wherefore ? for any good
89109 That I myself have done unto myself ?
89110 O ! no : alas ! I rather hate myself
89111 For hateful deeds committed by myself .
89112 I am a villain . Yet I lie ; I am not .
89113 Fool , of thyself speak well : fool , do not flatter .
89114 My conscience hath a thousand several tongues ,
89115 And every tongue brings in a several tale ,
89116 And every tale condemns me for a villain .
89117 Perjury , perjury , in the high'st degree :
89118 Murder , stern murder , in the dir'st degree ;
89119 All several sins , all us'd in each degree ,
89120 Throng to the bar , crying all , 'Guilty ! guilty !'
89121 I shall despair . There is no creature loves me ;
89122 And if I die , no soul will pity me :
89123 Nay , wherefore should they , since that I myself
89124 Find in myself no pity to myself ?
89125 Methought the souls of all that I had murder'd
89126 Came to my tent ; and every one did threat
89127 To-morrow's vengeance on the head of Richard .
89128
89129
89130 My lord !
89131
89132 'Zounds ! who's there ?
89133
89134 Ratcliff , my lord ; 'tis I . The early village cock
89135 Hath twice done salutation to the morn ;
89136 Your friends are up , and buckle on their armour .
89137
89138 O Ratcliff ! I have dream'd a fearful dream .
89139 What thinkest thou , will our friends prove all true ?
89140
89141 No doubt , my lord .
89142
89143 O Ratcliff ! I fear , I fear ,
89144
89145 Nay , good my lord , be not afraid of shadows .
89146
89147 By the apostle Paul , shadows to-night
89148 Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
89149 Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers
89150 Armed in proof , and led by shallow Richmond .
89151 It is not yet near day . Come , go with me ;
89152 Under our tents I'll play the eaves-dropper ,
89153 To hear if any mean to shrink from me .
89154
89155 Good morrow , Richmond !
89156
89157 Cry mercy , lords , and watchful gentlemen ,
89158 That you have ta'en a tardy sluggard here .
89159
89160 How have you slept , my lord ?
89161
89162 The sweetest sleep , the fairest-boding dreams
89163 That ever enter'd in a drowsy head ,
89164 Have I since your departure had , my lords .
89165 Methought their souls , whose bodies Richard murder'd ,
89166 Came to my tent and cried on victory :
89167 I promise you , my heart is very jocund
89168 In the remembrance of so fair a dream .
89169 How far into the morning is it , lords ?
89170
89171 Upon the stroke of four .
89172
89173 Why , then 'tis time to arm and give direction .
89174 His oration to his Soldiers .
89175 More than I have said , loving countrymen ,
89176 The leisure and enforcement of the time
89177 Forbids to dwell on : yet remember this ,
89178 God and our good cause fight upon our side ;
89179 The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls ,
89180 Like high-rear'd bulwarks , stand before our faces ;
89181 Richard except , those whom we fight against
89182 Had rather have us win than him they follow .
89183 For what is he they follow ? truly , gentlemen ,
89184 A bloody tyrant and a homicide ;
89185 One rais'd in blood , and one in blood establish'd ;
89186 One that made means to come by what he hath ,
89187 And slaughter'd those that were the means to help him ;
89188 A base foul stone , made precious by the foil
89189 Of England's chair , where he is falsely set ;
89190 One that hath ever been God's enemy .
89191 Then , if you fight against God's enemy ,
89192 God will in justice , ward you as his soldiers ;
89193 If you do sweat to put a tyrant down ,
89194 You sleep in peace , the tyrant being slain ;
89195 If you do fight against your country's foes ,
89196 Your country's fat shall pay your pains the hire ;
89197 If you do fight in safeguard of your wives ,
89198 Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors ;
89199 If you do free your children from the sword ,
89200 Your children's children quit it in your age .
89201 Then , in the name of God and all these rights ,
89202 Advance your standards , draw your willing swords .
89203 For me , the ransom of my bold attempt
89204 Shall be this cold corse on the earth's cold face ;
89205 But if I thrive , the gain of my attempt
89206 The least of your shall share his part thereof .
89207 Sound drums and trumpets , boldly and cheerfully ;
89208 God and Saint George ! Richmond and victory !
89209
89210 What said Northumberland as touching Richmond ?
89211
89212 That he was never trained up in arms .
89213
89214 He said the truth : and what said Surrey then ?
89215
89216 He smil'd , and said , 'The better for our purpose .'
89217
89218 He was i' the right ; and so , indeed , it is .
89219
89220 Tell the clock there . Give me a calendar .
89221 Who saw the sun to-day ?
89222
89223 Not I , my lord .
89224
89225 Then he disdains to shine ; for by the book
89226 He should have brav'd the east an hour ago :
89227 A black day will it be to somebody .
89228 Ratcliff !
89229
89230 My lord ?
89231
89232 The sun will not be seen to-day ;
89233 The sky doth frown and lower upon our army .
89234 I would these dewy tears were from the ground .
89235 Not shine to-day ! Why , what is that to me
89236 More than to Richmond ? for the self-same heaven
89237 That frowns on me looks sadly upon him .
89238
89239
89240 Arm , arm , my lord ! the foe vaunts in the field .
89241
89242 Come , bustle , bustle ; caparison my horse .
89243 Call up Lord Stanley , bid him bring his power :
89244 I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain ,
89245 And thus my battle shall be ordered :
89246 My foreward shall be drawn out all in length
89247 Consisting equally of horse and foot ;
89248 Our archers shall be placed in the midst :
89249 John Duke of Norfolk , Thomas Earl of Surrey ,
89250 Shall have the leading of this foot and horse .
89251 They thus directed , we will follow
89252 In the main battle , whose puissance on either side
89253 Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse .
89254 This , and Saint George to boot ! What think'st thou , Norfolk ?
89255
89256 A good direction , war-like sovereign .
89257 This found I on my tent this morning .
89258
89259
89260 Jockey of Norfolk , be not too bold ,
89261 For Dickon thy master is bought and sold .
89262 A thing devised by the enemy .
89263 Go , gentlemen ; every man to his charge :
89264 Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls ;
89265 Conscience is but a word that cowards use ,
89266 Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe :
89267 Our strong arms be our conscience , swords our law .
89268 March on , join bravely , let us to 't pell-mell ;
89269 If not to heaven , then hand in hand to hell .
89270 His oration to his Army .
89271 What shall I say more than I have inferr'd ?
89272 Remember whom you are to cope withal :
89273 A sort of vagabonds , rascals , and run-aways ,
89274 A scum of Bretons and base lackey peasants ,
89275 Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth
89276 To desperate adventures and assur'd destruction .
89277 You sleeping safe , they bring you to unrest ;
89278 You having lands , and bless'd with beauteous wives ,
89279 They would restrain the one , distain the other .
89280 And who doth lead them but a paltry fellow ,
89281 Long kept in Britaine at our mother's cost ?
89282 A milksop , one that never in his life
89283 Felt so much cold as over shoes in snow ?
89284 Let's whip these stragglers o'er the sea again ;
89285 Lash hence these overweening rags of France ,
89286 These famish'd beggars , weary of their lives ;
89287 Who , but for dreaming on this fond exploit ,
89288 For want of means , poor rats , had hang'd themselves :
89289 If we be conquer'd , let men conquer us ,
89290 And not these bastard Bretons ; whom our fathers
89291 Have in their own land beaten , bobb'd , and thump'd ,
89292 And , on record , left them the heirs of shame .
89293 Shall these enjoy our lands ? lie with our wives ?
89294 Ravish our daughters ?
89295
89296 Hark ! I hear their drum .
89297 Fight , gentlemen of England ! fight , bold yeomen !
89298 Draw , archers , draw your arrows to the head !
89299 Spur your proud horses hard , and ride in blood ;
89300 Amaze the welkin with your broken staves !
89301
89302 What says Lord Stanley ? will he bring his power ?
89303
89304 My lord , he doth deny to come .
89305
89306 Off with his son George's head !
89307
89308 My lord , the enemy is pass'd the marsh :
89309 After the battle let George Stanley die .
89310
89311 A thousand hearts are great within my bosom :
89312 Advance our standards ! set upon our foes !
89313 Our ancient word of courage , fair Saint George ,
89314 Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons !
89315 Upon them ! Victory sits upon our helms .
89316
89317
89318 Rescue , my Lord of Norfolk ! rescue , rescue !
89319 The king enacts more wonders than a man ,
89320 Daring an opposite to every danger :
89321 His horse is slain , and all on foot he fights ,
89322 Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death .
89323 Rescue , fair lord , or else the day is lost !
89324
89325
89326 A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse !
89327
89328 Withdraw , my lord ; I'll help you to a horse .
89329
89330 Slave ! I have set my life upon a cast ,
89331 And I will stand the hazard of the die .
89332 I think there be six Richmonds in the field ;
89333 Five have I slain to-day , instead of him .
89334 A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse !
89335
89336 God and your arms be prais'd , victorious friends ;
89337 The day is ours , the bloody dog is dead .
89338
89339 Courageous Richmond , well hast thou acquit thee !
89340 Lo ! here , this long-usurped royalty
89341 From the dead temples of this bloody wretch
89342 Have I pluck'd off , to grace thy brows withal :
89343 Wear it , enjoy it , and make much of it .
89344
89345 Great God of heaven , say amen to all !
89346 But , tell me , is young George Stanley living ?
89347
89348 He is , my lord , and safe in Leicester town ;
89349 Whither , if you please , we may withdraw us .
89350
89351 What men of name are slain on either side ?
89352
89353 John Duke of Norfolk , Walter Lord Ferrers ,
89354 Sir Robert Brakenbury , and Sir William Brandon .
89355
89356 Inter their bodies as becomes their births :
89357 Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fied
89358 That in submission will return to us ;
89359 And then , as we have ta'en the sacrament ,
89360 We will unite the white rose and the red :
89361 Smile , heaven , upon this fair conjunction ,
89362 That long hath frown'd upon their enmity !
89363 What traitor hears me , and says not amen ?
89364 England hath long been mad , and scarr'd herself ;
89365 The brother blindly shed the brother's blood ,
89366 The father rashly slaughter'd his own son ,
89367 The son , compell'd , been butcher to the sire :
89368 All this divided York and Lancaster ,
89369 Divided in their dire division ,
89370 O ! now , let Richmond and Elizabeth ,
89371 The true succeeders of each royal house ,
89372 By God's fair ordinance conjoin together ;
89373 And let their heirs God , if thy will be so ,
89374 Enrich the time to come with smooth-fac'd peace ,
89375 With smiling plenty , and fair prosperous days !
89376 Abate the edge of traitors , gracious Lord ,
89377 That would reduce these bloody days again ,
89378 And make poor England weep in streams of blood !
89379 Let them not live to taste this land's increase ,
89380 That would with treason wound this fair land's peace !
89381 Now civil wounds are stopp'd , peace lives again :
89382 That she may long live here , God say amen !
89383
89384 ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA
89385
89386 Nay , but this dotage of our general's
89387 O'erflows the measure ; those his goodly eyes ,
89388 That o'er the files and musters of the war
89389 Have glow'd like plated Mars , now bend , now turn
89390 The office and devotion of their view
89391 Upon a tawny front ; his captain's heart ,
89392 Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst
89393 The buckles on his breast , reneges all temper ,
89394 And is become the bellows and the fan
89395 To cool a gipsy's lust . Look ! where they come .
89396
89397
89398 Take but good note , and you shall see in him
89399 The triple pillar of the world transform'd
89400
89401 Into a strumpet's fool ; behold and see .
89402
89403 If it be love indeed , tell me how much .
89404
89405 There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd .
89406
89407 I'll set a bourn how far to be belov'd .
89408
89409 Then must thou needs find out new heaven , new earth .
89410
89411
89412 News , my good lord , from Rome .
89413
89414 Grates me ; the sum .
89415
89416 Nay , hear them , Antony :
89417 Fulvia , perchance , is angry ; or , who knows
89418 If the scarce-bearded C sar have not sent
89419 His powerful mandate to you , 'Do this , or this ;
89420 Take in that kingdom , and enfranchise that ;
89421 Perform 't , or else we damn thee .'
89422
89423 How , my love !
89424
89425 Perchance ! nay , and most like ;
89426 You must not stay here longer ; your dismission
89427 Is come from C sar ; therefore hear it , Antony .
89428 Where's Fulvia's process ? C sar's I would say ? both ?
89429 Call in the messengers . As I am Egypt's queen ,
89430 Thou blushest , Antony , and that blood of thine
89431 Is C sar's homager ; else so thy cheek pays shame
89432 When shrill-tongu'd Fulvia scolds . The messengers !
89433
89434 Let Rome in Tiber melt , and the wide arch
89435 Of the rang'd empire fall ! Here is my space .
89436 Kingdoms are clay ; our dungy earth alike
89437 Feeds beast as man ; the nobleness of life
89438 Is to do thus ; when such a mutual pair
89439
89440 And such a twain can do 't , in which I bind ,
89441 On pain of punishment , the world to weet
89442 We stand up peerless .
89443
89444 Excellent falsehood !
89445 Why did he marry Fulvia and not love her ?
89446 I'll seem the fool I am not ; Antony
89447 Will be himself .
89448
89449 But stirr'd by Cleopatra .
89450 Now , for the love of Love and her soft hours ,
89451 Let's not confound the time with conference harsh :
89452 There's not a minute of our lives should stretch
89453 Without some pleasure now . What sport to-night ?
89454
89455 Hear the ambassadors .
89456
89457 Fie , wrangling queen !
89458 Whom every thing becomes , to chide , to laugh ,
89459 To weep ; whose every passion fully strives
89460 To make itself , in thee , fair and admir'd .
89461 No messenger , but thine ; and all alone ,
89462 To-night we'll wander through the streets and note
89463 The qualities of people . Come , my queen ;
89464 Last night you did desire it : speak not to us .
89465
89466
89467 Is C sar with Antonius priz'd so slight ?
89468
89469 Sir , sometimes , when he is not Antony ,
89470 He comes too short of that great property
89471 Which still should go with Antony .
89472
89473 I am full sorry
89474 That he approves the common liar , who
89475 Thus speaks of him at Rome ; but I will hope
89476 Of better deeds to-morrow . Rest you happy !
89477
89478
89479 Lord Alexas , sweet Alexas , most any thing Alexas , almost most absolute Alexas , where's the soothsayer that you praised so to the queen ? O ! that I knew this husband , which , you say , must charge his horns with garlands .
89480
89481 Soothsayer !
89482
89483 Your will ?
89484
89485 Is this the man ? Is't you , sir , that know things ?
89486
89487 In nature's infinite book of secrecy
89488 A little I can read .
89489
89490 Show him your hand .
89491
89492
89493 Bring in the banquet quickly ; wine enough
89494 Cleopatra's health to drink .
89495
89496 Good sir , give me good fortune .
89497
89498 I make not , but foresee .
89499
89500 Pray then , foresee me one .
89501
89502 You shall be yet far fairer than you are .
89503
89504 He means in flesh .
89505
89506 No , you shall paint when you are old .
89507
89508 Wrinkles forbid !
89509
89510 Vex not his prescience ; be attentive .
89511
89512 Hush !
89513
89514 You shall be more beloving than belov'd .
89515
89516 I had rather heat my liver with drinking .
89517
89518 Nay , hear him .
89519
89520 Good now , some excellent fortune ! Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon , and widow them all ; let me have a child at fifty , to whom Herod of Jewry may do homage ; find me to marry me with Octavius C sar , and companion me with my mistress .
89521
89522 You shall outlive the lady whom you serve .
89523
89524 O excellent ! I love long life better than figs .
89525
89526 You have seen and prov'd a fairer former fortune
89527 Than that which is to approach .
89528
89529 Then , belike , my children shall have no names ; prithee , how many boys and wenches must I have ?
89530
89531 If every of your wishes had a womb ,
89532 And fertile every wish , a million .
89533
89534 Out , fool ! I forgive thee for a witch .
89535
89536 You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes .
89537
89538 Nay , come , tell Iras hers .
89539
89540 We'll know all our fortunes .
89541
89542 Mine , and most of our fortunes , to-night , shall be ,drunk to bed .
89543
89544 There's a palm presages chastity , if nothing else .
89545
89546 E'en as the overflowing Nilus presageth famine .
89547
89548 Go , you wild bedfellow , you cannot soothsay .
89549
89550 Nay , if an oily palm be not a fruitful prognostication , I cannot scratch mine ear .
89551 Prithee , tell her but a worky-day fortune .
89552
89553 Your fortunes are alike .
89554
89555 But how ? but how ? give me particulars .
89556
89557 I have said .
89558
89559 Am I not an inch of fortune better than she ?
89560
89561 Well , if you were but an inch of fortune better than I , where would you choose it ?
89562
89563 Not in my husband's nose .
89564
89565 Our worser thoughts heaven mend ! Alexas ,come , his fortune , his fortune . O ! let him marry a woman that cannot go , sweet Isis , I beseech thee ; and let her die too , and give him a worse ; and let worse follow worse , till the worst of all follow him laughing to his grave , fifty-fold a cuckold ! Good Isis , hear me this prayer , though thou deny me a matter of more weight ; good Isis , I beseech thee !
89566
89567 Amen . Dear goddess , hear that prayer of the people ! for , as it is a heart-breaking to see a handsome man loose-wived , so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul knave uncuckolded : therefore , dear Isis , keep decorum , and fortune him accordingly !
89568
89569 Amen .
89570
89571 Lo , now ! if it lay in their hands to make me acuckold , they would make themselves whores , but they'd do't !
89572
89573 Hush ! here comes Antony .
89574
89575 Not he ; the queen .
89576
89577
89578 Saw you my lord ?
89579
89580 No , lady .
89581
89582 Was he not here ?
89583
89584 No , madam .
89585
89586 He was dispos'd to mirth ; but on the sudden
89587 A Roman thought hath struck him . Enobarbus !
89588
89589 Madam !
89590
89591 Seek him , and bring him hither . Where's Alexas ?
89592
89593 Here , at your service . My lord approaches .
89594
89595
89596 We will not look upon him ; go with us .
89597
89598
89599 Fulvia thy wife first came into the field .
89600
89601 Against my brother Lucius ?
89602
89603 Ay :
89604 But soon that war had end , and the time's state
89605 Made friends of them , jointing their force 'gainst C sar ,
89606 Whose better issue in the war , from Italy
89607 Upon the first encounter drave them .
89608
89609 Well , what worst ?
89610
89611 The nature of bad news infects the teller .
89612
89613 When it concerns the fool , or coward . On ;
89614 Things that are past are done with me . 'Tis thus :
89615 Who tells me true , though in his tale lay death ,
89616 I hear him as he flatter'd .
89617
89618 Labienus
89619 This is stiff news hath , with his Parthian force
89620 Extended Asia ; from Euphrates
89621 His conquering banner shook from Syria
89622 To Lydia and to Ionia : whilst
89623
89624 Antony , thou wouldst say ,
89625
89626 O ! my lord .
89627
89628 Speak to me home , mince not the general tongue ;
89629 Name Cleopatra as she is call'd in Rome ;
89630 Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase ; and taunt my faults
89631 With such full licence as both truth and malice
89632 Have power to utter . O ! then we bring forth weeds
89633 When our quick winds lie still ; and our ills told us
89634 Is as our earing . Fare thee well awhile .
89635
89636 At your noble pleasure .
89637
89638
89639 From Sicyon , ho , the news ! Speak there !
89640
89641 The man from Sicyon , is there such an one ?
89642
89643 He stays upon your will .
89644
89645 Let him appear .
89646 These strong Egyptian fetters I must break ,
89647 Or lose myself in dotage .
89648
89649 What are you ?
89650
89651 Fulvia thy wife is dead .
89652
89653 Where died she ?
89654
89655 In Sicyon :
89656 Her length of sickness , with what else more serious
89657 Importeth thee to know , this bears .
89658
89659
89660 Forbear me .
89661
89662 There's a great spirit gone ! Thus did I desire it :
89663 What our contempts do often hurl from us
89664 We wish it ours again ; the present pleasure ,
89665 By revolution lowering , does become
89666 The opposite of itself : she's good , being gone ;
89667 The hand could pluck her back that shov'd her on .
89668 I must from this enchanting queen break off ;
89669 Ten thousand harms , more than the ills I know ,
89670 My idleness doth hatch . How now ! Enobarbus !
89671
89672
89673 What's your pleasure , sir ?
89674
89675 I must with haste from hence .
89676
89677 Why , then , we kill all our women . We see how mortal an unkindness is to them ; if they suffer our departure , death's the word .
89678
89679 I must be gone .
89680
89681 Under a compelling occasion let women die ; it were pity to cast them away for nothing ; though between them and a great cause they should be esteemed nothing . Cleopatra , catching but the least noise of this , dies instantly ; I have seen her die twenty times upon far poorer moment . I do think there is mettle in death which commits some loving act upon her , she hath such a celerity in dying .
89682
89683 She is cunning past man's thought .
89684
89685 Alack ! sir , no ; her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love . We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears ; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report : this cannot be cunning in her ; if it be , she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove .
89686
89687 Would I had never seen her !
89688
89689 O , sir ! you had then left unseen a wonderful piece of work which not to have been blessed withal would have discredited your travel .
89690
89691 Fulvia is dead .
89692
89693 Sir ?
89694
89695 Fulvia is dead .
89696
89697 Fulvia !
89698
89699 Dead .
89700
89701 Why , sir , give the gods a thankful sacrifice . When it pleaseth their de ties to take the wife of a man from him , it shows to man the tailors of the earth ; comforting therein , that when old robes are worn out , there are members to make new . If there were no more women but Fulvia , then had you indeed a cut , and the case to be lamented : this grief is crowned with consolation ; your old smock brings forth a new petticoat ; and indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow .
89702
89703 The business she hath broached in the state
89704 Cannot endure my absence .
89705
89706 And the business you have broached here cannot be without you ; especially that of Cleopatra's , which wholly depends on your abode .
89707
89708 No more light answers . Let our officers Have notice what we purpose . I shall break
89709 The cause of our expedience to the queen ,
89710 And get her leave to part . For not alone
89711 The death of Fulvia , with more urgent touches ,
89712 Do strongly speak to us , but the letters too
89713 Of many our contriving friends in Rome
89714 Petition us at home . Sextus Pompeius
89715 Hath given the dare to C sar , and commands
89716 The empire of the sea ; our slippery people
89717 Whose love is never link'd to the deserver
89718 Till his deserts are past begin to throw
89719 Pompey the Great and all his dignities
89720 Upon his son ; who , high in name and power ,
89721 Higher than both in blood and life , stands up
89722 For the main soldier , whose quality , going on ,
89723 The sides o' the world may danger . Much is breeding ,
89724 Which , like the courser's hair , hath yet but life ,
89725 And not a serpent's poison . Say , our pleasure ,
89726 To such whose place is under us , requires
89727 Our quick remove from hence .
89728
89729 I shall do it .
89730
89731
89732 Where is he ?
89733
89734 I did not see him since .
89735
89736 See where he is , who's with him , what he does ;
89737 I did not send you : if you find him sad ,
89738 Say I am dancing ; if in mirth , report
89739 That I am sudden sick : quick , and return .
89740
89741
89742 Madam , methinks , if you did love him dearly ,
89743 You do not hold the method to enforce
89744 The like from him .
89745
89746 What should I do I do not ?
89747
89748 In each thing give him way , cross him in nothing .
89749
89750 Thou teachest like a fool ; the way to lose him .
89751
89752 Tempt him not so too far ; I wish , forbear :
89753 In time we hate that which we often fear .
89754 But here comes Antony .
89755
89756
89757 I am sick and sullen .
89758
89759 I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose ,
89760
89761 Help me away , dear Charmian , I shall fall :
89762 It cannot be thus long , the sides of nature
89763 Will not sustain it .
89764
89765 Now , my dearest queen ,
89766
89767 Pray you , stand further from me .
89768
89769 What's the matter ?
89770
89771 I know , by that same eye , there's some good news .
89772 What says the married woman ? You may go :
89773 Would she had never given you leave to come !
89774 Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here ;
89775 I have no power upon you ; hers you are .
89776
89777 The gods best know ,
89778
89779 O ! never was there queen
89780 So mightily betray'd ; yet at the first
89781 I saw the treasons planted .
89782
89783 Cleopatra ,
89784
89785 Why should I think you can be mine and true ,
89786 Though you in swearing shake the throned gods ,
89787 Who have been false to Fulvia ? Riotous madness ,
89788 To be entangled with those mouth-made vows ,
89789 Which break themselves in swearing !
89790
89791 Most sweet queen ,
89792
89793 Nay , pray you , seek no colour for your going ,
89794 But bid farewell , and go : when you su'd staying
89795 Then was the time for words ; no going then :
89796 Eternity was in our lips and eyes ,
89797 Bliss in our brows bent ; none our parts so poor
89798 But was a race of heaven ; they are so still ,
89799 Or thou , the greatest soldier of the world ,
89800 Art turn'd the greatest liar .
89801
89802 How now , lady !
89803
89804 I would I had thy inches ; thou shouldst know
89805 There were a heart in Egypt .
89806
89807 Hear me , queen :
89808 The strong necessity of time commands
89809 Our services awhile , but my full heart
89810 Remains in use with you . Our Italy
89811 Shines o'er with civil swords ; Sextus Pompeius
89812 Makes his approaches to the port of Rome ;
89813 Equality of two domestic powers
89814 Breeds scrupulous faction . The hated , grown to strength ,
89815 Are newly grown to love ; the condemn'd Pompey ,
89816 Rich in his father's honour , creeps apace
89817 Into the hearts of such as have not thriv'd
89818 Upon the present state , whose numbers threaten ;
89819 And quietness , grown aick of rest , would purge
89820 By any desperate change . My more particular ,
89821 And that which most with you should safe my going ,
89822 Is Fulvia's death .
89823
89824 Though age from folly could not give me freedom ,
89825 It does from childishness : can Fulvia die ?
89826
89827 She's dead , my queen :
89828 Look here , and at thy sovereign leisure read
89829 The garboils she awak'd ; at the last , best ,
89830 See when and where she died .
89831
89832 O most false love !
89833 Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill
89834 With sorrowful water ? Now I see , I see ,
89835 In Fulvia's death , how mine receiv'd shall be .
89836
89837 Quarrel no more , but be prepar'd to know
89838 The purposes I bear , which are or cease
89839 As you shall give the advice . By the fire
89840 That quickens Nilus' slime , I go from hence
89841 Thy soldier , servant , making peace or war
89842 As thou affect'st .
89843
89844 Cut my lace , Charmian , come ;
89845 But let it be : I am quickly ill , and well ;
89846 So Antony loves .
89847
89848 My precious queen , forbear ,
89849 And give true evidence to his love which stands
89850 An honourable trial .
89851
89852 So Fulvia told me .
89853 I prithee , turn aside and weep for her ;
89854 Then bid adieu to me , and say the tears
89855 Belong to Egypt : good now , play one scene
89856 Of excellent dissembling , and let it look
89857 Like perfect honour .
89858
89859 You'll heat my blood ; no more .
89860
89861 You can do better yet , but this is meetly .
89862
89863 Now , by my sword ,
89864
89865 And target . Still he mends ;
89866 But this is not the best . Look , prithee , Charmian ,
89867 How this Herculean Roman does become
89868 The carriage of his chafe .
89869
89870 I'll leave you , lady .
89871
89872 Courteous lord , one word .
89873 Sir , you and I must part , but that 's not it :
89874 Sir , you and I have lov'd , but there 's not it ;
89875 That you know well : something it is I would ,
89876 O ! my oblivion is a very Antony ,
89877 And I am all forgotten .
89878
89879 But that your royalty
89880 Holds idleness your subject , I should take you
89881 For idleness itself .
89882
89883 'Tis sweating labour
89884 To bear such idleness so near the heart
89885 As Cleopatra this . But , sir , forgive me ;
89886 Since my becomings kill me when they do not
89887 Eye well to you : your honour calls you hence ;
89888 Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly ,
89889 And all the gods go with you ! Upon your sword
89890 Sit laurel victory ! and smooth success
89891 Be strew'd before your feet !
89892
89893 Let us go . Come ;
89894 Our separation so abides and flies ,
89895 That thou , residing here , go'st yet with me ,
89896 And I , hence fleeting , here remain with thee .
89897 Away !
89898
89899
89900 You may see , Lepidus , and henceforth know ,
89901 It is not C sar's natural vice to hate
89902 Our great competitor . From Alexandria
89903 This is the news : he fishes , drinks , and wastes
89904 The lamps of night in revel ; is not more manlike
89905 Than Cleopatra , nor the queen of Ptolemy
89906 More womanly than he ; hardly gave audience , or
89907 Vouchsaf'd to think he had partners : you shall find there
89908 A man who is the abstract of all faults
89909 That all men follow .
89910
89911 I must not think there are
89912 Evils enow to darken all his goodness ;
89913 His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven ,
89914 More fiery by night's blackness ; hereditary
89915 Rather than purchas'd ; what he cannot change
89916 Than what he chooses .
89917
89918 You are too indulgent . Let us grant it is not
89919 Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy ,
89920 To give a kingdom for a mirth , to sit
89921 And keep the turn of tippling with a slave ,
89922 To reel the streets at noon , and stand the buffet
89923 With knaves that smell of sweat ; say this becomes him ,
89924 As his composure must be rare indeed
89925 Whom these things cannot blemish ,yet must Antony
89926 No way excuse his soils , when we do bear
89927 So great weight in his lightness . If he fill'd
89928 His vacancy with his voluptuousness ,
89929 Full surfeits and the dryness of his bones
89930 Call on him for 't ; but to confound such time
89931 That drums him from his sport , and speaks as loud
89932 As his own state and ours , 'tis to be chid
89933 As we rate boys , who , being mature in knowledge ,
89934 Pawn their experience to their present pleasure ,
89935 And so rebel to judgment .
89936
89937
89938 Here's more news .
89939
89940 Thy biddings have been done , and every hour ,
89941 Most noble C sar , shalt thou have report
89942 How 'tis abroad . Pompey is strong at sea ,
89943 And it appears he is belov'd of those
89944 That only have fear'd C sar ; to the ports
89945 The discontents repair , and men's reports
89946 Give him much wrong'd .
89947
89948 I should have known no less .
89949 It hath been taught us from the primal state ,
89950 That he which is was wish'd until he were ;
89951 And the ebb'd man , ne'er lov'd till ne'er worth love ,
89952 Comes dear'd by being lack'd . This common body ,
89953 Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream ,
89954 Goes to and back , lackeying the varying tide ,
89955 To rot itself with motion .
89956
89957 C sar , I bring thee word ,
89958 Menecrates and Menas , famous pirates ,
89959 Make the sea serve them , which they ear and wound
89960 With keels of every kind : many hot inroads
89961 They make in Italy ; the borders maritime
89962 Lack blood to think on't , and flush youth revolt ;
89963 No vessel can peep forth , but 'tis as soon
89964 Taken as seen ; for Pompey's name strikes more
89965 Than could his war resisted .
89966
89967 Antony ,
89968 Leave thy lascivious wassails . When thou once
89969 Wast beaten from Modena , where thou slew'st
89970 Hirtius and Pansa , consuls , at thy heel
89971 Did famine follow , whom thou fought'st against ,
89972 Though daintily brought up , with patience more
89973 Than savages could suffer ; thou didst drink
89974 The stale of horses and the gilded puddle
89975 Which beasts would cough at ; thy palate then did deign
89976 The roughest berry on the rudest hedge ;
89977 Yea , like the stag , when snow the pasture sheets ,
89978 The barks of trees thou browsed'st ; on the Alps
89979 It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh ,
89980 Which some did die to look on ; and all this
89981 It wounds thy honour that I speak it now
89982 Was borne so like a soldier , that thy cheek
89983 So much as lank'd not .
89984
89985 'Tis pity of him .
89986
89987 Let his shames quickly
89988 Drive him to Rome . 'Tis time we twain
89989 Did show ourselves i' the field ; and to that end
89990 Assemble me immediate council ; Pompey
89991 Thrives in our idleness .
89992
89993 To-morrow , C sar ,
89994 I shall be furnish'd to inform you rightly
89995 Both what by sea and land I can be able
89996 To front this present time .
89997
89998 Till which encounter ,
89999 It is my business too . Farewell .
90000
90001 Farewell , my lord . What you shall know meantime
90002 Of stirs abroad , I shall beseech you , sir ,
90003 To let me be partaker .
90004
90005 Doubt not , sir ;
90006 I knew it for my bond .
90007
90008
90009 Charmian !
90010
90011 Madam !
90012
90013 Ha , ha !
90014 Give me to drink mandragora .
90015
90016 Why , madam ?
90017
90018 That I might sleep out this great gap of time
90019 My Antony is away .
90020
90021 You think of him too much .
90022
90023 O ! 'tis treason .
90024
90025 Madam , I trust , not so .
90026
90027 Thou , eunuch Mardian !
90028
90029 What 's your highness' pleasure ?
90030
90031 Not now to hear thee sing ; I take no pleasure
90032 In aught a eunuch has . 'Tis well for thee ,
90033 That , being unseminar'd , thy freer thoughts
90034 May not fly forth of Egypt . Hast thou affections ?
90035
90036 Yes , gracious madam .
90037
90038 Indeed !
90039
90040 Not in deed , madam ; for I can do nothing
90041 But what in deed is honest to be done ;
90042 Yet have I fierce affections , and think
90043 What Venus did with Mars .
90044
90045 O Charmian !
90046 Where think'st thou he is now ? Stands he , or sits he ?
90047 Or does he walk ? or is he on his horse ?
90048 O happy horse , to bear the weight of Antony !
90049 Do bravely , horse , for wot'st thou whom thou mov'st ?
90050 The demi-Atlas of this earth , the arm
90051 And burgonet of men . He's speaking now ,
90052 Or murmuring 'Where's my serpent of old Nile ?'
90053 For so he calls me . Now I feed myself
90054 With most delicious poison . Think on me ,
90055 That am with Ph bus' amorous pinches black ,
90056 And wrinkled deep in time ? Broad-fronted C sar ,
90057 When thou wast here above the ground I was
90058 A morsel for a monarch , and great Pompey
90059 Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow ;
90060 There would he anchor his aspect and die
90061 With looking on his life .
90062
90063
90064 Sovereign of Egypt , hail !
90065
90066 How much unlike art thou Mark Antony !
90067 Yet , coming from him , that great medicine hath
90068 With his tinct gilded thee .
90069 How goes it with my brave Mark Antony ?
90070
90071 Last thing he did , dear queen ,
90072 He kiss'd , the last of many doubled kisses ,
90073 This orient pearl . His speech sticks in my heart .
90074
90075 Mine ear must pluck it thence .
90076
90077 'Good friend ,' quoth he ,
90078 'Say , the firm Roman to great Egypt sends
90079 This treasure of an oyster ; at whose foot ,
90080 To mend the petty present , I will piece
90081 Her opulent throne with kingdoms ; all the east ,
90082 Say thou , shall call her mistress .' So he nodded ,
90083 And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed ,
90084 Who neigh'd so high that what I would have spoke
90085 Was beastly dumb'd by him .
90086
90087 What ! was he sad or merry ?
90088
90089 Like to the time o' the year between the extremes
90090 Of hot and cold ; he was nor sad nor merry .
90091
90092 O well-divided disposition ! Note him ,
90093 Note him , good Charmian , 'tis the man ; but note him :
90094 He was not sad , for he would shire on those
90095 That make their looks by his ; he was not merry ,
90096 Which seem'd to tell them his remembrance lay
90097 In Egypt with his joy ; but between both :
90098 O heavenly mingle ! Be'st thou sad or merry ,
90099 The violence of either thee becomes ,
90100 So does it no man else . Mett'st thou my posts ?
90101
90102 Ay , madam , twenty several messengers .
90103 Why do you send so thick ?
90104
90105 Who's born that day
90106 When I forget to send to Antony ,
90107 Shall die a beggar . Ink and paper , Charmian .
90108 Welcome , my good Alexas . Did I , Charmian ,
90109 Ever love C sar so ?
90110
90111 O ! that brave C sar .
90112
90113 Be chok'd with such another emphasis !
90114 Say the brave Antony .
90115
90116 The valiant C sar !
90117
90118 By Isis , I will give thee bloody teeth ,
90119 If thou with C sar paragon again
90120 My man of men .
90121
90122 By your most gracious pardon ,
90123 I sing but after you .
90124
90125 My salad days ,
90126 When I was green in judgment , cold in blood ,
90127 To say as I said then ! But come , away ;
90128 Get me ink and paper :
90129 He shall have every day a several greeting ,
90130 Or I'll unpeople Egypt .
90131
90132 If the great gods be just , they shall assist
90133 The deeds of justest men .
90134
90135 Know , worthy Pompey ,
90136 That what they do delay , they not deny .
90137
90138 Whiles we are suitors to their throne , decays
90139 The thing we sue for .
90140
90141 We , ignorant of ourselves ,
90142 Beg often our own harms , which the wise powers
90143 Deny us for our good ; so find we profit
90144 By losing of our prayers .
90145
90146 I shall do well :
90147 The people love me , and the sea is mine ;
90148 My powers are crescent , and my auguring hope
90149 Says it will come to the full . Mark Antony
90150 In Egypt sits at dinner , and will make
90151 No wars without doors ; C sar gets money where
90152 He loses hearts ; Lepidus flatters both ,
90153 Of both is flatter'd ; but he neither loves ,
90154 Nor either cares for him .
90155
90156 C sar and Lepidus
90157 Are in the field ; a mighty strength they carry .
90158
90159 Where have you this ? 'tis false .
90160
90161 From Silvius , sir .
90162
90163 He dreams ; I know they are in Rome together ,
90164 Looking for Antony . But all the charms of love ,
90165 Salt Cleopatra , soften thy wan'd lip !
90166 Let witchcraft join with beauty , lust with both !
90167 Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts ,
90168 Keep his brain fuming ; Epicurean cooks
90169 Sharpen with cloyless sance his appetite ,
90170 That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour
90171 Even till a Lethe'd dulness !
90172
90173 How now , Varrius !
90174
90175 This is most certain that I shall deliver :
90176 Mark Antony is every hour in Rome
90177 Expected ; since he went from Egypt 'tis
90178 A space for further travel .
90179
90180 I could have given less matter
90181 A better ear . Menas , I did not think
90182 This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm
90183 For such a petty war ; his soldiership
90184 Is twice the other twain . But let us rear
90185 The higher our opinion , that our stirring
90186 Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck
90187 The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony .
90188
90189 I cannot hope
90190 C sar and Antony shall well greet together ;
90191 His wife that's dead did trespasses to C sar ,
90192 His brother warr'd upon him , although I think
90193 Not mov'd by Antony .
90194
90195 I know not , Menas ,
90196 How lesser enmities may give way to greater .
90197 Were 't not that we stand up against them all
90198 'Twere pregnant they should square between themselves ,
90199 For they have entertained cause enough
90200 To draw their swords ; but how the fear of us
90201 May cement their divisions and bind up
90202 The petty difference , we yet not know .
90203 Be it as our gods will have 't ! It only stands
90204 Our lives upon , to use our strongest hands .
90205 Come , Menas .
90206
90207
90208 Good Enobarbus , 'tis a worthy deed ,
90209 And shall become you well , to entreat your captain
90210 To soft and gentle speech .
90211
90212 I shall entreat him
90213 To answer like himself : if C sar move him ,
90214 Let Antony look over C sar's head ,
90215 And speak as loud as Mars . By Jupiter ,
90216 Were I the wearer of Antonius' beard ,
90217 I would not shave 't to-day .
90218
90219 'Tis not a time
90220 For private stomaching .
90221
90222 Every time
90223 Serves for the matter that is then born in 't .
90224
90225 But small to greater matters must give way .
90226
90227 Not if the small come first .
90228
90229 Your speech is passion ;
90230 But , pray you , stir no embers up . Here comes
90231 The noble Antony .
90232
90233
90234 And yonder , C sar .
90235
90236
90237 If we compose well here , to Parthia :
90238 Hark ye , Ventidius .
90239
90240 I do not know ,
90241 Mec nas ; ask Agrippa .
90242
90243 Noble friends ,
90244 That which combin'd us was most great , and let not
90245 A leaner action rend us . What's amiss ,
90246 May it be gently heard ; when we debate
90247 Our trivial difference loud , we do commit
90248 Murder in healing wounds ; then , noble partners ,
90249 The rather for I earnestly beseech ,
90250 Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms ,
90251 Nor curstness grow to the matter .
90252
90253 'Tis spoken well .
90254 Were we before our armies , and to fight ,
90255 I should do thus .
90256
90257 Welcome to Rome .
90258
90259 Thank you .
90260
90261 Sit .
90262
90263 Sit , sir .
90264
90265 Nay , then .
90266
90267 I learn , you take things ill which are not so ,
90268 Or being , concern you not .
90269
90270 I must be laugh'd at
90271 If , or for nothing or a little , I
90272 Should say myself offended , and with you
90273 Chiefly i' the world ; more laugh'd at that I should
90274 Once name you derogately , when to sound your name
90275 It not concern'd me .
90276
90277 My being in Egypt , C sar ,
90278 What was 't to you ?
90279
90280 No more than my residing here at Rome
90281 Might be to you in Egypt ; yet , if you there
90282 Did practise on my state , your being in Egypt
90283 Might be my question .
90284
90285 How intend you , practis'd ?
90286
90287 You may be pleas'd to catch at mine intent
90288 By what did here befall me . Your wife and brother
90289 Made wars upon me , and their contestation
90290 Was theme for you , you were the word of war .
90291
90292 You do mistake your business ; my brother never
90293 Did urge me in his act : I did inquire it ;
90294 And have my learning from some true reports ,
90295 That drew their swords with you . Did he not rather
90296 Discredit my authority with yours ,
90297 And make the wars alike against my stomach ,
90298 Having alike your cause ? Of this my letters
90299 Before did satisfy you . If you'll patch a quarrel ,
90300 As matter whole you n' have to make it with ,
90301 It must not be with this .
90302
90303 You praise yourself
90304 By laying defects of judgment to me , but
90305 You patch'd up your excuses .
90306
90307 Not so , not so ;
90308 I know you could not lack , I am certain on 't ,
90309 Very necessity of this thought , that I ,
90310 Your partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought ,
90311 Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars
90312 Which fronted mine own peace . As for my wife ,
90313 I would you had her spirit in such another :
90314 The third o' the world is yours , which with a snaffle
90315 You may pace easy , but not such a wife .
90316
90317 Would we had all such wives , that the men might go to wars with the women !
90318
90319 So much uncurbable , her garboils , C sar ,
90320 Made out of her impatience ,which not wanted
90321 Shrewdness of policy too ,I grieving grant
90322 Did you too much disquiet ; for that you must
90323 But say I could not help it .
90324
90325 I wrote to you
90326 When rioting in Alexandria ; you
90327 Did pocket up my letters , and with taunts
90328 Did gibe my missive out of audience .
90329
90330 Sir ,
90331 He fell upon me , ere admitted : then
90332 Three kings I had newly feasted , and did want
90333 Of what I was i' the morning ; but next day
90334 I told him of myself , which was as much
90335 As to have ask'd him pardon . Let this fellow
90336 Be nothing of our strife ; if we contend ,
90337 Out of our question wipe him .
90338
90339 You have broken
90340 The article of your oath , which you shall never
90341 Have tongue to charge me with .
90342
90343 Soft , C sar !
90344
90345 No ,
90346 Lepidus , let him speak :
90347 The honour's sacred which he talks on now ,
90348 Supposing that I lack'd it . But on , C sar ;
90349 The article of my oath .
90350
90351 To lend me arms and aid when I requir'd them ,
90352 The which you both denied .
90353
90354 Neglected , rather ;
90355 And then , when poison'd hours had bound me up
90356 From mine own knowledge . As nearly as I may ,
90357 I'll play the penitent to you ; but mine honesty
90358 Shall not make poor my greatness , nor my power
90359 Work without it . Truth is , that Fulvia ,
90360 To have me out of Egypt , made wars here ;
90361 For which myself , the ignorant motive , do
90362 So far ask pardon as befits mine honour
90363 To stoop in such a case .
90364
90365 'Tis noble spoken .
90366
90367 If it might please you , to enforce no further
90368 The griefs between ye : to forget them quite
90369 Were to remember that the present need
90370 Speaks to atone you .
90371
90372 Worthily spoken , Mec nas .
90373
90374 Or , if you borrow one another's love for the instant , you may , when you hear no more words of Pompey , return it again : you shall have time to wrangle in when you have nothing else to do .
90375
90376 Thou art a soldier only ; speak no more .
90377
90378 That truth should be silent I had almost forgot .
90379
90380 You wrong this presence ; therefore speak no more .
90381
90382 Go to , then ; your considerate stone .
90383
90384 I do not much dislike the matter , but
90385 The manner of his speech ; for it cannot be
90386 We shall remain in friendship , our conditions
90387 So differing in their acts . Yet , if I knew
90388 What hoop should hold us stanch , from edge to edge
90389 O' the world I would pursue it .
90390
90391 Give me leave , C sar .
90392
90393 Speak , Agrippa .
90394
90395 Thou hast a sister by the mother's side ,
90396 Admir'd Octavia ; great Mark Antony
90397 Is now a widower .
90398
90399 Say not so , Agrippa :
90400 If Cleopatra heard you , your reproof
90401 Were well deserv'd of rashness .
90402
90403 I am not married , C sar ; let me hear
90404 Agrippa further speak .
90405
90406 To hold you in perpetual amity ,
90407 To make you brothers , and to knit your hearts
90408 With an unslipping knot , take Antony
90409 Octavia to his wife ; whose beauty claims
90410 No worse a husband than the best of men ,
90411 Whose virtue and whose general graces speak
90412 That which none else can utter . By this marriage ,
90413 All little jealousies which now seem great ,
90414 And all great fears which now import their dangers ,
90415 Would then be nothing ; truths would be but tales
90416 Where now half tales be truths ; her love to both
90417 Would each to other and all loves to both
90418 Draw after her . Pardon what I have spoke ,
90419 For 'tis a studied , not a present thought ,
90420 By duty ruminated .
90421
90422 Will C sar speak ?
90423
90424 Not till he hears how Antony is touch'd
90425 With what is spoke already .
90426
90427 What power is in Agrippa ,
90428 If I would say , 'Agrippa , be it so ,'
90429 To make this good ?
90430
90431 The power of C sar , and
90432 His power unto Octavia .
90433
90434 May I never
90435 To this good purpose , that so fairly shows ,
90436 Dream of impediment ! Let me have thy hand ;
90437 Further this act of grace , and from this hour
90438 The heart of brothers govern in our loves
90439 And sway our great designs !
90440
90441 There is my hand .
90442 A sister I bequeath you , whom no brother
90443 Did ever love so dearly ; let her live
90444 To join our kingdoms and our hearts , and never
90445 Fly off our loves again !
90446
90447 Happily , amen !
90448
90449 I did not think to draw my sword 'gainst Pompey ,
90450 For he hath laid strange courtesies and great
90451 Of late upon me ; I must thank him only ,
90452 Lest my remembrance suffer ill report ;
90453 At heel of that , defy him .
90454
90455 Time calls upon 's :
90456 Of us must Pompey presently be sought ,
90457 Or else he seeks out us .
90458
90459 Where lies he ?
90460
90461 About the Mount Misenum .
90462
90463 What's his strength
90464 By land ?
90465
90466 Great and increasing ; but by sea
90467 He is an absolute master .
90468
90469 So is the fame .
90470 Would we had spoke together ! Haste we for it ;
90471 Yet , ere we put ourselves in arms , dispatch we
90472 The business we have talk'd of .
90473
90474 With most gladness ;
90475 And do invite you to my sister's view ,
90476 Whither straight I'll lead you .
90477
90478 Let us , Lepidus ,
90479 Not lack your company .
90480
90481 Noble Antony ,
90482 Not sickness should detain me .
90483
90484
90485 Welcome from Egypt , sir .
90486
90487 Half the heart of C sar , worthy Mec nas ! My honourable friend , Agrippa !
90488
90489 Good Enobarbus !
90490
90491 We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested . You stayed well by 't in
90492 Egypt .
90493
90494 Ay , sir ; we did sleep day out of countenance , and made the night light with drinking .
90495
90496 Eight wild boars roasted whole at a breakfast , and but twelve persons there ; is this true ?
90497
90498 This was but as a fly by an eagle ; we had much more monstrous matter of feast , which worthily deserved noting .
90499
90500 She's a most triumphant lady , if report be square to her .
90501
90502 When she first met Mark Antony she pursed up his heart , upon the river of Cydnus .
90503
90504 There she appeared indeed , or my reporter devised well for her .
90505
90506 I will tell you .
90507 The barge she sat in , like a burnish'd throne ,
90508 Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold ,
90509 Purple the sails , and so perfumed , that
90510 The winds were love-sick with them , the oars were silver ,
90511 Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke , and made
90512 The water which they beat to follow faster ,
90513 As amorous of their strokes . For her own person ,
90514 It beggar'd all description ; she did lie
90515 In her pavilion ,cloth-of-gold of tissue ,
90516 O'er-picturing that Venus where we see
90517 The fancy outwork nature ; on each side her
90518 Stood pretty-dimpled boys , like smiling Cupids ,
90519 With divers-colour'd fans , whose wind did seem
90520 To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool ,
90521 And what they undid did .
90522
90523 O ! rare for Antony .
90524
90525 Her gentlewomen , like the Nereides ,
90526 So many mermaids , tended her i' the eyes ,
90527 And made their bends adornings ; at the helm
90528 A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle
90529 Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands ,
90530 That yarely frame the office . From the barge
90531 A strange invisible perfume hits the sense
90532 Of the adjacent wharfs . The city cast
90533 Her people out upon her , and Antony ,
90534 Enthron'd i' the market-place , did sit alone ,
90535 Whistling to the air ; which , but for vacancy ,
90536 Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too
90537 And made a gap in nature .
90538
90539 Rare Egyptian !
90540
90541 Upon her landing , Antony sent to her ,
90542 Invited her to supper ; she replied
90543 It should be better he became her guest ,
90544 Which she entreated . Our courteous Antony ,
90545 Whom ne'er the word of 'No' woman heard speak ,
90546 Being barber'd ten times o'er , goes to the feast ,
90547 And , for his ordinary pays his heart
90548 For what his eyes eat only .
90549
90550 Royal wench !
90551 She made great C sar lay his sword to bed ;
90552 He plough'd her , and she cropp'd .
90553
90554 I saw her once
90555 Hop forty paces through the public street ;
90556 And having lost her breath , she spoke , and panted
90557 That she did make defect perfection ,
90558 And , breathless , power breathe forth .
90559
90560 Now Antony must leave her utterly .
90561
90562 Never ; he will not :
90563 Age cannot wither her , nor custom stale
90564 Her infinite variety ; other women cloy
90565 The appetites they feed , but she makes hungry
90566 Where most she satisfies ; for vilest things
90567 Become themselves in her , that the holy priests
90568 Bless her when she is riggish .
90569
90570 If beauty , wisdom , modesty , can settle
90571 The heart of Antony , Octavia is
90572 A blessed lottery to him .
90573
90574 Let us go .
90575 Good Enobarbus , make yourself my guest
90576 Whilst you abide here .
90577
90578 Humbly , sir , I thank you .
90579
90580
90581 The world and my great office will sometimes
90582 Divide me from your bosom .
90583
90584 All which time
90585 Before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers
90586 To them for you .
90587
90588 Good night , sir . My Octavia ,
90589 Read not my blemishes in the world's report ;
90590 I have not kept my square , but that to come
90591 Shall all be done by the rule . Good night , dear lady .
90592
90593 Good night , sir .
90594
90595 Good night .
90596
90597 Now , sirrah ; you do wish yourself in Egypt ?
90598
90599 Would I had never come from thence , nor you
90600 Thither !
90601
90602 If you can , your reason ?
90603
90604 I see it in
90605 My motion , have it not in my tongue : but yet
90606 Hie you to Egypt again .
90607
90608 Say to me ,
90609 Whose fortunes shall rise higher , C sar's or mine ?
90610
90611 C sar's .
90612 Therefore , O Antony ! stay not by his side ;
90613 Thy demon that's thy spirit which keeps thee ,is
90614 Noble , courageous , high , unmatchable ,
90615 Where C sar's is not ; but near him thy angel
90616 Becomes a fear , as being o'erpower'd ; therefore
90617 Make space enough between you .
90618
90619 Speak this no more .
90620
90621 To none but thee ; no more but when to thee .
90622 If thou dost play with him at any game
90623 Thou art sure to lose , and , of that natural luck ,
90624 He beats thee 'gainst the odds ; thy lustre thickens
90625 When he shines by . I say again , thy spirit
90626 Is all afraid to govern thee near him ,
90627 But he away , 'tis noble .
90628
90629 Get thee gone :
90630 Say to Ventidius I would speak with him .
90631
90632 He shall to Parthia . Be it art or hap
90633 He hath spoken true ; the very dice obey him .
90634 And in our sports my better cunning faints
90635 Under his chance ; if we draw lots he speeds ,
90636 His cocks do win the battle still of mine
90637 When it is all to nought , and his quails ever
90638 Beat mine , inhoop'd , at odds . I will to Egypt ;
90639 And though I make this marriage for my peace ,
90640 I' the east my pleasure lies .
90641
90642
90643 O ! come , Ventidius ,
90644 You must to Parthia ; your commission's ready ;
90645 Follow me , and receive 't .
90646
90647 Trouble yourselves no further ; pray you hasten
90648 Your generals after .
90649
90650 Sir , Mark Antony
90651 Will e'en but kiss Octavia , and we'll follow .
90652
90653 Till I shall see you in your soldier's dress ,
90654 Which will become you both , farewell .
90655
90656 We shall ,
90657 As I conceive the journey , be at the Mount
90658 Before you , Lepidus .
90659
90660 Your way is shorter ;
90661 My purposes to draw me much about :
90662 You 'll win two days upon me .
90663
90664 Sir , good success !
90665
90666 Sir , good success !
90667
90668 Farewell .
90669
90670
90671 Give me some music ; music , moody food
90672 Of us that trade in love .
90673
90674 The music , ho !
90675
90676
90677 Let it alone ; let 's to billiards : come , Charmian .
90678
90679 My arm is sore ; best play with Mardian .
90680
90681 As well a woman with a eunuch play'd
90682 As with a woman . Come , you 'll play with me , sir ?
90683
90684 As well as I can , madam .
90685
90686 And when good will is show'd , though't come too short ,
90687 The actor may plead pardon . I 'll none now .
90688 Give me mine angle ; we'll to the river : there
90689 My music playing far off I will betray
90690 Tawny-finn'd fishes ; my bended hook shall pierce
90691 Their slimy jaws ; and , as I draw them up ,
90692 I'll think them every one an Antony ,
90693 And say , 'Ah , ha !' you're caught .
90694
90695 'Twas merry when
90696 You wager'd on your angling ; when your diver
90697 Did hang a salt-fish on his hook , which he
90698 With fervency drew up .
90699
90700 That time O times !
90701 I laugh'd him out of patience ; and that night
90702 I laugh'd him into patience : and next morn ,
90703 Ere the ninth hour , I drunk him to his bed ;
90704 Then put my tires and mantles on him , whilst
90705 I wore his sword Philippan .
90706
90707
90708 O ! from Italy ;
90709 Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears ,
90710
90711 That long time have been barren .
90712
90713 Madam , madam ,
90714
90715 Antony's dead ! if thou say so , villain ,
90716 Thou kill'st thy mistress ; but well and free ,
90717 If thou so yield him , there is gold , and here
90718 My bluest veins to kiss ; a hand that kings
90719 Have lipp'd , and trembled kissing .
90720
90721 First , madam , he is well .
90722
90723 Why , there's more gold .
90724 But , sirrah , mark , we use
90725 To say the dead are well : bring it to that ,
90726 The gold I give thee will I melt , and pour
90727 Down thy ill-uttering throat .
90728
90729 Good madam , hear me .
90730
90731 Well , go to , I will ;
90732 But there's no goodness in thy face ; if Antony
90733 Be free and healthful , so tart a favour
90734 To trumpet such good tidings ! if not well ,
90735 Thou shouldst come like a Fury crown'd with snakes ,
90736 Not like a formal man .
90737
90738 Will't please you hear me ?
90739
90740 I have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak'st :
90741 Yet , if thou say Antony lives , is well ,
90742 Or friends with C sar , or not captive to him ,
90743 I'll set thee in a shower of gold , and hail
90744 Rich pearls upon thee .
90745
90746 Madam , he's well .
90747
90748 Well said .
90749
90750 And friends with C sar .
90751
90752 Thou'rt an honest man .
90753
90754 C sar and he are greater friends than ever .
90755
90756 Make thee a fortune from me .
90757
90758 But yet , madam ,
90759
90760 I do not like 'but yet ,' it does allay
90761 The good precedence ; fie upon 'but yet !'
90762 'But yet' is as a gaoler to bring forth
90763 Some monstrous malefactor . Prithee , friend ,
90764 Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear ,
90765 The good and bad together . He's friends with C sar ;
90766 In state of health , thou sayst ; and thou sayst , free .
90767
90768 Free , madam ! no ; I made no such report :
90769 He's bound unto Octavia .
90770
90771 For what good turn ?
90772
90773 For the best turn i' the bed .
90774
90775 I am pale , Charmian !
90776
90777 Madam , he's married to Octavia .
90778
90779 The most infectious pestilence upon thee !
90780
90781
90782 Good madam , patience .
90783
90784 What say you ? Hence ,
90785
90786 Horrible villain ! or I'll spurn thine eyes
90787 Like balls before me ; I'll unhair thy head :
90788
90789 Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire , and stew'd in brine ,
90790 Smarting in lingering pickle .
90791
90792 Gracious madam ,
90793 I , that do bring the news made not the match .
90794
90795 Say 'tis not so , a province I will give thee ,
90796 And make thy fortunes proud ; the blow thou hadst
90797 Shall make thy peace for moving me to rage ,
90798 And I will boot thee with what gift beside
90799 Thy modesty can beg .
90800
90801 He's married , madam .
90802
90803 Rogue ! thou hast liv'd too long .
90804
90805
90806 Nay , then I'll run .
90807 What mean you , madam ? I have made no fault .
90808
90809
90810 Good madam , keep yourself within yourself ;
90811 The man is innocent .
90812
90813 Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt .
90814 Melt Egypt into Nile ! and kindly creatures
90815 Turn all to serpents ! Call the slave again :
90816 Though I am mad , I will not bite him . Call .
90817
90818 He is afeard to come .
90819
90820 I will not hurt him .
90821
90822 These hands do lack nobility , that they strike
90823 A meaner than myself ; since I myself
90824 Have given myself the cause .
90825
90826
90827 Come hither , sir .
90828 Though it be honest , it is never good
90829 To bring bad news ; give to a gracious message
90830 A host of tongues , but let ill tidings tell
90831
90832 Themselves when they be felt .
90833
90834 I have done my duty .
90835
90836 Is he married ?
90837 I cannot hate thee worser than I do
90838 If thou again say 'Yes .'
90839
90840 He's married , madam .
90841
90842 The gods confound thee ! dost thou hold there still ?
90843
90844 Should I lie , madam ?
90845
90846 O ! I would thou didst ,
90847 So half my Egypt were submerg'd and made
90848 A cistern for scal'd snakes . Go , get thee hence ;
90849 Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face , to me
90850 Thou wouldst appear most ugly . He is married ?
90851
90852 I crave your highness' pardon .
90853
90854 He is married ?
90855
90856 Take no offence that I would not offend you ;
90857 To punish me for what you make me do
90858 Seems much unequal ; he's married to Octavia .
90859
90860 O ! that his fault should make a knave of thee ,
90861 That art not what thou'rt sure of . Get thee hence ;
90862 The merchandise which thou hast brought from Rome
90863 Are all too dear for me ; lie they upon thy hand
90864 And be undone by 'em !
90865
90866
90867 Good your highness , patience .
90868
90869 In praising Antony I have disprais'd C sar .
90870
90871 Many times , madam .
90872
90873 I am paid for 't now .
90874 Lead me from hence ;
90875 I faint . O Iras ! Charmian ! 'Tis no matter .
90876 Go to the fellow , good Alexas ; bid him
90877 Report the feature of Octavia , her years ,
90878 Her inclination , let him not leave out
90879 The colour of her hair : bring me word quickly .
90880
90881 Let him forever go :let him not Charmian !
90882 Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon ,
90883 The other way's a Mars .
90884
90885 Bid you Alexas
90886 Bring me word how tall she is . Pity me , Charmian ,
90887 But do not speak to me . Lead me to my chamber .
90888
90889
90890 Your hostages I have , so have you mine ;
90891 And we shall talk before we fight .
90892
90893 Most meet
90894 That first we come to words , and therefore have we
90895 Our written purposes before us sent ;
90896 Which if thou hast consider'd , let us know
90897 If 'twill tie up thy discontented sword ,
90898 And carry back to Sicily much tall youth
90899 That else must perish here .
90900
90901 To you all three ,
90902 The senators alone of this great world ,
90903 Chief factors for the gods , I do not know
90904 Wherefore my father should revengers want ,
90905 Having a son and friends ; since Julius C sar ,
90906 Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted ,
90907 There saw you labouring for him . What was 't
90908 That mov'd pale Cassius to conspire ? and what
90909 Made the all-honour'd , honest Roman , Brutus ,
90910 With the arm'd rest , courtiers of beauteous freedom ,
90911 To drench the Capitol , but that they would
90912 Have one man but a man ? And that is it
90913 Hath made me rig my navy , at whose burden
90914 The anger'd ocean foams , with which I meant
90915 To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful Rome
90916 Cast on my noble father .
90917
90918 Take your time .
90919
90920 Thou canst not fear us , Pompey , with thy sails ;
90921 We 'll speak with thee at sea : at land , thou know'st
90922 How much we do o'er-count thee .
90923
90924 At land , indeed ,
90925 Thou dost o'er-count me of my father's house ;
90926 But , since the cuckoo builds not for himself ,
90927 Remain in 't as thou mayst .
90928
90929 Be pleas'd to tell us
90930 For this is from the present how you take
90931 The offers we have sent you .
90932
90933 There's the point .
90934
90935 Which do not be entreated to , but weigh
90936 What it is worth embrac'd .
90937
90938 And what may follow ,
90939 To try a larger fortune .
90940
90941 You have made me offer
90942 Of Sicily , Sardinia ; and I must
90943 Rid all the sea of pirates ; then , to send
90944 Measures of wheat to Rome ; this 'greed upon ,
90945 To part with unhack'd edges , and bear back
90946 Our targets undinted .
90947
90948 That's our offer .
90949
90950 That's our offer .
90951
90952 That's our offer .
90953
90954 Know , then ,
90955 I came before you here a man prepar'd
90956 To take this offer ; but Mark Antony
90957 Put me to some impatience . Though I lose
90958 The praise of it by telling , you must know ,
90959 When C sar and your brother were at blows ,
90960 Your mother came to Sicily and did find
90961 Her welcome friendly .
90962
90963 I have heard it , Pompey ;
90964 And am well studied for a liberal thanks
90965 Which I do owe you .
90966
90967 Let me have your hand :
90968 I did not think , sir , to have met you here .
90969
90970 The beds i' the east are soft ; and thanks to you ,
90971 That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither ,
90972 For I have gain'd by 't .
90973
90974 Since I saw you last ,
90975 There is a change upon you .
90976
90977 Well , I know not
90978 What counts harsh Fortune casts upon my face ,
90979 But in my bosom shall she never come
90980 To make my heart her vassal .
90981
90982 Well met here .
90983
90984 I hope so , Lepidus . Thus we are agreed .
90985 I crave our composition may be written
90986 And seal'd between us .
90987
90988 That 's the next to do .
90989
90990 We'll feast each other ere we part ; and let's
90991 Draw lots who shall begin .
90992
90993 That will I , Pompey .
90994
90995 No , Antony , take the lot :
90996 But , first or last , your fine Egyptian cookery
90997 Shall have the fame . I have heard that Julius C sar
90998 Grew fat with feasting there .
90999
91000 You have heard much .
91001
91002 I have fair meanings , sir .
91003
91004 And fair words to them .
91005
91006 Then , so much have I heard ;
91007 And I have heard Apollodorus carried
91008
91009 No more of that : he did so .
91010
91011 What , I pray you ?
91012
91013 A certain queen to C sar in a mattress .
91014
91015 I know thee now ; how far'st thou , soldier ?
91016
91017 Well ;
91018 And well am like to do ; for I perceive
91019 Four feasts are toward .
91020
91021 Let me shake thy hand ;
91022 I never hated thee . I have seen thee fight ,
91023 When I have envied thy behaviour .
91024
91025 Sir ,
91026 I never lov'd you much , but I ha' prais'd ye
91027 When you have well deserv'd ten times as much
91028 As I have said you did .
91029
91030 Enjoy thy plainness ,
91031 It nothing ill becomes thee .
91032 Aboard my galley I invite you all :
91033 Will you lead , lords ?
91034
91035 Show us the way , sir .
91036
91037 Show us the way , sir .
91038
91039 Show us the way , sir .
91040
91041 Come .
91042
91043
91044 Thy father , Pompey , would ne'er have made this treaty . You and I have known , sir .
91045
91046 At sea , I think .
91047
91048 We have , sir .
91049
91050 You have done well by water .
91051
91052 And you by land .
91053
91054 I will praise any man that will praise me ; though it cannot be denied what I have done by land .
91055
91056 Nor what I have done by water .
91057
91058 Yes , something you can deny for your own safety ; you have been a great thief by sea .
91059
91060 And you by land .
91061
91062 There I deny my land service . But give me your hand , Menas ; if our eyes had authority , here they might take two thieves kissing .
91063
91064 All men's faces are true , whatsoe'er their hands are .
91065
91066 But there is never a fair woman has a true face .
91067
91068 No slander ; they steal hearts .
91069
91070 We came hither to fight with you .
91071
91072 For my part , I am sorry it is turned to a drinking . Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune .
91073
91074 If he do , sure , he cannot weep it back again .
91075
91076 You have said , sir . We looked not for Mark Antony here : pray you , is he married to Cleopatra ?
91077
91078 C sar's sister is called Octavia .
91079
91080 True , sir ; she was the wife of Caius Marcellus .
91081
91082 But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius .
91083
91084 Pray ye , sir ?
91085
91086 'Tis true .
91087
91088 Then is C sar and he for ever knit together .
91089
91090 If I were bound to divine of this unity , I would not prophesy so .
91091
91092 I think the policy of that purpose made more in the marriage than the love of the parties .
91093
91094 I think so too ; but you shall find the band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity . Octavia is of a holy , cold , and still conversation .
91095
91096 Who would not have his wife so ?
91097
91098 Not he that himself is not so ; which is Mark Antony . He will to his Egyptian dish again ; then , shall the sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in C sar , and , as I said before , that which is the strength of their amity shall prove the immediate author of their variance . Antony will use his affection where it is ; he married but his occasion here .
91099
91100 And thus it may be . Come , sir , will you aboard ? I have a health for you .
91101
91102 I shall take it , sir : we have used our throats in Egypt .
91103
91104 Come ; let 's away .
91105
91106
91107 Here they'll be , man . Some o' their plants are ill-rooted already ; the least wind i' the world will blow them down .
91108
91109 Lepidus is high-coloured .
91110
91111 They have made him drink alms-drink .
91112
91113 As they pinch one another by the disposition , he cries out , 'No more ;' reconciles them to his entreaty , and himself to the drink .
91114
91115 But it raises the greater war between him and his discretion .
91116
91117 Why , this it is to have a name in great men's fellowship ; I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service as a partisan I could not heave .
91118
91119 To be called into a huge sphere , and not to be seen to move in't , are the holes where eyes should be , which pitifully disaster the cheeks .
91120
91121 Thus do they , sir . They take the flow o' the Nile
91122 By certain scales i' the pyramid ; they know
91123 By the height , the lowness , or the mean , if dearth
91124 Or foison follow . The higher Nilus swells
91125 The more it promises ; as it ebbs , the seedsman
91126 Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain ,
91127 And shortly comes to harvest .
91128
91129 You've strange serpents there .
91130
91131 Ay , Lepidus .
91132
91133 Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun ; so is your crocodile .
91134
91135 They are so .
91136
91137 Sit ,and some wine ! A health to Lepidus !
91138
91139 I am not so well as I should be , but I'll ne'er out .
91140
91141 Not till you have slept ; I fear me you'll be in till then .
91142
91143 Nay , certainly , I have heard the Ptolemies' pyramises are very goodly things ; without contradiction , I have heard that .
91144
91145 Pompey , a word .
91146
91147 Say in mine ear ; what is't ?
91148
91149 Forsake thy seat , I do beseech thee , captain ,
91150 And bear me speak a word .
91151
91152 Forbear me till anon .
91153 This wine for Lepidus !
91154
91155 What manner o' thing is your crocodile ?
91156
91157 It is shaped , sir , like itself , and it is as broad as it hath breadth ; it is just so high as it is , and moves with it own organs ; it lives by that which nourisheth it ; and the elements once out of it , it transmigrates .
91158
91159 What colour is it of ?
91160
91161 Of it own colour too .
91162
91163 'Tis a strange serpent .
91164
91165 'Tis so ; and the tears of it are wet .
91166
91167 Will this description satisfy him ?
91168
91169 With the health that Pompey gives him , else he is a very epicure .
91170
91171 Go hang , sir , hang ! Tell me of that ? away !
91172 Do as I bid you . Where's this cup I call'd for ?
91173
91174 If for the sake of merit thou wilt hear me ,
91175 Rise from thy stool .
91176
91177 I think thou'rt mad . The matter ?
91178
91179
91180 I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes .
91181
91182 Thou hast serv'd me with much faith . What 's else to say ?
91183 Be jolly , lords .
91184
91185 These quick-sands , Lepidus ,
91186 Keep off them , for you sink .
91187
91188 Wilt thou be lord of all the world ?
91189
91190 What sayst thou ?
91191
91192 Wilt thou be lord of the whole world ? That 's twice .
91193
91194 How should that be ?
91195
91196 But entertain it ,
91197 And though thou think me poor , I am the man
91198 Will give thee all the world .
91199
91200 Hast thou drunk well ?
91201
91202 No , Pompey , I have kept me from the cup .
91203 Thou art , if thou dar'st be , the earthly Jove :
91204 Whate'er the ocean pales , or sky inclips ,
91205 Is thine , if thou wilt ha 't .
91206
91207 Show me which way .
91208
91209 These three world-sharers , these competitors ,
91210 Are in thy vessel : let me cut the cable ;
91211 And , when we are put off , fall to their throats :
91212 All there is thine .
91213
91214 Ah ! this thou shouldst have done ,
91215 And not have spoke on 't . In me 'tis villany ;
91216 In thee 't had been good service . Thou must know
91217 'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour ;
91218 Mine honour it . Repent that e'er thy tongue
91219 Hath so betray'd thine act ; being done unknown ,
91220 I should have found it afterwards well done ,
91221 But must condemn it now . Desist , and drink .
91222
91223 For this ,
91224 I'll never follow thy pall'd fortunes more .
91225 Who seeks , and will not take when once 'tis offer'd ,
91226 Shall never find it more .
91227
91228 This health to Lepidus !
91229
91230 Bear him ashore . I'll pledge it for him , Pompey .
91231
91232 Here's to thee , Menas !
91233
91234 Enobarbus , welcome !
91235
91236 Fill till the cup be hid .
91237
91238 There's a strong fellow , Menas .
91239
91240
91241 Why ?
91242
91243 A' bears the third part of the world , man ; see'st not ?
91244
91245 The third part then is drunk ; would it were all ,
91246 That it might go on wheels !
91247
91248 Drink thou ; increase the reels .
91249
91250 Come .
91251
91252 This is not yet an Alexandrian feast .
91253
91254 It ripens towards it . Strike the vessels , ho !
91255 Here is to C sar !
91256
91257 I could well forbear't .
91258 It's monstrous labour , when I wash my brain ,
91259 And it grows fouler .
91260
91261 Be a child o' the time .
91262
91263 Possess it , I'll make answer ;
91264 But I had rather fast from all four days
91265 Than drink so much in one .
91266
91267 Ha ! my brave emperor ;
91268 Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals ,
91269 And celebrate our drink ?
91270
91271 Let 's ha 't , good soldier .
91272
91273 Come , let 's all take hands ,
91274 Till that the conquering wine hath steep'd our sense
91275 In soft and delicate Lethe .
91276
91277 All take hands .
91278 Make battery to our ears with the loud music ;
91279 The while I'll place you ; then the boy shall sing ,
91280 The holding every man shall bear as loud
91281 As his strong sides can volley .
91282
91283
91284 Come , thou monarch of the vine ,
91285 Plumpy Bacchus , with pink eyne !
91286 In thy fats our cares be drown'd ,
91287 With thy grapes our hairs be crown'd :
91288 Cup us , till the world go round ,
91289 Cup us , till the world go round !
91290
91291 What would you more ? Pompey , good night . Good brother ,
91292 Let me request you off ; our graver business
91293 Frowns at this levity . Gentle lords , let's part ;
91294 You see we have burnt our cheeks ; strong Enobarb
91295 Is weaker than the wine , and mine own tongue
91296 Splits what it speaks ; the wild disguise hath almost
91297 Antick'd us all . What needs more words ? Good night .
91298 Good Antony , your hand .
91299
91300 I'll try you on the shore .
91301
91302 And shall , sir . Give's your hand .
91303
91304 O , Antony !
91305 You have my father s house ,But , what ? we are friends .
91306 Come down into the boat .
91307
91308 Take heed you fall not .
91309
91310 Menas , I'll not on shore .
91311
91312 No , to my cabin .
91313 These drums ! these trumpets , flutes ! what !
91314 Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell
91315 To these great fellows : sound and be hang'd ! sound out !
91316
91317
91318 Hoo ! says a' . There's my cap .
91319
91320 Hoo ! noble captain ! come .
91321
91322
91323 Now , darting Parthia , art thou struck ; and now
91324 Pleas'd fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death
91325 Make me revenger . Bear the king's son's body
91326 Before our army . Thy Pacorus , Orodes ,
91327 Pays this for Marcus Crassus .
91328
91329 Noble Ventidius ,
91330 Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm ,
91331 The fugitive Parthians follow ; spur through Media ,
91332 Mesopotamia , and the shelters whither
91333 The routed fly ; so thy grand captain Antony
91334 Shall set thee on triumphant chariots and
91335 Put garlands on thy head .
91336
91337 O Silius , Silius !
91338 I have done enough ; a lower place , note well ,
91339 May make too great an act ; for learn this , Silius ,
91340 Better to leave undone than by our deed
91341 Acquire too high a fame when him we serve's away .
91342 C sar and Antony have ever won
91343 More in their officer than person ; Sossius ,
91344 One of my place in Syria , his lieutenant ,
91345 For quick accumulation of renown ,
91346 Which he achiev'd by the minute , lost his favour .
91347 Who does i' the wars more than his captain can
91348 Becomes his captain's captain ; and ambition ,
91349 The soldier's virtue , rather makes choice of loss
91350 Than gain which darkens him .
91351 I could do more to do Antonius good ,
91352 But 'twould offend him ; and in his offence
91353 Should my performance perish .
91354
91355 Thou hast , Ventidius , that
91356 Without the which a soldier , and his sword ,
91357 Grants scarce distinction . Thou wilt write to Antony ?
91358
91359 I'll humbly signify what in his name ,
91360 That magical word of war , we have effected ;
91361 How , with his banners and his well-paid ranks ,
91362 The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia
91363 We have jaded out o' the field .
91364
91365 Where is he now ?
91366
91367 He purposeth to Athens ; whither , with what haste
91368 The weight we must convey with 's will permit ,
91369 We shall appear before him . On , there ; pass along .
91370
91371
91372 What ! are the brothers parted ?
91373
91374 They have dispatch'd with Pompey ; he is gone ;
91375 The other three are sealing . Octavia weeps
91376 To part from Rome ; C sar is sad ; and Lepidus ,
91377 Since Pompey's feast , as Menas says , is troubled
91378 With the green sickness .
91379
91380 'Tis a noble Lepidus .
91381
91382 A very fine one . O ! how he loves C sar .
91383
91384 Nay , but how dearly he adores Mark Antony !
91385
91386 C sar ? Why , he's the Jupiter of men .
91387
91388 What's Antony ? The god of Jupiter .
91389
91390 Spake you of C sar ? How ! the non-pareil !
91391
91392 O , Antony ! O thou Arabian bird !
91393
91394 Would you praise C sar , say , 'C sar ,' go no further .
91395
91396 Indeed , he plied them both with excellent praises .
91397
91398 But he loves C sar best ; yet he loves Antony .
91399 Hoo ! hearts , tongues , figures , scribes , bards , poets , cannot
91400 Think , speak , cast , write , sing , number ; hoo !
91401 His love to Antony . But as for C sar ,
91402 Kneel down , kneel down , and wonder .
91403
91404 Both he loves .
91405
91406 They are his shards , and he their beetle .
91407
91408
91409 So ;
91410 This is to horse . Adieu , noble Agrippa .
91411
91412 Good fortune , worthy soldier , and farewell .
91413
91414
91415 No further , sir .
91416
91417 You take from me a great part of myself ;
91418 Use me well in't . Sister , prove such a wife
91419 As my thoughts make thee , and as my furthest band
91420 Shall pass on thy approof . Most noble Antony ,
91421 Let not the piece of virtue , which is set
91422 Betwixt us as the cement of our love
91423 To keep it builded , be the ram to batter
91424 The fortress of it ; for better might we
91425 Have lov'd without this mean , if on both parts
91426 This be not cherish'd .
91427
91428 Make me not offended
91429 In your distrust .
91430
91431 I have said .
91432
91433 You shall not find ,
91434 Though you be therein curious , the least cause
91435 For what you seem to fear . So , the gods keep you ,
91436 And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends !
91437 We will here part .
91438
91439 Farewell , my dearest sister , fare thee well :
91440 The elements be kind to thee , and make
91441 Thy spirits all of comfort ! fare thee well .
91442
91443 My noble brother !
91444
91445 The April's in her eyes ; it is love's spring ,
91446 And these the showers to bring it on . Be cheerful .
91447
91448 Sir , look well to my husband's house ; and
91449
91450 What ,
91451 Octavia ?
91452
91453 I'll tell you in your ear .
91454
91455 Her tongue will not obey her heart , nor can
91456 Her heart obey her tongue ; the swan's downfeather ,
91457 That stands upon the swell at full of tide ,
91458 And neither way inclines .
91459
91460 Will C sar weep ?
91461
91462 He has a cloud in's face .
91463
91464 He were the worse for that were he a horse ;
91465 So is he , being a man .
91466
91467 Why , Enobarbus ,
91468 When Antony found Julius C sar dead
91469 He cried almost to roaring ; and he wept
91470 When at Philippi he found Brutus slain .
91471
91472 That year , indeed , he was troubled with a rheum ;
91473 What willingly he did confound he wail'd ,
91474 Believe 't , till I wept too .
91475
91476 No , sweet Octavia ,
91477 You shall hear from me still ; the time shall not
91478 Out-go my thinking on you .
91479
91480 Come , sir , come ;
91481 I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love :
91482 Look , here I have you ; thus I let you go ,
91483 And give you to the gods .
91484
91485 Adieu ; be happy !
91486
91487 Let all the number of the stars give light
91488 To thy fair way !
91489
91490 Farewell , farewell !
91491
91492
91493 Farewell !
91494
91495
91496 Where is the fellow ?
91497
91498 Half afeard to come .
91499
91500 Go to , go to .
91501
91502 Come hither , sir .
91503
91504 Good majesty ,
91505 Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you
91506 But when you are well pleas'd .
91507
91508 That Herod's head
91509 I'll have ; but how , when Antony is gone
91510 Through whom I might command it ? Come thou near .
91511
91512 Most gracious majesty !
91513
91514 Didst thou behold
91515 Octavia ?
91516
91517 Ay , dread queen .
91518
91519 Where ?
91520
91521 Madam , in Rome ;
91522 I look'd her in the face , and saw her led
91523 Between her brother and Mark Antony .
91524
91525 Is she as tall as me ?
91526
91527 She is not , madam .
91528
91529 Didst hear her speak ? is she shrill-tongu'd , or low ?
91530
91531 Madam , I heard her speak ; she is low-voic'd .
91532
91533 That's not so good . He cannot like her long .
91534
91535 Like her ! O Isis ! 'tis impossible .
91536
91537 I think so , Charmian : dull of tongue , and dwarfish !
91538 What majesty is in her gait ? Remember ,
91539 If e'er thou look'dst on majesty .
91540
91541 She creeps ;
91542 Her motion and her station are as one ;
91543 She shows a body rather than a life ,
91544 A statue than a breather .
91545
91546 Is this certain ?
91547
91548 Or I have no observance .
91549
91550 Three in Egypt
91551 Cannot make better note .
91552
91553 He's very knowing ,
91554 I do perceive 't . There's nothing in her yet .
91555 The fellow has good judgment .
91556
91557 Excellent .
91558
91559 Guess at her years , I prithee .
91560
91561 Madam ,
91562 She was a widow ,
91563
91564 Widow ! Charmian , hark .
91565
91566 And I do think she's thirty .
91567
91568 Bear'st thou her face in mind ? is't long or round ?
91569
91570 Round even to faultiness .
91571
91572 For the most part , too , they are foolish that are so .
91573 Her hair , what colour ?
91574
91575 Brown , madam ; and her forehead
91576 As low as she would wish it .
91577
91578 There's gold for thee :
91579 Thou must not take my former sharpness ill .
91580 I will employ thee back again ; I find thee
91581 Most fit for business . Go , make thee ready ;
91582 Our letters are prepar'd .
91583
91584
91585 A proper man .
91586
91587 Indeed , he is so ; I repent me much
91588 That so I harried him . Why , methinks , by him ,
91589 This creature's no such thing .
91590
91591 Nothing , madam .
91592
91593 The man hath seen some majesty , and should know .
91594
91595 Hath he seen majesty ? Isis else defend ,
91596 And serving you so long !
91597
91598 I have one thing more to ask him yet , good Charmian :
91599 But 'tis no matter ; thou shalt bring him to me
91600 Where I will write . All may be well enough .
91601
91602 I warrant you , madam .
91603
91604
91605 Nay , nay , Octavia , not only that ,
91606 That were excusable , that , and thousands more
91607 Of semblable import , but he hath wag'd
91608 New wars 'gainst Pompey ; made his will , and read it
91609 To public ear :
91610 Spoke scantly of me ; when perforce he could not
91611 But pay me terms of honour , cold and sickly
91612 He vented them ; most narrow measure lent me ;
91613 When the best hint was given him , he not took 't ,
91614 Or did it from his teeth .
91615
91616 O my good lord !
91617 Believe not all ; or , if you must believe ,
91618 Stomach not all . A more unhappy lady ,
91619 If this division chance , ne'er stood between ,
91620 Praying for both parts :
91621 The good gods will mock me presently ,
91622 When I shall pray , 'O ! bless my lord and husband ;'
91623 Undo that prayer , by crying out as loud ,
91624 'O ! bless my brother !' Husband win , win brother ,
91625 Prays , and destroys the prayer ; no midway
91626 'Twixt these extremes at all .
91627
91628 Gentle Octavia ,
91629 Let your best love draw to that point which seeks
91630 Best to preserve it . If I lose mine honour
91631 I lose myself ; better I were not yours
91632 Than yours so branchless . But , as you requested ,
91633 Yourself shall go between's ; the mean time , lady ,
91634 I'll raise the preparation of a war
91635 Shall stain your brother ; make your soonest haste ,
91636 So your desires are yours .
91637
91638 Thanks to my lord .
91639 The Jove of power make me most weak , most weak ,
91640 Your reconciler ! Wars 'twixt you twain would be
91641 As if the world should cleave , and that slain men
91642 Should solder up the rift .
91643
91644 When it appears to you where this begins ,
91645 Turn your displeasure that way ; for our faults
91646 Can never be so equal that your love
91647 Can equally move with them . Provide your going ;
91648 Choose your own company , and command what cost
91649 Your heart has mind to .
91650
91651
91652 How now , friend Eros !
91653
91654 There's strange news come , sir .
91655
91656 What , man ?
91657
91658 C sar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey .
91659
91660 This is old : what is the success ?
91661
91662 C sar , having made use of him in the wars 'gainst Pompey , presently denied him rivality , would not let him partake in the glory of the action ; and not resting here , accuses him of letters he had formerly wrote to Pompey ; upon his own appeal , seizes him : so the poor third is up , till death enlarge his confine .
91663
91664 Then , world , thou hast a pair of chaps , no more ;
91665 And throw between them all the food thou hast ,
91666 They'll grind the one the other . Where's Antony ?
91667
91668 He's walking in the garden thus : and spurns
91669 The rush that lies before him ; cries , 'Fool , Lepidus !'
91670 And threats the throat of that his officer
91671 That murder'd Pompey .
91672
91673 Our great navy's rigg'd .
91674
91675 For Italy and C sar . More , Domitius ;
91676 My lord desires you presently : my news
91677 I might have told hereafter .
91678
91679 'Twill be naught ;
91680 But let it be . Bring me to Antony .
91681
91682 Come , sir .
91683
91684
91685 Contemning Rome , he has done all this and more
91686 In Alexandria ; here's the manner of 't ;
91687 I' the market-place , on a tribunal silver'd ,
91688 Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold
91689 Were publicly enthron'd ; at the feet sat
91690 C sarion , whom they call my father's son ,
91691 And all the unlawful issue that their lust
91692 Since then hath made between them . Unto her
91693 He gave the 'stablishment of Egypt ; made her
91694 Of Lower Syria , Cyprus , Lydia ,
91695 Absolute queen .
91696
91697 This in the public eye ?
91698
91699 I' the common show-place , where they exercise .
91700 His sons he there proclaim'd the kings of kings ;
91701 Great Media , Parthia , and Armenia
91702 He gave to Alexander ; to Ptolemy he assign'd
91703 Syria , Cilicia , and Ph nicia . She
91704 In the habiliments of the goddess Isis
91705 That day appear'd ; and oft before gave audience ,
91706 As 'tis reported , so .
91707
91708 Let Rome be thus
91709 Informed .
91710
91711 Who , queasy with his insolence
91712 Already , will their good thoughts call from him .
91713
91714 The people know it ; and have now receiv'd
91715 His accusations .
91716
91717 Whom does he accuse ?
91718
91719 C sar ; and that , having in Sicily
91720 Sextus Pompeius spoil'd , we had not rated him
91721 His part o' the isle ; then does he say , he lent me
91722 Some shipping unrestor'd ; lastly , he frets
91723 That Lepidus of the triumvirate
91724 Should be depos'd ; and , being , that we detain
91725 All his revenue .
91726
91727 Sir , this should be answer'd .
91728
91729 'Tis done already , and the messenger gone .
91730 I have told him , Lepidus was grown too cruel ;
91731 That he his high authority abus'd ,
91732 And did deserve his change : for what I have conquer'd ,
91733 I grant him part ; but then , in his Armenia ,
91734 And other of his conquer'd kingdoms , I
91735 Demand the like .
91736
91737 He'll never yield to that .
91738
91739 Nor must not then be yielded to in this .
91740
91741
91742 Hail , C sar , and my lord ! hail , most dear C sar !
91743
91744 That ever I should call thee cast-away !
91745
91746 You have not call'd me so , nor have you cause .
91747
91748 Why have you stol'n upon us thus ? You come not
91749 Like C sar's sister ; the wife of Antony
91750 Should have an army for an usher , and
91751 The neighs of horse to tell of her approach
91752 Long ere she did appear ; the trees by the way
91753 Should have borne men ; and expectation fainted ,
91754 Longing for what it had not ; nay , the dust
91755 Should have ascended to the roof of heaven ,
91756 Rais'd by your populous troops . But you are come
91757 A market-maid to Rome , and have prevented
91758 The ostentation of our love , which , left unshown ,
91759 Is often left unlov'd : we should have met you
91760 By sea and land , supplying every stage
91761 With an augmented greeting .
91762
91763 Good my lord ,
91764 To come thus was I not constrain'd , but did it
91765 On my free-will . My lord , Mark Antony ,
91766 Hearing that you prepar'd for war , acquainted
91767 My grieved ear withal ; whereon , I begg'd
91768 His pardon for return .
91769
91770 Which soon he granted ,
91771 Being an obstruct 'tween his lust and him .
91772
91773 Do not say so , my lord .
91774
91775 I have eyes upon him ,
91776 And his affairs come to me on the wind .
91777 Where is he now ?
91778
91779 My lord , in Athens .
91780
91781 No , my most wrong'd sister ; Cleopatra
91782 Hath nodded him to her . He hath given his empire
91783 Up to a whore ; who now are levying
91784 The kings o' the earth for war . He hath assembled
91785 Bocchus , the King of Libya ; Archelaus ,
91786 Of Cappadocia ; Philadelphos , King
91787 Of Paphlagonia ; the Thracian king , Adallas ;
91788 King Malchus of Arabia ; King of Pont ;
91789 Herod of Jewry ; Mithridates , King
91790 Of Comagene ; Polemon and Amintas ,
91791 The Kings of Mede and Lycaonia ,
91792 With a more larger list of sceptres .
91793
91794 Ay me , most wretched ,
91795 That have my heart parted betwixt two friends
91796 That do afflict each other !
91797
91798 Welcome hither :
91799 Your letters did withhold our breaking forth ,
91800 Till we perceiv'd both how you were wrong led
91801 And we in negligent danger . Cheer your heart ;
91802 Be you not troubled with the time , which drives
91803 O'er your content these strong necessities ,
91804 But let determin'd things to destiny
91805 Hold unbewail'd their way . Welcome to Rome ;
91806 Nothing more dear to me . You are abus'd
91807 Beyond the mark of thought , and the high gods ,
91808 To do you justice , make their ministers
91809 Of us and those that love you . Best of comfort ,
91810 And ever welcome to us .
91811
91812 Welcome , lady .
91813
91814 Welcome , dear madam .
91815 Each heart in Rome does love and pity you ;
91816 Only the adulterous Antony , most large
91817 In his abominations , turns you off ,
91818 And gives his potent regiment to a trull ,
91819 That noises it against us .
91820
91821 Is it so , sir ?
91822
91823 Most certain . Sister , welcome ; pray you ,
91824 Be ever known to patience ; my dearest sister !
91825
91826
91827 I will be even with thee , doubt it not .
91828
91829 But why , why , why ?
91830
91831 Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars ,
91832 And sayst it is not fit .
91833
91834 Well , is it , is it ?
91835
91836 If not denounc'd against us , why should not we
91837 Be there in person ?
91838
91839 Well , I could reply :
91840 If we should serve with horse and mares together ,
91841 The horse were merely lost ; the mares would bear
91842 A soldier and his horse .
91843
91844 What is 't you say ?
91845
91846 Your presence needs must puzzle Antony ;
91847 Take from his heart , take from his brain , from 's time ,
91848 What should not then be spar'd . He is already
91849 Traduc'd for levity , and 'tis said in Rome
91850 That Photinus a eunuch and your maids
91851 Manage this war .
91852
91853 Sink Rome , and their tongues rot
91854 That speak against us ! A charge we bear i' the war ,
91855 And , as the president of my kingdom , will
91856 Appear there for a man . Speak not against it ;
91857 I will not stay behind .
91858
91859 Nay , I have done .
91860 Here comes the emperor .
91861
91862
91863 Is it not strange , Canidius ,
91864 That from Tarentum and Brundusium
91865 He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea ,
91866 And take in Toryne ? You have heard on 't , sweet ?
91867
91868 Celerity is never more admir'd
91869 Than by the negligent .
91870
91871 A good rebuke ,
91872 Which might have well becom'd the best of men ,
91873 To taunt at slackness . Canidius , we
91874 Will fight with him by sea .
91875
91876 By sea ! What else ?
91877
91878 Why will my lord do so ?
91879
91880 For that he dares us to 't .
91881
91882 So hath my lord dar'd him to single fight .
91883
91884 Ay , and to wage his battle at Pharsalia ,
91885 Where C sar fought with Pompey ; but these offers ,
91886 Which serve not for his vantage , he shakes off ;
91887 And so should you .
91888
91889 Your ships are not well mann'd ;
91890 Your mariners are muleters , reapers , people
91891 Ingross'd by swift impress ; in C sar's fleet
91892 Are those that often have gainst Pompey fought :
91893 Their ships are yare ; yours , heavy . No disgrace
91894 Shall fall you for refusing him at sea ,
91895 Being prepar'd for land .
91896
91897 By sea , by sea .
91898
91899 Most worthy sir , you therein throw away
91900 The absolute soldiership you have by land ;
91901 Distract your army , which doth most consist
91902 Of war-mark'd footmen ; leave unexecuted
91903 Your own renowned knowledge ; quite forego
91904 The way which promises assurance ; and
91905 Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard
91906 From firm security .
91907
91908 I'll fight at sea .
91909
91910 I have sixty sails , C sar none better .
91911
91912 Our overplus of shipping will we burn ;
91913 And with the rest , full-mann'd , from the head of Actium
91914 Beat the approaching C sar . But if we fail ,
91915 We then can do 't at land .
91916
91917 Thy business ?
91918
91919 The news is true , my lord ; he is descried ;
91920 C sar has taken Toryne .
91921
91922 Can he be there in person ? 'tis impossible ;
91923 Strange that his power should be . Canidius ,
91924 Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land ,
91925 And our twelve thousand horse . We'll to our ship :
91926 Away , my Thetis !
91927
91928 How now , worthy soldier !
91929
91930 O noble emperor ! do not fight by sea ;
91931 Trust not to rotten planks : do you misdoubt
91932 This sword and these my wounds ? Let the Egyptians
91933 And the Ph nicians go a-ducking ; we
91934 Have used to conquer , standing on the earth ,
91935 And fighting foot to foot .
91936
91937 Well , well : away !
91938
91939
91940 By Hercules , I think I am i' the right .
91941
91942 Soldier , thou art ; but his whole action grows
91943 Not in the power on 't : so our leader's led ,
91944 And we are women's men .
91945
91946 You keep by land
91947 The legions and the horse whole , do you not ?
91948
91949 Marcus Octavius , Marcus Justeius ,
91950 Publicola , and C lius , are for sea ;
91951 But we keep whole by land . This speed of C sar's
91952 Carries beyond belief .
91953
91954 While he was yet in Rome
91955 His power went out in such distractions as
91956 Beguil'd all spies .
91957
91958 Who's his lieutenant , hear you ?
91959
91960 They say , one Taurus .
91961
91962 Well I know the man .
91963
91964
91965 The emperor calls Canidius .
91966
91967 With news the time's with labour , and throes forth
91968 Each minute some .
91969
91970
91971 Taurus !
91972
91973 My lord ?
91974
91975 Strike not by land ; keep whole : provoke not battle .
91976 Till we have done at sea . Do not exceed
91977 The prescript of this scroll : our fortune lies
91978 Upon this jump .
91979
91980 Set we our squadrons on yond side o' the hill ,
91981 In eye of C sar's battle ; from which place
91982 We may the number of the ships behold ,
91983 And so proceed accordingly .
91984
91985
91986 Naught , naught , all naught ! I can behold no longer .
91987 The Antoniad , the Egyptian admiral ,
91988 With all their sixty , fly , and turn the rudder ;
91989 To see 't mine eyes are blasted .
91990
91991
91992 Gods and goddesses ,
91993 All the whole synod of them !
91994
91995 What's thy passion ?
91996
91997 The greater cantle of the world is lost
91998 With very ignorance ; we have kiss'd away
91999 Kingdoms and provinces .
92000
92001 How appears the fight ?
92002
92003 On our side like the token'd pestilence ,
92004 Where death is sure . Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt ,
92005 Whom leprosy o'ertake ! i' the midst o' the fight ,
92006 When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd ,
92007 Both as the same , or rather ours the elder ,
92008 The breese upon her , like a cow in June ,
92009 Hoists sails and flies .
92010
92011 That I beheld :
92012 Mine eyes did sicken at the sight , and could not
92013 Endure a further view .
92014
92015 She once being loof'd ,
92016 The noble ruin of her magic , Antony ,
92017 Clapson his sea-wing , and like a doting mallard ,
92018 Leaving the fight in height , flies after her .
92019 I never saw an action of such shame ;
92020 Experience , manhood , honour , ne'er before
92021 Did violate so itself .
92022
92023 Alack , alack !
92024
92025
92026 Our fortune on the sea is out of breath ,
92027 And sinks most lamentably . Had our general
92028 Been what he knew himself , it had gone well :
92029 O ! he has given example for our flight
92030 Most grossly by his own .
92031
92032 Ay , are you thereabouts ?
92033 Why , then , good night , indeed .
92034
92035 Towards Peloponnesus are they fled .
92036
92037 'Tis easy to 't ; and there I will attend
92038 What further comes .
92039
92040 To C sar will I render
92041 My legions and my horse ; six kings already
92042 Show me the way of yielding .
92043
92044 I'll yet follow
92045 The wounded chance of Antony , though my reason
92046 Sits in the wind against me .
92047
92048
92049 Hark ! the land bids me tread no more upon 't ;
92050 It is asham'd to bear me . Friends , come hither :
92051 I am so lated in the world that I
92052 Have lost my way for ever . I have a ship
92053 Laden with gold ; take that , divide it ; fly ,
92054 And make your peace with C sar .
92055
92056 Fly ! not we .
92057
92058 I have fled myself , and have instructed cowards
92059 To run and show their shoulders . Friends , be gone ;
92060 I have myself resolv'd upon a course
92061 Which has no need of you ; be gone :
92062 My treasure's in the harbour , take it . O !
92063 I follow'd that I blush to look upon :
92064 My very hairs do mutiny , for the white
92065 Reprove the brown for rashness , and they them
92066 For fear and doting . Friends , be gone ; you shall
92067 Have letters from me to some friends that will
92068 Sweep your way for you . Pray you , look not sad ,
92069 Nor make replies of loathness ; take the hint
92070 Which my despair proclaims ; let that be left
92071 Which leaves itself ; to the sea-side straightway ;
92072 I will possess you of that ship and treasure .
92073 Leave me , I pray , a little ; pray you now :
92074 Nay , do so ; for , indeed , I have lost command ,
92075 Therefore I pray you . I'll see you by and by .
92076
92077 Nay , gentle madam , to him , comfort him .
92078
92079 Do , most dear queen .
92080
92081 Do ! Why , what else ?
92082
92083 Let me sit down . O Juno !
92084
92085 No , no , no , no , no .
92086
92087 See you here , sir ?
92088
92089 O fie , fie , fie !
92090
92091 Madam !
92092
92093 Madam ; O good empress !
92094
92095 Sir , sir !
92096
92097 Yes , my lord , yes . He , at Philippi kept
92098 His sword e'en like a dancer , while I struck
92099 The lean and wrinkled Cassius ; and 'twas I
92100 That the mad Brutus ended : he alone
92101 Dealt on lieutenantry , and no practice had
92102 In the brave squares of war : yet now No matter .
92103
92104 Ah ! stand by .
92105
92106 The queen , my lord , the queen .
92107
92108 Go to him , madam , speak to him ;
92109 He is unqualitied with very shame .
92110
92111 Well then , sustain me : O !
92112
92113 Most noble sir , arise ; the queen approaches :
92114 Her head's declin'd , and death will seize her , but
92115 Your comfort makes the rescue .
92116
92117 I have offended reputation ,
92118 A most unnoble swerving .
92119
92120 Sir , the queen .
92121
92122 O ! whither hast thou led me , Egypt ? See ,
92123 How I convey my shame out of thine eyes
92124 By looking back what I have left behind
92125 'Stroy'd in dishonour .
92126
92127 O my lord , my lord !
92128 Forgive my fearful sails : I little thought
92129 You would have follow'd .
92130
92131 Egypt , thou knew'st too well
92132 My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings ,
92133 And thou shouldst tow me after ; o'er my spirit
92134 Thy full supremacy thou knew'st , and that
92135 Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
92136 Command me .
92137
92138 O ! my pardon .
92139
92140 Now I must
92141 To the young man send humble treaties , dodge
92142 And palter in the shifts of lowness , who
92143 With half the bulk o' the world play'd as I pleas'd ,
92144 Making and marring fortunes . You did know
92145 How much you were my conqueror , and that
92146 My sword , made weak by my affection , would
92147 Obey it on all cause .
92148
92149 Pardon , pardon !
92150
92151 Fall not a tear , I say ; one of them rates
92152 All that is won and lost . Give me a kiss ;
92153 Even this repays me . We sent our schoolmaster ;
92154 Is he come back ? Love , I am full of lead .
92155 Some wine , within there , and our viands ! Fortune knows ,
92156 We scorn her most when most she offers blows .
92157
92158 Let him appear that's come from Antony .
92159 Know you him ?
92160
92161 C sar , 'tis his schoolmaster :
92162 An argument that he is pluck'd , when hither
92163 He sends so poor a pinion of his wing ,
92164 Which had superfluous kings for messengers
92165 Not many moons gone by .
92166
92167
92168 Approach , and speak .
92169
92170 Such as I am , I come from Antony :
92171 I was of late as petty to his ends
92172 As is the morn-dew on the myrtle-leaf
92173 To his grand sea .
92174
92175 Be 't so . Declare thine office .
92176
92177 Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee , and
92178 Requires to live in Egypt ; which not granted ,
92179 He lessens his requests , and to thee sues
92180 To let him breathe between the heavens and earth ,
92181 A private man in Athens ; this for him .
92182 Next , Cleopatra does confess thy greatness ,
92183 Submits her to thy might , and of thee craves
92184 The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs ,
92185 Now hazarded to thy grace .
92186
92187 For Antony ,
92188 I have no ears to his request . The queen
92189 Of audience nor desire shall fail , so she
92190 From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend ,
92191 Or take his life there ; this if she perform ,
92192 She shall not sue unheard . So to them both .
92193
92194 Fortune pursue thee !
92195
92196 Bring him through the bands .
92197
92198 From Antony win Cleopatra ; promise ,
92199 And in our name , what she requires ; add more ,
92200 From thine invention , offers . Women are not
92201 In their best fortunes strong , but want will perjure
92202 The ne'er-touch'd vestal . Try thy cunning , Thyreus ;
92203 Make thine own edict for thy pains , which we
92204
92205 Will answer as a law .
92206
92207 C sar , I go .
92208
92209 Observe how Antony becomes his flaw ,
92210 And what thou think'st his very action speaks
92211 In every power that moves .
92212
92213 C sar , I shall .
92214
92215 What shall we do , Enobarbus ?
92216
92217 Think , and die .
92218
92219 Is Antony or we , in fault for this ?
92220
92221 Antony only , that would make his will
92222 Lord of his reason . What though you fled
92223 From that great face of war , whose several ranges
92224 Frighted each other , why should he follow ?
92225 The itch of his affection should not then
92226 Have nick'd his captainship ; at such a point ,
92227 When half to half the world oppos'd , he being
92228 The mered question . 'Twas a shame no less
92229 Than was his loss , to course your flying flags ,
92230 And leave his navy gazing .
92231
92232 Prithee , peace .
92233
92234
92235 Is that his answer ?
92236
92237 Ay , my lord .
92238
92239 The queen shall then have courtesy , so she
92240 Will yield us up ?
92241
92242 He says so .
92243
92244 Let her know't .
92245 To the boy C sar send this grizzled head ,
92246 And he will fill thy wishes to the brim
92247 With principalities .
92248
92249 That head , my lord ?
92250
92251 To him again . Tell him he wears the rose
92252 Of youth upon him , from which the world should note
92253 Something particular ; his coin , ships , legions ,
92254 May be a coward's , whose ministers would prevail
92255 Under the service of a child as soon
92256 As i' the command of C sar : I dare him therefore
92257 To lay his gay comparisons apart ,
92258 And answer me declin'd , sword against sword ,
92259 Ourselves alone . I'll write it : follow me .
92260
92261
92262 Yes , like enough , high-battled C sar will
92263 Unstate his happiness , and be stag'd to the show
92264 Against a sworder ! I see men's judgments are
92265 A parcel of their fortunes , and things outward
92266 Do draw the inward quality after them ,
92267 To suffer all alike . That he should dream ,
92268 Knowing all measures , the full C sar will
92269 Answer his emptiness ! C sar , thou hast subdu'd
92270 His judgment too .
92271
92272
92273 A messenger from C sar .
92274
92275 What ! no more ceremony ? See ! my women ;
92276 Against the blown rose may they stop their nose ,
92277 That kneel'd unto the buds . Admit him , sir .
92278
92279
92280 Mine honesty and I begin to square .
92281 The loyalty well held to fools does make
92282 Our faith mere folly ; yet he that can endure
92283 To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord ,
92284 Does conquer him that did his master conquer ,
92285 And earns a place i' the story .
92286
92287
92288 C sar's will ?
92289
92290 Hear it apart .
92291
92292 None but friends ; say boldly .
92293
92294 So , haply , are they friends to Antony .
92295
92296 He needs as many , sir , as C sar has ,
92297 Or needs not us . If C sar please , our master
92298 Will leap to be his friend ; for us , you know
92299 Whose he is we are , and that is C sar's .
92300
92301 So .
92302 Thus then , thou most renown'd : C sar entreats ,
92303 Not to consider in what case thou stand'st ,
92304 Further than he is C sar .
92305
92306 Go on ; right royal .
92307
92308 He knows that you embrace not Antony
92309 As you did love , but as you fear'd him .
92310
92311 O !
92312
92313 The scars upon your honour therefore he
92314 Does pity , as constrained blemishes ,
92315 Not as deserv'd .
92316
92317 He is a god , and knows
92318 What is most right . Mine honour was not yielded ,
92319 But conquer'd merely .
92320
92321 To be sure of that ,
92322 I will ask Antony . Sir , sir , thou'rt so leaky ,
92323 That we must leave thee to thy sinking , for
92324 Thy dearest quit thee .
92325
92326
92327 Shall I say to C sar
92328 What you require of him ? for he partly begs
92329 To be desir'd to give . It much would please him ,
92330 That of his fortunes you should make a staff
92331 To lean upon ; but it would warm his spirits
92332 To hear from me you had left Antony ,
92333 And put yourself under his shroud ,
92334 The universal landlord .
92335
92336 What's your name ?
92337
92338 My name is Thyreus .
92339
92340 Most kind messenger ,
92341 Say to great C sar this : in deputation
92342 I kiss his conqu'ring hand ; tell him , I am prompt
92343 To lay my crown at 's feet , and there to kneel ;
92344 Tell him , from his all-obeying breath I hear
92345 The doom of Egypt .
92346
92347 'Tis your noblest course .
92348 Wisdom and fortune combating together ,
92349 If that the former dare but what it can ,
92350 No chance may shake it . Give me grace to lay
92351 My duty on your hand .
92352
92353 Your C sar's father oft ,
92354 When he hath mus'd of taking kingdoms in ,
92355 Bestow'd his lips on that unworthy place ,
92356 As it rain'd kisses .
92357
92358
92359 Favours , by Jove that thunders !
92360 What art thou , fellow ?
92361
92362 One that but performs
92363 The bidding of the fullest man , and worthiest
92364 To have command obey'd .
92365
92366 You will be whipp'd .
92367
92368 Approach there ! Ah , you kite ! Now , gods and devils !
92369 Authority melts from me : of late , when I cried 'Ho !'
92370 Like boys unto a muss , kings would start forth ,
92371 And cry , 'Your will ?' Have you no ears ? I am
92372 Antony yet .
92373
92374 Take hence this Jack and whip him .
92375
92376 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp
92377 Than with an old one dying .
92378
92379 Moon and stars !
92380 Whip him . Were't twenty of the greatest tributaries
92381 That do acknowledge C sar , should I find them
92382 So saucy with the hand of she here , what's her name ,
92383 Since she was Cleopatra ? Whip him , fellows ,
92384 Till , like a boy , you see him cringe his face
92385 And whine aloud for mercy ; take him hence .
92386
92387 Mark Antony ,
92388
92389 Tug him away ; being whipp'd ,
92390 Bring him again ; this Jack of C sar's shall
92391 Bear us an errand to him .
92392
92393 You were half blasted ere I knew you : ha !
92394 Have I my pillow left unpress'd in Rome ,
92395 Forborne the getting of a lawful race ,
92396 And by a gem of women , to be abus'd
92397 By one that looks on feeders ?
92398
92399 Good my lord ,
92400
92401 You have been a boggler ever :
92402 But when we in our viciousness grow hard ,
92403 O misery on 't !the wise gods seel our eyes ;
92404 In our own filth drop our clear judgments ; make us
92405 Adore our errors ; laugh at 's while we strut
92406 To our confusion .
92407
92408 O ! is't come to this ?
92409
92410 I found you as a morsel , cold upon
92411 Dead C sar's trencher ; nay , you were a fragment
92412 Of Cneius Pompey's ; besides what hotter hours ,
92413 Unregister'd in vulgar fame , you have
92414 Luxuriously pick'd out ; for , I am sure ,
92415 Though you can guess what temperance should be ,
92416 You know not what it is .
92417
92418 Wherefore is this ?
92419
92420 To let a fellow that will take rewards
92421 And say 'God quit you !' be familiar with
92422 My playfellow , your hand ; this kingly seal
92423 And plighter of high hearts . O ! that I were
92424 Upon the hill of Basan , to outroar
92425 The horned herd ; for I have savage cause ;
92426 And to proclaim it civilly were like
92427 A halter'd neck , which does the hangman thank
92428 For being yare about him .
92429
92430 Is he whipp'd ?
92431
92432 Soundly , my lord .
92433
92434 Cried he ? and begg'd a' pardon ?
92435
92436 He did ask favour .
92437
92438 If that thy father live , let him repent
92439 Thou wast not made his daughter ; and be thou sorry
92440 To follow C sar in his triumph , since
92441 Thou hast been whipp'd for following him : henceforth ,
92442 The white hand of a lady fever thee ,
92443 Shake thou to look on 't . Get thee back to C sar ,
92444 Tell him thy entertainment ; look , thou say
92445 He makes me angry with him ; for he seems
92446 Proud and disdainful , harping on what I am ,
92447 Not what he knew I was : he makes me angry ;
92448 And at this time most easy 'tis to do 't ,
92449 When my good stars , that were my former guides ,
92450 Have empty left their orbs , and shot their fires
92451 Into the abysm of hell . If he mislike
92452 My speech and what is done , tell him he has
92453 Hipparchus , my enfranched bondman , whom
92454 He may at pleasure whip , or hang , or torture ,
92455 As he shall like , to quit me : urge it thou :
92456 Hence with thy stripes ; be gone !
92457
92458
92459 Have you done yet ?
92460
92461 Alack ! our terrene moon
92462 Is now eclips'd ; and it portends alone
92463 The fall of Antony .
92464
92465 I must stay his time .
92466
92467 To flatter C sar , would you mingle eyes
92468 With one that ties his points ?
92469
92470 Not know me yet ?
92471
92472 Cold-hearted toward me ?
92473
92474 Ah ! dear , if I be so ,
92475 From my cold heart let heaven engender hail ,
92476 And poison it in the source ; and the first stone
92477 Drop in my neck : as it determines , so
92478 Dissolve my life . The next C sarion smite ,
92479 Till by degrees the memory of my womb ,
92480 Together with my brave Egyptians all ,
92481 By the discandying of this pelleted storm ,
92482 Lie graveless , till the flies and gnats of Nile
92483 Have buried them for prey !
92484
92485 I am satisfied .
92486 C sar sits down in Alexandria , where
92487 I will oppose his fate . Our force by land
92488 Hath nobly held ; our sever'd navy too
92489 Have knit again , and fleet , threat'ning most sea-like .
92490 Where hast thou been , my heart ? Dost thou hear , lady ?
92491 If from the field I shall return once more
92492 To kiss these lips , I will appear in blood ;
92493 I and my sword will earn our chronicle :
92494 There's hope in 't yet .
92495
92496 That's my brave lord !
92497
92498 I will betreble-sinew'd , hearted , breath'd ,
92499 And fight maliciously ; for when mine hours
92500 Were nice and lucky , men did ransom lives
92501 Of me for jests ; but now I'll set my teeth ,
92502 And send to darkness all that stop me . Come ,
92503 Let's have one other gaudy night : call to me
92504 All my sad captains ; fill our bowls once more ;
92505 Let's mock the midnight bell .
92506
92507 It is my birth-day :
92508 I had thought to have held it poor ; but , since my lord
92509 Is Antony again , I will be Cleopatra .
92510
92511 We will yet do well .
92512
92513 Call all his noble captains to my lord .
92514
92515 Do so , we'll speak to them ; and to-night I'll force
92516 The wine peep through their scars . Come on , my queen ;
92517 There's sap in 't yet . The next time I do fight
92518 I'll make death love me , for I will contend
92519 Even with his pestilent scythe .
92520
92521
92522 Now he'll outstare the lightning . To be furious
92523 Is to be frighted out of fear , and in that mood
92524 The dove will peck the estridge ; and I see still ,
92525 A diminution in our captain's brain
92526 Restores his heart . When valour preys on reason
92527 It eats the sword it fights with . I will seek
92528 Some way to leave him .
92529
92530 He calls me boy , and chides as he had power
92531 To beat me out of Egypt ; my messenger
92532 He hath whipp'd with rods ; dares me to personal combat ,
92533 C sar to Antony . Let the old ruffian know
92534 I have many other ways to die ; meantime
92535 Laugh at his challenge .
92536
92537 C sar must think ,
92538 When one so great begins to rage , he's hunted
92539 Even to falling . Give him no breath , but now
92540 Make boot of his distraction : never anger
92541 Made good guard for itself .
92542
92543 Let our best heads
92544 Know that to-morrow the last of many battles
92545 We mean to fight . Within our files there are ,
92546 Of those that serv'd Mark Antony but late ,
92547 Enough to fetch him in . See it done ;
92548 And feast the army ; we have store to do 't ,
92549 And they have earn'd the waste . Poor Antony !
92550
92551
92552 He will not fight with me , Domitius .
92553
92554 No .
92555
92556 Why should he not ?
92557
92558 He thinks , being twenty times of better fortune ,
92559 He is twenty men to one .
92560
92561 To-morrow , soldier ,
92562 By sea and land I'll fight : or I will live ,
92563 Or bathe my dying honour in the blood
92564 Shall make it live again . Woo't thou fight well ?
92565
92566 I'll strike , and cry , 'Take all .'
92567
92568 Well said ; come on .
92569 Call forth my household servants ; let's to-night
92570 Be bounteous at our meal .
92571
92572
92573 Give me thy hand ,
92574 Thou hast been rightly honest ; so hast thou ;
92575 Thou ; and thou , and thou : you have serv'd me well ,
92576
92577 And kings have been your fellows .
92578
92579 What means this ?
92580
92581 'Tis one of those odd tricks which sorrow shoots
92582 Out of the mind .
92583
92584 And thou art honest too .
92585 I wish I could be made so many men ,
92586 And all of you clapp'd up together in
92587 An Antony , that I might do you service
92588 So good as you have done .
92589
92590 The gods forbid !
92591
92592 Well , my good fellows , wait on me to-night ,
92593 Scant not my cups , and make as much of me
92594 As when mine empire was your fellow too ,
92595 And suffer'd my command .
92596
92597 What does he mean ?
92598
92599 To make his followers weep .
92600
92601 Tend me to-night ;
92602 May be it is the period of your duty :
92603 Haply , you shall not see me more ; or if ,
92604 A mangled shadow : perchance to-morrow
92605 You'll serve another master . I look on you
92606 As one that takes his leave . Mine honest friends ,
92607 I turn you not away ; but , like a master
92608 Married to your good service , stay till death .
92609 Tend me to-night two hours , I ask no more ,
92610 And the gods yield you for 't !
92611
92612 What mean you , sir ,
92613 To give them this discomfort ? Look , they weep ;
92614 And I , an ass , am onion-ey'd : for shame ,
92615 Transform us not to women .
92616
92617 Ho , ho , ho !
92618 Now , the witch take me , if I meant it thus !
92619 Grace grow where those drops fall ! My hearty friends ,
92620 You take me in too dolorous a sense ,
92621 For I spake to you for your comfort ; did desire you
92622 To burn this night with torches . Know , my hearts ,
92623 I hope well of to-morrow ; and will lead you
92624 Where rather I'll expect victorious life
92625 Than death and honour . Let's to supper , come ,
92626 And drown consideration .
92627
92628
92629 Brother , good night ; to-morrow is the day .
92630
92631 It will determine one way ; fare you well .
92632 Heard you of nothing strange about the streets ?
92633
92634 Nothing . What news ?
92635
92636 Belike , 'tis but a rumour . Good night to you .
92637
92638 Well , sir , good night .
92639
92640
92641 Soldiers , have careful watch .
92642
92643 And you . Good night , good night .
92644
92645
92646 Here we :
92647
92648 And if to-morrow
92649 Our navy thrive , I have an absolute hope
92650 Our landmen will stand up .
92651
92652 'Tis a brave army ,
92653 And full of purpose .
92654
92655
92656 Peace ! what noise ?
92657
92658 List , list !
92659
92660 Hark !
92661
92662 Music i' the air .
92663
92664 Under the earth .
92665
92666 It signs well , does it not ?
92667
92668 No .
92669
92670 Peace , I say !
92671 What should this mean ?
92672
92673 'Tis the god Hercules , whom Antony lov'd ,
92674 Now leaves him .
92675
92676 Walk ; let's see if other watchmen
92677 Do hear what we do .
92678
92679
92680 How now , masters !
92681
92682 How now !
92683 How now !do you hear this ?
92684
92685 Ay ; is 't not strange ?
92686
92687 Do you hear , masters ? do you hear ?
92688
92689 Follow the noise so far as we have quarter ;
92690 Let's see how 't will give off .
92691
92692 Content .'Tis strange .
92693
92694
92695 Eros ! mine armour , Eros !
92696
92697 Sleep a little .
92698
92699 No , my chuck . Eros , come ; mine armour , Eros !
92700
92701 Come , good fellow , put mine iron on :
92702 If Fortune be not ours to-day , it is
92703 Because we brave her . Come .
92704
92705 Nay , I'll help too .
92706 What's this for ?
92707
92708 Ah ! let be , let be ; thou art
92709 The armourer of my heart : false , false ; this , this .
92710
92711 Sooth , la ! I'll help : thus it must be .
92712
92713 Well , well ;
92714 We shall thrive now . Seest thou , my good fellow ?
92715 Go put on thy defences .
92716
92717 Briefly , sir .
92718
92719 Is not this buckled well ?
92720
92721 Rarely , rarely :
92722 He that unbuckles this , till we do please
92723 To daff 't for our repose , shall hear a storm .
92724 Thou fumblest , Eros ; and my queen's a squire
92725 More tight at this than thou : dispatch . O love !
92726 That thou couldst see my wars to-day , and knew'st
92727 The royal occupation , thou shouldst see
92728 A workman in 't .
92729
92730
92731 Good morrow to thee ; welcome ;
92732 Thou look'st like him that knows a war-like charge :
92733 To business that we love we rise betime ,
92734
92735 And go to 't with delight .
92736
92737 A thousand , sir ,
92738 Early though 't be , have on their riveted trim ,
92739 And at the port expect you .
92740
92741 The morn is fair . Good morrow , general .
92742
92743 Good morrow , general .
92744
92745 'Tis well blown , lads .
92746 This morning , like the spirit of a youth
92747 That means to be of note , begins betimes .
92748 So , so ; come , give me that : this way ; well said .
92749 Fare thee well , dame , whate'er becomes of me ;
92750 This is a soldier's kiss .
92751
92752 Rebukeable
92753 And worthy shameful check it were , to stand
92754 On more mechanic compliment ; I'll leave thee
92755 Now , like a man of steel . You that will fight ,
92756 Follow me close ; I'll bring you to 't . Adieu .
92757
92758
92759 Please you , retire to your chamber .
92760
92761 Lead me .
92762 He goes forth gallantly . That he and C sar might
92763 Determine this great war in single fight !
92764 Then , Antony ,but now .Well , on .
92765
92766
92767 The gods make this a happy day to Antony !
92768
92769 Would thou and those thy scars had once prevail'd
92770 To make me fight at land !
92771
92772 Hadst thou done so ,
92773 The kings that have revolted , and the soldier
92774 That has this morning left thee , would have still
92775 Follow'd thy heels .
92776
92777 Who's gone this morning ?
92778
92779 Who !
92780 One ever near thee : call for Enobarbus ,
92781 He shall not hear thee ; or from C sar's camp
92782 Say , 'I am none of thine .'
92783
92784 What sayst thou ?
92785
92786 Sir ,
92787 He is with C sar .
92788
92789 Sir , his chests and treasure
92790 He has not with him .
92791
92792 Is he gone ?
92793
92794 Most certain .
92795
92796 Go , Eros , send his treasure after ; do it ;
92797 Detain no jot , I charge thee . Write to him
92798 I will subscribe gentle adieus and greetings ;
92799 Say that I wish he never find more cause
92800 To change a master . O ! my fortunes have
92801 Corrupted honest men . Dispatch . Enobarbus !
92802
92803
92804 Go forth , Agrippa , and begin the fight :
92805 Our will is Antony be took alive ;
92806 Make it so known .
92807
92808 C sar , I shall .
92809
92810
92811 The time of universal peace is near :
92812 Prove this a prosperous day , the three-nook'd world
92813 Shall bear the olive freely .
92814
92815
92816 Antony
92817 Is come into the field .
92818
92819 Go charge Agrippa
92820 Plant those that have revolted in the van ,
92821 That Antony may seem to spend his fury
92822 Upon himself .
92823
92824
92825 Alexas did revolt , and went to Jewry on
92826 Affairs of Antony ; there did persuade
92827 Great Herod to incline himself to C sar ,
92828 And leave his master Antony : for this pains
92829 C sar hath hang'd him . Canidius and the rest
92830 That fell away have entertainment , but
92831 No honourable trust . I have done ill ,
92832 Of which I do accuse myself so sorely
92833 That I will joy no more .
92834
92835
92836 Enobarbus , Antony
92837 Hath after thee sent all thy treasure , with
92838 His bounty overplus : the messenger
92839 Came on my guard ; and at thy tent is now
92840 Unloading of his mules .
92841
92842 I give it you .
92843
92844 Mock not , Enobarbus .
92845 I tell you true : best you saf'd the bringer
92846 Out of the host ; I must attend mine office
92847 Or would have done 't myself . Your emperor
92848 Continues still a Jove .
92849
92850
92851 I am alone the villain of the earth ,
92852 And feel I am so most . O Antony !
92853 Thou mine of bounty , how wouldst thou have paid
92854 My better service , when my turpitude
92855 Thou dost so crown with gold ! This blows my heart :
92856 If swift thought break it not , a swifter mean
92857 Shall outstrike thought ; but thought will do 't , I feel .
92858 I fight against thee ! No : I will go seek
92859 Some ditch , wherein to die ; the foul'st best fits
92860 My latter part of life .
92861
92862
92863 Retire , we have engag'd ourselves too far .
92864 C sar himself has work , and our oppression
92865 Exceeds what we expected .
92866
92867 O my brave emperor , this is fought indeed !
92868 Had we done so at first , we had droven them home
92869 With clouts about their heads .
92870
92871 Thou bleed'st apace .
92872
92873 I had a wound here that was like a T ,
92874 But now 'tis made an H .
92875
92876 They do retire .
92877
92878 We'll beat 'em into bench-holes : I have yet
92879 Room for six scotches more .
92880
92881
92882 They are beaten , sir ; and our advantage serves
92883 For a fair victory .
92884
92885 Let us score their backs ,
92886 And snatch 'em up , as we take hares , behind :
92887 'Tis sport to maul a runner .
92888
92889 I will reward thee
92890 Once for thy sprightly comfort , and ten-fold
92891 For thy good valour . Come thee on .
92892
92893 I'll halt after .
92894
92895
92896 We have beat him to his camp ; run one before
92897 And let the queen know of our gests . To-morrow ,
92898 Before the sun shall see 's , we'll spill the blood
92899 That has to-day escap'd . I thank you all ;
92900 For doughty-handed are you , and have fought
92901 Not as you serv'd the cause , but as 't had been
92902 Each man's like mine ; you have shown all Hectors .
92903 Enter the city , clip your wives , your friends ,
92904 Tell them your feats ; whilst they with joyful tears
92905 Wash the congealment from your wounds , and kiss
92906 The honour'd gashes whole .
92907
92908 Give me thy hand :
92909
92910
92911 To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts ,
92912 Make her thanks bless thee . O thou day o' the world !
92913 Chain mine arm'd neck ; leap thou , attire and all ,
92914 Through proof of harness to my heart , and there
92915
92916 Ride on the pants triumphing .
92917
92918 Lord of lords !
92919 O infinite virtue ! com'st thou smiling from
92920 The world's great snare uncaught ?
92921
92922 My nightingale ,
92923 We have beat them to their beds . What , girl ! though grey
92924 Do something mingle with our younger brown , yet ha' we
92925 A brain that nourishes our nerves , and can
92926 Get goal for goal of youth . Behold this man ;
92927 Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand :
92928 Kiss it , my warrior : he hath fought to-day
92929 As if a god , in hate of mankind , had
92930 Destroy'd in such a shape .
92931
92932 I'll give thee , friend ,
92933 An armour all of gold ; it was a king's .
92934
92935 He has deserv'd it , were it carbuncled
92936 Like holy Ph bus' car . Give me thy hand :
92937 Through Alexandria make a jolly march ;
92938 Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them :
92939 Had our great palace the capacity
92940 To camp this host , we all would sup together
92941 And drink carouses to the next day's fate ,
92942 Which promises royal peril . Trumpeters ,
92943 With brazen din blast you the city's ear ,
92944 Make mingle with our rattling tabourines ,
92945 That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together ,
92946 Applauding our approach .
92947
92948
92949 If we be not reliev'd within this hour ,
92950 We must return to the court of guard : the night
92951 Is shiny , and they say we shall embattle
92952 By the second hour i' the morn .
92953
92954 This last day was
92955 A shrewd one to 's .
92956
92957
92958 O ! bear me witness , night ,
92959
92960 What man is this ?
92961
92962 Stand close and list him .
92963
92964 Be witness to me , O thou blessed moon ,
92965 When men revolted shall upon record
92966 Bear hateful memory , poor Enobarbus did
92967 Before thy face repent !
92968
92969 Enobarbus !
92970
92971 Peace !
92972 Hark further .
92973
92974 O sovereign mistress of true melancholy ,
92975 The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me ,
92976 That life , a very rebel to my will ,
92977 May hang no longer on me ; throw my heart
92978 Against the flint and hardness of my fault ,
92979 Which , being dried with grief , will break to powder ,
92980 And finish all foul thoughts . O Antony !
92981 Nobler than my revolt is infamous ,
92982 Forgive me in thine own particular ;
92983 But let the world rank me in register
92984 A master-leaver and a fugitive .
92985 O Antony ! O Antony !
92986
92987
92988 Let's speak to him .
92989
92990 Let's hear him , for the things he speaks
92991 May concern C sar .
92992
92993 Let's do so . But he sleeps .
92994
92995 Swounds rather ; for so bad a prayer as his
92996 Was never yet for sleep .
92997
92998 Go we to him .
92999
93000 Awake , sir , awake ! speak to us .
93001
93002 Hear you , sir ?
93003
93004 The Land of death hath raught him .
93005
93006 Hark ! the drums
93007 Demurely wake the sleepers . Let us bear him
93008 To the court of guard ; he is of note : our hour
93009 Is fully out .
93010
93011 Come on , then ;
93012 He may recover yet .
93013
93014 Their preparation is to-day by sea ;
93015 We please them not by land .
93016
93017 For both , my lord .
93018
93019 I would they'd fight i' the fire or i' the air ;
93020 We'd fight there too . But this it is ; our foot
93021 Upon the hills adjoining to the city
93022 Shall stay with us ; order for sea is given ,
93023 They have put forth the haven ,
93024 Where their appointment we may best discover
93025 And look on their endeavour .
93026
93027 But being charg'd , we will be still by land ,
93028 Which , as I take 't , we shall ; for his best force
93029 Is forth to man his galleys . To the vales ,
93030 And hold our best advantage !
93031
93032 Yet they are not join'd . Where yond pine does stand
93033 I shall discover all ; I'll bring thee word
93034 Straight how 'tis like to go .
93035
93036
93037 Swallows have built
93038 In Cleopatra's sails their nests ; the augurers
93039 Say they know not , they cannot tell ; look grimly ,
93040 And dare not speak their knowledge . Antony
93041 Is valiant , and dejected ; and , by starts ,
93042 His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear
93043 Of what he has and has not .
93044
93045 All is lost !
93046 This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me ;
93047 My fleet hath yielded to the foe , and yonder
93048 They cast their caps up and carouse together
93049 Like friends long lost . Triple-turn'd whore ! 'tis thou
93050 Hast sold me to this novice , and my heart
93051 Makes only wars on thee . Bid them all fly ;
93052 For when I am reveng'd upon my charm ,
93053 I have done all . Bid them all fly ; be gone .
93054
93055 O sun ! thy uprise shall I see no more ;
93056 Fortune and Antony part here ; even here
93057 Do we shake hands . All come to this ? The hearts
93058 That spaniel'd me at heels , to whom I gave
93059 Their wishes , do discandy , melt their sweets
93060 On blossoming C sar ; and this pine is bark'd ,
93061 That overtopp'd them all . Betray'd I am .
93062 O this false soul of Egypt ! this grave charm ,
93063 Whose eyes beck'd forth my wars , and call'd them home ,
93064 Whose bosom was my crownet , my chief end ,
93065 Like a right gipsy , hath , at fast and loose ,
93066 Beguil'd me to the very heart of loss .
93067 What , Eros ! Eros !
93068
93069 Ah ! thou spell . Avaunt !
93070
93071 Why is my lord enrag'd against his love ?
93072
93073 Vanish , or I shall give thee thy deserving ,
93074 And blemish C sar's triumph . Let him take thee ,
93075 And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians ;
93076 Follow his chariot , like the greatest spot
93077 Of all thy sex ; most monster-like , be shown
93078 For poor'st diminutives , for doits ; and let
93079 Patient Octavia plough thy visage up
93080 With her prepared nails .
93081
93082 'Tis well thou'rt gone ,
93083 If it be well to live ; but better 'twere
93084 Thou fell'st into my fury , for one death
93085 Might have prevented many . Eros , ho !
93086 The shirt of Nessus is upon me ; teach me ,
93087 Alcides , thou mine ancestor , thy rage ;
93088 Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon ;
93089 And with those hands , that grasp'd the heaviest club ,
93090 Subdue my worthiest self . The witch shall die :
93091 To the young Roman boy she hath sold me , and I fall
93092 Under this plot ; she dies for 't . Eros , ho !
93093
93094 Help me , my women ! O ! he is more mad
93095 Than Telamon for his shield ; the boar of Thessaly
93096 Was never so emboss'd .
93097
93098 To the monument !
93099 There lock yourself , and send him word you are dead .
93100 The soul and body rive not more in parting
93101 Than greatness going off .
93102
93103 To the monument !
93104 Mardian , go tell him I have slain myself ;
93105 Say that the last I spoke was 'Antony ,'
93106 And word it , prithee , piteously . Hence ,
93107 Mardian , and bring me how he takes my death .
93108 To the monument !
93109
93110 Eros , thou yet behold'st me ?
93111
93112 Ay , noble lord .
93113
93114 Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish ;
93115 A vapour sometime like a bear or lion ,
93116 A tower'd citadel , a pendant rock ,
93117 A forked mountain , or blue promontory
93118 With trees upon 't , that nod unto the world
93119 And mock our eyes with air : thou hast seen these signs ;
93120 They are black vesper's pageants .
93121
93122 Ay , my lord .
93123
93124 That which is now a horse , even with a thought
93125 The rack dislimns , and makes it indistinct ,
93126 As water is in water .
93127
93128 It does , my lord .
93129
93130 My good knave , Eros , now thy captain is
93131 Even such a body : here I am Antony ;
93132 Yet cannot hold this visible shape , my knave .
93133 I made these wars for Egypt ; and the queen ,
93134 Whose heart I thought I had , for she had mine ,
93135 Which whilst it was mine had annex'd unto 't
93136 A million more , now lost ; she , Eros , has
93137 Pack'd cards with C sar , and false-play'd my glory
93138 Unto an enemy's triumph .
93139 Nay , weep not , gentle Eros ; there is left us
93140 Ourselves to end ourselves .
93141
93142
93143 O ! thy vile lady ;
93144
93145 She has robb'd me of my sword .
93146
93147 No , Antony ;
93148 My mistress lov'd thee , and her fortunes mingled
93149 With thine entirely .
93150
93151 Hence , saucy eunuch ; peace !
93152 She hath betray'd me and shall die the death .
93153
93154 Death of one person can be paid but once ,
93155 And that she has discharg'd . What thou wouldst do
93156 Is done unto thy hand ; the last she spake
93157 Was , 'Antony ! most noble Antony !'
93158 Then in the midst a tearing groan did break
93159 The name of Antony ; it was divided
93160 Between her heart and lips . She render'd life ,
93161 Thy name so buried in her .
93162
93163 Dead , then ?
93164
93165 Dead .
93166
93167 Unarm , Eros ; the long day's task is done ,
93168 And we must sleep .
93169
93170 That thou depart'st hence safe ,
93171 Does pay thy labour richly ; go .
93172
93173 Off , pluck off :
93174 The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep
93175 The battery from my heart . O ! cleave , my sides ;
93176 Heart , once be stronger than thy continent ,
93177 Crack thy frail case ! Apace , Eros , apace .
93178 No more a soldier ; bruised pieces , go ;
93179 You have been nobly borne . From me awhile .
93180
93181 I will o'ertake thee , Cleopatra , and
93182 Weep for my pardon . So it must be , for now
93183 All length is torture ; since the torch is out ,
93184 Lie down , and stray no further . Now all labour
93185 Mars what it does ; yea , very force entangles
93186 Itself with strength ; seal then , and all is done .
93187 Eros !I come , my queen .Eros !Stay for me :
93188 Where souls do couch on flowers , we'll hand in hand ,
93189 And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze ;
93190 Dido and her neas shall want troops ,
93191 And all the haunt be ours . Come , Eros ! Eros !
93192
93193
93194 What would my lord ?
93195
93196 Since Cleopatra died ,
93197 I have liv'd in such dishonour , that the gods
93198 Detest my baseness . I , that with my sword
93199 Quarter'd the world , and o'er green Neptune's back
93200 With ships made cities , condemn myself to lack
93201 The courage of a woman ; less noble mind
93202 Than she , which by her death our C sar tells
93203 'I am conqueror of myself .' Thou art sworn , Eros ,
93204 That , when the exigent should come ,which now
93205 Is come indeed ,when I should see behind me
93206 The inevitable prosecution of
93207 Disgrace and horror , that , on my command ,
93208 Thou then wouldst kill me : do 't ; the time is come .
93209 Thou strik'st not me , 'tis C sar thou defeat'st .
93210 Put colour in thy cheek .
93211
93212 The gods withhold me !
93213 Shall I do that which all the Parthian darts ,
93214 Though enemy , lost aim and could not ?
93215
93216 Eros ,
93217 Wouldst thou be window'd in great Rome , and see
93218 Thy master thus with pleach'd arms , bending down
93219 His corrigible neck , his face subdu'd
93220 To penetrative shame , whilst the wheel'd seat
93221 Of fortunate C sar , drawn before him , branded
93222 His baseness that ensu'd ?
93223
93224 I would not see't .
93225
93226 Come , then ; for with a wound I must be cur'd .
93227 Draw that thy honest sword , which thou hast worn
93228 Most useful for thy country .
93229
93230 O , sir ! pardon me .
93231
93232 When I did make thee free , swor'st thou not then
93233 To do this when I bade thee ? Do it at once ,
93234 Or thy precedent services are all
93235 But accidents unpurpos'd . Draw , and come .
93236
93237 Turn from me then that noble countenance ,
93238 Wherein the worship of the whole world lies .
93239
93240 Lo thee !
93241
93242
93243 My sword is drawn .
93244
93245 Then let it do at once
93246 The thing why thou hast drawn it .
93247
93248 My dear master ,
93249 My captain , and my emperor , let me say ,
93250 Before I strike this bloody stroke , farewell .
93251
93252 'Tis said , man ; and farewell .
93253
93254 Farewell , great chief . Shall I strike now ?
93255
93256 Now , Eros .
93257
93258 Why , there then ; thus do I escape the sorrow
93259
93260 Of Antony's death .
93261
93262 Thrice-nobler than myself !
93263 Thou teachest me , O valiant Eros , what
93264 I should , and thou couldst not . My queen and Eros
93265 Have by their brave instruction got upon me
93266 A nobleness in record ; but I will be
93267 A bridegroom in my death , and run into 't
93268 As to a lover's bed . Come , then ; and , Eros ,
93269 Thy master dies thy scholar : to do thus
93270
93271 I learn'd of thee . How ! not dead ? not dead ?
93272 The guard , ho ! O ! dispatch me .
93273
93274
93275 What's the noise ?
93276
93277 I have done my work ill , friends : O ! make an end
93278 Of what I have begun .
93279
93280 The star is fallen .
93281
93282 And time is at his period .
93283
93284 Alas , and woe !
93285
93286 Let him that loves me strike me dead .
93287
93288 Not I .
93289
93290 Nor I .
93291
93292 Nor any one .
93293
93294
93295 Thy death and fortunes bid thy followers fly .
93296 This sword but shown to C sar , with this tidings ,
93297 Shall enter me with him .
93298
93299
93300 Where's Antony ?
93301
93302 There , Diomed , there .
93303
93304 Lives he ?
93305 Wilt thou not answer , man ?
93306
93307
93308 Art thou there , Diomed ? Draw thy sword , and give me
93309 Sufficing strokes for death .
93310
93311 Most absolute lord ,
93312 My mistress Cleopatra sent me to thee .
93313
93314 When did she send thee ?
93315
93316 Now , my lord .
93317
93318 Where is she ?
93319
93320 Lock'd in her monument . She had a prophesying fear
93321 Of what hath come to pass ; for when she saw
93322 Which never shall be found you did suspect
93323 She had dispos'd with C sar , and that your rage
93324 Would not be purg'd , she sent you word she was dead ;
93325 But , fearing since how it might work , hath sent
93326 Me to proclaim the truth ; and I am come ,
93327 I dread , too late .
93328
93329 Too late , good Diomed . Call my guard , I prithee .
93330
93331 What , ho ! the emperor's guard ! The guard , what , ho !
93332 Come , your lord calls !
93333
93334
93335 Bear me , good friends , where Cleopatra bides ;
93336 'Tis the last service that I shall command you .
93337
93338 Woe , woe are we , sir , you may not live to wear
93339 All your true followers out .
93340
93341 Most heavy day !
93342
93343 Nay , good my fellows , do not please sharp fate
93344 To grace it with your sorrows ; bid that welcome
93345 Which comes to punish us , and we punish it
93346 Seeming to bear it lightly . Take me up ;
93347 I have led you oft ; carry me now , good friends ,
93348 And have my thanks for all .
93349
93350 O Charmian ! I will never go from hence .
93351
93352 Be comforted , dear madam .
93353
93354 No , I will not .
93355 All strange and terrible events are welcome ,
93356 But comforts we despise ; our size of sorrow ,
93357 Proportion'd to our cause , must be as great
93358 As that which makes it .
93359
93360 How now ! is he dead ?
93361
93362 His death's upon him , but not dead .
93363 Look out o' the other side your monument ;
93364 His guard have brought him thither .
93365
93366
93367 O sun !
93368 Burn the great sphere thou mov'st in ; darkling stand
93369 The varying star o' the world . O Antony ,
93370 Antony , Antony ! Help , Charmian , help , Iras , help ;
93371 Help , friends below ! let's draw him hither .
93372
93373 Peace !
93374 Not C sar's valour hath o'erthrown Antony ,
93375 But Antony's hath triumph'd on itself .
93376
93377 So it should be , that none but Antony
93378 Should conquer Antony ; but woe 'tis so !
93379
93380 I am dying , Egypt , dying ; only
93381 I here importune death awhile , until
93382 Of many thousand kisses the poor last
93383 I lay upon thy lips .
93384
93385 I dare not , dear ,
93386 Dear my lord , pardon ,I dare not ,
93387 Lest I be taken : not the imperious show
93388 Of the full-fortun'd C sar ever shall
93389 Be brooch'd with me ; if knife , drugs , serpents , have
93390 Edge , sting , or operation , I am safe :
93391 Your wife Octavia , with her modest eyes
93392 And still conclusion , shall acquire no honour
93393 Demuring upon me . But come , come , Antony ,
93394 Help me , my women ,we must draw thee up .
93395 Assist , good friends .
93396
93397 O ! quick , or I am gone .
93398
93399 Here's sport indeed ! How heavy weighs my lord !
93400 Our strength is all gone into heaviness ,
93401 That makes the weight . Had I great Juno's power ,
93402 The strong-wing'd Mercury should fetch thee up ,
93403 And set thee by Jove's side . Yet come a little ,
93404 Wishers were ever fools . O ! come , come , come ;
93405
93406 And welcome , welcome ! die where thou hastliv'd ;
93407 Quicken with kissing ; had my lips that power ,
93408 Thus would I wear them out .
93409
93410 A heavy sight !
93411
93412 I am dying , Egypt , dying :
93413 Give me some wine , and let me speak a little .
93414
93415 No , let me speak ; and let me rail so high ,
93416 That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel ,
93417 Provok'd by my offence .
93418
93419 One word , sweet queen .
93420 Of C sar seek your honour with your safety . O !
93421
93422 They do not go together .
93423
93424 Gentle , hear me :
93425 None about C sar trust , but Proculeius .
93426
93427 My resolution and my hands I'll trust ;
93428 None about C sar .
93429
93430 The miserable change now at my end
93431 Lament nor sorrow at ; but please your thoughts
93432 In feeding them with those my former fortunes
93433 Wherein I liv'd , the greatest prince o' the world ,
93434 The noblest ; and do now not basely die ,
93435 Not cowardly put off my helmet to
93436 My countryman ; a Roman by a Roman
93437 Valiantly vanquish'd . Now my spirit is going ;
93438 I can no more .
93439
93440 Noblest of men , woo 't die ?
93441 Hast thou no care of me ? shall I abide
93442 In this dull world , which in thy absence is
93443 No better than a sty ? O ! see my women ,
93444
93445 The crown o' the earth doth melt . My lord !
93446 O ! wither'd is the garland of the war ,
93447 The soldier's pole is fall'n ; young boys and girls
93448 Are level now with men ; the odds is gone ,
93449 And there is nothing left remarkable
93450 Beneath the visiting moon .
93451
93452
93453 O , quietness , lady !
93454
93455 She is dead too , our sovereign .
93456
93457 Lady !
93458
93459 Madam !
93460
93461 O madam , madam , madam !
93462
93463 Royal Egypt !
93464 Empress !
93465
93466 Peace , peace , Iras !
93467
93468 No more , but e'en a woman , and commanded
93469 By such poor passion as the maid that milks
93470 And does the meanest chares . It were for me
93471 To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods ;
93472 To tell them that this world did equal theirs
93473 Till they had stol'n our jewel . All's but naught ;
93474 Patience is sottish , and impatience does
93475 Become a dog that's mad ; then is it sin
93476 To rush into the secret house of death ,
93477 Ere death dare come to us ? How do you , women ?
93478 What , what ! good cheer ! Why , how now , Charmian !
93479 My noble girls ! Ah , women , women , look !
93480 Our lamp is spent , it's out . Good sirs , take heart ;
93481 We'll bury him ; and then , what's brave , what's noble ,
93482 Let's do it after the high Roman fashion ,
93483 And make death proud to take us . Come , away ;
93484 This case of that huge spirit now is cold ;
93485 Ah ! women , women . Come ; we have no friend
93486 But resolution , and the briefest end .
93487
93488 Go to him , Dolabella , bid him yield ;
93489 Being so frustrate , tell him he mocks
93490 The pauses that he makes .
93491
93492 C sar , I shall .
93493
93494 Wherefore is that ? and what art thou that dar'st
93495 Appear thus to us ?
93496
93497 I am call'd Dercetas ;
93498 Mark Antony I serv'd , who best was worthy
93499 Best to be serv'd ; whilst he stood up and spoke
93500 He was my master , and I wore my life
93501 To spend upon his haters . If thou please
93502 To take me to thee , as I was to him
93503 I'll be to C sar ; if thou pleasest not ,
93504 I yield thee up my life .
93505
93506 What is 't thou sayst ?
93507
93508 I say , O C sar , Antony is dead .
93509
93510 The breaking of so great a thing should make
93511 A greater crack ; the round world
93512 Should have shook lions into civil streets ,
93513 And citizens to their dens . The death of Antony
93514 Is not a single doom ; in the name lay
93515 A moiety of the world .
93516
93517 He is dead , C sar ;
93518 Not by a public minister of justice ,
93519 Nor by a hired knife ; but that self hand ,
93520 Which writ his honour in the acts it did ,
93521 Hath , with the courage which the heart did lend it ,
93522 Splitted the heart . This is his sword ;
93523 I robb'd his wound of it ; behold it stain'd
93524 With his most noble blood .
93525
93526 Look you sad , friends ?
93527 The gods rebuke me , but it is tidings
93528 To wash the eyes of kings .
93529
93530 And strange it is ,
93531 That nature must compel us to lament
93532 Our most persisted deeds .
93533
93534 His taints and honours
93535 Wag'd equal with him .
93536
93537 A rarer spirit never
93538 Did steer humanity ; but you , gods , will give us
93539 Some faults to make us men . C sar is touch'd .
93540
93541 When such a spacious mirror's set before him ,
93542 He needs must see himself .
93543
93544 O Antony !
93545 I have follow'd thee to this ; but we do lance
93546 Diseases in our bodies : I must perforce
93547 Have shown to thee such a declining day ,
93548 Or look on thine ; we could not stall together
93549 In the whole world . But yet let me lament ,
93550 With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts ,
93551 That thou , my brother , my competitor
93552 In top of all design , my mate in empire ,
93553 Friend and companion in the front of war ,
93554 The arm of mine own body , and the heart
93555 Where mine his thoughts did kindle , that our stars ,
93556 Unreconciliable , should divide
93557 Our equalness to this . Hear me , good friends ,
93558
93559
93560 But I will tell you at some meeter season :
93561 The business of this man looks out of him ;
93562
93563 We'll hear him what he says . Whence are you ?
93564
93565 A poor Egyptian yet . The queen my mistress ,
93566 Confin'd in all she has , her monument ,
93567 Of thy intents desires instruction ,
93568 That she preparedly may frame herself
93569 To the way she's forc'd to .
93570
93571 Bid her have good heart ;
93572 She soon shall know of us , by some of ours ,
93573 How honourable and how kindly we
93574 Determine for her ; for C sar cannot live
93575 To be ungentle .
93576
93577 So the gods preserve thee !
93578
93579
93580 Come hither , Proculeius . Go and say ,
93581 We purpose her no shame ; give her what comforts
93582 The quality of her passion shall require ,
93583 Lest , in her greatness , by some mortal stroke
93584 She do defeat us ; for her life in Rome
93585 Would be eternal in our triumph . Go ,
93586 And with your speediest bring us what she says ,
93587 And how you find of her .
93588
93589 C sar , I shall .
93590
93591
93592 Gallus , go you along .
93593
93594 To second Proculeius ?
93595
93596 Dolabella !
93597
93598 Dolabella !
93599
93600 Let him alone , for I remember now
93601 How he's employ'd , he shall in time be ready .
93602 Go with me to my tent ; where you shall see
93603 How hardly I was drawn into this war ;
93604 How calm and gentle I proceeded still
93605 In all my writings . Go with me , and see
93606 What I can show in this .
93607
93608
93609 My desolation does begin to make
93610 A better life . 'Tis paltry to be C sar ;
93611 Not being Fortune , he's but Fortune's knave ,
93612 A minister of her will ; and it is great
93613 To do that thing that ends all other deeds ,
93614 Which shackles accidents , and bolts up change ,
93615 Which sleeps , and never palates more the dug ,
93616 The beggar's nurse and C sar's .
93617
93618
93619 C sar sends greeting to the Queen of Egypt ;
93620 And bids thee study on what fair demands
93621 Thou mean'st to have him grant thee .
93622
93623 What's thy name ?
93624
93625 My name is Proculeius .
93626
93627 Antony
93628 Did tell me of you , bade me trust you ; but
93629 I do not greatly care to be deceiv'd ,
93630 That have no use for trusting . If your master
93631 Would have a queen his beggar , you must tell him ,
93632 That majesty , to keep decorum , must
93633 No less beg than a kingdom ; if he please
93634 To give me conquer'd Egypt for my son ,
93635 He gives me so much of mine own as I
93636 Will kneel to him with thanks .
93637
93638 Be of good cheer ;
93639 You're fall'n into a princely hand , fear nothing .
93640 Make your full reference freely to my lord ,
93641 Who is so full of grace , that it flows over
93642 On all that need ; let me report to him
93643 Your sweet dependancy , and you shall find
93644 A conqueror that will pray in aid for kindness
93645 Where he for grace is kneel'd to .
93646
93647 Pray you , tell him
93648 I am his fortune's vassal , and I send him
93649 The greatness he has got . I hourly learn
93650 A doctrine of obedience , and would gladly
93651 Look him i' the face .
93652
93653 This I'll report , dear lady :
93654 Have comfort , for I know your plight is pitied
93655 Of him that caus'd it .
93656
93657 You see how easily she may be surpris'd .
93658
93659
93660 Guard her till C sar come .
93661
93662 Royal queen !
93663
93664 O Cleopatra ! thou art taken , queen .
93665
93666 Quick , quick , good hands .
93667
93668
93669 Hold , worthy lady , hold !
93670
93671 Do not yourself such wrong , who are in this
93672 Reliev'd , but not betray'd .
93673
93674 What , of death too ,
93675 That rids our dogs of languish ?
93676
93677 Cleopatra ,
93678 Do not abuse my master's bounty by
93679 The undoing of yourself ; let the world see
93680 His nobleness well acted , which your death
93681 Will never let come forth .
93682
93683 Where art thou , death ?
93684 Come hither , come ! come , come , and take a queen
93685 Worth many babes and beggars !
93686
93687 O ! temperance , lady .
93688
93689 Sir , I will eat no meat , I'll not drink , sir ;
93690 If idle talk will once be necessary ,
93691 I'll not sleep neither . This mortal house I'll ruin ,
93692 Do C sar what he can . Know , sir , that I
93693 Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court ,
93694 Nor once be chastis'd with the sober eye
93695 Of dull Octavia . Shall they hoist me up
93696 And show me to the shouting varletry
93697 Of censuring Rome ? Rather a ditch in Egypt
93698 Be gentle grave unto me ! rather on Nilus' mud
93699 Lay me stark nak'd , and let the water-flies
93700 Blow me into abhorring ! rather make
93701 My country's high pyramides my gibbet ,
93702 And hang me up in chains !
93703
93704 You do extend
93705 These thoughts of horror further than you shall
93706 Find cause in C sar .
93707
93708
93709 Proculeius ,
93710 What thou hast done thy master C sar knows ,
93711 And he hath sent for thee ; as for the queen ,
93712 I'll take her to my guard .
93713
93714 So , Dolabella ,
93715 It shall content me best ; be gentle to her .
93716
93717
93718 To C sar I will speak what you shall please ,
93719 If you'll employ me to him .
93720
93721 Say , I would die .
93722
93723
93724 Most noble empress , you have heard of me ?
93725
93726 I cannot tell .
93727
93728 Assuredly you know me .
93729
93730 No matter , sir , what I have heard or known .
93731 You laugh when boys or women tell their dreams ;
93732 Is 't not your trick ?
93733
93734 I understand not , madam .
93735
93736 I dream'd there was an Emperor Antony :
93737 O ! such another sleep , that I might see
93738 But such another man .
93739
93740 If it might please ye ,
93741
93742 His face was as the heavens , and therein stuck
93743 A sun and moon , which kept their course , and lighted
93744 The little O , the earth .
93745
93746 Most sovereign creature ,
93747
93748 His legs besfrid the ocean ; his rear'd arm
93749 Crested the world ; his voice was propertied
93750 As all the tuned spheres , and that to friends ;
93751 But when he meant to quail and shake the orb ,
93752 He was as rattling thunder . For his bounty ,
93753 There was no winter in 't , an autumn 'twas
93754 That grew the more by reaping ; his delights
93755 Were dolphin-like , they show'd his back above
93756 The element they liv'd in ; in his livery
93757 Walk'd crowns and crownets , realms and islands were
93758 As plates dropp'd from his pocket .
93759
93760 Cleopatra ,
93761
93762 Think you there was , or might be , such a man
93763 As this I dream'd of ?
93764
93765 Gentle madam , no .
93766
93767 You lie , up to the hearing of the gods .
93768 But , if there be , or ever were , one such ,
93769 It's past the size of dreaming ; nature wants stuff
93770 To vie strange forms with fancy ; yet to imagine
93771 An Antony were nature's piece 'gainst fancy ,
93772 Condemning shadows quite .
93773
93774 Hear me , good madam .
93775 Your loss is as yourself , great ; and you bear it
93776 As answering to the weight : would I might never
93777 O'ertake pursu'd success , but I do feel ,
93778 By the rebound of yours , a grief that smites
93779 My very heart at root .
93780
93781 I thank you , sir .
93782 Know you what C sar means to do with me ?
93783
93784 I am loath to tell you what I would you knew .
93785
93786 Nay , pray you , sir ,
93787
93788 Though he be honourable ,
93789
93790 He'll lead me then in triumph ?
93791
93792 Madam , he will ; I know 't .
93793
93794 Which is the Queen of Egypt ?
93795
93796 It is the emperor , madam .
93797
93798
93799 Arise , you shall not kneel .
93800 I pray you , rise ; rise , Egypt .
93801
93802 Sir , the gods
93803 Will have it thus ; my master and my lord
93804 I must obey .
93805
93806 Take to you no hard thoughts ;
93807 The record of what injuries you did us ,
93808 Though written in our flesh , we shall remember
93809 As things but done by chance .
93810
93811 Sole sir o' the world ,
93812 I cannot project mine own cause so well
93813 To make it clear ; but do confess I have
93814 Been laden with like frailties which before
93815 Have often sham'd our sex .
93816
93817 Cleopatra , know ,
93818 We will extenuate rather than enforce :
93819 If you apply yourself to our intents ,
93820 Which towards you are most gentle ,you shall find
93821 A benefit in this change ; but if you seek
93822 To lay on me a cruelty , by taking
93823 Antony's course , you shall bereave yourself
93824 Of my good purposes , and put your children
93825 To that destruction which I'll guard them from ,
93826 If thereon you rely . I'll take my leave .
93827
93828 And may through all the world : 'tis yours ; and we ,
93829 Your scutcheons , and your signs of conquest , shall
93830 Hang in what place you please . Here , my good lord .
93831
93832 You shall advise me in all for Cleopatra .
93833
93834 This is the brief of money , plate , and jewels ,
93835 I am possess'd of : 'tis exactly valued ;
93836 Not petty things admitted . Where's Seleucus ?
93837
93838 Here , madam .
93839
93840 This is my treasurer ; let him speak , my lord ,
93841 Upon his peril , that I have reserv'd
93842 To myself nothing . Speak the truth , Seleucus .
93843
93844 Madam ,
93845 I had rather seal my lips , than , to my peril ,
93846 Speak that which is not .
93847
93848 What have I kept back ?
93849
93850 Enough to purchase what you have made known .
93851
93852 Nay , blush not , Cleopatra ; I approve
93853 Your wisdom in the deed .
93854
93855 See ! C sar ! O , behold ,
93856 How pomp is follow'd ; mine will now be yours ;
93857 And , should we shift estates , yours would be mine .
93858 The ingratitude of this Seleucus does
93859 Even make me wild . O slave ! of no more trust
93860 Than love that's hir'd . What ! goest thou back ? thou shalt
93861 Go back , I warrant thee ; but I'll catch thine eyes ,
93862 Though they had wings : slave , soulless villain , dog !
93863 O rarely base !
93864
93865 Good queen , let us entreat you .
93866
93867 O C sar ! what a wounding shame is this ,
93868 That thou , vouchsafing here to visit me ,
93869 Doing the honour of thy lordliness
93870 To one so meek , that mine own servant should
93871 Parcel the sum of my disgraces by
93872 Addition of his envy . Say , good C sar ,
93873 That I some lady trifles have reserv'd ,
93874 Immoment toys , things of such dignity
93875 As we greet modern friends withal ; and say ,
93876 Some nobler token I have kept apart
93877 For Livia and Octavia , to induce
93878 Their mediation ; must I be unfolded
93879 With one that I have bred ? The gods ! it smites me
93880 Beneath the fall I have .
93881
93882 Prithee , go hence ;
93883 Or I shall show the cinders of my spirits
93884 Through the ashes of my chance . Wert thou a man ,
93885 Thou wouldst have mercy on me .
93886
93887 Forbear , Seleucus .
93888
93889
93890 Be it known that we , the greatest , are misthought
93891 For things that others do ; and , when we fall ,
93892 We answer others' merits in our name ,
93893 Are therefore to be pitied .
93894
93895 Cleopatra ,
93896 Not what you have reserv'd , nor what acknowledg'd ,
93897 Put we i' the roll of conquest : still be 't yours ,
93898 Bestow it at your pleasure ; and believe ,
93899 C sar's no merchant , to make prize with you
93900 Of things that merchants sold . Therefore be cheer'd ;
93901 Make not your thoughts your prisons : no , dear queen ;
93902 For we intend so to dispose you as
93903 Yourself shall give us counsel . Feed , and sleep :
93904 Our care and pity is so much upon you ,
93905 That we remain your friend ; and so , adieu .
93906
93907 My master , and my lord !
93908
93909 Not so . Adieu .
93910
93911
93912 He words me , girls , he words me , that I should not
93913 Be noble to myself : but , hark thee , Charmian .
93914
93915
93916 Finish , good lady ; the bright day is done ,
93917 And we are for the dark .
93918
93919 Hie thee again :
93920 I have spoke already , and it is provided ;
93921 Go , put it to the haste .
93922
93923 Madam , I will .
93924
93925
93926 Where is the queen ?
93927
93928 Behold , sir .
93929
93930
93931 Dolabella !
93932
93933 Madam , as thereto sworn by your command ,
93934 Which my love makes religion to obey ,
93935 I tell you this : C sar through Syria
93936 Intends his journey ; and within three days
93937 You with your children will be send before .
93938 Make your best use of this ; I have perform'd
93939 Your pleasure and my promise .
93940
93941 Dolabella ,
93942 I shall remain your debtor .
93943
93944 I your servant .
93945 Adieu , good queen ; I must attend on C sar .
93946
93947 Farewell , and thanks .
93948
93949 Now , Iras , what think'st thou ?
93950 Thou , an Egyptian puppet , shall be shown
93951 In Rome , as well as I ; mechanic slaves
93952 With greasy aprons , rules and hammers , shall
93953 Uplift us to the view ; in their thick breaths ,
93954 Rank of gross diet , shall we be enclouded ,
93955 And forc'd to drink their vapour .
93956
93957 The gods forbid !
93958
93959 Nay , 'tis most certain , Iras . Saucy lictors
93960 Will catch at us , like strumpets , and scald rimers
93961 Ballad us out o' tune ; the quick comedians
93962 Extemporally will stage us , and present
93963 Our Alexandrian revels . Antony
93964 Shall be brought drunken forth , and I shall see
93965 Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness
93966 I' the posture of a whore .
93967
93968 O , the good gods !
93969
93970 Nay , that's certain .
93971
93972 I'll never see it ; for , I am sure my nails
93973 Are stronger than mine eyes .
93974
93975 Why , that's the way
93976 To fool their preparation , and to conquer
93977 Their most absurd intents .
93978
93979
93980 Now , Charmian ,
93981 Show me , my women , like a queen ; go fetch
93982 My best attires ; I am again for Cydnus ,
93983 To meet Mark Antony . Sirrah Iras , go .
93984 Now , noble Charmian , we'll dispatch indeed ;
93985 And , when thou hast done this chare , I'll give thee leave
93986 To play till doomsday . Bring our crown and all .
93987
93988 Wherefore's this noise ?
93989
93990 Here is a rural fellow
93991 That will not be denied your highness' presence :
93992 He brings you figs .
93993
93994 Let him come in .
93995
93996 What poor an instrument
93997 May do a noble deed ! he brings me liberty .
93998 My resolution's plac'd , and I have nothing
93999 Of woman in me ; now from head to foot
94000 I am marble-constant , now the fleeting moon
94001 No planet is of mine .
94002
94003
94004 This is the man .
94005
94006 Avoid , and leave him .
94007
94008 Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there ,
94009 That kills and pains not ?
94010
94011 Truly , I have him ; but I would not be the party that should desire you to touch him , for his biting is immortal ; those that do die of it do seldom or never recover .
94012
94013 Remember'st thou any that have died on 't ?
94014
94015 Very many , men and women too . I heard of one of them no longer than yesterday ; a very honest woman , but something given to lie , as a woman should not do but in the way of honesty , how she died of the biting of it , what pain she felt . Truly , she makes a very good report o' the worm ; but he that will believe all that they say shall never be saved by half that they do . But this is most fallible , the worm's an odd worm .
94016
94017 Get thee hence ; farewell .
94018
94019 I wish you all joy of the worm .
94020
94021
94022 Farewell .
94023
94024 You must think this , look you , that the worm will do his kind .
94025
94026 Ay , ay ; farewell .
94027
94028 Look you , the worm is not to be trusted but in the keeping of wise people ; for indeed there is no goodness in the worm .
94029
94030 Take thou no care ; it shall be heeded .
94031
94032 Very good . Give it nothing , I pray you , for it is not worth the feeding .
94033
94034 Will it eat me ?
94035
94036 You must not think I am so simple but I know the devil himself will not eat a woman ; I know that a woman is a dish for the gods , if the devil dress her not . But , truly , these same whoreson devils do the gods great harm in their women , for in every ten that they make , the devils mar five .
94037
94038 Well , get thee gone ; farewell .
94039
94040 Yes , forsooth ; I wish you joy of the worm .
94041
94042 Give me my robe , put on my crown ; I have
94043 Immortal longings in me ; now no more
94044 The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip .
94045 Yare , yare , good Iras ; quick . Methinks I hear
94046 Antony call ; I see him rouse himself
94047 To praise my noble act ; I hear him mock
94048 The luck of C sar , which the gods give men
94049 To excuse their after wrath : husband , I come :
94050 Now to that name my courage prove my title !
94051 I am fire , and air ; my other elements
94052 I give to baser life . So ; have you done ?
94053 Come then , and take the last warmth of my lips .
94054 Farewell , kind Charmian ; Iras , long farewell .
94055
94056 Have I the aspic in my lips ? Dost fall ?
94057 If thou and nature can so gently part ,
94058 The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch ,
94059 Which hurts , and is desir'd . Dost thou lie still ?
94060 If thus thou vanishest , thou tell'st the world
94061 It is not worth leave-taking .
94062
94063 Dissolve , thick cloud , and rain ; that I may say ,
94064 The gods themselves do weep .
94065
94066 This proves me base :
94067 If she first meet the curled Antony ,
94068 He'll make demand of her , and spend that kiss
94069 Which is my heaven to have . Come , thou mortal wretch ,
94070
94071 With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate
94072 Of life at once untie ; poor venomous fool ,
94073 Be angry , and dispatch . O ! couldst thou speak ,
94074 That I might hear thee call great C sar ass
94075 Unpolicied .
94076
94077 O eastern star !
94078
94079 Peace , peace !
94080 Dost thou not see my baby at my breast ,
94081 That sucks the nurse asleep ?
94082
94083 O , break ! O , break !
94084
94085 As sweet as balm , as soft as air , as gentle ,
94086 O Antony !Nay , I will take thee too .
94087
94088 What should I stay
94089
94090
94091 In this vile world ? So , fare thee well .
94092 Now boast thee , death , in thy possession lies
94093 A lass unparallel'd . Downy windows , close ;
94094 And golden Ph bus never be beheld
94095 Of eyes again so royal ! Your crown's awry ;
94096 I'll mend it , and then play .
94097
94098
94099 Where is the queen ?
94100
94101 Speak softly , wake her not .
94102
94103 C sar hath sent
94104
94105 Too slow a messenger .
94106
94107 O ! come apace , dispatch ; I partly feel thee .
94108
94109 Approach , ho ! All's not well ; C sar's beguil'd .
94110
94111 There's Dolabella sent from C sar ; call him .
94112
94113 What work is here ! Charmian , is this well done ?
94114
94115 It is well done , and fitting for a princess
94116 Descended of so many royal kings .
94117 Ah ! soldier .
94118
94119 How goes it here ?
94120
94121 All dead .
94122
94123 C sar , thy thoughts
94124 Touch their effects in this ; thyself art coming
94125 To see perform'd the dreaded act which thou
94126 So sought'st to hinder .
94127
94128 O ! sir , you are too sure an augurer ;
94129 That you did fear is done .
94130
94131 Bravest at the last ,
94132 She levell'd at our purposes , and , being royal ,
94133 Took her own way . The manner of their deaths ?
94134 I do not see them bleed .
94135
94136 Who was last with them ?
94137
94138 A simple countryman that brought her figs :
94139 This was his basket .
94140
94141 Poison'd then .
94142
94143 O C sar !
94144 This Charmian liv'd but now ; she stood , and spake :
94145 I found her trimming up the diadem
94146 On her dead mistress ; tremblingly she stood ,
94147 And on the sudden dropp'd .
94148
94149 O noble weakness !
94150 If they had swallow'd poison 'twould appear
94151 By external swelling ; but she looks like sleep ,
94152 As she would catch another Antony
94153 In her strong toil of grace .
94154
94155 Here , on her breast ,
94156 There is a vent of blood , and something blown ;
94157 The like is on her arm .
94158
94159 This is an aspic's trail ; and these fig-leaves
94160 Have slime upon them , such as the aspic leaves
94161 Upon the caves of Nile .
94162
94163 Most probable
94164 That so she died ; for her physician tells me
94165 She hath pursu'd conclusions infinite
94166 Of easy ways to die . Take up her bed ;
94167 And bear her women from the monument .
94168 She shall be buried by her Antony :
94169 No grave upon the earth shall clip in it
94170 A pair so famous . High events as these
94171 Strike those that make them ; and their story is
94172 No less in pity than his glory which
94173 Brought them to be lamented . Our army shall ,
94174 In solemn show , attend this funeral ,
94175 And then to Rome . Come , Dolabella , see
94176 High order in this great solemnity .
94177
94178 CORIOLANUS
94179
94180 Before we proceed any further , hear me speak .
94181
94182 Speak , speak .
94183
94184 You are all resolved rather to die than to famish ?
94185
94186 Resolved , resolved .
94187
94188 First , you know Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the people .
94189
94190 We know't , we know't .
94191
94192 Let us kill him , and we'll have corn at our own price . Is't a verdict ?
94193
94194 No more talking on't ; let it be done .
94195 Away , away !
94196
94197 One word , good citizens .
94198
94199 We are accounted poor citizens , the patricians good . What authority surfeits on would relieve us . If they would yield us but the superfluity , while it were wholesome , we might guess they relieved us humanely ; but they think we are too dear : the leanness that afflicts us , the object of our misery , is as an inventory to particularise their abundance ; our sufferance is a gain to them . Let us revenge this with our pikes , ere we become rakes : for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread , not in thirst for revenge .
94200
94201 Would you proceed especially against Caius Marcius ?
94202
94203 Against him first : he's a very dog to the commonalty .
94204
94205 Consider you what services he has done for his country ?
94206
94207 Very well ; and could be content to give him good report for't , but that he pays himself with being proud .
94208
94209 Nay , but speak not maliciously .
94210
94211 I say unto you , what he hath done famously , he did it to that end : though soft-conscienced men can be content to say it was for his country , he did it to please his mother , and to be partly proud ; which he is , even to the altitude of his virtue .
94212
94213 What he cannot help in his nature , you account a vice in him . You must in no way say he is covetous .
94214
94215 If I must not , I need not be barren of accusations : he hath faults , with surplus , to tire in repetition .
94216
94217 What shouts are these ? The other side o' the city is risen : why stay we prating here ? to the Capitol !
94218
94219 Come , come .
94220
94221 Soft ! who comes here ?
94222
94223
94224 Worthy Menenius Agrippa ; one that hath always loved the people .
94225
94226 He's one honest enough : would all the rest were so !
94227
94228 What work's , my countrymen , in hand ? Where go you
94229 With bats and clubs ? The matter ? Speak , I pray you .
94230
94231 Our business is not unknown to the senate ; they have had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do , which now we'll show 'em in deeds . They say poor suitors have strong breaths : they shall know we have strong arms too .
94232
94233 Why , masters , my good friends , mine honest neighbours ,
94234 Will you undo yourselves ?
94235
94236 We cannot , sir ; we are undone already .
94237
94238 I tell you , friends , most charitable care
94239 Have the patricians of you . For your wants ,
94240 Your suffering in this dearth , you may as well
94241 Strike at the heaven with your staves as lift them
94242 Against the Roman state , whose course will on
94243 The way it takes , cracking ten thousand curbs
94244 Of more strong link asunder than can ever
94245 Appear in your impediment . For the dearth ,
94246 The gods , not the patricians , make it , and
94247 Your knees to them , not arms , must help . Alack !
94248 You are transported by calamity
94249 Thither where more attends you ; and you slander
94250 The helms o' the state , who care for you like fathers ,
94251 When you curse them as enemies .
94252
94253 Care for us ! True , indeed ! They ne'er cared for us yet : suffer us to famish , and their storehouses crammed with grain ; make edicts for usury , to support usurers ; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich , and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor . If the wars eat us not up , they will ; and there's all the love they bear us .
94254
94255 Either you must
94256 Confess yourselves wondrous malicious ,
94257 Or be accus'd of folly . I shall tell you
94258 A pretty tale : it may be you have heard it ;
94259 But , since it serves my purpose , I will venture
94260 To scale't a little more .
94261
94262 Well , I'll hear it , sir ; yet you must not think to fob off our disgrace with a tale ; but , an't please you , deliver .
94263
94264 There was a time when all the body's members
94265 Rebell'd against the belly ; thus accus'd it :
94266 That only like a gulf it did remain
94267 I' the midst o' the body , idle and unactive ,
94268 Still cupboarding the viand , never bearing
94269 Like labour with the rest , where the other instruments
94270 Did see and hear , devise , instruct , walk , feel ,
94271 And , mutually participate , did minister
94272 Unto the appetite and affection common
94273 Of the whole body . The belly answer'd ,
94274
94275 Well , sir , what answer made the belly ?
94276
94277 Sir , I shall tell you .With a kind of smile ,
94278 Which ne'er came from the lungs , but even thus
94279 For , look you , I may make the belly smile
94280 As well as speak it tauntingly replied
94281 To the discontented members , the mutinous parts
94282 That envied his receipt ; even so most fitly
94283 As you malign our senators for that
94284 They are not such as you .
94285
94286 Your belly's answer ? What !
94287 The kingly crowned head , the vigilant eye ,
94288 The counsellor heart , the arm our soldier ,
94289 Our steed the leg , the tongue our trumpeter ,
94290 With other muniments and petty helps
94291 In this our fabric , if that they
94292
94293 What then ?
94294 'Fore me , this fellow speaks ! what then ? what then ?
94295
94296 Should by the cormorant belly be restrain'd ,
94297 Who is the sink o' the body ,
94298
94299 Well , what then ?
94300
94301 The former agents , if they did complain ,
94302 What could the belly answer ?
94303
94304 I will tell you ;
94305 If you'll bestow a small , of what you have little ,
94306 Patience a while , you'll hear the belly's answer .
94307
94308 You're long about it .
94309
94310 Note me this , good friend ;
94311 Your most grave belly was deliberate ,
94312 Not rash like his accusers , and thus answer'd :
94313 'True is it , my incorporate friends ,' quoth he ,
94314 'That I receive the general food at first ,
94315 Which you do live upon ; and fit it is ;
94316 Because I am the store-house and the shop
94317 Of the whole body : but , if you do remember ,
94318 I send it through the rivers of your blood ,
94319 Even to the court , the heart , to the seat o' the brain ;
94320 And , through the cranks and offices of man ,
94321 The strongest nerves and small inferior veins
94322 From me receive that natural competency
94323 Whereby they live . And though that all at once ,
94324 You , my good friends ,' this says the belly , mark me ,
94325
94326 Ay , sir ; well , well .
94327
94328 'Though all at once cannot
94329 See what I do deliver out to each ,
94330 Yet I can make my audit up , that all
94331 From me do back receive the flour of all ,
94332 And leave me but the bran .' What say you to't ?
94333
94334 It was an answer : how apply you this ?
94335
94336 The senators of Rome are this good belly ,
94337 And you the mutinous members ; for , examine
94338 Their counsels and their cares , digest things rightly
94339 Touching the weal o' the common , you shall find
94340 No public benefit which you receive
94341 But it proceeds or comes from them to you ,
94342 And no way from yourselves . What do you think ,
94343 You , the great toe of this assembly ?
94344
94345 I the great toe ? Why the great toe ?
94346
94347 For that , being one o' the lowest , basest , poorest ,
94348 Of this most wise rebellion , thou go'st foremost :
94349 Thou rascal , that art worst in blood to run ,
94350 Lead'st first to win some vantage .
94351 But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs :
94352 Rome and her rats are at the point of battle ;
94353 The one side must have bale .
94354
94355 Hail , noble Marcius !
94356
94357 Thanks .What's the matter , you dissentious rogues ,
94358 That , rubbing the poor itch of your opinion ,
94359 Make yourselves scabs ?
94360
94361 We have ever your good word .
94362
94363 He that will give good words to thee will flatter
94364 Beneath abhorring . What would you have , you curs ,
94365 That like nor peace nor war ? the one affrights you ,
94366 The other makes you proud . He that trusts to you ,
94367 Where he should find you lions , finds you hares ;
94368 Where foxes , geese : you are no surer , no ,
94369 Than is the coal of fire upon the ice ,
94370 Or hailstone in the sun . Your virtue is ,
94371 To make him worthy whose offence subdues him ,
94372 And curse that justice did it . Who deserves greatness
94373 Deserves your hate ; and your affections are
94374 A sick man's appetite , who desires most that
94375 Which would increase his evil . He that depends
94376 Upon your favours swims with fins of lead
94377 And hews down oaks with rushes . Hang ye ! Trust ye ?
94378 With every minute you do change a mind ,
94379 And call him noble that was now your hate ,
94380 Him vile that was your garland . What's the matter ,
94381 That in these several places of the city
94382 You cry against the noble senate , who ,
94383 Under the gods , keep you in awe , which else
94384 Would feed on one another ? What's their seeking ?
94385
94386 For corn at their own rates ; whereof they say
94387 The city is well stor'd .
94388
94389 Hang 'em ! They say !
94390 They'll sit by the fire , and presume to know
94391 What's done i' the Capitol ; who's like to rise ,
94392 Who thrives , and who declines ; side factions , and give out
94393 Conjectural marriages ; making parties strong ,
94394 And feebling such as stand not in their liking ,
94395 Below their cobbled shoes . They say there's grain enough !
94396 Would the nobility lay aside their ruth ,
94397 And let me use my sword , I'd make a quarry
94398 With thousands of these quarter'd slaves , as high
94399 As I could pick my lance .
94400
94401 Nay , these are almost thoroughly persuaded ;
94402 For though abundantly they lack discretion ,
94403 Yet are they passing cowardly . But , I beseech you ,
94404 What says the other troop ?
94405
94406 They are dissolv'd : hang 'em !
94407 They said they were an-hungry ; sigh'd forth proverbs :
94408 That hunger broke stone walls ; that dogs must eat ;
94409 That meat was made for mouths ; that the gods sent not
94410 Corn for the rich men only . With these shreds
94411 They vented their complainings ; which being answer'd ,
94412 And a petition granted them , a strange one ,
94413 To break the heart of generosity ,
94414 And make bold power look pale ,they threw their caps
94415 As they would hang them on the horns o' the moon ,
94416 Shouting their emulation .
94417
94418 What is granted them ?
94419
94420 Five tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms ,
94421 Of their own choice : one's Junius Brutus ,
94422 Sicinius Velutus , and I know not 'Sdeath !
94423 The rabble should have first unroof'd the city ,
94424 Ere so prevail'd with me ; it will in time
94425 Win upon power , and throw forth greater themes
94426 For insurrection's arguing .
94427
94428 This is strange .
94429
94430 Go ; get you home , you fragments !
94431
94432
94433 Where's Caius Marcius ?
94434
94435 Here : what's the matter ?
94436
94437 The news is , sir , the Volsces are in arms .
94438
94439 I am glad on't ; then we shall ha' means to vent
94440 Our musty superfluity . See , our best elders .
94441
94442
94443 Marcius , 'tis true that you have lately told us ;
94444 The Volsces are in arms .
94445
94446 They have a leader ,
94447 Tullus Aufidius , that will put you to't .
94448 I sin in envying his nobility ,
94449 And were I anything but what I am ,
94450 I would wish me only he .
94451
94452 You have fought together .
94453
94454 Were half to half the world by the ears , and he
94455 Upon my party , I'd revolt , to make
94456 Only my wars with him : he is a lion
94457 That I am proud to hunt .
94458
94459 Then , worthy Marcius ,
94460 Attend upon Cominius to these wars .
94461
94462 It is your former promise .
94463
94464 Sir , it is ;
94465 And I am constant . Titus Lartius , thou
94466 Shalt see me once more strike at Tullus' face .
94467 What ! art thou stiff ? stand'st out ?
94468
94469 No , Caius Marcius ;
94470 I'll lean upon one crutch and fight with t'other ,
94471 Ere stay behind this business .
94472
94473 O ! true-bred .
94474
94475 Your company to the Capitol ; where I know
94476 Our greatest friends attend us .
94477
94478 Lead you on :
94479
94480
94481 Follow Cominius ; we must follow you ;
94482 Right worthy you priority .
94483
94484 Noble Marcius !
94485
94486 Hence ! to your homes ! be gone .
94487
94488 Nay , let them follow :
94489 The Volsces have much corn ; take these rats thither
94490 To gnaw their garners . Worshipful mutiners ,
94491 Your valour puts well forth ; pray , follow .
94492
94493
94494 Was ever man so proud as is this Marcius ?
94495
94496 He has no equal .
94497
94498 When we were chosen tribunes for the people ,
94499
94500 Mark'd you his lip and eyes ?
94501
94502 Nay , but his taunts .
94503
94504 Being mov'd , he will not spare to gird the gods .
94505
94506 Bemock the modest moon .
94507
94508 The present wars devour him ; he is grown
94509 Too proud to be so valiant .
94510
94511 Such a nature ,
94512 Tickled with good success , disdains the shadow
94513 Which he treads on at noon . But I do wonder
94514 His insolence can brook to be commanded
94515 Under Cominius .
94516
94517 Fame , at the which he aims ,
94518 In whom already he is well grac'd , cannot
94519 Better be held nor more attain'd than by
94520 A place below the first ; for what miscarries
94521 Shall be the general's fault , though he perform
94522 To the utmost of a man ; and giddy censure
94523 Will then cry out of Marcius 'O ! if he
94524 Had borne the business .'
94525
94526 Besides , if things go well ,
94527 Opinion , that so sticks on Marcius , shall
94528 Of his demerits rob Cominius .
94529
94530 Come :
94531 Half all Cominius' honours are to Marcius ,
94532 Though Marcius earn'd them not ; and all his faults
94533 To Marcius shall be honours , though indeed
94534 In aught he merit not .
94535
94536 Let's hence and hear
94537 How the dispatch is made ; and in what fashion ,
94538 More than his singularity , he goes
94539 Upon this present action .
94540
94541 Let's along .
94542
94543
94544 So , your opinion is , Aufidius ,
94545 That they of Rome are enter'd in our counsels ,
94546 And know how we proceed .
94547
94548 Is it not yours ?
94549 What ever have been thought on in this state ,
94550 That could be brought to bodily act ere Rome
94551 Had circumvention ? 'Tis not four days gone
94552 Since I heard thence ; these are the words : I think
94553 I have the letter here ; yes , here it is .
94554 They have press'd a power , but it is not known
94555 Whether for east , or west : the dearth is great ;
94556 The people mutinous ; and it is rumour'd ,
94557 Cominius , Marcius , your old enemy ,
94558 Who is of Rome worse hated than of you ,
94559 And Titus Lartius , a most valiant Roman ,
94560 These three lead on this preparation
94561 Whither 'tis bent : most likely 'tis for you :
94562 Consider of it .
94563
94564 Our army's in the field :
94565 We never yet made doubt but Rome was ready
94566 To answer us .
94567
94568 Nor did you think it folly
94569 To keep your great pretences veil'd till when
94570 They needs must show themselves ; which in the hatching ,
94571 It seem'd , appear'd to Rome . By the discovery
94572 We shall be shorten'd in our aim , which was
94573 To take in many towns ere almost Rome
94574 Should know we were afoot .
94575
94576 Noble Aufidius ,
94577 Take your commission ; hie you to your bands ;
94578 Let us alone to guard Corioli :
94579 If they set down before's , for the remove
94580 Bring up your army ; but , I think you'll find
94581 They've not prepared for us .
94582
94583 O ! doubt not that ;
94584 I speak from certainties . Nay , more ;
94585 Some parcels of their power are forth already ,
94586 And only hitherward . I leave your honours .
94587 If we and Caius Marcius chance to meet ,
94588 'Tis sworn between us we shall ever strike
94589 Till one can do no more .
94590
94591 The gods assist you !
94592
94593 And keep your honours safe !
94594
94595 Farewell .
94596
94597 Farewell .
94598
94599 Farewell .
94600
94601
94602 I pray you , daughter , sing ; or express yourself in a more comfortable sort . If my son were my husband , I would freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he won honour than in the embracements of his bed where he would show most love . When yet he was but tender-bodied and the only son of my womb , when youth with comeliness plucked all gaze his way , when for a day of kings' entreaties a mother should not sell him an hour from her beholding , I , considering how honour would become such a person , that it was no better than picture-like to hang by the wall , if renown made it not stir , was pleased to let him seek danger where he was like to find fame . To a cruel war I sent him ; from whence he returned , his brows bound with oak . I tell thee , daughter , I sprang not more in joy at first hearing he was a man-child than now in first seeing he had proved himself a man .
94603
94604 But had he died in the business , madam ; how then ?
94605
94606 Then , his good report should have been my son ; I therein would have found issue . Hear me profess sincerely : had I a dozen sons , each in my love alike , and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius , I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action .
94607
94608
94609 Madam , the Lady Valeria is come to visit you .
94610
94611 Beseech you , give me leave to retire myself .
94612
94613 Indeed , you shall not .
94614 Methinks I hear hither your husband's drum ,
94615 See him pluck Aufidius down by the hair ,
94616 As children from a bear , the Volsces shunning him :
94617 Methinks I see him stamp thus , and call thus :
94618 'Come on , you cowards ! you were got in fear ,
94619 Though you were born in Rome .' His bloody brow
94620 With his mail'd hand then wiping , forth he goes ,
94621 Like to a harvestman that's task'd to mow
94622 Or all or lose his hire .
94623
94624 His bloody brow ! O Jupiter ! no blood .
94625
94626 Away , you fool ! it more becomes a man
94627 Than gilt his trophy : the breasts of Hecuba ,
94628 When she did suckle Hector , look'd not lovelier
94629 Than Hector's forehead when it spit forth blood
94630 At Grecian swords , contemning . Tell Valeria
94631 We are fit to bid her welcome .
94632
94633
94634 Heavens bless my lord from fell Aufidius !
94635
94636 He'll beat Aufidius' head below his knee ,
94637 And tread upon his neck .
94638
94639
94640 My ladies both , good day to you .
94641
94642 Sweet madam .
94643
94644 I am glad to see your ladyship .
94645
94646 How do you both ? you are manifest housekeepers . What are you sewing here ? A fine spot , in good faith . How does your little son ?
94647
94648 I thank your ladyship ; well , good madam .
94649
94650 He had rather see the swords and hear a drum , than look upon his schoolmaster .
94651
94652 O' my word , the father's son ; I'll swear 'tis a very pretty boy . O' my troth , I looked upon him o' Wednesday half an hour together : he has such a confirmed countenance . I saw him run after a gilded butterfly ; and when he caught it , he let it go again ; and after it again ; and over and over he comes , and up again ; catched it again : or whether his fall enraged him , or how 'twas , he did so set his teeth and tear it ; O ! I warrant , how he mammocked it !
94653
94654 One on's father's moods .
94655
94656 Indeed , la , 'tis a noble child .
94657
94658 A crack , madam .
94659
94660 Come , lay aside your stitchery ; I must have you play the idle huswife with me this afternoon .
94661
94662 No , good madam ; I will not out of doors .
94663
94664 Not out of doors !
94665
94666 She shall , she shall .
94667
94668 Indeed , no , by your patience ; I'll not over the threshold till my lord return from the wars .
94669
94670 Fie ! you confine yourself most unreasonably . Come ; you must go visit the good lady that lies in .
94671
94672 I will wish her speedy strength , and visit her with my prayers ; but I cannot go thither .
94673
94674 Why , I pray you ?
94675
94676 'Tis not to save labour , nor that I want love .
94677
94678 You would be another Penelope ; yet , they say , all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths . Come ; I would your cambric were sensible as your finger , that you might leave pricking it for pity . Come , you shall go with us .
94679
94680 No , good madam , pardon me ; indeed , I will not forth .
94681
94682 In truth , la , go with me ; and I'll tell you excellent news of your husband .
94683
94684 O , good madam , there can be none yet .
94685
94686 Verily , I do not jest with you ; there came news from him last night .
94687
94688 Indeed , madam ?
94689
94690 In earnest , it's true ; I heard a senator speak it . Thus it is : The Volsces have an army forth ; against whom Cominius the general is gone , with one part of our Roman power : your lord and Titus Lartius are set down before their city Corioli ; they nothing doubt prevailing and to make it brief wars . This is true , on mine honour ; and so , I pray , go with us .
94691
94692 Give me excuse , good madam ; I will obey you in every thing hereafter .
94693
94694 Let her alone , lady : as she is now she will but disease our better mirth .
94695
94696 In troth , I think she would . Fare you well then . Come , good sweet lady . Prithee , Virgilia , turn thy solemness out o' door , and go along with us .
94697
94698 No , at a word , madam ; indeed I must not . I wish you much mirth .
94699
94700 Well then , farewell .
94701
94702
94703 Yonder comes news : a wager they have met .
94704
94705 My horse to yours , no .
94706
94707 'Tis done .
94708
94709 Agreed .
94710
94711 Say , has our general met the enemy ?
94712
94713 They lie in view , but have not spoke as yet .
94714
94715 So the good horse is mine .
94716
94717 I'll buy him of you .
94718
94719 No , I'll nor sell nor give him ; lend you him I will
94720 For half a hundred years . Summon the town .
94721
94722 How far off lie these armies ?
94723
94724 Within this mile and half .
94725
94726 Then shall we hear their 'larum , and they ours .
94727 Now , Mars , I prithee , make us quick in work ,
94728 That we with smoking swords may march from hence ,
94729 To help our fielded friends ! Come , blow thy blast .
94730
94731 Tullus Aufidius , is he within your walls ?
94732
94733 No , nor a man that fears you less than he ,
94734 That's lesser than a little . Hark , our drums
94735
94736 Are bringing forth our youth : we'll break our walls ,
94737 Rather than they shall pound us up : our gates ,
94738 Which yet seem shut , we have but pinn'd with rushes ;
94739 They'll open of themselves . Hark you , far off !
94740
94741 There is Aufidius : list , what work he makes
94742 Amongst your cloven army .
94743
94744 O ! they are at it !
94745
94746 Their noise be our instruction . Ladders , ho !
94747
94748
94749 They fear us not , but issue forth their city .
94750 Now put your shields before your hearts , and fight
94751 With hearts more proof than shields . Advance , brave Titus :
94752 They do disdain us much beyond our thoughts ,
94753 Which makes me sweat with wrath . Come on , my fellows :
94754 He that retires , I'll take him for a Volsce ,
94755 And he shall feel mine edge .
94756
94757
94758 All the contagion of the south light on you ,
94759 You shames of Rome ! you herd of Boils and plagues
94760 Plaster you o'er , that you may be abhorr'd
94761 Further than seen , and one infect another
94762 Against the wind a mile ! You souls of geese ,
94763 That bear the shapes of men , how have you run
94764 From slaves that apes would beat ! Pluto and hell !
94765 All hurt behind ; backs red , and faces pale
94766 With flight and agu'd fear ! Mend and charge home ,
94767 Or , by the fires of heaven , I'll leave the foe
94768 And make my wars on you ; look to 't : come on ;
94769 If you'll stand fast , we'll beat them to their wives ,
94770 As they us to our trenches follow'd .
94771
94772
94773 So , now the gates are ope : now prove good seconds :
94774 'Tis for the followers Fortune widens them ,
94775 Not for the fliers : mark me , and do the like .
94776
94777
94778 Foolhardiness ! not I .
94779
94780 Nor I .
94781
94782
94783 See , they have shut him in .
94784
94785 To the pot , I warrant him .
94786
94787 What is become of Marcius ?
94788
94789 Slain , sir , doubtless .
94790
94791 Following the fliers at the very heels ,
94792 With them he enters ; who , upon the sudden ,
94793 Clapp'd-to their gates ; he is himself alone ,
94794 To answer all the city .
94795
94796 O noble fellow !
94797 Who , sensibly , outdares his senseless sword ,
94798 And , when it bows , stands up . Thou art left , Marcius :
94799 A carbuncle entire , as big as thou art ,
94800 Were not so rich a jewel . Thou wast a soldier
94801 Even to Cato's wish , not fierce and terrible
94802 Only in strokes ; but , with thy grim looks and
94803 The thunder-like percussion of thy sounds ,
94804 Thou mad'st thine enemies shake , as if the world
94805 Were feverous and did tremble .
94806
94807
94808 Look , sir !
94809
94810 O ! 'tis Marcius !
94811 Let's fetch him off , or make remain alike .
94812
94813
94814 This will I carry to Rome .
94815
94816 And I this .
94817
94818 A murrain on't ! I took this for silver .
94819
94820 See here these movers that do prize their hours
94821 At a crack'd drachme ! Cushions , leaden spoons ,
94822 Irons of a doit , doublets that hangmen would
94823 Bury with those that wore them , these base slaves ,
94824 Ere yet the fight be done , pack up . Down with them !
94825 And hark , what noise the general makes ! To him !
94826 There is the man of my soul's hate , Aufidius ,
94827 Piercing our Romans : then , valiant Titus , take
94828 Convenient numbers to make good the city ,
94829 Whilst I , with those that have the spirit , will haste
94830 To help Cominius .
94831
94832 Worthy sir , thou bleed'st ;
94833 Thy exercise hath been too violent
94834 For a second course of fight .
94835
94836 Sir , praise me not ;
94837 My work hath yet not warm'd me : fare you well :
94838 The blood I drop is rather physical
94839 Than dangerous to me : to Aufidius thus
94840 I will appear , and fight .
94841
94842 Now the fair goddess , Fortune ,
94843 Fall deep in love with thee ; and her great charms
94844 Misguide thy opposers' swords ! Bold gentleman ,
94845 Prosperity be thy page !
94846
94847 Thy friend no less
94848 Than those she places highest ! So , farewell .
94849
94850 Thou worthiest Marcius !
94851
94852 Go , sound thy trumpet in the market-place ;
94853 Call thither all the officers of the town ,
94854 Where they shall know our mind . Away !
94855
94856
94857 Breathe you , my friends : well fought ; we are come off
94858 Like Romans , neither foolish in our stands ,
94859 Nor cowardly in retire : believe me , sirs ,
94860 We shall be charg'd again . Whiles we have struck ,
94861 By interims and conveying gusts we have heard
94862 The charges of our friends . Ye Roman gods !
94863 Lead their successes as we wish our own ,
94864 That both our powers , with smiling fronts encountering ,
94865 May give you thankful sacrifice .
94866
94867 Thy news ?
94868
94869 The citizens of Corioli have issu'd ,
94870 And given to Lartius and to Marcius battle :
94871 I saw our party to their trenches driven ,
94872 And then I came away .
94873
94874 Though thou speak'st truth ,
94875 Methinks thou speak'st not well . How long is't since ?
94876
94877 Above an hour , my lord .
94878
94879 'Tis not a mile ; briefly we heard their drums :
94880 How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour ,
94881 And bring thy news so late ?
94882
94883 Spies of the Volsces
94884 Held me in chase , that I was forc'd to wheel
94885 Three or four miles about ; else had I , sir ,
94886 Half an hour since brought my report .
94887
94888 Who's yonder ,
94889 That does appear as he were flay'd ? O gods !
94890 He has the stamp of Marcius ; and I have
94891 Before-time seen him thus .
94892
94893 Come I too late ?
94894
94895 The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabor ,
94896 More than I know the sound of Marcius' tongue
94897 From every meaner man .
94898
94899
94900 Come I too late ?
94901
94902 Ay , if you come not in the blood of others ,
94903 But mantled in your own .
94904
94905 O ! let me clip ye
94906 In arms as sound as when I woo'd , in heart
94907 As merry as when our nuptial day was done ,
94908 And tapers burn'd to bedward .
94909
94910 Flower of warriors .
94911 How is't with Titus Lartius ?
94912
94913 As with a man busied about decrees :
94914 Condemning some to death , and some to exile ;
94915 Ransoming him , or pitying , threat'ning the other ;
94916 Holding Corioli in the name of Rome ,
94917 Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash ,
94918 To let him slip at will .
94919
94920 Where is that slave
94921 Which told me they had beat you to your trenches ?
94922 Where is he ? Call him hither .
94923
94924 Let him alone ;
94925 He did inform the truth : but for our gentlemen ,
94926 The common file a plague ! tribunes for them !
94927 The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as they did budge
94928 From rascals worse than they .
94929
94930 But how prevail'd you ?
94931
94932 Will the time serve to tell ? I do not think .
94933 Where is the enemy ? Are you lords o' the field ?
94934 If not , why cease you till you are so ?
94935
94936 Marcius , we have at disadvantage fought ,
94937 And did retire to win our purpose .
94938
94939 How lies their battle ? Know you on which side
94940 They have plac'd their men of trust ?
94941
94942 As I guess , Marcius ,
94943 Their bands i' the vaward are the Antiates ,
94944 Of their best trust ; o'er them Aufidius ,
94945 Their very heart of hope .
94946
94947 I do beseech you ,
94948 By all the battles wherein we have fought ,
94949 By the blood we have shed together , by the vows
94950 We have made to endure friends , that you directly
94951 Set me against Aufidius and his Antiates ;
94952 And that you not delay the present , but ,
94953 Filling the air with swords advanc'd and darts ,
94954 We prove this very hour .
94955
94956 Though I could wish
94957 You were conducted to a gentle bath ,
94958 And balms applied to you , yet dare I never
94959 Deny your asking : take your choice of those
94960 That best can aid your action .
94961
94962 Those are they
94963 That most are willing . If any such be here
94964 As it were sin to doubt that love this painting
94965 Wherein you see me smear'd ; if any fear
94966 Lesser his person than an ill report ;
94967 If any think brave death outweighs bad life ,
94968 And that his country's dearer than himself ;
94969 Let him , alone , or so many so minded ,
94970 Wave thus , to express his disposition ,
94971 And follow Marcius .
94972
94973 O ! me alone ? Make you a sword of me ?
94974 If these shows be not outward , which of you
94975 But is four Volsces ? None of you but is
94976 Able to bear against the great Aufidius
94977 A shield as hard as his . A certain number ,
94978 Though thanks to all , must I select from all : the rest
94979 Shall bear the business in some other fight ,
94980 As cause will be obey'd . Please you to march ;
94981 And four shall quickly draw out my command ,
94982 Which men are best inclin'd .
94983
94984 March on , my fellows :
94985 Make good this ostentation , and you shall
94986 Divide in all with us .
94987
94988
94989 So ; let the ports be guarded : keep your duties ,
94990 As I have set them down . If I do send , dispatch
94991 Those centuries to our aid ; the rest will serve
94992 For a short holding : if we lose the field ,
94993 We cannot keep the town .
94994
94995 Fear not our care , sir .
94996
94997 Hence , and shut your gates upon us .
94998 Our guider , come ; to the Roman camp conduct us .
94999
95000
95001 I'll fight with none but thee ; for I do hate thee
95002 Worse than a promise-breaker .
95003
95004 We hate alike :
95005 Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor
95006 More than thy fame and envy . Fix thy foot .
95007
95008 Let the first budger die the other's slave ,
95009 And the gods doom him after !
95010
95011 If I fly , Marcius ,
95012 Halloo me like a hare .
95013
95014 Within these three hours , Tullus ,
95015 Alone I fought in your Corioli walls ,
95016 And made what work I pleas'd ; 'tis not my blood
95017 Wherein thou seest me mask'd ; for thy revenge
95018 Wrench up thy power to the highest .
95019
95020 Wert thou the Hector
95021 That was the whip of your bragg'd progeny ,
95022 Thou shouldst not 'scape me here .
95023
95024 Officious , and not valiant , you have sham'd me
95025 In your condemned seconds .
95026
95027
95028 If I should tell thee o'er this thy day's work ,
95029 Thou'lt not believe thy deeds : but I'll report it
95030 Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles ,
95031 Where great patricians shall attend and shrug ,
95032 I' the end , admire ; where ladies shall be frighted ,
95033 And , gladly quak'd , hear more ; where the dull Tribunes ,
95034 That , with the fusty plebeians , hate thine honours ,
95035 Shall say , against their hearts ,
95036 'We thank the gods our Rome hath such a soldier !'
95037 Yet cam'st thou to a morsel of this feast ,
95038 Having fully din'd before .
95039
95040
95041 O general ,
95042 Here is the steed , we the caparison :
95043 Hadst thou beheld
95044
95045 Pray now , no more : my mother ,
95046 Who has a charter to extol her blood ,
95047 When she does praise me grieves me . I have done
95048 As you have done ; that's what I can ; induc'd
95049 As you have been ; that's for my country :
95050 He that has but effected his good will
95051 Hath overta'en mine act .
95052
95053 You shall not be
95054 The grave of your deserving ; Rome must know
95055 The value of her own : 'twere a concealment
95056 Worse than a theft , no less than a traducement ,
95057 To hide your doings ; and to silence that ,
95058 Which , to the spire and top of praises vouch'd ,
95059 Would seem but modest . Therefore , I beseech you ,
95060 In sign of what you are , not to reward
95061 What you have done ,before our army hear me .
95062
95063 I have some wounds upon me , and they smart
95064 To hear themselves remember'd .
95065
95066 Should they not .
95067 Well might they fester 'gainst ingratitude ,
95068 And tent themselves with death . Of all the horses ,
95069 Whereof we have ta'en good , and good store , of all
95070 The treasure , in this field achiev'd and city ,
95071 We render you the tenth ; to be ta'en forth ,
95072 Before the common distribution ,
95073 At your only choice .
95074
95075 I thank you , general ;
95076 But cannot make my heart consent to take
95077 A bribe to pay my sword : I do refuse it ;
95078 And stand upon my common part with those
95079 That have beheld the doing .
95080
95081 May these same instruments , which you profane ,
95082 Never sound more ! When drums and trumpets shall
95083 I' the field prove flatterers , let courts and cities be
95084 Made all of false-fac'd soothing !
95085 When steel grows soft as is the parasite's silk ,
95086 Let him be made a coverture for the wars !
95087 No more , I say ! For that I have not wash'd
95088 My nose that bled , or foil'd some debile wretch ,
95089 Which , without note , here's many else have done ,
95090 You shout me forth
95091 In acclamations hyperbolical ;
95092 As if I lov'd my little should be dieted
95093 In praises sauc'd with lies .
95094
95095 Too modest are you ;
95096 More cruel to your good report than grateful
95097 To us that give you truly . By your patience ,
95098 If 'gainst yourself you be incens'd , we'll put you ,
95099 Like one that means his proper harm , in manacles ,
95100 Then reason safely with you . Therefore , be it known ,
95101 As to us , to all the world , that Caius Marcius
95102 Wears this war's garland ; in token of the which ,
95103 My noble steed , known to the camp , I give him ,
95104 With all his trim belonging ; and from this time ,
95105 For what he did before Corioli , call him ,
95106 With all the applause and clamour of the host ,
95107 The addition nobly ever !
95108
95109 Caius Marcius Coriolanus !
95110
95111
95112 I will go wash ;
95113 And when my face is fair , you shall perceive
95114 Whether I blush , or no : howbeit , I thank you .
95115 I mean to stride your steed , and at all times
95116 To undercrest your good addition
95117 To the fairness of my power .
95118
95119 So , to our tent ;
95120 Where , ere we do repose us , we will write
95121 To Rome of our success . You , Titus Lartius ,
95122 Must to Corioli back : send us to Rome
95123 The best , with whom we may articulate ,
95124 For their own good and ours .
95125
95126 I shall , my lord .
95127
95128 The gods begin to mock me . I , that now
95129 Refus'd most princely gifts , am bound to beg
95130 Of my lord general .
95131
95132 Take it ; 'tis yours . What is't ?
95133
95134 I sometime lay here in Corioli
95135 At a poor man's house ; he us'd me kindly :
95136 He cried to me ; I saw him prisoner ;
95137 But then Aufidius was within my view ,
95138 And wrath o'erwhelm'd my pity : I request you
95139 To give my poor host freedom .
95140
95141 O ! well begg'd !
95142 Were he the butcher of my son , he should
95143 Be free as is the wind . Deliver him , Titus .
95144
95145 Marcius , his name ?
95146
95147 By Jupiter ! forgot .
95148 I am weary ; yea , my memory is tir'd .
95149 Have we no wine here ?
95150
95151 Go we to our tent :
95152 The blood upon your visage dries ; 'tis time
95153 It should be look'd to : come .
95154
95155 The town is ta'en !
95156
95157 'Twill be deliver'd back on good condition .
95158
95159 Condition !
95160 I would I were a Roman ; for I cannot ,
95161 Being a Volsce , be that I am . Condition !
95162 What good condition can a treaty find
95163 I' the part that is at mercy ? Five times , Marcius ,
95164 I have fought with thee ; so often hast thou beat me ,
95165 And wouldst do so , I think , should we encounter
95166 As often as we eat . By the elements ,
95167 If e'er again I meet him beard to beard ,
95168 He is mine , or I am his : mine emulation
95169 Hath not that honour in't it had ; for where
95170 I thought to crush him in an equal force
95171 True sword to sword I'll potch at him some way
95172 Or wrath or craft may get him .
95173
95174 He's the devil .
95175
95176 Bolder , though not so subtle . My valour's poison'd
95177 With only suffering stain by him ; for him
95178 Shall fly out of itself . Nor sleep nor sanctuary ,
95179 Being naked , sick , nor fane nor Capitol ,
95180 The prayers of priests , nor times of sacrifice ,
95181 Embarquements all of fury , shall lift up
95182 Their rotten privilege and custom 'gainst
95183 My hate to Marcius . Where I find him , were it
95184 At home , upon my brother's guard , even there
95185 Against the hospitable canon , would I
95186 Wash my fierce hand in 's heart . Go you to the city ;
95187 Learn how 'tis held , and what they are that must
95188 Be hostages for Rome .
95189
95190 Will not you go ?
95191
95192 I am attended at the cypress grove : I pray you
95193 'Tis south the city mills bring me word thither
95194 How the world goes , that to the pace of it
95195 I may spur on my journey .
95196
95197 I shall , sir .
95198
95199 The augurer tells me we shall have news to-night .
95200
95201 Good or bad ?
95202
95203 Not according to the prayer of the people , for they love not Marcius .
95204
95205 Nature teaches beasts to know their friends .
95206
95207 Pray you , who does the wolf love ?
95208
95209 The lamb .
95210
95211 Ay , to devour him ; as the hungry plebeians would the noble Marcius .
95212
95213 He's a lamb indeed , that baes like a bear .
95214
95215 He's a bear indeed , that lives like a lamb . You two are old men ; tell me one thing that I shall ask you .
95216
95217 Well , sir .
95218
95219 Well , sir .
95220
95221 In what enormity is Marcius poor in , that you two have not in abundance ?
95222
95223 He's poor in no one fault , but stored with all .
95224
95225 Especially in pride .
95226
95227 And topping all others in boasting .
95228
95229 This is strange now : do you two know how you are censured here in the city , I mean of us o' the right hand file ? Do you ?
95230
95231 Why , how are we censured ?
95232
95233 Because you talk of pride now ,Will you not be angry ?
95234
95235 Well , well , sir ; well .
95236
95237 Why , 'tis no great matter ; for a very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience : give your dispositions the reins , and be angry at your pleasures ; at the least , if you take it as a pleasure to you in being so . You blame Marcius for being proud ?
95238
95239 We do it not alone , sir .
95240
95241 I know you can do very little alone ; for your helps are many , or else your actions would grow wondrous single : your abilities are too infant-like , for doing much alone . You talk of pride : O ! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks , and make but an interior survey of your good selves . O ! that you could .
95242
95243 What then , sir ?
95244
95245 Why , then you should discover a brace of unmeriting , proud , violent , testy magistrates alias fools as any in Rome .
95246
95247 Menenius , you are known well enough too .
95248
95249 I am known to be a humorous patrician , and one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in't ; said to be something imperfect in favouring the first complaint ; hasty and tinder-like upon too trivial motion ; one that converses more with the buttock of the night than with the forehead of the morning . What I think I utter , and spend my malice in my breath . Meeting two such wealsmen as you are ,I cannot call you Lycurguses ,if the drink you give me touch my palate adversely , I make a crooked face at it . I cannot say your worships have delivered the matter well when I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables ; and though I must be content to bear with those that say you are reverend grave men , yet they lie deadly that tell you have good faces . If you see this in the map of my microcosm , follows it that I am known well enough too ? What harm can your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character , if I be known well enough too ?
95250
95251 Come , sir , come , we know you well enough .
95252
95253 You know neither me , yourselves , nor anything . You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs : you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller , and then rejourn the controversy of three-pence to a second day of audience . When you are hearing a matter between party and party , if you chance to be pinched with the colic , you make faces like mummers , set up the bloody flag against all patience , and , in roaring for a chamber-pot , dismiss the controversy bleeding , the more entangled by your hearing : all the peace you make in their cause is , calling both the parties knaves . You are a pair of strange ones .
95254
95255 Come , come , you are well understood to be a perfecter giber for the table than a necessary bencher in the Capitol .
95256
95257 Our very priests must become mockers if they shall encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are . When you speak best unto the purpose it is not worth the wagging of your beards ; and your beards deserve not so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's cushion , or to be entombed in an ass's pack-saddle . Yet you must be saying Marcius is proud ; who , in a cheap estimation , is worth all your predecessors since Deucalion , though peradventure some of the best of 'em were hereditary hangmen . Good den to your worships : more of your conversation would infect my brain , being the herdsmen of the beastly plebeians : I will be bold to take my leave of you .
95258
95259
95260 How now , my as fair as noble ladies ,and the moon , were she earthly , no nobler ,whither do you follow your eyes so fast ?
95261
95262 Honourable Menenius , my boy Marcius approaches ; for the love of Juno , let's go .
95263
95264 Ha ! Marcius coming home ?
95265
95266 Ay , worthy Menenius ; and with most prosperous approbation .
95267
95268 Take my cap , Jupiter , and I thank thee . Hoo ! Marcius coming home !
95269
95270 Nay , 'tis true .
95271
95272 Nay , 'tis true .
95273
95274 Look , here's a letter from him : the state hath another , his wife another ; and , I think , there's one at home for you .
95275
95276 I will make my very house reel to-night . A letter for me !
95277
95278 Yes , certain , there's a letter for you ; I saw it .
95279
95280 A letter for me ! It gives me an estate of seven years' health ; in which time I will make a lip at the physician : the most sovereign prescription in Galen is but empiricutic , and , to this preservative , of no better report than a horse-drench . Is he not wounded ? he was wont to come home wounded .
95281
95282 O ! no , no , no .
95283
95284 O ! he is wounded , I thank the gods for't .
95285
95286 So do I too , if it be not too much . Brings a' victory in his pocket ? The wounds become him .
95287
95288 On 's brows , Menenius ; he comes the third time home with the oaken garland .
95289
95290 Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly ?
95291
95292 Titus Lartius writes they fought together , but Aufidius got off .
95293
95294 And 'twas time for him too , I'll warrant him that : an he had stayed by him I would not have been so fidiused for all the chests in Corioli , and the gold that's in them . Is the senate possessed of this ?
95295
95296 Good ladies , let's go . Yes , yes , yes ; the senate has letters from the general , wherein he gives my son the whole name of the war . He hath in this action outdone his former deeds doubly .
95297
95298 In troth there's wondrous things spoke of him .
95299
95300 Wondrous ! ay , I warrant you , and not without his true purchasing .
95301
95302 The gods grant them true !
95303
95304 True ! pow , wow .
95305
95306 True ! I'll be sworn they are true . Where is he wounded ?
95307
95308
95309 Where is he wounded ?
95310
95311 I' the shoulder , and i' the left arm : there will be large cicatrices to show the people when he shall stand for his place . He received in the repulse of Tarquin seven hurts i' the body .
95312
95313 One i' the neck , and two i' the thigh , there's nine that I know .
95314
95315 He had , before this last expedition , twenty-five wounds upon him .
95316
95317 Now , it's twenty-seven : every gash was an enemy's grave .
95318
95319 Hark ! the trumpets .
95320
95321 These are the ushers of Marcius : before him he carries noise , and behind him he leaves tears :
95322 Death , that dark spirit , in 's nervy arm doth lie ;
95323 Which , being advanc'd , declines , and then men die .
95324
95325
95326 Know , Rome , that all alone Marcius did fight
95327 Within Corioli gates : where he hath won ,
95328 With fame , a name to Caius Marcius ; these
95329 In honour follows Coriolanus .
95330 Welcome to Rome , renowned Coriolanus !
95331
95332
95333 Welcome to Rome , renowned Coriolanus !
95334
95335 No more of this ; it does offend my heart :
95336 Pray now , no more .
95337
95338 Look , sir , your mother !
95339
95340 O !
95341 You have , I know , petition'd all the gods
95342 For my prosperity .
95343
95344
95345 Nay , my good soldier , up ;
95346 My gentle Marcius , worthy Caius , and
95347 By deed-achieving honour newly nam'd ,
95348 What is it ?Coriolanus must I call thee ?
95349 But O ! thy wife !
95350
95351 My gracious silence , hail !
95352 Wouldst thou have laugh'd had I come coffin'd home ,
95353 That weep'st to see me triumph ? Ah ! my dear ,
95354 Such eyes the widows in Corioli wear ,
95355 And mothers that lack sons .
95356
95357 Now , the gods crown thee !
95358
95359 And live you yet ?
95360
95361 O my sweet lady , pardon .
95362
95363 I know not where to turn : O ! welcome home ;
95364 And welcome , general ; and ye're welcome all .
95365
95366 A hundred thousand welcomes : I could weep ,
95367 And I could laugh ; I am light , and heavy . Welcome .
95368 A curse begnaw at very root on 's heart
95369 That is not glad to see thee ! You are three
95370 That Rome should dote on ; yet , by the faith of men ,
95371 We have some old crab-trees here at home that will not
95372 Be grafted to your relish . Yet , welcome , warriors !
95373 We call a nettle but a nettle , and
95374 The faults of fools but folly .
95375
95376 Ever right .
95377
95378 Menenius , ever , ever .
95379
95380 Give way there , and go on !
95381
95382 Your hand , and yours :
95383 Ere in our own house I do shade my head ,
95384 The good patricians must be visited ;
95385 From whom I have receiv'd not only greetings ,
95386 But with them change of honours .
95387
95388 I have liv'd
95389 To see inherited my very wishes ,
95390 And the buildings of my fancy : only
95391 There's one thing wanting , which I doubt not but
95392 Our Rome will cast upon thee .
95393
95394 Know , good mother ,
95395 I had rather be their servant in my way
95396 Than sway with them in theirs .
95397
95398 On , to the Capitol !
95399
95400
95401 All tongues speak of him , and the bleared sights
95402 Are spectacled to see him : your prattling nurse
95403 Into a rapture lets her baby cry
95404 While she chats him : the kitchen malkin pins
95405 Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck ,
95406 Clambering the walls to eye him : stalls , bulks , windows ,
95407 Are smother'd up , leads fill'd , and ridges hors'd
95408 With variable complexions , all agreeing
95409 In earnestness to see him : seld-shown flamens
95410 Do press among the popular throngs , and puff
95411 To win a vulgar station : our veil'd dames
95412 Commit the war of white and damask in
95413 Their nicely-gawded cheeks to the wanton spoil
95414 Of Ph bus' burning kisses : such a pother
95415 As if that whatsoever god who leads him
95416 Were slily crept into his human powers ,
95417 And gave him graceful posture .
95418
95419 On the sudden
95420 I warrant him consul .
95421
95422 Then our office may ,
95423 During his power , go sleep .
95424
95425 He cannot temperately transport his honours
95426 From where he should begin and end , but will
95427 Lose those he hath won .
95428
95429 In that there's comfort .
95430
95431 Doubt not , the commoners , for whom we stand ,
95432 But they upon their ancient malice will
95433 Forget with the least cause these his new honours ,
95434 Which that he'll give them , make I as little question
95435 As he is proud to do't .
95436
95437 I heard him swear ,
95438 Were he to stand for consul , never would he
95439 Appear i' the market-place , nor on him put
95440 The napless vesture of humility ;
95441 Nor , showing , as the manner is , his wounds
95442 To the people , beg their stinking breaths .
95443
95444 'Tis right .
95445
95446 It was his word . O ! he would miss it rather
95447 Than carry it but by the suit o' the gentry to him
95448 And the desire of the nobles .
95449
95450 I wish no better
95451 Than have him hold that purpose and to put it
95452 In execution .
95453
95454 'Tis most like he will .
95455
95456 It shall be to him then , as our good wills ,
95457 A sure destruction .
95458
95459 So it must fall out
95460 To him or our authorities . For an end ,
95461 We must suggest the people in what hatred
95462 He still hath held them ; that to his power he would
95463 Have made them mules , silenc'd their pleaders , and
95464 Dispropertied their freedoms ; holding them ,
95465 In human action and capacity ,
95466 Of no more soul nor fitness for the world
95467 Than camels in the war ; who have their provand
95468 Only for bearing burdens , and sore blows
95469 For sinking under them .
95470
95471 This , as you say , suggested
95472 At some time when his soaring insolence
95473 Shall teach the people which time shall not want ,
95474 If he be put upon 't ; and that's as easy
95475 As to set dogs on sheep will be his fire
95476 To kindle their dry stubble ; and their blaze
95477 Shall darken him for ever .
95478
95479
95480 What's the matter ?
95481
95482 You are sent for to the Capitol . 'Tis thought
95483 That Marcius shall be consul .
95484 I have seen the dumb men throng to see him , and
95485 The blind to hear him speak : matrons flung gloves ,
95486 Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchers
95487 Upon him as he pass'd ; the nobles bended ,
95488 As to Jove's statue , and the commons made
95489 A shower and thunder with their caps and shouts :
95490 I never saw the like .
95491
95492 Let's to the Capitol ;
95493 And carry with us ears and eyes for the time ,
95494 But hearts for the event .
95495
95496 Have with you .
95497
95498
95499 Come , come , they are almost here .
95500 How many stand for consulships ?
95501
95502 Three , they say ; but 'tis thought of every one Coriolanus will carry it .
95503
95504 That's a brave fellow ; but he's vengeance proud , and loves not the common people .
95505
95506 Faith , there have been many great men that have flattered the people , who ne'er loved them ; and there be many that they have loved , they know not wherefore : so that if they love they know not why , they hate upon no better a ground . Therefore , for Coriolanus neither to care whether they love or hate him manifests the true knowledge he has in their disposition ; and out of his noble carelessness lets them plainly see't .
95507
95508 If he did not care whether he had their love or no , he waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm ; but he seeks their hate with greater devotion than they can render it him ; and leaves nothing undone that may fully discover him their opposite . Now , to seem to affect the malice and displeasure of the people is as bad as that which he dislikes , to flatter them for their love .
95509
95510 He hath deserved worthily of his country ; and his ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who , having been supple and courteous to the people , bonneted , without any further deed to have them at all into their estimation and report ; but he hath so planted his honours in their eyes , and his actions in their hearts , that for their tongues to be silent , and not confess so much , were a kind of ingrateful injury ; to report otherwise , were a malice , that , giving itself the lie , would pluck reproof and rebuke from every ear that heard it .
95511
95512 No more of him ; he is a worthy man : make way , they are coming .
95513
95514 Having determin'd of the Volsces , and
95515 To send for Titus Lartius , it remains ,
95516 As the main point of this our after-meeting ,
95517 To gratify his noble service that
95518 Hath thus stood for his country : therefore , please you ,
95519 Most reverend and grave elders , to desire
95520 The present consul , and last general
95521 In our well-found successes , to report
95522 A little of that worthy work perform'd
95523 By Caius Marcius Coriolanus , whom
95524 We meet here both to thank and to remember
95525 With honours like himself .
95526
95527 Speak , good Cominius :
95528 Leave nothing out for length , and make us think
95529 Rather our state's defective for requital ,
95530 Than we to stretch it out .
95531
95532 Masters o' the people ,
95533 We do request your kindest ears , and , after ,
95534 Your loving motion toward the common body ,
95535 To yield what passes here .
95536
95537 We are convented
95538 Upon a pleasing treaty , and have hearts
95539 Inclinable to honour and advance
95540 The theme of our assembly .
95541
95542 Which the rather
95543 We shall be bless'd to do , if he remember
95544 A kinder value of the people than
95545 He hath hereto priz'd them at .
95546
95547 That's off , that's off ;
95548 I would you rather had been silent . Please you
95549 To hear Cominius speak ?
95550
95551 Most willingly ;
95552 But yet my caution was more pertinent
95553 Than the rebuke you give it .
95554
95555 He loves your people ;
95556 But tie him not to be their bedfellow .
95557 Worthy Cominius , speak .
95558
95559 Nay , keep your place .
95560
95561 Sit , Coriolanus ; never shame to hear
95562 What you have nobly done .
95563
95564 Your honours' pardon :
95565 I had rather have my wounds to heal again
95566 Than hear say how I got them .
95567
95568 Sir , I hope
95569 My words disbench'd you not .
95570
95571 No , sir : yet oft ,
95572 When blows have made me stay , I fled from words .
95573 You sooth'd not , therefore hurt not . But your people ,
95574 I love them as they weigh .
95575
95576 Pray now , sit down .
95577
95578 I had rather have one scratch my head i' the sun
95579 When the alarum were struck than idly sit
95580 To hear my nothings monster'd .
95581
95582
95583 Masters of the people ,
95584 Your multiplying spawn how can he flatter ,
95585 That's thousand to one good one ,when you now see
95586 He had rather venture all his limbs for honour
95587 Than one on 's ears to hear it . Proceed , Cominius .
95588
95589 I shall lack voice : the deeds of Coriolanus
95590 Should not be utter'd feebly . It is held
95591 That valour is the chiefest virtue , and
95592 Most dignifies the haver : if it be ,
95593 The man I speak of cannot in the world
95594 Be singly counterpois'd . At sixteen years ,
95595 When Tarquin made a head for Rome , he fought
95596 Beyond the mark of others ; our then dictator ,
95597 Whom with all praise I point at , saw him fight ,
95598 When with his Amazonian chin he drove
95599 The bristled lips before him . He bestrid
95600 An o'er-press'd Roman , and i' the consul's view
95601 Slew three opposers : Tarquin's self he met ,
95602 And struck him on his knee : in that day's feats ,
95603 When he might act the woman in the scene ,
95604 He prov'd best man i' the field , and for his meed
95605 Was brow-bound with the oak . His pupil age
95606 Man-enter'd thus , he waxed like a sea ,
95607 And in the brunt of seventeen battles since
95608 He lurch'd all swords of the garland . For this last ,
95609 Before and in Corioli , let me say ,
95610 I cannot speak him home : he stopp'd the fliers ,
95611 And by his rare example made the coward
95612 Turn terror into sport : as weeds before
95613 A vessel under sail , so men obey'd ,
95614 And fell below his stem : his sword , death's stamp ,
95615 Where it did mark , it took ; from face to foot
95616 He was a thing of blood , whose every motion
95617 Was tim'd with dying cries : alone he enter'd
95618 The mortal gate of the city , which he painted
95619 With shunless destiny ; aidless came off ,
95620 And with a sudden re-enforcement struck
95621 Corioli like a planet . Now all's his :
95622 When by and by the din of war 'gan pierce
95623 His ready sense ; then straight his doubled spirit
95624 Re-quicken'd what in flesh was fatigate ,
95625 And to the battle came he ; where he did
95626 Run reeking o'er the lives of men , as if
95627 'Twere a perpetual spoil ; and till we call'd
95628 Both field and city ours , he never stood
95629 To ease his breast with panting .
95630
95631 Worthy man !
95632
95633 He cannot but with measure fit the honours
95634 Which we devise him .
95635
95636 Our spoils he kick'd at ,
95637 And look'd upon things precious as they were
95638 The common muck o' the world : he covets less
95639 Than misery itself would give ; rewards
95640 His deeds with doing them , and is content
95641 To spend the time to end it .
95642
95643 He's right noble :
95644 Let him be call'd for .
95645
95646 Call Coriolanus .
95647
95648 He doth appear .
95649
95650
95651 The senate , Coriolanus , are well pleas'd
95652 To make thee consul .
95653
95654 I do owe them still
95655 My life and services .
95656
95657 It then remains
95658 That you do speak to the people .
95659
95660 I do beseech you ,
95661 Let me o'erleap that custom , for I cannot
95662 Put on the gown , stand naked , and entreat them ,
95663 For my wounds' sake , to give their suffrage : please you ,
95664 That I may pass this doing .
95665
95666 Sir , the people
95667 Must have their voices ; neither will they bate
95668 One jot of ceremony .
95669
95670 Put them not to 't :
95671 Pray you , go fit you to the custom , and
95672 Take to you , as your predecessors have ,
95673 Your honour with your form .
95674
95675 It is a part
95676 That I shall blush in acting , and might well
95677 Be taken from the people .
95678
95679 Mark you that ?
95680
95681 To brag unto them , thus I did , and thus ;
95682 Show them the unaching scars which I should hide ,
95683 As if I had receiv'd them for the hire
95684 Of their breath only !
95685
95686 Do not stand upon't .
95687 We recommend to you , tribunes of the people ,
95688 Our purpose to them ; and to our noble consul
95689 Wish we all joy and honour .
95690
95691 To Coriolanus come all joy and honour !
95692
95693
95694 You see how he intends to use the people .
95695
95696 May they perceive 's intent ! He will require them ,
95697 As if he did contemn what he requested
95698 Should be in them to give .
95699
95700 Come ; we'll inform them
95701 Of our proceedings here : on the market-place
95702 I know they do attend us .
95703
95704
95705 Once , if he do require our voices , we ought not to deny him .
95706
95707 We may , sir , if we will .
95708
95709 We have power in ourselves to do it , but it is a power that we have no power to do ; for if he show us his wounds , and tell us his deeds , we are to put our tongues into those wounds and speak for them ; so , if he tell us his noble deeds , we must also tell him our noble acceptance of them . Ingratitude is monstrous , and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude ; of the which , we being members , should bring ourselves to be monstrous members .
95710
95711 And to make us no better thought of , a little help will serve ; for once we stood up about the corn , he himself stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude .
95712
95713 We have been called so of many ; not that our heads are some brown , some black , some abram , some bald , but that our wits are so diversely coloured : and truly I think , if all our wits were to issue out of one skull , they would fly east , west , north , south ; and their consent of one direct way should be at once to all the points o' the compass .
95714
95715 Think you so ? Which way do you judge my wit would fly ?
95716
95717 Nay , your wit will not so soon out as another man's will ; 'tis strongly wedged up in a block-head ; but if it were at liberty , 'twould , sure , southward .
95718
95719 Why that way ?
95720
95721 To lose itself in a fog ; where being three parts melted away with rotten dews , the fourth would return for conscience' sake , to help to get thee a wife .
95722
95723 You are never without your tricks . you may , you may .
95724
95725 Are you all resolved to give your voices ? But that's no matter , the greater part carries it . I say , if he would incline to the people , there was never a worthier man .
95726
95727 Here he comes , and in a gown of humility mark his behaviour . We are not to stay all together , but to come by him where he stands , by ones , by twos , and by threes . He's to make his requests by particulars ; wherein every one of us has a single honour , in giving him our own voices with our own tongues : therefore follow me , and I'll direct you how you shall go by him .
95728
95729 Content , content .
95730
95731
95732 O , sir , you are not right : have you not known
95733 The worthiest men have done't ?
95734
95735 What must I say ?
95736 'I pray , sir ,' Plague upon't ! I cannot bring
95737 My tongue to such a pace . 'Look , sir , my wounds !
95738 I got them in my country's service , when
95739 Some certain of your brethren roar'd and ran
95740 From the noise of our own drums .'
95741
95742 O me ! the gods !
95743 You must not speak of that : you must desire them
95744 To think upon you .
95745
95746 Think upon me ! Hang 'em !
95747 I would they would forget me , like the virtues
95748 Which our divines lose by 'em .
95749
95750 You'll mar all :
95751 I'll leave you . Pray you , speak to 'em , I pray you ,
95752 In wholesome manner .
95753
95754 Bid them wash their faces ,
95755 And keep their teeth clean .
95756
95757 So , here comes a brace .
95758
95759 You know the cause , sir , of my standing here ?
95760
95761 We do , sir ; tell us what hath brought you to 't .
95762
95763 Mine own desert .
95764
95765 Your own desert !
95766
95767 Ay , not mine own desire .
95768
95769 How ! not your own desire ?
95770
95771 No , sir , 'twas never my desire yet to trouble the poor with begging .
95772
95773 You must think , if we give you any thing , we hope to gain by you .
95774
95775 Well , then , I pray , your price o' the consulship ?
95776
95777 The price is , to ask it kindly .
95778
95779 Kindly ! sir , I pray , let me ha 't : I have wounds to show you , which shall be yours in private . Your good voice , sir ; what say you ?
95780
95781 You shall ha 't , worthy sir .
95782
95783 A match , sir . There is in all two worthy voices begged . I have your alms : adieu .
95784
95785 But this is something odd .
95786
95787 An 'twere to give again ,but 'tis no matter .
95788
95789 Pray you now , if it may stand with the tune of your voices that I may be consul , I have here the customary gown .
95790
95791 You have deserved nobly of your country , and you have not deserved nobly .
95792
95793 Your enigma ?
95794
95795 You have been a scourge to her enemies , you have been a rod to her friends ; you have not indeed loved the common people .
95796
95797 You should account me the more virtuous that I have not been common in my love . I will , sir , flatter my sworn brother the people , to earn a dearer estimation of them ; 'tis a condition they account gentle : and since the wisdom of their choice is rather to have my hat than my heart , I will practise the insinuating nod , and be off to them most counterfeitly ; that is , sir , I will counterfeit the bewitchment of some popular man , and give it bountifully to the desirers . Therefore , beseech you , I may be consul .
95798
95799 We hope to find you our friend , and therefore give you our voices heartily .
95800
95801 You have received many wounds for your country .
95802
95803 I will not seal your knowledge with showing them . I will make much of your voices , and so trouble you no further .
95804
95805 The gods give you joy , sir , heartily !
95806
95807
95808 Most sweet voices !
95809 Better it is to die , better to starve ,
95810 Than crave the hire which first we do deserve .
95811 Why in this woolvish toge should I stand here ,
95812 To beg of Hob and Dick , that do appear ,
95813 Their needless vouches ? Custom calls me to 't :
95814 What custom wills , in all things should we do 't ,
95815 The dust on antique time would lie unswept ,
95816 And mountainous error be too highly heap'd
95817 For truth to o'er-peer . Rather than fool it so ,
95818 Let the high office and the honour go
95819 To one that would do thus . I am half through ;
95820 The one part suffer'd , the other will I do .
95821 Here come more voices .
95822
95823
95824 Your voices : for your voices I have fought ;
95825 Watch'd for your voices ; for your voices bear
95826 Of wounds two dozen odd ; battles thrice six
95827 I have seen and heard of ; for your voices have
95828 Done many things , some less , some more ; your voices :
95829
95830 Indeed , I would be consul .
95831
95832 He has done nobly , and cannot go without any honest man's voice .
95833
95834 Therefore let him be consul . The gods give him joy , and make him good friend to the people !
95835
95836 Amen , amen .
95837 God save thee , noble consul !
95838
95839
95840 Worthy voices !
95841
95842
95843 You have stood your limitation ; and the tribunes
95844 Endue you with the people's voice : remains
95845 That , in the official marks invested , you
95846 Anon do meet the senate .
95847
95848 Is this done ?
95849
95850 The custom of request you have discharg'd :
95851 The people do admit you , and are summon'd
95852 To meet anon , upon your approbation .
95853
95854 Where ? at the senate-house ?
95855
95856 There , Coriolanus .
95857
95858 May I change these garments ?
95859
95860 You may , sir .
95861
95862 That I'll straight do ; and , knowing myself again ,
95863 Repair to the senate-house .
95864
95865 I'll keep you company . Will you along ?
95866
95867 We stay here for the people .
95868
95869 Fare you well .
95870
95871 He has it now ; and by his looks , methinks ,
95872 'Tis warm at's heart .
95873
95874 With a proud heart he wore
95875 His humble weeds . Will you dismiss the people ?
95876
95877
95878 How now , my masters ! have you chose this man ?
95879
95880 He has our voices , sir .
95881
95882 We pray the gods he may deserve your love .
95883
95884 Amen , sir . To my poor unworthy notice ,
95885 He mock'd us when he begg'd our voices .
95886
95887 Certainly ,
95888 He flouted us downright .
95889
95890 No , 'tis his kind of speech ; he did not mock us .
95891
95892 Not one amongst us , save yourself , but says
95893 He used us scornfully : he should have show'd us
95894 His marks of merit , wounds receiv'd for's country .
95895
95896 Why , so he did , I am sure .
95897
95898 No , no ; no man saw 'em .
95899
95900 He said he had wounds , which he could show in private ;
95901 And with his hat , thus waving it in scorn ,
95902 'I would be consul ,' says he : 'aged custom ,
95903 But by your voices , will not so permit me ;
95904 Your voices therefore :' when we granted that ,
95905 Here was , 'I thank you for your voices , thank you ,
95906 Your most sweet voices : now you have left your voices
95907 I have no further with you .' Was not this mockery ?
95908
95909 Why , either were you ignorant to see 't ,
95910 Or , seeing it , of such childish friendliness
95911 To yield your voices ?
95912
95913 Could you not have told him
95914 As you were lesson'd , when he had no power ,
95915 But was a petty servant to the state ,
95916 He was your enemy , ever spake against
95917 Your liberties and the charters that you bear
95918 I' the body of the weal ; and now , arriving
95919 A place of potency and sway o' the state ,
95920 If he should still malignantly remain
95921 Fast foe to the plebeii , your voices might
95922 Be curses to yourselves ? You should have said
95923 That as his worthy deeds did claim no less
95924 Than what he stood for , so his gracious nature
95925 Would think upon you for your voices and
95926 Translate his malice towards you into love ,
95927 Standing your friendly lord .
95928
95929 Thus to have said ,
95930 As you were fore-advis'd , had touch'd his spirit
95931 And tried his inclination ; from him pluck'd
95932 Either his gracious promise , which you might ,
95933 As cause had call'd you up , have held him to ;
95934 Or else it would have gall'd his surly nature ,
95935 Which easily endures not article
95936 Tying him to aught ; so , putting him to rage ,
95937 You should have ta'en the advantage of his choler ,
95938 And pass'd him unelected .
95939
95940 Did you perceive
95941 He did solicit you in free contempt
95942 When he did need your loves , and do you think
95943 That his contempt shall not be bruising to you
95944 When he hath power to crush ? Why , had your bodies
95945 No heart among you ? or had you tongues to cry
95946 Against the rectorship of judgment ?
95947
95948 Have you
95949 Ere now denied the asker ? and now again
95950 Of him that did not ask , but mock , bestow
95951 Your su'd-for tongues ?
95952
95953 He's not confirm'd ; we may deny him yet .
95954
95955 And will deny him :
95956 I'll have five hundred voices of that sound .
95957
95958 Ay , twice five hundred and their friends to piece 'em .
95959
95960 Get you hence instantly , and tell those friends ,
95961 They have chose a consul that will from them take
95962 Their liberties ; make them of no more voice
95963 Than dogs that are as often beat for barking
95964 As therefore kept to do so .
95965
95966 Let them assemble ;
95967 And , on a safer judgment , all revoke
95968 Your ignorant election . Enforce his pride ,
95969 And his old hate unto you ; besides , forget not
95970 With what contempt he wore the humble weed ;
95971 How in his suit he scorn'd you ; but your loves ,
95972 Thinking upon his services , took from you
95973 The apprehension of his present portance ,
95974 Which most gibingly , ungravely , he did fashion
95975 After the inveterate hate he bears you .
95976
95977 Lay
95978 A fault on us , your tribunes ; that we labour'd ,
95979 No impediment between ,but that you must
95980 Cast your election on him .
95981
95982 Say , you chose him
95983 More after our commandment than as guided
95984 By your own true affections ; and that , your minds ,
95985 Pre-occupied with what you rather must do
95986 Than what you should , made you against the grain
95987 To voice him consul : lay the fault on us .
95988
95989 Ay , spare us not . Say we read lectures to you ,
95990 How youngly he began to serve his country ,
95991 How long continu'd , and what stock he springs of ,
95992 The noble house o' the Marcians , from whence came
95993 That Ancus Marcius , Numa's daughter's son ,
95994 Who , after great Hostilius , here was king ;
95995 Of the same house Publius and Quintus were ,
95996 That our best water brought by conduits hither ;
95997 And Censorinus , that was so surnam'd ,
95998 And nobly nam'd so , twice being censor ,
95999 Was his great ancestor .
96000
96001 One thus descended ,
96002 That hath , beside , well in his person wrought
96003 To be set high in place , we did commend
96004 To your remembrances : but you have found ,
96005 Scaling his present bearing with his past ,
96006 That he's your fixed enemy , and revoke
96007 Your sudden approbation .
96008
96009 Say you ne'er had done 't
96010 Harp on that still but by our putting on ;
96011 And presently , when you have drawn your number ,
96012 Repair to the Capitol .
96013
96014 We will so ; almost all
96015 Repent in their election .
96016
96017
96018 Let them go on ;
96019 This mutiny were better put in hazard
96020 Than stay , past doubt , for greater .
96021 If , as his nature is , he fall in rage
96022 With their refusal , both observe and answer
96023 The vantage of his anger .
96024
96025 To the Capitol , come :
96026 We will be there before the stream o' the people ;
96027 And this shall seem , as partly 'tis , their own ,
96028 Which we have goaded onward .
96029
96030 Tullus Aufidius then had made new head ?
96031
96032 He had , my lord ; and that it was which caus'd
96033 Our swifter composition .
96034
96035 So then the Volsces stand but as at first ,
96036 Ready , when time shall prompt them , to make road
96037 Upon 's again .
96038
96039 They are worn , lord consul , so ,
96040 That we shall hardly in our ages see
96041 Their banners wave again .
96042
96043 Saw you Aufidius ?
96044
96045 On safe-guard he came to me ; and did curse
96046 Against the Volsces , for they had so vilely
96047 Yielded the town : he is retir'd to Antium .
96048
96049 Spoke he of me ?
96050
96051 He did , my lord .
96052
96053 How ? what ?
96054
96055 How often he had met you , sword to sword ;
96056 That of all things upon the earth he hated
96057 Your person most , that he would pawn his fortunes
96058 To hopeless restitution , so he might
96059 Be call'd your vanquisher .
96060
96061 At Antium lives he ?
96062
96063 At Antium .
96064
96065 I wish I had a cause to seek him there ,
96066 To oppose his hatred fully . Welcome home .
96067
96068
96069 Behold ! these are the tribunes of the people ,
96070 The tongues o' the common mouth : I do despise them ;
96071 For they do prank them in authority
96072
96073 Against all noble sufferance .
96074
96075 Pass no further .
96076
96077 Ha ! what is that ?
96078
96079 It will be dangerous to go on : no further .
96080
96081 What makes this change ?
96082
96083 The matter ?
96084
96085 Hath he not pass'd the noble and the common ?
96086
96087 Cominius , no .
96088
96089 Have I had children's voices ?
96090
96091 Tribunes , give way ; he shall to the market-place .
96092
96093 The people are incens'd against him .
96094
96095 Stop ,
96096 Or all will fall in broil .
96097
96098 Are these your herd ?
96099 Must these have voices , that can yield them now ,
96100 And straight disclaim their tongues ? What are your offices ?
96101 You being their mouths , why rule you not their teeth ?
96102 Have you not set them on ?
96103
96104 Be calm , be calm .
96105
96106 It is a purpos'd thing , and grows by plot ,
96107 To curb the will of the nobility :
96108 Suffer't , and live with such as cannot rule
96109 Nor ever will be rul'd .
96110
96111 Call't not a plot :
96112 The people cry you mock'd them , and of late ,
96113 When corn was given them gratis , you repin'd ;
96114 Scandall'd the suppliants for the people , call'd them
96115 Time-pleasers , flatterers , foes to nobleness .
96116
96117 Why , this was known before .
96118
96119 Not to them all .
96120
96121 Have you inform'd them sithence ?
96122
96123 How ! I inform them !
96124
96125 You are like to do such business .
96126
96127 Not unlike ,
96128 Each way , to better yours .
96129
96130 Why then should I be consul ? By yond clouds ,
96131 Let me deserve so ill as you , and make me
96132 Your fellow tribune .
96133
96134 You show too much of that
96135 For which the people stir ; if you will pass
96136 To where you are bound , you must inquire your way ,
96137 Which you are out of , with a gentler spirit ;
96138 Or never be so noble as a consul ,
96139 Nor yoke with him for tribune .
96140
96141 Let's be calm .
96142
96143 The people are abus'd ; set on . This paltering
96144 Becomes not Rome , nor has Coriolanus
96145 Deserv'd this so dishonour'd rub , laid falsely
96146 I' the plain way of his merit .
96147
96148 Tell me of corn !
96149 This was my speech , and I will speak't again ,
96150
96151 Not now , not now .
96152
96153 Not in this heat , sir , now .
96154
96155 Now , as I live , I will . My nobler friends ,
96156 I crave their pardons :
96157 For the mutable , rank-scented many , let them
96158 Regard me as I do not flatter , and
96159 Therein behold themselves : I say again ,
96160 In soothing them we nourish 'gainst our senate
96161 The cockle of rebellion , insolence , sedition ,
96162 Which we ourselves have plough'd for , sow'd and scatter'd ,
96163 By mingling them with us , the honour'd number ;
96164 Who lack'd not virtue , no , nor power , but that
96165 Which they have given to beggars .
96166
96167 Well , no more .
96168
96169 No more words , we beseech you .
96170
96171 How ! no more !
96172 As for my country I have shed my blood ,
96173 Not fearing outward force , so shall my lungs
96174 Coin words till they decay against those measles ,
96175 Which we disdain should tetter us , yet sought
96176 The very way to catch them .
96177
96178 You speak o' the people ,
96179 As if you were a god to punish , not
96180 A man of their infirmity .
96181
96182 'Twere well
96183 We let the people know't .
96184
96185 What , what ? his choler ?
96186
96187 Choler !
96188 Were I as patient as the midnight sleep ,
96189 By Jove , 'twould be my mind !
96190
96191 It is a mind
96192 That shall remain a poison where it is ,
96193 Not poison any further .
96194
96195 Shall remain !
96196 Hear you this Triton of the minnows ? mark you
96197 His absolute 'shall ?'
96198
96199 'Twas from the canon .
96200
96201 'Shall !'
96202 O good but most unwise patricians ! why ,
96203 You grave but reckless senators , have you thus
96204 Given Hydra here to choose an officer ,
96205 That with his peremptory 'shall ,' being but
96206 The horn and noise o' the monster's , wants not spirit
96207 To say he'll turn your current in a ditch ,
96208 And make your channel his ? If he have power ,
96209 Then vail your ignorance ; if none , awake
96210 Your dangerous lenity . If you are learned ,
96211 Be not as common fools ; if you are not ,
96212 Let them have cushions by you . You are plebeians
96213 If they be senators ; and they are no less ,
96214 When , both your voices blended , the great'st taste
96215 Most palates theirs . They choose their magistrate ,
96216 And such a one as he , who puts his 'shall ,'
96217 His popular 'shall ,' against a graver bench
96218 Than ever frown'd in Greece . By Jove himself !
96219 It makes the consuls base ; and my soul aches
96220 To know , when two authorities are up ;
96221 Neither supreme , how soon confusion
96222 May enter 'twixt the gap of both and take
96223 The one by the other .
96224
96225 Well , on to the market-place .
96226
96227 Whoever gave that counsel , to give forth
96228 The corn o' the store-house gratis , as 'twas us'd
96229 Sometime in Greece ,
96230
96231 Well , well ; no more of that .
96232
96233 Though there the people had more absolute power ,
96234 I say , they nourish'd disobedience , fed
96235 The ruin of the state .
96236
96237 Why , shall the people give
96238 One that speaks thus their voice ?
96239
96240 I'll give my reasons ,
96241 More worthier than their voices . They know the corn
96242 Was not our recompense , resting well assur'd
96243 They ne'er did service for 't . Being press'd to the war ,
96244 Even when the navel of the state was touch'd ,
96245 They would not thread the gates : this kind of service
96246 Did not deserve corn gratis . Being i' the war ,
96247 Their mutinies and revolts , wherein they show'd
96248 Most valour , spoke not for them . The accusation
96249 Which they have often made against the senate ,
96250 All cause unborn , could never be the motive
96251 Of our so frank donation . Well , what then ?
96252 How shall this bisson multitude digest
96253 The senate's courtesy ? Let deeds express
96254 What's like to be their words : 'We did request it ;
96255 We are the greater poll , and in true fear
96256 They gave us our demands .' Thus we debase
96257 The nature of our seats , and make the rabble
96258 Call our cares , fears ; which will in time break ope
96259 The locks o' the senate , and bring in the crows
96260 To peck the eagles .
96261
96262 Come , enough .
96263
96264 Enough , with over-measure .
96265
96266 No , take more :
96267 What may be sworn by , both divine and human ,
96268 Seal what I end withal ! This double worship ,
96269 Where one part does disdain with cause , the other
96270 Insult without all reason ; where gentry , title , wisdom ,
96271 Cannot conclude , but by the yea and no
96272 Of general ignorance ,it must omit
96273 Real necessities , and give way the while
96274 To unstable slightness : purpose so barr'd , it follows
96275 Nothing is done to purpose . Therefore , beseech you ,
96276 You that will be less fearful than discreet ,
96277 That love the fundamental part of state
96278 More than you doubt the change on 't , that prefer
96279 A noble life before a long , and wish
96280 To jump a body with a dangerous physic
96281 That's sure of death without it , at once pluck out
96282 The multitudinous tongue ; let them not lick
96283 The sweet which is their poison . Your dishonour
96284 Mangles true judgment , and bereaves the state
96285 Of that integrity which should become it ,
96286 Not having the power to do the good it would ,
96287 For the ill which doth control 't .
96288
96289 He has said enough .
96290
96291 He has spoken like a traitor , and shall answer
96292 As traitors do .
96293
96294 Thou wretch ! despite o'erwhelm thee !
96295 What should the people do with these bald tribunes ?
96296 On whom depending , their obedience fails
96297 To the greater bench . In a rebellion ,
96298 When what's not meet , but what must be , was law ,
96299 Then were they chosen : in a better hour ,
96300 Let what is meet be said it must be meet ,
96301 And throw their power i' the dust .
96302
96303 Manifest treason !
96304
96305 This a consul ? no .
96306
96307 The diles , ho ! Let him be apprehended .
96308
96309
96310 Go , call the people ;
96311
96312 in whose name , myself
96313 Attach thee as a traitorous innovator ,
96314 A foe to the public weal : obey , I charge thee ,
96315 And follow to thine answer .
96316
96317 Hence , old goat !
96318
96319 We'll surety him .
96320
96321 Aged sir , hands off .
96322
96323 Hence , rotten thing ! or I shall shake thy bones
96324 Out of thy garments .
96325
96326 Help , ye citizens !
96327
96328
96329 On both sides more respect .
96330
96331 Here's he that would take from you all your power .
96332
96333 Seize him , diles !
96334
96335 Down with him !down with him !
96336
96337 Weapons !weapons !weapons !
96338
96339 What is about to be ?I am out of breath ;
96340 Confusion's near ; I cannot speak . You , tribunes
96341 To the people ! Coriolanus , patience !
96342 Speak , good Sicinius .
96343
96344 Hear me , people ; peace !
96345
96346 Let's hear our tribune :Peace !Speak , speak , speak .
96347
96348 You are at point to lose your liberties :
96349 Marcius would have all from you ; Marcius ,
96350 Whom late you have nam'd for consul .
96351
96352 Fie , fie , fie !
96353 This is the way to kindle , not to quench .
96354
96355 To unbuild the city and to lay all flat .
96356
96357 What is the city but the people ?
96358
96359 True ,
96360 The people are the city .
96361
96362 By the consent of all , we were establish'd
96363 The people's magistrates .
96364
96365 You so remain .
96366
96367 And so are like to do .
96368
96369 That is the way to lay the city flat ;
96370 To bring the roof to the foundation ,
96371 And bury all , which yet distinctly ranges ,
96372 In heaps and piles of ruin .
96373
96374 This deserves death .
96375
96376 Or let us stand to our authority ,
96377 Or let us lose it . We do here pronounce ,
96378 Upon the part o' the people , in whose power
96379 We were elected theirs , Marcius is worthy
96380 Of present death .
96381
96382 Therefore lay hold of him ;
96383 Bear him to the rock Tarpeian , and from thence
96384 Into destruction cast him .
96385
96386 diles , seize him !
96387
96388 Yield , Marcius , yield !
96389
96390 Hear me one word ;
96391 Beseech you , tribunes , hear me but a word .
96392
96393 Peace , peace !
96394
96395 Be that you seem , truly your country's friends ,
96396 And temperately proceed to what you would
96397 Thus violently redress .
96398
96399 Sir , those cold ways ,
96400 That seem like prudent helps , are very poisonous
96401 Where the disease is violent . Lay hands upon him ,
96402 And bear him to the rock .
96403
96404 No , I'll die here .
96405
96406 There's some among you have beheld me fighting :
96407 Come , try upon yourselves what you have seen me .
96408
96409 Down with that sword ! Tribunes , withdraw awhile .
96410
96411 Lay hands upon him .
96412
96413 Help Marcius , help ,
96414 You that be noble ; help him , young and old !
96415
96416 Down with him !down with him !
96417
96418
96419 Go , get you to your house ; be gone , away !
96420 All will be naught else .
96421
96422 Get you gone .
96423
96424 Stand fast ;
96425 We have as many friends as enemies .
96426
96427 Shall it be put to that ?
96428
96429 The gods forbid !
96430 I prithee , noble friend , home to thy house ;
96431 Leave us to cure this cause .
96432
96433 For 'tis a sore upon us ,
96434 You cannot tent yourself : be gone , beseech you .
96435
96436 Come , sir , along with us .
96437
96438 I would they were barbarians ,as they are ,
96439 Though in Rome litter'd ,not Romans ,as they are not ,
96440 Though calv'd i' the porch o' the Capitol ,
96441
96442 Be gone ;
96443 Put not your worthy rage into your tongue ;
96444 One time will owe another .
96445
96446 On fair ground
96447 I could beat forty of them .
96448
96449 I could myself
96450 Take up a brace o' the best of them ; yea , the two tribunes .
96451
96452 But now 'tis odds beyond arithmetic ;
96453 And manhood is call'd foolery when it stands
96454 Against a falling fabric . Will you hence ,
96455 Before the tag return ? whose rage doth rend
96456 Like interrupted waters and o'erbear
96457 What they are us'd to bear .
96458
96459 Pray you , be gone .
96460 I'll try whether my old wit be in request
96461 With those that have but little : this must be patch'd
96462 With cloth of any colour .
96463
96464 Nay , come away .
96465
96466
96467 This man has marr'd his fortune .
96468
96469 His nature is too noble for the world :
96470 He would not flatter Neptune for his trident ,
96471 Or Jove for 's power to thunder . His heart's his mouth :
96472 What his breast forges , that his tongue must vent ;
96473 And , being angry , does forget that ever
96474 He heard the name of death .
96475
96476 Here's goodly work !
96477
96478 I would they were a-bed !
96479
96480 I would they were in Tiber ! What the vengeance !
96481 Could he not speak 'em fair ?
96482
96483
96484 Where is this viper
96485 That would depopulate the city and
96486 Be every man himself ?
96487
96488 You worthy tribunes ,
96489
96490 He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian rock
96491 With rigorous hands : he hath resisted law ,
96492 And therefore law shall scorn him further trial
96493 Than the severity of the public power ,
96494 Which he so sets at nought .
96495
96496 He shall well know
96497 The noble tribunes are the people's mouths ,
96498 And we their hands .
96499
96500 He shall , sure on't .
96501
96502 Sir , sir ,
96503
96504 Peace !
96505
96506 Do not cry havoc , where you should but hunt
96507 With modest warrant .
96508
96509 Sir , how comes 't that you
96510 Have holp to make this rescue ?
96511
96512 Hear me speak :
96513 As I do know the consul's worthiness ,
96514 So can I name his faults .
96515
96516 Consul ! what consul ?
96517
96518 The Consul Coriolanus .
96519
96520 He consul !
96521
96522 No , no , no , no , no .
96523
96524 If , by the tribunes' leave , and yours , good people ,
96525 I may be heard , I would crave a word or two ,
96526 The which shall turn you to no further harm
96527 Than so much loss of time .
96528
96529 Speak briefly then ;
96530 For we are peremptory to dispatch
96531 This viperous traitor . To eject him hence
96532 Were but one danger , and to keep him here
96533 Our certain death ; therefore it is decreed
96534 He dies to-night .
96535
96536 Now the good gods forbid
96537 That our renowned Rome , whose gratitude
96538 Towards her deserved children is enroll'd
96539 In Jove's own book , like an unnatural dam
96540 Should now eat up her own !
96541
96542 He's a disease that must be cut away .
96543
96544 O ! he's a limb that has but a disease ;
96545 Mortal to cut it off ; to cure it easy .
96546 What has he done to Rome that's worthy death ?
96547 Killing our enemies , the blood he hath lost ,
96548 Which , I dare vouch , is more than that he hath
96549 By many an ounce ,he dropp'd it for his country ;
96550 And what is left , to lose it by his country ,
96551 Were to us all , that do't and suffer it ,
96552 A brand to th' end o' the world .
96553
96554 This is clean kam .
96555
96556 Merely awry : when he did love his country
96557 It honour'd him .
96558
96559 The service of the foot
96560 Being once gangren'd , is not then respected
96561 For what before it was .
96562
96563 We'll hear no more .
96564 Pursue him to his house , and pluck him thence ,
96565 Lest his infection , being of catching nature ,
96566 Spread further .
96567
96568 One word more , one word .
96569 This tiger-footed rage , when it shall find
96570 The harm of unscann'd swiftness , will , too late ,
96571 Tie leaden pounds to's heels . Proceed by process ;
96572 Lest parties as he is belov'd break out ,
96573 And sack great Rome with Romans .
96574
96575 If 'twere so ,
96576
96577 What do ye talk ?
96578 Have we not had a taste of his obedience ?
96579 Our diles smote ? ourselves resisted ? Come !
96580
96581 Consider this : he has been bred i' the wars
96582 Since he could draw a sword , and is ill school'd
96583 In bolted language ; meal and bran together
96584 He throws without distinction . Give me leave ,
96585 I'll go to him , and undertake to bring him
96586 Where he shall answer by a lawful form ,
96587 In peace ,to his utmost peril .
96588
96589 Noble tribunes ,
96590 It is the humane way : the other course
96591 Will prove too bloody , and the end of it
96592 Unknown to the beginning .
96593
96594 Noble Menenius ,
96595 Be you then as the people's officer .
96596 Masters , lay down your weapons .
96597
96598 Go not home .
96599
96600 Meet on the market-place . We'll attend you there :
96601 Where , if you bring not Marcius , we'll proceed
96602 In our first way .
96603
96604 I'll bring him to you .
96605
96606
96607 Let me desire your company . He must come ,
96608 Or what is worst will follow .
96609
96610 Pray you , let's to him .
96611
96612
96613 Let them pull all about mine ears ; present me
96614 Death on the wheel , or at wild horses' heels ;
96615 Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock ,
96616 That the precipitation might down stretch
96617 Below the beam of sight ; yet will I still
96618 Be thus to them .
96619
96620 You do the nobler .
96621
96622 I muse my mother
96623 Does not approve me further , who was wont
96624 To call them woollen vassals , things created
96625 To buy and sell with groats , to show bare heads
96626 In congregations , to yawn , be still , and wonder ,
96627 When one but of my ordinance stood up
96628 To speak of peace or war .
96629
96630
96631 I talk of you :
96632 Why did you wish me milder ? Would you have me
96633 False to my nature ? Rather say I play
96634
96635 The man I am .
96636
96637 O ! sir , sir , sir ,
96638 I would have had you put your power well on
96639 Before you had worn it out .
96640
96641 Let go .
96642
96643 You might have been enough the man you are
96644 With striving less to be so : lesser had been
96645 The thwarting of your dispositions if
96646 You had not show'd them how you were dispos'd ,
96647 Ere they lack'd power to cross you .
96648
96649 Let them hang .
96650
96651 Ay , and burn too .
96652
96653
96654 Come , come ; you have been too rough , something too rough ;
96655 You must return and mend it .
96656
96657 There's no remedy ;
96658 Unless , by not so doing , our good city
96659 Cleave in the midst , and perish .
96660
96661 Pray be counsell'd .
96662 I have a heart of mettle apt as yours ,
96663 But yet a brain that leads my use of anger
96664 To better vantage .
96665
96666 Well said , noble woman !
96667 Before he should thus stoop to the herd , but that
96668 The violent fit o' the time craves it as physic
96669 For the whole state , I would put mine armour on ,
96670 Which I can scarcely bear .
96671
96672 What must I do ?
96673
96674 Return to the tribunes .
96675
96676 Well , what then ? what then ?
96677
96678 Repent what you have spoke .
96679
96680 For them ! I cannot do it to the gods ;
96681 Must I then do't to them ?
96682
96683 You are too absolute ;
96684 Though therein you can never be too noble ,
96685 But when extremities speak . I have heard you say ,
96686 Honour and policy , like unsever'd friends ,
96687 I' the war do grow together : grant that , and tell me ,
96688 In peace what each of them by th' other lose ,
96689 That they combine not there .
96690
96691 Tush , tush !
96692
96693 A good demand .
96694
96695 If it be honour in your wars to seem
96696 The same you are not ,which , for your best ends ,
96697 You adopt your policy ,how is it less or worse ,
96698 That it shall hold companionship in peace
96699 With honour , as in war , since that to both
96700 It stands in like request ?
96701
96702 Why force you this ?
96703
96704 Because that now it lies you on to speak
96705 To the people ; not by your own instruction ,
96706 Nor by the matter which your heart prompts you ,
96707 But with such words that are but rooted in
96708 Your tongue , though but bastards and syllables
96709 Of no allowance to your bosom's truth .
96710 Now , this no more dishonours you at all
96711 Than to take in a town with gentle words ,
96712 Which else would put you to your fortune and
96713 The hazard of much blood .
96714 I would dissemble with my nature where
96715 My fortunes and my friends at stake requir'd
96716 I should do so in honour : I am in this ,
96717 Your wife , your son , these senators , the nobles ;
96718 And you will rather show our general louts
96719 How you can frown than spend a fawn upon 'em ,
96720 For the inheritance of their loves and safeguard
96721 Of what that want might ruin .
96722
96723 Noble lady !
96724 Come , go with us ; speak fair ; you may salve so ,
96725 Not what is dangerous present , but the loss
96726 Of what is past .
96727
96728 I prithee now , my son ,
96729 Go to them , with this bonnet in thy hand ;
96730 And thus far having stretch'd it ,here be with them ,
96731 Thy knee bussing the stones ,for in such business
96732 Action is eloquence , and the eyes of the ignorant
96733 More learned than the ears ,waving thy head ,
96734 Which often , thus , correcting thy stout heart ,
96735 Now humble as the ripest mulberry
96736 That will not hold the handling : or say to them ,
96737 Thou art their soldier , and being bred in broils
96738 Hast not the soft way which , thou dost confess ,
96739 Were fit for thee to use as they to claim ,
96740 In asking their good loves ; but thou wilt frame
96741 Thyself , forsooth , hereafter theirs , so far
96742 As thou hast power and person .
96743
96744 This but done ,
96745 Even as she speaks , why , their hearts were yours ;
96746 For they have pardons , being ask'd , as free
96747 As words to little purpose .
96748
96749 Prithee now ,
96750 Go , and be rul'd ; although I know thou hadst rather
96751 Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf
96752 Than flatter him in a bower . Here is Cominius .
96753
96754
96755 I have been i' the market-place ; and , sir , 'tis fit
96756 You make strong party , or defend yourself
96757 By calmness or by absence : all's in anger .
96758
96759 Only fair speech .
96760
96761 I think 'twill serve if he
96762 Can thereto frame his spirit .
96763
96764 He must , and will .
96765 Prithee now , say you will , and go about it .
96766
96767 Must I go show them my unbarbed sconce ?
96768 Must I with my base tongue give to my noble heart
96769 A lie that it must bear ? Well , I will do't :
96770 Yet , were there but this single plot to lose ,
96771 This mould of Marcius , they to dust should grind it ,
96772 And throw 't against the wind . To the market-place !
96773 You have put me now to such a part which never
96774 I shall discharge to the life .
96775
96776 Come , come , we'll prompt you .
96777
96778 I prithee now , sweet son , as thou hast said
96779 My praises made thee first a soldier , so ,
96780 To have my praise for this , perform a part
96781 Thou hast not done before .
96782
96783 Well , I must do 't :
96784 Away , my disposition , and possess me
96785 Some harlot's spirit ! My throat of war be turn'd ,
96786 Which quired with my drum , into a pipe
96787 Small as a eunuch , or the virgin voice
96788 That babies lulls asleep ! The smiles of knaves
96789 Tent in my cheeks , and school-boys' tears take up
96790 The glasses of my sight ! A beggar's tongue
96791 Make motion through my lips , and my arm'd knees ,
96792 Who bow'd but in my stirrup , bend like his
96793 That hath receiv'd an alms ! I will not do 't ,
96794 Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth ,
96795 And by my body's action teach my mind
96796 A most inherent baseness .
96797
96798 At thy choice then :
96799 To beg of thee it is my more dishonour
96800 Than thou of them . Come all to ruin ; let
96801 Thy mother rather feel thy pride than fear
96802 Thy dangerous stoutness , for I mock at death
96803 With as big heart as thou . Do as thou list ,
96804 Thy valiantness was mine , thou suck'dst it from me ,
96805 But owe thy pride thyself .
96806
96807 Pray , be content :
96808 Mother , I am going to the market-place ;
96809 Chide me no more . I'll mountebank their loves ,
96810 Cog their hearts from them , and come home belov'd
96811 Of all the trades in Rome . Look , I am going :
96812 Commend me to my wife . I'll return consul ,
96813 Or never trust to what my tongue can do
96814 I' the way of flattery further .
96815
96816 Do your will .
96817
96818
96819 Away ! the tribunes do attend you : arm yourself
96820 To answer mildly ; for they are prepar'd
96821 With accusations , as I hear , more strong
96822 Than are upon you yet .
96823
96824 The word is 'mildly .'
96825
96826 Pray you , let us go :
96827 Let them accuse me by invention , I
96828 Will answer in mine honour .
96829
96830 Ay , but mildly .
96831
96832 Well , mildly be it then . Mildly !
96833
96834
96835 In this point charge him home , that he affects
96836 Tyrannical power : if he evade us there ,
96837 Enforce him with his envy to the people ,
96838 And that the spoil got on the Antiates
96839 Was ne'er distributed .
96840
96841 What , will he come ?
96842
96843 He's coming .
96844
96845 How accompanied ?
96846
96847 With old Menenius , and those senators
96848 That always favour'd him .
96849
96850 Have you a catalogue
96851 Of all the voices that we have procur'd ,
96852 Set down by the poll ?
96853
96854 I have ; 'tis ready .
96855
96856 Have you collected them by tribes ?
96857
96858 I have .
96859
96860 Assemble presently the people hither ;
96861 And when they hear me say , 'It shall be so ,
96862 I' the right and strength o' the commons ,' be it either
96863 For death , for fine , or banishment , then let them ,
96864 If I say , fine , cry 'fine ,' if death , cry 'death ,'
96865 Insisting on the old prerogative
96866 And power i' the truth o' the cause .
96867
96868 I shall inform them .
96869
96870 And when such time they have begun to cry ,
96871 Let them not cease , but with a din confus'd
96872 Enforce the present execution
96873 Of what we chance to sentence .
96874
96875 Very well .
96876
96877 Make them be strong and ready for this hint ,
96878 When we shall hap to give 't them .
96879
96880 Go about it .
96881
96882 Put him to choler straight . He hath been us'd
96883 Ever to conquer , and to have his worth
96884 Of contradiction : being once chaf'd , he cannot
96885 Be rein'd again to temperance ; then he speaks
96886 What's in his heart ; and that is there which looks
96887 With us to break his neck .
96888
96889 Well , here he comes .
96890
96891
96892 Calmly , I do beseech you .
96893
96894 Ay , as an ostler , that for the poorest piece
96895 Will bear the knave by the volume . The honour'd gods
96896 Keep Rome in safety , and the chairs of justice
96897 Supplied with worthy men ! plant love among us !
96898 Throng our large temples with the shows of peace ,
96899 And not our streets with war !
96900
96901 Amen , amen .
96902
96903 A noble wish .
96904
96905
96906 Draw near , ye people .
96907
96908 List to your tribunes ; audience ; peace ! I say .
96909
96910 First , hear me speak .
96911
96912 Well , say . Peace , ho !
96913
96914 Shall I be charg'd no further than this present ?
96915 Must all determine here ?
96916
96917 I do demand ,
96918 If you submit you to the people's voices ,
96919 Allow their officers , and are content
96920 To suffer lawful censure for such faults
96921 As shall be prov'd upon you ?
96922
96923 I am content .
96924
96925 Lo ! citizens , he says he is content :
96926 The war-like service he has done , consider ; think
96927 Upon the wounds his body bears , which show
96928 Like graves i' the holy churchyard .
96929
96930 Scratches with briers ,
96931 Scars to move laughter only .
96932
96933 Consider further ,
96934 That when he speaks not like a citizen ,
96935 You find him like a soldier : do not take
96936 His rougher accents for malicious sounds ,
96937 But , as I say , such as become a soldier ,
96938 Rather than envy you .
96939
96940 Well , well ; no more .
96941
96942 What is the matter ,
96943 That being pass'd for consul with full voice
96944 I am so dishonour'd that the very hour
96945 You take it off again ?
96946
96947 Answer to us .
96948
96949 Say , then : 'tis true , I ought so .
96950
96951 We charge you , that you have contriv'd to take
96952 From Rome all season'd office , and to wind
96953 Yourself into a power tyrannical ;
96954 For which you are a traitor to the people .
96955
96956 How ! Traitor !
96957
96958 Nay , temperately ; your promise .
96959
96960 The fires i' the lowest hell fold-in the people !
96961 Call me their traitor ! Thou injurious tribune !
96962 Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths ,
96963 In thy hands clutch'd as many millions , in
96964 Thy lying tongue both numbers , I would say
96965 'Thou liest' unto thee with a voice as free
96966 As I do pray the gods .
96967
96968 Mark you this , people !
96969
96970 To the rock !to the rock with him !
96971
96972 Peace !
96973 We need not put new matter to his charge :
96974 What you have seen him do , and heard him speak ,
96975 Beating your officers , cursing yourselves ,
96976 Opposing laws with strokes , and here defying
96977 Those whose great power must try him ; even this ,
96978 So criminal and in such capital kind ,
96979 Deserves the extremest death .
96980
96981 But since he hath
96982 Serv'd well for Rome ,
96983
96984 What do you prate of service ?
96985
96986 I talk of that , that know it .
96987
96988 You !
96989
96990 Is this the promise that you made your mother ?
96991
96992 Know , I pray you ,
96993
96994 I'll know no further :
96995 Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death ,
96996 Vagabond exile , flaying , pent to linger
96997 But with a grain a day , I would not buy
96998 Their mercy at the price of one fair word ,
96999 Nor check my courage for what they can give ,
97000 To have 't with saying 'Good morrow .'
97001
97002 For that he has ,
97003 As much as in him lies ,from time to time
97004 Envied against the people , seeking means
97005 To pluck away their power , as now at last
97006 Given hostile strokes , and that not in the presence
97007 Of dreaded justice , but on the ministers
97008 That do distribute it ; in the name o' the people ,
97009 And in the power of us the tribunes , we ,
97010 Even from this instant , banish him our city ,
97011 In peril of precipitation
97012 From off the rock Tarpeian , never more
97013 To enter our Rome gates : i' the people's name ,
97014 I say , it shall be so .
97015
97016 It shall be so ,It shall be so ,Let him away .
97017 He's banish'd , and it shall be so .
97018
97019 Hear me , my masters , and my common friends ,
97020
97021 He's sentenc'd ; no more hearing .
97022
97023 Let me speak :
97024 I have been consul , and can show for Rome
97025 Her enemies' marks upon me . I do love
97026 My country's good with a respect more tender ,
97027 More holy , and profound , than mine own life ,
97028 My dear wife's estimate , her womb's increase ,
97029 And treasure of my loins ; then if I would
97030 Speak that
97031
97032 We know your drift : speak what ?
97033
97034 There's no more to be said , but he is banish'd ,
97035 As enemy to the people and his country :
97036 It shall be so .
97037
97038 It shall be so ,it shall be so .
97039
97040 You common cry of curs ! whose breath I hate
97041 As reek o' the rotten fens , whose loves I prize
97042 As the dead carcases of unburied men
97043 That do corrupt my air , I banish you ;
97044 And here remain with your uncertainty !
97045 Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts !
97046 Your enemies , with nodding of their plumes ,
97047 Fan you into despair ! Have the power still
97048 To banish your defenders ; till at length
97049 Your ignorance ,which finds not , till it feels ,
97050 Making but reservation of yourselves ,
97051 Still your own foes ,deliver you as most
97052 Abated captives to some nation
97053 That won you without blows ! Despising ,
97054 For you , the city , thus I turn my back :
97055 There is a world elsewhere .
97056
97057
97058 The people's enemy is gone , is gone !
97059
97060 Our enemy is banish'd !he is gone !Hoo ! hoo !
97061
97062
97063 Go , see him out at gates , and follow him ,
97064 As he hath follow'd you , with all despite ;
97065 Give him deserv'd vexation . Let a guard
97066 Attend us through the city .
97067
97068 Come , come ,let us see him out at gates ! come !
97069 The gods preserve our noble tribunes ! Come !
97070
97071 Come , leave your tears : a brief farewell : the beast
97072 With many heads butts me away . Nay , mother ,
97073 Where is your ancient courage ? you were us'd ,
97074 To say extremity was the trier of spirits ;
97075 That common chances common men could bear ;
97076 That when the sea was calm all boats alike
97077 Show'd mastership in floating ; fortune's blows ,
97078 When most struck home , being gentle wounded , craves
97079 A noble cunning : you were us'd to load me
97080 With precepts that would make invincible
97081 The heart that conn'd them .
97082
97083 O heavens ! O heavens !
97084
97085 Nay , I prithee , woman ,
97086
97087 Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome ,
97088 And occupations perish !
97089
97090 What , what , what !
97091 I shall be lov'd when I am lack'd . Nay , mother ,
97092 Resume that spirit , when you were wont to say ,
97093 If you had been the wife of Hercules ,
97094 Six of his labours you'd have done , and sav'd
97095 Your husband so much sweat . Cominius ,
97096 Droop not ; adieu . Farewell , my wife ! my mother !
97097 I'll do well yet . Thou old and true Menenius ,
97098 Thy tears are salter than a younger man's .
97099 And venomous to thine eyes . My sometime general ,
97100 I have seen thee stern , and thou hast oft beheld
97101 Heart-hardening spectacles ; tell these sad women
97102 'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes
97103 As 'tis to laugh at them . My mother , you wot well
97104 My hazards still have been your solace ; and
97105 Believe 't not lightly ,though I go alone
97106 Like to a lonely dragon , that his fen
97107 Makes fear'd and talk'd of more than seen ,your son
97108 Will or exceed the common or be caught
97109 With cautelous baits and practice .
97110
97111 My first son ,
97112 Whither wilt thou go ? Take good Cominius
97113 With thee awhile : determine on some course ,
97114 More than a wild exposture to each chance
97115 That starts i' the way before thee .
97116
97117 O the gods !
97118
97119 I'll follow thee a month , devise with thee
97120 Where thou shalt rest , that thou mayst hear of us ,
97121 And we of thee : so , if the time thrust forth
97122 A cause for thy repeal , we shall not send
97123 O'er the vast world to seek a single man ,
97124 And lose advantage , which doth ever cool
97125 I' the absence of the needer .
97126
97127 Fare ye well :
97128 Thou hast years upon thee ; and thou art too full
97129 Of the wars' surfeits , to go rove with one
97130 That's yet unbruis'd : bring me but out at gate .
97131 Come , my sweet wife , my dearest mother , and
97132 My friends of noble touch , when I am forth ,
97133 Bid me farewell , and smile . I pray you , come .
97134 While I remain above the ground you shall
97135 Hear from me still ; and never of me aught
97136 But what is like me formerly .
97137
97138 That's worthily
97139 As any ear can hear . Come , let's not weep .
97140 If I could shake off but one seven years
97141 From these old arms and legs , by the good gods ,
97142 I'd with thee every foot .
97143
97144 Give me thy hand :
97145 Come .
97146
97147
97148 Bid them all home ; he's gone , and we'll no further .
97149 The nobility are vex'd , whom we see have sided
97150 In his behalf .
97151
97152 Now we have shown our power ,
97153 Let us seem humbler after it is done
97154 Than when it was a-doing .
97155
97156 Bid them home ;
97157 Say their great enemy is gone , and they
97158 Stand in their ancient strength .
97159
97160 Dismiss them home .
97161
97162
97163 Here comes his mother .
97164
97165 Let's not meet her .
97166
97167 Why ?
97168
97169 They say she's mad .
97170
97171 They have ta'en note of us : keep on your way .
97172
97173 O ! you're well met . The hoarded plague o' the gods
97174 Requite your love !
97175
97176 Peace , peace ! be not so loud .
97177
97178 If that I could for weeping , you should hear ,
97179 Nay , and you shall hear some .
97180
97181 Will you be gone ?
97182
97183 You shall stay too . I would I had the power
97184 To say so to my husband .
97185
97186 Are you mankind ?
97187
97188 Ay , fool ; is that a shame ? Note but this fool .
97189 Was not a man my father ? Hadst thou foxship
97190 To banish him that struck more blows for Rome
97191 Than thou hast spoken words ?
97192
97193 O blessed heavens !
97194
97195 More noble blows than ever thou wise words ;
97196 And for Rome's good . I'll tell thee what ; yet go :
97197 Nay , but thou shalt stay too : I would my son
97198 Were in Arabia , and thy tribe before him ,
97199 His good sword in his hand .
97200
97201 What then ?
97202
97203 What then !
97204 He'd make an end of thy posterity .
97205
97206 Bastards and all .
97207 Good man , the wounds that he does bear for Rome !
97208
97209 Come , come : peace !
97210
97211 I would he had continu'd to his country
97212 As he began , and not unknit himself
97213 The noble knot he made .
97214
97215 I would he had .
97216
97217 'I would he had !' 'Twas you incens'd the rabble :
97218 Cats , that can judge as fitly of his worth
97219 As I can of those mysteries which heaven
97220 Will not have earth to know .
97221
97222 Pray , let us go .
97223
97224 Now , pray , sir , get you gone :
97225 You have done a brave deed . Ere you go , hear this :
97226 As far as doth the Capitol exceed
97227 The meanest house in Rome , so far my son ,
97228 This lady's husband here , this , do you see ,
97229 Whom you have banish'd , does exceed you all .
97230
97231 Well , well , we'll leave you .
97232
97233 Why stay we to be baited
97234 With one that wants her wits ?
97235
97236 Take my prayers with you .
97237
97238 I would the gods had nothing else to do
97239 But to confirm my curses ! Could I meet 'em
97240 But once a day , it would unclog my heart
97241 Of what lies heavy to 't .
97242
97243 You have told them home ,
97244 And , by my troth , you have cause . You'll sup with me ?
97245
97246 Anger's my meat ; I sup upon myself ,
97247 And so shall starve with feeding . Come , let's go .
97248 Leave this faint puling and lament as I do ,
97249 In anger , Juno-like . Come , come , come .
97250
97251 Fie , fie , fie !
97252
97253
97254 I know you well , sir , and you know me : your name I think is Adrian .
97255
97256 It is so , sir : truly , I have forget you .
97257
97258 I am a Roman ; and my services are , as you are , against 'em : know you me yet ?
97259
97260 Nicanor ? No .
97261
97262 The same , sir .
97263
97264 You had more beard , when I last saw you ; but your favour is well approved by your tongue . What's the news in Rome ? I have a note from the Volscian state to find you out there : you have well saved me a day's journey .
97265
97266 There hath been in Rome strange insurrections : the people against the senators , patricians , and nobles .
97267
97268 Hath been ! Is it ended then ? Our state thinks not-so ; they are in a most war-like preparation , and hope to come upon them in the heat of their division .
97269
97270 The main blaze of it is past , but a small thing would make it flame again . For the nobles receive so to heart the banishment of that worthy Coriolanus , that they are in a ripe aptness to take all power from the people and to pluck from them their tribunes for ever . This lies glowing , I can tell you , and is almost mature for the violent breaking out .
97271
97272 Coriolanus banished !
97273
97274 Banished , sir .
97275
97276 You will be welcome with this intelligence , Nicanor .
97277
97278 The day serves well for them now . I have heard it said , the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband . Your noble Tullus Aufidius will appear well in these wars , his great opposer , Coriolanus , being now in no request of his country .
97279
97280 He cannot choose . I am most fortunate , thus accidentally to encounter you : you have ended my business , and I will merrily accompany you home .
97281
97282 I shall , between this and supper , tell you most strange things from Rome ; all tending to the good of their adversaries . Have you an army ready , say you ?
97283
97284 A most royal one : the centurions and their charges distinctly billeted , already in the entertainment , and to be on foot at an hour's warning .
97285
97286 I am joyful to hear of their readiness , and am the man , I think , that shall set them in present action . So , sir , heartily well met , and most glad of your company .
97287
97288 You take my part from me , sir ; I have the most cause to be glad of yours .
97289
97290 Well , let us go together .
97291
97292
97293 A goodly city is this Antium . City ,
97294 'Tis I that made thy widows : many an heir
97295 Of these fair edifices 'fore my wars
97296 Have I heard groan and drop : then , know me not ,
97297 Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones
97298 In puny battle slay me .
97299
97300 Save you , sir .
97301
97302 And you .
97303
97304 Direct me , if it be your will ,
97305 Where great Aufidius lies . Is he in Antium ?
97306
97307 He is , and feasts the nobles of the state
97308 At his house this night .
97309
97310 Which is his house , beseech you ?
97311
97312 This , here before you .
97313
97314 Thank you , sir . Farewell .
97315
97316 O world ! thy slippery turns . Friends now fast sworn ,
97317 Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart ,
97318 Whose hours , whose bed , whose meal , and exercise ,
97319 Are still together , who twin , as 'twere , in love
97320 Unseparable , shall within this hour ,
97321 On a dissension of a doit , break out
97322 To bitterest enmity : so , fellest foes ,
97323 Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep
97324 To take the one the other , by some chance ,
97325 Some trick not worth an egg , shall grow dear friends
97326 And interjoin their issues . So with me :
97327 My birth-place hate I , and my love's upon
97328 This enemy town . I'll enter : if he slay me ,
97329 He does fair justice ; if he give me way ,
97330 I'll do his country service .
97331
97332
97333 Wine , wine , wine ! What service is here ! I think our fellows are asleep .
97334
97335 Where's Cotus ? my master calls for him . Cotus !
97336
97337 A goodly house : the feast smells well ; but I
97338 Appear not like a guest .
97339
97340
97341 What would you have , friend ? Whence are you ? Here's no place for you : pray , go to the door .
97342
97343
97344 I have deserv'd no better entertainment ,
97345 In being Coriolanus .
97346
97347
97348 Whence are you , sir ? Has the porter his eyes in his head , that he gives entrance to such companions ? Pray , get you out .
97349
97350 Away !
97351
97352 'Away !' Get you away .
97353
97354 Now , thou art troublesome .
97355
97356 Are you so brave ? I'll have you talked with anon .
97357
97358
97359 What fellow's this ?
97360
97361 A strange one as ever I looked on :
97362 I cannot get him out o' the house : prithee , call my master to him .
97363
97364 What have you to do here , fellow ? Pray you , avoid the house .
97365
97366 Let me but stand ; I will not hurt your hearth .
97367
97368 What are you ?
97369
97370 A gentleman .
97371
97372 A marvellous poor one .
97373
97374 True , so I am .
97375
97376 Pray you , poor gentleman , take up some other station ; here's no place for you ; pray you , avoid : come .
97377
97378 Follow your function ; go , and batten on cold bits .
97379
97380
97381 What , you will not ? Prithee , tell my master what a strange guest he has here .
97382
97383 And I shall .
97384
97385
97386 Where dwell'st thou ?
97387
97388 Under the canopy .
97389
97390 'Under the canopy !'
97391
97392 Ay .
97393
97394 Where's that ?
97395
97396 I' the city of kites and crows .
97397
97398 'I' the city of kites and crows !' What an ass it is ! Then thou dwell'st with daws too ?
97399
97400 No ; I serve not thy master .
97401
97402 How sir ! Do you meddle with my master ?
97403
97404 Ay ; 'tis an honester service than to meddle with thy mistress .
97405 Thou prat'st , and prat'st : serve with thy trencher . Hence .
97406
97407 Where is this fellow ?
97408
97409 Here , sir : I'd have beaten him like a dog , but for disturbing the lords within .
97410
97411 Whence com'st thou ? what wouldst thou ? Thy name ?
97412 Why speak'st not ? Speak , man : what's thy name ?
97413
97414 If , Tullus ,
97415 Not yet thou know'st me , and , seeing me , dost not
97416 Think me for the man I am , necessity
97417 Commands me name myself .
97418
97419 What is thy name ?
97420
97421
97422 A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears ,
97423 And harsh in sound to thine .
97424
97425 Say , what's thy name ?
97426 Thou hast a grim appearance , and thy face
97427 Bears a command in 't ; though thy tackle's torn ,
97428 Thou show'st a noble vessel . What's thy name ?
97429
97430 Prepare thy brow to frown . Know'st thou me yet ?
97431
97432 I know thee not . Thy name ?
97433
97434 My name is Caius Marcius , who hath done
97435 To thee particularly , and to all the Volsces ,
97436 Great hurt and mischief ; thereto witness may
97437 My surname , Coriolanus : the painful service ,
97438 The extreme dangers , and the drops of blood
97439 Shed for my thankless country , are requited
97440 But with that surname ; a good memory ,
97441 And witness of the malice and displeasure
97442 Which thou shouldst bear me : only that name remains ;
97443 The cruelty and envy of the people ,
97444 Permitted by our dastard nobles , who
97445 Have all forsook me , hath devour'd the rest ;
97446 And suffer'd me by the voice of slaves to be
97447 Whoop'd out of Rome . Now this extremity
97448 Hath brought me to thy hearth ; not out of hope ,
97449 Mistake me not , to save my life ; for if
97450 I had fear'd death , of all the men i' the world
97451 I would have 'voided thee ; but in mere spite ,
97452 To be full quit of those my banishers ,
97453 Stand I before thee here . Then if thou hast
97454 A heart of wreak in thee , that will revenge
97455 Thine own particular wrongs and stop those maims
97456 Of shame seen through thy country , speed thee straight ,
97457 And make my misery serve thy turn : so use it ,
97458 That my revengeful services may prove
97459 As benefits to thee , for I will fight
97460 Against my canker'd country with the spleen
97461 Of all the under fiends . But if so be
97462 Thou dar'st not this , and that to prove more fortunes
97463 Thou art tir'd , then , in a word , I also am
97464 Longer to live most weary , and present
97465 My throat to thee and to thy ancient malice ;
97466 Which not to cut would show thee but a fool ,
97467 Since I have ever follow'd thee with hate ,
97468 Drawn tuns of blood out of thy country's breast ,
97469 And cannot live but to thy shame , unless
97470 It be to do thee service .
97471
97472 O Marcius , Marcius !
97473 Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart
97474 A root of ancient envy . If Jupiter
97475 Should from yond cloud speak divine things ,
97476 And say , ''Tis true ,' I'd not believe them more
97477 Than thee , all noble Marcius . Let me twine
97478 Mine arms about that body , where against
97479 My grained ash a hundred times hath broke ,
97480 And scarr'd the moon with splinters : here I clip
97481 The anvil of my sword , and do contest
97482 As hotly and as nobly with thy love
97483 As ever in ambitious strength I did
97484 Contend against thy valour . Know thou first ,
97485 I lov'd the maid I married ; never man
97486 Sigh'd truer breath ; but that I see thee here ,
97487 Thou noble thing ! more dances my rapt heart
97488 Than when I first my wedded mistress saw
97489 Bestride my threshold . Why , thou Mars ! I tell thee ,
97490 We have a power on foot ; and I had purpose
97491 Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn ,
97492 Or lose mine arm for 't . Thou hast beat me out
97493 Twelve several times , and I have nightly since
97494 Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me ;
97495 We have been down together in my sleep ,
97496 Unbuckling helms , fisting each other's throat ,
97497 And wak'd half dead with nothing . Worthy Marcius ,
97498 Had we no quarrel else to Rome , but that
97499 Thou art thence banish'd , we would muster all
97500 From twelve to seventy , and , pouring war
97501 Into the bowels of ungrateful Rome ,
97502 Like a bold flood o'er-bear . O ! come ; go in ,
97503 And take our friendly senators by the hands ,
97504 Who now are here , taking their leaves of me ,
97505 Who am prepar'd against your territories ,
97506 Though not for Rome itself .
97507
97508 You bless me , gods !
97509
97510 Therefore , most absolute sir , if thou wilt have
97511 The leading of thine own revenges , take
97512 The one half of my commission , and set down ,
97513 As best thou art experienc'd , since thou know'st
97514 Thy country's strength and weakness , thine own ways ;
97515 Whether to knock against the gates of Rome ,
97516 Or rudely visit them in parts remote ,
97517 To fright them , ere destroy . But come in :
97518 Let me commend thee first to those that shall
97519 Say yea to thy desires . A thousand welcomes !
97520 And more a friend than e'er an enemy ;
97521 Yet , Marcius , that was much . Your hand : most welcome !
97522
97523
97524 Here's a strange alteration !
97525
97526 By my hand , I had thought to have strucken him with a cudgel ; and yet my mind gave me his clothes made a false report of him .
97527
97528 What an arm he has ! He turned me about with his finger and his thumb , as one would set up a top .
97529
97530 Nay , I knew by his face that there was something in him : he had , sir , a kind of face , methought ,I cannot tell how to term it .
97531
97532 He had so ; looking as it were , would I were hanged but I thought there was more in him than I could think .
97533
97534 So did I , I'll be sworn : he is simply the rarest man i' the world .
97535
97536 I think he is ; but a greater soldier than he you wot on .
97537
97538 Who ? my master ?
97539
97540 Nay , it's no matter for that .
97541
97542 Worth six on him .
97543
97544 Nay , not so neither ; but I take him to be the greater soldier .
97545
97546 Faith , look you , one cannot tell how to say that : for the defence of a town our general is excellent .
97547
97548 Ay , and for an assault too .
97549
97550
97551 O slaves ! I can tell you news ; news , you rascals .
97552
97553 What , what , what ? let's partake .
97554
97555 What , what , what ? let's partake .
97556
97557 I would not be a Roman , of all nations ; I had as lief be a condemned man .
97558
97559 Wherefore ? wherefore ?
97560
97561 Wherefore ? wherefore ?
97562
97563 Why , here's he that was wont to thwack our general , Caius Marcius .
97564
97565 Why do you say 'thwack our general ?'
97566
97567 I do not say , 'thwack our general ;' but he was always good enough for him .
97568
97569 Come , we are fellows and friends : he was ever too hard for him ; I have heard him say so himself .
97570
97571 He was too hard for him ,directly to say the truth on 't : before Corioli he scotched him and notched him like a carbonado .
97572
97573 An he had been cannibally given , he might have broiled and eaten him too .
97574
97575 But , more of thy news .
97576
97577 Why , he is so made on here within , as if he were son and heir to Mars ; set at upper end o' the table ; no question asked him by any of the senators , but they stand bald before him . Our general himself makes a mistress of him ; sanctifies himself with 's hand , and turns up the white o' the eye to his discourse . But the bottom of the news is , our general is out i' the middle , and but one half of what he was yesterday , for the other has half , by the entreaty and grant of the whole table . He'll go , he says , and sowle the porter of Rome gates by the ears : he will mow down all before him , and leave his passage polled .
97578
97579 And he's as like to do 't as any man I can imagine .
97580
97581 Do 't ! he will do 't for look you , sir he has as many friends as enemies ; which friends , sir as it were durst not look you , sir show themselves as we term it his friends , whilst he's in directitude .
97582
97583 Directitude ! what's that ?
97584
97585 But when they shall see , sir , his crest up again , and the man in blood , they will out of their burrows , like comes after rain , and revel all with him .
97586
97587 But when goes this forward ?
97588
97589 To-morrow ; to-day ; presently . You shall have the drum struck up this afternoon ; 'tis , as it were , a parcel of their feast , and to be executed ere they wipe their lips .
97590
97591 Why , then we shall have a stirring world again . This peace is nothing but to rust iron , increase tailors , and breed ballad-makers .
97592
97593 Let me have war , say I ; it exceeds peace as far as day does night ; it's spritely , waking , audible , and full of vent . Peace is a very apoplexy , lethargy ; mulled , deaf , sleepy , insensible ; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men .
97594
97595 'Tis so : and as war , in some sort , may be said to be a ravisher , so it cannot be denied but peace is a great maker of cuckolds .
97596
97597 Ay , and it makes men hate one another .
97598
97599 Reason : because they then less need one another . The wars for my money . I hope to see Romans as cheap as Volscians . They are rising , they are rising .
97600
97601 In , in , in , in !
97602
97603
97604 We hear not of him , neither need we fear him ;
97605 His remedies are tame i' the present peace
97606 And quietness o' the people , which before
97607 Were in wild hurry . Here do we make his friends
97608 Blush that the world goes well , who rather had ,
97609 Though they themselves did suffer by 't , behold
97610 Dissentious numbers pestering streets , than see
97611 Our tradesmen singing in their shops and going
97612 About their functions friendly .
97613
97614
97615 We stood to 't in good time . Is this Menenius ?
97616
97617 'Tis he , 'tis he O ! he is grown most kind
97618 Of late . Hail , sir !
97619
97620 Hail to you both !
97621
97622 Your Coriolanus is not much miss'd
97623 But with his friends : the commonwealth doth stand ,
97624 And so would do , were he more angry at it .
97625
97626 All's well ; and might have been much better , if
97627 He could have temporiz'd .
97628
97629 Where is he , hear you ?
97630
97631 Nay , I hear nothing : his mother and his wife
97632 Hear nothing from him .
97633
97634
97635 The gods preserve you both !
97636
97637 Good den , our neighbours .
97638
97639 Good den to you all , good den to you all .
97640
97641 Ourselves , our wives , and children , on our knees ,
97642 Are bound to pray for you both .
97643
97644 Live , and thrive !
97645
97646 Farewell , kind neighbours : we wish'd Coriolanus
97647 Had lov'd you as we did .
97648
97649 Now the gods keep you !
97650
97651 Farewell , farewell .
97652
97653
97654 Farewell , farewell .
97655
97656 This is a happier and more comely time
97657 Than when these fellows ran about the streets
97658 Crying confusion .
97659
97660 Caius Marcius was
97661 A worthy officer i' the war ; but insolent ,
97662 O'ercome with pride , ambitious past all thinking ,
97663 Self-loving ,
97664
97665 And affecting one sole throne .
97666 Without assistance .
97667
97668 I think not so .
97669
97670 We should by this , to all our lamentation ,
97671 If he had gone forth consul , found it so .
97672
97673 The gods have well prevented it , and Rome
97674 Sits safe and still without him .
97675
97676
97677 Worthy tribunes ,
97678 There is a slave , whom we have put in prison ,
97679 Reports , the Volsces with two several powers
97680 Are enter'd in the Roman territories ,
97681 And with the deepest malice of the war
97682 Destroy what lies before them .
97683
97684 'Tis Aufidius ,
97685 Who , hearing of our Marcius' banishment ,
97686 Thrusts forth his horns again into the world ;
97687 Which were inshell'd when Marcius stood for Rome ,
97688 And durst not once peep out .
97689
97690 Come , what talk you of Marcius ?
97691
97692 Go see this rumourer whipp'd . It cannot be
97693 The Volsces dare break with us .
97694
97695 Cannot be !
97696 We have record that very well it can ,
97697 And three examples of the like have been
97698 Within my age . But reason with the fellow ,
97699 Before you punish him , where he heard this ,
97700 Lest you shall chance to whip your information ,
97701 And beat the messenger who bids beware
97702 Of what is to be dreaded .
97703
97704 Tell not me :
97705 I know this cannot be .
97706
97707 Not possible .
97708
97709
97710 The nobles in great earnestness are going
97711 All to the senate-house : some news is come ,
97712 That turns their countenances .
97713
97714 'Tis this slave .
97715 Go whip him 'fore the people's eyes : his raising ;
97716 Nothing but his report .
97717
97718 Yes , worthy sir ,
97719 The slave's report is seconded ; and more ,
97720 More fearful , is deliver'd .
97721
97722 What more fearful ?
97723
97724 It is spoke freely out of many mouths
97725 How probable I do not know that Marcius ,
97726 Join'd with Aufidius , leads a power 'gainst Rome ,
97727 And vows revenge as spacious as between
97728 The young'st and oldest thing .
97729
97730 This is most likely .
97731
97732 Rais'd only , that the weaker sort may wish
97733 Good Marcius home again .
97734
97735 The very trick on 't .
97736
97737 This is unlikely :
97738 He and Aufidius can no more atone ,
97739 Than violentest contrariety .
97740
97741
97742 You are sent for to the senate :
97743 A fearful army , led by Caius Marcius ,
97744 Associated with Aufidius , rages
97745 Upon our territories ; and have already
97746 O'erborne their way , consum'd with fire , and took
97747 What lay before them .
97748
97749
97750 O ! you have made good work !
97751
97752 What news ? what news ?
97753
97754 You have holp to ravish your own daughters ; and
97755 To melt the city leads upon your pates .
97756 To see your wives dishonour'd to your noses ,
97757
97758 What's the news ? what's the news ?
97759
97760 Your temples burned in their cement , and
97761 Your franchises , whereon you stood , confin'd
97762 Into an auger's bore .
97763
97764 Pray now , your news ?
97765 You have made fair work , I fear me . Pray , your news ?
97766 If Marcius should be join'd with Volscians ,
97767
97768 If !
97769 He is their god : he leads them like a thing
97770 Made by some other deity than Nature ,
97771 That shapes man better ; and they follow him ,
97772 Against us brats , with no less confidence
97773 Than boys pursuing summer butterflies ,
97774 Or butchers killing flies .
97775
97776 You have made good work ,
97777 You , and your apron-men ; you that stood so much
97778 Upon the voice of occupation and
97779 The breath of garlic-eaters !
97780
97781 He will shake
97782 Your Rome about your ears .
97783
97784 As Hercules
97785 Did shake down mellow fruit . You have made fair work !
97786
97787 But is this true , sir ?
97788
97789 Ay ; and you'll look pale
97790 Before you find it other . All the regions
97791 Do smilingly revolt ; and who resist
97792 Are mock'd for valiant ignorance ,
97793 And perish constant fools . Who is't can blame him ?
97794 Your enemies , and his , find something in him .
97795
97796 We are all undone unless
97797 The noble man have mercy .
97798
97799 Who shall ask it ?
97800 The tribunes cannot do't for shame ; the people
97801 Deserve such pity of him as the wolf
97802 Does of the shepherds : for his best friends , if they
97803 Should say , 'Be good to Rome ,' they charg'd him even
97804 As those should do that had deserv'd his hate ,
97805 And therein show'd like enemies .
97806
97807 'Tis true :
97808 If he were putting to my house the brand
97809 That should consume it , I have not the face
97810 To say , 'Beseech you , cease .' You have made fair hands ,
97811 You and your crafts ! you have crafted fair !
97812
97813 You have brought
97814 A trembling upon Rome , such as was never
97815 So incapable of help .
97816
97817 Say not we brought it .
97818
97819 Say not we brought it .
97820
97821 How ! Was it we ? We lov'd him ; but , like beasts
97822 And cowardly nobles , gave way unto your clusters ,
97823 Who did hoot him out o' the city .
97824
97825 But I fear
97826 They'll roar him in again . Tullus Aufidius ,
97827 The second name of men , obeys his points
97828 As if he were his officer : desperation
97829 Is all the policy , strength , and defence ,
97830 That Rome can make against them .
97831
97832
97833 Here come the clusters .
97834 And is Aufidius with him ? You are they
97835 That made the air unwholesome , when you cast
97836 Your stinking greasy caps in hooting at
97837 Coriolanus' exile . Now he's coming ;
97838 And not a hair upon a soldier's head
97839 Which will not prove a whip : as many coxcombs
97840 As you threw caps up will he tumble down ,
97841 And pay you for your voices . 'Tis no matter ;
97842 If he could burn us all into one coal ,
97843 We have deserv'd it .
97844
97845 Faith , we hear fearful news .
97846
97847 For mine own part ,
97848 When I said banish him , I said 'twas pity .
97849
97850 And so did I .
97851
97852 And so did I ; and , to say the truth , so did very many of us . That we did we did for the best ; and though we willingly consented to his banishment , yet it was against our will .
97853
97854 You're goodly things , you voices !
97855
97856 You have made
97857 Good work , you and your cry ! Shall's to the Capitol ?
97858
97859 O ! ay ; what else ?
97860
97861
97862 Go , masters , get you home ; be not dismay'd :
97863 These are a side that would be glad to have
97864 This true which they so seem to fear . Go home ,
97865 And show no sign of fear .
97866
97867 The gods be good to us ! Come , masters , let's home . I ever said we were i' the wrong when we banished him .
97868
97869 So did we all . But come , let's home .
97870
97871
97872 I do not like this news .
97873
97874 Nor I .
97875
97876 Let's to the Capitol . Would half my wealth
97877 Would buy this for a lie !
97878
97879 Pray let us go .
97880
97881
97882 Do they still fly to the Roman ?
97883
97884 I do not know what witchcraft's in him , but
97885 Your soldiers use him as the grace 'fore meat ,
97886 Their talk at table , and their thanks at end ;
97887 And you are darken'd in this action , sir ,
97888 Even by your own .
97889
97890 I cannot help it now ,
97891 Unless , by using means , I lame the foot
97892 Of our design . He bears himself more proudlier ,
97893 Even to my person , than I thought he would
97894 When first I did embrace him ; yet his nature
97895 In that's no changeling , and I must excuse
97896 What cannot be amended .
97897
97898 Yet , I wish , sir ,
97899 I mean for your particular ,you had not
97900 Join'd in commission with him ; but either
97901 Had borne the action of yourself , or else
97902 To him had left it solely .
97903
97904 I understand thee well ; and be thou sure ,
97905 When he shall come to his account , he knows not
97906 What I can urge against him . Although it seems ,
97907 And so he thinks , and is no less apparent
97908 To the vulgar eye , that he bears all things fairly ,
97909 And shows good husbandry for the Volscian state ,
97910 Fights dragon-like , and does achieve as soon
97911 As draw his sword ; yet he hath left undone
97912 That which shall break his neck or hazard mine ,
97913 Whene'er we come to our account .
97914
97915 Sir , I beseech you , think you he'll carry Rome ?
97916
97917 All places yield to him ere he sits down ;
97918 And the nobility of Rome are his :
97919 The senators and patricians love him too :
97920 The tribunes are no soldiers ; and their people
97921 Will be as rash in the repeal as hasty
97922 To expel him thence . I think he'll be to Rome
97923 As is the osprey to the fish , who takes it
97924 By sovereignty of nature . First he was
97925 A noble servant to them , but he could not
97926 Carry his honours even ; whether 'twas pride ,
97927 Which out of daily fortune ever taints
97928 The happy man ; whether defect of judgment ,
97929 To fail in the disposing of those chances
97930 Which he was lord of ; or whether nature ,
97931 Not to be other than one thing , not moving
97932 From the casque to the cushion , but commanding peace
97933 Even with the same austerity and garb
97934 As he controll'd the war ; but one of these ,
97935 As he hath spices of them all , not all ,
97936 For I dare so far free him , made him fear'd ,
97937 So hated , and so banish'd : but he has a merit
97938 To choke it in the utterance . So our virtues
97939 Lie in the interpretation of the time ;
97940 And power , unto itself most commendable ,
97941 Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
97942 To extol what it hath done .
97943 One fire drives out one fire ; one nail , one nail ;
97944 Rights by rights falter , strengths by strengths do fail .
97945 Come , let's away . When , Caius , Rome is thine ,
97946 Thou art poor'st of all ; then shortly art thou mine .
97947
97948 No , I'll not go : you hear what he hath said
97949 Which was sometime his general ; who lov'd him
97950 In a most dear particular . He call'd me father :
97951 But what o' that ? Go , you that banish'd him ;
97952 A mile before his tent fall down , and knee
97953 The way into his mercy . Nay , if he coy'd
97954 To hear Cominius speak , I'll keep at home .
97955
97956 He would not seem to know me .
97957
97958 Do you hear ?
97959
97960 Yet one time he did call me by my name .
97961 I urg'd our old acquaintance , and the drops
97962 That we have bled together . Coriolanus
97963 He would not answer to ; forbad all names ;
97964 He was a kind of nothing , titleless ,
97965 Till he had forg'd himself a name o' the fire
97966 Of burning Rome .
97967
97968 Why , so : you have made good work !
97969 A pair of tribunes that have rack'd for Rome ,
97970 To make coals cheap : a noble memory !
97971
97972 I minded him how royal 'twas to pardon
97973 When it was less expected : he replied ,
97974 It was a bare petition of a state
97975 To one whom they had punish'd .
97976
97977 Very well .
97978 Could he say less ?
97979
97980 I offer'd to awaken his regard
97981 For's private friends : his answer to me was ,
97982 He could not stay to pick them in a pile
97983 Of noisome musty chaff : he said 'twas folly ,
97984 For one poor grain or two , to leave unburnt ,
97985 And still to nose the offence .
97986
97987 For one poor grain or two !
97988 I am one of those ; his mother , wife , his child ,
97989 And this brave fellow too , we are the grains :
97990 You are the musty chaff , and you are smelt
97991 Above the moon . We must be burnt for you .
97992
97993 Nay , pray , be patient : if you refuse your aid
97994 In this so-never-needed help , yet do not
97995 Upbraid's with our distress . But , sure , if you
97996 Would be your country's pleader , your good tongue ,
97997 More than the instant army we can make ,
97998 Might stop our countryman .
97999
98000 No ; I'll not meddle .
98001
98002 Pray you , go to him .
98003
98004 What should I do ?
98005
98006 Only make trial what your love can do
98007 For Rome , towards Marcius .
98008
98009 Well ; and say that Marcius
98010 Return me , as Cominius is return'd ,
98011 Unheard ; what then ?
98012 But as a discontented friend , grief-shot
98013 With his unkindness ? say 't be so ?
98014
98015 Yet your good will
98016 Must have that thanks from Rome , after the measure
98017 As you intended well .
98018
98019 I'll undertake it :
98020 I think he'll hear me . Yet , to bite his lip ,
98021 And hum at good Cominius , much unhearts me .
98022 He was not taken well ; he had not din'd :
98023 The veins unfill'd , our blood is cold , and then
98024 We pout upon the morning , are unapt
98025 To give or to forgive ; but when we have stuff'd
98026 These pipes and these conveyances of our blood
98027 With wine and feeding , we have suppler souls
98028 Than in our priest-like fasts : therefore , I'll watch him
98029 Till he be dieted to my request ,
98030 And then I'll set upon him .
98031
98032 You know the very road into his kindness ,
98033 And cannot lose your way .
98034
98035 Good faith , I'll prove him ,
98036 Speed how it will . I shall ere long have knowledge
98037 Of my success .
98038
98039
98040 He'll never hear him .
98041
98042 Not ?
98043
98044 I tell you he does sit in gold , his eye
98045 Red as 'twould burn Rome , and his injury
98046 The gaoler to his pity . I kneel'd before him ;
98047 'Twas very faintly he said 'Rise ;' dismiss'd me
98048 Thus , with his speechless hand : what he would do
98049 He sent in writing after me ; what he would not ,
98050 Bound with an oath to yield to his conditions :
98051 So that all hope is vain
98052 Unless his noble mother and his wife ,
98053 Who , as I hear , mean to solicit him
98054 For mercy to his country . Therefore let's hence ,
98055 And with our fair entreaties haste them on .
98056
98057
98058 Stay ! whence are you ?
98059
98060 Stand ! and go back .
98061
98062 You guard like men ; 'tis well ; but , by your leave ,
98063 I am an officer of state , and come
98064 To speak with Coriolanus .
98065
98066 From whence ?
98067
98068 From Rome .
98069
98070 You may not pass ; you must return : our general
98071 Will no more hear from thence .
98072
98073 You'll see your Rome embrac'd with fire before
98074 You'll speak with Coriolanus .
98075
98076 Good my friends ,
98077 If you have heard your general talk of Rome ,
98078 And of his friends there , it is lots to blanks
98079 My name hath touch'd your ears : it is Menenius .
98080
98081 Be it so ; go back : the virtue of your name
98082 Is not here passable .
98083
98084 I tell thee , fellow ,
98085 Thy general is my lover : I have been
98086 The book of his good acts , whence men have read
98087 His fame unparallel'd , haply amplified ;
98088 For I have ever glorified my friends
98089 Of whom he's chief with all the size that verity
98090 Would without lapsing suffer : nay , sometimes ,
98091 Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground ,
98092 I have tumbled past the throw , and in his praise
98093 Have almost stamp'd the leasing . Therefore , fellow ,
98094 I must have leave to pass .
98095
98096 Faith , sir , if you had told as many lies in his behalf as you have uttered words in your own , you should not pass here ; no , though it were as virtuous to lie as to live chastely . Therefore go back .
98097
98098 Prithee , fellow , remember my name is Menenius , always factionary on the party of your general .
98099
98100 Howsoever you have been his liar as you say you have I am one that , telling true under him , must say you cannot pass . Therefore go back .
98101
98102 Has he dined , canst thou tell ? for I would not speak with him till after dinner .
98103
98104 You are a Roman , are you ?
98105
98106 I am as thy general is .
98107
98108 Then you should hate Rome , as he does . Can you , when you have pushed out your gates the very defender of them , and , in a violent popular ignorance , given your enemy your shield , think to front his revenges with the easy groans of old women , the virginal palms of your daughters , or with the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as you seem to be ? Can you think to blow out the intended fire your city is ready to flame in with such weak breath as this ? No , you are deceived ; therefore , back to Rome , and prepare for your execution : you are condemned , our general has sworn you out of reprieve and pardon .
98109
98110 Sirrah , if thy captain know I were here , he would use me with estimation .
98111
98112 Come , my captain knows you not .
98113
98114 I mean , thy general .
98115
98116 My general cares not for you .
98117 Back , I say : go , lest I let forth your half-pint of blood ; back , that's the utmost of your having : back .
98118
98119 Nay , but , fellow , fellow ,
98120
98121
98122 What's the matter ?
98123
98124 Now , you companion , I'll say an errand for you : you shall know now that I am in estimation ; you shall perceive that a Jack guardant cannot office me from my son Coriolanus : guess , but by my entertainment with him , if thou standest not i' the state of hanging , or of some death more long in spectatorship , and crueller in suffering ; behold now presently , and swound for what's to come upon thee .
98125
98126 The glorious gods sit in hourly synod about thy particular prosperity , and love thee no worse than thy old father Menenius does ! O my son ! my son ! thou art preparing fire for us ; look thee , here's water to quench it . I was hardly moved to come to thee ; but being assured none but myself could move thee , I have been blown out of your gates with sighs ; and conjure thee to pardon Rome , and thy petitionary countrymen . The good gods assuage thy wrath , and turn the dregs of it upon this varlet here ; this , who , like a block , hath denied my access to thee .
98127
98128 Away !
98129
98130 How ! away !
98131
98132 Wife , mother , child , I know not . My affairs
98133 Are servanted to others : though I owe
98134 My revenge properly , my remission lies
98135 In Volscian breasts . That we have been familiar ,
98136 Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison , rather
98137 Than pity note how much . Therefore , be gone :
98138 Mine ears against your suits are stronger than
98139 Your gates against my force . Yet , for I lov'd thee ,
98140 Take this along ; I writ it for thy sake ,
98141
98142 And would have sent it . Another word , Menenius ,
98143 I will not hear thee speak . This man , Aufidius ,
98144 Was my belov'd in Rome : yet thou behold'st !
98145
98146 You keep a constant temper .
98147
98148
98149 Now , sir , is your name Menenius ?
98150
98151 'Tis a spell , you see , of much power . You know the way home again .
98152
98153 Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back ?
98154
98155 What cause , do you think , I have to swound ?
98156
98157 I neither care for the world , nor your general : for such things as you , I can scarce think there's any , ye're so slight . He that hath a will to die by himself fears it not from another . Let your general do his worst . For you , be that you are , long ; and your misery increase with your age ! I say to you , as I was said to , Away !
98158
98159
98160 A noble fellow , I warrant him .
98161
98162 The worthy fellow is our general : he is the rock , the oak not to be wind-shaken .
98163
98164
98165 We will before the walls of Rome to-morrow
98166 Set down our host . My partner in this action ,
98167 You must report to the Volscian lords , how plainly
98168 I have borne this business .
98169
98170 Only their ends
98171 You have respected ; stopp'd your ears against
98172 The general suit of Rome ; never admitted
98173 A private whisper ; no , not with such friends
98174 That thought them sure of you .
98175
98176 This last old man ,
98177 Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome ,
98178 Lov'd me above the measure of a father ;
98179 Nay , godded me indeed . Their latest refuge
98180 Was to send him ; for whose old love I have ,
98181 Though I show'd sourly to him , once more offer'd
98182 The first conditions , which they did refuse ,
98183 And cannot now accept , to grace him only
98184 That thought he could do more . A very little
98185 I have yielded to ; fresh embassies and suits ,
98186 Nor from the state , nor private friends , hereafter
98187 Will I lend ear to .
98188
98189 Ha ! what shout is this ?
98190 Shall I be tempted to infringe my vow
98191 In the same time 'tis made ? I will not .
98192
98193
98194 My wife comes foremost ; then the honour'd mould
98195 Wherein this trunk was fram'd , and in her hand
98196 The grandchild to her blood . But out , affection !
98197 All bond and privilege of nature , break !
98198 Let it be virtuous to be obstinate .
98199 What is that curtsy worth ? or those doves' eyes ,
98200 Which can make gods forsworn ? I melt , and am not
98201 Of stronger earth than others . My mother bows ,
98202 As if Olympus to a molehill should
98203 In supplication nod ; and my young boy
98204 Hath an aspect of intercession , which
98205 Great nature cries , 'Deny not .' Let the Volsces
98206 Plough Rome , and harrow Italy ; I'll never
98207 Be such a gosling to obey instinct , but stand
98208 As if a man were author of himself
98209
98210 And knew no other kin .
98211
98212 My lord and husband !
98213
98214 These eyes are not the same I wore in Rome .
98215
98216 The sorrow that delivers us thus chang'd
98217 Makes you think so .
98218
98219 Like a dull actor now ,
98220 I have forgot my part , and I am out ,
98221 Even to a full disgrace . Best of my flesh ,
98222 Forgive my tyranny ; but do not say
98223 For that , 'Forgive our Romans .' O ! a kiss
98224 Long as my exile , sweet as my revenge !
98225 Now , by the jealous queen of heaven , that kiss
98226 I carried from thee , dear , and my true lip
98227 Hath virgin'd it e'er since . You gods ! I prate ,
98228 And the most noble mother of the world
98229 Leave unsaluted . Sink , my knee , i' the earth ;
98230
98231 Of thy deep duty more impression show
98232 Than that of common sons .
98233
98234 O ! stand up bless'd ;
98235 Whilst , with no softer cushion than the flint ,
98236 I kneel before thee , and unproperly
98237 Show duty , as mistaken all this while
98238 Between the child and parent .
98239
98240
98241 What is this ?
98242 Your knees to me ! to your corrected son !
98243 Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach
98244 Fillip the stars ; then let the mutinous winds
98245 Strike the proud cedars 'gainst the fiery sun ,
98246 Murd'ring impossibility , to make
98247 What cannot be , slight work .
98248
98249 Thou art my warrior ;
98250 I holp to frame thee . Do you know this lady ?
98251
98252 The noble sister of Publicola ,
98253 The moon of Rome ; chaste as the icicle
98254 That's curdied by the frost from purest snow ,
98255 And hangs on Dian's temple : dear Valeria !
98256
98257 This is a poor epitome of yours ,
98258
98259 Which by the interpretation of full time
98260 May show like all yourself .
98261
98262 The god of soldiers ,
98263 With the consent of supreme Jove , inform
98264 Thy thoughts with nobleness ; that thou mayst prove
98265 To shame unvulnerable , and stick i' the wars
98266 Like a great sea-mark , standing every flaw ,
98267 And saving those that eye thee !
98268
98269 Your knee , sirrah .
98270
98271 That's my brave boy !
98272
98273 Even he , your wife , this lady , and myself ,
98274 Are suitors to you .
98275
98276 I beseech you , peace :
98277 Or , if you'd ask , remember this before :
98278 The things I have forsworn to grant may never
98279 Be held by you denials . Do not bid me
98280 Dismiss my soldiers , or capitulate
98281 Again with Rome's mechanics : tell me not
98282 Wherein I seem unnatural : desire not
98283 To allay my rages and revenges with
98284 Your colder reasons .
98285
98286 O ! no more , no more ;
98287 You have said you will not grant us any thing ;
98288 For we have nothing else to ask but that
98289 Which you deny already : yet we will ask ;
98290 That , if you fail in our request , the blame
98291 May hang upon your hardness . Therefore , hear us .
98292
98293 Aufidius , and you Volsces , mark ; for we'll
98294 Hear nought from Rome in private . Your request ?
98295
98296 Should we be silent and not speak , our raiment
98297 And state of bodies would bewray what life
98298 We have led since thy exile . Think with thyself
98299 How more unfortunate than all living women
98300 Are we come hither : since that thy sight , which should
98301 Make our eyes flow with joy , hearts dance with comforts ,
98302 Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow ;
98303 Making the mother , wife , and child to see
98304 The son , the husband , and the father tearing
98305 His country's bowels out . And to poor we
98306 Thine enmity's most capital : thou barr'st us
98307 Our prayers to the gods , which is a comfort
98308 That all but we enjoy ; for how can we ,
98309 Alas ! how can we for our country pray ,
98310 Whereto we are bound , together with thy victory ,
98311 Whereto we are bound ? Alack ! or we must lose
98312 The country , our dear nurse , or else thy person ,
98313 Our comfort in the country . We must find
98314 An evident calamity , though we had
98315 Our wish , which side should win ; for either thou
98316 Must , as a foreign recreant , be led
98317 With manacles through our streets , or else
98318 Triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin ,
98319 And bear the palm for having bravely shed
98320 Thy wife and children's blood . For myself , son ,
98321 I purpose not to wait on Fortune till
98322 These wars determine : if I cannot persuade thee
98323 Rather to show a noble grace to both parts
98324 Than seek the end of one , thou shalt no sooner
98325 March to assault thy country than to tread
98326 Trust to't , thou shalt not on thy mother's womb ,
98327 That brought thee to this world .
98328
98329 Ay , and mine ,
98330 That brought you forth this boy , to keep your name
98331 Living to time .
98332
98333 A' shall not tread on me :
98334 I'll run away till I am bigger , but then I'll fight .
98335
98336 Not of a woman's tenderness to be ,
98337 Requires nor child nor woman's face to see .
98338 I have sat too long .
98339
98340
98341 Nay , go not from us thus .
98342 If it were so , that our request did tend
98343 To save the Romans , thereby to destroy
98344 The Volsces whom you serve , you might condemn us ,
98345 As poisonous of your honour : no ; our suit
98346 Is , that you reconcile them : while the Volsces
98347 May say , 'This mercy we have show'd ;' the Romans ,
98348 'This we receiv'd ;' and each in either side
98349 Give the all-hail to thee , and cry , 'Be bless'd
98350 For making up this peace !' Thou know'st , great son ,
98351 The end of war's uncertain ; but this certain ,
98352 That , if thou conquer Rome , the benefit
98353 Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name
98354 Whose repetition will be dogg'd with curses ;
98355 Whose chronicle thus writ : 'The man was noble ,
98356 But with his last attempt he wip'd it out ,
98357 Destroy'd his country , and his name remains
98358 To the ensuing age abhorr'd .' Speak to me , son !
98359 Thou hast affected the fine strains of honour ,
98360 To imitate the graces of the gods ;
98361 To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' the air ,
98362 And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt
98363 That should but rive an oak . Why dost not speak ?
98364 Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
98365 Still to remember wrongs ? Daughter , speak you :
98366 He cares not for your weeping . Speak thou , boy :
98367 Perhaps thy childishness will move him more
98368 Than can our reasons . There is no man in the world
98369 More bound to 's mother ; yet here he lets me prate
98370 Like one i' the stocks . Thou hast never in thy life
98371 Show'd thy dear mother any courtesy ;
98372 When she poor hen ! fond of no second brood
98373 Has cluck'd thee to the wars , and safely home ,
98374 Loaden with honour . Say my request's unjust ,
98375 And spurn me back ; but if it be not so ,
98376 Thou art not honest , and the gods will plague thee ,
98377 That thou restrain'st from me the duty which
98378 To a mother's part belongs . He turns away :
98379 Down , ladies ; let us shame him with our knees .
98380 To his surname Coriolanus 'longs more pride
98381 Than pity to our prayers . Down : an end ;
98382 This is the last : so we will home to Rome ,
98383 And die among our neighbours . Nay , behold us .
98384 This boy , that cannot tell what he would have ,
98385 But kneels and holds up hands for fellowship ,
98386 Does reason our petition with more strength
98387 Than thou hast to deny 't . Come , let us go :
98388 This fellow had a Volscian to his mother ;
98389 His wife is in Corioli , and his child
98390 Like him by chance . Yet give us our dispatch :
98391 I am hush'd until our city be a-fire ,
98392 And then I'll speak a little .
98393
98394
98395 O , mother , mother !
98396 What have you done ? Behold ! the heavens do ope ,
98397 The gods look down , and this unnatural scene
98398 They laugh at . O my mother ! mother ! O !
98399 You have won a happy victory to Rome ;
98400 But , for your son , believe it , O ! believe it ,
98401 Most dangerously you have with him prevail'd ,
98402 If not most mortal to him . But let it come .
98403 Aufidius , though I cannot make true wars ,
98404 I'll frame convenient peace . Now , good Aufidius ,
98405 Were you in my stead , would you have heard
98406 A mother less , or granted less , Aufidius ?
98407
98408 I was mov'd withal .
98409
98410 I dare be sworn you were :
98411 And , sir , it is no little thing to make
98412 Mine eyes to sweat compassion . But , good sir ,
98413 What peace you'll make , advise me : for my part ,
98414 I'll not to Rome , I'll back with you ; and pray you ,
98415 Stand to me in this cause . O mother ! wife !
98416
98417 I am glad thou hast set thy mercy and thy honour
98418 At difference in thee : out of that I'll work
98419 Myself a former fortune .
98420
98421
98422 Ay , by and by ;
98423 But we will drink together ; and you shall bear
98424 A better witness back than words , which we ,
98425 On like conditions , would have counter-seal'd .
98426 Come , enter with us . Ladies , you deserve
98427 To have a temple built you : all the swords
98428 In Italy , and her confederate arms ,
98429 Could not have made this peace .
98430
98431
98432 See you yond coign o' the Capitol , yond corner-stone ?
98433
98434 Why , what of that ?
98435
98436 If it be possible for you to displace it with your little finger , there is some hope the ladies of Rome , especially his mother , may prevail with him . But I say , there is no hope in 't . Our throats are sentenced and stay upon execution .
98437
98438 Is't possible that so short a time can alter the condition of a man ?
98439
98440 There is differency between a grub and a butterfly ; yet your butterfly was a grub . This Marcius is grown from man to dragon : he has wings ; he's more than a creeping thing .
98441
98442 He loved his mother dearly .
98443
98444 So did he me ; and he no more remembers his mother now than an eight-year-old horse . The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes : when he walks , he moves like an engine , and the ground shrinks before his treading : he is able to pierce a corslet with his eye ; talks like a knell , and his hum is a battery . He sits in his state , as a thing made for Alexander . What he bids be done is finished with his bidding . He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in .
98445
98446 Yes , mercy , if you report him truly .
98447
98448 I paint him in the character . Mark what mercy his mother shall bring from him : there is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger ; that shall our poor city find : and all this is 'long of you .
98449
98450 The gods be good unto us !
98451
98452 No , in such a case the gods will not be good unto us . When we banished him , we respected not them ; and , he returning to break our necks , they respect not us .
98453
98454
98455 Sir , if you'd save your life , fly to your house :
98456 The plebeians have got your fellow-tribune ,
98457 And hale him up and down ; all swearing , if
98458 The Roman ladies bring not comfort home ,
98459 They'll give him death by inches .
98460
98461
98462 What's the news ?
98463
98464 Good news , good news ! the ladies have prevail'd ,
98465 The Volscians are dislodg'd , and Marcius gone .
98466 A merrier day did never yet greet Rome ,
98467 No , not the expulsion of the Tarquins .
98468
98469 Friend ,
98470 Art thou certain this is true ? is it most certain ?
98471
98472 As certain as I know the sun is fire :
98473 Where have you lurk'd that you make doubt of it ?
98474 Ne'er through an arch so hurried the blown tide ,
98475 As the recomforted through the gates . Why , hark you !
98476
98477 The trumpets , sackbuts , psalteries , and fifes ,
98478 Tabors , and cymbals , and the shouting Romans ,
98479 Make the sun dance . Hark you !
98480
98481
98482 This is good news :
98483 I will go meet the ladies . This Volumnia
98484 Is worth of consuls , senators , patricians ,
98485 A city full ; of tribunes , such as you ,
98486 A sea and land full . You have pray'd well to-day :
98487 This morning for ten thousand of your throats
98488 I'd not have given a doit . Hark , how they joy !
98489
98490
98491 First , the gods bless you for your tidings ; next ,
98492 Accept my thankfulness .
98493
98494 Sir , we have all
98495 Great cause to give great thanks .
98496
98497 They are near the city ?
98498
98499 Almost at point to enter .
98500
98501 We will meet them ,
98502 And help the joy .
98503
98504 Behold our patroness , the life of Rome !
98505 Call all your tribes together , praise the gods ,
98506 And make triumphant fires ; strew flowers before them :
98507 Unshout the noise that banish'd Marcius ;
98508 Repeal him with the welcome of his mother ;
98509 Cry , 'Welcome , ladies , welcome !'
98510
98511 Welcome , ladies ,
98512 Welcome !
98513
98514
98515 Go tell the lords o' the city I am here :
98516 Deliver them this paper : having read it ,
98517 Bid them repair to the market-place ; where I ,
98518 Even in theirs and in the commons' ears ,
98519 Will vouch the truth of it . Him I accuse
98520 The city ports by this hath enter'd , and
98521 Intends to appear before the people , hoping
98522 To purge himself with words : dispatch .
98523
98524
98525 Most welcome !
98526
98527 How is it with our general ?
98528
98529 Even so
98530 As with a man by his own alms empoison'd ,
98531 And with his charity slain .
98532
98533 Most noble sir ,
98534 If you do hold the same intent wherein
98535 You wish'd us parties , we'll deliver you
98536 Of your great danger .
98537
98538 Sir , I cannot tell :
98539 We must proceed as we do find the people .
98540
98541 The people will remain uncertain whilst
98542 'Twixt you there's difference ; but the fall of either
98543 Makes the survivor heir of all .
98544
98545 I know it ;
98546 And my pretext to strike at him admits
98547 A good construction . I rais'd him , and I pawn'd
98548 Mine honour for his truth : who being so heighten'd ,
98549 He water'd his new plants with dews of flattery ,
98550 Seducing so my friends ; and , to this end ,
98551 He bow'd his nature , never known before
98552 But to be rough , unswayable , and free .
98553
98554 Sir , his stoutness
98555 When he did stand for consul , which he lost
98556 By lack of stooping ,
98557
98558 That I would have spoke of :
98559 Being banish'd for't , he came unto my hearth ;
98560 Presented to my knife his throat : I took him ;
98561 Made him joint-servant with me ; gave him way
98562 In all his own desires ; nay , let him choose
98563 Out of my files , his projects to accomplish ,
98564 My best and freshest men ; serv'd his designments
98565 In mine own person ; holp to reap the fame
98566 Which he did end all his ; and took some pride
98567 To do myself this wrong : till , at the last ,
98568 I seem'd his follower , not partner ; and
98569 He wag'd me with his countenance , as if
98570 I had been mercenary .
98571
98572 So he did , my lord :
98573 The army marvell'd at it ; and , in the last ,
98574 When we had carried Rome , and that we look'd
98575 For no less spoil than glory ,
98576
98577 There was it ;
98578 For which my sinews shall be stretch'd upon him .
98579 At a few drops of women's rheum , which are
98580 As cheap as lies , he sold the blood and labour
98581 Of our great action : therefore shall he die ,
98582 And I'll renew me in his fall . But , hark !
98583
98584
98585 Your native town you enter'd like a post ,
98586 And had no welcomes home ; but he returns ,
98587 Splitting the air with noise .
98588
98589 And patient fools ,
98590 Whose children he hath slain , their base throats tear
98591 With giving him glory .
98592
98593 Therefore , at your vantage ,
98594 Ere he express himself , or move the people
98595 With what he would say , let him feel your sword ,
98596 Which we will second . When he lies along ,
98597 After your way his tale pronounc'd shall bury
98598 His reasons with his body .
98599
98600 Say no more :
98601 Here come the lords .
98602
98603
98604 You are most welcome home .
98605
98606 I have not deserv'd it .
98607 But , worthy lords , have you with heed perus'd
98608 What I have written to you ?
98609
98610 We have .
98611
98612 And grieve to hear 't .
98613 What faults he made before the last , I think
98614 Might have found easy fines ; but there to end
98615 Where he was to begin , and give away
98616 The benefit of our levies , answering us
98617 With our own charge , making a treaty where
98618 There was a yielding , this admits no excuse .
98619
98620 He approaches : you shall hear him .
98621
98622
98623 Hail , lords ! I am return'd your soldier ;
98624 No more infected with my country's love
98625 Than when I parted hence , but still subsisting
98626 Under your great command . You are to know ,
98627 That prosperously I have attempted and
98628 With bloody passage led your wars even to
98629 The gates of Rome . Our spoils we have brought home
98630 Do more than counterpoise a full third part
98631 The charges of the action . We have made peace
98632 With no less honour to the Antiates
98633 Than shame to the Romans ; and we here deliver ,
98634 Subscrib'd by the consuls and patricians ,
98635 Together with the seal o' the senate , what
98636 We have compounded on .
98637
98638 Read it not , noble lords ;
98639 But tell the traitor in the highest degree
98640 He hath abus'd your powers .
98641
98642 Traitor ! How now ?
98643
98644 Ay , traitor , Marcius .
98645
98646 Marcius !
98647
98648 Ay , Marcius , Caius Marcius . Dost thou think
98649 I'll grace thee with that robbery , thy stol'n name
98650 Coriolanus in Corioli ?
98651 You lords and heads of the state , perfidiously
98652 He has betray'd your business , and given up ,
98653 For certain drops of salt , your city Rome ,
98654 I say 'your city ,' to his wife and mother ;
98655 Breaking his oath and resolution like
98656 A twist of rotten silk , never admitting
98657 Counsel o' the war , but at his nurse's tears
98658 He whin'd and roar'd away your victory ,
98659 That pages blush'd at him , and men of heart
98660 Look'd wondering each at other .
98661
98662 Hear'st thou , Mars ?
98663
98664 Name not the god , thou boy of tears .
98665
98666 Ha !
98667
98668 No more .
98669
98670 Measureless liar , thou hast made my heart
98671 Too great for what contains it . Boy ! O slave !
98672 Pardon me , lords , 'tis the first time that ever
98673 I was forc'd to scold . Your judgments , my grave lords ,
98674 Must give this cur the lie : and his own notion
98675 Who wears my stripes impress'd upon him , that
98676 Must bear my beating to his grave shall join
98677 To thrust the lie unto him .
98678
98679 Peace , both , and hear me speak .
98680
98681 Cut me to pieces , Volsces ; men and lads ,
98682 Stain all your edges on me . Boy ! False hound !
98683 If you have writ your annals true , 'tis there ,
98684 That , like an eagle in a dove-cote , I
98685 Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli :
98686 Alone I did it . Boy !
98687
98688 Why , noble lords ,
98689 Will you be put in mind of his blind fortune ,
98690 Which was your shame , by this unholy braggart ,
98691 'Fore your own eyes and ears ?
98692
98693 Let him die for 't .
98694
98695 Tear him to pieces .Do it presently .He killed my son .My daughter .He killed my cousin Marcus .He killed my father .
98696
98697 Peace , ho ! no outrage : peace !
98698 The man is noble and his fame folds in
98699 This orb o' the earth . His last offences to us
98700 Shall have judicious hearing . Stand , Aufidius ,
98701 And trouble not the peace .
98702
98703 O ! that I had him ,
98704 With six Aufidiuses , or more , his tribe ,
98705 To use my lawful sword !
98706
98707 Insolent villain !
98708
98709 Kill , kill , kill , kill , kill him !
98710
98711
98712 Hold , hold , hold , hold !
98713
98714 My noble masters , hear me speak .
98715
98716 O Tullus !
98717
98718 Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep .
98719
98720 Tread not upon him . Masters all , be quiet .
98721 Put up your swords .
98722
98723 My lords , when you shall know ,as in this rage ,
98724 Provok'd by him , you cannot ,the great danger
98725 Which this man's life did owe you , you'll rejoice
98726 That he is thus cut off . Please it your honours
98727 To call me to your senate , I'll deliver
98728 Myself your loyal servant , or endure
98729 Your heaviest censure .
98730
98731 Bear from hence his body ;
98732 And mourn you for him ! Let him be regarded
98733 As the most noble corse that ever herald
98734 Did follow to his urn .
98735
98736 His own impatience
98737 Takes from Aufidius a great part of blame .
98738 Let's make the best of it .
98739
98740 My rage is gone ,
98741 And I am struck with sorrow . Take him up :
98742 Help , three o' the chiefest soldiers ; I'll be one .
98743 Beat thou the drum , that it speak mournfully ;
98744 Trail your steel pikes . Though in this city he
98745 Hath widow'd and unchilded many a one ,
98746 Which to this hour bewail the injury ,
98747 Yet he shall have a noble memory .
98748 Assist .
98749
98750 HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK
98751
98752 Ghost of Hamlet's Father .
98753
98754
98755 Who's there ?
98756
98757 Nay , answer me ; stand , and unfold yourself .
98758
98759 Long live the king !
98760
98761 Bernardo ?
98762
98763 He .
98764
98765 You come most carefully upon your hour .
98766
98767 'Tis now struck twelve ; get thee to bed , Francisco .
98768
98769 For this relief much thanks ; 'tis bitter cold ,
98770 And I am sick at heart .
98771
98772 Have you had quiet guard ?
98773
98774 Not a mouse stirring .
98775
98776 Well , good-night .
98777 If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus ,
98778 The rivals of my watch , bid them make hasie .
98779
98780 I think I hear them . Stand , ho ! Who's there ?
98781
98782
98783 Friends to this ground .
98784
98785 And liegemen to the Dane .
98786
98787 Give you good-night .
98788
98789 O ! farewell , honest soldier :
98790 Who hath reliev'd you ?
98791
98792 Bernardo has my place .
98793 Give you good-night .
98794
98795
98796 Holla ! Bernardo !
98797
98798 Say ,
98799 What ! is Horatio there ?
98800
98801 A piece of him .
98802
98803 Welcome , Horatio ; welcome , good Marcellus .
98804
98805 What ! has this thing appear'd again to-night ?
98806
98807 I have seen nothing .
98808
98809 Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy ,
98810 And will not let belief take hold of him
98811 Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us :
98812 Therefore I have entreated him along
98813 With us to watch the minutes of this night ;
98814 That if again this apparition come ,
98815 He may approve our eyes and speak to it .
98816
98817 Tush , tush ! 'twill not appear .
98818
98819 Sit down awhile ,
98820 And let us once again assail your ears ,
98821 That are so fortified against our story ,
98822 What we two nights have seen .
98823
98824 Well , sit we down ,
98825 And let us hear Bernardo speak of this .
98826
98827 Last night of all ,
98828 When yond same star that's westward from the pole
98829 Had made his course to illume that part of heaven
98830 Where now it burns , Marcellus and myself ,
98831 The bell then beating one ,
98832
98833 Peace ! break thee off ; look , where it comes again !
98834
98835
98836 In the same figure , like the king that's dead .
98837
98838 Thou art a scholar ; speak to it , Horatio .
98839
98840 Looks it not like the king ? mark it , Horatio .
98841
98842 Most like : it harrows me with fear and wonder .
98843
98844 It would be spoke to .
98845
98846 Question it , Horatio .
98847
98848 What art thou that usurp'st this time of night ,
98849 Together with that fair and war-like form
98850 In which the majesty of buried Denmark
98851 Did sometimes march ? by heaven I charge thee , speak !
98852
98853 It is offended .
98854
98855 See ! it stalks away .
98856
98857 Stay ! speak , speak ! I charge thee , speak !
98858
98859
98860 'Tis gone , and will not answer .
98861
98862 How now , Horatio ! you tremble and look pale :
98863 Is not this something more than fantasy ?
98864 What think you on 't ?
98865
98866 Before my God , I might not this believe
98867 Without the sensible and true avouch
98868 Of mine own eyes .
98869
98870 Is it not like the king ?
98871
98872 As thou-art to thyself :
98873 Such was the very armour he had on
98874 When he the ambitious Norway combated ;
98875 So frown'd he once , when , in an angry parle ,
98876 He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice .
98877 'Tis strange .
98878
98879 Thus twice before , and jump at this dead hour ,
98880 With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch .
98881
98882 In what particular thought to work I know not ;
98883 But in the gross and scope of my opinion ,
98884 This bodes some strange eruption to our state .
98885
98886 Good now , sit down , and tell me , he that knows ,
98887 Why this same strict and most observant watch
98888 So nightly toils the subject of the land ;
98889 And why such daily cast of brazen cannon ,
98890 And foreign mart for implements of war ;
98891 Why such impress of shipwrights , whose sore task
98892 Does not divide the Sunday from the week ;
98893 What might be toward , that this sweaty haste
98894 Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day :
98895 Who is 't that can inform me ?
98896
98897 That can I ;
98898 At least , the whisper goes so . Our last king ,
98899 Whose image even but now appear'd to us ,
98900 Was , as you know , by Fortinbras of Norway ,
98901 Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride ,
98902 Dar'd to the combat ; in which our valiant Hamlet
98903 For so this side of our known world esteem'd him
98904 Did slay this Fortinbras ; who , by a seal'd compact ,
98905 Well ratified by law and heraldry ,
98906 Did forfeit with his life all those his lands
98907 Which he stood seiz'd of , to the conqueror ;
98908 Against the which , a moiety competent
98909 Was gaged by our king ; which had return'd
98910 To the inheritance of Fortinbras ,
98911 Had he been vanquisher ; as , by the same covenant ,
98912 And carriage of the article design'd ,
98913 His fell to Hamlet . Now , sir , young Fortinbras ,
98914 Of unimproved mettle hot and full ,
98915 Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there
98916 Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes ,
98917 For food and diet , to some enterprise
98918 That hath a stomach in 't ; which is no other
98919 As it doth well appear unto our state
98920 But to recover of us , by strong hand
98921 And terms compulsative , those foresaid lands
98922 So by his father lost . And this , I take it ,
98923 Is the main motive of our preparations ,
98924 The source of this our watch and the chief head
98925 Of this post-haste and romage in the land .
98926
98927 I think it be no other but e'en so ;
98928 Well may it sort that this portentous figure
98929 Comes armed through our watch , so like the king
98930 That was and is the question of these wars .
98931
98932 A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye .
98933 In the most high and palmy state of Rome ,
98934 A little ere the mightiest Julius fell ,
98935 The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
98936 Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets ;
98937 As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood ,
98938 Disasters in the sun ; and the moist star
98939 Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands
98940 Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse ;
98941 And even the like precurse of fierce events ,
98942 As harbingers preceding still the fates
98943 And prologue to the omen coming on ,
98944 Have heaven and earth together demonstrated
98945 Unto our climatures and countrymen .
98946 But , soft ! behold ! lo ! where it comes again .
98947
98948
98949 I'll cross it , though it blast me . Stay , illusion !
98950 If thou hast any sound , or use of voice ,
98951 Speak to me :
98952 If there be any good thing to be done ,
98953 That may to thee do ease and grace to me ,
98954 Speak to me :
98955 If thou art privy to thy country's fate ,
98956 Which happily foreknowing may avoid ,
98957 O ! speak ;
98958 Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life
98959 Extorted treasure in the womb of earth ,
98960 For which , they say , you spirits oft walk in death ,
98961
98962
98963 Speak of it : stay , and speak ! Stop it , Marcellus .
98964
98965 Shall I strike at it with my partisan ?
98966
98967 Do , if it will not stand .
98968
98969 'Tis here !
98970
98971 'Tis here !
98972
98973
98974 'Tis gone !
98975 We do it wrong , being so majestical ,
98976 To offer it the show of violence ;
98977 For it is , as the air , invulnerable ,
98978 And our vain blows malicious mockery .
98979
98980 It was about to speak when the cock crew .
98981
98982 And then it started like a guilty thing
98983 Upon a fearful summons . I have heard ,
98984 The cock , that is the trumpet to the morn ,
98985 Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
98986 Awake the god of day ; and at his warning ,
98987 Whether in sea or fire , in earth or air ,
98988 The extravagant and erring spirit hies
98989 To his confine ; and of the truth herein
98990 This present object made probation .
98991
98992 It faded on the crowing of the cock .
98993 Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
98994 Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated ,
98995 The bird of dawning singeth all night long ;
98996 And then , they say , no spirit can walk abroad ;
98997 The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike ,
98998 No fairy takes , nor witch hath power to charm ,
98999 So hallow'd and so gracious is the time .
99000
99001 So have I heard and do in part believe it .
99002 But , look , the morn in russet mantle clad ,
99003 Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill ;
99004 Break we our watch up ; and by my advice
99005 Let us impart what we have seen to-night
99006 Unto young Hamlet ; for , upon my life ,
99007 This spirit , dumb to us , will speak to him .
99008 Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it ,
99009 As needful in our loves , fitting our duty ?
99010
99011 Let's do't , I pray ; and I this morning know
99012 Where we shall find him most conveniently .
99013
99014
99015 Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
99016 The memory be green , and that it us befitted
99017 To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom
99018 To be contracted in one brow of woe ,
99019 Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
99020 That we with wisest sorrow think on him ,
99021 Together with remembrance of ourselves .
99022 Therefore our sometime sister , now our queen ,
99023 The imperial jointress of this war-like state ,
99024 Have we , as 'twere with a defeated joy ,
99025 With one auspicious and one dropping eye ,
99026 With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage ,
99027 In equal scale weighing delight and dole ,
99028 Taken to wife : nor have we herein barr'd
99029 Your better wisdoms , which have freely gone
99030 With this affair along : for all , our thanks .
99031 Now follows , that you know , young Fortinbras ,
99032 Holding a weak supposal of our worth ,
99033 Or thinking by our late dear brother's death
99034 Our state to be disjoint and out of frame ,
99035 Colleagued with the dream of his advantage ,
99036 He hath not fail'd to pester us with message ,
99037 Importing the surrender of those lands
99038 Lost by his father , with all bands of law ,
99039 To our most valiant brother . So much for him .
99040 Now for ourself and for this time of meeting .
99041 Thus much the business is : we have here writ
99042 To Norway , uncle of young Fortinbras ,
99043 Who , impotent and bed-rid , scarcely hears
99044 Of this his nephew's purpose , to suppress
99045 His further gait herein ; in that the levies ,
99046 The lists and full proportions , are all made
99047 Out of his subject ; and we here dispatch
99048 You , good Cornelius , and you , Voltimand ,
99049 For bearers of this greeting to old Norway ,
99050 Giving to you no further personal power
99051 To business with the king more than the scope
99052 Of these delated articles allow .
99053 Farewell and let your haste commend your duty .
99054
99055 In that and all things will we show our duty .
99056
99057 In that and all things will we show our duty .
99058
99059 We doubt it nothing : heartily farewell .
99060
99061 And now , Laertes , what's the news with you ?
99062 You told us of some suit ; what is't , Laertes ?
99063 You cannot speak of reason to the Dane ,
99064 And lose your voice ; what wouldst thou beg , Laertes ,
99065 That shall not be my offer , not thy asking ?
99066 The head is not more native to the heart ,
99067 The hand more instrumental to the mouth ,
99068 Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father .
99069 What wouldst thou have , Laertes ?
99070
99071 Dread my lord ,
99072 Your leave and favour to return to France ;
99073 From whence though willingly I came to Denmark ,
99074 To show my duty in your coronation ,
99075 Yet now , I must confess , that duty done ,
99076 My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France
99077 And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon .
99078
99079 Have you your father's leave ? What says Polonius ?
99080
99081 He hath , my lord , wrung from me my slow leave
99082 By laboursome petition , and at last
99083 Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent :
99084 I do beseech you , give him leave to go .
99085
99086 Take thy fair hour , Laertes ; time be thine ,
99087 And thy best graces spend it at thy will .
99088 But now , my cousin Hamlet , and my son ,
99089
99090 A little more than kin , and less than kind .
99091
99092 How is it that the clouds still hang on you ?
99093
99094 Not so , my lord ; I am too much i' the sun .
99095
99096 Good Hamlet , cast thy nighted colour off ,
99097 And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark .
99098 Do not for ever with thy vailed lids
99099 Seek for thy noble father in the dust :
99100 Thou know'st 'tis common ; all that live must die ,
99101 Passing through nature to eternity .
99102
99103 Ay , madam , it is common .
99104
99105 If it be ,
99106 Why seems it so particular with thee ?
99107
99108 Seems , madam ! Nay , it is ; I know not 'seems .'
99109 'Tis not alone my inky cloak , good mother ,
99110 Nor customary suits of solemn black ,
99111 Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath ,
99112 No , nor the fruitful river in the eye ,
99113 Nor the dejected haviour of the visage ,
99114 Together with all forms , modes , shows of grief ,
99115 That can denote me truly ; these indeed seem ,
99116 For they are actions that a man might play :
99117 But I have that within which passeth show ;
99118 These but the trappings and the suits of woe .
99119
99120 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature , Hamlet ,
99121 To give these mourning duties to your father :
99122 But , you must know , your father lost a father ;
99123 That father lost , lost his ; and the survivor bound
99124 In filial obligation for some term
99125 To do obsequious sorrow ; but to persever
99126 In obstinate condolement is a course
99127 Of impious stubbornness ; 'tis unmanly grief :
99128 It shows a will most incorrect to heaven ,
99129 A heart unfortified , a mind impatient ,
99130 An understanding simple and unschool'd :
99131 For what we know must be and is as common
99132 As any the most vulgar thing to sense ,
99133 Why should we in our peevish opposition
99134 Take it to heart ? Fie ! 'tis a fault to heaven ,
99135 A fault against the dead , a fault to nature ,
99136 To reason most absurd , whose common theme
99137 Is death of fathers , and who still hath cried ,
99138 From the first corse till he that died to-day ,
99139 'This must be so .' We pray you , throw to earth
99140 This unprevailing woe , and think of us
99141 As of a father ; for let the world take note ,
99142 You are the most immediate to our throne ;
99143 And with no less nobility of love
99144 Than that which dearest father bears his son
99145 Do I impart toward you . For your intent
99146 In going back to school in Wittenberg ,
99147 It is most retrograde to our desire ;
99148 And we beseech you , bend you to remain
99149 Here , in the cheer and comfort of our eye ,
99150 Our chiefest courtier , cousin , and our son .
99151
99152 Let not thy mother lose her prayers , Hamlet :
99153 I pray thee , stay with us ; go not to Wittenberg .
99154
99155 I shall in all my best obey you , madam .
99156
99157 Why , 'tis a loving and a fair reply :
99158 Be as ourself in Denmark . Madam , come ;
99159 This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet
99160 Sits smiling to my heart ; in grace whereof ,
99161 No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day ,
99162 But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell ,
99163 And the king's rouse the heavens shall bruit again ,
99164 Re-speaking earthly thunder . Come away .
99165
99166
99167 O ! that this too too solid flesh would melt ,
99168 Thaw and resolve itself into a dew ;
99169 Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
99170 His canon 'gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God !
99171 How weary , stale , flat , and unprofitable
99172 Seem to me all the uses of this world .
99173 Fie on 't ! O fie ! 'tis an unweeded garden ,
99174 That grows to seed ; things rank and gross in nature
99175 Possess it merely . That it should come to this !
99176 But two months dead : nay , not so much , not two :
99177 So excellent a king ; that was , to this ,
99178 Hyperion to a satyr ; so loving to my mother
99179 That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
99180 Visit her face too roughly . Heaven and earth !
99181 Must I remember ? why , she would hang on him ,
99182 As if increase of appetite had grown
99183 By what it fed on ; and yet , within a month ,
99184 Let me not think on't : Frailty , thy name is woman !
99185 A little month ; or ere those shoes were old
99186 With which she follow'd my poor father's body ,
99187 Like Niobe , all tears ; why she , even she ,
99188 O God ! a beast , that wants discourse of reason ,
99189 Would have mourn'd longer ,married with mine uncle ,
99190 My father's brother , but no more like my father
99191 Than I to Hercules : within a month ,
99192 Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
99193 Had left the flushing in her galled eyes ,
99194 She married . O ! most wicked speed , to post
99195 With such dexterity to incestuous sheets .
99196 It is not nor it cannot come to good ;
99197 But break , my heart , for I must hold my tongue !
99198
99199
99200 Hail to your lordship !
99201
99202 I am glad to see you well :
99203 Horatio , or I do forget myself .
99204
99205 The same , my lord , and your poor servant ever .
99206
99207 Sir , my good friend ; I'll change that name with you .
99208 And what make you from Wittenberg , Horatio ?
99209 Marcellus ?
99210
99211 My good lord ,
99212
99213 I am very glad to see you .
99214
99215 Good even , sir .
99216 But what , in faith , make you from Wittenberg ?
99217
99218 A truant disposition , good my lord .
99219
99220 I would not hear your enemy say so ,
99221 Nor shall you do mine ear that violence ,
99222 To make it truster of your own report
99223 Against yourself ; I know you are no truant .
99224 But what is your affair in Elsinore ?
99225 We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart .
99226
99227 My lord , I came to see your father's funeral .
99228
99229 I pray thee , do not mock me , fellow-student ;
99230 I think it was to see my mother's wedding .
99231
99232 Indeed , my lord , it follow'd hard upon .
99233
99234 Thrift , thrift , Horatio ! the funeral bak'd meats
99235 Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables .
99236 Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
99237 Ere I had ever seen that day , Horatio !
99238 My father , methinks I see my father .
99239
99240 O ! where , my lord ?
99241
99242 In my mind's eye , Horatio .
99243
99244 I saw him once ; he was a goodly king .
99245
99246 He was a man , take him for all in all ,
99247 I shall not look upon his like again .
99248
99249 My lord , I think I saw him yesternight .
99250
99251 Saw who ?
99252
99253 My lord , the king your father .
99254
99255 The king , my father !
99256
99257 Season your admiration for a while
99258 With an attent ear , till I may deliver ,
99259 Upon the witness of these gentlemen ,
99260 This marvel to you .
99261
99262 For God's love , let me hear .
99263
99264 Two nights together had these gentlemen ,
99265 Marcellus and Bernardo , on their watch ,
99266 In the dead vast and middle of the night ,
99267 Been thus encounter'd : a figure like your father ,
99268 Armed at points exactly , cap-a-pe ,
99269 Appears before them , and with solemn march
99270 Goes slow and stately by them : thrice he walk'd
99271 By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes ,
99272 Within his truncheon's length ; whilst they , distill'd
99273 Almost to jelly with the act of fear ,
99274 Stand dumb and speak not to him . This to me
99275 In dreadful secrecy impart they did ,
99276 And I with them the third night kept the watch ;
99277 Where , as they had deliver'd , both in time ,
99278 Form of the thing , each word made true and good ,
99279 The apparition comes . I knew your father ;
99280 These hands are not more like .
99281
99282 But where was this ?
99283
99284 My lord , upon the platform where we watch'd .
99285
99286 Did you not speak to it ?
99287
99288 My lord , I did ;
99289 But answer made it none ; yet once methought
99290 It lifted up its head and did address
99291 Itself to motion , like as it would speak ;
99292 But even then the morning cock crew loud ,
99293 And at the sound it shrunk in haste away
99294 And vanish'd from our sight .
99295
99296 'Tis very strange .
99297
99298 As I do live , my honour'd lord , 'tis true ;
99299 And we did think it writ down in our duty
99300 To let you know of it .
99301
99302 Indeed , indeed , sirs , but this troubles me .
99303 Hold you the watch to-night ?
99304
99305 We do , my lord .
99306
99307 We do , my lord .
99308
99309 Arm'd , say you ?
99310
99311 Arm'd , my lord .
99312
99313 Arm'd , my lord .
99314
99315 From top to toe ?
99316
99317 My lord , from head to foot .
99318
99319 My lord , from head to foot .
99320
99321 Then saw you not his face ?
99322
99323 O yes ! my lord ; he wore his beaver up .
99324
99325 What ! look'd he frowningly ?
99326
99327 A countenance more in sorrow than in anger .
99328
99329 Pale or red ?
99330
99331 Nay , very pale .
99332
99333 And fix'd his eyes upon you ?
99334
99335 Most constantly .
99336
99337 I would I had been there .
99338
99339 It would have much amaz'd you .
99340
99341 Very like , very like . Stay'd it long ?
99342
99343 While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred .
99344
99345 Longer , longer .
99346
99347 Longer , longer .
99348
99349 Not when I saw it .
99350
99351 His beard was grizzled , no ?
99352
99353 It was , as I have seen it in his life ,
99354 A sable silver'd .
99355
99356 I will watch to-night ;
99357 Perchance 'twill walk again .
99358
99359 I warrant it will .
99360
99361 If it assume my noble father's person ,
99362 I'll speak to it , though hell itself should gape
99363 And bid me hold my peace . I pray you all ,
99364 If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight ,
99365 Let it be tenable in your silence still ;
99366 And whatsoever else shall hap to-night ,
99367 Give it an understanding , but no tongue :
99368 I will requite your loves . So , fare you well .
99369 Upon the platform , 'twixt eleven and twelve ,
99370 I'll visit you .
99371
99372 Our duty to your honour .
99373
99374 Your loves , as mine to you . Farewell .
99375
99376 My father's spirit in arms ! all is not well ;
99377 I doubt some foul play : would the night were come !
99378 Till then sit still , my soul : foul deeds will rise ,
99379 Though all the earth o'erwhelm them , to men's eyes .
99380
99381
99382 My necessaries are embark'd ; farewell :
99383 And , sister , as the winds give benefit
99384 And convoy is assistant , do not sleep ,
99385 But let me hear from you .
99386
99387 Do you doubt that ?
99388
99389 For Hamlet , and the trifling of his favour ,
99390 Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood ,
99391 A violet in the youth of primy nature ,
99392 Forward , not permanent , sweet , not lasting ,
99393 The perfume and suppliance of a minute ;
99394 No more .
99395
99396 No more but so ?
99397
99398 Think it no more :
99399 For nature , crescent , does not grow alone
99400 In thews and bulk ; but , as this temple waxes ,
99401 The inward service of the mind and soul
99402 Grows wide withal . Perhaps he loves you now ,
99403 And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
99404 The virtue of his will ; but you must fear ,
99405 His greatness weigh'd , his will is not his own ,
99406 For he himself is subject to his birth ;
99407 He may not , as unvalu'd persons do ,
99408 Carve for himself , for on his choice depends
99409 The safety and the health of the whole state ;
99410 And therefore must his choice be circumscrib'd
99411 Unto the voice and yielding of that body
99412 Whereof he is the head . Then if he says he loves you ,
99413 It fits your wisdom so far to believe it
99414 As he in his particular act and place
99415 May give his saying deed ; which is no further
99416 Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal .
99417 Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain ,
99418 If with too credent ear you list his songs ,
99419 Or lose your heart , or your chaste treasure open
99420 To his unmaster'd importunity .
99421 Fear it , Ophelia , fear it , my dear sister ;
99422 And keep you in the rear of your affection ,
99423 Out of the shot and danger of desire .
99424 The chariest maid is prodigal enough
99425 If she unmask her beauty to the moon ;
99426 Virtue herself 'scapes not calumnious strokes ;
99427 The canker galls the infants of the spring
99428 Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd ,
99429 And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
99430 Contagious blastments are most imminent .
99431 Be wary then ; best safety lies in fear :
99432 Youth to itself rebels , though none else near .
99433
99434 I shall th' effect of this good lesson keep ,
99435 As watchman to my heart . But , good my brother ,
99436 Do not , as some ungracious pastors do ,
99437 Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven ,
99438 Whiles , like a puff'd and reckless libertine ,
99439 Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads ,
99440 And recks not his own rede .
99441
99442 O ! fear me not .
99443 I stay too long ; but here my father comes .
99444
99445
99446 A double blessing is a double grace ;
99447
99448 Occasion smiles upon a second leave .
99449
99450 Yet here , Laertes ! aboard , aboard , for shame !
99451 The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail ,
99452 And you are stay'd for . There , my blessing with thee !
99453 And these few precepts in thy memory
99454 Look thou character . Give thy thoughts no tongue ,
99455 Nor any unproportion'd thought his act .
99456 Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar ;
99457 The friends thou hast , and their adoption tried ,
99458 Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ;
99459 But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
99460 Of each new-hatch'd , unfledg'd comrade . Beware
99461 Of entrance to a quarrel , but , being in ,
99462 Bear 't that th' opposed may beware of thee .
99463 Give every man thine ear , but few thy voice ;
99464 Take each man's censure , but reserve thy judgment .
99465 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy ,
99466 But not express'd in fancy ; rich , not gaudy ;
99467 For the apparel oft proclaims the man ,
99468 And they in France of the best rank and station
99469 Are most select and generous , chief in that .
99470 Neither a borrower , nor a lender be ;
99471 For loan oft loses both itself and friend ,
99472 And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry .
99473 This above all : to thine own self be true ,
99474 And it must follow , as the night the day ,
99475 Thou canst not then be false to any man .
99476 Farewell ; my blessing season this in thee !
99477
99478 Most humbly do I take my leave , my lord .
99479
99480 The time invites you ; go , your servants tend .
99481
99482 Farewell , Ophelia ; and remember well
99483 What I have said to you .
99484
99485 'Tis in my memory lock'd ,
99486 And you yourself shall keep the key of it .
99487
99488 Farewell .
99489
99490
99491 What is 't , Ophelia , he hath said to you ?
99492
99493 So please you , something touching the Lord Hamlet .
99494
99495 Marry , well bethought :
99496 'Tis told me , he hath very oft of late
99497 Given private time to you ; and you yourself
99498 Have of your audience been most free and bounteous .
99499 If it be so ,as so 'tis put on me ,
99500 And that in way of caution ,I must tell you ,
99501 You do not understand yourself so clearly
99502 As it behoves my daughter and your honour .
99503 What is between you ? give me up the truth .
99504
99505 He hath , my lord , of late made many tenders
99506 Of his affection to me .
99507
99508 Affection ! pooh ! you speak like a green girl ,
99509 Unsifted in such perilous circumstance .
99510 Do you believe his tenders , as you call them ?
99511
99512 I do not know , my lord , what I should think .
99513
99514 Marry , I'll teach you : think yourself a baby ,
99515 That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay ,
99516 Which are not sterling . Tender yourself more dearly ;
99517 Or ,not to crack the wind of the poor phrase ,
99518 Running it thus ,you'll tender me a fool .
99519
99520 My lord , he hath importun'd me with love
99521 In honourable fashion .
99522
99523 Ay , fashion you may call it : go to , go to .
99524
99525 And hath given countenance to his speech , my lord ,
99526 With almost all the holy vows of heaven .
99527
99528 Ay , springes to catch woodcocks . I do know ,
99529 When the blood burns , how prodigal the soul
99530 Lends the tongue vows : these blazes , daughter ,
99531 Giving more light than heat , extinct in both ,
99532 Even in their promise , as it is a-making ,
99533 You must not take for fire . From this time
99534 Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence ;
99535 Set your entreatments at a higher rate
99536 Than a command to parley . For Lord Hamlet ,
99537 Believe so much in him , that he is young ,
99538 And with a larger tether may he walk
99539 Than may be given you : in few , Ophelia ,
99540 Do not believe his vows , for they are brokers ,
99541 Not of that dye which their investments show ,
99542 But mere implorators of unholy suits ,
99543 Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds ,
99544 The better to beguile . This is for all :
99545 I would not , in plain terms , from this time forth ,
99546 Have you so slander any moment's leisure ,
99547 As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet .
99548 Look to 't , I charge you ; come your ways .
99549
99550 I shall obey , my lord .
99551
99552
99553 The air bites shrewdly ; it is very cold .
99554
99555 It is a nipping and an eager air .
99556
99557 What hour now ?
99558
99559 I think it lacks of twelve .
99560
99561 No , it is struck .
99562
99563 Indeed ? I heard it not : then it draws near the season
99564 Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk .
99565
99566 What does this mean , my lord ?
99567
99568 The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse ,
99569 Keeps wassail , and the swaggering up-spring reels ;
99570 And , as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down ,
99571 The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out
99572 The triumph of his pledge .
99573
99574 Is it a custom ?
99575
99576 Ay , marry , is 't :
99577 But to my mind ,though I am native here
99578 And to the manner born ,it is a custom
99579 More honour'd in the breach than the observance .
99580 This heavy-headed revel east and west
99581 Makes us traduc'd and tax'd of other nations ;
99582 They clepe us drunkards , and with swinish phrase
99583 Soil our addition ; and indeed it takes
99584 From our achievements , though perform'd at height ,
99585 The pith and marrow of our attribute .
99586 So , oft it chances in particular men ,
99587 That for some vicious mole of nature in them ,
99588 As , in their birth ,wherein they are not guilty ,
99589 Since nature cannot choose his origin ,
99590 By the o'ergrowth of some complexion ,
99591 Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason ,
99592 Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens
99593 The form of plausive manners ; that these men ,
99594 Carrying , I say , the stamp of one defect ,
99595 Being nature's livery , or fortune's star ,
99596 Their virtues else , be they as pure as grace ,
99597 As infinite as man may undergo ,
99598 Shall in the general censure take corruption
99599 From that particular fault : the dram of eale
99600 Doth all the noble substance of a doubt ,
99601 To his own scandal .
99602
99603
99604 Look , my lord , it comes .
99605
99606 Angels and ministers of grace defend us !
99607 Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd ,
99608 Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell ,
99609 Be thy intents wicked or charitable ,
99610 Thou com'st in such a questionable shape
99611 That I will speak to thee : I'll call thee Hamlet ,
99612 King , father ; royal Dane , O ! answer me :
99613 Let me not burst in ignorance ; but tell
99614 Why thy canoniz'd bones , hearsed in death ,
99615 Have burst their cerements ; why the sepulchre ,
99616 Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd ,
99617 Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws ,
99618 To cast thee up again . What may this mean ,
99619 That thou , dead corse , again in complete steel
99620 Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon ,
99621 Making night hideous ; and we fools of nature
99622 So horridly to shake our disposition
99623 With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ?
99624 Say , why is this ? wherefore ? what should we do ?
99625
99626
99627 It beckons you to go away with it ,
99628 As if it some impartment did desire
99629 To you alone .
99630
99631 Look , with what courteous action
99632 It waves you to a more removed ground :
99633 But do not go with it .
99634
99635 No , by no means .
99636
99637 It will not speak ; then , will I follow it .
99638
99639 Do not , my lord .
99640
99641 Why , what should be the fear ?
99642 I do not set my life at a pin's fee ;
99643 And for my soul , what can it do to that ,
99644 Being a thing immortal as itself ?
99645 It waves me forth again ; I'll follow it .
99646
99647 What if it tempt you toward the flood , my lord ,
99648 Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
99649 That beetles o'er his base into the sea ,
99650 And there assume some other horrible form ,
99651 Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason
99652 And draw you into madness ? think of it ;
99653 The very place puts toys of desperation ,
99654 Without more motive , into every brain
99655 That looks so many fathoms to the sea
99656 And hears it roar beneath .
99657
99658 It waves me still . Go on , I'll follow thee .
99659
99660 You shall not go , my lord .
99661
99662 Hold off your hands !
99663
99664 Be rul'd ; you shall not go .
99665
99666 My fate cries out ,
99667 And makes each petty artery in this body
99668 As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve .
99669
99670 Still am I call'd . Unhand me , gentlemen ,
99671
99672 By heaven ! I'll make a ghost of him that lets me :
99673 I say , away ! Go on , I'll follow thee .
99674
99675
99676 He wares desperate with imagination .
99677
99678 Let's follow ; 'tis not fit thus to obey him .
99679
99680 Have after . To what issue will this come ?
99681
99682 Something is rotten in the state of Denmark .
99683
99684 Heaven will direct it .
99685
99686 Nay , let's follow him .
99687
99688
99689 Whither wilt thou lead me ? speak ; I'll go no further .
99690
99691 Mark me .
99692
99693 I will .
99694
99695 My hour is almost come ,
99696 When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames
99697 Must render up myself .
99698
99699 Alas ! poor ghost .
99700
99701 Pity me not , but lend thy serious hearing
99702 To what I shall unfold .
99703
99704 Speak ; I am bound to hear .
99705
99706 So art thou to revenge , when thou shalt hear .
99707
99708 What ?
99709
99710 I am thy father's spirit ;
99711 Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night ,
99712 And for the day confin'd to fast in fires ,
99713 Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
99714 Are burnt and purg'd away . But that I am forbid
99715 To tell the secrets of my prison-house ,
99716 I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
99717 Would harrow up thy soul , freeze thy young blood ,
99718 Make thy two eyes , like stars , start from their spheres ,
99719 Thy knotted and combined locks to part ,
99720 And each particular hair to stand an end ,
99721 Like quills upon the fretful porpentine :
99722 But this eternal blazon must not be
99723 To ears of flesh and blood . List , list , O list !
99724 If thou didst ever thy dear father love
99725
99726 O God !
99727
99728 Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder .
99729
99730 Murder !
99731
99732 Murder most foul , as in the best it is ;
99733 But this most foul , strange , and unnatural .
99734
99735 Haste me to know't , that I , with wings as swift
99736 As meditation or the thoughts of love ,
99737 May sweep to my revenge .
99738
99739 I find thee apt ;
99740 And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed
99741 That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf ,
99742 Wouldst thou not stir in this . Now , Hamlet , hear :
99743 'Tis given out that , sleeping in mine orchard ,
99744 A serpent stung me ; so the whole ear of Denmark
99745 Is by a forged process of my death
99746 Rankly abus'd ; but know , thou noble youth ,
99747 The serpent that did sting thy father's life
99748 Now wears his crown .
99749
99750 O my prophetic soul !
99751 My uncle !
99752
99753 Ay , that incestuous , that adulterate beast ,
99754 With witchcraft of his wit , with traitorous gifts ,
99755 O wicked wit and gifts , that have the power
99756 So to seduce !won to his shameful lust
99757 The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen .
99758 O Hamlet ! what a falling-off was there ;
99759 From me , whose love was of that dignity
99760 That it went hand in hand even with the vow
99761 I made to her in marriage ; and to decline
99762 Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor
99763 To those of mine !
99764 But virtue , as it never will be mov'd ,
99765 Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven ,
99766 So lust , though to a radiant angel link'd ,
99767 Will sate itself in a celestial bed ,
99768 And prey on garbage .
99769 But , soft ! methinks I scent the morning air ;
99770 Brief let me be . Sleeping within mine orchard ,
99771 My custom always in the afternoon ,
99772 Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole ,
99773 With juice of cursed hebona in a vial ,
99774 And in the porches of mine ears did pour
99775 The leperous distilment ; whose effect
99776 Holds such an enmity with blood of man
99777 That swift as quicksilver it courses through
99778 The natural gates and alleys of the body ,
99779 And with a sudden vigour it doth posset
99780 And curd , like eager droppings into milk ,
99781 The thin and wholesome blood : so did it mine ;
99782 And a most instant tetter bark'd about ,
99783 Most lazar-like , with vile and loathsome crust ,
99784 All my smooth body .
99785 Thus was I , sleeping , by a brother's hand ,
99786 Of life , of crown , of queen , at once dispatch'd ;
99787 Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin ,
99788 Unhousel'd , disappointed , unanel'd ,
99789 No reckoning made , but sent to my account
99790 With all my imperfections on my head :
99791 O , horrible ! O , horrible ! most horrible !
99792 If thou hast nature in thee , bear it not ;
99793 Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
99794 A couch for luxury and damned incest .
99795 But , howsoever thou pursu'st this act ,
99796 Taint not thy mind , nor let thy soul contrive
99797 Against thy mother aught ; leave her to heaven ,
99798 And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge ,
99799 To prick and sting her . Fare thee well at once !
99800 The glow-worm shows the matin to be near ,
99801 And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire ;
99802 Adieu , adieu ! Hamlet , remember me .
99803
99804
99805 O all you host of heaven ! O earth ! What else ?
99806 And shall I couple hell ? O fie ! Hold , hold , my heart !
99807 And you , my sinews , grow not instant old ,
99808 But bear me stiffly up ! Remember thee !
99809 Ay , thou poor ghost , while memory holds a seat
99810 In this distracted globe . Remember thee !
99811 Yea , from the table of my memory
99812 I'll wipe away all trivial fond records ,
99813 All saws of books , all forms , all pressures past ,
99814 That youth and observation copied there ;
99815 And thy commandment all alone shall live
99816 Within the book and volume of my brain ,
99817 Unmix'd with baser matter : yes , by heaven !
99818 O most pernicious woman !
99819 O villain , villain , smiling , damned villain !
99820 My tables ,meet it is I set it down ,
99821 That one may smile , and smile , and be a villain ;
99822 At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark :
99823
99824 So , uncle , there you are . Now to my word ;
99825 It is , 'Adieu , adieu ! remember me .
99826 I have sworn 't .
99827
99828 My lord ! my lord !
99829
99830 Lord Hamlet !
99831
99832 Heaven secure him !
99833
99834 So be it !
99835
99836 Hillo , ho , ho , my lord !
99837
99838 Hillo , ho , ho , boy ! come , bird , come .
99839
99840
99841 How is't , my noble lord ?
99842
99843 What news , my lord ?
99844
99845 O ! wonderful .
99846
99847 Good my lord , tell it .
99848
99849 No ; you will reveal it .
99850
99851 Not I , my lord , by heaven !
99852
99853 Nor I , my lord .
99854
99855 How say you , then ; would heart of man once think it ?
99856 But you'll be secret ?
99857
99858 Ay , by heaven , my lord .
99859
99860 Ay , by heaven , my lord .
99861
99862 There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark ,
99863 But he's an arrant knave .
99864
99865 There needs no ghost , my lord , come from the grave ,
99866 To tell us this .
99867
99868 Why , right ; you are i' the right ;
99869 And so , without more circumstance at all ,
99870 I hold it fit that we shake hands and part ;
99871 You , as your business and desire shall point you ,
99872 For every man hath business and desire ,
99873 Such as it is ,and , for mine own poor part ,
99874 Look you , I'll go pray .
99875
99876 These are but wild and whirling words , my lord .
99877
99878 I am sorry they offend you , heartily ;
99879 Yes , faith , heartily .
99880
99881 There's no offence , my lord .
99882
99883 Yes , by Saint Patrick , but there is , Horatio ,
99884 And much offence , too . Touching this vision here ,
99885 It is an honest ghost , that let me tell you ;
99886 For your desire to know what is between us ,
99887 O'ermaster't as you may . And now , good friends ,
99888 As you are friends , scholars , and soldiers ,
99889 Give me one poor request .
99890
99891 What is't , my lord ? we will .
99892
99893 Never make known what you have seen to-night .
99894
99895 My lord , we will not .
99896
99897 My lord , we will not .
99898
99899 Nay , but swear't .
99900
99901 In faith ,
99902 My lord , not I .
99903
99904 Nor I , my lord , in faith .
99905
99906 Upon my sword .
99907
99908 We have sworn , my lord , already .
99909
99910 Indeed , upon my sword , indeed .
99911
99912 Swear .
99913
99914 Ah , ha , boy ! sayst thou so ? art thou there , true-penny ?
99915 Come on ,you hear this fellow in the cellar-age ,
99916 Consent to swear .
99917
99918 Propose the oath , my lord .
99919
99920 Never to speak of this that you have seen ,
99921 Swear by my sword .
99922
99923 Swear .
99924
99925 Hic et ubique ? then we'll shift our ground .
99926 Come hither , gentlemen ,
99927 And lay your hands again upon my sword :
99928 Never to speak of this that you have heard ,
99929 Swear by my sword .
99930
99931 Swear .
99932
99933 Well said , old mole ! canst work i' the earth so fast ?
99934 A worthy pioner ! once more remove , good friends .
99935
99936 O day and night , but this is wondrous strange !
99937
99938 And therefore as a stranger give it welcome .
99939 There are more things in heaven and earth , Horatio ,
99940 Than are dreamt of in your philosophy .
99941 But come ;
99942 Here , as before , never , so help you mercy ,
99943 How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself ,
99944 As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
99945 To put an antic disposition on ,
99946 That you , at such times seeing me , never shall ,
99947 With arms encumber'd thus , or this head-shake ,
99948 Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase ,
99949 As , 'Well , well , we know ,' or , 'We could , an if we would ;'
99950 Or , 'If we list to speak ,' or , 'There be , an if they might ;'
99951 Or such ambiguous giving out , to note
99952 That you know aught of me : this not to do ,
99953 So grace and mercy at your most need help you ,
99954 Swear .
99955
99956 Swear .
99957
99958
99959 Rest , rest , perturbed spirit ! So , gentlemen ,
99960 With all my love I do commend me to you :
99961 And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
99962 May do , to express his love and friending to you ,
99963 God willing , shall not lack . Let us go in together ;
99964 And still your fingers on your lips , I pray .
99965 The time is out of joint ; O cursed spite ,
99966 That ever I was born to set it right !
99967 Nay , come , let's go together .
99968
99969 Give him this money and these notes , Reynaldo .
99970
99971 I will , my lord .
99972
99973 You shall do marvellous wisely , good Reynaldo ,
99974 Before you visit him , to make inquiry
99975 Of his behaviour .
99976
99977 My lord , I did intend it .
99978
99979 Marry , well said , very well said . Look you , sir ,
99980 Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris ;
99981 And how , and who , what means , and where they keep ,
99982 What company , at what expense ; and finding
99983 By this encompassment and drift of question
99984 That they do know my son , come you more nearer
99985 Than your particular demands will touch it :
99986 Take you , as 'twere , some distant knowledge of him ;
99987 As thus , 'I know his father , and his friends ,
99988 And , in part , him ;' do you mark this , Reynaldo ?
99989
99990 Ay , very well , my lord .
99991
99992 'And , in part , him ; but ,' you may say , 'not well :
99993 But if't be he I mean , he's very wild ,
99994 Addicted so and so ;' and there put on him
99995 What forgeries you please ; marry , none so rank
99996 As may dishonour him ; take heed of that ;
99997 But , sir , such wanton , wild , and usual slips
99998 As are companions noted and most known
99999 To youth and liberty .
100000
100001 As gaming , my lord ?
100002
100003 Ay , or drinking , fencing , swearing , quarrelling ,
100004 Drabbing ; you may go so far .
100005
100006 My lord , that would dishonour him .
100007
100008 Faith , no ; as you may season it in the charge .
100009 You must not put another scandal on him ,
100010 That he is open to incontinency ;
100011 That's not my meaning ; but breathe his faults so quaintly
100012 That they may seem the taints of liberty ,
100013 The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind ,
100014 A savageness in unreclaimed blood ,
100015 Of general assault .
100016
100017 But , my good lord ,
100018
100019 Wherefore should you do this ?
100020
100021 Ay , my lord ,
100022 I would know that .
100023
100024 Marry , sir , here's my drift ;
100025 And , I believe , it is a fetch of warrant :
100026 You laying these slight sullies on my son ,
100027 As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working ,
100028 Mark you ,
100029 Your party in converse , him you would sound ,
100030 Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes
100031 The youth you breathe of guilty , be assur'd ,
100032 He closes with you in this consequence ;
100033 'Good sir ,' or so ; or 'friend ,' or 'gentleman ,'
100034 According to the phrase or the addition
100035 Of man and country .
100036
100037 Very good , my lord .
100038
100039 And then , sir , does he this ,he does ,what was I about to say ? By the mass I was about to say something : where did I leave ?
100040
100041 At 'closes in the consequence .'
100042 At 'friend or so ,' and 'gentleman .'
100043
100044 At 'closes in the consequence ,' ay , marry ;
100045 He closes with you thus : 'I know the gentleman ;
100046 I saw him yesterday , or t' other day ,
100047 Or then , or then ; with such , or such ; and , as you say ,
100048 There was a' gaming ; there o'ertook in 's rouse ;
100049 There falling out at tennis ;' or perchance ,
100050 'I saw him enter such a house of sale ,'
100051 Videlicet , a brothel , or so forth .
100052 See you now ;
100053 Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth ;
100054 And thus do we of wisdom and of reach ,
100055 With windlasses , and with assays of bias ,
100056 By indirections find directions out :
100057 So by my former lecture and advice
100058 Shall you my son . You have me , have you not ?
100059
100060 My lord , I have .
100061
100062 God be wi' you ; fare you well .
100063
100064 Good my lord !
100065
100066 Observe his inclination in yourself .
100067
100068 I shall , my lord .
100069
100070 And let him ply his music .
100071
100072 Well , my lord .
100073
100074 Farewell !
100075
100076
100077 How now , Ophelia ! what's the matter ?
100078
100079 Alas ! my lord , I have been so affrighted .
100080
100081 With what , in the name of God ?
100082
100083 My lord , as I was sewing in my closet ,
100084 Lord Hamlet , with his doublet all unbrac'd ;
100085 No hat upon his head ; his stockings foul'd ,
100086 Ungarter'd , and down-gyved to his ancle ;
100087 Pale as his shirt ; his knees knocking each other ;
100088 And with a look so piteous in purport
100089 As if he had been loosed out of hell
100090 To speak of horrors , he comes before me .
100091
100092 Mad for thy love ?
100093
100094 My lord , I do not know ;
100095 But truly I do fear it .
100096
100097 What said he ?
100098
100099 He took me by the wrist and held me hard ,
100100 Then goes he to the length of all his arm ,
100101 And , with his other hand thus o'er his brow ,
100102 He falls to such perusal of my face
100103 As he would draw it . Long stay'd he so ;
100104 At last , a little shaking of mine arm ,
100105 And thrice his head thus waving up and down ,
100106 He rais'd a sigh so piteous and profound
100107 That it did seem to shatter all his bulk
100108 And end his being . That done , he lets me go ,
100109 And , with his head over his shoulder turn'd ,
100110 He seem'd to find his way without his eyes ;
100111 For out o' doors he went without their help ,
100112 And to the last bended their light on me .
100113
100114 Come , go with me ; I will go seek the king .
100115 This is the very ecstasy of love ,
100116 Whose violent property fordoes itself
100117 And leads the will to desperate undertakings
100118 As oft as any passion under heaven
100119 That does afflict our natures . I am sorry .
100120 What ! have you given him any hard words of late ?
100121
100122 No , my good lord ; but , as you did command ,
100123 I did repel his letters and denied
100124 His access to me .
100125
100126 That hath made him mad .
100127 I am sorry that with better heed and judgment
100128 I had not quoted him ; I fear'd he did but trifle ,
100129 And meant to wrack thee ; but , beshrew my jealousy !
100130 By heaven , it is as proper to our age
100131 To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions
100132 As it is common for the younger sort
100133 To lack discretion . Come , go we to the king :
100134 This must be known ; which , being kept close , might move
100135 More grief to hide than hate to utter love .
100136 Come .
100137
100138
100139 Welcome , dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern !
100140 Moreover that we much did long to see you ,
100141 The need we have to use you did provoke
100142 Our hasty sending . Something have you heard
100143 Of Hamlet's transformation ; so I call it ,
100144 Since nor the exterior nor the inward man
100145 Resembles that it was . What it should be
100146 More than his father's death , that thus hath put him
100147 So much from the understanding of himself ,
100148 I cannot dream of : I entreat you both ,
100149 That , being of so young days brought up with him ,
100150 And since so neighbour'd to his youth and humour ,
100151 That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court
100152 Some little time ; so by your companies
100153 To draw him on to pleasures , and to gather ,
100154 So much as from occasion you may glean ,
100155 Whe'r aught to us unknown afflicts him thus ,
100156 That , open'd , lies within our remedy .
100157
100158 Good gentlemen , he hath much talk'd of you ;
100159 And sure I am two men there are not living
100160 To whom he more adheres . If it will please you
100161 To show us so much gentry and good will
100162 As to expend your time with us awhile ,
100163 For the supply and profit of our hope ,
100164 Your visitation shall receive such thanks
100165 As fits a king's remembrance .
100166
100167 Both your majesties
100168 Might , by the sovereign power you have of us ,
100169 Put your dread pleasures more into command
100170 Than to entreaty .
100171
100172 But we both obey ,
100173 And here give up ourselves , in the full bent ,
100174 To lay our service freely at your feet ,
100175 To be commanded .
100176
100177 Thanks , Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern .
100178
100179 Thanks , Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz ;
100180 And I beseech you instantly to visit
100181 My too much changed son . Go , some of you ,
100182 And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is .
100183
100184 Heavens make our presence , and our practices
100185 Pleasant and helpful to him !
100186
100187 Ay , amen !
100188
100189 The ambassadors from Norway , my good lord ,
100190 Are joyfully return'd .
100191
100192 Thou still hast been the father of good news .
100193
100194 Have I , my lord ? Assure you , my good liege ,
100195 I hold my duty , as I hold my soul ,
100196 Both to my God and to my gracious king ;
100197 And I do think or else this brain of mine
100198 Hunts not the trail of policy so sure
100199 As it hath us'd to do that I have found
100200 The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy .
100201
100202 O ! speak of that ; that do I long to hear .
100203
100204 Give first admittance to the ambassadors ;
100205 My news shall be the fruit to that great feast .
100206
100207 Thyself do grace to them , and bring them in .
100208
100209 He tells me , my sweet queen , that he hath found
100210 The head and source of all your son's distemper .
100211
100212 I doubt it is no-other but the main ;
100213 His father's death , and our o'erhasty marriage .
100214
100215 Well , we shall sift him .
100216
100217
100218 Welcome , my good friends !
100219
100220 Say , Voltimand , what from our brother Norway ?
100221
100222 Most fair return of greetings , and desires .
100223 Upon our first , he sent out to suppress
100224 His nephew's levies , which to him appear'd
100225 To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack ;
100226 But , better look'd into , he truly found
100227 It was against your highness : whereat griev'd ,
100228 That so his sickness , age , and impotence
100229 Was falsely borne in hand , sends out arrests
100230 On Fortinbras ; which he , in brief , obeys ,
100231 Receives rebuke from Norway , and , in fine ,
100232 Makes vow before his uncle never more
100233 To give the assay of arms against your majesty .
100234 Whereon old Norway , overcome with joy ,
100235 Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee ,
100236 And his commission to employ those soldiers ,
100237 So levied as before , against the Polack ;
100238 With an entreaty , herein further shown ,
100239
100240 That it might please you to give quiet pass
100241 Through your dominions for this enterprise ,
100242 On such regards of safety and allowance
100243 As therein are set down .
100244
100245 It likes us well ;
100246 And at our more consider'd time we'll read ,
100247 Answer , and think upon this business :
100248 Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour .
100249 Go to your rest ; at night we'll feast together :
100250 Most welcome home .
100251
100252
100253 This business is well ended .
100254 My liege , and madam , to expostulate
100255 What majesty should be , what duty is ,
100256 Why day is day , night night , and time is time ,
100257 Were nothing but to waste night , day , and time .
100258 Therefore , since brevity is the soul of wit ,
100259 And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes ,
100260 I will be brief . Your noble son is mad :
100261 Mad call I it ; for , to define true madness ,
100262 What is 't but to be nothing else but mad ?
100263 But let that go .
100264
100265 More matter , with less art .
100266
100267 Madam , I swear I use no art at all .
100268 That he is mad , 'tis true ; 'tis true 'tis pity ;
100269 And pity 'tis 'tis true : a foolish figure ;
100270 But farewell it , for I will use no art .
100271 Mad let us grant him , then ; and now remains
100272 That we find out the cause of this effect ,
100273 Or rather say , the cause of this defect ,
100274 For this effect defective comes by cause ;
100275 Thus it remains , and the remainder thus .
100276 Perpend .
100277 I have a daughter , have while she is mine ;
100278 Who , in her duty and obedience , mark ,
100279 Hath given me this : now , gather , and surmise .
100280 "To the celestial , and my soul's idol , the most beautified Ophelia ."
100281 That's an ill phrase , a vile phrase ; 'beautified'
100282 is a vile phrase ; but you shall hear . Thus :
100283 In her excellent white bosom , these , &c .
100284
100285 Came this from Hamlet to her ?
100286
100287 Good madam , stay awhile ; I will be faithful .
100288
100289 "Doubt thou the stars are fire ;
100290 Doubt that the sun doth move ;
100291 Doubt truth to be a liar ;
100292 But never doubt I love .
100293
100294 O dear Ophelia ! I am ill at these numbers : I have not art to reckon my groans ; but that I love thee best , O most best ! believe it . Adieu .
100295 Thine evermore , most dear lady , whilst this machine is to him ,HAMLET ."
100296
100297 This in obedience hath my daughter shown me ;
100298 And more above , hath his solicitings ,
100299 As they fell out by time , by means , and place ,
100300 All given to mine ear .
100301
100302 But how hath she
100303 Receiv'd his love ?
100304
100305 What do you think of me ?
100306
100307 As of a man faithful and honourable .
100308
100309 I would fain prove so . But what might you think ,
100310 When I had seen this hot love on the wing ,
100311 As I perceiv'd it , I must tell you that ,
100312 Before my daughter told me ,what might you ,
100313 Or my dear majesty , your queen here , think ,
100314 If I had play'd the desk or table-book ,
100315 Or given my heart a winking , mute and dumb ,
100316 Or look'd upon this love with idle sight ;
100317 What might you think ? No , I went round to work ,
100318 And my young mistress thus I did bespeak :
100319 'Lord Hamlet is a prince , out of thy star ;
100320 This must not be :' and then I precepts gave her ,
100321 That she should lock herself from his resort ,
100322 Admit no messengers , receive no tokens .
100323 Which done , she took the fruits of my advice ;
100324 And he , repulsed ,a short tale to make ,
100325 Fell into a sadness , then into a fast ,
100326 Thence to a watch , thence into a weakness ,
100327 Thence to a lightness ; and by this declension
100328 Into the madness wherein now he raves ,
100329 And all we wail for .
100330
100331 Do you think 'tis this ?
100332
100333 It may be , very likely .
100334
100335 Hath there been such a time ,I'd fain know that ,
100336 That I have positively said , ''Tis so ,'
100337 When it prov'd otherwise ?
100338
100339 Not that I know .
100340
100341 Take this from this , if this be otherwise :
100342
100343 If circumstances lead me , I will find
100344 Where truth is hid , though it were hid indeed
100345 Within the centre .
100346
100347 How may we try it further ?
100348
100349 You know sometimes he walks four hours together
100350 Here in the lobby .
100351
100352 So he does indeed .
100353
100354 At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him ;
100355 Be you and I behind an arras then ;
100356 Mark the encounter ; if he love her not ,
100357 And be not from his reason fallen thereon ,
100358 Let me be no assistant for a state ,
100359 But keep a farm , and carters .
100360
100361 We will try it .
100362
100363 But look , where sadly the poor wretch comes reading .
100364
100365 Away ! I do beseech you , both away .
100366 I'll board him presently .
100367
100368 O ! give me leave .
100369
100370 How does my good Lord Hamlet ?
100371
100372 Well , God a-mercy .
100373
100374 Do you know me , my lord ?
100375
100376 Excellent well ; you are a fishmonger .
100377
100378 Not I , my lord .
100379
100380 Then I would you were so honest a man .
100381
100382 Honest , my lord !
100383
100384 Ay , sir ; to be honest , as this world goes , is to be one man picked out of ten thousand .
100385
100386 That's very true , my lord .
100387
100388 For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog , being a good kissing carrion ,Have you a daughter ?
100389
100390 I have , my lord .
100391
100392 Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing ; but not as your daughter may conceive . Friend , look to 't .
100393
100394 How say you by that ? Still harping on my daughter : yet he knew me not at first ; he said I was a fishmonger : he is far gone , far gone : and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love ; very near this . I'll speak to him again . What do you read , my lord ?
100395
100396 Words , words , words .
100397
100398 What is the matter , my lord ?
100399
100400 Between who ?
100401
100402 I mean the matter that you read , my lord .
100403
100404 Slanders , sir : for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards , that their faces are wrinkled , their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum , and that they have a plentiful lack of wit , together with most weak hams : all which , sir , though I most powerfully and potently believe , yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down ; for you yourself , sir , should be old as I am , if , like a crab , you could go backward .
100405
100406 Though this be madness , yet there is method in 't . Will you walk out of the air , my lord ?
100407
100408 Into my grave ?
100409
100410 Indeed , that is out o' the air .
100411
100412 How pregnant sometimes his replies are ! a happiness that often madness hits on , which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of . I will leave him , and suddenly contrive the means of meeting between him and my daughter . My honourable lord , I will most humbly take my leave of you .
100413
100414 You cannot , sir , take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal ; except my life , except my life , except my life .
100415
100416 Fare you well , my lord .
100417
100418
100419 These tedious old fools !
100420
100421
100422 You go to seek the Lord Hamlet ; there he is .
100423
100424 God save you , sir !
100425
100426
100427 Mine honoured lord !
100428
100429 My most dear lord !
100430
100431 My excellent good friends ! How dost thou , Guildenstern ? Ah , Rosencrantz ! Good lads , how do ye both ?
100432
100433 As the indifferent children of the earth .
100434
100435 Happy in that we are not over happy ; On Fortune's cap we are not the very button .
100436
100437 Nor the soles of her shoe ?
100438
100439 Neither , my lord .
100440
100441 Then you live about her waist , or in the middle of her favours ?
100442
100443 Faith , her privates we .
100444
100445 In the secret parts of Fortune ? O ! most true ; she is a strumpet . What news ?
100446
100447 None , my lord , but that the world's grown honest .
100448
100449 Then is doomsday near ; but your news is not true . Let me question more in particular : what have you , my good friends , deserved at the hands of Fortune , that she sends you to prison hither ?
100450
100451 Prison , my lord !
100452
100453 Denmark's a prison .
100454
100455 Then is the world one .
100456
100457 A goodly one ; in which there are many confines , wards , and dungeons , Denmark being one o' the worst .
100458
100459 We think not so , my lord .
100460
100461 Why , then , 'tis none to you ; for there is nothing either good or bad , but thinking makes it so : to me it is a prison .
100462
100463 Why , then your ambition makes it one ; 'tis too narrow for your mind .
100464
100465 O God ! I could be bounded in a nutshell , and count myself a king of infinite space , were it not that I have bad dreams .
100466
100467 Which dreams , indeed , are ambition , for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream .
100468
100469 A dream itself is but a shadow .
100470
100471 Truly , and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow .
100472
100473 Then are our beggars bodies , and our monarchs and outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows . Shall we to the court ? for , by my fay , I cannot reason .
100474
100475 We'll wait upon you .
100476
100477 We'll wait upon you .
100478
100479 No such matter ; I will not sort you with the rest of my servants , for , to speak to you like an honest man , I am most dreadfully attended . But , in the beaten way of friendship , what make you at Elsinore ?
100480
100481 To visit you , my lord ; no other occasion .
100482
100483 Beggar that I am , I am even poor in thanks ; but I thank you : and sure , dear friends , my thanks are too dear a halfpenny . Were you not sent for ? Is it your own inclining ? Is it a free visitation ? Come , come , deal justly with me : come , come ; nay , speak .
100484
100485 What should we say , my lord ?
100486
100487 Why anything , but to the purpose . You were sent for ; and there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to colour : I know the good king and queen have sent for you .
100488
100489 To what end , my lord ?
100490
100491 That you must teach me . But let me conjure you , by the rights of our fellowship , by the consonancy of our youth , by the obligation of our ever-preserved love , and by what more dear a better proposer could charge you withal , be even and direct with me , whether you were sent for or no !
100492
100493 What say you ?
100494
100495 Nay , then , I have an eye of you . If you love me , hold not off .
100496
100497 My lord , we were sent for .
100498
100499 I will tell you why ; so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery , and your secrecy to the king and queen moult no feather . I have of late ,but wherefore I know not ,lost all my mirth , forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame , the earth , seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy , the air , look you , this brave o'erhanging firmament , this majestical roof fretted with golden fire , why , it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours . What a piece of work is a man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! in form , in moving , how express and admirable ! in action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god ! the beauty of the world ! the paragon of animals ! And yet , to me , what is this quintessence of dust ? man delights not me ; no , nor woman neither , though , by your smiling , you seem to say so .
100500
100501 My lord , there was no such stuff in my thoughts .
100502
100503 Why did you laugh then , when I said , 'man delights not me ?'
100504
100505 To think , my lord ; if you delight not in man , what lenten entertainment the players shall receive from you : we coted them on the way ; and hither are they coming , to offer you service .
100506
100507 He that plays the king shall be welcome ; his majesty shall have tribute of me ; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and target ; the lover shall not sigh gratis ; the humorous man shall end his part in peace ; the clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o' the sere ; and the lady shall say her mind freely , or the blank verse shall halt for't . What players are they ?
100508
100509 Even those you were wont to take delight in , the tragedians of the city .
100510
100511 How chances it they travel ? their residence , both in reputation and profit , was better both ways .
100512
100513 I think their inhibition comes by the means of the late innovation .
100514
100515 Do they hold the same estimation they did when I was in the city ? Are they so followed ?
100516
100517 No , indeed they are not .
100518
100519 How comes it ? Do they grow rusty ?
100520
100521 Nay , their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace : but there is , sir , an aery of children , little eyases , that cry out on the top of question , and are most tyrannically clapped for't : these are now the fashion , and so berattle the common stages ,so they call them ,that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills , and dare scarce come thither .
100522
100523 What ! are they children ? who maintains 'em ? how are they escoted ? Will they pursue the quality no longer than they can sing ? will they not say afterwards , if they should grow themselves to common players ,as it is most like , if their means are no better ,their writers do them wrong , to make them exclaim against their own succession ?
100524
100525 Faith , there has been much to-do on both sides : and the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to controversy : there was , for a while , no money bid for argument , unless the poet and the player went to cuffs in the question .
100526
100527 Is it possible ?
100528
100529 O ! there has been much throwing about of brains .
100530
100531 Do the boys carry it away ?
100532
100533 Ay , that they do , my lord ; Hercules and his load too .
100534
100535 It is not very strange ; for my uncle is King of Denmark , and those that would make mows at him while my father lived , give twenty , forty , fifty , a hundred ducats a-piece for his picture in little . 'Sblood , there is something in this more than natural , if philosophy could find it out .
100536
100537
100538 There are the players .
100539
100540 Gentlemen , you are welcome to Elsinore . Your hands , come then ; the appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony : let me comply with you in this garb , lest my extent to the players which , I tell you , must show fairly outward should more appear like entertainment than yours . You are welcome ; but my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived .
100541
100542 In what , my dear lord ?
100543
100544 I am but mad north-north-west : when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw .
100545
100546
100547 Well be with you , gentlemen !
100548
100549 Hark you , Guildenstern ; and you too ; at each ear a hearer : that great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts .
100550
100551 Happily he's the second time come to them ; for they say an old man is twice a child .
100552
100553 I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players ; mark it . You say right , sir ; o' Monday morning ; 'twas so indeed .
100554
100555 My lord , I have news to tell you .
100556
100557 My lord , I have news to tell you . When Roscius was an actor in Rome ,
100558
100559 The actors are come hither , my lord .
100560
100561 Buzz , buzz !
100562
100563 Upon my honour ,
100564
100565 Then came each actor on his ass ,
100566
100567 The best actors in the world , either for tragedy , comedy , history , pastoral , pastoral-comical , historical-pastoral , tragical-historical , tragical-comical-historical-pastoral , scene individable , or poem unlimited : Seneca cannot be too heavy , nor Plautus too light . For the law of writ and the liberty , these are the only men .
100568
100569 O Jephthah , judge of Israel , what a treasure hadst thou !
100570
100571 What a treasure had he , my lord ?
100572
100573 Why
100574
100575 One fair daughter and no more ,
100576 The which he loved passing well .
100577
100578
100579 Still on my daughter .
100580
100581 Am I not i' the right , old Jephthah ?
100582
100583 If you call me Jephthah , my lord , I have a daughter that I love passing well .
100584
100585 Nay , that follows not .
100586
100587 What follows , then , my lord ?
100588
100589 Why ,
100590 As by lot , God wot .
100591 And then , you know ,
100592 It came to pass , as most like it was .
100593 The first row of the pious chanson will show you more ; for look where my abridgment comes .
100594
100595 You are welcome , masters ; welcome , all . I am glad to see thee well : welcome , good friends . O , my old friend ! Thy face is valanced since I saw thee last : comest thou to beard me in Denmark ? What ! my young lady and mistress ! By 'r lady , your ladyship is nearer heaven than when I saw you last , by the altitude of a chopine . Pray God , your voice , like a piece of uncurrent gold , be not cracked within the ring . Masters , you are all welcome . We'll e'en to't like French falconers , fly at anything we see : we'll have a speech straight . Come , give us a taste of your quality ; come , a passionate speech .
100596
100597 What speech , my good lord ?
100598
100599 I heard thee speak me a speech once , but it was never acted ; or , if it was , not above once ; for the play , I remember , pleased not the million ; 'twas caviare to the general : but it was as I received it , and others , whose judgments in such matters cried in the top of mine an excellent play , well digested in the scenes , set down with as much modesty as cunning . I remember one said there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter savoury , nor no matter in the phrase that might indict the author of affectation ; but called it an honest method , as wholesome as sweet , and by very much more handsome than fine . One speech in it I chiefly loved ; 'twas neas' tale to Dido ; and thereabout of it especially , where he speaks of Priam's slaughter . If it live in your memory , begin at this line : let me see , let me see :
100600 Therugged Pyrrhus , like the Hyrcanian beast ,
100601 'tis not so , it begins with Pyrrhus :
100602 The rugged Pyrrhus , he whose sable arm ,
100603 Black as his purpose , did the night resemble
100604 When he lay couched in the ominous horse ,
100605 Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd
100606 With heraldry more dismal ; head to foot
100607 Now is he total gules ; horridly trick'd
100608 With blood of fathers , mothers , daughters , sons ,
100609 Bak'd and impasted with the parching streets ,
100610 That lend a tyrannous and damned light
100611 To their vile murders : rousted in wrath and fire ,
100612 And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore ,
100613 With eyes like carbuncles , the hellish Pyrrhus
100614 Old grandsire Priam seeks .
100615 So proceed you .
100616
100617 'Fore God , my lord , well spoken ; with good accent and good discretion .
100618
100619 Anon , he finds him
100620 Striking too short at Greeks ; his antique sword ,
100621 Rebellious to his arm , lies where it falls ,
100622 Repugnant to command . Unequal match'd ,
100623 Pyrrhus at Priam drives ; in rage strikes wide ;
100624 But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword
100625 The unnerved father falls . Then senseless Ilium ,
100626 Seeming to feel this blow , with flaming top
100627 Stoops to his base , and with a hideous crash
100628 Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear : for lo ! his sword ,
100629 Which was declining on the milky head
100630 Of rever end Priam , seem'd i' the air to stick :
100631 So , as a painted tyrant , Pyrrhus stood ,
100632 And like a neutral to his will and matter ,
100633 Did nothing .
100634 But , as we often see , against some storm ,
100635 A silence in the heavens , the rack stand still ,
100636 The bold winds speechless and the orb below
100637 As hush as death , anon the dreadful thunder
100638 Doth rend the region ; so , after Pyrrhus' pause ,
100639 Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work ;
100640 And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall
100641 On Mars's armour , forg'd for proof eterne ,
100642 With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword
100643 Now falls on Priam .
100644 Out , out , thou strumpet , Fortune ! All you gods ,
100645 In general synod , take away her power ;
100646 Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel ,
100647 And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven ,
100648 As low as to the fiends !
100649
100650 This is too long .
100651
100652 It shall to the barber's , with your beard . Prithee , say on : he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry , or he sleeps . Say on ; come to Hecuba .
100653
100654 But who , O ! who had seen the mobled queen
100655
100656 'The mobled queen ?'
100657
100658 That's good ; 'mobled queen' is good .
100659
100660 Run barefoot up and down , threat'ning the flames
100661 With bisson rheum ; a clout upon that head
100662 Where late the diadem stood ; and , for a robe ,
100663 About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins ,
100664 A blanket , in the alarm of fear caught up ;
100665 Who this had seen , with tongue in venom steep'd ,
100666 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounc'd :
100667 But if the gods themselves did see her then ,
100668 When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport
100669 In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs ,
100670 The instant burst of clamour that she made
100671 Unless things mortal move them not at all
100672 Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven ,
100673 And passion in the gods .
100674
100675 Look ! wh'er he has not turned his colour and has tears in's eyes . Prithee , no more .
100676
100677 'Tis well ; I'll have thee speak out the rest soon . Good my lord , will you see the players well bestowed ? Do you hear , let them be well used ; for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time : after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live .
100678
100679 My lord , I will use them according to their desert .
100680
100681 God's bodikins , man , much better ; use every man after his desert , and who should 'scape whipping ? Use them after your own honour and dignity : the less they deserve , the more merit is in your bounty . Take them in .
100682
100683 Come , sirs .
100684
100685 Follow him , friends : we'll hear a play to-morrow .
100686
100687 Dost thou hear me , old friend ; can you play the Murder of Gonzago ?
100688
100689 Ay , my lord .
100690
100691 We'll ha't to-morrow night . You could , for a need , study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines , which I would set down and insert in't , could you not ?
100692
100693 Ay , my lord .
100694
100695 Very well . Follow that lord ; and look you mock him not .
100696
100697 My good friends , I'll leave you till night ; you are welcome to Elsinore .
100698
100699 Good my lord !
100700
100701
100702 Ay , so , God be wi' ye ! Now I am alone .
100703 O ! what a rogue and peasant slave am I :
100704 Is it not monstrous that this player here ,
100705 But in a fiction , in a dream of passion ,
100706 Could force his soul so to his own conceit
100707 That from her working all his visage wann'd ,
100708 Tears in his eyes , distraction in 's aspect ,
100709 A broken voice , and his whole function suiting
100710 With forms to his conceit ? and all for nothing !
100711 For Hecuba !
100712 What 's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba
100713 That he should weep for her ? What would he do
100714 Had he the motive and the cue for passion
100715 That I have ? He would drown the stage with tears ,
100716 And cleave the general ear with horrid speech ,
100717 Make mad the guilty and appal the free ,
100718 Confound the ignorant , and amaze indeed
100719 The very faculties of eyes and ears .
100720 Yet I ,
100721 A dull and muddy-mettled rascal , peak ,
100722 Like John-a-dreams , unpregnant of my cause ,
100723 And can say nothing ; no , not for a king ,
100724 Upon whose property and most dear life
100725 A damn'd defeat was made . Am I a coward ?
100726 Who calls me villain ? breaks my pate across ?
100727 Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face ?
100728 Tweaks me by the nose ? gives me the lie i' the throat ,
100729 As deep as to the lungs ? Who does me this ?
100730 Ha !
100731 Swounds , I should take it , for it cannot be
100732 But I am pigeon-liver'd , and lack gall
100733 To make oppression bitter , or ere this
100734 I should have fatted all the region kites
100735 With this slave's offal . Bloody , bawdy villain !
100736 Remorseless , treacherous , lecherous , kindless villain !
100737 O ! vengeance !
100738 Why , what an ass am I ! This is most brave
100739 That I , the son of a dear father murder'd ,
100740 Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell ,
100741 Must , like a whore , unpack my heart with words ,
100742 And fall a-cursing , like a very drab ,
100743 A scullion !
100744 Fie upon't ! foh ! About , my brain ! I have heard ,
100745 That guilty creatures sitting at a play
100746 Have by the very cunning of the scene
100747 Been struck so to the soul that presently
100748 They have proclaim'd their malefactions ;
100749 For murder , though it have no tongue , will speak
100750 With most miraculous organ . I'll have these players
100751 Play something like the murder of my father
100752 Before mine uncle ; I'll observe his looks ;
100753 I'll tent him to the quick : if he but blench
100754 I know my course . The spirit that I have seen
100755 May be the devil : and the devil hath power
100756 To assume a pleasing shape ; yea , and perhaps
100757 Out of my weakness and my melancholy
100758 As he is very potent with such spirits
100759 Abuses me to damn me . I'll have grounds
100760 More relative than this : the play 's the thing
100761 Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king .
100762
100763 And can you , by no drift of circumstance ,
100764 Get from him why he puts on this confusion ,
100765 Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
100766 With turbulent and dangerous lunacy ?
100767
100768 He does confess he feels himself distracted ;
100769 But from what cause he will by no means speak .
100770
100771 Nor do we find him forward to be sounded ,
100772 But , with a crafty madness , keeps aloof ,
100773 When we would bring him on to some confession
100774 Of his true state .
100775
100776 Did he receive you well ?
100777
100778 Most like a gentleman .
100779
100780 But with much forcing of his disposition .
100781
100782 Niggard of question , but of our demands
100783 Most free in his reply .
100784
100785 Did you assay him
100786 To any pastime ?
100787
100788 Madam , it so fell out that certain players
100789 We o'er-raught on the way ; of these we told him ,
100790 And there did seem in him a kind of joy
100791 To hear of it : they are about the court ,
100792 And , as I think , they have already order
100793 This night to play before him .
100794
100795 'Tis most true ;
100796 And he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties
100797 To hear and see the matter .
100798
100799 With all my heart ; and it doth much content me
100800 To hear him so inclin'd .
100801 Good gentlemen , give him a further edge ,
100802 And drive his purpose on to these delights .
100803
100804 We shall , my lord .
100805
100806
100807 Sweet Gertrude , leave us too ;
100808 For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither ,
100809 That he , as 'twere by accident , may here
100810 Affront Ophelia .
100811 Her father and myself , lawful espials ,
100812 Will so bestow ourselves , that , seeing , unseen ,
100813 We may of their encounter frankly judge ,
100814 And gather by him , as he is behav'd ,
100815 If 't be the affliction of his love or no
100816 That thus he suffers for .
100817
100818 I shall obey you .
100819 And for your part , Ophelia , I do wish
100820 That your good beauties be the happy cause
100821 Of Hamlet's wildness ; so shall I hope your virtues
100822 Will bring him to his wonted way again ,
100823 To both your honours .
100824
100825 Madam , I wish it may .
100826
100827
100828 Ophelia , walk you here . Gracious , so please you ,
100829 We will bestow ourselves .
100830
100831 Read on this book ;
100832 That show of such an exercise may colour
100833 Your loneliness . We are oft to blame in this ,
100834 'Tis too much prov'd , that with devotion's visage
100835 And pious action we do sugar o'er
100836 The devil himself .
100837
100838 O ! 'tis too true ;
100839 How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience !
100840 The harlot's cheek , beautied with plastering art ,
100841 Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
100842 Than is my deed to my most painted word :
100843 O heavy burden !
100844
100845 I hear him coming ; let's withdraw , my lord .
100846
100847 To be , or not to be : that is the question :
100848 Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
100849 The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ,
100850 Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ,
100851 And by opposing end them ? To die : to sleep ;
100852 No more ; and , by a sleep to say we end
100853 The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
100854 That flesh is heir to , 'tis a consummation
100855 Devoutly to be wish'd . To die , to sleep ;
100856 To sleep : perchance to dream : ay , there's the rub ;
100857 For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
100858 When we have shuffled off this mortal coil ,
100859 Must give us pause . There's the respect
100860 That makes calamity of so long life ;
100861 For who would bear the whips and scorns of time ,
100862 The oppressor's wrong , the proud man's contumely ,
100863 The pangs of dispriz'd love , the law's delay ,
100864 The insolence of office , and the spurns
100865 That patient merit of the unworthy takes ,
100866 When he himself might his quietus make
100867 With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear ,
100868 To grunt and sweat under a weary life ,
100869 But that the dread of something after death ,
100870 The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
100871 No traveller returns , puzzles the will ,
100872 And makes us rather bear those ills we have
100873 Than fly to others that we know not of ?
100874 Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ;
100875 And thus the native hue of resolution
100876 Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ,
100877 And enterprises of great pith and moment
100878 With this regard their currents turn awry ,
100879 And lose the name of action . Soft you now !
100880 The fair Ophelia ! Nymph , in thy orisons
100881 Be all my sins remember'd .
100882
100883 Good my lord ,
100884 How does your honour for this many a day ?
100885
100886 I humbly thank you ; well , well , well .
100887
100888 My lord , I have remembrances of yours ,
100889 That I have longed long to re-deliver ;
100890 I pray you , now receive them .
100891
100892 No , not I ;
100893 I never gave you aught .
100894
100895 My honour'd lord , you know right well you did ;
100896 And , with them , words of so sweet breath compos'd
100897 As made the things more rich : their perfume lost ,
100898 Take these again ; for to the noble mind
100899 Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind .
100900 There , my lord .
100901
100902 Ha , ha ! are you honest ?
100903
100904 My lord !
100905
100906 Are you fair ?
100907
100908 What means your lordship ?
100909
100910 That if you be honest and fair , your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty .
100911
100912 Could beauty , my lord , have better commerce than with honesty ?
100913
100914 Ay , truly ; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness : this was sometime a paradox , but now the time gives it proof . I did love thee once .
100915
100916 Indeed , my lord , you made me believe so .
100917
100918 You should not have believed me ; for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it : I loved you not .
100919
100920 I was the more deceived .
100921
100922 Get thee to a nunnery : why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me . I am very proud , revengeful , ambitious ; with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in , imagination to give them shape , or time to act them in . What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth ? We are arrant knaves , all ; believe none of us . Go thy ways to a nunnery . Where's your father ?
100923
100924 At home , my lord .
100925
100926 Let the doors be shut upon him , that he may play the fool nowhere but in's own house . Farewell .
100927
100928 O ! help him , you sweet heavens !
100929
100930 If thou dost marry , I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice , as pure as snow , thou shalt not escape calumny . Get thee to a nunnery , go ; farewell . Or , if thou wilt needs marry , marry a fool ; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them . To a nunnery , go ; and quickly too . Farewell .
100931
100932 O heavenly powers , restore him !
100933
100934 I have heard of your paintings too , well enough ; God hath given you one face , and you make yourselves another : you jig , you amble , and you lisp , and nickname God's creatures , and make your wantonness your ignorance . Go to , I'll no more on't ; it hath made me mad . I say , we will have no more marriages ; those that are married already , all but one , shall live ; the rest shall keep as they are . To a nunnery , go .
100935
100936
100937 O ! what a noble mind is here o'erthrown :
100938 The courtier's , soldier's , scholar's , eye , tongue , sword ;
100939 The expectancy and rose of the fair state ,
100940 The glass of fashion and the mould of form ,
100941 The observ'd of all observers , quite , quite down !
100942 And I , of ladies most deject and wretched ,
100943 That suck'd the honey of his music vows ,
100944 Now see that noble and most sovereign reason ,
100945 Like sweet bells jangled , out of tune and harsh ;
100946 That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth
100947 Blasted with ecstasy : O ! woe is me ,
100948 To have seen what I have seen , see what I see !
100949
100950
100951 Love ! his affections do not that way tend ;
100952 Nor what he spake , though it lack'd form a little ,
100953 Was not like madness . There's something in his soul
100954 O'er which his melancholy sits on brood ;
100955 And , I do doubt , the hatch and the disclose
100956 Will be some danger ; which for to prevent ,
100957 I have in quick determination
100958 Thus set it down : he shall with speed to England ,
100959 For the demand of our neglected tribute :
100960 Haply the seas and countries different
100961 With variable objects shall expel
100962 This something-settled matter in his heart ,
100963 Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus
100964 From fashion of himself . What think you on't ?
100965
100966 It shall do well : but yet do I believe
100967 The origin and commencement of his grief
100968 Sprung from neglected love . How now , Ophelia !
100969 You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said ;
100970 We heard it all . My lord , do as you please ;
100971 But , if you hold it fit , after the play ,
100972 Let his queen mother all alone entreat him
100973 To show his griefs : let her be round with him ;
100974 And I'll be plac'd , so please you , in the ear
100975 Of all their conference . If she find him not ,
100976 To England send him , or confine him where
100977 Your wisdom best shall think .
100978
100979 It shall be so :
100980 Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go .
100981
100982
100983 Speak the speech , I pray you , as I pronounced it to you , trippingly on the tongue ; but if you mouth it , as many of your players do , I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines . Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand , thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent , tempest , and as I may say whirlwind of passion , you must acquire and beget a temperance , that may give it smoothness . O ! it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters , to very rage , to split the ears of the groundlings , who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise : I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you , avoid it .
100984
100985 I warrant your honour .
100986
100987 Be not too tame neither , but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word , the word to the action ; with this special observance , that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing , whose end , both at the first and now , was and is , to hold , as 'twere , the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature , scorn her own image , and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure . Now , this overdone , or come tardy off , though it make the unskilful laugh , cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others . O ! there be players that I have seen play , and heard others praise , and that highly , not to speak it profanely , that , neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian , pagan , nor man , have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well , they imitated humanity so abominably .
100988
100989 I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us .
100990
100991 O ! reform it altogether . And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them ; for there be of them that will themselves laugh , to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too , though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered ; that's villanous , and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it . Go , make you ready .
100992
100993
100994 How now , my lord ! will the king hear this piece of work ?
100995
100996 And the queen too , and that presently .
100997
100998 Bid the players make haste .
100999
101000 Will you two help to hasten them ?
101001
101002 We will , my lord .
101003
101004 We will , my lord .
101005
101006
101007 What , ho ! Horatio !
101008
101009
101010 Here , sweet lord , at your service .
101011
101012 Horatio , thou art e'en as just a man
101013 As e'er my conversation cop'd withal .
101014
101015 O ! my dear lord ,
101016
101017 Nay , do not think I flatter ;
101018 For what advancement may I hope from thee ,
101019 That no revenue hast but thy good spirits
101020 To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ?
101021 No ; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp ,
101022 And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
101023 Where thrift may follow fawning . Dost thou hear ?
101024 Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice
101025 And could of men distinguish , her election
101026 Hath seal'd thee for herself ; for thou hast been
101027 As one , in suffering all , that suffers nothing ,
101028 A man that fortune's buffets and rewards
101029 Hast ta'en with equal thanks ; and bless'd are those
101030 Whose blood and judgment are so well comingled
101031 That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger
101032 To sound what stop she please . Give me that man
101033 That is not passion's slave , and I will wear him
101034 In my heart's core , ay , in my heart of heart ,
101035 As I do thee . Something too much of this .
101036 There is a play to-night before the king ;
101037 One scene of it comes near the circumstance
101038 Which I have told thee of my father's death :
101039 I prithee , when thou seest that act afoot ,
101040 Even with the very comment of thy soul
101041 Observe mine uncle ; if his occulted guilt
101042 Do not itself unkennel in one speech ,
101043 It is a damned ghost that we have seen ,
101044 And my imaginations are as foul
101045 As Vulcan's stithy . Give him heedful note ;
101046 For I mine eyes will rivet to his face ,
101047 And after we will both our judgments join
101048 In censure of his seeming .
101049
101050 Well , my lord :
101051 If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing ,
101052 And 'scape detecting , I will pay the theft .
101053
101054 They are coming to the play ; I must be idle :
101055 Get you a place .
101056
101057 How fares our cousin Hamlet ?
101058
101059 Excellent , i' faith ; of the chameleon's dish : I eat the air , promise-crammed ; you cannot feed capons so .
101060
101061 I have nothing with this answer , Hamlet ; these words are not mine .
101062
101063 No , nor mine now .
101064
101065 My lord , you played once i' the university , you say ?
101066
101067 That did I , my lord , and was accounted a good actor .
101068
101069 And what did you enact ?
101070
101071 I did enact Julius C sar : I was killed i' the Capitol ; Brutus killed me .
101072
101073 It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there . Be the playcrs ready ?
101074
101075 Ay , my lord ; they stay upon your patience .
101076
101077 Come hither , my good Hamlet , sit by me .
101078
101079 No , good mother , here's metal more attractive .
101080
101081 O ho ! do you mark that ?
101082
101083 Lady , shall I lie in your lap ?
101084
101085
101086 No , my lord .
101087
101088 I mean , my head upon your lap ?
101089
101090 Ay , my lord .
101091
101092 Do you think I meant country matters ?
101093
101094 I think nothing , my lord .
101095
101096 That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs .
101097
101098 What is , my lord ?
101099
101100 Nothing .
101101
101102 You are merry , my lord .
101103
101104 Who , I ?
101105
101106 Ay , my lord .
101107
101108 O God , your only jig-maker . What should a man do but be merry ? for , look you , how cheerfully my mother looks , and my father died within's two hours .
101109
101110 Nay , 'tis twice two months , my lord .
101111
101112 So long ? Nay , then , let the devil wear black , for I'll have a suit of sables . O heavens ! die two months ago , and not forgotten yet ? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year ; but , by'r lady , he must build churches then , or else shall he suffer not thinking on , with the hobby-horse , whose epitaph is , 'For , O ! for , O ! the hobby-horse is forgot .'
101113
101114
101115 What means this , my lord ?
101116
101117 Marry , this is miching mallecho ; it means mischief .
101118
101119 Belike this show imports the argument of the play .
101120
101121
101122 We shall know by this fellow : the players cannot keep counsel ; they'll tell all .
101123
101124 Will he tell us what this show meant ?
101125
101126 Ay , or any show that you'll show him ; be not you ashamed to show , he'll not shame to tell you what it means .
101127
101128 You are naught , you are naught . I'll mark the play .
101129
101130
101131 For us and for our tragedy ,
101132 Here stooping to your clemency ,
101133 We beg your hearing patiently .
101134
101135
101136 Is this a prologue , or the posy of a ring ?
101137
101138 'Tis brief , my lord .
101139
101140 As woman's love .
101141
101142
101143 Full thirty times hath Ph bus' cart gone round
101144 Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground ,
101145 And thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen
101146 About the world have times twelve thirties been ,
101147 Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands
101148 Unite commutual in most sacred bands .
101149
101150 So many journeys may the sun and moon
101151 Make us again count o'er ere love be done !
101152 But , woe is me ! you are so sick of late ,
101153 So far from cheer and from your former state ,
101154 That I distrust you . Yet , though I distrust ,
101155 Discomfort you , my lord , it nothing must ;
101156 For women's fear and love holds quantity ,
101157 In neither aught , or in extremity .
101158 Now , what my love is , proof hath made you know ;
101159 And as my love is siz'd , my fear is so .
101160 Where love is great , the littlest doubts are fear ;
101161 Where little fears grow great , great love grows there .
101162
101163 Faith , I must leave thee , love , and shortly too ;
101164 My operant powers their functions leave to do :
101165 And thou shall live in this fair world behind ,
101166 Honour'd , belov'd ; and haply one as kind
101167 For husband shalt thou
101168
101169 O ! confound the rest ;
101170 Such love must needs be treason in my breast :
101171 In second husband let me be accurst :
101172 None wed the second but who kill'd the first .
101173
101174 Wormwood , wormwood .
101175
101176 The instances that second marriage move ,
101177 Are base respects of thrift , but none of love ;
101178 A second time I kill my husband dead ,
101179 When second husband kisses me in bed .
101180
101181 I do believe you think what now you speak ;
101182 But what we do determine oft we break .
101183 Purpose is but the slave to memory ,
101184 Of violent birth , but poor validity ;
101185 Which now , like fruit unripe , sticks on the tree ,
101186 But fall unshaken when they mellow be .
101187 Most necessary 'tis that we forget
101188 To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt ;
101189 What to ourselves in passion we propose ,
101190 The passion ending , doth the purpose lose .
101191 The violence of either grief or joy
101192 Their own enactures with themselves destroy ;
101193 Where joy most revels grief doth most lament ,
101194 Grief joys , joy grieves , on slender accident .
101195 This world is not for aye , nor 'tis not strange ,
101196 That even our love should with our fortunes change ;
101197 For 'tis a question left us yet to prove
101198 Whe'r love lead fortune or else fortune love .
101199 The great man down , you mark his favourite flies ;
101200 The poor advanc'd makes friends of enemies .
101201 And hitherto doth love on fortune tend ,
101202 For who not needs shall never lack a friend ;
101203 And who in want a hollow friend doth try
101204 Directly seasons him his enemy .
101205 But , orderly to end where I begun ,
101206 Our wills and fates do so contrary run
101207 That our devices still are overthrown ,
101208 Our thoughts are ours , their ends none of our own :
101209 So think thou wilt no second husband wed ;
101210 But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead
101211
101212 Nor earth to me give food , nor heaven light !
101213 Sport and repose lock from me day and night !
101214 To desperation turn my trust and hope !
101215 An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope !
101216 Each opposite that blanks the face of joy
101217 Meet what I would have well , and it destroy !
101218 Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife ,
101219 If , once a widow , ever I be wife !
101220
101221 If she should break it now !
101222
101223 'Tis deeply sworn . Sweet , leave me here awhile ;
101224 My spirits grow dull , and fain I would beguile
101225 The tedious day with sleep .
101226
101227
101228 Sleep rock thy brain ;
101229 And never come mischance between us twain !
101230
101231
101232 Madam , how like you this play ?
101233
101234 The lady doth protest too much , methinks .
101235
101236 O ! but she'll keep her word .
101237
101238 Have you heard the argument ? Is there no offence in 't ?
101239
101240 No , no , they do but jest , poison in jest ; no offence i' the world .
101241
101242 What do you call the play ?
101243
101244 The Mouse-trap . Marry , how ? Tropically . This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna : Gonzago is the duke's name ; his wife , Baptista . You shall see anon ; 'tis a knavish piece of work : but what of that ? your majesty and we that have free souls , it touches us not : let the galled jade wince , our withers are unwrung .
101245
101246 This is one Lucianus , nephew to the king .
101247
101248 You are a good chorus , my lord .
101249
101250 I could interpret between you and your love , if I could see the puppets dallying .
101251
101252 You are keen , my lord , you are keen .
101253
101254 It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge .
101255
101256 Still better , and worse .
101257
101258 So you must take your husbands . Begin , murderer ; pox , leave thy damnable faces , and begin . Come ; the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge .
101259
101260 Thoughts black , hands apt , drugs fit , and time agreeing ;
101261 Confederate season , else no creature seeing ;
101262 Thou mixture rank , of midnight weeds collected ,
101263 With Hecate's ban thrice blasted , thrice infected ,
101264 Thy natural magic and dire property ,
101265 On wholesome life usurp immediately .
101266
101267
101268 He poisons him i' the garden for's estate . Hisname's Gonzago ; the story is extant , and writ in very choice Italian . You shall see anon how the murderer gets the love of Gonzago's wife .
101269
101270 The king rises .
101271
101272 What ! frighted with false fire ?
101273
101274 How fares my lord ?
101275
101276 Give o'er the play .
101277
101278 Give me some light : away !
101279
101280 Lights , lights , lights !
101281
101282 Why , let the stricken deer go weep ,
101283 The hart ungalled play ;
101284 For some must watch , while some must sleep :
101285 So runs the world away .
101286
101287 Would not this , sir , and a forest of feathers , if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me , with two Provincial roses on my razed shoes , get me a fellowship in a cry of players , sir ?
101288
101289 Half a share .
101290
101291 A whole one , I .
101292
101293 For thou dost know , O Damon dear ,
101294 This realm dismantled was
101295 Of Jove himself ; and now reigns here
101296 A very , very pajock .
101297
101298
101299 You might have rimed .
101300
101301 O good Horatio ! I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand pound . Didst perceive ?
101302
101303 Very well , my lord .
101304
101305 Upon the talk of the poisoning ?
101306
101307 I did very well note him .
101308
101309 Ah , ha ! Come , some music ! come , the recorders !
101310
101311 For if the king like not the comedy ,
101312 Why then , belike he likes it not , perdy .
101313
101314 Come , some music !
101315
101316
101317 Good my lord , vouchsafe me a word with you .
101318
101319 Sir , a whole history .
101320
101321 The king , sir ,
101322
101323 Ay , sir , what of him ?
101324
101325 Is in his retirement marvellous distempered .
101326
101327 With drink , sir ?
101328
101329 No , my lord , rather with choler .
101330
101331 Your wisdom should show itself more richer to signify this to his doctor ; for , for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far more choler .
101332
101333 Good my lord , put your discourse into some frame , and start not so wildly from my affair .
101334
101335 I am tame , sir ; pronounce .
101336
101337 The queen , your mother , in most great affliction of spirit , hath sent me to you .
101338
101339 You are welcome .
101340
101341 Nay , good my lord , this courtesy is not of the right breed . If it shall please you to make me a wholesome answer , I will do your mother's commandment ; if not , your pardon and my return shall be the end of my business .
101342
101343 Sir , I cannot .
101344
101345 What , my lord ?
101346
101347 Make you a wholesome answer ; my wit's diseased ; but , sir , such answer as I can make , you shall command ; or , rather , as you say , my mother : therefore no more , but to the matter : my mother , you say ,
101348
101349 Then , thus she says : your behaviour hath struck her into amasement and admiration .
101350
101351 O wonderful son , that can so astonish a mother ! But is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's admiration ? Impart .
101352
101353 She desires to speak with you in her closet ere you go to bed .
101354
101355 We shall obey , were she ten times our mother . Have you any further trade with us ?
101356
101357 My lord , you once did love me .
101358
101359 So I do still , by these pickers and stealers .
101360
101361 Good my lord , what is your cause of distemper ? you do surely bar the door upon your own liberty , if you deny your griefs to your friend .
101362
101363 Sir , I lack advancement .
101364
101365 How can that be when you have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark ?
101366
101367 Ay , sir , but 'While the grass grows ,' the proverb is something musty .
101368
101369 O ! the recorders : let me see one . To withdraw with you : why do you go about to recover the wind of me , as if you would drive me into a toil ?
101370
101371 O ! my lord , if my duty be too bold , my love is too unmannerly .
101372
101373 I do not well understand that . Will you play upon this pipe ?
101374
101375 My lord , I cannot .
101376
101377 I pray you .
101378
101379 Believe me , I cannot .
101380
101381 I do beseech you .
101382
101383 I know no touch of it , my lord .
101384
101385 'Tis as easy as lying ; govern these ventages with your finger and thumb , give it breath with your mouth , and it will discourse most eloquent music . Look you , these are the stops .
101386
101387 But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony ; I have not the skill .
101388
101389 Why , look you now , how unworthy a thing you make of me . You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass ; and there is much music , excellent voice , in this little organ , yet cannot you make it speak . 'Sblood , do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will , though you can fret me , you cannot play upon me .
101390
101391 God bless you , sir !
101392
101393 My lord , the queen would speak with you , and presently .
101394
101395 Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel ?
101396
101397 By the mass , and 'tis like a camel , indeed .
101398
101399 Methinks it is like a weasel .
101400
101401 It is backed like a weasel .
101402
101403 Or like a whale ?
101404
101405 Very like a whale .
101406
101407 Then I will come to my mother by and by
101408
101409 They fool me to the top of my bent . [Aloud .] I will come by and by .
101410
101411 I will say so .
101412
101413
101414 By and by is easily said . Leave me , friends .
101415
101416 'Tis now the very witching time of night ,
101417 When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
101418 Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood ,
101419 And do such bitter business as the day
101420 Would quake to look on . Soft ! now to my mother .
101421 O heart ! lose not thy nature ; let not ever
101422 The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom ;
101423 Let me be cruel , not unnatural ;
101424 I will speak daggers to her , but use none ;
101425 My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites ;
101426 How in my words soever she be shent ,
101427 To give them seals never , my soul , consent !
101428
101429
101430 I like him not , nor stands it safe with us
101431 To let his madness range . Therefore prepare you ;
101432 I your commission will forth with dispatch ,
101433 And he to England shall along with you .
101434 The terms of our estate may not endure
101435 Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow
101436 Out of his lunacies .
101437
101438 We will ourselves provide .
101439 Most holy and religious fear it is
101440 To keep those many many bodies safe
101441 That live and feed upon your majesty .
101442
101443 The single and peculiar life is bound
101444 With all the strength and armour of the mind
101445 To keep itself from noyance ; but much more
101446 That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest
101447 The lives of many . The cease of majesty
101448 Dies not alone , but , like a gulf doth draw
101449 What's near it with it ; it is a massy wheel ,
101450 Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount ,
101451 To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things
101452 Are mortis'd and adjoin'd ; which , when it falls ,
101453 Each small annexment , petty consequence ,
101454 Attends the boisterous ruin . Never alone
101455 Did the king sigh , but with a general groan .
101456
101457 Arm you , I pray you , to this speedy voyage ;
101458 For we will fetters put upon this fear ,
101459 Which now goes too free-footed .
101460
101461 We will haste us .
101462
101463 We will haste us .
101464
101465 My lord , he's going to his mother's closet :
101466 Behind the arras I'll convey myself
101467 To hear the process ; I'll warrant she'll tax him home ;
101468 And , as you said , and wisely was it said ,
101469 'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother ,
101470 Since nature makes them partial , should o'erhear
101471 The speech , of vantage . Fare you well , my liege :
101472 I'll call upon you ere you go to bed
101473 And tell you what I know .
101474
101475 Thanks , dear my lord .
101476
101477 O ! my offence is rank , it smells to heaven ;
101478 It hath the primal eldest curse upon't ;
101479 A brother's murder ! Pray can I not ,
101480 Though inclination be as sharp as will :
101481 My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ;
101482 And , like a man to double business bound ,
101483 I stand in pause where I shall first begin ,
101484 And both neglect . What if this cursed hand
101485 Were thicker than itself with brother's blood ,
101486 Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
101487 To wash it white as snow ? Whereto serves mercy
101488 But to confront the visage of offence ?
101489 And what's in prayer but this two-fold force ,
101490 To be forestalled , ere we come to fall ,
101491 Or pardon'd , being down ? Then , I'll look up ;
101492 My fault is past . But , O ! what form of prayer
101493 Can serve my turn ? 'Forgive me my foul murder ?'
101494 That cannot be ; since I am still possess'd
101495 Of those effects for which I did the murder ,
101496 My crown , mine own ambition , and my queen .
101497 May one be pardon'd and retain the offence ?
101498 In the corrupted currents of this world
101499 Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice ,
101500 And oft 'tis seen the wicked prise itself
101501 Buys out the law ; but 'tis not so above ;
101502 There is no shuffling , there the action lies
101503 In his true nature , and we ourselves compell'd
101504 Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults
101505 To give in evidence . What then ? what rests ?
101506 Try what repentance can : what can it not ?
101507 Yet what can it , when one can not repent ?
101508 O wretched state ! O bosom black as death !
101509 O limed soul , that struggling to be free
101510 Art more engaged ! Help , angels ! make assay ;
101511 Bow , stubborn knees ; and heart with strings of steel
101512 Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe .
101513 All may be well .
101514
101515 Now might I do it pat , now he is praying ;
101516 And now I'll do't : and so he goes to heaven ;
101517 And so am I reveng'd . That would be scann'd :
101518 A villain kills my father ; and for that ,
101519 I , his sole son , do this same villain send
101520 To heaven .
101521 Why , this is hire and salary , not revenge .
101522 He took my father grossly , full of bread ,
101523 With all his crimes broad blown , as flush as May ;
101524 And how his audit stands who knows save heaven ?
101525 But in our circumstance and course of thought
101526 'Tis heavy with him . And am I then reveng'd ,
101527 To take him in the purging of his soul ,
101528 When he is fit and season'd for his passage ?
101529 No .
101530 Up , sword , and know thou a more horrid hent ;
101531 When he is drunk asleep , or in his rage ,
101532 Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed ,
101533 At gaming , swearing , or about some act
101534 That has no relish of salvation in't ;
101535 Then trip him , that his heels may kick at heaven ,
101536 And that his soul may be as damn'd and black
101537 As hell , whereto it goes . My mother stays :
101538 This physic but prolongs thy sickly days .
101539
101540 My words fly up , my thoughts remain below :
101541 Words without thoughts never to heaven go .
101542
101543
101544 He will come straight . Look you lay home to him ;
101545 Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with ,
101546 And that your Grace hath screen'd and stood between
101547 Much heat and him . I'll silence me e'en here .
101548 Pray you , be round with him .
101549
101550 Mother , mother , mother !
101551
101552 I'll warrant you ;
101553 Fear me not . Withdraw , I hear him coming .
101554
101555
101556 Now , mother , what's the matter ?
101557
101558 Hamlet , thou hast thy father much offended .
101559
101560 Mother , you have my father much offended .
101561
101562 Come , come , you answer with an idle tongue .
101563
101564 Go , go , you question with a wicked tongue .
101565
101566 Why , how now , Hamlet !
101567
101568 What's the matter now ?
101569
101570 Have you forgot me ?
101571
101572 No , by the rood , not so :
101573 You are the queen , your husband's brother's wife ;
101574 And ,would it were not so !you are my mother .
101575
101576 Nay then , I'll set those to you that can speak .
101577
101578 Come , come , and sit you down ; you shall not budge ;
101579 You go not , till I set you up a glass
101580 Where you may see the inmost part of you .
101581
101582 What wilt thou do ? thou wilt not murder me ?
101583 Help , help , ho !
101584
101585 What , ho ! help ! help ! help !
101586
101587 How now ! a rat ? Dead , for a ducat , dead !
101588
101589
101590 O ! I am slain .
101591
101592 O me ! what hast thou done ?
101593
101594 Nay , I know not : is it the king ?
101595
101596 O ! what a rash and bloody deed is this !
101597
101598 A bloody deed ! almost as bad , good mother ,
101599 As kill a king , and marry with his brother .
101600
101601 As kill a king !
101602
101603 Ay , lady , 'twas my word .
101604
101605 Thou wretched , rash , intruding fool , farewell !
101606 I took thee for thy better ; take thy fortune ;
101607 Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger .
101608 Leave wringing of your hands : peace ! sit you down ,
101609 And let me wring your heart ; for so I shall
101610 If it be made of penetrable stuff ,
101611 If damned custom have not brass'd it so
101612 That it is proof and bulwark against sense
101613
101614 What have I done that thou dar'st wag thy tongue
101615 In noise so rude against me ?
101616
101617 Such an act
101618 That blurs the grace and blush of modesty ,
101619 Calls virtue hypocrite , takes off the rose
101620 From the fair forehead of an innocent love
101621 And sets a blister there , makes marriage vows
101622 As false as dicers' oaths ; O ! such a deed
101623 As from the body of contraction plucks
101624 The very soul , and sweet religion makes
101625 A rhapsody of words ; heaven's face doth glow ,
101626 Yea , this solidity and compound mass ,
101627 With tristful visage , as against the doom ,
101628 Is thought-sick at the act .
101629
101630 Ay me ! what act ,
101631 That roars so loud and thunders in the index ?
101632
101633 Look here , upon this picture , and on this ;
101634 The counterfeit presentment of two brothers .
101635 See , what a grace was seated on this brow ;
101636 Hyperion's curls , the front of Jove himself ,
101637 An eye like Mars , to threaten and command ,
101638 A station like the herald Mercury
101639 New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ,
101640 A combination and a form indeed ,
101641 Where every god did seem to set his seal ,
101642 To give the world assurance of a man .
101643 This was your husband : look you now , what follows .
101644 Here is your husband ; like a mildew'd ear ,
101645 Blasting his wholesome brother . Have you eyes ?
101646 Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed ,
101647 And batten on this moor ? Ha ! have you eyes ?
101648 You cannot call it love , for at your age
101649 The hey-day in the blood is tame , it's humble ,
101650 And waits upon the judgment ; and what judgment
101651 Would step from this to this ? Sense , sure , you have ,
101652 Else could you not have motion ; but sure , that sense
101653 Is apoplex'd ; for madness would not err ,
101654 Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd
101655 But it reserv'd some quantity of choice ,
101656 To serve in such a difference . What devil was 't
101657 That thus hath comen'd you at hoodman-blind ?
101658 Eyes without feeling , feeling without sight ,
101659 Ears without hands or eyes , smelling sans all ,
101660 Or but a sickly part of one true sense
101661 Could not so mope .
101662 O shame ! where is thy blush ? Rebellious hell ,
101663 If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones ,
101664 To flaming youth let virtue be as wax ,
101665 And melt in her own fire : proclaim no shame
101666 When the compulsive ardour gives the charge ,
101667 Since first itself as actively doth burn ,
101668 And reason panders will .
101669
101670 O Hamlet ! speak no more ;
101671 Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul ;
101672 And there I see such black and grained spots
101673 As will not leave their tinct .
101674
101675 Nay , but to live
101676 In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed ,
101677 Stew'd in corruption , honeying and making love
101678 Over the nasty sty ,
101679
101680 O ! speak to me no more ;
101681 These words like daggers enter in mine ears ;
101682 No more , sweet Hamlet !
101683
101684 A murderer , and a villain ;
101685 A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
101686 Of your precedent lord ; a vice of kings ;
101687 A cut-purse of the empire and the rule ,
101688 That from a shelf the precious diadem stole ,
101689 And put it in his pocket !
101690
101691 No more !
101692
101693 A king of shreds and patches ,
101694
101695
101696 Save me , and hover o'er me with your wings ,
101697
101698 You heavenly guards ! What would your gracious figure ?
101699
101700 Alas ! he's mad !
101701
101702 Do you not come your tardy son to chide ,
101703 That , laps'd in time and passion , lets go by
101704 The important acting of your dread command ?
101705 O ! say .
101706
101707 Do not forget : this visitation
101708 Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose .
101709 But , look ! amazement on thy mother sits ;
101710 O ! step between her and her fighting soul ;
101711 Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works :
101712 Speak to her , Hamlet .
101713
101714 How is it with you , lady ?
101715
101716 Alas ! how is't with you ,
101717 That you do bend your eye on vacancy
101718 And with the incorporal air do hold discourse ?
101719 Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep ;
101720 And , as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm ,
101721 Your bedded hair , like life in excrements ,
101722 Starts up and stands an end . O gentle son !
101723 Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper
101724 Sprinkle cool patience . Whereon do you look ?
101725
101726 On him , on him ! Look you , how pale he glares !
101727 His form and cause conjoin'd , preaching to stones ,
101728 Would make them capable . Do not look upon me ;
101729 Lest with this piteous action you convert
101730 My stern effects : then what I have to do
101731 Will want true colour ; tears perchance for blood .
101732
101733 To whom do you speak this ?
101734
101735 Do you see nothing there ?
101736
101737 Nothing at all ; yet all that is I see .
101738
101739 Nor did you nothing hear ?
101740
101741 No , nothing but ourselves .
101742
101743 Why , look you there ! look , how it steals away ;
101744 My father , in his habit as he liv'd ;
101745 Look ! where he goes , even now , out at the portal .
101746
101747
101748 This is the very coinage of your brain :
101749 This bodiless creation ecstasy
101750 Is very cunning in .
101751
101752 Ecstasy !
101753 My pulse , as yours , doth temperately keep time ,
101754 And makes as healthful music . It is not madness
101755 That I have utter'd : bring me to the test ,
101756 And I the matter will re-word , which madness
101757 Would gambol from . Mother , for love of grace ,
101758 Lay not that flattering unction to your soul ,
101759 That not your trespass but my madness speaks ;
101760 It will but skin and film the ulcerous place ,
101761 Whiles rank corruption , mining all within ,
101762 Infects unseen . Confess yourself to heaven ;
101763 Repent what's past ; avoid what is to come ;
101764 And do not spread the compost on the weeds
101765 To make them ranker . Forgive me this my virtue ;
101766 For in the fatness of these pursy times
101767 Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg ,
101768 Yea , curb and woo for leave to do him good .
101769
101770 O Hamlet ! thou hast cleft my heart in twain .
101771
101772 O ! throw away the worser part of it ,
101773 And live the purer with the other half .
101774 Good night ; but go not to mine uncle's bed ;
101775 Assume a virtue , if you have it not .
101776 That monster , custom , who all sense doth eat ,
101777 Of habits devil , is angel yet in this ,
101778 That to the use of actions fair and good
101779 He likewise gives a frock or livery ,
101780 That aptly is put on . Refrain to-night ;
101781 And that shall lend a kind of easiness
101782 To the next abstinence : the next more easy ;
101783 For use almost can change the stamp of nature ,
101784 And master ev'n the devil or throw him out
101785 With wondrous potency . Once more , goodnight :
101786 And when you are desirous to be bless'd ,
101787 I'll blessing beg of you . For this same lord ,
101788
101789 I do repent : but heaven hath pleas'd it so ,
101790 To punish me with this , and this with me ,
101791 That I must be their scourge and minister .
101792 I will bestow him , and will answer well
101793 The death I gave him . So , again , good-night .
101794 I must be cruel only to be kind :
101795 Thus bad begins and worse remains behind .
101796 One word more , good lady .
101797
101798 What shall I do ?
101799
101800 Not this , by no means , that I bid you do :
101801 Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed ;
101802 Pinch wanton on your cheek ; call you his mouse ;
101803 And let him , for a pair of reechy kisses ,
101804 Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers ,
101805 Make you to ravel all this matter out ,
101806 That I essentially am not in madness ,
101807 But mad in craft . 'Twere good you let him know ;
101808 For who that's but a queen , fair , sober , wise ,
101809 Would from a paddock , from a bat , a gib ,
101810 Such dear concernings hide ? who would do so ?
101811 No , in despite of sense and secrecy ,
101812 Unpeg the basket on the house's top ,
101813 Let the birds fly , and , like the famous ape ,
101814 To try conclusions , in the basket creep ,
101815 And break your own neck down .
101816
101817 Be thou assur'd , if words be made of breath ,
101818 And breath of life , I have no life to breathe
101819 What thou hast said to me .
101820
101821 I must to England ; you know that ?
101822
101823 Alack !
101824 I had forgot : 'tis so concluded on .
101825
101826 There's letters seal'd ; and my two schoolfellows ,
101827 Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd ,
101828 They bear the mandate ; they must sweep my way ,
101829 And marshal me to knavery . Let it work ;
101830 For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
101831 Hoist with his own petar : and it shall go hard
101832 But I will delve one yard below their mines ,
101833 And blow them at the moon . O ! 'tis most sweet ,
101834 When in one line two crafts directly meet .
101835 This man shall set me packing ;
101836 I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room .
101837 Mother , good-night . Indeed this counsellor
101838 Is now most still , most secret , and most grave ,
101839 Who was in life a foolish prating knave .
101840 Come , sir , to draw toward an end with you .
101841 Good-night , mother .
101842
101843 There's matter in these sighs , these profound heaves :
101844 You must translate ; 'tis fit we understand them .
101845 Where is your son ?
101846
101847 Bestow this place on us a little while .
101848
101849 Ah ! my good lord , what have I seen to-night .
101850
101851 What , Gertrude ? How does Hamlet ?
101852
101853 Mad as the sea and wind , when both contend
101854 Which is the mightier . In his lawless fit ,
101855 Behind the arras hearing something stir ,
101856 Whips out his rapier , cries , 'A rat ! a rat !'
101857 And , in his brainish apprehension , kills
101858 The unseen good old man .
101859
101860 O heavy deed !
101861 It had been so with us had we been there .
101862 His liberty is full of threats to all ;
101863 To you yourself , to us , to every one .
101864 Alas ! how shall this bloody deed be answer'd ?
101865 It will be laid to us , whose providence
101866 Should have kept short , restrain'd , and out of haunt ,
101867 This mad young man : but so much was our love ,
101868 We would not understand what was most fit ,
101869 But , like the owner of a foul disease ,
101870 To keep it from divulging , let it feed
101871 Even on the pith of life . Where is he gone ?
101872
101873 To draw apart the body he hath kill'd ;
101874 O'er whom his very madness , like some ore
101875 Among a mineral of metals base ,
101876 Shows itself pure : he weeps for what is done .
101877
101878 O Gertrude ! come away .
101879 The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch
101880 But we will ship him hence ; and this vile deed
101881 We must , with all our majesty and skill ,
101882 Both countenance and excuse . Ho ! Guildenstern !
101883
101884
101885 Friends both , go join you with some further aid :
101886 Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain ,
101887 And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him :
101888 Go seek him out ; speak fair , and bring the body
101889 Into the chapel . I pray you , haste in this .
101890
101891 Come , Gertrude , we'll call up our wisest friends ;
101892 And let them know both what we mean to do ,
101893 And what's untimely done : so , haply , slander ,
101894 Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter ,
101895 As level as the cannon to his blank
101896 Transports his poison'd shot , may miss our name ,
101897 And hit the woundless air . O ! come away ;
101898 My soul is full of discord and dismay .
101899
101900 Safely stowed .
101901
101902 Hamlet ! Lord Hamlet !
101903
101904 Hamlet ! Lord Hamlet !
101905
101906 What noise ? who calls on Hamlet ?
101907 O ! here they come .
101908
101909
101910 What have you done , my lord , with the dead body ?
101911
101912 Compounded it with dust , whereto 'tis kin .
101913
101914 Tell us where 'tis , that we may take it thence
101915 And bear it to the chapel .
101916
101917 Do not believe it .
101918
101919 Believe what ?
101920
101921 That I can keep your counsel and not mine own . Besides , to be demanded of a sponge ! what replication should be made by the son of a king ?
101922
101923 Take you me for a sponge , my lord ?
101924
101925 Ay , sir , that soaks up the king's countenance , his rewards , his authorities . But such officers do the king best service in the end : he keeps them , like an ape , in the corner of his jaw ; first mouthed , to be last swallowed : when he needs what you have gleaned , it is but squeezing you , and , sponge , you shall be dry again .
101926
101927 I understand you not , my lord .
101928
101929 I am glad of it : a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear .
101930
101931 My lord , you must tell us where the body is , and go with us to the king .
101932
101933 The body is with the king , but the king is not with the body . The king is a thing
101934
101935 A thing , my lord !
101936
101937 Of nothing : bring me to him . Hide fox , and all after .
101938
101939
101940 I have sent to seek him , and to find the body .
101941 How dangerous is it that this man goes loose !
101942 Yet must not we put the strong law on him :
101943 He's lov'd of the distracted multitude ,
101944 Who like not in their judgment , but their eyes ;
101945 And where 'tis so , the offender's scourge is weigh'd ,
101946 But never the offence . To bear all smooth and even ,
101947 This sudden sending him away must seem
101948 Deliberate pause : diseases desperate grown
101949 By desperate appliance are reliev'd ,
101950 Or not at all .
101951
101952 How now ! what hath befall'n ?
101953
101954 Where the dead body is bestow'd , my lord ,
101955 We cannot get from him .
101956
101957 But where is he ?
101958
101959 Without , my lord ; guarded , to know your pleasure .
101960
101961 Bring him before us .
101962
101963 Ho , Guildenstern ! bring in my lord .
101964
101965
101966 Now , Hamlet , where's Polonius ?
101967
101968 At supper .
101969
101970 At supper ! Where ?
101971
101972 Not where he eats , but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him . Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us , and we fat ourselves for maggots : your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service ; two dishes , but to one table : that's the end .
101973
101974 Alas , alas !
101975
101976 A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king , and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm .
101977
101978 What dost thou mean by this ?
101979
101980 Nothing , but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar .
101981
101982 Where is Polonius ?
101983
101984 In heaven ; send thither to see : if your messenger find him not there , seek him i' the other place yourself . But , indeed , if you find him not within this month , you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby .
101985
101986 Go seek him there .
101987
101988 He will stay till you come .
101989
101990
101991 Hamlet , this deed , for thine especial safety ,
101992 Which we do tender , as we dearly grieve
101993 For that which thou hast done , must send thee hence
101994 With fiery quickness : therefore prepare thyself ;
101995 The bark is ready , and the wind at help ,
101996 The associates tend , and every thing is bent
101997 For England .
101998
101999 For England !
102000
102001 Ay , Hamlet .
102002
102003 Good .
102004
102005 So is it , if thou knew'st our purposes .
102006
102007 I see a cherub that sees them . But , come ; for England ! Farewell , dear mother .
102008
102009 Thy loving father , Hamlet .
102010
102011 My mother : father and mother is man and wife , man and wife is one flesh , and so , my mother . Come , for England !
102012
102013
102014 Follow him at foot ; tempt him with speed aboard :
102015 Delay it not , I'll have him hence to-night .
102016 Away ! for every thing is seal'd and done
102017 That else leans on the affair : pray you , make haste .
102018
102019 And , England , if my love thou hold'st at aught ,
102020 As my great power thereof may give thee sense ,
102021 Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red
102022 After the Danish sword , and thy free awe
102023 Pays homage to us ,thou mayst not coldly set
102024 Our sovereign process , which imports at full ,
102025 By letters conjuring to that effect ,
102026 The present death of Hamlet . Do it , England ;
102027 For like the hectic in my blood he rages ,
102028 And thou must cure me . Till I know 'tis done ,
102029 Howe'er my haps , my joys were ne'er begun .
102030
102031
102032 Go , captain , from me greet the Danish king ;
102033 Tell him that , by his licence , Fortinbras
102034 Claims the conveyance of a promis'd march
102035 Over his kingdom . You know the rendezvous .
102036 If that his majesty would aught with us ,
102037 We shall express our duty in his eye ,
102038 And let him know so .
102039
102040 I will do 't , my lord .
102041
102042 Go softly on .
102043
102044 Good sir , whose powers are these ?
102045
102046 They are of Norway , sir .
102047
102048 How purpos'd , sir , I pray you ?
102049
102050 Against some part of Poland .
102051
102052 Who commands them , sir ?
102053
102054 The nephew to old Norway , Fortinbras .
102055
102056 Goes it against the main of Poland , sir ,
102057 Or for some frontier ?
102058
102059 Truly to speak , and with no addition ,
102060 We go to gain a little patch of ground
102061 That hath in it no profit but the name .
102062 To pay five ducats , five , I would not farm it ;
102063 Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
102064 A ranker rate , should it be sold in fee .
102065
102066 Why , then the Polack never will defend it .
102067
102068 Yes , 'tis already garrison'd .
102069
102070 Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats
102071 Will not debate the question of this straw :
102072 This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace ,
102073 That inward breaks , and shows no cause without
102074 Why the man dies . I humbly thank you , sir .
102075
102076 God be wi' you , sir .
102077
102078
102079 Will 't please you go , my lord ?
102080
102081 I'll be with you straight . Go a little before .
102082
102083 How all occasions do inform against me ,
102084 And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man ,
102085 If his chief good and market of his time
102086 Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast , no more .
102087 Sure he that made us with such large discourse ,
102088 Looking before and after , gave us not
102089 That capability and god-like reason
102090 To fust in us unus'd . Now , whe'r it be
102091 Bestial oblivion , or some craven scruple
102092 Of thinking too precisely on the event ,
102093 A thought , which , quarter'd , hath but one part wisdom ,
102094 And ever three parts coward , I do not know
102095 Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do ;'
102096 Sith I have cause and will and strength and means
102097 To do 't . Examples gross as earth exhort me :
102098 Witness this army of such mass and charge
102099 Led by a delicate and tender prince ,
102100 Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd
102101 Makes mouths at the invisible event ,
102102 Exposing what is mortal and unsure
102103 To all that fortune , death and danger dare ,
102104 Even for an egg-shell . Rightly to be great
102105 Is not to stir without great argument ,
102106 But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
102107 When honour's at the stake . How stand I then ,
102108 That have a father kill'd , a mother stain'd ,
102109 Excitements of my reason and my blood ,
102110 And let all sleep , while , to my shame , I see
102111 The imminent death of twenty thousand men ,
102112 That , for a fantasy and trick of fame ,
102113 Go to their graves like beds , fight for a plot
102114 Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause ,
102115 Which is not tomb enough and continent
102116 To hide the slaim ? O ! from this time forth ,
102117 My thoughts be bloody , or be nothing worth !
102118
102119
102120 I will not speak with her .
102121
102122 She is importunate , indeed distract :
102123 Her mood will needs be pitied .
102124
102125 What would she have ?
102126
102127 She speaks much of her father ; says she hears
102128 There's tricks i' the world ; and hems , and beats her heart ;
102129 Spurns enviously at straws ; speaks things in doubt ,
102130 That carry but half sense : her speech is nothing ,
102131 Yet the unshaped use of it doth move
102132 The hearers to collection ; they aim at it ,
102133 And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts ;
102134 Which , as her winks , and nods , and gestures yield them ,
102135 Indeed would make one think there might be thought ,
102136 Though nothing sure , yet much unhappily .
102137
102138 'Twere good she were spoken with , for she may strew
102139 Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds .
102140
102141 Let her come in .
102142
102143 To my sick soul , as sin's true nature is ,
102144 Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss :
102145 So full of artless jealousy is guilt ,
102146 It spills itself in fearing to be spilt .
102147
102148
102149 Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark ?
102150
102151 How now , Ophelia !
102152
102153
102154 How should I your true love know
102155 From another one ?
102156 By his cockle hat and staff ,
102157 And his sandal shoon .
102158
102159
102160 Alas ! sweet lady , what imports this song ?
102161
102162 Say you ? nay , pray you , mark .
102163
102164 He is dead and gone , lady ,
102165 He is dead and gone ;
102166 At his head a grass-green turf ;
102167 At his heals a stone .
102168
102169 O , ho !
102170
102171 Nay , but Ophelia ,
102172
102173 Pray you , mark .
102174
102175 White his shroud as the mountain snow ,
102176
102177 Alas ! look here , my lord .
102178
102179
102180 Larded with sweet flowers ;
102181 Which bewept to the grave did go
102182 With true-love showers .
102183
102184
102185 How do you , pretty lady ?
102186
102187 Well , God 'ild you ! They say the owl was a baker's daughter . Lord ! we know what we are , but know not what we may be . God be at your table !
102188
102189 Conceit upon her father .
102190
102191 Pray you , let's have no words of this ; but when they ask you what it means , say you this :
102192
102193 To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day ,
102194 All in the morning betime ,
102195 And I a maid at your window ,
102196 To be your Valentine :
102197 Then up he rose , and donn'd his clothes ,
102198 And dupp'd the chamber door ;
102199 Let in the maid , that out a maid
102200 Never departed more .
102201
102202
102203 Pretty Ophelia !
102204
102205 Indeed , la ! without an oath , I'll make an end on 't :
102206
102207 By Gis and by Saint Charity ,
102208 Alack , and fie for shame !
102209 Young men will do't , if they come to't ;
102210 By Cock they are to blame .
102211 Quoth she , before you tumbled me ,
102212 You promis'd me to wed :
102213 So would I ha' done , by yonder sun ,
102214 An thou hadst not come to my bed .
102215
102216
102217 How long hath she been thus ?
102218
102219 I hope all will be well . We must be patient : but I cannot choose but weep , to think they should lay him i' the cold ground . My brother shall know of it : and so I thank you for your good counsel . Come , my coach ! Good-night , ladies ; good-night , sweet ladies ; good-night , good-night .
102220
102221
102222 Follow her close ; give her good watch , I pray you .
102223
102224 O ! this is the poison of deep grief ; it springs
102225 All from her father's death . O Gertrude , Gertrude !
102226 When sorrows come , they come not single spies ,
102227 But in battalions . First , her father slain ;
102228 Next , your son gone ; but he most violent author
102229 Of his own just remove : the people muddied ,
102230 Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers ,
102231 For good Polonius' death ; and we have done but greenly ,
102232 In hugger-mugger to inter him : poor Ophelia
102233 Divided from herself and her fair judgment ,
102234 Without the which we are pictures , or mere beasts :
102235 Last , and as much containing as all these ,
102236 Her brother is in secret come from France ,
102237 Feeds on his wonder , keeps himself in clouds ,
102238 And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
102239 With pestilent speeches of his father's death ;
102240 Wherein necessity , of matter beggar'd ,
102241 Will nothing stick our person to arraign
102242 In ear and ear . O my dear Gertrude ! this ,
102243 Like to a murdering-piece , in many places
102244 Gives me superfluous death .
102245
102246
102247 Alack ! what noise is this ?
102248
102249
102250 Where are my Switzers ? Let them guard the door .
102251 What is the matter ?
102252
102253 Save yourself , my lord ;
102254 The ocean , overpeering of his list ,
102255 Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
102256 Than young Laertes , in a riotous head ,
102257 O'erbears your officers . The rabble call him lord ;
102258 And , as the world were now but to begin ,
102259 Antiquity forgot , custom not known ,
102260 The ratifiers and props of every word ,
102261 They cry , 'Choose we ; Laertes shall be king !'
102262 Caps , hands , and tongues , applaud it to the clouds ,
102263 'Laertes shall be king , Laertes king !'
102264
102265 How cheerfully on the false trail they cry !
102266 O ! this is counter , you false Danish dogs !
102267
102268 The doors are broke .
102269
102270 Where is the king ? Sirs , stand you all without .
102271
102272 No , let's come in .
102273
102274 I pray you , give me leave .
102275
102276 We will , we will .
102277
102278
102279 I thank you : keep the door . O thou vile king !
102280 Give me my father .
102281
102282 Calmly , good Laertes .
102283
102284 That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard ,
102285 Cries cuckold to my father , brands the harlot
102286 Even here , between the chaste unsmirched brow
102287 Of my true mother .
102288
102289 What is the cause , Laertes ,
102290 That thy rebellion looks so giant-like ?
102291 Let him go , Gertrude ; do not fear our person :
102292 There's such divinity doth hedge a king ,
102293 That treason can but peep to what it would ,
102294 Acts little of his will . Tell me , Laertes ,
102295 Why thou art thus incens'd . Let him go , Gertrude .
102296 Speak , man .
102297
102298 Where is my father ?
102299
102300 Dead .
102301
102302 But not by him .
102303
102304 Let him demand his fill .
102305
102306 How came he dead ? I'll not be juggled with .
102307 To hell , allegiance ! vows , to the blackest devil !
102308 Conscience and grace , to the profoundest pit !
102309 I dare damnation . To this point I stand ,
102310 That both the worlds I give to negligence ,
102311 Let come what comes ; only I'll be reveng'd
102312 Most throughly for my father .
102313
102314 Who shall stay you ?
102315
102316 My will , not all the world :
102317 And , for my means , I'll husband them so well ,
102318 They shall go far with little .
102319
102320 Good Laertes ,
102321 If you desire to know the certainty
102322 Of your dear father's death , is't writ in your revenge ,
102323 That , swoopstake , you will draw both friend and foe ,
102324 Winner and loser ?
102325
102326 None but his enemies .
102327
102328 Will you know them then ?
102329
102330 To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms ;
102331 And like the kind life-rendering pelican ,
102332 Repast them with my blood .
102333
102334 Why , now you speak
102335 Like a good child and a true gentleman .
102336 That I am guiltless of your father's death ,
102337 And am most sensibly in grief for it ,
102338 It shall as level to your judgment pierce
102339 As day does to your eye .
102340
102341 Let her come in .
102342
102343 How now ! what noise is that ?
102344
102345
102346 O heat , dry up my brains ! tears seven times salt ,
102347 Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye ;
102348 By heaven , thy madness shall be paid by weight ,
102349 Till our scale turn the beam . O rose of May !
102350 Dear maid , kind sister , sweet Ophelia !
102351 O heavens ! is't possible a young maid's wits
102352 Should be as mortal as an old man's life ?
102353 Nature is fine in love , and where 'tis fine
102354 It sends some precious instance of itself
102355
102356 After the thing it loves .
102357
102358
102359 They bore him barefac'd on the bier ;
102360 Hey non nonny , nonny , hey nonny ;
102361 And in his grave rain'd many a tear ;
102362
102363 Fare you well , my dove !
102364
102365 Hadst thou thy wits , and didst persuade revenge ,
102366 It could not move thus .
102367
102368
102369 You must sing , a-down a-down ,
102370 And you call him a-down-a .
102371
102372 O how the wheel becomes it ! It is the false steward that stole his master's daughter .
102373
102374 This nothing's more than matter .
102375
102376 There's rosemary , that's for remembrance ; brance ; pray , love , remember : and there is pansies , that's for thoughts .
102377
102378 A document in madness , thoughts and remembrance fitted .
102379
102380 There's fennel for you , and columbines ; there's rue for you ; and here's some for me ; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays . O ! you must wear your rue with a difference . There's a daisy ; I would give you some violets , but they withered all when my father died . They say he made a good end ,
102381
102382 For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy .
102383
102384
102385 Thought and affliction , passion , hell itself ,
102386 She turns to favour and to prettiness .
102387
102388
102389 And will he not come again ?
102390 And will he not come again ?
102391 No , no , he is dead ;
102392 Go to thy death-bed ,
102393 He never will come again .
102394 His beard was as white as snow
102395 All fiaxen was his poll ,
102396 He is gone , he is gone ,
102397 And we cast away moan :
102398 God ha' mercy on his soul !
102399
102400 And of all Christian souls ! I pray God . God be wi' ye !
102401
102402
102403 Do you see this , O God ?
102404
102405 Laertes , I must common with your grief ,
102406 Or you deny me right . Go but apart ,
102407 Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will ,
102408 And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me .
102409 If by direct or by collateral hand
102410 They find us touch'd , we will our kingdom give ,
102411 Our crown , our life , and all that we call ours ,
102412 To you in satisfaction ; but if not ,
102413 Be you content to lend your patience to us ,
102414 And we shall jointly labour with your soul
102415 To give it due content .
102416
102417 Let this be so :
102418 His means of death , his obscure burial ,
102419 No trophy , sword , nor hatchment o'er his bones ,
102420 No noble rite nor formal ostentation ,
102421 Cry to be heard , as 'twere from heaven to earth ,
102422 That I must call 't in question .
102423
102424 So you shall ;
102425 And where the offence is let the great axe fall .
102426 I pray you go with me .
102427
102428
102429 What are they that would speak with me ?
102430
102431 Sailors , sir : they say , they have letters for you .
102432
102433 Let them come in .
102434
102435 I do not know from what part of the world
102436 I should be greeted , if not from Lord Hamlet .
102437
102438
102439 God bless you , sir .
102440
102441 Let him bless thee too .
102442
102443 He shall , sir , an't please him . There's a letter for you , sir ;it comes from the ambassador that was bound for England ;if your name be Horatio , as I am let to know it is .
102444
102445 Horatio , when thou shalt have overlooked this , give these fellows some means to the king : they have letters for him . Ere we were two days old at sea , a pirate of very war-like appointment gave us chase . Finding ourselves too slow of sail , we put on a compelled valour ; in the grapple I boarded them : on the instant they got clear of our ship , so I alone became their prisoner . They have dealt with me like thieves of mercy , but they knew what they did ; I am to do a good turn for them . Let the king have the letters I have sent ; and repair thou to me with as much haste as thou wouldst fly death . I have words to speak in thine ear will make thee dumb ; yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter . These good fellows will bring thee where I am . Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their course for England : of them I have much to tell thee . Farewell .
102446 He that thou knowest thine ,
102447 Come , I will give you way for these your letters ;
102448 And do 't the speedier , that you may direct me
102449 To him from whom you brought them .
102450
102451
102452 Now must your conscience my acquittance seal ,
102453 And you must put me in your heart for friend ,
102454 Sith you have heard , and with a knowing ear ,
102455 That he which hath your noble father slain
102456 Pursu'd my life .
102457
102458 It well appears : but tell me
102459 Why you proceeded not against these feats ,
102460 So crimeful and so capital in nature ,
102461 As by your safety , wisdom , all things else ,
102462 You mainly were stirr'd up .
102463
102464 O ! for two special reasons ;
102465 Which may to you , perhaps , seem much unsinew'd ,
102466 But yet to me they are strong . The queen his mother
102467 Lives almost by his looks , and for myself ,
102468 My virtue or my plague , be it either which ,
102469 She's so conjunctive to my life and soul ,
102470 That , as the star moves not but in his sphere ,
102471 I could not but by her . The other motive ,
102472 Why to a public count I might not go ,
102473 Is the great love the general gender bear him ;
102474 Who , dipping all his faults in their affection ,
102475 Would , like the spring that turneth wood to stone ,
102476 Convert his gyves to graces ; so that my arrows ,
102477 Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind ,
102478 Would have reverted to my bow again ,
102479 And not where I had aim'd them .
102480
102481 And so have I a noble father lost ;
102482 A sister driven into desperate terms ,
102483 Whose worth , if praises may go back again ,
102484 Stood challenger on mount of all the age
102485 For her perfections . But my revenge will come .
102486
102487 Break not your sleeps for that ; you must not think
102488 That we are made of stuff so flat and dull
102489 That we can let our beard be shook with danger
102490 And think it pastime . You shortly shall hear more ;
102491 I lov'd your father , and we love ourself ,
102492 And that , I hope , will teach you to imagine ,
102493
102494 How now ! what news ?
102495
102496 Letters , my lord , from Hamlet :
102497 This to your majesty ; this to the queen .
102498
102499 From Hamlet ! who brought them ?
102500
102501 Sailors , my lord , they say ; I saw them not :
102502 They were given me by Claudio , he receiv'd them
102503 Of him that brought them .
102504
102505 Laertes , you shall hear them .
102506 Leave us .
102507
102508 High and mighty , you shall know I am set naked on your kingdom . To-morrow shall I beg leave to see your kingly eyes ; when I shall , first asking your pardon thereunto , recount the occasions of my sudden and more strange return
102509 What should this mean ? Are all the rest come back ?
102510 Or is it some abuse and no such thing ?
102511
102512 Know you the hand ?
102513
102514 'Tis Hamlet's character . 'Naked ,'
102515 And in a postscript here , he says , 'alone .'
102516 Can you advise me ?
102517
102518 I'm lost in it , my lord . But let him come :
102519 It warms the very sickness in my heart ,
102520 That I shall live and tell him to his teeth ,
102521 'Thus diddest thou .'
102522
102523 If it be so , Laertes ,
102524 As how should it be so ? how otherwise ?
102525 Will you be rul'd by me ?
102526
102527 Ay , my lord ;
102528 So you will not o'er-rule me to a peace .
102529
102530 To thine own peace . If he be now return'd ,
102531 As checking at his voyage , and that he means
102532 No more to undertake it , I will work him
102533 To an exploit , now ripe in my device ,
102534 Under the which he shall not choose but fall ;
102535 And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe ,
102536 But even his mother shall uncharge the practice
102537 And call it accident .
102538
102539 My lord , I will be rul'd ;
102540 The rather , if you could devise it so
102541 That I might be the organ .
102542
102543 It falls right .
102544 You have been talk'd of since your travel much ,
102545 And that in Hamlet's hearing , for a quality
102546 Wherein , they say , you shine ; your sum of parts
102547 Did not together pluck such envy from him
102548 As did that one , and that , in my regard ,
102549 Of the unworthiest siege .
102550
102551 What part is that , my lord ?
102552
102553 A very riband in the cap of youth ,
102554 Yet needful too ; for youth no less becomes
102555 The light and careless livery that it wears
102556 Than settled age his sables and his weeds ,
102557 Importing health and graveness . Two months since
102558 Here was a gentleman of Normandy :
102559 I've seen myself , and serv'd against , the French ,
102560 And they can well on horseback ; but this gallant
102561 Had witchcraft in 't , he grew unto his seat ,
102562 And to such wondrous doing brought his horse ,
102563 As he had been incorps'd and demi-natur'd
102564 With the brave beast ; so far he topp'd my thought ,
102565 That I , in forgery of shapes and tricks ,
102566 Come short of what he did .
102567
102568 A Norman was 't ?
102569
102570 A Norman .
102571
102572 Upon my life , Lamord .
102573
102574 The very same .
102575
102576 I know him well ; he is the brooch indeed
102577 And gem of all the nation .
102578
102579 He made confession of you ,
102580 And gave you such a masterly report
102581 For art and exercise in your defence ,
102582 And for your rapier most especially ,
102583 That he cried out , 'twould be a sight indeed
102584 If one could match you ; the scrimers of their nation ,
102585 He swore , had neither motion , guard , nor eye ,
102586 If you oppos'd them . Sir , this report of his
102587 Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy
102588 That he could nothing do but wish and beg
102589 Your sudden coming o'er , to play with him .
102590 Now , out of this ,
102591
102592 What out of this , my lord ?
102593
102594 Laertes , was your father dear to you ?
102595 Or are you like the painting of a sorrow ,
102596 A face without a heart ?
102597
102598 Why ask you this ?
102599
102600 Not that I think you did not love your father ,
102601 But that I know love is begun by time ,
102602 And that I see , in passages of proof ,
102603 Time qualifies the spark and fire of it .
102604 There lives within the very flame of love
102605 A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it ,
102606 And nothing is at a like goodness still ,
102607 For goodness , growing to a plurisy ,
102608 Dies in his own too-much . That we would do ,
102609 We should do when we would , for this 'would' changes ,
102610 And hath abatements and delays as many
102611 As there are tongues , are hands , are accidents ;
102612 And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh ,
102613 That hurts by easing . But , to the quick o' the ulcer ;
102614 Hamlet comes back ; what would you undertake
102615 To show yourself your father's son in deed
102616 More than in words ?
102617
102618 To cut his throat i' the church .
102619
102620 No place , indeed , should murder sanctuarize ;
102621 Revenge should have no bounds . But , good Laertes ,
102622 Will you do this , keep close within your chamber .
102623 Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home ;
102624 We'll put on those shall praise your excellence ,
102625 And set a double varnish on the fame
102626 The Frenchman gave you , bring you , in fine , together ,
102627 And wager on your heads : he , being remise ,
102628 Most generous and free from all contriving ,
102629 Will not peruse the foils ; so that , with ease
102630 Or with a little shuffling , you may choose
102631 A sword unbated , and , in a pass of practice
102632 Requite him for your father .
102633
102634 I will do 't ;
102635 And , for that purpose , I'll anoint my sword .
102636 I bought an unction of a mountebank ,
102637 So mortal that , but dip a knife in it ,
102638 Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare ,
102639 Collected from all simples that have virtue
102640 Under the moon , can save the thing from death
102641 That is but scratch'd withal ; I'll touch my point
102642 With this contagion , that , if I gall him slightly ,
102643 It may be death .
102644
102645 Let's further think of this ;
102646 Weigh what convenience both of time and means
102647 May fit us to our shape . If this should fail ,
102648 And that our drift look through our bad performance
102649 'Twere better not assay'd ; therefore this project
102650 Should have a back or second , that might hold ,
102651 If this should blast in proof . Soft ! let me see ;
102652 We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings :
102653 I ha't :
102654 When in your motion you are hot and dry ,
102655 As make your bouts more violent to that end ,
102656 And that he calls for drink , I'll have prepar'd him
102657 A chalice for the nonce , whereon but sipping ,
102658 If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck ,
102659 Our purpose may hold there . But stay ! what noise ?
102660
102661 How now , sweet queen !
102662
102663 One woe doth tread upon another's heel ,
102664 So fast they follow : your sister's drown'd , Laertes .
102665
102666 Drown'd ! O , where ?
102667
102668 There is a willow grows aslant a brook ,
102669 That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ;
102670 There with fantastic garlands did she come ,
102671 Of crow-flowers , nettles , daisies , and long purples ,
102672 That liberal shepherds give a grosser name ,
102673 But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them :
102674 There , on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
102675 Clambering to hang , an envious sliver broke ,
102676 When down her weedy trophies and herself
102677 Fell in the weeping brook . Her clothes spread wide ,
102678 And , mermaid-like , awhile they bore her up ;
102679 Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes ,
102680 As one incapable of her own distress ,
102681 Or like a creature native and indu'd
102682 Unto that element ; but long it could not be
102683 Till that her garments , heavy with their drink ,
102684 Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
102685 To muddy death .
102686
102687 Alas ! then , she is drown'd ?
102688
102689 Drown'd , drown'd .
102690
102691 Too much of water hast thou , poor Ophelis ,
102692 And therefore I forbid my tears ; but yet
102693 It is our trick , nature her custom holds ,
102694 Let shame say what it will ; when these are gone
102695 The woman will be out . Adieu , my lord !
102696 I have a speech of fire , that fain would blaze ,
102697 But that this folly douts it .
102698
102699
102700 Let's follow , Gertrude .
102701 How much I had to do to calm his rage !
102702 Now fear I this will give it start again ;
102703 Therefore let's follow .
102704
102705 Is she to be buried in Christian burial that wilfully seeks her own salvation ?
102706
102707 I tell thee she is ; and therefore make her grave straight : the crowner hath sat on her , and finds it Christian burial .
102708
102709 How can that be , unless she drowned herself in her own defence ?
102710
102711 Why , 'tis found so .
102712
102713 It must be se offendendo ; it cannot be else . For here lies the point : if I drown myself wittingly it argues an act ; and an act hath three branches ; it is , to act , to do , and to perform : argal , she drowned herself wittingly .
102714
102715 Nay , but hear you , goodman delver ,
102716
102717 Give me leave . Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : if the man go to this water , and drown himself , it is , will he , nill he , he goes ; mark you that ? but if the water come to him , and drown him , he drowns not himself : argal , he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life .
102718
102719 But is this law ?
102720
102721 Ay , marry , is 't ; crowner's quest law .
102722
102723 Will you ha' the truth on 't ? If this had not been a gentlewoman she should have been buried out o' Christian burial .
102724
102725 Why , there thou sayest ; and the more pity that great folk should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even Christian . Come , my spade . There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners , ditchers , and grave-makers ; they hold up Adam's profession .
102726
102727 Was he a gentleman ?
102728
102729 A' was the first that ever bore arms .
102730
102731 Why , he had none .
102732
102733 What ! art a heathen ? How dost thou understand the Scripture ? The Scripture says , Adam digged ; could be dig without arms ?
102734 I'll put another question to thee ; if thou answerest me not to the purpose , confess thyself
102735
102736 Go to .
102737
102738 What is he that builds stronger than either the mason , the shipwright , or the carpenter ?
102739
102740 The gallows-maker ; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants .
102741
102742 I like thy wit well , in good faith ; the gallows does well , but how does it well ? it does well to those that do ill ; now thou dost ill to say the gallows is built stronger than the church : argal , the gallows may do well to thee .
102743 To 't again ; come .
102744
102745 Who builds stronger than a mason , a shipwright , or a carpenter ?
102746
102747 Ay , tell me that , and unyoke .
102748
102749 Marry , now I can tell .
102750
102751 To 't .
102752
102753 Mass , I cannot tell .
102754
102755
102756 Cudgel thy brains no more about it , for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating ; and , when you are asked this question next , say , 'a grave-maker :' the houses that he makes last till doomsday . Go , get thee to Yaughan ; fetch me a stoup of liquor .
102757
102758 First Clown digs , and sings .
102759
102760 In youth , when I did love , did love ,
102761 Methought it was very sweet ,
102762 To contract , O ! the time , for-a my behove ,
102763 O ! methought there was nothing meet .
102764
102765
102766 Has this fellow no feeling of his business , that he sings at grave-making ?
102767
102768 Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness .
102769
102770 'Tis e'en so ; the hand of little employment hath the daintier sense .
102771
102772
102773 But age , with his stealing steps ,
102774 Hath claw'd me in his clutch ,
102775 And hath shipped me intil the land ,
102776 As if I had never been such .
102777
102778 That skull had a tongue in it , and could sing once ; how the knave jowls it to the ground , as if it were Cain's jaw-bone , that did the first murder ! This might be the pate of a politician , which this ass now o'er-offices , one that would circumvent God , might it not ?
102779
102780 It might , my lord .
102781
102782 Or of a courtier , which could say , 'Good morrow , sweet lord ! How dost thou , good lord ?' This might be my Lord Such-a-one , that praised my Lord Such-a-one's horse , when he meant to beg it , might it not ?
102783
102784 Ay , my lord .
102785
102786 Why , e'en so , and now my Lady Worm's ; chapless , and knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade . Here's fine revolution , an we had the trick to see 't . Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggats with 'em ? mine ache to think on 't .
102787
102788
102789 A pick-axe , and a spade , a spade ,
102790 For and a shrouding sheet ;
102791 O ! a pit of clay for to be made
102792 For such a guest is meet .
102793
102794 There's another ; why may not that be the skull of a lawyer ? Where be his quiddities now , his quillets , his cases , his tenures , and his tricks ? why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel , and will not tell him of his action of battery ? Hum ! This fellow might be in 's time a great buyer of land , with his statutes , his recognizances , his fines , his double vouchers , his recoveries ; is this the fine of his fines , and the recovery of his recoveries , to have his fine pate full of fine dirt ? will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases , and double ones too , than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures ? The very conveyance of his lands will hardly lie in this box , and must the inheritor himself have no more , ha ?
102795
102796 Not a jot more , my lord .
102797
102798 Is not parchment made of sheep-skins ?
102799
102800 Ay , my lord , and of calf-skins too .
102801
102802 They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance in that . I will speak to this fellow . Whose grave's this , sir ?
102803
102804 Mine , sir ,
102805
102806 O ! a pit of clay for to be made
102807 For such a guest is meet .
102808
102809
102810 I think it be thine , indeed ; for thou liest in 't .
102811
102812 You lie out on 't , sir , and therefore it is not yours ; for my part , I do not lie in 't , and yet it is mine .
102813
102814 Thou dost lie in 't , to be in 't and say it is thine : 'tis for the dead , not for the quick ; therefore thou liest .
102815
102816 'Tis a quick lie , sir ; 'twill away again , from me to you .
102817
102818 What man dost thou dig it for ?
102819
102820 For no man , sir .
102821
102822 What woman , then ?
102823
102824 For none , neither .
102825
102826 Who is to be buried in 't ?
102827
102828 One that was a woman , sir ; but , rest her soul , she's dead .
102829
102830 How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card , or equivocation will undo us . By the Lord , Horatio , these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier , he galls his kibe . How long hast thou been a grave-maker ?
102831
102832 Of all the days i' the year , I came to 't that day that our last King Hamlet overcame Fortinbras .
102833
102834 How long is that since ?
102835
102836 Cannot you tell that ? every fool can tell that ; it was the very day that young Hamlet was born ; he that is mad , and sent into England .
102837
102838 Ay , marry ; why was he sent into England ?
102839
102840 Why , because he was mad : he shall recover his wits there ; or , if he do not , 'tis no great matter there
102841
102842 Why ?
102843
102844 'Twill not be seen in him there ; there the men are as mad as he .
102845
102846 How came he mad ?
102847
102848 Very strangely , they say .
102849
102850 How strangely ?
102851
102852 Faith , e'en with losing his wits .
102853
102854 Upon what ground ?
102855
102856 Why , here in Denmark ; I have been sexton here , man and boy , thirty years .
102857
102858 How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot ?
102859
102860 Faith , if he be not rotten before he die ,as we have many pocky corses now-a-days , that will scarce hold the laying in ,he will last you some eight year or nine year ; a tanner will last you nine year .
102861
102862 Why he more than another ?
102863
102864 Why , sir , his hide is so tanned with his trade that he will keep out water a great while , and your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body . Here's a skull now ; this skull hath lain you i' the earth three-and-twenty years .
102865
102866 Whose was it ?
102867
102868 A whoreson mad fellow's it was : whose do you think it was ?
102869
102870 Nay , I know not .
102871
102872 A pestilence on him for a mad rogue ! a' poured a flagon of Rhenish on my head once . This same skull , sir , was Yorick's skull , the king's jester .
102873
102874 This !
102875
102876 E'en that .
102877
102878 Let me see .
102879
102880 Alas ! poor Yorick . I knew him , Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest , of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now , how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it . Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft . Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment , that were wont to set the table on a roar ? Not one now , to mock your own grinning ? quite chapfallen ? Now get you to my lady's chamber , and tell her , let her paint an inch thick , to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that . Prithee , Horatio , tell me one thing .
102881
102882 What's that , my lord ?
102883
102884 Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i' the earth ?
102885
102886 E'en so .
102887
102888 And smelt so ? pah !
102889
102890
102891 E'en so , my lord .
102892
102893 To what base uses we may return , Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander , till he find it stopping a bung-hole ?
102894
102895 'Twere to consider too curiously , to consider so .
102896
102897 No , faith , not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough , and likelihood to lead it ; as thus : Alexander died , Alexander was buried , Alexander returneth into dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam , and why of that loam , whereto he was converted , might they not stop a beer-barrel ?
102898
102899 Imperious C sar , dead and turn'd to clay ,
102900 Might stop a hole to keep the wind away :
102901 O ! that that earth , which kept the world in awe ,
102902 Should patch a wall to expal the winter's flaw .
102903
102904 But soft ! but soft ! aside : here comes the king .
102905
102906 The queen , the courtiers : who is that they follow ?
102907 And with such maimed rites ? This doth betoken
102908 The corse they follow did with desperate hand
102909 Fordo its own life ; 'twas of some estate .
102910 Couch we awhile , and mark .
102911
102912 What ceremony else ?
102913
102914 That is Laertes ,
102915 A very noble youth : mark .
102916
102917 What ceremony else ?
102918
102919 Her obsequies have been as far enlarg'd
102920 As we have warrantise : her death was doubtful ,
102921 And , but that great command o'ersways the order ,
102922 She should in ground unsanctified have lodg'd
102923 Till the last trumpet ; for charitable prayers ,
102924 Shards , flints , and pebbles should be thrown on her ;
102925 Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants ,
102926 Her maiden strewments , and the bringing home
102927 Of bell and burial .
102928
102929 Must there no more be done ?
102930
102931 No more be done :
102932 We should profane the service of the dead ,
102933 To sing a requiem , and such rest to her
102934 As to peace-parted souls .
102935
102936 Lay her i' the earth ;
102937 And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
102938 May violets spring ! I tell thee , churlish priest ,
102939 A ministering angel shall my sister be ,
102940 When thou liest howling .
102941
102942 What ! the fair Ophelia ?
102943
102944 Sweets to the sweet : farewell !
102945
102946 I hop'd thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife ;
102947 I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd , sweet maid ,
102948 And not have strew'd thy grave .
102949
102950 O ! treble woe
102951 Fall ten times treble on that cursed head
102952 Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense
102953 Depriv'd thee of . Hold off the earth awhile ,
102954 Till I have caught her once more in mine arms .
102955
102956 Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead ,
102957 Till of this flat a mountain you have made ,
102958 To o'er-top old Pelion or the skyish head
102959 Of blue Olympus .
102960
102961 What is he whose grief
102962 Bears such an emphasis ? whose phrase of sorrow
102963 Conjures the wandering stars , and makes them stand
102964 Like wonder-wounded hearers ? this is I ,
102965 Hamlet the Dane .
102966
102967
102968 The devil take thy soul !
102969
102970
102971 Thou pray'st not well .
102972 I prithee , take thy fingers from my throat ;
102973 For though I am not splenetive and rash
102974 Yet have I in me something dangerous ,
102975 Which let thy wisdom fear . Away thy hand !
102976
102977 Pluck them asunder .
102978
102979 Hamlet ! Hamlet !
102980
102981 Gentlemen ,
102982
102983 Good my lord , be quiet .
102984
102985
102986 Why , I will fight with him upon this theme
102987 Until my eyelids will no longer wag .
102988
102989 O my son ! what theme ?
102990
102991 I lov'd Ophelia : forty thousand brothers
102992 Could not , with all their quantity of love ,
102993 Make up my sum . What wilt thou do for her ?
102994
102995 O ! he is mad , Laertes .
102996
102997 For love of God , forbear him .
102998
102999 'Swounds , show me what thou'lt do :
103000 Woo't weep ? woo't fight ? woo't fast ? woo't tear thyself ?
103001 Woo't drink up eisel ? eat a crocodile ?
103002 I'll do't . Dost thou come here to whine ?
103003 To outface me with leaping in her grave ?
103004 Be buried quick with her , and so will I :
103005 And , if thou prate of mountains , let them throw
103006 Millions of acres on us , till our ground ,
103007 Singeing his pate against the burning zone ,
103008 Make Ossa like a wart ! Nay , an thou'lt mouth ,
103009 I'll rant as well as thou .
103010
103011 This is mere madness :
103012 And thus a while the fit will work on him ;
103013 Anon , as patient as the female dove ,
103014 When that her golden couplets are disclos'd ,
103015 His silence will sit drooping .
103016
103017 Hear you , sir ;
103018 What is the reason that you use me thus ?
103019 I lov'd you ever : but it is no matter ;
103020 Let Hercules himself do what he may ,
103021 The cat will mew and dog will have his day .
103022
103023
103024 I pray you , good Horatio , wait upon him .
103025
103026 Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech ;
103027 We'll put the matter to the present push .
103028 Good Gertrude , set some watch over your son .
103029 This grave shall have a living monument :
103030 An hour of quiet shortly shall we see ;
103031 Till then , in patience our proceeding be .
103032
103033
103034 So much for this , sir : now shall you see the other ;
103035 You do remember all the circumstance ?
103036
103037 Remember it , my lord ?
103038
103039 Sir , in my heart there was a kind of fighting
103040 That would not let me sleep ; methought I lay
103041 Worse than the mutines in the bilboes . Rashly ,
103042 And prais'd be rashness for it , let us know ,
103043 Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well
103044 When our deep plots do pall ; and that should teach us
103045 There's a divinity that shapes our ends ,
103046 Rough-hew them how we will .
103047
103048 That is most certain .
103049
103050 Up from my cabin ,
103051 My sea-gown scarf'd about me , in the dark
103052 Grop'd I to find out them , had my desire ,
103053 Finger'd their packet , and in fine withdrew
103054 To mine own room again ; making so bold
103055 My fears forgetting manners to unseal
103056 Their grand commission ; where I found , Horatio ,
103057 O royal knavery ! an exact command ,
103058 Larded with many several sorts of reasons
103059 Importing Denmark's health , and England's too ,
103060 With , ho ! such bugs and goblins in my life ,
103061 That , on the supervise , no leisure bated ,
103062 No , not to stay the grinding of the axe ,
103063 My head should be struck off .
103064
103065 Is 't possible ?
103066
103067 Here's the commission : read it at more leisure .
103068 But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed ?
103069
103070 I beseech you .
103071
103072 Being thus be-netted round with villanies ,
103073 Ere I could make a prologue to my brains
103074 They had begun the play ,I sat me down ,
103075 Devis'd a new commission , wrote it fair ;
103076 I once did hold it , as our statists do ,
103077 A baseness to write fair , and labour'd much
103078 How to forget that learning ; but , sir , now
103079 It did me yeoman's service . Wilt thou know
103080 The effect of what I wrote ?
103081
103082 Ay , good my lord .
103083
103084 An earnest conjuration from the king ,
103085 As England was his faithful tributary ,
103086 As love between them like the palm should flourish ,
103087 As peace should still her wheaten garland wear ,
103088 And stand a comma 'tween their amities ,
103089 And many such-like 'As'es of great charge ,
103090 That , on the view and knowing of these contents ,
103091 Without debatement further , more or less ,
103092 He should the bearers put to sudden death ,
103093 Not shriving-time allow'd .
103094
103095 How was this seal'd ?
103096
103097 Why , even in that was heaven ordinant .
103098 I had my father's signet in my purse ,
103099 Which was the model of that Danish seal ;
103100 Folded the writ up in form of the other ,
103101 Subscrib'd it , gave't th' impression , plac'd it safely ,
103102 The changeling never known . Now , the next day
103103 Was our sea-fight , and what to this was sequent
103104 Thou know'st already .
103105
103106 So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to 't .
103107
103108 Why , man , they did make love to this employment ;
103109 They are not near my conscience ; their defeat
103110 Does by their own insinuation grow .
103111 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes
103112 Between the pass and fell-incensed points
103113 Of mighty opposites .
103114
103115 Why , what a king is this !
103116
103117 Does it not , thinks't thee , stand me now upon
103118 He that hath kill'd my king and whor'd my mother ,
103119 Popp'd in between the election and my hopes ,
103120 Thrown out his angle for my proper life ,
103121 And with such cozenage is 't not perfect conscience
103122 To quit him with this arm ? and is 't not to be damn'd
103123 To let this canker of our nature come
103124 In further evil ?
103125
103126 It must be shortly known to him from England
103127 What is the issue of the business there .
103128
103129 It will be short : the interim is mine ;
103130 And a man's life's no more than to say 'One .'
103131 But I am very sorry , good Horatio ,
103132 That to Laertes I forgot myself ;
103133 For , by the image of my cause , I see
103134 The portraiture of his : I'll count his favours :
103135 But , sure , the bravery of his grief did put me
103136 Into a towering passion .
103137
103138 Peace ! who comes here ?
103139
103140
103141 Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark .
103142
103143 I humbly thank you , sir .
103144
103145 Dost know this water-fly ?
103146
103147 No , my good lord .
103148
103149 Thy state is the more gracious ; for 'tis a vice to know him . He hath much land , and fertile : let a beast be lord of beasts , and his crib shall stand at the king's mess : 'tis a chough ; but , as I say , spacious in the possession of dirt .
103150
103151 Sweet lord , if your lordship were at leisure , I should impart a thing to you from his majesty .
103152
103153 I will receive it , sir , with all diligence of spirit . Your bonnet to his right use ; 'tis for the head .
103154
103155 I thank your lordship , 'tis very hot .
103156
103157 No , believe me , 'tis very cold ; the wind is northerly .
103158
103159 It is indifferent cold , my lord , indeed .
103160
103161 But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my complexion .
103162
103163 Exceedingly , my lord ; it is very sultry , as 'twere , I cannot tell how . But , my lord , his majesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a great wager on your head . Sir , this is the matter ,
103164
103165 I beseech you , remember
103166
103167
103168 Nay , good my lord ; for mine ease , in good faith . Sir , here is newly come to court Laertes ; believe me , an absolute gentleman , full of most excellent differences , of very soft society and great showing ; indeed , to speak feelingly of him , he is the card or calendar of gentry , for you shall find in him the continent of what part a gentleman would see .
103169
103170 Sir , his definement suffers no perdition in you ; though , I know , to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory , and yet but yaw neither , in respect of his quick sail . But , in the verity of extolment , I take him to be a soul of great article ; and his infusion of such dearth and rareness , as , to make true diction of him , his semblable is his mirror ; and who else would trace him , his umbrage , nothing more .
103171
103172 Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him .
103173
103174 The concernancy , sir ? why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath ?
103175
103176 Sir ?
103177
103178 Is 't not possible to understand in another tongue ? You will do 't , sir , really .
103179
103180 What imports the nomination of this gentleman ?
103181
103182 Of Laertes ?
103183
103184 His purse is empty already ; all 's golden words are spent .
103185
103186 Of him , sir .
103187
103188 I know you are not ignorant
103189
103190 I would you did , sir ; in faith , if you did , it would not much approve me . Well , sir .
103191
103192 You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is
103193
103194 I dare not confess that , lest I should compare with him in excellence ; but , to know a man well , were to know himself .
103195
103196 I mean , sir , for his weapon ; but in the imputation laid on him by them , in his meed he's unfellowed .
103197
103198 What's his weapon ?
103199
103200 Rapier and dagger .
103201
103202 That's two of his weapons ; but , well .
103203
103204 The king , sir , hath wagered with him six Barbary horses ; against the which he has imponed , as I take it , six French rapiers and poniards , with their assigns , as girdle , hangers , and so : three of the carriages , in faith , are very dear to fancy , very responsive to the hilts , most delicate carriages , and of very liberal conceit .
103205
103206 What call you the carriages ?
103207
103208 I knew you must be edified by the margent , ere you had done .
103209
103210 The carriages , sir , are the hangers .
103211
103212 The phrase would be more german to the matter , if we could carry cannon by our sides ; I would it might be hangers till then . But , on ; six Barbary horses against six French swords , their assigns , and three liberal-conceited carriages ; that's the French bet against the Danish . Why is this 'imponed ,' as you call it ?
103213
103214 The king , sir , hath laid , that in a dozen passes between yourself and him , he shall not exceed you three hits ; he hath laid on twelve for nine , and it would come to immediate trial , if your lordship would vouchsafe the answer .
103215
103216 How if I answer no ?
103217
103218 I mean , my lord , the opposition of your person in trial .
103219
103220 Sir , I will walk here in the hall ; if it please his majesty , 'tis the breathing time of day with me ; let the foils be brought , the gentleman willing , and the king hold his purpose , I will win for him an I can ; if not , I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits .
103221
103222 Shall I re-deliver you so ?
103223
103224 To this effect , sir ; after what flourish your nature will .
103225
103226 I commend my duty to your lordship .
103227
103228 Yours , yours .
103229
103230 He does well to commend it himself ; there are no tongues else for 's turn .
103231
103232 This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head .
103233
103234 He did comply with his dug before he sucked it . Thus has he and many more of the same bevy , that I know the drossy age dotes on only got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter , a kind of yesty collection which carries them through and through the most fond and winnowed opinions ; and do but blow them to their trial , the bubbles are out .
103235
103236
103237 My lord , his majesty commended him to you by young Osric , who brings back to him , that you attend him in the hall ; he sends to know if your pleasure hold to play with Laertes , or that you will take longer time .
103238
103239 I am constant to my purposes ; they follow the king's pleasure : if his fitness speaks , mine is ready ; now , or whensoever , provided I be so able as now .
103240
103241 The king , and queen , and all are coming down .
103242
103243 In happy time .
103244
103245 The queen desires you to use some gentle entertainment to Laertes before you fall to play .
103246
103247 She well instructs me .
103248
103249
103250 You will lose this wager , my lord .
103251
103252 I do not think so ; since he went into France , I have been in continual practice ; I shall win at the odds . But thou wouldst not think how ill all 's here about my heart ; but it is no matter .
103253
103254 Nay , good my lord ,
103255
103256 It is but foolery ; but it is such a kind of gain-giving as would perhaps trouble a woman .
103257
103258 If your mind dislike any thing , obey it ; I will forestal their repair hither , and say you are not fit .
103259
103260 Not a whit , we defy augury ; there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow . If it be now , 'tis not to come ; if it be not to come , it will be now ; if it be not now , yet it will come : the readiness is all . Since no man has aught of what he leaves , what is 't to leave betimes ? Let be .
103261
103262
103263 Come , Hamlet , come , and take this hand from me .
103264
103265
103266 Give me your pardon , sir ; I've done you wrong ;
103267 But pardon 't , as you are a gentleman .
103268 This presence knows ,
103269 And you must needs have heard , how I am punish'd
103270 With sore distraction . What I have done ,
103271 That might your nature , honour and exception
103272 Roughly awake , I here proclaim was madness .
103273 Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes ? Never Hamlet :
103274 If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away ,
103275 And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes ,
103276 Then Hamlet does it not ; Hamlet denies it .
103277 Who does it then ? His madness . If 't be so ,
103278 Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd ;
103279 His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy .
103280 Sir , in this audience ,
103281 Let my disclaiming from a purpos'd evil
103282 Free me so far in your most generous thoughts ,
103283 That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house ,
103284 And hurt my brother .
103285
103286 I am satisfied in nature ,
103287 Whose motive , in this case , should stir me most
103288 To my revenge ; but in my terms of honour
103289 I stand aloof , and will no reconcilement ,
103290 Till by some elder masters , of known honour ,
103291 I have a voice and precedent of peace ,
103292 To keep my name ungor'd . But till that time ,
103293 I do receive your offer'd love like love ,
103294 And will not wrong it .
103295
103296 I embrace it freely ;
103297 And will this brother's wager frankly play .
103298 Give us the foils . Come on .
103299
103300 Come , one for me .
103301
103302 I'll be your foil , Laertes ; in mine ignorance
103303 Your skill shall , like a star i' the darkest night ,
103304 Stick fiery off indeed .
103305
103306 You mock me , sir .
103307
103308 No , by this hand .
103309
103310 Give them the foils , young Osric . Cousin Hamlet ,
103311 You know the wager ?
103312
103313 Very well , my lord ;
103314 Your Grace hath laid the odds o' the weaker side .
103315
103316 I do not fear it ; I have seen you both ;
103317 But since he is better'd , we have therefore odds .
103318
103319 This is too heavy ; let me see another .
103320
103321 This likes me well . These foils have all a length ?
103322
103323 Ay , my good lord .
103324
103325
103326 Set me the stoups of wine upon that table .
103327 If Hamlet give the first or second hit ,
103328 Or quit in answer of the third exchange ,
103329 Let all the battlements their ordnance fire ;
103330 The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath ;
103331 And in the cup an union shall he throw ,
103332 Richer than that which four successive kings
103333 In Denmark's crown have worn . Give me the cups ;
103334 And let the kettle to the trumpet speak ,
103335 The trumpet to the cannoneer without ,
103336 The cannons to the heavens , the heavens to earth ,
103337 'Now the king drinks to Hamlet !' Come , begin ;
103338 And you , the judges , bear a wary eye .
103339
103340 Come on , sir .
103341
103342 Come , my lord .
103343
103344
103345 One .
103346
103347 No .
103348
103349 Judgment .
103350
103351 A hit , a very palpable hit .
103352
103353 Well ; again .
103354
103355 Stay ; give me drink . Hamlet , this pearl is thine ;
103356 Here's to thy health . Give him the cup .
103357
103358
103359 I'll play this bout first ; set it by awhile .
103360 Come .
103361
103362 Another hit ; what say you ?
103363
103364 A touch , a touch , I do confess .
103365
103366 Our son shall win .
103367
103368 He's fat , and scant of breath .
103369 Here , Hamlet , take my napkin , rub thy brows ;
103370 The queen carouses to thy fortune , Hamlet .
103371
103372 Good madam !
103373
103374 Gertrude , do not drink .
103375
103376 I will , my lord ; I pray you , pardon me .
103377
103378 It is the poison'd cup ! it is too late .
103379
103380 I dare not drink yet , madam ; by and by .
103381
103382 Come , let me wipe thy face .
103383
103384 My lord , I'll hit him now .
103385
103386 I do not think 't
103387
103388 And yet 'tis almost 'gainst my conscience .
103389
103390 Come , for the third , Laertes . You but dally ;
103391 I pray you , pass with your best violence .
103392 I am afeard you make a wanton of me .
103393
103394 Say you so ? come on .
103395
103396
103397 Nothing , neither way .
103398
103399 Have at you now .
103400
103401
103402 Part them ! they are incens'd
103403
103404 Nay , come , again .
103405
103406
103407 Look to the queen there , ho !
103408
103409 They bleed on both sides . How is it , my lord ?
103410
103411 How is it , Laertes ?
103412
103413 Why , as a woodcock to mine own springe , Osric ;
103414 I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery .
103415
103416 How does the queen ?
103417
103418 She swounds to see them bleed .
103419
103420 No , no , the drink , the drink ,O my dear Hamlet !
103421 The drink , the drink ; I am poison'd .
103422
103423
103424 O villany ! Ho ! let the door be lock'd :
103425 Treachery ! seek it out .
103426
103427
103428 It is here , Hamlet . Hamlet , thou art slain ;
103429 No medicine in the world can do thee good ;
103430 In thee there is not half an hour of life ;
103431 The treacherous instrument is in thy hand ,
103432 Unbated and envenom'd . The foul practice
103433 Hath turn'd itself on me ; lo ! here I lie ,
103434 Never to rise again . Thy mother's poison'd .
103435 I can no more . The king , the king's to blame .
103436
103437 The point envenom'd tool .
103438 Then , venom , to thy work .
103439
103440
103441 Treason ! treason !
103442
103443 O ! yet defend me , friends ; I am but hurt .
103444
103445 Here , thou incestuous , murderous , damned Dane ,
103446 Drink off this potion ;is thy union here ?
103447 Follow my mother .
103448
103449
103450 He is justly serv'd ;
103451 It is a poison temper'd by himself .
103452 Exchange forgiveness with me , noble Hamlet :
103453 Mine and my father's death come not upon thee ,
103454 Nor thine on me !
103455
103456
103457 Heaven make thee free of it ! I follow thee .
103458 I am dead , Horatio . Wretched queen , adieu !
103459 You that look pale and tremble at this chance ,
103460 That are but mutes or audience to this act ,
103461 Had I but time ,as this fell sergeant , death ,
103462 Is strict in his arrest ,O ! I could tell you
103463 But let it be . Horatio , I am dead ;
103464 Thou liv'st ; report me and my cause aright
103465 To the unsatisfied .
103466
103467 Never believe it ;
103468 I am more an antique Roman than a Dane :
103469 Here's yet some liquor left .
103470
103471 As thou'rt a man ,
103472 Give me the cup : let go ; by heaven , I'll have 't .
103473 O God ! Horatio , what a wounded name ,
103474 Things standing thus unknown , shall live behind me .
103475 If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart ,
103476 Absent thee from felicity awhile ,
103477 And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain ,
103478 To tell my story .
103479
103480 What war-like noise is this ?
103481
103482 Young Fortinbras , with conquest come from Poland ,
103483 To the ambassadors of England gives
103484 This war-like volley .
103485
103486 O ! I die , Horatio ;
103487 The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit :
103488 I cannot live to hear the news from England ,
103489 But I do prophesy the election lights
103490 On Fortinbras : he has my dying voice ;
103491 So tell him , with the occurrents , more and less ,
103492 Which have solicited The rest is silence .
103493
103494
103495 Now cracks a noble heart . Good-night , sweet prince ,
103496 And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest !
103497 Why does the drum come hither ?
103498
103499 Where is this sight ?
103500
103501 What is it ye would see ?
103502 If aught of woe or wonder , cease your search .
103503
103504 This quarry cries on havoc . O proud death !
103505 What feast is toward in thine eternal cell ,
103506 That thou so many princes at a shot
103507 So bloodily hast struck ?
103508
103509 The sight is dismal ;
103510 And our affairs from England come too late :
103511 The ears are senseless that should give us hearing ,
103512 To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd ,
103513 That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead .
103514 Where should we have our thanks ?
103515
103516 Not from his mouth ,
103517 Had it the ability of life to thank you :
103518 He never gave commandment for their death .
103519 But since , so jump upon this bloody question ,
103520 You from the Polack wars , and you from England ,
103521 Are here arriv'd , give order that these bodies
103522 High on a stage be placed to the view ;
103523 And let me speak to the yet unknowing world
103524 How these things came about : so shall you hear
103525 Of carnal , bloody , and unnatural acts ,
103526 Of accidental judgments , casual slaughters ;
103527 Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause ,
103528 And , in this upshot , purposes mistook
103529 Fall'n on the inventors' heads ; all this can I
103530 Truly deliver .
103531
103532 Let us haste to hear it ,
103533 And call the noblest to the audience .
103534 For me , with sorrow I embrace my fortune ;
103535 I have some rights of memory in this kingdom ,
103536 Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me .
103537
103538 Of that I shall have also cause to speak ,
103539 And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more :
103540 But let this same be presently perform'd ,
103541 Even while men's minds are wild , lest more mischance
103542 On plots and errors happen .
103543
103544 Let four captains
103545 Bear Hamlet , like a soldier , to the stage ;
103546 For he was likely , had he been put on ,
103547 To have prov'd most royally : and , for his passage ,
103548 The soldiers' music and the rites of war
103549 Speak loudly for him .
103550 Take up the bodies : such a sight as this
103551 Becomes the field , but here shows much amiss .
103552 Go , bid the soldiers shoot .
103553
103554 JULIUS CAESAR
103555
103556 Hence ! home , you idle creatures , get you home :
103557 Is this a holiday ? What ! know you not ,
103558 Being mechanical , you ought not walk
103559 Upon a labouring day without the sign
103560 Of your profession ? Speak , what trade art thou ?
103561
103562 Why , sir , a carpenter .
103563
103564 Where is thy leather apron , and thy rule ?
103565 What dost thou with thy best apparel on ?
103566 You , sir , what trade are you ?
103567
103568 Truly , sir , in respect of a fine workman , I am but , as you would say , a cobbler .
103569
103570 But what trade art thou ? Answer me directly .
103571
103572 A trade , sir , that , I hope , I may use with a safe conscience ; which is , indeed , sir , a mender of bad soles .
103573
103574 What trade , thou knave ? thou naughty knave , what trade ?
103575
103576 Nay , I beseech you , sir , be not out with me : yet , if you be out , sir , I can mend you .
103577
103578 What meanest thou by that ? Mend me , thou saucy fellow !
103579
103580 Why , sir , cobble you .
103581
103582 Thou art a cobbler , art thou ?
103583
103584 Truly , sir , all that I live by is with the awl : I meddle with no tradesman's matters , nor women's matters , but with awl . I am , indeed , sir , a surgeon to old shoes ; when they are in great danger , I recover them . As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork .
103585
103586 But wherefore art not in thy shop to-day ?
103587 Why dost thou lead these men about the streets ?
103588
103589 Truly , sir , to wear out their shoes , to get myself into more work . But , indeed , sir , we make holiday to see C sar and to rejoice in his triumph .
103590
103591 Wherefore rejoice ? What conquest brings he home ?
103592 What tributaries follow him to Rome
103593 To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels ?
103594 You blocks , you stones , you worse than senseless things !
103595 O you hard hearts , you cruel men of Rome ,
103596 Knew you not Pompey ? Many a time and oft
103597 Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements ,
103598 To towers and windows , yea , to chimney-tops ,
103599 Your infants in your arms , and there have sat
103600 The livelong day , with patient expectation ,
103601 To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome :
103602 And when you saw his chariot but appear ,
103603 Have you not made a universal shout ,
103604 That Tiber trembled underneath her banks ,
103605 To hear the replication of your sounds
103606 Made in her concave shores ?
103607 And do you now put on your best attire ?
103608 And do you now cull out a holiday ?
103609 And do you now strew flowers in his way ,
103610 That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood ?
103611 Be gone !
103612 Run to your houses , fall upon your knees ,
103613 Pray to the gods to intermit the plague
103614 That needs must light on this ingratitude .
103615
103616 Go , go , good countrymen , and , for this fault
103617 Assemble all the poor men of your sort ;
103618 Draw them to Tiber banks , and weep your tears
103619 Into the channel , till the lowest stream
103620 Do kiss the most exalted shores of all .
103621
103622 See whe'r their basest metal be not mov'd ;
103623 They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness .
103624 Go you down that way towards the Capitol ;
103625 This way will I . Disrobe the images
103626 If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies .
103627
103628 May we do so ?
103629 You know it is the feast of Lupercal .
103630
103631 It is no matter ; let no images
103632 Be hung with C sar's trophies . I'll about
103633 And drive away the vulgar from the streets :
103634 So do you too where you perceive them thick .
103635 These growing feathers pluck'd from C sar's wing
103636 Will make him fly an ordinary pitch ,
103637 Who else would soar above the view of men
103638 And keep us all in servile fearfulness .
103639
103640
103641 Calphurnia !
103642
103643 Peace , ho ! C sar speaks .
103644
103645
103646 Calphurnia !
103647
103648 Here , my lord .
103649
103650 Stand you directly in Antonius' way
103651 When he doth run his course . Antonius !
103652
103653 C sar , my lord .
103654
103655 Forget not , in your speed , Antonius ,
103656 To touch Calphurnia ; for our elders say ,
103657 The barren , touched in this holy chase ,
103658 Shake off their sterile curse .
103659
103660 I shall remember :
103661 When C sar says 'Do this ,' it is perform'd .
103662
103663 Set on ; and leave no ceremony out .
103664
103665
103666 C sar !
103667
103668 Ha ! Who calls ?
103669
103670 Bid every noise be still : peace yet again !
103671
103672
103673 Who is it in the press that calls on me ?
103674 I hear a tongue , shriller than all the music ,
103675 Cry 'C sar .' Speak ; C sar is turn'd to hear .
103676
103677 Beware the ides of March .
103678
103679 What man is that ?
103680
103681 A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March .
103682
103683 Set him before me ; let me see his face .
103684
103685 Fellow , come from the throng ; look upon C sar .
103686
103687 What sayst thou to me now ? Speak once again .
103688
103689 Beware the ides of March .
103690
103691 He is a dreamer ; let us leave him : pass .
103692
103693
103694 Will you go see the order of the course ?
103695
103696 Not I .
103697
103698 I pray you , do .
103699
103700 I am not gamesome : I do lack some part
103701 Of that quick spirit that is in Antony .
103702 Let me not hinder , Cassius , your desires ;
103703 I'll leave you .
103704
103705 Brutus , I do observe you now of late :
103706 I have not from your eyes that gentleness
103707 And show of love as I was wont to have :
103708 You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
103709 Over your friend that loves you .
103710
103711 Cassius ,
103712 Be not deceiv'd : if I have veil'd my look ,
103713 I turn the trouble of my countenance
103714 Merely upon myself . Vexed I am
103715 Of late with passions of some difference ,
103716 Conceptions only proper to myself ,
103717 Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviours ;
103718 But let not therefore my good friends be griev'd ,
103719 Among which number , Cassius , be you one ,
103720 Nor construe any further my neglect ,
103721 Than that poor Brutus , with himself at war ,
103722 Forgets the shows of love to other men .
103723
103724 Then , Brutus , I have much mistook your passion ;
103725 By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried
103726 Thoughts of great value , worthy cogitations .
103727 Tell me , good Brutus , can you see your face ?
103728
103729 No , Cassius ; for the eye sees not itself ,
103730 But by reflection , by some other things .
103731
103732 'Tis just :
103733 And it is very much lamented , Brutus ,
103734 That you have no such mirrors as will turn
103735 Your hidden worthiness into your eye ,
103736 That you might see your shadow . I have heard ,
103737 Where many of the best respect in Rome ,
103738 Except immortal C sar ,speaking of Brutus ,
103739 And groaning underneath this age's yoke ,
103740 Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes .
103741
103742 Into what dangers would you lead me , Cassius ,
103743 That you would have me seek into myself
103744 For that which is not in me ?
103745
103746 Therefore , good Brutus , be prepar'd to hear ;
103747 And , since you know you cannot see yourself
103748 So well as by reflection , I , your glass ,
103749 Will modestly discover to yourself
103750 That of yourself which you yet know not of .
103751 And be not jealous on me , gentle Brutus :
103752 Were I a common laugher , or did use
103753 To stale with ordinary oaths my love
103754 To every new protester ; if you know
103755 That I do fawn on men and hug them hard ,
103756 And after scandal them ; or if you know
103757 That I profess myself in banqueting
103758 To all the rout , then hold me dangerous .
103759
103760
103761 What means this shouting ? I do fear the people
103762 Choose C sar for their king .
103763
103764 Ay , do you fear it ?
103765 Then must I think you would not have it so .
103766
103767 I would not , Cassius ; yet I love him well .
103768 But wherefore do you hold me here so long ?
103769 What is it that you would impart to me ?
103770 If it be aught toward the general good ,
103771 Set honour in one eye and death i' the other ,
103772 And I will look on both indifferently ;
103773 For let the gods so speed me as I love
103774 The name of honour more than I fear death .
103775
103776 I know that virtue to be in you , Brutus ,
103777 As well as I do know your outward favour .
103778 Well , honour is the subject of my story .
103779 I cannot tell what you and other men
103780 Think of this life ; but , for my single self ,
103781 I had as lief not be as live to be
103782 In awe of such a thing as I myself .
103783 I was born free as C sar ; so were you :
103784 We both have fed as well , and we can both
103785 Endure the winter's cold as well as he :
103786 For once , upon a raw and gusty day ,
103787 The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores ,
103788 C sar said to me , 'Dar'st thou , Cassius , now
103789 Leap in with me into this angry flood ,
103790 And swim to yonder point ?' Upon the word ,
103791 Accoutred as I was , I plunged in
103792 And bade him follow ; so , indeed he did .
103793 The torrent roar'd , and we did buffet it
103794 With lusty sinews , throwing it aside
103795 And stemming it with hearts of controversy ;
103796 But ere we could arrive the point propos'd ,
103797 C sar cried , 'Help me , Cassius , or I sink !'
103798 I , as neas , our great ancestor ,
103799 Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder
103800 The old Anchises bear , so from the waves of Tiber
103801 Did I the tired C sar . And this man
103802 Is now become a god , and Cassius is
103803 A wretched creature and must bend his body
103804 If C sar carelessly but nod on him .
103805 He had a fever when he was in Spain ,
103806 And when the fit was on him , I did mark
103807 How he did shake ; 'tis true , this god did shake ;
103808 His coward lips did from their colour fly ,
103809 And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world
103810 Did lose his lustre ; I did hear him groan ;
103811 Ay , and that tongue of his that bade the Romans
103812 Mark him and write his speeches in their books ,
103813 Alas ! it cried , 'Give me some drink , Titinius ,'
103814 As a sick girl . Ye gods , it doth amaze me ,
103815 A man of such a feeble temper should
103816 So get the start of the majestic world ,
103817 And bear the palm alone .
103818
103819
103820 Another general shout !
103821 I do believe that these applauses are
103822 For some new honours that are heaped on C sar .
103823
103824 Why , man , he doth bestride the narrow world
103825 Like a Colossus ; and we petty men
103826 Walk under his huge legs , and peep about
103827 To find ourselves dishonourable graves .
103828 Men at some time are masters of their fates :
103829 The fault , dear Brutus , is not in our stars ,
103830 But in ourselves , that we are underlings .
103831 Brutus and C sar : what should be in that 'C sar ?'
103832 Why should that name be sounded more than yours ?
103833 Write them together , yours is as fair a name ;
103834 Sound them , it doth become the mouth as well ;
103835 Weigh them , it is as heavy ; conjure with 'em ,
103836 'Brutus' will start a spirit as soon as 'C sar .'
103837 Now , in the names of all the gods at once ,
103838 Upon what meat doth this our C sar feed ,
103839 That he is grown so great ? Age , thou art sham'd !
103840 Rome , thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods !
103841 When went there by an age , since the great flood ,
103842 But it was fam'd with more than with one man ?
103843 When could they say , till now , that talk'd of Rome ,
103844 That her wide walls encompass'd but one man ?
103845 Now is it Rome indeed and room enough ,
103846 When there is in it but one only man .
103847 O ! you and I have heard our fathers say ,
103848 There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd
103849 Th' eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
103850 As easily as a king .
103851
103852 That you do love me , I am nothing jealous ;
103853 What you would work me to , I have some aim :
103854 How I have thought of this and of these times ,
103855 I shall recount hereafter ; for this present ,
103856 I would not , so with love I might entreat you ,
103857 Be any further mov'd . What you have said
103858 I will consider ; what you have to say
103859 I will with patience hear , and find a time
103860 Both meet to hear and answer such high things .
103861 Till then , my noble friend , chew upon this :
103862 Brutus had rather be a villager
103863 Than to repute himself a son of Rome
103864 Under these hard conditions as this time
103865 Is like to lay upon us .
103866
103867 I am glad
103868 That my weak words have struck but thus much show
103869 Of fire from Brutus .
103870
103871 The games are done and C sar is returning .
103872
103873 As they pass by , pluck Casca by the sleeve ,
103874 And he will , after his sour fashion , tell you
103875 What hath proceeded worthy note to-day .
103876
103877
103878 I will do so . But , look you , Cassius ,
103879 The angry spot doth glow on C sar's brow ,
103880 And all the rest look like a chidden train :
103881 Calphurnia's cheek is pale , and Cicero
103882 Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes
103883 As we have seen him in the Capitol ,
103884 Being cross'd in conference by some senators .
103885
103886 Casca will tell us what the matter is .
103887
103888 Antonius !
103889
103890 C sar .
103891
103892 Let me have men about me that are fat ;
103893 Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights .
103894 Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look ;
103895 He thinks too much : such men are dangerous :
103896
103897 Fear him not , C sar , he's not dangerous ;
103898 He is a noble Roman , and well given .
103899
103900 Would he were fatter ! but I fear him not :
103901 Yet if my name were liable to fear ,
103902 I do not know the man I should avoid
103903 So soon as that spare Cassius . He reads much ;
103904 He is a great observer , and he looks
103905 Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays ,
103906 As thou dost , Antony ; he hears no music ;
103907 Seldom he smiles , and smiles in such a sort
103908 As if he mock'd himself , and scorn'd his spirit
103909 That could be mov'd to smile at any thing .
103910 Such men as he be never at heart's ease
103911 Whiles they behold a greater than themselves ,
103912 And therefore are they very dangerous .
103913 I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd
103914 Than what I fear , for always I am C sar .
103915 Come on my right hand , for this ear is deaf ,
103916 And tell me truly what thou think'st of him .
103917
103918
103919 You pull'd me by the cloak ; would you speak with me ?
103920
103921 Ay , Casca ; tell us what hath chanc'd to-day ,
103922 That C sar looks so sad .
103923
103924 Why , you were with him , were you not ?
103925
103926 I should not then ask Casca what had chanc'd .
103927
103928 Why , there was a crown offered him ; and , being offered him , he put it by with the back of his hand , thus ; and then the people fell a-shouting .
103929
103930 What was the second noise for ?
103931
103932 Why , for that too .
103933
103934 They shouted thrice : what was the last cry for ?
103935
103936 Why , for that too .
103937
103938 Was the crown offered him thrice ?
103939
103940 Ay , marry , was 't , and he put it by thrice , everytime gentler than other ; and at every putting-by mine honest neighbours shouted .
103941
103942 Who offered him the crown ?
103943
103944 Why , Antony .
103945
103946 Tell us the manner of it , gentle Casca .
103947
103948 I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it : it was mere foolery ; I did not mark it . I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown ; yet 'twas not a crown neither , 'twas one of these coronets ; and , as I told you , he put it by once ; but , for all that , to my thinking , he would fain have had it . Then he offered it to him again ; then he put it by again ; but , to my thinking , he was very loath to lay his fingers off it . And then he offered it the third time ; he put it the third time by ; and still as he refused it the rabblement shouted and clapped their chopped hands , and threw up their sweaty night-caps , and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because C sar refused the crown , that it had almost choked C sar ; for he swounded and fell down at it : and for mine own part , I durst not laugh , for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air .
103949
103950 But soft , I pray you : what ! did C sar swound ?
103951
103952 He fell down in the market-place , and foamed at mouth , and was speechless .
103953
103954 'Tis very like : he hath the falling-sickness .
103955
103956 No , C sar hath it not ; but you , and I , And honest Casca , we have the falling-sickness .
103957
103958 I know not what you mean by that ; but I am sure C sar fell down . If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him , according as he pleased and displeased them , as they use to do the players in the theatre , I am no true man .
103959
103960 What said he , when he came unto himself ?
103961
103962 Marry , before he fell down , when he perceiv'd the common herd was glad he refused the crown , he plucked me ope his doublet and offered them his throat to cut . An I had been a man of any occupation , if I would not have taken him at a word , I would I might go to hell among the rogues . And so he fell . When he came to himself again , he said , if he had done or said any thing amiss , he desired their worships to think it was his infirmity . Three or four wenches , where I stood , cried , 'Alas ! good soul ,' and forgave him with all their hearts : but there's no head to be taken of them ; if C sar had stabbed their mothers , they would have done no less .
103963
103964 And after that he came , thus sad , away ?
103965
103966 Ay .
103967
103968 Did Cicero say any thing ?
103969
103970 Ay , he spoke Greek .
103971
103972 To what effect ?
103973
103974 Nay , an I tell you that , I'll ne'er look you i' the face again ; but those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads ; but , for mine own part , it was Greek to me . I could tell you more news too ; Marullus and Flavius , for pulling scarfs off C sar's images , are put to silence . Fare you well . There was more foolery yet , if I could remember it .
103975
103976 Will you sup with me to-night , Casca ?
103977
103978 No , I am promised forth .
103979
103980 Will you dine with me to-morrow ?
103981
103982 Ay , if I be alive , and your mind hold , and your dinner worth the eating .
103983
103984 Good ; I will expect you .
103985
103986 Do so . Farewell , both .
103987
103988
103989 What a blunt fellow is this grown to be !
103990 He was quick mettle when he went to school .
103991
103992 So is he now in execution
103993 Of any bold or noble enterprise ,
103994 However he puts on this tardy form .
103995 This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit ,
103996 Which gives men stomach to digest his words
103997 With better appetite .
103998
103999 And so it is . For this time I will leave you :
104000 To-morrow , if you please to speak with me ,
104001 I will come home to you ; or , if you will ,
104002 Come home to me , and I will wait for you .
104003
104004 I will do so : till then , think of the world .
104005
104006 Well , Brutus , thou art noble ; yet , I see ,
104007 Thy honourable metal may be wrought
104008 From that it is dispos'd : therefore 'tis meet
104009 That noble minds keep ever with their likes ;
104010 For who so firm that cannot be seduc'd ?
104011 C sar doth bear me hard ; but he loves Brutus :
104012 If I were Brutus now and he were Cassius
104013 He should not humour me . I will this night ,
104014 In several hands , in at his windows throw ,
104015 As if they came from several citizens ,
104016 Writings all tending to the great opinion
104017 That Rome holds of his name ; wherein obscurely
104018 C sar's ambition shall be glanced at :
104019 And after this let C sar seat him sure ;
104020 For we will shake him , or worse days endure .
104021
104022
104023 Good even , Casca : brought you C sar home ?
104024 Why are you breathless ? and why stare you so ?
104025
104026 Are not you mov'd , when all the sway of earth
104027 Shakes like a thing unfirm ? O Cicero !
104028 I have seen tempests , when the scolding winds
104029 Have riv'd the knotty oaks ; and I have seen
104030 The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam ,
104031 To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds :
104032 But never till to-night , never till now ,
104033 Did I go through a tempest dropping fire .
104034 Either there is a civil strife in heaven ,
104035 Or else the world , too saucy with the gods ,
104036 Incenses them to send destruction .
104037
104038 Why , saw you any thing more wonderful ?
104039
104040 A common slave you know him well by sight
104041 Held up his left hand , which did flame and burn
104042 Like twenty torches join'd ; and yet his hand ,
104043 Not sensible of fire , remain'd unscorch'd .
104044 Besides ,I have not since put up my sword ,
104045 Against the Capitol I met a hon ,
104046 Who glar'd upon me , and went surly by ,
104047 Without annoying me ; and there were drawn
104048 Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women ,
104049 Transformed with their fear , who swore they saw
104050 Men all in fire walk up and down the streets .
104051 And yesterday the bird of night did sit ,
104052 Even at noon-day , upon the market-place ,
104053 Hooting and shrieking . When these prodigies
104054 Do so conjointly meet , let not men say
104055 'These are their reasons , they are natural ;'
104056 For , I believe , they are portentous things
104057 Unto the climate that they point upon .
104058
104059 Indeed , it is a strange-disposed time :
104060 But men may construe things after their fashion ,
104061 Clean from the purpose of the things themselves .
104062 Comes C sar to the Capitol to-morrow ?
104063
104064 He doth ; for he did bid Antonius
104065 Send word to you he would be there to-morrow .
104066
104067 Good-night then , Casca : this disturbed sky
104068 Is not to walk in .
104069
104070 Farewell , Cicero .
104071
104072 Who's there ?
104073
104074 A Roman .
104075
104076 Casca , by your voice .
104077
104078 Your ear is good . Cassius , what night is this !
104079
104080 A very pleasing night to honest men .
104081
104082 Who ever knew the heavens menace so ?
104083
104084 Those that have known the earth so full of faults .
104085 For my part , I have walk'd about the streets ,
104086 Submitting me unto the perilous night ,
104087 And , thus unbraced , Casca , as you see ,
104088 Have bar'd my bosom to the thunder-stone ;
104089 And , when the cross blue lightning seem'd to open
104090 The breast of heaven , I did present myself
104091 Even in the aim and very flash of it .
104092
104093 But wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens ?
104094 It is the part of men to fear and tremble
104095 When the most mighty gods by tokens send
104096 Such dreadful heralds to astonish us .
104097
104098 You are dull , Casca , and those sparks of life
104099 That should be in a Roman you do want ,
104100 Or else you use not . You look pale , and gaze ,
104101 And put on fear , and cast yourself in wonder ,
104102 To see the strange impatience of the heavens ;
104103 But if you would consider the true cause
104104 Why all these fires , why all these gliding ghosts ,
104105 Why birds and beasts , from quality and kind ;
104106 Why old men , fools , and children calculate ;
104107 Why all these things change from their ordinance ,
104108 Their natures , and pre-formed faculties ,
104109 To monstrous quality , why , you shall find
104110 That heaven hath infus'd them with these spirits
104111 To make them instruments of fear and warning
104112 Unto some monstrous state .
104113 Now could I , Casca , name to thee a man
104114 Most like this dreadful night ,
104115 That thunders , lightens , opens graves , and roars
104116 As doth the lion in the Capitol ,
104117 A man no mightier than thyself or me
104118 In personal action , yet prodigious grown
104119 And fearful as these strange eruptions are .
104120
104121 'Tis C sar that you mean ; is it not , Cassius ?
104122
104123 Let it be who it is : for Romans now
104124 Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors ;
104125 But , woe the while ! our fathers' minds are dead ,
104126 And we are govern'd with our mothers' spirits ;
104127 Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish .
104128
104129 Indeed , they say the senators to-morrow
104130 Mean to establish C sar as a king ;
104131 And he shall wear his crown by sea and land ,
104132 In every place , save here in Italy .
104133
104134 I know where I will wear this dagger then ;
104135 Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius :
104136 Therein , ye gods , you make the weak most strong ;
104137 Therein , ye gods , you tyrants do defeat :
104138 Nor stony tower , nor walls of beaten brass ,
104139 Nor airless dungeon , nor strong links of iron ,
104140 Can be retentive to the strength of spirit ;
104141 But life , being weary of those worldly bars ,
104142 Never lacks power to dismiss itself .
104143 If I know this , know all the world besides ,
104144 That part of tyranny that I do bear
104145 I can shake off at pleasure .
104146
104147
104148 So can I :
104149 So every bondman in his own hand bears
104150 The power to cancel his captivity .
104151
104152 And why should C sar be a tyrant then ?
104153 Poor man ! I know he would not be a wolf
104154 But that he sees the Romans are but sheep ;
104155 He were no lion were not Romans hinds .
104156 Those that with haste will make a mighty fire
104157 Begin it with weak straws ; what trash is Rome ,
104158 What rubbish , and what offal , when it serves
104159 For the base matter to illuminate
104160 So vile a thing as C sar ! But , O grief !
104161 Where hast thou led me ? I , perhaps , speak this
104162 Before a willing bondman ; then I know
104163 My answer must be made : but I am arm'd ,
104164 And dangers are to me indifferent .
104165
104166 You speak to Casca , and to such a man
104167 That is no fleering tell-tale . Hold , my hand :
104168 Be factious for redress of all these griefs ,
104169 And I will set this foot of mine as far
104170 As who goes furthest .
104171
104172 There's a bargain made .
104173 Now know you , Casca , I have mov'd already
104174 Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans
104175 To undergo with me an enterprise
104176 Of honourable-dangerous consequence ;
104177 And I do know by this they stay for me
104178 In Pompey's porch : for now , this fearful night ,
104179 There is no stir , or walking in the streets ;
104180 And the complexion of the element
104181 In favour's like the work we have in hand ,
104182 Most bloody , fiery , and most terrible .
104183
104184 Stand close awhile , for here comes one in haste .
104185
104186 'Tis Cinna ; I do know him by his gait :
104187 He is a friend .
104188
104189 Cinna , where haste you so ?
104190
104191 To find out you . Who's that ? Metellus Cimber ?
104192
104193 No , it is Casca ; one incorporate
104194 To our attempts . Am I not stay'd for , Cinna ?
104195
104196 I am glad on 't . What a fearful night is this !
104197 There's two or three of us have seen strange sights .
104198
104199 Am I not stay'd for ? Tell me .
104200
104201 Yes , you are .
104202 O Cassius ! if you could
104203 But win the noble Brutus to our party
104204
104205 Be you content . Good Cinna , take this paper ,
104206 And look you lay it in the pr tor's chair ,
104207 Where Brutus may but find it ; and throw this
104208 In at his window ; set this up with wax
104209 Upon old Brutus' statue : all this done ,
104210 Repair to Pompey's porch , where you shall find us .
104211 Is Decius Brutus and Trebonius there ?
104212
104213 All but Metellus Cimber ; and he's gone
104214 To seek you at your house . Well , I will hie ,
104215 And so bestow these papers as you bade me .
104216
104217 That done , repair to Pompey's theatre .
104218
104219 Come , Casca , you and I will yet ere day
104220 See Brutus at his house : three parts of him
104221 Is ours already , and the man entire
104222 Upon the next encounter yields him ours .
104223
104224 O ! he sits high in all the people's hearts :
104225 And that which would appear offence in us ,
104226 His countenance , like richest alchemy ,
104227 Will change to virtue and to worthiness .
104228
104229 Him and his worth and our great need of him
104230 You have right well conceited . Let us go ,
104231 For it is after midnight ; and ere day
104232 We will awake him and be sure of him .
104233
104234 What , Lucius ! ho !
104235 I cannot , by the progress of the stars ,
104236 Give guess how near to day . Lucius , I say !
104237 I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly .
104238 When , Lucius , when ! Awake , I say ! what , Lucius !
104239
104240
104241 Call'd you , my lord ?
104242
104243 Get me a taper in my study , Lucius :
104244 When it is lighted , come and call me here .
104245
104246 I will , my lord .
104247
104248
104249 It must be by his death : and , for my part ,
104250 I know no personal cause to spurn at him ,
104251 But for the general . He would be crown'd :
104252 How that might change his nature , there's the question :
104253 It is the bright day that brings forth the adder ;
104254 And that craves wary walking . Crown him ?that !
104255 And then , I grant , we put a sting in him ,
104256 That at his will he may do danger with .
104257 The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
104258 Remorse from power ; and , to speak truth of C sar ,
104259 I have not known when his affections sway'd
104260 More than his reason . But 'tis a common proof ,
104261 That lowliness is young ambition's ladder ,
104262 Whereto the climber-upward turns his face ;
104263 But when he once attains the upmost round ,
104264 He then unto the ladder turns his back ,
104265 Looks in the clouds , scorning the base degrees
104266 By which he did ascend . So C sar may :
104267 Then , lest he may , prevent . And , since the quarrel
104268 Will bear no colour for the thing he is ,
104269 Fashion it thus ; that what he is , augmented ,
104270 Would run to these and these extremities ;
104271 And therefore think him as a serpent's egg
104272 Which , hatch'd , would , as his kind , grow mischievous ,
104273 And kill him in the shell .
104274
104275
104276 The taper burneth in your closet , sir .
104277 Searching the window for a flint , I found
104278 This paper , thus seal'd up ; and I am sure
104279 It did not lie there when I went to bed .
104280
104281 Get you to bed again ; it is not day .
104282 Is not to-morrow , boy , the ides of March ?
104283
104284 I know not , sir .
104285
104286 Look in the calendar , and bring me word .
104287
104288 I will , sir .
104289
104290
104291 The exhalations whizzing in the air
104292 Give so much light that I may read by them .
104293
104294 Brutus , thou sleep'st : awake and see thyself .
104295 Shall Rome , &c . Speak , strike , redress !
104296 Brutus , thou sleep'st : awake !
104297 Such instigations have been often dropp'd
104298 Where I have took them up .
104299 'Shall Rome , &c .' Thus must I piece it out :
104300 Shall Rome stand under one man's awe ? What , Rome ?
104301 My ancestors did from the streets of Rome
104302 The Tarquin drive , when he was call'd a king .
104303 'Speak , strike , redress !' Am I entreated
104304 To speak , and strike ? O Rome ! I make thee promise ;
104305 If the redress will follow , thou receiv'st
104306 Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus !
104307
104308
104309 Sir , March is wasted fourteen days .
104310
104311
104312 'Tis good . Go to the gate : somebody knocks .
104313
104314 Since Cassius first did whet me against C sar ,
104315 I have not slept .
104316 Between the acting of a dreadful thing
104317 And the first motion , all the interim is
104318 Like a phantasma , or a hideous dream :
104319 The genius and the mortal instruments
104320 Are then in council ; and the state of man ,
104321 Like to a little kingdom , suffers then
104322 The nature of an insurrection .
104323
104324
104325 Sir , 'tis your brother Cassius at the door ,
104326 Who doth desire to see you .
104327
104328 Is he alone ?
104329
104330 No , sir , there are more with him .
104331
104332 Do you know them ?
104333
104334 No , sir ; their hats are pluck'd about their ears ,
104335 And half their faces buried in their cloaks ,
104336 That by no means I may discover them
104337 By any mark of favour .
104338
104339 Let 'em enter .
104340
104341 They are the faction . O conspiracy !
104342 Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night ,
104343 When evils are most free ? O ! then by day
104344 Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough
104345 To mask thy monstrous visage ? Seek none , conspiracy ;
104346 Hide it in smiles and affability :
104347 For if thou path , thy native semblance on ,
104348 Not Erebus itself were dim enough
104349 To hide thee from prevention .
104350
104351
104352 I think we are too bold upon your rest :
104353 Good morrow , Brutus ; do we trouble you ?
104354
104355 I have been up this hour , awake all night .
104356 Know I these men that come along with you ?
104357
104358 Yes , every man of them ; and no man here
104359 But honours you ; and every one doth wish
104360 You had but that opinion of yourself
104361 Which every noble Roman bears of you .
104362 This is Trebonius .
104363
104364 He is welcome hither .
104365
104366 This , Decius Brutus .
104367
104368 He is welcome too .
104369
104370 This , Casca ; this , Cinna ;
104371 And this , Metellus Cimber .
104372
104373 They are all welcome .
104374 What watchful cares do interpose themselves
104375 Betwixt your eyes and night ?
104376
104377 Shall I entreat a word ?
104378
104379
104380 Here lies the east : doth not the day break here ?
104381
104382 No .
104383
104384 O ! pardon , sir , it doth ; and yon grey lines
104385 That fret the clouds are messengers of day .
104386
104387 You shall confess that you are both deceiv'd .
104388 Here , as I point my sword , the sun arises ;
104389 Which is a great way growing on the south ,
104390 Weighing the youthful season of the year .
104391 Some two months hence up higher toward the north
104392 He first presents his fire ; and the high east
104393 Stands , as the Capitol , directly here .
104394
104395 Give me your hands all over , one by one .
104396
104397 And let us swear our resolution .
104398
104399 No , not an oath : if not the face of men ,
104400 The sufferance of our souls , the time's abuse ,
104401 If these be motives weak , break off betimes ,
104402 And every man hence to his idle bed ;
104403 So let high-sighted tyranny range on ,
104404 Till each man-drop by lottery . But if these ,
104405 As I am sure they do , bear fire enough
104406 To kindle cowards and to steel with valour
104407 The melting spirits of women , then , countrymen ,
104408 What need we any spur but our own cause
104409 To prick us to redress ? what other bond
104410 Than secret Romans , that have spoke the word
104411 And will not palter ? and what other oath
104412 Than honesty to honesty engag'd ,
104413 That this shall be , or we will fall for it ?
104414 Swear priests and cowards and men cautelous ,
104415 Old feeble carrions and such suffering souls
104416 That welcome wrongs ; unto bad causes swear
104417 Such creatures as men doubt ; but do not stain
104418 The even virtue of our enterprise ,
104419 Nor th' insuppressive mettle of our spirits ,
104420 To think that or our cause or our performance
104421 Did need an oath ; when every drop of blood
104422 That every Roman bears , and nobly bears ,
104423 Is guilty of a several bastardy ,
104424 If he do break the smallest particle
104425 Of any promise that hath pass'd from him .
104426
104427 But what of Cicero ? Shall we sound him ?
104428 I think he will stand very strong with us .
104429
104430 Let us not leave him out .
104431
104432 No , by no means .
104433
104434 O ! let us have him ; for his silver hairs
104435 Will purchase us a good opinion
104436 And buy men's voices to commend our deeds :
104437 It shall be said his judgment rul'd our hands ;
104438 Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear ,
104439 But all be buried in his gravity .
104440
104441 O ! name him not : let us not break with him ;
104442 For he will never follow any thing
104443 That other men begin .
104444
104445 Then leave him out .
104446
104447 Indeed he is not fit .
104448
104449 Shall no man else be touch'd but only C sar ?
104450
104451 Decius , well urg'd . I think it is not meet ,
104452 Mark Antony , so well belov'd of C sar ,
104453 Should outlive C sar : we shall find of him
104454 A shrewd contriver ; and , you know , his means ,
104455 If he improve them , may well stretch so far
104456 As to annoy us all ; which to prevent ,
104457 Let Antony and C sar fall together .
104458
104459 Our course will seem too bloody , Caius Cassius ,
104460 To cut the head off and then hack the limbs ,
104461 Like wrath in death and envy afterwards ;
104462 For Antony is but a limb of C sar .
104463 Let us be sacrificers , but not butchers , Caius .
104464 We all stand up against the spirit of C sar ;
104465 And in the spirit of men there is no blood :
104466 O ! then that we could come by C sar's spirit ,
104467 And not dismember C sar . But , alas !
104468 C sar must bleed for it . And , gentle friends ,
104469 Let's kill him boldly , but not wrathfully ;
104470 Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods ,
104471 Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds :
104472 And let our hearts , as subtle masters do ,
104473 Stir up their servants to an act of rage ,
104474 And after seem to chide 'em . This shall make
104475 Our purpose necessary and not envious ;
104476 Which so appearing to the common eyes ,
104477 We shall be call'd purgers , not murderers .
104478 And , for Mark Antony , think not of him ;
104479 For he can do no more than C sar's arm
104480 When C sar's head is off .
104481
104482 Yet I fear him ;
104483 For in the engrafted love he bears to C sar
104484
104485 Alas ! good Cassius , do not think of him :
104486 If he love C sar , all that he can do
104487 Is to himself , take thought and die for C sar :
104488 And that were much he should ; for he is given
104489 To sports , to wildness , and much company .
104490
104491 There is no fear in him ; let him not die :
104492 For he will live , and laugh at this hereafter .
104493
104494
104495 Peace ! count the clock .
104496
104497 The clock hath stricken three .
104498
104499 'Tis time to part .
104500
104501 But it is doubtful yet
104502 Whether C sar will come forth to-day or no ;
104503 For he is superstitious grown of late ,
104504 Quite from the main opinion he held once
104505 Of fantasy , of dreams , and ceremonies .
104506 It may be , these apparent prodigies ,
104507 The unaccustom'd terror of this night ,
104508 And the persuasion of his augurers ,
104509 May hold him from the Capitol to-day .
104510
104511 Never fear that : if he be so resolv'd ,
104512 I can o'ersway him ; for he loves to hear
104513 That unicorns may be betray'd with trees ,
104514 And bears with glasses , elephants with holes ,
104515 Lions with toils , and men with flatterers ;
104516 But when I tell him he hates flatterers ,
104517 He says he does , being then most flattered .
104518 Let me work ;
104519 For I can give his humour the true bent ,
104520 And I will bring him to the Capitol .
104521
104522 Nay , we will all of us be there to fetch him .
104523
104524 By the eighth hour : is that the uttermost ?
104525
104526 Be that the uttermost , and fail not then .
104527
104528 Caius Ligarius doth bear C sar hard ,
104529 Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey :
104530 I wonder none of you have thought of him .
104531
104532 Now , good Metellus , go along by him :
104533 He loves me well , and I have given him reasons ;
104534 Send him but hither , and I'll fashion him .
104535
104536 The morning comes upon 's : we'll leave you , Brutus .
104537 And , friends , disperse yourselves ; but all remember
104538 What you have said , and show yourselves true Romans .
104539
104540 Good gentlemen , look fresh and merrily ;
104541 Let not our looks put on our purposes ,
104542 But bear it as our Roman actors do ,
104543 With untir'd spirits and formal constancy :
104544 And so good morrow to you every one .
104545
104546 Boy ! Lucius ! Fast asleep ? It is no matter ;
104547 Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber :
104548 Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies
104549 Which busy care draws in the brains of men ;
104550 Therefore thou sleep'st so sound .
104551
104552
104553 Brutus , my lord !
104554
104555 Portia , what mean you ? Wherefore rise you now ?
104556 It is not for your health thus to commit
104557 Your weak condition to the raw cold morning .
104558
104559 Nor for yours neither . You've ungently , Brutus ,
104560 Stole from my bed ; and yesternight at supper
104561 You suddenly arose , and walk'd about ,
104562 Musing and sighing , with your arms across ,
104563 And when I ask'd you what the matter was ,
104564 You star'd upon me with ungentle looks .
104565 I urg'd you further ; then you scratch'd your head ,
104566 And too impatiently stamp'd with your foot ;
104567 Yet I insisted , yet you answer'd not ,
104568 But , with an angry wafture of your hand .
104569 Gave sign for me to leave you . So I did ,
104570 Fearing to strengthen that impatience
104571 Which seem'd too much enkindled , and withal
104572 Hoping it was but an effect of humour ,
104573 Which sometime hath his hour with every man .
104574 It will not let you eat , nor talk , nor sleep ,
104575 And could it work so much upon your shape
104576 As it hath much prevail'd on your condition ,
104577 I should not know you , Brutus . Dear my lord ,
104578 Make me acquainted with your cause of grief .
104579
104580 I am not well in health , and that is all .
104581
104582 Brutus is wise , and were he not in health ,
104583 He would embrace the means to come by it .
104584
104585 Why , so I do . Good Portia , go to bed .
104586
104587 Is Brutus sick , and is it physical
104588 To walk unbraced and suck up the humours
104589 Of the dank morning ? What ! is Brutus sick ,
104590 And will he steal out of his wholesome bed
104591 To dare the vile contagion of the night ,
104592 And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
104593 To add unto his sickness ? No , my Brutus ;
104594 You have some sick offence within your mind ,
104595 Which , by the right and virtue of my place ,
104596 I ought to know of ; and , upon my knees ,
104597 I charm you , by my once-commended beauty ,
104598 By all your vows of love , and that great vow
104599 Which did incorporate and make us one ,
104600 That you unfold to me , your self , your half ,
104601 Why are you heavy , and what men to-night
104602 Have had resort to you ; for here have been
104603 Some six or seven , who did hide their faces
104604 Even from darkness .
104605
104606 Kneel not , gentle Portia .
104607
104608 I should not need , if you were gentle Brutus .
104609 Within the bond of marriage , tell me , Brutus ,
104610 Is it excepted , I should know no secrets
104611 That appertain to you ? Am I yourself
104612 But , as it were , in sort of limitation ,
104613 To keep with you at meals , comfort your bed ,
104614 And talk to you sometimes ? Dwell I but in the suburbs
104615 Of your good pleasure ? If it be no more ,
104616 Portia is Brutus' harlot , not his wife .
104617
104618 You are my true and honourable wife ,
104619 As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
104620 That visit my sad heart .
104621
104622 If this were true then should I know this secret .
104623 I grant I am a woman , but , withal ,
104624 A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife ;
104625 I grant I am a woman , but , withal ,
104626 A woman well-reputed , Cato's daughter .
104627 Think you I am no stronger than my sex ,
104628 Being so father'd and so husbanded ?
104629 Tell me your counsels , I will not disclose 'em .
104630 I have made strong proof of my constancy ,
104631 Giving myself a voluntary wound
104632 Here , in the thigh : can I bear that with patience
104633 And not my husband's secrets ?
104634
104635 O ye gods !
104636 Render me worthy of this noble wife .
104637
104638 Hark , hark ! one knocks . Portia , go in awhile ;
104639 And by and by thy bosom shall partake
104640 The secrets of my heart .
104641 All my engagements I will construe to thee ,
104642 All the charactery of my sad brows .
104643 Leave me with haste .
104644
104645 Lucius , who's that knocks ?
104646
104647
104648 Here is a sick man that would speak with you .
104649
104650 Caius Ligarius , that Metellus spoke of .
104651 Boy , stand aside . Caius Ligarius ! how ?
104652
104653 Vouchsafe good morrow from a feeble tongue .
104654
104655 O ! what a time have you chose out , brave Caius ,
104656 To wear a kerchief . Would you were not sick .
104657
104658 I am not sick if Brutus have in hand
104659 Any exploit worthy the name of honour .
104660
104661 Such an exploit have I in hand , Ligarius ,
104662 Had you a healthful ear to hear of it .
104663
104664 By all the gods that Romans bow before
104665 I here discard my sickness . Soul of Rome !
104666 Brave son , deriv'd from honourable loins !
104667 Thou , like an exorcist , hast conjur'd up
104668 My mortified spirit . Now bid me run ,
104669 And I will strive with things impossible ;
104670 Yea , get the better of them . What's to do ?
104671
104672 A piece of work that will make sick men whole .
104673
104674 But are not some whole that we must make sick ?
104675
104676 That must we also . What it is , my Caius ,
104677 I shall unfold to thee as we are going
104678 To whom it must be done .
104679
104680 Set on your foot ,
104681 And with a heart new-fir'd I follow you ,
104682 To do I know not what ; but it sufficeth
104683 That Brutus leads me on .
104684
104685 Follow me then .
104686
104687
104688 Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night :
104689 Thrice hath Calphurnia in her sleep cried out ,
104690 'Help , ho ! They murder C sar !' Who's within ?
104691
104692
104693 My lord !
104694
104695 Go bid the priests do present sacrifice ,
104696 And bring me their opinions of success .
104697
104698 I will , my lord .
104699
104700 What mean you , C sar ? Think you to walk forth ?
104701 You shall not stir out of your house to-day .
104702
104703 C sar shall forth : the things that threaten'd me
104704 Ne'er look'd but on my back ; when they shall see
104705 The face of C sar , they are vanished .
104706
104707 C sar , I never stood on ceremonies ,
104708 Yet now they fright me . There is one within ,
104709 Besides the things that we have heard and seen ,
104710 Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch .
104711 A lioness hath whelped in the streets ;
104712 And graves have yawn'd and yielded up their dead ;
104713 Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds ,
104714 In ranks and squadrons and right form of war ,
104715 Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol ;
104716 The noise of battle hurtled in the air ,
104717 Horses did neigh , and dying men did groan ,
104718 And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets .
104719 O C sar ! these things are beyond all use ,
104720 And I do fear them .
104721
104722 What can be avoided
104723 Whose end is purpos'd by the mighty gods ?
104724 Yet C sar shall go forth ; for these predictions
104725 Are to the world in general as to C sar .
104726
104727 When beggars die there are no comets seen ;
104728 The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes .
104729
104730 Cowards die many times before their deaths ;
104731 The valiant never taste of death but once .
104732 Of all the wonders that I yet have heard ,
104733 It seems to me most strange that men should fear ;
104734 Seeing that death , a necessary end ,
104735 Will come when it will come .
104736
104737 What say the augurers ?
104738
104739 They would not have you to stir forth to-day .
104740 Plucking the entrails of an offering forth ,
104741 They could not find a heart within the beast .
104742
104743 The gods do this in shame of cowardice :
104744 C sar should be a beast without a heart
104745 If he should stay at home to-day for fear .
104746 No , C sar shall not ; danger knows full well
104747 That C sar is more dangerous than he :
104748 We are two lions litter'd in one day ,
104749 And I the elder and more terrible :
104750 And C sar shall go forth .
104751
104752 Alas ! my lord ,
104753 Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence .
104754 Do not go forth to-day : call it my fear
104755 That keeps you in the house , and not your own .
104756 We'll send Mark Antony to the senate-house ,
104757 And he shall say you are not well to-day :
104758 Let me , upon my knee , prevail in this .
104759
104760 Mark Antony shall say I am not well ;
104761 And , for thy humour , I will stay at home .
104762
104763 Here's Decius Brutus , he shall tell them so .
104764
104765 C sar , all hail ! Good morrow , worthy C sar :
104766 I come to fetch you to the senate-house .
104767
104768 And you are come in very happy time
104769 To bear my greeting to the senators ,
104770 And tell them that I will not come to-day :
104771 Cannot , is false , and that I dare not , falser ;
104772 I will not come to-day : tell them so , Decius .
104773
104774 Say he is sick .
104775
104776 Shall C sar send a lie ?
104777 Have I in conquest stretch'd mine arm so far
104778 To be afeard to tell greybeards the truth ?
104779 Decius , go tell them C sar will not come .
104780
104781 Most mighty C sar , let me know some cause ,
104782 Lest I be laugh'd at when I tell them so .
104783
104784 The cause is in my will : I will not come ;
104785 That is enough to satisfy the senate :
104786 But for your private satisfaction ,
104787 Because I love you , I will let you know :
104788 Calphurnia here , my wife , stays me at home :
104789 She dreamt to-night she saw my statua ,
104790 Which , like a fountain with a hundred spouts ,
104791 Did run pure blood ; and many lusty Romans
104792 Came smiling , and did bathe their hands in it :
104793 And these does she apply for warnings and portents ,
104794 And evils imminent ; and on her knee
104795 Hath begg'd that I will stay at home to-day .
104796
104797 This dream is all amiss interpreted ;
104798 It was a vision fair and fortunate :
104799 Your statue spouting blood in many pipes ,
104800 In which so many smiling Romans bath'd ,
104801 Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck
104802 Reviving blood , and that great men shall press
104803 For tinctures , stains , relics , and cognizance .
104804 This by Calphurnia's dream is signified .
104805
104806 And this way have you well expounded it .
104807
104808 I have , when you have heard what I can say :
104809 And know it now : the senate have concluded
104810 To give this day a crown to mighty C sar .
104811 If you shall send them word you will not come ,
104812 Their minds may change . Besides , it were a mock
104813 Apt to be render'd , for some one to say
104814 'Break up the senate till another time ,
104815 When C sar's wife shall meet with better dreams .'
104816 If C sar hide himself , shall they not whisper
104817 'Lo ! C sar is afraid ?'
104818 Pardon me , C sar ; for my dear dear love
104819 To your proceeding bids me tell you this ,
104820 And reason to my love is liable .
104821
104822 How foolish do your fears seem now , Calphurnia !
104823 I am ashamed I did yield to them .
104824 Give me my robe , for I will go :
104825
104826 And look where Publius is come to fetch me .
104827
104828 Good morrow , C sar .
104829
104830 Welcome , Publius .
104831 What ! Brutus , are you stirr'd so early too ?
104832 Good morrow , Casca . Caius Ligarius ,
104833 C sar was ne'er so much your enemy
104834 As that same ague which hath made you lean .
104835 What is't o'clock ?
104836
104837 C sar , 'tis strucken eight .
104838
104839 I thank you for your pains and courtesy .
104840
104841
104842 See ! Antony , that revels long o' nights ,
104843
104844 Is notwithstanding up . Good morrow , Antony .
104845
104846 So to most noble C sar .
104847
104848 Bid them prepare within :
104849 I am to blame to be thus waited for .
104850 Now , Cinna ; now , Metellus ; what , Trebonius !
104851 I have an hour's talk in store for you ;
104852 Remember that you call on me to-day :
104853 Be near me , that I may remember you .
104854
104855 C sar , I will :
104856
104857 and so near will I be ,
104858 That your best friends shall wish I had been further .
104859
104860 Good friends , go in , and taste some wine with me ;
104861 And we , like friends , will straightway go together .
104862
104863 That every like is not the same , O C sar !
104864 The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon .
104865
104866
104867 C sar , beware of Brutus ; take heed of Cassius ; come not near Casca ; have an eye to Cinna ; trust not Trebonius ; mark well Metellus Cimber ; Decius Brutus loves thee not ; thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius . There is but one mind in all these men , and it is bent against C sar . If thou be'st not immortal , look about you : security gives way to conspiracy . The mighty gods defend thee ! Thy lover ,
104868 Here will I stand till C sar pass along ,
104869 And as a suitor will I give him this .
104870 My heart laments that virtue cannot live
104871 Out of the teeth of emulation .
104872 If thou read this , O C sar ! thou mayst live ;
104873 If not , the Fates with traitors do contrive .
104874
104875
104876 I prithee , boy , run to the senate-house ;
104877 Stay not to answer me , but get thee gone .
104878 Why dost thou stay ?
104879
104880 To know my errand , madam .
104881
104882 I would have had thee there , and here again ,
104883 Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there .
104884 O constancy ! be strong upon my side ;
104885 Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue ;
104886 I have a man's mind , but a woman's might .
104887 How hard it is for women to keep counsel !
104888 Art thou here yet ?
104889
104890 Madam , what shall I do ?
104891 Run to the Capitol , and nothing else ?
104892 And so return to you , and nothing else ?
104893
104894 Yes , bring me word , boy , if thy lord look well ,
104895 For he went sickly forth ; and take good note
104896 What C sar doth , what suitors press to him .
104897 Hark , boy ! what noise is that ?
104898
104899 I hear none , madam .
104900
104901 Prithee , listen well :
104902 I heard a bustling rumour , like a fray ,
104903 And the wind brings it from the Capitol .
104904
104905 Sooth , madam , I hear nothing .
104906
104907
104908 Come hither , fellow : which way hast thou been ?
104909
104910 At mine own house , good lady .
104911
104912 What is 't o'clock ?
104913
104914 About the ninth hour , lady .
104915
104916 Is C sar yet gone to the Capitol ?
104917
104918 Madam , not yet : I go to take my stand ,
104919 To see him pass on to the Capitol .
104920
104921 Thou hast some suit to C sar , hast thou not ?
104922
104923 That I have , lady : if it will please C sar
104924 To be so good to C sar as to hear me ,
104925 I shall beseech him to befriend himself .
104926
104927 Why , know'st thou any harm's intended towards him ?
104928
104929 None that I know will be , much that I fear may chance .
104930 Good morrow to you . Here the street is narrow :
104931 The throng that follows C sar at the heels ,
104932 Of senators , of pr tors , common suitors ,
104933 Will crowd a feeble man almost to death :
104934 I'll get me to a place more void , and there
104935 Speak to great C sar as he comes along .
104936
104937
104938 I must go in . Ay me ! how weak a thing
104939 The heart of woman is . O Brutus !
104940 The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise .
104941 Sure , the boy heard me : Brutus hath a suit
104942 That C sar will not grant . O ! I grow faint .
104943 Run , Lucius , and commend me to my lord ;
104944 Say I am merry : come to me again ,
104945 And bring me word what he doth say to thee .
104946
104947 The idea of March are come .
104948
104949 Ay , C sar ; but not gone .
104950
104951 Hail , C sar ! Read this schedule .
104952
104953 Trebonius doth desire you to o'er-read ,
104954 At your best leisure , this his humble suit .
104955
104956 O C sar ! read mine first ; for mine's a suit
104957 That touches C sar nearer . Read it , great C sar .
104958
104959 What touches us ourself shall be last serv'd
104960
104961 Delay not , C sar ; read it instantly .
104962
104963 What ! is the fellow mad ?
104964
104965 Sirrah , give place .
104966
104967 What ! urge you your petitions in the street ?
104968 Come to the Capitol .
104969
104970
104971 I wish your enterprise to-day may thrive .
104972
104973 What enterprise , Popilius ?
104974
104975 Fare you well .
104976
104977
104978 What said Popilius Lena ?
104979
104980 He wish'd to-day our enterprise might thrive .
104981 I fear our purpose is discovered .
104982
104983 Look , how he makes to C sar : mark him .
104984
104985 Casca , be sudden , for we fear prevention .
104986 Brutus , what shall be done ? If this be known ,
104987 Cassius or C sar never shall turn back ,
104988 For I will slay myself .
104989
104990 Cassius , be constant :
104991 Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes ;
104992 For , look , he smiles , and C sar doth not change .
104993
104994 Trebonius knows his time ; for , look you , Brutus ,
104995 He draws Mark Antony out of the way .
104996
104997
104998 Where is Metellus Cimber ? Let him go ,
104999 And presently prefer his suit to C sar .
105000
105001 He is address'd ; press near and second him .
105002
105003 Casca , you are the first that rears your hand .
105004
105005 Are we all ready ? What is now amiss ,
105006 That C sar and his senate must redress ?
105007
105008 Most high , most mighty , and most puissant C sar ,
105009 Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat
105010 A humble heart ,
105011
105012
105013 I must prevent thee , Cimber .
105014 These couchings and these lowly courtesies ,
105015 Might fire the blood of ordinary men ,
105016 And turn pre-ordinance and first decree
105017 Into the law of children . Be not fond ,
105018 To think that C sar bears such rebel blood
105019 That will be thaw'd from the true quality
105020 With that which melteth fools ; I mean sweet words ,
105021 Low-crooked curtsies , and base spaniel fawning .
105022 Thy brother by decree is banished :
105023 If thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him ,
105024 I spurn thee like a cur out of my way .
105025 Know , C sar doth not wrong , nor without cause
105026 Will he be satisfied .
105027
105028 Is there no voice more worthy than my own ,
105029 To sound more sweetly in great C sar's ear
105030 For the repealing of my banish'd brother ?
105031
105032 I kiss thy hand , but not in flattery , C sar ;
105033 Desiring thee , that Publius Cimber may
105034 Have an immediate freedom of repeal .
105035
105036 What , Brutus !
105037
105038 Pardon , C sar ; C sar , pardon :
105039 As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall ,
105040 To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber .
105041
105042 I could be well mov'd if I were as you ;
105043 If I could pray to move , prayers would move me ;
105044 But I am constant as the northern star ,
105045 Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
105046 There is no fellow in the firmament .
105047 The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks ,
105048 They are all fire and every one doth shine ,
105049 But there's but one in all doth hold his place :
105050 So , in the world ; 'tis furnish'd well with men ,
105051 And men are flesh and blood , and apprehensive ;
105052 Yet in the number I do know but one
105053 That unassailable holds on his rank ,
105054 Unshak'd of motion : and that I am he ,
105055 Let me a little show it , even in this ,
105056 That I was constant Cimber should be banish'd ,
105057 And constant do remain to keep him so .
105058
105059 O C sar ,
105060
105061 Hence ! Wilt thou lift up Olympus !
105062
105063 Great C sar ,
105064
105065 Doth not Brutus bootless kneel ?
105066
105067 Speak , hands , for me !
105068
105069
105070 Et tu , Brute ? Then fall , C sar !
105071
105072
105073 Liberty ! Freedom ! Tyranny is dead !
105074 Run hence , proclaim , cry it about the streets .
105075
105076 Some to the common pulpits , and cry out ,
105077 'Liberty , freedom , and enfranchisement !'
105078
105079 People and senators be not affrighted ;
105080 Fly not ; stand still ; ambition's debt is paid .
105081
105082 Go to the pulpit , Brutus .
105083
105084 And Cassius too .
105085
105086 Where's Publius ?
105087
105088 Here , quite confounded with this mutiny .
105089
105090 Stand fast together , lest some friend of C sar's
105091 Should chance
105092
105093 Talk not of standing . Publius , good cheer ;
105094 There is no harm intended to your person ,
105095 Nor to no Roman else ; so tell them , Publius .
105096
105097 And leave us , Publius ; lest that the people ,
105098 Rushing on us , should do your age some mischief .
105099
105100 Do so ; and let no man abide this deed
105101 But we the doers .
105102
105103
105104 Where's Antony ?
105105
105106 Fled to his house amaz'd .
105107 Men , wives and children stare , cry out and run
105108 As it were doomsday .
105109
105110 Fates , we will know your pleasures .
105111 That we shall die , we know ; 'tis but the time
105112 And drawing days out , that men stand upon .
105113
105114 Why , he that cuts off twenty years of life
105115 Cuts off so many years of fearing death .
105116
105117 Grant that , and then is death a benefit :
105118 So are we C sar's friends , that have abridg'd
105119 His time of fearing death . Stoop , Romans , stoop ,
105120 And let us bathe our hands in C sar's blood
105121 Up to the elbows , and besmear our swords :
105122 Then walk we forth , even to the market-place ;
105123 And waving our red weapons o'er our heads ,
105124 Let's all cry , 'Peace , freedom , and liberty !'
105125
105126 Stoop , then , and wash . How many ages hence
105127 Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er ,
105128 In states unborn and accents yet unknown !
105129
105130 How many times shall C sar bleed in sport ,
105131 That now on Pompey's basis lies along
105132 No worthier than the dust !
105133
105134 So oft as that shall be ,
105135 So often shall the knot of us be call'd
105136 The men that gave their country liberty .
105137
105138 What ! shall we forth ?
105139
105140 Ay , every man away :
105141 Brutus shall lead ; and we will grace his heels
105142 With the most boldest and best hearts of Rome .
105143
105144
105145 Soft ! who comes here ? A friend of Antony's .
105146
105147 Thus , Brutus , did my master bid me kneel ;
105148 Thus did Mark Antony bid me fall down ;
105149 And , being prostrate , thus he bade me say :
105150 Brutus is noble , wise , valiant , and honest ;
105151 C sar was mighty , bold , royal , and loving :
105152 Say I love Brutus , and I honour him ;
105153 Say I fear'd C sar , honour'd him , and lov'd him .
105154 If Brutus will vouchsafe that Antony
105155 May safely come to him , and be resolv'd
105156 How C sar hath deserv'd to lie in death ,
105157 Mark Antony shall not love C sar dead
105158 So well as Brutus living ; but will follow
105159 The fortunes and affairs of noble Brutus
105160 Thorough the hazards of this untrod state
105161 With all true faith . So says my master Antony .
105162
105163 Thy master is a wise and valiant Roman ;
105164 I never thought him worse .
105165 Tell him , so please him come unto this place ,
105166 He shall be satisfied ; and , by my honour ,
105167 Depart untouch'd .
105168
105169 I'll fetch him presently .
105170
105171
105172 I know that we shall have him well to friend .
105173
105174 I wish we may : but yet have I a mind
105175 That fears him much ; and my misgiving still
105176 Falls shrewdly to the purpose .
105177
105178
105179 But here comes Antony . Welcome , Mark Antony .
105180
105181 O mighty C sar ! dost thou lie so low ?
105182 Are all thy conquests , glories , triumphs , spoils ,
105183 Shrunk to this little measure ? Fare thee well .
105184 I know not , gentlemen , what you intend ,
105185 Who else must be let blood , who else is rank :
105186 If I myself , there is no hour so fit
105187 As C sar's death's hour , nor no instrument
105188 Of half that worth as those your swords , made rich
105189 With the most noble blood of all this world .
105190 I do beseech ye , if ye bear me hard ,
105191 Now , whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke ,
105192 Fulfil your pleasure . Live a thousand years ,
105193 I shall not find myself so apt to die :
105194 No place will please me so , no mean of death ,
105195 As here by C sar , and by you cut off ,
105196 The choice and master spirits of this age .
105197
105198 O Antony ! beg not your death of us .
105199 Though now we must appear bloody and cruel ,
105200 As , by our hands and this our present act ,
105201 You see we do , yet see you but our hands
105202 And this the bleeding business they have done :
105203 Our hearts you see not ; they are pitiful ;
105204 And pity to the general wrong of Rome
105205 As fire drives out fire , so pity pity
105206 Hath done this deed on C sar . For your part ,
105207 To you our swords have leaden points , Mark Antony ;
105208 Our arms , in strength of malice , and our hearts
105209 Of brothers' temper , do receive you in
105210 With all kind love , good thoughts , and reverence .
105211
105212 Your voice shall be as strong as any man's
105213 In the disposing of new dignities .
105214
105215 Only be patient till we have appeas'd
105216 The multitude , beside themselves with fear ,
105217 And then we will deliver you the cause
105218 Why I , that did love C sar when I struck him ,
105219 Have thus proceeded .
105220
105221 I doubt not of your wisdom .
105222 Let each man render me his bloody hand :
105223 First , Marcus Brutus , will I shake with you ;
105224 Next , Caius Cassius , do I take your hand ;
105225 Now , Decius Brutus , yours ; now yours , Metellus ;
105226 Yours , Cinna ; and , my valiant Casca , yours ;
105227 Though last , not least in love , yours , good Trebonius .
105228 Gentlemen all ,alas ! what shall I say ?
105229 My credit now stands on such slippery ground ,
105230 That one of two bad ways you must conceit me ,
105231 Either a coward or a flatterer .
105232 That I did love thee , C sar , O ! 'tis true :
105233 If then thy spirit look upon us now ,
105234 Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death ,
105235 To see thy Antony making his peace ,
105236 Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes ,
105237 Most noble ! in the presence of thy corse ?
105238 Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds ,
105239 Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood ,
105240 It would become me better than to close
105241 In terms of friendship with thine enemies .
105242 Pardon me , Julius ! Here wast thou bay'd , brave hart ;
105243 Here didst thou fall ; and here thy hunters stand ,
105244 Sign'd in thy spoil , and crimson'd in thy leth
105245 O world ! thou wast the forest to this hart ;
105246 And this , indeed , O world ! the heart of thee .
105247 How like a deer , strucken by many princes ,
105248 Dost thou here lie !
105249
105250 Mark Antony ,
105251
105252 Pardon me , Caius Cassius :
105253 The enemies of C sar shall say this ;
105254 Then , in a friend , it is cold modesty .
105255
105256 I blame you not for praising C sar so ;
105257 But what compact mean you to have with us ?
105258 Will you be prick'd in number of our friends ,
105259 Or shall we on , and not depend on you ?
105260
105261 Therefore I took your hands , but was indeed
105262 Sway'd from the point by looking down on C sar .
105263 Friends am I with you all , and love you all ,
105264 Upon this hope , that you shall give me reasons
105265 Why and wherein C sar was dangerous .
105266
105267 Or else were this a savage spectacle .
105268 Our reasons are so full of good regard
105269 That were you , Antony , the son of C sar ,
105270 You should be satisfied .
105271
105272 That's all I seek :
105273 And am moreover suitor that I may
105274 Produce his body to the market place ;
105275 And in the pulpit , as becomes a friend ,
105276 Speak in the order of his funeral .
105277
105278 You shall , Mark Antony .
105279
105280 Brutus , a word with you .
105281
105282
105283 You know not what you do ; do not consent
105284 That Antony speak in his funeral :
105285 Know you how much the people may be mov'd
105286 By that which he will utter ?
105287
105288 By your pardon ;
105289 I will myself into the pulpit first ,
105290 And show the reason of our C sar's death :
105291 What Antony shall speak , I will protest
105292 He speaks by leave and by permission ,
105293 And that we are contented C sar shall
105294 Have all true rites and lawful ceremonies .
105295 It shall advantage more than do us wrong .
105296
105297 I know not what may fall ; I like it not .
105298
105299 Mark Antony , here , take you C sar's body .
105300 You shall not in your funeral speech blame us ,
105301 But speak all good you can devise of C sar ,
105302 And say you do 't by our permission ;
105303 Else shall you not have any hand at all
105304 About his funeral ; and you shall speak
105305 In the same pulpit whereto I am going ,
105306 After my speech is ended .
105307
105308 Be it so ;
105309 I do desire no more .
105310
105311 Prepare the body then , and follow us .
105312
105313
105314 O ! pardon me , thou bleeding piece of earth ,
105315 That I am meek and gentle with these butchers ;
105316 Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
105317 That ever lived in the tide of times .
105318 Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood !
105319 Over thy wounds now do I prophesy ,
105320 Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips ,
105321 To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue ,
105322 A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ;
105323 Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
105324 Shall cumber all the parts of Italy ;
105325 Blood and destruction shall be so in use ,
105326 And dreadful objects so familiar ,
105327 That mothers shall but smile when they behold
105328 Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war ;
105329 All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds :
105330 And C sar's spirit , ranging for revenge ,
105331 With Ate by his side come hot from hell ,
105332 Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
105333 Cry 'Havoc !' and let slip the dogs of war ;
105334 That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
105335 With carrion men , groaning for burial .
105336
105337 You serve Octavius C sar , do you not ?
105338
105339 I do , Mark Antony .
105340
105341 C sar did write for him to come to Rome .
105342
105343 He did receive his letters , and is coming ;
105344 And bid me say to you by word of mouth
105345
105346 O C sar !
105347
105348 Thy heart is big , get thee apart and weep .
105349 Passion , I see , is catching ; for mine eyes ,
105350 Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine ,
105351 Began to water . Is thy master coming ?
105352
105353 He lies to-night within seven leagues of Rome .
105354
105355 Post back with speed , and tell him what hath chanc'd :
105356 Hare is a mourning Rome , a dangerous Rome ,
105357 No Rome of safety for Octavius yet ;
105358 Hie hence and tell him so . Yet , stay awhile ;
105359 Thou shalt not back till I have borne this corpse
105360 Into the market-place ; there shall I try ,
105361 In my oration , how the people take
105362 The cruel issue of these bloody men ;
105363 According to the which thou shalt discourse
105364 To young Octavius of the state of things .
105365 Lead me your hand .
105366
105367
105368 We will be satisfied : let us be satisfied .
105369
105370 Then follow me , and give me audience , friends .
105371 Cassius , go you into the other street ,
105372 And part the numbers .
105373 Those that will hear me speak , let 'em stay here ;
105374 Those that will follow Cassius , go with him ;
105375 And public reasons shall be rendered
105376 Of C sar's death .
105377
105378 I will hear Brutus speak .
105379
105380 I will hear Cassius ; and compare their reasons ,
105381 When severally we hear them rendered .
105382
105383
105384 The noble Brutus is ascended : silence !
105385
105386 Be patient till the last .
105387 Romans , countrymen , and lovers ! hear me for my cause ; and be silent , that you may hear : believe me for mine honour , and have respect to mine honour , that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom , and awake your senses , that you may the better judge . If there be any in this assembly , any dear friend of C sar's , to him I say , that Brutus' love to C sar was no less than his . If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against C sar , this is my answer : Not that I loved C sar less , but that I loved Rome more . Had you rather C sar were living , and die all slaves , than that C sar were dead , to live all free men ? As C sar loved me , I weep for him ; as he was fortunate , I rejoice at it ; as he was valiant , I honour him ; but , as he was ambitious , I slew him . There is tears for his love ; joy for his fortune ; honour for his valour ; and death for his ambition . Who is here so base that would be a bondman ? If any , speak ; for him have I offended . Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman ? If any , speak ; for him have I offended . Who is here so vile that will not love his country ? If any , speak ; for him have I offended . I pause for a reply .
105388
105389 None , Brutus , none .
105390
105391 Then none have I offended . I have done no more to C sar , than you shall do to Brutus . The question of his death is enrolled in the Capitol ; his glory not extenuated , wherein he was worthy , nor his offences enforced , for which he suffered death .
105392
105393 Here comes his body , mourned by Mark Antony : who , though he had no hand in his death , shall receive the benefit of his dying , a place in the commonwealth ; as which of you shall not ? With this I depart : that , as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome , I have the same dagger for myself , when it shall please my country to need my death .
105394
105395 Live , Brutus ! live ! live !
105396
105397 Bring him with triumph home unto his house .
105398
105399 Give him a statue with his ancestors .
105400
105401 Let him be C sar .
105402
105403 C sar's better parts
105404 Shall be crown'd in Brutus .
105405
105406 We'll bring him to his house with shouts and clamours .
105407
105408 My countrymen ,
105409
105410 Peace ! silence ! Brutus speaks .
105411
105412 Peace , ho !
105413
105414 Good countrymen , let me depart alone ,
105415 And , for my sake , stay here with Antony .
105416 Do grace to C sar's corpse , and grace his speech
105417 Tending to C sar's glories , which Mark Antony ,
105418 By our permission , is allow'd to make .
105419 I do entreat you , not a man depart ,
105420 Save I alone , till Antony have spoke .
105421
105422
105423 Stay , ho ! and let us hear Mark Antony .
105424
105425 Let him go up into the public chair ;
105426 We'll hear him . Noble Antony , go up .
105427
105428 For Brutus' sake , I am beholding to you .
105429
105430
105431 What does he say of Brutus ?
105432
105433 He says , for Brutus' sake ,
105434 He finds himself beholding to us all .
105435
105436 'Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here .
105437
105438 This C sar was a tyrant .
105439
105440 Nay , that's certain :
105441 We are bless'd that Rome is rid of him .
105442
105443 Peace ! let us hear what Antony can say .
105444
105445 You gentle Romans ,
105446
105447 Peace , ho ! let us hear him .
105448
105449 Friends , Romans , countrymen , lend me your ears ;
105450 I come to bury C sar , not to praise him .
105451 The evil that men do lives after them ,
105452 The good is oft interred with their bones ;
105453 So let it be with C sar . The noble Brutus
105454 Hath told you C sar was ambitious ;
105455 If it were so , it was a grievous fault ,
105456 And grievously hath C sar answer'd it .
105457 Here , under leave of Brutus and the rest ,
105458 For Brutus is an honourable man ;
105459 So are they all , all honourable men ,
105460 Come I to speak in C sar's funeral .
105461 He was my friend , faithful and just to me :
105462 But Brutus says he was ambitious ;
105463 And Brutus is an honourable man .
105464 He hath brought many captives home to Rome ,
105465 Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill :
105466 Did this in C sar seem ambitious ?
105467 When that the poor have cried , C sar hath wept ;
105468 Ambition should be made of sterner stuff :
105469 Yet Brutus says he was ambitious ;
105470 And Brutus is an honourable man .
105471 You all did see that on the Lupercal
105472 I thrice presented him a kingly crown ,
105473 Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition ?
105474 Yet Brutus says he was ambitious ;
105475 And , sure , he is an honourable man .
105476 I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke ,
105477 But here I am to speak what I do know ,
105478 You all did love him once , not without cause :
105479 What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ?
105480 O judgment ! thou art fled to brutish beasts ,
105481 And men have lost their reason . Bear with me ;
105482 My heart is in the coffin there with C sar ,
105483 And I must pause till it come back to me .
105484
105485 Methinks there is much reason in his sayings .
105486
105487 If thou consider rightly of the matter ,
105488 C sar has had great wrong .
105489
105490 Has he , masters ?
105491 I fear there will a worse come in his place .
105492
105493 Mark'd ye his words ? He would not take the crown ;
105494 Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious .
105495
105496 If it be found so , some will dear abide it .
105497
105498 Poor soul ! his eyes are red as fire with weeping .
105499
105500 There's not a nobler man in Rome than Antony .
105501
105502 Now mark him ; he begins again to speak .
105503
105504 But yesterday the word of C sar might
105505 Have stood against the world ; now lies he there ,
105506 And none so poor to do him reverence .
105507 O masters ! if I were dispos'd to stir
105508 Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage ,
105509 I should do Brutus wrong , and Cassius wrong ,
105510 Who , you all know , are honourable men .
105511 I will not do them wrong ; I rather choose
105512 To wrong the dead , to wrong myself , and you ,
105513 Than I will wrong such honourable men
105514 But here's a parchment with the seal of C sar ;
105515 I found it in his closet , 'tis his will .
105516 Let but the commons hear this testament
105517 Which , pardon me , I do not mean to read
105518 And they would go and kiss dead C sar's wounds ,
105519 And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ,
105520 Yea , beg a hair of him for memory ,
105521 And , dying , mention it within their wills ,
105522 Bequeathing it as a rich legacy
105523 Unto their issue .
105524
105525 We'll hear the will : read it , Mark Antony .
105526
105527 The will , the will ! we will hear C sar's will .
105528
105529 Have patience , gentle friends ; I must not read it :
105530 It is not meet you know how C sar lov'd you .
105531 You are not wood , you are not stones , but men ;
105532 And , being men , hearing the will of C sar ,
105533 It will inflame you , it will make you mad .
105534 'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs ;
105535 For if you should , O ! what would come of it .
105536
105537 Read the will ! we'll hear it , Antony ;
105538 You shall read us the will , C sar's will .
105539
105540 Will you be patient ? Will you stay awhile ?
105541 I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it .
105542 I fear I wrong the honourable men
105543 Whose daggers have stabb'd C sar ; I do fear it .
105544
105545 They were traitors : honourable men !
105546
105547 The will ! the testament !
105548
105549 They were villains , murderers . The will ! read the will .
105550
105551 You will compel me then to read the will ?
105552 Then make a ring about the corpse of C sar ,
105553 And let me show you him that made the will .
105554 Shall I descend ? and will you give me leave ?
105555
105556 Come down .
105557
105558 Descend .
105559
105560
105561 You shall have leave .
105562
105563 A ring ; stand round .
105564
105565 Stand from the hearse ; stand from the body .
105566
105567 Room for Antony ; most noble Antony .
105568
105569 Nay , press not so upon me ; stand far off .
105570
105571 Stand back ! room ! bear back !
105572
105573 If you have tears , prepare to shed them now .
105574 You all do know this mantle : I remember
105575 The first time ever C sar put it on ;
105576 'Twas on a summer's evening , in his tent ,
105577 That day he overcame the Nervii .
105578 Look ! in this place ran Cassius' dagger through :
105579 See what a rent the envious Casca made :
105580 Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd ;
105581 And , as he pluck'd his cursed steel away ,
105582 Mark how the blood of C sar follow'd it ,
105583 As rushing out of doors , to be resolv'd
105584 If Brutus so unkindly knock'd or no ;
105585 For Brutus , as you know , was C sar's angel :
105586 Judge , O you gods ! how dearly C sar lov'd him .
105587 This was the most unkindest cut of all ;
105588 For when the noble C sar saw him stab ,
105589 Ingratitude , more strong than traitors' arms ,
105590 Quite vanquish'd him : then burst his mighty heart ;
105591 And , in his mantle muffling up his face ,
105592 Even at the base of Pompey's status ,
105593 Which all the while ran blood , great C sar fell .
105594 O ! what a fall was there , my countrymen ;
105595 Then I , and you , and all of us fell down ,
105596 Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us .
105597 O ! now you weep , and I perceive you feel
105598 The dint of pity ; these are gracious drops .
105599 Kind souls , what ! weep you when you but behold
105600 Our C sar's vesture wounded ? Look you here ,
105601 Here is himself , marr'd , as you see , with traitors .
105602
105603 O piteous spectacle !
105604
105605 O noble C sar !
105606
105607 O woeful day !
105608
105609 O traitors ! villains !
105610
105611 O most bloody sight !
105612
105613 We will be revenged .
105614
105615 Revenge !About !Seek !Burn !
105616 Fire !Kill !Slay ! Let not a traitor live .
105617
105618 Stay , countrymen !
105619
105620 Peace there ! Hear the noble Antony .
105621
105622 We'll hear him , we'll follow him , we'll die with him .
105623
105624 Good friends , sweet friends , let me not stir you up
105625 To such a sudden flood of mutiny .
105626 They that have done this deed are honourable :
105627 What private griefs they have , alas ! I know not ,
105628 That made them do it ; they are wise and honourable ,
105629 And will , no doubt , with reasons answer you .
105630 I come not , friends , to steal away your hearts :
105631 I am no orator , as Brutus is ;
105632 But , as you know me all , a plain blunt man ,
105633 That love my friend ; and that they know full well
105634 That gave me public leave to speak of him .
105635 For I have neither wit , nor words , nor worth ,
105636 Action , nor utterance , nor the power of speech ,
105637 To stir men's blood : I only speak right on ;
105638 I tell you that which you yourselves do know ,
105639 Show you sweet C sar's wounds , poor poor dumb mouths ,
105640 And bid them speak for me : but were I Brutus ,
105641 And Brutus Antony , there were an Antony
105642 Would ruffle up your spirits , and put a tongue
105643 In every wound of C sar , that should move
105644 The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny .
105645
105646 We'll mutiny .
105647
105648 We'll burn the house of Brutus .
105649
105650 Away , then ! come , seek the conspirators .
105651
105652 Yet hear me , countrymen ; yet hear me speak .
105653
105654 Peace , ho !Hear Antony ,most noble Antony .
105655
105656 Why , friends , you go to do you know not what .
105657 Wherein hath C sar thus deserv'd your loves ?
105658 Alas ! you know not : I must tell you then .
105659 You have forgot the will I told you of .
105660
105661 Most true . The will ! let's stay and hear the will .
105662
105663 Here is the will , and under C sar's seal .
105664 To every Roman citizen he gives ,
105665 To every several man , seventy-five drachmas .
105666
105667 Most noble C sar ! we'll revenge his death .
105668
105669 O royal C sar !
105670
105671 Hear me with patience .
105672
105673 Peace , ho !
105674
105675 Moreover , he hath left you all his walks ,
105676 His private arbours , and new-planted orchards ,
105677 On this side Tiber ; he hath left them you ,
105678 And to your heirs for ever ; common pleasures ,
105679 To walk abroad , and recreate yourselves .
105680 Here was a C sar ! when comes such another ?
105681
105682 Never , never ! Come , away , away !
105683 We'll burn his body in the holy place ,
105684 And with the brands fire the traitors' houses .
105685 Take up the body .
105686
105687 Go fetch fire .
105688
105689 Pluck down benches .
105690
105691 Pluck down forms , windows , any thing .
105692
105693
105694 Now let it work : mischief , thou art afoot ,
105695 Take thou what course thou wilt !
105696
105697 How now , fellow !
105698
105699 Sir , Octavius is already come to Rome .
105700
105701 Where is he ?
105702
105703 He and Lepidus are at C sar's house .
105704
105705 And thither will I straight to visit him .
105706 He comes upon a wish . Fortune is merry ,
105707 And in this mood will give us any thing .
105708
105709 I heard him say Brutus and Cassius
105710 Are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome .
105711
105712 Belike they had some notice of the people ,
105713 How I had mov'd them . Bring me to Octavius .
105714
105715
105716 I dreamt to-night that I did feast with C sar ,
105717 And things unlucky charge my fantasy :
105718 I have no will to wander forth of doors ,
105719 Yet something leads me forth .
105720
105721
105722 What is your name ?
105723
105724 Whither are you going ?
105725
105726 Where do you dwell ?
105727
105728 Are you a married man , or a bachelor ?
105729
105730 Answer every man directly .
105731
105732 Ay , and briefly .
105733
105734 Ay , and wisely .
105735
105736 Ay , and truly , you were best .
105737
105738 What is my name ? Whither am I going ? Where do I dwell ? Am I a married man , or a bachelor ? Then , to answer every man directly and briefly , wisely and truly : wisely I say , I am a bachelor .
105739
105740 That's as much as to say , they are fools that marry ; you'll bear me a bang for that , I fear . Proceed ; directly .
105741
105742 Directly , I am going to C sar's funeral .
105743
105744 As a friend or an enemy ?
105745
105746 As a friend .
105747
105748 That matter is answered directly .
105749
105750 For your dwelling , briefly .
105751
105752 Briefly , I dwell by the Capitol .
105753
105754 Your name , sir , truly .
105755
105756 Truly , my name is Cinna .
105757
105758 Tear him to pieces ; he's a conspirator .
105759
105760 I am Cinna the poet , I am Cinna the poet .
105761
105762 Tear him for his bad verses , tear him for his bad verses .
105763
105764 I am not Cinna the conspirator .
105765
105766 It is no matter , his name's Cinna ; pluck but his name out of his heart , and turn him going .
105767
105768 Tear him , tear him ! Come , brands , ho ! firebrands ! To Brutus' , to Cassius' ; burn all . Some to Decius' house , and some to Casca's ; some to Ligarius' . Away ! go !
105769
105770 These many then shall die ; their names are prick'd .
105771
105772 Your brother too must die ; consent you , Lepidus ?
105773
105774 I do consent .
105775
105776 Prick him down , Antony .
105777
105778 Upon condition Publius shall not live ,
105779 Who is your sister's son , Mark Antony .
105780
105781 He shall not live ; look , with a spot I damn him .
105782 But , Lepidus , go you to C sar's house ;
105783 Fetch the will hither , and we shall determine
105784 How to cut off some charge in legacies .
105785
105786 What ! shall I find you here ?
105787
105788 Or here or at the Capitol .
105789
105790
105791 This is a slight unmeritable man ,
105792 Meet to be sent on errands : is it fit ,
105793 The three-fold world divided , he should stand
105794 One of the three to share it ?
105795
105796 So you thought him ;
105797 And took his voice who should be prick'd to die ,
105798 In our black sentence and proscription .
105799
105800 Octavius , I have seen more days than you :
105801 And though we lay these honours on this man ,
105802 To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads ,
105803 He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold ,
105804 To groan and sweat under the business ,
105805 Either led or driven , as we point the way ;
105806 And having brought our treasure where we will ,
105807 Then take we down his load , and turn him off ,
105808 Like to the empty ass , to shake his ears ,
105809 And graze in commons .
105810
105811 You may do your will ;
105812 But he's a tried and valiant soldier .
105813
105814 So is my horse , Octavius ; and for that
105815 I do appoint him store of provender .
105816 It is a creature that I teach to fight ,
105817 To wind , to stop , to run directly on ,
105818 His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit .
105819 And , in some taste , is Lepidus but so ;
105820 He must be taught , and train'd , and bid go forth ;
105821 A barren-spirited fellow ; one that feeds
105822 On abject orts , and imitations ,
105823 Which , out of use and stal'd by other men ,
105824 Begin his fashion : do not talk of him
105825 But as a property . And now , Octavius ,
105826 Listen great things : Brutus and Cassius
105827 Are levying powers ; we must straight make head ;
105828 Therefore let our alliance be combin'd ,
105829 Our best friends made , and our best means stretch'd out ;
105830 And let us presently go sit in council ,
105831 How covert matters may be best disclos'd ,
105832 And open perils surest answered .
105833
105834 Let us do so : for we are at the stake ,
105835 And bay'd about with many enemies ;
105836 And some that smile have in their hearts , I fear ,
105837 Millions of mischiefs .
105838
105839
105840 Stand , ho !
105841
105842 Give the word , ho ! and stand .
105843
105844 What now , Lucilius ! is Cassius near ?
105845
105846 He is at hand ; and Pindarus is come
105847 To do you salutation from his master .
105848
105849
105850 He greets me well . Your master , Pindarus ,
105851 In his own change , or by ill officers ,
105852 Hath given me some worthy cause to wish
105853 Things done , undone ; but , if he be at hand ,
105854 I shall be satisfied .
105855
105856 I do not doubt
105857 But that my noble master will appear
105858 Such as he is , full of regard and honour .
105859
105860 He is not doubted . A word , Lucilius ;
105861 How he receiv'd you , let me be resolv'd .
105862
105863 With courtesy and with respect enough ;
105864 But not with such familiar instances ,
105865 Nor with such free and friendly conference ,
105866 As he hath us'd of old .
105867
105868 Thou hast describ'd
105869 A hot friend cooling . Ever note , Lucilius ,
105870 When love begins to sicken and decay ,
105871 It useth an enforced ceremony .
105872 There are no tricks in plain and simple faith ;
105873 But hollow men , like horses hot at hand ,
105874 Make gallant show and promise of their mettle ;
105875 But when they should endure the bloody spur ,
105876 They fall their crests , and , like deceitful jades ,
105877 Sink in the trial . Comes his army on ?
105878
105879 They mean this night in Sardis to be quarter'd ;
105880 The greater part , the horse in general ,
105881 Are come with Cassius .
105882
105883 Hark ! he is arriv'd .
105884
105885 March gently on to meet him .
105886
105887
105888 Stand , ho !
105889
105890 Stand , ho ! Speak the word along .
105891
105892 Stand !
105893
105894 Stand !
105895
105896 Stand !
105897
105898 Most noble brother , you have done me wrong .
105899
105900 Judge me , you gods ! Wrong I mine enemies ?
105901 And , if not so , how should I wrong a brother ?
105902
105903 Brutus , this sober form of yours hides wrongs ;
105904 And when you do them
105905
105906 Cassius , be content ;
105907 Speak your griefs softly : I do know you well .
105908 Before the eyes of both our armies here ,
105909 Which should perceive nothing but love from us ,
105910 Let us not wrangle : bid them move away ;
105911 Then in my tent , Cassius , enlarge your griefs ,
105912 And I will give you audience .
105913
105914 Pindarus ,
105915 Bid our commanders lead their charges off
105916 A little from this ground .
105917
105918 Lucilius , do you the like ; and let no man
105919 Come to our tent till we have done our conference .
105920 Let Lucius and Titinius guard our door .
105921
105922
105923 That you have wrong'd me doth appear in this :
105924 You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella
105925 For taking bribes here of the Sardians ;
105926 Wherein my letters , praying on his side ,
105927 Because I knew the man , were slighted off .
105928
105929 You wrong'd yourself to write in such a case .
105930
105931 In such a time as this it is not meet
105932 That every nice offence should bear his comment .
105933
105934 Let me tell you , Cassius , you yourself
105935 Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm ;
105936 To sell and mart your offices for gold
105937 To undeservera .
105938
105939 I an itching palm !
105940 You know that you are Brutus that speak this ,
105941 Or , by the gods , this speech were else your last .
105942
105943 The name of Cassius honours this corruption ,
105944 And chastisement doth therefore hide his head .
105945
105946 Chastisement !
105947
105948 Remember March , the ides of March remember :
105949 Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake ?
105950 What villain touch'd his body , that did stab ,
105951 And not for justice ? What ! shall one of us ,
105952 That struck the foremost man of all this world
105953 But for supporting robbers , shall we now
105954 Contaminate our fingers with base bribes ,
105955 And sell the mighty space of our large honours
105956 For so much trash as may be grasped thus ?
105957 I had rather be a dog , and bay the moon ,
105958 Than such a Roman .
105959
105960 Brutus , bay not me ;
105961 I'll not endure it : you forget yourself ,
105962 To hedge me in . I am a soldier , I ,
105963 Older in practice , abler than yourself
105964 To make conditions .
105965
105966 Go to ; you are not , Cassius .
105967
105968 I am .
105969
105970 I say you are not .
105971
105972 Urge me no more , I shall forget myself ;
105973 Have mind upon your health ; tempt me no further .
105974
105975 Away , slight man !
105976
105977 Is 't possible ?
105978
105979 Hear me , for I will speak .
105980 Must I give way and room to your rash choler ?
105981 Shall I be frighted when a madman stares ?
105982
105983 O ye gods ! ye gods ! Must I endure all this ?
105984
105985 All this ! ay , more : fret till your proud heart break ;
105986 Go show your slaves how choleric you are ,
105987 And make your bondmen tremble . Must I budge ?
105988 Must I observe you ? Must I stand and crouch
105989 Under your testy humour ? By the gods ,
105990 You shall digest the venom of your spleen ,
105991 Though it do split you ; for , from this day forth ,
105992 I'll use you for my mirth , yea , for my laughter ,
105993 When you are waspish .
105994
105995 Is it come to this ?
105996
105997 You say you are a better soldier :
105998 Let it appear so ; make your vaunting true ,
105999 And it shall please me well . For mine own part ,
106000 I shall be glad to learn of noble men .
106001
106002 You wrong me every way ; you wrong me , Brutus ;
106003 I said an elder soldier , not a better :
106004 Did I say , 'better ?'
106005
106006 If you did , I care not .
106007
106008 When C sar liv'd , he durst not thus have mov'd me .
106009
106010 Peace , peace ! you durst not so have tempted him .
106011
106012 I durst not !
106013
106014 No .
106015
106016 What ! durst not tempt him !
106017
106018 For your life you durst not .
106019
106020 Do not presume too much upon my love ;
106021 I may do that I shall be sorry for .
106022
106023 You have done that you should be sorry for .
106024 There is no terror , Cassius , in your threats ;
106025 For I am arm'd so strong in honesty
106026 That they pass by me as the idle wind ,
106027 Which I respect not . I did send to you
106028 For certain sums of gold , which you denied me ;
106029 For I can raise no money by vile means :
106030 By heaven , I had rather coin my heart ,
106031 And drop my blood for drachmas , than to wring
106032 From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash
106033 By any indirection . I did send
106034 To you for gold to pay my legions ,
106035 Which you denied me : was that done like Cassius ?
106036 Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so ?
106037 When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous ,
106038 To lock such rascal counters from his friends ,
106039 Be ready , gods , with all your thunderbolts ;
106040 Dash him to pieces !
106041
106042 I denied you not .
106043
106044 You did .
106045
106046 I did not : he was but a fool
106047 That brought my answer back . Brutus hath riv'd my heart .
106048 A friend should bear his friend's infirmities ,
106049 But Brutus makes mine greater than they are .
106050
106051 I do not , till you practise them on me .
106052
106053 You love me not .
106054
106055 I do not like your faults .
106056
106057 A friendly eye could never see such faults .
106058
106059 A flatterer's would not , though they do appear
106060 As huge as high Olympus .
106061
106062 Come , Antony , and young Octavius , come ,
106063 Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius ,
106064 For Cassius is aweary of the world ;
106065 Hated by one he loves ; brav'd by his brother ;
106066 Check'd like a bondman ; all his faults observ'd ,
106067 Set in a note-book , learn'd , and conn'd by rote ,
106068 To cast into my teeth . O ! I could weep
106069 My spirit from mine eyes . There is my dagger ,
106070 And here my naked breast ; within , a heart
106071 Dearer than Plutus' mine , richer than gold :
106072 If that thou be'st a Roman , take it forth ;
106073 I , that denied thee gold , will give my heart :
106074 Strike , as thou didst at C sar ; for , I know ,
106075 When thou didst hate him worst , thou lov'dst him better
106076 Than ever thou lov'dst Cassius .
106077
106078 Sheathe your dagger :
106079 Be angry when you will , it shall have scope ;
106080 Do what you will , dishonour shall be humour .
106081 O Cassius ! you are yoked with a lamb
106082 That carries anger as the flint bears fire ,
106083 Who , much enforced , shows a hasty spark ,
106084 And straight is cold again .
106085
106086 Hath Cassius liv'd
106087 To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus ,
106088 When grief and blood ill-temper'd vexeth him ?
106089
106090 When I spoke that I was ill-temper'd too .
106091
106092 Do you confess so much ? Give me your hand .
106093
106094 And my heart too .
106095
106096 O Brutus !
106097
106098 What's the matter ?
106099
106100 Have not you love enough to bear with me ,
106101 When that rash humour which my mother gave me
106102 Makes me forgetful ?
106103
106104 Yes , Cassius ; and from henceforth
106105 When you are over-earnest with your Brutus ,
106106 He'll think your mother chides , and leave you so .
106107
106108
106109 Let me go in to see the generals ;
106110 There is some grudge between 'em , 'tis not meet
106111 They be alone .
106112
106113 You shall not come to them .
106114
106115 Nothing but death shall stay me .
106116
106117
106118 How now ! What's the matter ?
106119
106120 For shame , you generals ! What do you mean ?
106121 Love , and be friends , as two such men should be ;
106122 For I have seen more years , I'm sure , than ye .
106123
106124 Ha , ha ! how vilely doth this cynic rime !
106125
106126 Get you hence , sirrah ; saucy fellow , hence !
106127
106128 Bear with him , Brutus ; 'tis his fashion .
106129
106130 I'll know his humour , when he knows his time :
106131 What should the wars do with these jigging fools ?
106132 Companion , hence !
106133
106134 Away , away ! be gone .
106135
106136
106137 Lucilius and Titinius , bid the commanders
106138 Prepare to lodge their companies to-night .
106139
106140 And come yourselves , and bring Messala with you ,
106141 Immediately to us .
106142
106143
106144 Lucius , a bowl of wine !
106145
106146
106147 I did not think you could have been so angry .
106148
106149 O Cassius ! I am sick of many griefs .
106150
106151 Of your philosophy you make no use
106152 If you give place to accidental evils .
106153
106154 No man bears sorrow better : Portia is dead .
106155
106156 Ha ! Portia !
106157
106158 She is dead .
106159
106160 How 'scap'd I killing when I cross'd you so ?
106161 O insupportable and touching loss !
106162 Upon what sickness ?
106163
106164 Impatient of my absence ,
106165 And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony
106166 Have made themselves so strong ;for with her death
106167 That tidings came :with this she fell distract ,
106168 And , her attendants absent , swallow'd fire .
106169
106170 And died so ?
106171
106172 Even so .
106173
106174 O ye immortal gods !
106175
106176
106177 Speak no more of her . Give me a bowl of wine .
106178 In this I bury all unkindness , Cassius .
106179
106180
106181 My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge .
106182 Fill , Lucius , till the wine o'erswell the cup ;
106183 I cannot drink too much of Brutus' love .
106184
106185
106186 Come in , Titinius .
106187
106188 Welcome , good Messala .
106189 Now sit we close about this taper here ,
106190
106191 And call in question our necessities .
106192
106193 Portia , art thou gone ?
106194
106195 No more , I pray you .
106196 Messala , I have here received letters ,
106197 That young Octavius and Mark Antony
106198 Come down upon us with a mighty power ,
106199 Bending their expedition towards Philippi .
106200
106201 Myself have letters of the self-same tenour .
106202
106203 With what addition ?
106204
106205 That by proscription and bills of outlawry ,
106206 Octavius , Antony , and Lepidus ,
106207 Have put to death an hundred senators .
106208
106209 Therein our letters do not well agree ;
106210 Mine speak of seventy senators that died
106211 By their proscriptions , Cicero being one .
106212
106213 Cicero one !
106214
106215 Cicero is dead ,
106216 And by that order of proscription .
106217 Had you your letters from your wife , my lord ?
106218
106219 No , Messala .
106220
106221 Nor nothing in your letters writ of her ?
106222
106223 Nothing , Messala .
106224
106225 That , methinks , is strange .
106226
106227 Why ask you ? Hear you aught of her in yours ?
106228
106229 No , my lord .
106230
106231 Now , as you are a Roman , tell me true .
106232
106233 Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell :
106234 For certain she is dead , and by strange manner .
106235
106236 Why , farewell , Portia . We must die , Messala :
106237 With meditating that she must die once ,
106238 I have the patience to endure it now .
106239
106240 Even so great men great losses should endure .
106241
106242 I have as much of this in art as you ,
106243 But yet my nature could not bear it so .
106244
106245 Well , to our work alive . What do you think
106246 Of marching to Philippi presently ?
106247
106248 I do not think it good .
106249
106250 Your reason ?
106251
106252 This is it :
106253 'Tis better that the enemy seek us :
106254 So shall he waste his means , weary his soldiers ,
106255 Doing himself offence ; whilst we , lying still ,
106256 Are full of rest , defence , and nimbleness .
106257
106258 Good reasons must , of force , give place to better ,
106259 The people 'twixt Philippi and this ground
106260 Do stand but in a forc'd affection ;
106261 For they have grudg'd us contribution :
106262 The enemy , marching along by them ,
106263 By them shall make a fuller number up ,
106264 Come on refresh'd , new-added , and encourag'd ;
106265 From which advantage shall we cut him off ,
106266 If at Philippi we do face him there ,
106267 These people at our back .
106268
106269 Hear me , good brother .
106270
106271 Under your pardon . You must note beside ,
106272 That we have tried the utmost of our friends ,
106273 Our legions are brim-full , our cause is ripe :
106274 The enemy increaseth every day ;
106275 We , at the height , are ready to decline .
106276 There is a tide in the affairs of men ,
106277 Which , taken at the flood , leads on to fortune ;
106278 Omitted , all the voyage of their life
106279 Is bound in shallows and in miseries .
106280 On such a full sea are we now afloat ;
106281 And we must take the current when it serves ,
106282 Or lose our ventures .
106283
106284 Then , with your will , go on ;
106285 We'll along ourselves , and meet them at Philippi .
106286
106287 The deep of night is crept upon our talk ,
106288 And nature must obey necessity ,
106289 Which we will niggard with a little rest .
106290 There is no more to say ?
106291
106292 No more . Good-night :
106293 Early to-morrow will we rise , and hence .
106294
106295 Lucius !
106296
106297
106298 My gown .
106299
106300 Farewell , good Messala :
106301 Good-night , Titinius . Noble , noble Cassius ,
106302
106303 Good-night , and good repose .
106304
106305 O my dear brother !
106306 This was an ill beginning of the night :
106307 Never come such division 'tween our souls !
106308 Let it not , Brutus .
106309
106310 Every thing is well .
106311
106312 Good-night , my lord .
106313
106314 Good-night , good brother .
106315
106316 Good-night , Lord Brutus .
106317
106318 Good-night , Lord Brutus .
106319
106320 Farewell , every one .
106321
106322
106323 Give me the gown . Where is thy instrument ?
106324
106325 Here in the tent .
106326
106327 What ! thou speak'st drowsily ?
106328 Poor knave , I blame thee not ; thou art o'erwatch'd .
106329 Call Claudius and some other of my men ;
106330 I'll have them sleep on cushions in my tent .
106331
106332 Varro ! and Claudius !
106333
106334
106335 Calls my lord ?
106336
106337 I pray you , sirs , lie in my tent and sleep :
106338 It may be I shall raise you by and by
106339 On business to my brother Cassius .
106340
106341 So please you , we will stand and watch your pleasure .
106342
106343 I will not have it so ; lie down , good sirs ;
106344 It may be I shall otherwise bethink me .
106345 Look , Lucius , here's the book I sought for so ;
106346 I put it in the pocket of my gown .
106347
106348
106349 I was sure your lordship did not give it me .
106350
106351 Bear with me , good boy , I am much forgetful .
106352 Canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes awhile ,
106353 And touch thy instrument a strain or two ?
106354
106355 Ay , my lord , an 't please you .
106356
106357 It does , my boy :
106358 I trouble thee too much , but thou art willing .
106359
106360 It is my duty , sir .
106361
106362 I should not urge thy duty past thy might ;
106363 I know young bloods look for a time of rest .
106364
106365 I have slept , my lord , already .
106366
106367 It was well done , and thou shalt sleep again ;
106368 I will not hold thee long : if I do live ,
106369 I will be good to thee .
106370
106371 This is a sleepy tune : O murderous slumber !
106372 Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy ,
106373 That plays thee music ? Gentle knave , good-night ;
106374 I will not do thee so much wrong to wake thee .
106375 If thou dost nod , thou break'st thy instrument ;
106376 I'll take it from thee ; and , good boy , good-night .
106377 Let me see , let me see ; is not the leaf turn'd down
106378 Where I left reading ? Here it is , I think .
106379
106380
106381 How ill this taper burns ! Ha ! who comes here ?
106382 I think it is the weakness of mine eyes
106383 That shapes this monstrous apparition .
106384 It comes upon me . Art thou any thing ?
106385 Art thou some god , some angel , or some devil ,
106386 That mak'st my blood cold and my hair to stare ?
106387
106388 Speak to me what thou art .
106389
106390 Thy evil spirit , Brutus .
106391
106392 Why com'st thou ?
106393
106394 To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi .
106395
106396 Well ; then I shall see thee again ?
106397
106398 Ay , at Philippi .
106399
106400 Why , I will see thee at Philippi then .
106401
106402 Now I have taken heart thou vanishest :
106403 Ill spirit , I would hold more talk with thee .
106404 Boy , Lucius ! Varro ! Claudius ! Sirs , awake !
106405 Claudius !
106406
106407 The strings , my lord , are false .
106408
106409 He thinks he still is at his instrument .
106410 Lucius , awake !
106411
106412 My lord !
106413
106414 Didst thou dream , Lucius , that thou so criedst out ?
106415
106416 My lord , I do not know that I did cry .
106417
106418 Yes , that thou didst . Didst thou see any thing ?
106419
106420 Nothing , my lord .
106421
106422 Sleep again , Lucius . Sirrah , Claudius !
106423 Fellow thou ! awake !
106424
106425 My lord !
106426
106427 My lord !
106428
106429 Why did you so cry out , sirs , in your sleep ?
106430
106431 Did we , my lord ?
106432
106433 Did we , my lord ?
106434
106435 Ay : saw you any thing ?
106436
106437 No , my lord , I saw nothing .
106438
106439 Nor I , my lord .
106440
106441 Go , and commend me to my brother Cassius .
106442 Bid him set on his powers betimes before ,
106443 And we will follow .
106444
106445 It shall be done , my lord .
106446
106447 It shall be done , my lord .
106448
106449 Now , Antony , our hopes are answered :
106450 You said the enemy would not come down ,
106451 But keep the hills and upper regions ;
106452 It proves not so ; their battles are at hand ;
106453 They mean to warn us at Philippi here ,
106454 Answering before we do demand of them .
106455
106456 Tut ! I am in their bosoms , and I know
106457 Wherefore they do it : they could be content
106458 To visit other places ; and come down
106459 With fearful bravery , thinking by this face
106460 To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage ;
106461 But 'tis not so .
106462
106463
106464 Prepare you , generals :
106465 The enemy comes on in gallant show ;
106466 Their bloody sign of battle is hung out ,
106467 And something to be done immediately .
106468
106469 Octavius , lead your battle softly on ,
106470 Upon the left hand of the even field .
106471
106472 Upon the right hand I ; keep thou the left .
106473
106474 Why do you cross me in this exigent ?
106475
106476 I do not cross you ; but I will do so .
106477
106478 They stand , and would have parley .
106479
106480 Stand fast , Titinius : we must out and talk .
106481
106482 Mark Antony , shall we give sign of battle ?
106483
106484 No , C sar , we will answer on their charge .
106485 Make forth ; the generals would have some words .
106486
106487 Stir not until the signal .
106488
106489 Words before blows : is it so , countrymen ?
106490
106491 Not that we love words better , as you do .
106492
106493 Good words are better than bad strokes , Octavius .
106494
106495 In your bad strokes , Brutus , you give good words :
106496 Witness the hole you made in C sar's heart ,
106497 Crying , 'Long live ! hail , C sar !'
106498
106499 Antony ,
106500 The posture of your blows are yet unknown ;
106501 But for your words , they rob the Hybla bees ,
106502 And leave them honeyless .
106503
106504 Not stingless too .
106505
106506 O ! yes , and soundless too ;
106507 For you have stol'n their buzzing , Antony ,
106508 And very wisely threat before you sting .
106509
106510 Villains ! you did not so when your vile daggers
106511 Hack'd one another in the sides of C sar :
106512 How show'd your teeth like apes , and fawn'd like hounds ,
106513 And bow'd like bondmen , kissing C sar's feet ;
106514 Whilst damned Casca , like a cur , behind
106515 Struck C sar on the neck . O you flatterers !
106516
106517 Flatterers ! Now , Brutus , thank yourself :
106518 This tongue had not offended so to-day ,
106519 If Cassius might have rul'd .
106520
106521 Come , come , the cause : if arguing make us sweat ,
106522 The proof of it will turn to redder drops .
106523 Look ;
106524 I draw a sword against conspirators ;
106525 When think you that the sword goes up again ?
106526 Never , till C sar's three-and-thirty wounds
106527 Be well aveng'd ; or till another C sar
106528 Have added slaughter to the sword of traitors .
106529
106530 C sar , thou canst not die by traitors' hands ,
106531 Unless thou bring'st them with thee .
106532
106533 So I hope ;
106534 I was not born to die on Brutus' sword .
106535
106536 O ! if thou wert the noblest of thy strain ,
106537 Young man , thou couldst not die more honourable .
106538
106539 A peevish schoolboy , worthless of such honour ,
106540 Join'd with a masquer and a reveller .
106541
106542 Old Cassius still !
106543
106544 Come , Antony ; away !
106545 Defiance , traitors , hurl we in your teeth .
106546 If you dare fight to-day , come to the field ;
106547 If not , when you have stomachs .
106548
106549
106550 Why now , blow wind , swell billow , and swim bark !
106551 The storm is up , and all is on the hazard .
106552
106553 Ho !
106554 Lucilius ! hark , a word with you .
106555
106556 My lord ?
106557
106558
106559 Messala !
106560
106561 What says my general ?
106562
106563 Messala ,
106564 This is my birth-day ; as this very day
106565 Was Cassius born . Give me thy hand , Messala :
106566 Be thou my witness that against my will ,
106567 As Pompey was , am I compell'd to set
106568 Upon one battle all our liberties .
106569 You know that I held Epicurus strong ,
106570 And his opinion ; now I change my mind ,
106571 And partly credit things that do presage .
106572 Coming from Sardis , on our former ensign
106573 Two mighty eagles fell , and there they perch'd ,
106574 Gorging and feeding from our soldiers' hands ;
106575 Who to Philippi here consorted us :
106576 This morning are they fled away and gone ,
106577 And in their stead do ravens , crows , and kites
106578 Fly o'er our heads , and downward look on us ,
106579 As we were sickly prey : their shadows seem
106580 A canopy most fatal , under which
106581 Our army lies , ready to give up the ghost .
106582
106583 Believe not so .
106584
106585 I but believe it partly ,
106586 For I am fresh of spirit and resolv'd
106587 To meet all perils very constantly .
106588
106589 Even so , Lucilius .
106590
106591 Now , most noble Brutus ,
106592 The gods to-day stand friendly , that we may ,
106593 Lovers in peace , lead on our days to age !
106594 But since the affairs of men rest still incertain ,
106595 Let's reason with the worst that may befall .
106596 If we do lose this battle , then is this
106597 The very last time we shall speak together :
106598 What are you then , determined to do ?
106599
106600 Even by the rule of that philosophy
106601 By which I did blame Cato for the death
106602 Which he did give himself ; I know not how ,
106603 But I do find it cowardly and vile ,
106604 For fear of what might fall , so to prevent
106605 The time of life : arming myself with patience ,
106606 To stay the providence of some high powers
106607 That govern us below .
106608
106609 Then , if we lose this battle ,
106610 You are contented to be led in triumph
106611 Thorough the streets of Rome ?
106612
106613 No , Cassius , no : think not , thou noble Roman ,
106614 That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome ;
106615 He bears too great a mind : but this same day
106616 Must end that work the ides of March begun ;
106617 And whether we shall meet again I know not .
106618 Therefore our everlasting farewell take :
106619 For ever , and for ever , farewell , Cassius !
106620 If we do meet again , why , we shall smile ;
106621 If not , why then , this parting was well made .
106622
106623 For ever , and for ever , farewell , Brutus !
106624 If we do meet again , we'll smile indeed ;
106625 If not , 'tis true this parting was well made .
106626
106627 Why , then , lead on . O ! that a man might know
106628 The end of this day's business , ere it come ;
106629 But it sufficeth that the day will end ,
106630 And then the end is known . Come , ho ! away !
106631
106632
106633 Ride , ride , Messala , ride , and give these bills
106634 Unto the legions on the other side .
106635
106636 Let them set on at once , for I perceive
106637 But cold demeanour in Octavius' wing ,
106638 And sudden push gives them the overthrow .
106639 Ride , ride , Messala : let them all come down .
106640
106641
106642 O ! look , Titinius , look , the villains fly :
106643 Myself have to mine own turn'd enemy ;
106644 This ensign here of mine was turning back ;
106645 I slew the coward , and did take it from him .
106646
106647 O Cassius ! Brutus gave the word too early ;
106648 Who , having some advantage on Octavius ,
106649 Took it too eagerly : his soldiers fell to spoil ,
106650 Whilst we by Antony are all enclos'd .
106651
106652
106653 Fly further off , my lord , fly further off ;
106654 Mark Antony is in your tents , my lord :
106655 Fly , therefore , noble Cassius , fly far off .
106656
106657 This hill is far enough . Look , look , Titinius ;
106658 Are those my tents where I perceive the fire ?
106659
106660 They are , my lord .
106661
106662 Titinius , if thou lov'st me ,
106663 Mount thou my horse , and hide thy spurs in him ,
106664 Till he have brought thee up to yonder troops
106665 And here again ; that I may rest assur'd
106666 Whether yond troops are friend or enemy .
106667
106668 I will be here again , even with a thought .
106669
106670
106671 Go , Pindarus , get higher on that hill ;
106672 My sight was ever thick ; regard Titinius ,
106673 And tell me what thou not'st about the field .
106674
106675 This day I breathed first ; time is come round ,
106676 And where I did begin , there shall I end ;
106677 My life is run his compass . Sirrah , what news ?
106678
106679 O my lord !
106680
106681 What news ?
106682
106683 Titinius is enclosed round about
106684 With horsemen , that make to him on the spur ;
106685 Yet he spurs on : now they are almost on him ;
106686 Now , Titinius ! now some light ; O ! he lights too :
106687 He's ta'en ;
106688
106689 and , hark ! they shout for joy .
106690
106691 Come down ; behold no more .
106692 O , coward that I am , to live so long ,
106693 To see my best friend ta'en before my face !
106694
106695 Come hither , sirrah :
106696 In Parthia did I take thee prisoner ;
106697 And then I swore thee , saving of thy life ,
106698 That whatsoever I did bid thee do ,
106699 Thou shouldst attempt it . Come now , keep thine oath ;
106700 Now be a freeman ; and with this good sword ,
106701 That ran through C sar's bowels , search this bosom .
106702 Stand not to answer ; here , take thou the hilts ;
106703 And , when my face is cover'd , as 'tis now ,
106704 Guide thou the sword . C sar , thou art reveng'd ,
106705 Even with the sword that kill'd thee .
106706
106707
106708 So , I am free ; yet would not so have been ;
106709 Durst I have done my will . O Cassius ,
106710 Far from this country Pindarus shall run ,
106711 Where never Roman shall take note of him .
106712
106713 It is but change , Titinius ; for Octavius
106714 Is overthrown by noble Brutus' power ,
106715 As Cassius' legions are by Antony .
106716
106717 These tidings will well comfort Cassius .
106718
106719 Where did you leave him ?
106720
106721 All disconsolate ,
106722 With Pindarus his bondman , on this hill .
106723
106724 Is not that he that lies upon the ground ?
106725
106726 He lies not like the living . O my heart !
106727
106728 Is not that he ?
106729
106730 No , this was he , Messala ,
106731 But Cassius is no more . O setting sun !
106732 As in thy red rays thou dost sink to-night ,
106733 So in his red blood Cassius' day is set ;
106734 The sun of Rome is set . Our day is gone ;
106735 Clouds , dews , and dangers come ; our deeds are done .
106736 Mistrust of my success hath done this deed .
106737
106738 Mistrust of good success hath done this deed .
106739 O hateful error , melancholy's child !
106740 Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
106741 The things that are not ? O error ! soon conceiv'd ,
106742 Thou never com'st unto a happy birth ,
106743 But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee .
106744
106745 What , Pindarus ! Where art thou , Pindarus ?
106746
106747 Seek him , Titinius , whilst I go to meet
106748 The noble Brutus , thrusting this report
106749 Into his ears ; I may say , thrusting it ;
106750 For piercing steel and darts envenomed
106751 Shall be as welcome to the ears of Brutus
106752 As tidings of this sight .
106753
106754 Hie you , Messala ,
106755 And I will seek for Pindarus the while .
106756
106757 Why didst thou send me forth , brave Cassius ?
106758 Did I not meet thy friends ? and did not they
106759 Put on my brows this wreath of victory ,
106760 And bid me give it thee ? Didst thou not hear their shouts ?
106761 Alas ! thou hast misconstru'd every thing .
106762 But , hold thee , take this garland on thy brow ;
106763 Thy Brutus bid me give it thee , and I
106764 Will do his bidding . Brutus , come apace ,
106765 And see how I regarded Caius Cassius .
106766 By your leave , gods : this is a Roman's part :
106767 Come , Cassius' sword , and find Titinius' heart .
106768
106769 Where , where , Messala , doth his body lie ?
106770
106771 Lo , yonder : and Titinius mourning it .
106772
106773 Titinius' face is upward .
106774
106775 He is slain .
106776
106777 O Julius C sar ! thou art mighty yet !
106778 Thy spirit walks abroad , and turns our swords
106779 In our own proper entrails .
106780
106781
106782 Brave Titinius !
106783 Look whe'r he have not crown'd dead Cassius !
106784
106785 Are yet two Romans living such as these ?
106786 The last of all the Romans , fare thee well !
106787 It is impossible that ever Rome
106788 Should breed thy fellow . Friends , I owe more tears
106789 To this dead man than you shall see me pay .
106790 I shall find time , Cassius , I shall find time .
106791 Come therefore , and to Thassos send his body :
106792 His funerals shall not be in our camp ,
106793 Lest it discomfort us . Lucilius , come ;
106794 And come , young Cato ;let us to the field .
106795 Labeo and Flavius , set our battles on :
106796 'Tis three o'clock ; and , Romans , yet ere night
106797 We shall try fortune in a second fight .
106798
106799
106800 Yet , countrymen , O ! yet hold up your heads !
106801
106802 What bastard doth not ? Who will go with me ?
106803 I will proclaim my name about the field :
106804 I am the son of Marcus Cato , ho !
106805 A foe to tyrants , and my country's friend ;
106806 I am the son of Marcus Cato , ho !
106807
106808 And I am Brutus , Marcus Brutus , I ;
106809 Brutus , my country's friend ; know me for Brutus !
106810
106811
106812 O young and noble Cato , art thou down ?
106813 Why , now thou diest as bravely as Titinius ,
106814 And mayst be honour'd being Cato's son .
106815
106816 Yield , or thou diest .
106817
106818 Only I yield to die :
106819 There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight .
106820
106821 Kill Brutus , and be honour'd in his death .
106822
106823 We must not . A noble prisoner !
106824
106825 Room , ho ! Tell Antony , Brutus is ta'en .
106826
106827 I'll tell the news : here comes the general .
106828
106829 Brutus is ta'en , my lord .
106830
106831 Where is he ?
106832
106833 Safe , Antony ; Brutus is safe enough :
106834 I dare assure thee that no enemy
106835 Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus :
106836 The gods defend him from so great a shame !
106837 When you do find him , or alive or dead ,
106838 He will be found like Brutus , like himself .
106839
106840 This is not Brutus , friend ; but , I assure you ,
106841 A prize no less in worth . Keep this man safe ,
106842 Give him all kindness : I had rather have
106843 Such men my friends than enemies . Go on ,
106844 And see whe'r Brutus be alive or dead ;
106845 And bring us word unto Octavius' tent ,
106846 How every thing is chanc'd .
106847
106848
106849 Come , poor remains of friends , rest on this rock .
106850
106851 Statilius show'd the torch-light ; but , my lord ,
106852 He came not back : he is or ta'en or slain .
106853
106854 Sit thee down , Clitus : slaying is the word ;
106855 It is a deed in fashion . Hark thee , Clitus .
106856
106857
106858 What , I , my lord ? No , not for all the world .
106859
106860 Peace , then ! no words .
106861
106862 I'll rather kill myself .
106863
106864 Hark thee , Dardanius .
106865
106866
106867 Shall I do such a deed ?
106868
106869 O , Dardanius !
106870
106871 O , Clitus !
106872
106873 What ill request did Brutus make to thee ?
106874
106875 To kill him , Clitus . Look , he meditates .
106876
106877 Now is that noble vessel full of grief ,
106878 That it runs over even at his eyes .
106879
106880 Come hither , good Volumnius : list a word .
106881
106882 What says my lord ?
106883
106884 Why this , Volumnius :
106885 The ghost of C sar hath appear'd to me
106886 Two several times by night ; at Sardis once ,
106887 And this last night here in Philippi fields .
106888 I know my hour is come .
106889
106890 Not so , my lord .
106891
106892 Nay , I am sure it is , Volumnius .
106893 Thou seest the world , Volumnius , how it goes ;
106894 Our enemies have beat us to the pit :
106895 It is more worthy to leap in ourselves ,
106896 Than tarry till they push us . Good Volumnius ,
106897 Thou know'st that we two went to school together :
106898 Even for that our love of old , I prithee ,
106899 Hold thou my sword-hilts , whilst I run on it .
106900
106901 That's not an office for a friend , my lord .
106902
106903
106904 Fly , fly , my lord ! there is no tarrying here .
106905
106906 Farewell to you ; and you ; and you , Volumnius .
106907 Strato , thou hast been all this while asleep ;
106908 Farewell to thee too , Strato . Countrymen ,
106909 My heart doth joy that yet , in all my life ,
106910 I found no man but he was true to me .
106911 I shall have glory by this losing day ,
106912 More than Octavius and Mark Antony
106913 By this vile conquest shall attain unto .
106914 So fare you well at once ; for Brutus' tongue
106915 Hath almost ended his life's history :
106916 Night hangs upon mine eyes ; my bones would rest ,
106917 That have but labour'd to attain this hour .
106918
106919
106920 Fly , my lord , fly .
106921
106922 Hence ! I will follow .
106923
106924 I prithee , Strato , stay thou by thy lord :
106925 Thou art a fellow of a good respect ;
106926 Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it :
106927 Hold then my sword , and turn away thy face ,
106928 While I do run upon it . Wilt thou , Strato ?
106929
106930 Give me your hand first : fare you well , my lord .
106931
106932 Farewell , good Strato .
106933
106934 C sar , now be still ;
106935 I kill'd not thee with half so good a will .
106936
106937 What man is that ?
106938
106939 My master's man . Strato , where is thy master ?
106940
106941 Free from the bondage you are in , Messala ;
106942 The conquerors can but make a fire of him ;
106943 For Brutus only overcame himself ,
106944 And no man else hath honour by his death .
106945
106946 So Brutus should be found . I thank thee , Brutus ,
106947 That thou hast prov'd Lucilius' saying true .
106948
106949 All that serv'd Brutus , I will entertain them .
106950 Fellow , wilt thou bestow thy time with me ?
106951
106952 Ay , if Messala will prefer me to you .
106953
106954 Do so , good Messala .
106955
106956 How died my master , Strato ?
106957
106958 I held the sword , and he did run on it .
106959
106960 Octavius , then take him to follow thee ,
106961 That did the latest service to my master .
106962
106963 This was the noblest Roman of them all ;
106964 All the conspirators save only he
106965 Did that they did in envy of great C sar ;
106966 He only , in a general honest thought
106967 And common good to all , made one of them .
106968 His life was gentle , and the elements
106969 So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up
106970 And say to all the world , 'This was a man !'
106971
106972 According to his virtue let us use him ,
106973 With all respect and rites of burial .
106974 Within my tent his bones to-night shall lie ,
106975 Most like a soldier , order'd honourably .
106976 So , call the field to rest ; and let's away ,
106977 To part the glories of this happy day .
106978
106979 KING LEAR
106980
106981 I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall .
106982
106983 It did always seem so to us ; but now , in the division of the kingdom , it appears not which of the dukes he values most ; for equalities are so weighed that curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety .
106984
106985 Is not this your son , my lord ?
106986
106987 His breeding , sir , hath been at my charge : I have so often blushed to acknowledge him , that now I am brazed to it .
106988
106989 I cannot conceive you .
106990
106991 Sir , this young fellow's mother could ; whereupon she grew round-wombed , and had , indeed , sir , a son for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed . Do you smell a fault ?
106992
106993 I cannot wish the fault undone , the issue of it being so proper .
106994
106995 But I have a son , sir , by order of law , some year elder than this , who yet is no dearer in my account : though this knave came somewhat saucily into the world before he was sent for , yet was his mother fair ; there was good sport at his making , and the whoreson must be acknowledged . Do you know this noble gentleman , Edmund ?
106996
106997 No , my lord .
106998
106999 My Lord of Kent : remember him hereafter as my honourable friend .
107000
107001 My services to your lordship .
107002
107003 I must love you , and sue to know you better .
107004
107005 Sir , I shall study deserving .
107006
107007 He hath been out nine years , and away he shall again . The king is coming .
107008
107009
107010 Attend the Lords of France and Burgundy , Gloucester .
107011
107012 I shall , my liege .
107013
107014
107015 Meantime we shall express our darker purpose .
107016 Give me the map there . Know that we have divided
107017 In three our kingdom ; and 'tis our fast intent
107018 To shake all cares and business from our age ,
107019 Conferring them on younger strengths , while we
107020 Unburden'd crawl toward death . Our son of Cornwall ,
107021 And you , our no less loving son of Albany ,
107022 We have this hour a constant will to publish
107023 Our daughters' several dowers , that future strife
107024 May be prevented now . The princes , France and Burgundy ,
107025 Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love ,
107026 Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn ,
107027 And here are to be answer'd . Tell me , my daughters ,
107028 Since now we will divest us both of rule ,
107029 Interest of territory , cares of state ,
107030 Which of you shall we say doth love us most ?
107031 That we our largest bounty may extend
107032 Where nature doth with merit challenge . Goneril ,
107033 Our eldest-born , speak first .
107034
107035 Sir , I love you more than words can wield the matter ;
107036 Dearer than eye-sight , space , and liberty ;
107037 Beyond what can be valu'd , rich or rare ;
107038 No less than life , with grace , health , beauty , honour ;
107039 As much as child e'er lov'd , or father found ;
107040 A love that makes breath poor and speech unable ;
107041 Beyond all manner of so much I love you .
107042
107043 What shall Cordelia do ? Love , and be silent .
107044
107045 Of all these bounds , even from this line to this ,
107046 With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd ,
107047 With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads ,
107048 We make thee lady : to thine and Albany's issue
107049 Be this perpetual . What says our second daughter ,
107050 Our dearest Regan , wife to Cornwall ? Speak .
107051
107052 I am made of that self metal as my sister ,
107053 And prize me at her worth . In my true heart
107054 I find she names my very deed of love ;
107055 Only she comes too short : that I profess
107056 Myself an enemy to all other joys
107057 Which the most precious square of sense possesses
107058 And find I am alone felicitate
107059 In your dear highness' love .
107060
107061 Then , poor Cordelia !
107062 And yet not so ; since , I am sure , my love's
107063 More richer than my tongue .
107064
107065 To thee and thine , hereditary ever ,
107066 Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom ,
107067 No less in space , validity , and pleasure ,
107068 Than that conferr'd on Goneril . Now , our joy ,
107069 Although our last , not least ; to whose young love
107070 The vines of France and milk of Burgundy
107071 Strive to be interess'd ; what can you say to draw
107072 A third more opulent than your sisters ? Speak .
107073
107074 Nothing , my lord .
107075
107076 Nothing ?
107077
107078 Nothing .
107079
107080 Nothing will come of nothing : speak again .
107081
107082 Unhappy that I am , I cannot heave
107083 My heart into my mouth : I love your majesty
107084 According to my bond ; nor more nor less .
107085
107086 How , how , Cordelia ! mend your speech a little ,
107087 Lest you may mar your fortunes .
107088
107089 Good my lord ,
107090 You have begot me , bred me , lov'd me : I
107091 Return those duties back as are right fit ,
107092 Obey you , love you , and most honour you .
107093 Why have my sisters husbands , if they say
107094 They love you all ? Haply , when I shall wed ,
107095 That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry
107096 Half my love with him , half my care and duty :
107097 Sure I shall never marry like my sisters ,
107098 To love my father all .
107099
107100 But goes thy heart with this ?
107101
107102 Ay , good my lord .
107103
107104 So young , and so untender ?
107105
107106 So young , my lord , and true .
107107
107108 Let it be so ; thy truth then be thy dower :
107109 For , by the sacred radiance of the sun ,
107110 The mysteries of Hecate and the night ,
107111 By all the operation of the orbs
107112 From whom we do exist and cease to be ,
107113 Here I disclaim all my paternal care ,
107114 Propinquity and property of blood ,
107115 And as a stranger to my heart and me
107116 Hold thee from this for ever . The barbarous Scythian ,
107117 Or he that makes his generation messes
107118 To gorge his appetite , shall to my bosom
107119 Be as well neighbour'd , pitied , and reliev'd ,
107120 As thou my sometime daughter .
107121
107122 Good my liege ,
107123
107124 Peace , Kent !
107125 Come not between the dragon and his wrath .
107126 I lov'd her most , and thought to set my rest
107127 On her kind nursery . Hence , and avoid my sight !
107128 So be my grave my peace , as here I give
107129 Her father's heart from her ! Call France . Who stirs ?
107130 Call Burgundy . Cornwall and Albany ,
107131 With my two daughters' dowers digest the third ;
107132 Let pride , which she calls plainness , marry her .
107133 I do invest you jointly with my power ,
107134 Pre-eminence , and all the large effects
107135 That troop with majesty . Ourself by monthly course ,
107136 With reservation of a hundred knights ,
107137 By you to be sustain'd , shall our abode
107138 Make with you by due turn . Only we shall retain
107139 The name and all th' addition to a king ;
107140 The sway , revenue , execution of the rest ,
107141 Beloved sons , be yours : which to confirm ,
107142 This coronet part between you .
107143
107144 Royal Lear ,
107145 Whom I have ever honour'd as my king ,
107146 Lov'd as my father , as my master follow'd ,
107147 As my great patron thought on in my prayers ,
107148
107149 The bow is bent and drawn ; make from the shaft .
107150
107151 Let it fall rather , though the fork invade
107152 The region of my heart : be Kent unmannerly
107153 When Lear is mad . What wouldst thou do , old man ?
107154 Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
107155 When power to flattery bows ? To plainness honour's bound
107156 When majesty falls to folly . Reserve thy state ;
107157 And , in thy best consideration , check
107158 This hideous rashness : answer my life my judgment ,
107159 Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least ;
107160 Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound
107161 Reverbs no hollowness .
107162
107163 Kent , on thy life , no more .
107164
107165 My life I never held but as a pawn
107166 To wage against thine enemies ; nor fear to lose it ,
107167 Thy safety being the motive .
107168
107169 Out of my sight !
107170
107171 See better , Lear ; and let me still remain
107172 The true blank of thine eye .
107173
107174 Now , by Apollo ,
107175
107176 Now , by Apollo , king ,
107177 Thou swear'st thy gods in vain .
107178
107179 O vassal ! miscreant !
107180
107181
107182 Dear sir , forbear .
107183
107184 Dear sir , forbear .
107185
107186 Do ;
107187 Kill thy physician , and the fee bestow
107188 Upon the foul disease . Revoke thy gift ;
107189 Or , whilst I can vent clamour from my throat ,
107190 I'll tell thee thou dost evil .
107191
107192 Hear me , recreant !
107193 On thine allegiance , hear me !
107194 Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow ,
107195 Which we durst never yet ,and , with strain'd pride
107196 To come betwixt our sentence and our power ,
107197 Which nor our nature nor our place can hear ,
107198 Our potency made good , take thy reward .
107199 Five days we do allot thee for provision
107200 To shield thee from diseases of the world ;
107201 And , on the sixth , to turn thy hated back
107202 Upon our kingdom : if , on the tenth day following
107203 Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions ,
107204 The moment is thy death . Away ! By Jupiter ,
107205 This shall not be revok'd .
107206
107207 Fare thee well , king ; sith thus thou wilt appear ,
107208 Freedom lives hence , and banishment is here .
107209
107210
107211 The gods to their dear shelter take thee , maid ,
107212 That justly think'st , and hast most rightly said !
107213
107214
107215 And your large speeches may your deeds approve ,
107216 That good effects may spring from words of love .
107217 Thus Kent , O princes ! bids you all adieu ;
107218 He'll shape his old course in a country new .
107219
107220 Here's France and Burgundy , my noble lord .
107221
107222 My Lord of Burgundy ,
107223 We first address toward you , who with this king
107224 Hath rivall'd for our daughter . What , in the least ,
107225 Will you require in present dower with her ,
107226 Or cease your quest of love ?
107227
107228 Most royal majesty ,
107229 I crave no more than hath your highness offer'd ,
107230 Nor will you tender less .
107231
107232 Right noble Burgundy ,
107233 When she was dear to us we did hold her so ,
107234 But now her price is fall'n . Sir , there she stands :
107235 If aught within that little-seeming substance ,
107236 Or all of it , with our displeasure piec'd ,
107237 And nothing more , may fitly like your Grace ,
107238 She's there , and she is yours .
107239
107240 I know no answer .
107241
107242 Will you , with those infirmities she owes ,
107243 Unfriended , new-adopted to our hate ,
107244 Dower'd with our curse , and stranger'd with our oath ,
107245 Take her , or leave her ?
107246
107247 Pardon me , royal sir ;
107248 Election makes not up on such conditions .
107249
107250 Then leave her , sir ; for , by the power that made me ,
107251 I tell you all her wealth .
107252
107253 For you , great king ,
107254 I would not from your love make such a stray
107255 To match you where I hate ; therefore , beseech you
107256 To avert your liking a more worthier way
107257 Than on a wretch whom nature is asham'd
107258 Almost to acknowledge hers .
107259
107260 This is most strange ,
107261 That she , who even but now was your best object ,
107262 The argument of your praise , balm of your age ,
107263 The best , the dearest , should in this trice of time
107264 Commit a thing so monstrous , to dismantle
107265 So many folds of favour . Sure , her offence
107266 Must be of such unnatural degree
107267 That monsters it , or your fore-vouch'd affection
107268 Fall into taint ; which to believe of her ,
107269 Must be a faith that reason without miracle
107270 Could never plant in me .
107271
107272 I yet beseech your majesty
107273 If for I want that glib and oily art
107274 To speak and purpose not ; since what I well intend ,
107275 I'll do 't before I speak that you make known
107276 It is no vicious blot nor other foulness ,
107277 No unchaste action , or dishonour'd step ,
107278 That hath depriv'd me of your grace and favour ,
107279 But even for want of that for which I am richer ,
107280 A still-soliciting eye , and such a tongue
107281 That I am glad I have not , though not to have it
107282 Hath lost me in your liking .
107283
107284 Better thou
107285 Hadst not been born than not to have pleas'd me better .
107286
107287 Is it but this ? a tardiness in nature
107288 Which often leaves the history unspoke
107289 That it intends to do ? My Lord of Burgundy ,
107290 What say you to the lady ? Love is not love
107291 When it is mingled with regards that stand
107292 Aloof from the entire point . Will you have her ?
107293 She is herself a dowry .
107294
107295 Royal Lear ,
107296 Give but that portion which yourself propos'd ,
107297 And here I take Cordelia by the hand ,
107298 Duchess of Burgundy .
107299
107300 Nothing : I have sworn ; I am firm .
107301
107302 I am sorry , then , you have so lost a father
107303 That you must lose a husband .
107304
107305 Peace be with Burgundy !
107306 Since that respects of fortune are his love ,
107307 I shall not be his wife .
107308
107309 Fairest Cordelia , that art most rich , being poor ;
107310 Most choice , forsaken ; and most lov'd , despis'd !
107311 Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon :
107312 Be it lawful I take up what's cast away .
107313 Gods , gods ! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect
107314 My love should kindle to inflam'd respect .
107315 Thy dowerless daughter , king , thrown to my chance ,
107316 Is queen of us , of ours , and our fair France :
107317 Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy
107318 Shall buy this unpriz'd precious maid of me .
107319 Bid them farewell , Cordelia , though unkind :
107320 Thou losest here , a better where to find .
107321
107322 Thou hast her , France ; let her be thine , for we
107323 Have no such daughter , nor shall ever see
107324 That face of hers again , therefore be gone
107325 Without our grace , our love , our benison .
107326 Come , noble Burgundy .
107327
107328
107329 Bid farewell to your sisters .
107330
107331 The jewels of our father , with wash'd eyes
107332 Cordelia leaves you : I know you what you are ;
107333 And like a sister am most loath to call
107334 Your faults as they are nam'd . Use well our father :
107335 To your professed bosoms I commit him :
107336 But yet , alas ! stood I within his grace ,
107337 I would prefer him to a better place .
107338 So farewell to you both .
107339
107340 Prescribe not us our duties .
107341
107342 Let your study
107343 Be to content your lord , who hath receiv'd you
107344 At fortune's alms ; you have obedience scanted ,
107345 And well are worth the want that you have wanted .
107346
107347 Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides ;
107348 Who covers faults , at last shame them derides .
107349 Well may you prosper !
107350
107351 Come , my fair Cordelia .
107352
107353
107354 Sister , it is not little I have to say of what most nearly appertains to us both . I think our father will hence to-night .
107355
107356 That's most certain , and with you ; next month with us .
107357
107358 You see how full of changes his age is ; the observation we have made of it hath not been little : he always loved our sister most ; and with what poor judgment he hath now cast her off appears too grossly .
107359
107360 'Tis the infirmity of his age ; yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself .
107361
107362 The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash ; then , must we look to receive from his age , not alone the imperfections of long-engraffed condition , but , therewithal the unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric years bring with them .
107363
107364 Such unconstant starts are we like to have from him as this of Kent's banishment .
107365
107366 There is further compliment of leave-taking between France and him . Pray you , let us hit together : if our father carry authority with such dispositions as he bears , this last surrender of his will but offend us .
107367
107368 We shall further think on't .
107369
107370 We must do something , and i' the heat .
107371
107372
107373 Thou , Nature , art my goddess ; to thy law
107374 My services are bound . Wherefore should I
107375 Stand in the plague of custom , and permit
107376 The curiosity of nations to deprive me ,
107377 For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines
107378 Lag of a brother ? Why bastard ? wherefore base ?
107379 When my dimensions are as well compact ,
107380 My mind as generous , and my shape as true ,
107381 As honest madam's issue ? Why brand they us
107382 With base ? with baseness ? bastardy ? base , base ?
107383 Who in the lusty stealth of nature take
107384 More composition and fierce quality
107385 Than doth , within a dull , stale , tired bed ,
107386 Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops ,
107387 Got 'tween asleep and wake ? Well then ,
107388 Legitimate Edgar , I must have your land :
107389 Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund
107390 As to the legitimate . Fine word , 'legitimate !'
107391 Well , my legitimate , if this letter speed ,
107392 And my invention thrive , Edmund the base
107393 Shall top the legitimate :I grow , I prosper ;
107394 Now , gods , stand up for bastards !
107395
107396
107397 Kent banished thus ! And France in choler parted !
107398 And the king gone to-night ! subscrib'd his power !
107399 Confin'd to exhibition ! All this done
107400 Upon the gad ! Edmund , how now ! what news ?
107401
107402 So please your lordship , none .
107403
107404
107405 Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter ?
107406
107407 I know no news , my lord .
107408
107409 What paper were you reading ?
107410
107411 Nothing , my lord .
107412
107413 No ? What needed then that terrible dispatch of it into your pocket ? the quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself . Let's see ; come ; if it be nothing , I shall not need spectacles .
107414
107415 I beseech you , sir , pardon me ; it is a letter from my brother that I have not all o'er-read , and for so much as I have perused , I find it not fit for your o'er-looking .
107416
107417 Give me the letter , sir .
107418
107419 I shall offend , either to detain or give it . The contents , as in part I understand them , are to blame .
107420
107421 Let's see , let's see .
107422
107423 I hope , for my brother's justification , he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue .
107424
107425 This policy and reverence of age makes the world bitter to the best of our times ; keeps our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish them . I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny , who sways , not as it hath power , but as it is suffered . Come to me , that of this I may speak more . If our father would sleep till I waked him , you should enjoy half his revenue for ever , and live the beloved of your brother ,
107426
107427 It was not brought me , my lord ; there's the cunning of it ; I found it thrown in at the casement of my closet .
107428
107429 You know the character to be your brother's ?
107430
107431 If the matter were good , my lord , I durst swear it were his ; but , in respect of that , I would fain think it were not .
107432
107433 It is his .
107434
107435 It is his hand , my lord ; but I hope his heart is not in the contents .
107436
107437 Hath he never heretofore sounded you in this business ?
107438
107439 Never , my lord : but I have often heard him maintain it to be fit that , sons at perfect age , and fathers declined , the father should be as ward to the son , and the son manage his revenue .
107440
107441 O villain , villain ! His very opinion in the letter ! Abhorred villain ! Unnatural , detested , brutish villain ! worse than brutish ! Go , sirrah , seek him ; I'll apprehend him . Abominable villain ! Where is he ?
107442
107443 I do not well know , my lord . If it shall please you to suspend your indignation against my brother till you can derive from him better testimony of his intent , you shall run a certain course ; where , if you violently proceed against him , mistaking his purpose , it would make a great gap in your own honour , and shake in pieces the heart of his obedience . I dare pawn down my life for him , that he hath writ this to feel my affection to your honour , and to no other pretence of danger .
107444
107445 Think you so ?
107446
107447 If your honour judge it meet , I will place you where you shall hear us confer of this , and by an auricular assurance have your satisfaction ; and that without any further delay than this very evening .
107448
107449 He cannot be such a monster
107450
107451 Nor is not , sure .
107452
107453 to his father , that so tenderly and entirely loves him . Heaven and earth ! Edmund , seek him out ; wind me into him , I pray you : frame the business after your own wisdom . I would unstate myself to be in a due resolution .
107454
107455 I will seek him , sir , presently ; convey the business as I shall find means , and acquaint you withal .
107456
107457 These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us : though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus , yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects . Love cools , friendship falls off , brothers divide : in cities , mutinies ; in countries , discord ; in palaces , treason ; and the bond cracked between son and father . This villain of mine comes under the prediction ; there's son against father : the king falls from bias of nature ; there's father against child . We have seen the best of our time : machinations , hollowness , treachery , and all ruinous disorders , follow us disquietly to our graves . Find out this villain , Edmund ; it shall lose thee nothing : do it carefully . And the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence , honesty ! 'Tis strange !
107458
107459
107460 This is the excellent foppery of the world , that , when we are sick in fortune ,often the surfeit of our own behaviour ,we make guilty of our disasters the sun , the moon , and the stars ; as if we were villains by necessity , fools by heavenly compulsion , knaves , thieves , and treachers by spherical predominance , drunkards , liars , and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in , by a divine thrusting on : an admirable evasion of whoremaster man , to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star ! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail , and my nativity was under ursa major ; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous . 'Sfoot ! I should have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing . Edgar
107461
107462 and pat he comes , like the catastrophe of the old comedy : my cue is villanous melancholy , with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam . O , these eclipses do portend these divisions ! Fa , sol , la , mi .
107463
107464 How now , brother Edmund ! What serious contemplation are you in ?
107465
107466 I am thinking , brother , of a prediction I read this other day , what should follow these eclipses .
107467
107468 Do you busy yourself with that ?
107469
107470 I promise you the effects he writes of succeed unhappily ; as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent ; death , dearth , dissolutions of ancient amities ; divisions in state ; menaces and maledictions against king and nobles ; needless diffidences , banishment of friends , dissipation of cohorts , nuptial breaches , and I know not what .
107471
107472 How long have you been a sectary astronomical ?
107473
107474 Come , come ; when saw you my father last ?
107475
107476 The night gone by .
107477
107478 Spake you with him ?
107479
107480 Ay , two hours together .
107481
107482 Parted you in good terms ? Found you no displeasure in him by word or countenance ?
107483
107484 None at all .
107485
107486 Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended him ; and at my entreaty forbear his presence till some little time hath qualified the heat of his displeasure , which at this instant so rageth in him that with the mischief of your person it would scarcely allay .
107487
107488 Some villain hath done me wrong .
107489
107490 That's my fear . I pray you have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower , and , as I say , retire with me to my lodging , from whence I will fitly bring you to hear my lord speak . Pray you , go ; there's my key . If you do stir abroad , go armed .
107491
107492 Armed , brother !
107493
107494 Brother , I advise you to the best ; go armed ; I am no honest man if there be any good meaning toward you ; I have told you what I have seen and heard ; but faintly , nothing like the image and horror of it ; pray you , away .
107495
107496 Shall I hear from you anon ?
107497
107498 I do serve you in this business .
107499
107500 A credulous father , and a brother noble ,
107501 Whose nature is so far from doing harms
107502 That he suspects none ; on whose foolish honesty
107503 My practices ride easy ! I see the business .
107504 Let me , if not by birth , have lands by wit :
107505 All with me's meet that I can fashion fit .
107506
107507
107508 Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool ?
107509
107510 Ay , madam .
107511
107512 By day and night he wrongs me ; every hour
107513 He flashes into one gross crime or other ,
107514 That sets us all at odds : I'll not endure it :
107515 His knights grow riotous , and himself upbraids us
107516 On every trifle . When he returns from hunting
107517 I will not speak with him ; say I am sick :
107518 If you come slack of former services ,
107519 You shall do well ; the fault of it I'll answer .
107520
107521 He's coming , madam ; I hear him .
107522
107523
107524 Put on what weary negligence you please ,
107525 You and your fellows ; I'd have it come to question :
107526 If he distaste it , let him to my sister ,
107527 Whose mind and mine , I know , in that are one ,
107528 Not to be over-rul'd . Idle old man ,
107529 That still would manage those authorities
107530 That he hath given away ! Now , by my life ,
107531 Old fools are babes again , and must be us'd
107532 With cheeks as flatteries , when they are seen abus'd .
107533 Remember what I have said .
107534
107535 Well , madam .
107536
107537 And let his knights have colder looks among you ;
107538 What grown of it , no matter ; advise your fellows so :
107539 I would breed from hence occasions , and I shall ,
107540 That I may speak : I'll write straight to my sister
107541 To hold my very source . Prepare for dinner .
107542
107543
107544 If but as well I other accents borrow ,
107545 That can my speech diffuse , my good intent
107546 May carry through itself to that full issue
107547 For which I raz'd my likeness . Now , banish'd Kent ,
107548 If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd ,
107549 So may it come , thy master , whom thou lov'st ,
107550 Shall find thee full of labours .
107551
107552
107553 Let me not stay a jot for dinner : go , get it ready .
107554
107555 How now ! what art thou ?
107556
107557 A man , sir .
107558
107559 What dost thou profess ? What wouldst thou with us ?
107560
107561 I do profess to be no less than I seem ; to serve him truly that will put me in trust ; to love him that is honest ; to converse with him that is wise , and says little ; to fear judgment ; to fight when I cannot choose ; and to eat no fish .
107562
107563 What art thou ?
107564
107565 A very honest-hearted fellow , and as poor as the king .
107566
107567 If thou be as poor for a subject as he is for a king , thou art poor enough . What wouldst thou ?
107568
107569 Service .
107570
107571 Whom wouldst thou serve ?
107572
107573 You .
107574
107575 Dost thou know me , fellow ?
107576
107577 No , sir ; but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master .
107578
107579 What's that ?
107580
107581 Authority .
107582
107583 What services canst thou do ?
107584
107585 I can keep honest counsel , ride , run , mar a curious tale in telling it , and deliver a plain message bluntly ; that which ordinary men are fit for , I am qualified in , and the best of me is diligence .
107586
107587 How old art thou ?
107588
107589 Not so young , sir , to love a woman for singing , nor so old to dote on her for any thing ; I have years on my back forty-eight .
107590
107591 Follow me ; thou shalt serve me ; if I like thee no worse after dinner I will not part from thee yet . Dinner , ho ! dinner ! Where's my knave ? my fool ? Go you and call my fool hither .
107592
107593
107594 You , you , sirrah , where's my daughter ?
107595
107596 So please you ,
107597
107598
107599 What says the fellow there ? Call the clotpoll back .
107600
107601 Where's my fool , ho ? I think the world's asleep . How now ! where's that mongrel ?
107602
107603
107604 He says , my lord , your daughter is not well .
107605
107606 Why came not the slave back to me when I called him ?
107607
107608 Sir , he answered me in the roundest manner , he would not .
107609
107610 He would not !
107611
107612 My lord , I know not what the matter is ; but , to my judgment , your highness is not entertained with that ceremonious affection as you were wont ; there's a great abatement of kindness appears as well in the general dependants as in the duke himself also and your daughter .
107613
107614 Ha ! sayest thou so ?
107615
107616 I beseech you , pardon me , my lord , if I be mistaken ; for my duty cannot be silent when I think your highness wronged .
107617
107618 Thou but rememberest me of mine own conception : I have perceived a most faint neglect of late ; which I have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity than as a very pretence and purpose of unkindness : I will look further into 't . But where's my fool ? I have not seen him this two days .
107619
107620 Since my young lady's going into France , sir , the fool hath much pined him away .
107621
107622 No more of that ; I have noted it well .
107623 Go you and tell my daughter I would speak with her .
107624
107625 Go you , call hither my fool .
107626
107627 O ! you sir , you , come you hither , sir . Who am
107628
107629 I , sir ?
107630
107631 My lady's father .
107632
107633 'My lady's father !' my lord's knave : you whoreson dog ! you slave ! you cur !
107634
107635 I am none of these , my lord ; I beseech your pardon .
107636
107637 Do you bandy looks with me , you rascal ?
107638
107639
107640 I'll not be struck , my lord .
107641
107642 Nor tripped neither , you base football player .
107643
107644
107645 I thank thee , fellow ; thou servest me , and I'll love thee .
107646
107647 Come , sir , arise , away ! I'll teach you differences : away , away ! If you will measure your lubber's length again , tarry ; but away !
107648 Go to ; have you wisdom ? so .
107649
107650
107651 Now , my friendly knave , I thank thee : there's earnest of thy service .
107652
107653 Let me hire him too : here's my coxcomb .
107654
107655
107656 How now , my pretty knave ! how dost thou ?
107657
107658 Sirrah , you were best take my coxcomb .
107659
107660 Why , fool ?
107661
107662 Why ? for taking one's part that's out of favour . Nay , an thou canst not smile as the wind sits , thou'lt catch cold shortly : there , take my coxcomb . Why , this fellow has banished two on 's daughters , and did the third a blessing against his will : if thou follow him thou must needs wear my coxcomb . How now , nuncle ! Would I had two coxcombs and two daughters !
107663
107664 Why , my boy ?
107665
107666 If I gave them all my living , I'd keep my coxcombs myself . There's mine ; beg another of thy daughters .
107667
107668 Take heed , sirrah ; the whip .
107669
107670 Truth's a dog must to kennel ; he must be whipped out when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink .
107671
107672 A pestilent gall to me !
107673
107674 Sirrah , I'll teach' thee a speech .
107675
107676 Do .
107677
107678 Mark it , nuncle :
107679
107680 Have more than thou showest ,
107681 Speak less than thou knowest ,
107682 Lend less than thou owest ,
107683 Ride more than thou goest ,
107684 Learn more than thou trowest ,
107685 Set less than thou throwest ;
107686 Leave thy drink and thy whore ,
107687 And keep in-a-door ,
107688 And thou shalt have more
107689 Than two tens to a score .
107690
107691
107692 This is nothing , fool .
107693
107694 Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer , you gave me nothing for 't . Can you make no use of nothing , nuncle ?
107695
107696 Why , no , boy ; nothing can be made out of nothing .
107697
107698 Prithee , tell him , so much the rent of his land comes to : he will not believe a fool .
107699
107700 A bitter fool !
107701
107702 Dost thou know the difference , my boy , between a bitter fool and a sweet fool ?
107703
107704 No , lad ; teach me .
107705
107706
107707 That lord that counsell'd thee
107708 To give away thy land ,
107709 Come place him here by me ,
107710 Do thou for him stand :
107711 The sweet and bitter fool
107712 Will presently appear ;
107713 The one in motley here ,
107714 The other found out there .
107715
107716
107717 Dost thou call me fool , boy ?
107718
107719 All thy other titles thou hast given away ; that thou wast born with .
107720
107721 This is not altogether fool , my lord .
107722
107723 No , faith , lords and great men will not let me ; if I had a monopoly out , they would have part on 't , and ladies too : they will not let me have all fool to myself ; they'll be snatching . Nuncle , give me an egg , and I'll give thee two crowns .
107724
107725 What two crowns shall they be ?
107726
107727 Why , after I have cut the egg i' the middle and eat up the meat , the two crowns of the egg . When thou clovest thy crown i' the middle , and gavest away both parts , thou borest thine ass on thy back o'er the dirt : thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown when thou gavest thy golden one away . If I speak like myself in this , let him be whipped that first finds it so .
107728
107729 Fools had ne'er less grace in a year ;
107730 For wise men are grown foppish ,
107731 And know not how their wits to wear ,
107732 Their manners are so apish .
107733
107734
107735 When were you wont to be so full of songs , sirrah ?
107736
107737 I have used it , nuncle , ever since thou madest thy daughters thy mothers ; for when thou gavest them the rod and puttest down thine own breeches ,
107738
107739 Then they for sudden joy did weep ,
107740 And I for sorrow sung ,
107741 That such a king should play bo-peep ,
107742 And go the fools among .
107743
107744 Prithee , nuncle , keep a schoolmaster that can teach thy fool to lie : I would fain learn to lie .
107745
107746 An you lie , sirrah , we'll have you whipped .
107747
107748 I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are : they'll have me whipped for speaking true , thou'lt have me whipped for lying ; and sometimes I am whipped for holding my peace . I had rather be any kind o' thing than a fool ; and yet I would not be thee , nuncle ; thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides , and left nothing i' the middle : here comes one o' the parings .
107749
107750
107751 How now , daughter ! what makes that frontlet on ? Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown .
107752
107753 Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to care for her frowning ; now thou art an O without a figure . I am better than thou art now ; I am a fool , thou art nothing .
107754
107755 Yes , forsooth , I will hold my tongue ; so your face bids me , though you say nothing .
107756
107757 Mum , mum ;
107758 He that keeps nor crust nor crumb ,
107759 Weary of all , shall want some .
107760
107761 That's a shealed peascod .
107762
107763
107764 Not only , sir , this your all-licens'd fool ,
107765 But other of your insolent retinue
107766 Do hourly carp and quarrel , breaking forth
107767 In rank and not-to-be-endured riots . Sir ,
107768 I had thought , by making this well known unto you ,
107769 To have found a safe redress ; but now grow fearful ,
107770 By what yourself too late have spoke and done .
107771 That you protect this course , and put it on
107772 By your allowance ; which if you should , the fault
107773 Would not 'scape censure , nor the redresses sleep ,
107774 Which , in the tender of a wholesome weal ,
107775 Might in their working do you that offence ,
107776 Which else were shame , that then necessity
107777 Will call discreet proceeding .
107778
107779 For you trow , nuncle ,
107780
107781 The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long ,
107782 That it had it head bit off by it young .
107783
107784 So out went the candle , and we were left darkling .
107785
107786 Are you our daughter ?
107787
107788 I would you would make use of your good wisdom ,
107789 Whereof I know you are fraught ; and put away
107790 These dispositions which of late transform you
107791 From what you rightly are .
107792
107793 May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse ? Whoop , Jug ! I love thee .
107794
107795 Does any here know me ? This is not Lear :
107796 Does Lear walk thus ? speak thus ? Where are his eyes ?
107797 Either his notion weakens , his discernings
107798 Are lethargied . Ha ! waking ? 'tis not so .
107799 Who is it that can tell me who I am ?
107800
107801 Lear's shadow .
107802
107803 I would learn that ; for , by the marks of sovereignty , knowledge and reason , I should be false persuaded I had daughters .
107804
107805 Which they will make an obedient father .
107806
107807 Your name , fair gentlewoman ?
107808
107809 This admiration , sir , is much o' the favour
107810 Of other your new pranks . I do beseech you
107811 To understand my purposes aright :
107812 As you are old and reverend , should be wise .
107813 Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires ;
107814 Men so disorder'd , so debosh'd , and bold ,
107815 That this our court , infected with their manners ,
107816 Shows like a riotous inn : epicurism and lust
107817 Make it more like a tavern or a brothel
107818 Than a grac'd palace . The shame itself doth speak
107819 For instant remedy ; be then desir'd
107820 By her that else will take the thing she begs ,
107821 A little to disquantity your train ;
107822 And the remainder , that shall still depend ,
107823 To be such men as may besort your age ,
107824 Which know themselves and you .
107825
107826 Darkness and devils !
107827 Saddle my horses ; call my train together .
107828 Degenerate bastard ! I'll not trouble thee :
107829 Yet have I left a daughter .
107830
107831 You strike my people , and your disorder'd rabble
107832 Make servants of their betters .
107833
107834
107835 Woe , that too late repents ;
107836
107837
107838 O ! sir , are you come ?
107839 Is it your will ? Speak , sir . Prepare my horses .
107840 Ingratitude , thou marble-hearted fiend ,
107841 More hideous , when thou show'st thee in a child ,
107842 Than the sea-monster .
107843
107844 Pray , sir , be patient .
107845
107846 Detested kite ! thou liest :
107847 My train are men of choice and rarest parts ,
107848 That all particulars of duty know ,
107849 And in the most exact regard support
107850 The worships of their name . O most small fault ,
107851 How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show !
107852 Which , like an engine , wrench'd my frame of nature
107853 From the fix'd place , drew from my heart all love ,
107854 And added to the gall . O Lear , Lear , Lear !
107855 Beat at this gate , that let thy folly in ,
107856
107857 And thy dear judgment out ! Go , go , my people .
107858
107859 My lord , I am guiltless , as I am ignorant
107860 Of what hath mov'd you .
107861
107862 It may be so , my lord .
107863 Hear , Nature , hear ! dear goddess , hear !
107864 Suspend thy purpose , if thou didst intend
107865 To make this creature fruitful !
107866 Into her womb convey sterility !
107867 Dry up in her the organs of increase ,
107868 And from her derogate body never spring
107869 A babe to honour her ! If she must teem ,
107870 Create her child of spleen , that it may live
107871 And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her !
107872 Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth ,
107873 With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks ,
107874 Turn all her mother's pains and benefits
107875 To laughter and contempt , that she may feel
107876 How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
107877 To have a thankless child ! Away , away !
107878
107879
107880 Now , gods that we adore , whereof comes this ?
107881
107882 Never afflict yourself to know the cause ;
107883 But let his disposition have that scope
107884 That dotage gives it .
107885
107886
107887 What ! fifty of my followers at a clap ,
107888 Within a fortnight ?
107889
107890 What's the matter , sir ?
107891
107892 I'll tell thee .
107893
107894 Life and death ! I am asham'd
107895 That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus ,
107896 That these hot tears , which break from me perforce ,
107897 Should make thee worth them . Blasts and fogs upon thee !
107898 Th' untented woundings of a father's curse
107899 Pierce every sense about thee ! Old fond eyes ,
107900 Beweep this cause again , I'll pluck ye out ,
107901 And cast you , with the waters that you lose ,
107902 To temper clay . Yea , is it come to this ?
107903 Let it be so : I have another daughter ,
107904 Who , I am sure , is kind and comfortable :
107905 When she shall hear this of thee , with her nails
107906 She'll flay thy wolvish visage . Thou shalt find
107907 That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think
107908 I have cast off for ever ; thou shalt , I warrant thee .
107909
107910
107911 Do you mark that ?
107912
107913 I cannot be so partial , Goneril ,
107914 To the great love I bear you .
107915
107916 Pray you , content . What , Oswald , ho !
107917
107918
107919 You , sir , more knave than fool , after your master .
107920
107921 Nuncle Lear , nuncle Lear ! tarry , and take the fool with thee .
107922
107923 A fox , when one has caught her ,
107924 And such a daughter ,
107925 Should sure to the slaughter ,
107926 If my cap would buy a halter ;
107927 So the fool follows after .
107928
107929 This man hath had good counsel . A hundred knights !
107930 'Tis politic and safe to let him keep
107931 At point a hundred knights ; yes , that on every dream ,
107932 Each buzz , each fancy , each complaint , dislike ,
107933 He may enguard his dotage with their powers ,
107934 And hold our lives in mercy . Oswald , I say !
107935
107936 Well , you may fear too far .
107937
107938 Safer than trust too far .
107939 Let me still take away the harms I fear ,
107940 Not fear still to be taken : I know his heart .
107941 What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister ;
107942 If she sustain him and his hundred knights ,
107943 When I have show'd the unfitness ,
107944
107945
107946 How now , Oswald !
107947
107948 What ! have you writ that letter to my sister ?
107949
107950 Ay , madam .
107951
107952 Take you some company , and away to horse :
107953 Inform her full of my particular fear ;
107954 And thereto add such reasons of your own
107955 As may compact it more . Get you gone ,
107956 And hasten your return .
107957
107958 No , no , my lord ,
107959 This milky gentleness and course of yours
107960 Though I condemn not , yet , under pardon ,
107961 You are much more attask'd for want of wisdom
107962 Than prais'd for harmful mildness .
107963
107964 How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell :
107965 Striving to better , oft we mar what's well .
107966
107967 Nay , then
107968
107969 Well , well ; the event .
107970
107971
107972 Go you before to Gloucester with these letters . Acquaint my daughter no further with any thing you know than comes from her demand out of the letter . If your diligence be not speedy I shall be there before you .
107973
107974 I will not sleep , my lord , till I have delivered your letter .
107975
107976
107977 If a man's brains were in 's heels , were't not in danger of kibes ?
107978
107979 Ay , boy .
107980
107981 Then , I prithee , be merry ; thy wit shall not go slip-shod .
107982
107983 Ha , ha , ha !
107984
107985 Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly ; for though she's as like this as a crab is like an apple , yet I can tell what I can tell .
107986
107987 What canst tell , boy ?
107988
107989 She will taste as like this as a crab does to a crab . Thou canst tell why one's nose stands i' the middle on 's face ?
107990
107991 No .
107992
107993 Why , to keep one's eyes of either side's nose , that what a man cannot smell out , he may spy into .
107994
107995 I did her wrong ,
107996
107997 Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell ?
107998
107999 No .
108000
108001 Nor I neither ; but I can tell why a snail has a house .
108002
108003 Why ?
108004
108005 Why , to put his head in ; not to give it away to his daughters , and leave his horns without a case .
108006
108007 I will forget my nature . So kind a father ! Be my horses ready ?
108008
108009 Thy asses are gone about 'em . The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason .
108010
108011 Because they are not eight ?
108012
108013 Yes , indeed : thou wouldst make a good fool .
108014
108015 To take it again perforce ! Monster ingratitude !
108016
108017 If thou wert my fool , nuncle , I'd have thee beaten for being old before thy time .
108018
108019 How's that ?
108020
108021 Thou shouldst not have been old before thou hadst been wise .
108022
108023 O ! let me not be mad , not mad , sweet heaven ;
108024 Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad !
108025
108026 How now ! Are the horses ready ?
108027
108028 Ready , my lord .
108029
108030 Come , boy .
108031
108032 She that's a maid now , and laughs at my departure ,
108033 Shall not be a maid long , unless things be cut shorter .
108034
108035 Save thee , Curan .
108036
108037 And you , sir . I have been with your father , and given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here with him to-night .
108038
108039 How comes that ?
108040
108041 Nay , I know not . You have heard of the news abroad ? I mean the whispered ones , for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments ?
108042
108043 Not I : pray you , what are they ?
108044
108045 Have you heard of no likely wars toward , 'twixt the Dukes of Cornwall and Albany ?
108046
108047 Not a word .
108048
108049 You may do then , in time . Fare you well , sir .
108050
108051
108052 The duke be here to-night ! The better ! best !
108053 This weaves itself perforce into my business .
108054 My father hath set guard to take my brother ;
108055 And I have one thing , of a queasy question ,
108056 Which I must act . Briefness and fortune , work !
108057 Brother , a word ; descend : brother , I say !
108058
108059
108060 My father watches : O sir ! fly this place ;
108061 Intelligence is given where you are hid ;
108062 You have now the good advantage of the night .
108063 Have you not spoken 'gainst the Duke of Cornwall ?
108064 He's coming hither , now , i' the night , i' the haste ,
108065 And Regan with him ; have you nothing said
108066 Upon his party 'gainst the Duke of Albany ?
108067
108068 Advise yourself .
108069
108070 I am sure on 't , not a word .
108071
108072 I hear my father coming ; pardon me ;
108073 In cunning I must draw my sword upon you ;
108074 Draw ; seem to defend yourself ; now 'quit you well .
108075 Yield ;come before my father . Light , ho ! here !
108076 Fly , brother . Torches ! torches ! So , farewell .
108077
108078 Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion
108079
108080 Of my more fierce endeavour : I have seen drunkards
108081 Do more than this in sport . Father ! father !
108082 Stop , stop ! No help ?
108083
108084
108085 Now , Edmund , where's the villain ?
108086
108087 Here stood he in the dark , his sharp sword out ,
108088 Mumbling of wicked charms , conjuring the moon
108089 To stand auspicious mistress .
108090
108091 But where is he ?
108092
108093 Look , sir , I bleed .
108094
108095 Where is the villain , Edmund ?
108096
108097 Fled this way , sir . When by no means he could
108098
108099 Pursue him , ho ! Go after .
108100
108101 'By no means' what ?
108102
108103 Persuade me to the murder of your lordship ;
108104 But that I told him , the revenging gods
108105 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend ;
108106 Spoke with how manifold and strong a bond
108107 The child was bound to the father ; sir , in fine ,
108108 Seeing how loathly opposite I stood
108109 To his unnatural purpose , in fell motion ,
108110 With his prepared sword he charges home
108111 My unprovided body , lanc'd mine arm :
108112 But when he saw my best alarum'd spirits
108113 Bold in the quarrel's right , rous'd to the encounter ,
108114 Or whether gasted by the noise I made ,
108115 Full suddenly he fled .
108116
108117 Let him fly far :
108118 Not in this land shall he remain uncaught ;
108119 And found dispatch . The noble duke my master ,
108120 My worthy arch and patron , comes to-night :
108121 By his authority I will proclaim it ,
108122 That he which finds him shall deserve our thanks ,
108123 Bringing the murderous coward to the stake ;
108124 He that conceals him , death .
108125
108126 When I dissuaded him from his intent ,
108127 And found him pight to do it , with curst speech
108128 I threaten'd to discover him : he replied ,
108129 'Thou unpossessing bastard ! dost thou think ,
108130 If I would stand against thee , would the reposal
108131 Of any trust , virtue , or worth , in thee
108132 Make thy words faith'd ? No : what I should deny ,
108133 As this I would ; ay , though thou didst produce
108134 My very character ,I'd turn it all
108135 To thy suggestion , plot , and damned practice :
108136 And thou must make a dullard of the world ,
108137 If they not thought the profits of my death
108138 Were very pregnant and potential spurs
108139 To make thee seek it .'
108140
108141 Strong and fasten'd villain !
108142 Would he deny his letter ? I never got him .
108143
108144 Hark ! the duke's trumpets . I know not why he comes .
108145 All ports I'll bar ; the villain shall not 'scape ;
108146 The duke must grant me that : besides , his picture
108147 I will send far and near , that all the kingdom
108148 May have due note of him ; and of my land ,
108149 Loyal and natural boy , I'll work the means
108150 To make thee capable .
108151
108152
108153 How now , my noble friend ! since I came hither ,
108154 Which I can call but now ,I have heard strange news .
108155
108156 If it be true , all vengeance comes too short
108157 Which can pursue the offender . How dost , my lord ?
108158
108159 O ! madam , my old heart is crack'd , it's crack'd .
108160
108161 What ! did my father's godson seek your life ?
108162 He whom my father nam'd ? your Edgar ?
108163
108164 O ! lady , lady , shame would have it hid .
108165
108166 Was he not companion with the riotous knights
108167 That tend upon my father ?
108168
108169 I know not , madam ; 'tis too bad , too bad .
108170
108171 Yes , madam , he was of that consort .
108172
108173 No marvel then though he were ill affected ;
108174 'Tis they have put him on the old man's death ,
108175 To have the expense and waste of his revenues .
108176 I have this present evening from my sister
108177 Been well-inform'd of them , and with such cautions
108178 That if they come to sojourn at my house ,
108179 I'll not be there .
108180
108181 Nor I , assure thee , Regan .
108182 Edmund , I hear that you have shown your father
108183 A child-like office .
108184
108185 'Twas my duty , sir .
108186
108187 He did bewray his practice ; and receiv'd
108188 This hurt you see , striving to apprehend him .
108189
108190 Is he pursu'd ?
108191
108192 Ay , my good lord .
108193
108194 If he be taken he shall never more
108195 Be fear'd of doing harm ; make your own purpose ,
108196 How in my strength you please . For you , Edmund ,
108197 Whose virtue and obedience doth this instant
108198 So much commend itself , you shall be ours :
108199 Natures of such deep trust we shall much need ;
108200 You we first seize on .
108201
108202 I shall serve you , sir ,
108203 Truly , however else .
108204
108205 For him I thank your Grace .
108206
108207 You know not why we came to visit you ,
108208
108209 Thus out of season , threading dark-ey'd night :
108210 Occasions , noble Gloucester , of some prize ,
108211 Wherein we must have use of your advice .
108212 Our father he hath writ , so hath our sister ,
108213 Of differences , which I best thought it fit
108214 To answer from our home ; the several messengers
108215 From hence attend dispatch . Our good old friend ,
108216 Lay comforts to your bosom , and bestow
108217 Your needful counsel to our businesses ,
108218 Which craves the instant use .
108219
108220 I serve you , madam .
108221 Your Graces are right welcome .
108222
108223
108224 Good dawning to thee , friend : art of this house ?
108225
108226 Ay .
108227
108228 Where may we set our horses ?
108229
108230 I' the mire .
108231
108232 Prithee , if thou lovest me , tell me .
108233
108234 I love thee not .
108235
108236 Why , then I care not for thee .
108237
108238 If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold , I would make thee care for me .
108239
108240 Why dost thou use me thus ? I know thee not .
108241
108242 Fellow , I know thee .
108243
108244 What dost thou know me for ?
108245
108246 A knave , a rascal , an eater of broken meats ; a base , proud , shallow , beggarly , three-suited , hundred-pound , filthy , worsted-stocking knave ; a lily-liver'd , action-taking knave ; a whoreson , glass-gazing , superserviceable , finical rogue ; one-trunk-inheriting slave ; one that wouldst be a bawd , in way of good service , and art nothing but the composition of a knave , beggar , coward , pandar , and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch : one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition .
108247
108248 Why , what a monstrous fellow art thou , thus to rail on one that is neither known of thee nor knows thee !
108249
108250 What a brazen-faced varlet art thou , to deny thou knowest me ! Is it two days since I tripped up thy heels and beat thee before the king ? Draw , you rogue ; for , though it be night , yet the moon shines : I'll make a sop o' the moonshine of you .
108251
108252 Draw , you whoreson , cullionly , barber-monger , draw .
108253
108254 Away ! I have nothing to do with thee .
108255
108256 Draw , you rascal ; you come with letters against the king , and take vanity the pupet's part against the royalty of her father . Draw , you rogue , or I'll so carbonado your shanks : draw , you rascal ; come your ways .
108257
108258 Help , ho ! murder ! help !
108259
108260 Strike , you slave ; stand , rogue , stand ; you neat slave , strike .
108261
108262
108263 Help , oh ! murder ! murder !
108264
108265
108266 How now ! What's the matter ?
108267
108268
108269 With you , goodman boy , if you please : come ,
108270 I'll flesh ye ; come on , young master .
108271
108272
108273 Weapons ! arms ! What's the matter here ?
108274
108275 Keep peace , upon your lives :
108276 He dies that strikes again . What is the matter ?
108277
108278 The messengers from our sister and the king .
108279
108280 What is your difference ? speak .
108281
108282 I am scarce in breath , my lord .
108283
108284 No marvel , you have so bestirred your valour . You cowardly rascal , nature disclaims in thee : a tailor made thee .
108285
108286 Thou art a strange fellow ; a tailor make a man ?
108287
108288 Ay , a tailor , sir : a stone-cutter or a painter could not have made him so ill , though they had been but two hours o' the trade .
108289
108290 Speak yet , how grew your quarrel ?
108291
108292 This ancient ruffian , sir , whose life I have spar'd at suit of his grey beard ,
108293
108294 Thou whoreson zed ! thou unnecessary letter ! My lord , if you will give me leave , I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar , and daub the wall of a jakes with him . Spare my grey beard , you wagtail ?
108295
108296 Peace , sirrah !
108297 You beastly knave , know you no reverence ?
108298
108299 Yes , sir ; but anger hath a privilege .
108300
108301 Why art thou angry ?
108302
108303 That such a slave as this should wear a sword ,
108304 Who wears no honesty . Such smiling rogues as these ,
108305 Like rats , oft bite the holy cords a-twain
108306 Which are too intrinse t' unloose ; smooth every passion
108307 That in the natures of their lords rebel ;
108308 Bring oil to fire , snow to their colder moods ;
108309 Renege , affirm , and turn their halcyon beaks
108310 With every gale and vary of their masters ,
108311 Knowing nought , like dogs , but following .
108312 A plague upon your epileptic visage !
108313 Smile you my speeches , as I were a fool ?
108314 Goose , if I had you upon Sarum plain ,
108315 I'd drive ye cackling home to Camelot .
108316
108317 What ! art thou mad , old fellow ?
108318
108319 How fell you out ? say that .
108320
108321 No contraries hold more antipathy
108322 Than I and such a knave .
108323
108324 Why dost thou call him knave ? What is his fault ?
108325
108326 His countenance likes me not .
108327
108328 No more , perchance , does mine , nor his , nor hers .
108329
108330 Sir , 'tis my occupation to be plain :
108331 I have seen better faces in my time
108332 Than stands on any shoulder that I see
108333 Before me at this instant .
108334
108335 This is some fellow ,
108336 Who , having been prais'd for bluntness , doth affect
108337 A saucy roughness , and constrains the garb
108338 Quite from his nature : he cannot flatter , he ,
108339 An honest mind and plain , he must speak truth :
108340 An they will take it , so ; if not , he's plain .
108341 These kind of knaves I know , which in this plainness
108342 Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends
108343 Than twenty silly-ducking observants ,
108344 That stretch their duties nicely .
108345
108346 Sir , in good sooth , in sincere verity ,
108347 Under the allowance of your grand aspect ,
108348 Whose influence , like the wreath of radiant fire
108349 On flickering Ph bus' front ,
108350
108351 What mean'st by this ?
108352
108353 To go out of my dialect , which you discommend so much . I know , sir , I am no flatterer : he that beguiled you in a plain accent was a plain knave ; which for my part I will not be , though I should win your displeasure to entreat me to 't .
108354
108355 What was the offence you gave him ?
108356
108357 I never gave him any :
108358 It pleas'd the king his master very late
108359 To strike at me , upon his misconstruction ;
108360 When he , conjunct , and flattering his displeasure ,
108361 Tripp'd me behind ; being down , insulted , rail'd ,
108362 And put upon him such a deal of man ,
108363 That worthied him , got praises of the king
108364 For him attempting who was self-subdu'd ;
108365 And , in the fleshment of this dread exploit ,
108366 Drew on me here again .
108367
108368 None of these rogues and cowards
108369 But Ajax is their fool .
108370
108371 Fetch forth the stocks !
108372 You stubborn ancient knave , you reverend braggart ,
108373 We'll teach you .
108374
108375 Sir , I am too old to learn ,
108376 Call not your stocks for me ; I serve the king ,
108377 On whose employment I was sent to you ;
108378 You shall do small respect , show too bold malice
108379 Against the grace and person of my master ,
108380 Stocking his messenger .
108381
108382 Fetch forth the stocks ! As I have life and honour ,
108383 There shall he sit till noon .
108384
108385 Till noon ! Till night , my lord ; and all night too .
108386
108387 Why , madam , if I were your father's dog ,
108388 You should not use me so .
108389
108390 Sir , being his knave , I will .
108391
108392 This is a fellow of the self-same colour
108393 Our sister speaks of . Come , bring away the stocks .
108394
108395
108396 Let me beseech your Grace not to do so .
108397 His fault is much , and the good king his master
108398 Will check him for't : your purpos'd low correction
108399 Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches
108400 For pilferings and most common trespasses
108401 Are punish'd with : the king must take it ill ,
108402 That he , so slightly valu'd in his messenger ,
108403 Should have him thus restrain'd .
108404
108405 I'll answer that .
108406
108407 My sister may receive it much more worse
108408 To have her gentleman abus'd , assaulted ,
108409 For following her affairs . Put in his legs .
108410
108411 Come , my good lord , away .
108412
108413
108414 I am sorry for thee , friend ; 'tis the duke's pleasure ,
108415 Whose disposition , all the world well knows ,
108416 Will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd ; I'll entreat for thee .
108417
108418 Pray , do not , sir . I have watch'd and travell'd hard ;
108419 Some time I shall sleep out , the rest I'll whistle .
108420 A good man's fortune may grow out at heels :
108421 Give you good morrow !
108422
108423 The duke's to blame in this ; 'twill be ill taken .
108424
108425
108426 Good king , that must approve the common saw ,
108427 Thou out of heaven's benediction com'st
108428 To the warm sun .
108429 Approach , thou beacon to this under globe ,
108430 That by thy comfortable beams I may
108431 Peruse this letter . Nothing almost sees miracles
108432 But misery : I know 'tis from Cordelia ,
108433 Who hath most fortunately been inform'd
108434 Of my obscured course ; and shall find time
108435 From this enormous state , seeking to give
108436 Losses their remedies . All weary and o'erwatch'd ,
108437 Take vantage , heavy eyes , not to behold
108438 This shameful lodging .
108439 Fortune , good night , smile once more ; turn thy wheel !
108440
108441
108442 I heard myself proclaim'd ;
108443 And by the happy hollow of a tree
108444 Escap'd the hunt . No port is free ; no place ,
108445 That guard , and most unusual vigilance ,
108446 Does not attend my taking . While I may 'scape
108447 I will preserve myself ; and am bethought
108448 To take the basest and most poorest shape
108449 That ever penury , in contempt of man ,
108450 Brought near to beast ; my face I'll grime with filth ,
108451 Blanket my loins , elf all my hair in knots ,
108452 And with presented nakedness outface
108453 The winds and persecutions of the sky .
108454 The country gives me proof and precedent
108455 Of Bedlam beggars , who with roaring voices ,
108456 Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms
108457 Pins , wooden pricks , nails , sprigs of rosemary ;
108458 And with this horrible object , from low farms ,
108459 Poor pelting villages , sheep-cotes , and mills ,
108460 Sometime with lunatic bans , sometime with prayers ,
108461 Enforce their charity . Poor Turlygood ! poor Tom !
108462 That's something yet : Edgar I nothing am .
108463
108464
108465 'Tis strange that they should so depart from home ,
108466 And not send back my messenger .
108467
108468 As I learn'd ,
108469 The night before there was no purpose in them
108470 Of this remove .
108471
108472 Hail to thee , noble master !
108473
108474 Ha !
108475 Mak'st thou this shame thy pastime ?
108476
108477 No , my lord .
108478
108479 Ha , ha ! he wears cruel garters . Horses are tied by the head , dogs and bears by the neck , monkeys by the loins , and men by the legs : when a man is over-lusty at legs , then he wears wooden nether-stocks .
108480
108481 What's he that hath so much thy place mistook
108482 To set thee here ?
108483
108484 It is both he and she ,
108485 Your son and daughter .
108486
108487 No .
108488
108489 Yes .
108490
108491 No , I say .
108492
108493 I say , yea .
108494
108495 No , no ; they would not .
108496
108497 Yes , they have .
108498
108499 By Jupiter , I swear , no .
108500
108501 By Juno , I swear , ay .
108502
108503 They durst not do't ;
108504 They could not , would not do 't ; 'tis worse than murder ,
108505 To do upon respect such violent outrage .
108506 Resolve me , with all modest haste , which way
108507 Thou mightst deserve , or they impose , this usage ,
108508 Coming from us .
108509
108510 My lord , when at their home
108511 I did commend your highness' letters to them ,
108512 Ere I was risen from the place that show'd
108513 My duty kneeling , there came a reeking post ,
108514 Stew'd in his haste , half breathless , panting forth
108515 From Goneril his mistress salutations ;
108516 Deliver'd letters , spite of intermission ,
108517 Which presently they read : on whose contents
108518 They summon'd up their meiny , straight took horse ;
108519 Commanded me to follow , and attend
108520 The leisure of their answer ; gave me cold looks :
108521 And meeting here the other messenger ,
108522 Whose welcome , I perceiv'd , had poison'd mine ,
108523 Being the very fellow which of late
108524 Display'd so saucily against your highness ,
108525 Having more man than wit about me ,drew :
108526 He rais'd the house with loud and coward cries .
108527 Your son and daughter found this trespass worth
108528 The shame which here it suffers .
108529
108530 Winter's not gone yet , if the wild geese fly that way .
108531
108532 Fathers that wear rags
108533 Do make their children blind ,
108534 But fathers that bear bags
108535 Shall see their children kind .
108536 Fortune , that arrant whore ,
108537 Ne'er turns the key to the poor .
108538
108539 But for all this thou shalt have as many dolours for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year .
108540
108541 O ! how this mother swells up toward my heart ;
108542 Hysterica passio ! down , thou climbing sorrow !
108543 Thy element's below . Where is this daughter ?
108544
108545 With the earl , sir : here within .
108546
108547 Follow me not ; stay here .
108548
108549
108550 Made you no more offence than what you speak of ?
108551
108552 None .
108553 How chance the king comes with so small a number ?
108554
108555 An thou hadst been set i' the stocks for that question , thou hadst well deserved it .
108556
108557 Why , fool ?
108558
108559 We'll set thee to school to an ant , to teach thee there's no labouring i' the winter . All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men ; and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking . Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill , lest it break thy neck with following it ; but the great one that goes up the hill , let him draw thee after . When a wise man gives thee better counsel , give me mine again : I would have none but knaves follow it , since a fool gives it .
108560
108561 That sir which serves and seeks for gain ,
108562 And follows but for form ,
108563 Will pack when it begins to rain ,
108564 And leave thee in the storm .
108565 But I will tarry ; the fool will stay ,
108566 And let the wise man fly :
108567 The knave turns fool that runs away ;
108568 The fool no knave , perdy .
108569
108570
108571 Where learn'd you this , fool ?
108572
108573 Not i' the stocks , fool .
108574
108575
108576 Deny to speak with me ! They are sick ! they are weary ,
108577 They have travell'd hard to-night ! Mere fetches ,
108578 The images of revolt and flying off .
108579 Fetch me a better answer .
108580
108581 My dear lord ,
108582 You know the fiery quality of the duke ;
108583 How unremovable and fix'd he is
108584 In his own course .
108585
108586 Vengeance ! plague ! death ! confusion !
108587 Fiery ! what quality ? Why , Gloucester , Gloucester ,
108588 I'd speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife .
108589
108590 Well , my good lord , I have inform'd them so .
108591
108592 Inform'd them ! Dost thou understand me , man ?
108593
108594 Ay , my good lord .
108595
108596 The king would speak with Cornwall ; the dear father
108597 Would with his daughter speak , commands her service :
108598 Are they inform'd of this ? My breath and blood !
108599 Fiery ! the fiery duke ! Tell the hot duke that
108600 No , but not yet ; may be he is not well :
108601 Infirmity doth still neglect all office
108602 Whereto our health is bound ; we are not ourselves
108603 When nature , being oppress'd , commands the mind
108604 To suffer with the body . I'll forbear ;
108605 And am fall'n out with my more headier will ,
108606 To take the indispos'd and sickly fit
108607 For the sound man . Death on my state !
108608
108609 Wherefore
108610 Should he sit here ? This act persuades me
108611 That this remotion of the duke and her
108612 Is practice only . Give me my servant forth .
108613 Go , tell the duke and's wife I'd speak with them ,
108614 Now , presently : bid them come forth and hear me ,
108615 Or at their chamber-door I'll beat the drum
108616 Till it cry sleep to death .
108617
108618 I would have all well betwixt you .
108619
108620
108621 O , me ! my heart , my rising heart ! but , down !
108622
108623 Cry to it , nuncle , as the cockney did to the eels when she put 'em i' the paste alive ; she knapped 'em o' the coxcombs with a stick , and cried , 'Down , wantons , down !' 'Twas her brother that , in pure kindness to his horse , buttered his hay .
108624
108625
108626 Good morrow to you both .
108627
108628 Hail to your Grace !
108629
108630
108631 I am glad to see your highness .
108632
108633 Regan , I think you are ; I know what reason
108634 I have to think so : if thou shouldst not be glad ,
108635 I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb ,
108636 Sepulchring an adult'ress .
108637
108638 O ! are you free ?
108639 Some other time for that . Beloved Regan ,
108640 Thy sister's naught : O Regan ! she hath tied
108641 Sharp-tooth'd unkindness , like a vulture , here :
108642
108643 I can scarce speak to thee ; thou'lt not believe
108644 With how deprav'd a quality O Regan !
108645
108646 I pray you , sir , take patience . I have hope
108647 You less know how to value her desert
108648 Than she to scant her duty .
108649
108650 Say , how is that ?
108651
108652 I cannot think my sister in the least
108653 Would fail her obligation : if , sir , perchance
108654 She have restrain'd the riots of your followers ,
108655 'Tis on such ground , and to such wholesome end ,
108656 As clears her from all blame .
108657
108658 My curses on her !
108659
108660 O , sir ! you are old ;
108661 Nature in you stands on the very verge
108662 Of her confine : you should be rul'd and led
108663 By some discretion that discerns your state
108664 Better than you yourself . Therefore I pray you
108665 That to our sister you do make return ;
108666 Say , you have wrong'd her , sir .
108667
108668 Ask her forgiveness ?
108669 Do you but mark how this becomes the house :
108670 'Dear daughter , I confess that I am old ;
108671 Age is unnecessary : on my knees I beg
108672
108673 That you'll vouchsafe me raiment , bed , and food .'
108674
108675 Good sir , no more ; these are unsightly tricks :
108676 Return you to my sister .
108677
108678 Never , Regan .
108679 She hath abated me of half my train ;
108680 Look'd black upon me ; struck me with her tongue ,
108681 Most serpent-like , upon the very heart .
108682 All the stor'd vengeances of heaven fall
108683 On her ingrateful top ! Strike her young bones ,
108684 You taking airs , with lameness !
108685
108686 Fie , air , fie !
108687
108688 You nimble lightnings , dart your blinding flames
108689 Into her scornful eyes ! Infect her beauty ,
108690 You fen-suck'd fogs , drawn by the powerful sun ,
108691 To fall and blast her pride !
108692
108693 O the blest gods ! So will you wish on me ,
108694 When the rash mood is on .
108695
108696 No , Regan , thou shalt never have my curse :
108697 Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give
108698 Thee o'er to harshness : her eyes are fierce , but thine
108699 Do comfort and not burn . 'Tis not in thee
108700 To grudge my pleasures , to cut off my train ,
108701 To bandy hasty words , to scant my sizes ,
108702 And , in conclusion , to oppose the bolt
108703 Against my coming in : thou better know'st
108704 The offices of nature , bond of childhood ,
108705 Effects of courtesy , dues of gratitude ;
108706 Thy half o' the kingdom hast thou not forgot ,
108707 Wherein I thee endow'd .
108708
108709 Good sir , to the purpose .
108710
108711 Who put my man i' the stocks ?
108712
108713
108714 What trumpet's that ?
108715
108716 I know't , my sister's ; this approves her letter ,
108717 That she would soon be here . Is your lady come ?
108718
108719
108720 This is a slave , whose easy-borrow'd pride
108721 Dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows .
108722 Out , varlet , from my sight !
108723
108724 What means your Grace ?
108725
108726 Who stock'd my servant ? Regan , I have good hope
108727 Thou didst not know on 't . Who comes here ? O heavens ,
108728
108729
108730 If you do love old men , if your sweet sway
108731 Allow obedience , if yourselves are old ,
108732 Make it your cause ; send down and take my part !
108733
108734
108735 Art not asham'd to look upon this beard ?
108736
108737 O Regan , wilt thou take her by the hand ?
108738
108739 Why not by the hand , sir ? How have I offended ?
108740 All's not offence that indiscretion finds
108741 And dotage terms so .
108742
108743 O sides ! you are too tough ;
108744 Will you yet hold ? How came my man i' the stocks ?
108745
108746 I set him there , sir : but his own disorders
108747 Deserv'd much less advancement .
108748
108749 You ! did you ?
108750
108751 I pray you , father , being weak , seem so .
108752 If , till the expiration of your month ,
108753 You will return and sojourn with my sister ,
108754 Dismissing half your train , come then to me :
108755 I am now from home , and out of that provision
108756 Which shall be needful for your entertainment .
108757
108758 Return to her ? and fifty men dismiss'd !
108759 No , rather I abjure all roofs , and choose
108760 To wage against the enmity o' the air ;
108761 To be a comrade with the wolf and owl ,
108762 Necessity's sharp pinch ! Return with her !
108763 Why , the hot-blooded France , that dowerless took
108764 Our youngest born , I could as well be brought
108765 To knee his throne , and , squire-like , pension beg
108766 To keep base life afoot . Return with her !
108767 Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter
108768 To this detested groom .
108769
108770
108771 At your choice , sir .
108772
108773 I prithee , daughter , do not make me mad :
108774 I will not trouble thee , my child ; farewell .
108775 We'll no more meet , no more see one another ;
108776 But yet thou art my flesh , my blood , my daughter ;
108777 Or rather a disease that's in my flesh ,
108778 Which I must needs call mine : thou art a boil ,
108779 A plague-sore , an embossed carbuncle ,
108780 In my corrupted blood . But I'll not chide thee ;
108781 Let shame come when it will , I do not call it :
108782 I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot ,
108783 Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove .
108784 Mend when thou canst ; be better at thy leisure :
108785 I can be patient ; I can stay with Regan ,
108786 I and my hundred knights .
108787
108788 Not altogether so :
108789 I look'd not for you yet , nor am provided
108790 For your fit welcome . Give ear , sir , to my sister ;
108791 For those that mingle reason with your passion
108792 Must be content to think you old , and so
108793 But she knows what she does .
108794
108795 Is this well spoken ?
108796
108797 I dare avouch it , sir : what ! fifty followers ?
108798 Is it not well ? What should you need of more ?
108799 Yea , or so many , sith that both charge and danger
108800 Speak 'gainst so great a number ? How , in one house ,
108801 Should many people , under two commands ,
108802 Hold amity ? 'Tis hard ; almost impossible .
108803
108804 Why might not you , my lord , receive attendance
108805 From those that she calls servants , or from mine ?
108806
108807 Why not , my lord ? If then they chanc'd to slack you
108808 We could control them . If you will come to me ,
108809 For now I spy a danger ,I entreat you
108810 To bring but five-and-twenty ; to no more
108811 Will I give place or notice .
108812
108813 I gave you all
108814
108815 And in good time you gave it
108816
108817 Made you my guardians , my depositaries ,
108818 But kept a reservation to be follow'd
108819 With such a number . What ! must I come to you
108820 With five-and-twenty ? Regan , said you so ?
108821
108822 And speak't again , my lord ; no more with me .
108823
108824 Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd ,
108825 When others are more wicked ; not being the worst
108826 Stands in some rank of praise .
108827
108828 I'll go with thee :
108829 Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty ,
108830 And thou art twice her love .
108831
108832 Hear me , my lord .
108833 What need you five-and-twenty , ten , or five ,
108834 To follow in a house , where twice so many
108835 Have a command to tend you ?
108836
108837 What need one ?
108838
108839 O ! reason not the need ; our basest beggars
108840 Are in the poorest thing superfluous :
108841 Allow not nature more than nature needs ,
108842 Man's life is cheap as beast's . Thou art a lady ;
108843 If only to go warm were gorgeous ,
108844 Why , nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st ,
108845 Which scarcely keeps thee warm . But , for true need ,
108846 You heavens , give me that patience , patience I need !
108847 You see me here , you gods , a poor old man ,
108848 As full of grief as age ; wretched in both !
108849 If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts
108850 Against their father , fool me not so much
108851 To bear it tamely ; touch me with noble anger ,
108852 And let not women's weapons , water-drops ,
108853 Stain my man's cheeks ! No , you unnatural hags ,
108854 I will have such revenges on you both
108855 That all the world shall I will do such things ,
108856 What they are yet I know not ,but they shall be
108857 The terrors of the earth . You think I'll weep ;
108858 No , I'll not weep :
108859 I have full cause of weeping , but this heart
108860 Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
108861 Or ere I'll weep . O fool ! I shall go mad .
108862
108863
108864 Let us withdraw ; 'twill be a storm .
108865
108866
108867 This house is little : the old man and his people
108868 Cannot be well bestow'd .
108869
108870 'Tis his own blame ; hath put himself from rest ,
108871 And must needs taste his folly .
108872
108873 For his particular , I'll receive him gladly ,
108874 But not one follower .
108875
108876 So am I purpos'd .
108877 Where is my Lord of Gloucester ?
108878
108879 Follow'd the old man forth . He is return'd .
108880
108881
108882 The king is in high rage .
108883
108884 Whither is he going ?
108885
108886 He calls to horse ; but will I know not whither .
108887
108888 'Tis best to give him way ; he leads himself .
108889
108890 My lord , entreat him by no means to stay .
108891
108892 Alack ! the night comes on , and the bleak winds
108893 Do sorely ruffle ; for many miles about
108894 There's scarce a bush .
108895
108896 O ! sir , to wilful men ,
108897 The injuries that they themselves procure
108898 Must be their schoolmasters . Shut up your doors ;
108899 He is attended with a desperate train ,
108900 And what they may incense him to , being apt
108901 To have his ear abus'd , wisdom bids fear .
108902
108903 Shut up your doors , my lord ; 'tis a wild night :
108904 My Regan counsels well : come out o' the storm .
108905
108906 Who's here , beside foul weather ?
108907
108908 One minded like the weather , most unquietly .
108909
108910 I know you . Where's the king ?
108911
108912 Contending with the fretful elements ;
108913 Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea ,
108914 Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main ,
108915 That things might change or cease ; tears his white hair ,
108916 Which the impetuous blasts , with eyeless rage ,
108917 Catch in their fury , and make nothing of ;
108918 Strives in his little world of man to out-scorn
108919 The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain .
108920 This night , wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch ,
108921 The lion and the belly-pinched wolf
108922 Keep their fur dry , unbonneted he runs ,
108923 And bids what will take all .
108924
108925 But who is with him ?
108926
108927 None but the fool , who labours to out-jest
108928 His heart-struck injuries .
108929
108930 Sir , I do know you ;
108931 And dare , upon the warrant of my note ,
108932 Commend a dear thing to you . There is division ,
108933 Although as yet the face of it be cover'd
108934 With mutual cunning , 'twixt Albany and Cornwall ;
108935 Who have as who have not , that their great stars
108936 Thron'd and set high servants , who seem no less ,
108937 Which are to France the spies and speculations
108938 Intelligent of our state ; what hath been seen ,
108939 Either in snuffs and packings of the dukes ,
108940 Or the hard rein which both of them have borne
108941 Against the old kind king ; or something deeper ,
108942 Whereof perchance these are but furnishings ;
108943 But , true it is , from France there comes a power
108944 Into this scatter'd kingdom ; who already ,
108945 Wise in our negligence , have secret feet
108946 In some of our best ports , and are at point
108947 To show their open banner . Now to you :
108948 If on my credit you dare build so far
108949 To make your speed to Dover , you shall find
108950 Some that will thank you , making just report
108951 Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow
108952 The king hath cause to plain .
108953 I am a gentleman of blood and breeding ,
108954 And from some knowledge and assurance offer
108955 This office to you .
108956
108957 I will talk further with you .
108958
108959 No , do not .
108960 For confirmation that I am much more
108961 Than my out-wall , open this purse , and take
108962 What it contains . If you shall see Cordelia ,
108963 As doubt not but you shall ,show her this ring ,
108964 And she will tell you who your fellow is
108965 That yet you do not know . Fie on this storm !
108966 I will go seek the king .
108967
108968 Give me your hand . Have you no more to say ?
108969
108970 Few words , but , to effect , more than all yet ;
108971 That , when we have found the king ,in which your pain
108972 That way , I'll this ,he that first lights on him
108973 Holla the other .
108974
108975
108976 Blow , winds , and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow !
108977 You cataracts and hurricanoes , spout
108978 Till you have drench'd our steeples , drown'd the cocks !
108979 You sulphurous and thought-executing fires ,
108980 Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts ,
108981 Singe my white head ! And thou , all-shaking thunder ,
108982 Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world !
108983 Crack nature's moulds , all germens spill at once
108984 That make ingrateful man !
108985
108986 O nuncle , court holy-water in a dry house is better than this rain-water out o' door . Good nuncle , in , and ask thy daughters' blessing ; here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool .
108987
108988 Rumble thy bellyfull Spit , fire ! spout , rain !
108989 Nor rain , wind , thunder , fire , are my daughters :
108990 I tax not you , you elements , with unkindness ;
108991 I never gave you kingdom , call'd you children ,
108992 You owe me no subscription : then , let fall
108993 Your horrible pleasure ; here I stand , your slave ,
108994 A poor , infirm , weak , and despis'd old man .
108995 But yet I call you servile ministers ,
108996 That have with two pernicious daughters join'd
108997 Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head
108998 So old and white as this . O ! O ! 'tis foul .
108999
109000 He that has a house to put his head in has a good head-piece .
109001
109002 The cod-piece that will house
109003 Before the head has any ,
109004 The head and he shall louse ;
109005 So beggars marry many .
109006 The man that makes his toe
109007 What he his heart should make ,
109008 Shall of a corn cry woe ,
109009 And turn his sleep to wake .
109010
109011 For there was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass .
109012
109013
109014 No , I will be the pattern of all patience ; I will say nothing .
109015
109016 Who's there ?
109017
109018 Marry , here's grace and a cod-piece ; that's a wise man and a fool .
109019
109020 Alas ! sir , are you here ? things that love night
109021 Love not such nights as these ; the wrathful skies
109022 Gallow the very wanderers of the dark ,
109023 And make them keep their caves . Since I was man
109024 Such sheets of fire , such bursts of horrid thunder ,
109025 Such groans of roaring wind and rain , I never
109026 Remember to have heard ; man's nature cannot carry
109027 The affliction nor the fear .
109028
109029 Let the great gods ,
109030 That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads ,
109031 Find out their enemies now . Tremble , thou wretch ,
109032 That hast within thee undivulged crimes ,
109033 Unwhipp'd of justice ; hide thee , thou bloody hand ;
109034 Thou perjur'd , and thou simular of virtue
109035 That art incestuous ; caitiff , to pieces shake ,
109036 That under covert and convenient seeming
109037 Hast practis'd on man's life ; close pent-up guilts ,
109038 Rive your concealing continents , and cry
109039 These dreadful summoners grace . I am a man
109040 More sinn'd against than sinning .
109041
109042 Alack ! bare-headed !
109043 Gracious my lord , hard by here is a hovel ;
109044 Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest ;
109045 Repose you there while I to this hard house ,
109046 More harder than the stone whereof 'tis rais'd ,
109047 Which even but now , demanding after you ,
109048 Denied me to come in , return and force
109049 Their scanted courtesy .
109050
109051 My wits begin to turn .
109052 Come on , my boy . How dost , my boy ? Art cold ?
109053 I am cold myself . Where is this straw , my fellow ?
109054 The art of our necessities is strange ,
109055 That can make vile things precious . Come , your hovel .
109056 Poor fool and knave , I have one part in my heart
109057 That's sorry yet for thee .
109058
109059
109060 He that has a little tiny wit ,
109061 With hey , ho , the wind and the rain ,
109062 Must make content with his fortunes fit ,
109063 Though the rain it raineth every day .
109064
109065
109066 True , my good boy . Come , bring us to this hovel .
109067
109068
109069 This is a brave night to cool a courtezan .
109070 I'll speak a prophecy ere I go :
109071
109072 When priests are more in word than matter ;
109073 When brewers mar their malt with water ;
109074 When nobles are their tailors' tutors ;
109075 No heretics burn'd , but wenches' suitors ;
109076 When every case in law is right ;
109077 No squire in debt , nor no poor knight ;
109078 When slanders do not live in tongues ;
109079 Nor cutpurses come not to throngs ;
109080 When usurers tell their gold i' the field ;
109081 And bawds and whores do churches build ;
109082 Then shall the realm of Albion
109083 Come to great confusion :
109084 Then comes the time , who lives to see 't ,
109085 That going shall be us'd with feet .
109086
109087 This prophecy Merlin shall make ; for I live before his time .
109088
109089
109090 Alack , alack ! Edmund , I like not this unnatural dealing . When I desired their leave that I might pity him , they took from me the use of mine own house ; charged me , on pain of their perpetual displeasure , neither to speak of him , entreat for him , nor any way sustain him .
109091
109092 Most savage , and unnatural !
109093
109094 Go to ; say you nothing . There is division between the dukes , and a worse matter than that . I have received a letter this night ; 'tis dangerous to be spoken ; I have locked the letter in my closet . These injuries the king now bears will be revenged home ; there's part of a power already footed ; we must incline to the king . I will seek him and privily relieve him ; go you and maintain talk with the duke , that my charity be not of him perceived . If he ask for me , I am ill and gone to bed . If I die for it , as no less is threatened me , the king , my old master , must be relieved . There is some strange thing toward , Edmund ; pray you , be careful .
109095
109096
109097 This courtesy , forbid thee , shall the duke
109098 Instantly know ; and of that letter too :
109099 This seems a fair deserving , and must draw me
109100 That which my father loses ; no less than all :
109101 The younger rises when the old doth fall .
109102
109103
109104 Here is the place , my lord ; good my lord , enter :
109105 The tyranny of the open night's too rough
109106 For nature to endure .
109107
109108
109109 Let me alone .
109110
109111 Good my lord , enter here .
109112
109113 Wilt break my heart ?
109114
109115 I'd rather break mine own . Good my lord , enter .
109116
109117 Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm
109118 Invades us to the skin : so 'tis to thee ;
109119 But where the greater malady is fix'd ,
109120 The lesser is scarce felt . Thou'dst shun a bear ;
109121 But if thy flight lay toward the roaring sea ,
109122 Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth . When the mind's free
109123 The body's delicate ; the tempest in my mind
109124 Doth from my senses take all feeling else
109125 Save what beats there . Filial ingratitude !
109126 Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand
109127 For lifting food to 't ? But I will punish home :
109128 No , I will weep no more . In such a night
109129 To shut me out ! Pour on ; I will endure .
109130 In such a night as this ! O Regan , Goneril !
109131 Your old kind father , whose frank heart gave all ,
109132 O ! that way madness lies ; let me shun that ;
109133 No more of that .
109134
109135 Good , my lord , enter here .
109136
109137 Prithee , go in thyself ; seek thine own ease :
109138 This tempest will not give me leave to ponder
109139 On things would hurt me more . But I'll go in .
109140
109141
109142 In , boy ; go first . You houseless poverty ,
109143 Nay , get thee in . I'll pray , and then I'll sleep .
109144
109145 Poor naked wretches , wheresoe'er you are ,
109146 That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm ,
109147 How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides ,
109148 Your loop'd and window'd raggedness , defend you
109149 From seasons such as these ? O ! I have ta'en
109150 Too little care of this . Take physic , pomp ;
109151 Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel ,
109152 That thou mayst shake the superflux to them ,
109153 And show the heavens more just .
109154
109155 Fathom and half , fathom and half ! Poor Tom !
109156
109157
109158 Come not in here , nuncle ; here's a spirit .
109159 Help me ! help me !
109160
109161 Give me thy hand . Who's there ?
109162
109163 A spirit , a spirit : he says his name's poor Tom .
109164
109165 What art thou that dost grumble there i' the straw ?
109166 Come forth .
109167
109168
109169 Away ! the foul fiend follows me !
109170 Through the sharp hawthorn blow the winds .
109171 Hum ! go to thy cold bed and warm thee .
109172
109173 Didst thou give all to thy two daughters ?
109174 And art thou come to this ?
109175
109176 Who gives anything to poor Tom ? whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame , through ford and whirlpool , o'er bog and quagmire ; that hath laid knives under his pillow , and halters in his pew ; set ratsbane by his porridge ; made him proud of heart , to ride on a bay trotting-horse over four-inched bridges , to course his own shadow for a traitor . Bless thy five wits ! Tom's a-cold . O ! do de , do de , do de . Bless thee from whirlwinds , starblasting , and taking ! Do poor Tom some charity , whom the foul fiend vexes . There could I have him now , and there , and there again , and there .
109177
109178
109179 What ! have his daughters brought him to this pass ?
109180 Couldst thou save nothing ? Didst thou give them all ?
109181
109182 Nay , he reserved a blanket , else we had been all shamed .
109183
109184 Now all the plagues that in the pendulous air
109185 Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters !
109186
109187 He hath no daughters , sir .
109188
109189 Death , traitor ! nothing could have subdu'd nature
109190 To such a lowness , but his unkind daughters .
109191 Is it the fashion that discarded fathers
109192 Should have thus little mercy on their flesh ?
109193 Judicious punishment ! 'twas this flesh begot
109194 Those pelican daughters .
109195
109196 Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill :
109197 Halloo , halloo , loo , loo !
109198
109199 This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen .
109200
109201 Take heed o' the foul fiend . Obey thy parents ; keep thy word justly ; swear not ; commit not with man's sworn spouse ; set not thy sweet heart on proud array . Tom's a-cold .
109202
109203 What hast thou been ?
109204
109205 A servingman , proud in heart and mind ; that curled my hair , wore gloves in my cap , served the lust of my mistress's heart , and did the act of darkness with her ; swore as many oaths as I spake words , and broke them in the sweet face of heaven ; one that slept in the contriving of lust , and waked to do it . Wine loved I deeply , dice dearly , and in woman out-paramoured the Turk : false of heart , light of ear , bloody of hand ; hog in sloth , fox in stealth , wolf in greediness , dog in madness , lion in prey . Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman : keep thy foot out of brothels , thy hand out of plackets , thy pen from lenders' books , and defy the foul fiend . Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind ; says suum , mun ha no nonny . Dolphin my boy , my boy ; sessa ! let him trot by .
109206
109207
109208 Why , thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies . Is man no more than this ? Consider him well . Thou owest the worm no silk , the beast no hide , the sheep no wool , the cat no perfume . Ha ! here's three on's are sophisticated ; thou art the thing itself ; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor , bare , forked animal as thou art . Off , off , you lendings ! Come ; unbutton here .
109209
109210
109211 Prithee , nuncle , be contented ; 'tis a naughty night to swim in . Now a little fire in a wide field were like an old lecher's heart ; a small spark , all the rest on's body cold . Look ! here comes a walking fire .
109212
109213
109214 This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet : he begins at curfew , and walks till the first cock ; he gives the web and the pin , squints the eye , and makes the harelip ; mildews the white wheat , and hurts the poor creature of earth .
109215
109216 Swithold footed thrice the old ;
109217 He met the night-mare , and her nine-fold ;
109218 Bid her alight ,
109219 And her troth plight ,
109220 And aroint thee , witch , aroint thee !
109221
109222
109223 How fares your Grace ?
109224
109225 What's he ?
109226
109227 Who's there ? What is't you seek ?
109228
109229 What are you there ? Your names ?
109230
109231 Poor Tom ; that eats the swimming frog ; the toad , the tadpole , the wall-newt , and the water ; that in the fury of his heart , when the foul fiend rages , eats cow-dung for sallets ; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog ; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool ; who is whipped from tithing to tithing , and stock-punished , and imprisoned ; who hath had three suits to his back , six shirts to his body , horse to ride , and weapon to wear ;
109232
109233 But mice and rats and such small deer
109234 Have been Tom's food for seven long year .
109235
109236 Beware my follower . Peace , Smulkin ! peace , thou fiend .
109237
109238 What ! hath your Grace no better company ?
109239
109240 The prince of darkness is a gentleman ;
109241 Modo he's call'd , and Mahu .
109242
109243 Our flesh and blood , my lord , is grown so vile ,
109244 That it doth hate what gets it .
109245
109246 Poor Tom's a-cold .
109247
109248 Go in with me . My duty cannot suffer
109249 To obey in all your daughters' hard commands :
109250 Though their injunction be to bar my doors ,
109251 And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you ,
109252 Yet have I ventur'd to come seek you out
109253 And bring you where both fire and food is ready .
109254
109255 First let me talk with this philosopher .
109256 What is the cause of thunder ?
109257
109258 Good my lord , take his offer ; go into the house .
109259
109260 I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban .
109261 What is your study ?
109262
109263 How to prevent the fiend , and to kill vermin .
109264
109265 Let me ask you one word in private .
109266
109267 Importune him once more to go , my lord ;
109268 His wits begin to unsettle .
109269
109270 Canst thou blame him ?
109271
109272 His daughters seek his death . Ah ! that good Kent ;
109273 He said it would be thus , poor banish'd man !
109274 Thou sayst the king grows mad ; I'll tell thee , friend ,
109275 I am almost mad myself . I had a son ,
109276 Now outlaw'd from my blood ; he sought my life ,
109277 But lately , very late ; I lov'd him , friend ,
109278 No father his son dearer ; true to tell thee ,
109279
109280 The grief hath craz'd my wits . What a night's this !
109281 I do beseech your Grace ,
109282
109283 O ! cry you mercy , sir .
109284 Noble philosopher , your company .
109285
109286 Tom's a-cold .
109287
109288 In , fellow , there , into the hovel : keep thee warm .
109289
109290 Come , let's in all .
109291
109292 This way , my lord .
109293
109294 With him ;
109295 I will keep still with my philosopher .
109296
109297 Good my lord , soothe him ; let him take the fellow .
109298
109299 Take him you on .
109300
109301 Sirrah , come on ; go along with us .
109302
109303 Come , good Athenian .
109304
109305 No words , no words : hush .
109306
109307
109308 Child Rowland to the dark tower came ,
109309 His word was still , Fie , foh , and fum ,
109310 I smell the blood of a British man .
109311
109312 I will have my revenge ere I depart his house .
109313
109314 How , my lord , I may be censured , that nature thus gives way to loyalty , something fears me to think of .
109315
109316 I now perceive it was not altogether your brother's evil disposition made him seek his death ; but a provoking merit , set a-work by a reproveable badness in himself .
109317
109318 How malicious is my fortune , that I must repent to be just ! This is the letter he spoke of , which approves him an intelligent party to the advantages of France . O heavens ! that this treason were not , or not I the detector !
109319
109320 Go with me to the duchess .
109321
109322 If the matter of this paper be certain , you have mighty business in hand .
109323
109324 True , or false , it hath made thee Earl of Gloucester . Seek out where thy father is , that he may be ready for our apprehension .
109325
109326 If I find him comforting the king , it will stuff his suspicion more fully . I will persever in my course of loyalty , though the conflict be sore between that and my blood .
109327
109328 I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love .
109329
109330
109331 Here is better than the open air ; take it thankfully . I will piece out the comfort with what addition I can : I will not be long from you .
109332
109333 All the power of his wits has given way to his impatience . The gods reward your kindness !
109334
109335
109336 Frateretto calls me , and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness . Pray , innocent , and beware the foul fiend .
109337
109338 Prithee , nuncle , tell me whether a madman be a gentleman or a yeoman !
109339
109340 A king , a king !
109341
109342 No ; he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son ; for he's a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman before him .
109343
109344 To have a thousand with red burning spits
109345 Come hizzing in upon 'em ,
109346
109347 The foul fiend bites my back .
109348
109349 He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf , a horse's health , a boy's love , or a whore's oath .
109350
109351 It shall be done ; I will arraign them straight .
109352
109353
109354 Come , sit thou here , most learned justicer ;
109355
109356
109357 Thou , sapient sir , sit here . Now , you she foxes !
109358
109359 Look , where he stands and glares ! wantest thou eyes at trial , madam ?
109360 Come o'er the bourn , Bessy , to me ,
109361
109362
109363 Her boat hath a leak ,
109364 And she must not speak
109365 Why she dares not come over to thee .
109366
109367
109368 The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a nightingale . Hopdance cries in Tom's belly for two white herring . Croak not , black angel ; I have no food for thee .
109369
109370 How do you , sir ? Stand you not so amaz'd :
109371 Will you lie down and rest upon the cushions ?
109372
109373 I'll see their trial first . Bring in their evidence .
109374
109375
109376 Thou robed man of justice , take thy place ;
109377
109378
109379 And thou , his yoke-fellow of equity ,
109380 Bench by his side .
109381
109382 You are o' the commission ,
109383 Sit you too .
109384
109385 Let us deal justly .
109386
109387 Sleepest or wakest thou , jolly shepherd ?
109388 Thy sheep be in the corn ,
109389 And for one blast of thy minikin mouth ,
109390 Thy sheep shall take no harm .
109391
109392 Purr ! the cat is grey .
109393
109394 Arraign her first ; 'tis Goneril . I here take my oath before this honourable assembly , she kicked the poor king her father .
109395
109396 Come hither , mistress . Is your name Goneril ?
109397
109398 She cannot deny it .
109399
109400 Cry you mercy , I took you for a joint-stool .
109401
109402 And here's another , whose warp'd looks proclaim
109403 What store her heart is made on . Stop her there !
109404 Arms , arms , sword , fire ! Corruption in the place !
109405 False justicer , why hast thou let her 'scape ?
109406
109407 Bless thy five wits !
109408
109409 O pity ! Sir , where is the patience now
109410 That you so oft have boasted to retain ?
109411
109412 My tears begin to take his part so much ,
109413 They'll mar my counterfeiting .
109414
109415 The little dogs and all ,
109416 Tray , Blanch , and Sweet-heart , see , they bark at me .
109417
109418 Tom will throw his head at them .
109419 Avaunt , you curs !
109420
109421 Be thy mouth or black or white ,
109422 Tooth that poisons if it bite ;
109423 Mastiff , greyhound , mongrel grim ,
109424 Hound or spaniel , brach or lym ;
109425 Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail ;
109426 Tom will make them weep and wail :
109427 For , with throwing thus my head ,
109428 Dogs leap the hatch , and all are fled .
109429
109430 Do de , de , de . Sessa ! Come , march to wakes and fairs and market-towns . Poor Tom , thy horn is dry .
109431
109432 Then let them anatomize Regan , see what breeds about her heart . Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts ?
109433
109434 You , sir , I entertain you for one of my hundred ; only I do not like the fashion of your garments : you will say , they are Persian attire ; but let them be changed .
109435
109436 Now , good my lord , lie here and rest awhile .
109437
109438 Make no noise , make no noise ; draw the curtains : so , so , so . We'll go to supper i' the morning : so , so , so .
109439
109440 And I'll go to bed at noon .
109441
109442
109443 Come hither , friend : where is the king my master ?
109444
109445 Here , sir ; but trouble him not , his wits are gone .
109446
109447 Good friend , I prithee , take him in thy arms ;
109448 I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him .
109449 There is a litter ready ; lay him in 't ,
109450 And drive toward Dover , friend , where thou shalt meet
109451 Both welcome and protection . Take up thy master :
109452 If thou shouldst dally half an hour , his life ,
109453 With thine , and all that offer to defend him ,
109454 Stand in assured loss . Take up , take up ;
109455 And follow me , that will to some provision
109456 Give thee quick conduct .
109457
109458 Oppress'd nature sleeps :
109459 This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken sinews ,
109460 Which , if convenience will not allow ,
109461 Stand in hard cure .
109462
109463 Come , help to bear thy master ;
109464 Thou must not stay behind .
109465
109466 Come , come , away .
109467
109468
109469 When we our betters see bearing our woes ,
109470 We scarcely think our miseries our foes .
109471 Who alone suffers suffers most i' the mind ,
109472 Leaving free things and happy shows behind ;
109473 But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip ,
109474 When grief hath mates , and bearing fellowship .
109475 How light and portable my pain seems now ,
109476 When that which makes me bend makes the king bow ;
109477 He childed as I father'd ! Tom , away !
109478 Mark the high noises , and thyself bewray
109479 When false opinion , whose wrong thought defiles thee ,
109480 In thy just proof repeals and reconciles thee .
109481 What will hap more to-night , safe 'scape the king !
109482 Lurk , lurk .
109483
109484
109485 Post speedily to my lord your husband ; show him this letter : the army of France is landed . Seek out the traitor Gloucester .
109486
109487
109488 Hang him instantly .
109489
109490 Pluck out his eyes .
109491
109492 Leave him to my displeasure . Edmund , keep you our sister company : the revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous father are not fit for your beholding . Advise the duke , where you are going , to a most festinate preparation : we are bound to the like . Our posts shall be swift and intelligent betwixt us . Farewell , dear sister : farewell , my Lord of Gloucester .
109493
109494 How now ? Where's the king ?
109495
109496 My Lord of Gloucester hath convey'd him hence :
109497 Some five or six and thirty of his knights ,
109498 Hot questrists after him , met him at gate ;
109499 Who , with some other of the lord's dependants ,
109500 Are gone with him toward Dover , where they boast
109501 To have well-armed friends .
109502
109503 Get horses for your mistress .
109504
109505 Farewell , sweet lord , and sister .
109506
109507 Edmund , farewell .
109508
109509 Go seek the traitor Gloucester ,
109510 Pinion him like a thief , bring him before us .
109511
109512 Though well we may not pass upon his life
109513 Without the form of justice , yet our power
109514 Shall do a courtesy to our wrath , which men
109515 May blame but not control . Who's there ? The traitor ?
109516
109517
109518 Ingrateful fox ! 'tis he .
109519
109520 Bind fast his corky arms .
109521
109522 What mean your Graces ? Good my friends , consider
109523 You are my guests : do me no foul play , friends
109524
109525 Bind him , I say .
109526
109527
109528 Hard , hard . O filthy traitor !
109529
109530 Unmerciful lady as you are , I'm none .
109531
109532 To this chair bind him . Villain , thou shalt find
109533
109534
109535 By the kind gods , 'tis most ignobly done
109536 To pluck me by the beard .
109537
109538 So white , and such a traitor !
109539
109540 Naughty lady ,
109541 These hairs , which thou dost ravish from my chin ,
109542 Will quicken , and accuse thee : I am your host :
109543 With robbers' hands my hospitable favours
109544 You should not ruffle thus . What will you do ?
109545
109546 Come , sir , what letters had you late from France ?
109547
109548 Be simple-answer'd , for we know the truth .
109549
109550 And what confederacy have you with the traitors
109551 Late footed in the kingdom ?
109552
109553 To whose hands have you sent the lunatic king ?
109554 Speak .
109555
109556 I have a letter guessingly set down ,
109557 Which came from one that's of a neutral heart ,
109558 And not from one oppos'd .
109559
109560 Cunning .
109561
109562 And false .
109563
109564 Where hast thou sent the king ?
109565
109566 To Dover .
109567
109568 Wherefore to Dover ? Wast thou not charg'd at peril
109569
109570 Wherefore to Dover ? Let him answer that .
109571
109572 I am tied to the stake , and I must stand the course .
109573
109574 Wherefore to Dover ?
109575
109576 Because I would not see thy cruel nails
109577 Pluck out his poor old eyes ; nor thy fierce sister
109578 In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs .
109579 The sea , with such a storm as his bare head
109580 In hell-black night endur'd , would have buoy'd up ,
109581 And quench'd the stelled fires ;
109582 Yet , poor old heart , he holp the heavens to rain .
109583 If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that dern time ,
109584 Thou shouldst have said , 'Good porter , turn the key ,'
109585 All cruels else subscrib'd : but I shall see
109586 The winged vengeance overtake such children .
109587
109588 See 't shalt thou never . Fellows , hold the chair .
109589 Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot .
109590
109591 He that will think to live till he be old ,
109592 Give me some help ! O cruel ! O ye gods !
109593
109594
109595 One side will mock another ; the other too .
109596
109597 If you see vengeance .
109598
109599 Hold your hand , my lord :
109600 I have serv'd you ever since I was a child ,
109601 But better service have I never done you
109602 Than now to bid you hold .
109603
109604 How now , you dog !
109605
109606 If you did wear a beard upon your chin ,
109607 I'd shake it on this quarrel . What do you mean ?
109608
109609 My villain !
109610
109611
109612 Nay then , come on , and take the chance of anger .
109613
109614
109615 Give me thy sword . A peasant stand up thus !
109616
109617
109618 O ! I am slain . My lord , you have one eye left
109619 To see some mischief on him . O !
109620
109621
109622 Lest it see more , prevent it . Out , vile jelly !
109623 Where is thy lustre now ?
109624
109625 All dark and comfortless . Where's my son Edmund ?
109626 Edmund , enkindle all the sparks of nature
109627 To quit this horrid act .
109628
109629 Out , treacherous villain !
109630 Thou call'st on him that hates thee ; it was he
109631 That made the overture of thy treasons to us ,
109632 Who is too good to pity thee .
109633
109634 O my follies ! Then Edgar was abus'd .
109635 Kind gods , forgive me that , and prosper him !
109636
109637 Go thrust him out at gates , and let him smell
109638 His way to Dover .
109639
109640 How is 't , my lord ? How look you ?
109641
109642 I have receiv'd a hurt . Follow me , lady .
109643 Turn out that eyeless villain ; throw this slave
109644 Upon the dunghill . Regan , I bleed apace :
109645 Untimely comes this hurt . Give me your arm .
109646
109647
109648 I'll never care what wickedness I do
109649 If this man come to good .
109650
109651 If she live long ,
109652 And , in the end , meet the old course of death ,
109653 Women will all turn monsters .
109654
109655 Let's follow the old earl , and get the Bedlam
109656 To lead him where he would : his roguish madness
109657 Allows itself to any thing .
109658
109659 Go thou ; I'll fetch some flax , and whites of eggs ,
109660 To apply to his bleeding face . Now , heaven help him !
109661
109662 Yet better thus , and known to be contemn'd ,
109663 Than still contemn'd and flatter'd . To be worst ,
109664 The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune ,
109665 Stands still in esperance , lives not in fear :
109666 The lamentable change is from the best ;
109667 The worst returns to laughter . Welcome , then ,
109668 Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace :
109669 The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst
109670 Owes nothing to thy blasts . But who comes here ?
109671
109672
109673 My father , poorly led ? World , world , O world !
109674 But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee ,
109675
109676 Life would not yield to age .
109677
109678 O my good lord !
109679 I have been your tenant , and your father's tenant ,
109680 These fourscore years .
109681
109682 Away , get thee away ; good friend , be gone ;
109683 Thy comforts can do me no good at all ;
109684 Thee they may hurt .
109685
109686 You cannot see your way .
109687
109688 I have no way , and therefore want no eyes ;
109689 I stumbled when I saw . Full oft 'tis seen ,
109690 Our means secure us , and our mere defects
109691 Prove our commodities . Ah ! dear son Edgar .
109692 The food of thy abused father's wrath ;
109693 Might I but live to see thee in my touch ,
109694 I'd say I had eyes again .
109695
109696 How now ! Who's there ?
109697
109698 O gods ! Who is 't can say , 'I am at the worst ?'
109699 I am worse than e'er I was .
109700
109701 'Tis poor mad Tom .
109702
109703 And worse I may be yet ; the worst is not ,
109704 So long as we can say , 'This is the worst .'
109705
109706 Fellow , where goest ?
109707
109708 Is it a beggar-man ?
109709
109710 Madman and beggar too .
109711
109712 He has some reason , else he could not beg .
109713 I' the last night's storm I such a fellow saw ,
109714 Which made me think a man a worm : my son
109715 Came then into my mind ; and yet my mind
109716 Was then scarce friends with him : I have heard more since .
109717 As flies to wanton boys , are we to the gods ;
109718 They kill us for their sport .
109719
109720 How should this be ?
109721 Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow ,
109722 Angering itself and others .
109723
109724 Bless thee , master !
109725
109726 Is that the naked fellow ?
109727
109728 Ay , my lord .
109729
109730 Then , prithee , get thee gone . If , for my sake ,
109731 Thou wilt o'ertake us , hence a mile or twain ,
109732 I' the way toward Dover , do it for ancient love ;
109733 And bring some covering for this naked soul
109734 Who I'll entreat to lead me .
109735
109736 Alack , sir ! he is mad .
109737
109738 'Tis the times' plague , when madmen lead the blind .
109739 Do as I bid thee , or rather do thy pleasure ;
109740 Above the rest , be gone .
109741
109742 I'll bring him the best 'parel that I have ,
109743 Come on 't what will .
109744
109745
109746 Sirrah , naked fellow ,
109747
109748 Poor Tom's a-cold .
109749
109750 I cannot daub it further .
109751
109752 Come hither , fellow .
109753
109754 And yet I must . Bless thy sweet eyes , they bleed .
109755
109756 Know'st thou the way to Dover ?
109757
109758 Both stile and gate , horse-way and footpath . Poor Tom hath been scared out of his good wits : bless thee , good man's son , from the foul fiend ! Five fiends have been in poor Tom at once ; of lust , as Obidicut ; Hobbididance , prince of dumbness ; Mahu , of stealing ; Modo , of murder ; and Flibbertigibbet , of mopping and mowing ; who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women . So , bless thee , master !
109759
109760 Here , take this purse , thou whom the heavens' plagues
109761 Have humbled to all strokes : that I am wretched
109762 Makes thee the happier : heavens , deal so still !
109763 Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man ,
109764 That slaves your ordinance , that will not see
109765 Because he doth not feel , feel your power quickly ;
109766 So distribution should undo excess ,
109767 And each man have enough . Dost thou know Dover ?
109768
109769 Ay , master .
109770
109771 There is a cliff , whose high and bending head
109772 Looks fearfully in the confined deep ;
109773 Bring me but to the very brim of it ,
109774 And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear ;
109775 With something rich about me ; from that place
109776 I shall no leading need .
109777
109778 Give me thy arm :
109779 Poor Tom shall lead thee .
109780
109781
109782 Welcome , my lord ; I marvel our mild husband
109783 Not met us on the way .
109784
109785 Now , where's your master ?
109786
109787 Madam , within ; but never man so chang'd .
109788 I told him of the army that was landed ;
109789 He smil'd at it : I told him you were coming ;
109790 His answer was , 'The worse :' of Gloucester's treachery ,
109791 And of the loyal service of his son ,
109792 When I inform'd him , then he call'd me sot ,
109793 And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out :
109794 What most he should dislike seems pleasant to him ;
109795 What like , offensive .
109796
109797 Then , shall you go no further .
109798 It is the cowish terror of his spirit
109799 That dares not undertake ; he'll not feel wrongs
109800 Which tie him to an answer . Our wishes on the way
109801 May prove effects . Back , Edmund , to my brother ;
109802 Hasten his musters and conduct his powers :
109803 I must change arms at home , and give the distaff
109804 Into my husband's hands . This trusty servant
109805 Shall pass between us ; ere long you are like to hear ,
109806 If you dare venture in your own behalf ,
109807 A mistress's command . Wear this ; spare speech ;
109808
109809 Decline your head : this kiss , if it durst speak ,
109810 Would stretch thy spirits up into the air .
109811 Conceive , and fare thee well .
109812
109813 Yours in the ranks of death .
109814
109815 My most dear Gloucester !
109816
109817 O ! the difference of man and man !
109818 To thee a woman's services are due :
109819 My fool usurps my bed .
109820
109821 Madam , here comes my lord .
109822
109823 I have been worth the whistle .
109824
109825 O Goneril !
109826 You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
109827 Blows in your face . I fear your disposition :
109828 That nature , which contemns its origin ,
109829 Cannot be border'd certain in itself ;
109830 She that herself will sliver and disbranch
109831 From her material sap , perforce must wither
109832 And come to deadly use .
109833
109834 No more ; the text is foolish .
109835
109836 Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile ;
109837 Filths savour but themselves . What have you done ?
109838 Tigers , not daughters , what have you perform'd ?
109839 A father , and a gracious aged man ,
109840 Whose reverence the head-lugg'd bear would lick ,
109841 Most barbarous , most degenerate ! have you madded .
109842 Could my good brother suffer you to do it ?
109843 A man , a prince , by him so benefited !
109844 If that the heavens do not their visible spirits
109845 Send quickly down to tame these vile offences ,
109846 It will come ,
109847 Humanity must perforce prey on itself ,
109848 Like monsters of the deep .
109849
109850 Milk-liver'd man !
109851 That bear'st a cheek for blows , a head for wrongs ;
109852 Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
109853 Thine honour from thy suffering ; that not know'st
109854 Fools do those villains pity who are punish'd
109855 Ere they have done their mischief . Where's thy drum ?
109856 France spreads his banners in our noiseless land ,
109857 With plumed helm thy slayer begins threats ,
109858 Whilst thou , a moral fool , sitt'st still , and criest
109859 'Alack ! why does he so ?'
109860
109861 See thyself , devil !
109862 Proper deformity seems not in the fiend
109863 So horrid as in woman .
109864
109865 O vain fool !
109866
109867 Thou changed and self-cover'd thing , for shame ,
109868 Be-monster not thy feature . Were 't my fitness
109869 To let these hands obey my blood ,
109870 They are apt enough to dislocate and tear
109871 Thy flesh and bones ; howe'er thou art a fiend ,
109872 A woman's shape doth shield thee .
109873
109874 Marry , your manhood .Mew !
109875
109876
109877 What news ?
109878
109879 O ! my good lord , the Duke of Cornwall's dead ;
109880 Slain by his servant , going to put out
109881 The other eye of Gloucester .
109882
109883 Gloucester's eyes !
109884
109885 A servant that he bred , thrill'd with remorse ,
109886 Oppos'd against the act , bending his sword
109887 To his great master ; who , thereat enrag'd ,
109888 Flew on him , and amongst them fell'd him dead ;
109889 But not without that harmful stroke , which since
109890 Hath pluck'd him after .
109891
109892 This shows you are above ,
109893 You justicers , that these our nether crimes
109894 So speedily can venge ! But , O poor Gloucester !
109895 Lost he his other eye ?
109896
109897 Both , both , my lord .
109898 This letter , madam , craves a speedy answer ;
109899 'Tis from your sister .
109900
109901 One way I like this well ;
109902 But being widow , and my Gloucester with her ,
109903 May all the building in my fancy pluck
109904 Upon my hateful life : another way ,
109905 This news is not so tart .
109906
109907 I'll read and answer .
109908
109909
109910 Where was his son when they did take his eyes ?
109911
109912 Come with my lady hither .
109913
109914 He is not here .
109915
109916 No , my good lord ; I met him back again .
109917
109918 Knows he the wickedness ?
109919
109920 Ay , my good lord ; 'twas he inform'd against him ,
109921 And quit the house on purpose that their punishment
109922 Might have the freer course .
109923
109924 Gloucester , I live
109925 To thank thee for the love thou show'dst the king ,
109926 And to revenge thine eyes . Come hither , friend :
109927 Tell me what more thou knowest .
109928
109929
109930 Why the King of France is so suddenly gone back know you the reason ?
109931
109932 Something he left imperfect in the state , which since his coming forth is thought of ; which imports to the kingdom so much fear and danger , that his personal return was most required and necessary .
109933
109934 Who hath he left behind him general ?
109935
109936 The Marshal of France , Monsieur la Far .
109937
109938 Did your letters pierce the queen to any demonstration of grief ?
109939
109940 Ay , sir ; she took them , read them in my presence ;
109941 And now and then an ample tear trill'd down
109942 Her delicate cheek ; it seem'd she was a queen
109943 Over her passion ; who , most rebel-like ,
109944 Sought to be king o'er her .
109945
109946 O ! then it mov'd her .
109947
109948 Not to a rage ; patience and sorrow strove
109949 Who should express her goodliest . You have seen
109950 Sunshine and rain at once ; her smiles and tears
109951 Were like a better way ; those happy smilets
109952 That play'd on her ripe lip seem'd not to know
109953 What guests were in her eyes ; which parted thence ,
109954 As pearls from diamonds dropp'd . In brief ,
109955 Sorrow would be a rarity most belov'd ,
109956 If all could so become it .
109957
109958 Made she no verbal question ?
109959
109960 Faith , once or twice she heav'd the name of 'father'
109961 Pantingly forth , as if it press'd her heart ;
109962 Cried , 'Sisters ! sisters ! Shame of ladies ! sisters !
109963 Kent ! father ! sisters ! What , i' the storm ? i' the night ?
109964 Let pity not be believed !' There she shook
109965 The holy water from her heavenly eyes ,
109966 And clamour-moisten'd , then away she started
109967 To deal with grief alone .
109968
109969 It is the stars ,
109970 The stars above us , govern our conditions ;
109971 Else one self mate and make could not beget
109972 Such different issues . You spoke not with her since ?
109973
109974 No .
109975
109976 Was this before the king return'd ?
109977
109978 No , since .
109979
109980 Well , sir , the poor distress'd Lear's i' the town ,
109981 Who sometime , in his better tune , remembers
109982 What we are come about , and by no means
109983 Will yield to see his daughter .
109984
109985 Why , good sir ?
109986
109987 A sovereign shame so elbows him : his own unkindness ,
109988 That stripp'd her from his benediction , turn'd her
109989 To foreign casualties , gave her dear rights
109990 To his dog-hearted daughters ,these things sting
109991 His mind so venomously that burning shame
109992 Detains him from Cordelia .
109993
109994 Alack ! poor gentleman .
109995
109996 Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not ?
109997
109998 'Tis so , they are afoot .
109999
110000 Well , sir , I'll bring you to our master Lear ,
110001 And leave you to attend him . Some dear cause
110002 Will in concealment wrap me up awhile ;
110003 When I am known aright , you shall not grieve
110004 Lending me this acquaintance . I pray you , go
110005 Along with me .
110006
110007
110008 Alack ! 'tis he : why , he was met even now
110009 As mad as the vex'd sea ; singing aloud ;
110010 Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow weeds ,
110011 With burdocks , hemlock , nettles , cuckoo-flowers ,
110012 Darnel , and all the idle weeds that grow
110013 In our sustaining corn . A century send forth ;
110014 Search every acre in the high-grown field ,
110015 And bring him to our eye .
110016
110017 What can man's wisdom
110018 In the restoring his bereaved sense ?
110019 He that helps him take all my outward worth .
110020
110021 There is means , madam ;
110022 Our foster-nurse of nature is repose ,
110023 The which he lacks ; that to provoke in him ,
110024 Are many simples operative , whose power
110025 Will close the eye of anguish .
110026
110027 All bless'd secrets ,
110028 All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth ,
110029 Spring with my tears ! be aidant and remediate
110030 In the good man's distress ! Seek , seek for him ,
110031 Lest his ungovern'd rage dissolve the life
110032 That wants the means to lead it .
110033
110034
110035 News , madam ;
110036 The British powers are marching hitherward .
110037
110038 'Tis known before ; our preparation stands
110039 In expectation of them . O dear father !
110040 It is thy business that I go about ;
110041 Therefore great France
110042 My mourning and important tears hath pitied ,
110043 No blown ambition doth our arms incite ,
110044 But love , dear love , and our ag'd father's right ,
110045 Soon may I hear and see him !
110046
110047
110048 But are my brother's powers set forth ?
110049
110050 Ay , madam .
110051
110052 Himself in person there ?
110053
110054 Madam , with much ado :
110055 Your sister is the better soldier .
110056
110057 Lord Edmund spake not with your lord at home ?
110058
110059 No , madam .
110060
110061 What might import my sister's letter to him ?
110062
110063 I know not , lady .
110064
110065 Faith , he is posted hence on serious matter .
110066 It was great ignorance , Gloucester's eyes being out ,
110067 To let him live ; where he arrives he moves
110068 All hearts against us . Edmund , I think , is gone ,
110069 In pity of his misery , to dispatch
110070 His nighted life ; moreover , to descry
110071 The strength o' the enemy .
110072
110073 I must needs after him , madam , with my letter .
110074
110075 Our troops set forth to-morrow ; stay with us ,
110076 The ways are dangerous .
110077
110078 I may not , madam ;
110079 My lady charg'd my duty in this business .
110080
110081 Why should she write to Edmund ? Might not you
110082 Transport her purposes by word ? Belike ,
110083 Something I know not what . I'll love thee much ,
110084 Let me unseal the letter .
110085
110086 Madam , I had rather
110087
110088 I know your lady does not love her husband ;
110089 I am sure of that : and at her late being here
110090 She gave strange ceilliades and most speaking looks
110091 To noble Edmund . I know you are of her bosom .
110092
110093 I , madam !
110094
110095 I speak in understanding ; you are , I know't :
110096 Therefore I do advise you , take this note :
110097 My lord is dead ; Edmund and I have talk'd ,
110098 And more convenient is he for my hand
110099 Than for your lady's . You may gather more .
110100 If you do find him , pray you , give him this ,
110101 And when your mistress hears thus much from you ,
110102 I pray desire her call her wisdom to her :
110103 So , fare you well .
110104 If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor ,
110105 Preferment falls on him that cuts him off .
110106
110107 Would I could meet him , madam : I would show
110108 What party I do follow .
110109
110110 Fare thee well .
110111
110112
110113 When shall I come to the top of that same hill ?
110114
110115 You do climb up it now ; look how we labour .
110116
110117 Methinks the ground is even .
110118
110119 Horrible steep :
110120 Hark ! do you hear the sea ?
110121
110122 No , truly .
110123
110124 Why , then you other senses grow imperfect
110125 By your eyes' anguish .
110126
110127 So may it be , indeed .
110128 Methinks thy voice is alter'd , and thou speak'st
110129 In better phrase and matter than thou didst .
110130
110131 Y'are much deceiv'd ; in nothing am I chang'd
110132 But in my garments .
110133
110134 Methinks you're better spoken .
110135
110136 Come on , sir ; here's the place : stand still .
110137 How fearful
110138 And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low !
110139 The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
110140 Show scarce so gross as beetles ; half way down
110141 Hangs one that gathers samphire , dreadful trade !
110142 Methinks he seems no bigger than his head .
110143 The fishermen that walk upon the beach
110144 Appear like mice , and yond tall anchoring bark
110145 Diminish'd to her cock , her cock a buoy
110146 Almost too small for sight . The murmuring surge ,
110147 That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes ,
110148 Cannot be heard so high . I'll look no more ,
110149 Lest my brain turn , and the deficient sight
110150 Topple down headlong .
110151
110152 Set me where you stand .
110153
110154 Give me your hand ; you are now within a foot
110155 Of the extreme verge : for all beneath the moon
110156 Would I not leap upright .
110157
110158 Let go my hand .
110159 Here , friend , 's another purse ; in it a jewel
110160 Well worth a poor man's taking : fairies and gods
110161 Prosper it with thee ! Go thou further off ;
110162 Bid me farewell , and let me hear thee going .
110163
110164 Now fare you well , good sir .
110165
110166
110167 With all my heart .
110168
110169 Why I do trifle thus with his despair
110170 Is done to cure it .
110171
110172 O you mighty gods !
110173 This world I do renounce , and , in your sights ,
110174 Shake patiently my great affliction off ;
110175 If I could bear it longer , and not fall
110176 To quarrel with your great opposeless wills ,
110177 My snuff and loathed part of nature should
110178 Burn itself out . If Edgar live , O , bless him !
110179 Now , fellow , fare thee well .
110180
110181
110182 Gone , sir : farewell .
110183
110184
110185 And yet I know not how conceit may rob
110186 The treasury of life when life itself
110187 Yields to the theft ; had he been where he thought
110188 By this had thought been past . Alive or dead ?
110189
110190
110191 Ho , you sir ! friend ! Hear you , sir ? speak !
110192 Thus might he pass indeed ; yet he revives .
110193 What are you , sir ?
110194
110195 Away and let me die .
110196
110197 Hadst thou been aught but gossamer , feathers , air ,
110198 So many fathom down precipitating ,
110199 Thou'dst shiver'd like an egg ; but thou dost breathe ,
110200 Hast heavy substance , bleed'st not , speak'st , art sound .
110201 Ten masts at each make not the altitude
110202 Which thou hast perpendicularly fell :
110203 Thy life's a miracle . Speak yet again .
110204
110205 But have I fallen or no ?
110206
110207 From the dread summit of this chalky bourn .
110208 Look up a-height ; the shrill-gorg'd lark so far
110209 Cannot be seen or heard : do but look up .
110210
110211 Alack ! I have no eyes .
110212 Is wretchedness depriv'd that benefit
110213 To end itself by death ? 'Twas yet some comfort ,
110214 When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage ,
110215 And frustrate his proud will .
110216
110217 Give me your arm :
110218 Up : so . How is 't ? Feel you your legs ? You stand .
110219
110220 Too well , too well .
110221
110222 This is above all strangeness .
110223 Upon the crown o' the cliff , what thing was that
110224 Which parted from you ?
110225
110226 A poor unfortunate beggar .
110227
110228 As I stood here below methought his eyes
110229 Were two full moons ; he had a thousand noses ,
110230 Horns whelk'd and wav'd like the enridged sea :
110231 It was some fiend ; therefore , thou happy father ,
110232 Think that the clearest gods , who make them honours
110233 Of men's impossibilities , have preserv'd thee .
110234
110235 I do remember now ; henceforth I'll bear
110236 Affliction till it do cry out itself
110237 'Enough , enough ,' and die . That thing you speak of
110238 I took it for a man ; often 'twould say
110239 'The fiend , the fiend :' he led me to that place .
110240
110241 Bear free and patient thoughts . But who comes here ?
110242
110243
110244 The safer sense will ne'er accommodate
110245
110246 His master thus .
110247
110248 No , they cannot touch me for coining ;
110249 I am the king himself .
110250
110251 O thou side-piercing sight !
110252
110253 Nature's above art in that respect . There's your press-money . That fellow handles his bow like a crow-keeper : draw me a clothier's yard . Look , look ! a mouse . Peace , peace ! this piece of toasted cheese will do 't . There's my gauntlet ; I'll prove it on a giant . Bring up the brown bills . O ! well flown , bird ; i' the clout , i' the clout : hewgh ! Give the word .
110254
110255 Sweet marjoram .
110256
110257 Pass .
110258
110259 I know that voice .
110260
110261 Ha ! Goneril , with a white beard ! They flatter'd me like a dog , and told me I had white hairs in my beard ere the black ones were there . To say 'ay' and 'no' to everything I said ! 'Ay' and 'no' too was no good divinity . When the rain came to wet me once and the wind to make me chatter , when the thunder would not peace at my bidding , there I found 'em , there I smelt 'em out . Go to , they are not men o' their words : they told me I was every thing ; 'tis a lie , I am not ague-proof .
110262
110263 The trick of that voice I do well remember :
110264 Is 't not the king ?
110265
110266 Ay , every inch a king :
110267 When I do stare , see how the subject quakes .
110268 I pardon that man's life . What was thy cause ?
110269 Adultery ?
110270 Thou shalt not die : die for adultery ! No :
110271 The wren goes to 't , and the small gilded fly
110272 Does lecher in my sight .
110273 Let copulation thrive ; for Gloucester's bastard son
110274 Was kinder to his father than my daughters
110275 Got 'tween the lawful sheets .
110276 To 't luxury , pell-mell ! for I lack soldiers .
110277 Behold yond simpering dame ,
110278 Whose face between her forks presageth snow ;
110279 That minces virtue , and does shake the head
110280 To hear of pleasure's name ;
110281 The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to 't
110282 With a more riotous appetite .
110283 Down from the waist they are Centaurs ,
110284 Though women all above :
110285 But to the girdle do the gods inherit ,
110286 Beneath is all the fiends' :
110287 There's hell , there's darkness , there is the sulphurous pit ,
110288 Burning , scalding , stench , consumption ; fie , fie , fie ! pah , pah ! Give me an ounce of civet , good apothecary , to sweeten my imagination : there's money for thee .
110289
110290 O ! let me kiss that hand !
110291
110292 Let me wipe it first ; it smells of mortality .
110293
110294 O ruin'd piece of nature ! This great world
110295 Shall so wear out to nought . Dost thou know me ?
110296
110297 I remember thine eyes well enough .
110298 Dost thou squiny at me ? No , do thy worst , blind Cupid ; I'll not love . Read thou this challenge ; mark but the penning of it .
110299
110300 Were all the letters suns , I could not see .
110301
110302 I would not take this from report ; it is ,
110303 And my heart breaks at it .
110304
110305 Read .
110306
110307 What ! with the case of eyes ?
110308
110309 O , ho ! are you there with me ? No eyes in your head , nor no money in your purse ? Your eyes are in a heavy case , your purse in a light : yet you see how this world goes .
110310
110311 I see it feelingly .
110312
110313 What ! art mad ? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes . Look with thine ears : see how yound justice rails upon yon simple thief . Hark , in thine ear : change places ; and , handy-dandy , which is the justice , which is the thief ? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar ?
110314
110315 Ay , sir .
110316
110317 And the creature run from the cur ? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority ; a dog's obey'd in office .
110318 Thou rascal beadle , hold thy bloody hand !
110319 Why dost thou lash that whore ? Strip thine own back ;
110320 Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind
110321 For which thou whipp'st her . The usurer hangs the cozener .
110322 Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ;
110323 Robes and furr'd gowns hide all . Plate sin with gold ,
110324 And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks ;
110325 Arm it in rags , a pigmy's straw doth pierce it .
110326 None does offend , none , I say none ; I'll able 'em :
110327 Take that of me , my friend , who have the power
110328 To seal the accuser's lips . Get thee glass eyes ;
110329 And , like a scurvy politician , seem
110330 To see the things thou dost not . Now , now , now , now ;
110331 Pull off my boots ; harder , harder ; so .
110332
110333 O ! matter and impertinency mix'd ;
110334 Reason in madness !
110335
110336 If thou wilt weep my fortunes , take my eyes ;
110337 I know thee well enough ; thy name is Gloucester :
110338 Thou must be patient ; we came crying hither :
110339 Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air
110340 We waul and cry . I will preach to thee : mark .
110341
110342 Alack ! alack the day !
110343
110344 When we are born , we cry that we are come
110345 To this great stage of fools . This' a good block !
110346 It were a delicate stratagem to shoe
110347 A troop of horse with felt ; I'll put it in proof ,
110348 And when I have stol'n upon these sons-in-law ,
110349 Then , kill , kill , kill , kill , kill , kill !
110350
110351
110352 O ! here he is ; lay hand upon him . Sir ,
110353 Your most dear daughter
110354
110355 No rescue ? What ! a prisoner ? I am even
110356 The natural fool of fortune . Use me well ;
110357 You shall have ransom . Let me have surgeons ;
110358 I am cut to the brains .
110359
110360 You shall have any thing .
110361
110362 No seconds ? All myself ?
110363 Why this would make a man a man of salt ,
110364 To use his eyes for garden water-pots ,
110365 Ay , and laying autumn's dust .
110366
110367 Good sir ,
110368
110369 I will die bravely as a bridegroom . What !
110370 I will be jovial : come , come ; I am a king ,
110371 My masters , know you that ?
110372
110373 You are a royal one , and we obey you .
110374
110375 Then there's life in it . Nay , an you get it , you shall get it by running . Sa , sa , sa , sa
110376
110377
110378 A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch ,
110379 Past speaking of in a king ! Thou hast one daughter ,
110380 Who redeems nature from the general curse
110381 Which twain have brought her to .
110382
110383 Hail , gentle sir !
110384
110385 Sir , speed you : what's your will ?
110386
110387 Do you hear aught , sir , of a battle toward ?
110388
110389 Most sure and vulgar ; every one hears that ,
110390 Which can distinguish sound .
110391
110392 But , by your favour ,
110393 How near's the other army ?
110394
110395 Near , and on speedy foot ; the main descry
110396 Stands on the hourly thought .
110397
110398 I thank you , sir : that's all
110399
110400 Though that the queen on special cause is here ,
110401 Her army is mov'd on .
110402
110403 I thank you , sir .
110404
110405
110406 You ever-gentle gods , take my breath from me :
110407 Let not my worser spirit tempt me again
110408 To die before you please !
110409
110410 Well pray you , father .
110411
110412 Now , good sir , what are you ?
110413
110414 A most poor man , made tame to fortune's blows ;
110415 Who , by the art of known and feeling sorrows ,
110416 Am pregnant to good pity . Give me your hand ,
110417 I'll lead you to some biding .
110418
110419 Hearty thanks :
110420 The bounty and the benison of heaven
110421 To boot , and boot !
110422
110423
110424 A proclaim'd prize ! Most happy !
110425 That eyeless head of thine was first fram'd flesh
110426 To raise my fortunes . Thou old unhappy traitor ,
110427 Briefly thyself remember : the sword in out
110428 That must destroy thee .
110429
110430 Now let thy friendly hand
110431 Put strength enough to 't .
110432
110433
110434 Wherefore , bold peasant ,
110435 Dar'st thou support a publish'd traitor ? Hence ;
110436 Lest that infection of his fortune take
110437 Like hold on thee . Let go his arm .
110438
110439 Chill not let go , zur , without vurther 'casion .
110440
110441 Let go , slave , or thou diest .
110442
110443 Good gentleman , go your gait , and let poor volk pass . An chud ha' bin zwaggered out of my life , 'twould not ha' bin zo long as 'tis by a vortnight . Nay , come not near th' old man ; keep out , che vor ye , or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be the harder . Chill be plain with you .
110444
110445 Out , dunghill !
110446
110447 Chill pick your teeth , zur . Come ; no matter vor your foins .
110448
110449
110450 Slave , thou hast slain me . Villain , take my purse .
110451 If ever thou wilt thrive , bury my body ;
110452 And give the letters which thou find'st about me
110453 To Edmund Earl of Gloucester ; seek him out
110454 Upon the English party : O ! untimely death .
110455
110456
110457 I know thee well : a serviceable villain ;
110458 As duteous to the vices of thy mistress
110459 As badness would desire .
110460
110461 What ! is he dead ?
110462
110463 Sit you down , father ; rest you .
110464 Let's see his pockets : these letters that he speaks of
110465 May be my friends . He's dead ; I am only sorry
110466 He had no other deaths-man . Let us see :
110467 Leave , gentle wax ; and , manners , blame us not :
110468 To know our enemies' minds , we'd rip their hearts ;
110469 Their papers , is more lawful .
110470 Let our reciprocal vows be remembered . You have many opportunities to cut him off ; if your will want not , time and place will be fruitfully offered . There is nothing done if he return the conqueror ; then am I the prisoner , and his bed my gaol ; from the loathed warmth whereof deliver me , and supply the place for your labour .
110471 Your wife , so I would say
110472 Affectionate servant ,
110473 O undistinguish'd space of woman's will !
110474 A plot upon her virtuous husband's life ,
110475 And the exchange my brother ! Here , in the sands ,
110476 Thee I'll rake up , the post unsanctified
110477 Of murderous lechers ; and in the mature time
110478 With this ungracious paper strike the sight
110479 Of the death-practis'd duke . For him 'tis well
110480 That of thy death and business I can tell .
110481
110482 The king is mad : how stiff is my vile sense ,
110483 That I stand up , and have ingenious feeling
110484 Of my huge sorrows ! Better I were distract :
110485 So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs ,
110486 And woes by wrong imaginations lose
110487 The knowledge of themselves .
110488
110489
110490 Give me your hand :
110491 Far off , methinks , I hear the beaten drum .
110492 Come , father , I'll bestow you with a friend .
110493
110494
110495 O thou good Kent ! how shall I live and work
110496 To match thy goodness ? My life will be too short ,
110497 And every measure fail me .
110498
110499 To be acknowledg'd , madam , is o'erpaid .
110500 All my reports go with the modest truth ,
110501 Nor more nor clipp'd , but so .
110502
110503 Be better suited :
110504 These weeds are memories of those worser hours :
110505 I prithee , put them off .
110506
110507 Pardon me , dear madam ;
110508 Yet to be known shortens my made intent :
110509 My boon I make it that you know me not
110510 Till time and I think meet .
110511
110512 Then be 't so , my good lord .
110513
110514 How does the king ?
110515
110516 Madam , sleeps still .
110517
110518 O you kind gods ,
110519 Cure this great breach in his abused nature !
110520 The untun'd and jarring senses , O ! wind up
110521 Of this child-changed father !
110522
110523 So please your majesty
110524 That we may wake the king ? he hath slept long .
110525
110526 Be govern'd by your knowledge , and proceed
110527 I' the sway of your own will . Is he array'd ?
110528
110529
110530 Ay , madam ; in the heaviness of sleep ,
110531 We put fresh garments on him .
110532
110533 Be by , good madam , when we do awake him ;
110534 I doubt not of his temperance .
110535
110536 Very well .
110537
110538
110539 Please you , draw near . Louder the music there .
110540
110541 O my dear father ! Restoration , hang
110542 Thy medicine on my lips , and let this kiss
110543 Repair those violent harms that my two sisters
110544 Have in thy reverence made !
110545
110546 Kind and dear princess !
110547
110548 Had you not been their father , these white flakes
110549 Had challeng'd pity of them . Was this a face
110550 To be expos'd against the warring winds ?
110551 To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder ?
110552 In the most terrible and nimble stroke
110553 Of quick cross lightning ? to watch poor perdu !
110554 With this thin helm ? Mine enemy's dog ,
110555 Though he had bit me , should have stood that night
110556 Against my fire . And wast thou fain , poor father ,
110557 To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn ,
110558 In short and musty straw ? Alack , alack !
110559 'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once
110560 Had not concluded all . He wakes ; speak to him .
110561
110562 Madam , do you ; 'tis fittest .
110563
110564 How does my royal lord ? How fares your majesty ?
110565
110566 You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave ;
110567 Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound
110568 Upon a wheel of fire , that mine own tears
110569 Do scald like molten lead .
110570
110571 Sir , do you know me ?
110572
110573 You are a spirit , I know ; when did you die ?
110574
110575 Still , still , far wide .
110576
110577 He's scarce awake ; let him alone awhile .
110578
110579 Where have I been ? Where am I ? Fair day-light ?
110580 I am mightily abus'd . I should even die with pity
110581 To see another thus . I know not what to say .
110582 I will not swear these are my hands : let's see ;
110583 I feel this pin prick . Would I were assur'd
110584 Of my condition !
110585
110586 O ! look upon me , sir ,
110587 And hold your hands in benediction o'er me .
110588 No , sir , you must not kneel .
110589
110590 Pray , do not mock me :
110591 I am a very foolish fond old man ,
110592 Fourscore and upward , not an hour more or less ;
110593 And , to deal plainly ,
110594 I fear I am not in my perfect mind .
110595 Methinks I should know you and know this man ;
110596 Yet I am doubtful : for I am mainly ignorant
110597 What place this is , and all the skill I have
110598 Remembers not these garments ; nor I know not
110599 Where I did lodge last night . Do not laugh at me ;
110600 For , as I am a man , I think this lady
110601 To be my child Cordelia .
110602
110603 And so I am , I am .
110604
110605 Be your tears wet ? Yes , faith . I pray , weep not :
110606 If you have poison for me , I will drink it .
110607 I know you do not love me ; for your sisters
110608 Have , as I do remember , done me wrong :
110609 You have some cause , they have not .
110610
110611 No cause , no cause .
110612
110613 Am I in France ?
110614
110615 In your own kingdom , sir .
110616
110617 Do not abuse me .
110618
110619 Be comforted , good madam ; the great rage ,
110620 You see , is kill'd in him ; and yet it is danger
110621 To make him even o'er the time he has lost .
110622 Desire him to go in ; trouble him no more
110623 Till further settling .
110624
110625 Will 't please your highness walk ?
110626
110627 You must bear with me .
110628 Pray you now , forget and forgive : I am old and foolish .
110629
110630
110631 Holds it true , sir , that the Duke of Cornwall was so slain ?
110632
110633 Most certain , sir .
110634
110635 Who is conductor of his people ?
110636
110637 As 'tis said , the bastard son of Gloucester .
110638
110639 They say Edgar , his banished son , is with the Earl of Kent in Germany .
110640
110641 Report is changeable . 'Tis time to look about ; the powers of the kingdom approach apace .
110642
110643 The arbitrement is like to be bloody .
110644 Fare you well , sir .
110645
110646
110647 My point and period will be throughly wrought ,
110648 Or well or ill , as this day's battle's fought .
110649
110650 Know of the duke if his last purpose hold ,
110651 Or whether since he is advis'd by aught
110652 To change the course ; he's full of alteration
110653 And self-reproving ; bring his constant pleasure .
110654
110655
110656 Our sister's man is certainly miscarried .
110657
110658 'Tis to be doubted , madam .
110659
110660 Now , sweet lord ,
110661 You know the goodness I intend upon you :
110662 Tell me , but truly , but then speak the truth ,
110663 Do you not love my sister ?
110664
110665 In honour'd love .
110666
110667 But have you never found my brother's way
110668 To the forefended place ?
110669
110670 That thought abuses you .
110671
110672 I am doubtful that you have been conjunct
110673 And bosom'd with her , as far as we call hers .
110674
110675 No , by mine honour , madam .
110676
110677 I never shall endure her : dear my lord ,
110678 Be not familiar with her .
110679
110680 Fear me not .
110681 She and the duke her husband !
110682
110683
110684 I had rather lose the battle than that sister
110685 Should loosen him and me .
110686
110687 Our very loving sister , well be-met .
110688 Sir , this I heard , the king is come to his daughter ,
110689 With others ; whom the rigour of our state
110690 Forc'd to cry out . Where I could not be honest
110691 I never yet was valiant : for this business ,
110692 It toucheth us , as France invades our land ,
110693 Not bolds the king , with others , whom , I fear ,
110694 Most just and heavy causes make oppose .
110695
110696 Sir , you speak nobly .
110697
110698 Why is this reason'd ?
110699
110700 Combine together 'gainst the enemy ;
110701 For these domestic and particular broils
110702 Are not the question here .
110703
110704 Let's then determine
110705 With the ancient of war on our proceeding .
110706
110707 I shall attend you presently at your tent .
110708
110709 Sister , you'll go with us ?
110710
110711 No .
110712
110713 'Tis most convenient ; pray you , go with us .
110714
110715 O , ho ! I know the riddle . [Aloud .] I will go .
110716
110717
110718 If e'er your Grace had speech with man so poor ,
110719 Hear me one word .
110720
110721 I'll overtake you . Speak .
110722
110723
110724 Before you fight the battle , ope this letter .
110725 If you have victory , let the trumpet sound
110726 For him that brought it : wretched though I seem ,
110727 I can produce a champion that will prove
110728 What is avouched there . If you miscarry ,
110729 Your business of the world hath so an end ,
110730 And machination ceases . Fortune love you !
110731
110732 Stay till I have read the letter .
110733
110734 I was forbid it .
110735 When time shall serve , let but the herald cry ,
110736 And I'll appear again .
110737
110738 Why , fare thee well : I will o'erlook thy paper .
110739
110740 The enemy's in view ; draw up your powers .
110741 Here is the guess of their true strength and forces
110742 By diligent discovery ; but your haste
110743 Is now urg'd on you .
110744
110745 We will greet the time .
110746
110747
110748 To both these sisters have I sworn my love ;
110749 Each jealous of the other , as the stung
110750 Are of the adder . Which of them shall I take ?
110751 Both ? one ? or neither ? Neither can be enjoy'd
110752 If both remain alive : to take the widow
110753 Exasperates , makes mad her sister Goneril ;
110754 And hardly shall I carry out my side ,
110755 Her husband being alive . Now then , we'll use
110756 His countenance for the battle ; which being done
110757 Let her who would be rid of him devise
110758 His speedy taking off . As for the mercy
110759 Which he intends to Lear , and to Cordelia ,
110760 The battle done , and they within our power ,
110761 Shall never see his pardon ; for my state
110762 Stands on me to defend , not to debate .
110763
110764 Here , father , take the shadow of this tree
110765 For your good host ; pray that the right may thrive .
110766 If ever I return to you again ,
110767 I'll bring you comfort .
110768
110769 Grace go with you , sir !
110770
110771 Away , old man ! give me thy hand : away !
110772 King Lear hath lost , he and his daughter ta'en .
110773 Give me thy hand ; come on .
110774
110775 No further , sir ; a man may rot even here .
110776
110777 What ! in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure
110778 Their going hence , even as their coming hither :
110779 Ripeness is all . Come on .
110780
110781 And that's true too .
110782
110783 Some officers take them away : good guard ,
110784 Until their greater pleasures first be known
110785 That are to censure them .
110786
110787 We are not the first
110788 Who , with best meaning , have incurr'd the worst .
110789 For thee , oppressed king , am I cast down ;
110790 Myself could else out-frown false Fortune's frown .
110791 Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters ?
110792
110793 No , no , no , no ! Come , let's away to prison ;
110794 We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage :
110795 When thou dost ask me blessing , I'll kneel down ,
110796 And ask of thee forgiveness : so we'll live ,
110797 And pray , and sing , and tell old tales , and laugh
110798 At gilded butterflies , and hear poor rogues
110799 Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too ,
110800 Who loses and who wins ; who's in , who's out ;
110801 And take upon's the mystery of things ,
110802 As if we were God's spies : and we'll wear out ,
110803 In a wall'd prison , packs and sets of great ones
110804 That ebb and flow by the moon .
110805
110806 Take them away .
110807
110808 Upon such sacrifices , my Cordelia ,
110809 The gods themselves throw incense . Have I caught thee ?
110810 He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven ,
110811 And fire us hence like foxes . Wipe thine eyes ;
110812 The goujeres shall devour them , flesh and fell ,
110813 Ere they shall make us weep : we'll see 'em starve first .
110814 Come .
110815
110816
110817 Come hither , captain ; hark ,
110818 Take thou this note ;
110819
110820 go follow them to prison :
110821 One step I have advanc'd thee ; if thou dost
110822 As this instructs thee , thou dost make thy way
110823 To noble fortunes ; know thou this , that men
110824 Are as the time is ; to be tender-minded
110825 Does not become a sword ; thy great employment
110826 Will not bear question ; either say thou'lt do't ,
110827 Or thrive by other means .
110828
110829 I'll do't , my lord .
110830
110831 About it ; and write happy when thou hast done .
110832 Mark ,I say , instantly , and carry it so
110833 As I have set it down .
110834
110835 I cannot draw a cart nor eat dried oats ;
110836 If it be man's work I will do it .
110837
110838 Sir , you have show'd to-day your valiant strain ,
110839 And fortune led you well ; you have the captives
110840 Who were the opposites of this day's strife ;
110841 We do require them of you , so to use them
110842 As we shall find their merits and our safety
110843 May equally determine .
110844
110845 Sir , I thought it fit
110846 To send the old and miserable king
110847 To some retention , and appointed guard ;
110848 Whose age has charms in it , whose title more ,
110849 To pluck the common bosom on his side ,
110850 And turn our impress'd lances in our eyes
110851 Which do command them . With him I sent the queen ;
110852 My reason all the same ; and they are ready
110853 To-morrow , or at further space , to appear
110854 Where you shall hold your session . At this time
110855 We sweat and bleed ; the friend hath lost his friend ,
110856 And the best quarrels , in the heat , are curs'd
110857 By those that feel their sharpness ;
110858 The question of Cordelia and her father
110859 Requires a fitter place .
110860
110861 Sir , by your patience ,
110862 I hold you but a subject of this war ,
110863 Not as a brother .
110864
110865 That's as we list to grace him :
110866 Methinks our pleasure might have been demanded ,
110867 Ere you had spoke so far . He led our powers ,
110868 Bore the commission of my place and person ;
110869 The which immediacy may well stand up ,
110870 And call itself your brother .
110871
110872 Not so hot ;
110873 In his own grace he doth exalt himself
110874 More than in your addition .
110875
110876 In my rights ,
110877 By me invested , he compeers the best .
110878
110879 That were the most , if he should husband you .
110880
110881 Jesters do oft prove prophets .
110882
110883 Holla , holla !
110884 That eye that told you so look'd but a-squint .
110885
110886 Lady , I am not well ; else I should answer
110887 From a full-flowing stomach . General ,
110888 Take thou my soldiers , prisoners , patrimony ;
110889 Dispose of them , of me ; the walls are thine ;
110890 Witness the world , that I create thee here
110891 My lord and master .
110892
110893 Mean you to enjoy him ?
110894
110895 The let-alone lies not in your good will .
110896
110897 Nor in thine , lord .
110898
110899 Half-blooded fellow , yes .
110900
110901 Let the drum strike , and prove my title thine .
110902
110903 Stay yet ; hear reason . Edmund , I arrest thee
110904 On capital treason ; and , in thy arrest ,
110905 This gilded serpent .
110906
110907 For your claim , fair sister ,
110908 I bar it in the interest of my wife ;
110909 'Tis she is sub-contracted to this lord ,
110910 And I , her husband , contradict your bans .
110911 If you will marry , make your love to me ,
110912 My lady is bespoke .
110913
110914 An interlude !
110915
110916 Thou art arm'd , Gloucester ; let the trumpet sound :
110917 If none appear to prove upon thy person
110918 Thy heinous , manifest , and many treasons ,
110919 There is my pledge ;
110920
110921 I'll prove it on thy heart ,
110922 Ere I taste bread , thou art in nothing less
110923 Than I have here proclaim'd thee .
110924
110925 Sick ! O sick !
110926
110927 If not , I'll ne'er trust medicine .
110928
110929 There's my exchange :
110930
110931 what in the world he is
110932 That names me traitor , villain-like be lies .
110933 Call by thy trumpet : he that dares approach ,
110934 On him , on you , who not ? I will maintain
110935 My truth and honour firmly .
110936
110937 A herald , ho !
110938
110939 A herald , ho ! a herald !
110940
110941 Trust to thy single virtue ; for thy soldiers ,
110942 All levied in my name , have in my name
110943 Took their discharge .
110944
110945 My sickness grows upon me .
110946
110947 She is not well ; convey her to my tent .
110948
110949 Come hither , herald ,
110950
110951
110952 Let the trumpet sound ,
110953
110954 And read out this .
110955
110956 Sound , trumpet !
110957
110958
110959 If any man of quality or degree within the lists of the army will maintain upon Edmund , supposed Earl of Gloucester , that he is a manifold traitor , let him appear at the third sound of the trumpet . He is bold in his defence .
110960
110961 Sound !
110962
110963
110964 Again !
110965
110966
110967 Again !
110968
110969
110970 Ask him his purposes , why he appears
110971 Upon this call o' the trumpet .
110972
110973 What are you ?
110974 Your name ? your quality ? and why you answer
110975 This present summons ?
110976
110977 Know , my name is lost ;
110978 By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit :
110979 Yet am I noble as the adversary
110980 I come to cope .
110981
110982 Which is that adversary ?
110983
110984 What's he that speaks for Edmund Earl of Gloucester ?
110985
110986 Himself : what sayst thou to him ?
110987
110988 Draw thy sword ,
110989 That , if my speech offend a noble heart ,
110990 Thy arm may do thee justice ; here is mine :
110991 Behold , it is the privilege of mine honours ,
110992 My oath , and my profession : I protest ,
110993 Maugre thy strength , youth , place , and eminence ,
110994 Despite thy victor sword and fire-new fortune ,
110995 Thy valour and thy heart , thou art a traitor ,
110996 False to thy gods , thy brother , and thy father ,
110997 Conspirant 'gainst this high illustrious prince ,
110998 And , from the extremest upward of thy head
110999 To the descent and dust below thy foot ,
111000 A most toad-spotted traitor . Say thou 'No ,'
111001 This sword , this arm , and my best spirits are bent
111002 To prove upon thy heart , whereto I speak ,
111003 Thou liest .
111004
111005 In wisdom I should ask thy name ;
111006 But since thy outside looks so fair and war-like ,
111007 And that thy tongue some say of breeding breathes ,
111008 What safe and nicely I might well delay
111009 By rule of knighthood , I disdain and spurn ;
111010 Back do I toss these treasons to thy head ,
111011 With the hell-hated lie o'erwhelm thy heart ,
111012 Which , for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise ,
111013 This sword of mine shall give them instant way ,
111014 Where they shall rest for ever . Trumpets , speak !
111015
111016
111017 Save him , save him !
111018
111019 This is practice , Gloucester :
111020 By the law of arms thou wast not bound to answer
111021 An unknown opposite ; thou art not vanquish'd ,
111022 But cozen'd and beguil'd .
111023
111024 Shut your mouth , dame ,
111025 Or with this paper shall I stop it . Hold , sir ;
111026 Thou worse than any name , read thine own evil :
111027 No tearing , lady ; I perceive you know it .
111028
111029
111030 Say , if I do , the laws are mine , not thine :
111031 Who can arraign me for 't ?
111032
111033
111034 Most monstrous !
111035 Know'st thou this paper ?
111036
111037 Ask me not what I know .
111038
111039 Go after her : she's desperate ; govern her .
111040
111041
111042 What you have charg'd me with , that have I done ,
111043 And more , much more ; the time will bring it out :
111044 'Tis past , and so am I . But what art thou
111045 That hast this fortune on me ? If thou'rt noble ,
111046 I do forgive thee .
111047
111048 Let's exchange charity .
111049 I am no less in blood than thou art , Edmund ;
111050 If more , the more thou hast wrong'd me .
111051 My name is Edgar , and thy father's son .
111052 The gods are just , and of our pleasant vices
111053 Make instruments to plague us :
111054 The dark and vicious place where thee he got
111055 Cost him his eyes .
111056
111057 Thou hast spoken right , 'tis true ;
111058 The wheel is come full circle ; I am here .
111059
111060 Methought thy very gait did prophesy
111061 A royal nobleness : I must embrace thee :
111062 Let sorrow split my heart , if ever I
111063 Did hate thee or thy father .
111064
111065 Worthy prince , I know 't .
111066
111067 Where have you hid yourself ?
111068 How have you known the miseries of your father ?
111069
111070 By nursing them , my lord . List a brief tale ;
111071 And , when 'tis told , O ! that my heart would burst ,
111072 The bloody proclamation to escape
111073 That follow'd me so near ,O ! our lives' sweetness ,
111074 That we the pain of death would hourly die
111075 Rather than die at once !taught me to shift
111076 Into a madman's rags , to assume a semblance
111077 That very dogs disdain'd : and in this habit
111078 Met I my father with his bleeding rings ,
111079 Their precious stones new lost ; became his guide ,
111080 Led him , begg'd for him , sav'd him from despair ;
111081 Never ,O fault !reveal'd myself unto him ,
111082 Until some half hour past , when I was arm'd ;
111083 Not sure , though hoping , of this good success ,
111084 I ask'd his blessing , and from first to last
111085 Told him my pilgrimage : but his flaw'd heart ,
111086 Alack ! too weak the conflict to support ;
111087 'Twixt two extremes of passion , joy and grief ,
111088 Burst smilingly .
111089
111090 This speech of yours hath mov'd me ,
111091 And shall perchance do good ; but speak you on ;
111092 You look as you had something more to say .
111093
111094 If there be more , more woeful , hold it in ;
111095 For I am almost ready to dissolve ,
111096 Hearing of this .
111097
111098 This would have seem'd a period
111099 To such as love not sorrow ; but another ,
111100 To amplify too much , would make much more ,
111101 And top extremity .
111102 Whilst I was big in clamour came there a man ,
111103 Who , having seen me in my worst estate ,
111104 Shunn'd my abhorr'd society ; but then , finding
111105 Who 'twas that so endur'd , with his strong arms
111106 He fasten'd on my neck , and bellow'd out
111107 As he'd burst heaven ; threw him on my father ;
111108 Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him
111109 That ever ear receiv'd ; which in recounting
111110 His grief grew puissant , and the strings of life
111111 Began to crack : twice then the trumpet sounded ,
111112 And there I left him tranc'd .
111113
111114 But who was this ?
111115
111116 Kent , sir , the banish'd Kent ; who in disguise
111117 Follow'd his enemy king , and did him service
111118 Improper for a slave .
111119
111120
111121 Help , help ! O help !
111122
111123 What kind of help ?
111124
111125 Speak , man .
111126
111127 What means that bloody knife ?
111128
111129 'Tis hot , it smokes ;
111130 It came even from the heart of O ! she's dead .
111131
111132 Who dead ? speak , man .
111133
111134 Your lady , sir , your lady : and her sister
111135 By her is poison'd ; she confesses it .
111136
111137 I was contracted to them both : all three
111138 Now marry in an instant .
111139
111140 Here comes Kent .
111141
111142 Produce the bodies , be they alive or dead :
111143 This judgment of the heavens , that makes us tremble ,
111144 Touches us not with pity .
111145
111146 O ! is this he ?
111147 The time will not allow the compliment
111148
111149 Which very manners urges .
111150
111151 I am come
111152 To bid my king and master aye good-night ;
111153 Is he not here ?
111154
111155 Great thing of us forgot !
111156 Speak , Edmund , where's the king ? and where's Cordelia ?
111157 Seest thou this object , Kent ?
111158
111159
111160 Alack ! why thus ?
111161
111162 Yet Edmund was belov'd :
111163 The one the other poison'd for my sake ,
111164 And after slew herself .
111165
111166 Even so . Cover their faces .
111167
111168 I pant for life : some good I mean to do
111169 Despite of mine own nature . Quickly send ,
111170 Be brief in it , to the castle ; for my writ
111171 Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia .
111172 Nay , send in time .
111173
111174 Run , run ! O run !
111175
111176 To whom , my lord ? Who has the office ? send
111177 Thy token of reprieve .
111178
111179 Well thought on : take my sword ,
111180 Give it the captain .
111181
111182 Haste thee , for thy life .
111183
111184
111185 He hath commission from my wife and me
111186 To hang Cordelia in the prison , and
111187 To lay the blame upon her own despair ,
111188 That she fordid herself .
111189
111190 The gods defend her ! Bear him hence awhile .
111191
111192 Howl , howl , howl , howl ! O ! you are men of stones :
111193 Had I your tongues and eyes , I'd use them so
111194 That heaven's vaults should crack . She's gone for ever .
111195 I know when one is dead , and when one lives ;
111196 She's dead as earth . Lend me a looking-glass ;
111197 If that her breath will mist or stain the stone ,
111198 Why , then she lives .
111199
111200 Is this the promis'd end ?
111201
111202 Or image of that horror ?
111203
111204 Fall and cease ?
111205
111206 This feather stirs ; she lives ! if it be so ,
111207 It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows
111208 That ever I have felt .
111209
111210 O , my good master !
111211
111212 Prithee , away .
111213
111214 'Tis noble Kent , your friend .
111215
111216 A plague upon you , murderers , traitors all !
111217 I might have sav'd her ; now , she's gone for ever !
111218 Cordelia , Cordelia ! stay a little . Ha !
111219 What is 't thou sayst ? Her voice was ever soft ,
111220 Gentle and low , an excellent thing in woman .
111221 I kill'd the slave that was a hanging thee .
111222
111223 'Tis true , my lord , he did .
111224
111225 Did I not , fellow ?
111226 I have seen the day , with my good biting falchion
111227 I would have made them skip : I am old now ,
111228 And these same crosses spoil me . Who are you ?
111229 Mine eyes are not o' the best : I'll tell you straight .
111230
111231 If fortune brag of two she lov'd and hated ,
111232 One of them we behold .
111233
111234 This is a dull sight . Are you not Kent ?
111235
111236 The same ,
111237 Your servant Kent . Where is your servant Caius ?
111238
111239 He's a good fellow , I can tell you that ;
111240 He'll strike , and quickly too . He's dead and rotten .
111241
111242 No , my good lord ; I am the very man
111243
111244 I'll see that straight .
111245
111246 That , from your first of difference and decay ,
111247 Have follow'd your sad steps .
111248
111249 You are welcome hither .
111250
111251 Nor no man else ; all's cheerless , dark , and deadly :
111252 Your eldest daughters have fordone themselves ,
111253 And desperately are dead .
111254
111255 Ay , so I think .
111256
111257 He knows not what he says , and vain it is
111258 That we present us to him .
111259
111260 Very bootless .
111261
111262
111263 Edmund is dead , my lord .
111264
111265 That's but a trifle here .
111266 You lords and noble friends , know our intent ;
111267 What comfort to this great decay may come
111268 Shall be applied : for us , we will resign ,
111269 During the life of this old majesty ,
111270 To him our absolute power :
111271
111272 You , to your rights ;
111273 With boot and such addition as your honours
111274 Have more than merited . All friends shall taste
111275 The wages of their virtue , and all foes
111276 The cup of their deservings . O ! see , see !
111277
111278 And my poor fool is hang'd ! No , no , no life !
111279 Why should a dog , a horse , a rat , have life ,
111280 And thou no breath at all ? Thou'lt come no more ,
111281 Never , never , never , never , never !
111282 Pray you , undo this button : thank you , sir .
111283 Do you see this ? Look on her , look , her lips ,
111284 Look there , look there !
111285
111286
111287 He faints !my lord , my lord !
111288
111289 Break , heart ; I prithee , break .
111290
111291 Look up , my lord .
111292
111293 Vex not his ghost : O ! let him pass ; he hates him
111294 That would upon the rack of this tough world
111295 Stretch him out longer .
111296
111297 He is gone , indeed .
111298
111299 The wonder is he hath endur'd so long :
111300 He but usurp'd his life .
111301
111302 Bear them from hence . Our present business
111303 Is general woe .
111304
111305 Friends of my soul , you twain
111306 Rule in this realm , and the gor'd state sustain .
111307
111308 I have a journey , sir , shortly to go ;
111309 My master calls me , I must not say no .
111310
111311 The weight of this sad time we must obey ;
111312 Speak what we feel , not what we ought to say .
111313 The oldest hath borne most : we that are young ,
111314 Shall never see so much , nor live so long .
111315
111316 MACBETH
111317
111318 When shall we three meet again
111319 In thunder , lightning , or in rain ?
111320
111321 When the hurlyburly's done ,
111322 When the battle's lost and won .
111323
111324 That will be ere the set of sun .
111325
111326 Where the place ?
111327
111328 Upon the heath .
111329
111330 There to meet with Macbeth .
111331
111332 I come , Graymalkin !
111333
111334 Paddock calls .
111335
111336 Anon .
111337
111338 Fair is foul , and foul is fair :
111339 Hover through the fog and filthy air .
111340
111341 What bloody man is that ? He can report ,
111342 As seemeth by his plight , of the revolt
111343 The newest state .
111344
111345 This is the sergeant
111346 Who , like a good and hardy soldier fought
111347 'Gainst my captivity . Hail , brave friend !
111348 Say to the king the knowledge of the broil
111349 As thou didst leave it .
111350
111351 Doubtful it stood ;
111352 As two spent swimmers , that do cling together
111353 And choke their art . The merciless Macdonwald
111354 Worthy to be a rebel , for to that
111355 The multiplying villanies of nature
111356 Do swarm upon him from the western isles
111357 Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied ;
111358 And fortune , on his damned quarrel smiling ,
111359 Show'd like a rebel's whore : but all's too weak ;
111360 For brave Macbeth ,well he deserves that name ,
111361 Disdaining fortune , with his brandish'd steel ,
111362 Which smok'd with bloody execution ,
111363 Like valour's minion carv'd out his passage
111364 Till he fac'd the slave ;
111365 Which ne'er shook hands , nor bade farewell to him ,
111366 Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps ,
111367 And fix'd his head upon our battlements .
111368
111369 O valiant cousin ! worthy gentleman !
111370
111371 As whence the sun 'gins his reflection
111372 Shipwracking storms and direful thunders break ,
111373 So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come
111374 Discomfort swells . Mark , King of Scotland , mark :
111375 No sooner justice had with valour arm'd
111376 Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels ,
111377 But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage ,
111378 With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men
111379 Began a fresh assault .
111380
111381 Dismay'd not this
111382 Our captains , Macbeth and Banquo ?
111383
111384 Yes ;
111385 As sparrows eagles , or the hare the lion .
111386 If I say sooth , I must report they were
111387 As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks ;
111388 So they
111389 Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe :
111390 Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds ,
111391 Or memorize another Golgotha ,
111392 I cannot tell
111393 But I am faint , my gashes cry for help .
111394
111395 So well thy words become thee as thy wounds ;
111396 They smack of honour both . Go , get him surgeons .
111397
111398
111399 Who comes here ?
111400
111401 The worthy Thane of Ross .
111402
111403 What a haste looks through his eyes ! So should he look
111404 That seems to speak things strange .
111405
111406 God save the king !
111407
111408 Whence cam'st thou , worthy thane ?
111409
111410 From Fife , great king ;
111411 Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky
111412 And fan our people cold . Norway himself ,
111413 With terrible numbers ,
111414 Assisted by that most disloyal traitor ,
111415 The Thane of Cawdor , began a dismal conflict ;
111416 Till that Bellona's bridegroom , lapp'd in proof ,
111417 Confronted him with self-comparisons ,
111418 Point against point , rebellious arm 'gainst arm ,
111419 Curbing his lavish spirit : and , to conclude ,
111420 The victory fell on us .
111421
111422 Great happiness !
111423
111424 That now
111425 Sweno , the Norways' king , craves composition ;
111426 Nor would we deign him burial of his men
111427 Till he disbursed , at Saint Colme's Inch ,
111428 Ten thousand dollars to our general use .
111429
111430 No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive
111431 Our bosom interest . Go pronounce his present death ,
111432 And with his former title greet Macbeth .
111433
111434 I'll see it done .
111435
111436 What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won .
111437
111438
111439 Where hast thou been , sister ?
111440
111441 Killing swine .
111442
111443 Sister , where thou ?
111444
111445 A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap ,
111446 And munch'd , and munch'd , and munch'd : 'Give me ,' quoth I :
111447 'Aroint thee , witch !' the rump-fed ronyon cries .
111448 Her husband's to Aleppo gone , master o' the Tiger :
111449 But in a sieve I'll thither sail ,
111450 And , like a rat without a tail ,
111451 I'll do , I'll do , and I'll do .
111452
111453 I'll give thee a wind .
111454
111455 Thou'rt kind .
111456
111457 And I another .
111458
111459 I myself have all the other ;
111460 And the very ports they blow ,
111461 All the quarters that they know
111462 I' the shipman's card .
111463 I'll drain him dry as hay :
111464 Sleep shall neither night nor day
111465 Hang upon his pent-house lid ;
111466 He shall live a man forbid .
111467 Weary se'nnights nine times nine
111468 Shall he dwindle , peak and pine :
111469 Though his bark cannot be lost ,
111470 Yet it shall be tempest-tost .
111471 Look what I have .
111472
111473 Show me , show me .
111474
111475 Here I have a pilot's thumb ,
111476 Wrack'd as homeward he did come .
111477
111478
111479 A drum ! a drum !
111480 Macbeth doth come .
111481
111482 The weird sisters , hand in hand ,
111483 Posters of the sea and land ,
111484 Thus do go about , about :
111485 Thrice to thine , and thrice to mine ,
111486 And thrice again , to make up nine .
111487 Peace ! the charm's wound up .
111488
111489
111490 So foul and fair a day I have not seen .
111491
111492 How far is 't call'd to Forres ? What are these ,
111493 So wither'd and so wild in their attire ,
111494 That look not like th' inhabitants o' the earth ,
111495 And yet are on 't ? Live you ? or are you aught
111496 That man may question ? You seem to understand me ,
111497 By each at once her choppy finger laying
111498 Upon her skinny lips : you should be women ,
111499 And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
111500 That you are so .
111501
111502 Speak , if you can : what are you ?
111503
111504 All hail , Macbeth ! hail to thee , Thane of Glamis !
111505
111506 All hail , Macbeth ! hail to thee , Thane of Cawdor !
111507
111508 All hail , Macbeth ! that shalt be king hereafter .
111509
111510 Good sir , why do you start , and seem to fear
111511 Things that do sound so fair ? I' the name of truth ,
111512 Are ye fantastical , or that indeed
111513 Which outwardly ye show ? My noble partner
111514 You greet with present grace and great prediction
111515 Of noble having and of royal hope ,
111516 That he seems rapt withal : to me you speak not .
111517 If you can look into the seeds of time ,
111518 And say which grain will grow and which will not ,
111519 Speak then to me , who neither beg nor fear
111520 Your favours nor your hate .
111521
111522 Hail !
111523
111524 Hail !
111525
111526 Hail !
111527
111528 Lesser than Macbeth , and greater .
111529
111530 Not so happy , yet much happier .
111531
111532 Thou shalt get kings , though thou be none :
111533 So , all hail , Macbeth and Banquo !
111534
111535 Banquo and Macbeth , all hail !
111536
111537 Stay , you imperfect speakers , tell me more :
111538 By Sinel's death I know I am Thane of Glamis ;
111539 But how of Cawdor ? the Thane of Cawdor lives ,
111540 A prosperous gentleman ; and to be king
111541 Stands not within the prospect of belief
111542 No more than to be Cawdor . Say , from whence
111543 You owe this strange intelligence ? or why
111544 Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
111545 With such prophetic greeting ? Speak , I charge you .
111546
111547
111548 The earth hath bubbles , as the water has ,
111549 And these are of them . Whither are they vanish'd ?
111550
111551 Into the air , and what seem'd corporal melted
111552 As breath into the wind . Would they had stay'd !
111553
111554 Were such things here as we do speak about ?
111555 Or have we eaten on the insane root
111556 That takes the reason prisoner ?
111557
111558 Your children shall be kings .
111559
111560 You shall be king .
111561
111562 And Thane of Cawdor too ; went it not so ?
111563
111564 To the self-same tune and words . Who's here ?
111565
111566
111567 The king hath happily receiv'd , Macbeth ,
111568 The news of thy success ; and when he reads
111569 Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight ,
111570 His wonders and his praises do contend
111571 Which should be thine or his . Silenc'd with that ,
111572 In viewing o'er the rest o' the self-same day ,
111573 He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks ,
111574 Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make ,
111575 Strange images of death . As thick as hail
111576 Came post with post , and every one did bear
111577 Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence ,
111578 And pour'd them down before him .
111579
111580 We are sent
111581 To give thee from our royal master thanks ;
111582 Only to herald thee into his sight ,
111583 Not pay thee .
111584
111585 And , for an earnest of a greater honour ,
111586 He bade me , from him , call thee Thane of Cawdor :
111587 In which addition , hail , most worthy thane !
111588 For it is thine .
111589
111590 What ! can the devil speak true ?
111591
111592 The Thane of Cawdor lives : why do you dress me
111593 In borrow'd robes ?
111594
111595 Who was the thane lives yet ;
111596 But under heavy judgment bears that life
111597 Which he deserves to lose . Whether he was combin'd
111598 With those of Norway , or did line the rebel
111599 With hidden help or vantage , or that with both
111600 He labour'd in his country's wrack , I know not ;
111601 But treasons capital , confess'd and prov'd ,
111602 Have overthrown him .
111603
111604 Glamis , and Thane of Cawdor :
111605 The greatest is behind .
111606
111607 Thanks for your pains .
111608
111609
111610 Do you not hope your children shall be kings ,
111611 When those that gave the Thane of Cawdor to me
111612 Promis'd no less to them ?
111613
111614 That , trusted home ,
111615 Might yet enkindle you unto the crown ,
111616 Besides the Thane of Cawdor . But 'tis strange :
111617 And oftentimes , to win us to our harm ,
111618 The instruments of darkness tell us truths ,
111619 Win us with honest trifles , to betray's
111620 In deepest consequence .
111621 Cousins , a word , I pray you .
111622
111623 Two truths are told ,
111624 As happy prologues to the swelling act
111625 Of the imperial theme . I thank you , gentlemen .
111626
111627
111628 This supernatural soliciting
111629 Cannot be ill , cannot be good ; if ill ,
111630 Why hath it given me earnest of success ,
111631 Commencing in a truth ? I am Thane of Cawdor :
111632 If good , why do I yield to that suggestion
111633 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
111634 And make my seated heart knock at my ribs ,
111635 Against the use of nature ? Present fears
111636 Are less than horrible imaginings ;
111637 My thought , whose murder yet is but fantastical ,
111638 Shakes so my single state of man that function
111639 Is smother'd in surmise , and nothing is
111640 But what is not .
111641
111642 Look , how our partner's rapt .
111643
111644 If chance will have me king , why , chance may crown me ,
111645 Without my stir .
111646
111647 New honours come upon him ,
111648 Like our strange garments , cleave not to their mould
111649 But with the aid of use .
111650
111651 Come what come may ,
111652 Time and the hour runs through the roughest day .
111653
111654 Worthy Macbeth , we stay upon your leisure .
111655
111656 Give me your favour : my dull brain was wrought
111657 With things forgotten . Kind gentlemen , your pains
111658 Are register'd where every day I turn
111659 The leaf to read them . Let us toward the king .
111660 Think upon what hath chanc'd ; and , at more time ,
111661 The interim having weigh'd it , let us speak
111662 Our free hearts each to other .
111663
111664 Very gladly .
111665
111666 Till then , enough . Come , friends .
111667
111668
111669 Is execution done on Cawdor ? Are not
111670 Those in commission yet return'd ?
111671
111672 My liege ,
111673 They are not yet come back ; but I have spoke
111674 With one that saw him die ; who did report
111675 That very frankly he confess'd his treasons ,
111676 Implor'd your highness' pardon and set forth
111677 A deep repentance . Nothing in his life
111678 Became him like the leaving it ; he died
111679 As one that had been studied in his death
111680 To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd ,
111681 As 'twere a careless trifle .
111682
111683 There's no art
111684 To find the mind's construction in the face :
111685 He was a gentleman on whom I built
111686 An absolute trust .
111687
111688
111689 O worthiest cousin !
111690 The sin of my ingratitude even now
111691 Was heavy on me . Thou art so far before
111692 That swiftest wing of recompense is slow
111693 To overtake thee ; would thou hadst less deserv'd ,
111694 That the proportion both of thanks and payment
111695 Might have been mine ! only I have left to say ,
111696
111697 More is thy due than more than all can pay .
111698
111699 The service and the loyalty I owe ,
111700 In doing it , pays itself . Your highness' part
111701 Is to receive our duties : and our duties
111702 Are to your throne and state , children and servants ;
111703 Which do but what they should , by doing everything
111704 Safe toward your love and honour .
111705
111706 Welcome hither :
111707 I have begun to plant thee , and will labour
111708 To make thee full of growing . Noble Banquo ,
111709 That hast no less deserv'd , nor must be known
111710 No less to have done so , let me infold thee
111711 And hold thee to my heart .
111712
111713 There if I grow ,
111714 The harvest is your own .
111715
111716 My plenteous joys
111717 Wanton in fulness , seek to hide themselves
111718 In drops of sorrow . Sons , kinsmen , thanes ,
111719 And you whose places are the nearest , know
111720 We will establish our estate upon
111721 Our eldest , Malcolm , whom we name hereafter
111722 The Prince of Cumberland ; which honour must
111723 Not unaccompanied invest him only ,
111724 But signs of nobleness , like stars , shall shine
111725 On all deservers . From hence to Inverness ,
111726 And bind us further to you .
111727
111728 The rest is labour , which is not us'd for you :
111729 I'll be myself the harbinger , and make joyful
111730 The hearing of my wife with your approach ;
111731 So , humbly take my leave .
111732
111733 My worthy Cawdor !
111734
111735 The Prince of Cumberland ! that is a step
111736 On which I must fall down , or else o'er-leap ,
111737 For in my way it lies . Stars , hide your fires !
111738 Let not light see my black and deep desires ;
111739 The eye wink at the hand ; yet let that be
111740 Which the eye fears , when it is done , to see .
111741
111742
111743 True , worthy Banquo ; he is full so valiant ,
111744 And in his commendations I am fed ;
111745 It is a banquet to me . Let's after him ,
111746 Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome :
111747 It is a peerless kinsman .
111748
111749 They met me in the day of success ; and I have learned by the perfectest report , they have more in them than mortal knowledge . When I burned in desire to question them further , they made themselves air , into which they vanished . Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it , came missives from the king , who all-hailed me , 'Thane of Cawdor ;' by which title , before , these weird sisters saluted me , and referred me to the coming on of time , with , 'Hail , king that shall be !' This have I thought good to deliver thee , my dearest partner of greatness , that thou mightest not lose the dues of rejoicing , by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee . Lay it to thy heart , and farewell .
111750 Glamis thou art , and Cawdor ; and shalt be
111751 What thou art promis'd . Yet do I fear thy nature ;
111752 It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
111753 To catch the nearest way ; thou wouldst be great ,
111754 Art not without ambition , but without
111755 The illness should attend it ; what thou wouldst highly ,
111756 That thou wouldst holily ; wouldst not play false ,
111757 And yet wouldst wrongly win ; thou'dst have , great Glamis ,
111758 That which cries , 'Thus thou must do , if thou have it ;'
111759 And that which rather thou dost fear to do
111760 Than wishest should be undone . Hie thee hither ,
111761 That I may pour my spirits in thine ear ,
111762 And chastise with the valour of my tongue
111763 All that impedes thee from the golden round ,
111764 Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
111765 To have thee crown'd withal .
111766
111767 What is your tidings ?
111768
111769 The king comes here to-night .
111770
111771 Thou'rt mad to say it .
111772 Is not thy master with him ? who , were't so ,
111773 Would have inform'd for preparation .
111774
111775 So please you , it is true : our thane is coming ;
111776 One of my fellows had the speed of him ,
111777 Who , almost dead for breath , had scarcely more
111778 Than would make up his message .
111779
111780 Give him tending ;
111781 He brings great news .
111782
111783 The raven himself is hoarse
111784 That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
111785 Under my battlements . Come , you spirits
111786 That tend on mortal thoughts ! unsex me here ,
111787 And fill me from the crown to the toe top full
111788 Of direst cruelty ; make thick my blood ,
111789 Stop up the access and passage to remorse ,
111790 That no compunctious visitings of nature
111791 Shake my fell purpose , nor keep peace between
111792 The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts ,
111793 And take my milk for gall , you murdering ministers ,
111794 Wherever in your sightless substances
111795 You wait on nature's mischief ! Come , thick night ,
111796 And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell ,
111797 That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ,
111798 Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark ,
111799 To cry , 'Hold , hold !'
111800
111801
111802 Great Glamis ! worthy Cawdor !
111803 Greater than both , by the all-hail hereafter !
111804 Thy letters have transported me beyond
111805 This ignorant present , and I feel now
111806
111807 The future in the instant .
111808
111809 My dearest love ,
111810 Duncan comes here to-night .
111811
111812 And when goes hence ?
111813
111814 To-morrow , as he purposes .
111815
111816 O ! never
111817 Shall sun that morrow see .
111818 Your face , my thane , is as a book where men
111819 May read strange matters . To beguile the time ,
111820 Look like the time ; bear welcome in your eye ,
111821 Your hand , your tongue : look like the innocent flower ,
111822 But be the serpent under't . He that's coming
111823 Must be provided for ; and you shall put
111824 This night's great business into my dispatch ;
111825 Which shall to all our nights and days to come
111826 Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom .
111827
111828 We will speak further .
111829
111830 Only look up clear ;
111831 To alter favour ever is to fear .
111832 Leave all the rest to me .
111833
111834 This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air
111835 Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
111836 Unto our gentle senses .
111837
111838 This guest of summer ,
111839 The temple-haunting martlet , does approve
111840 By his lov'd mansionry that the heaven's breath
111841 Smells wooingly here : no jutty , frieze ,
111842 Buttress , nor coign of vantage , but this bird
111843 Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle :
111844 Where they most breed and haunt , I have observ'd
111845 The air is delicate .
111846
111847
111848 See , see , our honour'd hostess !
111849 The love that follows us sometime is our trouble ,
111850 Which still we thank as love . Herein I teach you
111851 How you shall bid God 'eyld us for your pains ,
111852 And thank us for your trouble .
111853
111854 All our service ,
111855 In every point twice done , and then done double ,
111856 Were poor and single business , to contend
111857 Against those honours deep and broad wherewith
111858 Your majesty loads our house : for those of old ,
111859 And the late dignities heap'd up to them ,
111860 We rest your hermits .
111861
111862 Where's the Thane of Cawdor ?
111863 We cours'd him at the heels , and had a purpose
111864 To be his purveyor ; but he rides well ,
111865 And his great love , sharp as his spur , hath holp him
111866 To his home before us . Fair and noble hostess ,
111867 We are your guest to-night .
111868
111869 Your servants ever
111870 Have theirs , themselves , and what is theirs , in compt ,
111871 To make their audit at your highness' pleasure ,
111872 Still to return your own .
111873
111874 Give me your hand ;
111875 Conduct me to mine host : we love him highly ,
111876 And shall continue our graces towards him .
111877 By your leave , hostess .
111878
111879 If it were done when 'tis done , then 'twere well
111880 It were done quickly ; if the assassination
111881 Could trammel up the consequence , and catch
111882 With his surcease success ; that but this blow
111883 Might be the be-all and the end-all here ,
111884 But here , upon this bank and shoal of time ,
111885 We'd jump the life to come . But in these cases
111886 We still have judgment here ; that we but teach
111887 Bloody instructions , which , being taught , return
111888 To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice
111889 Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice
111890 To our own lips . He's here in double trust :
111891 First , as I am his kinsman and his subject ,
111892 Strong both against the deed ; then , as his host ,
111893 Who should against his murderer shut the door ,
111894 Not bear the knife myself . Besides , this Duncan
111895 Hath borne his faculties so meek , hath been
111896 So clear in his great office , that his virtues
111897 Will plead like angels trumpet-tongu'd against
111898 The deep damnation of his taking-off ;
111899 And pity , like a naked new-born babe ,
111900 Striding the blast , or heaven's cherubin , hors'd
111901 Upon the sightless couriers of the air ,
111902 Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye ,
111903 That tears shall drown the wind . I have no spur
111904 To prick the sides of my intent , but only
111905 Vaulting ambition , which o'er-leaps itself
111906 And falls on the other .
111907
111908 How now ! what news ?
111909
111910 He has almost supp'd : why have you left the chamber ?
111911
111912 Hath he ask'd for me ?
111913
111914 Know you not he has ?
111915
111916 We will proceed no further in this business :
111917 He hath honour'd me of late ; and I have bought
111918 Golden opinions from all sorts of people ,
111919 Which would be worn now in their newest gloss ,
111920 Not cast aside so soon .
111921
111922 Was the hope drunk ,
111923 Wherein you dress'd yourself ? hath it slept since ,
111924 And wakes it now , to look so green and pale
111925 At what it did so freely ? From this time
111926 Such I account thy love . Art thou afeard
111927 To be the same in thine own act and valour
111928 As thou art in desire ? Wouldst thou have that
111929 Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life ,
111930 And live a coward in thine own esteem ,
111931 Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would ,'
111932 Like the poor cat i' the adage ?
111933
111934 Prithee , peace .
111935 I dare do all that may become a man ;
111936 Who dares do more is none .
111937
111938 What beast was't , then ,
111939 That made you break this enterprise to me ?
111940 When you durst do it then you were a man ;
111941 And , to be more than what you were , you would
111942 Be so much more the man . Nor time nor place
111943 Did then adhere , and yet you would make both :
111944 They have made themselves , and that their fitness now
111945 Does unmake you . I have given suck , and know
111946 How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me :
111947 I would , while it was smiling in my face ,
111948 Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums ,
111949 And dash'd the brains out , had I so sworn as you
111950 Have done to this .
111951
111952 If we should fail ,
111953
111954 We fail !
111955 But screw your courage to the sticking-place ,
111956 And we'll not fail . When Duncan is asleep ,
111957 Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey
111958 Soundly invite him , his two chamberlains
111959 Will I with wine and wassail so convince
111960 That memory , the warder of the brain ,
111961 Shall be a fume , and the receipt of reason
111962 A limbeck only ; when in swinish sleep
111963 Their drenched natures lie , as in a death ,
111964 What cannot you and I perform upon
111965 The unguarded Duncan ? what not put upon
111966 His spongy officers , who shall bear the guilt
111967 Of our great quell ?
111968
111969 Bring forth men-children only ;
111970 For thy undaunted mettle should compose
111971 Nothing but males . Will it not be receiv'd ,
111972 When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two
111973 Of his own chamber and us'd their very daggers ,
111974 That they have done't ?
111975
111976 Who dares receive it other ,
111977 As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar
111978 Upon his death ?
111979
111980 I am settled , and bend up
111981 Each corporal agent to this terrible feat .
111982 Away , and mock the time with fairest show :
111983 False face must hide what the false heart doth know .
111984
111985 How goes the night , boy ?
111986
111987 The moon is down ; I have not heard the clock .
111988
111989 And she goes down at twelve .
111990
111991 I take't , 'tis later , sir .
111992
111993 Hold , take my sword . There's husbandry in heaven ;
111994 Their candles are all out . Take thee that too .
111995 A heavy summons lies like lead upon me ,
111996 And yet I would not sleep : merciful powers !
111997 Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
111998 Gives way to in repose .
111999
112000
112001 Give me my sword .
112002
112003 Who's there ?
112004
112005 A friend .
112006
112007 What , sir ! not yet at rest ? The king's a-bed :
112008 He hath been in unusual pleasure , and
112009 Sent forth great largess to your offices .
112010 This diamond he greets your wife withal ,
112011 By the name of most kind hostess ; and shut up
112012 In measureless content .
112013
112014 Being unprepar'd ,
112015 Our will became the servant to defect ,
112016 Which else should free have wrought .
112017
112018 All's well .
112019 I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters :
112020 To you they have show'd some truth .
112021
112022 I think not of them :
112023 Yet , when we can entreat an hour to serve ,
112024 We would spend it in some words upon that business ,
112025 If you would grant the time .
112026
112027 At your kind'st leisure .
112028
112029 If you shall cleave to my consent , when 'tis ,
112030 It shall make honour for you .
112031
112032 So I lose none
112033 In seeking to augment it , but still keep
112034 My bosom franchis'd and allegiance clear ,
112035 I shall be counsell'd .
112036
112037 Good repose the while !
112038
112039 Thanks , sir : the like to you .
112040
112041
112042 Go bid thy mistress , when my drink is ready
112043 She strike upon the bell . Get thee to bed .
112044
112045 Is this a dagger which I see before me ,
112046 The handle toward my hand ? Come , let me clutch thee :
112047 I have thee not , and yet I see thee still .
112048 Art thou not , fatal vision , sensible
112049 To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but
112050 A dagger of the mind , a false creation ,
112051 Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ?
112052 I see thee yet , in form as palpable
112053 As this which now I draw .
112054 Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going ;
112055 And such an instrument I was to use .
112056 Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses ,
112057 Or else worth all the rest : I see thee still ;
112058 And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood ,
112059 Which was not so before . There's no such thing :
112060 It is the bloody business which informs
112061 Thus to mine eyes . Now o'er the one half-world
112062 Nature seems dead , and wicked dreams abuse
112063 The curtain'd sleep ; witchcraft celebrates
112064 Pale Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd murder ,
112065 Alarum'd by his sentinel , the wolf ,
112066 Whose howl's his watch , thus with his stealthy pace ,
112067 With Tarquin's ravishing strides , toward his design
112068 Moves like a ghost . Thou sure and firm-set earth ,
112069 Hear not my steps , which way they walk , for fear
112070 Thy very stones prate of my whereabout ,
112071 And take the present horror from the time ,
112072 Which now suits with it . Whiles I threat he lives :
112073 Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives .
112074
112075 I go , and it is done ; the bell invites me .
112076 Hear it not , Duncan ; for it is a knell
112077 That summons thee to heaven or to hell .
112078
112079
112080 That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold ,
112081 What hath quench'd them hath given me fire . Hark !
112082 Peace !
112083 It was the owl that shriek'd , the fatal bellman ,
112084 Which gives the stern'st good-night . He is about it :
112085 The doors are open , and the surfeited grooms
112086 Do mock their charge with snores : I have drugg'd their possets ,
112087 That death and nature do contend about them ,
112088 Whether they live or die .
112089
112090 Who's there ? what , ho !
112091
112092 Alack ! I am afraid they have awak'd ,
112093 And 'tis not done ; the attempt and not the deed
112094 Confounds us . Hark ! I laid their daggers ready ;
112095 He could not miss them . Had he not resembled
112096 My father as he slept I had done 't . My husband !
112097
112098
112099 I have done the deed . Didst thou not hear a noise ?
112100
112101 I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry .
112102 Did not you speak ?
112103
112104 When ?
112105
112106 Now .
112107
112108 As I descended ?
112109
112110 Ay .
112111
112112 Hark !
112113 Who lies i' the second chamber ?
112114
112115 Donalbain .
112116
112117 This is a sorry sight .
112118
112119 A foolish thought to say a sorry sight .
112120
112121 There's one did laugh in 's sleep , and one cried 'Murder !'
112122 That they did wake each other : I stood and heard them ;
112123 But they did say their prayers , and address'd them
112124 Again to sleep .
112125
112126 There are two lodg'd together .
112127
112128 One cried 'God bless us !' and 'Amen' the other :
112129 As they had seen me with these hangman's hands .
112130 Listening their fear , I could not say 'Amen ,'
112131 When they did say 'God bless us !'
112132
112133 Consider it not so deeply .
112134
112135 But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen ?'
112136 I had most need of blessing , and 'Amen'
112137 Stuck in my throat .
112138
112139 These deeds must not be thought
112140 After these ways ; so , it will make us mad .
112141
112142 Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more !
112143 Macbeth does murder sleep ,' the innocent sleep ,
112144 Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care ,
112145 The death of each day's life , sore labour's bath ,
112146 Balm of hurt minds , great nature's second course ,
112147 Chief nourisher in life's feast ,
112148
112149 What do you mean ?
112150
112151 Still it cried , 'Sleep no more !' to all the house :
112152 'Glamis hath murder'd sleep , and therefore Cawdor
112153 Shall sleep no more , Macbeth shall sleep no more !'
112154
112155 Who was it that thus cried ? Why , worthy thane ,
112156 You do unbend your noble strength to think
112157 So brainsickly of things . Go get some water ,
112158 And wash this filthy witness from your hand .
112159 Why did you bring these daggers from the place ?
112160 They must lie there : go carry them , and smear
112161 The sleepy grooms with blood .
112162
112163 I'll go no more :
112164 I am afraid to think what I have done ;
112165 Look on 't again I dare not .
112166
112167 Infirm of purpose !
112168 Give me the daggers . The sleeping and the dead
112169 Are but as pictures ; 'tis the eye of childhood
112170 That fears a painted devil . If he do bleed ,
112171 I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal ;
112172 For it must seem their guilt .
112173
112174
112175 Whence is that knocking ?
112176 How is't with me , when every noise appals me ?
112177 What hands are here ! Ha ! they pluck out mine eyes .
112178 Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
112179 Clean from my hand ? No , this my hand will rather
112180 The multitudinous seas incarnadine ,
112181 Making the green one red .
112182
112183
112184 My hands are of your colour , but I shame
112185 To wear a heart so white .
112186
112187 I hear a knocking
112188 At the south entry ; retire we to our chamber ;
112189 A little water clears us of this deed ;
112190 How easy is it , then ! Your constancy
112191 Hath left you unattended .
112192
112193 Hark ! more knocking .
112194 Get on your night-gown , lest occasion call us ,
112195 And show us to be watchers . Be not lost
112196 So poorly in your thoughts .
112197
112198 To know my deed 'twere best not know myself .
112199
112200 Wake Duncan with thy knocking ! I would thou couldst !
112201
112202
112203 Here's a knocking , indeed ! If a man were porter of hell-gate he should have old turning the key .
112204
112205 Knock , knock , knock ! Who's there , i' the name of Beelzebub ? Here's a farmer that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty : come in time ; have napkins enough about you ; here you'll sweat for 't . [Knocking within .] Knock , knock ! Who's there i' the other devil's name ! Faith , here's an equivocator , that could swear in both the scales against either scale ; who committed treason enough for God's sake , yet could not equivocate to heaven : O ! come in , equivocator . [Knocking within .] Knock , knock , knock ! Who's there ? Faith , here's an English tailor come hither for stealing out of a French hose : come in , tailor ; here you may roast your goose . [Knocking within .] Knock , knock ; never at quiet ! What are you ? But this place is too cold for hell . I'll devil-porter it no further : I had thought to have let in some of all professions , that go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire . [Knocking within .] Anon , anon ! I pray you , remember the porter .
112206
112207 Was it so late , friend , ere you went to bed ,
112208 That you do lie so late ?
112209
112210 Faith , sir , we were carousing till the second cock ; and drink , sir , is a great provoker of three things .
112211
112212 What three things does drink especially provoke ?
112213
112214 Marry , sir , mose-painting , sleep , and urine . Lechery , sir , it provokes , and unprovokes ; it provokes the desire , but it takes away the performance . Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery ; it makes him , and it mars him ; it sets him on , and it takes him off ; it persuades him , and disheartens him ; makes him stand to , and not stand to ; in conclusion , equivocates him in a sleep , and , giving him the lie , leaves him .
112215
112216 I believe drink gave thee the lie last night .
112217
112218 That it did , sir , i' the very throat o' me : but I requited him for his lie ; and , I think , being too strong for him , though he took up my legs sometime , yet I made a shift to cast him .
112219
112220 Is thy master stirring ?
112221
112222 Our knocking has awak'd him ; here he comes .
112223
112224 Good morrow , noble sir .
112225
112226 Good morrow , both .
112227
112228 Is the king stirring , worthy thane ?
112229
112230 Not yet .
112231
112232 He did command me to call timely on him :
112233 I have almost slipp'd the hour .
112234
112235 I'll bring you to him .
112236
112237 I know this is a joyful trouble to you ;
112238 But yet 'tis one .
112239
112240 The labour we delight in physics pain .
112241 This is the door .
112242
112243 I'll make so bold to call ,
112244 For 'tis my limited service .
112245
112246
112247 Goes the king hence to-day ?
112248
112249 He does : he did appoint so .
112250
112251 The night has been unruly : where we lay ,
112252 Ourchimneys were blown down ; and , as they say ,
112253 Lamentings heard i' the air ; strange screams of death ,
112254 And prophesying with accents terrible
112255 Of dire combustion and confus'd events
112256 New hatch'd to the woeful time . The obscure bird
112257 Clamour'd the livelong night : some say the earth
112258 Was feverous and did shake .
112259
112260 'Twas a rough night .
112261
112262 My young remembrance cannot parallel
112263 A fellow to it .
112264
112265
112266 O horror ! horror ! horror ! Tongue nor heart
112267 Cannot conceive nor name thee !
112268
112269 What's the matter ?
112270
112271 What's the matter ?
112272
112273 Confusion now hath made his masterpiece !
112274 Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
112275 The Lord's anointed temple , and stole thence
112276 The life o' the building !
112277
112278 What is 't you say ? the life ?
112279
112280 Mean you his majesty ?
112281
112282 Approach the chamber , and destroy your sight
112283 With a new Gorgon : do not bid me speak ;
112284 See , and then speak yourselves .
112285
112286 Awake ! awake !
112287 Ring the alarum-bell . Murder and treason !
112288 Banquo and Donalbain ! Malcolm ! awake !
112289 Shake off this downy sleep , death's counterfeit ,
112290 And look on death itself ! up , up , and see
112291 The great doom's image ! Malcolm ! Banquo !
112292 As from your graves rise up , and walk like sprites ,
112293 To countenance this horror ! Ring the bell .
112294
112295 What's the business ,
112296 That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
112297 The sleepers of the house ? speak , speak !
112298
112299 O gentle lady !
112300 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak ;
112301 The repetition in a woman's ear
112302 Would murder as it fell .
112303
112304
112305 O Banquo ! Banquo !
112306
112307 Our royal master's murder'd !
112308
112309 Woe , alas !
112310 What ! in our house ?
112311
112312 Too cruel any where .
112313 Dear Duff , I prithee , contradict thyself ,
112314 And say it is not so .
112315
112316
112317 Had I but died an hour before this chance
112318 I had liv'd a blessed time ; for , from this instant ,
112319 There's nothing serious in mortality ,
112320 All is but toys ; renown and grace is dead ,
112321 The wine of life is drawn , and the mere lees
112322 Is left this vault to brag of .
112323
112324
112325 What is amiss ?
112326
112327 You are , and do not know 't :
112328 The spring , the head , the fountain of your blood
112329 Is stopp'd ; the very source of it is stopp'd .
112330
112331 Your royal father's murder'd .
112332
112333 O ! by whom ?
112334
112335 Those of his chamber , as it seem'd , had done 't :
112336 Their hands and faces were all badg'd with blood ;
112337 So were their daggers , which unwip'd we found
112338 Upon their pillows : they star'd , and were distracted ; no man's life
112339 Was to be trusted with them .
112340
112341 O ! yet I do repent me of my fury ,
112342 That I did kill them .
112343
112344 Wherefore did you so ?
112345
112346 Who can be wise , amaz'd , temperate and furious ,
112347 Loyal and neutral , in a moment ? No man :
112348 The expedition of my violent love
112349 Outran the pauser , reason . Here lay Duncan ,
112350 His silver skin lac'd with his golden blood ;
112351 And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature
112352 For ruin's wasteful entrance : there , the murderers ,
112353 Steep'd in the colours of their trade , their daggers
112354 Unmannerly breech'd with gore : who could refrain ,
112355 That had a heart to love , and in that heart
112356 Courage to make 's love known ?
112357
112358 Help me hence , ho !
112359
112360 Look to the lady .
112361
112362 Why do we hold our tongues ,
112363 That most may claim this argument for ours :
112364
112365 What should be spoken
112366 Here where our fate , hid in an auger-hole ,
112367 May rush and seize us ? Let's away : our tears
112368 Are not yet brew'd .
112369
112370 Nor our strong sorrow
112371 Upon the foot of motion .
112372
112373 Look to the lady :
112374
112375 And when we have our naked frailties hid ,
112376 That suffer in exposure , let us meet ,
112377 And question this most bloody piece of work ,
112378 To know it further . Fears and scruples shake us :
112379 In the great hand of God I stand , and thence
112380 Against the undivulg'd pretence I fight
112381 Of treasonous malice .
112382
112383 And so do I .
112384
112385 So all .
112386
112387 Let's briefly put on manly readiness ,
112388 And meet i' the hall together .
112389
112390 Well contented .
112391
112392
112393 What will you do ? Let's not consort with them :
112394 To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
112395 Which the false man does easy . I'll to England .
112396
112397 To Ireland , I ; our separated fortune
112398 Shall keep us both the safer : where we are ,
112399 There's daggers in men's smiles : the near in blood ,
112400 The nearer bloody .
112401
112402 This murderous shaft that's shot
112403 Hath not yet lighted , and our safest way
112404 Is to avoid the aim : therefore , to horse ;
112405 And let us not be dainty of leave-taking ,
112406 But shift away : there's warrant in that theft
112407 Which steals itself when there's no mercy left .
112408
112409
112410 Threescore and ten I can remember well ;
112411 Within the volume of which time I have seen
112412 Hours dreadful and things strange , but this sore night
112413 Hath trifled former knowings .
112414
112415 Ah ! good father ,
112416 Thou seest , the heavens , as troubled with man's act ,
112417 Threaten his bloody stage : by the clock 'tis day ,
112418 And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp .
112419 Is 't night's predominance , or the day's shame ,
112420 That darkness does the face of earth entomb ,
112421 When living light should kiss it ?
112422
112423 'Tis unnatural ,
112424 Even like the deed that's done . On Tuesday last ,
112425 A falcon , towering in her pride of place ,
112426 Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd .
112427
112428 And Duncan's horses ,a thing most strange and certain ,
112429 Beauteous and swift , the minions of their race ,
112430 Turn'd wild in nature , broke their stalls , flung out ,
112431 Contending 'gainst obedience , as they would
112432 Make war with mankind .
112433
112434 'Tis said they eat each other .
112435
112436 They did so ; to the amazement of mine eyes ,
112437 That look'd upon 't . Here comes the good Macduff .
112438
112439 How goes the world , sir , now ?
112440
112441 Why , see you not ?
112442
112443 Is 't known who did this more than bloody deed ?
112444
112445 Those that Macbeth hath slain .
112446
112447 Alas , the day !
112448 What good could they pretend ?
112449
112450 They were suborn'd .
112451 Malcolm and Donalbain , the king's two sons ,
112452 Are stol'n away and fled , which puts upon them
112453 Suspicion of the deed .
112454
112455 'Gainst nature still !
112456 Thriftless ambition , that wilt ravin up
112457 Thine own life's means ! Then 'tis most like
112458 The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth .
112459
112460 He is already nam'd , and gone to Scone
112461 To be invested .
112462
112463 Where is Duncan's body ?
112464
112465 Carried to Colmekill ;
112466 The sacred storehouse of his predecessors
112467 And guardian of their bones .
112468
112469 Will you to Scone ?
112470
112471 No , cousin , I'll to Fife .
112472
112473 Well , I will thither .
112474
112475 Well , may you see things well done there : adieu !
112476 Lest our old robes sit easier than our new !
112477
112478 Farewell , father .
112479
112480 God's benison go with you ; and with those
112481 That would make good of bad , and friends of foes !
112482
112483 Thou hast it now : King , Cawdor , Glamis , all ,
112484 As the weird women promis'd ; and , I fear ,
112485 Thou play'dst most foully for 't ; yet it was said
112486 It should not stand in thy posterity ,
112487 But that myself should be the root and father
112488 Of many kings . If there come truth from them ,
112489 As upon thee , Macbeth , their speeches shine ,
112490 Why , by the verities on thee made good ,
112491 May they not be my oracles as well ,
112492 And set me up in hope ? But , hush ! no more .
112493
112494 Here's our chief guest .
112495
112496 If he had been forgotten
112497 It had been as a gap in our great feast ,
112498 And all-thing unbecoming .
112499
112500 To-night we hold a solemn supper , sir ,
112501 And I'll request your presence .
112502
112503 Let your highness
112504 Command upon me ; to the which my duties
112505 Are with a most indissoluble tie
112506 For ever knit .
112507
112508 Ride you this afternoon ?
112509
112510 Ay , my good lord .
112511
112512 We should have else desir'd your good advice
112513 Which still hath been both grave and prosperous
112514 In this day's council ; but we'll take to-morrow .
112515 Is 't far you ride ?
112516
112517 As far , my lord , as will fill up the time
112518 'Twixt this and supper ; go not my horse the better ,
112519 I must become a borrower of the night
112520 For a dark hour or twain .
112521
112522 Fail not our feast .
112523
112524 My lord , I will not .
112525
112526 We hear our bloody cousins are bestow'd
112527 In England and in Ireland , not confessing
112528 Their cruel parricide , filling their hearers
112529 With strange invention ; but of that to-morrow ,
112530 When therewithal we shall have cause of state
112531 Craving us jointly . Hie you to horse ; adieu
112532 Till you return at night . Goes Fleance with you ?
112533
112534 Ay , my good lord : our time does call upon 's .
112535
112536 I wish your horses swift and sure of foot ;
112537 And so I do commend you to their backs .
112538 Farewell .
112539
112540 Let every man be master of his time
112541 Till seven at night ; to make society
112542 The sweeter welcome , we will keep ourself
112543 Till supper-time alone ; while then , God be with you !
112544
112545 Sirrah , a word with you . Attend those men
112546 Our pleasure ?
112547
112548 They are , my lord , without the palace gate .
112549
112550 Bring them before us .
112551
112552 To be thus is nothing ;
112553 But to be safely thus . Our fears in Banquo
112554 Stick deep , and in his royalty of nature
112555 Reigns that which would be fear'd : 'tis much he dares ,
112556 And , to that dauntless temper of his mind ,
112557 He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
112558 To act in safety . There is none but he
112559 Whose being I do fear ; and under him
112560 My genius is rebuk'd , as it is said
112561 Mark Antony's was by C sar . He chid the sisters
112562 When first they put the name of king upon me ,
112563 And bade them speak to him ; then , prophet-like ,
112564 They hail'd him father to a line of kings .
112565 Upon my head they plac'd a fruitless crown ,
112566 And put a barren sceptre in my gripe ,
112567 Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand ,
112568 No son of mine succeeding . If 't be so ,
112569 For Banquo's issue have I fil'd my mind ;
112570 For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd ;
112571 Put rancours in the vessel of my peace
112572 Only for them ; and mine eternal jewel
112573 Given to the common enemy of man ,
112574 To make them kings , the seed of Banquo kings !
112575 Rather than so , come fate into the list ,
112576 And champion me to the utterance ! Who's there ?
112577
112578
112579 Now go to the door , and stay there till we call .
112580
112581
112582 Was it not yesterday we spoke together ?
112583
112584 It was , so please your highness .
112585
112586 Well then , now
112587 Have you consider'd of my speeches ? Know
112588 That it was he in the times past which held you
112589 So under fortune , which you thought had been
112590 Our innocent self . This I made good to you
112591 In our last conference , pass'd in probation with you ,
112592 How you were borne in hand , how cross'd , the instruments ,
112593 Who wrought with them , and all things else that might
112594 To half a soul and to a notion craz'd
112595 Say , 'Thus did Banquo .'
112596
112597 You made it known to us .
112598
112599 I did so ; and went further , which is now
112600 Our point of second meeting . Do you find
112601 Your patience so predominant in your nature
112602 That you can let this go ? Are you so gospell'd
112603 To pray for this good man and for his issue ,
112604 Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave
112605 And beggar'd yours for ever ?
112606
112607 We are men , my liege .
112608
112609 Ay , in the catalogue ye go for men ;
112610 As hounds and greyhounds , mongrels , spaniels , curs ,
112611 Shoughs , water-rugs , and demi-wolves , are clept
112612 All by the name of dogs : the valu'd file
112613 Distinguishes the swift , the slow , the subtle ,
112614 The housekeeper , the hunter , every one
112615 According to the gift which bounteous nature
112616 Hath in him clos'd ; whereby he does receive
112617 Particular addition , from the bill
112618 That writes them all alike : and so of men .
112619 Now , if you have a station in the file ,
112620 Not i' the worst rank of manhood , say it ;
112621 And I will put that business in your bosoms ,
112622 Whose execution takes your enemy off ,
112623 Grapples you to the heart and love of us ,
112624 Who wear our health but sickly in his life ,
112625 Which in his death were perfect .
112626
112627 I am one , my liege ,
112628 Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
112629 Have so incens'd that I am reckless what
112630 I do to spite the world .
112631
112632 And I another ,
112633 So weary with disasters , tugg'd with fortune ,
112634 That I would set my life on any chance ,
112635 To mend it or be rid on 't .
112636
112637 Both of you
112638 Know Banquo was your enemy .
112639
112640 True , my lord .
112641
112642 So is he mine ; and in such bloody distance
112643 That every minute of his being thrusts
112644 Against my near'st of life : and though I could
112645 With bare-fac'd power sweep him from my sight
112646 And bid my will avouch it , yet I must not ,
112647 For certain friends that are both his and mine ,
112648 Whose loves I may not drop , but wail his fall
112649 Whom I myself struck down ; and thence it is
112650 That I to your assistance do make love ,
112651 Masking the business from the common eye
112652 For sundry weighty reasons .
112653
112654 We shall , my lord ,
112655 Perform what you command us .
112656
112657 Though our lives
112658
112659 Your spirits shine through you . Within this hour at most
112660 I will advise you where to plant yourselves ,
112661 Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' the time ,
112662 The moment on 't ; for 't must be done to-night ,
112663 And something from the palace ; always thought
112664 That I require a clearness : and with him
112665 To leave no rubs nor botches in the work
112666 Fleance his son , that keeps him company ,
112667 Whose absence is no less material to me
112668 Than is his father's , must embrace the fate
112669 Of that dark hour . Resolve yourselves apart ;
112670 I'll come to you anon .
112671
112672 We are resolv'd , my lord .
112673
112674 I'll call upon you straight : abide within .
112675
112676 It is concluded : Banquo , thy soul's flight ,
112677 If it find heaven , must find it out to-night .
112678
112679
112680 Is Banquo gone from court ?
112681
112682 Ay , madam , but returns again to-night .
112683
112684 Say to the king , I would attend his leisure
112685 For a few words .
112686
112687 Madam , I will .
112688
112689
112690 Nought's had , all's spent ,
112691 Where our desire is got without content :
112692 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
112693 Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy .
112694
112695
112696 How now , my lord ! why do you keep alone ,
112697 Of sorriest fancies your companions making ,
112698 Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
112699 With them they think on ? Things without all remedy
112700
112701 Should be without regard : what's done is done .
112702
112703 We have scotch'd the snake , not kill'd it :
112704 She'll close and be herself , whilst our poor malice
112705 Remains in danger of her former tooth .
112706 But let the frame of things disjoint , both the worlds suffer ,
112707 Ere we will eat our meal in fear , and sleep
112708 In the affliction of these terrible dreams
112709 That shake us nightly . Better be with the dead ,
112710 Whom we , to gain our peace , have sent to peace ,
112711 Than on the torture of the mind to lie
112712 In restless ecstasy . Duncan is in his grave ;
112713 After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ;
112714 Treason has done his worst : nor steel , nor poison ,
112715 Malice domestic , foreign levy , nothing
112716 Can touch him further .
112717
112718 Come on ;
112719 Gentle my lord , sleek o'er your rugged looks ;
112720 Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night .
112721
112722 So shall I , love ; and so , I pray , be you .
112723 Let your remembrance apply to Banquo ;
112724 Present him eminence , both with eye and tongue :
112725 Unsafe the while , that we
112726 Must lave our honours in these flattering streams ,
112727 And make our faces vizards to our hearts ,
112728 Disguising what they are .
112729
112730 You must leave this .
112731
112732 O ! full of scorpions is my mind , dear wife ;
112733 Thou know'st that Banquo and his Fleance lives .
112734
112735 But in them nature's copy's not eterne .
112736
112737 There's comfort yet ; they are assailable ;
112738 Then be thou jocund . Ere the bat hath flown
112739 His cloister'd flight , ere , to black Hecate's summons
112740 The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
112741 Hath rung night's yawning peal , there shall be done
112742 A deed of dreadful note .
112743
112744 What's to be done ?
112745
112746 Be innocent of the knowledge , dearest chuck ,
112747 Till thou applaud the deed . Come , seeling night ,
112748 Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ,
112749 And with thy bloody and invisible hand
112750 Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
112751 Which keeps me pale ! Light thickens , and the crow
112752 Makes wing to the rooky wood ;
112753 Good things of day begin to droop and drowse ,
112754 Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse .
112755 Thou marvell'st at my words : but hold thee still ;
112756 Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill :
112757 So , prithee , go with me .
112758
112759
112760 But who did bid thee join with us ?
112761
112762 Macbeth .
112763
112764 He needs not our mistrust , since he delivers
112765 Our offices and what we have to do
112766 To the direction just .
112767
112768 Then stand with us .
112769 The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day :
112770 Now spurs the lated traveller apace
112771 To gain the timely inn ; and near approaches
112772 The subject of our watch .
112773
112774 Hark ! I hear horses .
112775
112776 Give us a light there , ho !
112777
112778 Then 'tis he : the rest
112779 That are within the note of expectation
112780 Already are i' the court .
112781
112782 His horses go about .
112783
112784 Almost a mile ; but he does usually ,
112785 So all men do , from hence to the palace gate
112786 Make it their walk .
112787
112788 A light , a light !
112789
112790 'Tis he .
112791
112792 Stand to 't .
112793
112794
112795 It will be rain to-night .
112796
112797 Let it come down .
112798
112799
112800 O , treachery ! Fly , good Fleance , fly , fly , fly !
112801 Thou mayst revenge . O slave !
112802
112803
112804 Who did strike out the light ?
112805
112806 Was 't not the way ?
112807
112808 There's but one down ; the son is fled .
112809
112810 We have lost
112811 Best half of our affair .
112812
112813 Well , let's away , and say how much is done .
112814
112815
112816 You know your own degrees ; sit down : at first and last ,
112817 The hearty welcome .
112818
112819 Thanks to your majesty .
112820
112821 Ourself will mingle with society
112822 And play the humble host .
112823 Our hostess keeps her state , but in best time
112824 We will require her welcome .
112825
112826 Pronounce it for me , sir , to all our friends ;
112827 For my heart speaks they are welcome .
112828
112829
112830 See , they encounter thee with their hearts' thanks ;
112831 Both sides are even : here I'll sit i' the midst :
112832 Be large in mirth ; anon , we'll drink a measure
112833 The table round .
112834
112835 There's blood upon thy face .
112836
112837 'Tis Banquo's , then .
112838
112839 'Tis better thee without than he within .
112840 Is he dispatch'd ?
112841
112842 My lord , his throat is cut ; that I did for him .
112843
112844 Thou art the best o' the cut-throats ; yet he's good
112845 That did the like for Fleance : if thou didst it ,
112846 Thou art the nonpareil .
112847
112848 Most royal sir ,
112849 Fleance is 'scap'd .
112850
112851 Then comes my fit again : I had else been perfect ;
112852 Whole as the marble , founded as the rock ,
112853 As broad and general as the casing air :
112854 But now I am cabin'd , cribb'd , confin'd , bound in
112855 To saucy doubts and fears . But Banquo's safe ?
112856
112857 Ay , my good lord ; safe in a ditch he bides ,
112858 With twenty trenched gashes on his head ;
112859 The least a death to nature .
112860
112861 Thanks for that .
112862 There the grown serpent lies : the worm that's fled
112863 Hath nature that in time will venom breed ,
112864 No teeth for the present . Get thee gone ; to-morrow
112865 We'll hear ourselves again .
112866
112867
112868 My royal lord ,
112869 You do not give the cheer : the feast is sold
112870 That is not often vouch'd , while 'tis a-making ,
112871 'Tis given with welcome : to feed were best at home ;
112872 From thence , the sauce to meat is ceremony ;
112873 Meeting were bare without it .
112874
112875 Sweet remembrancer !
112876 Now good digestion wait on appetite ,
112877 And health on both !
112878
112879 May it please your highness sit ?
112880
112881
112882 Here had we now our country's honour roof'd ,
112883 Were the grac'd person of our Banquo present ;
112884 Who may I rather challenge for unkindness
112885 Than pity for mischance !
112886
112887 His absence , sir ,
112888 Lays blame upon his promise . Please 't your highness
112889 To grace us with your royal company .
112890
112891 The table's full .
112892
112893 Here is a place reserv'd , sir .
112894
112895 Where ?
112896
112897 Here , my good lord . What is 't that moves your highness ?
112898
112899 Which of you have done this ?
112900
112901 What , my good lord ?
112902
112903 Thou canst not say I did it : never shake
112904 Thy gory locks at me .
112905
112906 Gentlemen , rise ; his highness is not well .
112907
112908 Sit , worthy friends : my lord is often thus ,
112909 And hath been from his youth : pray you , keep seat ;
112910 The fit is momentary ; upon a thought
112911 He will again be well . If much you note him
112912 You shall offend him and extend his passion :
112913 Feed and regard him not . Are you a man ?
112914
112915 Ay , and a bold one , that dare look on that
112916 Which might appal the devil .
112917
112918 O proper stuff !
112919 This is the very painting of your fear ;
112920 This is the air-drawn dagger which , you said ,
112921 Led you to Duncan . O ! these flaws and starts
112922 Impostors to true fear would well become
112923 A woman's story at a winter's fire ,
112924 Authoriz'd by her grandam . Shame itself !
112925 Why do you make such faces ? When all's done
112926 You look but on a stool .
112927
112928 Prithee , see there ! behold ! look ! lo ! how say you ?
112929 Why , what care I ? If thou canst nod , speak too .
112930 If charnel-houses and our graves must send
112931 Those that we bury back , our monuments
112932 Shall be the maws of kites .
112933
112934
112935 What ! quite unmann'd in folly ?
112936
112937 If I stand here , I saw him .
112938
112939 Fie , for shame !
112940
112941 Blood hath been shed ere now , i' the olden time ,
112942 Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal ;
112943 Ay , and since too , murders have been perform'd
112944 Too terrible for the ear : the times have been ,
112945 That , when the brains were out , the man would die ,
112946
112947 And there an end ; but now they rise again ,
112948 With twenty mortal murders on their crowns ,
112949 And push us from our stools : this is more strange
112950 Than such a murder is .
112951
112952 My worthy lord ,
112953 Your noble friends do lack you .
112954
112955 I do forget .
112956 Do not muse at me , my most worthy friends ;
112957 I have a strange infirmity , which is nothing
112958 To those that know me . Come , love and health to all ;
112959 Then , I'll sit down . Give me some wine ; fill full .
112960 I drink to the general joy of the whole table ,
112961 And to our dear friend Banquo , whom we miss ;
112962 Would he were here ! to all , and him , we thirst ,
112963 And all to all .
112964
112965 Our duties , and the pledge .
112966
112967
112968 Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! Let the earth hide thee !
112969 Thy bones are marrowless , thy blood is cold ;
112970 Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
112971 Which thou dost glare with .
112972
112973 Think of this , good peers ,
112974 But as a thing of custom : 'tis no other ;
112975 Only it spoils the pleasure of the time .
112976
112977 What man dare , I dare :
112978 Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear ,
112979 The arm'd rhinoceros , or the Hyrcan tiger ;
112980 Take any shape but that , and my firm nerves
112981 Shall never tremble : or be alive again ,
112982 And dare me to the desart with thy sword ;
112983 If trembling I inhabit then , protest me
112984 The baby of a girl . Hence , horrible shadow !
112985 Unreal mockery , hence !
112986
112987 Why , so ; being gone ,
112988 I am a man again . Pray you , sit still .
112989
112990 You have displac'd the mirth , broke the good meeting ,
112991 With most admir'd disorder .
112992
112993 Can such things be
112994 And overcome us like a summer's cloud ,
112995 Without our special wonder ? You make me strange
112996 Even to the disposition that I owe ,
112997 When now I think you can behold such sights ,
112998 And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks ,
112999 When mine are blanch'd with fear .
113000
113001 What sights , my lord ?
113002
113003 I pray you , speak not ; he grows worse and worse ;
113004 Question enrages him . At once , good-night :
113005 Stand not upon the order of your going ,
113006 But go at once .
113007
113008 Good-night ; and better health
113009 Attend his majesty !
113010
113011 A kind good-night to all !
113012
113013
113014 It will have blood , they say ; blood will have blood :
113015 Stones have been known to move and trees to speak ;
113016 Augurs and understood relations have
113017 By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth
113018 The secret'st man of blood . What is the night ?
113019
113020 Almost at odds with morning , which is which .
113021
113022 How sayst thou , that Macduff denies his person
113023 At our great bidding ?
113024
113025 Did you send to him , sir ?
113026
113027 I hear it by the way ; but I will send .
113028 There's not a one of them but in his house
113029 I keep a servant fee'd . I will to-morrow
113030 And betimes I will to the weird sisters :
113031 More shall they speak ; for now I am bent to know ,
113032 By the worst means , the worst . For mine own good
113033 All causes shall give way : I am in blood
113034 Stepp'd in so far , that , should I wade no more ,
113035 Returning were as tedious as go o'er .
113036 Strange things I have in head that will to hand ,
113037 Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd .
113038
113039 You lack the season of all natures , sleep .
113040
113041 Come , we'll to sleep . My strange and self-abuse
113042 Is the initiate fear that wants hard use :
113043 We are yet but young in deed .
113044
113045
113046 Why , how now , Hecate ! you look angerly .
113047
113048 Have I not reason , beldams as you are ,
113049 Saucy and overbold ? How did you dare
113050 To trade and traffic with Macbeth
113051 In riddles and affairs of death ;
113052 And I , the mistress of your charms ,
113053 The close contriver of all harms ,
113054 Was never call'd to bear my part ,
113055 Or show the glory of our art ?
113056 And , which is worse , all you have done
113057 Hath been but for a wayward son ,
113058 Spiteful and wrathful ; who , as others do ,
113059 Loves for his own ends , not for you .
113060 But make amends now : get you gone ,
113061 And at the pit of Acheron
113062 Meet me i' the morning : thither he
113063 Will come to know his destiny :
113064 Your vessels and your spells provide ,
113065 Your charms and every thing beside .
113066 I am for the air ; this night I'll spend
113067 Unto a dismal and a fatal end :
113068 Great business must be wrought ere noon :
113069 Upon the corner of the moon
113070 There hangs a vaporous drop profound ;
113071 I'll catch it ere it come to ground :
113072 And that distill'd by magic sleights
113073 Shall raise such artificial sprites
113074 As by the strength of their illusion
113075 Shall draw him on to his confusion :
113076 He shall spurn fate , scorn death , and bear
113077 His hopes 'bove wisdom , grace , and fear ;
113078 And you all know security
113079 Is mortals' chiefest enemy .
113080
113081 Hark ! I am call'd ; my little spirit , see ,
113082 Sits in a foggy cloud , and stays for me .
113083
113084
113085 Come , let's make haste ; she'll soon be back again .
113086
113087
113088 My former speeches have but hit your thoughts ,
113089 Which can interpret further : only , I say ,
113090 Things have been strangely borne . The gracious Duncan
113091 Was pitied of Macbeth : marry , he was dead :
113092 And the right-valiant Banquo walk'd too late ;
113093 Whom , you may say , if 't please you , Fleance kill'd ,
113094 For Fleance fled : men must not walk too late .
113095 Who cannot want the thought how monstrous
113096 It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain
113097 To kill their gracious father ? damned fact !
113098 How it did grieve Macbeth ! did he not straight
113099 In pious rage the two delinquents tear ,
113100 That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep ?
113101 Was not that nobly done ? Ay , and wisely too ;
113102 For 'twould have anger'd any heart alive
113103 To hear the men deny 't . So that , I say ,
113104 He has borne all things well ; and I do think
113105 That , had he Duncan's sons under his key ,
113106 As , an 't please heaven , he shall not ,they should find
113107 What 'twere to kill a father ; so should Fleance .
113108 But , peace ! for from broad words , and 'cause he fail'd .
113109 His presence at the tyrant's feast , I hear ,
113110 Macduff lives in disgrace . Sir , can you tell
113111 Where he bestows himself ?
113112
113113 The son of Duncan ,
113114 From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth ,
113115 Lives in the English court , and is receiv'd
113116 Of the most pious Edward with such grace
113117 That the malevolence of fortune nothing
113118 Takes from his high respect . Thither Macduff
113119 Is gone to pray the holy king , upon his aid
113120 To wake Northumberland and war-like Siward :
113121 That , by the help of these with him above
113122 To ratify the work we may again
113123 Give to our tables meat , sleep to our nights ,
113124 Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives ,
113125 Do faithful homage and receive free honours ;
113126 All which we pine for now . And this report
113127 Hath so exasperate the king that he
113128 Prepares for some attempt at war .
113129
113130 Sent he to Macduff ?
113131
113132 He did : and with an absolute , 'Sir , not I ,'
113133 The cloudy messenger turns me his back ,
113134 And hums , as who should say , 'You'll rue the time
113135 That clogs me with this answer .'
113136
113137 And that well might
113138 Advise him to a caution to hold what distance
113139 His wisdom can provide . Some holy angel
113140 Fly to the court of England and unfold
113141 His message ere he come , that a swift blessing
113142 May soon return to this our suffering country
113143 Under a hand accurs'd !
113144
113145 I'll send my prayers with him !
113146
113147 Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd .
113148
113149 Thrice and once the hedge-pig whin'd .
113150
113151 Harper cries : 'Tis time , 'tis time .
113152
113153
113154 Round about the cauldron go ,
113155 In the poison'd entrails throw .
113156 Toad , that under cold stone
113157 Days and nights hast thirty-one
113158 Swelter'd venom sleeping got ,
113159 Boil thou first i' the charmed pot .
113160
113161 Double , double toil and trouble ;
113162 Fire burn and cauldron bubble .
113163
113164 Fillet of a fenny snake ,
113165 In the cauldron boil and bake ;
113166 Eye of newt , and toe of frog ,
113167 Wool of bat , and tongue of dog ,
113168 Adder's fork , and blind-worm's sting ,
113169 Lizard's leg , and howlet's wing ,
113170 For a charm of powerful trouble ,
113171 Like a hell-broth boil and bubble .
113172
113173 Double , double toil and trouble ;
113174 Fire burn and cauldron bubble .
113175
113176 Scale of dragon , tooth of wolf ,
113177 Witches' mummy , maw and gulf
113178 Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark ,
113179 Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark ,
113180 Liver of blaspheming Jew ,
113181 Gall of goat , and slips of yew
113182 Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse ,
113183 Nose of Turk , and Tartar's lips ,
113184 Finger of birth-strangled babe
113185 Ditch-deliver'd by a drab ,
113186 Make the gruel thick and slab :
113187 Add thereto a tiger's chaudron ,
113188 For the ingredients of our cauldron .
113189
113190 Double , double toil and trouble ;
113191 Fire burn and cauldron bubble .
113192
113193 Cool it with a baboon's blood ,
113194 Then the charm is firm and good .
113195
113196
113197 O ! well done ! I commend your pains ,
113198 And every one shall share i' the gains .
113199 And now about the cauldron sing ,
113200 Like elves and fairies in a ring ,
113201 Enchanting all that you put in .
113202
113203
113204 By the pricking of my thumbs ,
113205 Something wicked this way comes .
113206 Open , locks ,
113207 Whoever knocks .
113208
113209 How now , you secret , black , and mid-night hags !
113210 What is 't you do ?
113211
113212 A deed without a name .
113213
113214 I conjure you , by that which you profess ,
113215 Howe'er you come to know it ,answer me :
113216 Though you untie the winds and let them fight
113217 Against the churches ; though the yesty waves
113218 Confound and swallow navigation up ;
113219 Though bladed corn be lodg'd and trees blown down ;
113220 Though castles topple on their warders' heads ;
113221 Though palaces and pyramids do slope
113222 Their heads to their foundations ; though the treasure
113223 Of Nature's germens tumble all together ,
113224 Even till destruction sicken ; answer me
113225 To what I ask you .
113226
113227 Speak .
113228
113229 Demand .
113230
113231 We'll answer .
113232
113233 Say if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths ,
113234 Or from our masters' ?
113235
113236 Call 'em : let me see 'em .
113237
113238
113239 Pour in sow's blood , that hath eaten
113240 Her nine farrow ; grease , that's sweaten
113241 From the murderer's gibbet throw
113242 Into the flame .
113243
113244 Come , high or low ;
113245 Thyself and office deftly show .
113246
113247 Tell me , thou unknown power ,
113248
113249 He knows thy thought :
113250 Hear his speech , but say thou nought .
113251
113252 Macbeth ! Macbeth ! Macbeth ! beware Macduff ;
113253 Beware the Thane of Fife . Dismiss me . Enough .
113254
113255
113256 Whate'er thou art , for thy good caution thanks ;
113257 Thou hast harp'd my fear aright . But one word more ,
113258
113259 He will not be commanded : here's another ,
113260 More potent than the first .
113261
113262
113263 Macbeth ! Macbeth ! Macbeth !
113264
113265 Had I three ears , I'd hear thee .
113266
113267 Be bloody , bold , and resolute ; laugh to scorn
113268 The power of man , for none of woman born
113269 Shall harm Macbeth .
113270
113271 Then live , Macduff : what need I fear of thee ?
113272 But yet I'll make assurance double sure ,
113273 And take a bond of fate : thou shalt not live ;
113274 That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies ,
113275 And sleep in spite of thunder .
113276
113277 What is this ,
113278 That rises like the issue of a king ,
113279 And wears upon his baby brow the round
113280
113281 And top of sovereignty ?
113282
113283 Listen , but speak not to 't .
113284
113285 Be lion-mettled , proud , and take no care
113286 Who chafes , who frets or where conspirers are :
113287 Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until
113288 Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill
113289 Shall come against him .
113290
113291
113292 That will never be :
113293 Who can impress the forest , bid the tree
113294 Unfix his earth-bound root ? Sweet bodements ! good !
113295 Rebellion's head , rise never till the wood
113296 Of Birnam rise , and our high-plac'd Macbeth
113297 Shall live the lease of nature , pay his breath
113298 To time and mortal custom . Yet my heart
113299 Throbs to know one thing : tell me if your art
113300 Can tell so much ,shall Banquo's issue ever
113301 Reign in this kingdom ?
113302
113303 Seek to know no more .
113304
113305 I will be satisfied : deny me this ,
113306 And an eternal curse fall on you ! Let me know .
113307 Why sinks that cauldron ? and what noise is this ?
113308
113309
113310 Show !
113311
113312 Show !
113313
113314 Show !
113315
113316 Show his eyes , and grieve his heart ;
113317 Come like shadows , so depart .
113318
113319
113320 Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo ; down !
113321 Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs : and thy hair ,
113322 Thou other gold-bound brow , is like the first :
113323 A third is like the former . Filthy hags !
113324 Why do you show me this ? A fourth ! Start , eyes !
113325 What ! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom ?
113326 Another yet ? A seventh ! I'll see no more :
113327 And yet the eighth appears , who bears a glass
113328 Which shows me many more ; and some I see
113329 That two-fold balls and treble sceptres carry .
113330 Horrible sight ! Now , I see , 'tis true ;
113331 For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me ,
113332 And points at them for his .
113333
113334 What ! is this so ?
113335
113336 Ay , sir , all this is so : but why
113337 Stands Macbeth thus amazedly ?
113338 Come , sisters , cheer we up his sprites ,
113339 And show the best of our delights .
113340 I'll charm the air to give a sound ,
113341 While you perform your antick round ,
113342 That this great king may kindly say ,
113343 Our duties did his welcome pay .
113344
113345
113346 Where are they ? Gone ? Let this pernicious hour
113347 Stand aye accursed in the calendar !
113348 Come in , without there !
113349
113350
113351 What's your Grace's will ?
113352
113353 Saw you the weird sisters ?
113354
113355 No , my lord .
113356
113357 Came they not by you ?
113358
113359 No indeed , my lord .
113360
113361 Infected be the air whereon they ride ,
113362 And damn'd all those that trust them ! I did hear
113363 The galloping of horse : who was 't came by ?
113364
113365 'Tis two or three , my lord , that bring you word
113366 Macduff is fled to England .
113367
113368 Fled to England !
113369
113370 Ay , my good lord .
113371
113372 Time , thou anticipat'st my dread exploits ;
113373 The flighty purpose never is o'ertook
113374 Unless the deed go with it ; from this moment
113375 The very firstlings of my heart shall be
113376 The firstlings of my hand . And even now ,
113377 To crown my thoughts with acts , be it thought and done :
113378 The castle of Macduff I will surprise ;
113379 Seize upon Fife ; give to the edge of the sword
113380 His wife , his babes , and all unfortunate souls
113381 That trace him in his line . No boasting like a fool ;
113382 This deed I'll do , before this purpose cool :
113383 But no moresights ! Where are these gentlemen ?
113384 Come , bring me where they are .
113385
113386
113387 What had he done to make him fly the land ?
113388
113389 You must have patience , madam .
113390
113391 He had none :
113392 His flight was madness : when our actions do not ,
113393 Our fears do make us traitors .
113394
113395 You know not
113396 Whether it was his wisdom or his fear .
113397
113398 Wisdom ! to leave his wife , to leave his babes ,
113399 His mansion and his titles in a place
113400 From whence himself does fly ? He loves us not ;
113401 He wants the natural touch ; for the poor wren ,
113402 The most diminutive of birds , will fight
113403 Her young ones in her nest against the owl .
113404 All is the fear and nothing is the love ;
113405 As little is the wisdom , where the flight
113406 So runs against all reason .
113407
113408 My dearest coz ,
113409 I pray you , school yourself : but , for your husband ,
113410 He is noble , wise , judicious , and best knows
113411 The fits o' the season . I dare not speak much further :
113412 But cruel are the times , when we are traitors
113413 And do not know ourselves , when we hold rumour
113414 From what we fear , yet know not what we fear ,
113415 But float upon a wild and violent sea
113416 Each way and move . I take my leave of you :
113417 Shall not be long but I'll be here again .
113418 Things at the worst will cease , or else climb upward
113419 To what they were before . My pretty cousin ,
113420 Blessing upon you !
113421
113422 Father'd he is , and yet he's fatherless .
113423
113424 I am so much a fool , should I stay longer ,
113425 It would be my disgrace , and your discomfort :
113426 I take my leave at once .
113427
113428
113429 Sirrah , your father's dead :
113430 And what will you do now ? How will you live ?
113431
113432 As birds do , mother .
113433
113434 What ! with worms and flies ?
113435
113436 With what I get , I mean ; and so do they .
113437
113438 Poor bird ! thou'dst never fear the net nor lime ,
113439 The pit-fall nor the gin .
113440
113441 Why should I , mother ? Poor birds they are not set for .
113442 My father is not dead , for all your saying .
113443
113444 Yes , he is dead : how wilt thou do for a father ?
113445
113446 Nay , how will you do for a husband ?
113447
113448 Why , I can buy me twenty at any market .
113449
113450 Then you'll buy 'em to sell again .
113451
113452 Thou speak'st with all thy wit ; and yet , i' faith ,
113453 With wit enough for thee .
113454
113455 Was my father a traitor , mother ?
113456
113457 Ay , that he was .
113458
113459 What is a traitor ?
113460
113461 Why , one that swears and lies .
113462
113463 And be all traitors that do so ?
113464
113465 Every one that does so is a traitor , and must be hanged .
113466
113467 And must they all be hanged that swear and lie ?
113468
113469 Every one .
113470
113471 Who must hang them ?
113472
113473 Why , the honest men .
113474
113475 Then the liars and swearers are fools , for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men , and hang up them .
113476
113477 Now God help thee , poor monkey !
113478 But how wilt thou do for a father ?
113479
113480 If he were dead , you'd weep for him : if you would not , it were a good sign that I should quickly have a new father .
113481
113482 Poor prattler , how thou talk'st !
113483
113484
113485 Bless you , fair dame ! I am not to you known ,
113486 Though in your state of honour I am perfect .
113487 I doubt some danger does approach you nearly :
113488 If you will take a homely man's advice ,
113489 Be not found here ; hence , with your little ones .
113490 To fright you thus , methinks , I am too savage ;
113491 To do worse to you were fell cruelty ,
113492 Which is too nigh your person . Heaven preserve you !
113493 I dare abide no longer .
113494
113495
113496 Whither should I fly ?
113497 I have done no harm . But I remember now
113498 I am in this earthly world , where , to do harm
113499 Is often laudable , to do good sometime
113500 Accounted dangerous folly ; why then , alas !
113501 Do I put up that womanly defence ,
113502 To say I have done no harm ?
113503
113504 What are these faces ?
113505
113506 Where is your husband ?
113507
113508 I hope in no place so unsanctified
113509 Where such as thou mayst find him .
113510
113511 He's a traitor .
113512
113513 Thou liest , thou shag-hair'd villain .
113514
113515 What ! you egg .
113516 Young fry of treachery !
113517
113518
113519 He has killed me , mother :
113520 Run away , I pray you !
113521
113522 Let us seek out some desolate shade , and there
113523 Weep our sad bosoms empty .
113524
113525 Let us rather
113526 Hold fast the mortal sword , and like good men
113527 Bestride our down-fall'n birthdom ; each new morn
113528 New widowshowl , new orphans cry , new sorrows
113529 Strike heaven on the face , that it resounds
113530 As if it felt with Scotland and yell'd out
113531 Like syllable of dolour .
113532
113533 What I believe I'll wail ,
113534 What know believe , and what I can redress ,
113535 As I shall find the time to friend , I will .
113536 What you have spoke , it may be so perchance .
113537 This tyrant , whosesole name blisters our tongues ,
113538 Was once thought honest : you have lov'd him well ;
113539 He hath not touch'd you yet . I am young ; but something
113540 You may deserve of him through me , and wisdom
113541 To offer up a weak , poor , innocent lamb
113542 To appease an angry god .
113543
113544 I am not treacherous .
113545
113546 But Macbeth is .
113547 A good and virtuous nature may recoil
113548 In an imperial charge . But I shall crave your pardon ;
113549 That which you are my thoughts cannot transpose ;
113550 Angels are bright still , though the brightest fell ;
113551 Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace ,
113552 Yet grace must still look so .
113553
113554 I have lost my hopes .
113555
113556 Perchance even there where I did find my doubts .
113557 Why in that rawness left you wife and child
113558 Those precious motives , those strong knots of love
113559 Without leave-taking ? I pray you ,
113560 Let not my jealousies be your dishonours ,
113561 But mine own safeties : you may be rightly just ,
113562 Whatever I shall think .
113563
113564 Bleed , bleed , poor country !
113565 Great tyranny , lay thou thy basis sure ,
113566 For goodness dares not check thee ! wear thou thy wrongs ;
113567 The title is affeer'd ! Fare thee well , lord :
113568 I would not be the villain that thou think'st
113569 For the whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp ,
113570 And the rich East to boot .
113571
113572 Be not offended :
113573 I speak not as in absolute fear of you .
113574 I think our country sinks beneath the yoke ;
113575 It weeps , it bleeds , and each new day a gash
113576 Is added to her wounds : I think withal ,
113577 There would be hands uplifted in my right ;
113578 And here from gracious England have I offer
113579 Of goodly thousands : but , for all this ,
113580 When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head ,
113581 Or wear it on my sword , yet my poor country
113582 Shall have more vices than it had before ,
113583 More suffer , and more sundry ways than ever ,
113584 By him that shall succeed .
113585
113586 What should he be ?
113587
113588 It is myself I mean ; in whom I know
113589 All the particulars of vice so grafted ,
113590 That , when they shall be open'd , black Macbeth
113591 Will seem as pure as snow , and the poor state
113592 Esteem him as a lamb , being compar'd
113593 With my confineless harms .
113594
113595 Not in the legions
113596 Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd
113597 In evils to top Macbeth .
113598
113599 I grant him bloody ,
113600 Luxurious , avaricious , false , deceitful ,
113601 Sudden , malicious , smacking of every sin
113602 That has a name ; but there's no bottom , none ,
113603 In my voluptuousness : your wives , your daughters ,
113604 Your matrons , and your maids , could not fill up
113605 The cistern of my lust ; and my desire
113606 All continent impediments would o'erbear
113607 That did oppose my will ; better Macbeth
113608 Than such an one to reign .
113609
113610 Boundless intemperance
113611 In nature is a tyranny ; it hath been
113612 Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne ,
113613 And fall of many kings . But fear not yet
113614 To take upon you what is yours ; you may
113615 Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty ,
113616 And yet seem cold , the time you may so hoodwink .
113617 We have willing dames enough ; there cannot be
113618 That vulture in you , to devour so many
113619 As will to greatness dedicate themselves ,
113620 Finding it so inclin'd .
113621
113622 With this there grows
113623 In my most ill-compos'd affection such
113624 A stanchless avarice that , were I king ,
113625 I should cut off the nobles for their lands ,
113626 Desire his jewels and this other's house ;
113627 And my more-having would be as a sauce
113628 To make me hunger more , that I should forge
113629 Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal ,
113630 Destroying them for wealth .
113631
113632 This avarice
113633 Sticks deeper , grows with more pernicious root
113634 Than summer-seeming lust , and it hath been
113635 The sword of our slain kings : yet do not fear ;
113636 Scotland hath foisons to fill up your will ,
113637 Of your mere own ; all these are portable ,
113638 With other graces weigh'd .
113639
113640 But I have none : the king-becoming graces ,
113641 As justice , verity , temperance , stableness ,
113642 Bounty , perseverance , mercy , lowliness ,
113643 Devotion , patience , courage , fortitude ,
113644 I have no relish of them , but abound
113645 In the division of each several crime ,
113646 Acting it many ways . Nay , had I power , I should
113647 Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell ,
113648 Uproar the universal peace , confound
113649 All unity on earth .
113650
113651 O Scotland , Scotland !
113652
113653 If such a one be fit to govern , speak :
113654 I am as I have spoken .
113655
113656 Fit to govern !
113657 No , not to live . O nation miserable ,
113658 With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd ,
113659 When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again ,
113660 Since that the truest issue of thy throne
113661 By his own interdiction stands accurs'd ,
113662 And does blaspheme his breed ? Thy royal father
113663 Was a most sainted king ; the queen that bore thee ,
113664 Oft'ner upon her knees than on her feet ,
113665 Died every day she liv'd . Fare thee well !
113666 These evils thou repeat'st upon thyself
113667 Have banish'd me from Scotland . O my breast ,
113668 Thy hope ends here !
113669
113670 Macduff , this noble passion ,
113671 Child of integrity , hath from my soul
113672 Wip'd the black scruples , reconcil'd my thoughts
113673 To thy good truth and honour . Devilish Macbeth
113674 By many of these trains hath sought to win me
113675 Into his power , and modest wisdom plucks me
113676 From over-credulous haste ; but God above
113677 Deal between thee and me ! for even now
113678 I put myself to thy direction , and
113679 Unspeak mine own detraction , here abjure
113680 The taints and blames I laid upon myself ,
113681 For strangers to my nature . I am yet
113682 Unknown to woman , never was forsworn ,
113683 Scarcely have coveted what was mine own ;
113684 At no time broke my faith , would not betray
113685 The devil to his fellow , and delight
113686 No less in truth than life ; my first false speaking
113687 Was this upon myself . What I am truly ,
113688 Is thine and my poor country's to command ;
113689 Whither indeed , before thy here-approach ,
113690 Old Siward , with ten thousand war-like men ,
113691 Already at a point , was setting forth .
113692 Now we'll together , and the chance of goodness
113693 Be like our warranted quarrel . Why are you silent ?
113694
113695 Such welcome and unwelcome things at once
113696 'Tis hard to reconcile .
113697
113698
113699 Well ; more anon . Comes the king forth , I pray you ?
113700
113701 Ay , sir ; there are a crew of wretched souls
113702 That stay his cure ; their malady convinces
113703 The great assay of art ; but , at his touch ,
113704 Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand ,
113705 They presently amend .
113706
113707 I thank you , doctor .
113708
113709
113710 What's the disease he means ?
113711
113712 'Tis call'd the evil :
113713 A most miraculous work in this good king ,
113714 Which often , since my here-remain in England ,
113715 I have seen him do . How he solicits heaven ,
113716 Himself best knows ; but strangely-visited people ,
113717 All swoln and ulcerous , pitiful to the eye ,
113718 The mere despair of surgery , he cures ;
113719 Hanging a golden stamp about their necks ,
113720 Put on with holy prayers ; and 'tis spoken
113721 To the succeeding royalty he leaves
113722 The healing benediction . With this strange virtue ,
113723 He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy ,
113724 And sundry blessings hang about his throne
113725 That speak him full of grace .
113726
113727 See , who comes here ?
113728
113729 My countryman ; but yet I know him not .
113730
113731
113732 My ever-gentle cousin , welcome hither .
113733
113734 I know him now . Good God , betimes remove
113735 The means that make us strangers !
113736
113737 Sir , amen .
113738
113739 Stands Scotland where it did ?
113740
113741 Alas ! poor country ;
113742 Almost afraid to know itself . It cannot
113743 Be call'd our mother , but our grave ; where nothing ,
113744 But who knows nothing , is once seen to smile ;
113745 Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rent the air
113746 Are made , not mark'd ; where violent sorrow seems
113747 A modern ecstasy ; the dead man's knell
113748 Is there scarce ask'd for who ; and good men's lives
113749 Expire before the flowers in their caps ,
113750 Dying or ere they sicken .
113751
113752 O ! relation
113753 Too nice , and yet too true !
113754
113755 What's the newest grief ?
113756
113757 That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker ;
113758 Each minute teems a new one .
113759
113760 How does my wife ?
113761
113762 Why , well .
113763
113764 And all my children ?
113765
113766 Well too .
113767
113768 The tyrant has not batter'd at their peace ?
113769
113770 No ; they were well at peace when I did leave 'em .
113771
113772 Be not a niggard of your speech : how goes 't ?
113773
113774 When I came hither to transport the tidings ,
113775 Which I have heavily borne , there ran a rumour
113776 Of many worthy fellows that were out ;
113777 Which was to my belief witness'd the rather
113778 For that I saw the tyrant's power a-foot .
113779 Now is the time of help ; your eye in Scotland
113780 Would create soldiers , make our women fight ,
113781 To doff their dire distresses .
113782
113783 Be 't their comfort ,
113784 We are coming thither . Gracious England hath
113785 Lent us good Siward and ten thousand men ;
113786 An older and a better soldier none
113787 That Christendom gives out .
113788
113789 Would I could answer
113790 This comfort with the like ! But I have words
113791 That would be howl'd out in the desert air ,
113792 Where hearing should not latch them .
113793
113794 What concern they ?
113795 The general cause ? or is it a fee-grief
113796 Due to some single breast ?
113797
113798 No mind that's honest
113799 But in it shares some woe , though the main part
113800 Pertains to you alone .
113801
113802 If it be mine
113803 Keep it not from me ; quickly let me have it .
113804
113805 Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever ,
113806 Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound
113807 That ever yet they heard .
113808
113809 Hum ! I guess at it .
113810
113811 Your castle is surpris'd ; your wife and babes
113812 Savagely slaughter'd ; to relate the manner ,
113813 Were , on the quarry of these murder'd deer ,
113814 To add the death of you .
113815
113816 Merciful heaven !
113817 What ! man ; ne'er pull your hat upon your brows ;
113818 Give sorrow words ; the grief that does not speak
113819 Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break .
113820
113821 My children too ?
113822
113823 Wife , children , servants , all
113824 That could be found .
113825
113826 And I must be from thence !
113827 My wife kill'd too ?
113828
113829 I have said .
113830
113831 Be comforted :
113832 Let's make us medicine of our great revenge ,
113833 To cure this deadly grief .
113834
113835 He has no children . All my pretty ones ?
113836 Did you say all ? O hell-kite ! All ?
113837 What ! all my pretty chickens and their dam
113838 At one fell swoop ?
113839
113840 Dispute it like a man .
113841
113842 I shall do so ;
113843 But I must also feel it as a man :
113844 I cannot but remember such things were ,
113845 That were most precious to me . Did heaven look on ,
113846 And would not take their part ? Sinful Macduff !
113847 They were all struck for thee . Naught that I am ,
113848 Not for their own demerits , but for mine ,
113849 Fell slaughter on their souls . Heaven rest them now !
113850
113851 Be this the whetstone of your sword : let grief
113852 Convert to anger ; blunt not the heart , enrage it .
113853
113854 O ! I could play the woman with mine eyes ,
113855 And braggart with my tongue . But , gentle heavens ,
113856 Cut short all intermission ; front to front
113857 Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself ;
113858 Within my sword's length set him ; if he 'scape ,
113859 Heaven forgive him too !
113860
113861 This tune goes manly .
113862 Come , go we to the king ; our power is ready ;
113863 Our lack is nothing but our leave . Macbeth
113864 Is ripe for shaking , and the powers above
113865 Put on their instruments . Receive what cheer you may ;
113866 The night is long that never finds the day .
113867
113868 I have two nights watched with you , but can perceive no truth in your report . When was it she last walked ?
113869
113870 Since his majesty went into the field , I have seen her rise from her bed , throw her night-gown upon her , unlock her closet , take forth paper , fold it , write upon 't , read it , afterwards seal it , and again return to bed ; yet all this while in a most fast sleep .
113871
113872 A great perturbation in nature , to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching ! In this slumbery agitation , besides her walking and other actual performances , what , at any time , have you heard her say ?
113873
113874 That , sir , which I will not report after her .
113875
113876 You may to me , and 'tis most meet you should .
113877
113878 Neither to you nor any one , having no witness to confirm my speech .
113879
113880 Lo you ! here she comes . This is her very guise ; and , upon my life , fast asleep . Observe her ; stand close .
113881
113882 How came she by that light ?
113883
113884 Why , it stood by her : she has light by her continually ; 'tis her command .
113885
113886 You see , her eyes are open .
113887
113888 Ay , but their sense is shut .
113889
113890 What is it she does now ? Look , how she rubs her hands .
113891
113892 It is an accustomed action with her , to seem thus washing her hands . I have known her to continue in this a quarter of an hour .
113893
113894 Yet here's a spot .
113895
113896 Hark ! she speaks . I will set down what comes from her , to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly .
113897
113898 Out , damned spot ! out , I say ! One ; two : why , then , 'tis time to do't . Hell is murky ! Fie , my lord , fie ! a soldier , and afeard ? What need we fear who knows it , when none can call our power to account ? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him ?
113899
113900 Do you mark that ?
113901
113902 The Thane of Fife had a wife : where is she now ? What ! will these hands ne'er be clean ? No more o' that , my lord , no more o' that : you mar all with this starting .
113903
113904 Go to , go to ; you have known what you should not .
113905
113906 She has spoke what she should not , I am sure of that : Heaven knows what she has known .
113907
113908 Here's the smell of the blood still : all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand . Oh ! oh ! oh !
113909
113910 What a sigh is there ! The heart is sorely charged .
113911
113912 I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body .
113913
113914 Well , well , well .
113915
113916 Pray God it be , sir .
113917
113918 This disease is beyond my practice : yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep who have died holily in their beds .
113919
113920 Wash your hands , put on your night-gown ; look not so pale . I tell you yet again , Banquo's buried ; he cannot come out on 's grave .
113921
113922 Even so ?
113923
113924 To bed , to bed : there's knocking at the gate . Come , come , come , come , give me your hand . What's done cannot be undone .
113925 To bed , to bed , to bed .
113926
113927
113928 Will she go now to bed ?
113929
113930 Directly .
113931
113932 Foul whisperings are abroad . Unnatural deeds
113933 Do breed unnatural troubles ; infected minds
113934 To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets ;
113935 More needs she the divine than the physician .
113936 God , God forgive us all ! Look after her ;
113937 Remove from her the means of all annoyance ,
113938 And still keep eyes upon her . So , good-night :
113939 My mind she has mated , and amaz'd my sight .
113940 I think , but dare not speak .
113941
113942 Good-night , good doctor .
113943
113944
113945 The English power is near , led on by Malcolm ,
113946 His uncle Siward , and the good Macduff .
113947 Revenges burn in them ; for their dear causes
113948 Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm
113949 Excite the mortified man .
113950
113951 Near Birnam wood
113952 Shall we well meet them ; that way are they coming .
113953
113954 Who knows if Donalbain be with his brother ?
113955
113956 For certain , sir , he is not : I have a file
113957 Of all the gentry : there is Siward's son ,
113958 And many unrough youths that even now
113959 Protest their first of manhood .
113960
113961 What does the tyrant ?
113962
113963 Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies .
113964 Some say he's mad ; others that lesser hate him
113965 Do call it valiant fury ; but , for certain ,
113966 He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause
113967 Within the belt of rule .
113968
113969 Now does he feel
113970 His secret murders sticking on his hands ;
113971 Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach ;
113972 Those he commands move only in command ,
113973 Nothing in love ; now does he feel his title
113974 Hang loose about him , like a giant's robe
113975 Upon a dwarfish thief .
113976
113977 Who then shall blame
113978 His pester'd senses to recoil and start ,
113979 When all that is within him does condemn
113980 Itself for being there ?
113981
113982 Well , march we on ,
113983 To give obedience where 'tis truly ow'd ;
113984 Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal ,
113985 And with him pour we in our country's purge
113986 Each drop of us .
113987
113988 Or so much as it needs
113989 To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds .
113990 Make we our march towards Birnam .
113991
113992
113993 Bring me no more reports ; let them fly all :
113994 Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane
113995 I cannot taint with fear . What's the boy Malcolm ?
113996 Was he not born of woman ? The spirits that know
113997 All mortal consequences have pronounc'd me thus :
113998 'Fear not , Macbeth ; no man that's born of woman
113999 Shall e'er have power upon thee .' Then fly , false thanes ,
114000 And mingle with the English epicures :
114001 The mind I sway by and the heart I bear
114002 Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear .
114003
114004
114005 The devil damn thee black , thou cream-fac'd loon !
114006
114007 Where gott'st thou that goose look ?
114008
114009 There is ten thousand
114010
114011 Geese , villain ?
114012
114013 Soldiers , sir .
114014
114015 Go , prick thy face , and over-red thy fear ,
114016 Thou lily-liver'd boy . What soldiers , patch ?
114017 Death of thy soul ! those linen cheeks of thine
114018 Are counsellors to fear . What soldiers , wheyface ?
114019
114020 The English force , so please you .
114021
114022 Take thy face hence .
114023
114024 Seyton !I am sick at heart
114025 When I behold Seyton , I say !This push
114026 Will cheer me ever or disseat me now .
114027 I have liv'd long enough : my way of life
114028 Is fall'n into the sear , the yellow leaf ;
114029 And that which should accompany old age ,
114030 As honour , love , obedience , troops of friends ,
114031 I must not look to have ; but , in their stead ,
114032 Curses , not loud but deep , mouth-honour , breath ,
114033 Which the poor heart would fain deny , and dare not .
114034 Seyton !
114035
114036
114037 What is your gracious pleasure ?
114038
114039 What news more ?
114040
114041 All is confirm'd , my lord , which was reported .
114042
114043 I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd .
114044 Give me my armour .
114045
114046 'Tis not needed yet .
114047
114048 I'll put it on .
114049 Send out more horses , skirr the country round ;
114050 Hang those that talk of fear . Give me mine armour .
114051 How does your patient , doctor ?
114052
114053 Not so sick , my lord ,
114054 As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies ,
114055 That keep her from her rest .
114056
114057 Cure her of that :
114058 Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ,
114059 Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ,
114060 Raze out the written troubles of the brain ,
114061 And with some sweet oblivious antidote
114062 Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
114063 Which weighs upon the heart ?
114064
114065 Therein the patient
114066 Must minister to himself .
114067
114068 Throw physic to the dogs ; I'll none of it .
114069 Come , put mine armour on ; give me my staff .
114070 Seyton , send out .Doctor , the thanes fly from me .
114071 Come , sir , dispatch .If thou couldst , doctor , cast
114072 The water of my land , find her disease ,
114073 And purge it to a sound and pristine health ,
114074 I would applaud thee to the very echo ,
114075 That should applaud again .Pull 't off , I say .
114076 What rhubarb , senna , or what purgative drug
114077 Would scour these English hence ? Hear'st thou of them ?
114078
114079 Ay , my good lord ; your royal preparation
114080 Makes us hear something .
114081
114082 Bring it after me .
114083 I will not be afraid of death and bane
114084 Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane .
114085
114086 Were I from Dunsinane away and clear ,
114087 Profit again should hardly draw me here .
114088
114089 Cousins , I hope the days are near at hand
114090 That chambers will be safe .
114091
114092 We doubt it nothing .
114093
114094 What wood is this before us ?
114095
114096 The wood of Birnam .
114097
114098 Let every soldier hew him down a bough
114099 And bear 't before him : thereby shall we shadow
114100 The numbers of our host , and make discovery
114101 Err in report of us .
114102
114103 It shall be done .
114104
114105 We learn no other but the confident tyrant
114106 Keeps still in Dunsinane , and will endure
114107 Our setting down before 't .
114108
114109 'Tis his main hope ;
114110 For where there is advantage to be given ,
114111 Both more and less have given him the revolt ,
114112 And none serve with him but constrained things
114113 Whose hearts are absent too .
114114
114115 Let our just censures
114116 Attend the true event , and put we on
114117 Industrious soldiership .
114118
114119 The time approaches
114120 That will with due decision make us know
114121 What we shall say we have and what we owe .
114122 Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate ,
114123 But certain issue strokes must arbitrate ,
114124 Towards which advance the war .
114125
114126
114127 Hang out our banners on the outward walls ;
114128 The cry is still , 'They come ;' our castle's strength
114129 Will laugh a siege to scorn ; here let them lie
114130 Till famine and the ague eat them up ;
114131 Were they not forc'd with those that should be ours ,
114132 We might have met them dareful , beard to beard ,
114133 And beat them backward home .
114134
114135 What is that noise ?
114136
114137 It is the cry of women , my good lord .
114138
114139
114140 I have almost forgot the taste of fears .
114141 The time has been my senses would have cool'd
114142 To hear a night-shriek , and my fell of hair
114143 Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
114144 As life were in 't . I have supp'd full with horrors ;
114145 Direness , familiar to my slaughterous thoughts ,
114146 Cannot once start me .
114147
114148 Wherefore was that cry ?
114149
114150 The queen , my lord , is dead .
114151
114152 She should have died hereafter ;
114153 There would have been a time for such a word .
114154 To-morrow , and to-morrow , and to-morrow ,
114155 Creeps in this petty pace from day to day ,
114156 To the last syllable of recorded time ;
114157 And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
114158 The way to dusty death . Out , out , brief candle !
114159 Life's but a walking shadow , a poor player
114160 That struts and frets his hour upon the stage ,
114161 And then is heard no more ; it is a tale
114162 Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury ,
114163 Signifying nothing .
114164
114165 Thou com'st to use thy tongue ; thy story quickly .
114166
114167 Gracious my lord ,
114168 I should report that which I say I saw ,
114169 But know not how to do it .
114170
114171 Well , say , sir .
114172
114173 As I did stand my watch upon the hill ,
114174 I look'd towards Birnam , and anon , methought ,
114175 The wood began to move .
114176
114177 Liar and slave !
114178
114179 Let me endure your wrath if't be not so :
114180 Within this three mile may you see it coming ;
114181 I say , a moving grove .
114182
114183 If thou speak'st false ,
114184 Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive ,
114185 Till famine cling thee ; if thy speech be sooth ,
114186 I care not if thou dost for me as much .
114187 I pull in resolution and begin
114188 To doubt the equivocation of the fiend
114189 That lies like truth ; 'Fear not , till Birnam wood
114190 Do come to Dunsinane ;' and now a wood
114191 Comes toward Dunsinane . Arm , arm , and out !
114192 If this which he avouches does appear ,
114193 There is nor flying hence , nor tarrying here .
114194 I 'gin to be aweary of the sun ,
114195 And wish the estate o' the world were now undone .
114196 Ring the alarum-bell ! Blow , wind ! come , wrack !
114197 At least we'll die with harness on our back .
114198
114199
114200 Now near enough ; your leavy screens throw down ,
114201 And show like those you are . You , worthy uncle ,
114202 Shall , with my cousin , your right-noble son ,
114203 Lead our first battle ; worthy Macduff and we
114204 Shall take upon 's what else remains to do ,
114205 According to our order .
114206
114207 Fare you well .
114208 Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night ,
114209 Let us be beaten , if we cannot fight .
114210
114211 Make all our trumpets speak ; give them all breath ,
114212 Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death .
114213
114214
114215 They have tied me to a stake ; I cannot fly ,
114216 But bear-like I must fight the course . What's he
114217 That was not born of woman ? Such a one
114218 Am I to fear , or none .
114219
114220
114221 What is thy name ?
114222
114223 Thou'lt be afraid to hear it .
114224
114225 No ; though thou call'st thyself a hotter name
114226 Than any is in hell .
114227
114228 My name's Macbeth .
114229
114230 The devil himself could not pronounce a title
114231 More hateful to mine ear .
114232
114233 No , nor more fearful .
114234
114235 Thou liest , abhorred tyrant ; with my sword
114236 I'll prove the lie thou speak'st .
114237
114238
114239 Thou wast born of woman :
114240 But swords I smile at , weapons laugh to scorn ,
114241 Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born .
114242
114243 That way the noise is . Tyrant , show thy face :
114244 If thou be'st slain and with no stroke of mine ,
114245 My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still .
114246 I cannot strike at wretched kerns , whose arms
114247 Are hir'd to bear their staves : either thou , Macbeth ,
114248 Or else my sword with an unbatter'd edge
114249 I sheathe again undeeded . There thou shouldst be ;
114250 By this great clatter , one of greatest note
114251 Seems bruited . Let me find him , fortune !
114252 And more I beg not .
114253
114254 This way , my lord ; the castle's gently render'd :
114255 The tyrant's people on both sides do fight ;
114256 The noble thanes do bravely in the war ;
114257 The day almost itself professes yours ,
114258 And little is to do .
114259
114260 We have met with foes
114261 That strike beside us .
114262
114263 Enter , sir , the castle .
114264
114265 Why should I play the Roman fool , and die
114266 On mine own sword ? whiles I see lives , the gashes
114267 Do better upon them .
114268
114269
114270 Turn , hell-hound , turn !
114271
114272 Of all men else I have avoided thee :
114273 But get thee back , my soul is too much charg'd
114274 With blood of thine already .
114275
114276 I have no words ;
114277 My voice is in my sword , thou bloodier villain
114278 Than terms can give thee out !
114279
114280
114281 Thou losest labour :
114282 As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air
114283 With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed :
114284 Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests ;
114285 I bear a charmed life , which must not yield
114286 To one of woman born .
114287
114288 Despair thy charm ;
114289 And let the angel whom thou still hast serv'd
114290 Tell thee , Macduff was from his mother's womb
114291 Untimely ripp'd .
114292
114293 Accursed be that tongue that tells me so ,
114294 For it hath cow'd my better part of man :
114295 And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd ,
114296 That palter with us in a double sense ;
114297 That keep the word of promise to our ear ,
114298 And break it to our hope . I'll not fight with thee .
114299
114300 Then yield thee , coward ,
114301 And live to be the show and gaze o' the time :
114302 We'll have thee , as our rarer monsters are ,
114303 Painted upon a pole , and underwrit ,
114304 'Here may you see the tyrant .'
114305
114306 I will not yield ,
114307 To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet ,
114308 And to be baited with the rabble's curse .
114309 Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane ,
114310 And thou oppos'd , being of no woman born ,
114311 Yet I will try the last : before my body
114312 I throw my war-like shield . Lay on , Macduff ,
114313 And damn'd be him that first cries , 'Hold , enough !'
114314
114315
114316 I would the friends we miss were safe arriv'd .
114317
114318 Some must go off ; and yet , by these I see ,
114319 So great a day as this is cheaply bought .
114320
114321 Macduff is missing , and your noble son .
114322
114323 Your son , my lord , has paid a soldier's debt :
114324 He only liv'd but till he was a man ;
114325 The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd
114326 In the unshrinking station where he fought ,
114327 But like a man he died .
114328
114329 Then he is dead ?
114330
114331 Ay , and brought off the field . Your cause of sorrow
114332 Must not be measur'd by his worth , for then
114333 It hath no end .
114334
114335 Had he his hurts before ?
114336
114337 Ay , on the front .
114338
114339 Why then , God's soldier be he !
114340 Had I as many sons as I have hairs ,
114341 I would not wish them to a fairer death :
114342 And so , his knell is knoll'd .
114343
114344 He's worth more sorrow ,
114345 And that I'll spend for him .
114346
114347 He's worth no more ;
114348 They say , he parted well , and paid his score :
114349 And so , God be with him ! Here comes newer comfort .
114350
114351
114352 Hail , king ! for so thou art . Behold , where stands
114353 The usurper's cursed head : the time is free :
114354 I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl ,
114355 That speak my salutation in their minds ;
114356 Whose voices I desire aloud with mine ;
114357 Hail , King of Scotland !
114358
114359 Hail , King of Scotland !
114360
114361
114362 We shall not spend a large expense of time
114363 Before we reckon with your several loves ,
114364 And make us even with you . My thanes and kinsmen ,
114365 Henceforth be earls , the first that ever Scotland
114366 In such an honour nam'd . What's more to do ,
114367 Which would be planted newly with the time ,
114368 As calling home our exil'd friends abroad
114369 That fled the snares of watchful tyranny ;
114370 Producing forth the cruel ministers
114371 Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen ,
114372 Who , as 'tis thought , by self and violent hands
114373 Took off her life ; this , and what needful else
114374 That calls upon us , by the grace of Grace
114375 We will perform in measure , time , and place :
114376 So , thanks to all at once and to each one ,
114377 Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone .
114378
114379 OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE
114380
114381 Tush ! Never tell me ; I take it much unkindly
114382 That thou , Iago , who hast had my purse
114383 As if the strings were thine , shouldst know of this .
114384
114385 'Sblood , but you will not hear me :
114386 If ever I did dream of such a matter ,
114387 Abhor me .
114388
114389 Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate .
114390
114391 Despise me if I do not . Three great ones of the city ,
114392 In personal suit to make me his lieutenant ,
114393 Off-capp'd to him ; and , by the faith of man .
114394 I know my price , I am worth no worse a place ;
114395 But he , as loving his own pride and purposes ,
114396 Evades them , with a bombast circumstance
114397 Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war ;
114398 And , in conclusion ,
114399 Nonsuits my mediators ; for , 'Certes ,' says he ,
114400 'I have already chose my officer .'
114401 And what was he ?
114402 Forsooth , a great arithmetician ,
114403 One Michael Cassio , a Florentine ,
114404 A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife ;
114405 That never set a squadron in the field ,
114406 Nor the division of a battle knows
114407 More than a spinster ; unless the bookish theoric ,
114408 Wherein the toged consuls can propose
114409 As masterly as he : mere prattle , without practice ,
114410 Is all his soldiership . But he , sir , had the election ;
114411 And I of whom his eyes had seen the proof
114412 At Rhodes , at Cyprus , and on other grounds
114413 Christian and heathen must be be-lee'd and calm'd
114414 By debitor and creditor ; this counter caster ,
114415 He , in good time , must his lieutenant be ,
114416 And I God bless the mark !his Moorship's ancient .
114417
114418 By heaven , I rather would have been his hangman .
114419
114420 Why , there's no remedy : 'tis the curse of the service ,
114421 Preferment goes by letter and affection ,
114422 Not by the old gradation , where each second
114423 Stood heir to the first . Now , sir , be judge yourself ,
114424 Whe'r I in any just term am affin'd
114425 To love the Moor .
114426
114427 I would not follow him then .
114428
114429 O ! sir , content you ;
114430 I follow him to serve my turn upon him ;
114431 We cannot all be masters , nor all masters
114432 Cannot be truly follow'd . You shall mark
114433 Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave ,
114434 That , doting on his own obsequious bondage ,
114435 Wears out his time , much like his master's ass ,
114436 For nought but provender , and when he's old , cashier'd ;
114437 Whip me such honest knaves . Others there are
114438 Who , trimm'd in forms and visages of duty ,
114439 Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves ,
114440 And , throwing but shows of service on their lords ,
114441 Do well thrive by them , and when they have lin'd their coats
114442 Do themselves homage : these fellows have some soul ;
114443 And such a one do I profess myself . For , sir ,
114444 It is as sure as you are Roderigo ,
114445 Were I the Moor , I would not be Iago :
114446 In following him , I follow but myself ;
114447 Heaven is my judge , not I for love and duty ,
114448 But seeming so , for my peculiar end :
114449 For when my outward action doth demonstrate
114450 The native act and figure of my heart
114451 In compliment extern , 'tis not long after
114452 But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
114453 For daws to peck at : I am not what I am .
114454
114455 What a full fortune does the thick-lips owe ,
114456 If he can carry 't thus !
114457
114458 Call up her father ;
114459 Rouse him , make after him , poison his delight ,
114460 Proclaim him in the streets , incense her kinsmen ,
114461 And , though he in a fertile climate dwell ,
114462 Plague him with flies ; though that his joy be joy ,
114463 Yet throw such changes of vexation on 't
114464 As it may lose some colour .
114465
114466 Here is her father's house ; I'll call aloud .
114467
114468 Do ; with like timorous accent and dire yell
114469 As when , by night and negligence , the fire
114470 Is spied in populous cities .
114471
114472 What , ho ! Brabantio ! Signior Brabantio , ho !
114473
114474 Awake ! what , ho ! Brabantio ! thieves ! thieves ! thieves !
114475 Look to your house , your daughter , and your bags !
114476 Thieves ! thieves !
114477
114478
114479 What is the reason of this terrible summons ?
114480 What is the matter there ?
114481
114482 Signior , is all your family within ?
114483
114484 Are your doors lock'd ?
114485
114486 Why ? wherefore ask you this ?
114487
114488 'Zounds ! sir , you're robb'd ; for shame , put on your gown ;
114489 Your heart is burst , you have lost half your soul ;
114490 Even now , now , very now , an old black ram
114491 Is tupping your white ewe . Arise , arise !
114492 Awake the snorting citizens with the bell ,
114493 Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you .
114494 Arise , I say .
114495
114496 What ! have you lost your wits ?
114497
114498 Most reverend signior , do you know my voice ?
114499
114500 Not I , what are you ?
114501
114502 My name is Roderigo .
114503
114504 The worser welcome :
114505 I have charg'd thee not to haunt about my doors :
114506 In honest plainness thou hast heard me say
114507 My daughter is not for thee ; and now , in madness ,
114508 Being full of supper and distempering draughts ,
114509 Upon malicious knavery dost thou come
114510 To start my quiet .
114511
114512 Sir , sir , sir !
114513
114514 But thou must needs be sure
114515 My spirit and my place have in them power
114516 To make this bitter to thee .
114517
114518 Patience , good sir .
114519
114520 What tell'st thou me of robbing ? this is Venice ;
114521 My house is not a grange .
114522
114523 Most grave Brabantio ,
114524 In simple and pure soul I come to you .
114525
114526 'Zounds ! sir , you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you . Because we come to do you service and you think we are ruffians , you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse ; you'll have your nephews neigh to you ; you'll have coursers for cousins and gennets for germans .
114527
114528 What profane wretch art thou ?
114529
114530 I am one , sir , that comes to tell you , your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs .
114531
114532 Thou art a villain .
114533
114534 You are a senator .
114535
114536 This thou shalt answer ; I know thee , Roderigo .
114537
114538 Sir , I will answer any thing . But , I beseech you ,
114539 If 't be your pleasure and most wise consent ,
114540 As partly , I find , it is ,that your fair daughter ,
114541 At this odd-even and dull-watch o' the night ,
114542 Transported with no worse nor better guard
114543 But with a knave of common hire , a gondolier ,
114544 To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor ,
114545 If this be known to you , and your allowance ,
114546 We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs ;
114547 But if you know not this , my manners tell me
114548 We have your wrong rebuke . Do not believe ,
114549 That , from the sense of all civility ,
114550 I thus would play and trifle with your reverence :
114551 Your daughter , if you have not given her leave ,
114552 I say again , hath made a gross revolt ;
114553 Tying her duty , beauty , wit and fortunes
114554 In an extravagant and wheeling stranger
114555 Of here and every where . Straight satisfy yourself :
114556 If she be in her chamber or your house ,
114557 Let loose on me the justice of the state
114558 For thus deluding you .
114559
114560 Strike on the tinder , ho !
114561 Give me a taper ! call up all my people !
114562 This accident is not unlike my dream ;
114563 Belief of it oppresses me already .
114564 Light , I say ! light !
114565
114566
114567 Farewell , for I must leave you :
114568 It seems not meet nor wholesome to my place
114569 To be produc'd , as , if I stay , I shall ,
114570 Against the Moor ; for , I do know the state ,
114571 However this may gall him with some check ,
114572 Cannot with safety cast him ; for he's embark'd
114573 With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars ,
114574 Which even now stand in act ,that , for their souls ,
114575 Another of his fathom they have none ,
114576 To lead their business ; in which regard ,
114577 Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains ,
114578 Yet , for necessity of present life ,
114579 I must show out a flag and sign of love ,
114580 Which is indeed but sign . That you shall surely find him ,
114581 Lead to the Sagittary the raised search ;
114582 And there will I be with him . So , farewell .
114583
114584 It is too true an evil : gone she is ,
114585 And what's to come of my despised time
114586 Is nought but bitterness . Now , Roderigo ,
114587 Where didst thou see her ? O , unhappy girl !
114588 With the Moor , sayst thou ? Who would be a father !
114589 How didst thou know 'twas she ? O , she deceives me
114590 Past thought . What said she to you ? Get more tapers !
114591 Raise all my kindred ! Are they married , think you ?
114592
114593 Truly , I think they are .
114594
114595 O heaven ! How got she out ? O , treason of the blood :
114596 Fathers , from hence trust not your daughters' minds
114597 By what you see them act . Are there not charms
114598 By which the property of youth and maidhood
114599 May be abus'd ? Have you not read , Roderigo ,
114600 Of some such thing ?
114601
114602 Yes , sir , I have indeed .
114603
114604 Call up my brother . O ! that you had had her .
114605 Some one way , some another ! Do you know
114606 Where we may apprehend her and the Moor ?
114607
114608 I think I can discover him , if you please
114609 To get good guard and go along with me .
114610
114611 Pray you , lead on . At every house I'll call ;
114612 I may command at most . Get weapons , ho !
114613 And raise some special officers of night .
114614 On , good Roderigo ; I'll deserve your pains .
114615
114616
114617 Though in the trade of war I have slain men ,
114618 Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience
114619 To do no contriv'd murder : I lack iniquity
114620 Sometimes to do me service . Nine or ten times
114621 I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs .
114622
114623 'Tis better as it is .
114624
114625 Nay , but he prated ,
114626 And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms
114627 Against your honour
114628 That , with the little godliness I have ,
114629 I did full hard forbear him . But , I pray , sir ,
114630 Are you fast married ? Be assur'd of this ,
114631 That the magnifico is much belov'd ,
114632 And hath in his effect a voice potential
114633 As double as the duke's ; he will divorce you ,
114634 Or put upon you what restraint and grievance
114635 The law with all his might to enforce it on
114636 Will give him cable .
114637
114638 Let him do his spite :
114639 My services which I have done the signiory
114640 Shall out-tongue his complaints . 'Tis yet to know ,
114641 Which when I know that boasting is an honour
114642 I shall promulgate , I fetch my life and being
114643 From men of royal siege , and my demerits
114644 May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune
114645 As this that I have reach'd ; for know , Iago ,
114646 But that I love the gentle Desdemona ,
114647 I would not my unhoused free condition
114648 Put into circumscription and confine
114649 For the sea's worth . But , look ! what lights come yond ?
114650
114651 Those are the raised father and his friends :
114652 You were best go in .
114653
114654 Not I ; I must be found :
114655 My parts , my title , and my perfect soul
114656 Shall manifest me rightly . Is it they ?
114657
114658 By Janus , I think no .
114659
114660
114661 The servants of the duke , and my lieutenant .
114662 The goodness of the night upon you , friends !
114663 What is the news ?
114664
114665 The duke does greet you , general ,
114666 And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance ,
114667 Even on the instant .
114668
114669 What is the matter , think you ?
114670
114671 Something from Cyprus , as I may divine .
114672 It is a business of some heat ; the galleys
114673 Have sent a dozen sequent messengers
114674 This very night at one another's heels ,
114675 And many of the consuls , rais'd and met ,
114676 Are at the duke's already . You have been hotly call'd for ;
114677 When , being not at your lodging to be found ,
114678 The senate hath sent about three several quests
114679 To search you out .
114680
114681 'Tis well I am found by you .
114682 I will but spend a word here in the house ,
114683 And go with you .
114684
114685
114686 Ancient , what makes he here ?
114687
114688 Faith , he to-night hath boarded a land carrack ;
114689 If it prove lawful prize , he's made for ever .
114690
114691 I do not understand .
114692
114693 He's married .
114694
114695 To who ?
114696
114697
114698 Marry , to Come , captain , will you go ?
114699
114700 Have with you .
114701
114702 Here comes another troop to seek for you .
114703
114704 It is Brabantio . General , be advis'd ;
114705 He comes to bad intent .
114706
114707
114708 Holla ! stand there !
114709
114710 Signior , it is the Moor .
114711
114712 Down with him , thief !
114713
114714
114715 You , Roderigo ! come , sir , I am for you .
114716
114717 Keep up your bright swords , for the dew will rust them .
114718 Good signior , you shall more command with years
114719 Than with your weapons .
114720
114721 O thou foul thief ! where hast thou stow'd my daughter ?
114722 Damn'd as thou art , thou hast enchanted her ;
114723 For I'll refer me to all things of sense ,
114724 If she in chains of magic were not bound ,
114725 Whether a maid so tender , fair , and happy ,
114726 So opposite to marriage that she shunn'd
114727 The wealthy curled darlings of our nation ,
114728 Would ever have , to incur a general mock ,
114729 Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
114730 Of such a thing as thou ; to fear , not to delight .
114731 Judge me the world , if 'tis not gross in sense
114732 That thou hast practis'd on her with foul charms ,
114733 Abus'd her delicate youth with drugs or minerals
114734 That weaken motion : I'll have 't disputed on ;
114735 'Tis probable , and palpable to thinking .
114736 I therefore apprehend and do attach thee
114737 For an abuser of the world , a practiser
114738 Of arts inhibited and out of warrant .
114739 Lay hold upon him : if he do resist ,
114740 Subdue him at his peril .
114741
114742 Hold your hands ,
114743 Both you of my inclining , and the rest :
114744 Were it my cue to fight , I should have known it
114745 Without a prompter . Where will you that I go
114746 To answer this your charge ?
114747
114748 To prison ; till fit time
114749 Of law and course of direct session
114750 Call thee to answer .
114751
114752 What if I do obey ?
114753 How may the duke be therewith satisfied ,
114754 Whose messengers are here about my side ,
114755 Upon some present business of the state
114756 To bring me to him ?
114757
114758 'Tis true , most worthy signior ;
114759 The duke's in council , and your noble self ,
114760 I am sure , is sent for .
114761
114762 How ! the duke in council !
114763 In this time of the night ! Bring him away .
114764 Mine's not an idle cause : the duke himself ,
114765 Or any of my brothers of the state ,
114766 Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own ;
114767 For if such actions may have passage free ,
114768 Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be .
114769
114770 There is no composition in these news
114771 That gives them credit .
114772
114773 Indeed , they are disproportion'd ;
114774 My letters say a hundred and seven galleys .
114775
114776 And mine , a hundred and forty .
114777
114778 And mine , two hundred :
114779 But though they jump not on a just account ,
114780 As in these cases , where the aim reports ,
114781 'Tis oft with difference ,yet do they all confirm
114782 A Turkish fleet , and bearing up to Cyprus .
114783
114784 Nay , it is possible enough to judgment :
114785 I do not so secure me in the error ,
114786 But the main article I do approve
114787 In fearful sense .
114788
114789 What , ho ! what , ho ! what , ho !
114790
114791 A messenger from the galleys .
114792
114793
114794 Now , what's the business ?
114795
114796 The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes ;
114797 So was I bid report here to the state
114798 By Signior Angelo .
114799
114800 How say you by this change ?
114801
114802 This cannot be ,
114803 By no assay of reason ; 'tis a pageant
114804 To keep us in false gaze . When we consider
114805 The importancy of Cyprus to the Turk ,
114806 And let ourselves again but understand ,
114807 That as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes ,
114808 So may he with more facile question bear it ,
114809 For that it stands not in such war-like brace ,
114810 But altogether lacks the abilities
114811 That Rhodes is dress'd in : if we make thought of this ,
114812 We must not think the Turk is so unskilful
114813 To leave that latest which concerns him first ,
114814 Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain ,
114815 To wake and wage a danger profitless .
114816
114817 Nay , in all confidence , he's not for Rhodes .
114818
114819 Here is more news .
114820
114821
114822 The Ottomites , reverend and gracious ,
114823 Steering with due course toward the isle of Rhodes ,
114824 Have there injointed them with an after fleet .
114825
114826 Ay , so I thought . How many , as you guess ?
114827
114828 Of thirty sail ; and now they do re-stem
114829 Their backward course , bearing with frank appearance
114830 Their purposes toward Cyprus . Signior Montano ,
114831 Your trusty and most valiant servitor ,
114832 With his free duty recommends you thus ,
114833 And prays you to believe him .
114834
114835 'Tis certain then , for Cyprus .
114836 Marcus Luccicos , is not he in town ?
114837
114838 He's now in Florence .
114839
114840 Write from us to him ; post-post-haste dispatch .
114841
114842 Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor .
114843
114844
114845 Valiant Othello , we must straight employ you
114846 Against the general enemy Ottoman .
114847
114848
114849 I did not see you ; welcome , gentle signior ;
114850 We lack'd your counsel and your help to-night .
114851
114852 So did I yours . Good your grace , pardon me ;
114853 Neither my place nor aught I heard of business
114854 Hath rais'd me from my bed , nor doth the general care
114855 Take hold of me , for my particular grief
114856 Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature
114857 That it engluts and swallows other sorrows
114858 And it is still itself .
114859
114860 Why , what's the matter ?
114861
114862 My daughter ! O ! my daughter .
114863
114864 Dead ?
114865
114866 Dead ?
114867
114868 Ay , to me ;
114869 She is abus'd , stol'n from me , and corrupted
114870 By spells and medicines bought of mounte-banks ;
114871 For nature so preposterously to err ,
114872 Being not deficient , blind , or lame of sense ,
114873 Sans witchcraft could not .
114874
114875 Whoe'er he be that in this foul proceeding
114876 Hath thus beguil'd your daughter of herself
114877 And you of her , the bloody book of law
114878 You shall yourself read in the bitter letter
114879 After your own sense ; yea , though our proper son
114880 Stood in your action .
114881
114882 Humbly I thank your Grace .
114883 Here is the man , this Moor ; whom now , it seems ,
114884 Your special mandate for the state affairs ,
114885 Hath hither brought .
114886
114887 We are very sorry for it .
114888
114889 We are very sorry for it .
114890
114891 What , in your own part , can you say to this ?
114892
114893 Nothing , but this is so .
114894
114895 Most potent , grave , and reverend signiors ,
114896 My very noble and approv'd good masters ,
114897 That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter ,
114898 It is most true ; true , I have married her :
114899 The very head and front of my offending
114900 Hath this extent , no more . Rude am I in my speech ,
114901 And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ;
114902 For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith ,
114903 Till now some nine moons wasted , they have us'd
114904 Their dearest action in the tented field ;
114905 And little of this great world can I speak ,
114906 More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ;
114907 And therefore little shall I grace my cause
114908 In speaking for myself . Yet , by your gracious patience ,
114909 I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver
114910 Of my whole course of love ; what drugs , what charms ,
114911 What conjuration , and what mighty magic ,
114912 For such proceeding I am charg'd withal ,
114913 I won his daughter .
114914
114915 A maiden never bold ;
114916 Of spirit so still and quiet , that her motion
114917 Blush'd at herself ; and she , in spite of nature ,
114918 Of years , of country , credit , every thing ,
114919 To fall in love with what she fear'd to look on !
114920 It is a judgment maim'd and most imperfect
114921 That will confess perfection so could err
114922 Against all rules of nature , and must be driven
114923 To find out practices of cunning hell ,
114924 Why this should be . I therefore vouch again
114925 That with some mixtures powerful o'er the blood ,
114926 Or with some dram conjur'd to this effect ,
114927 He wrought upon her .
114928
114929 To vouch this , is no proof ,
114930 Without more certain and more overt test
114931 Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods
114932 Of modern seeming do prefer against him .
114933
114934 But , Othello , speak :
114935 Did you by indirect and forced courses
114936 Subdue and poison this young maid's affections ;
114937 Or came it by request and such fair question
114938 As soul to soul affordeth ?
114939
114940 I do beseech you ,
114941 Send for the lady to the Sagittary ,
114942 And let her speak of me before her father :
114943 If you do find me foul in her report ,
114944 The trust , the office I do hold of you ,
114945 Not only take away , but let your sentence
114946 Even fall upon my life .
114947
114948 Fetch Desdemona hither .
114949
114950 Ancient , conduct them ; you best know the place .
114951
114952 And , till she come , as truly as to heaven
114953 I do confess the vices of my blood ,
114954 So justly to your grave ears I'll present
114955 How I did thrive in this fair lady's love ,
114956 And she in mine .
114957
114958 Say it , Othello .
114959
114960 Her father lov'd me ; oft invited me ;
114961 Still question'd me the story of my life
114962 From year to year , the battles , sieges , fortunes
114963 That I have pass'd .
114964 I ran it through , even from my boyish days
114965 To the very moment that he bade me tell it ;
114966 Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances ,
114967 Of moving accidents by flood and field ,
114968 Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ,
114969 Of being taken by the insolent foe
114970 And sold to slavery , of my redemption thence
114971 And portance in my travel's history ;
114972 Wherein of antres vast and desarts idle ,
114973 Rough quarries , rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven ,
114974 It was my hint to speak , such was the process ;
114975 And of the Cannibals that each other eat ,
114976 The Anthropophagi , and men whose heads
114977 Do grow beneath their shoulders . This to hear
114978 Would Desdemona seriously incline ;
114979 But still the house-affairs would draw her thence ;
114980 Which ever as she could with haste dispatch ,
114981 She'd come again , and with a greedy ear
114982 Devour up my discourse . Which I observing ,
114983 Took once a pliant hour , and found good means
114984 To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart
114985 That I would all my pilgrimage dilate ,
114986 Whereof by parcels she had something heard ,
114987 But not intentively : I did consent ;
114988 And often did beguile her of her tears ,
114989 When I did speak of some distressful stroke
114990 That my youth suffer'd . My story being done ,
114991 She gave me for my pains a world of sighs :
114992 She swore , in faith , 'twas strange , 'twas passing strange ;
114993 'Twas pitiful , 'twas wondrous pitiful :
114994 She wish'd she had not heard it , yet she wish'd
114995 That heaven had made her such a man ; she thank'd me ,
114996 And bade me , if I had a friend that lov'd her ,
114997 I should but teach him how to tell my story ,
114998 And that would woo her . Upon this hint I spake :
114999 She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd ,
115000 And I lov'd her that she did pity them .
115001 This only is the witchcraft I have us'd :
115002 Here comes the lady ; let her witness it .
115003
115004
115005 I think this tale would win my daughter too .
115006 Good Brabantio ,
115007 Take up this mangled matter at the best ;
115008 Men do their broken weapons rather use
115009 Than their bare hands .
115010
115011 I pray you , hear her speak :
115012 If she confess that she was half the wooer ,
115013 Destruction on my head , if my bad blame
115014 Light on the man ! Come hither , gentle mistress :
115015 Do you perceive in all this noble company
115016 Where most you owe obedience ?
115017
115018 My noble father ,
115019 I do perceive here a divided duty :
115020 To you I am bound for life and education ;
115021 My life and education both do learn me
115022 How to respect you ; you are the lord of duty ,
115023 I am hitherto your daughter : but here's my husband ;
115024 And so much duty as my mother show'd
115025 To you , preferring you before her father ,
115026 So much I challenge that I may profess
115027 Due to the Moor my lord .
115028
115029 God be with you ! I have done .
115030 Please it your Grace , on to the state affairs :
115031 I had rather to adopt a child than get it .
115032 Come hither , Moor :
115033 I here do give thee that with all my heart
115034 Which , but thou hast already , with all my heart
115035 I would keep from thee . For your sake , jewel ,
115036 I am glad at soul I have no other child ;
115037 For thy escape would teach me tyranny ,
115038 To hang clogs on them . I have done , my lord .
115039
115040 Let me speak like yourself and lay a sentence ,
115041 Which as a grize or step , may help these lovers
115042 Into your favour .
115043 When remedies are past , the griefs are ended
115044 By seeing the worst , which late on hopes depended .
115045 To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
115046 Is the next way to draw new mischief on .
115047 What cannot be preserv'd when Fortune takes ,
115048 Patience her injury a mockery makes .
115049 The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief ;
115050 He robs himself that spends a bootless grief .
115051
115052 So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile ;
115053 We lose it not so long as we can smile .
115054 He bears the sentence well that nothing bears
115055 But the free comfort which from thence he hears ;
115056 But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow
115057 That , to pay grief , must of poor patience borrow .
115058 These sentences , to sugar , or to gall ,
115059 Being strong on both sides , are equivocal :
115060 But words are words ; I never yet did hear
115061 That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear .
115062 I humbly beseech you , proceed to the affairs of state .
115063
115064 The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for Cyprus . Othello , the fortitude of the place is best known to you ; and though we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency , yet opinion , a sovereign mistress of effects , throws a more safer voice on you : you must therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this more stubborn and boisterous expedition .
115065
115066 The tyrant custom , most grave senators ,
115067 Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
115068 My thrice-driven bed of down : I do agnize
115069 A natural and prompt alacrity
115070 I find in hardness , and do undertake
115071 These present wars against the Ottomites .
115072 Most humbly therefore bending to your state ,
115073 I crave fit disposition for my wife ,
115074 Due reference of place and exhibition ,
115075 With such accommodation and besort
115076 As levels with her breeding .
115077
115078 If you please ,
115079 Be 't at her father's .
115080
115081 I'll not have it so .
115082
115083 Nor I .
115084
115085 Nor I ; I would not there reside ,
115086 To put my father in impatient thoughts
115087 By being in his eye . Most gracious duke ,
115088 To my unfolding lend your gracious ear ;
115089 And let me find a charter in your voice
115090 To assist my simpleness .
115091
115092 What would you , Desdemona ?
115093
115094 That I did love the Moor to live with him ,
115095 My downright violence and storm of fortunes
115096 May trumpet to the world ; my heart's subdu'd
115097 Even to the very quality of my lord ;
115098 I saw Othello's visage in his mind ,
115099 And to his honours and his valiant parts
115100 Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate .
115101 So that , dear lords , if I be left behind ,
115102 A moth of peace , and he go to the war ,
115103 The rites for which I love him are bereft me ,
115104 And I a heavy interim shall support
115105 By his dear absence . Let me go with him .
115106
115107 Let her have your voices .
115108 Vouch with me , heaven , I therefore beg it not
115109 To please the palate of my appetite ,
115110 Nor to comply with heat ,the young affects
115111 In me defunct ,and proper satisfaction ,
115112 But to be free and bounteous to her mind ;
115113 And heaven defend your good souls that you think
115114 I will your serious and great business scant
115115 For she is with me . No , when light-wing'd toys
115116 Of feather'd Cupid seel with wanton dulness
115117 My speculative and offic'd instruments ,
115118 That my disports corrupt and taint my business ,
115119 Let housewives make a skillet of my helm ,
115120 And all indign and base adversities
115121 Make head against my estimation !
115122
115123 Be it as you shall privately determine ,
115124 Either for her stay or going . The affair cries haste ,
115125 And speed must answer it .
115126
115127 You must away to-night .
115128
115129 With all my heart .
115130
115131 At nine i' the morning here we'll meet again .
115132 Othello , leave some officer behind ,
115133 And he shall our commission bring to you ;
115134 With such things else of quality and respect
115135 As doth import you .
115136
115137 So please your Grace , my ancient ;
115138 A man he is of honesty and trust :
115139 To his conveyance I assign my wife ,
115140 With what else needful your good grace shall think
115141 To be sent after me .
115142
115143 Let it be so .
115144 Good night to every one .
115145
115146 And , noble signior ,
115147 If virtue no delighted beauty lack ,
115148 Your son-in-law is far more fair than black .
115149
115150 Adieu , brave Moor ! use Desdemona well .
115151
115152 Look to her , Moor , if thou hast eyes to see :
115153 She has deceiv'd her father , and may thee .
115154
115155
115156 My life upon her faith ! Honest Iago ,
115157 My Desdemona must I leave to thee :
115158 I prithee , let thy wife attend on her ;
115159 And bring them after in the best advantage .
115160 Come , Desdemona ; I have but an hour
115161 Of love , of worldly matters and direction ,
115162 To spend with thee : we must obey the time .
115163
115164
115165 Iago !
115166
115167 What sayst thou , noble heart ?
115168
115169 What will I do , think'st thou ?
115170
115171 Why , go to bed , and sleep .
115172
115173 I will incontinently drown myself .
115174
115175 Well , if thou dost , I shall never love thee after . Why , thou silly gentleman !
115176
115177 It is silliness to live when to live is torment ; and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician .
115178
115179 O ! villanous ; I have looked upon the world for four times seven years , and since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit and an injury , I never found man that knew how to love himself . Ere I would say , I would drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen , I would change my humanity with a baboon .
115180
115181 What should I do ? I confess it is my shame to be so fond ; but it is not in my virtue to amend it .
115182
115183 Virtue ! a fig ! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus , or thus . Our bodies are our gardens , to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce , set hyssop and woed up thyme , supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many , either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry , why , the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills . If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality , the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions ; but we have reason to cool our raging motions , our carnal stings , our unbitted lusts , whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion .
115184
115185 It cannot be .
115186
115187 It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will . Come , be a man . Drown thyself ! drown cats and blind puppies . I have professed me thy friend , and I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdurable toughness ; I could never better stead thee than now . Put money in thy purse ; follow these wars ; defeat thy favour with a usurped beard ; I say , put money in thy purse . It cannot be that Desdemona should long continue her love to the Moor ,put money in thy purse ,nor he his to her . It was a violent commencement in her , and thou shalt see an answerable sequestration ; put but money in thy purse . These Moors are changeable in their wills ;fill thy purse with money :the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts , shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida . She must change for youth : when she is sated with his body , she will find the error of her choice . She must have change , she must : therefore put money in thy purse . If thou wilt needs damn thyself , do it a more delicate way than drowning . Make all the money thou canst . If sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian be not too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell , thou shalt enjoy her ; therefore make money . A pox of drowning thyself ! it is clean out of the way : seek thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than to be drowned and go without her .
115188
115189 Wilt thou be fast to my hopes , if I depend on the issue ?
115190
115191 Thou art sure of me : go , make money . I have told thee often , and I re-tell thee again and again , I hate the Moor : my cause is hearted : thine hath no less reason . Let us be conjunctive in our revenge against him ; if thou canst cuckold him , thou dost thyself a pleasure , me a sport . There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered . Traverse ; go : provide thy money . We will have more of this to-morrow . Adieu .
115192
115193 Where shall we meet i' the morning ?
115194
115195 At my lodging .
115196
115197 I'll be with thee betimes .
115198
115199 Go to ; farewell . Do you hear , Roderigo ?
115200
115201 What say you ?
115202
115203 No more of drowning , do you hear ?
115204
115205 I am changed . I'll sell all my land .
115206
115207 Go to ; farewell ! put money enough in your purse .
115208
115209 Thus do I ever make my fool my purse ;
115210 For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane ,
115211 If I would time expend with such a snipe
115212 But for my sport and profit . I hate the Moor ,
115213 And it is thought abroad that 'twixt my sheets
115214 He has done my office : I know not if 't be true ,
115215 But I , for mere suspicion in that kind ,
115216 Will do as if for surety . He holds me well ;
115217 The better shall my purpose work on him .
115218 Cassio's a proper man ; let me see now :
115219 To get his place ; and to plume up my will
115220 In double knavery ; how , how ? Let's see :
115221 After some time to abuse Othello's ear
115222 That he is too familiar with his wife :
115223 He hath a person and a smooth dispose
115224 To be suspected ; framed to make women false .
115225 The Moor is of a free and open nature ,
115226 That thinks men honest that but seem to be so ,
115227 And will as tenderly be led by the nose
115228 As asses are .
115229 I have 't ; it is engender'd : hell and night
115230 Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light .
115231
115232 What from the cape can you discern at sea ?
115233
115234 Nothing at all : it is a high-wrought flood ;
115235 I cannot 'twixt the heaven and the main
115236 Descry a sail .
115237
115238 Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land ;
115239 A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements ;
115240 If it hath ruffian'd so upon the sea ,
115241 What ribs of oak , when mountains melt on them ,
115242 Can hold the mortise ? what shall we hear of this ?
115243
115244 A segregation of the Turkish fleet ;
115245 For do but stand upon the foaming shore ,
115246 The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds ;
115247 The wind-shak'd surge , with high and monstrous mane ,
115248 Seems to cast water on the burning bear
115249 And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole :
115250 I never did like molestation view
115251 On the enchafed flood .
115252
115253 If that the Turkish fleet
115254 Be not enshelter'd and embay'd , they are drown'd ;
115255 It is impossible they bear it out .
115256
115257
115258 News , lads ! our wars are done .
115259 The desperate tempest hath so bang'd the Turks
115260 That their designment halts ; a noble ship of Venice
115261 Hath seen a grievous wrack and sufferance
115262 On most part of their fleet .
115263
115264 How ! is this true ?
115265
115266 The ship is here put in ,
115267 A Veronesa ; Michael Cassio ,
115268 Lieutenant to the war-like Moor Othello ,
115269 Is come on shore : the Moor himself's at sea ,
115270 And is in full commission here for Cyprus .
115271
115272 I am glad on 't ; 'tis a worthy governor .
115273
115274 But this same Cassio , though he speak of comfort
115275 Touching the Turkish loss , yet he looks sadly
115276 And prays the Moor be safe ; for they were parted
115277 With foul and violent tempest .
115278
115279 Pray heaven he be ;
115280 For I have serv'd him , and the man commands
115281 Like a full soldier . Let's to the sea-side , ho !
115282 As well to see the vessel that's come in
115283 As to throw out our eyes for brave Othello ,
115284 Even till we make the main and the aerial blue
115285 An indistinct regard .
115286
115287 Come , let's do so ;
115288 For every minute is expectancy
115289 Of more arrivance .
115290
115291
115292 Thanks , you the valiant of this war-like isle ,
115293 That so approve the Moor . O ! let the heavens
115294 Give him defence against the elements ,
115295 For I have lost him on a dangerous sea .
115296
115297 Is he well shipp'd ?
115298
115299 His bark is stoutly timber'd , and his pilot
115300 Of very expert and approv'd allowance ;
115301 Therefore my hopes , not surfeited to death ,
115302 Stand in bold cure .
115303
115304 What noise ?
115305
115306 The town is empty ; on the brow o' the sea
115307 Stand ranks of people , and they cry , 'A sail !'
115308
115309 My hopes do shape him for the governor .
115310
115311
115312 They do discharge their shot of courtesy ;
115313 Our friends at least .
115314
115315 I pray you , sir , go forth ,
115316 And give us truth who 'tis that is arriv'd .
115317
115318 I shall .
115319
115320
115321 But , good lieutenant , is your general wiv'd ?
115322
115323 Most fortunately : he hath achiev'd a maid
115324 That paragons description and wild fame ;
115325 One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens ,
115326 And in th' essential vesture of creation
115327 Does tire the ingener .
115328
115329 How now ! who has put in ?
115330
115331 'Tis one Iago , ancient to the general .
115332
115333 He has had most favourable and happy speed :
115334 Tempests themselves , high seas , and howling winds ,
115335 The gutter'd rocks , and congregated sands ,
115336 Traitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel ,
115337 As having sense of beauty , do omit
115338 Their mortal natures , letting go safely by
115339 The divine Desdemona .
115340
115341 What is she ?
115342
115343 She that I spake of , our great captain's captain ,
115344 Left in the conduct of the bold Iago ,
115345 Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts
115346 A se'nnight's speed . Great Jove , Othello guard ,
115347 And swell his sail with thine own powerful breath ,
115348 That he may bless this bay with his tall ship ,
115349 Make love's quick pants in Desdemona's arms ,
115350 Give renew'd fire to our extinc'ed spirits ,
115351 And bring all Cyprus comfort !
115352
115353
115354 O ! behold ,
115355 The riches of the ship is come on shore .
115356 Ye men of Cyprus , let her have your knees .
115357 Hail to thee , lady ! and the grace of heaven ,
115358 Before , behind thee , and on every hand ,
115359
115360 Enwheel thee round !
115361
115362 I thank you , valiant Cassio .
115363 What tidings can you tell me of my lord ?
115364
115365 He is not yet arriv'd ; nor know I aught
115366 But that he's well , and will be shortly here .
115367
115368 O ! but I fear How lost you company ?
115369
115370 The great contention of the sea and skies
115371 Parted our fellowship . But hark ! a sail .
115372
115373
115374 They give their greeting to the citadel :
115375 This likewise is a friend .
115376
115377 See for the news !
115378
115379 Good ancient , you are welcome :
115380
115381 welcome , mistress .
115382 Let it not gall your patience , good Iago ,
115383 That I extend my manners ; 'tis my breeding
115384 That gives me this bold show of courtesy .
115385
115386
115387 Sir , would she give you so much of her lips
115388 As of her tongue she oft bestows on me ,
115389 You'd have enough .
115390
115391 Alas ! she has no speech .
115392
115393 In faith , too much ;
115394 I find it still when I have list to sleep :
115395 Marry , before your ladyship , I grant ,
115396 She puts her tongue a little in her heart ,
115397 And chides with thinking .
115398
115399 You have little cause to say so .
115400
115401 Come on , come on ; you are pictures out of doors ,
115402 Bells in your parlours , wild cats in your kitchens ,
115403 Saints in your injuries , devils being offended ,
115404 Players in your housewifery , and housewives in your beds .
115405
115406 O ! fie upon thee , slanderer .
115407
115408 Nay , it is true , or else I am a Turk :
115409 You rise to play and go to bed to work .
115410
115411 You shall not write my praise .
115412
115413 No , let me not .
115414
115415 What wouldst thou write of me , if thou shouldst praise me ?
115416
115417 O gentle lady , do not put me to 't ,
115418 For I am nothing if not critical .
115419
115420 Come on ; assay . There's one gone to the harbour ?
115421
115422 Ay , madam .
115423
115424 I am not merry , but I do beguile
115425 The thing I am by seeming otherwise .
115426 Come , how wouldst thou praise me ?
115427
115428 I am about it ; but indeed my invention
115429 Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frize ;
115430 It plucks out brains and all : but my muse labours ,
115431 And thus she is deliver'd .
115432 If she be fair and wise , fairness and wit ,
115433 The one's for use , the other useth it .
115434
115435 Well prais'd ! How if she be black and witty ?
115436
115437 If she be black , and thereto have a wit ,
115438 She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit .
115439
115440 Worse and worse .
115441
115442 How if fair and foolish ?
115443
115444 She never yet was foolish that was fair ,
115445 For even her folly help'd her to an heir .
115446
115447 These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' the alehouse . What miserable praise hast thou for her that's foul and foolish ?
115448
115449 There's none so foul and foolish thereunto
115450 But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do .
115451
115452 O heavy ignorance ! thou praisest the worst best . But what praise couldst thou bestow on a deserving woman indeed , one that , in the authority of her merit , did justly put on the vouch of very malice itself ?
115453
115454 She that was ever fair and never proud ,
115455 Had tongue at will and yet was never loud ,
115456 Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay ,
115457 Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may ,'
115458 She that being anger'd , her revenge being nigh ,
115459 Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly ,
115460 She that in wisdom never was so frail
115461 To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail ,
115462 She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind ,
115463 See suitors following and not look behind ,
115464 She was a wight , if ever such wight were ,
115465
115466 To do what ?
115467
115468 To suckle fools and chronicle small beer .
115469
115470 O most lame and impotent conclusion ! Do not learn of him , Emilia , though he be thy husband . How say you , Cassio ? is he not a most profane and liberal counsellor ?
115471
115472 He speaks home , madam ; you may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar .
115473
115474 He takes her by the palm ; ay , well said , whisper ; with as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio . Ay , smile upon her , do ; I will gyve thee in thine own courtship . You say true , 'tis so , indeed . If such tricks as these strip you out of your lieutenantry , it had been better you had not kissed your three fingers so oft , which now again you are most apt to play the sir in . Very good ; well kissed ! an excellent courtesy ! 'tis so , indeed . Yet again your fingers to your lips ? would they were clyster-pipes for your sake ! [A trumpet heard .] The Moor ! I know his trumpet .
115475
115476 'Tis truly so .
115477
115478 Let's meet him and receive him .
115479
115480 Lo ! where he comes .
115481
115482
115483 O my fair warrior !
115484
115485 My dear Othello !
115486
115487 It gives me wonder great as my content
115488 To see you here before me . O my soul's joy !
115489 If after every tempest come such calms ,
115490 May the winds blow till they have waken'd death !
115491 And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas
115492 Olympus-high , and duck again as low
115493 As hell's from heaven ! If it were now to die ,
115494 'Twere now to be most happy , for I fear
115495 My soul hath her content so absolute
115496 That not another comfort like to this
115497 Succeeds in unknown fate .
115498
115499 The heavens forbid
115500 But that our loves and comforts should increase
115501 Even as our days do grow !
115502
115503 Amen to that , sweet powers !
115504 I cannot speak enough of this content ;
115505 It stops me here ; it is too much of joy :
115506 And this , and this , the greatest discords be ,
115507
115508 That e'er our hearts shall make !
115509
115510 O ! you are well tun'd now ,
115511 But I'll set down the pegs that make this music ,
115512 As honest as I am .
115513
115514 Come , let us to the castle .
115515 News , friends ; our wars are done , the Turks are drown'd .
115516 How does my old acquaintance of this isle ?
115517 Honey , you shall be well desir'd in Cyprus ;
115518 I have found great love amongst them . O my sweet ,
115519 I prattle out of fashion , and I dote
115520 In mine own comforts . I prithee , good Iago ,
115521 Go to the bay and disembark my coffers .
115522 Bring thou the master to the citadel ;
115523 He is a good one , and his worthiness
115524 Does challenge much respect . Come , Desdemona ,
115525 Once more well met at Cyprus .
115526
115527
115528 Do thou meet me presently at the harbour . Come hither . If thou be'st valiant , as they say base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them , list me . The lieutenant to-night watches on the court of guard : first , I must tell thee this , Desdemona is directly in love with him .
115529
115530 With him ! why , 'tis not possible .
115531
115532 Lay thy finger thus , and let thy soul be instructed . Mark me with what violence she first loved the Moor but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies ; and will she love him still for prating ? let not thy discreet heart think it . Her eye must be fed ; and what delight shall she have to look on the devil ? When the blood is made dull with the act of sport , there should be , again to inflame it , and to give satiety a fresh appetite , loveliness in favour , sympathy in years , manners , and beauties ; all which the Moor is defective in . Now , for want of these required conveniences , her delicate tenderness will find itself abused , begin to heave the gorge , disrelish and abhor the Moor ; very nature will instruct her in it , and compel her to some second choice . Now , sir , this granted , as it is a most pregnant and unforced position , who stands so eminently in the degree of this fortune as Cassio does ? a knave very voluble , no further conscionable than in putting on the mere form of civil and humane seeming , for the better compassing of his salt and most hidden loose affection ? why , none ; why , none : a slipper and subtle knave , a finder-out of occasions , that has an eye can stamp and counterfeit advantages , though true advantage never present itself ; a devilish knave ! Besides , the knave is handsome , young , and hath all those requisites in him that folly and green minds look after ; a pestilent complete knave ! and the woman hath found him already .
115533
115534 I cannot believe that in her ; she is full of most blessed condition .
115535
115536 Blessed fig's end ! the wine she drinks is made of grapes ; if she had been blessed she would never have loved the Moor ; blessed pudding ! Didst thou not see her paddle with the palm of his hand ? didst not mark that ?
115537
115538 Yes , that I did ; but that was but courtesy .
115539
115540 Lechery , by this hand ! an index and obscure prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts . They met so near with their lips , that their breaths embraced together . Villanous thoughts , Roderigo ! when these mutualities so marshal the way , hard at hand comes the master and main exercise , the incorporate conclusion . Pish ! But , sir , be you ruled by me : I have brought you from Venice . Watch you to-night ; for the command , I'll lay 't upon you : Cassio knows you not . I'll not be far from you : do you find some occasion to anger Cassio , either by speaking too loud , or tainting his discipline ; or from what other course you please , which the time shall more favourably minister .
115541
115542 Well .
115543
115544 Sir , he is rash and very sudden in choler , and haply may strike at you : provoke him , that he may ; for even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to mutiny , whose qualification shall come into no true taste again but by the displanting of Cassio . So shall you have a shorter journey to your desires by the means I shall then have to prefer them ; and the impediment most profitably removed , without the which there were no expectation of our prosperity .
115545
115546 I will do this , if I can bring it to any opportunity .
115547
115548 I warrant thee . Meet me by and by at the citadel : I must fetch his necessaries ashore .
115549 Farewell .
115550
115551 Adieu .
115552
115553
115554 That Cassio loves her , I do well believe it ;
115555 That she loves him , 'tis apt , and of great credit :
115556 The Moor , howbeit that I endure him not ,
115557 Is of a constant , loving , noble nature ;
115558 And I dare think he'll prove to Desdemona
115559 A most dear husband . Now , I do love her too ;
115560 Not out of absolute lust ,though peradventure
115561 I stand accountant for as great a sin ,
115562 But partly led to diet my revenge ,
115563 For that I do suspect the lusty Moor
115564 Hath leap'd into my seat ; the thought whereof
115565 Doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards ;
115566 And nothing can or shall content my soul
115567 Till I am even'd with him , wife for wife ;
115568 Or failing so , yet that I put the Moor
115569 At least into a jealousy so strong
115570 That judgment cannot cure . Which thing to do ,
115571 If this poor trash of Venice , whom I trash
115572 For his quick hunting , stand the putting on ,
115573 I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip ;
115574 Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb ,
115575 For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too ,
115576 Make the Moor thank me , love me , and reward me
115577 For making him egregiously an ass
115578 And practising upon his peace and quiet
115579 Even to madness . 'Tis here , but yet confus'd :
115580 Knavery's plain face is never seen till us'd .
115581
115582
115583 It is Othello's pleasure , our noble and valiant general , that , upon certain tidings now arrived , importing the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet , every man put himself into triumph ; some to dance , some to make bonfires , each man to what sport and revels his addiction leads him ; for , besides these beneficial news , it is the celebration of his nuptial . So much was his pleasure should be proclaimed . All offices are open , and there is full liberty of feasting from this present hour of five till the bell have told eleven . Heaven bless the isle of Cyprus and our noble general Othello !
115584
115585
115586 Good Michael , look you to the guard to-night :
115587 Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop ,
115588 Not to outsport discretion .
115589
115590 Iago hath direction what to do ;
115591 But , notwithstanding , with my personal eye
115592 Will I look to 't .
115593
115594 Iago is most honest .
115595 Michael , good night ; to-morrow with your earliest
115596 Let me have speech with you .
115597
115598 Come , my dear love ,
115599 The purchase made , the fruits are to ensue ;
115600 That profit's yet to come 'twixt me and you .
115601 Good night .
115602
115603 Welcome , Iago ; we must to the watch .
115604
115605 Not this hour , lieutenant ; 'tis not yet ten o' the clock . Our general cast us thus early for the love of his Desdemona , who let us not therefore blame ; he hath not yet made wanton the night with her , and she is sport for Jove .
115606
115607 She's a most exquisite lady .
115608
115609 And , I'll warrant her , full of game .
115610
115611 Indeed , she is a most fresh and delicate creature .
115612
115613 What an eye she has ! methinks it sounds a parley of provocation .
115614
115615 An inviting eye ; and yet methinks right modest .
115616
115617 And when she speaks , is it not an alarum to love ?
115618
115619 She is indeed perfection .
115620
115621 Well , happiness to their sheets ! Come , lieutenant , I have a stoup of wine , and here without are a brace of Cyprus gallants that would fain have a measure to the health of black Othello .
115622
115623 Not to-night , good Iago : I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking : I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment .
115624
115625 O ! they are our friends ; but one cup : I'll drink for you .
115626
115627 I have drunk but one cup to-night , and that was craftily qualified too , and , behold , what innovation it makes here : I am unfortunate in the infirmity , and dare not task my weakness with any more .
115628
115629 What , man ! 'tis a night of revels ; the gallants desire it .
115630
115631 Where are they ?
115632
115633 Here at the door ; I pray you , call them in .
115634
115635 I'll do 't ; but it dislikes me .
115636
115637
115638 If I can fasten but one cup upon him ,
115639 With that which he hath drunk to-night already ,
115640 He'll be as full of quarrel and offence
115641 As my young mistress' dog . Now , my sick fool Roderigo ,
115642 Whom love has turn'd almost the wrong side out ,
115643 To Desdemona hath to-night carous'd
115644 Potations pottle deep ; and he's to watch .
115645 Three lads of Cyprus , noble swelling spirits ,
115646 That hold their honours in a wary distance ,
115647 The very elements of this war-like isle ,
115648 Have I to-night fluster'd with flowing cups ,
115649 And they watch too . Now , 'mongst this flock of drunkards ,
115650 Am I to put our Cassio in some action
115651 That may offend the isle . But here they come .
115652 If consequence do but approve my dream ,
115653 My boat sails freely , both with wind and stream .
115654
115655
115656 'Fore God , they have given me a rouse already .
115657
115658 Good faith , a little one ; not past a pint , as I am a soldier .
115659
115660 Some wine , ho !
115661
115662 And let me the canakin clink , clink ;
115663 And let me the canakin clink :
115664 A soldier's a man ;
115665 A life's but a span ;
115666 Why then let a soldier drink .
115667
115668 Some wine , boys !
115669
115670 'Fore God , an excellent song .
115671
115672 I learned it in England , where indeed they are most potent in potting ; your Dane , your German , and your swag-bellied Hollander , drink , ho !are nothing to your English .
115673
115674 Is your Englishman so expert in his drinking ?
115675
115676 Why , he drinks you with facility your Dane dead drunk ; he sweats not to overthrow your Almain ; he gives your Hollander a vomit ere the next pottle can be filled .
115677
115678 To the health of our general !
115679
115680 I am for it , lieutenant ; and I'll do you justice .
115681
115682 O sweet England !
115683
115684 King Stephen was a worthy peer ,
115685 His breeches cost him but a crown ;
115686 He held them sixpence all too dear ,
115687 With that he call'd the tailor lown .
115688 He was a wight of high renown ,
115689 And thou art but of low degree :
115690 'Tis pride that pulls the country down ,
115691 Then take thine auld cloak about thee .
115692
115693 Some wine , ho !
115694
115695 Why , this is a more exquisite song than the other .
115696
115697 Will you hear 't again ?
115698
115699 No ; for I hold him to be unworthy of his place that does those things . Well , God's above all ; and there be souls must be saved , and there be souls must not be saved .
115700
115701 It's true , good lieutenant .
115702
115703 For mine own part ,no offence to the general , nor any man of quality ,I hope to be saved .
115704
115705 And so do I too , lieutenant .
115706
115707 Ay ; but , by your leave , not before me ; the lieutenant is to be saved before the ancient . Let's have no more of this ; let's to our affairs . God forgive us our sins ! Gentlemen , let's look to our business . Do not think , gentlemen , I am drunk : this is my ancient ; this is my right hand , and this is my left hand . I am not drunk now ; I can stand well enough , and speak well enough .
115708
115709 Excellent well .
115710
115711 Why , very well , then ; you must not think then that I am drunk .
115712
115713
115714 To the platform , masters ; come , let's set the watch .
115715
115716 You see this fellow that is gone before ;
115717 He is a soldier fit to stand by C sar
115718 And give direction ; and do but see his vice ;
115719 'Tis to his virtue a just equinox ,
115720 The one as long as the other ; 'tis pity of him .
115721 I fear the trust Othello puts him in ,
115722 On some odd time of his infirmity ,
115723 Will shake this island .
115724
115725 But is he often thus ?
115726
115727 'Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep :
115728 He'll watch the horologe a double set ,
115729 If drink rock not his cradle .
115730
115731 It were well
115732 The general were put in mind of it .
115733 Perhaps he sees it not ; or his good nature
115734 Prizes the virtue that appears in Cassio ,
115735 And looks not on his evils . Is not this true ?
115736
115737
115738 How now , Roderigo !
115739 I pray you , after the lieutenant ; go .
115740
115741
115742 And 'tis great pity that the noble Moor
115743 Should hazard such a place as his own second
115744 With one of an ingraft infirmity ;
115745 It were an honest action to say
115746 So to the Moor .
115747
115748 Not I , for this fair island :
115749 I do love Cassio well , and would do much
115750 To cure him of this evil . But hark ! what noise ?
115751
115752 You rogue ! you rascal !
115753
115754 What's the matter , lieutenant ?
115755
115756 A knave teach me my duty !
115757 I'll beat the knave into a twiggen bottle .
115758
115759 Beat me !
115760
115761 Dost thou prate , rogue ?
115762
115763
115764 Nay , good lieutenant ;
115765 I pray you , sir , hold your hand .
115766
115767 Let me go , sir ,
115768 Or I'll knock you o'er the mazzard .
115769
115770 Come , come ; you're drunk .
115771
115772 Drunk !
115773
115774
115775 Away , I say ! go out , and cry a mutiny .
115776
115777 Nay , good lieutenant ! God's will , gentlemen !
115778 Help , ho ! Lieutenant ! sir ! Montano ! sir !
115779 Help , masters ! Here's a goodly watch indeed !
115780
115781 Who's that that rings the bell ? Diablo , ho !
115782 The town will rise : God's will ! lieutenant , hold !
115783 You will be sham'd for ever .
115784
115785
115786 What is the matter here ?
115787
115788 'Zounds ! I bleed still ; I am hurt to the death .
115789
115790 Hold , for your lives !
115791
115792 Hold , ho , lieutenant ! Sir ! Montano ! gentlemen !
115793 Have you forgot all sense of place and duty ?
115794 Hold ! the general speaks to you ; hold for shame !
115795
115796 Why , how now , ho ! from whence ariseth this ?
115797 Are we turn'd Turks , and to ourselves do that
115798 Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites ?
115799 For Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl ;
115800 He that stirs next to carve for his own rage
115801 Holds his soul light ; he dies upon his motion .
115802 Silence that dreadful bell ! it frights the isle
115803 From her propriety . What is the matter , masters ?
115804 Honest Iago , that look'st dead with grieving ,
115805 Speak , who began this ? on thy love , I charge thee .
115806
115807 I do not know ; friends all but now , even now ,
115808 In quarter and in terms like bride and groom
115809 Devesting them for bed ; and then , but now ,
115810 As if some planet had unwitted men ,
115811 Swords out , and tilting one at other's breast ,
115812 In opposition bloody . I cannot speak
115813 Any beginning to this peevish odds ,
115814 And would in action glorious I had lost
115815 Those legs that brought me to a part of it !
115816
115817 How comes it , Michael , you are thus forgot ?
115818
115819 I pray you , pardon me ; I cannot speak .
115820
115821 Worthy Montano , you were wont be civil ;
115822 The gravity and stillness of your youth
115823 The world hath noted , and your name is great
115824 In mouths of wisest censure : what's the matter ,
115825 That you unlace your reputation thus
115826 And spend your rich opinion for the name
115827 Of a night-brawler ? give me answer to it .
115828
115829 Worthy Othello , I am hurt to danger ;
115830 Your officer , Iago , can inform you ,
115831 While I spare speech , which something now offends me ,
115832 Of all that I do know ; nor know I aught
115833 By me that's said or done amiss this night ,
115834 Unless self-charity be sometimes a vice ,
115835 And to defend ourselves it be a sin
115836 When violence assails us .
115837
115838 Now , by heaven ,
115839 My blood begins my safer guides to rule ,
115840 And passion , having my best judgment collied ,
115841 Assays to lead the way . If I once stir ,
115842 Or do but lift this arm , the best of you
115843 Shall sink in my rebuke . Give me to know
115844 How this foul rout began , who set it on ;
115845 And he that is approv'd in this offence ,
115846 Though he had twinn'd with me both at a birth
115847 Shall lose me . What ! in a town of war ,
115848 Yet wild , the people's hearts brimful of fear ,
115849 To manage private and domestic quarrel ,
115850 In night , and on the court and guard of safety !
115851 'Tis monstrous . Iago , who began 't ?
115852
115853 If partially affin'd , or leagu'd in office ,
115854 Thou dost deliver more or less than truth ,
115855 Thou art no soldier .
115856
115857 Touch me not so near ;
115858 I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth
115859 Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio ;
115860 Yet , I persuade myself , to speak the truth
115861 Shall nothing wrong him . Thus it is , general .
115862 Montano and myself being in speech ,
115863 There comes a fellow crying out for he'p ,
115864 And Cassio following with determin'd sword
115865 To execute upon him . Sir , this gentleman
115866 Steps in to Cassio , and entreats his pause ;
115867 Myself the crying fellow did pursue ,
115868 Lest by his clamour , as it so fell out ,
115869 The town might fall in fright ; he , swift of foot ,
115870 Outran my purpose , and I return'd the rather
115871 For that I heard the clink and fall of swords ,
115872 And Cassio high in oath , which till to-night
115873 I ne'er might say before . When I came back ,
115874 For this was brief ,I found them close together ,
115875 At blow and thrust , even as again they were
115876 When you yourself did part them .
115877 More of this matter can I not report :
115878 But men are men ; the best sometimes forget :
115879 Though Cassio did some little wrong to him ,
115880 As men in rage strike those that wish them best ,
115881 Yet , surely Cassio , I believe , receiv'd
115882 From him that fled some strange indignity ,
115883 Which patience could not pass .
115884
115885 I know , Iago ,
115886 Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter ,
115887 Making it light to Cassio . Cassio , I love thee ;
115888 But never more be officer of mine .
115889
115890
115891 Look ! if my gentle love be not rais'd up ;
115892
115893 I'll make thee an example .
115894
115895 What's the matter ?
115896
115897 All's well now , sweeting ; come away to bed .
115898 Sir , for your hurts , myself will be your surgeon .
115899 Lead him off .
115900
115901 Iago , look with care about the town ,
115902 And silence those whom this vile brawl distracted .
115903 Come , Desdemona ; 'tis the soldiers' life ,
115904 To have their balmy slumbers wak'd with strife .
115905
115906
115907 What ! are you hurt , lieutenant ?
115908
115909 Ay ; past all surgery .
115910
115911 Marry , heaven forbid !
115912
115913 Reputation , reputation , reputation ! O ! I have lost my reputation . I have lost the immortal part of myself , and what remains is bestial . My reputation , Iago , my reputation !
115914
115915 As I am an honest man , I thought you had received some bodily wound ; there is more offence in that than in reputation . Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit , and lost without deserving : you have lost no reputation at all , unless you repute yourself such a loser . What ! man ; there are ways to recover the general again ; you are but now cast in his mood , a punishment more in policy than in malice ; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion . Sue to him again , and he is yours .
115916
115917 I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a commander with so slight , so drunken , and so indiscreet an officer . Drunk ! and speak parrot ! and squabble , swagger , swear , and discourse fustian with one's own shadow ! O thou invisible spirit of wine ! if thou hast no name to be known by , let us call thee devil !
115918
115919 What was he that you followed with your sword ? What had he done to you ?
115920
115921 I know not .
115922
115923 Is 't possible ?
115924
115925 I remember a mass of things , but nothing distinctly ; a quarrel , but nothing wherefore . O God ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ; that we should , with joy , pleasance , revel , and applause , transform ourselves into beasts .
115926
115927 Why , but you are now well enough ; how came you thus recovered ?
115928
115929 It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place to the devil wrath ; one unperfectness shows me another , to make me frankly despise myself .
115930
115931 Come , you are too severe a moraler . As the time , the place , and the condition of this country stands , I could heartily wish this had not befallen , but since it is as it is , mend it for your own good .
115932
115933 I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra , such an answer would stop them all . To be now a sensible man , by and by a fool , and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil .
115934
115935 Come , come ; good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used ; exclaim no more against it . And , good lieutenant , I think you think I love you .
115936
115937 I have well approved it , sir . I drunk !
115938
115939 You or any man living may be drunk at some time , man . I'll tell you what you shall do . Our general's wife is now the general : I may say so in this respect , for that he hath devoted and given up himself to the contemplation , mark , and denotement of her parts and graces : confess yourself freely to her ; importune her ; she'll help to put you in your place again . She is of so free , so kind , so apt , so blessed a disposition , that she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested . This broken joint between you and her husband entreat her to splinter ; and my fortunes against any lay worth naming , this crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before .
115940
115941 You advise me well .
115942
115943 I protest , in the sincerity of love and honest kindness .
115944
115945 I think it freely ; and betimes in the morning I will beseech the virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me . I am desperate of my fortunes if they check me here .
115946
115947 You are in the right . Good night , lieutenant ; I must to the watch .
115948
115949 Good night , honest Iago !
115950
115951
115952 And what's he then that says I play the villain ?
115953 When this advice is free I give and honest ,
115954 Probal to thinking and indeed the course
115955 To win the Moor again ? For 'tis most easy
115956 The inclining Desdemona to subdue
115957 In any honest suit ; she's fram'd as fruitful
115958 As the free elements . And then for her
115959 To win the Moor , were 't to renounce his baptism ,
115960 All seals and symbols of redeemed sin ,
115961 His soul is so enfetter'd to her love ,
115962 That she may make , unmake , do what she list ,
115963 Even as her appetite shall play the god
115964 With his weak function . How am I then a villain
115965 To counsel Cassio to this parallel course ,
115966 Directly to his good ? Divinity of hell !
115967 When devils will the blackest sins put on ,
115968 They do suggest at first with heavenly shows ,
115969 As I do now ; for while this honest fool
115970 Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes ,
115971 And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor ,
115972 I'll pour this pestilence into his ear
115973 That she repeals him for her body's lust ;
115974 And , by how much she strives to do him good ,
115975 She shall undo her credit with the Moor .
115976 So will I turn her virtue into pitch ,
115977 And out of her own goodness make the net
115978 That shall enmesh them all .
115979
115980 How now , Roderigo !
115981
115982 I do follow here in the chase , not like a hound that hunts , but one that fills up the cry . My money is almost spent ; I have been to-night exceedingly well cudgelled ; and I think the issue will be , I shall have so much experience for my pains ; and so , with no money at all and a little more wit , return again to Venice .
115983
115984 How poor are they that have not patience !
115985 What wound did ever heal but by degrees ?
115986 Thou know'st we work by wit and not by witchcraft ,
115987 And wit depends on dilatory time .
115988 Does 't not go well ? Cassio hath beaten thee ,
115989 And thou by that small hurt hast cashiered Cassio .
115990 Though other things grow fair against the sun ,
115991 Yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe :
115992 Content thyself awhile . By the mass , 'tis morning ;
115993 Pleasure and action make the hours seem short .
115994 Retire thee ; go where thou art billeted :
115995 Away , I say ; thou shalt know more hereafter :
115996 Nay , get thee gone .
115997
115998 Two things are to be done ,
115999 My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress ;
116000 I'll set her on ;
116001 Myself the while to draw the Moor apart ,
116002 And bring him jump when he may Cassio find
116003 Soliciting his wife : ay , that's the way :
116004 Dull not device by coldness and delay .
116005
116006 Masters , play here , I will content your pains ;
116007 Something that's brief ; and bid 'Good morrow , general .'
116008
116009 Why , masters , have your instruments been in Naples , that they speak i' the nose thus ?
116010
116011 How , sir , how ?
116012
116013 Are these , I pray you , wind-instruments ?
116014
116015 Ay , marry , are they , sir .
116016
116017 O ! thereby hangs a tail .
116018
116019 Whereby hangs a tale , sir ?
116020
116021 Marry , sir , by many a wind-instrument that I know . But , masters , here's money for you ; and the general so likes your music , that he desires you , for love's sake , to make no more noise with it .
116022
116023 Well , sir , we will not .
116024
116025 If you have any music that may not be heard , to 't again ; but , as they say , to hear music the general does not greatly care .
116026
116027 We have none such , sir .
116028
116029 Then put up your pipes in your bag , for
116030 I'll away . Go ; vanish into air ; away !
116031
116032
116033 Dost thou hear , mine honest friend ?
116034
116035 No , I hear not your honest friend ; I hear you .
116036
116037 Prithee , keep up thy quillets . There's a poor piece of gold for thee . If the gentlewoman that attends the general's wife be stirring , tell her there's one Cassio entreats her a little favour of speech : wilt thou do this ?
116038
116039 She is stirring , sir : if she will stir hither ,
116040 I shall seem to notify unto her .
116041
116042 Do , good my friend .
116043
116044
116045 In happy time , Iago .
116046
116047 You have not been a-bed , then ?
116048
116049 Why , no ; the day had broke
116050 Before we parted . I have made bold , Iago ,
116051 To send in to your wife ; my suit to her
116052 Is , that she will to virtuous Desdemona
116053 Procure me some access .
116054
116055 I'll send her to you presently ;
116056 And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor
116057 Out of the way , that your converse and business
116058 May be more free .
116059
116060 I humbly thank you for 't .
116061
116062 I never knew
116063 A Florentine more kind and honest .
116064
116065
116066 Good morrow , good lieutenant : I am sorry
116067 For your displeasure ; but all will soon be well .
116068 The general and his wife are talking of it ,
116069 And she speaks for you stoutly : the Moor replies
116070 That he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus
116071 And great affinity , and that in wholesome wisdom
116072 He might not but refuse you ; but he protests he loves you ,
116073 And needs no other suitor but his likings
116074 To take the saf'st occasion by the front
116075 To bring you in again .
116076
116077 Yet , I beseech you ,
116078 If you think fit , or that it may be done ,
116079 Give me advantage of some brief discourse
116080 With Desdemona alone .
116081
116082 Pray you , come in :
116083 I will bestow you where you shall have time
116084 To speak your bosom freely .
116085
116086 I am much bound to you .
116087
116088
116089 These letters give , Iago , to the pilot ,
116090 And by him do my duties to the senate ;
116091 That done , I will be walking on the works ;
116092 Repair there to me .
116093
116094 Well , my good lord , I'll do t .
116095
116096 This fortification , gentlemen , shall we see 't ?
116097
116098 We'll wait upon your lordship .
116099
116100
116101 Be thou assur'd , good Cassio , I will do
116102 All my abilities in thy behalf .
116103
116104 Good madam , do : I warrant it grieves my husband ,
116105 As if the case were his .
116106
116107 O ! that's an honest fellow . Do not doubt , Cassio ,
116108 But I will have my lord and you again
116109 As friendly as you were .
116110
116111 Bounteous madam ,
116112 Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio ,
116113 He's never anything but your true servant .
116114
116115 I know 't ; I thank you . You do love my lord ;
116116 You have known him long ; and be you well assur'd
116117 He shall in strangeness stand no further off
116118 Than in a politic distance .
116119
116120 Ay , but , lady ,
116121 That policy may either last so long ,
116122 Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet ,
116123 Or breed itself so out of circumstance ,
116124 That , I being absent and my place supplied ,
116125 My general will forget my love and service .
116126
116127 Do not doubt that ; before Emilia here
116128 I give thee warrant of thy place . Assure thee ,
116129 If I do vow a friendship , I'll perform it
116130 To the last article ; my lord shall never rest ;
116131 I'll watch him tame , and talk him out of patience ;
116132 His bed shall seem a school , his board a shrift ;
116133 I'll intermingle every thing he does
116134 With Cassio's suit . Therefore be merry , Cassio ;
116135 For thy solicitor shall rather die
116136 Than give thy cause away .
116137
116138
116139 Madam , here comes my lord .
116140
116141 Madam , I'll take my leave .
116142
116143 Why , stay , and hear me speak .
116144
116145 Madam , not now ; I am very ill at ease ,
116146 Unfit for mine own purposes .
116147
116148 Well , do your discretion .
116149
116150
116151 Ha ! I like not that .
116152
116153 What dost thou say ?
116154
116155 Nothing , my lord : or if I know not what .
116156
116157 Was not that Cassio parted from my wife ?
116158
116159 Cassio , my lord ? No , sure , I cannot think it
116160 That he would steal away so guilty-like ,
116161 Seeing you coming .
116162
116163 I do believe 'twas he .
116164
116165 How now , my lord !
116166 I have been talking with a suitor here ,
116167 A man that languishes in your displeasure .
116168
116169 Who is 't you mean ?
116170
116171 Why , your lieutenant , Cassio . Good my lord ,
116172 If I have any grace or power to move you ,
116173 His present reconciliation take ;
116174 For if he be not one that truly loves you ,
116175 That errs in ignorance and not in cunning ,
116176 I have no judgment in an honest face .
116177 I prithee call him back .
116178
116179 Went he hence now ?
116180
116181 Ay , sooth ; so humbled ,
116182 That he hath left part of his grief with me ,
116183 To suffer with him . Good love , call him back .
116184
116185 Not now , sweet Desdemona ; some other time .
116186
116187 But shall 't be shortly ?
116188
116189 The sooner , sweet , for you .
116190
116191 Shall 't be to-night at supper ?
116192
116193 No , not to-night .
116194
116195 To-morrow dinner then ?
116196
116197 I shall not dine at home ;
116198 I meet the captains at the citadel .
116199
116200 Why then , to-morrow night ; or Tuesday morn ;
116201 On Tuesday noon , or night ; on Wednesday morn :
116202 I prithee name the time , but let it not
116203 Exceed three days : in faith , he's penitent ;
116204 And yet his trespass , in our common reason ,
116205 Save that they say , the wars must make examples
116206 Out of their best ,is not almost a fault
116207 To incur a private check . When shall he come ?
116208 Tell me , Othello : I wonder in my soul ,
116209 What you could ask me that I should deny ,
116210 Or stand so mammering on . What ! Michael Cassio ,
116211 That came a wooing with you , and so many a time ,
116212 When I have spoke of you dispraisingly ,
116213 Hath ta'en your part ; to have so much to do
116214 To bring him in ! Trust me , I could do much .
116215
116216 Prithee , no more ; let him come when he will ;
116217 I will deny thee nothing .
116218
116219 Why , this is not a boon ;
116220 'Tis as I should entreat you wear your gloves ,
116221 Or feed on nourishing dishes , or keep you warm ,
116222 Or sue to you to do a peculiar profit
116223 To your own person ; nay , when I have a suit
116224 Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed ,
116225 It shall be full of poise and difficult weight ,
116226 And fearful to be granted .
116227
116228 I will deny thee nothing :
116229 Whereon , I do beseech thee , grant me this ,
116230 To leave me but a little to myself .
116231
116232 Shall I deny you ? no : farewell , my lord .
116233
116234 Farewell , my Desdemona : I'll come to thee straight .
116235
116236 Emilia , come . Be as your fancies teach you ;
116237 Whate'er you be , I am obedient .
116238
116239
116240 Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul
116241 But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not ,
116242 Chaos is come again .
116243
116244 My noble lord ,
116245
116246 What dost thou say , Iago ?
116247
116248 Did Michael Cassio , when you woo'd my lady ,
116249 Know of your love ?
116250
116251 He did , from first to last : why dost thou ask ?
116252
116253 But for a satisfaction of my thought ;
116254 No further harm .
116255
116256 Why of thy thought , Iago ?
116257
116258 I did not think he had been acquainted with her .
116259
116260 O ! yes ; and went between us very oft .
116261
116262 Indeed !
116263
116264 Indeed ! ay , indeed ; discern'st thou aught in that ?
116265 Is he not honest ?
116266
116267 Honest , my lord ?
116268
116269 Honest ! ay , honest .
116270
116271 My lord , for aught I know .
116272
116273 What dost thou think ?
116274
116275 Think , my lord !
116276
116277 Think , my lord !
116278 By heaven , he echoes me ,
116279 As if there were some monster in his thought
116280 Too hideous to be shown . Thou dost mean something :
116281 I heard thee say but now , thou lik'dst not that ,
116282 When Cassio left my wife ; what didst not like ?
116283 And when I told thee he was of my counsel
116284 In my whole course of wooing , thou criedst , 'Indeed !'
116285 And didst contract and purse thy brow together ,
116286 As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain
116287 Some horrible conceit . If thou dost love me ,
116288 Show me thy thought .
116289
116290 My lord , you know I love you .
116291
116292 I think thou dost ;
116293 And , for I know thou art full of love and honesty ,
116294 And weigh'st thy words before thou giv'st them breath ,
116295 Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more ;
116296 For such things in a false disloyal knave
116297 Are tricks of custom , but in a man that's just
116298 They are close delations , working from the heart
116299 That passion cannot rule .
116300
116301 For Michael Cassio ,
116302 I dare be sworn I think that he is honest .
116303
116304 I think so too .
116305
116306 Men should be what they seem ;
116307 Or those that be not , would they might seem none !
116308
116309 Certain , men should be what they seem .
116310
116311 Why then , I think Cassio 's an honest man .
116312
116313 Nay , yet there's more in this .
116314 I pray thee , speak to me as to thy thinkings ,
116315 As thou dost ruminate , and give thy worst of thoughts
116316 The worst of words .
116317
116318 Good my lord , pardon me ;
116319 Though I am bound to every act of duty ,
116320 I am not bound to that all slaves are free to .
116321 Utter my thoughts ? Why , say they are vile and false ;
116322 As where's that palace whereinto foul things
116323 Sometimes intrude not ? who has a breast so pure
116324 But some uncleanly apprehensions
116325 Keep leets and law days , and in session sit
116326 With meditations lawful ?
116327
116328 Thou dost conspire against thy friend , Iago ,
116329 If thou but think'st him wrong'd , and mak'st his ear
116330 A stranger to thy thoughts .
116331
116332 I do beseech you ,
116333 Though I perchance am vicious in my guess ,
116334 As , I confess , it is my nature's plague
116335 To spy into abuses , and oft my jealousy
116336 Shapes faults that are not ,that your wisdom yet ,
116337 From one that so imperfectly conceits ,
116338 Would take no notice , nor build yourself a trouble
116339 Out of his scattering and unsure observance .
116340 It were not for your quiet nor your good ,
116341 Nor for my manhood , honesty , or wisdom ,
116342 To let you know my thoughts .
116343
116344 What dost thou mean ?
116345
116346 Good name in man and woman , dear my lord ,
116347 Is the immediate jewel of their souls :
116348 Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something , nothing ;
116349 'Twas mine , 'tis his , and has been slave to thousands ;
116350 But he that filches from me my good name
116351 Robs me of that which not enriches him ,
116352 And makes me poor indeed .
116353
116354 By heaven , I'll know thy thoughts .
116355
116356 You cannot , if my heart were in your hand ;
116357 Nor shall not , whilst 'tis in my custody .
116358
116359 Ha !
116360
116361 O ! beware , my lord , of jealousy ;
116362 It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
116363 The meat it feeds on ; that cuckold lives in bliss
116364 Who , certain of his fate , loves not his wronger ;
116365 But , O ! what damned minutes tells he o'er
116366 Who dotes , yet doubts ; suspects , yet soundly loves !
116367
116368 O misery !
116369
116370 Poor and content is rich , and rich enough ,
116371 But riches fineless is as poor as winter
116372 To him that ever fears he shall be poor .
116373 Good heaven , the souls of all my tribe defend
116374 From jealousy !
116375
116376 Why , why is this ?
116377 Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy ,
116378 To follow still the changes of the moon
116379 With fresh suspicions ? No ; to be once in doubt
116380 Is once to be resolved . Exchange me for a goat
116381 When I shall turn the business of my soul
116382 To such exsufflicate and blown surmises ,
116383 Matching thy inference . 'Tis not to make me jealous
116384 To say my wife is fair , feeds well , loves company ,
116385 Is free of speech , sings , plays , and dances well ;
116386 Where virtue is , these are more virtuous :
116387 Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw
116388 The smallest fear , or doubt of her revolt ;
116389 For she had eyes , and chose me . No , Iago ;
116390 I'll see before I doubt ; when I doubt , prove ;
116391 And , on the proof , there is no more but this ,
116392 Away at once with love or jealousy !
116393
116394 I am glad of it ; for now I shall have reason
116395 To show the love and duty that I bear you
116396 With franker spirit ; therefore , as I am bound ,
116397 Receive it from me ; I speak not yet of proof .
116398 Look to your wife ; observe her well with Cassio ;
116399 Wear your eye thus , not jealous nor secure :
116400 I would not have your free and noble nature
116401 Out of self-bounty be abus'd ; look to 't :
116402 I know our country disposition well ;
116403 In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks
116404 They dare not show their husbands ; their best conscience
116405 Is not to leave 't undone , but keep 't unknown .
116406
116407 Dost thou say so ?
116408
116409 She did deceive her father , marrying you :
116410 And when she seem'd to shake and fear your looks ,
116411 She lov'd them most .
116412
116413 And so she did .
116414
116415 Why , go to , then ;
116416 She that so young could give out such a seeming ,
116417 To seel her father's eyes up close as oak ,
116418 He thought 'twas witchcraft ; but I am much to blame ;
116419 I humbly do beseech you of your pardon
116420 For too much loving you .
116421
116422 I am bound to thee for ever .
116423
116424 I see , this hath a little dash'd your spirits .
116425
116426 Not a jot , not a jot .
116427
116428 I' faith , I fear it has .
116429 I hope you will consider what is spoke
116430 Comes from my love . But , I do see you're mov'd ;
116431 I am to pray you not to strain my speech
116432 To grosser issues nor to larger reach
116433 Than to suspicion .
116434
116435 I will not .
116436
116437 Should you do so , my lord ,
116438 My speech should fall into such vile success
116439 As my thoughts aim not at . Cassio's my worthy friend
116440 My lord , I see you're mov'd .
116441
116442 No , not much mov'd :
116443 I do not think but Desdemona's honest .
116444
116445 Long live she so ! and long live you to think so !
116446
116447 And , yet , how nature erring from itself ,
116448
116449 Ay , there's the point : as , to be bold with you ,
116450 Not to affect many proposed matches
116451 Of her own clime , complexion , and degree ,
116452 Whereto , we see , in all things nature tends ;
116453 Foh ! one may smell in such , a will most rank ,
116454 Foul disproportion , thoughts unnatural .
116455 But pardon me ; I do not in position
116456 Distinctly speak of her , though I may fear
116457 Her will , recoiling to her better judgment ,
116458 May fail to match you with her country forms
116459 And happily repent .
116460
116461 Farewell , farewell :
116462 If more thou dost perceive , let me know more ;
116463 Set on thy wife to observe . Leave me , Iago .
116464
116465 My lord , I take my leave .
116466
116467
116468 Why did I marry ? This honest creature , doubtless ,
116469 Sees and knows more , much more , than he unfolds .
116470
116471 My lord , I would I might entreat your honour
116472 To scan this thing no further ; leave it to time .
116473 Although 'tis fit that Cassio have his place ,
116474 For , sure he fills it up with great ability ,
116475 Yet , if you please to hold him off awhile ,
116476 You shall by that perceive him and his means :
116477 Note if your lady strain his entertainment
116478 With any strong or vehement importunity ;
116479 Much will be seen in that . In the mean time ,
116480 Let me be thought too busy in my fears ,
116481 As worthy cause I have to fear I am ,
116482 And hold her free , I do beseech your honour .
116483
116484 Fear not my government .
116485
116486 I once more take my leave .
116487
116488
116489 This fellow's of exceeding honesty ,
116490 And knows all qualities , with a learned spirit ,
116491 Of human dealings ; if I do prove her haggard ,
116492 Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings ,
116493 I'd whistle her off and let her down the wind ,
116494 To prey at fortune . Haply , for I am black ,
116495 And have not those soft parts of conversation
116496 That chamberers have , or , for I am declin'd
116497 Into the vale of years yet that's not much
116498 She's gone , I am abus'd ; and my relief
116499 Must be to loathe her . O curse of marriage !
116500 That we can call these delicate creatures ours ,
116501 And not their appetites . I had rather be a toad ,
116502 And live upon the vapour of a dungeon ,
116503 Than keep a corner in the thing I love
116504 For others' uses . Yet , 'tis the plague of great ones ;
116505 Prerogativ'd are they less than the base ;
116506 'Tis destiny unshunnable , like death :
116507 Even then this forked plague is fated to us
116508 When we do quicken .
116509 Look ! where she comes .
116510 If she be false , O ! then heaven mocks itself .
116511 I'll not believe it .
116512
116513
116514 How now , my dear Othello !
116515 Your dinner and the generous islanders
116516 By you invited , do attend your presence .
116517
116518 I am to blame .
116519
116520 Why do you speak so faintly ?
116521 Are you not well ?
116522
116523 I have a pain upon my forehead here .
116524
116525 Faith , that's with watching ; 'twill away again :
116526 Let me but bind it hard , within this hour
116527 It will be well .
116528
116529 Your napkin is too little :
116530
116531 Let it alone . Come , I'll go in with you .
116532
116533 I am very sorry that you are not well .
116534
116535
116536 I am glad I have found this napkin ;
116537 This was her first remembrance from the Moor ;
116538 My wayward husband hath a hundred times
116539 Woo'd me to steal it , but she so loves the token ,
116540 For he conjur'd her she should ever keep it ,
116541 That she reserves it evermore about her
116542 To kiss and talk to . I'll have the work ta'en out ,
116543 And give 't Iago :
116544 What he will do with it heaven knows , not I ;
116545 I nothing but to please his fantasy .
116546
116547
116548 How now ! what do you here alone ?
116549
116550 Do not you chide ; I have a thing for you .
116551
116552 A thing for me ? It is a common thing
116553
116554 Ha !
116555
116556 To have a foolish wife .
116557
116558 O ! is that all ? What will you give me now
116559 For that same handkerchief ?
116560
116561 What handkerchief ?
116562
116563 What handkerchief !
116564 Why , that the Moor first gave to Desdemona :
116565 That which so often you did bid me steal .
116566
116567 Hast stol'n it from her ?
116568
116569 No , faith ; she let it drop by negligence ,
116570 And , to the advantage , I , being there , took't up .
116571 Look , here it is .
116572
116573 A good wench ; give it me .
116574
116575 What will you do with 't , that you have been so earnest
116576 To have me filch it ?
116577
116578 Why , what's that to you ?
116579
116580
116581 If it be not for some purpose of import
116582 Give 't me again ; poor lady ! she'll run mad
116583 When she shall lack it .
116584
116585 Be not acknown on 't ; I have use for it .
116586 Go , leave me .
116587
116588 I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin ,
116589 And let him find it ; trifles light as air
116590 Are to the jealous confirmations strong
116591 As proofs of holy writ ; this may do something .
116592 The Moor already changes with my poison :
116593 Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons ,
116594 Which at the first are scarce found to distaste ,
116595 But with a little act upon the blood ,
116596 Burn like the mines of sulphur . I did say so :
116597 Look ! where he comes !
116598
116599
116600 Not poppy , nor mandragora ,
116601 Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world ,
116602 Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
116603
116604 Which thou ow'dst yesterday .
116605
116606 Ha ! ha ! false to me ?
116607
116608 Why , how now , generall no more of that .
116609
116610 Avaunt ! be gone ! thou hast set me on the rack ;
116611 I swear 'tis better to be much abus'd
116612 Than but to know 't a little .
116613
116614 How now , my lord !
116615
116616 What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust ?
116617 I saw 't not , thought it not , it harm'd not me ;
116618 I slept the next night well , was free and merry ;
116619 I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips ;
116620 He that is robb'd , not wanting what is stol'n ,
116621 Let him not know 't and he's not robb'd at all .
116622
116623 I am sorry to hear this .
116624
116625 I had been happy , if the general camp ,
116626 Pioners and all , had tasted her sweet body ,
116627 So I had nothing known . O ! now , for ever
116628 Farewell the tranquil mind ; farewell content !
116629 Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars
116630 That make ambition virtue ! O , farewell !
116631 Farewell the neighing steed , and the shrill trump ,
116632 The spirit-stirring drum , the ear-piercing fife ,
116633 The royal banner , and all quality ,
116634 Pride , pomp , and circumstance of glorious war !
116635 And , O you mortal engines , whose rude throats
116636 The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit ,
116637 Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone !
116638
116639 Is it possible , my lord ?
116640
116641 Villain , be sure thou prove my love a whore ,
116642 Be sure of it ; give me the ocular proof ;
116643 Or , by the worth of mine eternal soul ,
116644 Thou hadst been better have been born a dog
116645 Than answer my wak'd wrath .
116646
116647 Is 't come to this ?
116648
116649 Make me to see 't ; or , at the least , so prove it ,
116650 That the probation bear no hinge nor loop
116651 To hang a doubt on ; or woe upon thy life !
116652
116653 My noble lord ,
116654
116655 If thou dost slander her and torture me ,
116656 Never pray more ; abandon all remorse ;
116657 On horror's head horrors accumulate ;
116658 Do deeds to make heaven weep , all earth amaz'd ;
116659 For nothing canst thou to damnation add
116660 Greater than that .
116661
116662 O grace ! O heaven forgive me !
116663 Are you a man ! have you a soul or sense ?
116664 God be wi' you ; take mine office . O wretched fool !
116665 That liv'st to make thine honesty a vice .
116666 O monstrous world ! Take note , take note , O world !
116667 To be direct and honest is not safe .
116668 I thank you for this profit , and , from hence
116669 I'll love no friend , sith love breeds such offence .
116670
116671 Nay , stay ; thou shouldst be honest .
116672
116673 I should be wise ; for honesty's a fool ,
116674 And loses that it works for .
116675
116676 By the world ,
116677 I think my wife be honest and think she is not ;
116678 I think that thou art just and think thou art not .
116679 I'll have some proof . Her name , that was as fresh
116680 As Dian's visage , is now begrim'd and black
116681 As mine own face . If there be cords or knives ,
116682 Poison or fire or suffocating streams ,
116683 I'll not endure it . Would I were satisfied !
116684
116685 I see , sir , you are eaten up with passion .
116686 I do repent me that I put it to you .
116687 You would be satisfied ?
116688
116689 Would ! nay , I will .
116690
116691 And may ; but how ? how satisfied , my lord ?
116692 Would you , the supervisor , grossly gape on ;
116693 Behold her tupp'd ?
116694
116695 Death and damnation ! O !
116696
116697 It were a tedious difficulty , I think ,
116698 To bring them to that prospect ; damn them then ,
116699 If ever mortal eyes do see them bolster
116700 More than their own ! What then ? how then ?
116701 What shall I say ? Where's satisfaction ?
116702 It is impossible you should see this ,
116703 Were they as prime as goats , as hot as monkeys ,
116704 As salt as wolves in pride , and fools as gross
116705 As ignorance made drunk ; but yet , I say ,
116706 If imputation , and strong circumstances ,
116707 Which lead directly to the door of truth ,
116708 Will give you satisfaction , you may have it .
116709
116710 Give me a living reason she's disloyal .
116711
116712 I do not like the office ;
116713 But , sith I am enter'd in this cause so far ,
116714 Prick'd to 't by foolish honesty and love ,
116715 I will go on . I lay with Cassio lately ;
116716 And , being troubled with a raging tooth ,
116717 I could not sleep .
116718 There are a kind of men so loose of soul
116719 That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs ;
116720 One of this kind is Cassio .
116721 In sleep I heard him say , 'Sweet Desdemona ,
116722 Let us be wary , let us hide our loves !'
116723 And then , sir , would he gripe and wring my hand ,
116724 Cry , 'O , sweet creature !' and then kiss me hard ,
116725 As if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots ,
116726 That grew upon my lips ; then laid his leg
116727 Over my thigh , and sigh'd , and kiss'd ; and then
116728 Cried , 'Cursed fate , that gave thee to the Moor !'
116729
116730 O monstrous ! monstrous !
116731
116732 Nay , this was but his dream .
116733
116734 But this denoted a foregone conclusion :
116735 'Tis a shrewd doubt , though it be but a dream .
116736
116737 And this may help to thicken other proofs
116738 That do demonstrate thinly .
116739
116740 I'll tear her all to pieces .
116741
116742 Nay , but be wise ; yet we see nothing done ;
116743 She may be honest yet . Tell me but this :
116744 Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief
116745 Spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand ?
116746
116747 I gave her such a one ; 'twas my first gift .
116748
116749 I know not that ; but such a handkerchief
116750 I am sure it was your wife's did I to-day
116751 See Cassio wipe his beard with .
116752
116753 If it be that ,
116754
116755 If it be that , or any that was hers ,
116756 It speaks against her with the other proofs .
116757
116758 O ! that the slave had forty thousand lives ;
116759 One is too poor , too weak for my revenge .
116760 Now do I see 'tis true . Look here , Iago ;
116761 All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven :
116762 'Tis gone .
116763 Arise , black vengeance , from the hollow hell !
116764 Yield up , O love ! thy crown and hearted throne
116765 To tyrannous hate . Swell , bosom , with thy fraught ,
116766 For 'tis of aspics' tongues !
116767
116768 Yet be content .
116769
116770 O ! blood , blood , blood !
116771
116772 Patience , I say ; your mind , perhaps , may change .
116773
116774 Never , Iago . Like to the Pontick sea ,
116775 Whose icy current and compulsive course
116776 Ne'er feels retiring ebb , but keeps due on
116777 To the Propontic and the Hellespont ,
116778 Even so my bloody thoughts , with violent pace ,
116779 Shall ne'er look back , ne'er ebb to humble love ,
116780 Till that a capable and wide revenge
116781 Swallow them up .
116782
116783 Now , by yond marble heaven ,
116784 In the due reverence of a sacred vow
116785 I here engage my words .
116786
116787 Do not rise yet .
116788
116789 Witness , you ever-burning lights above !
116790 You elements that clip us round about !
116791 Witness , that here Iago doth give up
116792 The execution of his wit , hands , heart ,
116793 To wrong'd Othello's service ! Let him command ,
116794 And to obey shall be in me remorse ,
116795 What bloody business ever .
116796
116797 I greet thy love ,
116798 Not with vain thanks , but with acceptance bounteous ,
116799 And will upon the instant put thee to 't :
116800 Within these three days let me hear thee say
116801 That Cassio's not alive .
116802
116803 My friend is dead ; 'tis done at your request :
116804 But let her live .
116805
116806 Damn her , lewd minx ! O , damn her !
116807 Come , go with me apart ; I will withdraw
116808 To furnish me with some swift means of death
116809 For the fair devil . Now art thou my lieutenant .
116810
116811 I am your own for ever .
116812
116813
116814 Do you know , sirrah , where Lieutenant Cassio lies ?
116815
116816 I dare not say he lies any where .
116817
116818 Why , man ?
116819
116820 He is a soldier ; and for one to say a soldier lies , is stabbing .
116821
116822 Go to ; where lodges he ?
116823
116824 To tell you where he lodges is to tell you where I lie .
116825
116826 Can anything be made of this ?
116827
116828 I know not where he lodges , and for me to devise a lodging , and say he lies here or he lies there , were to lie in mine own throat .
116829
116830 Can you inquire him out , and be edified by report ?
116831
116832 I will catechize the world for him ; that is , make questions , and by them answer .
116833
116834 Seek him , bid him come hither ; tell him I have moved my lord in his behalf , and hope all will be well .
116835
116836 To do this is within the compass of man's wit , and therefore I will attempt the doing it .
116837
116838
116839 Where should I lose that handkerchief , Emilia ?
116840
116841 I know not , madam .
116842
116843 Believe me , I had rather have lost my purse
116844 Full of cruzadoes ; and , but my noble Moor
116845 Is true of mind , and made of no such baseness
116846 As jealous creatures are , it were enough
116847 To put him to ill thinking .
116848
116849 Is he not jealous ?
116850
116851 Who ! he ? I think the sun where he was born
116852 Drew all such humours from him .
116853
116854 Look ! where he comes .
116855
116856 I will not leave him now till Cassio
116857 Be call'd to him .
116858
116859 How is 't with you , my lord ?
116860
116861 Well , my good lady .
116862
116863 O ! hardness to dissemble .
116864 How do you , Desdemona ?
116865
116866 Well , my good lord .
116867
116868 Give me your hand . This hand is moist , my lady .
116869
116870 It yet has felt no age nor known no sorrow .
116871
116872 This argues fruitfulness and liberal heart ;
116873 Hot , hot , and moist ; this hand of yours requires
116874 A sequester from liberty , fasting and prayer ,
116875 Much castigation , exercise devout ;
116876 For here's a young and sweating devil here ,
116877 That commonly rebels . 'Tis a good hand ,
116878 A frank one .
116879
116880 You may , indeed , say so ;
116881 For 'twas that hand that gave away my heart .
116882
116883 A liberal hand ; the hearts of old gave hands ,
116884 But our new heraldry is hands not hearts .
116885
116886 I cannot speak of this . Come now , your promise .
116887
116888 What promise , chuck ?
116889
116890 I have sent to bid Cassio come speak with you .
116891
116892 I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me .
116893 Lend me thy handkerchief .
116894
116895 Here , my lord .
116896
116897 That which I gave you .
116898
116899 I have it not about me .
116900
116901 Not ?
116902
116903 No , indeed , my lord .
116904
116905 That is a fault .
116906 That handkerchief
116907 Did an Egyptian to my mother give ;
116908 She was a charmer , and could almost read
116909 The thoughts of people ; she told her , while she kept it ,
116910 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father
116911 Entirely to her love , but if she lost it
116912 Or made a gift of it , my father's eye
116913 Should hold her loathed , and his spirits should hunt
116914 After new fancies . She dying gave it me ;
116915 And bid me , when my fate would have me wive ,
116916 To give it her . I did so : and take heed on 't ;
116917 Make it a darling like your precious eye ;
116918 To lose't or give't away , were such perdition
116919 As nothing else could match .
116920
116921 Is 't possible ?
116922
116923 'Tis true ; there's magic in the web of it ;
116924 A sibyl , that had number'd in the world
116925 The sun to course two hundred compasses ,
116926 In her prophetic fury sew'd the work ;
116927 The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk ,
116928 And it was dy'd in mummy which the skilful
116929 Conserv'd of maidens' hearts .
116930
116931 Indeed ! is 't true ?
116932
116933 Most veritable ; therefore look to 't well .
116934
116935 Then would to heaven that I had never seen it !
116936
116937 Ha ! wherefore ?
116938
116939 Why do you speak so startingly and rash ?
116940
116941 Is 't lost ? is 't gone ? speak , is it out o' the way ?
116942
116943 Heaven bless us !
116944
116945 Say you ?
116946
116947 It is not lost : but what an if it were ?
116948
116949 How !
116950
116951 I say , it is not lost .
116952
116953 Fetch 't , let me see 't .
116954
116955 Why , so I can , sir , but I will not now .
116956 This is a trick to put me from my suit :
116957 Pray you let Cassio be receiv'd again .
116958
116959 Fetch me the handkerchief ; my mind misgives .
116960
116961 Come , come ;
116962 You'll never meet a more sufficient man .
116963
116964 The handkerchief !
116965
116966 I pray , talk me of Cassio .
116967
116968 The handkerchief !
116969
116970 A man that all his time
116971 Hath founded his good fortunes on your love ,
116972 Shar'd dangers with you ,
116973
116974 The handkerchief !
116975
116976 In sooth you are to blame .
116977
116978 Away !
116979
116980
116981 Is not this man jealous ?
116982
116983 I ne'er saw this before .
116984 Sure , there's some wonder in this handkerchief ;
116985 I am most unhappy in the loss of it .
116986
116987 'Tis not a year or two shows us a man ;
116988 They are all but stomachs , and we all but food ;
116989 They eat us hungerly , and when they are full
116990 They belch us . Look you ! Cassio and my husband .
116991
116992
116993 There is no other way ; 'tis she must do 't :
116994 And , lo ! the happiness : go and importune her .
116995
116996 How now , good Cassio ! what's the news with you ?
116997
116998 Madam , my former suit : I do beseech you
116999 That by your virtuous means I may again
117000 Exist , and be a member of his love
117001 Whom I with all the office of my heart
117002 Entirely honour ; I would not be delay'd .
117003 If my offence be of such mortal kind
117004 That nor my service past , nor present sorrows ,
117005 Nor purpos'd merit in futurity ,
117006 Can ransom me into his love again ,
117007 But to know so must be my benefit ;
117008 So shall I clothe me in a forc'd content ,
117009 And shut myself up in some other course
117010 To fortune's alms .
117011
117012 Alas ! thrice-gentle Cassio !
117013 My advocation is not now in tune ;
117014 My lord is not my lord ; nor should I know him ,
117015 Were he in favour as in humour alter'd .
117016 So help me every spirit sanctified ,
117017 As I have spoken for you all my best
117018 And stood within the blank of his displeasure
117019 For my free speech . You must awhile be patient ;
117020 What I can do I will , and more I will
117021 Than for myself I dare : let that suffice you .
117022
117023 Is my lord angry ?
117024
117025 He went hence but now ,
117026 And , certainly in strange unquietness .
117027
117028 Can he be angry ? I have seen the cannon ,
117029 When it hath blown his ranks into the air ,
117030 And , like the devil , from his very arm
117031 Puff'd his own brother ; and can he be angry ?
117032 Something of moment then ; I will go meet him ;
117033 There's matter in 't indeed , if he be angry .
117034
117035 I prithee , do so .
117036
117037 Something , sure , of state ,
117038 Either from Venice , or some unhatch'd practice
117039 Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him ,
117040 Hath puddled his clear spirit ; and , in such cases
117041 Men's natures wrangle with inferior things ,
117042 Though great ones are their object . 'Tis even so ;
117043 For let our finger ache , and it indues
117044 Our other healthful members ev'n to that sense
117045 Of pain . Nay , we must think men are not gods ,
117046 Nor of them look for such observancy
117047 As fits the bridal . Beshrew me much , Emilia ,
117048 I was unhandsome warrior as I am
117049 Arraigning his unkindness with my soul ;
117050 But now I find I had suborn'd the witness ,
117051 And he's indicted falsely .
117052
117053 Pray heaven it be state-matters , as you think ,
117054 And no conception , nor no jealous toy
117055 Concerning you .
117056
117057 Alas the day ! I never gave him cause .
117058
117059 But jealous souls will not be answer'd so ;
117060 They are not ever jealous for the cause ,
117061 But jealous for they are jealous ; 'tis a monster
117062 Begot upon itself , born on itself .
117063
117064 Heaven keep that monster from Othello's mind !
117065
117066 Lady , amen .
117067
117068 I will go seek him . Cassio , walk hereabout ;
117069 If I do find him fit , I'll move your suit
117070 And seek to effect it to my uttermost .
117071
117072 I humbly thank your ladyship .
117073
117074 Save you , friend Cassio !
117075
117076 What make you from home ?
117077 How is it with you , my most fair Bianca ?
117078 I' faith , sweet love , I was coming to your house .
117079
117080 And I was going to your lodging , Cassio .
117081 What ! keep a week away ? seven days and nights ?
117082 Eight score eight hours ? and lovers' absent hours ,
117083 More tedious than the dial eight score times ?
117084 O weary reckoning !
117085
117086 Pardon me , Bianca ,
117087 I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd ,
117088 But I shall , in a more continuate time ,
117089 Strike off this score of absence . Sweet Bianca .
117090
117091 Take me this work out .
117092
117093 O Cassio ! whence came this ?
117094 This is some token from a newer friend ;
117095 To the felt absence now I feel a cause ;
117096 Is 't come to this ? Well , well .
117097
117098 Go to , woman !
117099 Throw your vile guesses in the devil's teeth ,
117100 From whence you have them . You are jealous now
117101 That this is from some mistress , some remembrance :
117102 No , in good troth , Bianca .
117103
117104 Why , whose is it ?
117105
117106 I know not , sweet ; I found it in my chamber .
117107 I like the work well ; ere it be demanded ,
117108 As like enough it will ,I'd have it copied ;
117109 Take it and do 't ; and leave me for this time .
117110
117111 Leave you ! wherefore ?
117112
117113 I do attend here on the general ,
117114 And think it no addition nor my wish
117115 To have him see me woman'd .
117116
117117 Why , I pray you ?
117118
117119 Not that I love you not .
117120
117121 But that you do not love me .
117122 I pray you , bring me on the way a little
117123 And say if I shall see you soon at night .
117124
117125 'Tis but a little way that I can bring you ,
117126 For I attend here ; but I'll see you soon .
117127
117128 'Tis very good ; I must be circumstanc'd .
117129
117130 Will you think so ?
117131
117132 Think so , Iago !
117133
117134 What !
117135 To kiss in private ?
117136
117137 An unauthoriz'd kiss .
117138
117139 Or to be naked with her friend a-bed
117140 An hour or more , not meaning any harm ?
117141
117142 Naked a-bed , Iago , and not mean harm ?
117143 It is hypocrisy against the devil :
117144 They that mean virtuously , and yet do so ,
117145 The devil their virtue tempts , and they tempt heaven .
117146
117147 If they do nothing , 'tis a venial slip ;
117148 But if I give my wife a handkerchief ,
117149
117150 What then ?
117151
117152 Why , then , 'tis hers , my lord ; and , being hers ,
117153 She may , I think , bestow 't on any man .
117154
117155 She is protectress of her honour too ;
117156 May she give that ?
117157
117158 Her honour is an essence that's not seen ;
117159 They have it very oft that have it not :
117160 But for the handkerchief ,
117161
117162 By heaven , I would most gladly have forgot it :
117163 Thou said'st ,O ! it comes o'er my memory ,
117164 As doth the raven o'er the infected house ,
117165 Boding to all ,he had my handkerchief .
117166
117167 Ay , what of that ?
117168
117169 That's not so good now .
117170
117171 What ,
117172 If I had said I had seen him do you wrong ?
117173 Or heard him say , as knaves be such abroad ,
117174 Who having , by their own importunate suit ,
117175 Or voluntary dotage of some mistress ,
117176 Convinced or supplied them , cannot choose
117177 But they must blab .
117178
117179 Hath he said any thing ?
117180
117181 He hath , my lord ; but be you well assur'd ,
117182 No more than he'll unswear .
117183
117184 What hath he said ?
117185
117186 Faith , that he did I know not what he did .
117187
117188 What ? what ?
117189
117190 Lie
117191
117192 With her ?
117193
117194 With her , on her ; what you will .
117195
117196 Lie with her ! lie on her ! We say , lie on her , when they belie her . Lie with her ! that's fulsome . Handkerchief ,confessions ,handkerchief ! To confess , and be hanged for his labour . First , to be hanged , and then to confess : I tremble at it . Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing passion without some instruction . It is not words that shake me thus . Pish ! Noses , ears , and lips . Is it possible ?Confess !Handkerchief !O devil !
117197
117198
117199 Work on ,
117200 My medicine , work ! Thus credulous fools are caught ;
117201 And many worthy and chaste dames even thus ,
117202 All guitless , meet reproach . What , ho ! my lord !
117203 My lord , I say ! Othello !
117204
117205 How now , Cassio !
117206
117207 What's the matter ?
117208
117209 My lord is fallen into an epilepsy ;
117210 This is his second fit ; he had one yesterday .
117211
117212 Rub him about the temples .
117213
117214 No , forbear ;
117215 The lethargy must have his quiet course ,
117216 If not he foams at mouth , and by and by
117217 Breaks out to savage madness . Look ! he stirs ;
117218 Do you withdraw yourself a little while ,
117219 He will recover straight ; when he is gone ,
117220 I would on great occasion speak with you .
117221
117222 How is it , general ? have you not hurt your head ?
117223
117224 Dost thou mock me ?
117225
117226 I mock you ! no , by heaven .
117227 Would you would bear your fortune like a man !
117228
117229 A horned man's a monster and a beast .
117230
117231 There's many a beast then , in a populous city ,
117232 And many a civil monster .
117233
117234 Did he confess it ?
117235
117236 Good sir , be a man ;
117237 Think every bearded fellow that's but yok'd
117238 May draw with you ; there's millions now alive
117239 That nightly lie in those unproper beds
117240 Which they dare swear peculiar ; your case is better .
117241 O ! 'tis the spite of hell , the fiend's arch-mock ,
117242 To lip a wanton in a secure couch ,
117243 And to suppose her chaste . No , let me know ;
117244 And knowing what I am I know what she shall be .
117245
117246 O ! thou art wise ; 'tis certain .
117247
117248 Stand you awhile apart ;
117249 Confine yourself but in a patient list .
117250 Whilst you were here o'erwhelmed with your grief ,
117251 A passion most unsuiting such a man ,
117252 Cassio came hither ; I shifted him away ,
117253 And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy ;
117254 Bade him anon return and here speak with me ;
117255 The which he promis'd . Do but encave yourself ,
117256 And mark the fleers , the gibes , and notable scorns ,
117257 That dwell in every region of his face ;
117258 For I will make him tell the tale anew ,
117259 Where , how , how oft , how long ago , and when
117260 He hath , and is again to cope your wife :
117261 I say , but mark his gesture . Marry , patience ;
117262 Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen ,
117263 And nothing of a man .
117264
117265 Dost thou hear , Iago ?
117266 I will be found most cunning in my patience ;
117267 But dost thou hear ?most bloody .
117268
117269 That's not amiss ;
117270 But yet keep time in all . Will you withdraw ?
117271
117272 Now will I question Cassio of Bianca ,
117273 A housewife that by selling her desires
117274 Buys herself bread and clothes ; it is a creature
117275 That dotes on Cassio ; as 'tis the strumpet's plague
117276 To beguile many and be beguil'd by one .
117277 He , when he hears of her , cannot refrain
117278 From the excess of laughter . Here he comes :
117279
117280
117281 As he shall smile , Othello shall go mad ;
117282 And his unbookish jealousy must construe
117283 Poor Cassio's smiles , gestures , and light behaviour
117284
117285 Quite in the wrong . How do you now , lieutenant ?
117286
117287 The worser that you give me the addition
117288 Whose want even kills me .
117289
117290 Ply Desdemona well , and you are sure on 't .
117291
117292
117293 Now , if this suit lay in Bianca's power ,
117294 How quickly should you speed !
117295
117296 Alas ! poor caitiff !
117297
117298 Look ! how he laughs already !
117299
117300 I never knew woman love man so .
117301
117302 Alas ! poor rogue , I think , i' faith , she loves me .
117303
117304 Now he denies it faintly , and laughs it out .
117305
117306 Do you hear , Cassio ?
117307
117308 Now he importunes him
117309 To tell it o'er : go to ; well said , well said .
117310
117311 She gives it out that you shall marry her ;
117312 Do you intend it ?
117313
117314 Ha , ha , ha !
117315
117316 Do you triumph , Roman ? do you triumph ?
117317
117318 I marry her ! what ? a customer ? I prithee , bear some charity to my wit ; do not think it so unwholesome . Ha , ha , ha !
117319
117320 So , so , so , so . They laugh that win .
117321
117322 Faith , the cry goes that you shall marry her .
117323
117324 Prithee , say true .
117325
117326 I am a very villain else .
117327
117328 Have you scored me ? Well .
117329
117330 This is the monkey's own giving out : she is persuaded I will marry her , out of her own love and flattery , not out of my promise .
117331
117332 Iago beckons me ; now he begins the story .
117333
117334 She was here even now ; she haunts me in every place . I was the other day talking on the sea bank with certain Venetians , and thither come this bauble , and , by this hand , she falls me thus about my neck ;
117335
117336 Crying , 'O dear Cassio !' as it were ; his gesture imports it .
117337
117338 So hangs and lolls and weeps upon me ; so hales and pulls me ; ha , ha , ha !
117339
117340 Now he tells how she plucked him to my chamber . O ! I see that nose of yours , but not the dog I shall throw it to .
117341
117342 Well , I must leave her company .
117343
117344 Before me ! look , where she comes .
117345
117346 'Tis such another fitchew ! marry , a perfumed one .
117347
117348 What do you mean by this haunting of me ?
117349
117350 Let the devil and his dam haunt you ! What did you mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now ? I was a fine fool to take it . I must take out the work ! A likely piece of work , that you should find it in your chamber , and not know who left it there ! This is some minx's token , and I must take out the work ! There , give it your hobby-horse ; wheresoever you had it I'll take out no work on 't .
117351
117352 How now , my sweet Bianca ! how now , how now !
117353
117354 By heaven , that should be my handkerchief !
117355
117356 An you'll come to supper to-night , you may ; an you will not , come when you are next prepared for .
117357
117358
117359 After her , after her .
117360
117361 Faith , I must ; she'll rail in the street else .
117362
117363 Will you sup there ?
117364
117365 Faith , I intend so .
117366
117367 Well , I may chance to see you , for I would very fain speak with you .
117368
117369 Prithee , come ; will you ?
117370
117371 Go to ; say no more .
117372
117373
117374 How shall I murder him , Iago ?
117375
117376 Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice ?
117377
117378 O ! Iago !
117379
117380 And did you see the handkerchief ?
117381
117382 Was that mine ?
117383
117384 Yours , by this hand ; and to see how he prizes the foolish woman your wife ! she gave it him , and he hath given it his whore .
117385
117386 I would have him nine years a-killing .
117387 A fine woman ! a fair woman ! a sweet woman !
117388
117389 Nay , you must forget that .
117390
117391 Ay , let her rot , and perish , and be damned to-night ; for she shall not live . No , my heart is turned to stone ; I strike it , and it hurts my hand . O ! the world hath not a sweeter creature ; she might lie by an emperor's side and command him tasks .
117392
117393 Nay , that's not your way .
117394
117395 Hang her ! I do but say what she is . So delicate with her needle ! An admirable musician ! O , she will sing the savageness out of a bear . Of so high and plenteous wit and invention !
117396
117397 She's the worse for all this .
117398
117399 O ! a thousand , a thousand times . And then , of so gentle a condition !
117400
117401 Ay , too gentle .
117402
117403 Nay , that's certain ;but yet the pity of it , Iago ! O ! Iago , the pity of it , Iago !
117404
117405 If you are so fond over her iniquity , give her patent to offend ; for , if it touch not you , it comes near nobody .
117406
117407 I will chop her into messes . Cuckold me !
117408
117409 O ! 'tis foul in her .
117410
117411 With mine officer !
117412
117413 That's fouler .
117414
117415 Get me some poison , Iago ; this night : I'll not expostulate with her , lest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again . This night , Iago .
117416
117417 Do it not with poison , strangle her in her bed , even the bed she hath contaminated .
117418
117419 Good , good ; the justice of it pleases ; very good .
117420
117421 And for Cassio , let me be his undertaker ; you shall hear more by midnight .
117422
117423 Excellent good .
117424
117425 What trumpet is that same ?
117426
117427 Something from Venice , sure . 'Tis Lodovico ,
117428 Come from the duke ; and see , your wife is with him .
117429
117430
117431 God save you , worthy general !
117432
117433 With all my heart , sir .
117434
117435 The duke and senators of Venice greet you .
117436
117437
117438 I kiss the instrument of their pleasures .
117439
117440
117441 And what's the news , good cousin Lodovico ?
117442
117443 I am very glad to see you , signior ;
117444 Welcome to Cyprus .
117445
117446 I thank you . How does Lieutenant Cassio ?
117447
117448 Lives , sir .
117449
117450 Cousin , there's fall'n between him and my lord
117451 An unkind breach ; but you shall make all well .
117452
117453 Are you sure of that ?
117454
117455 My lord ?
117456
117457 This fail you not to do , as you will
117458
117459 He did not call ; he's busy in the paper .
117460 Is there division 'twixt my lord and Cassio ?
117461
117462 A most unhappy one ; I would do much
117463 To atone them , for the love I bear to Cassio .
117464
117465 Fire and brimstone !
117466
117467 My lord ?
117468
117469 Are you wise ?
117470
117471 What ! is he angry ?
117472
117473 May be the letter mov'd him ;
117474 For , as I think , they do command him home ,
117475 Deputing Cassio in his government .
117476
117477 Trust me , I am glad on 't .
117478
117479 Indeed !
117480
117481 My lord ?
117482
117483 I am glad to see you mad .
117484
117485 Why , sweet Othello ?
117486
117487 Devil !
117488
117489
117490 I have not deserved this .
117491
117492 My lord , this would not be believ'd in Venice ,
117493 Though I should swear I saw 't : 'tis very much ;
117494 Make her amends , she weeps .
117495
117496 O devil , devil !
117497 If that the earth could teem with woman's tears ,
117498 Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile .
117499 Out of my sight !
117500
117501 I will not stay to offend you .
117502
117503
117504 Truly , an obedient lady ;
117505 I do beseech your lordship , call her back .
117506
117507 Mistress !
117508
117509 My lord ?
117510
117511 What would you with her , sir ?
117512
117513 Who , I , my lord ?
117514
117515 Ay ; you did wish that I would make her turn :
117516 Sir , she can turn , and turn , and yet go on ,
117517 And turn again ; and she can weep , sir , weep ;
117518 And she's obedient , as you say , obedient ,
117519 Very obedient . Proceed you in your tears .
117520 Concerning this , sir ,O well-painted passion !
117521 I am commanded home . Get you away ;
117522 I'll send for you anon . Sir , I obey the mandate ,
117523 And will return to Venice . Hence ! avaunt !
117524
117525 Cassio shall have my place . And , sir , to-night ,
117526 I do entreat that we may sup together ;
117527 You are welcome , sir , to Cyprus . Goats and monkeys !
117528
117529
117530 Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate
117531 Call all-in-all sufficient ? is this the noble nature
117532 Whom passion could not shake ? whose solid virtue
117533 The shot of accident nor dart of chance
117534 Could neither graze nor pierce ?
117535
117536 He is much chang'd .
117537
117538 Are his wits safe ? is he not light of brain ?
117539
117540 He's that he is ; I may not breathe my censure .
117541 What he might be , if , what he might , he is not ,
117542 I would to heaven he were !
117543
117544 What ! strike his wife !
117545
117546 Faith , that was not so well ; yet would I knew
117547 That stroke would prove the worst !
117548
117549 Is it his use ?
117550 Or did the letters work upon his blood ,
117551 And new-create this fault ?
117552
117553 Alas , alas !
117554 It is not honesty in me to speak
117555 What I have seen and known . You shall observe him ,
117556 And his own courses will denote him so
117557 That I may save my speech . Do but go after
117558 And mark how he continues .
117559
117560 I am sorry that I am deceiv'd in him .
117561
117562
117563 You have seen nothing , then ?
117564
117565 Nor ever heard , nor ever did suspect .
117566
117567 Yes , you have seen Cassio and her together .
117568
117569 But then I saw no harm , and then I heard
117570 Each syllable that breath made up between them .
117571
117572 What ! did they never whisper ?
117573
117574 Never , my lord .
117575
117576 Nor send you out o' the way ?
117577
117578 Never .
117579
117580 To fetch her fan , her gloves , her mask , nor nothing ?
117581
117582 Never , my lord .
117583
117584 That's strange .
117585
117586 I durst , my lord , to wager she is honest ,
117587 Lay down my soul at stake : if you think other ,
117588 Remove your thought ; it doth abuse your bosom .
117589 If any wretch have put this in your head ,
117590 Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse !
117591 For , if she be not honest , chaste , and true ,
117592 There's no man happy ; the purest of their wives
117593 Is foul as slander .
117594
117595 Bid her come hither ; go .
117596
117597 She says enough ; yet she's a simple bawd
117598 That cannot say as much . This is a subtle whore ,
117599 A closet lock and key of villanous secrets ;
117600 And yet she'll kneel and pray ; I have seen her do 't .
117601
117602
117603 My lord , what is your will ?
117604
117605 Pray , chuck , come hither .
117606
117607 What is your pleasure ?
117608
117609 Let me see your eyes ;
117610 Look in my face .
117611
117612 What horrible fancy's this ?
117613
117614 Some of your function , mistress ;
117615 Leave procreants alone and shut the door ;
117616 Cough or cry 'hem' if any body come ;
117617 Your mystery , your mystery ; nay , dispatch .
117618
117619
117620 Upon my knees , what doth your speech import ?
117621 I understand a fury in your words ,
117622 But not the words .
117623
117624 Why , what art thou ?
117625
117626 Your wife , my lord ; your true
117627 And loyal wife .
117628
117629 Come , swear it , damn thyself ;
117630 Lest , being like one of heaven , the devils themselves
117631 Should fear to seize thee ; therefore be double-damn'd ;
117632 Swear thou art honest .
117633
117634 Heaven doth truly know it .
117635
117636 Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell .
117637
117638 To whom , my lord ? with whom ? how am I false ?
117639
117640 Ah ! Desdemona ; away , away , away !
117641
117642 Alas , the heavy day !Why do you weep ?
117643 Am I the motive of these tears , my lord ?
117644 If haply you my father do suspect
117645 An instrument of this your calling back ,
117646 Lay not your blame on me ; if you have lost him ,
117647 Why , I have lost him too .
117648
117649 Had it pleas'd heaven
117650 To try me with affliction , had he rain'd
117651 All kinds of sores , and shames , on my bare head ,
117652 Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips ,
117653 Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes ,
117654 I should have found in some part of my soul
117655 A drop of patience ; but , alas ! to make me
117656 The fixed figure for the time of scorn
117657 To point his slow and moving finger at ;
117658 Yet could I bear that too ; well , very well :
117659 But there , where I have garner'd up my heart ,
117660 Where either I must live or bear no life ,
117661 The fountain from the which my current runs
117662 Or else dries up ; to be discarded thence !
117663 Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
117664 To knot and gender in ! Turn thy complexion there ,
117665 Patience , thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin ;
117666 Ay , there , look grim as hell !
117667
117668 I hope my noble lord esteems me honest .
117669
117670 O ! ay ; as summer flies are in the shambles ,
117671 That quicken even with blowing . O thou weed !
117672 Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet
117673 That the sense aches at thee , would thou hadst ne'er been born .
117674
117675 Alas ! what ignorant sin have I committed ?
117676
117677 Was this fair paper , this most goodly book ,
117678 Made to write 'whore' upon ? What committed !
117679 Committed ! O thou public commoner !
117680 I should make very forges of my cheeks ,
117681 That would to cinders burn up modesty ,
117682 Did I but speak thy deeds . What committed !
117683 Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks ,
117684 The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets
117685 Is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth ,
117686 And will not hear it . What committed !
117687 Impudent strumpet !
117688
117689 By heaven , you do me wrong .
117690
117691 Are not you a strumpet ?
117692
117693 No , as I am a Christian .
117694 If to preserve this vessel for my lord
117695 From any other foul unlawful touch
117696 Be not to be a strumpet , I am none .
117697
117698 What ! not a whore ?
117699
117700 No , as I shall be sav'd .
117701
117702 Is it possible ?
117703
117704 O ! heaven forgive us .
117705
117706 I cry you mercy , then ;
117707 I took you for that cunning whore of Venice
117708 That married with Othello . You , mistress ,
117709 That have the office opposite to Saint Peter ,
117710 And keep the gate of hell !
117711
117712
117713 You , you , ay , you !
117714 We have done our course ; there's money for your pains .
117715 I pray you , turn the key and keep our counsel .
117716
117717 Alas ! what does this gentleman conceive ?
117718 How do you , madam ? how do you , my good lady ?
117719
117720 Faith , half asleep .
117721
117722 Good madam , what's the matter with my lord ?
117723
117724 With who ?
117725
117726 Why , with my lord , madam .
117727
117728 Who is thy lord ?
117729
117730 He that is yours , sweet lady .
117731
117732 I have none ; do not talk to me , Emilia ;
117733 I cannot weep , nor answer have I none ,
117734 But what should go by water . Prithee , to-night
117735 Lay on my bed my wedding sheets : remember :
117736 And call thy husband hither .
117737
117738 Here is a change indeed !
117739
117740
117741 'Tis meet I should be us'd so , very meet .
117742 How have I been behav'd , that he might stick
117743 The small'st opinion on my least misuse ?
117744
117745
117746 What is your pleasure , madam ? How is it with you ?
117747
117748 I cannot tell . Those that do teach young babes
117749 Do it with gentle means and easy tasks ;
117750 He might have chid me so ; for , in good faith ,
117751 I am a child to chiding .
117752
117753 What's the matter , lady ?
117754
117755 Alas ! Iago , my lord hath so bewhor'd her ,
117756 Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her ,
117757 As true hearts cannot bear .
117758
117759 Am I that name , Iago ?
117760
117761 What name , fair lady ?
117762
117763 Such as she says my lord did say I was .
117764
117765 He call'd her whore ; a beggar in his drink
117766 Could not have laid such terms upon his callat .
117767
117768 Why did he so ?
117769
117770 I do not know ; I am sure I am none such .
117771
117772 Do not weep , do not weep . Alas the day !
117773
117774 Has she forsook so many noble matches ,
117775 Her father and her country and her friends ,
117776 To be call'd whore ? would it not make one weep ?
117777
117778 It is my wretched fortune .
117779
117780 Beshrew him for it !
117781 How comes this trick upon him ?
117782
117783 Nay , heaven doth know .
117784
117785 I will be hang'd , if some eternal villain ,
117786 Some busy and insinuating rogue ,
117787 Some cogging cozening slave , to get some office ,
117788 Have not devis'd this slander ; I'll be hang'd else .
117789
117790 Fie ! there is no such man ; it is impossible .
117791
117792 If any such there be , heaven pardon him !
117793
117794 A halter pardon him , and hell gnaw his bones !
117795 Why should he call her whore ? who keeps her company ?
117796 What place ? what time ? what form ? what likelihood ?
117797 The Moor's abus'd by some most villanous knave ,
117798 Some base notorious knave , some scurvy fellow .
117799 O heaven ! that such companions thou'dst unfold ,
117800 And put in every honest hand a whip
117801 To lash the rascals naked through the world ,
117802 Even from the east to the west !
117803
117804 Speak within door .
117805
117806 O ! fie upon them . Some such squire he was
117807 That turn'd your wit the seamy side without ,
117808 And made you to suspect me with the Moor .
117809
117810 You are a fool ; go to .
117811
117812 O good Iago ,
117813 What shall I do to win my lord again ?
117814 Good friend , go to him ; for , by this light of heaven ,
117815 I know not how I lost him . Here I kneel :
117816 If e'er my will did trespass 'gainst his love ,
117817 Either in discourse of thought or actual deed ,
117818 Or that mine eyes , mine ears , or any sense ,
117819 Delighted them in any other form ;
117820 Or that I do not yet , and ever did ,
117821 And ever will , though he do shake me off
117822 To beggarly divorcement , love him dearly ,
117823 Comfort forswear me ! Unkindness may do much ;
117824 And his unkindness may defeat my life ,
117825 But never taint my love . I cannot say 'whore :'
117826 It does abhor me now I speak the word ;
117827 To do the act that might the addition earn
117828 Not the world's mass of vanity could make me .
117829
117830 I pray you be content , 'tis but his humour ;
117831 The business of the state does him offence ,
117832 And he does chide with you .
117833
117834 If 'twere no other ,
117835
117836 'Tis but so , I warrant .
117837
117838 Hark ! how these instruments summon to supper ;
117839 The messengers of Venice stay the meat :
117840 Go in , and weep not ; all things shall be well .
117841
117842
117843 How now , Roderigo !
117844
117845 I do not find that thou dealest justly with me .
117846
117847 What in the contrary ?
117848
117849 Every day thou daffest me with some device , Iago ; and rather , as it seems to me now , keepest from me all conveniency , than suppliest me with the least advantage of hope . I will indeed no longer endure it , nor am I yet persuaded to put up in peace what already I have foolishly suffered .
117850
117851 Will you hear me , Roderigo ?
117852
117853 Faith , I have heard too much , for your words and performances are no kin together .
117854
117855 You charge me most unjustly .
117856
117857 With nought but truth . I have wasted myself out of my means . The jewels you have had from me to deliver to Desdemona would half have corrupted a votarist ; you have told me she has received them , and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden respect and acquaintance , but I find none .
117858
117859 Well ; go to ; very well .
117860
117861 Very well ! go to ! I cannot go to , man ; nor 'tis not very well : by this hand , I say , it is very scurvy , and begin to find myself fobbed in it .
117862
117863 Very well .
117864
117865 I tell you 'tis not very well . I will make myself known to Desdemona ; if she will return me my jewels , I will give over my suit and repent my unlawful solicitation ; if not , assure yourself I will seek satisfaction of you .
117866
117867 You have said now .
117868
117869 Ay , and said nothing , but what I protest intendment of doing .
117870
117871 Why , now I see there's mettle in thee , and even from this instant do build on thee a better opinion than ever before . Give me thy hand , Roderigo ; thou hast taken against me a most just exception ; but yet , I protest , I have dealt most directly in thy affair .
117872
117873 It hath not appeared .
117874
117875 I grant indeed it hath not appeared , and your suspicion is not without wit and judgment . But , Roderigo , if thou hast that in thee indeed , which I have greater reason to believe now than ever , I mean purpose , courage , and valour , this night show it : if thou the next night following enjoy not Desdemona , take me from this world with treachery and devise engines for my life .
117876
117877 Well , what is it ? is it within reason and compass ?
117878
117879 Sir , there is especial commission come from Venice to depute Cassio in Othello's place .
117880
117881 Is that true ? why , then Othello and Desdemona return again to Venice .
117882
117883 O , no ! he goes into Mauritania , and takes away with him the fair Desdemona , unless his abode be lingered here by some accident ; wherein none can be so determinate as the removing of Cassio .
117884
117885 How do you mean , removing of him ?
117886
117887 Why , by making him uncapable of Othello's place ; knocking out his brains .
117888
117889 And that you would have me do ?
117890
117891 Ay ; if you dare do yourself a profit and a right . He sups to-night with a harlotry , and thither will I go to him ; he knows not yet of his honourable fortune . If you will watch his going thence ,which I will fashion to fall out between twelve and one ,you may take him at your pleasure ; I will be near to second your attempt , and he shall fall between us . Come , stand not amazed at it , but go along with me ; I will show you such a necessity in his death that you shall think yourself bound to put it on him . It is now high supper-time , and the night grows to waste ; about it .
117892
117893 I will hear further reason for this .
117894
117895 And you shall be satisfied .
117896
117897
117898 I do beseech you , sir , trouble yourself no further .
117899
117900 O ! pardon me ; 'twill do me good to walk .
117901
117902 Madam , good night ; I humbly thank your ladyship .
117903
117904 Your honour is most welcome .
117905
117906 Will you walk , sir ?
117907 O ! Desdemona ,
117908
117909 My lord ?
117910
117911 Get you to bed on the instant ; I will be returned forthwith ; dismiss your attendant there ; look it be done .
117912
117913 I will , my lord .
117914
117915
117916 How goes it now ? he looks gentler than he did .
117917
117918 He says he will return incontinent ;
117919 He hath commanded me to go to bed ,
117920 And bade me to dismiss you .
117921
117922 Dismiss me !
117923
117924 It was his bidding ; therefore , good Emilia ,
117925 Give me my nightly wearing , and adieu :
117926 We must not now displease him .
117927
117928 I would you had never seen him .
117929
117930 So would not I ; my love doth so approve him ,
117931 That even his stubbornness , his checks and frowns ,
117932 Prithee , unpin me ,have grace and favour in them .
117933
117934 I have laid those sheets you bade me on the bed .
117935
117936 All's one . Good faith ! how foolish are our minds !
117937 If I do die before thee , prithee , shroud me
117938 In one of those same sheets .
117939
117940 Come , come , you talk .
117941
117942 My mother had a maid call'd Barbara ;
117943 She was in love , and he she lov'd prov'd mad
117944 And did forsake her ; she had a song of 'willow ;'
117945 An old thing 'twas , but it express'd her fortune ,
117946 And she died singing it ; that song to-night
117947 Will not go from my mind ; I have much to do
117948 But to go hang my head all at one side ,
117949 And sing it like poor Barbara . Prithee , dispatch .
117950
117951 Shall I go fetch your night-gown ?
117952
117953 No , unpin me here .
117954 This Lodovico is a proper man .
117955
117956 A very handsome man .
117957
117958 He speaks well .
117959
117960 I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip .
117961
117962
117963 The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree ,
117964 Sing all a green willow ;
117965 Her hand on her bosom , her head on her knee ,
117966 Sing willow , willow , willow :
117967 The fresh streams ran by her , and murmur'd her moans ;
117968 Sing willow , willow , willow :
117969 Her salt tears fell from her , and soften'd the stones ;
117970
117971 Lay by these :
117972
117973 Sing willow , willow , willow :
117974
117975 Prithee , hie thee ; he'll come anon .
117976
117977 Sing all a green willow must be my garland .
117978 Let nobody blame him , his scorn I approve ,
117979
117980 Nay , that's not next . Hark ! who is it that knocks ?
117981
117982 It is the wind .
117983
117984
117985 I call'd my love false love ; but what said he then ?
117986 Sing willow , willow , willow :
117987 If I court moe women , you'll couch with moe men .
117988
117989 So , get thee gone ; good night . Mine eyes do itch ;
117990 Doth that bode weeping ?
117991
117992 'Tis neither here nor there .
117993
117994 I have heard it said so . O ! these men , these men !
117995 Dost thou in conscience think , tell me , Emilia ,
117996 That there be women do abuse their husbands
117997 In such gross kind ?
117998
117999 There be some such , no question .
118000
118001 Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world ?
118002
118003 Why , would not you ?
118004
118005 No , by this heavenly light !
118006
118007 Nor I neither by this heavenly light ; might do 't as well i' the dark .
118008
118009 Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world ?
118010
118011 The world is a huge thing ; 'tis a great price
118012 For a small vice .
118013
118014 In troth , I think thou wouldst not .
118015
118016 In troth , I think I should , and undo 't when I had done . Marry , I would not do such a thing for a joint-ring , nor measures of lawn , nor for gowns , petticoats , nor caps , nor any petty exhibition ; but for the whole world , who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch ? I should venture purgatory for 't .
118017
118018 Beshrew me , if I would do such a wrong
118019 For the whole world .
118020
118021 Why , the wrong is but a wrong i' the world ; and having the world for your labour , 'tis a wrong in your own world , and you might quickly make it right .
118022
118023 I do not think there is any such woman .
118024
118025 Yes , a dozen ; and as many to the vantage , as would store the world they played for .
118026 But I do think it is their husbands' faults
118027 If wives do fall . Say that they slack their duties ,
118028 And pour our treasures into foreign laps ,
118029 Or else break out in peevish jealousies ,
118030 Throwing restraint upon us ; or , say they strike us ,
118031 Or scant our former having in despite ;
118032 Why , we have galls , and though we have some grace ,
118033 Yet have we some revenge . Let husbands know
118034 Their wives have sense like them ; they see and smell ,
118035 And have their palates both for sweet and sour ,
118036 As husbands have . What is it that they do
118037 When they change us for others ? Is it sport ?
118038 I think it is ; and doth affection breed it ?
118039 I think it doth : is 't frailty that thus errs ?
118040 It is so too ; and have not we affections ,
118041 Desires for sport , and frailty , as men have ?
118042 Then , let them use us well ; else let them know ,
118043 The ills we do , their ills instruct us so .
118044
118045 Good night , good night ; heaven me such usage send ,
118046 Not to pick bad from bad , but by bad mend !
118047
118048 Here , stand behind this bulk ; straight will he come :
118049 Wear thy good rapier bare , and put it home .
118050 Quick , quick ; fear nothing ; I'll be at thy elbow .
118051 It makes us , or it mars us ; think on that ,
118052 And fix most firm thy resolution .
118053
118054 Be near at hand ; I may miscarry in 't .
118055
118056 Here , at thy hand : be bold , and take thy stand .
118057
118058
118059 I have no great devotion to the deed ;
118060 And yet he has given me satisfying reasons :
118061 'Tis but a man gone : forth , my sword ; he dies .
118062
118063 I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense ,
118064 And he grows angry . Now , whether he kill Cassio ,
118065 Or Cassio him , or each do kill the other ,
118066 Every way makes my gain : live Roderigo ,
118067 He calls me to a restitution large
118068 Of gold and jewels that I bobb'd from him ,
118069 As gifts to Desdemona ;
118070 It must not be : if Cassio do remain ,
118071 He hath a daily beauty in his life
118072 That makes me ugly ; and , besides , the Moor
118073 May unfold me to him ; there stand I in much peril .
118074 No , he must die . But so ; I hear him coming .
118075
118076
118077 I know his gait ; 'tis he . Villain , thou diest !
118078
118079
118080 That thrust had been mine enemy indeed
118081 But that my coat is better than thou know'st ;
118082 I will make proof of thine .
118083
118084
118085 O ! I am slain .
118086
118087
118088 I am maim'd for ever . Help , ho ! murder ! murder !
118089
118090 The voice of Cassio : Iago keeps his word .
118091
118092 O ! villain that I am !
118093
118094 It is e'en so .
118095
118096 O , help , ho ! light ! a surgeon !
118097
118098 'Tis he : O brave Iago , honest and just !
118099 That hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong ;
118100 Thou teachest me . Minion , your dear lies dead ,
118101 And your unblest fate hies ; strumpet , I come !
118102 Forth of my heart those charms , thine eyes , are blotted ;
118103 Thy bed lust-stain'd shall with lust's blood be spotted .
118104
118105 What ho ! no watch ? no passage ? murder ! murder !
118106
118107 'Tis some mischance ; the cry is very direful .
118108
118109 O , help !
118110
118111 Hark !
118112
118113 O wretched villain !
118114
118115 Two or three groan : it is a heavy night ;
118116 These may be counterfeits ; let's think 't unsafe
118117 To come in to the cry without more help .
118118
118119 Nobody come ? then shall I bleed to death .
118120
118121 Hark !
118122
118123
118124 Here's one comes in his shirt , with light and weapons .
118125
118126 Who's there ? whose noise is this that cries on murder ?
118127
118128 We do not know .
118129
118130 Did not you hear a cry ?
118131
118132 Here , here ! for heaven's sake , help me .
118133
118134 What's the matter ?
118135
118136 This is Othello's ancient , as I take it .
118137
118138 The same indeed ; a very valiant fellow .
118139
118140 What are you here that cry so grievously ?
118141
118142 Iago ? O ! I am spoil'd , undone by villains !
118143 Give me some help .
118144
118145 O me , lieutenant ! what villains have done this ?
118146
118147 I think that one of them is hereabout ,
118148 And cannot make away .
118149
118150 O treacherous villains !
118151
118152
118153 What are you there ? come in , and give some help .
118154
118155 O ! help me here .
118156
118157 That's one of them .
118158
118159 O murderous slave ! O villain !
118160
118161
118162 O damn'd Iago ! O inhuman dog !
118163
118164 Kill men i' the dark ! Where be these bloody thieves ?
118165 How silent is this town ! Ho ! murder ! murder !
118166 What may you be ? are you of good or evil ?
118167
118168 As you shall prove us , praise us .
118169
118170 Signior Lodovico ?
118171
118172 He , sir .
118173
118174 I cry you mercy . Here's Cassio hurt by villains .
118175
118176 Cassio !
118177
118178 How is it , brother ?
118179
118180 My leg is cut in two .
118181
118182 Marry , heaven forbid ,
118183 Light , gentlemen ; I'll bind it with my shirt .
118184
118185
118186 What is the matter , ho ? who is 't that cried ?
118187
118188 Who is 't that cried !
118189
118190 O my dear Cassio ! my sweet Cassio !
118191 O Cassio , Cassio , Cassio !
118192
118193 O notable strumpet ! Cassio , may you suspect
118194 Who they should be that have thus mangled you ?
118195
118196 No .
118197
118198 I am sorry to find you thus ; I have been to seek you .
118199
118200 Lend me a garter . So . O ! for a chair ,
118201 To bear him easily hence !
118202
118203 Alas ! he faints ! O Cassio , Cassio , Cassio !
118204
118205 Gentlemen all , I do suspect this trash
118206 To be a party in this injury .
118207 Patience awhile , good Cassio . Come , come .
118208 Lend me a light . Know we this face , or no ?
118209 Alas ! my friend and my dear countryman ,
118210 Roderigo ? no : yes , sure , O heaven ! Roderigo .
118211
118212 What ! of Venice ?
118213
118214 Even he , sir : did you know him ?
118215
118216 Know him ! ay .
118217
118218 Signior Gratiano ? I cry you gentle pardon ;
118219 These bloody accidents must excuse my manners ,
118220 That so neglected you .
118221
118222 I am glad to see you .
118223
118224 How do you , Cassio ? O ! a chair , a chair !
118225
118226 Roderigo !
118227
118228
118229 He , he , 'tis he .O ! that's well said ; the chair :
118230 Some good men bear him carefully from hence ;
118231 I'll fetch the general's surgeon .
118232
118233 For you , mistress ,
118234 Save you your labour . He that lies slain here , Cassio ,
118235 Was my dear friend . What malice was between you ?
118236
118237 None in the world ; nor do I know the man .
118238
118239 What ! look you pale ? O ! bear him out o' the air
118240
118241 Stay you , good gentlemen . Look you pale , mistress ?
118242 Do you perceive the gastness of her eye ?
118243 Nay , if you stare , we shall hear more anon .
118244 Behold her well ; I pray you , look upon her :
118245 Do you see , gentlemen ? nay , guiltiness will speak
118246 Though tongues were out of use .
118247
118248
118249 'Las ! what's the matter ? what's the matter , husband ?
118250
118251 Cassio hath here been set on in the dark
118252 By Roderigo and fellows that are 'scap'd :
118253 He's almost slain , and Roderigo dead .
118254
118255 Alas ! good gentleman ; alas ! good Cassio !
118256
118257 This is the fruit of whoring . Prithee , Emilia ,
118258 Go know of Cassio where he supp'd to-night .
118259 What ! do you shake at that ?
118260
118261 He supp'd at my house ; but I therefore shake not .
118262
118263 O ! did he so ? I charge you , go with me .
118264
118265 Fie , fie upon thee , strumpet !
118266
118267 I am no strumpet , but of life as honest
118268 As you that thus abuse me .
118269
118270 As I ! foh ! fie upon thee !
118271
118272 Kind gentlemen , let's go see poor Cassio dress'd .
118273 Come , mistress , you must tell 's another tale .
118274 Emilia , run you to the citadel ,
118275 And tell my lord and lady what hath happ'd .
118276 Will you go on afore ?
118277
118278 This is the night
118279 That either makes me or fordoes me quite .
118280
118281
118282 It is the cause , it is the cause , my soul ;
118283 Let me not name it to you , you chaste stars !
118284 It is the cause . Yet I'll not shed her blood ,
118285 Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow ,
118286 And smooth as monumental alabaster .
118287 Yet she must die , else she'll betray more men .
118288 Put out the light , and then put out the light :
118289 If I quench thee , thou flaming minister ,
118290 I can again thy former light restore ,
118291 Should I repent me ; but once put out thy light ,
118292 Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature ,
118293 I know not where is that Promethean heat
118294 That can thy light relume . When I have pluck'd the rose ,
118295 I cannot give it vital growth again ,
118296 It needs must wither : I'll smell it on the tree .
118297
118298 O balmy breath , that dost almost persuade
118299 Justice to break her sword ! One more , one more .
118300 Be thus when thou art dead , and I will kill thee ,
118301 And love thee after . One more , and this the last :
118302 So sweet was ne'er so fatal . I must weep ,
118303 But they are cruel tears ; this sorrow's heavenly ,
118304 It strikes where it doth love . She wakes .
118305
118306 Who's there ? Othello ?
118307
118308 Ay , Desdemona .
118309
118310 Will you come to bed , my lord ?
118311
118312 Have you pray'd to-night , Desdemona ?
118313
118314 Ay , my lord .
118315
118316 If you bethink yourself of any crime
118317 Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace ,
118318 Solicit for it straight .
118319
118320 Alas ! my lord , what may you mean by that ?
118321
118322 Well , do it , and be brief ; I will walk by :
118323 I would not kill thy unprepared spirit ;
118324 No ; heaven forfend ! I would not kill thy soul .
118325
118326 Talk you of killing ?
118327
118328 Ay , I do .
118329
118330 Then heaven
118331 Have mercy on me !
118332
118333 Amen ! with all my heart .
118334
118335 If you say so , I hope you will not kill me .
118336
118337 Hum !
118338
118339 And yet I fear you ; for you are fatal then
118340 When your eyes roll so . Why I should fear I know not ,
118341 Since guiltiness I know not ; but yet I feel I fear .
118342
118343 Think on thy sins .
118344
118345 They are loves I bear to you .
118346
118347 Ay , and for that thou diest .
118348
118349 That death's unnatural that kills for loving .
118350 Alas ! why gnaw you so your nether lip ?
118351 Some bloody passion shakes your very frame ;
118352 These are portents , but yet , I hope , I hope
118353 They do not point on me .
118354
118355 Peace , and be still !
118356
118357 I will so . What's the matter ?
118358
118359 That handkerchief which I so lov'd and gave thee
118360 Thou gav'st to Cassio .
118361
118362 No , by my life and soul !
118363 Send for the man and ask him .
118364
118365 Sweet soul , take heed ,
118366 Take heed of perjury ; thou'rt on thy death-bed .
118367
118368 Ay , but not yet to die .
118369
118370 Yes , presently ;
118371 Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin ;
118372 For to deny each article with oath
118373 Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception
118374 That I do groan withal . Thou art to die .
118375
118376 Then Lord have mercy on me !
118377
118378 I say , amen .
118379
118380 And have you mercy too ! I never did
118381 Offend you in my life ; never lov'd Cassio
118382 But with such general warranty of heaven
118383 As I might love ; I never gave him token .
118384
118385 By heaven , I saw my handkerchief in 's hand .
118386 O perjur'd woman ! thou dost stone my heart ,
118387 And mak'st me call what I intend to do
118388 A murder , which I thought a sacrifice :
118389 I saw the handkerchief .
118390
118391 He found it then ;
118392 I never gave it him . Send for him hither ;
118393 Let him confess a truth .
118394
118395 He hath confess'd .
118396
118397 What , my lord ?
118398
118399 That he hath us'd thee .
118400
118401 How ? unlawfully ?
118402
118403 Ay .
118404
118405 He will not say so .
118406
118407 No ; his mouth is stopp'd :
118408 Honest Iago hath ta'en order for 't .
118409
118410 O ! my fear interprets . What ! is he dead ?
118411
118412 Had all his hairs been lives , my great revenge
118413 Had stomach for them all .
118414
118415 Alas ! he is betray'd and I undone .
118416
118417 Out , strumpet ! Weep'st thou for him to my face ?
118418
118419 O ! banish me , my lord , but kill me not !
118420
118421 Down , strumpet !
118422
118423 Kill me to-morrow ; let me live to-night !
118424
118425 Nay , if you strive ,
118426
118427 But half an hour !
118428
118429 Being done , there is no pause .
118430
118431 But while I say one prayer !
118432
118433 It is too late .
118434
118435
118436 My lord , my lord ! what , ho ! my lord , my lord !
118437
118438 What noise is this ? Not dead ? not yet quite dead ?
118439 I that am cruel am yet merciful ;
118440 I would not have thee linger in thy pain .
118441 So , so .
118442
118443 What , ho ! my lord , my lord !
118444
118445 Who's there ?
118446
118447 O ! good my lord , I would speak a word with you !
118448
118449 Yes ; 'tis Emilia : by and by . She's dead .
118450 'Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio's death ;
118451 The noise was high . Ha ! no more moving ?
118452 Still as the grave . Shall she come in ? Were 't good ?
118453 I think she stirs again : no . What's best to do ?
118454 If she come in she'll sure speak to my wife :
118455 My wife ! my wife ! what wife ? I have no wife :
118456 O , insupportable ! O heavy hour !
118457 Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse
118458 Of sun and moon , and that the affrighted globe
118459 Should yawn at alteration .
118460
118461 I do beseech you
118462 That I may speak with you , O ! good my lord .
118463
118464 I had forgot thee : O ! come in , Emilia :
118465 Soft , by and by : let me the curtains draw .
118466 Where art thou ?
118467
118468
118469 What's the matter with thee now ?
118470
118471 O ! my good lord , yonder's foul murder done .
118472
118473 What ! now ?
118474
118475 But now , my lord .
118476
118477 It is the very error of the moon ;
118478 She comes more near the earth than she was wont ,
118479 And makes men mad .
118480
118481 Cassio , my lord , has kill'd a young Venetian
118482 Call'd Roderigo .
118483
118484 Roderigo kill'd !
118485 And Cassio kill'd ?
118486
118487 No , Cassio is not kill'd .
118488
118489 Not Cassio kill'd ! then murder's out of tune ,
118490 And sweet revenge grows harsh .
118491
118492 O ! falsely , falsely murder'd .
118493
118494 Alas ! what cry is that ?
118495
118496 That ! what ?
118497
118498 Out , and alas ! that was my lady's voice :
118499 Help ! Help , ho ! help ! O lady , speak again !
118500 Sweet Desdemona ! O ! sweet mistress , speak .
118501
118502 A guiltless death I die .
118503
118504 O ! who hath done this deed ?
118505
118506 Nobody ; I myself ; farewell :
118507 Commend me to my kind lord . O ! farewell !
118508
118509
118510 Why , how should she be murder'd ?
118511
118512 Alas ! who knows ?
118513
118514 You heard her say herself it was not I .
118515
118516 She said so ; I must needs report the truth .
118517
118518 She's like a liar gone to burning hell ;
118519 'Twas I that kill'd her .
118520
118521 O ! the more angel she ,
118522 And you the blacker devil .
118523
118524 She turn'd to folly , and she was a whore .
118525
118526 Thou dost belie her , and thou art a devil .
118527
118528 She was false as water .
118529
118530 Thou art rash as fire to say
118531 That she was false : O ! she was heavenly true .
118532
118533 Cassio did tup her ; ask thy husband else .
118534 O ! I were damn'd beneath all depth in bell
118535 But that I did proceed upon just grounds
118536 To this extremity . Thy husband knew it all .
118537
118538 My husband !
118539
118540 Thy husband .
118541
118542 That she was false to wedlock ?
118543
118544 Ay , with Cassio . Nay , had she been true ,
118545 If heaven would make me such another world
118546 Of one entire and perfect chrysolite ,
118547 I'd not have sold her for it .
118548
118549 My husband !
118550
118551 Ay , 'twas he that told me first :
118552 An honest man he is , and hates the slime
118553 That sticks on filthy deeds .
118554
118555 My husband !
118556
118557 What needs this iterance , woman ? I say thy husband .
118558
118559 O mistress ! villany hath made mocks with love .
118560 My husband say that she was false !
118561
118562 He , woman ;
118563 I say , thy husband : dost understand the word ?
118564 My friend , thy husband , honest , honest Iago .
118565
118566 If he say so , may his pernicious soul
118567 Rot half a grain a day ! he lies to the heart :
118568 She was too fond of her most filthy bargain .
118569
118570 Ha !
118571
118572 Do thy worst :
118573 This deed of thine is no more worthy heaven
118574 Than thou wast worthy her .
118575
118576 Peace ! you were best .
118577
118578 Thou hast not half the power to do me harm
118579 As I have to be hurt . O gull ! O dolt !
118580 As ignorant as dirt ! thou hast done a deed ,
118581 I care not for thy sword ; I'll make thee known ,
118582 Though I lost twenty lives . Help ! help , ho ! help !
118583 The Moor has kill'd my mistress ! Murder ! murder !
118584
118585
118586 What is the matter ? How now , general !
118587
118588 O ! are you come , Iago ? you have done well ,
118589 That men must lay their murders on your neck .
118590
118591 What is the matter ?
118592
118593 Disprove this villain if thou be'st a man :
118594 He says thou told'st him that his wife was false .
118595 I know thou didst not , thou'rt not such a villain ,
118596 Speak , for my heart is full .
118597
118598 I told him what I thought , and told no more
118599 Than what he found himself was apt and true .
118600
118601 But did you ever tell him she was false ?
118602
118603 I did .
118604
118605 You told a lie , an odious damned lie ;
118606 Upon my soul , a lie , a wicked lie .
118607 She false with Cassio ! Did you say with Cassio ?
118608
118609 With Cassio , mistress . Go to , charm your tongue .
118610
118611 I will not charm my tongue ; I am bound to speak .
118612 My mistress here lies murder'd in her bed .
118613
118614 O heavens forfend !
118615
118616 And your reports have set the murder on .
118617
118618 Nay , stare not , masters ; it is true , indeed .
118619
118620 'Tis a strange truth .
118621
118622 O monstrous act !
118623
118624 Villany ! villany ! villany !
118625 I think upon 't , I think , I smell 't ; O villany !
118626 I thought so then ; I'll kill myself for grief .
118627 O ! villany , villany !
118628
118629 What ! are you mad ? I charge you , get you home .
118630
118631 Good gentlemen , let me have leave to speak :
118632 'Tis proper I obey him , but not now .
118633 Perchance , Iago , I will ne'er go home .
118634
118635 O ! O ! O !
118636
118637
118638 Nay , lay thee down and roar ,
118639 For thou hast kill'd the sweetest innocent
118640 That e'er did lift up eye .
118641
118642 O ! she was foul .
118643 I scarce did know you , uncle . There lies your niece ,
118644 Whose breath , indeed , these hands have newly stopp'd :
118645 I know this act shows terrible and grim .
118646
118647 Poor Desdemona ! I am glad thy father's dead .
118648 Thy match was mortal to him , and pure grief
118649 Shore his old thread in twain : did he live now ,
118650 This sight would make him do a desperate turn ,
118651 Yea , curse his better angel from his side ,
118652 And fall to reprobation .
118653
118654 'Tis pitiful ; but yet Iago knows
118655 That she with Cassio hath the act of shame
118656 A thousand times committed ; Cassio confess'd it :
118657 And she did gratify his amorous works
118658 With that recognizance and pledge of love
118659 Which I first gave her . I saw it in his hand :
118660 It was a handkerchief , an antique token
118661 My father gave my mother .
118662
118663 O heaven ! O heavenly powers !
118664
118665 Come , hold your peace .
118666
118667 'Twill out , 'twill out ; I hold my peace , air ? no ;
118668 No , I will speak as liberal as the north ;
118669 Let heaven and men and devils , let them all ,
118670 All , all , cry shame against me , yet I'll speak .
118671
118672 Be wise , and get you home .
118673
118674 I will not .
118675
118676
118677 Fie !
118678 Your sword upon a woman ?
118679
118680 O thou dull Moor ! that handkerchief thou speak'st of
118681 I found by fortune and did give my husband ;
118682 For often , with a solemn earnestness ,
118683 More than , indeed , belong'd to such a trifle ,
118684 He begg'd of me to steal it .
118685
118686 Villanous whore !
118687
118688 She give it Cassio ! no , alas ! I found it ,
118689 And I did give 't my husband .
118690
118691 Filth , thou liest !
118692
118693 By heaven , I do not , I do not , gentlemen .
118694 O murderous coxcomb ! what should such a fool
118695 Do with so good a wife ?
118696
118697 Are there no stones in heaven
118698 But what serve for the thunder ? Precious villain !
118699
118700
118701 The woman falls : sure , he has kill'd his wife .
118702
118703 Ay , ay ; O ! lay me by my mistress' side .
118704
118705 He's gone ; but his wife's kill'd .
118706
118707 'Tis a notorious villain . Take you this weapon ,
118708 Which I have here recover'd from the Moor .
118709 Come , guard the door without ; let him not pass ,
118710 But kill him rather . I'll after that same villain ,
118711 For 'tis a damned slave .
118712
118713
118714 I am not valiant neither ,
118715 But every puny whipster gets my sword .
118716 But why should honour outlive honesty ?
118717 Let it go all .
118718
118719 What did thy song bode , lady ?
118720 Hark , canst thou hear me ? I will play the swan ,
118721 And die in music :
118722 Willow , willow , willow .
118723 Moor , she was chaste ; she lov'd thee , cruel Moor ;
118724 So come my soul to bliss as I speak true ;
118725 So speaking as I think , I die , I die .
118726
118727
118728 I have another weapon in this chamber ;
118729 It is a sword of Spain , the ice brook's temper .
118730 O ! here it is . Uncle , I must come forth .
118731
118732 If thou attempt it , it will cost thee dear :
118733 Thou hast no weapon , and perforce must suffer .
118734
118735 Look in upon me then , and speak with me ,
118736 Or , naked as I am , I will assault thee .
118737
118738
118739 What is the matter ?
118740
118741 Behold ! I have a weapon ;
118742 A better never did itself sustain
118743 Upon a soldier's thigh : I have seen the day ,
118744 That with this little arm , and this good sword ,
118745 I have made my way through more impediments
118746 Than twenty times your stop : but , O vain boast !
118747 Who can control his fate ? 'tis not so now .
118748 Be not afraid , though you do see me weapon'd ;
118749 Here is my journey's end , here is my butt ,
118750 And very sea-mark of my utmost sail .
118751 Do you go back dismay'd ? 'tis a lost fear ;
118752 Man but a rush against Othello's breast ,
118753 And he retires . Where should Othello go ?
118754 Now how dost thou look now ? O ill-starr'd wench !
118755 Pale as thy smock ! when we shall meet at compt ,
118756 This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven ,
118757 And fiends will snatch at it . Cold , cold , my girl !
118758 Even like thy chastity .
118759 O ! cursed , cursed slave . Whip me , ye devils ,
118760 From the possession of this heavenly sight !
118761 Blow me about in winds ! roast me in sulphur !
118762 Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire !
118763 O Desdemona ! Desdemona ! dead !
118764 Oh ! Oh ! Oh !
118765
118766
118767 Where is this rash and most unfortunate man ?
118768
118769 That's he that was Othello ; here I am .
118770
118771 Where is that viper ? bring the villain forth .
118772
118773 I look down towards his feet ; but that's a fable .
118774 If that thou be'st a devil , I cannot kill thee .
118775
118776
118777 Wrench his sword from him .
118778
118779 I bleed , sir ; but not kill'd .
118780
118781 I am not sorry neither ; I'd have thee live ;
118782 For , in my sense , 'tis happiness to die .
118783
118784 O thou Othello ! that wert once so good ,
118785 Fall'n in the practice of a damned slave ,
118786 What shall be said to thee ?
118787
118788 Why , any thing :
118789 An honourable murderer , if you will ;
118790 For nought did I in hate , but all in honour .
118791
118792 This wretch hath part confess'd his villany :
118793 Did you and he consent in Cassio's death ?
118794
118795 Ay .
118796
118797 Dear general , I never gave you cause .
118798
118799 I do believe it , and I ask your pardon .
118800 Will you , I pray , demand that demi-devil
118801 Why he hath thus ensnar'd my soul and body ?
118802
118803 Demand me nothing : what you know , you know :
118804 From this time forth I never will speak word .
118805
118806 What ! not to pray ?
118807
118808 Torments will ope your lips .
118809
118810 Well , thou dost best .
118811
118812 Sir , you shall understand what hath befall'n ,
118813 Which , as I think , you know not . Here is a letter
118814 Found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo ,
118815 And here another ; the one of them imports
118816 The death of Cassio to be undertook
118817 By Roderigo .
118818
118819 O villain !
118820
118821 Most heathenish and most gross !
118822
118823 Now here's another discontented paper ,
118824 Found in his pocket too ; and this , it seems ,
118825 Roderigo meant to have sent this damned villain ,
118826 But that , belike , Iago in the interim
118827 Came in and satisfied him .
118828
118829 O the pernicious caitiff !
118830 How came you , Cassio , by that handkerchief
118831 That was my wife's ?
118832
118833 I found it in my chamber ;
118834 And he himself confess'd but even now
118835 That there he dropp'd it for a special purpose
118836 Which wrought to his desire .
118837
118838 O fool ! fool ! fool !
118839
118840 There is besides in Roderigo's letter
118841 How he upbraids Iago that he made him
118842 Brave me upon the watch ; whereon it came
118843 That I was cast : and even but now he spake ,
118844 After long seeming dead , Iago hurt him ,
118845 Iago set him on .
118846
118847 You must forsake this room and go with us ;
118848 Your power and your command is taken off ,
118849 And Cassio rules in Cyprus . For this slave ,
118850 If there be any cunning cruelty
118851 That can torment him much and hold him long ,
118852 It shall be his . You shall close prisoner rest .
118853 Till that the nature of your fault be known
118854 To the Venetian state . Come , bring him away .
118855
118856 Soft you ; a word or two before you go .
118857 I have done the state some service , and they know't ;
118858 No more of that . I pray you , in your letters ,
118859 When you shall these unlucky deeds relate ,
118860 Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate ,
118861 Nor set down aught in malice : then , must you speak
118862 Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well ;
118863 Of one not easily jealous , but , being wrought ,
118864 Perplex'd in the extreme ; of one whose hand ,
118865 Like the base Indian , threw a pearl away
118866 Richer than all his tribe ; of one whose subdu'd eyes
118867 Albeit unused to the melting mood ,
118868 Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
118869 Their med'cinable gum . Set you down this ;
118870 And say besides , that in Aleppo once ,
118871 Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
118872 Beat a Venetian and traduc'd the state ,
118873 I took by the throat the circumcised dog ,
118874 And smote him thus .
118875
118876
118877 O bloody period !
118878
118879 All that's spoke is marr'd .
118880
118881 I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee ; no way but this ,
118882
118883 Killing myself to die upon a kiss .
118884
118885
118886 This did I fear , but thought he had no weapon ;
118887 For he was great of heart .
118888
118889 O Spartan dog !
118890 More fell than anguish , hunger , or the sea .
118891 Look on the tragic loading of this bed ;
118892 This is thy work ; the object poisons sight ;
118893 Let it be hid . Gratiano , keep the house ,
118894 And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor ,
118895 For they succeed on you . To you , lord governor ,
118896 Remains the censure of this hellish villain ,
118897 The time , the place , the torture ; O ! enforce it .
118898 Myself will straight aboard , and to the state
118899 This heavy act with heavy heart relate .
118900
118901 ROMEO AND JULIET
118902
118903 Two households , both alike in dignity ,
118904 In fair Verona , where we lay our scene ,
118905 From ancient grudge break to new mutiny ,
118906 Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean .
118907 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
118908 A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life ;
118909 Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows
118910 Do with their death bury their parents' strife .
118911 The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love ,
118912 And the continuance of their parents' rage ,
118913 Which , but their children's end , nought could remove ,
118914 Is now the two hours' traffick of our stage ;
118915 The which if you with patient ears attend ,
118916 What here shall miss , our toil shall strive to mend .
118917
118918 Gregory , o' my word , we'll not carry coals .
118919
118920 No . for then we should be colliers .
118921
118922 I mean , an we be in choler , we'll draw .
118923
118924 Ay , while you live , draw your neck out o' the collar .
118925
118926 I strike quickly , being moved .
118927
118928 But thou art not quickly moved to strike .
118929
118930 A dog of the house of Montague moves me .
118931
118932 To move is to stir , and to be valiant is to stand ; therefore , if thou art moved , thou runnest away .
118933
118934 A dog of that house shall move me to stand : I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's .
118935
118936 That shows thee a weak slave ; for the weakest goes to the wall .
118937
118938 'Tis true ; and therefore women , being the weaker vessels , are ever thrust to the wall : therefore I will push Montague's men from the wall , and thrust his maids to the wall .
118939
118940 The quarrel is between our masters and us their men .
118941
118942 'Tis all one , I will show myself a tyrant : when I have fought with the men , I will be cruel with the maids ; I will cut off their heads .
118943
118944 The heads of the maids ?
118945
118946 Ay , the heads of the maids , or their maidenheads ; take it in what sense thou wilt .
118947
118948 They must take it in sense that feel it .
118949
118950 Me they shall feel while I am able to stand ; and 'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh .
118951
118952 'Tis well thou art not fish ; if thou hadst , thou hadst been poor John . Draw thy tool ; here comes two of the house of the Montagues .
118953
118954
118955 My naked weapon is out ; quarrel , I will back thee .
118956
118957 How ! turn thy back and run ?
118958
118959 Fear me not .
118960
118961 No , marry ; I fear thee !
118962
118963 Let us take the law of our sides ; let them begin .
118964
118965 I will frown as I pass by , and let them take it as they list .
118966
118967 Nay , as they dare . I will bite my thumb at them ; which is a disgrace to them , if they bear it .
118968
118969 Do you bite your thumb at us , sir ?
118970
118971 I do bite my thumb , sir .
118972
118973 Do you bite your thumb at us , sir ?
118974
118975 Is the law of our side if I say ay ?
118976
118977 No .
118978
118979 No , sir , I do not bite my thumb at you , sir ; but I bite my thumb , sir .
118980
118981 Do you quarrel , sir ?
118982
118983 Quarrel , sir ! no , sir .
118984
118985 If you do , sir , I am for you : I serve as good a man as you .
118986
118987 No better .
118988
118989 Well , sir .
118990
118991 Say , 'better ;' here comes one of my master's kinsmen .
118992
118993 Yes , better , sir .
118994
118995 You lie .
118996
118997 Draw , if you be men . Gregory , remember thy swashing blow .
118998
118999 Part , fools !
119000 Put up your swords ; you know not what you do .
119001
119002 What ! art thou drawn among these heartless hinds ?
119003 Turn-thee , Benvolio , look upon thy death .
119004
119005 I do but keep the peace : put up thy sword ,
119006 Or manage it to part these men with me .
119007
119008 What ! drawn , and talk of peace ? I hate the word ,
119009 As I hate hell , all Montagues , and thee .
119010 Have at thee , coward !
119011
119012
119013 Clubs , bills , and partisans ! strike ! beat them down !
119014 Down with the Capulets ! down with the Montagues !
119015
119016
119017 What noise is this ? Give me my long sword , ho !
119018
119019 A crutch , a crutch ! Why call you for a sword ?
119020
119021 My sword , I say ! Old Montague is come ,
119022 And flourishes his blade in spite of me .
119023
119024
119025 Thou villain Capulet ! Hold me not ; let me go .
119026
119027 Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe .
119028
119029
119030 Rebellious subjects , enemies to peace ,
119031 Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel ,
119032 Will they not hear ? What ho ! you men , you beasts ,
119033 That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
119034 With purple fountains issuing from your veins ,
119035 On pain of torture , from those bloody hands
119036 Throw your mis-temper'd weapons to the ground ,
119037 And hear the sentence of your moved prince .
119038 Three civil brawls , bred of an airy word ,
119039 By thee , old Capulet , and Montague ,
119040 Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets ,
119041 And made Verona's ancient citizens
119042 Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments ,
119043 To wield old partisans , in hands as old ,
119044 Canker'd with peace , to part your canker'd hate .
119045 If ever you disturb our streets again
119046 Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace .
119047 For this time , all the rest depart away :
119048 You , Capulet , shall go along with me ;
119049 And , Montague , come you this afternoon
119050 To know our further pleasure in this case ,
119051 To old Free-town , our common judgment-place .
119052 Once more , on pain of death , all men depart .
119053
119054
119055 Who set this ancient quarrel new a-broach ?
119056 Speak , nephew , were you by when it began ?
119057
119058 Here were the servants of your adversary
119059 And yours close fighting ere I did approach :
119060 I drew to part them ; in the instant came
119061 The fiery Tybalt , with his sword prepar'd ,
119062 Which , as he breath'd defiance to my ears ,
119063 He swung about his head , and cut the winds ,
119064 Who , nothing hurt withal hiss'd him in scorn .
119065 While we were interchanging thrusts and blows ,
119066 Came more and more , and fought on part and part ,
119067 Till the prince came , who parted either part .
119068
119069 O ! where is Romeo ? saw you him to-day ?
119070 Right glad I am he was not at this fray .
119071
119072 Madam , an hour before the worshipp'd sun
119073 Peer'd forth the golden window of the east ,
119074 A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad ;
119075 Where , underneath the grove of sycamore
119076 That westward rooteth from the city's side ,
119077 So early walking did I see your son :
119078 Towards him I made ; but he was ware of me ,
119079 And stole into the covert of the wood :
119080 I , measuring his affections by my own ,
119081 That most are busied when they're most alone ,
119082 Pursu'd my humour not pursuing his ,
119083 And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me .
119084
119085 Many a morning hath he there been seen ,
119086 With tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew ,
119087 Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs :
119088 But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
119089 Should in the furthest east begin to draw
119090 The shady curtains from Aurora's bed ,
119091 Away from light steals home my heavy son ,
119092 And private in his chamber pens himself ,
119093 Shuts up his windows , locks fair daylight out ,
119094 And makes himself an artificial night .
119095 Black and portentous must this humour prove
119096 Unless good-counsel may the cause remove .
119097
119098 My noble uncle , do you know the cause ?
119099
119100 I neither know it nor can learn of him .
119101
119102 Have you importun'd him by any means ?
119103
119104 Both by myself and many other friends :
119105 But he , his own affections' counsellor ,
119106 Is to himself , I will not say how true ,
119107 But to himself so secret and so close ,
119108 So far from sounding and discovery ,
119109 As is the bud bit with an envious worm ,
119110 Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air ,
119111 Or dedicate his beauty to the sun .
119112 Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow ,
119113 We would as willingly give cure as know .
119114
119115 See where he comes : so please you , step aside ;
119116 I'll know his grievance , or be much denied .
119117
119118 I would thou wert so happy by thy stay ,
119119 To hear true shrift . Come , madam , let's away .
119120
119121 Good morrow , cousin .
119122
119123 Is the day so young ?
119124
119125 But new struck nine .
119126
119127 Ay me ! sad hours seem long .
119128 Was that my father that went hence so fast ?
119129
119130 It was . What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours ?
119131
119132 Not having that , which having , makes them short .
119133
119134 In love ?
119135
119136 Out
119137
119138 Of love ?
119139
119140 Out of her favour , where I am in love .
119141
119142 Alas ! that love , so gentle in his view ,
119143 Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof .
119144
119145 Alas ! that love , whose view is muffled still ,
119146 Should , without eyes , see pathways to his will .
119147 Where shall we dine ? O me ! What fray was here ?
119148 Yet tell me not , for I have heard it all .
119149 Here's much to do with hate , but more with love :
119150 Why then , O brawling love ! O loving hate !
119151 O any thing ! of nothing first create .
119152 O heavy lightness ! serious vanity !
119153 Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms !
119154 Feather of lead , bright smoke , cold fire , sick health !
119155 Still-waking sleep , that is not what it is !
119156 This love feel I , that feel no love in this .
119157 Dost thou not laugh ?
119158
119159 No , coz , I rather weep .
119160
119161 Good heart , at what ?
119162
119163 At thy good heart's oppression .
119164
119165 Why , such is love's transgression .
119166 Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast ,
119167 Which thou wilt propagate to have it press'd
119168 With more of thine : this love that thou hast shown
119169 Doth add more grief to too much of mine own .
119170 Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs ;
119171 Being purg'd , a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes ;
119172 Being vex'd , a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears :
119173 What is it else ? a madness most discreet ,
119174 A choking gall , and a preserving sweet .
119175 Farewell , my coz .
119176
119177
119178 Soft , I will go along ;
119179 An if you leave me so , you do me wrong .
119180
119181 Tut ! I have lost myself ; I am not here ;
119182 This is not Romeo , he's some other where .
119183
119184 Tell me in sadness , who is that you love .
119185
119186 What ! shall I groan and tell thee ?
119187
119188 Groan ! why , no ;
119189 But sadly tell me who .
119190
119191 Bid a sick man in sadness make his will ;
119192 Ah ! word ill urg'd to one that is so ill .
119193 In sadness , cousin , I do love a woman .
119194
119195 I aim'd so near when I suppos'd you lov'd .
119196
119197 A right good mark-man ! And she's fair I love .
119198
119199 A right fair mark , fair coz , is soonest hit .
119200
119201 Well , in that hit you miss : she'll not be hit
119202 With Cupid's arrow ; she hath Dian's wit ;
119203 And , in strong proof of chastity well arm'd ,
119204 From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd .
119205 She will not stay the siege of loving terms ,
119206 Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes ,
119207 Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold :
119208 O ! she is rich in beauty ; only poor
119209 That , when she dies , with beauty dies her store .
119210
119211 Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste ?
119212
119213 She hath , and in that sparing makes huge waste ;
119214 For beauty , starv'd with her severity ,
119215 Cuts beauty off from all posterity .
119216 She is too fair , too wise , wisely too fair ,
119217 To merit bliss by making me despair :
119218 She hath forsworn to love , and in that vow
119219 Do I live dead that live to tell it now .
119220
119221 Be rul'd by me ; forget to think of her .
119222
119223 O ! teach me how I should forget to think .
119224
119225 By giving liberty unto thine eyes :
119226 Examine other beauties .
119227
119228 'Tis the way
119229 To call hers exquisite , in question more .
119230 These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows
119231 Being black put us in mind they hide the fair ;
119232 He , that is strucken blind cannot forget
119233 The precious treasure of his eyesight lost :
119234 Show me a mistress that is passing fair ,
119235 What doth her beauty serve but as a note
119236 Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair ?
119237 Farewell : thou canst not teach me to forget .
119238
119239 I'll pay that doctrine , or else die in debt .
119240
119241
119242 But Montague is bound as well as I ,
119243 In penalty alike ; and 'tis not hard , I think ,
119244 For men so old as we to keep the peace .
119245
119246 Of honourable reckoning are you both ;
119247 And pity 'tis you liv'd at odds so long .
119248 But now , my lord , what say you to my suit ?
119249
119250 But saying o'er what I have said before :
119251 My child is yet a stranger in the world ,
119252 She hath not seen the change of fourteen years ;
119253 Let two more summers wither in their pride
119254 Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride .
119255
119256 Younger than she are happy mothers made .
119257
119258 And too soon marr'd are those so early made .
119259 Earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she ,
119260 She is the hopeful lady of my earth :
119261 But woo her , gentle Paris , get her heart ,
119262 My will to her consent is but a part ;
119263 An she agree , within her scope of choice
119264 Lies my consent and fair according voice .
119265 This night I hold an old accustom'd feast ,
119266 Whereto I have invited many a guest
119267 Such as I love ; and you , among the store ,
119268 One more , most welcome , makes my number more .
119269 At my poor house look to behold this night
119270 Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light :
119271 Such comfort as do lusty young men feel
119272 When well-apparel'd April on the heel
119273 Of limping winter treads , even such delight
119274 Among fresh female buds shall you this night
119275 Inherit at my house ; hear all , all see ,
119276 And like her most whose merit most shall be :
119277 Which on more view , of many mine being one
119278 May stand in number , though in reckoning none .
119279 Come , go with me .
119280
119281 Go , sirrah , trudge about
119282 Through fair Verona ; find those persons out
119283 Whose names are written there , and to them say ,
119284 My house and welcome on their pleasure stay .
119285
119286
119287 Find them out whose names are written here ! It is written that the shoemaker should meddle with his yard , and the tailor with his last , the fisher with his pencil , and the painter with his nets ; but I am sent to find those persons , whose names are here writ , and can never find what names the writing person hath here writ . I must to the learned . In good time .
119288
119289
119290 Tut ! man , one fire burns out another's burning ,
119291 One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish ;
119292 Turn giddy , and be holp by backward turning ;
119293 One desperate grief cures with another's languish :
119294 Take thou some new infection to thy eye ,
119295 And the rank poison of the old will die .
119296
119297 Your plantain leaf is excellent for that .
119298
119299 For what , I pray thee ?
119300
119301 For your broken shin .
119302
119303 Why , Romeo , art thou mad ?
119304
119305 Not mad , but bound more than a madman is ;
119306 Shut up in prison , kept without my food ,
119307 Whipp'd and tormented , and Good den , good fellow .
119308
119309 God gi' good den . I pray , sir , can you read ?
119310
119311 Ay , mine own fortune in my misery .
119312
119313 Perhaps you have learn'd it without book : but , I pray , can you read any thing you see ?
119314
119315 Ay , if I know the letters and the language .
119316
119317 Ye say honestly ; rest you merry !
119318
119319
119320 Stay , fellow ; I can read .
119321 Signior Martino and his wife and daughters ; County Anselme and his beauteous sisters ; the lady widow of Vitruvio ; Signior Placentio , and his lovely nieces ; Mercutio and his brother Valentine ; mine uncle Capulet , his wife and daughters ; my fair niece Rosaline ; Livia ; Signior Valentio and his cousin Tybalt ; Lucio and the lively Helena .
119322 A fair assembly : whither should they come ?
119323
119324 Up .
119325
119326 Whither ?
119327
119328 To supper ; to our house .
119329
119330 Whose house ?
119331
119332 My master's .
119333
119334 Indeed , I should have asked you that before .
119335
119336 Now I'll tell you without asking . My master is the great rich Capulet ; and if you be not of the house of Montagues , I pray , come and crush a cup of wine . Rest you merry !
119337
119338
119339 At this same ancient feast of Capulet's ,
119340 Sups the fair Rosaline , whom thou so lov'st ,
119341 With all the admired beauties of Verona :
119342 Go thither ; and , with unattainted eye
119343 Compare her face with some that I shall show ,
119344 And I will make thee think thy swan a crow .
119345
119346 When the devout religion of mine eye
119347 Maintains such falsehood , then turn tears to fires !
119348 And these , who often drown'd could never die ,
119349 Transparent heretics , be burnt for liars !
119350 One fairer than my love ! the all-seeing sun
119351 Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun .
119352
119353 Tut ! you saw her fair , none else being by ,
119354 Herself pois'd with herself in either eye ;
119355 But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
119356 Your lady's love against some other maid
119357 That I will show you shining at this feast ,
119358 And she shall scant show well that now shows best .
119359
119360 I'll go along , no such sight to be shown ,
119361 But to rejoice in splendour of mine own .
119362
119363
119364 Nurse , where's my daughter ? call her forth to me .
119365
119366 Now , by my maidenhead , at twelve year old ,
119367 I bade her come . What , lamb ! what , ladybird !
119368 God forbid ! where's this girl ? what , Juliet !
119369
119370
119371 How now ! who calls ?
119372
119373 Your mother .
119374
119375 Madam , I am here .
119376 What is your will ?
119377
119378 This is the matter . Nurse , give leave awhile .
119379 We must talk in secret : nurse , come back again ;
119380 I have remember'd me , thou's hear our counsel .
119381 Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age .
119382
119383 Faith , I can tell her age unto an hour .
119384
119385 She's not fourteen .
119386
119387 I'll lay fourteen of my teeth
119388 And yet to my teen be it spoken I have but four
119389 She is not fourteen . How long is it now
119390 To Lammas-tide ?
119391
119392 A fortnight and odd days .
119393
119394 Even or odd , of all days in the year ,
119395 Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen .
119396 Susan and she God rest all Christian souls !
119397 Were of an age . Well , Susan is with God ;
119398 She was too good for me . But , as I said ,
119399 On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen ;
119400 That shall she , marry ; I remember it well .
119401 'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years ;
119402 And she was wean'd , I never shall forget it ,
119403 Of all the days of the year , upon that day ;
119404 For I had then laid wormwood to my dug ,
119405 Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall ;
119406 My lord and you were then at Mantua .
119407 Nay , I do bear a brain :but , as I said ,
119408 When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
119409 Of my dug and felt it bitter , pretty fool !
119410 To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug .
119411 'Shake ,' quoth the dove-house : 'twas no need , I trow ,
119412 To bid me trudge :
119413 And since that time it is eleven years ;
119414 For then she could stand high lone ; nay , by the rood ,
119415 She could have run and waddled all about ;
119416 For even the day before she broke her brow :
119417 And then my husband God be with his soul !
119418 A' was a merry man took up the child :
119419 'Yea ,' quoth he , 'dost thou fall upon thy face ?
119420 Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit ;
119421 Wilt thou not , Jule ?' and , by my halidom ,
119422 The pretty wretch left crying , and said 'Ay .'
119423 To see now how a jest shall come about !
119424 I warrant , an I should live a thousand years ,
119425 I never should forget it : 'Wilt thou not , Jule ?' quoth he ;
119426 And , pretty fool , it stinted and said 'Ay .'
119427
119428 Enough of this ; I pray thee , hold thy peace .
119429
119430 Yes , madam . Yet I cannot choose but laugh ,
119431 To think it should leave crying , and say 'Ay .'
119432 And yet , I warrant , it had upon its brow
119433 A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone ;
119434 A parlous knock ; and it cried bitterly :
119435 'Yea ,' quoth my husband , 'fall'st upon thy face ?
119436 Thou wilt fall backward when thou com'st to age ;
119437 Wilt thou not , Jule ?' it stinted and said 'Ay .'
119438
119439 And stint thou too , I pray thee , nurse , say I .
119440
119441 Peace , I have done . God mark thee to his grace !
119442 Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed :
119443 An I might live to see thee married once ,
119444 I have my wish .
119445
119446 Marry , that 'marry' is the very theme
119447 I came to talk of . Tell me , daughter Juliet ,
119448 How stands your disposition to be married ?
119449
119450 It is an honour that I dream not of .
119451
119452 An honour ! were not I thine only nurse ,
119453 I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat .
119454
119455 Well , think of marriage now ; younger than you ,
119456 Here in Verona , ladies of esteem ,
119457 Are made already mothers : by my count ,
119458 I was your mother much upon these years
119459 That you are now a maid . Thus then in brief ,
119460 The valiant Paris seeks you for his love .
119461
119462 A man , young lady ! lady , such a man
119463 As all the world why , he's a man of wax .
119464
119465 Verona's summer hath not such a flower .
119466
119467 Nay , he's a flower ; in faith , a very flower .
119468
119469 What say you ? can you love the gentleman ?
119470 This night you shall behold him at our feast ;
119471 Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face
119472 And find delight writ there with beauty's pen ;
119473 Examine every married lineament ,
119474 And see how one another lends content ;
119475 And what obscur'd in this fair volume lies
119476 Find written in the margent of his eyes .
119477 This precious book of love , this unbound lover ,
119478 To beautify him , only lacks a cover :
119479 The fish lives in the sea , and 'tis much pride
119480 For fair without the fair within to hide :
119481 That book in many eyes doth share the glory ,
119482 That in gold clasps locks in the golden story :
119483 So shall you share all that he doth possess ,
119484 By having him making yourself no less .
119485
119486 No less ! nay , bigger ; women grow by men .
119487
119488 Speak briefly , can you like of Paris' love ?
119489
119490 I'll look to like , if looking liking move ;
119491 But no more deep will I endart mine eye
119492 Than your consent gives strength to make it fly .
119493
119494
119495 Madam , the guests are come , supper served up , you called , my young lady asked for , the nurse cursed in the pantry , and everything in extremity . I must hence to wait ; I beseech you , follow straight .
119496
119497 We follow thee . Juliet , the county stays .
119498
119499 Go , girl , seek happy nights to happy days .
119500
119501
119502 What ! shall this speech be spoke for our excuse ,
119503 Or shall we on without apology ?
119504
119505 The date is out of such prolixity :
119506 We'll have no Cupid hood-wink'd with a scarf ,
119507 Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath ,
119508 Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper ;
119509 Nor no without-book prologue , faintly spoke
119510 After the prompter , for our entrance :
119511 But , let them measure us by what they will ,
119512 We'll measure them a measure , and be gone .
119513
119514 Give me a torch : I am not for this ambling ;
119515 Being but heavy , I will bear the light .
119516
119517 Nay , gentle Romeo , we must have you dance .
119518
119519 Not I , believe me : you have dancing shoes
119520 With nimble soles ; I have a soul of lead
119521 So stakes me to the ground I cannot move .
119522
119523 You are a lover ; borrow Cupid's wings ,
119524 And soar with them above a common bound .
119525
119526 I am too sore enpierced with his shaft
119527 To soar with his light feathers ; and so bound
119528 I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe :
119529 Under love's heavy burden do I sink .
119530
119531 And , to sink in it , should you burden love ;
119532 Too great oppression for a tender thing .
119533
119534 Is love a tender thing ? it is too rough ,
119535 Too rude , too boisterous ; and it pricks like thorn .
119536
119537 If love be rough with you , be rough with love ;
119538 Prick love for pricking , and you beat love down .
119539 Give me a case to put my visage in :
119540
119541 A visor for a visor ! what care I ,
119542 What curious eye doth quote deformities ?
119543 Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me .
119544
119545 Come , knock and enter ; and no sooner in ,
119546 But every man betake him to his legs .
119547
119548 A torch for me ; let wantons , light of heart ,
119549 Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels ,
119550 For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase ;
119551 I'll be a candle holder , and look on .
119552 The game was ne'er so fair , and I am done .
119553
119554 Tut ! dun's the mouse , the constable's own word .
119555 If thou art Dun , we'll draw thee from the mire ,
119556 Of save your reverence love , wherein thou stick'st
119557 Up to the ears . Come , we burn daylight , ho !
119558
119559 Nay , that's not so .
119560
119561 I mean , sir , in delay
119562 We waste our lights in vain , like lamps by day .
119563 Take our good meaning , for our judgment sits
119564 Five times in that ere once in our five wits .
119565
119566 And we mean well in going to this masque ;
119567 But 'tis no wit to go .
119568
119569 Why , may one ask ?
119570
119571 I dream'd a dream to-night .
119572
119573 And so did I .
119574
119575 Well , what was yours ?
119576
119577 That dreamers often lie .
119578
119579 In bed asleep , while they do dream things true .
119580
119581 O ! then , I see , Queen Mab hath been with you .
119582
119583 Queen Mab ! What's she ?
119584
119585 She is the fairies' midwife , and she comes
119586 In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
119587 On the fore-finger of an alderman ,
119588 Drawn with a team of little atomies
119589 Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep :
119590 Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ;
119591 The cover , of the wings of grasshoppers ;
119592 The traces , of the smallest spider's web ;
119593 The collars , of the moonshine's watery beams ;
119594 Her whip , of cricket's bone ; the lash , of film ;
119595 Her waggoner , a small grey-coated gnat ,
119596 Not half so big as a round little worm
119597 Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid ;
119598 Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut ,
119599 Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub ,
119600 Time out o' mind the fairies' coach-makers .
119601 And in this state she gallops night by night
119602 Through lovers' brains , and then they dream of love ;
119603 O'er courtiers' knees , that dream on curtsies straight ;
119604 O'er lawyers' fingers , who straight dream on fees ;
119605 O'er ladies' lips , who straight on kisses dream ;
119606 Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues ,
119607 Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are .
119608 Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's nose ,
119609 And then dreams he of smelling out a suit ;
119610 And sometimes comes she with a tithe pig's tail ,
119611 Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep ,
119612 Then dreams he of another benefice ;
119613 Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck ,
119614 And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats ,
119615 Of breaches , ambuscadoes , Spanish bladed ,
119616 Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon
119617 Drums in his ear , at which he starts and wakes ;
119618 And , being thus frighted , swears a prayer or two ,
119619 And sleeps again . This is that very Mab
119620 That plats the manes of horses in the night ;
119621 And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs ,
119622 Which once untangled much misfortune bodes ;
119623 This is the hag , when maids lie on their backs ,
119624 That presses them and learns them first to bear ,
119625 Making them women of good carriage :
119626 This is she
119627
119628 Peace , peace ! Mercutio , peace !
119629 Thou talk'st of nothing .
119630
119631 True , I talk of dreams ,
119632 Which are the children of an idle brain ,
119633 Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ;
119634 Which is as thin of substance as the air ,
119635 And more inconstant than the wind , who woos
119636 Even now the frozen bosom of the north ,
119637 And , being anger'd , puffs away from thence ,
119638 Turning his face to the dew-dropping south .
119639
119640 This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves ;
119641 Supper is done , and we shall come too late .
119642
119643 I fear too early ; for my mind misgives
119644 Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
119645 Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
119646 With this night's revels , and expire the term
119647 Of a despised life clos'd in my breast
119648 By some vile forfeit of untimely death .
119649 But he , that hath the steerage of my course ,
119650 Direct my sail !, On , lusty gentlemen .
119651
119652 Strike , drum .
119653
119654
119655 Where's Potpan , that he helps not to take away ? he shift a trencher ! he scrape a trencher !
119656
119657 When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's hands , and they unwashed too , 'tis a foul thing .
119658
119659 Away with the joint-stools , remove the court-cupboard , look to the plate . Good thou , save me a piece of marchpane ; and , as thou lovest me , let the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell . Antony ! and Potpan !
119660
119661 Ay , boy ; ready .
119662
119663 You are looked for and called for , asked for and sought for in the great chamber .
119664
119665 We cannot be here and there too .
119666
119667 Cheerly , boys ; be brisk awhile , and the longer liver take all .
119668
119669 Welcome , gentlemen ! ladies that have their toes
119670 Unplagu'd with corns will walk a bout with you .
119671 Ah ha ! my mistresses , which of you all
119672 Will now deny to dance ? she that makes dainty , she ,
119673 I'll swear , hath corns ; am I come near ye now ?
119674 Welcome , gentlemen ! I have seen the day
119675 That I have worn a visor , and could tell
119676 A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear
119677 Such as would please ; 'tis gone , 'tis gone , 'tis gone .
119678 You are welcome , gentlemen ! Come , musicians , play .
119679 A hall ! a hall ! give room , and foot it , girls .
119680
119681 More light , ye knaves ! and turn the tables up ,
119682 And quench the fire , the room has grown too hot .
119683 Ah ! sirrah , this unlook'd-for sport comes well .
119684 Nay , sit , nay , sit , good cousin Capulet ,
119685 For you and I are past our dancing days ;
119686 How long is 't now since last yourself and I
119687 Were in a mask ?
119688
119689 By'r Lady , thirty years .
119690
119691 What , man ! 'tis not so much , 'tis not so much :
119692 'Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio ,
119693 Come Pentecost as quickly as it will ,
119694 Some five and twenty years ; and then we mask'd .
119695
119696 'Tis more , 'tis more ; his son is older , sir .
119697 His son is thirty .
119698
119699 Will you tell me that ?
119700 His son was but a ward two years ago .
119701
119702 What lady is that which doth enrich the hand
119703 Of yonder knight ?
119704
119705 I know not , sir .
119706
119707 O ! she doth teach the torches to burn bright .
119708 It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
119709 Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear ;
119710 Beauty too rich for use , for earth too dear !
119711 So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows ,
119712 As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows .
119713 The measure done , I'll watch her place of stand ,
119714 And , touching hers , make blessed my rude hand .
119715 Did my heart love till now ? forswear it , sight !
119716 For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night .
119717
119718 This , by his voice , should be a Montague .
119719 Fetch me my rapier , boy . What ! dares the slave
119720 Come hither , cover'd with an antick face ,
119721 To fleer and scorn at our solemnity ?
119722 Now , by the stock and honour of my kin ,
119723 To strike him dead I hold it not a sin .
119724
119725 Why , how now , kinsman ! wherefore storm you so ?
119726
119727 Uncle , this is a Montague , our foe ;
119728 A villain that is hither come in spite ,
119729 To scorn at our solemnity this night .
119730
119731 Young Romeo , is it ?
119732
119733 'Tis he , that villain Romeo .
119734
119735 Content thee , gentle coz , let him alone :
119736 He bears him like a portly gentleman ;
119737 And , to say truth , Verona brags of him
119738 To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth .
119739 I would not for the wealth of all this town
119740 Here in my house do him disparagement ;
119741 Therefore be patient , take no note of him :
119742 It is my will ; the which if thou respect ,
119743 Show a fair presence and put off these frowns ,
119744 An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast .
119745
119746 It fits , when such a villain is a guest :
119747 I'll not endure him .
119748
119749 He shall be endur'd :
119750 What ! goodman boy ; I say , he shall , go to ;
119751 Am I the master here , or you ? go to .
119752 You'll not endure him ! God shall mend my soul !
119753 You'll make a mutiny among my guests !
119754 You will set cock-a-hoop ! you'll be the man !
119755
119756 Why , uncle , 'tis a shame .
119757
119758 Go to , go to ;
119759 You are a saucy boy is't so indeed ?
119760 This trick may chance to scathe you .I know what :
119761 You must contrary me ! marry , 'tis time .
119762 Well said , my hearts ! You are a princox ; go :
119763 Be quiet , or More light , more light !For shame !
119764 I'll make you quiet . What ! cheerly , my hearts !
119765
119766 Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting
119767 Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting .
119768 I will withdraw ; but this intrusion shall
119769 Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall .
119770
119771
119772 If I profane with my unworthiest hand
119773 This holy shrine , the gentle sin is this ;
119774 My lips , two blushing pilgrims , ready stand
119775 To smooth that rough touch with a tenderkiss .
119776
119777 Good pilgrim , you do wrong your hand too much ,
119778 Which mannerly devotion shows in this ;
119779 For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch ,
119780 And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss .
119781
119782 Have not saints lips , and holy palmers too ?
119783
119784 Ay , pilgrim , lips that they must use in prayer .
119785
119786 O ! then , dear saint , let lips do what hands do ;
119787 They pray , grant thou , lest faith turn to despair .
119788
119789 Saints do not move , though grant for prayers' sake .
119790
119791 Then move not , while my prayers' effect I take .
119792 Thus from my lips , by thine , my sin is purg'd .
119793
119794
119795 Then have my lips the sin that they have took .
119796
119797 Sin from my lips ? O trespass sweetly urg'd !
119798 Give me my sin again .
119799
119800 You kiss by the book .
119801
119802 Madam , your mother craves a word with you .
119803
119804 What is her mother ?
119805
119806 Marry , bachelor ,
119807 Her mother is the lady of the house ,
119808 And a good lady , and a wise , and virtuous :
119809 I nurs'd her daughter , that you talk'd withal ;
119810 I tell you he that can lay hold of her
119811 Shall have the chinks .
119812
119813 Is she a Capulet ?
119814 O dear account ! my life is my foe's debt .
119815
119816 Away , be gone ; the sport is at the best .
119817
119818 Ay , so I fear ; the more is my unrest .
119819
119820 Nay , gentlemen , prepare not to be gone ;
119821 We have a trifling foolish banquet towards .
119822 Is it e'en so ? Why then , I thank you all ;
119823 I thank you , honest gentlemen ; good-night .
119824 More torches here ! Come on then , let's to bed .
119825 Ah ! sirrah , by my fay , it waxes late ;
119826 I'll to my rest .
119827
119828
119829 Come hither , nurse . What is yond gentleman ?
119830
119831 The son and heir of old Tiberio .
119832
119833 What's he that now is going out of door ?
119834
119835 Marry , that , I think , be young Petruchio .
119836
119837 What's he , that follows there , that would not dance ?
119838
119839 I know not .
119840
119841 Go , ask his name .If he be married ,
119842 My grave is like to be my wedding bed .
119843
119844 His name is Romeo , and a Montague ;
119845 The only son of your great enemy .
119846
119847 My only love sprung from my only hate !
119848 Too early seen unknown , and known too late !
119849 Prodigious birth of love it is to me ,
119850 That I must love a loathed enemy .
119851
119852 What's this , what's this ?
119853
119854 A rime I learn'd even now
119855 Of one I danc'd withal .
119856
119857
119858 Anon , anon !
119859 Come , let's away ; the strangers are all gone .
119860
119861 Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie ,
119862 And young affection gapes to be his heir ;
119863 That fair for which love groan'd for and would die ,
119864 With tender Juliet match'd , is now not fair .
119865 Now Romeo is belov'd and loves again ,
119866 Alike bewitched by the charm of looks ,
119867 But to his foe suppos'd he must complain ,
119868 And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks :
119869 Being held a foe , he may not have access
119870 To breathe such vows as lovers us'd to swear ;
119871 And she as much in love , her means much less
119872 To meet her new-beloved any where :
119873 But passion lends them power , time means , to meet ,
119874 Tempering extremity with extreme sweet .
119875
119876 Can I go forward when my heart is here ?
119877 Turn back , dull earth , and find thy centre out .
119878
119879 Romeo ! my cousin Romeo !
119880
119881 He is wise ;
119882 And , on my life , hath stol'n him home to bed .
119883
119884 He ran this way , and leap'd this orchard wall :
119885 Call , good Mercutio .
119886
119887 Nay , I'll conjure too .
119888 Romeo ! humours ! madman ! passion ! lover !
119889 Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh :
119890 Speak but one rime and I am satisfied ;
119891 Cry but 'Ay me !' couple but 'love' and 'dove ;'
119892 Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word .
119893 One nickname for her purblind son and heir ,
119894 Young Adam Cupid , he that shot so trim
119895 When King Cophetua lov'd the beggar-maid .
119896 He heareth not , he stirreth not , he moveth not ;
119897 The ape is dead , and I must conjure him .
119898 I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes ,
119899 By her high forehead , and her scarlet lip ,
119900 By her fine foot , straight leg , and quivering thigh ,
119901 And the demesnes that there adjacent lie ,
119902 That in thy likeness thou appear to us .
119903
119904 An if he hear thee , thou wilt anger him .
119905
119906 This cannot anger him : 'twould anger him
119907 To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle
119908 Of some strange nature , letting it there stand
119909 Till she had laid it , and conjur'd it down ;
119910 That were some spite : my invocation
119911 Is fair and honest , and in his mistress' name
119912 I conjure only but to raise up him .
119913
119914 Come , he hath hid himself among these trees ,
119915 To be consorted with the humorous night :
119916 Blind is his love and best befits the dark .
119917
119918 If love be blind , love cannot hit the mark .
119919 Now will he sit under a medlar tree ,
119920 And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
119921 As maids call medlars , when they laugh alone .
119922 O Romeo ! that she were , O ! that she were
119923 An open et c tera , thou a poperin pear .
119924 Romeo , good night : I'll to my truckle-bed ;
119925 This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep :
119926 Come , shall we go ?
119927
119928 Go , then ; for 'tis in vain
119929 To seek him here that means not to be found .
119930
119931
119932 He jests at scars , that never felt a wound .
119933
119934 But , soft ! what light through yonder window breaks ?
119935 It is the east , and Juliet is the sun !
119936 Arise , fair sun , and kill the envious moon ,
119937 Who is already sick and pale with grief ,
119938 That thou her maid art far more fair than she :
119939 Be not her maid , since she is envious ;
119940 Her vestal livery is but sick and green ,
119941 And none but fools do wear it ; cast it off .
119942 It is my lady ; O ! it is my love :
119943 O ! that she knew she were .
119944 She speaks , yet she says nothing : what of that ?
119945 Her eye discourses ; I will answer it .
119946 I am too bold , 'tis not to me she speaks :
119947 Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven ,
119948 Having some business , do entreat her eyes
119949 To twinkle in their spheres till they return .
119950 What if her eyes were there , they in her head ?
119951 The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
119952 As daylight doth a lamp ; her eyes in heaven
119953 Would through the airy region stream so bright
119954 That birds would sing and think it were not night .
119955 See ! how she leans her cheek upon her hand :
119956 O ! that I were a glove upon that hand ,
119957 That I might touch that cheek .
119958
119959 Ay me !
119960
119961 She speaks :
119962 O ! speak again , bright angel ; for thou art
119963 As glorious to this night , being o'er my head ,
119964 As is a winged messenger of heaven
119965 Unto the white-upturned wond'ring eyes
119966 Of mortals , that fall back to gaze on him
119967 When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds ,
119968 And sails upon the bosom of the air .
119969
119970 O Romeo , Romeo ! wherefore art thou Romeo ?
119971 Deny thy father , and refuse thy name ;
119972 Or , if thou wilt not , be but sworn my love ,
119973 And I'll no longer be a Capulet .
119974
119975 Shall I hear more , or shall I speak at this ?
119976
119977 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy ;
119978 Thou art thyself though , not a Montague .
119979 What's Montague ? it is nor hand , nor foot ,
119980 Nor arm , nor face , nor any other part
119981 Belonging to a man . O ! be some other name :
119982 What's in a name ? that which we call a rose
119983 By any other name would smell as sweet ;
119984 So Romeo would , were he not Romeo call'd ,
119985 Retain that dear perfection which he owes
119986 Without that title . Romeo , doff thy name ;
119987 And for that name , which is no part of thee ,
119988 Take all myself .
119989
119990 I take thee at thy word .
119991 Call me but love , and I'll be new baptiz'd ;
119992 Henceforth I never will be Romeo .
119993
119994 What man art thou , that , thus bescreen'd in night ,
119995 So stumblest on my counsel ?
119996
119997 By a name
119998 I know not how to tall thee who I am :
119999 My name , dear saint , is hateful to myself ,
120000 Because it is an enemy to thee :
120001 Had I it written , I would tear the word .
120002
120003 My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
120004 Of that tongue's uttering , yet I know the sound :
120005 Art thou not Romeo , and a Montague ?
120006
120007 Neither , fair maid , if either thee dislike .
120008
120009 How cam'st thou hither , tell me , and wherefore ?
120010 The orchard walls are high and hard to climb ,
120011 And the place death , considering who thou art ,
120012 If any of my kinsmen find thee here .
120013
120014 With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls ;
120015 For stony limits cannot hold love out ,
120016 And what love can do that dares love attempt ;
120017 Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me .
120018
120019 If they do see thee they will murder thee .
120020
120021 Alack ! there lies more peril in thine eye
120022 Than twenty of their swords : look thou but sweet ,
120023 And I am proof against their enmity .
120024
120025 I would not for the world they saw thee here .
120026
120027 I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes ;
120028 And but thou love me , let them find me here ;
120029 My life were better ended by their hate ,
120030 Than death prorogued , wanting of thy love .
120031
120032 By whose direction found'st thou out this place ?
120033
120034 By Love , that first did prompt me to inquire ;
120035 He lent me counsel , and I lent him eyes .
120036 I am no pilot ; yet , wert thou as far
120037 As that vast shore wash'd with the furthest sea ,
120038 I would adventure for such merchandise .
120039
120040 Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face ,
120041 Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek
120042 For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night .
120043 Fain would I dwell on form , fain , fain deny
120044 What I have spoke : but farewell compliment !
120045 Dost thou love me ? I know thou wilt say 'Ay ;'
120046 And I will take thy word ; yet , if thou swear'st ,
120047 Thou mayst prove false ; at lovers' perjuries ,
120048 They say , Jove laughs . O gentle Romeo !
120049 If thou dost love , pronounce it faithfully :
120050 Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won ,
120051 I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay ,
120052 So thou wilt woo ; but else , not for the world .
120053 In truth , fair Montague , I am too fond ,
120054 And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light :
120055 But trust me , gentleman , I'll prove more true
120056 Than those that have more cunning to be strange .
120057 I should have been more strange , I must confess ,
120058 But that thou over-heard'st , ere I was 'ware ,
120059 My true love's passion : therefore pardon me ,
120060 And not impute this yielding to light love ,
120061 Which the dark night hath so discovered .
120062
120063 Lady , by yonder blessed moon I swear
120064 That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops ,
120065
120066 O ! swear not by the moon , the inconstant moon ,
120067 That monthly changes in her circled orb ,
120068 Lest that thy love prove likewise variable .
120069
120070 What shall I swear by ?
120071
120072 Do not swear at all ;
120073 Or , if thou wilt , swear by thy gracious self ,
120074 Which is the god of my idolatry ,
120075 And I'll believe thee .
120076
120077 If my heart's dear love
120078
120079 Well , do not swear . Although I joy in thee ,
120080 I have no joy of this contract to-night :
120081 It is too rash , too unadvis'd , too sudden ;
120082 Too like the lightning , which doth cease to be
120083 Ere one can say it lightens . Sweet , good-night !
120084 This bud of love , by summer's ripening breath ,
120085 May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet .
120086 Good-night , good-night ! as sweet repose and rest
120087 Come to thy heart as that within my breast !
120088
120089 O ! wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied ?
120090
120091 What satisfaction canst thou have to-night ?
120092
120093 The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine .
120094
120095 I gave thee mine before thou didst request it ;
120096 And yet I would it were to give again .
120097
120098 Wouldst thou withdraw it ? for what purpose , love ?
120099
120100 But to be frank , and give it thee again .
120101 And yet I wish but for the thing I have :
120102 My bounty is as boundless as the sea ,
120103 My love as deep ; the more I give to thee ,
120104 The more I have , for both are infinite .
120105
120106 I hear some noise within ; dear love , adieu !
120107 Anon , good nurse ! Sweet Montague , be true .
120108 Stay but a little , I will come again .
120109
120110
120111 O blessed , blessed night ! I am afeard ,
120112 Being in night , all this is but a dream ,
120113 Too flattering-sweet to be substantial .
120114
120115
120116 Three words , dear Romeo , and good-night indeed .
120117 If that thy bent of love be honourable ,
120118 Thy purpose marriage , send me word to-morrow ,
120119 By one that I'll procure to come to thee ,
120120 Where , and what time , thou wilt perform the rite ;
120121 And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay ,
120122 And follow thee my lord throughout the world .
120123
120124 Madam !
120125
120126 I come , anon .But if thou mean'st not well ,
120127 I do beseech thee ,
120128
120129 Madam !
120130
120131 By and by ; I come :
120132 To cease thy suit , and leave me to my grief :
120133 To-morrow will I send .
120134
120135 So thrive my soul ,
120136
120137 A thousand times good-night !
120138
120139
120140 A thousand times the worse , to want thy light .
120141 Love goes toward love , as schoolboys from their books ;
120142 But love from love , toward school with heavy looks .
120143
120144 Hist ! Romeo , hist ! O ! for a falconer's voice ,
120145 To lure this tassel-gentle back again .
120146 Bondage is hoarse , and may not speak aloud ,
120147 Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies ,
120148 And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine ,
120149 With repetition of my Romeo's name .
120150
120151 It is my soul that calls upon my name :
120152 How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night ,
120153 Like softest music to attending ears !
120154
120155 Romeo !
120156
120157 My dear !
120158
120159 At what o'clock to-morrow
120160 Shall I send to thee ?
120161
120162 At the hour of nine .
120163
120164 I will not fail ; 'tis twenty years till then .
120165 I have forgot why I did call thee back .
120166
120167 Let me stand here till thou remember it .
120168
120169 I shall forget , to have thee still stand there ,
120170 Remembering how I love thy company .
120171
120172 And I'll still stay , to have thee still forget ,
120173 Forgetting any other home but this .
120174
120175 'Tis almost morning ; I would have thee gone ;
120176 And yet no further than a wanton's bird ,
120177 Who lets it hop a little from her hand ,
120178 Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves ,
120179 And with a silk thread plucks it back again ,
120180 So loving-jealous of his liberty .
120181
120182 I would I were thy bird .
120183
120184 Sweet , so would I :
120185 Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing .
120186 Good-night , good-night ! parting is such sweet sorrow
120187 That I shall say good-night till it be morrow .
120188
120189
120190 Sleep dwell upon thine eyes , peace in thy breast !
120191 Would I were sleep and peace , so sweet to rest !
120192 Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell ,
120193 His help to crave , and my dear hap to tell .
120194
120195
120196 The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night ,
120197 Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light ,
120198 And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
120199 From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels :
120200 Now , ere the sun advance his burning eye
120201 The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry ,
120202 I must up-fill this osier cage of ours
120203 With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers .
120204 The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb ;
120205 What is her burying grave that is her womb ,
120206 And from her womb children of divers kind
120207 We sucking on her natural bosom find ,
120208 Many for many virtues excellent ,
120209 None but for some , and yet all different .
120210 O ! mickle is the powerful grace that lies
120211 In herbs , plants , stones , and their true qualities :
120212 For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
120213 But to the earth some special good doth give ,
120214 Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use
120215 Revolts from true birth , stumbling on abuse :
120216 Virtue itself turns vice , being misapplied ,
120217 And vice sometime's by action dignified .
120218 Within the infant rind of this weak flower
120219 Poison hath residence and medicine power :
120220 For this , being smelt , with that part cheers each part ;
120221 Being tasted , slays all senses with the heart .
120222 Two such opposed foes encamp them still
120223 In man as well as herbs , grace and rude will ;
120224 And where the worser is predominant ,
120225 Full soon the canker death eats up that plant .
120226
120227
120228 Good morrow , father !
120229
120230 Benedicite !
120231 What early tongue so sweet saluteth me ?
120232 Young son , it argues a distemper'd head
120233 So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed :
120234 Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye ,
120235 And where care lodges , sleep will never lie ;
120236 But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain
120237 Doth couch his limbs , there golden sleep doth reign :
120238 Therefore thy earliness doth me assure
120239 Thou art up-rous'd by some distemperature ;
120240 Or if not so , then here I hit it right ,
120241 Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night .
120242
120243 That last is true ; the sweeter rest was mine .
120244
120245 God pardon sin ! wast thou with Rosaline ?
120246
120247 With Rosaline , my ghostly father ? no ;
120248 I have forgot that name , and that name's woe .
120249
120250 That's my good son : but where hast thou been , then ?
120251
120252 I'll tell thee , ere thou ask it me again .
120253 I have been feasting with mine enemy ,
120254 Where on a sudden one hath wounded me ,
120255 That's by me wounded : both our remedies
120256 Within thy help and holy physic lies :
120257 I bear no hatred , blessed man ; for , lo !
120258 My intercession likewise steads my foe .
120259
120260 Be plain , good son , and homely in thy drift ;
120261 Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift .
120262
120263 Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set
120264 On the fair daughter of rich Capulet :
120265 As mine on hers , so hers is set on mine ;
120266 And all combin'd , save what thou must combine
120267 By holy marriage : when and where and how
120268 We met we woo'd and made exchange of vow ,
120269 I'll tell thee as we pass ; but this I pray ,
120270 That thou consent to marry us to-day .
120271
120272 Holy Saint Francis ! what a change is here ;
120273 Is Rosaline , whom thou didst love so dear ,
120274 So soon forsaken ? young men's love then lies
120275 Not truly in their hearts , but in their eyes .
120276 Jesu Maria ! what a deal of brine
120277 Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline ;
120278 How much salt water thrown away in waste ,
120279 To season love , that of it doth not taste !
120280 The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears ,
120281 Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears ;
120282 Lo ! here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit
120283 Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet .
120284 If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine ,
120285 Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline :
120286 And art thou chang'd ? pronounce this sentence then :
120287 Women may fall , when there's no strength in men .
120288
120289 Thou chidd'st me oft for loving Rosaline .
120290
120291 For doting , not for loving , pupil mine .
120292
120293 And bad'st me bury love .
120294
120295 Not in a grave ,
120296 To lay one in , another out to have .
120297
120298 I pray thee , chide not ; she , whom I love now
120299 Doth grace for grace and love for love allow ;
120300 The other did not so .
120301
120302 O ! she knew well
120303 Thy love did read by rote and could not spell .
120304 But come , young waverer , come , go with me ,
120305 In one respect I'll thy assistant be ;
120306 For this alliance may so happy prove ,
120307 To turn your households' rancour to pure love .
120308
120309 O ! let us hence ; I stand on sudden haste .
120310
120311 Wisely and slow ; they stumble that run fast .
120312
120313
120314 Where the devil should this Romeo be ?
120315 Came he not home to-night ?
120316
120317 Not to his father's ; I spoke with his man .
120318
120319 Why that same pale hard-hearted wench , that Rosaline ,
120320 Torments him so , that he will sure run mad .
120321
120322 Tybalt , the kinsman of old Capulet ,
120323 Hath sent a letter to his father's house .
120324
120325 A challenge , on my life .
120326
120327 Romeo will answer it .
120328
120329 Any man that can write may answer a letter .
120330
120331 Nay , he will answer the letter's master , how he dares , being dared .
120332
120333 Alas ! poor Romeo , he is already dead ; stabbed with a white wench's black eye ; shot through the ear with a love-song ; the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft ; and is he a man to encounter Tybalt ?
120334
120335 Why , what is Tybalt ?
120336
120337 More than prince of cats , I can tell you . O ! he is the courageous captain of compliments . He fights as you sing prick-song , keeps time , distance , and proportion ; rests me his minim rest , one , two , and the third in your bosom ; the very butcher of a silk button , a duellist , a duellist ; a gentleman of the very first house , of the first and second cause . Ah ! the immortal passado ! the punto reverso ! the hay !
120338
120339 The what ?
120340
120341 The pox of such antick , lisping , affecting fantasticoes , these new tuners of accents !'By Jesu , a very good blade !a very tall man ! a very good whore .' Why , is not this a lamentable thing , grandsire , that we should be thus afflicted with these strange flies , these fashion-mongers , these pardonnez-mois , who stand so much on the new form that they cannot sit at ease on the old bench ? O , their bons , their bons !
120342
120343
120344 Here comes Romeo , here comes Romeo .
120345
120346 Without his roe , like a dried herring . O flesh , flesh , how art thou fishified ! Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in : Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench ; marry , she had a better love to be-rime her ; Dido a dowdy ; Cleopatra a gipsy ; Helen and Hero hildings and harlots ; Thisbe , a grey eye or so , but not to the purpose . Signior Romeo , bon jour ! there's a French salutation to your French slop . You gave us the counterfeit fairly last night .
120347
120348 Good morrow to you both . What counterfeit did I give you ?
120349
120350 The slip , sir , the slip ; can you not conceive ?
120351
120352 Pardon , good Mercutio , my business was great ; and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy .
120353
120354 That's as much as to say , such a case as yours constrains a man to bow in the hams .
120355
120356 Meaning to curtsy .
120357
120358 Thou hast most kindly hit it .
120359
120360 A most courteous exposition .
120361
120362 Nay , I am the very pink of courtesy .
120363
120364 Pink for flower .
120365
120366 Right .
120367
120368 Why , then , is my pump well flowered .
120369
120370 Well said ; follow me this jest now till thou hast worn out the pump , that , when the single sole of it is worn , the jest may remain after the wearing sole singular .
120371
120372 O single-soled jest ! solely singular for the singleness .
120373
120374 Come between us , good Benvolio ; my wit faints .
120375
120376 Switch and spurs , switch and spurs ; or I'll cry a match .
120377
120378 Nay , if thy wits run the wild-goose chase , I have done , for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of thy wits than , I am sure , I have in my whole five . Was I with you there for the goose ?
120379
120380 Thou wast never with me for anything when thou wast not here for the goose .
120381
120382 I will bite thee by the ear for that jest .
120383
120384 Nay , good goose , bite not .
120385
120386 Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting ; it is a most sharp sauce .
120387
120388 And is it not then well served in to a sweet goose ?
120389
120390 O ! here's a wit of cheveril , that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad .
120391
120392 I stretch it out for that word 'broad ;' which added to the goose , proves thee far and wide a broad goose .
120393
120394 Why , is not this better now than groaning for love ? now art thou sociable , now art thou Romeo ; now art thou what thou art , by art as well as by nature : for this drivelling love is like a great natural , that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole .
120395
120396 Stop there , stop there .
120397
120398 Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair .
120399
120400 Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large .
120401
120402 O ! thou art deceived ; I would have made it short ; for I was come to the whole depth of my tale , and meant indeed to occupy the argument no longer .
120403
120404 Here's goodly gear !
120405
120406
120407 A sail , a sail !
120408
120409 Two , two ; a shirt and a smock .
120410
120411 Peter !
120412
120413 Anon !
120414
120415 My fan , Peter .
120416
120417 Good Peter , to hide her face ; for her fan's the fairer face .
120418
120419 God ye good morrow , gentlemen .
120420
120421 God ye good den , fair gentlewoman .
120422
120423 Is it good den ?
120424
120425 'Tis no less , I tell you ; for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon .
120426
120427 Out upon you ! what a man are you !
120428
120429 One , gentlewoman , that God hath made for himself to mar .
120430
120431 By my troth , it is well said ; 'for himself to mar ,' quoth a' ?Gentlemen , can any of you tell me where I may find the young Romeo ?
120432
120433 I can tell you ; but young Romeo will be older when you have found him than he was when you sought him : I am the youngest of that name , for fault of a worse .
120434
120435 You say well .
120436
120437 Yea ! is the worst well ? very well took , i' faith ; wisely , wisely .
120438
120439 If you be he , sir , I desire some confidence with you .
120440
120441 She will indite him to some supper .
120442
120443 A bawd , a bawd , a bawd ! So ho !
120444
120445 What hast thou found ?
120446
120447 No hare , sir ; unless a hare , sir , in a lenten pie , that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent .
120448
120449
120450 An old hare hoar , and an old hare hoar ,
120451 Is very good meat in Lent :
120452 But a hare that is hoar , is too much for a score ,
120453 When it hoars ere it be spent .
120454
120455 Romeo , will you come to your father's ? we'll to dinner thither .
120456
120457 I will follow you .
120458
120459 Farewell , ancient lady ; farewell , Lady , lady , lady .
120460
120461
120462 Marry , farewell ! I pray you , sir , what saucy merchant was this , that was so full of his ropery ?
120463
120464 A gentleman , nurse , that loves to hear himself talk , and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month .
120465
120466 An a' speak anything against me , I'll take him down , an a' were lustier than he is , and twenty such Jacks ; and if I cannot , I'll find those that shall . Scurvy knave ! I am none of his flirt-gills ; I am none of his skeins-mates .
120467
120468 And thou must stand by too , and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure !
120469
120470 I saw no man use you at his pleasure ; if I had , my weapon should quickly have been out , I warrant you . I dare draw as soon as another man , if I see occasion in a good quarrel , and the law on my side .
120471
120472 Now , afore God , I am so vexed , that every part about me quivers . Scurvy knave ! Pray you , sir , a word ; and as I told you , my young lady bade me inquire you out ; what she bid me say I will keep to myself ; but first let me tell ye , if ye should lead her into a fool's paradise , as they say , it were a very gross kind of behaviour , as they say : for the gentlewoman is young ; and , therefore , if you should deal double with her , truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman , and very weak dealing .
120473
120474 Nurse , commend me to thy lady and mistress . I protest unto thee ,
120475
120476 Good heart ! and i' faith , I will tell her as much . Lord , Lord ! she will be a joyful woman .
120477
120478 What wilt thou tell her , nurse ? thou dost not mark me .
120479
120480 I will tell her , sir , that you do protest ; which , as I take it , is a gentlemanlike offer .
120481
120482 Bid her devise
120483 Some means to come to shrift this afternoon ;
120484 And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell ,
120485 Be shriv'd and married . Here is for thy pains .
120486
120487 No , truly , sir ; not a penny .
120488
120489 Go to ; I say , you shall .
120490
120491 This afternoon , sir ? well , she shall be there .
120492
120493 And stay , good nurse ; behind the abbey wall :
120494 Within this hour my man shall be with thee ,
120495 And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair ;
120496 Which to the high top-gallant of my joy
120497 Must be my convoy in the secret night .
120498 Farewell ! Be trusty , and I'll quit thy pains .
120499 Farewell ! Commend me to thy mistress .
120500
120501 Now God in heaven bless thee ! Hark you , sir .
120502
120503 What sayst thou , my dear nurse ?
120504
120505 Is your man secret ? Did you ne'er hear say ,
120506 Two may keep counsel , putting one away ?
120507
120508 I warrant thee my man's as true as steel .
120509
120510 Well , sir ; my mistress is the sweetest lady Lord , Lord !when 'twas a little prating thing ,O ! there's a nobleman in town , one Paris , that would fain lay knife aboard ; but she , good soul , had as lief see a toad , a very toad , as see him . I anger her sometimes and tell her that Paris is the properer man ; but , I'll warrant you , when I say so , she looks as pale as any clout in the versal world . Doth not rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter ?
120511
120512 Ay , nurse : what of that ? both with an R .
120513
120514 Ah ! mocker ; that's the dog's name . R is for the No ; I know it begins with some other letter : and she had the prettiest sententious of it , of you and rosemary , that it would do you good to hear it .
120515
120516 Commend me to thy lady .
120517
120518 Ay , a thousand times .
120519
120520 Peter !
120521
120522 Anon !
120523
120524 Before , and apace .
120525
120526
120527 The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse ;
120528 In half an hour she promis'd to return .
120529 Perchance she cannot meet him : that's not so .
120530 O ! she is lame : love's heralds should be thoughts ,
120531 Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams ,
120532 Driving back shadows over lowering hills :
120533 Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw Love ,
120534 And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings .
120535 Now is the sun upon the highmost hill
120536 Of this day's journey , and from nine till twelve
120537 Is three long hours , yet she is not come .
120538 Had she affections , and warm youthful blood ,
120539 She'd be as swift in motion as a ball ;
120540 My words would bandy her to my sweet love ,
120541 And his to me :
120542 But old folks , many feign as they were dead ;
120543 Unwieldy , slow , heavy and pale as lead .
120544
120545
120546 O God ! she comes . O honey nurse ! what news ?
120547
120548 Hast thou met with him ? Send thy man away .
120549
120550 Peter , stay at the gate .
120551
120552
120553 Now , good sweet nurse ; O Lord ! why look'st thou sad ?
120554 Though news be sad , yet tell them merrily ;
120555 If good , thou sham'st the music of sweet news
120556 By playing it to me with so sour a face .
120557
120558 I am aweary , give me leave awhile :
120559 Fie , how my bones ache ! What a jaunce have I had !
120560
120561 I would thou hadst my bones , and I thy news .
120562 Nay , come , I pray thee , speak ; good , good nurse , speak .
120563
120564 Jesu ! what haste ? can you not stay awhile ?
120565 Do you not see that I am out of breath ?
120566
120567 How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
120568 To say to me that thou art out of breath ?
120569 The excuse that thou dost make in this delay
120570 Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse .
120571 Is thy news good , or bad ? answer to that ;
120572 Say either , and I'll stay the circumstance :
120573 Let me be satisfied , is 't good or bad ?
120574
120575 Well , you have made a simple choice ; you know not how to choose a man : Romeo ! no , not he ; though his face be better than any man's , yet his leg excels all men's ; and for a hand , and a foot , and a body , though they be not to be talked on , yet they are past compare . He is not the flower of courtesy , but , I'll warrant him , as gentle as a lamb . Go thy ways , wench ; serve God . What ! have you dined at home ?
120576
120577 No , no : but all this did I know before .
120578 What says he of our marriage ? what of that ?
120579
120580 Lord ! how my head aches ; what a head have I !
120581 It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces .
120582 My back o' t'other side ; O ! my back , my back !
120583 Beshrew your heart for sending me about ,
120584 To catch my death with jauncing up and down .
120585
120586 I' faith , I am sorry that thou art not well .
120587 Sweet , sweet , sweet nurse , tell me , what says my love ?
120588
120589 Your love says , like an honest gentleman , and a courteous , and a kind , and a handsome , and , I warrant , a virtuous ,Where is your mother ?
120590
120591 Where is my mother ! why , she is within ;
120592 Where should she be ? How oddly thou repliest :
120593 'Your love says , like an honest gentleman ,
120594 Where is your mother ?'
120595
120596 O ! God's lady dear ,
120597 Are you so hot ? Marry , come up , I trow ;
120598 Is this the poultice for my aching bones ?
120599 Henceforward do your messages yourself .
120600
120601 Here's such a coil ! come , what says Romeo ?
120602
120603 Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day ?
120604
120605 I have .
120606
120607 Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell ,
120608 There stays a husband to make you a wife :
120609 Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks ,
120610 They'll be in scarlet straight at any news .
120611 Hie you to church ; I must another way ,
120612 To fetch a ladder , by the which your love
120613 Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark ;
120614 I am the drudge and toil in your delight ,
120615 But you shall bear the burden soon at night .
120616 Go ; I'll to dinner : hie you to the cell .
120617
120618 Hie to high fortune ! Honest nurse , farewell .
120619
120620
120621 So smile the heaven upon this holy act ,
120622 That after hours with sorrow chide us not !
120623
120624 Amen , amen ! but come what sorrow can ,
120625 It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
120626 That one short minute gives me in her sight :
120627 Do thou but close our hands with holy words ,
120628 Then love-devouring death do what he dare ;
120629 It is enough I may but call her mine .
120630
120631 These violent delights have violent ends ,
120632 And in their triumph die , like fire and powder ,
120633 Which , as they kiss consume : the sweetest honey
120634 Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
120635 And in the taste confounds the appetite :
120636 Therefore love moderately ; long love doth so ;
120637 Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow .
120638
120639
120640 Here comes the lady : O ! so light a foot
120641 Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint :
120642 A lover may bestride the gossamer
120643 That idles in the wanton summer air ,
120644
120645 And yet not fall ; so light is vanity .
120646
120647 Good even to my ghostly confessor .
120648
120649 Romeo shall thank thee , daughter , for us both .
120650
120651 As much to him , else are his thanks too much .
120652
120653 Ah ! Juliet , if the measure of thy joy
120654 Be heap'd like mine , and that thy skill be more
120655 To blazon it , then sweeten with thy breath
120656 This neighbour air , and let rich music's tongue
120657 Unfold the imagin'd happiness that both
120658 Receive in either by this dear encounter .
120659
120660 Conceit , more rich in matter than in words ,
120661 Brags of his substance , not of ornament :
120662 They are but beggars that can count their worth ;
120663 But my true love is grown to such excess
120664 I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth .
120665
120666 Come , come with me , and we will make short work ;
120667 For , by your leaves , you shall not stay alone
120668 Till holy church incorporate two in one .
120669
120670
120671 I pray thee , good Mercutio , let's retire :
120672 The day is hot , the Capulets abroad ,
120673 And , if we meet , we shall not 'scape a brawl ;
120674 For now , these hot days , is the mad blood stirring .
120675
120676 Thou art like one of those fellows that when he enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword upon the table and says , 'God send me no need of thee !' and by the operation of the second cup draws him on the drawer , when , indeed , there is no need .
120677
120678 Am I like such a fellow ?
120679
120680 Come , come , thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as any in Italy ; and as soon moved to be moody , and as soon moody to be moved .
120681
120682 And what to ?
120683
120684 Nay , an there were two such , we should have none shortly , for one would kill the other . Thou ! why , thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast . Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts , having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes . What eye , but such an eye , would spy out such a quarrel ? Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat , and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling . Thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street , because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun . Didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter ? with another , for tying his new shoes with old riband ? and yet thou wilt tutor me from quarrelling !
120685
120686 An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art , any man should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter .
120687
120688 The fee-simple ! O simple !
120689
120690 By my head , here come the Capulets .
120691
120692 By my heel , I care not .
120693
120694
120695 Follow me close , for I will speak to them . Gentlemen , good den ! a word with one of you .
120696
120697 And but one word with one of us ? Couple it with something ; make it a word and a blow .
120698
120699 You shall find me apt enough to that , sir , an you will give me occasion .
120700
120701 Could you not take some occasion without giving ?
120702
120703 Mercutio , thou consort'st with Romeo ,
120704
120705 Consort ! What ! dost thou make us minstrels ? an thou make minstrels of us , look to hear nothing but discords : here's my fiddlestick ; here's that shall make you dance . 'Zounds ! consort !
120706
120707 We talk here in the public haunt of men :
120708 Either withdraw unto some private place ,
120709 Or reason coldly of your grievances ,
120710 Or else depart ; here all eyes gaze on us .
120711
120712 Men's eyes were made to look , and let them gaze ;
120713 I will not budge for no man's pleasure , I .
120714
120715
120716 Well , peace be with you , sir . Here comes my man .
120717
120718 But I'll be hang'd , sir , if he wear your livery :
120719 Marry , go before to field , he'll be your follower ;
120720 Your worship in that sense may call him 'man .'
120721
120722 Romeo , the hate I bear thee can afford
120723 No better term than this ,thou art a villain .
120724
120725 Tybalt , the reason that I have to love thee
120726 Doth much excuse the appertaining rage
120727 To such a greeting ; villain am I none ,
120728 Therefore farewell ; I see thou know'st me not .
120729
120730 Boy , this shall not excuse the injuries
120731 That thou hast done me ; therefore turn and draw .
120732
120733 I do protest I never injur'd thee ,
120734 But love thee better than thou canst devise ,
120735 Till thou shalt know the reason of my love :
120736 And so , good Capulet , which name I tender
120737 As dearly as my own , be satisfied .
120738
120739 O calm , dishonourable , vile submission !
120740 Alla stoccata carries it away .
120741
120742 Tybalt , you rat-catcher , will you walk ?
120743
120744 What wouldst thou have with me ?
120745
120746 Good king of cats , nothing but one of your nine lives , that I mean to make bold withal , and , as you shall use me hereafter , dry-beat the rest of the eight . Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears ? make haste , lest mine be about your ears ere it be out .
120747
120748 I am for you .
120749
120750 Gentle Mercutio , put thy rapier up .
120751
120752 Come , sir , your passado .
120753
120754
120755 Draw , Benvolio ; beat down their weapons .
120756 Gentlemen , for shame , forbear this outrage !
120757 Tybalt , Mercutio , the prince expressly hath
120758 Forbidden bandying in Verona streets .
120759 Hold , Tybalt ! good Mercutio !
120760
120761
120762 I am hurt .
120763 A plague o' both your houses ! I am sped .
120764 Is he gone , and hath nothing ?
120765
120766 What ! art thou hurt ?
120767
120768 Ay , ay , a scratch , a scratch ; marry , 'tis enough .
120769 Where is my page ? Go , villain , fetch a surgeon .
120770
120771
120772 Courage , man ; the hurt cannot be much .
120773
120774 No , 'tis not so deep as a well , nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough , 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow , and you shall find me a grave man . I am peppered , I warrant , for this world . A plague o' both your houses ! 'Zounds , a dog , a rat , a mouse , a cat , to scratch a man to death ! a braggart , a rogue , a villain , that fights by the book of arithmetic ! Why the devil came you between us ? I was hurt under your arm .
120775
120776 I thought all for the best .
120777
120778 Help me into some house , Benvolio ,
120779 Or I shall faint . A plague o' both your houses !
120780 They have made worms' meat of me : I have it ,
120781 And soundly too :your houses !
120782
120783
120784 This gentleman , the prince's near ally ,
120785 My very friend , hath got his mortal hurt
120786 In my behalf ; my reputation stain'd
120787 With Tybalt's slander , Tybalt , that an hour
120788 Hath been my kinsman . O sweet Juliet !
120789 Thy beauty hath made me effeminate ,
120790 And in my temper soften'd valour's steel !
120791
120792
120793 O Romeo , Romeo ! brave Mercutio's dead ;
120794 That gallant spirit hath aspir'd the clouds ,
120795 Which too untimely here did scorn the earth .
120796
120797 This day's black fate on more days doth depend ;
120798 This but begins the woe others must end .
120799
120800
120801 Here comes the furious Tybalt back again .
120802
120803 Alive ! in triumph ! and Mercutio slain !
120804 Away to heaven , respective lenity ,
120805 And fire-ey'd fury be my conduct now !
120806 Now , Tybalt , take the villain back again
120807 That late thou gav'st me ; for Mercutio's soul
120808 Is but a little way above our heads ,
120809 Staying for thine to keep him company :
120810 Either thou , or I , or both , must go with him .
120811
120812 Thou wretched boy , that didst consort him here ,
120813 Shalt with him hence .
120814
120815 This shall determine that .
120816
120817
120818 Romeo , away ! be gone !
120819 The citizens are up , and Tybalt slain .
120820 Stand not amaz'd : the prince will doom thee death
120821 If thou art taken : hence ! be gone ! away !
120822
120823 O ! I am Fortune's fool .
120824
120825 Why dost thou stay ?
120826
120827 Which way ran he that kill'd Mercutio ?
120828 Tybalt , that murderer , which way ran he ?
120829
120830 There lies that Tybalt .
120831
120832 Up , sir , go with me .
120833 I charge thee in the prince's name , obey .
120834
120835
120836 Where are the vile beginners of this fray ?
120837
120838 O noble prince ! I can discover all
120839 The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl :
120840 There lies the man , slain by young Romeo ,
120841 That slew thy kinsman , brave Mercutio .
120842
120843 Tybalt , my cousin ! O my brother's child !
120844 O prince ! O cousin ! husband ! O ! the blood is spill'd
120845 Of my dear kinsman . Prince , as thou art true ,
120846 For blood of ours shed blood of Montague .
120847 O cousin , cousin !
120848
120849 Benvolio , who began this bloody fray ?
120850
120851 Tybalt , here slain , whom Romeo's hand did slay :
120852 Romeo , that spoke him fair , bade him bethink
120853 How nice the quarrel was , and urg'd withal
120854 Your high displeasure : all this , uttered
120855 With gentle breath , calm look , knees humbly bow'd ,
120856 Could not take truce with the unruly spleen
120857 Of Tybalt deaf to peace , but that he tilts
120858 With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast ,
120859 Who , all as hot , turns deadly point to point ,
120860 And , with a martial scorn , with one hand beats
120861 Cold death aside , and with the other sends
120862 It back to Tybalt , whose dexterity
120863 Retorts it : Romeo he cries aloud ,
120864 'Hold , friends ! friends , part !' and , swifter than his tongue ,
120865 His agile arm beats down their fatal points ,
120866 And 'twixt them rushes ; underneath whose arm
120867 An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life
120868 Of stout Mercutio , and then Tybalt fled ;
120869 But by and by comes back to Romeo ,
120870 Who had but newly entertain'd revenge ,
120871 And to 't they go like lightning , for , ere I .
120872 Could draw to part them , was stout Tybalt slain ,
120873 And , as he fell , did Romeo turn and fly .
120874 This is the truth , or let Benvolio die .
120875
120876 He is a kinsman to the Montague ;
120877 Affection makes him false , he speaks not true :
120878 Some twenty of them fought in this black strife
120879 And all those twenty could but kill one life .
120880 I beg for justice , which thou , prince , must give ;
120881 Romeo slew Tybalt , Romeo must not live .
120882
120883 Romeo slew him , he slew Mercutio ;
120884 Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe ?
120885
120886 Not Romeo , prince , he was Mercutio's friend ,
120887 His fault concludes but what the law should end ,
120888 The life of Tybalt .
120889
120890 And for that offence
120891 Immediately we do exile him hence :
120892 I have an interest in your hate's proceeding ,
120893 My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding ;
120894 But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine
120895 That you shall all repent the loss of mine .
120896 I will be deaf to pleading and excuses ;
120897 Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses ;
120898 Therefore use none ; let Romeo hence in haste ,
120899 Else , when he's found , that hour is his last .
120900 Bear hence this body and attend our will :
120901 Mercy but murders , pardoning those that kill .
120902
120903
120904 Gallop apace , you fiery-footed steeds ,
120905 Towards Ph bus' lodging ; such a waggoner
120906 As Ph thon would whip you to the west ,
120907 And bring in cloudy night immediately .
120908 Spread thy close curtain , love-performing night !
120909 That runaway's eyes may wink , and Romeo
120910 Leap to these arms , untalk'd of and unseen !
120911 Lovers can see to do their amorous rites
120912 By their own beauties ; or , if love be blind ,
120913 It best agrees with night . Come , civil night ,
120914 Thou sober-suited matron , all in black ,
120915 And learn me how to lose a winning match ,
120916 Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods :
120917 Hood my unmann'd blood , bating in my cheeks ,
120918 With thy black mantle ; till strange love , grown bold ,
120919 Think true love acted simple modesty .
120920 Come , night ! come , Romeo ! come , thou day in night !
120921 For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night ,
120922 Whiter than new snow on a raven's back .
120923 Come , gentle night ; come , loving , black-brow'd night ,
120924 Give me my Romeo : and , when he shall die ,
120925 Take him and cut him out in little stars ,
120926 And he will make the face of heaven so fine
120927 That all the world will be in love with night ,
120928 And pay no worship to the garish sun .
120929 O ! I have bought the mansion of a love ,
120930 But not possess'd it , and , though I am sold ,
120931 Not yet enjoy'd . So tedious is this day
120932 As is the night before some festival
120933 To an impatient child that hath new robes
120934 And may not wear them . O ! here comes my nurse ,
120935
120936
120937 And she brings news ; and every tongue that speaks
120938 But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence .
120939 Now nurse , what news ? What hast thou there ? the cords
120940
120941 That Romeo bade thee fetch ?
120942
120943 Ay , ay , the cords .
120944
120945
120946 Ah me ! what news ? why dost thou wring thy hands ?
120947
120948 Ah well-a-day ! he's dead , he's dead , he's dead !
120949 We are undone , lady , we are undone !
120950 Alack the day ! he's gone , he's killed , he's dead !
120951
120952 Can heaven be so envious ?
120953
120954 Romeo can ,
120955 Though heaven cannot . O ! Romeo , Romeo ;
120956 Who ever would have thought it ? Romeo !
120957
120958 What devil art thou that dost torment me thus ?
120959 This torture should be roar'd in dismal hell .
120960 Hath Romeo slain himself ? say thou but 'I ,'
120961 And that bare vowel , 'I ,' shall poison more
120962 Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice :
120963 I am not I , if there be such an 'I ;'
120964 Or those eyes shut that make thee answer 'I .'
120965 If he be slain , say 'I ;' or if not 'no :'
120966 Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe .
120967
120968 I saw the wound , I saw it with mine eyes ,
120969 God save the mark ! here on his manly breast :
120970 A piteous corse , a bloody piteous corse ;
120971 Pale , pale as ashes , all bedaub'd in blood ,
120972 All in gore blood ; I swounded at the sight .
120973
120974 O break , my heart !poor bankrupt , break at once !
120975 To prison , eyes , ne'er look on liberty !
120976 Vile earth , to earth resign ; end motion here ;
120977 And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier !
120978
120979 O Tybalt , Tybalt ! the best friend I had :
120980 O courteous Tybalt ! honest gentleman !
120981 That ever I should live to see thee dead !
120982
120983 What storm is this that blows so contrary ?
120984 Is Romeo slaughter'd , and is Tybalt dead ?
120985 My dearest cousin , and my dearer lord ?
120986 Then , dreadful trumpet , sound the general doom !
120987 For who is living if those two are gone ?
120988
120989 Tybalt is gone , and Romeo banished ;
120990 Romeo , that kill'd him , he is banished .
120991
120992 O God ! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood ?
120993
120994 It did , it did ; alas the day ! it did .
120995
120996 O serpent heart , hid with a flowering face !
120997 Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave ?
120998 Beautiful tyrant ! fiend angelical !
120999 Dove-feather'd raven ! wolvish-ravening lamb !
121000 Despised substance of divinest show !
121001 Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st ;
121002 A damned saint , an honourable villain !
121003 O , nature ! what hadst thou to do in hell
121004 When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
121005 In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh ?
121006 Was ever book containing such vile matter
121007 So fairly bound ? O ! that deceit should dwell
121008 In such a gorgeous palace .
121009
121010 There's no trust ,
121011 No faith , no honesty in men ; all naught ,
121012 All perjur'd , all dissemblers , all forsworn .
121013 Ah ! where's my man ? give me some aqua vit :
121014 These griefs , these woes , these sorrows make me old .
121015 Shame come to Romeo !
121016
121017 Blister'd be thy tongue
121018 For such a wish ! he was not born to shame :
121019 Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit ;
121020 For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd
121021 Sole monarch of the universal earth .
121022 O ! what a beast was I to chide at him .
121023
121024 Will you speak well of him that kill'd your cousin ?
121025
121026 Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband ?
121027 Ah ! poor my lord , what tongue shall smooth thy name ,
121028 When I , thy three-hours wife , have mangled it ?
121029 But , wherefore , villain , didst thou kill my cousin ?
121030 That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband :
121031 Back , foolish tears , back to your native spring ;
121032 Your tributary drops belong to woe ,
121033 Which you , mistaking , offer up to joy .
121034 My husband lives , that Tybalt would have slain ;
121035 And Tybalt's dead , that would have slain my husband :
121036 All this is comfort ; wherefore weep I then ?
121037 Some word there was , worser than Tybalt's death ,
121038 That murder'd me : I would forget it fain ;
121039 But O ! it presses to my memory ,
121040 Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds .
121041 'Tybalt is dead , and Romeo banished !'
121042 That 'banished ,' that one word 'banished ,'
121043 Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts . Tybalt's death
121044 Was woe enough , if it had ended there :
121045 Or , if sour woe delights in fellowship ,
121046 And needly will be rank'd with other griefs ,
121047 Why follow'd not , when she said 'Tybalt's dead ,'
121048 Thy father , or thy mother , nay , or both ,
121049 Which modern lamentation might have mov'd ?
121050 But with a rearward following Tybalt's death ,
121051 'Romeo is banished !' to speak that word
121052 Is father , mother , Tybalt , Romeo , Juliet ,
121053 All slain , all dead : 'Romeo is banished !'
121054 There is no end , no limit , measure , bound
121055 In that word's death ; no words can that woe sound .
121056 Where is my father and my mother , nurse ?
121057
121058 Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corse :
121059 Will you go to them ? I will bring you thither .
121060
121061 Wash they his wounds with tears : mine shall be spent ,
121062 When theirs are dry , for Romeo's banishment .
121063 Take up those cords . Poor ropes , you are beguil'd ,
121064 Both you and I , for Romeo is exil'd :
121065 He made you for a highway to my bed ,
121066 But I , a maid , die maiden-widowed .
121067 Come , cords ; come , nurse ; I'll to my wedding bed ;
121068 And death , not Romeo , take my maidenhead !
121069
121070 Hie to your chamber ; I'll find Romeo
121071 To comfort you : I wot well where he is .
121072 Hark ye , your Romeo will be here to-night :
121073 I'll to him ; he is hid at Laurence' cell .
121074
121075 O ! find him ; give this ring to my true knight ,
121076 And bid him come to take his last farewell .
121077
121078
121079 Romeo , come forth ; come forth , thou fearful man :
121080 Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts ,
121081 And thou art wedded to calamity .
121082
121083
121084 Father , what news ? what is the prince's doom ?
121085 What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand ,
121086 That I yet know not ?
121087
121088 Too familiar
121089 Is my dear son with such sour company :
121090 I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom .
121091
121092 What less than doomsday is the prince's doom ?
121093
121094 A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips ,
121095 Not body's death , but body's banishment .
121096
121097 Ha ! banishment ! be merciful , say 'death ;'
121098 For exile hath more terror in his look ,
121099 Much more than death : do not say 'banishment .'
121100
121101 Hence from Verona art thou banished .
121102 Be patient , for the world is broad and wide .
121103
121104 There is no world without Verona walls ,
121105 But purgatory , torture , hell itself .
121106 Hence banished is banish'd from the world ,
121107 And world's exile is death ; then 'banished ,'
121108 Is death mis-term'd . Calling death 'banished ,'
121109 Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe ,
121110 And smil'st upon the stroke that murders me .
121111
121112 O deadly sin ! O rude unthankfulness !
121113 Thy fault our law calls death ; but the kind prince ,
121114 Taking thy part , hath rush'd aside the law ,
121115 And turn'd that black word death to banishment :
121116 This is dear mercy , and thou seest it not .
121117
121118 'Tis torture , and not mercy : heaven is here ,
121119 Where Juliet lives ; and every cat and dog
121120 And little mouse , every unworthy thing ,
121121 Live here in heaven and may look on her ;
121122 But Romeo may not : more validity ,
121123 More honourable state , more courtship lives
121124 In carrion flies than Romeo : they may seize
121125 On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand ,
121126 And steal immortal blessing from her lips ,
121127 Who , even in pure and vestal modesty ,
121128 Still blush , as thinking their own kisses sin ;
121129 Flies may do this , but I from this must fly :
121130 They are free men , but I am banished .
121131 And sayst thou yet that exile is not death ?
121132 Hadst thou no poison mix'd , no sharp-ground knife ,
121133 No sudden mean of death , though ne'er so mean ,
121134 But 'banished' to kill me ? 'Banished !'
121135 O friar ! the damned use that word in hell ;
121136 Howlings attend it : how hast thou the heart ,
121137 Being a divine , a ghostly confessor ,
121138 A sin-absolver , and my friend profess'd ,
121139 To mangle me with that word 'banished ?'
121140
121141 Thou fond mad man , hear me but speak a word .
121142
121143 O ! thou wilt speak again of banishment .
121144
121145 I'll give thee armour to keep off that word ;
121146 Adversity's sweet milk , philosophy ,
121147 To comfort thee , though thou art banished .
121148
121149 Yet 'banished !' Hang up philosophy !
121150 Unless philosophy can make a Juliet ,
121151 Displant a town , reverse a prince's doom ,
121152 It helps not , it prevails not : talk no more .
121153
121154 O ! then I see that madmen have no ears .
121155
121156 How should they , when that wise men have no eyes ?
121157
121158 Let me dispute with thee of thy estate .
121159
121160 Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel :
121161 Wert thou as young as I , Juliet thy love ,
121162 An hour but married , Tybalt murdered ,
121163 Doting like me , and like me banished ,
121164 Then mightst thou speak , then mightst thou tear thy hair ,
121165 And fall upon the ground , as I do now ,
121166 Taking the measure of an unmade grave .
121167
121168
121169 Arise ; one knocks : good Romeo , hide thyself .
121170
121171 Not I ; unless the breath of heart-sick groans ,
121172 Mist-like , infold me from the search of eyes .
121173
121174
121175 Hark ! how they knock . Who's there ? Romeo arise ;
121176 Thou wilt be taken . Stay awhile ! Stand up ;
121177
121178 Run to my study . By and by ! God's will !
121179 What wilfulness is this ! I come , I come !
121180
121181 Who knocks so hard ? whence come you ? what's your will ?
121182
121183 Let me come in , and you shall know my errand :
121184 I come from Lady Juliet .
121185
121186 Welcome , then .
121187
121188
121189 O holy friar ! O ! tell me , holy friar ,
121190 Where is my lady's lord ? where's Romeo ?
121191
121192 There on the ground , with his own tears made drunk .
121193
121194 O ! he is even in my mistress' case ,
121195 Just in her case !
121196
121197 O woeful sympathy !
121198 Piteous predicament ! Even so lies she ,
121199 Blubbering and weeping , weeping and blubbering .
121200 Stand up , stand up ; stand , an you be a man :
121201 For Juliet's sake , for her sake , rise and stand ;
121202 Why should you fall into so deep an O ?
121203
121204 Nurse !
121205
121206 Ah , sir ! ah , sir ! Well , death's the end of all .
121207
121208 Spak'st thou of Juliet ? how is it with her ?
121209 Doth she not think me an old murderer ,
121210 Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy .
121211 With blood remov'd but little from her own ?
121212 Where is she ? and how doth she ? and what says
121213 My conceal'd lady to our cancell'd love ?
121214
121215 O ! she says nothing , sir , but weeps and weeps ;
121216 And now falls on her bed ; and then starts up ,
121217 And Tybalt calls , and then on Romeo cries ,
121218 And then down falls again .
121219
121220 As if that name ,
121221 Shot from the deadly level of a gun ,
121222 Did murder her ; as that name's cursed hand
121223 Murder'd her kinsman . O ! tell me , friar , tell me ,
121224 In what vile part of this anatomy
121225 Doth my name lodge ? tell me , that I may sack
121226 The hateful mansion .
121227
121228
121229 Hold thy desperate hand :
121230 Art thou a man ? thy form cries out thou art :
121231 Thy tears are womanish ; thy wild acts denote
121232 The unreasonable fury of a beast :
121233 Unseemly woman in a seeming man ;
121234 Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both !
121235 Thou hast amaz'd me : by my holy order ,
121236 I thought thy disposition better temper'd .
121237 Hast thou slain Tybalt ? wilt thou slay thyself ?
121238 And slay thy lady that in thy life lives ,
121239 By doing damned hate upon thyself ?
121240 Why rail'st thou on thy birth , the heaven , and earth ?
121241 Since birth , and heaven , and earth , all three do meet
121242 In thes at once , which thou at once wouldst lose .
121243 Fie , fie ! thou sham'st thy shape , thy love , thy wit ,
121244 Which , like a usurer , abound'st in all ,
121245 And usest none in that true use indeed
121246 Which should bedeck thy shape , thy love , thy wit .
121247 Thy noble shape is but a form of wax ,
121248 Digressing from the valour of a man ;
121249 Thy dear love , sworn , but hollow perjury ,
121250 Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish ;
121251 Thy wit , that ornament to shape and love ,
121252 Misshapen in the conduct of them both ,
121253 Like powder in a skilless soldier's flask ,
121254 To set a-fire by thine own ignorance ,
121255 And thou dismember'd with thine own defence .
121256 What ! rouse thee , man ; thy Juliet is alive ,
121257 For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead ;
121258 There art thou happy : Tybalt would kill thee ,
121259 But thou slew'st Tybalt ; there art thou happy too :
121260 The law that threaten'd death becomes thy friend ,
121261 And turns it to exile ; there art thou happy :
121262 A pack of blessings light upon thy back ;
121263 Happiness courts thee in her best array ;
121264 But , like a misbehav'd and sullen wench ,
121265 Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love .
121266 Take heed , take heed , for such die miserable .
121267 Go , get thee to thy love , as was decreed ,
121268 Ascend her chamber , hence and comfort her ;
121269 But look thou stay not till the watch be set ,
121270 For then thou canst not pass to Mantua ;
121271 Where thou shalt live , till we can find a time
121272 To blaze your marriage , reconcile your friends ,
121273 Beg pardon of the prince , and call thee back
121274 With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
121275 Than thou went'st forth in lamentation .
121276 Go before , nurse : commend me to thy lady ;
121277 And bid her hasten all the house to bed ,
121278 Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto :
121279 Romeo is coming .
121280
121281 O Lord ! I could have stay'd here all the night
121282 To hear good counsel : O ! what learning is .
121283 My lord , I'll tell my lady you will come .
121284
121285 Do so , and bid my sweet prepare to chide .
121286
121287 Here , sir , a ring she bid me give you , sir .
121288 Hie you , make haste , for it grows very late .
121289
121290
121291 How well my comfort is reviv'd by this !
121292
121293 Go hence ; good-night ; and here stands all your state :
121294 Either be gone before the watch be set ,
121295 Or by the break of day disguis'd from hence :
121296 Sojourn in Mantua ; I'll find out your man ,
121297 And he shall signify from time to time
121298 Every good hap to you that chances here .
121299 Give me thy hand ; 'tis late : farewell ; goodnight .
121300
121301 But that a joy past joy calls out on me ,
121302 It were a grief so brief to part with thee :
121303 Farewell .
121304
121305
121306 Things have fall'n out , sir , so unluckily ,
121307 That we have had no time to move our daughter :
121308 Look you , she lov'd her kinsman Tybalt dearly ,
121309 And so did I : well , we were born to die .
121310 'Tis very late , she'll not come down to night :
121311 I promise you , but for your company ,
121312 I would have been a-bed an hour ago .
121313
121314 These times of woe afford no time to woo .
121315 Madam , good-night : commend me to your daughter .
121316
121317 I will , and know her mind early to-morrow ;
121318 To-night she's mew'd up to her heaviness .
121319
121320 Sir Paris , I will make a desperate tender
121321 Of my child's love : I think she will be rul'd
121322 In all respects by me ; nay , more , I doubt it not .
121323 Wife go you to her ere you go to bed ;
121324 Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love ;
121325 And bid her , mark you me , on Wednesday next
121326 But , soft ! what day is this ?
121327
121328 Monday , my lord .
121329
121330 Monday ! ha , ha ! Well , Wednesday is too soon ;
121331 O' Thursday let it be : o' Thursday , tell her ,
121332 She shall be married to this noble earl .
121333 Will you be ready ? do you like this haste ?
121334 We'll keep no great ado ; a friend or two ;
121335 For , hark you , Tybalt being slain so late ,
121336 It may be thought we held him carelessly ,
121337 Being our kinsman , if we revel much .
121338 Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends ,
121339 And there an end . But what say you to Thursday ?
121340
121341 My lord , I would that Thursday were to-morrow .
121342
121343 Well , get you gone : o' Thursday be it then .
121344 Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed ,
121345 Prepare her , wife , against this wedding-day .
121346 Farewell , my lord . Light to my chamber , ho !
121347 Afore me ! it is so very very late ,
121348 That we may call it early by and by .
121349 Good-night .
121350
121351
121352 Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day :
121353 It was the nightingale , and not the lark ,
121354 That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear ;
121355 Nightly she sings on you pomegranate tree :
121356 Believe me , love , it was the nightingale .
121357
121358 It was the lark , the herald of the morn ,
121359 No nightingale : look , love , what envious streaks
121360 Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east :
121361 Night's candles are burnt out , and jocund day
121362 Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops :
121363 I must be gone and live , or stay and die .
121364
121365 Yon light is not daylight , I know it , I :
121366 It is some meteor that the sun exhales ,
121367 To be to thee this night a torch-bearer ,
121368 And light thee on thy way to Mantua :
121369 Therefore stay yet ; thou need'st not to be gone .
121370
121371 Let me be ta'en , let me be put to death ;
121372 I am content , so thou wilt have it so .
121373 I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye ,
121374 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow ;
121375 Nor that is not the lark , whose notes do beat
121376 The vaulty heaven so high above our heads :
121377 I have more care to stay than will to go :
121378 Come , death , and welcome ! Juliet wills it so .
121379 How is't , my soul ? let's talk ; it is not day .
121380
121381 It is , it is ; hie hence , be gone , away !
121382 It is the lark that sings so out of tune ,
121383 Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps .
121384 Some say the lark makes sweet division ;
121385 This doth not so , for she divideth us :
121386 Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes ;
121387 O ! now I would they had chang'd voices too ,
121388 Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray ,
121389 Hunting thee hence with hunts-up to the day .
121390 O ! now be gone ; more light and light it grows .
121391
121392 More light and light ; more dark and dark our woes .
121393
121394
121395 Madam !
121396
121397 Nurse !
121398
121399 Your lady mother is coming to your chamber :
121400 The day is broke ; be wary , look about .
121401
121402
121403 Then , window , let day in , and let life out .
121404
121405 Farewell , farewell ! one kiss , and I'll descend .
121406
121407
121408 Art thou gone so ? my lord , my love , my friend !
121409 I must hear from thee every day in the hour ,
121410 For in a minute there are many days :
121411 O ! by this count I shall be much in years
121412 Ere I again behold my Romeo .
121413
121414 Farewell !
121415 I will omit no opportunity
121416 That may convey my greetings , love , to thee .
121417
121418 O ! think'st thou we shall ever meet again ?
121419
121420 I doubt it not ; and all these woes shall serve
121421 For sweet discourses in our time to come .
121422
121423 O God ! I have an ill-divining soul :
121424 Methinks I see thee , now thou art so low ,
121425 As one dead in the bottom of a tomb :
121426 Either my eyesight fails , or thou look'st pale .
121427
121428 And trust me , love , in my eye so do you :
121429 Dry sorrow drinks our blood . Adieu ! adieu !
121430
121431
121432 O fortune , fortune ! all men call thee fickle :
121433 If thou art fickle , what dost thou with him
121434 That is renown'd for faith ? Be fickle , fortune ;
121435 For then , I hope , thou wilt not keep him long ,
121436 But send him back .
121437
121438 Ho , daughter ! are you up ?
121439
121440 Who is't that calls ? is it my lady mother ?
121441 Is she not down so late , or up so early ?
121442 What unaccustom'd cause procures her hither ?
121443
121444
121445 Why , how now , Juliet !
121446
121447 Madam , I am not well .
121448
121449 Evermore weeping for your cousin's death ?
121450 What ! wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears ?
121451 And if thou couldst , thou couldst not make him live ;
121452 Therefore , have done : some grief shows much of love ;
121453 But much of grief shows still some want of wit .
121454
121455 Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss .
121456
121457 So shall you feel the loss , but not the friend
121458 Which you weep for .
121459
121460 Feeling so the loss ,
121461 I cannot choose but ever weep the friend .
121462
121463 Well , girl , thou weep'st not so much for his death ,
121464 As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him .
121465
121466 What villain , madam ?
121467
121468 That same villain , Romeo .
121469
121470 Villain and he be many miles asunder .
121471 God pardon him ! I do , with all my heart ;
121472 And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart .
121473
121474 That is because the traitor murderer lives .
121475
121476 Ay , madam , from the reach of these my hands .
121477 Would none but I might venge my cousin's death !
121478
121479 We will have vengeance for it , fear thou not :
121480 Then weep no more . I'll send to one in Mantua ,
121481 Where that same banish'd runsgate doth live ;
121482 Shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram
121483 That he shall soon keep Tybalt company :
121484 And then , I hope , thou wilt be satisfied .
121485
121486 Indeed , I never shall be satisfied
121487 With Romeo , till I behold him dead
121488 Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vex'd :
121489 Madam , if you could find out but a man
121490 To bear a poison , I would temper it ,
121491 That Romeo should , upon receipt thereof ,
121492 Soon sleep in quiet . O ! how my heart abhors
121493 To hear him nam'd , and cannot come to him ,
121494 To wreak the love I bore my cousin Tybalt
121495 Upon his body that hath slaughter'd him .
121496
121497 Find thou the means , and I'll find such a man .
121498 But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings , girl .
121499
121500 And joy comes well in such a needy time :
121501 What are they , I beseech your ladyship ?
121502
121503 Well , well , thou hast a careful father , child ;
121504 One who , to put thee from thy heaviness ,
121505 Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy
121506 That thou expect'st not , nor I look'd not for .
121507
121508 Madam , in happy time , what day is that ?
121509
121510 Marry , my child , early next Thursday morn
121511 The gallant , young , and noble gentleman ,
121512 The County Paris , at Saint Peter's church ,
121513 Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride .
121514
121515 Now , by Saint Peter's church , and Peter too ,
121516 He shall not make me there a joyful bride .
121517 I wonder at this haste ; that I must wed
121518 Ere he that should be husband comes to woo .
121519 I pray you , tell my lord and father , madam ,
121520 I will not marry yet ; and , when I do , I swear ,
121521 It shall be Romeo , whom you know I hate ,
121522 Rather than Paris . These are news indeed !
121523
121524 Here comes your father ; tell him so yourself ,
121525 And see how he will take it at your hands .
121526
121527
121528 When the sun sets , the air doth drizzle dew ;
121529 But for the sunset of my brother's son
121530 It rains downright .
121531 How now ! a conduit , girl ? what ! still in tears ?
121532 Evermore showering ? In one little body
121533 Thou counterfeit'st a bark , a sea , a wind ;
121534 For still thy eyes , which I may call the sea ,
121535 Do ebb and flow with tears ; the bark thy body is ,
121536 Sailing in this salt flood ; the winds , thy sighs ;
121537 Who , raging with thy tears , and they with them ,
121538 Without a sudden calm , will overset
121539 Thy tempest-tossed body . How now , wife !
121540 Have you deliver'd to her our decree ?
121541
121542 Ay , sir ; but she will none , she gives you thanks .
121543 I would the fool were married to her grave !
121544
121545 Soft ! take me with you , take me with you , wife .
121546 How ! will she none ? doth she not give us thanks ?
121547 Is she not proud ? doth she not count her bless'd ,
121548 Unworthy as she is , that we have wrought
121549 So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom ?
121550
121551 Not proud , you have ; but thankful , that you have :
121552 Proud can I never be of what I hate ;
121553 But thankful even for hate , that is meant love .
121554
121555 How now ! how now , chop-logic ! What is this ?
121556 'Proud ,' and 'I thank you ,' and 'I thank you not ;'
121557 And yet 'not proud ;' mistress minion , you ,
121558 Thank me no thankings , nor proud me no prouds ,
121559 But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next ,
121560 To go with Paris to Saint Peter's church ,
121561 Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither .
121562 Out , you green-sickness carrion ! out , you baggage !
121563 You tallow face !
121564
121565 Fie , fie ! what , are you mad ?
121566
121567 Good father , I beseech you on my knees ,
121568 Hear me with patience but to speak a word .
121569
121570 Hang thee , young baggage ! disobedient wretch !
121571 I tell thee what , get thee to church o' Thursday ,
121572 Or never after look me in the face .
121573 Speak not , reply not , do not answer me ;
121574 My fingers itch .Wife , we scarce thought us bless'd
121575 That God had lent us but this only child ;
121576 But now I see this one is one too much ,
121577 And that we have a curse in having her .
121578 Out on her , hilding !
121579
121580 God in heaven bless her !
121581 You are to blame , my lord , to rate her so .
121582
121583 And why , my lady wisdom ? hold your tongue ,
121584 Good prudence ; smatter with your gossips , go .
121585
121586 I speak no treason .
121587
121588 O ! God ye good den .
121589
121590 May not one speak ?
121591
121592 Peace , you mumbling fool ;
121593 Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl ;
121594 For here we need it not .
121595
121596 You are too hot .
121597
121598 God's bread ! it makes me mad .
121599 Day , night , hour , tide , time , work , play ,
121600 Alone , in company , still my care hath been
121601 To have her match'd ; and having now provided
121602 A gentleman of noble parentage ,
121603 Of fair demesnes , youthful , and nobly train'd ,
121604 Stuff'd , as they say , with honourable parts ,
121605 Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man ;
121606 And then to have a wretched puling fool ,
121607 A whining mammet , in her fortune's tender ,
121608 To answer 'I'll not wed ,' 'I cannot love ,'
121609 'I am too young ,' 'I pray you , pardon me ;'
121610 But , an you will not wed , I'll pardon you :
121611 Graze where you will , you shall not house with me :
121612 Look to't , think on't , I do not use to jest .
121613 Thursday is near ; lay hand on heart , advise .
121614 An you be mine , I'll give you to my friend ;
121615 An you be not , hang , beg , starve , die in the streets ,
121616 For , by my soul , I'll ne'er acknowledge thee ,
121617 Nor what is mine shall never do thee good .
121618 Trust to't , bethink you ; I'll not be forsworn .
121619
121620
121621 Is there no pity sitting in the clouds ,
121622 That sees into the bottom of my grief ?
121623 O ! sweet my mother , cast me not away :
121624 Delay this marriage for a month , a week ;
121625 Or , if you do not , make the bridal bed
121626 In that dim monument where Tybalt lies .
121627
121628 Talk not to me , for I'll not speak a word .
121629 Do as thou wilt , for I have done with thee .
121630
121631
121632 O God ! O nurse ! how shall this be prevented ?
121633 My husband is on earth , my faith in heaven ;
121634 How shall that faith return again to earth ,
121635 Unless that husband send it me from heaven
121636 By leaving earth ? comfort me , counsel me .
121637 Alack , alack ! that heaven should practise stratagems
121638 Upon so soft a subject as myself !
121639 What sayst thou ? hast thou not a word of joy ?
121640 Some comfort , nurse ?
121641
121642 Faith , here it is . Romeo
121643 Is banished ; and all the world to nothing
121644 That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you ;
121645 Or , if he do , it needs must be by stealth .
121646 Then , since the case so stands as now it doth ,
121647 I think it best you married with the county .
121648 O ! he's a lovely gentleman ;
121649 Romeo's a dishclout to him : an eagle , madam ,
121650 Hath not so green , so quick , so fair an eye
121651 As Paris hath . Beshrew my very heart ,
121652 I think you are happy in this second match ,
121653 For it excels your first : or if it did not ,
121654 Your first is dead ; or 'twere as good he were ,
121655 As living here and you no use of him .
121656
121657 Speakest thou from thy heart ?
121658
121659 And from my soul too ;
121660 Or else beshrew them both .
121661
121662 Amen !
121663
121664 What !
121665
121666 Well , thou hast comforted me marvellous much .
121667 Go in ; and tell my lady I am gone ,
121668 Having displeas'd my father , to Laurence' cell ,
121669 To make confession and to be absolv'd .
121670
121671 Marry , I will ; and this is wisely done .
121672
121673
121674 Ancient damnation ! O most wicked fiend !
121675 Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn ,
121676 Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue
121677 Which she hath prais'd him with above compare
121678 So many thousand times ? Go , counsellor ;
121679 Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain .
121680 I'll to the friar , to know his remedy :
121681 If all else fail , myself have power to die .
121682
121683
121684 On Thursday , sir ? the time is very short .
121685
121686 My father Capulet will have it so ;
121687 And I am nothing slow to slack his haste .
121688
121689 You say you do not know the lady's mind :
121690 Uneven is the course , I like it not .
121691
121692 Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death ,
121693 And therefore have I little talk'd of love ;
121694 For Venus smiles not in a house of tears .
121695 Now , sir , her father counts it dangerous
121696 That she doth give her sorrow so much sway ,
121697 And in his wisdom hastes our marriage
121698 To stop the inundation of her tears ;
121699 Which , too much minded by herself alone ,
121700 May be put from her by society .
121701 Now do you know the reason of this haste .
121702
121703 I would I knew not why it should be slow'd .
121704 Look , sir , here comes the lady towards my cell .
121705
121706
121707 Happily met , my lady and my wife !
121708
121709 That may be , sir , when I may be a wife .
121710
121711 That may be must be , love , on Thursday next .
121712
121713 What must be shall be .
121714
121715 That's a certain text .
121716
121717 Come you to make confession to this father ?
121718
121719 To answer that , I should confess to you .
121720
121721 Do not deny to him that you love me .
121722
121723 I will confess to you that I love him .
121724
121725 So will ye , I am sure , that you love me .
121726
121727 If I do so , it will be of more price ,
121728 Being spoke behind your back , than to your face .
121729
121730 Poor soul , thy face is much abus'd with tears .
121731
121732 The tears have got small victory by that ;
121733 For it was bad enough before their spite .
121734
121735 Thou wrong'st it , more than tears , with that report .
121736
121737 That is no slander , sir , which is a truth ;
121738 And what I spake , I spake it to my face .
121739
121740 Thy face is mine , and thou hast slander'd it .
121741
121742 It may be so , for it is not mine own .
121743 Are you at leisure , holy father , now ;
121744 Or shall I come to you at evening mass ?
121745
121746 My leisure serves me , pensive daughter , now :
121747 My lord , we must entreat the time alone .
121748
121749 God shield , I should disturb devotion !
121750 Juliet , on Thursday early will I rouse you :
121751 Till then , adieu ; and keep this holy kiss .
121752
121753
121754 O ! shut the door ! and when thou hast done so ,
121755 Come weep with me ; past hope , past cure , past help !
121756
121757 Ah ! Juliet , I already know thy grief ;
121758 It strains me past the compass of my wits :
121759 I hear thou must , and nothing may prorogue it ,
121760 On Thursday next be married to this county .
121761
121762 Tell me not , friar , that thou hear'st of this ,
121763 Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it :
121764 If , in thy wisdom , thou canst give no help ,
121765 Do thou but call my resolution wise ,
121766 And with this knife I'll help it presently ,
121767 God join'd my heart and Romeo's , thou our hands ;
121768 And ere this hand , by thee to Romeo seal'd ,
121769 Shall be the label to another deed ,
121770 Or my true heart with treacherous revolt
121771 Turn to another , this shall slay them both .
121772 Therefore , out of thy long-experienc'd time ,
121773 Give me some present counsel ; or behold ,
121774 'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife
121775 Shall play the umpire , arbitrating that
121776 Which the commission of thy years and art
121777 Could to no issue of true honour bring .
121778 Be not so long to speak ; I long to die ,
121779 If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy .
121780
121781 Hold , daughter ; I do spy a kind of hope ,
121782 Which craves as desperate an execution
121783 As that is desperate which we would prevent .
121784 If , rather than to marry County Paris ,
121785 Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself ,
121786 Then is it likely thou wilt undertake
121787 A thing like death to chide away this shame ,
121788 That cop'st with death himself to 'scape from it ;
121789 And , if thou dar'st , I'll give thee remedy .
121790
121791 O ! bid me leap , rather than marry Paris ,
121792 From off the battlements of yonder tower ;
121793 Or walk in thievish ways ; or bid me lurk
121794 Where serpents are ; chain me with roaring bears ;
121795 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house ,
121796 O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones ,
121797 With reeky shanks , and yellow chapless skulls ;
121798 Or bid me go into a new-made grave
121799 And hide me with a dead man in his shroud ;
121800 Things that , to hear them told , have made me tremble ;
121801 And I will do it without fear or doubt ,
121802 To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love .
121803
121804 Hold , then ; go home , be merry , give consent
121805 To marry Paris : Wednesday is to-morrow !
121806 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone ,
121807 Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber :
121808 Take thou this vial , being then in bed ,
121809 And this distilled liquor drink thou off ;
121810 When presently through all thy veins shall run
121811 A cold and drowsy humour , for no pulse
121812 Shall keep his native progress , but surcease ;
121813 No warmth , no breath , shall testify thou liv'st ;
121814 The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
121815 To paly ashes ; thy eyes' windows fall ,
121816 Like death , when he shuts up the day of life ;
121817 Each part , depriv'd of supple government ,
121818 Shall , stiff and stark and cold , appear like death ;
121819 And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death
121820 Thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours ,
121821 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep .
121822 Now , when the bridegroom in the morning comes
121823 To rouse thee from thy bed , there art thou dead :
121824 Then as the manner of our country is
121825 In thy best robes uncover'd on the bier ,
121826 Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault
121827 Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie .
121828 In the mean time , against thou shalt awake ,
121829 Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift ,
121830 And hither shall he come ; and he and I
121831 Will watch thy waking , and that very night
121832 Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua .
121833 And this shall free thee from this present shame ;
121834 If no unconstant toy , nor womanish fear ,
121835 Abate thy valour in the acting it .
121836
121837 Give me , give me ! O ! tell me not of fear !
121838
121839 Hold ; get you gone , be strong and prosperous
121840 In this resolve . I'll send a friar with speed
121841 To Mantua , with my letters to thy lord .
121842
121843 Love , give me strength ! and strength shall help afford .
121844 Farewell , dear father !
121845
121846
121847 So many guests invite as here are writ .
121848
121849 Sirrah , go hire me twenty cunning cooks .
121850
121851 You shall have none ill , sir ; for
121852 I'll try if they can lick their fingers .
121853
121854 How canst thou try them so ?
121855
121856 Marry , sir , 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers : therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me .
121857
121858 Go , be gone .
121859
121860 We shall be much unfurnish'd for this time .
121861 What ! is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence ?
121862
121863 Ay , forsooth .
121864
121865 Well , he may chance to do some good on her :
121866 A peevish self-will'd harlotry it is .
121867
121868 See where she comes from shrift with merry look .
121869
121870
121871 How now , my headstrong ! where have you been gadding ?
121872
121873 Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin
121874 Of disobedient opposition
121875 To you and your behests ; and am enjoin'd
121876 By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here ,
121877 And beg your pardon . Pardon , I beseech you !
121878 Henceforward I am ever rul'd by you .
121879
121880 Send for the county ; go tell him of this :
121881 I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning .
121882
121883 I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell ;
121884 And gave him what becomed love I might ,
121885 Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty .
121886
121887 Why , I'm glad on't ; this is well : stand up :
121888 This is as't should be . Let me see the county ;
121889 Ay , marry , go , I say , and fetch him hither .
121890 Now , afore God ! this reverend holy friar ,
121891 All our whole city is much bound to him .
121892
121893 Nurse , will you go with me into my closet ,
121894 To help me sort such needful ornaments
121895 As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow ?
121896
121897 No , not till Thursday ; there is time enough .
121898
121899 Go , nurse , go with her . We'll to church to-morrow .
121900
121901
121902 We shall be short in our provision :
121903 'Tis now near night .
121904
121905 Tush ! I will stir about ,
121906 And all things shall be well , I warrant thee , wife :
121907 Go thou to Juliet , help to deck up her ;
121908 I'll not to bed to-night ; let me alone ;
121909 I'll play the housewife for this once . What , ho !
121910 They are all forth : well , I will walk myself
121911 To County Paris ; to prepare him up
121912 Against to-morrow . My heart is wondrous light ,
121913 Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd .
121914
121915
121916 Ay , those attires are best ; but , gentle nurse ,
121917 I pray thee , leave me to myself to-night ;
121918 For I have need of many orisons
121919 To move the heavens to smile upon my state ,
121920 Which , well thou know'st , is cross and full of sin .
121921
121922
121923 What ! are you busy , ho ? need you my help ?
121924
121925 No , madam ; we have cull'd such necessaries
121926 As are behoveful for our state to-morrow :
121927 So please you , let me now be left alone ,
121928 And let the nurse this night sit up with you ;
121929 For , I am sure , you have your hands full all
121930 In this so sudden business .
121931
121932 Good-night :
121933 Get thee to bed , and rest ; for thou hast need .
121934
121935
121936 Farewell ! God knows when we shall meet again .
121937 I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins ,
121938 That almost freezes up the heat of life :
121939 I'll call them back again to comfort me :
121940 Nurse ! What should she do here ?
121941 My dismal scene I needs must act alone .
121942 Come , vial .
121943 What if this mixture do not work at all ?
121944 Shall I be married then to-morrow morning ?
121945 No , no ; this shall forbid it : lie thou there .
121946
121947 What if it be a poison , which the friar
121948 Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead ,
121949 Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd
121950 Because he married me before to Romeo ?
121951 I fear it is : and yet , methinks , it should not ,
121952 For he hath still been tried a holy man .
121953 I will not entertain so bad a thought .
121954 How if , when I am laid into the tomb ,
121955 I wake before the time that Romeo
121956 Come to redeem me ? there's a fearful point !
121957 Shall I not then be stifled in the vault ,
121958 To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in ,
121959 And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes ?
121960 Or , if I live , is it not very like ,
121961 The horrible conceit of death and night ,
121962 Together with the terror of the place ,
121963 As in a vault , an ancient receptacle ,
121964 Where , for these many hundred years , the bones
121965 Of all my buried ancestors are pack'd ;
121966 Where bloody Tybalt , yet but green in earth ,
121967 Lies festering in his shroud ; where , as they say ,
121968 At some hours in the night spirits resort :
121969 Alack , alack ! is it not like that I ,
121970 So early waking , what with loathsome smells ,
121971 And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth ,
121972 That living mortals , hearing them , run mad :
121973 O ! if I wake , shall I not be distraught ,
121974 Environed with all these hideous fears ,
121975 And madly play with my forefathers' joints ,
121976 And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud ?
121977 And , in this rage , with some great kinsman's bone ,
121978 As with a club , dash out my desperate brains ?
121979 O , look ! methinks I see my cousin's ghost
121980 Seeking out Romeo , that did spit his body
121981 Upon a rapier's point . Stay , Tybalt , stay !
121982 Romeo , I come ! this do I drink to thee .
121983
121984
121985 Hold , take these keys , and fetch more spices , nurse .
121986
121987 They call for dates and quinces in the pastry .
121988
121989
121990 Come , stir , stir , stir ! the second cock hath crow'd ,
121991 The curfew bell hath rung , 'tis three o'clock :
121992 Look to the bak'd meats , good Angelica :
121993 Spare not for cost .
121994
121995 Go , go , you cot-quean , go ;
121996 Get you to bed ; faith , you'll be sick to-morrow
121997 For this night's watching .
121998
121999 No , not a whit ; what ! I have watch'd ere now
122000 All night for lesser cause , and ne'er been sick .
122001
122002 Ay , you have been a mouse-hunt in your time ;
122003 But I will watch you from such watching now .
122004
122005
122006 A jealous-hood , a jealous-hood !
122007
122008
122009 Now , fellow ,
122010
122011 What's there ?
122012
122013 Things for the cook , sir ; but I know not what .
122014
122015 Make haste , make haste .
122016
122017 Sirrah , fetch drier logs :
122018 Call Peter , he will show thee where they are .
122019
122020 I have a head , sir , that will find out logs ,
122021 And never trouble Peter for the matter .
122022
122023
122024 Mass , and well said ; a merry whoreson , ha !
122025 Thou shalt be logger-head . Good faith ! 'tis day :
122026 The county will be here with music straight ,
122027 For so he said he would .
122028
122029 I hear him near .
122030 Nurse ! Wife ! what , ho ! What , nurse , I say !
122031
122032
122033 Go waken Juliet , go and trim her up ;
122034 I'll go and chat with Paris . Hie , make haste ,
122035 Make haste ; the bridegroom he is come already :
122036 Make haste , I say .
122037
122038 Mistress ! what , mistress ! Juliet ! fast , I warrant her , she :
122039 Why , lamb ! why , lady ! fie , you slug-a-bed !
122040 Why , love , I say ! madam ! sweet-heart ! why , bride !
122041 What ! not a word ? you take your pennyworths now :
122042 Sleep for a week ; for the next night , I warrant ,
122043 The County Paris hath set up his rest ,
122044 That you shall rest but little . God forgive me ,
122045 Marry , and amen , how sound is she asleep !
122046 I needs must wake her . Madam , madam , madam !
122047 Ay , let the county take you in your bed ;
122048 He'll fright you up , i' faith . Will it not be ?
122049 What , dress'd ! and in your clothes ! and down again !
122050 I must needs wake you . Lady ! lady ! lady !
122051 Alas ! alas ! Help ! help ! my lady's dead !
122052 O ! well-a-day , that ever I was born .
122053 Some aqua-vit , ho ! My lord ! my lady !
122054
122055
122056 What noise is here ?
122057
122058 O lamentable day !
122059
122060 What is the matter ?
122061
122062 Look , look ! O heavy day !
122063
122064 O me , O me ! my child , my only life ,
122065 Revive , look up , or I will die with thee !
122066 Help , help ! Call help .
122067
122068
122069 For shame ! bring Juliet forth ; her lord is come .
122070
122071 She's dead , deceas'd , she's dead ; alack the day !
122072
122073 Alack the day ! she's dead , she's dead ! she's dead !
122074
122075 Ha ! let me see her . Out , alas ! she's cold ;
122076 Her blood is settled , and her joints are stiff ;
122077 Life and these lips have long been separated :
122078 Death lies on her like an untimely frost
122079 Upon the sweetest flower of all the field .
122080
122081 O lamentable day !
122082
122083 O woeful time !
122084
122085 Death , that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail ,
122086 Ties up my tongue , and will not let me speak .
122087
122088
122089 Come , is the bride ready to go to church ?
122090
122091 Ready to go , but never to return .
122092 O son ! the night before thy wedding-day
122093 Hath Death lain with thy wife . There she lies ,
122094 Flower as she was , deflowered by him .
122095 Death is my son-in-law , Death is my heir ;
122096 My daughter he hath wedded : I will die ,
122097 And leave him all ; life , living , all is Death's !
122098
122099 Have I thought long to see this morning's face ,
122100 And doth it give me such a sight as this ?
122101
122102 Accurs'd , unhappy , wretched , hateful-day !
122103 Most miserable hour , that e'er time saw
122104 In lasting labour of his pilgrimage !
122105 But one , poor one , one poor and loving child ,
122106 But one thing to rejoice and solace in ,
122107 And cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight !
122108
122109 O woe ! O woeful , woeful , woeful day !
122110 Most lamentable day , most woeful day ,
122111 That ever , ever , I did yet behold !
122112 O day ! O day ! O day ! O hateful day !
122113 Never was seen so black a day as this :
122114 O woeful day , O woeful day !
122115
122116 Beguil'd , divorced , wronged , spited , slain !
122117 Most detestable death , by thee beguil'd ,
122118 By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown !
122119 O love ! O life ! not life , but love in death !
122120
122121 Despis'd , distressed , hated , martyr'd , kill'd !
122122 Uncomfortable time , why cam'st thou now
122123 To murder , murder our solemnity ?
122124 O child ! O child ! my soul , and not my child !
122125 Dead art thou ! dead ! alack , my child is dead ;
122126 And with my child my joys are buried !
122127
122128 Peace , ho ! for shame ! confusion's cure lives not
122129 In these confusions . Heaven and yourself
122130 Had part in this fair maid ; now heaven hath all ,
122131 And all the better is it for the maid :
122132 Your part in her you could not keep from death ,
122133 But heaven keeps his part in eternal life .
122134 The most you sought was her promotion ,
122135 For 'twas your heaven she should be advanc'd ;
122136 And weep ye now , seeing she is advanc'd
122137 Above the clouds , as high as heaven itself ?
122138 O ! in this love , you love your child so ill ,
122139 That you run mad , seeing that she is well :
122140 She's not well married that lives married long ;
122141 But she's best married that dies married young .
122142 Dry up your tears , and stick your rosemary
122143 On this fair corse ; and , as the custom is ,
122144 In all her best array bear her to church ;
122145 For though fond nature bids us all lament ,
122146 Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment .
122147
122148 All things that we ordained festival ,
122149 Turn from their office to black funeral ;
122150 Our instruments to melancholy bells ,
122151 Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast ,
122152 Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change ,
122153 Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse ,
122154 And all things change them to the contrary .
122155
122156 Sir , go you in ; and , madam , go with him ;
122157 And go , Sir Paris ; every one prepare
122158 To follow this fair corse unto her grave .
122159 The heavens do lower upon you for some ill ;
122160 Move them no more by crossing their high will .
122161
122162
122163 Faith , we may put up our pipes , and be gone .
122164
122165 Honest good fellows , ah ! put up , put up , for , well you know , this is a pitiful case .
122166
122167
122168 Ay , by my troth , the case may be amended .
122169
122170
122171 Musicians ! O ! musicians , 'Heart's ease , Heart's ease :' O ! an ye will have me live , play 'Heart's ease .'
122172
122173 Why 'Heart's ease ?'
122174
122175 O ! musicians , because my heart itself plays 'My heart is full of woe ;' O ! play me some merry dump , to comfort me .
122176
122177 Not a dump we ; 'tis no time to play now .
122178
122179 You will not then ?
122180
122181 No .
122182
122183 I will then give it you soundly .
122184
122185 What will you give us ?
122186
122187 No money , on my faith ! but the gleek ;
122188 I will give you the minstrel .
122189
122190 Then will I give you the serving-creature .
122191
122192 Then will I lay the serving-creature's dagger on your pate , I will carry no crotchets :
122193 I'll re you , I'll fa you . Do you note me ?
122194
122195 An you re us , and fa us , you note us .
122196
122197 Pray you , put up your dagger , and put out your wit .
122198
122199 Then have at you with my wit ! I will dry-beat you with an iron wit , and put up my iron dagger . Answer me like men :
122200
122201 When griping grief the heart doth wound ,
122202 And doleful dumps the mind oppress ,
122203 Then music with her silver sound
122204
122205 Why 'silver sound ?' why 'music with her silver sound ?' What say you , Simon Catling ?
122206
122207 Marry , sir , because silver hath a sweet sound .
122208
122209 Pretty ! What say you , Hugh Rebeck ?
122210
122211 I say 'silver sound ,' because musicians sound for silver .
122212
122213 Pretty too ! What say you , James Soundpost ?
122214
122215 Faith , I know not what to say .
122216
122217 O ! I cry you mercy ; you are the singer ;
122218 I will say for you . It is , 'music with her silver sound ,' because musicians have no gold for sounding :
122219
122220 Then music with her silver sound
122221 With speedy help doth lend redress .
122222
122223 What a pestilent knave is this same !
122224
122225 Hang him , Jack ! Come , we'll in here ; tarry for the mourners , and stay dinner .
122226
122227
122228 If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep ,
122229 My dreams presage some joyful news at hand :
122230 My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne ;
122231 And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit
122232 Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts .
122233 I dreamt my lady came and found me dead ;
122234 Strange dream , that gives a dead man leave to think ,
122235 And breath'd such life with kisses in my lips ,
122236 That I reviv'd , and was an emperor .
122237 Ah me ! how sweet is love itself possess'd ,
122238 When but love's shadows are so rich in joy !
122239
122240
122241 News from Verona ! How now , Balthasar ?
122242 Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar ?
122243 How doth my lady ? Is my father well ?
122244 How fares my Juliet ? That I ask again ;
122245
122246 For nothing can be ill if she be well .
122247
122248 Then she is well , and nothing can be ill ;
122249 Her body sleeps in Capel's monument ,
122250 And her immortal part with angels lives .
122251 I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault ,
122252 And presently took post to tell it you .
122253 O ! pardon me for bringing these ill news ,
122254 Since you did leave it for my office , sir .
122255
122256 Is it even so ? then I defy you , stars !
122257 Thou know'st my lodging : get me ink and paper ,
122258 And hire post-horses ; I will hence to-night .
122259
122260 I do beseech you , sir , have patience :
122261 Your looks are pale and wild , and do import
122262 Some misadventure .
122263
122264 Tush , thou art deceiv'd ;
122265 Leave me , and do the thing I bid thee do .
122266 Hast thou no letters to me from the friar ?
122267
122268 No , my good lord .
122269
122270 No matter ; get thee gone ,
122271 And hire those horses : I'll be with thee straight .
122272
122273 Well , Juliet , I will he with thee to-night .
122274 Let's see for means : O mischief ! thou art swift
122275 To enter in the thoughts of desperate men .
122276 I do remember an apothecary ,
122277 And hereabouts he dwells , which late I noted
122278 In tatter'd weeds , with overwhelming brows ,
122279 Culling of simples ; meagre were his looks ,
122280 Sharp misery had worn him to the bones :
122281 And in his needy shop a tortoise hung ,
122282 An alligator stuff'd , and other skins
122283 Of ill-shap'd fishes ; and about his shelves
122284 A beggarly account of empty boxes ,
122285 Green earthen pots , bladders , and musty seeds ,
122286 Remnants of packthread , and old cakes of roses ,
122287 Were thinly scatter'd , to make up a show .
122288 Noting this penury , to myself I said
122289 An if a man did need a poison now ,
122290 Whose sale is present death in Mantua ,
122291 Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him .
122292 O ! this same thought did but fore-run my need ,
122293 And this same needy man must sell it me .
122294 As I remember , this should be the house :
122295 Being holiday , the beggar's shop is shut .
122296 What , ho ! apothecary !
122297
122298
122299 Who calls so loud ?
122300
122301 Come hither , man . I see that thou art poor ;
122302 Hold , there is forty ducats ; let me have
122303 A dram of poison , such soon-speeding gear
122304 As will disperse itself through all the veins
122305 That the life-weary taker may fall dead ,
122306 And that the trunk may be discharg'd of breath
122307 As violently as hasty powder fir'd
122308 Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb .
122309
122310 Such mortal drugs I have ; but Mantua's law
122311 Is death to any he that utters them .
122312
122313 Art thou so bare , and full of wretchedness ,
122314 And fear'st to die ? famine is in thy cheeks ,
122315 Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes ,
122316 Contempt and beggary hang upon thy back ;
122317 The world is not thy friend nor the world's law :
122318 The world affords no law to make thee rich ;
122319 Then be not poor , but break it , and take this .
122320
122321 My poverty , but not my will , consents .
122322
122323 I pay thy poverty , and not thy will .
122324
122325 Put this in any liquid thing you will ,
122326 And drink it off ; and , if you had the strength
122327 Of twenty men , it would dispatch you straight .
122328
122329 There is thy gold , worse poison to men's souls ,
122330 Doing more murders in this loathsome world
122331 Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell :
122332 I sell thee poison , thou hast sold me none .
122333 Farewell ; buy food , and get thyself in flesh .
122334 Come , cordial and not poison , go with me
122335 To Juliet's grave , for there must I use thee .
122336
122337
122338 Holy Franciscan friar ! brother , ho !
122339
122340
122341 This same should be the voice of Friar John .
122342 Welcome from Mantua : what says Romeo ?
122343 Or , if his mind be writ , give me his letter .
122344
122345 Going to find a bare-foot brother out ,
122346 One of our order , to associate me ,
122347 Here in this city visiting the sick ,
122348 And finding him , the searchers of the town ,
122349 Suspecting that we both were in a house
122350 Where the infectious pestilence did reign ,
122351 Seal'd up the doors , and would not let us forth ;
122352 So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd .
122353
122354 Who bare my letter then to Romeo ?
122355
122356 I could not send it , here it is again ,
122357 Nor get a messenger to bring it thee ,
122358 So fearful were they of infection .
122359
122360 Unhappy fortune ! by my brotherhood ,
122361 The letter was not nice , but full of charge
122362 Of dear import ; and the neglecting it
122363 May do much danger . Friar John , go hence ;
122364 Get me an iron crow , and bring it straight
122365 Unto my cell .
122366
122367 Brother , I'll go and bring it thee .
122368
122369
122370 Now must I to the monument alone ;
122371 Within these three hours will fair Juliet wake :
122372 She will beshrew me much that Romeo
122373 Hath had no notice of these accidents ;
122374 But I will write again to Mantus ,
122375 And keep her at my cell till Romeo come :
122376 Poor living corse , clos'd in a dead man's tomb !
122377
122378
122379 Give me thy torch , boy : hence , and stand aloof ;
122380 Yet put it out , for I would not be seen .
122381 Under yond yew-trees lay thee all along ,
122382 Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground :
122383 So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread ,
122384 Being loose , unfirm with digging up of graves ,
122385 But thou shalt hear it : whistle then to me ,
122386 As signal that thou hear'st something approach .
122387 Give me those flowers . Do as I bid thee ; go .
122388
122389 I am almost afraid to stand alone
122390 Here in the churchyard ; yet I will adventure .
122391
122392
122393 Sweet flower , with flowers thy bridal bed I strew ,
122394 O woe ! thy canopy is dust and stones ;
122395 Which with sweet water nightly I will dew ,
122396 Or , wanting that , with tears distill'd by moans :
122397 The obsequies that I for thee will keep
122398 Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep .
122399
122400 The boy gives warning something doth approach .
122401 What cursed foot wanders this way to-night ,
122402 To cross my obsequies and true love's rite ?
122403 What ! with a torch ?muffle me , night , awhile .
122404
122405 Give me that mattock , and the wrenching iron .
122406 Hold , take this letter ; early in the morning
122407 See thou deliver it to my lord and father .
122408 Give me the light : upon thy life I charge thee ,
122409 Whate'er thou hear'st or seest , stand all aloof ,
122410 And do not interrupt me in my course .
122411 Why I descend into this bed of death ,
122412 Is partly , to behold my lady's face ;
122413 But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger
122414 A precious ring , a ring that I must use
122415 In dear employment : therefore hence , be gone :
122416 But , if thou , jealous , dost return to pry
122417 In what I further shall intend to do ,
122418 By heaven , I will tear thee joint by joint ,
122419 And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs .
122420 The time and my intents are savage-wild ,
122421 More fierce and more inexorable far
122422 Than empty tigers or the roaring sea .
122423
122424 I will be gone , sir , and not trouble you .
122425
122426 So shalt thou show me friendship . Take thou that :
122427 Live , and be prosperous ; and farewell , good fellow .
122428
122429 For all this same , I'll hide me here about :
122430 His looks I fear , and his intents I doubt .
122431
122432
122433 Thou detestable maw , thou womb of death ,
122434 Gorg'd with the dearest morsel of the earth ,
122435 Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open ,
122436
122437 And , in despite , I'll cram thee with more food !
122438
122439 This is that banish'd haughty Montague ,
122440 That murder'd my love's cousin , with which grief
122441 It is supposed the fair creature died ;
122442 And here is come to do some villanous shame
122443 To the dead bodies : I will apprehend him .
122444
122445 Stop thy unhallow'd toil , vile Montague ,
122446 Can vengeance be pursu'd further than death ?
122447 Condemned villain , I do apprehend thee :
122448 Obey , and go with me ; for thou must die .
122449
122450 I must , indeed ; and therefore came I hither .
122451 Good gentle youth , tempt not a desperate man ;
122452 Fly hence and leave me : think upon these gone ;
122453 Let them affright thee . I beseech thee , youth ,
122454 Put not another sin upon my head
122455 By urging me to fury : O ! be gone :
122456 By heaven , I love thee better than myself .
122457 For I come hither arm'd against myself :
122458 Stay not , be gone ; live , and hereafter say
122459 A madman's mercy bade thee run away .
122460
122461 I do defy thy conjurations ,
122462 And apprehend thee for a felon here .
122463
122464 Wilt thou provoke me ? then have at thee , boy !
122465
122466
122467 O Lord ! they fight : I will go call the watch .
122468
122469
122470 O , I am slain !If thou be merciful ,
122471 Open the tomb , lay me with Juliet .
122472
122473
122474 In faith , I will . Let me peruse this face :
122475 Mercutio's kinsman , noble County Paris !
122476 What said my man when my betossed soul
122477 Did not attend him as we rode ? I think
122478 He told me Paris should have married Juliet :
122479 Said he not so ? or did I dream it so ?
122480 Or am I mad , hearing him talk of Juliet ,
122481 To think it was so ? O ! give me thy hand ,
122482 One writ with me in sour misfortune's book :
122483 I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave ;
122484 A grave ? O , no ! a lanthorn , slaughter'd youth ,
122485 For here lies Juliet , and her beauty makes
122486 This vault a feasting presence full of light .
122487 Death , lie thou there , by a dead man interr'd ,
122488
122489 How oft when men are at the point of death
122490 Have they been merry ! which their keepers call
122491 A lightning before death : O ! how may I
122492 Call this a lightning ? O my love ! my wife !
122493 Death , that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath ,
122494 Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty :
122495 Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet
122496 Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks ,
122497 And death's pale flag is not advanced there .
122498 Tybalt , liest thou there in thy bloody sheet ?
122499 O ! what more favour can I do to thee ,
122500 Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
122501 To sunder his that was thine enemy ?
122502 Forgive me , cousin ! Ah ! dear Juliet ,
122503 Why art thou yet so fair ? Shall I believe
122504 That unsubstantial Death is amorous ,
122505 And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
122506 Thee here in dark to be his paramour ?
122507 For fear of that I still will stay with thee ,
122508 And never from this palace of dim night
122509 Depart again : here , here will I remain
122510 With worms that are thy chambermaids ; O ! here
122511 Will I set up my everlasting rest ,
122512 And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
122513 From this world-wearied flesh . Eyes , look your last !
122514 Arms , take your last embrace ! and , lips , O you
122515 The doors of breath , seal with a righteous kiss
122516 A dateless bargain to engrossing death !
122517 Come , bitter conduct , come , unsavoury guide !
122518 Thou desperate pilot , now at once run on
122519 The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark !
122520 Here's to my love !
122521
122522 O true apothecary !
122523 Thy drugs are quick . Thus with a kiss I die .
122524
122525 Saint Francis be my speed ! how oft to-night
122526 Have my old feet stumbled at graves ! Who's there ?
122527
122528 Here's one , a friend , and one that knows you well .
122529
122530 Bliss be upon you ! Tell me , good my friend ,
122531 What torch is yond , that vainly lends his light
122532 To grubs and eyeless skulls ? as I discern ,
122533 It burneth in the Capel's monument .
122534
122535 It doth so , holy sir ; and there's my master ,
122536 One that you love .
122537
122538 Who is it ?
122539
122540 Romeo .
122541
122542 How long hath he been there ?
122543
122544 Full half an hour .
122545
122546 Go with me to the vault .
122547
122548 I dare not , sir .
122549 My master knows not but I am gone hence ;
122550 And fearfully did menace me with death
122551 If I did stay to look on his intents .
122552
122553 Stay then , I'll go alone . Fear comes upon me ;
122554 O ! much I fear some ill unlucky thing .
122555
122556 As I did sleep under this yew-tree here ,
122557 I dreamt my master and another fought ,
122558 And that my master slew him .
122559
122560 Romeo !
122561 Alack , alack ! what blood is this which stains
122562 The stony entrance of this sepulchre ?
122563 What mean these masterless and gory swords
122564 To lie discolour'd by this place of peace ?
122565
122566 Romeo ! O , pale ! Who else ? what ! Paris too ?
122567 And steep'd in blood ? Ah ! what an unkind hour
122568 Is guilty of this lamentable chance .
122569 The lady stirs .
122570
122571
122572 O , comfortable friar ! where is my lord ?
122573 I do remember well where I should be ,
122574 And there I am . Where is my Romeo ?
122575
122576
122577 I hear some noise . Lady , come from that nest
122578 Of death , contagion , and unnatural sleep :
122579 A greater power than we can contradict
122580 Hath thwarted our intents : come , come away .
122581 Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead ;
122582 And Paris too : come , I'll dispose of thee
122583 Among a sisterhood of holy nuns .
122584 Stay not to question , for the watch is coming ;
122585 Come , go , good Juliet .
122586
122587 I dare no longer stay .
122588
122589 Go , get thee hence , for I will not away .
122590
122591 What's here ? a cup , clos'd in my true love's hand ?
122592 Poison , I see , hath been his timeless end .
122593 O churl ! drunk all , and left no friendly drop
122594 To help me after ! I will kiss thy lips ;
122595 Haply , some poison yet doth hang on them ,
122596 To make me die with a restorative .
122597
122598 Thy lips are warm !
122599
122600 Lead , boy : which way ?
122601
122602 Yea , noise ? then I'll be brief . O happy dagger !
122603
122604 This is thy sheath ;
122605
122606 there rest , and let me die .
122607
122608 This is the place ; there where the torch doth burn .
122609
122610 The ground is bloody ; search about the churchyard .
122611 Go , some of you ; whoe'er you find , attach .
122612
122613 Pitiful sight ! here lies the county slain ,
122614 And Juliet bleeding , warm , and newly dead ,
122615 Who here hath lain these two days buried .
122616 Go , tell the prince , run to the Capulets ,
122617 Raise up the Montagues , some others search :
122618
122619 We see the ground whereon these woes do lie ;
122620 But the true ground of all these piteous woes
122621 We cannot without circumstance descry .
122622
122623
122624 Here's Romeo's man ; we found him in the churchyard .
122625
122626 Hold him in safety , till the prince come hither .
122627
122628
122629 Here is a friar , that trembles , sighs , and weeps ;
122630 We took this mattock and this spade from him ,
122631 As he was coming from this churchyard side .
122632
122633 A great suspicion : stay the friar too .
122634
122635
122636 What misadventure is so early up ,
122637 That calls our person from our morning's rest ?
122638
122639
122640 What should it be , that they so shriek abroad ?
122641
122642 The people in the street cry Romeo ,
122643 Some Juliet , and some Paris ; and all run
122644 With open outcry toward our monument .
122645
122646 What fear is this which startles in our ears ?
122647
122648 Sovereign , here lies the County Paris slain ;
122649 And Romeo dead ; and Juliet , dead before ,
122650 Warm and new kill'd .
122651
122652 Search , seek , and know how this foul murder comes .
122653
122654 Here is a friar , and slaughter'd Romeo's man ;
122655 With instruments upon them , fit to open
122656 These dead men's tombs .
122657
122658 O , heaven !O wife ! look how our daughter bleeds !
122659 This dagger hath mista'en !for , lo , his house
122660 Is empty on the back of Montague
122661 And is mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom .
122662
122663 O me ! this sight of death is as a bell ,
122664 That warns my old age to a sepulchre .
122665
122666
122667 Come , Montague : for thou art early up ,
122668 To see thy son and heir more early down .
122669
122670 Alas ! my liege , my wife is dead to-night ;
122671 Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath .
122672 What further woe conspires against mine age ?
122673
122674 Look , and thou shalt see .
122675
122676 O thou untaught ! what manners is in this ,
122677 To press before thy father to a grave ?
122678
122679 Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while ,
122680 Till we can clear these ambiguities ,
122681 And know their spring , their head , their true descent ;
122682 And then will I be general of your woes ,
122683 And lead you even to death : meantime forbear ,
122684 And let mischance be slave to patience .
122685 Bring forth the parties of suspicion .
122686
122687 I am the greatest , able to do least ,
122688 Yet most suspected , as the time and place
122689 Doth make against me , of this direful murder ;
122690 And here I stand , both to impeach and purge
122691 Myself condemned and myself excus'd .
122692
122693 Then say at once what thou dost know in this .
122694
122695 I will be brief , for my short date of breath
122696 Is not so long as is a tedious tale .
122697 Romeo , there dead , was husband to that Juliet ;
122698 And she , there dead , that Romeo's faithful wife :
122699 I married them ; and their stolen marriage-day
122700 Was Tybalt's doomsday , whose untimely death
122701 Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from this city ;
122702 For whom , and not for Tybalt , Juliet pin'd .
122703 You , to remove that siege of grief from her ,
122704 Betroth'd , and would have married her perforce ,
122705 To County Paris : then comes she to me ,
122706 And , with wild looks bid me devise some mean
122707 To rid her from this second marriage ,
122708 Or in my cell there would she kill herself .
122709 Then gave I her ,so tutor'd by my art ,
122710 A sleeping potion ; which so took effect
122711 As I intended , for it wrought on her
122712 The form of death : meantime I writ to Romeo
122713 That he should hither come as this dire night ,
122714 To help to take her from her borrow'd grave ,
122715 Being the time the potion's force should cease .
122716 But he which bore my letter , Friar John ,
122717 Was stay'd by accident , and yesternight
122718 Return'd my letter back . Then , all alone ,
122719 At the prefixed hour of her waking ,
122720 Came I to take her from her kindred's vault ,
122721 Meaning to keep her closely at my cell ,
122722 Till I conveniently could send to Romeo :
122723 But , when I came ,some minute ere the time
122724 Of her awakening ,here untimely lay
122725 The noble Paris and true Romeo dead .
122726 She wakes ; and I entreated her come forth ,
122727 And bear this work of heaven with patience ;
122728 But then a noise did scare me from the tomb ,
122729 And she , too desperate , would not go with me ,
122730 But , as it seems , did violence on herself .
122731 All this I know ; and to the marriage
122732 Her nurse is privy : and , if aught in this
122733 Miscarried by my fault , let my old life
122734 Be sacrific'd , some hour before his time ,
122735 Unto the rigour of severest law .
122736
122737 We still have known thee for a holy man .
122738 Where's Romeo's man ? what can he say in this ?
122739
122740 I brought my master news of Juliet's death ;
122741 And then in post he came from Mantua
122742 To this same place , to this same monument .
122743 This letter he early bid me give his father ,
122744 And threaten'd me with death , going in the vault ,
122745 If I departed not and left him there .
122746
122747 Give me the letter ; I will look on it .
122748 Where is the county's page that rais'd the watch ?
122749 Sirrah , what made your master in this place ?
122750
122751 He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave ,
122752 And bid me stand aloof , and so I did ;
122753 Anon , comes one with light to ope the tomb ;
122754 And by and by my master drew on him ;
122755 And then I ran away to call the watch .
122756
122757 This letter doth make good the friar's words ,
122758 Their course of love , the tidings of her death :
122759 And here he writes that he did buy a poison
122760 Of a poor 'pothecary , and therewithal
122761 Came to this vault to die , and lie with Juliet .
122762 Where be these enemies ?Capulet ! Montague !
122763 See what a scourge is laid upon your hate ,
122764 That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love ;
122765 And I , for winking at your discords too ,
122766 Have lost a brace of kinsmen : all are punish'd .
122767
122768 O brother Montague ! give me thy hand :
122769 This is my daughter's jointure , for no more
122770 Can I demand .
122771
122772 But I can give thee more ;
122773 For I will raise her statue in pure gold ;
122774 That while Verona by that name is known .
122775 There shall no figure at such rate be set
122776 As that of true and faithful Juliet .
122777
122778 As rich shall Romeo by his lady lie ;
122779 Poor sacrifices of our enmity !
122780
122781 A glooming peace this morning with it brings ;
122782 The sun , for sorrow , will not show his head :
122783 Go hence , to have more talk of these sad things :
122784 Some shall be pardon'd , and some punished :
122785 For never was a story of more woe
122786 Than this of Juliet and her Romeo .
122787
122788 TIMON OF ATHENS
122789
122790 Good day , sir .
122791
122792 I am glad you're well .
122793
122794 I have not seen you long . How goes the world ?
122795
122796 It wears , sir , as it grows .
122797
122798 Ay , that's well known ;
122799 But what particular rarity ? what strange ,
122800 Which manifold record not matches ? See ,
122801 Magic of bounty ! all these spirits thy power
122802 Hath conjur'd to attend . I know the merchant .
122803
122804 I know them both ; th' other's a jeweller .
122805
122806 O ! 'tis a worthy lord .
122807
122808 Nay , that's most fix'd .
122809
122810 A most incomparable man , breath'd , as it were ,
122811 To an untirable and continuate goodness :
122812 He passes .
122813
122814 I have a jewel here
122815
122816 O ! pray , let's see 't : for the Lord Timon , sir ?
122817
122818 If he will touch the estimate : but , for that
122819
122820 When we for recompense have prais'd the vile ,
122821 It stains the glory in that happy verse
122822 Which aptly sings the good .
122823
122824 'Tis a good form .
122825
122826 And rich : here is a water , look ye .
122827
122828 You are rapt , sir , in some work , some dedication
122829 To the great lord .
122830
122831 A thing slipp'd idly from me .
122832 Our poesy is as a gum , which oozes
122833 From whence 'tis nourish'd : the fire i' the flint
122834 Shows not till it be struck ; our gentle flame
122835 Provokes itself , and , like the current flies
122836 Each bound it chafes . What have you there ?
122837
122838 A picture , sir . When comes your book forth ?
122839
122840 Upon the heels of my presentment , sir .
122841 Let's see your piece .
122842
122843 'Tis a good piece .
122844
122845 So 'tis : this comes off well and excellent .
122846
122847 Indifferent .
122848
122849 Admirable ! How this grace
122850 Speaks his own standing ! what a mental power
122851 This eye shoots forth ! how big imagination
122852 Moves in this lip ! to the dumbness of the gesture
122853 One might interpret .
122854
122855 It is a pretty mocking of the life .
122856 Here is a touch ; is 't good ?
122857
122858 I'll say of it ,
122859 It tutors nature : artificial strife
122860 Lives in these touches , livelier than life .
122861
122862
122863 How this lord is follow'd !
122864
122865 The senators of Athens : happy man !
122866
122867 Look , more !
122868
122869 You see this confluence , this great flood of visitors .
122870 I have , in this rough work , shap'd out a man ,
122871 Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug
122872 With amplest entertainment : my free drift
122873 Halts not particularly , but moves itself
122874 In a wide sea of wax : no levell'd malice
122875 Infects one comma in the course I hold ;
122876 But flies an eagle flight , bold and forth on ,
122877 Leaving no tract behind .
122878
122879 How shall I understand you ?
122880
122881 I will unbolt to you .
122882 You see how all conditions , how all minds
122883 As well of glib and slippery creatures as
122884 Of grave and austere quality tender down
122885 Their services to Lord Timon : his large fortune ,
122886 Upon his good and gracious nature hanging ,
122887 Subdues and properties to his love and tendance
122888 All sorts of hearts ; yea , from the glass-fac'd flatterer
122889 To Apemantus , that few things loves better
122890 Than to abhor himself : even he drops down
122891 The knee before him and returns in peace
122892 Most rich in Timon's nod .
122893
122894 I saw them speak together .
122895
122896 Sir , I have upon a high and pleasant hill
122897 Feign'd Fortune to be thron'd : the base o' the mount
122898 Is rank'd with all deserts , all kind of natures ,
122899 That labour on the bosom of this sphere
122900 To propagate their states : amongst them all ,
122901 Whose eyes are on this sovereign lady fix'd ,
122902 One do I personate of Lord Timon's frame ,
122903 Whom Fortune with her ivory hand wafts to her ;
122904 Whose present grace to present slaves and servants
122905 Translates his rivals .
122906
122907 'Tis conceiv'd to scope .
122908 This throne , this Fortune , and this hill , methinks ,
122909 With one man beckon'd from the rest below ,
122910 Bowing his head against the steepy mount
122911 To climb his happiness , would be well express'd
122912 In our condition .
122913
122914 Nay , sir , but hear me on .
122915 All those which were his fellows but of late ,
122916 Some better than his value , on the moment
122917 Follow his strides , his lobbies fill with tendance ,
122918 Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear ,
122919 Make sacred even his stirrup , and through him
122920 Drink the free air .
122921
122922 Ay , marry , what of these ?
122923
122924 When Fortune in her shift and change of mood
122925 Spurns down her late belov'd , all his dependants
122926 Which labour'd after him to the mountain's top
122927 Even on their knees and hands , let him slip down ,
122928 Not one accompanying his declining foot .
122929
122930 'Tis common :
122931 A thousand moral paintings I can show
122932 That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's
122933 More pregnantly than words . Yet you do well
122934 To show Lord Timon that mean eyes have seen
122935 The foot above the head .
122936
122937
122938 Imprison'd is he , say you ?
122939
122940 Ay , my good lord : five talents is his debt ,
122941 His means most short , his creditors most strait :
122942 Your honourable letter he desires
122943 To those have shut him up ; which , failing ,
122944 Periods his comfort .
122945
122946 Noble Ventidius ! Well ;
122947 I am not of that feather to shake off
122948 My friend when he must need me . I do know him
122949 A gentleman that well deserves a help ,
122950 Which he shall have : I'll pay the debt and free him .
122951
122952 Your lordship ever binds him .
122953
122954 Commend me to him . I will send his ransom ;
122955 And being enfranchis'd , bid him come to me .
122956 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up ,
122957 But to support him after . Fare you well .
122958
122959 All happiness to your honour .
122960
122961 Lord Timon , hear me speak .
122962
122963 Freely , good father .
122964
122965 Thou hast a servant nam'd Lucilius .
122966
122967 I have so : what of him ?
122968
122969 Most noble Timon , call the man before thee .
122970
122971 Attends be here or no ? Lucilius !
122972
122973 Here , at your lordship's service .
122974
122975 This fellow here , Lord Timon , this thy creature ,
122976 By night frequents my house . I am a man
122977 That from my first have been inclin'd to thrift ,
122978 And my estate deserves an heir more rais'd
122979 Than one which holds a trencher .
122980
122981 Well ; what further ?
122982
122983 One only daughter have I , no kin else ,
122984 On whom I may confer what I have got :
122985 The maid is fair , o' the youngest for a bride ,
122986 And I have bred her at my dearest cost
122987 In qualities of the best . This man of thine
122988 Attempts her love : I prithee , noble lord ,
122989 Join with me to forbid him her resort ;
122990 Myself have spoke in vain .
122991
122992 The man is honest .
122993
122994 Therefore he will be , Timon :
122995 His honesty rewards him in itself ;
122996 It must not bear my daughter .
122997
122998 Does she love him ?
122999
123000 She is young and apt :
123001 Our own precedent passions do instruct us
123002 What levity's in youth .
123003
123004 Love you the maid ?
123005
123006 Ay , my good lord , and she accepts of it .
123007
123008 If in her marriage my consent be missing ,
123009 I call the gods to witness , I will choose
123010 Mine heir from forth the beggars of the world ,
123011 And dispossess her all .
123012
123013 How shall she be endow'd ,
123014 If she be mated with an equal husband ?
123015
123016 Three talents on the present ; in future , all .
123017
123018 This gentleman of mine hath serv'd me long :
123019 To build his fortune I will strain a little ,
123020 For 'tis a bond in men . Give him thy daughter ;
123021 What you bestow , in him I'll counterpoise ,
123022 And make him weigh with her .
123023
123024 Most noble lord ,
123025 Pawn me to this your honour , she is his .
123026
123027 My hand to thee ; mine honour on my promise .
123028
123029 Humbly I thank your lordship : never may
123030 That state or fortune fall into my keeping
123031 Which is not ow'd to you !
123032
123033
123034 Vouchsafe my labour , and long live your lordship !
123035
123036 I thank you ; you shall hear from me anon :
123037 Go not away . What have you there , my friend ?
123038
123039 A piece of painting , which I do beseech
123040 Your lordship to accept .
123041
123042 Painting is welcome .
123043 The painting is almost the natural man ;
123044 For since dishonour traffics with man's nature ,
123045 He is but outside : these pencil'd figures are
123046 Even such as they give out . I like your work ;
123047 And you shall find I like it : wait attendance
123048 Till you hear further from me .
123049
123050 The gods preserve you !
123051
123052 Well fare you , gentleman : give me your hand ;
123053 We must needs dine together . Sir , your jewel
123054 Hath suffer'd under praise .
123055
123056 What , my lord ! dispraise ?
123057
123058 A mere satiety of commendations .
123059 If I should pay you for 't as 'tis extoll'd ,
123060 It would unclew me quite .
123061
123062 My lord , 'tis rated
123063 As those which sell would give : but you well know ,
123064 Things of like value , differing in the owners ,
123065 Are prized by their masters . Believe 't , dear lord ,
123066 You mend the jewel by the wearing it .
123067
123068 Well mock'd .
123069
123070 No , my good lord ; he speaks the common tongue ,
123071 Which all men speak with him .
123072
123073 Look , who comes here . Will you be chid ?
123074
123075
123076 We'll bear , with your lordship .
123077
123078 He'll spare none .
123079
123080 Good morrow to thee , gentle Apemantus !
123081
123082 Till I be gentle , stay thou for thy good morrow ;
123083 When thou art Timon's dog , and these knaves honest .
123084
123085 Why dost thou call them knaves ? thou know'st them not .
123086
123087 Are they not Athenians ?
123088
123089 Yes .
123090
123091 Then I repent not .
123092
123093 You know me , Apemantus ?
123094
123095 Thou know'st I do ; I call'd thee by thy name .
123096
123097 Thou art proud , Apemantus .
123098
123099 Of nothing so much as that I am not like Timon .
123100
123101 Whither art going ?
123102
123103 To knock out an honest Athenian's brains .
123104
123105 That's a deed thou'lt die for .
123106
123107 Right , if doing nothing be death by the law .
123108
123109 How likest thou this picture , Apemantus ?
123110
123111 The best , for the innocence .
123112
123113 Wrought he not well that painted it ?
123114
123115 He wrought better that made the painter ; and yet he's but a filthy piece of work .
123116
123117 You're a dog .
123118
123119 Thy mother's of my generation : what's she , if I be a dog ?
123120
123121 Wilt dine with me , Apemantus ?
123122
123123 No ; I eat not lords .
123124
123125 An thou shouldst , thou'dst anger ladies .
123126
123127 O ! they eat lords ; so they come by great bellies .
123128
123129 That's a lascivious apprehension .
123130
123131 So thou apprehendest it , take it for thy labour .
123132
123133 How dost thou like this jewel , Apemantus ?
123134
123135 Not so well as plain-dealing , which will not cost a man a doit .
123136
123137 What dost thou think 'tis worth ?
123138
123139 Not worth my thinking . How now , poet !
123140
123141 How now , philosopher !
123142
123143 Thou liest .
123144
123145 Art not one ?
123146
123147 Yes .
123148
123149 Then I lie not .
123150
123151 Art not a poet ?
123152
123153 Yes .
123154
123155 Then thou liest : look in thy last work , where thou hast feigned him a worthy fellow .
123156
123157 That's not feigned ; he is so .
123158
123159 Yes , he is worthy of thee , and to pay thee for thy labour : he that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer . Heavens , that I were a lord !
123160
123161 What wouldst do then , Apemantus ?
123162
123163 Even as Apemantus does now ; hate a lord with my heart .
123164
123165 What , thyself ?
123166
123167 Ay .
123168
123169 Wherefore ?
123170
123171 That I had no angry wit to be a lord .
123172 Art not thou a merchant ?
123173
123174 Ay , Apemantus .
123175
123176 Traffic confound thee , if the gods will not !
123177
123178 If traffic do it , the gods do it .
123179
123180 Traffic's thy god , and thy god confound thee !
123181
123182
123183 What trumpet's that ?
123184
123185 'Tis Alcihiades , and some twenty horse ,
123186 All of companionship .
123187
123188 Pray , entertain them ; give them guide to us .
123189
123190 You must needs dine with me . Go not you hence
123191 Till I have thanked you ; when dinner's done ,
123192 Show me this piece . I am joyful of your sights .
123193
123194 Most welcome , sir !
123195
123196 So , so , there !
123197 Aches contract and starve your supple joints !
123198 That there should be small love 'mongst these sweet knaves ,
123199 And all this courtesy ! The strain of man's bred out
123200 Into baboon and monkey .
123201
123202 Sir , you have sav'd my longing , and I feed
123203 Most hungerly on your sight .
123204
123205 Right welcome , sir !
123206 Ere we depart , we'll share a bounteous time
123207 In different pleasures . Pray you , let us in .
123208
123209 What time o'day is't , Apemantus ?
123210
123211 Time to be honest .
123212
123213 That time serves still .
123214
123215 The more accursed thou , that still omitt'st it .
123216
123217 Thou art going to Lord Timon's feast ?
123218
123219 Ay ; to see meat fill khaves and wine heat fools .
123220
123221 Fare thee well , fare thee well .
123222
123223 Thou art a fool to bid me farewell twice .
123224
123225 Why , Apemantus ?
123226
123227 Shouldst have kept one to thyself , for I mean to give thee none .
123228
123229 Hang thyself !
123230
123231 No , I will do nothing at thy bidding : make thy requests to thy friend .
123232
123233 Away , unpeaceable dog ! or I'll spurn thee hence .
123234
123235 I will fly , like a dog , the heels of an ass .
123236
123237
123238 He's opposite to humanity . Come , shall we in ,
123239 And taste Lord Timon's bounty ? he outgoes
123240 The very heart of kindness .
123241
123242 He pours it out ; Plutus , the god of gold ,
123243 Is but his steward : no meed but he repays
123244 Sevenfold above itself ; no gift to him
123245 But breeds the giver a return exceeding
123246 All use of quittance .
123247
123248 The noblest mind he carries
123249 That ever govern'd man .
123250
123251 Long may he live in fortunes !
123252 Shall we in ?
123253
123254 I'll keep you company .
123255
123256 Most honour'd Timon ,
123257 It hath pleas'd the gods to remember my father's age ,
123258 And call him to long peace .
123259 He is gone happy , and has left me rich :
123260 Then , as in grateful virtue I am bound
123261 To your free heart , I do return those talents ,
123262 Doubled with thanks and service , from whose help
123263 I deriv'd liberty .
123264
123265 O ! by no means ,
123266 Honest Ventidius ; you mistake my love ;
123267 I gave it freely ever ; and there's none
123268 Can truly say he gives , if he receives :
123269 If our betters play at that game , we must not dare
123270 To imitate them ; faults that are rich are fair .
123271
123272 A noble spirit .
123273
123274
123275 Nay , my lords , ceremony was but devis'd at first
123276 To set a gloss on faint deeds , hollow welcomes ,
123277 Recanting goodness , sorry ere 'tis shown ;
123278 But where there is true friendship , there needs none .
123279 Pray , sit ; more welcome are ye to my fortunes
123280 Than my fortunes to me .
123281
123282
123283 My lord , we always have confess'd it .
123284
123285 Ho , ho ! confess'd it ; hang'd it , have you not ?
123286
123287 O ! Apemantus , you are welcome .
123288
123289 No ,
123290 You shall not make me welcome :
123291 I come to have thee thrust me out of doors .
123292
123293 Fie ! thou'rt a churl ; ye've got a humour there
123294 Does not become a man ; 'tis much to blame .
123295 They say , my lords , Ira furor brevis est ;
123296 But yond man is ever angry .
123297 Go , let him have a table by himself ,
123298 For he does neither affect company ,
123299 Nor is he fit for it , indeed .
123300
123301 Let me stay at thine apperil , Timon :
123302 I come to observe ; I give thee warning on't .
123303
123304 I take no heed of thee ; thou'rt an Athenian , therefore , welcome . I myself would have no power ; prithee , let my meat make thee silent .
123305
123306 I scorn thy meat ; 'twould choke me , for I should
123307 Ne'er flatter thee . O you gods ! what a number
123308 Of men eat Timon , and he sees them not .
123309 It grieves me to see so many dip their meat
123310 In one man's blood ; and all the madness is ,
123311 He cheers them up too .
123312 I wonder men dare trust themselves with men :
123313 Methinks they should invite them without knives ;
123314 Good for their meat , and safer for their lives .
123315 There's much example for't ; the fellow that
123316 Sits next him now , parts bread with him , and pledges
123317 The breath of him in a divided draught ,
123318 Is the readiest man to kill him : 't has been prov'd .
123319 If I were a huge man , I should fear to drink at meals ;
123320 Lest they should spy my wind-pipe's dangerous notes :
123321 Great men should drink with harness on their throats .
123322
123323 My lord , in heart ; and let the health go round .
123324
123325 Let it flow this way , my good lord .
123326
123327 Flow this way ! A brave fellow ! he keeps his tides well . Those healths will make thee and thy state look ill , Timon .
123328 Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner ,
123329 Honest water , which ne'er left man i' the mire :
123330 This and my food are equals , there's no odds :
123331 Feasts are too proud to give thanks to the gods .
123332
123333 Immortal gods , I crave no pelf ;
123334 I pray for no man but myself :
123335 Grant I may never prove so fond ,
123336 To trust man on his oath or bond ;
123337 Or a harlot for her weeping ;
123338 Or a dog that seems a-sleeping ;
123339 Or a keeper with my freedom ;
123340 Or my friends , if I should need 'em .
123341 Amen . So fall to't :
123342 Rich men sin , and I eat root .
123343
123344
123345 Much good dich thy good heart , Apemantus !
123346
123347 Captain Alcibiades , your heart's in the field now .
123348
123349 My heart is ever at your service , my lord .
123350
123351 You had rather be at a breakfast of enemies than a dinner of friends .
123352
123353 So they were bleeding-new , my lord , there's no meat like 'em : I could wish my best friend at such a feast .
123354
123355 'Would all those flatterers were thine enemies then , that then thou mightst kill 'em and bid me to 'em .
123356
123357 Might we but have that happiness , my lord , that you would once use our hearts , whereby we might express some part of our zeals , we should think ourselves for ever perfect .
123358
123359 O ! no doubt , my good friends , but the gods themselves have provided that I shall have much help from you : how had you been my friends else ? why have you that charitable title from thousands , did not you chiefly belong to my heart ? I have told more of you to myself than you can with modesty speak in your own behalf ; and thus far I confirm you . O you gods ! think I , what need we have any friends , if we should ne'er have need of 'em ? they were the most needless creatures living should we ne'er have use for 'em , and would most resemble sweet instruments hung up in cases , that keep their sounds to themselves . Why , I have often wished myself poorer that I might come nearer to you . We are born to do benefits ; and what better or properer can we call our own than the riches of our friends ? O ! what a precious comfort 'tis , to have so many , like brothers , commanding one another's fortunes . O joy ! e'en made away ere it can be born . Mine eyes cannot hold out water , methinks : to forget their faults , I drink to you .
123360
123361 Thou weepest to make them drink , Timon .
123362
123363 Joy had the like conception in our eyes ,
123364 And , at that instant , like a babe , sprung up .
123365
123366 Ho , ho ! I laugh to think that babe a bastard .
123367
123368 I promise you , my lord , you mov'd me much .
123369
123370 Much !
123371
123372
123373 What means that trump ?
123374
123375 How now !
123376
123377 Please you , my lord , there are certain ladies most desirous of admittance .
123378
123379 Ladies ? What are their wills ?
123380
123381 There comes with them a forerunner , my lord , which bears that office , to signify their pleasures .
123382
123383 I pray , let them be admitted .
123384
123385
123386 Hail to thee , worthy Timon ; and to all
123387 That of his bounties taste ! The five best senses
123388 Acknowledge thee their patron ; and come freely
123389 To gratulate thy plenteous bosom . Th' ear ,
123390 Taste , touch , smell , pleas'd from thy table rise ;
123391 They only now come but to feast thine eyes .
123392
123393 They are welcome all ; let 'em have kind admittance :
123394 Music , make their welcome !
123395
123396
123397 You see , my lord , how ample you're belov'd .
123398
123399 Hoy-day ! what a sweep of vanity comes this way :
123400 They dance ! they are mad women .
123401 Like madness is the glory of this life ,
123402 As this pomp shows to a little oil and root .
123403 We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves ;
123404 And spend our flatteries to drink those men
123405 Upon whose age we void it up again ,
123406 With poisonous spite and envy .
123407 Who lives that's not depraved or depraves ?
123408 Who dies that bears not one spurn to their graves
123409 Of their friend's gift ?
123410 I should fear those that dance before me now
123411 Would one day stamp upon me : it has been done ;
123412 Men shut their doors against a setting sun .
123413
123414
123415 You have done our pleasures much grace , fair ladies ,
123416 Set a fair fashion on our entertainment ,
123417 Which was not half so beautiful and kind ;
123418 You have added worth unto 't and lustre ,
123419 And entertain'd me with mine own device ;
123420 I am to thank you for 't .
123421
123422 My lord , you take us even at the best .
123423
123424 Faith , for the worst is filthy ; and would not hold taking , I doubt me .
123425
123426 Ladies , there is an idle banquet
123427 Attends you : please you to dispose yourselves .
123428
123429 Most thankfully , my lord .
123430
123431
123432 Flavius !
123433
123434 My lord !
123435
123436 The little casket bring me hither .
123437
123438 Yes , my lord .
123439
123440 More jewels yet !
123441 There is no crossing him in 's humour ;
123442 Else I should tell him well , i' faith , I should ,
123443 When all's spent , he'd be cross'd then , an he could .
123444 'Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind ,
123445 That man might ne'er be wretched for his mind .
123446
123447
123448 Where be our men ?
123449
123450 Here , my lord , in readiness .
123451
123452 Our horses !
123453
123454
123455 O , my friends ! I have one word to say to you ;
123456 Look you , my good lord ,
123457 I must entreat you , honour me so much
123458 As to advance this jewel ; accept it and wear it ,
123459 Kind my lord .
123460
123461 I am so far already in your gifts
123462
123463 So are we all .
123464
123465
123466 My lord , there are certain nobles of the senate
123467 Newly alighted , and come to visit you .
123468
123469 They are fairly welcome .
123470
123471 I beseech your honour ,
123472 Vouchsafe me a word ; it does concern you near .
123473
123474 Near ! why then another time I'll hear thee .
123475 I prithee , let's be provided to show them entertainment .
123476
123477 I scarce know how .
123478
123479
123480 May it please your honour , Lord Lucius ,
123481 Out of his free love , hath presented to you
123482 Four milk-white horses , trapp'd in silver .
123483
123484 I shall accept them fairly ; let the presents
123485 Be worthily entertain'd .
123486
123487 How now ! what news ?
123488
123489 Please you , my lord , that honourable gentleman , Lord Lucullus , entreats your company to-morrow to hunt with him , and has sent your honour two brace of greyhounds .
123490
123491 I'll hunt with him ; and let them be receiv'd ,
123492 Not without fair reward .
123493
123494 What will this come to ?
123495 He commands us to provide , and give great gifts ,
123496 And all out of an empty coffer :
123497 Nor will he know his purse , or yield me this ,
123498 To show him what a beggar his heart is ,
123499 Being of no power to make his wishes good .
123500 His promises fly so beyond his state
123501 That what he speaks is all in debt ; he owes
123502 For every word : he is so kind that he now
123503 Pays interest for't ; his land's put to their books .
123504 Well , would I were gently put out of office
123505 Before I were forc'd out !
123506 Happier he that has no friend to feed
123507 Than such as do e'en enemies exceed .
123508 I bleed inwardly for my lord .
123509
123510
123511 You do yourselves
123512 Much wrong , you bate too much of your own merits :
123513 Here , my lord , a trifle of our love .
123514
123515 With more than common thanks I will receive it .
123516
123517 O ! he's the very soul of bounty .
123518
123519 And now I remember , my lord , you gave
123520 Good words the other day of a bay courser
123521 I rode on : it is yours , because you lik'd it .
123522
123523 O ! I beseech you , pardon me , my lord , in that .
123524
123525 You may take my word , my lord ; I know no man
123526 Can justly praise but what he does affect :
123527 I weigh my friend's affection with mine own ;
123528 I'll tell you true . I'll call to you .
123529
123530 O ! none so welcome .
123531
123532 I take all and your several visitations
123533 So kind to heart , 'tis not enough to give ;
123534 Methinks , I could deal kingdoms to my friends ,
123535 And ne'er be weary . Alcibiades ,
123536 Thou art a soldier , therefore seldom rich ;
123537 It comes in charity to thee ; for all thy living
123538 Is 'mongst the dead , and all the lands thou hast
123539 Lie in a pitch'd field .
123540
123541 Ay , defil'd land , my lord .
123542
123543 We are so virtuously bound ,
123544
123545 And so
123546 Am I to you .
123547
123548 So infinitely endear'd ,
123549
123550 All to you . Lights , more lights !
123551
123552 The best of happiness ,
123553 Honour , and fortunes , keep with you , Lord Timon !
123554
123555 Ready for his friends .
123556
123557
123558 What a coil's here !
123559 Serving of becks and jutting out of bums !
123560 I doubt whether their legs be worth the sums
123561 That are given for 'em . Friendship's full of dregs :
123562 Methinks , false hearts should never have sound legs .
123563 Thus honest fools lay out their wealth on curtsies .
123564
123565 Now , Apemantus , if thou wert not sullen ,
123566 I would be good to thee .
123567
123568 No , I'll nothing ; for if I should be bribed too , there would be none left to rail upon thee , and then thou wouldst sin the faster . Thou givest so long , Timon , I fear me thou wilt give away thyself in paper shortly : what need these feasts , pomps , and vain-glories ?
123569
123570 Nay , an you begin to rail on society once , I am sworn not to give regard to you . Farewell ; and come with better music .
123571
123572
123573 So :
123574 Thou wilt not hear me now ; thou shalt not then ;
123575 I'll lock thy heaven from thee .
123576 O ! that men's ears should be
123577 To counsel deaf , but not to flattery .
123578
123579 And late , five thousand : to Varro and to Isidore
123580 He owes nine thousand ; besides my former sum ,
123581 Which makes it five-and-twenty . Still in motion
123582 Of raging waste ! It cannot hold ; it will not .
123583 If I want gold , steal but a beggar's dog
123584 And give it Timon , why , the dog coins gold ;
123585 If I would sell my horse , and buy twenty more
123586 Better than he , why , give my horse to Timon ,
123587 Ask nothing , give it him , it foals me , straight ,
123588 And able horses . No porter at his gate ,
123589 But rather one that smiles and still invites
123590 All that pass by . It cannot hold ; no reason
123591 Can found his state in safety . Caphis , ho !
123592 Caphis , I say !
123593
123594
123595 Here , sir ; what is your pleasure ?
123596
123597 Get on your cloak , and haste you to Lord Timon ;
123598 Importune him for my moneys ; be not ceas'd
123599 With slight denial , nor then silenc'd when
123600 'Commend me to your master' and the cap
123601 Plays in the right hand , thus ;but tell him ,
123602 My uses cry to me ; I must serve my turn
123603 Out of mine own ; his days and times are past ,
123604 And my reliances on his fracted dates
123605 Have smit my credit : I love and honour him ,
123606 But must not break my back to heal his finger ;
123607 Immediate are my needs , and my relief
123608 Must not be toss'd and turn'd to me in words ,
123609 But find supply immediate . Get you gone :
123610 Put on a most importunate aspect ,
123611 A visage of demand ; for , I do fear ,
123612 When every feather sticks in his own wing ,
123613 Lord Timon will be left a naked gull ,
123614 Which flashes now a ph nix . Get you gone .
123615
123616 I go , sir .
123617
123618 'I go , sir !' Take the bonds along with you ,
123619 And have the dates in compt .
123620
123621 I will , sir .
123622
123623 Go .
123624
123625
123626 No care , no stop ! so senseless of expense ,
123627 That he will neither know how to maintain it ,
123628 Nor cease his flow of riot : takes no account
123629 How things go from him , nor resumes no care
123630 Of what is to continue : never mind
123631 Was to be so unwise , to be so kind .
123632 What shall be done ? He will not hear , till feel :
123633 I must be round with him , now he comes from hunting .
123634 Fie , fie , fie , fie !
123635
123636
123637 Good even , Varro . What !
123638 You come for money ?
123639
123640 Is't not your business too ?
123641
123642 It is : and yours too , Isidore ?
123643
123644 It is so .
123645
123646 Would we were all discharg'd !
123647
123648 I fear it .
123649
123650 Here comes the lord !
123651
123652
123653 So soon as dinner's done , we'll forth again ,
123654 My Alcibiades . With me ? what is your will ?
123655
123656 My lord , here is a note of certain dues .
123657
123658 Dues ! Whence are you ?
123659
123660 Of Athens here , my lord .
123661
123662 Go to my steward .
123663
123664 Please it your lordship , he hath put me off
123665 To the succession of new days this month :
123666 My master is awak'd by great occasion
123667 To call upon his own ; and humbly prays you
123668 That with your other noble parts you'll suit
123669 In giving him his right .
123670
123671 Mine honest friend ,
123672 I prithee , but repair to me next morning .
123673
123674 Nay , good my lord ,
123675
123676 Contain thyself , good friend .
123677
123678 One Varro's servant , my good lord ,
123679
123680 From Isidore ;
123681 He humbly prays your speedy payment .
123682
123683 If you did know , my lord , my master's wants ,
123684
123685 'Twas due on forfeiture , my lord , six weeks
123686 And past .
123687
123688 Your steward puts me off , my lord ;
123689 And I am sent expressly to your lordship .
123690
123691 Give me breath .
123692 I do beseech you , good my lords , keep on ;
123693 I'll wait upon you instantly .
123694
123695 Come hither : pray you ,
123696 How goes the world , that I am thus encounter'd
123697 With clamorous demands of date-broke bonds ,
123698 And the detention of long-since-due debts ,
123699 Against my honour ?
123700
123701 Please you , gentlemen ,
123702 The time is unagreeable to this business :
123703 Your importunacy cease till after dinner ,
123704 That I may make his lordship understand
123705 Wherefore you are not paid .
123706
123707 Do so , my friends .
123708 See them well entertained .
123709
123710
123711 Pray , draw near .
123712
123713 Stay , stay ; here comes the fool with
123714 Apemantus : let's ha' some sport with 'em .
123715
123716 Hang him , he'll abuse us .
123717
123718 A plague upon him , dog !
123719
123720 How dost , fool ?
123721
123722 Dost dialogue with thy shadow ?
123723
123724 I speak not to thee .
123725
123726 No ; 'tis to thyself .
123727
123728 Come away .
123729
123730 There's the fool hangs on your back already .
123731
123732 No , thou stand'st single ; thou'rt not on him yet .
123733
123734 Where's the fool now ?
123735
123736 He last asked the question . Poor rogues , and usurers' men ! bawds between gold and want !
123737
123738 What are we , Apemantus ?
123739
123740 Asses .
123741
123742 Why ?
123743
123744 That you ask me what you are , and do not know yourselves . Speak to 'em , fool .
123745
123746 How do you , gentlemen ?
123747
123748 Gramercies , good fool . How does your mistress ?
123749
123750 She's e'en setting on water to scald such chickens as you are . Would we could see you at Corinth !
123751
123752 Good ! gramercy .
123753
123754
123755 Look you , here comes my mistress' page .
123756
123757 Why , how now , captain ! what do you in this wise company ? How dost thou , Apemantus ?
123758
123759 Would I had a rod in my mouth , that I might answer thee profitably .
123760
123761 Prithee , Apemantus , read me the superscription of these letters : I know not which is which .
123762
123763 Canst not read ?
123764
123765 No .
123766
123767 There will little learning die then that day thou art hanged . This is to Lord Timon ; this to Alcibiades . Go ; thou wast born a bastard , and thou'lt die a bawd .
123768
123769 Thou wast whelped a dog , and thou shalt famish a dog's death . Answer not ; I am gone .
123770
123771
123772 E'en so thou outrunn'st grace .
123773 Fool , I will go with you to Lord Timon's .
123774
123775 Will you leave me there ?
123776
123777 If Timon stay at home . You three serve three usurers ?
123778
123779 Ay ; would they served us !
123780
123781 So would I , as good a trick as ever hangman served thief .
123782
123783 Are you three usurers' men ?
123784
123785 Ay , fool .
123786
123787 I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant : my mistress is one , and I am her fool . When men come to borrow of your masters , they approach sadly , and go away merry ; but they enter my mistress' house merrily , and go away sadly : the reason of this ?
123788
123789 I could render one .
123790
123791 Do it , then , that we may account thee a whoremaster and a knave ; which , notwithstanding , thou shalt be no less esteemed .
123792
123793 What is a whoremaster , fool ?
123794
123795 A fool in good clothes , and something like thee . 'Tis a spirit : sometime 't appears like a lord ; sometime like a lawyer ; sometime like a philosopher , with two stones more than 's artificial one . He is very often like a knight ; and generally in all shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore to thirteen , this spirit walks in .
123796
123797 Thou art not altogether a fool .
123798
123799 Nor thou altogether a wise man : as much foolery as I have , so much wit thou lackest .
123800
123801 That answer might have become Apemantus .
123802
123803 Aside , aside ; here comes Lord Timon .
123804
123805
123806 Come with me , fool , come .
123807
123808 I do not always follow lover , elder brother and woman ; sometime the philosopher .
123809
123810
123811 Pray you , walk near : I'll speak with you anon .
123812
123813
123814 You make me marvel : wherefore , ere this time ,
123815 Had you not fully laid my state before me ,
123816 That I might so have rated my expense
123817 As I had leave of means ?
123818
123819 You would not hear me ,
123820 At many leisures I propos'd .
123821
123822 Go to :
123823 Perchance some single vantages you took ,
123824 When my indisposition put you back ;
123825 And that unaptness made your minister ,
123826 Thus to excuse yourself .
123827
123828 O my good lord !
123829 At many times I brought in my accounts ,
123830 Laid them before you ; you would throw them off ,
123831 And say you found them in mine honesty .
123832 When for some trifling present you have bid me
123833 Return so much , I have shook my head , and wept ;
123834 Yea , 'gainst the authority of manners , pray'd you
123835 To hold your hand more close : I did endure
123836 Not seldom , nor no slight checks , when I have
123837 Prompted you in the ebb of your estate
123838 And your great flow of debts . My loved lord ,
123839 Though you hear now , too late , yet now's a time ,
123840 The greatest of your having lacks a half
123841 To pay your present debts .
123842
123843 Let all my land be sold .
123844
123845 'Tis all engag'd , some forfeited and gone ;
123846 And what remains will hardly stop the mouth
123847 Of present dues ; the future comes apace :
123848 What shall defend the interim ? and at length
123849 How goes our reckoning ?
123850
123851 To Laced mon did my land extend .
123852
123853 O my good lord ! the world is but a word ;
123854 Were it all yours to give it in a breath ,
123855 How quickly were it gone !
123856
123857 You tell me true .
123858
123859 If you suspect my husbandry or falsehood ,
123860 Call me before the exactest auditors ,
123861 And set me on the proof . So the gods bless me ,
123862 When all our offices have been oppress'd
123863 With riotous feeders , when our vaults have wept
123864 With drunken spilth of wine , when every room
123865 Hath blaz'd with lights and bray'd with minstrelsy ,
123866 I have retir'd me to a wasteful cock ,
123867 And set mine eyes at flow .
123868
123869 Prithee , no more .
123870
123871 Heavens ! have I said , the bounty of this lord !
123872 How many prodigal bits have slaves and peasants
123873 This night englutted ! Who is not Timon's ?
123874 What heart , head , sword , force , means , but is Lord Timon's ?
123875 Great Timon , noble , worthy , royal Timon !
123876 Ah ! when the means are gone that buy this praise ,
123877 The breath is gone whereof this praise is made :
123878 Feast-won , fast-lost ; one cloud of winter showers ,
123879 These flies are couch'd .
123880
123881 Come , sermon me no further ;
123882 No villanous bounty yet hath pass'd my heart ;
123883 Unwisely , not ignobly , have I given .
123884 Why dost thou weep ? Canst thou the conscience lack ,
123885 To think I shall lack friends ? Secure thy heart ;
123886 If I would broach the vessels of my love ,
123887 And try the argument of hearts by borrowing ,
123888 Men and men's fortunes could I frankly use
123889 As I can bid thee speak .
123890
123891 Assurance bless your thoughts !
123892
123893 And , in some sort , these wants of mine are crown'd ,
123894 That I account them blessings ; for by these
123895 Shall I try friends . You shall perceive how you
123896 Mistake my fortunes ; I am wealthy in my friends .
123897 Within there ! Flaminius ! Servilius !
123898
123899
123900 My lord ! my lord !
123901
123902 I will dispatch you severally : you , to Lord Lucius ; to Lord Lucullus you : I hunted with his honour to-day ; you , to Sempronius . Commend me to their loves ; and I am proud , say , that my occasions have found time to use them toward a supply of money : let the request be fifty talents .
123903
123904 As you have said , my lord .
123905
123906 Lord Lucius , and Lucullus ? hum !
123907
123908 Go you , sir , to the senators ,
123909 Of whom , even to the state's best health , I have
123910 Deserv'd this hearing ,bid 'em send o' the instant
123911 A thousand talents to me .
123912
123913 I have been bold ,
123914 For that I knew it the most general way ,
123915 To them to use your signet and your name ;
123916 But they do shake their heads , and I am here
123917 No richer in return .
123918
123919 Is't true ? can't be ?
123920
123921 They answer , in a joint and corporate voice ,
123922 That now they are at fall , want treasure , cannot
123923 Do what they would ; are sorry ; you are honourable ;
123924 But yet they could have wish'd ; they know not ;
123925 Something hath been amiss ; a noble nature
123926 May catch a wrench ; would all were well ; 'tis pity ;
123927 And so , intending other serious matters ,
123928 After distasteful looks and these hard fractions ,
123929 With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods
123930 They froze me into silence .
123931
123932 You gods , reward them !
123933 Prithee , man , look cheerly . These old fellows
123934 Have their ingratitude in them hereditary ;
123935 Their blood is cak'd , 'tis cold , it seldom flows ;
123936 'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind ;
123937 And nature , as it grows again toward earth ,
123938 Is fashion'd for the journey , dull and heavy .
123939
123940
123941 Prithee , be not sad ,
123942 Thou art true and honest ; ingenuously I speak ,
123943 No blame belongs to thee .
123944
123945 Ventidius lately
123946 Buried his father ; by whose death he's stepp'd
123947 Into a great estate ; when he was poor ,
123948 Imprison'd and in scarcity of friends ,
123949 I clear'd him with five talents ; greet him from me ;
123950 Bid him suppose some good necessity
123951 Touches his friend , which craves to be remember'd
123952 With those five talents .
123953
123954 That had , give't these fellows
123955 To whom 'tis instant due . Ne'er speak , or think
123956 That Timon's fortunes 'mong his friends can sink .
123957
123958 I would I could not think it : that thought is bounty's foe ;
123959 Being free itself , it thinks all others so .
123960
123961 I have told my lord of you ; he is coming down to you .
123962
123963 I thank you , sir .
123964
123965
123966 Here's my lord .
123967
123968 One of Lord Timon's men ! a gift , I warrant . Why , this hits right ; I dreamt of a silver bason and ewer to-night . Flaminius , honest Flaminius , you are very respectively welcome , sir . Fill me some wine . [Exit Servant .] And how does that honourable , complete , free-hearted gentleman of Athens , thy very bountiful good lord and master ?
123969
123970 His health is well , sir .
123971
123972 I am right glad that his health is well , sir . And what hast thou there under thy cloak , pretty Flaminius ?
123973
123974 Faith , nothing but an empty box , sir ; which , in my lord's behalf , I come to entreat your honour to supply ; who , having great and instant occasion to use fifty talents , hath sent to your lordship to furnish him , nothing doubting your present assistance therein .
123975
123976 La , la , la , la ! 'nothing doubting ,' says he ? Alas ! good lord ; a noble gentleman 'tis , if he would not keep so good a house . Many a time and often I ha' dined with him , and told him on't ; and come again to supper to him , of purpose to have him spend less ; and yet he would embrace no counsel , take no warning by my coming . Every man has his fault , and honesty is his ; I ha' told him on't , but I could ne'er get him from it .
123977
123978
123979 Please your lordship , here is the wine .
123980
123981 Flaminius , I have noted thee always wise . Here's to thee .
123982
123983 Your lordship speaks your pleasure .
123984
123985 I have observed thee always for a towardly prompt spirit , give thee thy due , and one that knows what belongs to reason ; and canst use the time well , if the time use thee well : good parts in thee .
123986
123987 Get you gone , sirrah .[Exit Servant .] Draw nearer , honest Flaminius . Thy lord's a bountiful gentleman ; but thou art wise , and thou knowest well enough , although thou comest to me , that this is no time to lend money , especially upon bare friendship , without security . Here's three solidares for thee : good boy , wink at me , and say thou sawest me not . Fare thee well .
123988
123989 Is't possible the world should so much differ ,
123990 And we alive that liv'd ? Fly , damned baseness ,
123991 To him that worships thee .
123992
123993
123994 Ha ! now I see thou art a fool , and fit for thy master .
123995
123996
123997 May these add to the number that may scald thee !
123998 Let molten coin be thy damnation ,
123999 Thou disease of a friend , and not himself !
124000 Has friendship such a faint and milky heart
124001 It turns in less than two nights ? O you gods !
124002 I feel my master's passion . This slave unto his honour
124003 Has my lord's meat in him :
124004 Why should it thrive and turn to nutriment
124005 When he is turn'd to poison ?
124006 O ! may diseases only work upon 't ,
124007 And , when he's sick to death , let not that part of nature
124008 Which my lord paid for , be of any power
124009 To expel sickness , but prolong his hour .
124010
124011
124012 Who , the Lord Timon ? he is my very good friend , and an honourable gentleman .
124013
124014 We know him for no less , though we are but strangers to him . But I can tell you one thing , my lord , and which I hear from common rumours : now Lord Timon's happy hours are done and past , and his estate shrinks from him .
124015
124016 Fie , no , do not believe it ; he cannot want for money .
124017
124018 But believe you this , my lord , that , not long ago , one of his men was with the Lord Lucullus , to borrow so many talents , nay , urged extremely for 't , and showed what necessity belonged to 't , and yet was denied .
124019
124020 How !
124021
124022 I tell you , denied , my lord .
124023
124024 What a strange case was that ! now , before the gods , I am ashamed on 't . Denied that honourable man ! there was very little honour showed in 't . For my own part , I must needs confess , I have received some small kindnesses from him , as money , plate , jewels , and such like trifles , nothing comparing to his ; yet , had he mistook him , and sent to me , I should ne'er have denied his occasion so many talents .
124025
124026
124027 See , by good hap , yonder's my lord ; I have sweat to see his honour .
124028
124029 My honoured lord !
124030
124031 Servilius ! you are kindly met , sir . Fare thee well : commend me to thy honourable virtuous lord , my very exquisite friend .
124032
124033 May it please your honour , my lord hath sent
124034
124035 Ha ! what has he sent ? I am so much endeared to that lord ; he's ever sending : how shall I thank him , thinkest thou ? And what has he sent now ?
124036
124037 He has only sent his present occasion now , my lord ; requesting your lordship to supply his instant use with so many talents .
124038
124039 I know his lordship is but merry with me ;
124040 He cannot want fifty-five hundred talents .
124041
124042 But in the mean time he wants less , my lord .
124043 If his occasion were not virtuous ,
124044 I should not urge it half so faithfully .
124045
124046 Dost thou speak seriously , Servilius ?
124047
124048 Upon my soul , 'tis true , sir .
124049
124050 What a wicked beast was I to disfurnish myself against such a good time , when I might ha' shown myself honourable ! how unluckily it happened , that I should purchase the day before for a little part , and undo a great deal of honour ! Servilius , now , before the gods , I am not able to do ; the more beast , I say ; I was sending to use Lord Timon myself , these gentlemen can witness ; but I would not , for the wealth of Athens , I had done it now . Commend me bountifully to his good lordship ; and I hope his honour will conceive the fairest of me , because I have no power to be kind : and tell him this from me , I count it one of my greatest afflictions say , that I cannot pleasure such an honourable gentleman . Good Servilius , will you befriend me so far as to use mine own words to him ?
124051
124052 Yes , sir , I shall .
124053
124054 I'll look you out a good turn , Servilius .
124055
124056 True , as you said , Timon is shrunk indeed ;
124057 And he that's once denied will hardly speed .
124058
124059
124060 Do you observe this , Hostilius ?
124061
124062 Ay , too well .
124063
124064 Why this is the world's soul ; and just of the same piece
124065 Is every flatterer's spirit . Who can call him
124066 His friend that dips in the same dish ? for , in
124067 My knowing , Timon has been this lord's father ,
124068 And kept his credit with his purse ,
124069 Supported his estate ; nay , Timon's money
124070 Has paid his men their wages : he ne'er drinks
124071 But Timon's silver treads upon his lip ;
124072 And yet , O ! see the monstrousness of man ,
124073 When he looks out in an ungrateful shape ,
124074 He does deny him , in respect of his ,
124075 What charitable men afford to beggars .
124076
124077 Religion groans at it .
124078
124079 For mine own part ,
124080 I never tasted Timon in my life ,
124081 Nor came any of his bounties over me ,
124082 To mark me for his friend ; yet , I protest ,
124083 For his right noble mind , illustrious virtue ,
124084 And honourable carriage ,
124085 Had his necessity made use of me ,
124086 I would have put my wealth into donation ,
124087 And the best half should have return'd to him ,
124088 So much I love his heart . But , I perceive ,
124089 Men must learn now with pity to dispense ;
124090 For policy sits above conscience .
124091
124092
124093 Must he needs trouble me in 't . Hum ! 'bove all others ?
124094 He might have tried Lord Lucius , or Lucullus ;
124095 And now Ventidius is wealthy too ,
124096 Whom he redeem'd from prison : all these
124097 Owe their estates unto him .
124098
124099 My lord ,
124100 They have all been touch'd and found base metal , for
124101 They have all denied him .
124102
124103 How ! have they denied him ?
124104 Have Ventidius and Lucullus denied him ?
124105 And does he send to me ? Three ? hum !
124106 It shows but little love or judgment in him :
124107 Must I be his last refuge ? His friends , like physicians ,
124108 Thrice give him over ; must I take the cure upon me ?
124109 He has much disgrac'd me in 't ; I'm angry at him ,
124110 That might have known my place . I see no sense for 't ,
124111 But his occasions might have woo'd me first ;
124112 For , in my conscience , I was the first man
124113 That e'er received gift from him :
124114 And does he think so backwardly of me now ,
124115 That I'll requite it last ? No :
124116 So it may prove an argument of laughter
124117 To the rest , and I 'mongst lords be thought a fool .
124118 I had rather than the worth of thrice the sum ,
124119 He had sent to me first , but for my mind's sake ;
124120 I'd such a courage to do him good . But now return ,
124121 And with their faint reply this answer join ;
124122 Who bates mine honour shall not know my coin .
124123
124124
124125 Excellent ! Your lordship's a goodly villain . The devil knew not what he did when he made man politic ; he crossed himself by 't : and I cannot think but in the end the villanies of man will set him clear . How fairly this lord strives to appear foul ! takes virtuous copies to be wicked , like those that under hot ardent zeal would set whole realms on fire :
124126 Of such a nature is his politic love .
124127 This was my lord's best hope ; now all are fled
124128 Save only the gods . Now his friends are dead ,
124129 Doors , that were ne'er acquainted with their wards
124130 Many a bounteous year , must be employ'd
124131 Now to guard sure their master :
124132 And this is all a liberal course allows ;
124133 Who cannot keep his wealth must keep his house .
124134
124135 Well met ; good morrow , Titus and Hortensius .
124136
124137 The like to you , kind Varro .
124138
124139 Lucius !
124140 What ! do we meet together !
124141
124142 Ay , and I think
124143 One business does command us all ; for mine
124144 Is money .
124145
124146 So is theirs and ours .
124147
124148
124149 And Sir Philotus too !
124150
124151 Good day at once .
124152
124153 Welcome , good brother .
124154 What do you think the hour ?
124155
124156 Labouring for nine .
124157
124158 So much ?
124159
124160 Is not my lord seen yet ?
124161
124162 Not yet .
124163
124164 I wonder on 't ; he was wont to shine at seven .
124165
124166 Ay , but the days are waxed shorter with him :
124167 You must consider that a prodigal course
124168 Is like the sun's ; but not , like his , recoverable .
124169 I fear ,
124170 'Tis deepest winter in Lord Timon's purse ;
124171 That is , one may reach deep enough , and yet
124172 Find little .
124173
124174 I am of your fear for that .
124175
124176 I'll show you how to observe a strange event .
124177 Your lord sends now for money .
124178
124179 Most true , he does .
124180
124181 And he wears jewels now of Timon's gift ,
124182 For which I wait for money .
124183
124184 It is against my heart .
124185
124186 Mark , how strange it shows ,
124187 Timon in this should pay more than he owes :
124188 And e'en as if your lord should wear rich jewels ,
124189 And send for money for 'em .
124190
124191 I'm weary of this charge , the gods can witness :
124192 I know my lord hath spent of Timon's wealth ,
124193 And now ingratitude makes it worse than stealth .
124194
124195 Yes , mine's three thousand crowns ; what's yours ?
124196
124197 Five thousand mine .
124198
124199 'Tis much deep : and it should seem by the sum ,
124200 Your master's confidence was above mine ;
124201 Else , surely , his had equall'd .
124202
124203
124204 One of Lord Timon's men .
124205
124206 Flaminius ! Sir , a word . Pray , is my lord ready to come forth ?
124207
124208 No , indeed , he is not .
124209
124210 We attend his lordship ; pray , signify so much .
124211
124212 I need not tell him that ; he knows you are too diligent .
124213
124214 Ha ! is not that his steward muffled so ?
124215 He goes away in a cloud : call him , call him .
124216
124217 Do you hear , sir ?
124218
124219 By your leave , sir .
124220
124221 What do you ask of me , my friend ?
124222
124223 We wait for certain money here , sir .
124224
124225 Ay ,
124226 If money were as certain as your waiting ,
124227 'Twere sure enough .
124228 Why then preferr'd you not your sums and bills ,
124229 When your false masters eat of my lord's meat ?
124230 Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts ,
124231 And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws .
124232 You do yourselves but wrong to stir me up ;
124233 Let me pass quietly :
124234 Believe't , my lord and I have made an end ;
124235 I have no more to reckon , he to spend .
124236
124237 Ay , but this answer will not serve .
124238
124239 If 'twill not serve , 'tis not so base as you ;
124240 For you serve knaves .
124241
124242
124243 How ! what does his cashiered worship mutter ?
124244
124245 No matter what ; he's poor , and that's revenge enough . Who can speak broader than he that has no house to put his head in ? such may rail against great buildings .
124246
124247
124248 O ! here's Servilius ; now we shall know some answer .
124249
124250 If I might beseech you , gentlemen , to repair some other hour , I should derive much from 't ; for , take 't of my soul , my lord leans wondrously to discontent . His comfortable temper has forsook him ; he's much out of health , and keeps his chamber .
124251
124252 Many do keep their chambers are not sick :
124253 And , if it be so far beyond his health ,
124254 Methinks he should the sooner pay his debts ,
124255 And make a clear way to the gods .
124256
124257 Good gods !
124258
124259 We cannot take this for answer , sir .
124260
124261 Servilius , help ! my lord ! my lord !
124262
124263
124264 What ! are my doors oppos'd against my passage ?
124265 Have I been ever free , and must my house
124266 Be my retentive enemy , my gaol ?
124267 The place which I have feasted , does it now ,
124268 Like all mankind , show me an iron heart ?
124269
124270 Put in now , Titus .
124271
124272 My lord , here is my bill .
124273
124274 Here's mine .
124275
124276 And mine , my lord .
124277
124278 And ours , my lord .
124279
124280 All our bills .
124281
124282 Knock me down with 'em : cleave me to the girdle .
124283
124284 Alas ! my lord ,
124285
124286 Cut my heart in sums .
124287
124288 Mine , fifty talents .
124289
124290 Tell out my blood .
124291
124292 Five thousand crowns , my lord .
124293
124294 Five thousand drops pays that . What yours ? and yours ?
124295
124296 My lord ,
124297
124298 My lord ,
124299
124300 Tear me , take me ; and the gods fall upon you !
124301
124302
124303 Faith , I perceive our masters may throw their caps at their money : these debts may well be called desperate ones , for a madman owes 'em .
124304
124305 They have e'en put my breath from me , the slaves :
124306 Creditors ? devils !
124307
124308 My dear lord ,
124309
124310 What if it should be so ?
124311
124312 My lord ,
124313
124314 I'll have it so . My steward !
124315
124316 Here , my lord .
124317
124318 So fitly ! Go , bid all my friends again ,
124319 Lucius , Lucullus , and Sempronius ; all :
124320 I'll once more feast the rascals .
124321
124322 O my lord !
124323 You only speak from your distracted soul ;
124324 There is not so much left to furnish out
124325 A moderate table .
124326
124327 Be't not in thy care : go .
124328 I charge thee , invite them all : let in the tide
124329 Of knaves once more ; my cook and I'll provide .
124330
124331
124332 My lord , you have my voice to it ; the fault's
124333 Bloody ; 'tis necessary he should die ;
124334 Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy .
124335
124336 Most true ; the law shall bruise him .
124337
124338
124339 Honour , health , and compassion to the senate !
124340
124341 Now , captain .
124342
124343 I am a humble suitor to your virtues ;
124344 For pity is the virtue of the law ,
124345 And none but tyrants use it cruelly .
124346 It pleases time and fortune to lie heavy
124347 Upon a friend of mine , who , in hot blood ,
124348 Hath stepp'd into the law , which is past depth
124349 To those that without heed to plunge into 't .
124350 He is a man , setting his fate aside ,
124351 Of comely virtues ;
124352 Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice ,
124353 An honour in him which buys out his fault ,
124354 But , with a noble fury and fair spirit ,
124355 Seeing his reputation touch'd to death ,
124356 He did oppose his foe ;
124357 And with such sober and unnoted passion
124358 He did behave his anger , ere 'twas spent ,
124359 As if he had but prov'd an argument .
124360
124361 You undergo too strict a paradox ,
124362 Striving to make an ugly deed look fair :
124363 Your words have took such pains as if they labour'd
124364 To bring manslaughter into form , and set quarrelling
124365 Upon the head of valour ; which indeed
124366 Is valour misbegot , and came into the world
124367 When sects and factions were newly born .
124368 He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer
124369 The worst that man can breathe , and make his wrongs
124370 His outsides , to wear them like his raiment , carelessly ,
124371 And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart ,
124372 To bring it into danger .
124373 If wrongs be evils and enforce us kill ,
124374 What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill !
124375
124376 My lord ,
124377
124378 You cannot make gross sins look clear ;
124379 To revenge is no valour , but to bear .
124380
124381 My lords , then , under favour , pardon me ,
124382 If I speak like a captain .
124383 Why do fond men expose themselves to battle ,
124384 And not endure all threats ? sleep upon't ,
124385 And let the foes quietly cut their throats
124386 Without repugnancy ? If there be
124387 Such valour in the bearing , what make we
124388 Abroad ? why then , women are more valiant
124389 That stay at home , if bearing carry it ,
124390 And the ass more captain than the lion , the felon
124391 Loaden with irons wiser than the judge ,
124392 If wisdom be in suffering . O my lords !
124393 As you are great , be pitifully good :
124394 Who cannot condemn rashness in cold blood ?
124395 To kill , I grant , is sin's extremest gust ;
124396 But , in defence , by mercy , 'tis most just .
124397 To be in anger is impiety ;
124398 But who is man that is not angry ?
124399 Weigh but the crime with this .
124400
124401 You breathe in vain .
124402
124403 In vain ! his service done
124404 At Laced mon and Byzantium
124405 Were a sufficient briber for his life .
124406
124407 What's that ?
124408
124409 I say , my lords , he has done fair service ,
124410 And slain in fight many of your enemies .
124411 How full of valour did he bear himself
124412 In the last conflict , and made plenteous wounds !
124413
124414 He has made too much plenty with 'em ;
124415 He's a sworn rioter ; he has a sin that often
124416 Drowns him and takes his valour prisoner ;
124417 If there were no foes , that were enough
124418 To overcome him ; in that beastly fury
124419 He has been known to commit outrages
124420 And cherish factions ; 'tis inferr'd to us ,
124421 His days are foul and his drink dangerous .
124422
124423 He dies .
124424
124425 Hard fate ! he might have died in war .
124426 My lords , if not for any parts in him ,
124427 Though his right arm might purchase his own time ,
124428 And be in debt to none ,yet , more to move you ,
124429 Take my deserts to his , and join 'em both ;
124430 And , for I know your reverend ages love
124431 Security , I'll pawn my victories , all
124432 My honour to you , upon his good returns .
124433 If by this crime he owes the law his life ,
124434 Why , let the war receive't in valiant gore ;
124435 For law is strict , and war is nothing more .
124436
124437 We are for law ; he dies : urge it no more ,
124438 On height of our displeasure . Friend , or brother ,
124439 He forfeits his own blood that spills another .
124440
124441 Must it be so ? it must not be . My lords ,
124442 I do beseech you , know me .
124443
124444 How !
124445
124446 Call me to your remembrances .
124447
124448 What !
124449
124450 I cannot think but your age has forgot me ;
124451 It could not else be I should prove so base ,
124452 To sue , and be denied such common grace .
124453 My wounds ache at you .
124454
124455 Do you dare our anger ?
124456 'Tis in few words , but spacious in effect ;
124457 We banish thee for ever .
124458
124459 Banish me !
124460 Banish your dotage ; banish usury ,
124461 That makes the senate ugly .
124462
124463 If , after two days' shine , Athens contain thee ,
124464 Attend our weightier judgment . And , not to swell our spirit ,
124465 He shall be executed presently .
124466
124467
124468 Now the gods keep you old enough ; that you may live
124469 Only in bone , that none may look on you !
124470 I am worse than mad : I have kept back their foes ,
124471 While they have told their money and let out
124472 Their coin upon large interest ; I myself
124473 Rich only in large hurts : all those for this ?
124474 Is this the balsam that the usuring senate
124475 Pours into captains' wounds ? Banishment !
124476 It comes not ill ; I hate not to be banish'd ;
124477 It is a cause worthy my spleen and fury ,
124478 That I may strike at Athens . I'll cheer up
124479 My discontented troops , and lay for hearts .
124480 'Tis honour with most lands to be at odds ;
124481 Soldiers should brook as little wrongs as gods .
124482
124483 The good time of day to you , sir .
124484
124485 I also wish it you . I think this honourable lord did but try us this other day .
124486
124487 Upon that were my thoughts tiring when we encountered : I hope it is not so low with him as he made it seem in the trial of his several friends .
124488
124489 It should not be , by the persuasion of his new feasting .
124490
124491 I should think so : he hath sent me an earnest inviting , which many my near occasions did urge me to put off ; but he hath conjured me beyond them , and I must needs appear .
124492
124493 In like manner was I in debt to my importunate business , but he would not hear my excuse . I am sorry , when he sent to borrow of me , that my provision was out .
124494
124495 I am sick of that grief too , as I understand how all things go .
124496
124497 Every man here's so . What would he have borrowed you ?
124498
124499 A thousand pieces .
124500
124501 A thousand pieces !
124502
124503 What of you ?
124504
124505 He sent to me , sir ,Here he comes .
124506
124507
124508 With all my heart , gentlemen both ; and how fare you ?
124509
124510 Ever at the best , hearing well of your lordship .
124511
124512 The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship .
124513
124514 Nor more willingly leaves winter ; such summer-birds are men . Gentlemen , our dinner will not recompense this long stay : feast your ears with the music awhile , if they will fare so harshly o' the trumpet's sound ; we shall to 't presently .
124515
124516 I hope it remains not unkindly with your lordship that I returned you an empty messenger .
124517
124518 O ! sir , let it not trouble you .
124519
124520 My noble lord ,
124521
124522 Ah ! my good friend , what cheer ?
124523
124524 My most honourable lord , I am e'en sick of shame , that when your lordship this other day sent to me I was so unfortunate a beggar .
124525
124526 Think not on 't , sir .
124527
124528 If you had sent but two hours before ,
124529
124530 Let it not cumber your better remembrance .
124531
124532 Come , bring in all together .
124533
124534 All covered dishes !
124535
124536 Royal cheer , I warrant you .
124537
124538 Doubt not that , if money and the season can yield it .
124539
124540 How do you ? What's the news ?
124541
124542 Alcibiades is banished : hear you of it ?
124543
124544 Alcibiades banished !
124545
124546 Alcibiades banished !
124547
124548 'Tis so , be sure of it .
124549
124550 How ? how ?
124551
124552 I pray you , upon what ?
124553
124554 My worthy friends , will you draw near ?
124555
124556 I'll tell you more anon . Here's a noble feast toward .
124557
124558 This is the old man still .
124559
124560 Will't hold ? will't hold ?
124561
124562 It does ; but time will and so
124563
124564 I do conceive .
124565
124566 Each man to his stool , with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress ; your diet shall be in all places alike . Make not a city feast of it , to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place : sit , sit . The gods require our thanks .
124567 You great benefactors sprinkle our society with thankfulness . For your own gifts , make yourselves praised : but reserve still to give , lest your deities be despised . Lend to each man enough , that one need not lend to another ; for , were your godheads to borrow of men , men would forsake the gods . Make the meat be beloved more than the man that gives it . Let no assembly of twenty be without a score of villains : if there sit twelve women at the table , let a dozen of them be as they are . The rest of your fees , O gods ! the senators of Athens , together with the common lag of people , what is amiss in them , you gods , make suitable for destruction . For these my present friends , as they are to me nothing , so in nothing bless them , and to nothing are they welcome .
124568 Uncover , dogs , and lap .
124569
124570
124571 What does his lordship mean ?
124572
124573 I know not .
124574
124575 May you a better feast never behold ,
124576 You knot of mouth-friends ! smoke and lukewarm water
124577 Is your perfection . This is Timon's last ;
124578 Who , stuck and spangled with your flatteries ,
124579 Washes it off , and sprinkles in your faces
124580
124581 Your reeking villany . Live loath'd , and long ,
124582 Most smiling , smooth , detested parasites ,
124583 Courteous destroyers , affable wolves , meek bears ,
124584 You fools of fortune , trencher-friends , time's flies ,
124585 Cap and knee slaves , vapours , and minute-jacks !
124586 Of man and beast the infinite malady
124587 Crust you quite o'er ! What ! dost thou go ?
124588 Soft ! take thy physic first ,thou too ,and thou ;
124589 Stay , I will lend thee money , borrow none .
124590
124591 What ! all in motion ? Henceforth be no feast ,
124592 Whereat a villain's not a welcome guest .
124593 Burn , house ! sink , Athens ! henceforth hated be
124594 Of Timon man and all humanity !
124595
124596 How now , my lords !
124597
124598 Know you the quality of Lord Timon's fury ?
124599
124600 Push ! did you see my cap ?
124601
124602 I have lost my gown .
124603
124604 He's but a mad lord , and nought but humour sways him . He gave me a jewel th' other day , and now he has beat it out of my hat : did you see my jewel ?
124605
124606 Did you see my cap ?
124607
124608 Here 'tis .
124609
124610 Here lies my gown .
124611
124612 Let's make no stay .
124613
124614 Lord Timon's mad .
124615
124616 I feel 't upon my bones .
124617
124618 One day he gives us diamonds , next day stones .
124619
124620 Let me look back upon thee . O thou wall ,
124621 That girdlest in those wolves , dive in the earth .
124622 And fence not Athens ! Matrons , turn incontinent !
124623 Obedience fail in children ! slaves and fools ,
124624 Pluck the grave wrinkled senate from the bench ,
124625 And minister in their steads ! To general filths
124626 Convert , o'the instant , green virginity !
124627 Do't in your parents' eyes ! Bankrupts , hold fast ;
124628 Rather than render back , out with your knives ,
124629 And cut your trusters' throats ! Bound servants , steal !
124630 Large-handed robbers your grave masters are ,
124631 And pill by law . Maid , to thy master's bed ;
124632 Thy mistress is o' the brothel ! Son of sixteen ,
124633 Pluck the lin'd crutch from thy old limping sire ,
124634 With it beat out his brains ! Piety , and fear ,
124635 Religion to the gods , peace , justice , truth ,
124636 Domestic awe , night-rest and neighbourhood ,
124637 Instruction , manners , mysteries and trades ,
124638 Degrees , observances , customs and laws ,
124639 Decline to your confounding contraries ,
124640 And let confusion live ! Plagues incident to men ,
124641 Your potent and infectious fevers heap
124642 On Athens , ripe for stroke ! Thou cold sciatica ,
124643 Cripple our senators , that their limbs may halt
124644 As lamely as their manners ! Lust and liberty
124645 Creep in the minds and marrows of our youth ,
124646 That'gainst the stream of virtue they may strive ,
124647 And drown themselves in riot ! Itches , blains ,
124648 Sow all the Athenian bosoms , and their crop
124649 Be general leprosy ! Breath infect breath ,
124650 That their society , as their friendship , may
124651 Be merely poison ! Nothing I'll bear from thee
124652 But nakedness , thou detestable town !
124653 Take thou that too , with multiplying bans !
124654 Timon will to the woods ; where he shall find
124655 The unkindest beast more kinder than mankind .
124656 The gods confound hear me , you good gods all
124657 The Athenians both within and out that wall !
124658 And grant , as Timon grows , his hate may grow
124659 To the whole race of mankind , high and low !
124660 Amen .
124661
124662
124663 Hear you , Master steward ! where's our master ?
124664 Are we undone ? cast off ? nothing remaining ?
124665
124666 Alack ! my fellows , what should I say to you ?
124667 Let me be recorded by the righteous gods ,
124668 I am as poor as you .
124669
124670 Such a house broke !
124671 So noble a master fall'n ! All gone ! and not
124672 One friend to take his fortune by the arm ,
124673 And go along with him !
124674
124675 As we do turn our backs
124676 From our companion thrown into his grave ,
124677 So his familiars to his buried fortunes
124678 Slink all away , leave their false vows with him ,
124679 Like empty purses pick'd ; and his poor self ,
124680 A dedicated beggar to the air ,
124681 With his disease of all-shunn'd poverty ,
124682 Walks , like contempt , alone . More of our fellows .
124683
124684
124685 All broken implements of a ruin'd house .
124686
124687 Yet do our hearts wear Timon's livery ,
124688 That see I by our faces ; we are fellows still ,
124689 Serving alike in sorrow . Leak'd is our bark ,
124690 And we , poor mates , stand on the dying deck ,
124691 Hearing the surges threat : we must all part
124692 Into this sea of air .
124693
124694 Good fellows all ,
124695 The latest of my wealth I'll share amongst you .
124696 Wherever we shall meet , for Timon's sake
124697 Let's yet be fellows ; let's shake our heads , and say ,
124698 As 'twere a knell unto our master's fortunes ,
124699 'We have seen better days .' Let each take some ;
124700
124701 Nay , put out all your hands . Not one word more :
124702 Thus part we rich in sorrow , parting poor .
124703
124704 O ! the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us .
124705 Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt ,
124706 Since riches point to misery and contempt ?
124707 Who would be so mock'd with glory ? or so live ,
124708 But in a dream of friendship ?
124709 To have his pomp and all what state compounds
124710 But only painted , like his varnish'd friends ?
124711 Poor honest lord ! brought low by his own heart ,
124712 Undone by goodness . Strange , unusual blood ,
124713 When man's worst sin is he does too much good !
124714 Who then dares to be half so kind agen ?
124715 For bounty , that makes gods , does still mar men .
124716 My dearest lord , bless'd , to be most accurs'd ,
124717 Rich , only to be wretched , thy great fortunes
124718 Are made thy chief affictions . Alas ! kind lord ,
124719 He's flung in rage from this ingrateful seat
124720 Of monstrous friends ;
124721 Nor has he with him to supply his life ,
124722 Or that which can command it .
124723 I'll follow and inquire him out :
124724 I'll ever serve his mind with my best will ;
124725 Whilst I have gold I'll be his steward still .
124726
124727
124728 O blessed breeding sun ! draw from the earth
124729 Rotten humidity ; below thy sister's orb
124730 Infect the air ! Twinn'd brothers of one womb ,
124731 Whose procreation , residence and birth ,
124732 Scarce is dividant , touch them with several fortunes ;
124733 The greater scorns the lesser : not nature ,
124734 To whom all sores lay siege , can bear great fortune ,
124735 But by contempt of nature .
124736 Raise me this beggar , and deny't that lord ;
124737 The senator shall bear contempt hereditary ,
124738 The beggar native honour .
124739 It is the pasture lards the rother's sides ,
124740 The want that makes him lean . Who dares , who dares ,
124741 In purity of manhood stand upright ,
124742 And say , 'This man's a flatterer ?' if one be ,
124743 So are they all ; for every grize of fortune
124744 Is smooth'd by that below : the learned pate
124745 Ducks to the golden fool : all is oblique ;
124746 There's nothing level in our cursed natures
124747 But direct villany . Therefore , be abhorr'd
124748 All feasts , societies , and throngs of men !
124749 His semblable , yea , himself , Timon disdains :
124750 Destruction fang mankind ! Earth , yield me roots !
124751
124752 Who seeks for better of thee , sauce his palate
124753 With thy most operant poison ! What is here ?
124754 Gold ! yellow , glittering , precious gold ! No , gods ,
124755 I am no idle votarist . Roots , you clear heavens !
124756 Thus much of this will make black white , foul fair ,
124757 Wrong right , base noble , old young , coward valiant .
124758 Ha ! you gods , why this ? What this , you gods ? Why , this
124759 Will lug your priests and servants from your sides ,
124760 Pluck stout men's pillows from below their head :
124761 This yellow slave
124762 Will knit and breah religions ; bless the accurs'd ;
124763 Make the hoar leprosy ador'd ; place thieves ,
124764 And give them title , knee , and approbation ,
124765 With senators on the bench ; this is it
124766 That makes the wappen'd widow wed again ;
124767 She , whom the spital-house and ulcerous sores
124768 Would cast the gorge at , this embalms and spices
124769 To the April day again . Come , damned earth ,
124770 Thou common whore of mankind , that putt'st odds
124771 Among the rout of nations , I will make thee
124772 Do thy right nature .
124773
124774 Ha ! a drum ? thou'rt quick ,
124775 But yet I'll bury thee : thou'lt go , strong theif ,
124776 When gouty keepers of thee cannot stand :
124777 Nay , stay thou out for earnest .
124778
124779 What art thou there ? speak .
124780
124781 A beast , as thou art . The canker gnaw thy heart ,
124782 For showing me again the eyes of man !
124783
124784 What is thy name ? Is man so hateful to thee ,
124785 That art thyself a man ?
124786
124787 I am Misanthropos , and hate mankind .
124788 For thy part , I do wish thou wert a dog ,
124789 That I might love thee something .
124790
124791 I know thee well ,
124792 But in thy fortunes am unlearn'd and strange .
124793
124794 I know thee too ; and more than that I know thee
124795 I not desire to know . Follow thy drum ;
124796 With man's blood paint the ground , gules , gules ;
124797 Religious canons , civil laws are cruel ;
124798 Then what should war be ? This fell whore of thine
124799 Hath in her more destruction than thy sword
124800 For all her cherubin look .
124801
124802 Thy lips rot off !
124803
124804 I will not kiss thee ; then the rot returns
124805 To thine own lips again .
124806
124807 How came the noble Timon to this change ?
124808
124809 As the moon does , by wanting light to give :
124810 But then renew I could not like the moon ;
124811 There were no suns to borrow of .
124812
124813 Noble Timon , what friendship may I do thee ?
124814
124815 None , but to maintain my opinion .
124816
124817 What is it , Timon ?
124818
124819 Promise me friendship , but perform none : if thou wilt not promise , the gods plague thee , for thou art a man ! if thou dost perform , confound thee , for thou art a man !
124820
124821 I have heard in some sort of thy miseries .
124822
124823 Thou saw'st them , when I had prosperity .
124824
124825 I see them now ; then was a blessed time .
124826
124827 As thine is now , held with a brace of harlots .
124828
124829 Is this the Athenian minion , whom the world
124830 Voic'd so regardfully ?
124831
124832 Art thou Timandra ?
124833
124834 Yes .
124835
124836 Be a whore still ; they love thee not that use thee ;
124837 Give them diseases , leaving with thee their lust .
124838 Make use of thy salt hours ; season the slaves
124839 For tubs and baths ; bring down rose-cheeked youth
124840 To the tub-fast and the diet .
124841
124842 Hang thee , monster !
124843
124844 Pardon him , sweet Timandra , for his wits
124845 Are drown'd and lost in his calamities .
124846 I have but little gold of late , brave Timon ,
124847 The want whereof doth daily make revolt
124848 In my penurious band : I have heard and griev'd
124849 How cursed Athens , mindless of thy worth ,
124850 Forgetting thy great deeds , when neighbour states ,
124851 But for thy sword and fortune , trod upon them ,
124852
124853 I prithee , beat thy drum , and get thee gone .
124854
124855 I am thy friend , and pity thee , dear Timon .
124856
124857 How dost thou pity him whom thou dost trouble ?
124858 I had rather be alone .
124859
124860 Why , fare thee well :
124861 Here is some gold for thee .
124862
124863 Keep it , I cannot eat it .
124864
124865 When I have laid proud Athens on a heap ,
124866
124867 Warr'st thou 'gainst Athens ?
124868
124869 Ay , Timon , and have cause .
124870
124871 The gods confound them all in thy conquest ; and
124872 Thee after , when thou hast conquer'd !
124873
124874 Why me , Timon ?
124875
124876 That , by killing of villains , thou wast born to conquer
124877 My country .
124878 Put up thy gold : go on ,here's gold ,go on ;
124879 Be as a planetary plague , when Jove
124880 Will o'er some high-vic'd city hang his poison
124881 In the sick air : let not thy sword skip one .
124882 Pity not honour'd age for his white beard ;
124883 He is a usurer . Strike me the counterfeit matron ;
124884 It is her habit only that is honest ,
124885 Herself's a bawd . Let not the virgin's cheek
124886 Make soft thy trenchant sword ; for those milkpaps ,
124887 That through the window-bars bore at men's eyes ,
124888 Are not within the leaf of pity writ ,
124889 But set them down horrible traitors . Spare not the babe ,
124890 Whose dimpled smiles from fools exhaust their mercy ;
124891 Think it a bastard , whom the oracle
124892 Hath doubtfully pronounc'd thy throat shall cut ,
124893 And mince it sans remorse . Swear against objects ;
124894 Put armour on thine ears and on thine eyes ,
124895 Whose proof nor yells of mothers , maids , nor babes ,
124896 Nor sight of priests in holy vestments bleeding ,
124897 Shall pierce a jot . There's gold to pay thy soldiers :
124898 Make large confusion ; and , thy fury spent ,
124899 Confounded be thyself ! Speak not , be gone .
124900
124901 Hast thou gold yet ? I'll take the gold thou giv'st me ,
124902 Not all thy counsel .
124903
124904 Dost thou , or dost thou not , heaven's curse upon thee !
124905
124906 Give us some gold , good Timon : hast thou more ?
124907
124908 Give us some gold , good Timon : hast thou more ?
124909
124910 Enough to make a whore forswear her trade ,
124911 And to make whores a bawd . Hold up , you sluts ,
124912 Your aprons mountant : you are not oathable ,
124913 Although , I know , you'll swear , terribly swear
124914 Into strong shudders and to heavenly agues
124915 The immortal gods that hear you , spare your oaths ,
124916 I'll trust to your conditions : be whores still ;
124917 And he whose pious breath seeks to convert you ,
124918 Be strong in whore , allure him , burn him up ;
124919 Let your close fire predominate his smoke ,
124920 And be no turncoats : yet may your pains , six months ,
124921 Be quite contrary : and thatch your poor thin roofs
124922 With burdens of the dead ; some that were hang'd ,
124923 No matter ; wear them , betray with them : whore still ;
124924 Paint till a horse may mire upon your face :
124925 A pox of wrinkles !
124926
124927 Well , more gold . What then ?
124928
124929 Well , more gold . What then ?
124930 Believe't , that we'll do anything for gold .
124931
124932 Consumptions sow
124933 In hollow bones of man ; strike their sharp shins ,
124934 And mar men's spurring . Crack the lawyer's voice ,
124935 That he may never more false title plead ,
124936 Nor sound his quillets shrilly : hoar the flamen ,
124937 That scolds against the quality of flesh ,
124938 And not believes himself : down with the nose ,
124939 Down with it flat ; take the bridge quite away
124940 Of him that , his particular to foresee ,
124941 Smells from the general weal : make curl'd-pate ruffians bald ,
124942 And let the unscarr'd braggarts of the war
124943 Derive some pain from you : plague all ,
124944 That your activity may defeat and quell
124945 The source of all erection . There's more gold ;
124946 Do you damn others , and let this damn you ,
124947 And ditches grave you all !
124948
124949 More counsel with more money , bounteous Timon .
124950
124951 More counsel with more money , bounteous Timon .
124952
124953 More whore , more mischief first ; I have given you earnest .
124954
124955 Strike up the drum towards Athens ! Farewell , Timon :
124956 If I thrive well , I'll visit thee again .
124957
124958 If I hope well , I'll never see thee more .
124959
124960 I never did thee harm .
124961
124962 Yes , thou spok'st well of me .
124963
124964 Call'st thou that harm ?
124965
124966 Men daily find it . Get thee away , and take
124967 Thy beagles with thee .
124968
124969 We but offend him . Strike !
124970
124971
124972 That nature , being sick of man's unkindness ,
124973 Should yet be hungry ! Common mother , thou ,
124974
124975 Whose womb unmeasurable , and infinite breast ,
124976 Teams , and feeds all ; whose self-same mettle ,
124977 Whereof thy proud child , arrogant man , is puff'd ,
124978 Engenders the black toad and adder blue ,
124979 The gilded newt and eyeless venom'd worm ,
124980 With all the abhorred births below crisp heaven
124981 Whareon Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine ;
124982 Yield him , who all thy human sons doth hate ,
124983 From forth thy plenteous bosom , one poor root !
124984 Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb ,
124985 Let it no more bring out ingrateful man !
124986 Go great with tigers , dragons , wolves , and bears ;
124987 Teem with new monsters , whom thy upward face
124988 Hath to the marbled mansion all above
124989 Never presented ! O ! a root ; dear thanks :
124990 Dry up thy marrows , vines and plough-torn leas ;
124991 Whereof ingrateful man , with liquorish draughts
124992 And morsels unctuous , greases his pure mind ,
124993 That from it all consideration slips !
124994
124995 More man ! Plague ! plague !
124996
124997 I was directed hither : men report
124998 Thou dost affect my manners , and dost use them .
124999
125000 'Tis , then , because thou dost not keep a dog
125001 Whom I would imitate : consumption catch thee !
125002
125003 This is in thee a nature but infected ;
125004 A poor unmanly melancholy sprung
125005 From change of fortune . Why this spade ? this place ?
125006 This slave-like habit ? and these looks of care ?
125007 Thy flatterers yet wear silk , drink wine , lie soft ,
125008 Hug their diseas'd perfumes , and have forgot
125009 That ever Timon was . Shame not these woods
125010 By putting on the cunning of a carper .
125011 Be thou a flatterer now , and seak to thrive
125012 By that which has undone thee : hinge thy knee ,
125013 And let his very breath , whom thou'lt observe ,
125014 Blow off thy cap ; praise his most vicious strain ,
125015 And call it excellent . Thou wast told thus ;
125016 Thou gav'st thine ears , like tapsters that bid welcome ,
125017 To knaves and all approachers : 'tis most just
125018 That thou turn rascal ; hadst thou wealth again ,
125019 Rascals should have't . Do not assume my likeness .
125020
125021 Were I like thee I'd throw away myself .
125022
125023 Thou hast cast away thyself , being like thyself ;
125024 A madman so long , now a fool . What ! think'st
125025 That the bleak air , thy boisterous chamberlain ,
125026 Will put thy shirt on warm ? will these moss'd trees ,
125027 That have outliv'd the eagle , page thy heels
125028 And skip when thou point'st out ? will the cold brook ,
125029 Candied with ice , caudle thy morning taste
125030 To cure the o'er-night's surfeit ? Call the creatures
125031 Whose naked natures live in all the spite
125032 Of wreakful heaven , whose bare unhoused trunks
125033 To the conflicting elements expos'd ,
125034 Answer mere nature ; bid them flatter thee ;
125035 O ! thou shalt find
125036
125037 A fool of thee . Depart .
125038
125039 I love thee better now than e'er I did .
125040
125041 I hate thee worse .
125042
125043 Why ?
125044
125045 Thou flatter'st misery .
125046
125047 I flatter not , but say thou art a caitiff .
125048
125049 Why dost thou seek me out ?
125050
125051 To vex thee .
125052
125053 Always a villain's office , or a fool's .
125054 Dost please thyself in 't ?
125055
125056 Ay .
125057
125058 What ! a knave too ?
125059
125060 If thou didst put this sour-cold habit on
125061 To castigate thy pride , 'twere well ; but thou
125062 Dost it enforcedly ; thou'dst courtier be again
125063 Wert thou not beggar . Willing misery
125064 Outlives incertain pomp , is crown'd before ;
125065 The one is filling still , never complete ;
125066 The other , at high wish : best state , contentless ,
125067 Hath a distracted and most wretched being ,
125068 Worse than the worst , content .
125069 Thou shouldst desire to die , being miserable .
125070
125071 Not by his breath that is more miserable .
125072 Thou art a slave , whom Fortune's tender arm
125073 With favour never clasp'd , but bred a dog .
125074 Hadst thou , like us from our first swath , proceeded
125075 The sweet degrees that this brief world affords
125076 To such as may the passive drudges of it
125077 Freely command , thou wouldst have plung'd thyself
125078 In general riot ; melted down thy youth
125079 In different beds of lust ; and never learn'd
125080 The icy precepts of respect , but follow'd
125081 The sugar'd game before thee . But myself ,
125082 Who had the world as my confectionary ,
125083 The mouths , the tongues , the eyes , and hearts of men
125084 At duty , more than I could frame employment ,
125085 That numberless upon me stuck as leaves
125086 Do on the oak , have with one winter's brush
125087 Fell from their boughs and left me open , bare
125088 For every storm that blows ; I , to bear this ,
125089 That never knew but better , is some burden :
125090 Thy nature did commence in sufferance , time
125091 Hath made thee hard in 't . Why shouldst thou hate men ?
125092 They never flatter'd thee : what hast thou given ?
125093 If thou wilt curse , thy father , that poor rag ,
125094 Must be thy subject , who in spite put stuff
125095 To some she beggar and compounded thee
125096 Poor rogue hereditary . Hence ! be gone !
125097 If thou hadst not been born the worst of men ,
125098 Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer .
125099
125100 Art thou proud yet ?
125101
125102 Ay , that I am not thee .
125103
125104 I , that I was
125105 No prodigal .
125106
125107 I , that I am one now :
125108 Were all the wealth I have shut up in thee ,
125109 I'd give thee leave to hang it . Get thee gone .
125110 That the whole life of Athens were in this !
125111 Thus would I eat it .
125112
125113
125114 Here ; I will mend thy feast .
125115
125116 First mend my company , take away thyself .
125117
125118 So I shall mend mine own , by the lack of thine .
125119
125120 'Tis not well mended so , it is but botch'd ;
125121 If not , I would it were .
125122
125123 What wouldst thou have to Athens ?
125124
125125 Thee thither in a whirlwind . If thou wilt ,
125126 Tell them there I have gold ; look , so I have .
125127
125128 Here is no use for gold .
125129
125130 The best and truest ;
125131 For here it sleeps , and does no hired harm .
125132
125133 Where liest o' nights , Timon ?
125134
125135 Under that's above me .
125136 Where feed'st thou o' days , Apemantus ?
125137
125138 Where my stomach finds meat ; or , rather , where I eat it .
125139
125140 Would poison were obedient and knew my mind !
125141
125142 Where wouldst thou send it ?
125143
125144 To sauce thy dishes .
125145
125146 The middle of humanity thou never knewest , but the extremity of both ends . When thou wast in thy gilt and thy perfume , they mocked thee for too much curiosity ; in thy rags thou knowest none , but art despised for the contrary . There's a medlar for thee ; eat it .
125147
125148 On what I hate I feed not .
125149
125150 Dost hate a medlar ?
125151
125152 Ay , though it look like thee .
125153
125154 An thou hadst hated meddlers sooner , thou shouldst have loved thyself better now . What man didst thou ever know unthrift that was beloved after his means ?
125155
125156 Who , without those means thou talkest of , didst thou ever know beloved ?
125157
125158 Myself .
125159
125160 I understand thee ; thou hadst some means to keep a dog .
125161
125162 What things in the world canst thou nearest compare to thy flatterers ?
125163
125164 Women nearest ; but men , men are the things themselves . What wouldst thou do with the world , Apemantus , if it lay in thy power ?
125165
125166 Give it the beasts , to be rid of the men .
125167
125168 Wouldst thou have thyself fall in the confusion of men , and remain a beast with the beasts ?
125169
125170 Ay , Timon .
125171
125172 A beastly ambition , which the gods grant thee to attain to . If thou wert the lion , the fox would beguile thee ; if thou wert the lamb , the fox would eat thee ; if thou wert the fox , the lion would suspect thee , when peradventure thou wert accused by the ass ; if thou wert the ass , thy dulness would torment thee , and still thou livedst but as a breakfast to the wolf ; if thou wert the wolf , thy greediness would afflict thee , and oft thou shouldst hazard thy life for thy dinner ; wert thou the unicorn , pride and wrath would confound thee and make thine own self the conquest of thy fury ; wert thou a bear , thou wouldst be killed by the horse ; wert thou a horse , thou wouldst be seized by the leopard ; wert thou a leopard , thou wert german to the lion , and the spots of thy kindred were jurors on thy life ; all thy safety were remotion , and thy defence absence . What beast couldst thou be , that were not subject to a beast ? and what a beast art thou already , that seest not thy loss in transformation !
125173
125174 If thou couldst please me with speaking to me , thou mightst have hit upon it here ; the commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts .
125175
125176 How has the ass broke the wall , that thou art out of the city ?
125177
125178 Yonder comes a poet and a painter : the plague of company light upon thee ! I will fear to catch it , and give way . When I know not what else to do , I'll see thee again .
125179
125180 When there is nothing living but thee , thou shalt be welcome . I had rather be a beggar's dog than Apemantus .
125181
125182 Thou art the cap of all the fools alive .
125183
125184 Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon !
125185
125186 A plague on thee ! thou art too bad to curse !
125187
125188 All villains that do stand by thee are pure .
125189
125190 There is no leprosy but what thou speak'st .
125191
125192 If I name thee .
125193 I'll beat thee , but I should infect my hands .
125194
125195 I would my tongue could rot them off !
125196
125197 Away , thou issue of a mangy dog !
125198 Choler does kill me that thou art alive ;
125199 I swound to see thee .
125200
125201 Would thou wouldst burst !
125202
125203 Away ,
125204 Thou tedious rogue ! I am sorry I shall lose
125205 A stone by thee .
125206
125207
125208 Beast !
125209
125210 Slave !
125211
125212 Toad !
125213
125214 Rogue , rogue , rogue !
125215 I am sick of this false world , and will love nought
125216 But even the mere necessities upon 't .
125217 Then , Timon , presently prepare thy grave ;
125218 Lie where the light foam of the sea may beat
125219 Thy grave-stone daily : make thine epitaph ,
125220 That death in me at others' lives may laugh .
125221
125222 O thou sweet king-killer , and dear divorce
125223 'Twixt natural son and sire ! thou bright defiler
125224 Of Hymen's purest bed ! thou valiant Mars !
125225 Thou ever young , fresh , lov'd , and delicate wooer ,
125226 Whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
125227 That lies on Dian's lap ! thou visible god ,
125228 That solder'st close impossibilities ,
125229 And mak'st them kiss ! that speak'st with every tongue ,
125230 To every purpose ! O thou touch of hearts !
125231 Think , thy slave man rebels , and by thy virtue
125232 Set them into confounding odds , that beasts
125233 May have the world in empire .
125234
125235 Would 'twere so :
125236 But not till I am dead ; I'll say thou'st gold :
125237 Thou wilt be throng'd to shortly .
125238
125239 Throng'd to ?
125240
125241 Ay .
125242
125243 Thy back , I prithee .
125244
125245 Live , and love thy misery !
125246
125247 Long live so , and so die !
125248
125249 I am quit .
125250 More things like men ! Eat , Timon , and abhor them .
125251
125252
125253 Where should he have this gold ? It is some poor fragment , some slender ort of his remainder . The mere want of gold , and the falling-from of his friends , drove him into this melancholy .
125254
125255 It is noised he hath a mass of treasure .
125256
125257 Let us make the assay upon him : if he care not for 't , he will supply us easily ; if he covetously reserve it , how shall's get it ?
125258
125259 True ; for he bears it not about him , 'tis hid .
125260
125261 Is not this he ?
125262
125263 Where ?
125264
125265 'Tis his description .
125266
125267 He ; I know him .
125268
125269 Save thee , Timon .
125270
125271 Now , thieves ?
125272
125273 Soldiers , not thieves .
125274
125275 Both too ; and women's sons .
125276
125277 We are not thieves , but men that much do want .
125278
125279 Your greatest want is , you want much of meat .
125280 Why should you want ? Behold , the earth hath roots ;
125281 Within this mile break forth a hundred springs ;
125282 The oaks bear mast , the briers scarlet hips ;
125283 The bounteous housewife , nature , on each bush
125284 Lays her full mess before you . Want ! why want ?
125285
125286 We cannot live on grass , on berries , water ,
125287 As beasts , and birds , and fishes .
125288
125289 Nor on the beasts themselves , the birds , and fishes ;
125290 You must eat men . Yet thanks I must you con
125291 That you are thieves profess'd , that you work not
125292 In holier shapes ; for there is boundless theft
125293 In limited professions . Rascal thieves ,
125294 Here's gold . Go , suck the subtle blood o' the grape ,
125295 Till the high fever seethe your blood to froth ,
125296 And so 'scape hanging : trust not the physician ;
125297 His antidotes are poison , and he slays
125298 More than you rob : take wealth and lives together ;
125299 Do villany , do , since you protest to do't ,
125300 Like workmen . I'll example you with thievery :
125301 The sun's a thief , and with his great attraction
125302 Robs the vast sea ; the moon's an arrant thief ,
125303 And her pale fire she snatches from the sun ;
125304 The sea's a thief , whose liquid surge resolves
125305 The moon into salt tears ; the earth's a thief ,
125306 That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
125307 From general excrement , each thing's a thief ;
125308 The laws , your curb and whip , in their rough power
125309 Have uncheck'd theft . Love not yourselves ; away !
125310 Rob one another . There's more gold : cut throats ;
125311 All that you meet are thieves . To Athens go ,
125312 Break open shops ; nothing can you steal
125313 But thieves do lose it : steal no less for this
125314 I give you ; and gold confound you howsoe'er !
125315 Amen .
125316
125317 He has almost charmed me from my profession , by persuading me to it .
125318
125319 'Tis in the malice of mankind that he thus advises us ; not to have us thrive in our mystery .
125320
125321 I'll believe him as an enemy , and give over my trade .
125322
125323 Let us first see peace in Athens ; there is no time so miserable but a man may be true .
125324
125325 O you gods !
125326 Is yond despised and ruinous man my lord ?
125327 Full of decay and failing ? O monument
125328 And wonder of good deeds evilly bestow'd !
125329 What an alteration of honour
125330 Has desperate want made !
125331 What viler thing upon the earth than friends
125332 Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends !
125333 How rarely does it meet with this time's guise ,
125334 When man was wish'd to love his enemies !
125335 Grant I may ever love , and rather woo
125336 Those that would mischief me than those that do !
125337 He hath caught me in his eye : I will present
125338 My honest grief unto him ; and , as my lord ,
125339 Still serve him with my life . My dearest master !
125340
125341
125342 Away ! what art thou ?
125343
125344 Have you forgot me , sir ?
125345
125346 Why dost ask that ? I have forgot all men ;
125347 Then , if thou grant'st thou'rt a man , I have forgot thee .
125348
125349 An honest poor servant of yours .
125350
125351 Then I know thee not :
125352 I never had an honest man about me ; ay all
125353 I kept were knaves , to serve in meat to villains .
125354
125355 The gods are witness ,
125356 Ne'er did poor steward wear a truer grief
125357 For his undone lord than mine eyes for you .
125358
125359 What ! dost thou weep ? Come nearer . Then I love thee ,
125360 Because thou art a woman , and disclaim'st
125361 Flinty mankind ; whose eyes do never give ,
125362 But thorough lust and laughter . Pity's sleeping :
125363 Strange times , that weep with laughing , not with weeping !
125364
125365 I beg of you to know me , good my lord ,
125366 To accept my grief and whilst this poor wealth lasts
125367 To entertain me as your steward still .
125368
125369 Had I a steward
125370 So true , so just , and now so comfortable ?
125371 It almost turns my dangerous nature mild .
125372 Let me behold thy face . Surely , this man
125373 Was born of woman .
125374 Forgive my general and exceptless rashness ,
125375 You perpetual sober gods ! I do proclaim
125376 One honest man , mistake me not , but one ;
125377 No more , I pray , and he's a steward .
125378 How fain would I have hated all mankind !
125379 And thou redeem'st thyself : but all , save thee ,
125380 I fell with curses .
125381 Methinks thou art more honest now than wise ;
125382 For , by oppressing and betraying me ,
125383 Thou mightst have sooner got another service :
125384 For many so arrive at second masters
125385 Upon their first lord's neck . But tell me true ,
125386 For I must ever doubt , though ne'er so sure ,
125387 Is not thy kindness subtle , covetous ,
125388 If not a usuring kindness and as rich men deal gifts ,
125389 Expecting in return twenty for one ?
125390
125391 No , my most worthy master ; in whose breast
125392 Doubt and suspect , alas ! are plac'd too late .
125393 You should have fear'd false times when you did feast ;
125394 Suspect still comes when an estate is least .
125395 That which I show , heaven knows , is merely love ,
125396 Duty and zeal to your unmatched mind ,
125397 Care of your food and living ; and , believe it ,
125398 My most honour'd lord ,
125399 For any benefit that points to me ,
125400 Either in hope , or present , I'd exchange
125401 For this one wish , that you had power and wealth
125402 To requite me by making rich yourself .
125403
125404 Look thee , 'tis so . Thou singly honest man ,
125405 Here , take : the gods out of my misery ,
125406 Have sent thee treasure . Go , live rich and happy ;
125407 But thus condition'd : thou shalt build from men ;
125408 Hate all , curse all , show charity to none ,
125409 But let the famish'd flesh slide from the bone ,
125410 Ere thou relieve the beggar ; give to dogs
125411 What thou deny'st to men ; let prisons swallow 'em ,
125412 Debts wither 'em to nothing ; be men like blasted woods ,
125413 And may diseases lick up their false bloods !
125414 And so , farewell and thrive .
125415
125416 O ! let me stay
125417 And comfort you , my master .
125418
125419 If thou hatest
125420 Curses , stay not ; fly , whilst thou'rt bless'd and free :
125421 Ne'er see thou man , and let me ne'er see thee .
125422
125423 As I took note of the place , it cannot be far where he abides .
125424
125425 What's to be thought of him ? Does the rumour hold for true that he is so full of gold ?
125426
125427 Certain : Alcibiades reports it ; Phrynia and Timandra had gold of him : he likewise enriched poor straggling soldiers with great quantity . 'Tis said he gave unto his steward a mighty sum .
125428
125429 Then this breaking of his has been but a try for his friends .
125430
125431 Nothing else ; you shall see him a palm in Athens again , and flourish with the highest . Therefore 'tis not amiss we tender our loves to him , in this supposed distress of his : it will show honestly in us , and is very likely to load our purposes with what they travel for , if it be a just and true report that goes of his having .
125432
125433 What have you now to present unto him ?
125434
125435 Nothing at this time but my visitation ; only , I will promise him an excellent piece .
125436
125437 I must serve him so too ; tell him of an intent that's coming towards him .
125438
125439 Good as the best . Promising is the very air o' the time ; it opens the eyes of expectation ; performance is ever the duller for his act ; and , but in the plainer and simpler kind of people , the deed of saying is quite out of use . To promise is most courtly and fashionable ; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it .
125440
125441
125442 Excellent workman ! Thou canst not paint a man so bad as is thyself .
125443
125444 I am thinking what I shall say I have provided for him : it must be a personating of himself ; a satire against the softness of prosperity , with a discovery of the infinite flatteries that follow youth and opulency .
125445
125446 Must thou needs stand for a villain in thine own work ? Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men ? Do so , I have gold for thee .
125447
125448 Nay , let's seek him :
125449 Then do we sin against our own estate ,
125450 When we may profit meet , and come too late .
125451
125452 True ;
125453 When the day serves , before black-corner'd night ,
125454 Find what thou want'st by free and offer'd light .
125455 Come .
125456
125457 I'll meet you at the turn . What a god's gold ,
125458 That he is worshipp'd in a baser temple
125459 Than where swine feed !
125460 'Tis thou that rigg'st the bark and plough'st the foam ,
125461 Settlest admired reverence in a slave :
125462 To thee be worship ; and thy saints for aye
125463 Be crown'd with plagues that thee alone obey .
125464 Fit I meet them .
125465
125466
125467 Hail , worthy Timon !
125468
125469 Our late noble master !
125470
125471 Have I once liv'd to see two honest men ?
125472
125473 Sir ,
125474 Having often of your open bounty tasted ,
125475 Hearing you were retir'd , your friends fall'n off ,
125476 Whose thankless natures O abhorred spirits !
125477 Not all the whips of heaven are large enough
125478 What ! to you ,
125479 Whose star-like nobleness gave life and influence
125480 To their whole being ! I am rapt , and cannot cover
125481 The monstrous bulk of this ingratitude
125482 With any size of words .
125483
125484 Let it go naked , men may see 't the better :
125485 You , that are honest , by being what you are ,
125486 Make them best seen and known .
125487
125488 He and myself
125489 Have travell'd in the great shower of your gifts ,
125490 And sweetly felt it .
125491
125492 Ay , you are honest men .
125493
125494 We are hither come to offer you our service .
125495
125496 Most honest men ! Why , how shall I requite you ?
125497 Can you eat roots and drink cold water ? no .
125498
125499 What we can do , we'll do , to do you service .
125500
125501 Ye're honest men . Ye've heard that I have gold ;
125502 I am sure you have : speak truth ; ye're honest men .
125503
125504 So it is said , my noble lord ; but therefore
125505 Came not my friend nor I .
125506
125507 Good honest men ! Thou draw'st a counterfeit
125508 Best in all Athens : thou'rt , indeed , the best ;
125509 Thou counterfeit'st most lively .
125510
125511 So , so , my lord .
125512
125513 E'en so , sir , as I say . And , for thy fiction ,
125514 Why , thy verse swells with stuff so fine and smooth
125515 That thou art even natural in thine art .
125516 But for all this , my honest-natur'd friends ,
125517 I must needs say you have a little fault :
125518 Marry , 'tis not monstrous in you , neither wish I
125519 You take much pains to mend .
125520
125521 Beseech your honour
125522 To make it known to us .
125523
125524 You'll take it ill .
125525
125526 Most thankfully , my lord .
125527
125528 Will you indeed ?
125529
125530 Doubt it not , worthy lord .
125531
125532 There's never a one of you but trusts a knave ,
125533 That mightily deceives you .
125534
125535 Do we , my lord ?
125536
125537 Ay , and you hear him cog , see him dissemble ,
125538 Know his gross patchery , love him , feed him ,
125539 Keep in your bosom ; yet remain assur'd
125540 That he's a made-up villain .
125541
125542 I know none such , my lord .
125543
125544 Nor I .
125545
125546 Look you , I love you well ; I'll give you gold ,
125547 Rid me these villains from your companies :
125548 Hang them or stab them , drown them in a draught ,
125549 Confound them by some course , and come to me ,
125550 I'll give you gold enough .
125551
125552 Name them , my lord ; let's know them .
125553
125554 You that way and you this , but two in company ;
125555 Each man apart , all single and alone ,
125556 Yet an arch villain keeps him company .
125557 If , where thou art two villains shall not be ,
125558 Come not near him .
125559
125560 If thou would not reside
125561 But where one villain is , then him abandon .
125562 Hence ! pack ! there's gold ; ye came for gold , ye slaves :
125563 You have done work for me , there's payment : hence !
125564 You are an alchemist , make gold of that .
125565 Out , rascal dogs !
125566
125567 It is in vain that you would speak with Timon ;
125568 For he is set so only to himself
125569 That nothing but himself , which looks like man ,
125570 Is friendly with him .
125571
125572 Bring us to his cave :
125573 It is our part and promise to the Athenians
125574 To speak with Timon .
125575
125576 At all times alike
125577 Men are not still the same : 'twas time and griefs
125578 That fram'd him thus : time , with his fairer hand ,
125579 Offering the fortunes of his former days ,
125580 The former man may make him . Bring us to him ,
125581 And chance it as it may .
125582
125583 Here is his cave .
125584 Peace and content be here ! Lord Timon ! Timon !
125585 Look out , and speak to friends . The Athenians ,
125586 By two of their most reverend senate , greet thee :
125587 Speak to them , noble Timon .
125588
125589
125590 Thousun , that comfort'st , burn ! Speak , and be hang'd :
125591 For each true word , a blister ! and each false
125592 Be as a cauterizing to the root o'the tongue ,
125593 Consuming it with speaking !
125594
125595 Worthy Timon ,
125596
125597 Of none but such as you , and you of Timon .
125598
125599 The senators of Athens greet thee , Timon .
125600
125601 I thank them ; and would send them back the plague ,
125602 Could I but catch it for them .
125603
125604 O ! forget
125605 What we are sorry for ourselves in thee .
125606 The senators with one consent of love
125607 Entreat thee back to Athens ; who have thought
125608 On special dignities , which vacant lie
125609 For thy best use and wearing .
125610
125611 They confess
125612 Toward thee forgetfulness to general , gross ;
125613 Which now the public body , which doth seldom
125614 Play the recanter , feeling in itself
125615 A lack of Timon's aid , hath sense withal
125616 Of its own fail , restraining aid to Timon ;
125617 And send forth us , to make their sorrow'd render ,
125618 Together with a recompense more fruitful
125619 Than their offence can weigh down by the dram ;
125620 Ay , even such heaps and sums of love and wealth
125621 As shall to thee block out what wrongs were theirs ,
125622 And write in thee the figures of their love ,
125623 Ever to read them thine .
125624
125625 You witch me in it ;
125626 Surprise me to the very brink of tears :
125627 Lend me a fool's heart and a woman's eyes ,
125628 And I'll beweep these comforts , worthy senators .
125629
125630 Therefore so please thee to return with us ,
125631 And of our Athens thine and ours to take
125632 The captainship , thou shalt be met with thanks ,
125633 Allow'd with absolute power , and thy good name
125634 Live with authority : so soon we shall drive back
125635 Of Alcibiades the approaches wild ;
125636 Who , like a boar too savage , doth root up
125637 His country's peace .
125638
125639 And shakes his threat'ning sword
125640 Against the walls of Athens .
125641
125642 Therefore , Timon ,
125643
125644 Well , sir , I will ; therefore , I will , sir ; thus :
125645 If Alcibiades kill my countrymen ,
125646 Let Alcibiades know this of Timon ,
125647 That Timon cares not . But if he sack fair Athens ,
125648 And take our goodly aged men by the beards ,
125649 Giving our holy virgins to the stain
125650 Of contumelious , beastly , mad-brain'd war ;
125651 Then let him know , and tell him Timon speaks it ,
125652 In pity of our aged and our youth
125653 I cannot choose but tell him , that I care not ,
125654 And let him take't at worst ; for their knives care not
125655 While you have throats to answer : for myself ,
125656 There's not a whittle in the unruly camp
125657 But I do prize it at my love before
125658 The reverend'st throat in Athens . So I leave you
125659 To the protection of the prosperous gods ,
125660 As thieves to keepers .
125661
125662 Stay not ; all's in vain .
125663
125664 Why , I was writing of my epitaph ;
125665 It will be seen to-morrow . My long sickness
125666 Of health and living now begins to mend ,
125667 And nothing brings me all things . Go ; live still :
125668 Be Alcibiades your plague , you his ,
125669 And last so long enough !
125670
125671 We speak in vain .
125672
125673 But yet I love my country , and am not
125674 One that rejoices in the common wrack ,
125675 As common bruit doth put it .
125676
125677 That's well spoke .
125678
125679 Commend me to my loving countrymen ,
125680
125681 These words become your lips as they pass through them .
125682
125683 And enter in our ears like great triumphers
125684 In their applauding gates .
125685
125686 Commend me to them ;
125687 And tell them , that , to ease them of their griefs ,
125688 Their fears of hostile strokes , their aches , losses ,
125689 Their pangs of love , with other incident throes
125690 That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain
125691 In life's uncertain voyage , I will some kindness do them :
125692 I'll teach them to prevent wild Alcibiades' wrath .
125693
125694 I like this well ; he will return again .
125695
125696 I have a tree which grows here in my close ,
125697 That mine own use invites me to cut down ,
125698 And shortly must I fell it ; tell my friends ,
125699 Tell Athens , in the sequence of degree ,
125700 From high to low throughout , that whoso please
125701 To stop affliction , let him take his haste ,
125702 Come hither , ere my tree hath felt the axe ,
125703 And hang himself . I pray you , do my greeting .
125704
125705 Trouble him no further ; thus you still shall find him .
125706
125707 Come not to me again ; but say to Athans ,
125708 Timon hath made his everlasting mansion
125709 Upon the beached verge of the salt flood ;
125710 Who once a day with his embossed froth
125711 The turbulent surge shall cover : thither come ,
125712 And let my grave-stone be your oracle .
125713 Lips , let sour words go by and language end :
125714 What is amiss plague and infection mend !
125715 Graves only be men's works and death their gain !
125716 Sun , hide thy beams ! Timon hath done his reign .
125717
125718
125719 His discontents are unremovably Coupled to nature .
125720
125721 Our hope in him is dead : let us return ,
125722 And strain what other means is left unto us
125723 In our dear peril .
125724
125725 It requires swift foot .
125726
125727
125728 Thou hast painfully discover'd : are his files
125729 As full as thy report ?
125730
125731 I have spoke the least ;
125732 Besides , his expedition promises
125733 Present approach .
125734
125735 We stand much hazard if they bring not Timon .
125736
125737 I met a courier , one mine ancient friend ,
125738 Whom , though in general part we were oppos'd ,
125739 Yet our old love made a particular force ,
125740 And made us speak like friends : this man was riding
125741 From Alcibiades to Timon's cave ,
125742 With letters of entreaty , which imported
125743 His fellowship i' the cause against your city ,
125744 In part for his sake mov'd .
125745
125746 Here come our brothers .
125747
125748
125749 No talk of Timon , nothing of him expect .
125750 The enemies' drum is heard , and fearful scouring
125751 Doth choke the air with dust . In , and prepare :
125752 Ours is the fall , I fear ; our foes the snare .
125753
125754
125755 By all description this should be the place .
125756 Who's here ? speak , ho ! No answer ! What is this ?
125757 Timon is dead , who hath outstretch'd his span :
125758 Some beast rear'd this ; here does not live a man .
125759 Dead , sure ; and this his grave . What's on this tomb
125760 I cannot read ; the character I'll take with wax :
125761 Our captain hath in every figure skill ;
125762 An ag'd interpreter , though young in days .
125763 Before proud Athens he's set down by this ,
125764 Whose fall the mark of his ambition is .
125765
125766
125767 Sound to this coward and lascivious town
125768 Our terrible approach .
125769
125770 Till now you have gone on , and fill'd the time
125771 With all licentious measure , making your wills
125772 The scope of justice ; till now myself and such
125773 As slept within the shadow of your power
125774 Have wander'd with our travers'd arms , and breath'd
125775 Our sufferance vainly . Now the time is flush ,
125776 When crouching marrow , in the bearer strong ,
125777 Cries of itself , 'No more :' now breathless wrong
125778 Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease ,
125779 And pursy insolence shall break his wind
125780
125781 With fear and horrid flight .
125782
125783 Noble and young ,
125784 When thy first griefs were but a mere conceit ,
125785 Ere thou hadst power or we had cause of fear ,
125786 We sent to thee , to give thy rages balm ,
125787 To wipe out our ingratitude with loves
125788 Above their quantity .
125789
125790 So did we woo
125791 Transformed Timon to our city's love
125792 By humble message and by promis'd means :
125793 We were not all unkind , nor all deserve
125794 The common stroke of war .
125795
125796 These walls of ours
125797 Were not erected by their hands from whom
125798 You have receiv'd your grief ; nor are they such
125799 That these great towers , trophies , and schools should fall
125800 For private faults in them .
125801
125802 Nor are they living
125803 Who were the motives that you first went out ;
125804 Shame that they wanted cunning in excess
125805 Hath broke their hearts . March , noble lord ,
125806 Into our city with thy banners spread :
125807 By decimation , and a tithed death ,
125808 If thy revenges hunger for that food
125809 Which nature loathes ,take thou the destin'd tenth ,
125810 And by the hazard of the spotted die
125811 Let die the spotted .
125812
125813 All have not offended ;
125814 For those that were , it is not square to take
125815 On those that are , revenges : crimes , like lands ,
125816 Are not inherited . Then , dear countryman ,
125817 Bring in thy ranks , but leave without thy rage :
125818 Spare thyAthenian cradle , and those kin
125819 Which in the bluster of thy wrath must fall
125820 With those that have offended : like a shepherd ,
125821 Approach the fold and cull th' infected forth ,
125822 But kill not all together .
125823
125824 What thou wilt ,
125825 Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile
125826 Thank hew to't with thy sword .
125827
125828 Set but thy foot
125829 Against our rampir'd gates , and they shall ope ,
125830 So thou wilt send thy gentle heart before ,
125831 To say thou'lt enter friendly .
125832
125833 Throw thy glove ,
125834 Or any token of thine honour else ,
125835 That thou wilt use the wars as thy redress
125836 And not as our confusion , all thy powers
125837 Shall make their harbour in our town , till we
125838 Have seal'd thy full desire .
125839
125840 Then there's my glove ;
125841 Descend , and open your uncharged ports :
125842 Those enemies of Timon's and mine own
125843 Whom you yourselves shall set out for reproof ,
125844 Fall , and no more ; and , to atone your fears
125845 With my more noble meaning , not a man
125846 Shall pass his quarter , or offend the stream
125847 Of regular justice in your city's bounds ,
125848 But shall be render'd to your public laws
125849 At heaviest answer .
125850
125851 'Tis most nobly spoken .
125852
125853 Descend , and keep your words .
125854
125855 My noble general , Timon is dead ;
125856 Entomb'd upon the very hem o' the sea :
125857 And on his grave-stone this insculpture , which
125858 With wax I brought away , whose soft impression
125859 Interprets for my poor ignorance .
125860
125861 Here lies a wretched corse , of wretched soul bereft :
125862 Seek not my name : a plague consume you wicked caitiffs left !
125863 Here lie I , Timon ; who , alive , all living men did hate :
125864 Pass by , and curse thy fill ; but pass and stay not here thy gait .
125865 These well express in thee thy latter spirits :
125866 Though thou abhorr'dst in us our human griefs ,
125867 Scorn'dst our brain's flow and those our droplets which
125868 From niggard nature fall , yet rich conceit
125869 Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye
125870 On thy low grave , on faults forgiven . Dead
125871 Is noble Timon ; of whose memory
125872 Hereafter more . Bring me into your city ,
125873 And I will use the olive with my sword ;
125874 Make war breed peace ; make peace stint war ; make each
125875 Prescribe to other as each other's leech .
125876 Let our drums strike .
125877
125878 TITUS ANDRONICUS
125879
125880
125881 Noble patricians , patrons of my right ,
125882 Defend the justice of my cause with arms ;
125883 And , countrymen , my loving followers ,
125884 Plead my successive title with your swords :
125885 I am his first-born son that was the last
125886 That wore the imperial diadem of Rome ;
125887 Then let my father's honours live in me ,
125888 Nor wrong mine age with this indignity .
125889
125890 Romans , friends , followers , favourers of my right ,
125891 If ever Bassianus , C sar's son ,
125892 Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome ,
125893 Keep then this passage to the Capitol ,
125894 And suffer not dishonour to approach
125895 The imperial seat , to virtue consecrate ,
125896 To justice , continence , and nobility ;
125897 But let desert in pure election shine ,
125898 And , Romans , fight for freedom in your choice .
125899
125900
125901 Princes , that strive by factions and by friends
125902 Ambitiously for rule and empery ,
125903 Know that the people of Rome , for whom we stand
125904 A special party , have , by common voice ,
125905 In election for the Roman empery ,
125906 Chosen Andronicus , surnamed Pius ,
125907 For many good and great deserts to Rome :
125908 A nobler man , a braver warrior ,
125909 Lives not this day within the city walls :
125910 He by the senate is accited home
125911 From weary wars against the barbarous Goths ;
125912 That , with his sons , a terror to our foes ,
125913 Hath yok'd a nation , strong , train'd up in arms .
125914 Ten years are spent since first he undertook
125915 This cause of Rome , and chastised with arms
125916 Our enemies' pride : five times he hath return'd
125917 Bleeding to Rome , bearing his valiant sons
125918 In coffins from the field ;
125919 And now at last , laden with honour's spoils ,
125920 Returns the good Andronicus to Rome ,
125921 Renowned Titus , flourishing in arms .
125922 Let us entreat , by honour of his name ,
125923 Whom worthily you would have now succeed ,
125924 And in the Capitol and senate's right ,
125925 Whom you pretend to honour and adore ,
125926 That you withdraw you and abate your strength ;
125927 Dismiss your followers , and , as suitors should ,
125928 Plead your deserts in peace and humbleness .
125929
125930 How fair the tribune speaks to calm my thoughts !
125931
125932 Marcus Andronicus , so I do affy
125933 In thy uprightness and integrity ,
125934 And so I love and honour thee and thine ,
125935 Thy noble brother Titus and his sons ,
125936 And her to whom my thoughts are humbled all ,
125937 Gracious Lavinia , Rome's rich ornament ,
125938 That I will here dismiss my loving friends ,
125939 And to my fortunes and the people's favour
125940 Commit my cause in balance to be weigh'd .
125941
125942
125943 Friends , that have been thus forward in my right ,
125944 I thank you all and here dismiss you all ;
125945 And to the love and favour of my country
125946 Commit myself , my person , and the cause .
125947
125948 Rome , be as just and gracious unto me
125949 As I am confident and kind to thee .
125950 Open the gates , and let me in .
125951
125952 Tribunes , and me , a poor competitor .
125953
125954 Romans , make way ! the good Andronicus ,
125955 Patron of virtue , Rome's best champion ,
125956 Successful in the battles that he fights ,
125957 With honour and with fortune is return'd
125958 From where he circumscribed with his sword ,
125959 And brought to yoke , the enemies of Rome .
125960
125961 Hail , Rome , victorious in thy mourning weeds !
125962 Lo ! as the bark , that hath discharg'd her fraught ,
125963 Returns with precious lading to the bay
125964 From whence at first she weigh'd her anchorage ,
125965 Cometh Andronicus , bound with laurel boughs ,
125966 To re-salute his country with his tears ,
125967 Tears of true joy for his return to Rome .
125968 Thou great defender of this Capitol ,
125969 Stand gracious to the rites that we intend !
125970 Romans , of five-and-twenty valiant sons ,
125971 Half of the number that King Priam had ,
125972 Behold the poor remains , alive , and dead !
125973 These that survive let Rome reward with love ;
125974 These that I bring unto their latest home .
125975 With burial among their ancestors :
125976 Here Goths have given me leave to sheathe my sword .
125977 Titus , unkind and careless of thine own ,
125978 Why suffer'st thou thy sons , unburied yet
125979 To hover on the dreadful shore of Styx ?
125980 Make way to lay them by their brethren .
125981
125982 There greet in silence , as the dead are wont ,
125983 And sleep in peace , slain in your country's wars !
125984 O sacred receptacle of my joys ,
125985 Sweet cell of virtue and nobility ,
125986 How many sons of mine hast thou in store ,
125987 That thou wilt never render to me more !
125988
125989 Give us the proudest prisoner of the Goths ,
125990 That we may hew his limbs , and on a pile
125991 Ad manes fratrum sacrifice his flesh ,
125992 Before this earthy prison of their bones ;
125993 That so the shadows be not unappeas'd ,
125994 Nor we disturb'd with prodigies on earth .
125995
125996 I give him you , the noblest that survives
125997 The eldest son of this distressed queen .
125998
125999 Stay , Roman brethren ! Gracious conqueror ,
126000 Victorious Titus , rue the tears I shed ,
126001 A mother's tears in passion for her son :
126002 And if thy sons were ever dear to thee ,
126003 O ! think my son to be as dear to me .
126004 Sufficeth not that we are brought to Rome ,
126005 To beautify thy triumphs and return ,
126006 Captive to thee and to thy Roman yoke ;
126007 But must my sons be slaughter'd in the streets
126008 For valiant doings in their country's cause ?
126009 O ! if to fight for king and commonweal
126010 Were piety in thine , it is in these .
126011 Andronicus , stain not thy tomb with blood :
126012 Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods ?
126013 Draw near them then in being merciful ;
126014 Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge :
126015 Thrice-noble Titus , spare my first-born son .
126016
126017 Patient yourself , madam , and pardon me .
126018 These are their brethren , whom your Goths beheld
126019 Alive and dead , and for their brethren slain
126020 Religiously they ask a sacrifice :
126021 To this your son is mark'd , and die he must ,
126022 To appease their groaning shadows that are gone .
126023
126024 Away with him ! and make a fire straight ;
126025 And with our swords , upon a pile of wood ,
126026 Let's hew his limbs till they be clean consum'd .
126027
126028
126029 O cruel , irreligious piety !
126030
126031 Was ever Scythia half so barbarous ?
126032
126033 Oppose not Scythia to ambitious Rome .
126034 Alarbus goes to rest , and we survive
126035 To tremble under Titus' threatening look .
126036 Then , madam , stand resolv'd ; but hope withal
126037 The self-same gods , that arm'd the Queen of Troy
126038 With opportunity of sharp revenge
126039 Upon the Thracian tyrant in his tent ,
126040 May favour Tamora , the Queen of Goths
126041 When Goths were Goths , and Tamora was queen
126042 To quit the bloody wrongs upon her foes .
126043
126044
126045 See , lord and father , how we have perform'd
126046 Our Roman rites . Alarbus' limbs are lopp'd ,
126047 And entrails feed the sacrificing fire ,
126048 Whose smoke , like incense , doth perfume the sky .
126049 Remaineth nought but to inter our brethren ,
126050 And with loud 'larums welcome them to Rome .
126051
126052 Let it be so ; and let Andronicus
126053 Make this his latest farewell to their souls .
126054
126055 In peace and honour rest you here , my sons ;
126056 Rome's readiest champions , repose you here in rest ,
126057 Secure from worldly chances and mishaps !
126058 Here lurks no treason , here no envy swells ,
126059 Here grow no damned drugs , here are no storms ,
126060 No noise , but silence and eternal sleep :
126061 In peace and honour rest you here , my sons !
126062
126063
126064 In peace and honour live Lord Titus long ;
126065 My noble lord and father , live in fame !
126066 Lo ! at this tomb my tributary tears
126067 I render for my brethren's obsequies ;
126068 And at thy feet I kneel , with tears of joy
126069 Shed on the earth for thy return to Rome .
126070 O ! bless me here with thy victorious hand ,
126071 Whose fortunes Rome's best citizens applaud .
126072
126073 Kind Rome , that hast thus lovingly reserv'd
126074 The cordial of mine age to glad my heart !
126075 Lavinia , live ; outlive thy father's days ,
126076 And fame's eternal date , for virtue's praise !
126077
126078
126079 Long live Lord Titus , my beloved brother ,
126080 Gracious triumpher in the eyes of Rome !
126081
126082 Thanks , gentle Tribune , noble brother Marcus .
126083
126084 And welcome , nephews , from successful wars ,
126085 You that survive , and you that sleep in fame !
126086 Fair lords , your fortunes are alike in all ,
126087 That in your country's service drew your swords ;
126088 But safer triumph is this funeral pomp ,
126089 That hath aspir'd to Solon's happiness ,
126090 And triumphs over chance in honour's bed .
126091 Titus Andronicus , the people of Rome ,
126092 Whose friend in justice thou hast ever been ,
126093 Send thee by me , their tribune and their trust ,
126094 This palliament of white and spotless hue ;
126095 And name thee in election for the empire ,
126096 With these our late-deceased emperor's sons :
126097 Be candidatus then , and put it on ,
126098 And help to set a head on headless Rome .
126099
126100 A better head her glorious body fits
126101 Than his that shakes for age and feebleness .
126102 What should I don this robe , and trouble you ?
126103 Be chosen with proclamations to-day ,
126104 To-morrow yield up rule , resign my life ,
126105 And set abroad new business for you all ?
126106 Rome , I have been thy soldier forty years ,
126107 And led my country's strength successfully ,
126108 And buried one-and-twenty valiant sons ,
126109 Knighted in field , slain manfully in arms ,
126110 In right and service of their noble country .
126111 Give me a staff of honour for mine age ,
126112 But not a sceptre to control the world :
126113 Upright he held it , lords , that held it last .
126114
126115 Titus , thou shalt obtain and ask the empery .
126116
126117 Proud and ambitious tribune , canst thou tell ?
126118
126119 Patience , Prince Saturninus .
126120
126121 Romans , do me right :
126122 Patricians , draw your swords , and sheathe them not
126123 Till Saturninus be Rome's emperor .
126124 Andronicus , would thou wert shipp'd to hell ,
126125 Rather than rob me of the people's hearts !
126126
126127 Proud Saturnine , interrupter of the good
126128 That noble-minded Titus means to thee !
126129
126130 Content thee , prince ; I will restore to thee
126131 The people's hearts , and wean them from themselves .
126132
126133 Andronicus , I do not flatter thee ,
126134 But honour thee , and will do till I die :
126135 My faction if thou strengthen with thy friends ,
126136 I will most thankful be ; and thanks to men
126137 Of noble minds is honourable meed .
126138
126139 People of Rome , and people's tribunes here ,
126140 I ask your voices and your suffrages :
126141 Will you bestow them friendly on Andronicus ?
126142
126143 To gratify the good Andronicus ,
126144 And gratulate his safe return to Rome ,
126145 The people will accept whom he admits .
126146
126147 Tribunes , I thank you ; and this suit I make ,
126148 That you create your emperor's eldest son ,
126149 Lord Saturnine ; whose virtues will , I hope ,
126150 Reflect on Rome as Titan's rays on earth ,
126151 And ripen justice in this commonweal :
126152 Then , if you will elect by my advice ,
126153 Crown him , and say , 'Long live our emperor !'
126154
126155 With voices and applause of every sort ,
126156 Patricians and plebeians , we create
126157 Lord Saturninus Rome's great emperor ,
126158 And say , 'Long live our Emperor Saturnine !'
126159
126160
126161 Titus Andronicus , for thy favours done
126162 To us in our election this day ,
126163 I give thee thanks in part of thy deserts ,
126164 And will with deeds requite thy gentleness :
126165 And , for an onset , Titus , to advance
126166 Thy name and honourable family ,
126167 Lavinia will I make my empress ,
126168 Rome's royal mistress , mistress of my heart ,
126169 And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse .
126170 Tell me , Andronicus , doth this motion please thee ?
126171
126172 It doth , my worthy lord ; and in this match
126173 I hold me highly honour'd of your Grace :
126174 And here in sight of Rome to Saturnine ,
126175 King and commander of our commonweal ,
126176 The wide world's emperor , do I consecrate
126177 My sword , my chariot , and my prisoners ;
126178 Presents well worthy Rome's imperious lord :
126179 Receive them then , the tribute that I owe ,
126180 Mine honour's ensigns humbled at thy feet .
126181
126182 Thanks , noble Titus , father of my life !
126183 How proud I am of thee and of thy gifts
126184 Rome shall record , and , when I do forget
126185 The least of these unspeakable deserts ,
126186 Romans , forget your fealty to me .
126187
126188 Now , madam , are you prisoner to an emperor ;
126189 To him that , for your honour and your state ,
126190 Will use you nobly and your followers .
126191
126192 A goodly lady , trust me ; of the hue
126193 That I would choose , were I to choose anew .
126194 Clear up , fair queen , that cloudy countenance :
126195 Though chance of war hath wrought this change of cheer ,
126196 Thou com'st not to be made a scorn in Rome :
126197 Princely shall be thy usage every way .
126198 Rest on my word , and let not discontent
126199 Daunt all your hopes : madam , he comforts you
126200 Can make you greater than the Queen of Goths .
126201 Lavinia , you are not displeas'd with this ?
126202
126203 Not I , my lord ; sith true nobility
126204 Warrants these words in princely courtesy .
126205
126206 Thanks , sweet Lavinia . Romans , let us go ;
126207 Ransomless here we set our prisoners free :
126208 Proclaim our honours , lords , with trump and drum .
126209
126210
126211 Lord Titus , by your leave , this maid is mine .
126212
126213
126214 How , sir ! Are you in earnest then , my lord ?
126215
126216 Ay , noble Titus ; and resolv'd withal
126217 To do myself this reason and this right .
126218
126219 Suum cuique is our Roman justice :
126220 This prince in justice seizeth but his own .
126221
126222 And that he will , and shall , if Lucius live .
126223
126224 Traitors , avaunt ! Where is the emperor's guard ?
126225 Treason , my lord ! Lavinia is surpris'd .
126226
126227 Surpris'd ! By whom ?
126228
126229 By him that justly may
126230 Bear his betroth'd from all the world away .
126231
126232
126233 Brothers , help to convey her hence away ,
126234 And with my sword I'll keep this door safe .
126235
126236
126237 Follow , my lord , and I'll soon bring her back .
126238
126239 My lord , you pass not here .
126240
126241 What ! villain boy ;
126242 Barr'st me my way in Rome ?
126243
126244
126245 Help , Lucius , help !
126246
126247 My lord , you are unjust ; and , more than so ,
126248 In wrongful quarrel you have slain your son .
126249
126250 Nor thou , nor he , are any sons of mine ;
126251 My sons would never so dishonour me .
126252 Traitor , restore Lavinia to the emperor .
126253
126254 Dead , if you will ; but not to be his wife
126255 That is another's lawful promis'd love .
126256
126257
126258 No , Titus , no ; the emperor needs her not ,
126259 Nor her , nor thee , nor any of thy stock :
126260 I'll trust , by leisure , him that mocks me once ;
126261 Thee never , nor thy traitorous haughty sons ,
126262 Confederates all thus to dishonour me .
126263 Was none in Rome to make a stale
126264 But Saturnine ? Full well , Andronicus ,
126265 Agreed these deeds with that proud brag of thine ,
126266 That saidst I begg'd the empire at thy hands .
126267
126268 O monstrous ! what reproachful words are these !
126269
126270 But go thy ways ; go , give that changing piece
126271 To him that flourish'd for her with his sword .
126272 A valiant son-in-law thou shalt enjoy ;
126273 One fit to bandy with thy lawless sons ,
126274 To ruffle in the commonwealth of Rome .
126275
126276 These words are razors to my wounded heart .
126277
126278 And therefore , lovely Tamora , Queen of Goths ,
126279 That like the stately Ph be 'mongst her nymphs ,
126280 Dost overshine the gallant'st dames of Rome ,
126281 If thou be pleas'd with this my sudden choice ,
126282 Behold , I choose thee , Tamora , for my bride ,
126283 And will create thee Empress of Rome .
126284 Speak , Queen of Goths , dost thou applaud my choice ?
126285 And here I swear by all the Roman gods ,
126286 Sith priest and holy water are so near ,
126287 And tapers burn so bright , and every thing
126288 In readiness for Hymen us stand ,
126289 I will not re-salute the streets of Rome ,
126290 Or climb my palace , till from forth this place
126291 I lead espous'd my bride along with me .
126292
126293 And here , in sight of heaven , to Rome I swear ,
126294 If Saturnine advance the Queen of Goths ,
126295 She will a handmaid be to his desires ,
126296 A loving nurse , a mother to his youth .
126297
126298 Ascend , fair queen , Pantheon . Lords , accompany
126299 Your noble emperor , and his lovely bride ,
126300 Sent by the heavens for Prince Saturnine ,
126301 Whose wisdom hath her fortune conquered :
126302 There shall we consummate our spousal rights .
126303
126304
126305 I am not bid to wait upon this bride .
126306 Titus , when wert thou wont to walk alone ,
126307 Dishonour'd thus , and challenged of wrongs ?
126308
126309
126310 O ! Titus , see , O ! see what thou hast done ;
126311 In a bad quarrel slain a virtuous son .
126312
126313 No , foolish tribune , no ; no son of mine ,
126314 Nor thou , nor these , confederates in the deed
126315 That hath dishonour'd all our family :
126316 Unworthy brother , and unworthy sons !
126317
126318 But let us give him burial , as becomes ;
126319 Give Mutius burial with our brethren .
126320
126321 Traitors , away ! he rests not in this tomb .
126322 This monument five hundred years hath stood ,
126323 Which I have sumptuously re-edified :
126324 Here none but soldiers and Rome's servitors
126325 Repose in fame ; none basely slain in brawls .
126326 Bury him where you can ; he comes not here .
126327
126328 My lord , this is impiety in you .
126329 My nephew Mutius' deeds do plead for him ;
126330 He must be buried with his brethren .
126331
126332 And shall , or him we will accompany .
126333
126334 And shall , or him we will accompany .
126335
126336 And shall ! What villain was it spake that word ?
126337
126338 He that would vouch it in any place but here .
126339
126340 What ! would you bury him in my despite ?
126341
126342 No , noble Titus ; but entreat of thee
126343 To pardon Mutius , and to bury him .
126344
126345 Marcus , even thou hast struck upon my crest ,
126346 And , with these boys , mine honour thou hast wounded :
126347 My foes I do repute you every one ;
126348 So , trouble me no more , but get you gone .
126349
126350 He is not with himself ; let us withdraw .
126351
126352 Not I , till Mutius' bones be buried .
126353
126354
126355 Brother , for in that name doth nature plead ,
126356
126357 Father , and in that name doth nature speak ,
126358
126359 Speak thou no more , if all the rest will speed .
126360
126361 Renowned Titus , more than half my soul ,
126362
126363 Dear father , soul and substance of us all ,
126364
126365 Suffer thy brother Marcus to inter
126366 His noble nephew here in virtue's nest ,
126367 That died in honour and Lavinia's cause .
126368 Thou art a Roman ; be not barbarous :
126369 The Greeks upon advice did bury Ajax
126370 That slew himself ; and wise Laertes' son
126371 Did graciously plead for his funerals .
126372 Let not young Mutius then , that was thy joy ,
126373 Be barr'd his entrance here .
126374
126375 Rise , Marcus , rise .
126376 The dismall'st day is this that e'er I saw ,
126377 To be dishonour'd by my sons in Rome !
126378 Well , bury him , and bury me the next .
126379
126380
126381 There lie thy bones , sweet Mutius , with thy friends ,
126382 Till we with trophies do adorn thy tomb .
126383
126384 No man shed tears for noble Mutius ;
126385 He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause .
126386
126387 My lord ,to step out of these dreary dumps ,
126388 How comes it that the subtle Queen of Goths
126389 Is of a sudden thus advanc'd in Rome ?
126390
126391 I know not , Marcus ; but I know it is ,
126392 Whether by device or no , the heavens can tell .
126393 Is she not , then , beholding to the man
126394 That brought her for this high good turn so far ?
126395
126396 Yes , and will nobly him remunerate .
126397
126398 So , Bassianus , you have play'd your prize :
126399 God give you joy , sir , of your gallant bride .
126400
126401 And you of yours , my lord ! I say no more ,
126402 Nor wish no less ; and so I take my leave .
126403
126404 Traitor , if Rome have law or we have power ,
126405 Thou and thy faction shall repent this rape .
126406
126407 Rape call you it , my lord , to seize my own ,
126408 My true-betrothed love and now my wife ?
126409 But let the laws of Rome determine all ;
126410 Meanwhile , I am possess'd of that is mine .
126411
126412 'Tis good , sir : you are very short with us ;
126413 But , if we live , we'll be as sharp with you .
126414
126415 My lord , what I have done , as best I may ,
126416 Answer I must and shall do with my life .
126417 Only thus much I give your Grace to know :
126418 By all the duties that I owe to Rome ,
126419 This noble gentleman , Lord Titus here ,
126420 Is in opinion and in honour wrong'd ;
126421 That , in the rescue of Lavinia ,
126422 With his own hand did slay his youngest son ,
126423 In zeal to you and highly mov'd to wrath
126424 To be controll'd in that he frankly gave :
126425 Receive him then to favour , Saturnine ,
126426 That hath express'd himself in all his deeds
126427 A father and a friend to thee and Rome .
126428
126429 Prince Bassianus , leave to plead my deeds :
126430 'Tis thou and those that have dishonour'd me .
126431 Rome and the righteous heavens be my judge ,
126432 How I have lov'd and honour'd Saturnine !
126433
126434 My worthy lord , if ever Tamora
126435 Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine ,
126436 Then hear me speak indifferently for all ;
126437 And at my suit , sweet , pardon what is past .
126438
126439 What , madam ! be dishonour'd openly ,
126440 And basely put it up without revenge ?
126441
126442 Not so , my lord ; the gods of Rome forfend
126443 I should be author to dishonour you !
126444 But on mine honour dare I undertake
126445 For good Lord Titus' innocence in all ,
126446 Whose fury not dissembled speaks his griefs .
126447 Then , at my suit , look graciously on him ;
126448 Lose not so noble a friend on vain suppose ,
126449 Nor with sour looks afflict his gentle heart .
126450
126451
126452 My lord , be rul'd by me , be won at last ;
126453 Dissemble all your griefs and discontents :
126454 You are but newly planted in your throne ;
126455 Lest then , the people , and patricians too ,
126456 Upon a just survey , take Titus' part ,
126457 And so supplant you for ingratitude ,
126458 Which Rome reputes to be a heinous sin ,
126459 Yield at entreats , and then let me alone .
126460 I'll find a day to massacre them all ,
126461 And raze their faction and their family ,
126462 The cruel father , and his traitorous sons ,
126463 To whom I sued for my dear son's life ;
126464 And make them know what 'tis to let a queen
126465 Kneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain .
126466
126467
126468 Come , come , sweet emperor ; come , Andronicus ;
126469 Take up this good old man , and cheer the heart
126470 That dies in tempest of thy angry frown :
126471
126472 Rise , Titus , rise ; my empress hath prevail'd .
126473
126474 I thank your majesty , and her , my lord .
126475 These words , these looks , infuse new life in me .
126476
126477 Titus , I am incorporate in Rome ,
126478 A Roman now adopted happily ,
126479 And must advise the emperor for his good .
126480 This day all quarrels die , Andronicus ;
126481 And let it be mine honour , good my lord ,
126482 That I have reconcil'd your friends and you .
126483 For you , Prince Bassianus , I have pass'd
126484 My word and promise to the emperor ,
126485 That you will be more mild and tractable .
126486 And fear not , lords , and you , Lavinia ,
126487 By my advice , all humbled on your knees ,
126488 You shall ask pardon of his majesty .
126489
126490 We do ; and vow to heaven and to his highness ,
126491 That what we did was mildly , as we might ,
126492 Tendering our sister's honour and our own .
126493
126494 That on mine honour here I do protest .
126495
126496 Away , and talk not ; trouble us no more .
126497
126498 Nay , nay , sweet emperor , we must all be friends :
126499 The tribune and his nephews kneel for grace ;
126500 I will not be denied : sweet heart , look back .
126501
126502 Marcus , for thy sake , and thy brother's here ,
126503 And at my lovely Tamora's entreats ,
126504 I do remit these young men's heinous faults :
126505 Stand up .
126506 Lavinia , though you left me like a churl ,
126507 I found a friend , and sure as death I swore
126508 I would not part a bachelor from the priest .
126509 Come ; if the emperor's court can feast two brides ,
126510 You are my guest , Lavinia , and your friends .
126511 This day shall be a love-day , Tamora .
126512
126513 To-morrow , an it please your majesty
126514 To hunt the panther and the hart with me ,
126515 With horn and hound we'll give your Grace bon jour .
126516
126517 Be it so , Titus , and gramercy too .
126518
126519
126520 Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top ,
126521 Safe out of Fortune's shot ; and sits aloft ,
126522 Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash ,
126523 Advanc'd above pale envy's threat'ning reach .
126524 As when the golden sun salutes the morn ,
126525 And , having gilt the ocean with his beams ,
126526 Gallops the zodiac in his glistering coach ,
126527 And overlooks the highest-peering hills ;
126528 So Tamora .
126529 Upon her wit doth earthly honour wait
126530 And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown .
126531 Then , Aaron , arm thy heart , and fit thy thoughts
126532 To mount aloft with thy imperial mistress ,
126533 And mount her pitch , whom thou in triumph long
126534 Hast prisoner held , fetter'd in amorous chains ,
126535 And faster bound to Aaron's charming eyes
126536 Than is Prometheus tied to Caucasus .
126537 Away with slavish weeds and servile thoughts !
126538 I will be bright , and shine in pearl and gold ,
126539 To wait upon this new-made empress .
126540 To wait , said I ? to wanton with this queen ,
126541 This goddess , this Semiramis , this nymph ,
126542 This siren , that will charm Rome's Saturnine ,
126543 And see his shipwrack and his commonweal's .
126544 Holla ! what storm is this ?
126545
126546
126547 Chiron , thy years want wit , thy wit wants edge
126548 And manners , to intrude where I am grac'd ,
126549 And may , for aught thou know'st , affected be .
126550
126551 Demetrius , thou dost over-ween in all
126552 And so in this , to bear me down with braves .
126553 'Tis not the difference of a year or two
126554 Makes me less gracious or thee more fortunate :
126555 I am as able and as fit as thou
126556 To serve , and to deserve my mistress' grace ;
126557 And that my sword upon thee shall approve ,
126558 And plead my passions for Lavinia's love .
126559
126560 Clubs , clubs ! these lovers will not keep the peace .
126561
126562 Why , boy , although our mother , unadvis'd ,
126563 Gave you a dancing-rapier by your side ,
126564 Are you so desperate grown , to threat your friends ?
126565 Go to ; have your lath glu'd within your sheath
126566 Till you know better how to handle it .
126567
126568 Meanwhile , sir , with the little skill I have ,
126569 Full well shalt thou perceive how much I dare .
126570
126571 Ay , boy , grow ye so brave ?
126572
126573
126574 Why , how now , lords !
126575 So near the emperor's palace dare you draw ,
126576 And maintain such a quarrel openly ?
126577 Full well I wot the ground of all this grudge :
126578 I would not for a million of gold
126579 The cause were known to them it most concerns ;
126580 Nor would your noble mother for much more
126581 Be so dishonour'd in the court of Rome .
126582 For shame , put up .
126583
126584 Not I , till I have sheath'd
126585 My rapier in his bosom , and withal
126586 Thrust those reproachful speeches down his throat
126587 That he hath breath'd in my dishonour here .
126588
126589 For that I am prepar'd and full resolv'd ,
126590 Foul-spoken coward , that thunder'st with thy tongue ,
126591 And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform !
126592
126593 Away , I say !
126594 Now , by the gods that war-like Goths adore ,
126595 This petty brabble will undo us all .
126596 Why , lords , and think you not how dangerous
126597 It is to jet upon a prince's right ?
126598 What ! is Lavinia then become so loose ,
126599 Or Bassianus so degenerate ,
126600 That for her love such quarrels may be broach'd
126601 Without controlment , justice , or revenge ?
126602 Young lords , beware ! an should the empress know
126603 This discord's ground , the music would not please .
126604
126605 I care not , I , knew she and all the world :
126606 I love Lavinia more than all the world .
126607
126608 Youngling , learn thou to make some meaner choice :
126609 Lavinia is thine elder brother's hope .
126610
126611 Why , are ye mad ? or know ye not in Rome
126612 How furious and impatient they be ,
126613 And cannot brook competitors in love ?
126614 I tell you , lords , you do but plot your deaths
126615 By this device .
126616
126617 Aaron , a thousand deaths
126618 Would I propose , to achieve her whom I love .
126619
126620 To achieve her ! how ?
126621
126622 Why mak'st thou it so strange ?
126623 She is a woman , therefore may be woo'd ;
126624 She is a woman , therefore may be won ;
126625 She is Lavinia , therefore must be lov'd .
126626 What , man ! more water glideth by the mill
126627 Than wots the miller of ; and easy it is
126628 Of a cut loaf to steal a shive , we know :
126629 Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother ,
126630 Better than he have worn Vulcan's badge .
126631
126632 Ay , and as good as Saturninus may .
126633
126634 Then why should he despair that knows to court it
126635 With words , fair looks , and liberality ?
126636 What ! hast thou not full often struck a doe ,
126637 And borne her cleanly by the keeper's nose ?
126638
126639 Why , then , it seems , some certain snatch or so
126640 Would serve your turns .
126641
126642 Ay , so the turn were serv'd .
126643
126644 Aaron , thou hast hit it .
126645
126646 Would you had hit it too !
126647 Then should not we be tir'd with this ado .
126648 Why , hark ye , hark ye ! and are you such fools
126649 To square for this ? Would it offend you then
126650 That both should speed ?
126651
126652 Faith , not me .
126653
126654 Nor me , so I were one .
126655
126656 For shame , be friends , and join for that you jar :
126657 'Tis policy and stratagem must do
126658 That you affect ; and so must you resolve ,
126659 That what you cannot as you would achieve ,
126660 You must perforce accomplish as you may .
126661 Take this of me : Lucrece was not more chaste
126662 Than this Lavinia , Bassianus' love .
126663 A speedier course than lingering languishment
126664 Must we pursue , and I have found the path .
126665 My lords , a solemn hunting is in hand ;
126666 There will the lovely Roman ladies troop :
126667 The forest walks are wide and spacious ,
126668 And many unfrequented plots there are
126669 Fitted by kind for rape and villany :
126670 Single you thither then this dainty doe ,
126671 And strike her home by force , if not by words :
126672 This way , or not at all , stand you in hope .
126673 Come , come , our empress , with her sacred wit
126674 To villany and vengeance consecrate ,
126675 Will we acquaint with all that we intend ;
126676 And she shall file our engines with advice ,
126677 That will not suffer you to square yourselves ,
126678 But to your wishes' height advance you both .
126679 The emperor's court is like the house of Fame ,
126680 The palace full of tongues , of eyes , and ears :
126681 The woods are ruthless , dreadful , deaf , and dull ;
126682 There speak , and strike , brave boys , and take your turns ;
126683 There serve your lusts , shadow'd from heaven's eye ,
126684 And revel in Lavinia's treasury .
126685
126686 Thy counsel , lad , smells of no cowardice .
126687
126688 Sit fas aut nefas , till I find the stream
126689 To cool this heat , a charm to calm these fits ,
126690 Per Styga , per manes vehor .
126691
126692 The hunt is up , the morn is bright and grey ,
126693 The fields are fragrant and the woods are green .
126694 Uncouple here and let us make a bay ,
126695 And wake the emperor and his lovely bride ,
126696 And rouse the prince and ring a hunter's peal ,
126697 That all the court may echo with the noise .
126698 Sons , let it be your charge , as it is ours ,
126699 To attend the emperor's person carefully :
126700 I have been troubled in my sleep this night ,
126701 But dawning day new comfort hath inspir'd .
126702
126703 Many good morrows to your majesty ;
126704 Madam , to you as many and as good ;
126705
126706 I promised your Grace a hunter's peal .
126707
126708 And you have rung it lustily , my lord ;
126709 Somewhat too early for new-married ladies .
126710
126711 Lavinia , how say you ?
126712
126713 I say , no ;
126714 I have been broad awake two hours and more .
126715
126716 Come on , then ; horse and chariots let us have ,
126717 And to our sport .
126718
126719 Madam , now shall ye see
126720 Our Roman hunting .
126721
126722 I have dogs , my lord ,
126723 Will rouse the proudest panther in the chase ,
126724 And climb the highest promontory top .
126725
126726 And I have horse will follow where the game
126727 Makes way , and run like swallows o'er the plain .
126728
126729 Chiron , we hunt not , we , with horse nor hound ,
126730 But hope to pluck a dainty doe to ground .
126731
126732
126733 He that had wit would think that I had none ,
126734 To bury so much gold under a tree ,
126735 And never after to inherit it .
126736 Let him that thinks of me so abjectly
126737 Know that this gold must coin a stratagem ,
126738 Which , cunningly effected , will beget
126739 A very excellent piece of villany :
126740 And so repose , sweet gold , for their unrest
126741 That have their alms out of the empress' chest .
126742
126743 My lovely Aaron , wherefore look'st thou sad ,
126744 When every thing doth make a gleeful boast ?
126745 The birds chant melody on every bush ,
126746 The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun ,
126747 The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind ,
126748 And make a chequer'd shadow on the ground .
126749 Under their sweet shade , Aaron , let us sit ,
126750 And , whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds ,
126751 Replying shrilly to the well-tun'd horns ,
126752 As if a double hunt were heard at once ,
126753 Let us sit down and mark their yelping noise ;
126754 And after conflict , such as was suppos'd
126755 The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd ,
126756 When with a happy storm they were surpris'd ,
126757 And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave ,
126758 We may , each wreathed in the other's arms ,
126759 Our pastimes done , possess a golden slumber ;
126760 Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds
126761 Be unto us as is a nurse's song
126762 Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep .
126763
126764 Madam , though Venus govern your desires ,
126765 Saturn is dominator over mine :
126766 What signifies my deadly-standing eye ,
126767 My silence and my cloudy melancholy ;
126768 My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls
126769 Even as an adder when she doth unroll
126770 To do some fatal execution ?
126771 No , madam , these are no venereal signs :
126772 Vengeance is in my heart , death in my hand ,
126773 Blood and revenge are hammering in my head .
126774 Hark , Tamora , the empress of my soul ,
126775 Which never hopes more heaven than rests in thee ,
126776 This is the day of doom for Bassianus ;
126777 His Philomel must lose her tongue to-day ,
126778 Thy sons make pillage of her chastity ,
126779 And wash their hands in Bassianus' blood .
126780 Seest thou this letter ? take it up , I pray thee ,
126781 And give the king this fatal-plotted scroll .
126782 Now question me no more ; we are espied ;
126783 Here comes a parcel of our hopeful booty ,
126784 Which dreads not yet their lives' destruction .
126785
126786 Ah ! my sweet Moor , sweeter to me than life .
126787
126788 No more , great empress ; Bassianus comes :
126789 Be cross with him ; and I'll go fetch thy sons
126790 To back thy quarrels , whatsoe'er they be .
126791
126792 Who have we here ? Rome's royal empress ,
126793 Unfurnish'd of her well-beseeming troop ?
126794 Or is it Dian , habited like her ,
126795 Who hath abandoned her holy groves ,
126796 To see the general hunting in this forest ?
126797
126798 Saucy controller of our private steps !
126799 Had I the power that some say Dian had ,
126800 Thy temples should be planted presently
126801 With horns , as was Act on's ; and the hounds
126802 Should drive upon thy new-transformed limbs ,
126803 Unmannerly intruder as thou art !
126804
126805 Under your patience , gentle empress ,
126806 'Tis thought you have a goodly gift in horning ;
126807 And to be doubted that your Moor and you
126808 Are singled forth to try experiments .
126809 Jove shield your husband from his hounds to-day !
126810 'Tis pity they should take him for a stag .
126811
126812 Believe me , queen , your swarth Cimmerian
126813 Doth make your honour of his body's hue ,
126814 Spotted , detested , and abominable .
126815 Why are you sequester'd from all your train ,
126816 Dismounted from your snow-white goodly steed ,
126817 And wander'd hither to an obscure plot ,
126818 Accompanied but with a barbarous Moor ,
126819 If foul desire had not conducted you ?
126820
126821 And , being intercepted in your sport ,
126822 Great reason that my noble lord be rated
126823 For sauciness . I pray you , let us hence ,
126824 And let her joy her raven-colour'd love ;
126825 This valley fits the purpose passing well .
126826
126827 The king my brother shall have note of this .
126828
126829 Ay , for these slips have made him noted long :
126830 Good king , to be so mightily abus'd !
126831
126832 Why have I patience to endure all this ?
126833
126834
126835 How now , dear sovereign , and our gracious mother !
126836 Why doth your highness look so pale and wan ?
126837
126838 Have I not reason , think you , to look pale ?
126839 These two have 'tic'd me hither to this place :
126840 A barren detested vale , you see , it is ;
126841 The trees , though summer , yet forlorn and lean ,
126842 O'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe :
126843 Here never shines the sun ; here nothing breeds ,
126844 Unless the nightly owl or fatal raven :
126845 And when they show'd me this abhorred pit ,
126846 They told me , here , at dead time of the night ,
126847 A thousand fiends , a thousand hissing snakes ,
126848 Ten thousand swelling toads , as many urchins ,
126849 Would make such fearful and confused cries ,
126850 As any mortal body hearing it
126851 Should straight fall mad , or else die suddenly .
126852 No sooner had they told this hellish tale ,
126853 But straight they told me they would bind me here
126854 Unto the body of a dismal yew ,
126855 And leave me to this miserable death :
126856 And then they called me foul adulteress ,
126857 Lascivious Goth , and all the bitterest terms
126858 That ever ear did hear to such effect ;
126859 And , had you not by wondrous fortune come ,
126860 This vengeance on me had they executed .
126861 Revenge it , as you love your mother's life ,
126862 Or be ye not henceforth call'd my children .
126863
126864 This is a witness that I am thy son .
126865
126866
126867 And this for me , struck home to show my strength .
126868
126869
126870 Ay , come , Semiramis , nay , barbarous Tamora ;
126871 For no name fits thy nature but thy own .
126872
126873 Give me thy poniard ; you shall know , my boys ,
126874 Your mother's hand shall right your mother's wrong .
126875
126876 Stay , madam ; here is more belongs to her :
126877 First thrash the corn , than after burn the straw .
126878 This minion stood upon her chastity ,
126879 Upon her nuptial vow , her loyalty ,
126880 And with that painted hope she braves your mightiness :
126881 And shall she carry this unto her grave ?
126882
126883 An if she do , I would I were an eunuch .
126884 Drag hence her husband to some secret hole ,
126885 And make his dead trunk pillow to our lust .
126886
126887 But when ye have the honey ye desire ,
126888 Let not this wasp outlive , us both to sting .
126889
126890 I warrant you , madam , we will make that sure .
126891 Come , mistress , now perforce we will enjoy
126892 That nice-preserved honesty of yours .
126893
126894 O Tamora ! thou bear'st a woman's face ,
126895
126896 I will not hear her speak ; away with her !
126897
126898 Sweet lords , entreat her hear me but a word .
126899
126900 Listen , fair madam : let it be your glory
126901 To see her tears ; but be your heart to them
126902 As unrelenting flint to drops of rain .
126903
126904 When did the tiger's young ones teach the dam ?
126905 O ! do not learn her wrath ; she taught it thee ;
126906 The milk thou suck'dst from her did turn to marble ;
126907 Even at thy teat thou hadst thy tyranny .
126908 Yet every mother breeds not sons alike :
126909
126910
126911 Do thou entreat her show a woman pity .
126912
126913 What ! wouldst thou have me prove myself a bastard ?
126914
126915 'Tis true ! the raven doth not hatch a lark :
126916 Yet have I heard , O ! could I find it now ,
126917 The lion mov'd with pity did endure
126918 To have his princely paws par'd all away .
126919 Some say that ravens foster forlorn children ,
126920 The whilst their own birds famish in their nests :
126921 O ! be to me , though thy hard heart say no ,
126922 Nothing so kind , but something pitiful .
126923
126924 I know not what it means ; away with her !
126925
126926 O , let me teach thee ! for my father's sake ,
126927 That gave thee life when well he might have slain thee ,
126928 Be not obdurate , open thy deaf ears .
126929
126930 Hadst thou in person ne'er offended me ,
126931 Even for his sake am I pitiless .
126932 Remember , boys , I pour'd forth tears in vain
126933 To save your brother from the sacrifice ;
126934 But fierce Andronicus would not relent :
126935 Therefore , away with her , and use her as you will :
126936 The worse to her , the better lov'd of me .
126937
126938 O Tamora ! be call'd a gentle queen ,
126939 And with thine own hands kill me in this place ;
126940 For 'tis not life that I have begg'd so long ;
126941 Poor I was slain when Bassianus died .
126942
126943 What begg'st thou then ? fond woman , let me go .
126944
126945 'Tis present death I beg ; and one thing more
126946 That womanhood denies my tongue to tell .
126947 O ! keep me from their worse than killing lust ,
126948 And tumble me into some loathsome pit ,
126949 Where never man's eye may behold my body :
126950 Do this , and be a charitable murderer .
126951
126952 So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee :
126953 No , let them satisfy their lust on thee .
126954
126955 Away ! for thou hast stay'd us here too long .
126956
126957 No grace ! no womanhood ! Ah , beastly creature ,
126958 The blot and enemy to our general name .
126959 Confusion fall
126960
126961 Nay , then I'll stop your mouth . Bring thou her husband :
126962 This is the hole where Aaron bid us hide him .
126963
126964 Farewell , my sons : see that you make her sure .
126965 Ne'er let my heart know merry cheer indeed
126966 Till all the Andronici be made away .
126967 Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor ,
126968 And let my spleenful sons this trull deflower .
126969
126970 Come on , my lords , the better foot before :
126971 Straight will I bring you to the loathsome pit
126972 Where I espied the panther fast asleep .
126973
126974 My sight is very dull , whate'er it bodes .
126975
126976 And mine , I promise you : were't not for shame ,
126977 Well could I leave our sport to sleep awhile .
126978
126979
126980 What ! art thou fall'n ? What subtle hole is this ,
126981 Whose mouth is cover'd with rude-growing briers ,
126982 Upon whose leaves are drops of new-shed blood
126983 As fresh as morning's dew distill'd on flowers ?
126984 A very fatal place it seems to me .
126985 Speak , brother , hast thou hurt thee with the fall ?
126986
126987 O brother ! with the dismall'st object hurt
126988 That ever eye with sight made heart lament .
126989
126990 Now will I fetch the king to find them here ,
126991 That he thereby may give a likely guess
126992 How these were they that made away his brother .
126993
126994
126995 Why dost not comfort me , and help me out
126996 From this unhallow'd and blood-stained hole ?
126997
126998 I am surprised with an uncouth fear ;
126999 A chilling sweat o'erruns my trembling joints :
127000 My heart suspects more than mine eye can see .
127001
127002 To prove thou hast a true-divining heart ,
127003 Aaron and thou look down into this den ,
127004 And see a fearful sight of blood and death .
127005
127006 Aaron is gone ; and my compassionate heart
127007 Will not permit mine eyes once to behold
127008 The thing whereat it trembles by surmise .
127009 O ! tell me how it is ; for ne'er till now
127010 Was I a child , to fear I know not what .
127011
127012 Lord Bassianus lies embrewed here ,
127013 All on a heap , like to a slaughter'd lamb ,
127014 In this detested , dark , blood-drinking pit .
127015
127016 If it be dark , how dost thou know 'tis he ?
127017
127018 Upon his bloody finger he doth wear
127019 A precious ring , that lightens all the hole ,
127020 Which , like a taper in some monument ,
127021 Doth shine upon the dead man's earthy cheeks ,
127022 And shows the ragged entrails of the pit :
127023 So pale did shine the moon on Pyramus
127024 When he by night lay bath'd in maiden blood .
127025 O brother ! help me with thy fainting hand ,
127026 If fear hath made thee faint , as me it hath ,
127027 Out of this fell devouring receptacle ,
127028 As hateful as Cocytus' misty mouth .
127029
127030 Reach me thy hand , that I may help thee out ;
127031 Or , wanting strength to do thee so much good
127032 I may be pluck'd into the swallowing womb
127033 Of this deep pit , poor Bassianus' grave .
127034 I have no strength to pluck thee to the brink .
127035
127036 Nor I no strength to climb without thy help .
127037
127038 Thy hand once more ; I will not loose again ,
127039 Till thou art here aloft , or I below .
127040 Thou canst not come to me : I come to thee .
127041
127042 Along with me : I'll see what hole is here ,
127043 And what he is that now is leap'd into it .
127044 Say , who art thou that lately didst descend
127045 Into this gaping hollow of the earth ?
127046
127047 The unhappy son of old Andronicus ;
127048 Brought hither in a most unlucky hour ,
127049 To find thy brother Bassianus dead .
127050
127051 My brother dead ! I know thou dost but jest :
127052 He and his lady both are at the lodge ,
127053 Upon the north side of this pleasant chase ;
127054 'Tis not an hour since I left him there .
127055
127056 We know not where you left him all alive ;
127057 But , out alas ! here have we found him dead .
127058
127059
127060 Where is my lord , the king ?
127061
127062 Here , Tamora ; though griev'd with killing grief .
127063
127064 Where is thy brother Bassianus ?
127065
127066 Now to the bottom dost thou search my wound :
127067 Poor Bassianus here lies murdered .
127068
127069 Then all too late I bring this fatal writ ,
127070
127071 The complot of this timeless tragedy ;
127072 And wonder greatly that man's face can fold
127073 In pleasing smiles such murderous tyranny .
127074
127075 And if we miss to meet him handsomely ,
127076 Sweet huntsman , Bassianus 'tis we mean ,
127077 Do thou so much as dig the grave for him :
127078 Thou know'st our meaning . Look for thy reward
127079 Among the nettles at the elder-tree
127080 Which overshades the mouth of that same pit
127081 Where we decreed to bury Bassianus :
127082 Do this , and purchase us thy lasting friends .
127083 O Tamora ! was ever heard the like ?
127084 This is the pit , and this the elder-tree .
127085 Look , sirs , if you can find the huntsman out
127086 That should have murder'd Bassianus here .
127087
127088 My gracious lord , here is the bag of gold .
127089
127090 Two of thy whelps , fell curs of bloody kind ,
127091 Have here bereft my brother of his life .
127092 Sirs , drag them from the pit unto the prison :
127093 There let them bide until we have devis'd
127094 Some never-heard-of torturing pain for them .
127095
127096 What ! are they in this pit ? O wondrous thing !
127097 How easily murder is discovered !
127098
127099 High emperor , upon my feeble knee
127100 I beg this boon with tears not lightly shed ;
127101 That this fell fault of my accursed sons ,
127102 Accursed , if the fault be prov'd in them ,
127103
127104 If it be prov'd ! you see it is apparent .
127105 Who found this letter ? Tamora , was it you ?
127106
127107 Andronicus himself did take it up .
127108
127109 I did , my lord : yet let me be their bail ;
127110 For , by my father's reverend tomb , I vow
127111 They shall be ready at your highness' will
127112 To answer their suspicion with their lives .
127113
127114 Thou shalt not bail them : see thou follow me .
127115 Some bring the murder'd body , some the murderers :
127116 Let them not speak a word ; the guilt is plain ;
127117 For , by my soul , were there worse end than death ,
127118 That end upon them should be executed .
127119
127120 Andronicus , I will entreat the king :
127121 Fear not thy sons , they shall do well enough .
127122
127123 Come , Lucius , come ; stay not to talk with them .
127124
127125
127126 So , now go tell , an if thy tongue can speak ,
127127 Who 'twas that cut thy tongue and ravish'd thee .
127128
127129 Write down thy mind , bewray thy meaning so ;
127130 An if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe .
127131
127132 See , how with signs and tokens she can scrowl .
127133
127134 Go home , call for sweet water , wash thy hands .
127135
127136 She hath no tongue to call , nor hands to wash ;
127137 And so let's leave her to her silent walks .
127138
127139 An 'twere my case , I should go hang myself .
127140
127141 If thou hadst hands to help thee knit the cord .
127142
127143 Who's this ? my niece , that flies away so fast ?
127144 Cousin , a word ; where is your husband ?
127145 If I do dream , would all my wealth would wake me !
127146 If I do wake , some planet strike me down ,
127147 That I may slumber in eternal sleep !
127148 Speak , gentle niece , what stern ungentle hands
127149 Have lopp'd and hew'd and made thy body bare
127150 Of her two branches , those sweet ornaments ,
127151 Whose circling shadows kings have sought to sleep in ,
127152 And might not gain so great a happiness
127153 As have thy love ? Why dost not speak to me ?
127154 Alas ! a crimson river of warm blood ,
127155 Like to a bubbling fountain stirr'd with wind ,
127156 Doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips ,
127157 Coming and going with thy honey breath .
127158 But , sure , some Tereus hath deflower'd thee ,
127159 And , lest thou shouldst detect him , cut thy tongue .
127160 Ah ! now thou turn'st away thy face for shame ;
127161 And , notwithstanding all this loss of blood ,
127162 As from a conduit with three issuing spouts ,
127163 Yet do thy cheeks look red as Titan's face
127164 Blushing to be encounter'd with a cloud .
127165 Shall I speak for thee ? shall I say 'tis so ?
127166 O ! that I knew thy heart ; and knew the beast ,
127167 That I might rail at him to ease my mind .
127168 Sorrow concealed , like to an oven stopp'd ,
127169 Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is .
127170 Fair Philomela , she but lost her tongue ,
127171 And in a tedious sampler sew'd her mind :
127172 But , lovely niece , that mean is cut from thee ;
127173 A craftier Tereus hast thou met withal ,
127174 And he hath cut those pretty fingers off ,
127175 That could have better sew'd than Philomel .
127176 O ! had the monster seen those lily hands
127177 Tremble , like aspen-leaves , upon a lute ,
127178 And make the silken strings delight to kiss them ,
127179 He would not , then , have touch'd them for his life ;
127180 Or had he heard the heavenly harmony
127181 Which that sweet tongue hath made ,
127182 He would have dropp'd his knife , and fell asleep ,
127183 As Cerberus at the Thracian poet's feet .
127184 Come , let us go , and make thy father blind ;
127185 For such a sight will blind a father's eye :
127186 One hour's storm will drown the fragrant meads ;
127187 What will whole months of tears thy father's eyes ?
127188 Do not draw back , for we will mourn with thee :
127189 O ! could our mourning ease thy misery .
127190
127191 Hear me , grave fathers ! noble tribunes , stay !
127192 For pity of mine age , whose youth was spent
127193 In dangerous wars , whilst you securely slept ;
127194 For all my blood in Rome's great quarrel shed ;
127195 For all the frosty nights that I have watch'd ;
127196 And for these bitter tears , which now you see
127197 Filling the aged wrinkles in my cheeks ;
127198 Be pitiful to my condemned sons ,
127199 Whose souls are not corrupted as 'tis thought .
127200 For two and twenty sons I never wept ,
127201 Because they died in honour's lofty bed .
127202 For these , these , tribunes , in the dust I write
127203
127204 My heart's deep languor and my soul's sad tears .
127205 Let my tears stanch the earth's dry appetite ;
127206 My sons' sweet blood will make it shame and blush .
127207
127208 O earth ! I will befriend thee more with rain ,
127209 That shall distil from these two ancient urns ,
127210 Than youthful April shall with all his showers :
127211 In summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still ;
127212 In winter with warm tears I'll melt the snow ,
127213 And keep eternal spring-time on thy face ,
127214 So thou refuse to drink my dear sons' blood .
127215
127216
127217 O reverend tribunes ! O gentle , aged men !
127218 Unbind my sons , reverse the doom of death :
127219 And let me say , that never wept before ,
127220
127221 My tears are now prevailing orators .
127222
127223 O noble father , you lament in vain :
127224 The tribunes hear you not , no man is by ;
127225 And you recount your sorrows to a stone .
127226
127227 Ah ! Lucius , for thy brothers let me plead .
127228 Grave tribunes , once more I entreat of you ,
127229
127230 My gracious lord , no tribune hears you speak .
127231
127232 Why , 'tis no matter , man : if they did hear ,
127233 They would not mark me , or if they did mark ,
127234 They would not pity me , yet plead I must ,
127235 All bootless unto them .
127236 Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones ,
127237 Who , though they cannot answer my distress ,
127238 Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes ,
127239 For that they will not intercept my tale .
127240 When I do weep , they humbly at my feet
127241 Receive my tears , and seem to weep with me ;
127242 And , were they but attired in grave weeds ,
127243 Rome could afford no tribune like to these .
127244 A stone is soft as wax , tribunes more hard than stones ;
127245 A stone is silent , and offendeth not ,
127246 And tribunes with their tongues doom men to death .
127247
127248 But wherefore stand'st thou with thy weapon drawn ?
127249
127250 To rescue my two brothers from their death ;
127251 For which attempt the judges have pronounc'd
127252 My everlasting doom of banishment .
127253
127254 O happy man ! they have befriended thee .
127255 Why , foolish Lucius , dost thou not perceive
127256 That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers ?
127257 Tigers must prey ; and Rome affords no prey
127258 But me and mine : how happy art thou then ,
127259 From these devourers to be banished !
127260 But who comes with our brother Marcus here ?
127261
127262
127263 Titus , prepare thy aged eyes to weep ;
127264 Or , if not so , thy noble heart to break :
127265 I bring consuming sorrow to thine age .
127266
127267 Will it consume me ? let me see it then .
127268
127269 This was thy daughter .
127270
127271 Why , Marcus , so she is .
127272
127273 Ay me ! this object kills me .
127274
127275 Faint-hearted boy , arise , and look upon her .
127276 Speak , Lavinia , what accursed hand
127277 Hath made thee handless in thy father's sight ?
127278 What fool hath added water to the sea ,
127279 Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy ?
127280 My grief was at the height before thou cam'st ;
127281 And now , like Nilus , it disdaineth bounds .
127282 Give me a sword , I'll chop off my hands too ;
127283 For they have fought for Rome , and all in vain ;
127284 And they have nurs'd this woe , in feeding life ;
127285 In bootless prayer have they been held up ,
127286 And they have serv'd me to effectless use :
127287 Now all the service I require of them
127288 Is that the one will help to cut the other .
127289 'Tis well , Lavinia , that thou hast no hands ,
127290 For hands , to do Rome service , are but vain .
127291
127292 Speak , gentle sister , who hath martyr'd thee ?
127293
127294 O ! that delightful engine of her thoughts ,
127295 That blabb'd them with such pleasing eloquence ,
127296 Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage ,
127297 Where , like a sweet melodious bird , it sung
127298 Sweet varied notes , enchanting every ear .
127299
127300 O ! say thou for her , who hath done this deed ?
127301
127302 O ! thus I found her straying in the park ,
127303 Seeking to hide herself , as doth the deer ,
127304 That hath receiv'd some unrecuring wound .
127305
127306 It was my dear ; and he that wounded her
127307 Hath hurt me more than had he kill'd me dead :
127308 For now I stand as one upon a rock
127309 Environ'd with a wilderness of sea ,
127310 Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave ,
127311 Expecting ever when some envious surge
127312 Will in his brinish bowels swallow him .
127313 This way to death my wretched sons are gone ;
127314 Here stands my other son , a banish'd man ,
127315 And here my brother , weeping at my woes :
127316 But that which gives my soul the greatest spurn ,
127317 Is dear Lavinia , dearer than my soul .
127318 Had I but seen thy picture in this plight
127319 It would have madded me : what shall I do
127320 Now I behold thy lively body so ?
127321 Thou hast no hands to wipe away thy tears ,
127322 Nor tongue to tell me who hath martyr'd thee :
127323 Thy husband he is dead , and for his death
127324 Thy brothers are condemn'd , and dead by this .
127325 Look ! Marcus ; ah ! son Lucius , look on her :
127326 When I did name her brothers , then fresh tears
127327 Stood on her cheeks , as doth the honey-dew
127328 Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd .
127329
127330 Perchance she weeps because they kill'd her husband ;
127331 Perchance because she knows them innocent .
127332
127333 If they did kill thy husband , then be joyful ,
127334 Because the law hath ta'en revenge on them .
127335 No , no , they would not do so foul a deed ;
127336 Witness the sorrow that their sister makes .
127337 Gentle Lavinia , let me kiss thy lips ;
127338 Or make some sign how I may do thee ease .
127339 Shall thy good uncle , and thy brother Lucius ,
127340 And thou , and I , sit round about some fountain ,
127341 Looking all downwards , to behold our cheeks
127342 How they are stain'd , like meadows yet not dry ,
127343 With miry alime left on them by a flood ?
127344 And in the fountain shall we gaze so long
127345 Till the fresh taste be taken from that clearness ,
127346 And made a brine-pit with our bitter tears ?
127347 Or shall we cut away our hands , like thine ?
127348 Or shall we bite our tongues , and in dumb shows
127349 Pass the remainder of our hateful days ?
127350 What shall we do ? let us , that have our tongues ,
127351 Plot some device of further misery ,
127352 To make us wonder'd at in time to come .
127353
127354 Sweet father , cease your tears ; for at your grief
127355 See how my wretched sister sobs and weeps .
127356
127357 Patience , dear niece . Good Titus , dry thine eyes .
127358
127359 Ah ! Marcus , Marcus , brother ; well I wot
127360 Thy napkin cannot drink a tear of mine ,
127361 For thou , poor man , hast drown'd it with thine own .
127362
127363 Ah ! my Lavinia , I will wipe thy cheeks .
127364
127365 Mark , Marcus , mark ! I understand her signs :
127366 Had she a tongue to speak , now would she say
127367 That to her brother which I said to thee :
127368 His napkin , with his true tears all bewet ,
127369 Can do no service on her sorrowful cheeks .
127370 O ! what a sympathy of woe is this ;
127371 As far from help as limbo is from bliss .
127372
127373
127374 Titus Andronicus , my lord the emperor
127375 Sends thee this word : that , if thou love thy sons ,
127376 Let Marcus , Lucius , or thyself , old Titus ,
127377 Or any one of you , chop off your hand ,
127378 And send it to the king : he for the same
127379 Will send thee hither both thy sons alive ;
127380 And that shall be the ransom for their fault .
127381
127382 O gracious emperor ! O gentle Aaron !
127383 Did ever raven sing so like a lark ,
127384 That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise ?
127385 With all my heart , I'll send the emperor my hand :
127386 Good Aaron , wilt thou help to chop it off ?
127387
127388 Stay , father ! for that noble hand of thine ,
127389 That hath thrown down so many enemies ,
127390 Shall not be sent ; my hand will serve the turn :
127391 My youth can better spare my blood than you ;
127392 And therefore mine shall save my brothers' lives .
127393
127394 Which of your hands hath not defended Rome ,
127395 And rear'd aloft the bloody battle-axe ,
127396 Writing destruction on the enemy's castle ?
127397 O ! none of both but are of high desert :
127398 My hand hath been but idle ; let it serve
127399 To ransom my two nephews from their death ;
127400 Then have I kept it to a worthy end .
127401
127402 Nay , come , agree whose hand shall go along ,
127403 For fear they die before their pardon come .
127404
127405 My hand shall go .
127406
127407 By heaven , it shall not go !
127408
127409 Sirs , strive no more : such wither'd herbs as these
127410 Are meet for plucking up , and therefore mine .
127411
127412 Sweet father , if I shall be thought thy son ,
127413 Let me redeem my brothers both from death .
127414
127415 And for our father's sake , and mother's care ,
127416 Now let me show a brother's love to thee .
127417
127418 Agree between you ; I will spare my hand .
127419
127420 Then I'll go fetch an axe .
127421
127422 But I will use the axe .
127423
127424
127425 Come hither , Aaron ; I'll deceive them both :
127426 Lend me thy hand , and I will give thee mine .
127427
127428 If that be call'd deceit , I will be honest ,
127429 And never , whilst I live , deceive men so :
127430 But I'll deceive you in another sort ,
127431 And that you'll say , ere half an hour pass .
127432
127433 Now stay your strife : what shall be is dispatch'd .
127434 Good Aaron , give his majesty my hand :
127435 Tell him it was a hand that warded him
127436 From thousand dangers ; bid him bury it ;
127437 More hath it merited ; that let it have .
127438 As for my sons , say I account of them
127439 As jewels purchas'd at an easy price ;
127440 And yet dear too , because I bought mine own .
127441
127442 I go , Andronicus ; and for thy hand ,
127443 Look by and by to have thy sons with thee .
127444
127445
127446 Their heads , I mean . O ! how this villany
127447 Doth fat me with the very thoughts of it .
127448 Let fools do good , and fair men call for grace ,
127449 Aaron will have his soul black like his face .
127450
127451
127452 O ! here I lift this one hand up to heaven ,
127453 And how this feeble ruin to the earth :
127454 If any power pities wretched tears ,
127455 To that I call !
127456
127457 What ! wilt thou kneel with me ?
127458 Do , then , dear heart ; for heaven shall hear our prayers ,
127459 Or with our sighs we'll breathe the welkin dim ,
127460 And stain the sun with fog , as sometime clouds
127461 When they do hug him in their melting bosoms .
127462
127463 O ! brother , speak with possibilities ,
127464 And do not break into these deep extremes .
127465
127466 Is not my sorrow deep , having no bottom ?
127467 Then be my passions bottomless with them .
127468
127469 But yet let reason govern thy lament .
127470
127471 If there were reason for these miseries ,
127472 Then into limits could I bind my woes .
127473 When heaven doth weep , doth not the earth o'erflow ?
127474 If the winds rage , doth not the sea wax mad ,
127475 Threat'ning the welkin with his big-swoln face ?
127476 And wilt thou have a reason for this coil ?
127477 I am the sea ; hark ! how her sighs do blow ;
127478 She is the weeping welkin , I the earth :
127479 Then must my sea be moved with her sighs ;
127480 Then must my earth with her continual tears
127481 Become a deluge , overflow'd and drown'd ;
127482 For why my bowels cannot hide her woes ,
127483 But like a drunkard must I vomit them .
127484 Then give me leave , for losers will have leave
127485 To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues .
127486
127487
127488 Worthy Andronicus , ill art thou repaid
127489 For that good hand thou sent'st the emperor .
127490 Here are the heads of thy two noble sons ,
127491 And here's thy hand , in scorn to thee sent back :
127492 Thy griefs their sports , thy resolution mock'd ;
127493 That woe is me to think upon thy woes ,
127494 More than remembrance of my father's death .
127495
127496
127497 Now let hot tna cool in Sicily ,
127498 And be my heart an ever burning hell !
127499 These miseries are more than may be borne .
127500 To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal ,
127501 But sorrow flouted at is double death .
127502
127503 Ah ! that this sight should make so deep a wound ,
127504 And yet detested life not shrink thereat ,
127505 That ever death should let life bear his name ,
127506 Where life hath no more interest but to breathe .
127507
127508
127509 Alas ! poor heart ; that kiss is comfortless
127510 As frozen water to a starved snake .
127511
127512 When will this fearful slumber have an end ?
127513
127514 Now , farewell , flattery : die , Andronicus ;
127515 Thou dost not slumber : see , thy two sons' heads ,
127516 Thy war-like hand , thy mangled daughter here ;
127517 Thy other banish'd son , with this dear sight
127518 Struck pale and bloodless ; and thy brother , I ,
127519 Even like a stony image , cold and numb .
127520 Ah ! now no more will I control thy griefs .
127521 Rent off thy silver hair , thy other hand
127522 Gnawing with thy teeth ; and be this dismal sight
127523 The closing up of our most wretched eyes !
127524 Now is a time to storm ; why art thou still ?
127525
127526 Ha , ha , ha !
127527
127528 Why dost thou laugh ? it fits not with this hour .
127529
127530 Why , I have not another tear to shed :
127531 Besides , this sorrow is an enemy ,
127532 And would usurp upon my watery eyes ,
127533 And make them blind with tributary tears :
127534 Then which way shall I find Revenge's cave ?
127535 For these two heads do seem to speak to me ,
127536 And threat me I shall never come to bliss
127537 Till all these mischiefs be return'd again
127538 Even in their throats that have committed them .
127539 Come , let me see what task I have to do .
127540 You heavy people , circle me about ,
127541 That I may turn me to each one of you ,
127542 And swear unto my soul to right your wrongs .
127543 The vow is made . Come , brother , take a head ;
127544 And in this hand the other will I bear .
127545 Lavinia , thou shalt be employ'd in these things :
127546 Bear thou my hand , sweet wench , between thy teeth .
127547 As for thee , boy , go get thee from my sight ;
127548 Thou art an exile , and thou must not stay :
127549 Hie to the Goths , and raise an army there :
127550 And if you love me , as I think you do ,
127551 Let's kiss and part , for we have much to do .
127552
127553
127554 Farewell , Andronicus , my noble father ;
127555 The woefull'st man that ever liv'd in Rome :
127556 Farewell , proud Rome ; till Lucius come again ,
127557 He leaves his pledges dearer than his life .
127558 Farewell , Lavinia , my noble sister ;
127559 O ! would thou wert as thou tofore hast been ;
127560 But now nor Lucius nor Lavinia lives
127561 But in oblivion and hateful griefs .
127562 If Lucius live , he will requite your wrongs ,
127563 And make proud Saturnine and his empress
127564 Beg at the gates like Tarquin and his queen .
127565 Now will I to the Goths , and raise a power ,
127566 To be reveng'd on Rome and Saturnine .
127567
127568
127569 So , so ; now sit ; and look you eat no more
127570 Than will preserve just so much strength in us
127571 As will revenge these bitter woes of ours .
127572 Marcus , unknit that sorrow-wreathen knot :
127573 Thy niece and I , poor creatures , want our hands ,
127574 And cannot passionate our ten-fold grief
127575 With folded arms . This poor right hand of mine
127576 Is left to tyrannize upon my breast ;
127577 And when my heart , all mad with misery ,
127578 Beats in this hollow prison of my flesh ,
127579 Then thus I thump it down .
127580
127581
127582 Thou map of woe , that thus dost talk in signs !
127583 When thy poor heart beats with outrageous beating
127584 Thou canst not strike it thus to make it still .
127585 Wound it with sighing , girl , kill it with groans ;
127586 Or get some little knife between thy teeth ,
127587 And just against thy heart make thou a hole ;
127588 That all the tears that thy poor eyes let fall
127589 May run into that sink , and , soaking in ,
127590 Drown the lamenting fool in sea-salt tears .
127591
127592 Fie , brother , fie ! teach her not thus to lay
127593 Such violent hands upon her tender life .
127594
127595 How now ! has sorrow made thee dote already ?
127596 Why , Marcus , no man should be mad but I .
127597 What violent hands can she lay on her life ?
127598 Ah ! wherefore dost thou urge the name of hands ;
127599 To bid aeas tell the tale twice o'er ,
127600 How Troy was burnt and he made miserable ?
127601 O ! handle not the theme , to talk of hands ,
127602 Lest we remember still that we have none .
127603 Fie , fie ! how franticly I square my talk ,
127604 As if we should forget we had no hands ,
127605 If Marcus did not name the word of hands .
127606 Come , let's fall to ; and , gentle girl , eat this :
127607 Here is no drink . Hark , Marcus , what she says ;
127608 I can interpret all her martyr'd signs :
127609 She says she drinks no other drink but tears ,
127610 Brew'd with her sorrow , mash'd upon her cheeks .
127611 Speechless complainer , I will learn thy thought ;
127612 In thy dumb action will I be as perfect
127613 As begging hermits in their holy prayers :
127614 Thou shalt not sigh , nor hold thy stumps to heaven ,
127615 Nor wink , nor nod , nor kneel , nor make a sign ,
127616 But I of these will wrest an alphabet ,
127617 And by still practice learn to know thy meaning .
127618
127619 Good grandsire , leave these bitter deep laments :
127620 Make my aunt merry with some pleasing tale .
127621
127622 Alas ! the tender boy , in passion mov'd ,
127623 Doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness .
127624
127625 Peace , tender sapling ; thou art made of tears ,
127626 And tears will quickly melt thy life away .
127627
127628 What dost thou strike at , Marcus , with thy knife ?
127629
127630 At that that I have kill'd , my lord ; a fly .
127631
127632 Out on thee , murderer ! thou kill'st my heart ;
127633 Mine eyes are cloy'd with view of tyranny :
127634 A deed of death , done on the innocent ,
127635 Becomes not Titus' brother . Get thee gone ;
127636 I see , thou art not for my company .
127637
127638 Alas ! my lord , I have but kill'd a fly .
127639
127640 But how if that fly had a father and a mother ?
127641 How would he hang his slender gilded wings
127642 And buzz lamenting doings in the air !
127643 Poor harmless fly ,
127644 That , with his pretty buzzing melody ,
127645 Came here to make us merry ! and thou hast kill'd him .
127646
127647 Pardon me , sir ; it was a black ill-favour'd fly ,
127648 Like to the empress' Moor ; therefore I kill'd him .
127649
127650 O , O , O !
127651 Then pardon me for reprehending thee ,
127652 For thou hast done a charitable deed .
127653 Give me thy knife , I will insult on him ;
127654 Flattering myself , as if it were the Moor
127655 Come hither purposely to poison me .
127656 There's for thyself , and that's for Tamora .
127657 Ah ! sirrah .
127658 Yet I think we are not brought so low ,
127659 But that between us we can kill a fly
127660 That comes in likeness of a coal-black Moor .
127661
127662 Alas ! poor man ; grief has so wrought on him ,
127663 He takes false shadows for true substances .
127664
127665 Come , take away . Lavinia , go with me :
127666 I'll to thy closet ; and go read with thee
127667 Sad stories chanced in the times of old .
127668 Come , boy , and go with me : thy sight is young ,
127669 And thou shalt read when mine begins to dazzle .
127670
127671 Help , grandsire , help ! my aunt Lavinia
127672 Follows me everywhere , I know not why :
127673 Good uncle Marcus , see how swift she comes :
127674 Alas ! sweet aunt , I know not what you mean .
127675
127676 Stand by me , Lucius ; do not fear thine aunt .
127677
127678 She loves thee , boy , too well to do thee harm .
127679
127680 Ay , when my father was in Rome , she did .
127681
127682 What means my niece Lavinia by these signs ?
127683
127684 Fear her not , Lucius : somewhat doth she mean .
127685 See , Lucius , see how much she makes of thee ;
127686 Somewhither would she have thee go with her .
127687 Ah ! boy ; Cornelia never with more care
127688 Read to her sons , than she hath read to thee
127689 Sweet poetry and Tully's Orator .
127690
127691 Canst thou not guess wherefore she plies thee thus ?
127692
127693 My lord , I know not , I , nor can I guess ,
127694 Unless some fit or frenzy do possess her ;
127695 For I have heard my grandsire say full oft ,
127696 Extremity of griefs would make men mad ;
127697 And I have read that Hecuba of Troy
127698 Ran mad through sorrow ; that made me to fear ,
127699 Although , my lord , I know my noble aunt
127700 Loves me as dear as e'er my mother did ,
127701 And would not , but in fury , fright my youth ;
127702 Which made me down to throw my books and fly ,
127703 Causeless , perhaps . But pardon me , sweet aunt ;
127704 And , madam , if my uncle Marcus go ,
127705 I will most willingly attend your ladyship .
127706
127707 Lucius , I will .
127708
127709
127710 How now , Lavinia ! Marcus , what means this ?
127711 Some book there is that she desires to see .
127712 Which is it , girl , of these ? Open them , boy .
127713 But thou art deeper read , and better skill'd ;
127714 Come , and take choice of all my library ,
127715 And so beguile thy sorrow , till the heavens
127716 Reveal the damn'd contriver of this deed .
127717 Why lifts she up her arms in sequence thus ?
127718
127719 I think she means that there was more than one
127720 Confederate in the fact : ay , more there was ;
127721 Or else to heaven she heaves them for revenge .
127722
127723 Lucius ; what book is that she tosseth so ?
127724
127725 Grandsire , 'tis Ovid's Metamorphoses ;
127726 My mother gave it me .
127727
127728 For love of her that's gone ,
127729 Perhaps , she cull'd it from among the rest .
127730
127731 Soft ! see how busily she turns the leaves !
127732
127733 What would she find ? Lavinia , shall I read ?
127734 This is the tragic tale of Philomel ,
127735 And treats of Tereus' treason and his rape ;
127736 And rape , I fear , was root of thine annoy .
127737
127738 See , brother , see ! note how she quotes the leaves .
127739
127740 Lavinia , wert thou thus surpris'd , sweet girl ,
127741 Ravish'd and wrong'd , as Philomela was ,
127742 Forc'd in the ruthless , vast , and gloomy woods ?
127743 See , see !
127744 Ay , such a place there is , where we did hunt ,
127745 O ! had we never , never hunted there ,
127746 Pattern'd by that the poet here describes ,
127747 By nature made for murders and for rapes .
127748
127749 O ! why should nature build so foul a den ,
127750 Unless the gods delight in tragedies ?
127751
127752 Give signs , sweet girl , for here are none but friends ,
127753 What Roman lord it was durst do the deed :
127754 Or slunk not Saturnine , as Tarquin erst ,
127755 That left the camp to sin in Lucrece' bed ?
127756
127757 Sit down , sweet niece : brother , sit down by me .
127758 Apollo , Pallas , Jove , or Mercury ,
127759 Inspire me , that I may this treason find !
127760 My lord , look here ; look here , Lavinia :
127761 This sandy plot is plain ; guide , if thou canst ,
127762 This after me .
127763
127764 I have writ my name
127765 Without the help of any hand at all .
127766 Curs'd be that heart that forc'd us to this shift !
127767 Write thou , good niece , and here display at last
127768 What God will have discover'd for revenge .
127769 Heaven guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain ,
127770 That we may know the traitors and the truth !
127771
127772
127773 O ! do you read , my lord , what she hath writ ?
127774 Stuprum , Chiron , Demetrius .
127775
127776 What , what ! the lustful sons of Tamora
127777 Performers of this heinous , bloody deed ?
127778
127779 Magni dominator poli ,
127780 Tam lentus audis scelera ? tam lentus vides ?
127781
127782 O ! calm thee , gentle lord ; although I know
127783 There is enough written upon this earth
127784 To stir a mutiny in the mildest thoughts
127785 And arm the minds of infants to exclaims .
127786 My lord , kneel down with me ; Lavinia , kneel ;
127787 And kneel , sweet boy , the Roman Hector's hope ;
127788 And swear with me , as , with the woeful fere
127789 And father of that chaste dishonour'd dame ,
127790 Lord Junius Brutus sware for Lucrece' rape ,
127791 That we will prosecute by good advice
127792 Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths ,
127793 And see their blood , or die with this reproach .
127794
127795 'Tis sure enough , an you knew how ;
127796 But if you hunt these bear-whelps , then beware :
127797 The dam will wake , an if she wind you once :
127798 She's with the lion deeply still in league ,
127799 And lulls him whilst she playeth on her back ,
127800 And when he sleeps will she do what she list .
127801 You're a young huntsman , Marcus ; let it alone ;
127802 And , come , I will go get a leaf of brass ,
127803 And with a gad of steel will write these words ,
127804 And lay it by : the angry northern wind
127805 Will blow these sands like Sibyl's leaves abroad ,
127806 And where's your lesson then ? Boy , what say you ?
127807
127808 I say , my lord , that if I were a man ,
127809 Their mother's bed-chamber should not be safe
127810 For these bad bondmen to the yoke of Rome .
127811
127812 Ay , that's my boy ! thy father hath full oft
127813 For his ungrateful country done the like .
127814
127815 And , uncle , so will I , an if I live .
127816
127817 Come , go with me into mine armoury :
127818 Lucius , I'll fit thee ; and withal my boy
127819 Shall carry from me to the empress' sons
127820 Presents that I intend to send them both :
127821 Come , come ; thou'lt do thy message , wilt thou not ?
127822
127823 Ay , with my dagger in their bosoms , grandsire .
127824
127825 No , boy , not so ; I'll teach thee another course .
127826 Lavinia , come . Marcus , look to my house ;
127827 Lucius and I'll go brave it at the court :
127828 Ay , marry , will we , sir ; and we'll be waited on .
127829
127830
127831 O heavens ! can you hear a good man groan ,
127832 And not relent or not compassion him ?
127833 Marcus , attend him in his ecstasy ,
127834 That hath more scars of sorrow in his heart
127835 Than foemen's marks upon his batter'd shield ;
127836 But yet so just that he will not revenge .
127837 Revenge , ye heavens , for old Andronicus !
127838
127839
127840 Demetrius , here's the son of Lucius ;
127841 He hath some message to deliver us .
127842
127843 Ay , some mad message from his mad grandfather .
127844
127845 My lords , with all the humbleness I may ,
127846 I greet your honours from Andronicus ;
127847
127848
127849 And pray the Roman gods , confound you both !
127850
127851 Gramercy , lovely Lucius : what's the news ?
127852
127853 That you are both decipher'd , that's the news ,
127854 For villains mark'd with rape .
127855
127856 May it please you ,
127857 My grandsire , well advis'd , hath sent by me
127858 The goodliest weapons of his armoury ,
127859 To gratify your honourable youth ,
127860 The hope of Rome , for so he bade me say ;
127861 And so I do , and with his gifts present
127862 Your lordships , that whenever you have need ,
127863 You may be armed and appointed well .
127864 And so I leave you both :
127865
127866 like bloody villains .
127867
127868
127869 What's here ? A scroll ; and written round about ?
127870 Let's see :
127871
127872 'Integer vit , scelerisque purus ,
127873 Non eget Mauri jaculis , nec arcu .
127874
127875
127876 O ! 'tis a verse in Horace ; I know it well :
127877 I read it in the grammar long ago .
127878
127879 Ay just , a verse in Horace ; right , you have it .
127880
127881
127882 Now , what a thing it is to be an ass !
127883 Here's no sound jest ! the old man hath found their guilt
127884 And sends them weapons wrapp'd about with lines ,
127885 That wound , beyond their feeling , to the quick ;
127886 But were our witty empress well afoot ,
127887 She would applaud Andronicus' conceit :
127888 But let her rest in her unrest awhile .
127889
127890
127891 And now , young lords , was't not a happy star
127892 Led us to Rome , strangers , and more than so ,
127893 Captives , to be advanced to this height ?
127894 It did me good before the palace gate
127895 To brave the tribune in his brother's hearing .
127896
127897 But me more good , to see so great a lord
127898 Basely insinuate and send us gifts .
127899
127900 Had he not reason , Lord Demetrius ?
127901 Did you not use his daughter very friendly ?
127902
127903 I would we had a thousand Roman dames
127904 At such a bay , by turn to serve our lust .
127905
127906 A charitable wish and full of love .
127907
127908 Here lacks but your mother for to say amen .
127909
127910 And that would she for twenty thousand more .
127911
127912 Come , let us go and pray to all the gods
127913 For our beloved mother in her pains .
127914
127915 Pray to the devils ; the gods have given us over .
127916
127917
127918 Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus ?
127919
127920 Belike , for joy the emperor hath a son .
127921
127922 Soft ! who comes here ?
127923
127924
127925 Good morrow , lords . O ! tell me , did you see
127926 Aaron the Moor ?
127927
127928 Well , more or less , or ne'er a whit at all ,
127929 Here Aaron is ; and what with Aaron now ?
127930
127931 O gentle Aaron ! we are all undone .
127932 Now help , or woe betide thee evermore !
127933
127934 Why , what a caterwauling dost thou keep !
127935 What dost thou wrap and fumble in thine arms ?
127936
127937 O ! that which I would hide from heaven's eye ,
127938 Our empress' shame , and stately Rome's disgrace !
127939 She is deliver'd , lords , she is deliver'd .
127940
127941 To whom ?
127942
127943 I mean , she's brought a-bed .
127944
127945 Well , God give her good rest ! What hath he sent her ?
127946
127947 A devil .
127948
127949 Why , then she's the devil's dam : a joyful issue .
127950
127951 A joyless , dismal , black , and sorrowful issue .
127952 Here is the babe , as loathsome as a toad
127953 Amongst the fairest breeders of our clime .
127954 The empress sends it thee , thy stamp , thy seal ,
127955 And bids thee christen it with thy dagger's point .
127956
127957 'Zounds , ye whore ! is black so base a hue ?
127958 Sweet blowse , you are a beauteous blossom , sure .
127959
127960 Villain , what hast thou done ?
127961
127962 That which thou canst not undo .
127963
127964 Thou hast undone our mother .
127965
127966 Villain , I have done thy mother .
127967
127968 And therein , hellish dog , thou hast undone .
127969 Woe to her chance , and damn'd her loathed choice !
127970 Accurs'd the offspring of so foul a fiend !
127971
127972 It shall not live .
127973
127974 It shall not die .
127975
127976 Aaron , it must ; the mother wills it so .
127977
127978 What ! must it , nurse ? then let no man but I
127979 Do execution on my flesh and blood .
127980
127981 I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point :
127982 Nurse , give it me ; my sword shall soon dispatch it .
127983
127984 Sooner this sword shall plough thy bowels up .
127985
127986 Stay , murderous villains ! will you kill your brother ?
127987 Now , by the burning tapers of the sky ,
127988 That shone so brightly when this boy was got ,
127989 He dies upon my scimitar's sharp point
127990 That touches this my first-born son and heir .
127991 I tell you , younglings , not Enceladus ,
127992 With all his threatening band of Typhon's brood ,
127993 Nor great Alcides , nor the god of war ,
127994 Shall seize this prey out of his father's hands .
127995 What , what , ye sanguine , shallow-hearted boys !
127996 Ye white-lim'd walls ! ye alehouse painted signs !
127997 Coal-black is better than another hue ,
127998 In that it scorns to bear another hue ;
127999 For all the water in the ocean
128000 Can never turn the swan's black legs to white ,
128001 Although she lave them hourly in the flood .
128002 Tell the empress from me , I am of age
128003 To keep mine own , excuse it how she can .
128004
128005 Wilt thou betray thy noble mistress thus ?
128006
128007 My mistress is my mistress ; this myself ;
128008 The vigour , and the picture of my youth :
128009 This before all the world do I prefer ;
128010 This maugre all the world will I keep safe ,
128011 Or some of you shall smoke for it in Rome .
128012
128013 By this our mother is for ever sham'd .
128014
128015 Rome will despise her for this foul escape .
128016
128017 The emperor in his rage will doom her death .
128018
128019 I blush to think upon this ignomy .
128020
128021 Why , there's the privilege your beauty bears .
128022 Fie , treacherous hue ! that will betray with blushing
128023 The close enacts and counsels of the heart :
128024 Here's a young lad fram'd of another leer :
128025 Look how the black slavesmiles upon the father ,
128026 As who should say , 'Old lad , I am thine own .'
128027 He is your brother , lords , sensibly fed
128028 Of that self blood that first gave life to you ;
128029 And from that womb where you imprison'd were
128030 He is enfranchised and come to light :
128031 Nay , he is your brother by the surer side ,
128032 Although my seal be stamped in his face .
128033
128034 Aaron , what shall I say unto the empress ?
128035
128036 Advise thee , Aaron , what is to be done ,
128037 And we will all subscribe to thy advice :
128038 Save thou the child , so we may all be safe .
128039
128040 Then sit we down , and let us all consult ,
128041 My son and I will have the wind of you :
128042 Keep there ; now talk at pleasure of your safety .
128043
128044
128045 How many women saw this child of his ?
128046
128047 Why , so , brave lords ! when we join in league ,
128048 I am a lamb ; but if you brave the Moor ,
128049 The chafed boar , the mountain lioness ,
128050 The ocean swells not so as Aaron storms .
128051 But say , again , how many saw the child ?
128052
128053 Cornelia the midwife , and myself ,
128054 And no one else but the deliver'd empress .
128055
128056 The empress , the midwife , and yourself :
128057 Two may keep counsel when the third's away .
128058 Go to the empress ; tell her this I said :
128059
128060 'Weke , weke !'
128061 So cries a pig prepared to the spit .
128062
128063 What mean'st thou , Aaron ? Wherefore didst thou this ?
128064
128065 O lord , sir , 'tis a deed of policy :
128066 Shall she live to betray this guilt of ours ,
128067 A long-tongu'd babbling gossip ? no , lords , no .
128068 And now be it known to you my full intent .
128069 Not far , one Muli lives , my countryman ;
128070 His wife but yesternight was brought to bed .
128071 His child is like to her , fair as you are :
128072 Go pack with him , and give the mother gold ,
128073 And tell them both the circumstance of all ,
128074 And how by this their child shall be advanc'd ,
128075 And be received for the emperor's heir ,
128076 And substituted in the place of mine ,
128077 To calm this tempest whirling in the court ;
128078 And let the emperor dandle him for his own .
128079 Hark ye , lords ; you see , I have given her physic ,
128080
128081 And you must needs bestow her funeral ;
128082 The fields are near , and you are gallant grooms .
128083 This done , see that you take no longer days ,
128084 But send the midwife presently to me .
128085 The midwife and the nurse well made away ,
128086 Then let the ladies tattle what they please .
128087
128088 Aaron , I see thou wilt not trust the air
128089 With secrets .
128090
128091 For this care of Tamora ,
128092 Herself and hers are highly hound to thee .
128093
128094
128095 Now to the Goths , as swift as swallow flies :
128096 There to dispose this treasure in mine arms ,
128097 And secretly to greet the empress' friends .
128098 Come on , you thick-lipp'd slave , I'll bear you hence ;
128099 For it is you that puts us to our shifts :
128100 I'll make you feed on berries and on roots ,
128101 And feed on curds and whey , and suck the goat ,
128102 And cabin in a cave , and bring you up
128103 To be a warrior , and command a camp .
128104
128105
128106 Come , Marcus , come ; kinsmen , this is the way .
128107 Sir boy , now let me see your archery :
128108 Look ye draw home enough , and 'tis there straight .
128109 Terras Astr a reliquit :
128110 Be you remember'd , Marcus , she's gone , she's fled .
128111 Sirs , take you to your tools . You , cousins , shall
128112 Go sound the ocean , and cast your nets ;
128113 Happily you may find her in the sea ;
128114 Yet there's as little justice as at land .
128115 No ; Publius and Sempronius , you must do it ;
128116 'Tis you must dig with mattock and with spade ,
128117 And pierce the inmost centre of the earth :
128118 Then , when you come to Pluto's region ,
128119 I pray you , deliver him this petition ;
128120 Tell him , it is for justice and for aid ,
128121 And that it comes from old Andronicus ,
128122 Shaken with sorrows in ungrateful Rome .
128123 Ah ! Rome . Well , well ; I made thee miserable
128124 What time I threw the people's suffrages
128125 On him that thus doth tyrannize o'er me .
128126 Go , get you gone ; and pray be careful all ,
128127 And leave you not a man-of-war unsearch'd :
128128 This wicked emperor may have shipp'd her hence ;
128129 And , kinsmen , then we may go pipe for justice .
128130
128131 O Publius ! is not this a heavy case ,
128132 To see thy noble uncle thus distract ?
128133
128134 Therefore , my lord , it highly us concerns
128135 By day and night to attend him carefully ,
128136 And feed his humour kindly as we may ,
128137 Till time beget some careful remedy .
128138
128139 Kinsmen , his sorrows are past remedy .
128140 Join with the Goths , and with revengeful war
128141 Take wreak on Rome for this ingratitude ,
128142 And vengeance on the traitor Saturnine .
128143
128144 Publius , how now ! how now , my masters !
128145 What ! have you met with her ?
128146
128147 No , my good lord ; but Pluto sends you word ,
128148 If you will have Revenge from hell , you shall :
128149 Marry , for Justice , she is so employ'd ,
128150 He thinks , with Jove in heaven , or somewhere else ,
128151 So that perforce you must needs stay a time .
128152
128153 He doth me wrong to feed me with delays .
128154 I'll dive into the burning lake below ,
128155 And pull her out of Acheron by the heels .
128156 Marcus , we are but shrubs , no cedars we ;
128157 No big-bon'd men fram'd of the Cyclops' size ;
128158 But metal , Marcus , steel to the very back ,
128159 Yet wrung with wrongs more than our backs can bear :
128160 And sith there's no justice in earth nor hell ,
128161 We will solicit heaven and move the gods
128162 To send down Justice for to wreak our wrongs .
128163 Come , to this gear . You are a good archer , Marcus .
128164
128165 Ad Javem , that's for you : here , ad Apollinem :
128166 Ad Martem , that's for myself :
128167 Here , boy , to Pallas : here , to Mercury :
128168 To Saturn , Caius , not to Saturnine ;
128169 You were as good to shoot against the wind .
128170 To it , boy ! Marcus , loose when I bid .
128171 Of my word , I have written to effect ;
128172 There's not a god left unsolicited .
128173
128174 Kinsmen , shoot all your shafts into the court :
128175 We will afflict the emperor in his pride .
128176
128177 Now , masters , draw .
128178
128179 O ! well said , Lucius !
128180 Good boy , in Virgo's lap : give it Pallas .
128181
128182 My lord , I aim a mile beyond the moon ;
128183 Your letter is with Jupiter by this .
128184
128185 Ha ! Publius , Publius , what hast thou done ?
128186 See , see ! thou hast shot off one of Taurus' horns .
128187
128188 This was the sport , my lord : when Publius shot ,
128189 The Bull , being gall'd , gave Aries such a knock
128190 That down fell both the Ram's horns in the court ;
128191 And who should find them but the empress' villain ?
128192 She laugh'd , and told the Moor , he should not choose
128193 But give them to his master for a present .
128194
128195 Why , there it goes : God give his lordship joy !
128196
128197
128198 News ! news from heaven ! Marcus , the post is come .
128199 Sirrah , what tidings ? have you any letters ?
128200
128201 Shall I have justice ? what says Jupiter ?
128202
128203 O ! tho gibbet-maker ? He says that he hath taken them down again , for the man must not be hanged till the next week .
128204
128205 But what says Jupiter , I ask thee ?
128206
128207 Alas ! sir , I know not Jupiter ; I never drank with him in all my life .
128208
128209 Why , villain , art not thou the carrier ?
128210
128211 Ay , of my pigeons , sir ; nothing else .
128212
128213 Why , didst thou not come from heaven ?
128214
128215 From heaven ! alas ! sir , I never came there . God forbid I should be so bold to press to heaven in my young days . Why , I am going with my pigeons to the tribunal plebs , to take up a matter of brawl betwixt my uncle and one of the emperial's men .
128216
128217 Why , sir , that is as fit as can be to serve for your oration ; and let him deliver the pigeons to the emperor from you .
128218
128219 Tell me , can you deliver an oration to the emperor with a grace ?
128220
128221 Nay , truly , sir , I could never say grace in all my life .
128222
128223 Sirrah , come hither : make no more ado ,
128224 But give your pigeons to the emperor :
128225 By me thou shalt have justice at his hands .
128226 Hold , hold ; meanwhile , here's money for thy charges .
128227 Give me pen and ink .
128228 Sirrah , can you with a grace deliver a supplication ?
128229
128230 Ay , sir .
128231
128232 Then here is a supplication for you . And when you come to him , at the first approach you must kneel ; then kiss his foot ; then deliver up your pigeons ; and then look for your reward . I'll be at hand , sir ; see you do it bravely .
128233
128234 I warrant you , sir ; let me alone .
128235
128236 Sirrah , hast thou a knife ? Come , let me see it .
128237 Here , Marcus , fold it in the oration ;
128238 For thou hast made it like a humble suppliant :
128239 And when thou hast given it to the emperor ,
128240 Knock at my door , and tell me what he says .
128241
128242 God be with you , sir ; I will .
128243
128244 Come , Marcus , let us go . Publius , follow me .
128245
128246 Why , lords , what wrongs are these ! Was ever seen
128247 An emperor of Rome thus overborne ,
128248 Troubled , confronted thus ; and , for the extent
128249 Of egal justice , us'd in such contempt ?
128250 My lords , you know , as do the mightful gods ,
128251 However these disturbers of our peace
128252 Buzz in the people's ears ,there nought hath pass'd ,
128253 But even with law , against the wilful sons
128254 Of old Andronicus . And what an if
128255 His sorrows have so overwhelm'd his wits ,
128256 Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreaks ,
128257 His fits , his frenzy , and his bitterness ?
128258 And now he writes to heaven for his redress :
128259 See , here's to Jove , and this to Mercury ;
128260 This to Apollo ; this to the god of war ;
128261 Sweet scrolls to fly about the streets of Rome !
128262 What's this but libelling against the senate ,
128263 And blazoning our injustice every where ?
128264 A goodly humour , is it not , my lords ?
128265 As who would say , in Rome no justice were .
128266 But if I live , his feigned ecstasies
128267 Shall be no shelter to these outrages ;
128268 But he and his shall know that justice lives
128269 In Saturninus' health ; whom , if she sleep ,
128270 He'll so awake , as she in fury shall
128271 Cut off the proud'st conspirator that lives .
128272
128273 My gracious lord , my lovely Saturnine ,
128274 Lord of my life , commander of my thoughts ,
128275 Calm thee , and bear the faults of Titus' age ,
128276 The effects of sorrow for his valiant sons ,
128277 Whose loss hath pierc'd him deep and scarr'd his heart ;
128278 And rather comfort his distressed plight
128279 Than prosecute the meanest or the best
128280 For these contempts .
128281
128282 Why , thus it shall become
128283 High-witted Tamora to gloze with all :
128284 But , Titus , I have touch'd thee to the quick ,
128285 Thy life-blood out : if Aaron now be wise ,
128286 Then is all safe , the anchor's in the port .
128287
128288 How now , good fellow ! wouldst thou speak with us ?
128289
128290 Yea , forsooth , an your mistership be emperial .
128291
128292 Empress I am , but yonder sits the emperor .
128293
128294 'Tis he . God and Saint Stephen give you good den .
128295 I have brought you a letter and a couple of pigeons here .
128296
128297
128298 Go , take him away , and hang him presently .
128299
128300 How much money must I have ?
128301
128302 Come , sirrah , you must be hanged .
128303
128304 Hanged ! By 'r , lady , then I have brought up a neck to a fair end .
128305
128306
128307 Despiteful and intolerable wrongs !
128308 Shall I endure this monstrous villany ?
128309 I know from whence this same device proceeds :
128310 May this be borne ? As if his traitorous sons ,
128311 That died by law for murder of our brother ,
128312 Have by my means been butcher'd wrongfully !
128313 Go , drag the villain hither by the hair ;
128314 Nor age nor honour shall shape privilege .
128315 For this proud mock I'll be thy slaughterman ;
128316 Sly frantic wretch , that holp'st to make me great ,
128317 In hope thyself should govern Rome and me .
128318
128319 What news with thee , milius ?
128320
128321 Arm , arm , my lord ! Rome never had more cause .
128322 The Goths have gather'd head , and with a power
128323 Of high-resolved men , bent to the spoil ,
128324 They hither march amain , under conduct
128325 Of Lucius , son to old Andronicus ;
128326 Who threats , in course of this revenge , to do
128327 As much as ever Coriolanus did .
128328
128329 Is war-like Lucius general of the Goths ?
128330 These tidings nip me , and I hang the head
128331 As flowers with frost or grass beat down with storms .
128332 Ay , now begin our sorrows to approach :
128333 'Tis he the common people love so much ;
128334 Myself hath often heard them say ,
128335 When I have walked like a private man ,
128336 That Lucius' banishment was wrongfully ,
128337 And they have wish'd that Lucius were their emperor .
128338
128339 Why should you fear ? is not your city strong ?
128340
128341 Ay , but the citizens favour Lucius ,
128342 And will revolt from me to succour him .
128343
128344 King , be thy thoughts imperious , like thy name .
128345 Is the sun dimm'd , that gnats do fly in it ?
128346 The eagle suffers little birds to sing ,
128347 And is not careful what they mean thereby ,
128348 Knowing that with the shadow of his wings
128349 He can at pleasure stint their melody ;
128350 Even so mayst thou the giddy men of Rome .
128351 Then cheer thy spirit ; for know , thou emperor ,
128352 I will enchant the old Andronicus
128353 With words more sweet , and yet more dangerous ,
128354 Than baits to fish , or honey-stalks to sheep ,
128355 Whenas the one is wounded with the bait ,
128356 The other rotted with delicious feed .
128357
128358 But he will not entreat his son for us .
128359
128360 If Tamora entreat him , then he will :
128361 For I can smooth and fill his aged ear
128362 With golden promises , that , were his heart
128363 Almost impregnable , his old ears deaf ,
128364 Yet should both ear and heart obey my tongue .
128365
128366
128367 Go thou before , be our ambassador :
128368 Say that the emperor requests a parley
128369 Of war-like Lucius , and appoint the meeting ,
128370 Even at his father's house , the old Andronicus .
128371
128372 milius , do this message honourably :
128373 And if he stand on hostage for his safety ,
128374 Bid him demand what pledge will please him best .
128375
128376 Your bidding shall I do effectually .
128377
128378
128379 Now will I to that old Andronicus ,
128380 And temper him with all the art I have ,
128381 To pluck proud Lucius from the war-like Goths .
128382 And now , sweet emperor , be blithe again ,
128383 And bury all thy fear in my devices .
128384
128385 Then go successantly , and plead to him .
128386
128387 Approved warriors , and my faithful friends ,
128388 I have received letters from great Rome ,
128389 Which signify what hate they bear their emperor ,
128390 And how desirous of our sight they are .
128391 Therefore , great lords , be , as your titles witness ,
128392 Imperious and impatient of your wrongs ;
128393 And wherein Rome hath done you any scath ,
128394 Let him make treble satisfaction .
128395
128396 Brave slip , sprung from the great Andronicus ,
128397 Whose name was once our terror , now our comfort ;
128398 Whose high exploits and honourable deeds
128399 Ingrateful Rome requites with foul contempt ,
128400 Be bold in us : we'll follow where thou lead'st ,
128401 Like stinging bees in hottest summer's day
128402 Led by their master to the flower'd fields ,
128403 And be aveng'd on cursed Tamora .
128404
128405 And , as he saith , so say we all with him .
128406
128407 I humbly thank him , and I thank you all .
128408 But who comes here , led by a lusty Goth ?
128409
128410
128411 Renowned Lucius , from our troops I stray'd ,
128412 To gaze upon a ruinous monastery ;
128413 And as I earnestly did fix mine eye
128414 Upon the wasted building , suddenly
128415 I heard a child cry underneath a wall .
128416 I made unto the noise ; when soon I heard
128417 The crying babe controll'd with this discourse :
128418 'Peace , tawny slave , half me and half thy dam !
128419 Did not thy hue bewray whose brat thou art ,
128420 Had nature lent thee but thy mother's look ,
128421 Villain , thou mightst have been an emperor :
128422 But where the bull and cow are both milk-white ,
128423 They never do beget a coal-black calf .
128424 Peace , villain , peace !' even thus he rates the babe ,
128425 'For I must bear thee to a trusty Goth ;
128426 Who , when he knows thou art the empress' babe ,
128427 Will hold thee dearly for thy mother's sake .'
128428 With this , my weapon drawn , I rush'd upon him ,
128429 Surpris'd him suddenly , and brought him hither ,
128430 To use as you think needful of the man .
128431
128432 O worthy Goth , this is the incarnate devil
128433 That robb'd Andronicus of his good hand :
128434 This is the pearl that pleas'd your empress' eye ,
128435 And here's the base fruit of his burning lust .
128436 Say , wall-ey'd slave , whither wouldst thou convey
128437 This growing image of thy fiend-like face ?
128438 Why dost not speak ? What ! deaf ? not a word ?
128439 A halter , soldiers ! hang him on this tree ,
128440 And by his side his fruit of bastardy .
128441
128442 Touch not the boy ; he is of royal blood .
128443
128444 Too like the sire for ever being good .
128445 First hang the child , that he may see it sprawl ;
128446 A sight to vex the father's soul withal .
128447 Get me a ladder .
128448
128449
128450 Lucius , save the child ;
128451 And bear it from me to the empress .
128452 If thou do this , I'll show thee wondrous things ,
128453 That highly may advantage thee to hear :
128454 If thou wilt not , befall what may befall ,
128455 I'll speak no more but 'Vengeance rot you all !'
128456
128457 Say on ; and if it please me which thou speak'st ,
128458 Thy child shall live , and I will see it nourish'd .
128459
128460 An if it please thee ! why , assure thee , Lucius ,
128461 'Twill vex'thy soul to hear what I shall speak ;
128462 For I must talk of murders , rapes , and massacres ,
128463 Acts of black night , abominable deeds ,
128464 Complots of mischief , treason , villanies
128465 Ruthful to hear , yet piteously perform'd :
128466 And this shall all be buried by my death ,
128467 Unless thou swear to me my child shall live .
128468
128469 Tell on thy mind : I say , thy child shall live .
128470
128471 Swear that he shall , and then I will begin .
128472
128473 Who should I swear by ? thou believ'st no god :
128474 That granted , how canst thou believe an oath ?
128475
128476 What if I do not ? as , indeed , I do not ;
128477 Yet , for I know thou art religious ,
128478 And hast a thing within thee called conscience ,
128479 With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies ,
128480 Which I have seen thee careful to observe ,
128481 Therefore I urge thy oath ; for that I know
128482 An idiot holds his bauble for a god ,
128483 And keeps the oath which by that god he swears ,
128484 To that I'll urge him : therefore thou shalt vow
128485 By that same god , what god soe'er it be ,
128486 That thou ador'st and hast in reverence ,
128487 To save my boy , to nourish and bring him up :
128488 Or else I will discover nought to thee .
128489
128490 Even by my god I swear to thee I will .
128491
128492 First , know thou , I begot him on the empress .
128493
128494 O most insatiate and luxurious woman !
128495
128496 Tut ! Lucius , this was but a deed of charity
128497 To that which thou shalt hear of me anon .
128498 'Twas her two sons that murder'd Bassianus ;
128499 They cut thy sister's tongue and ravish'd her ,
128500 And cut her hands and trimm'd her as thou saw'st .
128501
128502 O detestable villain ! call'st thou that trimming ?
128503
128504 Why , she was wash'd , and cut , and trimm'd , and 'twas
128505 Trim sport for them that had the doing of it .
128506
128507 O barbarous , beastly villains , like thyself !
128508
128509 Indeed , I was their tutor to instruct them .
128510 That codding spirit had they from their mother ,
128511 As sure a card as ever won the set ;
128512 That bloody mind , I think , they learn'd of me
128513 As true a dog as ever fought at head .
128514 Well , let my deeds be witness of my worth .
128515 I train'd thy brethren to that guileful hole
128516 Where the dead corpse of Bassianus lay ;
128517 I wrote the letter that thy father found ,
128518 And hid the gold within the letter mention'd ,
128519 Confederate with the queen and her two sons :
128520 And what not done , that thou hast cause to rue ,
128521 Wherein I had no stroke of mischief in it ?
128522 I play'd the cheater for thy father's hand ,
128523 And , when I had it , drew myself apart ,
128524 And almost broke my heart with extreme laughter .
128525 I pry'd me through the crevice of a wall
128526 When , for his hand , he had his two sons' heads ;
128527 Beheld his tears , and laugh'd so heartily ,
128528 That both mine eyes were rainy like to his :
128529 And when I told the empress of this sport ,
128530 She swounded almost at my pleasing tale ,
128531 And for my tidings gave me twenty kisses .
128532
128533 What ! canst thou say all this , and never blush ?
128534
128535 Ay , like a black dog , as the saying is .
128536
128537 Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds ?
128538
128539 Ay , that I had not done a thousand more .
128540 Even now I curse the day , and yet , I think ,
128541 Few come within the compass of my curse ,
128542 Wherein I did not some notorious ill :
128543 As kill a man , or else devise his death ;
128544 Ravish a maid , or plot the way to do it ;
128545 Accuse some innocent , and forswear myself ;
128546 Set deadly enmity between two friends ;
128547 Make poor men's cattle break their necks ;
128548 Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night ,
128549 And bid the owners quench them with their tears ,
128550 Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves ,
128551 And set them upright at their dear friends' doors ,
128552 Even when their sorrows almost were forgot ;
128553 And on their skins , as on the bark of trees ,
128554 Have with my knife carved in Roman letters ,
128555 'Let not your sorrow die , though I am dead .'
128556 Tut ! I have done a thousand dreadful things
128557 As willingly as one would kill a fly ,
128558 And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
128559 But that I cannot do ten thousand more .
128560
128561 Bring down the devil , for he must not die
128562 So sweet a death as hanging presently .
128563
128564 If there be devils , would I were a devil ,
128565 To live and burn in everlasting fire ,
128566 So I might have your company in hell ,
128567 But to torment you with my bitter tongue !
128568
128569 Sirs , stop his mouth , and let him speak no more .
128570
128571
128572 My lord , there is a messenger from Rome
128573 Desires to be admitted to your presence .
128574
128575 Let him come near .
128576
128577 Welcome , milius ! what's the news from Rome ?
128578
128579 Lord Lucius , and you princes of the Goths ,
128580 The Roman emperor greets you all by me ;
128581 And , for he understands you are in arms ,
128582 He craves a parley at your father's house ,
128583 Willing you to demand your hostages ,
128584 And they shall be immediately deliver'd .
128585
128586 What says our general ?
128587
128588 milius , let the emperor give his pledges
128589 Unto my father and my uncle Marcus ,
128590 And we will come . March away .
128591
128592
128593 Thus , in this strange and sad habiliment ,
128594 I will encounter with Andronicus ,
128595 And say I am Revenge , sent from below
128596 To join with him and right his heinous wrongs .
128597 Knock at his study , where , they say , he keeps ,
128598 To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge ;
128599 Tell him , Revenge is come to join with him ,
128600 And work confusion on his enemies .
128601
128602 Who doth molest my contemplation ?
128603 Is it your trick to make me ope the door ,
128604 That so my sad decrees may fly away ,
128605 And all my study be to no effect ?
128606 You are deceiv'd ; for what I mean to do ,
128607 See here , in bloody lines I have set down ;
128608 And what is written shall be executed .
128609
128610 Titus , I am come to talk with thee .
128611
128612 No , not a word ; how can I grace my talk ,
128613 Wanting a hand to give it action ?
128614 Thou hast the odds of me ; therefore no more .
128615
128616 If thou didst know me , thou wouldst talk with me .
128617
128618 I am not mad ; I know thee well enough :
128619 Witness this wretched stump , witness these crimson lines ;
128620 Witness these trenches made by grief and care ;
128621 Witness the tiring day and heavy night ;
128622 Witness all sorrow , that I know thee well
128623 For our proud empress , mighty Tamora .
128624 Is not thy coming for my other hand ?
128625
128626 Know , thou sad man , I am not Tamora ;
128627 She is thy enemy , and I thy friend :
128628 I am Revenge , sent from the infernal kingdom ,
128629 To ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind ,
128630 By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes .
128631 Come down , and welcome me to this world's light ;
128632 Confer with me of murder and of death .
128633 There's not a hollow cave or lurking-place ,
128634 No vast obscurity or misty vale ,
128635 Where bloody murder or detested rape
128636 Can couch for fear , but I will find them out ;
128637 And in their ears tell them my dreadful name ,
128638 Revenge , which makes the foul offender quake .
128639
128640 Art thou Revenge ? and art thou sent to me ,
128641 To be a torment to mine enemies ?
128642
128643 I am ; therefore come down , and welcome me .
128644
128645 Do me some service ere I come to thee .
128646 Lo , by thy side where Rape and Murder stands ;
128647 Now give some surance that thou art Revenge :
128648 Stab them , or tear them on thy chariot-wheels ,
128649 And then I'll come and be thy waggoner ,
128650 And whirl along with thee about the globe .
128651 Provide two proper palfreys , black as jet ,
128652 To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away ,
128653 And find out murderers in their guilty caves :
128654 And when thy car is loaden with their heads ,
128655 I will dismount , and by the waggon-wheel
128656 Trot like a servile footman all day long ,
128657 Even from Hyperion's rising in the east
128658 Until his very downfall in the sea :
128659 And day by day I'll do this heavy task ,
128660 So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there .
128661
128662 These are my ministers , and come with me .
128663
128664 Are these thy ministers ? what are they call'd ?
128665
128666 Rapine and Murder ; therefore called so ,
128667 Cause they take vengeance of such kind of men .
128668
128669 Good Lord , how like the empress' sons they are ,
128670 And you the empress ! but we worldly men
128671 Have miserable , mad , mistaking eyes .
128672 O sweet Revenge ! now do I come to thee ;
128673 And , if one arm's embracement will content thee ,
128674 I will embrace thee in it by and by .
128675
128676
128677 This closing with him fits his lunacy .
128678 Whate'er I forge to feed his brain-sick fits ,
128679 Do you uphold and maintain in your speeches ,
128680 For now he firmly takes me for Revenge ;
128681 And , being credulous in this mad thought ,
128682 I'll make him send for Lucius his son ;
128683 And , whilst I at a banquet hold him sure ,
128684 I'll find some cunning practice out of hand
128685 To scatter and disperse the giddy Goths ,
128686 Or , at the least , make them his enemies .
128687 See , here he comes , and I must ply my theme .
128688
128689
128690 Long have I been forlorn , and all for thee :
128691 Welcome , dread Fury , to my woeful house :
128692 Rapine and Murder , you are welcome too .
128693 How like the empress and her sons you are !
128694 Well are you fitted had you but a Moor :
128695 Could not all hell afford you such a devil ?
128696 For well I wot the empress never wags
128697 But in her company there is a Moor ;
128698 And would you represent our queen aright ,
128699 It were convenient you had such a devil .
128700 But welcome as you are . What shall we do ?
128701
128702 What wouldst thou have us do , Andronicus ?
128703
128704 Show me a murderer , I'll deal with him .
128705
128706 Show me a villain that hath done a rape ,
128707 And I am sent to be reveng'd on him .
128708
128709 Show me a thousand that have done thee wrong ,
128710 And I will be revenged on them all .
128711
128712 Look round about the wicked streets of Rome ,
128713 And when thou find'st a man that's like thyself ,
128714 Good Murder , stab him ; he's a murderer .
128715 Go thou with him ; and when it is thy hap
128716 To find another that is like to thee ,
128717 Good Rapine , stab him ; he's a ravisher .
128718 Go thou with them ; and in the emperor's court
128719 There is a queen attended by a Moor ;
128720 Well mayst thou know her by thy own proportion ,
128721 For up and down she doth resemble thee :
128722 I pray thee , do on them some violent death ;
128723 They have been violent to me and mine .
128724
128725 Well hast thou lesson'd us ; this shall we do .
128726 But would it please thee , good Andronicus ,
128727 To send for Lucius , thy thrice-valiant son ,
128728 Who leads towards Rome a band of war-like Goths ,
128729 And bid him come and banquet at thy house :
128730 When he is here , even at thy solemn feast ,
128731 I will bring in the empress and her sons ,
128732 The emperor himself , and all thy foes ,
128733 And at thy mercy shall they stoop and kneel ,
128734 And on them shalt thou ease thy angry heart .
128735 What says Andronicus to this device ?
128736
128737 Marcus , my brother ! 'tis sad Titus calls .
128738
128739
128740 Go , gentle Marcus , to thy nephew Lucius ;
128741 Thou shalt inquire him out among the Goths :
128742 Bid him repair to me , and bring with him
128743 Some of the chiefest princes of the Goths ;
128744 Bid him encamp his soldiers where they are :
128745 Tell him , the emperor and the empress too
128746 Feast at my house , and he shall feast with them .
128747 This do thou for my love ; and so let him ,
128748
128749 As he regards his aged father's life .
128750
128751 This will I do , and soon return again .
128752
128753
128754 Now will I hence about thy business ,
128755 And take my ministers along with me .
128756
128757 Nay , nay , let Rape and Murder stay with me ;
128758 Or else I'll call my brother back again ,
128759 And cleave to no revenge but Lucius .
128760
128761 What say you , boys ? will you abide with him ,
128762 Whiles I go tell my lord the emperor
128763 How I have govern'd our determin'd jest ?
128764 Yield to his humour , smooth and speak him fair ,
128765 And tarry with him till I turn again .
128766
128767 I know them all , though they suppose me mad ;
128768 And will o'er-reach them in their own devices ;
128769 A pair of cursed hell-hounds and their dam .
128770
128771 Madam , depart at pleasure ; leave us here .
128772
128773 Farewell , Andronicus : Revenge now goes
128774 To lay a complot to betray thy foes .
128775
128776
128777 I know thou dost ; and , sweet Revenge , farewell .
128778
128779 Tell us , old man , how shall we be employ'd ?
128780
128781 Tut ! I have work enough for you to do .
128782 Publius , come hither , Caius , and Valentine !
128783
128784
128785 What is your will ?
128786
128787 Know you these two ?
128788
128789 The empress' sons ,
128790 I take them , Chiron and Demetrius .
128791
128792 Fie , Publius , fie ! thou art too much deceiv'd ;
128793 The one is Murder , Rape is the other's name ;
128794 And therefore bind them , gentle Publius ;
128795 Caius and Valentine , lay hands on them ;
128796 Oft have you heard me wish for such an hour ,
128797 And now I find it : therefore bind them sure ,
128798 And stop their mouths , if they begin to cry .
128799
128800
128801 Villains , forbear ! we are the empress' sons .
128802
128803 And therefore do we what we are commanded .
128804 Stop close their mouths , let them not speak a word .
128805 Is he sure bound ? look that you bind them fast .
128806
128807
128808 Come , come , Lavinia ; look , thy foes are bound .
128809 Sirs , stop their mouths , let them not speak to me ,
128810 But let them hear what fearful words I utter .
128811 O villains , Chiron and Demetrius !
128812 Here stands the spring whom you have stain'd with mud ,
128813 This goodly summer with your winter mix'd .
128814 You kill'd her husband , and for that vile fault
128815 Two of her brothers were condemn'd to death ,
128816 My hand cut off and made a merry jest :
128817 Both her sweet hands , her tongue , and that more dear
128818 Than hands or tongue , her spotless chastity ,
128819 Inhuman traitors , you constrain'd and forc'd .
128820 What would you say if I should let you speak ?
128821 Villains ! for shame you could not beg for grace .
128822 Hark , wretches ! how I mean to martyr you .
128823 This one hand yet is left to cut your throats ,
128824 Whilst that Levinia 'tween her stumps doth hold
128825 The basin that receives your guilty blood .
128826 You know your mother means to feast with me ,
128827 And calls herself Revenge , and thinks me mad .
128828 Hark ! villains , I will grind your bones to dust ,
128829 And with your blood and it I'll make a paste ;
128830 And of the paste a coffin I will rear ,
128831 And make two pasties of your shameful heads ;
128832 And bid that strumpet , your unhallow'd dam ,
128833 Like to the earth swallow her own increase .
128834 This is the feast that I have bid her to ,
128835 And this the banquet she shall surfeit on ;
128836 For worse than Philomel you us'd my daughter ,
128837 And worse than Procne I will be reveng'd .
128838 And now prepare your throats . Lavinia , come .
128839
128840 Receive the blood : and when that they are dead ,
128841 Let me go grind their bones to powder small ,
128842 And with this hateful liquor temper it ;
128843 And in that paste let their vile heads be bak'd .
128844 Come , come , be every one officious
128845 To make this banquet , which I wish may prove
128846 More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast .
128847 So , now bring them in , for I will play the cook ,
128848 And see them ready 'gainst their mother comes .
128849
128850
128851 Uncle Marcus , since it is my father's mind
128852 That I repair to Rome , I am content .
128853
128854 And ours with thine , befall what fortune will .
128855
128856 Good uncle , take you in this barbarous Moor ,
128857 This ravenous tiger , this accursed devil ;
128858 Let him receive no sustenance , fetter him ,
128859 Till he be brought unto the empress' face ,
128860 For testimony of her foul proceedings :
128861 And see the ambush of our friends be strong ;
128862 I fear the emperor means no good to us .
128863
128864 Some devil whisper curses in mine ear ,
128865 And prompt me , that my tongue may utter forth
128866 The venomous malice of my swelling heart !
128867
128868 Away , inhuman dog ! unhallow'd slave !
128869 Sirs , help our uncle to convey him in .
128870
128871 The trumpets show the emperor is at hand .
128872
128873
128874 What ! hath the firmament more suns than one ?
128875
128876 What boots it thee , to call thyself a sun ?
128877
128878 Rome's emperor , and nephew , break the parle ;
128879 These quarrels must be quietly debated .
128880 The feast is ready which the careful Titus
128881 Hath ordain'd to an honourable end ,
128882 For peace , for love , for league , and good to Rome :
128883 Please you , therefore , draw nigh , and take your places .
128884
128885 Marcus , we will .
128886
128887
128888 Welcome , my gracious lord ; welcome , dread queen ;
128889 Welcome , ye war-like Goths ; welcome , Lucius ;
128890 And welcome , all . Although the cheer be poor ,
128891 'Twill fill your stomachs ; please you eat of it .
128892
128893 Why art thou thus attir'd , Andronicus ?
128894
128895 Because I would be sure to have all well
128896 To entertain your highness , and your empress .
128897
128898 We are beholding to you , good Andronicus .
128899
128900 An if your highness knew my heart , you were .
128901 My lord the emperor , resolve me this :
128902 Was it well done of rash Virginius
128903 To slay his daughter with his own right hand ,
128904 Because she was enforced , stain'd , and deflower'd ?
128905
128906 It was , Andronicus .
128907
128908 Your reason , mighty lord ?
128909
128910 Because the girl should not survive her shame ,
128911 And by her presence still renew his sorrows .
128912
128913 A reason mighty , strong , and effectual ;
128914 A pattern , precedent , and lively warrant ,
128915 For me most wretched , to perform the like .
128916 Die , die . Lavinia , and thy shame with thee ;
128917 And with thy shame thy father's sorrow die !
128918
128919
128920 What hast thou done , unnatural and unkind ?
128921
128922 Kill'd her , for whom my tears have made me blind .
128923 I am as woeful as Virginius was ,
128924 And have a thousand times more cause than he
128925 To do this outrage : and it is now done .
128926
128927 What ! was she ravish'd ? tell who did the deed .
128928
128929 Will 't please you eat ? will 't please your highness feed ?
128930
128931 Why hast thou slain thine only daughter thus ?
128932
128933 Not I ; 'twas Chiron and Demetrius :
128934 They ravish'd her , and cut away her tongue :
128935 And they , 'twas they , that did her all this wrong .
128936
128937 Go fetch them hither to us presently .
128938
128939 Why , there they are both , baked in that pie ;
128940 Whereof their mother daintily hath fed ,
128941 Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred .
128942 'Tis true , 'tis true ; witness my knife's sharp point .
128943
128944
128945 Die , frantic wretch , for this accursed deed !
128946
128947
128948 Can the son's eye behold his father bleed ?
128949 There's meed for meed , death for a deadly deed !
128950
128951 You sad-fac'd men , people and sons of Rome ,
128952 By uproar sever'd , like a flight of fowl
128953 Scatter'd by winds and high tempestuous gusts ,
128954 O ! let me teach you how to knit again
128955 This scatter'd corn into one mutual sheaf ,
128956 These broken limbs again into one body ,
128957 Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself ,
128958 And she whom mighty kingdoms curtsy to ,
128959 Like a forlorn and desperate castaway ,
128960 Do shameful execution on herself .
128961 But if my frosty signs and chaps of age ,
128962 Grave witnesses of true experience ,
128963 Cannot induce you to attend my words ,
128964
128965
128966 Speak , Rome's dear friend , as erst our ancestor ,
128967 When with his solemn tongue he did discourse
128968 To love-sick Dido's sad attending ear
128969 The story of that baleful burning night
128970 When subtle Greeks surpris'd King Priam's Troy ;
128971 Tell us what Sinon hath bewitch'd our ears ,
128972 Or who hath brought the fatal engine in
128973 That gives our Troy , our Rome , the civil wound .
128974 My heart is not compact of flint nor steel ,
128975 Nor can I utter all our bitter grief ,
128976 But floods of tears will drown my oratory ,
128977 And break my very utterance , even in the time
128978 When it should move you to attend me most ,
128979 Lending your kind commiseration .
128980 Here is a captain , let him tell the tale ;
128981 Your hearts will throb and weep to hear him speak .
128982
128983 Then , noble auditory , be it known to you ,
128984 That cursed Chiron and Demetrius
128985 Were they that murdered our emperor's brother ;
128986 And they it was that ravished our sister .
128987 For their fell faults our brothers were beheaded ,
128988 Our father's tears despis'd , and basely cozen'd
128989 Of that true hand that fought Rome's quarrel out ,
128990 And sent her enemies unto the grave :
128991 Lastly , myself unkindly banished ,
128992 The gates shut on me , and turn'd weeping out ,
128993 To beg relief among Rome's enemies ;
128994 Who drown'd their enmity in my true tears ,
128995 And op'd their arms to embrace me as a friend :
128996 And I am the turn'd forth , be it known to you ,
128997 That have preserv'd her welfare in my blood ,
128998 And from her bosom took the enemy's point ,
128999 Sheathing the steel in my adventurous body .
129000 Alas ! you know I am no vaunter , I ;
129001 My scars can witness , dumb although they are ,
129002 That my report is just and full of truth .
129003 But , soft ! methinks I do digress too much ,
129004 Citing my worthless praise : O ! pardon me ;
129005 For when no friends are by , men praise themselves .
129006
129007 Now is my turn to speak . Behold this child ;
129008 Of this was Tamora delivered ,
129009 The issue of an irreligious Moor ,
129010 Chief architect and plotter of these woes .
129011 The villain is alive in Titus' house ,
129012 Damn'd as he is , to witness this is true .
129013 Now judge what cause had Titus to revenge
129014 These wrongs , unspeakable , past patience ,
129015 Or more than any living man could bear .
129016 Now you have heard the truth , what say you Romans ?
129017 Have we done aught amiss , show us wherein ,
129018 And , from the place where you behold us now ,
129019 The poor remainder of Andronici
129020 Will , hand in hand , all headlong cast us down ,
129021 And on the ragged stones beat forth our brains ,
129022 And make a mutual closure of our house .
129023 Speak , Romans , speak ! and if you say we shall ,
129024 Lo ! hand in hand , Lucius and I will fall .
129025
129026 Come , come , thou reverend man of Rome ,
129027 And bring our emperor gently in thy hand ,
129028 Lucius , our emperor ; for well I know
129029 The common voice do cry it shall be so .
129030
129031 Lucius , all hail ! Rome's royal emperor !
129032
129033 Go , go into old Titus' sorrowful house ,
129034 And hither , hale that misbelieving Moor ,
129035 To be adjudg'd some direful slaughtering death ,
129036 As punishment for his most wicked life .
129037
129038 Lucius , all hail ! Rome's gracious governor !
129039
129040 Thanks , gentle Romans : may I govern so ,
129041 To heal Rome's harms , and wipe away her woe !
129042 But , gentle people , give me aim awhile ,
129043 For nature puts me to a heavy task .
129044 Stand all aloof ; but , uncle , draw you near ,
129045 To shed obsequious tears upon this trunk .
129046 O ! take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips ,
129047
129048 These sorrowful drops upon thy blood-stain'd face ,
129049 The last true duties of thy noble son !
129050
129051 Tear for tear , and loving kiss for kiss ,
129052 Thy brother Marcus tenders on thy lips :
129053 O ! were the sum of these that I should pay
129054 Countless and infinite , yet would I pay them .
129055
129056 Come hither , boy ; come , come , and learn of us
129057 To melt in showers : thy grandsire lov'd thee well :
129058 Many a time he danc'd thee on his knee ,
129059 Sung thee asleep , his loving breast thy pillow ;
129060 Many a matter hath he told to thee ,
129061 Meet and agreeing with thine infancy ;
129062 In that respect , then , like a loving child ,
129063 Shed yet some small drops from thy tender spring ,
129064 Because kind nature doth require it so :
129065 Friends should associate friends in grief and woe .
129066 Bid him farewell ; commit him to the grave ;
129067 Do him that kindness , and take leave of him .
129068
129069 O grandsire , grandsire ! even with all my heart
129070 Would I were dead , so you did live again .
129071 O Lord ! I cannot speak to him for weeping ;
129072 My tears will choke me if I ope my mouth .
129073
129074
129075 You sad Andronici , have done with woes :
129076 Give sentence on this execrable wretch ,
129077 That hath been breeder of these dire events .
129078
129079 Set him breast-deep in earth , and famish him ;
129080 There let him stand , and rave , and cry for food :
129081 If any one relieves or pities him ,
129082 For the offence he dies . This is our doom :
129083 Some stay to see him fasten'd in the earth .
129084
129085 O ! why should wrath be mute , and fury dumb ?
129086 I am no baby , I , that with base prayers
129087 I should repent the evils I have done .
129088 Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did
129089 Would I perform , if I might have my will :
129090 If one good deed in all my life I did ,
129091 I do repent it from my very soul .
129092
129093 Some loving friends convey the emperor hence ,
129094 And give him burial in his father's grave .
129095 My father and Lavinia shall forthwith
129096 Be closed in our household's monument .
129097 As for that heinous tiger , Tamora ,
129098 No funeral rite , nor man in mournful weeds ,
129099 No mournful bell shall ring her burial ;
129100 But throw her forth to beasts and birds of prey .
129101 Her life was beast-like , and devoid of pity ;
129102 And , being so , shall have like want of pity .
129103 See justice done on Aaron , that damn'd Moor ,
129104 By whom our heavy haps had their beginning :
129105 Then , afterwards , to order well the state ,
129106 That like events may ne'er it ruinate .
129107